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1753

Psssh, no sharpened pen to reduce the tension pneumothorax, what a slacker…

1754

Depends upon the size of the lightbulb. Not much room in the regular ones.

1755

Pretty stupid.

Own goal really.

Make everyone compete naked and be done with it!

1756

That’s how the Greeks did it. Gymnasion means place to be nekkid.

Funny thing tho, as soon as everybody is completely in the nude, it suddenly stops being sexual. For me it does at least. But my parents were weird and vacationed on naturist campgrounds when I was a kid.

1757

You go to the wierdest orgies…

1758

In Berlin, every spring, as soon as the sun returned for its all too brief sojourn in the northern Teutonic climes, half the city seemed to flock to the parks and disrobe. After a while you just ignored it, it was part of the background noise.

1759

One of my favorite beach walks here in San Diego is Black’s Beach. It’s a gorgeous broad beach that runs for 3 miles backed by 500’ cliffs north of La Jolla. And it’s unofficially clothing optional. After you’ve seen your hundredth (or thousandth) dong on any given bright summer day, it starts to become pretty banal.

1760

I know!

In our hyper connected and instagram focused world, I doubt it. I can just see the fat shaming of the shotputters coming in… :(

I’ve been nude on a nudist beach (there are nudist beaches where you don’t have to be nude,) and the first 5 minutes of worrying, I realised absolutely no one cared anything about me or my nerves, so i ended up falling asleep naked :S.

ahh yes freiBodyKulture. Thatw as a culture shock to me, as were the naked spas, as in you HAD/HAVE to be naked there. Well, that stopped being sexual very fast.

Same thing happens on topless beaches, and I like boobs.

1761

Yes, same here in the Netherlands, no swimwear allowed in most saunas. Always funny to see some expats on their first visit having explained that they need to take off everything.

But going to the sauna like that with colleagues, as they do in some Scandinavian counties, is one step too far, even for me.

1762

my new Bangles cover band name

1763

On a business trip to San Diego back in like 1997 or 1998, to visit 989 Studios, I think, I was wandering around outside of the hotel and wanted to find the beach. So I meandered until, after sliding down an embankment and getting sort of lost, I wound up on a strand that the sign labeled as “Black’s Beach.” Having lived in Europe I was not perturbed by the array of naked people doing everything from playing volleyball to fly-fishing in the surf (seemed a bit, um, risky, but w/e). The family with the two young kids who wandered on to the beach, though, that was a different story. Never saw people clap hands over their kids eyes so fast. Which is probably the wrong way to go about it, but not my kids, so…

1764

(Cued to the relevant scene of parental over-protectiveness from sweet-treat nudity, but why not rewind and watch the whole, wonderful thing?!)

1765

Has not really changed in the last 25 years except that it’s perhaps even more popular and has evolved to have a decidedly gay-friendly vibe. (Inevitable since the ratio of penises to vaginas on the beach is approximately 500:1.) But regardless, it’s actually a very laid back friendly beach scene, perfectly congenial for kids if you don’t mind them seeing naked adult flesh. (And the area south of the Glider Port is unofficially not clothing optional, so more geared toward family beaching, though you have to be prepared for the occasional old guy with flapping johnson who will walk by.)

1766

Yeah, it was a pretty chill place really, as beaches go. Personally, the thought of sand in all sorts of tender places would keep me from ever joining in the fun, but if that is what floats yer boat, go for it. Just use sun screen I’d tell 'em!

1767

Yeah, more than anything else the threat of sunburn means I have no interest or desire in clothing optional swimming.

1768

I feel like we’d all be a lot thinner if we walked around the beach and/or house naked more often.

1769

No matter how many times I read this I can’t tell what it means :)

1770

En route to a mission on Friday, the crew of a Coast Guard helicopter saw the man waving both hands in the air, a widely recognized distress signal, the helicopter’s pilot said. On the tin roof of a shack, SOS and “help me” had been scrawled. The shack’s door had been ripped off.
The crew took the man to Nome to be treated for bruises to his torso and a leg injury that was not life-threatening, according to the Coast Guard. So ended a weeklong ordeal that could pass as a sequel to “The Revenant,” in which Leonardo DiCaprio was mauled by a computer-generated grizzly bear.
“At some point, a bear had dragged him down to the river,” Lt. Cmdr. Jared Carbajal, one of the pilots of the Coast Guard helicopter, said in an interview on Wednesday. “He had a pistol. He said that the bear kept coming back every night and he hadn’t slept in a few days.”

1771

Waiting for Colbert’s reporting on this.