Dog breeds can be a complicated subject , but, for better or worse, humans have been doing it for a long time . Breeds are not only instantly recognizable, the popular imagination has also tended to give dogs the same stereotypes of their nation of origin. But how many breeds and their homes can you actually name?

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Six nuggets? Or nine?

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"I trust someone who orders a Big Mac."
"Bit unimaginative, though. They like to stick with what they know. Like if they went on holiday to Paris the first thing they'd do would be go look at the Eiffel Tower."
"A safe bet, but a strong choice, no half measures, no one ever gets a small Big Mac meal."

"The Quarter Pounder With Cheese is like the hipster Big Mac."
"QPWC-choosers are highly creative. Bold, original thinkers, but not too pretentious, you know what I mean?"
"What even is a quarter pounder. If someone made me identify one I would not know."
"It's a small animal native to the highlands of Chile."
"When someone orders a quarter pounder, they think of that one line in Pulp Fiction, every single time. A royale with cheese."
"I hum Lorde to myself when ordering it for that reason."

"People who order the McChicken Sandwich are too afraid to go for a more adventurous choice."
"The JLaw of the McDonalds' menu."
"I feel you could have a heart-to-heart over a McChicken sandwich. I mean it wouldn't be the best heart-to-heart but it would be okay."

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"A Filet-o-fish is such a rogue choice."
"People who order a Filet-o-Fish don't know about the world."
"My cousin who lives in the countryside with no McDonalds always ordered this, and I was like, there is so much more to life."
"People who order Filet-o-Fish have never seen the sea. They're not even sure what fish look like."
"I feel bad about myself for hating people who order Filet-o-Fish."

"A Hamburger is a great mouthful of food, but only one mouthful."
"A luxury snack, a poor meal."
"Only the Hamburglar orders hamburgers. in fact , he doesn't even order them, he pilfers them."
"To order a hamburger is to not understand one's own worth and potential."

"Does the Spicy Veggie Wrap exist? Has anyone seen it in the wild?"
"Was not even aware of this."
"Is it another word for fries in a wrap?"

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A compañía comunica aos traballadores, que saíron en manifestación ata o Concello, que oito dos 86 bloques da embarcación serán construídos no estaleiro de Puerto Real.

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ah! geppetto shows up finally!!!!! good.

Kids at a zoo in Poland will once again be able to enjoy the donkey show after authorities there have agreed to reunite a couple of amorous asses.

Associated Press reports that Napoleon Antosia have been in a monogamous relationship for 10 years at the zoo with six offspring—and apparently the fireworks have not dimmed. Zoo-goers were regularly treated to a display of public donkey sex from the uninhibited animals—so often that the complained to city officials, petitioning for the donkeys to be separated.

According to AP conservative official Lydia Dudziak convinced the zoo director and officials that the donkeys’ behavior was inappropriate, and the complied, isolating them in separate quarters.

However after a week apart the zoo was flooded with over 7,000 petition signatures to end the donkeys’ isolation. The animals became momentarily famous, with experts calling in to radio shows to plead on behalf of the donkeys’ psychological well-being politicians fielding questions about them in interviews.

On Thursday acknowledged they’d made a mistake and decided to reunite the lovers. “It was never our intention for any animals to feel uncomfortable because of their natural behaviors,” the zoo said in a statement.

And seriously—getting it on is one of the few creature comforts animals in a zoo have left. Just ask these guys what it’s like in there:

Two days ago, we told you about a blog post written by Denise Dorman (wife of famed comic artist Dave Dorman), titled “The Hidden TRUTH About Comic Book Convention Earnings: For Creators, Have Comic Book Conventions JUMPED THE SHARK?” In the piece, Dorman expressed her disappointment at flagging earnings for artists, and placed blame on the shifting focus to social and cosplay culture at cons. Now, Dorman has written a follow-up, clarifying her stance on how she feels about cosplay.

If you missed Dorman’s first post, she talks about how nearly all comic book artists have started to lose money by attending conventions, with sales dropping as con expenses rise. She says that, while she loves cosplayers, she also wonders if the expenses for con attendees is part of the reason they are no longer dropping money on creators. Dorman said,

I have slowly come realize that in this selfie-obsessed, Instagram Era, COSPLAY is the new focus of these conventions – seeing and being seen, like some giant masquerade party. Conventions are no longer shows about commerce, product launches, and celebrating the people who created this genre in the first place. I’ve seen it first-hand – the uber-famous artist who traveled all of the way from Japan, sitting at Comic-Con, drawing as no one even paid attention to him, while the cosplayers held up floor traffic and fans surround the cosplayers – rather than the famed industry household name – to pose for selfies.

The hard-working artists and creators who are the very foundation of this industry…the reason there even is an industry… those creatives who have busted their asses and spent money they perhaps didn’t have to spare in order to be there exhibiting for – and accessible to – the fans… have been reduced to being the background wallpaper against which the cosplayers pose in their selfies. At what point do you start to wonder if–other than your faithful, loyal regulars who are like family and who find you every time–the general fandom population even gives a shit about the creators more than they care about their Instagram profiles?

While we acknowledged that Dorman’s heart was clearly in the right place, her message does get a bit convoluted; it ignores the ass-busting hours that cosplayers spend creating their equally-wonderful works of art, and – as Jim Zub pointed out – it is also up to the creators to decide how to stay relevant in a changing convention culture.

Now, Dorman has written a follow-up post, “Denise Dorman Does Not Blame Cosplay for Low Convention Sales,” clarifying her initial message and noting that she doesn’t blame cosplayers for flagging creator sales at conventions; but that cosplayers are merely the most obvious and evident symptom of the wider changes occurring in convention culture.

Dorman accredits the misunderstanding of her first blog post to several different things, including her in-the-moment rage at finding out about her husband’s low con sales, and a website’s “link-bait headline.” Dorman writes that she loves cosplayers, she knows what hard work cosplay is, and that she’s a strong supporter of Cosplay Is Not Consent. Here’s what she says the crux of her original post was intended to be:

I think the emphasis on Cosplay is symptomatic of a shift in the larger Cons from being a commerce-driven event to being a social gathering-driven event. Frankly, when I see someone who prefers to pose with a no-name Slave Princess Leia and completely ignores Neal Adams, that’s when I think the creators have been reduced to background wallpaper. And that’s what breaks my heart – when I see industry giants getting completely bypassed and ignored.

It’s not the Cosplayer’s fault. They’re just being gracious and accommodating to the fans. That’s their role. It’s the new breed of attendees who are there because someone said it’s cool to be there; they are the ones completely unfamiliar with the comics industry. They are the ones who attend any hard-to-get-tickets event just to boast online. They are the people I take issue with. NOT the Cosplayers. Those are the people who care only about their selfies on their Instagram profiles. Those are the people who hijack events like #Burning Man, #Coachella and #SDCC with no understanding of why these events exist, or their raison d’être. Once they show up to the party, the event jumps the shark.

Unfortunately, while Dorman has significantly clarified that she doesn’t blame cosplayers for flagging con sales, her new point is – in my opinion – equally problematic. Blaming convention attendees who don’t know a ton about comics for the change in convention culture is pretty unfair; they’re not the ones who decided that San Diego Comic-Con would also become a major marketing tool for large television and movie corporations. That’s a business decision on the part of the convention organizers – and one that has proven, I believe, quite lucrative for them.

Additionally, I have a problem with anyone who wants to tell fans the correct way in which to be a fan, or to be a nerd or a geek or whatever you want to call yourself. Not everyone who is into geek culture is into comics, and that’s okay; conventions are becoming broader in terms of focus because they are becoming more inclusive. You should be able to have a great time at a convention if you’re a Steampunk fan, an Adventure Time fan, a hardcore Call of Duty fan, a huge anime fan, or a traditional comics fan. As more people are drawn to elements of geek culture, conventions are expanding to suit everyone’s needs – and that’s a good thing.

And conventions are a great way to introduce people to new elements of geek culture, including comic books. I’ll be honest with you: the first time I went to a big con, I was way more interested in the TV and film guests than I was any of the comic creators. I’d only read a few comic books at the time, and that was largely because I found comics pretty daunting and unwelcoming as a teenage girl. But the more I attended big cons and immersed myself in geek culture, the more I became excited about exploring comics; wandering through Artist Alley at my first Fan Expo Canada exposed me to amazing artists I’d never heard of before in my life. I picked up a great Mary Jane print by Adrian Alphona, and the very next week I jetted straight to my local comic book store to pick up the first Runaways trade. Now I’m a comic book fan for life.

Regardless of the fact that I disagree with her, Dorman says that, since her original post, she has been personally attacked on all forms of social media, and – though we know our readers already know better – we would like to remind everyone that online harassment is never okay. Dorman was hoping for honest, open discussion about how convention culture is changing, and we hope that her posts will inspire some discussion amongst creators to decide what they will do to remain relevant or to get crowds excited about their work at conventions.

Conventions are spaces filled with potential new comic fans, and I hope all creators get to experience some of that love. And to fans; don’t forget to spend some time at cons checking out new things. You might find your next awesome obsession.

(via ComicBookWife.com)

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In his Slate article “Misogyny is Not Human Nature,” evolutionary anthropologist Erin Michael Johnson quotes a Reddit user’s excuse for the recent nude picture leaks: “[there is] something inherent about human nature that makes this kind of thing inevitable.” Although I don’t believe “that kind of thing” (i.e. a vicious desire to violate a woman’s privacy and trade her body as a commodity) is an unavoidable trait in our species, I’ll admit I’ve used similar rhetoric when talking about the Internet itself. “Oh, 4chan! Cesspoools will be cesspools!” But Johnson points out that online “misogyny and belligerent attacks merely represent an exaggeration of what already exists within mainstream culture,” so does Internet harassment indicate “that kind of thing” is actually unavoidable in society as a whole? Good news: many scientists say no.

In his Slate article (which you should absolutely read, partially because it’s interesting to hear about “The Fappening” from a man so thoroughly disgusted with members of his own gender and partially because I am no evolutionary biologist), Johnson points to research indicating not only that misogyny isn’t an inherent human trait, but that more female empowerment also leads to less aggression in a society–in his words, “patriarchy hurts men as well as women. “As an example, Johnson uses the research of Robert Sapolsky, a primatologist that documented the die-out of aggressive males in a baboon troop during the ’80s. When the dominant members succumbed to tuberculosis, the troop was left with twice as any females as males, after which “the brutal hierarchy that was common among male baboons disappeared, and the amount of affiliative behaviors—such as males and females grooming one another—increased markedly.”

Johnson relates Sapolsky’s findings to a study published this year in Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences:

The authors examined demographic data from the World Health Organization, United Nations, CIA World Factbook, and Encyclopedia of World Cultures and found a strong association between female empowerment and the level of early mortality among both women and men. In highly patriarchal societies, men control resources and female sexuality. The outcome of this is that there are increased levels of competition between males that result in higher rates of early death.

Again, I recommend reading the entire Slate article to see Johnson’s comparisons between Sapolsky’s baboons and the harmful hierarchial masculinity evident online post-Fappening. His baboon analogy isn’t just a way for the anthropologist to snark at Internet users who gleefully benefit from sex crimes; it’s evidence that hope for IRL and Internet safe spaces for women isn’t just optimism–it’s science.

(via io9, image via Tambako The Jaguar on Flickr)

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What happens when you take H.P. Lovecraft's tales, shorten them, and replace their florid prose with a rather silly sensibility? You get Patrick Dean's Underwhelming Lovecraft Comic Synopses—which are, fortunately, not underwhelming at all.

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The canine members of Soviet Union's space program were stars, symbols of the nation's technological future. And so, throughout the 1950s and 1960s, these pups appeared on matchbook covers, commemorative boxes, ceramics, and more.

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If you have fond memories of early Dungeons & Dragons modules, you are going to utterly love these special edition posters by Jason Thompson for Wizards of the Coast. They're hilarious, detailed walkthrough maps of classic adventures like Expedition to the Barrier Peaks, Tomb of Horrors, and more.

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Cuando os hablamos de las novedades de Panini Cómics para el próximo mes de octubre, os destacamos la edición integral de ‘Torpedo 1936′. Sin embargo, una obra como esta merece ser resaltada de una forma más precisa. Es por eso, que os vamos a mostrar a continuación una nota de prensa de la editorial en la que se destacan las excelencias de esta estupenda obra, además de un artículo donde se habla de la historia de la obra así como varias imágenes entre las que encontraremos su portada o páginas interiores.

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Because we all get old.

At 18: You call everyone you know and the pregame lasts for five hours.

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At 25: It turns into dinner and drinks to avoid not wanting to go out later.

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At 30: Pregame? What? No, you need a nap before you leave your house.

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