This was the last time I read Tieteen Kuvalehti or anything else before going through the contents. Or even the listing of subjects TK has on the side of the magazine.
I've mentioned before that I have a phobia of a certain species of the fauna. Well, TK had an 8-page article on those creatures. Unfortunately, I had *not* read the contets but was reading the magazine backwards, starting from the back. Obviously I don't know the titles or even the subject of the articles if I start from the final page. This resulted in the nasty incident of the terror-filled article which I started from the last page. Well, there wasn't much to read... at least I think so, I recall only the ickiest parts. Those parts were pictures of those disgusting creatures. First a general picture: "okay, I can bear that..." with a slight twitch in the face. Then, a close-up picture showing how well they adapt to the environment: "whoo... good that they're really good at that so I can't even make out their outlines against that surfice... I can just pretend their not there and ignore the arrow showing where they are". And then a close-up of the so-called face of a single creature, with its huge black eyes staring right at me from an inch's distance: "YÄÄÄÄÄÄK!!!!!!!!!!!" and the magazine drops to the floor when I retrieve away from the disgusting thing with trembling hands and a wave of disgust passing through my mind filled with the stare.
Seriously. I'm considering making a complaint. The very reason I LOVE winter is because there are no fucking butterflies fluttering around as if they're having seizures every half a second. And then you people fill eight pages with fancy close-up pictures in DECEMBER!!! To me the flying style of butterflies appears very anti-Darwinist: their style is not economic but waste of time and energy. If you have a huge room with two small flowers next to each other, the butterfly leaving one and setting out for the second will fly through the whole bloody chamber before finally landing on the second flower.
I don't know what originally triggered this phobia but those kind of close-up probably create more lepidopterophobics on this planet.
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A joke I heard this morning: What do you call a politically conservative, married straight man who actively promotes traditional values? ... A closet gay.
Have to comment on the Wikipedia-Scorpions thing going on. I agree that if a record was published today with that exact cover, yeah, I'd frown upon it. But Virgin Killers was publish four decades ago! By that time probably even the possibility to sue people for a genocide expires! So far my operator allows me to enter the album article. Besides, the actual purpose, I doubt, was not to give some old men material to watch while jerking off. If that was the intention, it's child pornography. But it's an old album cover! And theoretically speaking, anyone can use basically anything for jerking off: , mayonese for all I know. So how about using the time and energy for something a whole lot more useful... I don't know, like actually developing the wellfare of children so that they don't have to turn to priests and other politically conservative, married straight man who actively promotes traditional values molesting children possibly due to their twisted and warpped idea of sexuality? Would that be too much to ask?
