Weekly WTF
2009 March 22
This week’s installment of the Weekly WTF. A lot of the articles this week are from Feministing, because there’s just been so much ridiculousness going on in the world…
- …but before that, you can relax by taking your goldfish for a walk. How much do I want this for my fish? Though it may traumatize him. Maybe not.
- When that’s all done, warm yourself by the fire. The fake fire, that is. Try the Heat Surge! Hand crafted by the Amish. How ironic is that? An electric fireplace with a hand crafted frame made by the Amish?
- While sitting by that fire, why not read the winner of Christian Book of the Year? Can you guess what it is? If you said The Bible, you win.
- Maybe it’s thanks to all the good-timey prayer that Winnipeg marked a whole day without auto theft. How magical. Last year was the 11th year in a row that Winnipeg was the auto theft capital of Canada.
- Maybe they were all too drunk to steal cars, thanks to this inspired breakfast aisle. I need to find this store.
- If alcohol for breakfast isn’t your thing, why not buy some weed from the 114 year old man in Nigeria who just got busted for having a whole bunch of cannibis in his house?
- And if you, in turn, get busted for posession, you can go to this attorney. He was raised by penguins.
- When he helps you avoid jail and you need a new look, I hope you don’t live in New Jersey, because they’re banning bikini waxes.
- Never fear, you can just shave, with Shick’s new bikini trimmer. Their ad is aaaall about taming the bush.
- Once you have it all under control, maybe you could join the Lingerie Football League. Because this is how women are allowed to participate in a manly man sport.
- Maybe the women going out for the LFL could use these giant involuntary public scales. They’re built into bus station benches for a nice surprise.
- If that’s not your kind of surprise, maybe your boyfriend could surprise you with some pre-planned anal rape, like what happened to this woman. Though, everyone commenting on her “is this rape” question seems to think she’s overreacting. I’m sickened, though not surprised myself.
- You know what else is surprising? That the pope is allowed to speak. After his revalation that women’s pee causes infertility a while back, he’s come out with a new gem: Condoms Spread AIDS.
Wow. There was a lot to yell WTF at this week.
there is an error in your blog. The Pope did not state that the use of condoms is the reason AIDS is more rampant. His concern was for the green light on promiscuity, therefore being a factor toward the spread of STD’s, rather than a focus on sexual education.
specifically:
He said the “traditional teaching of the Church” on chastity outside marriage and fidelity within it had proved to be “the only sure way of preventing the spread of HIV and Aids”.
and lets face it. Abstinence is an excellent way of preventing the spread of any and all sexually transmitted diseases, barring of course transfusions etc.
I always find it less than responsible to propagate shock journalism, or reporting with a viewpoint closer to an editorial, as opposed to actual objective news gathering.
I followed this since it struck me as rather ignorant to make a statement as such, which you’ve also helped to fuel by being yet another individual to falsely present misinformation.
Just because everyone yells it on the rooftops… doesn’t make it the truth.
Regrettably, you seemed to miss the fact that this post was meant to be humorous, and solely a personal point of view. It’s a list of things that made me say “what the fuck” this week. I’m recounting things I saw this week with links to their original sources. These things, such as the little container made to walk your goldfish, are simply ridiculous.
Nowhere did I state that the Pope said that condoms were responsible for AIDS. I mentioned that he said they spread AIDS. The quote, sentiment, or paraphrasing, according to various news sources including The National Post, The AFP, and USA Today support this. An article by Victor L. Simpson of Yahoo News reports that the exact quote was “You can’t resolve it with the distribution of condoms. On the contrary, it increases the problem.” He was talking about the spread of HIV (which becomes AIDS). I did check my facts. Also, abstinence can for sure reduce the spread of STIs (sexually transmitted infections), but it isn’t perfect. HIV/AIDS is spread through blood (the transfusions you mentioned) as well as the fluids produced during sexual contact. There have even been cases of people with AIDS attacking passersby with infected needles.
Condoms sure as hell do help prevent you from getting AIDs, as supported by Kevin De Cock, the World Health Organization’s HIV/AIDS program. His response was written up in the International Herald Tribune.
If people choose to behave in a promiscuous fashion (whatever the definition of promiscuous is to any one person), a properly worn condom seriously reduces the risk of infection.
However, what about rape? What about the fact that unfortunately, Africa doesn’t have the best health care system and infected health care utensils are a possibility? What about the fact that people aren’t perfect, and even within marriage, things happen? Condoms help. So does being careful who you choose to sleep with. But unless people sequester themselves entirely, they cannot be completely certain they will always be free of the risk.
A lot of factors need to go in to dealing with STIs and AIDS, which I could go on about for ages, but that was not what the sentence fragment I posted was about, so that is what I’ll address. My sentence fragment, which said “he’s come out with a new gem: Condoms Spread AIDS,” was strictly limited to the fact that the Pope, a figure that many people look to for guidance and advice, felt the need to say that condoms “increase the problem.” I don’t appreciate being called ignorant and find that extremely inappropriate. However, thanks for bringing traffic to my blog. It’s nice to see a face to one of the readers. Being able to write about things I find absurd helps get me through life. In my opinion, that’s what writing is for, whether you’re the reader or the author.
Hey, Lindsay! Congrats on getting into Humber! I’ve been totally absent from the blog world lately, so I’m going to catch up on your site and write more soon. Love the “WTF” article!
Thanks! Glad you’re back. I’m looking forward to seeing what goes up on your blog.
I saw the bikini shaver ad this week and almost died of amusement.