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Those Swedes - liberated, sensual and always ready for some sexual gratification for any achievement! And they don’t care when and where it happens …
Stumble it!
Why is what a guy can achieve with his sausage in maybe fifteen minutes, much more important to his psyche what he can achieve with the rest of himself? Your sausage is part of you - you are not an appendix of you sausage.
Ah, finally you can piss on the world you have conquered. I wonder of that was designed by a male architect with a dickish attitude or someone who wanted to see if his employees can keep up the pressure, once they raise above a certain position?
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Huge LAN-Parties are a new form of event - which evolved from small gaming sessions at a friends house. Usually a couple a friends gather, bring their computers, loads of cables and food and game for several hours or even days straight. A lot of soda and pizza is consumed - and electricity.
But these big ass public LAN-Parties are amazing and eerie. There you have HUGE halls or convention centers filled with thousands of young nerds and gamer - and you hardly hear a thing - apart from computers humming.
Why? Because almost everybody is wearing a headset / headphones and they are all fully concentrated on killing each other. You hear the occasional cry of victory or defeat - but that’s it - the rest is silence.
Normally when huge crowds of young males gather they are loud, obnoxious, often on the verge of misbehaving or serious violence (football games etc.). LAN-Parties are very silent, orderly and very odd.
The real action happens in many virtual battlefield and servers.
Just because you and an your drunken mates can afford to go into a strip club doesn’t mean you suddenly turned into George Clooney and all the females are crazy for you middle management wankers.
It’s about time that fairies join the equal rights movement. Most male fairy creatures are rather means and grumpy (Leprechaun, Rumpelstilzchen, etc.).
Why are all these good jobs mostly reserved for yummy and charming woman?
We old farts also want to appear in children’s bedrooms in a cloud of pink fairy dust - and wipe the tears of little faces.
But I am pretty sure someone will sue male fairies for sexual harassment as soon as the first wish was granted!
*Thanks Judefa for that lovely picture*
(2 votes, average: 4.5 out of 5)Loads of machismo and inaptitude results in hilarious moments caught on tape. I always watch this video to reassure myself that I am not a total idiot … maybe it helps you too!?
The male of our species is … a bit odd sometimes.
Good thing that science and companies over all the stuff to become a perfect male: bigger penis, harder penis, hair transplants for your head and your chest, getting more muscles either via training or chemicals. Plus many more tricks to get rich and raise your social status.
Hardly anyone cares about males inner life and if they progress as happy human being - as long as their good sperminators and money grabbers.
We just had winter solstice and started a new year - can we have summer soon! Please? Pretty Please?! I miss freestyle jogging with my friends … a lot …
Guys always think about sex and want to mate any ol’ female. Yeah right, that might have been true before the invention of the video games. Since then … we can resist any pussy in face of a new high score!
We only get grumpy when we are sick, because we want be by ourselves. Overly protective and motherly females can be very annoying when one is trying to die in peace …
Once again a collection of images, texts and background info about an old and great myth. The story of Icarus & Daedalus is complex and highly symbolic. It contains several layers and aspects I find very interesting:
Daedalus - the great inventor, whose skills are highly praised, but bring only blood and tears to himself and his family.
Evil King - who forces Daedalus to build the labyrinth.
Father and Son - a great family story, how they work together to escape the evil king.
Freedom - you can outwit evil and literally fly into freedom. Great symbolic act.
Inventor - great ideas can give you wings and let you escape your current (dreadful) situation. Outsmart your own destiny.
Wild youth - when youngster go wild and burn themselves - once again in a literal way. Also connects to the old ‘I told you so’ aspect of parenthood.
Burning - you can burn yourself if you get to close to the Gods or being too curious.
Falldown - the higher they fly, the deeper they fall. Also ‘keeping it low - even when you made it’ - so you don’t fall to deep. Daedalus was wise and survived, Icarus was foolish and died.
Moving on - although he lost his son Daedalus continues his life. He also faced his treacherous talents and prayed to the gods.
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From Wikipedia:
In Greek mythology, Daedalus (Latin, also Hellenized Latin Daedalos, Greek Daidalos (Δαίδαλος) meaning "cunning worker", and Etruscan Taitle) was a most skillful artificer, so skillful that he was said to have invented images. Daedalus had two sons: Icarus and Iapyx. He is first mentioned in Homer as the creator of a wide dancing-ground for Ariadne. Homer refers to Ariadne by her Cretan title, the "Lady of the Labyrinth". The Labyrinth on Crete in which the Minotaur was kept was also created by the artificer Daedalus. The story of the labyrinth is told where Theseus is challenged to kill the Minotaur, finding his way with the help of Ariadne’s thread.
Ignoring Homer, later writers envisaged the labyrinth as an edifice rather than a single path to the center and out again, and gave it numberless winding passages and turns that opened into one another, seeming to have neither beginning nor end (see labyrinth as opposed to maze). Ovid, in his Metamorphoses, suggests that Daedalus constructed the Labyrinth so cunningly that he himself could barely escape it after he built it. Daedalus built the labyrinth for King Minos, who needed it to imprison his wife’s son the Minotaur. The story is told that Poseidon had given a white bull to Minos so that he might use it as a sacrifice. Instead, Minos kept it for himself; and in revenge, Poseidon made his wife lust for the bull. For Minos’ wife, Pasiphaë, Daedalus also built the wooden cow so she could mate with the bull, for the Greeks imagined the Minoan bull of the sun to be an actual, earthly bull.
Athenians transferred Cretan Daedalus as Athenian-born, the grandson of the ancient king Erechtheus, who fled to Crete, having killed his nephew, Perdix. Over time, other stories were told of Daedalus. In the nineteenth century, Thomas Bulfinch combined these into a single synoptic view of material which Andrew Stewart calls a "historically-intractable farrago of "evidence", heavily tinged with Athenian cultural chauvinism" (Stewart). Among these anecdotes, one told that Daedalus was shut up in a tower to prevent his knowledge of the labyrinth from spreading to the public. He could not leave Crete by sea, as the king kept strict watch on all vessels, permitting none to sail without being carefully searched.
Since Minos controlled the land and sea routes, Daedalus set to work to fabricate wings for himself and his young son Icarus. He tied feathers together, from smallest to largest so as to form an increasing surface. The larger ones he secured with thread and the smaller with wax, and gave the whole a gentle curvature like the wings of a bird. When the work was finally done, the artist, waving his wings, found himself buoyed upward and hung suspended, poising himself on the beaten air. He next equipped his son in the same manner, and taught him how to fly. When both were prepared for flight, Daedalus warned Icarus not to fly too high, because the heat of the sun would melt the wax, nor too low because the sea foam would make the wings wet and they would no longer fly. Thus the father and son flew away.
They had passed Samos, Delos and Lebynthos when the boy began to soar upward as if to reach heaven. The blazing sun softened the wax which held the feathers together and they came off. Icarus fell into the sea. His father cried, bitterly lamenting his own arts, called the land near the place where Icarus fell into the ocean Icaria in memory of his child. Eventually Daedalus arrived safely in Sicily, in the care of King Cocalus, where he built a temple to Apollo, and hung up his wings, an offering to the god.
Minos, meanwhile, searched for Daedalus by travelling from city to city asking a riddle. He presented a spiral seashell and asked for a string to be run through it. When he reached Camicus, King Cocalus, knowing Daedalus would be able to solve the riddle, privately fetched the old man to him. He tied the string to an ant which, lured by a drop of honey at one end, walked through the seashell stringing it all the way through. Minos then knew Daedalus was in the court of King Cocalus and demanded he be handed over. Cocalus managed to convince Minos to take a bath first, where Cocalus’ daughters killed Minos.
Daedalus was so proud of his achievements that he could not bear the idea of a rival. His sister had placed her son Perdix under his charge to be taught the mechanical arts. He was an apt scholar and showed striking evidence of ingenuity. Walking on the seashore, he picked up the spine of a fish[5]. Imitating it, he took a piece of iron and notched it on the edge, and thus invented the saw. He put two pieces of iron together, connecting them at one end with a rivet, and sharpening the other ends, and made a pair of compasses. Daedalus was so envious of his nephew’s accomplishments that he took an opportunity, when they were together one day on the top of a high tower, to push him off. But Minerva, who favors ingenuity, saw him falling and arrested his fate by changing him into a bird called after his name, the partridge. This bird does not build his nest in the trees, nor take lofty flights, but nestles in the hedges, and mindful of his fall, avoids high places. For this crime, Daedalus was tried and banished.
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From Wikipedia:
Icarus (Greek: Ἴκαρος, Latin: Íkaros, Etruscan: Vicare) is a character in Greek Mythology. Icarus’s father, Daedalus attempted to escape his prison, the Labyrinth, in which he was imprisoned at the hands of King Minos, the king for whom he had built the Labyrinth (Labyrinth is derived from the Minoans word for a ceremonial axe). The Labyrinth’s original purpose was intended to hold the horrible creature, the Minotaur, a beast that was a product of one of the King’s mistress’s affairs with a bull. The Minotaur was born to King Minos and his wife instead of a son because the Gods were mad at them. As the Minotaur grew up it became violent and dangerous, so they had to imprison it in the Labyrinth. Daedalus fashioned a pair of wings for himself and his son, made of feathers and wax. Before they took off from the prison, Daedalus warned his son not to fly too close to the sun, as the wax would melt, nor too close to the sea, as the wax would dampen. Overcome by the sublime feeling that flying gave him, Icarus soared through the sky joyfully, but in the process he came too close to the sun, which melted his wings. Icarus kept flapping his wings but soon realized that he had no feathers left and that he was only flapping his bare arms. And so, Icarus fell into the sea in the area which bears his name, the Icarian Sea near Icaria, an island southwest of Samos. His flight was routinely alluded to by Greek poets in passing, but was told in a nutshell in Pseudo-Apollodorus, (Epitome of the Biblioteca) . Latin poets read the myth more philosophically, often linking Icarus analogically to artists. In the fifteenth century Ovid became the source for the myth as it was rediscovered and transformed as a vehicle for heroic audacity and the poet’s own aspirations, by Renaissance poets like Jacopo Sannazaro and Ariosto, as well as in Spain.
Hellenistic writers who provided philosophical underpinnings to the myth also preferred more realistic variants, in which the escape from Crete was actually by boat, provided by Pasiphaë, for which Daedalus invented the first sails, to outstrip Minos’ pursuing galleys, and that Icarus fell overboard en route to Sicily and drowned. Heracles erected a tomb for him.
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The right stamp to send something via airmail? 
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Why do people paint such great images to ceilings - to break our necks. This image actually makes perfect sense up there - since it all happened in the sky above us.
This is a wonderful depiction of the whole event. Anyone knows the artist?
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The myth in comic style - anno 1500. The only thing that confuses me are the flies on the tower.
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A very modern, yet charming interpretation of Icarus.
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Wow! What a proud - almost violent - young Icarus!
More about Alfred Gilbert @ Artrenewal.org
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A more intimate portray of our two heroes testing their wings before trying to escape the King of Minos.
I find this image a bit odd. Icarus looks very feminine on this painting, almost like a female angel taking of his bra / wings. His face looks very soft and his hand gesture are so absolutely gay …
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This one looks more like flying lessons from one old angel to a younger one. All very Kitsch. There is no context to the original tale or anything Greek.
More? Charles-Pail Landon Wikipedia entry
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Daedalus and Icarus are getting ready to escape the evil king Minos with their newly built wings. Imprisoned in a high tower of the royal palace they get ready to fly away. They are excited, they are nervous. Will they be discovered before they are ready? Will it work? Can they escape? Or will they plunge to death?
A final deep breath and they jump down …
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This is one of the most iconic images of the series: the cranky and bend father preparing the young and beautiful son for the escape. Note the wind in the ropes - and especially the black rope behind Icarus as a bad omen of what’s to come.
I also like that Leighton has made some effort to present the Greek theme with the statue in the background as well as including a high place for a better takeoff.
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Here Maestro Bruegel shows his great sense of drama as well as humor. Icarus and his death are a sidestory. A guy falling into the sea - so what? Bruegel condemns the young man to a tiny side story. Even the peasants in the image hardly take natice of what is happening.
Here is a excerpt from the wikipedia entry about this painting that explains the attitude behind this:
There is also a Flemish proverb (of the sort imaged in other works by Bruegel):"No plough stands still because a man dies". The painting may, as Auden’s poem suggests, depict humankind’s indifference to suffering by highlighting the ordinary events which continue to occur, despite the unobserved death of the mythic figure Icarus, who is seen drowning in the bottom right area of the sea. In Greek mythology, Icarus was the son of Daedalus, famous for his death by falling into the sea when he flew too close to the sun, melting the wax holding his artificial wings together. The sun, already half-set on the horizon, is a long way away; the flight did not reach anywhere near it.
Life is each human’s own tragedy!
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I love the colors in this painting. Also the concept of the flying head - like the idea of freedom is mostly in our heads and will always break free.
More? Redon entry @ Wikipedia
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This is the newest interpretation of this over 2000 year old story. In Chagall’s paintings there always seems to be the same village present.
It somehow looks rather like the competition by the village idiots, who can imitate Icarus the best.
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