The bots are gonna have a field day with this thread, I look forward to the exciting spam I am about to receive.

The tire pump thing was real. I remember finding this site concerning people who were sexually aroused by the episodes of cartoons where, say, Jerry pumps Tom with air and Tom hovers around the room a little. Thankfully I can’t find anything relating to the phenomenon now. I recall there being some fatalities involved where people ruptured their lower intestine / colon area. Maybe Darwin handled that particular situation for us.

@Luke: The thought crosses my mind often. As tedious as politically correctness is today it still seems fairly reasonable compared to the hyper-sensitivity we might encounter when internet people get involved in politics. Imagine the million man march on Washington to fight for the rights of those who fuck toasters and masturbate to animated gifs of Pokemon.

Shamans in indigenous cultures around the world used to (and still do) go into altered states of consciousness through the use of plant-based hallucinigens, drumming, exhaustive forms of dance, and physical stress such as mutilations, etc. They do this to travel other-dimensionally (wherever that may be) and make contact with the “spirits” of the animal and plant kingdom to bring back useful information and healing powers to help the rest of the tribe. This has been going on for thousands of years and, whether scientists like it or not, it works. To do this takes years of arduous training and isolation, and the journeys often are terrifying.

So it’s good to know that now we can skip all the hard stuff and just get some stuffed animals. If I put a Care Bear on my head, I’ll merge with the Great Bear Spirit. Roar.