A vending-machine dress, the brainchild of clothing designer Aya Tsukioka, could offer a woman walking alone a way to elude pursuers.

Holy crap. It is funny, but how can anyone think it is helpful in providing safety for "women walking alone a way to elude pursuers"? That is ridiculous. A walking vending machine? It is more like a beacon! Especially if you can't spit out pop cans and candy bars! Not to mention the neat little tent it provides for rapists.

*head-desk*

Triplets

14:44 / 23.10.07

If anything you'd think a rapist would disguise themselves as a coke machine.

All Acting Regiment

17:19 / 23.10.07

I think it has a lot of value - Lacanian value, but value none the less.

Essential Dazzler

00:37 / 24.10.07

I'm so chuffed that I'm studying for a degree that watching The Singing Detective can be considered research.

Good God, that series is good, I've wanted to see it for years, I'm glad I finally got the impetus. Describing it as a cross between Neon Genesis Evangelion and The Filth seems wrong because it happened a good decade before even the earliest of those.

In other news, Britney Spear's newest album isn't that bad. It sure ain't great, but I enjoy the hell out of it.

iamus

00:57 / 24.10.07

That's weird. I was just downstairs making a bagel thinking about how fucking great The Singing Detective is and how I really should set aside some time to watch it again soon.

Now I'm up here, reading this post about how you love The Singing Detective too.... WHILE I'M EATING THAT SAME FUCKING BAGEL!

Hrmmmm....maybe that means I should actually watch it while taking a shite tomorrow....

HCE

04:19 / 24.10.07

Kicking ass LEFT and RIGHT on midterms. 99/100 and 100/100.

Papess

04:25 / 24.10.07

That is amazing, KG! You are so HOTT!

Olulabelle

08:02 / 24.10.07

That vending machine dress thing; I'm digging the idea that the way to stop women being pursued at night time on their way home is to disguise them so they no longer look like women.

Cunning.

Saint Keggers

18:58 / 24.10.07

Now, there's a person who loves their dog.

All Acting Regiment

12:34 / 25.10.07

Papess

12:38 / 25.10.07

Olulabelle: That was sarcasm, right? Please say that was sarcasm.

Tryphena Absent

13:39 / 25.10.07

What are you talking about? Of course it wasn't sarcasm. It's totally the way to avoid trouble, just dress like a man. I should have thought of it before, I don't know why it didn't cross my mind.

Eloi Tsabaoth

14:23 / 25.10.07

Other things to dress as for safety:
-A grizzly bear.
-An abstract concept, ie Blueness or Frugality.
-Rupert Murdoch
-A woman, but a really tough woman, like Lucy Liu.
-The person planning to mug you. That'll freak them out.

Papess

14:49 / 25.10.07

Whew, okay. I thought I was missing some possible sensibility about dressing like a vending machine that didn't involve Hallowe'en.

Saint Keggers

14:49 / 25.10.07

Johnny's reply gave me a happy.

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

15:05 / 25.10.07

Particularly the dressing as the mugger routine. I nearly choked on my breakfast.

Dead Megatron

22:06 / 25.10.07

Particularly the dressing as the mugger routine.

Hey, mimicry is evolution-proved*! It migth even actually work in avoiding muggings for just about everyone.

* or maybe it's just intelligent design.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

08:05 / 26.10.07

Lego dwarf mine!!!

Quantum

09:31 / 26.10.07

*gasp!*
Adventure in the Dwarves' Mine!
Sorry, item is not available in this country: United Kingdom.
*sob!*

Less searchable M0rd4nt

09:33 / 26.10.07

They have a cave troll.

Quantum

10:38 / 26.10.07

8cm tall!

Mistoffelees

12:02 / 26.10.07

Not available here, either. Is teasing a new kind of marketing?

Dead Megatron

12:04 / 26.10.07

Lego of the Rings! Ha!, cool!

Papess

12:19 / 26.10.07

They are available in Canada.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

12:34 / 26.10.07

That's not fair! Can I just say that THAT'S NOT FAIR!?

Mon Oncle Ignatius

12:36 / 26.10.07

One car less! The old banger was finally sent off to meet its maker, or at least the Authorised Treatment Facility (junkyard as was), where it will be happily be recycled into washing machines, etc..

I'm also happy that this is now a legal requirement in the UK, and that the car manufacturers have to pay for the recycling of at least 75% (to grow to 90%) of their old wares - so it was free as well.

Ticker

12:38 / 26.10.07

you know we lurv you and will buy them for you and ship them if you need the US 'Lithers to support your lego-troll habit.

nixwilliams

12:56 / 26.10.07

I just went to an Indigo Girls concert! For free! I love my very sick friend and her generosity. I have never seen or heard a noisier, more enthusiastic audience in Hamer Hall.

INDIGO GIRLS!

All Acting Regiment

14:02 / 26.10.07

There can, at times, be beauty in the world.
Else wherefore such lanes, such odd works, as these?

My Mom Thinks I'm Cool

17:35 / 26.10.07

I just went to a job interview that was actually fun. We sat together and wrote a program in Python, which I have never used before, and it was recursive and everything, and it worked. I think I really miss programming.

Anyway, he said he "has no doubts about my programming abilities". I might be teaching kids how to build robots and write video games next year. for loads of cash.

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