Delicious LiveJournal Links for 10-13-2010

[andrewducker]

• Two porn companies postpone filming over HIV test
  (tags: hiv porn movies usa)
• Cheese. Far more interesting than you might think. Damn, I wish I liked cheese.
  (tags: cheese food)
• We Have Forgotten How Real Political Change Happens
  (tags: politics change society)
• 17 Things Every Women's Magazine Will Tell You (That You Should Ignore)
  (tags: women journalism media culture funny)
• How argument style affects marriage and the chances of divorce.
  (tags: marriage relationships psychology)
• The Perplexing Case of the Female Orgasm
  (tags: science sex orgasm women)
• The true size of Africa
  (tags: geography africa maps visualization infographic map)
• 57.7% of Chicago parishes had a priest accused of abuse.
  (tags: catholicism rape abuse usa)
• US ban on openly gay military personnel suspended
  (tags: lgbt military usa)
• Hermaphrodite dog is operated on to make it more acceptable to adopters.
  (tags: wtf dog society)
• Confronting Men About Sexism Changes Behavior Positively
  (tags: psychology sexism feminism)
• Amazon to shell short stories - "Kindle Singles" to be 10,000-30,000 words in length
  (tags: kindle ebooks amazon writing digital publishing)
• I'm Homeless and This Is Why I Have an iPad
  (tags: ipad homeless homelessness paris)
• Irish court rules in favour of ISPs in piracy case. Says that cutting people off is against EU legislation.
  (tags: internet law ireland europe)
• Vince Cable’s statement on tuition fees
  (tags: politics education uk)

Comments

[octopoid-horror.livejournal.com]

Why the hell don't you like cheese?

What's WRONG with you?

[andrewducker]

I have no idea. I wish I did.

I liked cheese as a kid, and when I was about 12 I went off it over a period of about 6 months. It was very odd. First I didn't like very strong cheeses, then I didn't like reasonably plain cheeses, then I went off cheddar, and finally I went off of processed cheese. There's something in it that just tastes _wrong_.

If I could change that, I would.

Good article though.

[octopoid-horror.livejournal.com]

I'm reconsidering our friendship.

I can just about understand someone who doesn't like incredibly strong mature cheddar. I mean, you could like goat's cheese, or prefer a nice ripe brie perhaps. Maybe you were some kind of snob who wouldn't eat cheese unless it was mouldy, weird but okay.

But not liking cheese at all?

[andrewducker]

I know!

I'd love to know what caused it.

[octopoid-horror.livejournal.com]

I'd suggest maybe you turned foreign, except foreigners all like cheeses. Weird cheeses, certainly and in the case of some, things that aren't really cheese but loosely resemble it, but they still like it.

Were you abducted and probed by aliens who then replaced your brain's cheese centre?

[matgb]

There is a worse aspect to this. Someone that doesn't like cheese, by default, also doesn't like pizza.

@Andrew, just cheese, or other lactose & glutamate based foodstuffs as well?

[octopoid-horror.livejournal.com]

But I've seen him eat pizza!

Andrew - account for this discrepancy immediately!

[matgb]

Bwuh? This makes no sense.

I've had a housemate and, separately, a girlfriend who were lactose intolerant, ergo no cheese, and therefore no pizza. Given that cheap pizza was my default meal at the time, this caused a problem for cheap student dates :-(

[octopoid-horror.livejournal.com]

Scrape the cheese from pizza and have some kind of weird student-style bruschetta :-p

[andrewducker]

For some reason cooking cheese makes the bad taste go away. No idea why.

Same thing with red wine - don't like the taste of it normally, do like the taste it adds to cooked food.

[andrewducker]

See answer below.

[octopoid-horror.livejournal.com]

If you enjoy delicious melty baked goats cheese, I can forgive you.

[andrewducker]

Oooh, I've never had melted goats cheese. I'll have to try that some time.

[octopoid-horror.livejournal.com]

You could say that our continuing friendship depends upon it.

[undeadbydawn.livejournal.com]

I am allergic to pizza.

I vom furiously whenever I touch the stuff. It is most distressing
[i will refrain from describing my thoughts regarding cheese]