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[lobelia321]

This is very odd. Last night I downloaded some screencaps of The Holy Curly Whirly on Graham Norton from someone's LJ. And now I can't find them again.

Where have all my screencaps gone? (sung to that daggy 60s tune) And who posted them?

I have the video, of course (thank you, lazulus!!!!) but I would like the screencaps, too.

My doctor said that I should aim for 20 minutes of aerobic-type exercise (to get heart rate up) five times a week. Currently I do zero minutes of this per week. But does watching Graham Norton count?

My pulse was way up!

Yes!!! The HCW is *medicinal*! I knew it!


In case you hadn't heard: there is apparently a thing called Online Compulsive Disorder. Which afflicts "patients" who are mainly women, above-average intelligence and who cannot turn off the computer and engage in "meaningful communication" with their spouses/partners.

I will google this. It was on BBC radio.

Patriarchal ploy and so forth.

Comments

[tvillingar.livejournal.com]

Online Compulsive Disorder

I'm pretty sure I have this.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

What makes you say this?

Note also the feminist rants appended to this post after you first posted your comment.

[tvillingar.livejournal.com]

I started writing this but it turned out a bit long and personal so I'm emailing it to you instead.

Warning: a bit of a rant.

[badgermonkey.livejournal.com]

The thing is, just about anything enjoyable that women have ever done in large enough numbers for people to notice has suddenly been pathologised and turned into this Terrible Social Problem; novel-reading, studying, having a job, masturbation...all these things and many more have at one point or another been seen as practically symptoms of madness and worthy of a 'cure'. (See this book for more on the subject.)

The fact that just about every man in the western world has, at one time or another, surfed for porn, or inhabited a dodgy chatroom, is not a cause for concern ("Oh, those boys, honestly") but if women actually want to make friends and talk about intelligent (OK, not always intelligent, but sometimes) stuff, then it's a disorder and everyone has to worry about the poor men! who are being ignored! Never mind that women have been ignored by their menfolk for many a long year in favour of one of those all-consuming male passions like football, work, or, yes! computer games - we're supposed to live with that because that's how men are, they need their space, but we are not supposed to need our space.

It's a fucking con. In my opinion :g:

[bunnysquee.livejournal.com]

i’m 100% with you on this one. when men surf the net for porn for 5 hours every night, it’s okay, it’s just boys being boys. when women do it, it’s a social disorder. wtf?! when men have cyber sex, it’s just boys being boys. when women chat online about Orli’s curls, it’s a social disorder.

this sort of discrimination makes me so angry i want to saw off a shot gun and go postal!!!

Re: Warning: a bit of a rant.

[brightest-blue.livejournal.com]

You make an excellent point. I think that generally, men need the women in their lives much more than women need them, for all of the day-to-day things at least. So any activity that potentially might interfere with men being taken care of is cause for alarm.

I remember my grandmother speaking disapprovingly of her own mother for reading novels and playing bridge one night a week. The fact that her father spent his free time tearing around the countryside in his Model T and carousing with his friends was just normal. Grrr.

Re: Warning: a bit of a rant.

[morgause13.livejournal.com]

You made some very good point here and it reminds me, sadly, of my own situation. My husband got upset at me for being online all the time and yet... he was so busy with his own work (and I was having my own career troubles) that I didn't know what else to do. There were people online who *liked* my company--while my husband was too busy to spend time with me.

Of course nothing is ever that simple but.... there ya go.


fyi we are separated now and while I think he is a great guy, I am *much* happier on my own

[blithesea.livejournal.com]

Did you mean these? Jenn posted a link to them.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Yes! These are the ones! As you can see, I *found* them!

*stares at your icon*

[blithesea.livejournal.com]

Strangely, I don't like how the picture looks as an icon; it looked a lot more convincing in its entirety. And I couldn't think of anything good to write on the icon, either. The original manip is big enough for wallpaper, though. *bounces at Orli/Sean cuddling*