Nice pumps.

Via ectoplasmosis

There’s lots to love here. According to the author:

If these human/animal hybrids really existed the world would look different. But we have already problems with accepting people of a different skin or culture.  So I am afraid it would make the whole thing a lot more complicated. Still I think they would bring a nice little touch of a land of myths and legends in our everyday life.

Right you are, brother. Right you are. Dude takes requests. Email him.

Via Something Awful.

For some people, being in love with an inanimate object isn’t hyperbolic, as in “I LOVE my couch.” It’s literal:

Like millions of sweethearts across the globe, Wall Winther has found true love. Her husband, in his prime, was a stalwart of immense stature, a domineering presence who was feared throughout his homeland and infamous the world over. Events haven’t been too kind to his physical state, but the couple’s love remains strong. You might think Wall Winther is lucky to be attached to such a celebrity, but it’s unlikely the couple will be gracing the cover of Hello! any time soon. That’s because Wall Winther’s other half is the Berlin Wall.

Wall Winther (whose original name was Eija-Riita Eklaf) is an Objectum-Sexual, or OS for short. Most OSes harbour their passions in private, terrified of rejection by society. But they can still form meaningful relationships, even if their partners might be considered unconventional. “It’s an orientation, like hetero or homosexuality,” explains Kiowa, a US-based OS who moderates an internet forum for like-minded souls. “We’re emotionally and physically attracted to objects. Replacing the term ‘hetero’ with ‘object’ would accurately describe OS.”

Wall Winther agrees. “We see things as living beings,” she says. “That’s a must. Otherwise you can’t fall in love with an object.” Wall Winther is attracted mostly to constructions with plenty of parallel lines – buildings, fences, bridges, gates and, in one case, a guillotine. But other OS fetishists might be turned on by the intricate workings of a turbine or television set, the delicate curves of a shiny sports car, the rigid harshness of a railtrack, or the bell end of a trumpet.

Anyone know the story of this little darling? Gallery of images after the jump.

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Is transvestitism a super-common cultural phenomenon in Thailand? I guess so:

A school in north-east Thailand has introduced toilets for transvestites after a survey showed that more than 200 students saw themselves as transgender, a director said today. Sitisak Sumontha said he believed the 2,600-student Kampang school, in north-eatern Thailand, was the first secondary to introduce unisex toilets.

“These students want to be able to go to the restroom in peace without fear of being watched, laughed at or groped,” he added. The toilets are designated by a sign depicting a human figure split in half - part man in blue and part woman in red.

“I’m so happy about this,” student Vichai Sangsakul told Thailand’s PBS news channel. “It looks bad going to female restrooms. What would other people think?”

Transgenders are often seen on TV soap operas in Thailand and are common in the capital, Bangkok, although rural areas are more conservative

That story makes the AMAZING video above—from a previous DG post—make slightly more sense, but thankfully, it’s still 90% inexplicably bizarre.

Beautiful gallery of medieval magic ceremonies, re-created in a book from the 1960s. I ordered my copy today! From The Nonist:

Can you begin to imagine the amount of time spent by the human race in pursuit of magic? I am not speaking metaphorically here. I mean can you imagine the sum total man-hours devoted to actively invoking, incanting, intoning, beseeching, divining, scrying, summoning, chanting, conjuring, and casting? And though, so far as we know, not a single minute of all that feverish sorcery yielded the intentional result with greater efficiency than chance, magic continues, and will continue, probably forever. And do you know why? Well, setting aside the fact that the whole endeavor is damn poetic specifically because of its futility, fascinating because of its baroquely fanciful trappings, pathos-packed because of its provenance, and let’s face it, pretty hilarious on the whole, there is another, simpler reason; one which I believe will be self-evident if you take a gander at what I’ve set out for you below…

As you can see the simple answer is- Because its fun! I mean come on! In what other context do sad old dudes get to prance about waving wands over nubile flower-carrying virgins, flanked with skulls and incense and sheer fabrics? At what other point in their lives do most older women get to heft daggers and dance around naked together and point longswords at blindfolded initiates? The occult is just too damned fun to disapear. Not so much for the goats and chickens, granted, but for humans? A really swell time.

Many Same calls itself a “universal archive of sameness,” but you don’t need no high-falutin language to enjoy 41 pictures of cats in a box. Or 45 pictures of people passed out. It’s kinda like Hans Eijkelboom, but more bizarre.

via DGSF Ryan

Having partially developed inside caterpillars, the larvae of the wasps manipulate their hosts into watching over them as a mother or bodyguard might.

Yeah that’s right…For those of you who prefer to read your news, link to article on New Scientist

Previously, Zombie Locusts on DG

Whether you’re a Satanist or Libertarian, everyone can get down with some flesh dolls!

Via WFMU’s Beware the Blog

This has got to be the best thing on the net today; dolls made for children with down syndrome that resemble children with down syndrome. They’ve covered all the ethnic bases and even developed little background stories for them. Now before you get all defensive and like, “This is so wrong!” just remember you’re going to hell for about a billion other reasons, so laugh it up…cause god is a evolutionary invention.

Thanks O’Brutal