Green Tea and Tan Lines

Kinky Friday - Barbie Pees

noreply@blogger.com (Great Blistering Barnacles) — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 04:00:00 +0000

An image from the gallery of Giko which has been reposted compliant to the conditions set by the artist.

Kinky Friday - Smoker's Dreams

noreply@blogger.com (Great Blistering Barnacles) — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 04:00:00 +0000

Blood from a stone? Uh-uh… REFINED DIESEL!

noreply@blogger.com (Great Blistering Barnacles) — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 08:12:00 +0000

This one was just too good to pass by. It appears that someone bamboozled Robert Mugabe’s task team out of Z$500-billion by convincing them that they could make refined diesel pour forth from a stone. The sad part is that this is not a joke.

A woman has been convicted over a “diesel from a rock” fraud. This article has the details if that’s what you are interested in but for a disrespectful take on this read on...

The story goes something like this. Someone decides to take a tank of diesel and attach a pipe, which was hides at the top of a rock, to it. Using a prearranged signal, like banging the rock with a “magical” staff or speaking in tongues a hidden accomplice opens the valve and diesel appears to be pouring from the rock.

Can you imagine selling this to your government as the end of the country’s fuel problems? Getting the equivalent of about R7,8-million for this (Zim dollars are pretty much worthless hence R7,8-million translates to Z$500-billion)? Not bloody likely! But it has happened in Zim. After making her discover known Robert Mugabe sends a task team was sent to investigate.

Lo and behold they come back proclaiming that the country’s fuel crisis is at an end. They have an infinite supply of diesel and the medicine woman who can make the rocks spew forth their treasure. “Fuck you western world,“ they probably thought. The medicine woman pockets the money and only after the second task team arrives – to investigate why the diesel hasn’t started flowing like the Zambezi - is she found out and dragged before the courts.

The Rub

Well, here’s the rub, if you can believe someone can walk on water why should you not believe that diesel can supernaturally flow from a rock? Common sense you may say? Well, if this is the real world example we have to work with how can we believe that someone can make water flow from a rock? Or walk on water? Or bring someone to life after the corpse has been decaying for a couple of days?

Kinky Friday - Candy Panic

noreply@blogger.com (Great Blistering Barnacles) — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 04:00:00 +0000

Kinky Friday - 7462

noreply@blogger.com (Great Blistering Barnacles) — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 04:00:00 +0000

Kinky Friday - Intermiss 034

noreply@blogger.com (Great Blistering Barnacles) — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 04:00:00 +0000

Blood Sucking Vampire Nudists!

noreply@blogger.com (Great Blistering Barnacles) — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 17:45:00 +0000

Blood? Vampire Nudists? Sucking? Ew?

Oh no! This is not what you think! It’s one of the new story themes in “The Bare Pit” called “Fluffy, the Vampire Nudist.”

What is “The Bare Pit?” It’s a comic about nudists (naturists). A comic about nudists? Well…, yes nudists have adventures too!

I’ve been following the comic series since way back when it started out as “Loxie and Zoot.” The very talented Stephen Crowley, author and artist of the series has been hard at work expanding on the collection of stories to give us: “The Bare Pit.”

If you haven’t read any of them then, imagine an Archie comic that has a cast of nudists, going about their lives and having, well… adventures.

It’s not lewd at all, the artwork is consistently good throughout and I found the stories interesting. In fact they are very relevant to the issues naturists deal with and can serve as a great introduction to anyone who may want to give naturism a try.

Here’s an example…

Kylie, the news anchor thought she was going to expose those naturists for what she thought they should be. Strange thing happened and Dr. Aletti noticed she had abandoned her crew. The good Dr. decided to look for her and found that Kylie had found solitude a better option than trying to find fault with naturists….

Oh my, it’s the old I can’t go naked because I think I’m too… [add the current unforgivable personal defect of the moment here]!

But, as usual, whenever someone does give it a try and let’s go of their inhibitions they become regulars. Just like Kylie.

The story lines range from naturist issues to fairy tales to scary Halloween tales that will make your naked skin crawl. But always portrayed tastefully and in a wholesome fashion.

In fact, if I had kids. I don’t but, if I had one or more I wouldn’t mind if they read “Loxie & Zoot” or “The Bare Pit.” If they can see violence on TV then nudity portrayed in a healthy way is something that can only be positive.

Kinky Friday - 6300

noreply@blogger.com (Great Blistering Barnacles) — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 04:00:00 +0000

I love the motion that is captured in this one.

Famous Poly People: Ayn Rand

noreply@blogger.com (Great Blistering Barnacles) — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 11:51:00 +0000

This was quite an accidental find. While reading Michael Shermer's "Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time" I stumbled on a little poly gem. It appears that Ayn Rand was polyamorous.

Who was Ayn Rand?

Here's the blurb from Wikipedia:

Ayn Rand (pronounced /ˈaɪn ˈrænd/; born Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum; February 2 [O.S. January 20] 1905 – March 6, 1982), was a Russian-American novelist, philosopher,^[3] playwright, and screenwriter. She is known for her best-selling novels and for developing a philosophical system called Objectivism. Born and educated in Russia, Rand emigrated to the United States in 1926. She worked as a screenwriter in Hollywood and had a play produced on Broadway in 1935-1936. She first achieved fame with The Fountainhead (1943),^[4] and her best-known work – the philosophical novel Atlas Shrugged – was published in 1957.

Rand's political views, reflected in both her fiction and her theoretical work, emphasize individual rights (including property rights) and laissez-faire capitalism, enforced by constitutionally limited government. She was a fierce opponent of all forms of collectivism and statism,^[5]^[6] including fascism, communism, and the welfare state.^[7] She was also an atheist and promoted ethical egoism (which she termed "rational self-interest") while condemning altruism.^[8]

-Wikipedia

So, How Was She Poly?

Ayn was married to Frank O'Connor, an actor to whom she remained married for fifty years – until his death. Ayn worked closely with Nathaniel Branden who was married to Barbara. Over time Ayn and Nathaniel’s relationship turned into a romantic “affair” with the consent of both spouses. I put affair in quotes because the fact that both spouses consented disqualified this as an “affair”. Most people not able to “get” polyamory will however see it as an affair because that is how far their frame of reference is capable of extending to.

Their romantic relationship did eventually fizzle. It was, however, only when Ayn discovered, in 1964, that Nathaniel Branden had entered and actual affair with actress Patrecia Scott which both of the Brandens hid from her and lied about that she terminated the relationship with both Brandens. This then being a classic example of how actual dishonesty can break up poly relationships and how poly relationships and “affairs” are simply different.

No Anal Sex!

noreply@blogger.com (Great Blistering Barnacles) — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 13:42:00 +0000

I know it's not Friday and I don't want this to become too much of a photo blog but I just had to post this one. This is one of the most creative ways to say "No" to anal I've ever seen. And if someone explained the situation to me like this - with some studs and leather I'd accept the declining of the request very gracefully satisfied with the knowledge that saw I something cool.

Kinky Frday - Apology For Pathology #10

noreply@blogger.com (Great Blistering Barnacles) — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 04:00:00 +0000

I posted this one simply because it reminded me of going to some kind of "Little Shop of Horrors"-like dentist.

The Most Boring Movie Award

noreply@blogger.com (Great Blistering Barnacles) — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:13:00 +0000

I just watched a movie that is a worthy successor to my “Most Boring Movie” award. This last holder of this award was the movie Twilight.

Twilight

Twilight won the award because I just couldn’t wait for the movie to end. The whole, “Ooh! I love her so much I want to bite her.” Then, “Ooh I love her so much I can’t bite her.” Any vampire worth his salt would not fall in love with its food. That’s like falling in love with a very pale cow – that kind of creepy shit should not be shown in a cinema it should go on Jerry Springer.

VAMPIRES DON’T GLITTER!

Ok, ok the vampire playing with its food isn’t all that bad but the final straw was that VAMPIRES DON’T GLITTER! When they hit sunlight their juices sputter and pop under their quickly crisping skin – unless they are called Lestat and there is a very good reason why he doesn’t get affected all that badly by sunlight.

The New Champion

Without further ado and imagining the required drum-roll here’s the new winner of the “Most Boring Movie” award. And the winner is… Transporter 3. It’s sooooo dull. Nothing new happens. Everything that has been done to death in movies is the staple of this flick.

The only interesting moment was when the depressed, pill-popping, Russian, red-head lead actress has to pee on the floor. Considering that I dislike people who are constantly depressed and am totally against taking illegal substances (and catch an intense dislike in people who do) the scene was ruined for me. Oh, she does it in someone’s shop which means she left the mess for someone else to clean so her general selfish attitude all added in ruining this one thing that made the movie different.

So we have 5 seconds of redemption to over an hour of boring crap. Yes the pee scene was less than five seconds and it was insinuated so you don’t actually see anything. I assume it would bump up the age restriction to 18 if they showed that.

There we go, another recipient of the “Most Boring Movie” award…

Kinky Friday - Cos It Hurts IV

noreply@blogger.com (Great Blistering Barnacles) — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 04:00:00 +0000

I find this picture a little unsettling. But when one looks deeper than what we've been taught about males vs females and how a gentleman is supposed to behave you can see that there is no "hysteria" coming from the male - simply goal orientation. The ladies' hands are free and on closer investigation the only real bondage is the gag being tightened.

Strange emotions this invokes...

Too Much Plastic Surgery on TV!

noreply@blogger.com (Great Blistering Barnacles) — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 18:27:00 +0000

It’s done. The camel’s back is broken and I have had enough of plastic surgery shows on TV. The end came when I hopped from channel to channel, landed on Zone Reality and saw someone get and injection in the inside of their eyelid and had some unnaturally brightly colored piece of anatomy cut away from in there somewhere.

I think I’m going to have to make some kind of agreement with Mrs. GBB. I’ll promise not to try and trade her in for a younger model if we can agree to just get old together and do so gracefully. Wait, we’ve done that already and poly doesn’t involve trading anyone in.

But this got me thinking about exactly what it is that I look at in a person. It may be hard to believe but, looks aren’t the only thing I focus on. Personality goes a long way and looks, even though still mandatory is second place.

Since going to naturist resorts could be called a hobby of ours we’ve seen it all. Large, small, saggy and tight. Light, dark, pierced and inked. Bushy, shorn, ingrown and smooth. The vast majority of issues people have about their bodies are self and peer induced. Once you are in an environment where you can see others in their naked glory you quickly realise that you aren’t all that bad off and the bigger boobs, flatter tummy or plumped up lips really may not be all that important when you really should be worrying about what personality you are wearing that day.

Still, not taking body’s too serious doesn’t mean we should skimp on grooming and making the best of what we’ve got. Shiny clean hair, well manicured nails and well looked after skin is something everyone can flaunt. I shouldn’t be focusing on women only here as men have just as many issues around their physiques that they often believe can only be fixed by a knife or some Botox - it’s just that they worry most about the size of their brains aka genitals.

Now, I’m done ranting about plastic surgery TV shows… but they MADE ME DO IT!

Hot to “get” Polyamory

noreply@blogger.com (Great Blistering Barnacles) — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:42:00 +0000

Many people just don’t seem to be able “get” Polyamory. It’s not something to be embarrassed about and it’s also very common. There are people from all walks of life that suffer from this problem – accountants, estate agents and journalists. You name it from all social and income groups you’ll find many who just can’t ”get” it. In the interest of helping me explain Polyamory I’ve devised a mental exercise that may help…

Relax and just breathe. Imagine in your mind there is a place that new ideas and concepts pass through. Whenever something different to what you are used to moves through that area it goes tight - it spasms and sometimes it hurts so much! You know the area I’m referring to.

It’s like a fist that clenches tight when you hear about new things. The more radical the ideas the harder that fist clenches. It may even clench so hard you feel as if it is beating against the inside of your head. For some the experience is so intense they find themselves beating somebody else with their fists and never really know why…

To “get” polyamory I’m going to ask you to picture that area in your mind. See it in your minds eye… I’m going to ask you to do something radical in a moment and I promise nothing bad will happen – you can trust me - I’m not from the government. Things will be fine.

Let go of that tense area. Let it relax… Just let it rest…. Let it go…

Now go read:

Tristan Taormino’s Opening Up: A Guide to Creating and Sustaining Open Relationships

Dossie Easton & Janet Hardy’s The Ethical Slut : A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities

How to tie a Karada

noreply@blogger.com (Great Blistering Barnacles) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:40:00 +0000

How to tie a Karada with anime-like instructions. So cute I think, I’m going to have nightmares featuring Pookachee, The Feces Family Pukah and all the other cute anime goggos and things that drive me nuts.

But, pain shared is pain halved so enjoy the functional part of this and hopefully I’ll sleep tight knowing that some readers of this blog will carry some of the burden brought on by the cuteness-factor.

FVPoly in Afrikaans

noreply@blogger.com (Great Blistering Barnacles) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:15:00 +0000

Na ‘n lang 38 weke is daar uiteindelik ‘n Afrikaanse bron van inligting rondom poliamorie. Gaan kyk gerus hier: FVPoly in Afrikaans.

Back to English; Tacit wrote what is one of the most effective introductions to polyamory available on the web it’s called FVPoly and you can find it here: FVPoly.

Now, this document has been translated to Afrikaans, one of the official languages in South Africa. As far as I know it’s the first of its kind and was done by no other than yours truly. Help was given by by GreenFizzPops and rEdSaTiN and the Afrikaans Polyamory community.

It’s a weird feeling that such a significant event just crept up on us out of the blue… but go and have a peak at FVPoly in Afrikaans and pass the link to all your Afrikaans friends as we know they are all over the world!

Kinky Friday - Tied

noreply@blogger.com (Great Blistering Barnacles) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 04:00:00 +0000

Fantasy vs. Imagination

noreply@blogger.com (Great Blistering Barnacles) — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:19:00 +0000

Fantasy is where we escape to when reality get's too much.

Imagination is what we use to make reality better.

An interesting way to look at things… It reminds me of the, I think it was Nike or Firestone add that said something like: “Power is nothing without control.”

What get’s us both drooling: Mia Tyler

noreply@blogger.com (Great Blistering Barnacles) — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:27:00 +0000

Mrs. GBB and I are different in many ways. We like different foods, different books and just have differences of opinion that we know we’ll never get to any agreement on. But, when it comes to women that make us drool with unashamed lust we have uncannily similar tastes.

One of those women is Mia Tyler. We don’t really follow the lives of celebrities or have much interest in their comings and goings but we do know what we would like to take home, put a ribbon around and just eat up – figuratively of course we don’t have any lurking Dolcett fetishes.

Here are a couple of pics to show you what we’re talking about :)

Fuck It. The Ultimate Spiritual Way

noreply@blogger.com (Great Blistering Barnacles) — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:04:00 +0000

John C. Parkin also known as "The Man Who Said: Fuck It!" and author of the book "Fuck It. The Ultimate Spiritual Way" argues that saying "Fuck It!" is in fact a spiritual act. A massage for the mind if you will. Go check out his website The Fuck It Way to see how you too can benefit from this Western manifestation of deep Eastern spiritual knowledge.

Naturism Q&A - So, you wear nothing? Not even underwear?

noreply@blogger.com (Great Blistering Barnacles) — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:51:00 +0000

No. Naturism is about nudity, hence underwear, bathing costumes and other bits of clothing are redundant. But, there are times when clothes make sense such as when it is cold.

At the naturist resort we frequent almost everyone puts on something substantial when it rains, at least a T-Shirt to keep the chest warm. As it gets colder bottoms are worn. But, since the idea is to get naked the most desirable situation would be to just go somewhere that is warm so you don't have to get dressed again. A cosy fireplace always does the trick.

An exception to the nudity rules at these resorts is that children under 18 can wear what they want. This may be different at different resorts & beaches but, in general if you are under 18 the decision as to whether you undress lie with your parents.

Still, I've never seen anyone running around in their underwear. What would be the point?

Vintage Tuesday - Arched Back

noreply@blogger.com (Great Blistering Barnacles) — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 04:00:00 +0000

Whips and Chains

noreply@blogger.com (Great Blistering Barnacles) — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:54:00 +0000

Whips and Chains is the title of an article on Women24.com. As you have probably guessed it’s about BDSM with a South African cast. Here’s a something to wet your appetite before you go read it:

'Not all flowers are yellow,' he told me me sagely. 'Once you accept that you don't have to be yellow it's very empowering.'

Photo Blogging - More Naturism

noreply@blogger.com (Great Blistering Barnacles) — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:40:00 +0000

Originally Posted on "Convergence - The Blog" but, it was such a hit that I'm including it here.

349-15976, originally uploaded by *(Only) Nude Beach of the world.

I love this picture because it shows a group of people of all shapes and sizes. This represents the spirit of naturism as I have always experienced it: mutual respect and acceptance while everyone just has a great time.