FHM and MAXIM delivered to city hall

[Excalibre]

@chela

Thanks for those thoughtful comments such as they were.

Yeah i maintain it is soft porn, at least that FHM is…

Maintain whatever you like. Doesn’t mean it’s true.

I wonder if my city would be as blase if someone was receiving “high times”, or “your gay life” or something like that. ::shrug:: I highly doubt it.

Dude! And they probably wouldn’t let you get the al-Qaeda newsletter either! Which is like totally not relevant! Just like your comparison!

By posting about it here it helps vent my frustration which has mounted due to other issues in the office (city manager tiptoeing up behind female workers in his socks and stands there breathing until you notice or he says BOO). Lack of resources for my department, and on and on.

Ahh. So because your job is unpleasant, you wish for other people’s jobs to be unpleasant as well?

My oppostion to those subscriptions has nothing do with prudism, sexism yes. BUt no doubt others will see girlie magazines in the workplace as a positive progressive symbol of our culture. I disagree.

That’s very nice. Guess what? You don’t get to force your personal politics on others! Besides, I thought you said earlier that you don’t care what sort of magazine it is. Is that because you consider Better Homes and Gardens to be offensive and sexist as well? You’re not being consistent. Either they shouldn’t be allowed any non-work-related magazines at work - which, as has been pointed out, is ridiculous for firefighters - or they should be.

I can’t imagine a less important issue than this. Since fires are rarely scheduled in advance, firefighters end up doing some waiting around. They spend a lot of time at the station. They spend some of that time reading magazines. Maxim and FHM may be tacky, but they’re not pornography. (Frankly, if they have the privacy to jerk off in their off time, they probably do it. So the fuck what?) Stop with the slippery slope shit, too - no one is impressed by your argument that next week they’ll be reading Big Black Bondage Dominatrix Monthly. It’s clearly something their boss thinks is acceptable, and you frankly clearly don’t understand anything about the situation if you think firefighters shouldn’t be allowed to read any magazine while at work.

[DrDeth]

@rayh

Ah, but what if it was the female firefighters who got Butt Fucking Monthly and it was the male firefighters who got Hung Studs Monthly?

Whatever floats their boat.

[tdn]

@OtakuLoki

Okay - I just had an eeeevil thought: Can we get chela’s address at city hall and send her the FHM Magazine for $6 from the Google ad below?

This happened once where I used to work. One really bitchy lady got a subscription to Adam and Eve. Only the immature morons in the mailroom would steal it before it found its way to her desk. Turns out that the immature morons in the mailroom ordered it in her name just so they could do that.

The reason I know this is because at the time, I worked in the mailroom.

[joyfool]

@chela

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My oppostion to those subscriptions has nothing do with prudism, sexism yes. BUt no doubt others will see girlie magazines in the workplace as a positive progressive symbol of our culture. I disagree.

Does anyone under the age of 80 (maybe besides a pre-teen boy or a snake handler) use the word “girlie” to describe magazines anymore? And if they do, would you presuppose them to be the forerunners in the war against sexism??
Seriously, the saddest thing here apart from what has already been mentioned, is that chela probably won’t actually respond to the content of these posts in a way (if at all) that shows any comprehension. Lastly, and just as a side note, could anyone detangle his/her intent behind emailing girdle images to the fire fighters. Perhaps I’m so lost on what actually constitutes porn, but what the aim was here has me completely baffled.

[Guinastasia]

@OtakuLoki

Okay - I just had an eeeevil thought: Can we get chela’s address at city hall and send her the FHM Magazine for $6 from the Google ad below?

BTW, Guin, if you think getting yelled at for Teen was surreal - I once asked my hometown librarian if there were a way I could request that the library get a subscription to Analog. I was told, in a very haughty voice, that the library would never get one of those magazines.

Wha? A sci-fi magazine is somehow “naughty?” Damn.

[Miller]

@faithfool

Does anyone under the age of 80 (maybe besides a pre-teen boy or a snake handler) use the word “girlie” to describe magazines anymore?

I do. But mostly out of a sense of irony.

[Daithi_Lacha]

Chela, just curious: at which job do you work in City Hall? What’s your department’s function?

[crowmanyclouds]

@Martini Enfield

…“Gentleman’s Relish”, anyone?..

Gentleman’s Relish ? ?

Whipped cream might be a little kinky to some, but that sir is perverse!

CMC fnord!

[joyfool]

@Miller

I do. But mostly out of a sense of irony.

Yeah, but Miller, you’re like one of the coolest guys going. We’d all be able to use it if we came across that hip. Instead, I’m just a wannabe.

[ P.S. My crush on you isn’t showing, is it? :o ]

[brossa]

@Guinastasia

Wha? A sci-fi magazine is somehow “naughty?” Damn.

Perhaps, when talking to the librarian, OtakuLoki shouldn’t have pronounced it “Anal Log.”

[OneCentStamp]

@crowmanyclouds

@Martini Enfield

…“Gentleman’s Relish”, anyone?..

Gentleman’s Relish ? ?

Whipped cream might be a little kinky to some, but that sir is perverse!

CMC fnord!

Nonsense! What better for a gentleman’s…ahem…hot dog?

[Uvula_Donor]

@faithfool

Lastly, and just as a side note, could anyone detangle his/her intent behind emailing girdle images to the fire fighters. . . . what the aim was here has me completely baffled.

I believe the motivation was along the lines of “Neener neener neener.”

[OneCentStamp]

@Uvula Donor

I believe the motivation was along the lines of “Neener neener neener.”

And will have roughly the same effect on a group of grown men; namely “huh?”

[Giraffe]

@OneCentStamp

And will have roughly the same effect on a group of grown men; namely “huh?”

Yeah, but wait until she starts prank calling them and asking them how they like their girdles or leaving empty plus-size L’Eggs containers in front of nearby fire stations. Then they’ll learn!

[tdn]

@faithfool

Does anyone under the age of 80 (maybe besides a pre-teen boy or a snake handler) use the word “girlie” to describe magazines anymore?

I do. I also use the terms Flesh, Nudie, and Titty. With no sense of irony whatsoever.

[joyfool]

@tdn

I do. I also use the terms Flesh, Nudie, and Titty. With no sense of irony whatsoever.

Ok y’all. Quitcher messin’ up one of my only decent points.
::: harumph :::
By the way, thanks Uvula Donor, I’m as clear as mud now on the purpose of one adult colleague behaving so maturely to another, over NON-work related issues that should (if there’s truly [ !! ] a problem) be addressed in a proper manner. Wonder what the highers ups would think of such, um, lack-of-chain-of-command interference? All I can say is that’s just one more reason why I’m thrilled that I no longer work in any type of office environment. Busybodies… egads!

[Miller]

@faithfool

Yeah, but Miller, you’re like one of the coolest guys going. We’d all be able to use it if we came across that hip.

Gosh!

[Ink_a_dink_a_dink]

@Hunter Hawk

You think that counts as “fetish”??? Ahh, sweet, sweet innocence.

Lookit, I consider myself a square and the last magazine I bought featured a naked chick in a bathtub with an octopus on her head.

I SAW THAT ONE!!! Skin Two or Marquis? I forget. I did see it though and wondered about the life of a fetish model and the stuff they have to go through…

Maxim is funny and tame comparatively.

Inky

[Ink_a_dink_a_dink]

Sorry to double post, but Og, I have the latest version of FHM on my desk right now. Granted, I write about sexuality, and so my “outraged” meter is probably considerably lower than the norm, but this edition is seriously funny. The cover feature is Jenny McCarthy (who is holding up quite well, I assure you) who on the inside does a photo-spread - with bitingly sarcastic personal commentary - covering modern interpretations of bedtime tales. It’s a scream. Little red riding hood?

If the OP wants a little steaminess in her life aside from sending girdles to men who will probably laugh it off as a stupid, childish - and I do mean CHILDISH - joke, then I would be happy to send her a subscription to Scarlet, “The New Women’s Magazine That Everyone’s Talking About” from the UK. Scarlet: The Magazine that turns women on! (Warning: NOT SURE IF WORK SAFE)

www.ScarletMagazine.co.uk

Enter the real world of grown ups…if you are one (it has been suggested here that you may not be of age yet. If you’re over 18, then send me your address and I’ll gladly sponsor you a subscription, as long as it goes to your work mailbox. My e-mail is in my profile.

Inky

[Martini_Enfield]

@crowmanyclouds

Gentleman’s Relish ? ?

Whipped cream might be a little kinky to some, but that sir is perverse!

CMC fnord!

I was, of course, referring to the Novel/Play/TV airplay (which featured an excellent performance by Billy Connolly!)…

Tipping The Velvet, whilst not porn, did have Victorian Lesbians in it and as such, was most watchable indeed!

This is usually the point at which I would make some comment about the difficulties of finding good Corset/Garter Lesbian Porn, but that would be largely irrelevant to the topic at hand…