I'm quite familiar with unboxings in the tech world, but I didn't realise people did them for toys. I guess the same sort of logic applies, though for tech ones (at least the ones I've seen), it's not the act of unboxing that is fetishised so much as the cool new thing inside it. The whole point is to unbox it, and then turn it on and see what it does.
In case anybody wonders, yes, there is such as thing as fruit that hangs too low.
Apparently this is a part of/related to a larger internet weirdness: ASMR videos, which as far as I've been able to glean from half-interested googlings, are videos of things like whispering that are meant to be soothing but also make your scalp tingle or....something? I feel like it's next door to a kink, like videos of people squishing things with their feet, which is a big thing I guess.
(The link is broken.) ASMR is sort of fascinating in that it's about non-sexual orgasms that aren't really orgasms or something and I really, really don't understand.
I think there's been a thread about those videos.
3 I had no idea there was a technical term for that sensation.
The horror! The horror!
If you search -- and I honestly do not suggest anyone do this -- "popping zits," you will find that not only are there a giant number of pimple-popping channels, but there is also an emergent vocabulary, both in terms of how these videos are shot and how they are described. There is the "mirror blast" and the "squirting cyst geyser," and there is a surprising level of interest in the age of blackheads.
ASMR is sort of fascinating in that it's about non-sexual orgasms that aren't really orgasms or something
Oh, sneezes.
Something else one can run across on the YouTube.
9: The Nine Billion Threads of God.
4 I have fairly frequently experienced it and orgasm is not a word that would ever occur to me to use to describe it. OTOH, as pleasurable sensations go it is eminently suited for being measured in the Unfogged standard unit of pleasure.
Wanks per furlong per fortnight.
I'd call the sensation closer to having a non-crotchal erogenous zone stroked than to orgasm.
Wow, I think the word "non-crotchal" gives the opposite experience of that, then. (And seriously, I have no room to criticize anyone else's weird orgasms-ish, which is why I'm a little bit fascinated.)
Oh, sneezes.
I love sneezing.
Try to record yourself sneezing while crushing a small mammal under your foot.
Wow, I think the word "non-crotchal" gives the opposite experience of that, then.
Truly.
I was going to say "non-genitalian," but then I decided I needed to get a bit broader.
One thing that's weird about the internet is that it forces you to see yourself in moderation. I used to think I had a crazy quirk about popping zits, but post-internet it turned out that actually I only like a very, very mild form of the activity, and much of it is super gross. Small pond/big fish to big ocean, I guess.
21: That's true -- it used to be I was the biggest Bob Dylan fan I knew, and then I discovered rec.music.dylan, and after a while I realized I was hardly a Bob Dylan fan at all.
I used to think I was politically well-informed until I found this site called Unfogged.
22: Linking threads--a similar Bave Dee comment re: Teri Garr/Letterman from one of those earlier threads:
I'm a big fan of Teri Garr and I have the complete versions of all of the talk show appearances that appear on this montage.Am I truly a fan of anything?
22: If this lead you to stop listening to Bob Dylan, the whole internet is justified.
The linked quote in 24 made me laugh.
My only completist fandom is probably Callas. I feel like I've heard nearly every recorded note, though I typed that with a period after it and thought about it for a minute and changed it to a comma so I could say that's not really true.
Two notes from my FB feed:
1. DoucheBro Xfit owner is turning 26 years old today. Jesus Christ.
2. "Random thought... God's not jealous OF you, He is jealous FOR you". What?
I think that means he's your controlling boyfriend?
I think that means he's your controlling boyfriend?
I fixed the link. That's ok, you don't have to thank me.
I'm not thankful FOR you, I'm thankful OF you, neb.
Is this a good place to just note for the record that a mobile shredding semi truck was madly at work this morning outside the local lair of stsigilotneicS? So many heavy smokers among them, too.
I'm sure they were just getting rid of people's personal data in accordance with their well-known privacy standards.