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  • Otterday! And Open Thread.

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    Otters! Vicious little wea —

    dawwwwww.

    Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires.

  • Otterday! And Open Thread.

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    Today’s otter comes via The Daily Otter.

    Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires.

  • BFTP Otterday: Otters Will Fuck You Up (and Open Thread)

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    Some newcomers to Hoyden may have received the impression, over the past few weeks, that I think otters are cute little cuddly furry things. Nothing could be further from the truth. Vicious little weasels, the lot of them, and I love them for it. Here’s a video of otters showing a crocodile just who’s in charge.

    Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires.

  • BFTP – Friday Hoyden: Pippi Longstocking

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    Pippi is everything I wanted to be as a child but didn’t know how – outrageous, loud, anti-authoritarian, strong, free-spirited, messy, generous, powerful, and brutally honest. She is self-sufficient, thinks “ladylike” is a loud of hooey, and is an efficient dispenser of justice to bullies. Her shoes are too big, her clothes are a mess, she can lift a horse over her head, and nobody knows what to do with her. What’s not to like?

  • BFTP: Slash and Teh Magick Testicles of Perspicacity

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    Like all good evolutionary psychologists who focus on gender, Don hasn’t bothered to talk to any actual *whispers* women. Especially not to any women who write and/or study this, erm, *whispers* smut. Because women can’t define their own experience, can’t tell their own stories, can’t have any useful insights into their own motivations. Because women’s fan academia doesn’t really exist in any meaningful sense, not until chest-beaters come along and put their stamp of Knowledge onto it. Because women’s culture is there to be picked apart with tweezers and analysed with a touch of distanced fascination, a modicum of distaste, and a whopping serve of wilful ignorance. For lo, he has Teh Magick Testicles of Perspicacity. Here, let him show you them.

  • Otterday! And Open Thread.

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    Today’s otter was snapped in Yellostone by yathin on flickr.

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  • Otterday! And Open Thread.

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    The photo was taken in the Pforzheim wildlife park (English translation) in the Black Forest, Germany.

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  • Otterday! And Open Thread.

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    Happy New Year, people! Today’s sleepy-looking otter comes via the Telegraph’s WWT Photo Competition 2010.

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  • Google Autocomplete Poetry

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    Inspired by this FAIL in which Google autocompleted “can you eat” with “can you eat human flesh with wooden teeth”, I decided to start asking Google a few questions, and see what other people were searching for.

    I think it makes a kind of poetry – and a kind of comment on the human condition.

  • Otterday! And Open Thread. (XMAS-FREE ZONE)

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    Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires, with the exclusion noted above. [See our other Otterday if you want to talk about that celebration some people have on the 25th!]

    Today’s otter, Mazu, is an orphaned Congo Clawless Otter, rescued and hand reared with assistance from the International Otter Survival Fund.