why do i hate that artist thing that people keep posting on my facebook so much? why am i such a jerk?

there's some interesting work been done on the extent to which cannibalism was a fiction of Western travel writers/novelists which isn't quite the same thing but close enough

i can't think of any other big social crazes that have been mostly pure fiction tho

― iMacaroon dragoons (Noodle Vague), Monday, September 9, 2013 11:14 AM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/weblog/comments/3524/

oh yeah good shout. not immortalized in fiction much yet tho afaik

i mean there's a bunch of urban legend scare stuff, still see "watch out for vicious crims handing out LSD disguised as sweeties" notices on the reg

it just seems like even swingers prob want to be able to choose who they do sex with

definitely, but then i reckon in a party with maybe 6 couples, fixing the draw shd be pretty straightforward and probly happened more often than not

invite one ugly couple for the "russian roulette" variation

"there's some interesting work been done on the extent to which cannibalism was a fiction of Western travel writers/novelists which isn't quite the same thing but close enough"

THE most popular literary genre in America for many years was the captivity narrative. often padded and puffed up and made more scary. or even made up completely.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captivity_narrative

I think the compelling aspect of the 70s key party is that they were both widespread and casual, which pretty clearly wasn't the case, even if they did happen sometimes.

the 70s key party myth, I should say

i totally believe that there were 70's hot tub swing parties and there were definitely places like plato's retreat where things got crazy. but i had never heard of the key thing until the book. cool idea anyway.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato's_Retreat

has anyone written a book/made a movie that exposes the dark underbelly of suburban life? i think that'd be a pretty good idea.

lol

thought that was gonna be a treeship post for a second, there

in elementary school i had a friend who had just moved from california and he asked me one day if my parents ever had naked parties

my wife can tell you about some scary parties in the 70's...

you know, hippie drug parties and stuff. they always sound like a nightmare to me. people blowing pot smoke into her face and stuff when she was little. damn hippies.

I had this American Studies class on the postwar period that was kind of premised on the idea that postwar suburbia was a pill-addled horrorfest. In retrospect, while suburban life is worthy of critique, the tone of the course seems a bit hysterical.

xp want some whiskey in your water, some sugar in your tea

it wasn't leave to beaver, i will tell you that much

heavy domestic booze consumption was probly much more socially acceptable from the 40s thru 70s than it is today, it's not a massive stretch to believe that prescription drugs and then some non-prescription drugs wouldn't have been a massive no-no in the same era

we're all alright we're all alright hello wisconsin

lol

i actually kinda thought this was cute/funny. such a rarity to not hate facebook stuff that looks like it was shared a zillion times.

https://sphotos-a-ord.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc1/1000964_659407387411334_733906806_n.jpg

ok i lol'ed

I don't understand this "suburbia" stuff...as if suburbs are one giant boring blob with neat front lawns and topiary. People who didn't grow up in them started this. To hear my mom tell it, the suburbs were more liberal in the sixties and seventies...they owned their own single-family property instead of taking in boarders or being one yourself.

In my early years I had to live with grandparents , cousins and an elderly couple all in one building...I was really happy but that is how my parents grew up...in a crowded apartment block.

Marijuana...shit, we had heroin dealers a few blocks away. No, it isn't "cool" - they were scary people and neither smart nor "liberal".

https://sphotos-b-iad.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/q77/1234305_10152206256353986_1114325619_n.jpg

i can think of two things wrong with these wacky science jokes

what a horribly formed wacky science "joke"

they sound like jokes from the big bag theory

double joke!

why is there no aspirin in the jungle? because the acetaminophen - double joke! - i have cancer

loool spiralli

hahahaha

don't tell terrible science jokes

watch Look Around You instead

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnNisSksR1s

fwiw that "middle aged" thing skot posted is from Private Eye and probably looks like that because they print it on terrible paper

Banana splits macro otm, they were better than pretty much any other band in the last 40+ years.

― Moodles, Monday, September 9, 2013 6:54 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^truish

i love the ice storm

― lag∞n, Monday, September 9, 2013 9:02 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
cosign

those jokes are great, def have a 'look around you' feel.

another novel about horrible swinger-type parents in the 1970s fucking up their kids

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/P/0061452025.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

that title seems a bit on the nose

I don't care how sleazy or avocado it is.

avowut?

The Summer of Your Gross Parents Making Sex with the Neighbors

"Did anything (lowers spectacles) happen at these...naked swim parties?"

The Naked Summer Of Our Swimming Swinging 70's Parents by Beth Cooper

this was the best thing on my facebook today

https://sphotos-b-atl.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc1/553545_10201204812295084_1443897891_n.jpg

blue eyes! damn!

given the number of polyamorous people I've known, key parties don't really stretch my credulity.

i feel like youre not really listening

maybe you just wanted to say you know a lot of polyamorous people

just catching up on threads, adding in my pointless observations hours after they would've been relevant, yk, the usual

anyway its the key part not the party part that is supicious

and if it's a group of poly folks, they call it a d20 party.