Elf you, the Musical!

Oh my, this IS random.

And NSFW, lingo-wise.

As near as I can make out, it’s some kind of pervy European Keebler elf frat house theme song, subtitled. If you speak… uh, elvish, by all means provide a translation!

quiz: what infectious disease are you?

Well this is a bit of a shocker to anyone who thinks they know my sex life. Including me.

 

You scored as Syphilis

You’re a little bit sexy and a whole lot kinky. Some people might even call you perverted, but we aren’t judging you. Your passions do run high, though, and you never forget anything–even if you seem cool at the time. It might take some time, but you always get even… and usually drive your enemies insane in the process. This strange combination of stealth and sex appeal has kept you gainfully, although not always famously, employed. Your recent comeback tour is going well, especially since you stopped listening to your critics.

Syphilis
 
95%
Malaria
 
90%
Influenza
 
75%
Bubonic Plague
 
70%
Necrotizing Fasciitis
 
65%
Common Cold
 
55%
Gonorrhea
 
50%
Amoebic Dysentery
 
50%
Cholera
 
45%
Gangrene
 
45%

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the Return of the Invasion of the Giant Jellyfish

Next year what will it be? Return of Under the Planet of Invasion of the Jellyfish?

Nomura Jellyfish

As our more protoplasmic readers will be aware, we at the ol’ raincoaster blog have long been fascinated by all things gigantic, digusting, potentially fatal, and aquatic. So we were on the Japanese Invasion of the Giant Jellyfish like deep fried on calamari.

Jellyfish invasion As the swallows return to Capistrano once per year, so too the Giant Nomura Jellyfish return to the teeming waters of the Sea of Japan each Autumn, welcomed by divers and attacked by fishing companies, much as the gentle harbour seal is persecuted from one end of the sea to the other. How petty! What are a few nets, a few spoiled, poisoned, and slimed catches, when compared to the awe-inspiring sight of these throbbing, pulsing masses of brainless protoplasm, lurching quietly through the ocean depths? As the great George Bernard Shaw said, great beauty justifies any sacrifice, and a true artist would slay his own grandmother to create it; the Ode on a Grecian Urn is worth any number of old ladies.

Manabu Nakamata, a 38-year-old diver from Nagoya and an admirer of the monster jellyfish, says, “They are surprisingly hard to the touch. They are big, and extremely impressive.” Big indeed — Echizen kurage can grow up to 2 meters (6 ft. 7 in.) in diameter and weigh up to 200 kilograms (440 lb.) each.

But what’s a Japanese giant misunderstood monster story without some doomed-to-fail, high-tech weaponry, the use of which teaches valuable, and humbling, lessons about science’s essential futility? Eh? I ask you that!

In the latest move in the war on jellyfish, Fukui prefecture is developing new and efficient weapons designed to pulverize those that threaten their shores.

Oh, this should end well.

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MY kinda stained glass

Now this is what I call art! Yes, unlike insipid, pastel Tiffany ripoffs or Mondrian-on-the-cheap geometrics, I’d be damn hell-ass proud to have that polychrome gorgeousness in my window, and just think: it’s a better burglar deterrent than any number of bars! I think they have one of these as the rose window in the Esoteric Order of Dagon at Innsmouth.

Octopus in Aquarium

from MyConfinedSpace via THE ARC

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Your Unicorn Chaser for Today

Let no man, woman, child or fingerling claim that we here at the ol’ raincoaster blog are unfeeling, unresponsive megalomaniacs. We are, but we prefer to hush it up when we can.

But it seems that our last post, the clearly-labeled Most Gruesome Workplace Safety Video of All Time, was a bit too much, even for our intrepid (an generally un-squeamish) readers. They cried aloud as one, requesting Unicorn Chasers.

Oh, fine. Here.

Unicorn Chaser