Author: Kim du Toit
Total Gorgeousity
Last weekend, fiend Reader Mr. Lion jogged my memory about a certain car that I’ve always loved simply because it is so beautiful. (Forget actually driving one: they cost well over a million dollars, if you could find someone willing to part with theirs. Good luck.)
Anyway, here it is, the Ferrari 250 California Spyder, from 1958.
Ferrari made several variations of the 250 over the years. One of my favorites is the rather more conservative GTL Lusso:
Then there’s the (much) racier GTO:
I could go on, but there’s only so much one can stand, really. Your favorite 250 models in Comments, if you like.
Caption Competition #23
Your entries in Comments.
5 Worst Times To Be Without A Gun
Ranked in ascending order of helplessness/need:
- While in lion / grizzly / snake-infested countryside
- During a school shooting
- While driving through any urban paradise featuring public housing
- Driving along any highway, road or street in Johannesburg
- When you’re the only person in the room not holding one
Your suggestions in Comments.
P.S. I see I forgot to post a 5 Worst list last Friday. Sorry.
Not Quite As Pictured
Aaahhh, Oxford…
…except it’s not quite like that:
A group of men who abused teenage girls in a vehicle they called the ‘slagwagon’ have been jailed for a total of nearly 90 years.
The men – aged 36 to 48 – befriended vulnerable girls as young as 13 before plying them drink and drugs at ‘parties’ in Oxford.
The eight men – branded ‘predatory and cynical’ by a judge – have now been jailed for between seven and a half and fifteen years each.
I know what you’re thinking, but before you start guessing, I’ll do it for you:
Click on the link and scroll down to see just how prevalent this bastardy has become in Britain.
Me, I’m thinking along the following lines, rather than short sentences of imprisonment:
…although no doubt some of you will think I’m being too kind. Feel free to propose your own bloodthirsty ideas in Comments.
Any Excuse Will Do
The story in a nutshell: woman approaches menopause, gets super-horny, needs to get laid three times a day to satisfy her raging libido. Why?
During the perimenopause, the slow countdown to infertility which can begin up to a decade before your periods cease, oestrogen levels fluctuate and fall.
But there’s a period in which testosterone remains relatively high. This is because, while testosterone peaks in your 20s, and then halves by the time you reach 40, the decline after that age is less dramatic.
At this point, when there are fewer hormone binding chemicals in the blood to dampen its effect, there’s effectively a testosterone spike.
As the Church Lady would say: “How conveeenient.”
And of course, everyone is all sympathetic because womanhood, instead of calling her a ghastly slag. Why do I feel so little sympathy?
“I learned that dating sites for married people were places to interact with potential partners without the harassment and judgement they received on other sites from those who view the issue of infidelity as black and white. I see the many shades of grey around the topic.”
So she was only interested in quickie knee-tremblers, not long-term affairs with married men. How noble of her.
Here’s the clincher: this foul woman is the editor of something called Erotic Review Magazine. So her elevated testosterone (if that’s what it was — I remain skeptical) and her impending divorce were coupled to her reading smut on a daily basis. What other outcome was possible?
And here’s the kicker:
“But in the future, when I’m partnered again, I will bring up any desire I have to stray outside that partnership.”
When? How about if ever, and I’m backing never. I foresee an unending string of “pump ‘n dump” encounters in her future.
Myself, I’m just curious what the grounds for her divorce were, or whether she was just being dumped by hubby for [insert your salacious reason here]. Whatever, she sounds like a dreadful, self-centered person, no matter how scientific and gyno-sympathetic her “condition” sounds.