I would absolutely burn myself if I were to try that. In probably two or three different body parts.
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The ceramic work is really nice, but yeah i would prefer to have the coffee mug just be a coffee mug. And the pipe be a pipe. But if someone gifted this to me i would be delighted enough to want to occasionally use it.
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I have zero doubt I’d still use it, even after the burns. I’d just have to consider that the cost of doing business.
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Also a victim of Cormac McCarthy and his paedophilia. Or is it pederast when the victim is a little older? Either way, gross. And I wrote this before I saw your Rebecca Solnit post, @Millie_Fink. Plus hard agree about Humbert Humbert. Foul paedophile.
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The technical terms, which I’ll blur because it’s a squicky subject that happens to be part of my professional work:
Teleiophilia - primarily attracted to adults, defined as the fifth stage of the Tanner scales of physical development
Ephebophilia - primarily attracted to late adolescence, defined as stage 3-4 of the Tanner scales
Hebophilia - primarily attracted to early adolescence, defined as stages 2-3 of the Tanner scales
Pedophilia - primarily attracted to prepubescence, defined as stage 1 of the Tanner scales
These are rough technical divisions used in sexual research, though only the latter is also considered a diagnosable disorder per the DSM. The DSM lumps ephebophilic and hebephilic sexual acts into the criteria for diagnosing pedophilic disorder, for complex and largely political reasons related to the reality that even psychologists don’t like discussing this topic in sufficient depth to get into fine-grained distinctions.
Which brings me to this note: if you find yourself engaged in debate with someone who is insistent on drawing these distinctions, they are either a scientist who studies the subject or someone you want to stop interacting with pretty quickly. Laypersons who get hung up on these technicalities have picked a strange, concerning hill to die on. And the rest of us who think about these things don’t tend to argue the details outside our own circles because we know we work in the abyss.
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Just look at it!
Just look at … WTF! Where’d it go?
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It turned into the most expensive banana flambé ever.
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Second banana to the right, and straight on till morning.
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My God, I do hope not!
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Each in his own key of course.
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Starship Shoots Into Space With Single Banana in Cargo Hold
SpaceX’s latest test flight of its Starship spacecraft carried a highly unusual payload into space in its massive hold: a single banana.
betcha they didn’t catch a single fish!
Nobody brings a banana on my boat! whaddya wanna crash or something?
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“That’s no moon!”
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I don’t know why, but the phrase “interactive automatic flopping” is cracking me up…
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Of course! A friend gave us one of those. It caused a considerable amount of lack of interest among our cats.
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