Category Archives: Dating

ad placement o’ the day

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The last thing the millionaire rapist sees will be... 

From the Sun, via Fark, which seems to have totally missed this charming juxtaposition. You must go to the site click here to see one of the adds they’ve got in rotation on this story. I’m thinking somebody’s media buyer just got fired.

Short form: imprisoned rapist Iorworth Hoare wins lottery. Upon release, moves to expensive neighborhood. Is terrorized by giant European Eagle Owl.

Hogwarts 1: rapists 0.

In related news, fellow WordPress blogger and Vancouverite Marcus Frind, president of the Internet dating site Plenty of Fish, helped the US Marshals track down one of their most wanted criminals after he discovered the man was living with a woman he’d met through the site. Not exactly the kind of publicity I’d be hammering home to the public, myself. I mean, the news that my company is cooperating with law enforcement and putting away killers = good. The news that spree killers are trolling my dating site for women = bad.

But maybe that’s just me.

quiz: which famous leader are you?

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I normally wouldn’t post two quizzes in one day, but hellfire! This just makes me look so damn good…although I’d have preferred a more flattering picture.


What Famous Leader Are You?
personality tests by similarminds.com

It’s beginning to look a lot like…a vibrator!

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First Tesco puts pole dancing equipment in the toy aisle, and now Dora the Explorer‘s new, limited edition Aquapet (TM) is encouraging your kiddies (ages five and up!) to explore themselves in exciting, new ways!

Sigh…they grow up so fast, don’t they?

Dora, dora, dora.

the Reverend Ted speaks! to sexiest man alive George Clooney

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This is what a sex god looks like in embroyonic form

Yes, Reverend Ted is still kicking, and he’s never one to begrudge a fellow celeb’s good fortune, as you can see by this full-page ad he took out in Variety today, and which I stole from Defamer.

Let us pause for a moment to give thanks for Defamer; now that Gawker is run by the kind of characterless swots your parents always wanted you to turn out like, there is a rapidly-shrinking pool of sources for good blog post swipitation. All hail the theft-worthy posts of Defamer!

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Technorati me!

all I want for Christmas: a roundup

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A Christmas lecture from Linus. Ah, what does he know?Besides world domination, that is.

Just in time for the opening of shopping season, we at the ol’ raincoaster blog present a brief list of swag suitable for gifting to everybody’s favorite blog bitch. We have spared no effort in our gruelling research, trolling the blogroll yea, even unto Vicus Scurra, where we find naught but impractical suggestions for the unusual deployment of root vegetables. Oh, those crazy Brits and their anal turnip fetishes!

Is that why they’re called rutabagas?

In any case, here, as a result of simply hours trolling through BoingBoing, Go Fug Yourself, and Metro‘s emails, is our Christmas Wish List (to date, management reserves the right to add, say, a Tiffany Ribbon Bracelet or a Uranium PU-36 Explosive Space Modulator at any later date).

Che trooper!