Are mermaids sexy?
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@evan Have you considered mer-man?
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@evan Have you considered mer-man?
@shtrom yes. I did a Google Ngram search for different mer- prefixed terms. "mermaid" is by far the most common. Also, it's the one I'm most interested in for this poll.
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@shtrom yes. I did a Google Ngram search for different mer- prefixed terms. "mermaid" is by far the most common. Also, it's the one I'm most interested in for this poll.
@shtrom I am pretty sure that bump for "merman" in the middle of the 1900s is due to the popularity of actor and singer Ethel Merman and not Aquaman comics but I could be wrong.
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@evan Unequivocally yes. I mean have you SEEN Daryl Hannah?
@gwcoffey this is a really interesting point. In Splash, she has a tail when she's in the water, but just normal human legs when she's on dry land. Do we count her as a mermaid when she's just donalducking around in a T-shirt being naive and making dolphin noises? I think she's still technically a mermaid then, even though she's not in classic mermaid form. Much to consider!
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@evan Fry: I wish she was the other kind of mermaid! With the fish part on top and the lady part on the bottom!
@stinerman do we think this would be more or less sexy than the classic mermaid style?
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I would think that would depend on both the mermaid and the person looking at the mermaid.
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@evan No, but Manatees are cute as hell
@countablenewt elaborate
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@gwcoffey this is a really interesting point. In Splash, she has a tail when she's in the water, but just normal human legs when she's on dry land. Do we count her as a mermaid when she's just donalducking around in a T-shirt being naive and making dolphin noises? I think she's still technically a mermaid then, even though she's not in classic mermaid form. Much to consider!
@gwcoffey like if the answer is "Yes, but only when they don't look like mermaids" that feels logically inconsistent.
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So, I have a lot of thoughts. I was at a restaurant with @maj on Friday night and the men's washroom had this picture on the wallpaper. I think it was meant to evoke some saucy erotic etchings from a bygone age.
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So, I have a lot of thoughts. I was at a restaurant with @maj on Friday night and the men's washroom had this picture on the wallpaper. I think it was meant to evoke some saucy erotic etchings from a bygone age.
It made me think about the double-take I get when I see mermaid pictures. Attractive woman in a clamshell bikini top: ahooga! But slime-coated sea creature: No thank you! I don't usually walk away from mermaid representations thinking, ah, yes, what an enchanting creature, I cannot shake her image from my mind.
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It made me think about the double-take I get when I see mermaid pictures. Attractive woman in a clamshell bikini top: ahooga! But slime-coated sea creature: No thank you! I don't usually walk away from mermaid representations thinking, ah, yes, what an enchanting creature, I cannot shake her image from my mind.
I don't think I'd ever say that a mermaid was ever *more* attractive than a human woman. You really have to love a mermaid to overlook the tail part.
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I don't think I'd ever say that a mermaid was ever *more* attractive than a human woman. You really have to love a mermaid to overlook the tail part.
@evan The forked tail / legs thing really makes this unsettling and not mermaid.
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I don't think I'd ever say that a mermaid was ever *more* attractive than a human woman. You really have to love a mermaid to overlook the tail part.
There's also a very immediate inference about the unavailability of mermaids for penetrative sex. I know that's not the only thing that's involved in being sexy and attractive, but it comes to mind pretty quickly when one is considering a mermaid for their sexiness.
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There's also a very immediate inference about the unavailability of mermaids for penetrative sex. I know that's not the only thing that's involved in being sexy and attractive, but it comes to mind pretty quickly when one is considering a mermaid for their sexiness.
There is something kind of sad about the myth of mermaids. It feels like they symbolize the utter alienness of women for sailors who spent so much of their time away from women. Like, they've been at sea so long, they just barely have any concept of what women look like or do.
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There's also a very immediate inference about the unavailability of mermaids for penetrative sex. I know that's not the only thing that's involved in being sexy and attractive, but it comes to mind pretty quickly when one is considering a mermaid for their sexiness.
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There is something kind of sad about the myth of mermaids. It feels like they symbolize the utter alienness of women for sailors who spent so much of their time away from women. Like, they've been at sea so long, they just barely have any concept of what women look like or do.
There's a really good, freaky mermaid in the 2019 film The Lighthouse. It's an absolute monster with sharp teeth and a scary, alien body.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lighthouse_%282019_film%29
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There's a really good, freaky mermaid in the 2019 film The Lighthouse. It's an absolute monster with sharp teeth and a scary, alien body.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lighthouse_%282019_film%29
So, maybe that's sexy? The Other?
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So, maybe that's sexy? The Other?
I think there is some conflation of sirens and mermaids, although I guess the original sirens from Greek mythology were more birdlike.
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So, maybe that's sexy? The Other?
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I think there is some conflation of sirens and mermaids, although I guess the original sirens from Greek mythology were more birdlike.
But if you think of mermaids as enchanting creatures that entice sailors to crash their ships onto the rocky shore, then the womanly half is more like the lure of an angler fish than anything else. An attractive extrusion to entice prey.
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@scanner that's probably true! There are probably a lot of angles I never got even close to the neighborhood of in this thread.
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@evan Do they have Bailey’s?
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@evan all I can say, reading your thread, is you dramatically underestimate the dreams and imagination of people interested in mermaids.
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Watch a Recording Lathe From 1958 Cut a Lacquer Master Record
Most of us are familiar with vinyl LPs, and even with the way in which they are made by stamping a hot puck of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) into a record. But [Technostalgism] takes us all the way back to the beginning, giving us a first-hand look at how a lacquer master is cut by a specialized recording lathe.
An uncut lacquer master is an aluminum base coated with a flawless layer of lacquer. It smells like fresh, drying paint.
Cutting a lacquer master is the intricate process by which lacquer disks, used as the masters for vinyl records, are created. These glossy black masters — still made by a company in Japan — are precision aluminum discs coated with a special lacquer to create a surface that resembles not-quite-cured nail polish and, reportedly, smells like fresh paint.The cutting process itself remains largely unchanged over the decades, although the whole supporting setup is a bit more modernized than it would have been some seventy years ago. In the video (embedded below), we get a whole tour of the setup and watch a Neumann AM32B Master Stereo Disk Recording Lathe from 1958 cut the single unbroken groove that makes up the side of a record.
The actual cutting tool is a stylus whose movement combines the left and right channels and is heated to achieve the smoothest cuts possible. The result is something that impresses the heck out of [Technostalgism] with its cleanliness, clarity, and quality. Less obvious is the work that goes into arranging the whole thing. Every detail, every band between tracks, is the result of careful planning.
It’s very clear that not only is special equipment needed to cut a disk, but doing so effectively is a display of serious craftsmanship, experience, and skill. If you’re inclined to agree and are hungry for more details, then be sure to check out this DIY record-cutting lathe.
