In the film there is a villain character named Buffalo Bill who murders young women and harvests their skin to make a woman suit they can wear to feel like a woman, presented as a sexual fetish (this is a debunked pseudoscience concept of “autogynephilia”). The character does this after being rejected by gender-affirming clinics for being mentally unstable and not being a “true transexual”.

There is a famous scene where Buffalo Bill has abducted a woman and keeps her in a well, and a basket with lotion is sent down and Buffalo Bill says a now famous line: “It rubs lotion on its skin, or else it gets the hose again.” This is a threat to get her to moisturize and take care of her skin, since that’s what is intended to be harvested from her.

There’s another iconic scene when Buffalo Bill is putting on makeup and jewelry and in the mirror saying “Would you fuck me? … I would fuck me. I would fuck me. I would fuck me so hard.” Then Buffalo Bill dances in front of a camera wearing the skin of women while dressed in women’s clothes.

This is perhaps one of the most impactful instances of transphobia in film, and served as an anchor in the 1990s for how people thought about trans women, as deranged psychopathic perverts (similar to how at the time all gay men were believed to be pedophile rapists).

There were even protests held against the film at the time.

Since OP’s post is about lotion and criminality, my assumption is that some Silence of the Lambs joke is inevitable, so I thought I’d get ahead of it.

EDIT: I missed that the top comment response was a Silence of the Lambs joke. Oops.

I’m sure a cock champion can be found on Tinder with minimal effort.

oof

something something transphobic Silence of the Lambs joke

You got it! It’s really an excellent video essay.

I’m just now starting to work through his other works, but everything he does is magic. Honestly the topic of “I Don’t Know James Rolfe” was basically as dull as the dictionary to me, but I enjoyed it anyway.

Currently working my way through his “Mantracks” video, which is so far about fossils and creationism.

Stanley Meyer’s invention was later termed fraudulent after two investors to whom he had sold dealerships offering the right to do business in Water Fuel Cell technology sued him in 1996. His car was due to be examined by the expert witness Michael Laughton, Professor of Electrical Engineering at Queen Mary University of London and Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. However, Meyer made what Professor Laughton considered a “lame excuse” on the days of examination and did not allow the test to proceed.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_fuel_cell

Probably the dune buggy never ran on the system he claimed. He was a fraudster, so probably it was just running on gas like normal while he was claiming it was all water.

a video to help people understand the problem with crypto: https://youtu.be/YQ_xWvX1n9g

I know the video says it’s about NFTs, but it touches on Bitcoin and blockchain first as background.

+1 for Spaced

^ketamine

It’s like getting absorbed into a memory, but the memory gets all jumbled and weird (but you don’t notice the weirdness, it’s “normal”).

I think that’s why some of them smell like cherry coke - though I’ve never noticed a garden millipede smell that way.

how did I miss this, was this part of the original Charlie the Unicorn?

just wow, thank you for sharing this

the nurse probably has access to body wipes you could use; alternatively, you could see if they have some antimicrobial soap like hibiclens, washing armpits with those (like in a bathroom) works like a lasting deodorant I’ve heard

I stepped on a garden millipede by accident 😭

hardly surprising, but still 🤢

EDIT: seems like the site is pretty dead, looks like 4 years ago a bunch of people moved there, but more recently I don’t see much activity (probably for the best, considering the content seems to be pretty far-right).

seems like a right-wing echo chamber, similar to Voat.

Möth craves your lööps

thank you

correct, see for example the reactions to the US’s decision to invade and seize territory from Mexico, which was largely seen as a betrayal of liberal values that the country was supposedly founded on. Don’t worry, the US isn’t the only country to justify their revolution with promises of liberal ideals like freedom and equality only to expose their true priorities later (namely giving local colonial elites more power than those ruling monarchs in Europe). I recommend reading the chapter on Bolivarian revolutions from the history book Born in Blood and Fire: A Concise History of Latin America for more about the disappointments and failures of liberal revolutions to live up to their promises.

🤢🤢🤢