putainfromage

female genital mutilation reeeally needs to fucking stop.

how're all my fiiiiiiiine fiiiine spinto fans this evening? i took some cold medicine. feelin' awesome, kinda.

lmfao i know :heart:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUx8AAJvsPY WOOOO!

that was one of the most confusing things i've ever read.

Porn sparks panda baby boom in China Lin Hui, a female Panda on a ten-year loan from China is seen eating bamboo at Chiang Mai zoo in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Zhang Zhihe, a leading expert, attributes China's record-high panda birth rate to painstaking research — and panda porn. CHIANG MAI, Thailand - After years of painstaking research, scientists say they have unleashed a baby boom among one of the world’s most beloved but endangered animals, China’s giant panda. A bit of panda porn has helped too, they say. “It works,” enthuses Zhang Zhihe, a leading Chinese expert, about showing uninitiated males DVDs of fellow pandas mating. It is one of many techniques tried over the decades to get captive pandas — notoriously poor breeders — to do it, and do it right. The efforts to understand and simulate conditions for mating and raising cubs have paid off in China, the panda’s native habitat. Now comes the next test: getting the magic to work outside China. The big day will come in January, when Prasertsak Buntragulpoontawee hopes to bring off a successful mating between male Chuang Chuang and partner Lin Hui in this northern Thailand city. The audio-visual approach “is the same idea as chimpanzees seeing people smoke and then copying it,” says the Thai researcher. Zhang, director of the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding, attributes this year’s record high births not to any single breakthrough but to an accumulation of research on panda biology, nutrition and genetics while “trying to imitate nature better.” The result, by his count: In the first 10 months of this year 31 cubs were born in captivity in China, of which 28 survived. That’s up from 12 births in 2005 and just nine in 2000. Of this year’s births, 14 came through natural breeding, while artificial insemination or a combination of the two produced the rest. No cubs were born among the roughly 20 pandas outside China, but sperm from Atlanta Zoo’s Yang Yang yielded an offspring for Lun Lun in Chengdu, China, Zhang told a conference here of 140 panda experts. JoGayle Howard, an animal reproduction specialist at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., said the goal of raising the captive breeding population to 300 from the current 220 is rapidly being reached. This would prevent inbreeding, widen the genetic pool and enable more captive animals to re-enter the wild, where the panda population is estimated at 1,600 to 3,000. Howard said the biggest challenges in panda breeding are an extremely high rate of incompatibility and the very narrow window of opportunity — females are ready to mate for as few as 48 hours a year. “At first people thought that you just put two animals together and they would figure it out. But it didn’t turn out that way,” she said. “Now we know how to take care of the panda better. We’ve really made progress. But we’re still learning a lot of even basic things.” Captive animals used to lack proper socialization; with no companions around, when the male and female met for breeding “they just freaked out and fought,” Howard said. Now enclosures are bigger and contain more animals. There’s also a push to keep cubs with their mothers longer, for up to two years, to give them more natural sex education. Scientists have also learned more about sex and aggression. In the wild, Howard explains, females in heat will climb a tree while suitors below fight for her. In captivity, with no male rivals around, pandas often take out their aggression on the female. Adds Zhang: “In the wild they have their own choices when mating. But when we breed them in captivity it’s like taking two human beings and forcing them to mate.” But despite the advances, there are still only about 15 captive male adults which breed naturally. Second best is artificial insemination, and after years of study frozen semen can now be shipped around the world and applied according to a comprehensive genetic database. Prasertsak is prepared to use both methods as he readies his couple for mating at Chiang Mai Zoo, which has rented the animals from China for research and tourism purposes. The pressure is on. Last year Lin Hui showed promising symptoms but they turned out to be a pseudo-pregnancy, not unusual among pandas. Will the blue movies help? Opinions differ on the visuals, but Zhang and Prasertsak agree on the sound track. “It’s the sounds of breeding that stimulate them,” Zhang said. “Pandas are just like human beings. They understand everything.” http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15852885/?GT1=8717

nobody likes abortion, but you can't go around running peoples lives. pretty big fuckin' balls to judge someone in a certain situation that you've never been in.

:D

i've been a vegetarian for like two and a half years, veggie pizza is the best stuff on earth. but she needed cheese.

no-fi soul rebellion - phonies

:freak: i'm really bad with cooking, but if you put the right amount of soy sauce and nutritional yeast flakes on anything, it has the potential to turn out well. unrelated: my sister just stopped being vegan after a few months because she reeeeeally wanted pizza. ahaha.

holy fuck, there isn't an of montreal thread? anyway, they just posted a huge long super long list of north american tour dates. see them or die. or something. AA=All Ages * w/ A Hawk And A Hacksaw ** w/ Enon *** w/ Elekibass $ w/ Grand Buffet & Mixel Pixel $$ w/ Grand Buffet % w/ Peachcake click on the venue links for ticket/venue info. U.S./CANADA 1-19 - Memphis, TN - HiTone AA * 1-20 - New Orleans, LA - Republic 18+ * 1-21 - San Antonio, TX - White Rabbit AA * 1-22 - Lubbock, TX - Jake's Backroom AA * 1-23 - Albuquerque, NM - Launchpad AA * 1-24 - Tempe, AZ - The Clubhouse AA % 1-25 - Park City, UT - Music On Main at Sundance AA 1-26 - Los Angeles, CA - El Rey AA ** 1-27 - Los Angeles, CA - Avalon AA ** 1-28 - Los Angeles, CA - Troubadour AA ** 1-30 - San Diego, CA - SOMA AA ** 1-31 - Santa Cruz, CA - The Attic AA ** 2-1 - San Francisco, CA - Bottom of the Hill AA ** 2-2 - San Francisco, CA - Great American Music Hall AA ** 2-3 - San Francisco, CA - Great American Music Hall AA ** 2-5 - Arcata, CA - Kate Buchanan Hall @ Humboldt St Univ. 18+ ** 2-6 - Portland, OR - Wonder Ballroom AA ** 2-7 - Vancouver, BC - Richards On Richards 19+ 2-8 - TBA 2-9 - Seattle, WA - Showbox AA ** 2-10 - Eugene, OR - W.O.W. Hall AA ** 2-12 - Sacramento, CA - Union Ballroom @ Sacramento St AA ** 2-13 - Las Vegas, NV - TBA 2-14 - Tuscon, AZ - Rialto AA ** 2-16 - Austin, TX - Emo's AA *** 2-17 - Houston, TX - Numbers AA *** 2-18 - Dallas, TX - Gypsy Ballroom 17+ *** 2-19 - Norman, OK - Meacham Auditorium AA *** 2-20 - Lawrence, KS - Granada AA *** 2-21 - Columbia, MO - Blue Note AA *** 2-22 - St Louis, MO - Mississippi Nights AA *** 2-23 - Birmingham, AL - Bottletree AA *** 2-24 - Atlanta, GA - Variety Playhouse AA *** 3-5 - Carrboro, NC - Cat's Cradle AA $ 3-6 - Fall's Church, VA - State Theatre 18+ $ 3-7 - Clinton, NY - The Annex @ Hamilton College AA $ 3-8 - Philadelphia, PA - Trocadero AA $ 3-9 - New York, NY - Irving Plaza 16+ $ 3-10 - New York, NY - Irving Plaza 16+ 3-11 - Boston, MA - Avalon AA $$ 3-12 - Montreal, QC - La Tulipe AA $$ 3-13 - Toronto, ON - Opera House AA $$ 3-14 - Detroit, MI - Magic Stick AA $$ 3-15 - Chicago, IL - Cabaret Metro AA $$ 3-16 - Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue AA 3-17 - Milwaukee, WI - Pabst Theatre AA 3-19 - Cleveland, OH - Beachland Ballroom AA 3-20 - Newport, KY - Southgate House 18+ 3-21 - Nashville, TN - Mercy Lounge 18+ 3-22 - Asheville, NC - Grey Eagle AA 3-23 - Columbia, SC - Headliners 16+ 3-24- TBA 3-29 - Gainesville, FL - Abbey Road 18+ 3-30 - Miami, FL - Studio A AA 3-31 - Orlando, FL - The Club At Firestone AA 4-1 - Jacksonville, FL - Freebird Live AA 4-2 - Tallahassee, FL - The Moon AA European tour to follow in April/May.

from gigwise: Not sure about this one, but according to the Glasswerk website, Alex Turner will be making his live debut with new band The Rascals in Liverpool next month. We’ll bring you confirmation as soon as we get it, but apparently the Arctic Monkeys frontman will play with the band on 1 December at the Korova Bar – the setting for the ‘Whatever People Say I Am That’s What I’m Not’ album cover, pop trivia fans. Turner has other links to the city, having recorded parts of their debut album with local producer Mike Crossey. One thing that definitely is happening in Monkey-world is the release of the ‘Rhythms Del Mudon’ album on Monday, which features The Buena Vista Social Club reworking one of their songs – as well as covers of Franz Ferdinand, Coldplay and The Kaiser Chiefs tunes amongst others.

ew james blunt.

and that's all i have to say about THAT.

nsync - tearin' up my heart :lol:

^1 :\

how can i hear a cat yelling outside, three floors down, but not hear my sister talk when she's standing right next to me? is that even a cat?

arctic monkeys - riot van

1:48, listening to the flaming lips and kicking a stool

art brut - really bad weekend

the decemberists and neko case. mmmmm.

wtf, i'm cold and tired and i don't want to go to the doctor :(

these goddamned assholes are touring the uk. bastards. and that is MY art brut story of the day.

the new pornographers - stacked crooked