Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

Despite his magical powers, I don’t think Trump is thinking this through, to be honest.

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”

The republican caucus is already covering themselves with something, and it’s not glory.

JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

You can’t love your country only when you win.

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

Being the leader of the world means to be the leader of peace.

… pundit janitors mopping up after the GOP

I really should read my own blog.

Republicans are the party of chaos and catastrophe.

Meanwhile over at truth Social, the former president is busy confessing to crimes.

I did not have telepathic declassification on my 2022 bingo card.

Americans barely caring about Afghanistan is so last month.

The revolution will be supervised.

Peak wingnut was a lie.

They’re not red states to be hated; they are voter suppression states to be fixed.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

In my day, never was longer.

Eh, that’s media spin. biden’s health is fine and he’s doing a good job.

Infrastructure week. at last.

It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

You are here: Home / Open Threads / Penguin Lust

Reader Interactions

72Comments

  1. 1.

    Yutsano

    PENGIE!!

    Did you know penguins have no natural fear of humans in the wild? Apparently all the predators that can threaten them (as adults anyway) are in the water, so anything in the solids is regarded as a curiosity. Which is why you can have naturalists stand in the middle of a flock of pengies and they just go whatevs. Such neat lil birds.

  2. 2.

    Nate

    Lust is an appropriate term given what that penguin is actually doing to that zookeeper’s hand…

  3. 3.

    kdaug

    Without objection, the motion is so ordered.

    “Tickling the penguin” it is.

    (Do remember to add it to the lexicon, though. Most people will have no fucking idea what it means.)

  4. 4.

    Yutsano

    BTW does this mean pictures of teh SamKitteh will also henceforth be referred to as “tickling the penguin”?

  5. 5.

    sukabi

    I propose that whenever something is just over-the-top squee we refer to it as “tickling the penguin.”

    is a FINE sentiment, however there are those who define “squee” in a much different way, and will turn “Tickling the penguin” into something employing ball-gags, wetsuits and the poor…

  7. 7.

    Raenelle

    That video makes it into my “cutest things I’ve ever seen” set. Naming that set “tickling the penguin” is a damned good idea.

  11. 11.

    Yutsano

    @JenJen: Well I admit I’d tickle Sidney Crosby. There I said it. :)

    @John Cole: Inevitable as the tide, mi amici. Inevitable as the tide. Bill O is on that case I hear.

  14. 14.

    TaMara (BHF)

    My cats generally ignore computer sounds, even the occasional cat video. But when I played this they all went onto high alert. I’m guessing that is actually a penguin distress call and my guys were all in for penguin dinner.

  16. 16.

    JCT

    Nothing like an instant grin.

    OK, you guys — turning something so cute into something salacious?

    I’ve been chuckling over this since yesterday — sent it to my kid (who was studying in the stacks at the time) and she apparently disturbed her whole library block with it.

  18. 18.

    Yutsano

    @Tsukune: Nothin’ but urges from Hayull!!

    (Gawd I lurved that sequence. That man needs to keep drawing until time ends.)

  23. 23.

    Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel)

    Sorry if this has already been posted but this piece of the Obama puzzle has been brought to my attention.

    Not only Muslim with a Kenyan SS# but also a pirate! Too!

    B-arrrrgh-ack.

  26. 26.

    Tsulagi

    Want to double down on the cute? Someone sent me this vid of a merengue dancing girl dog. This dog dances latin better on two legs than a lot of humanoids.

  28. 28.

    Captain Goto

    “It’s natural and beautiful!! I, for one, fully support PENGUIN LUST ! ! ! ”

    “Fine. But this editorial was about ‘nun-beating’.”

    “Good lord, man…I can’t support THAT.”

    /Breathed

  38. 38.

    Anoniminous

    Between reading Yet Another blog post on the continuing series of the latest Tea-Bagging stupidity/disaster/racism/etc. or how Obama is/is not whatever …

    and seeing someone tickle a penguin …

    I’ll take the penguin.

  39. 39.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    When penguins get really hungry, they look at you and imagine that you are a can of tuna and then they attack.

    I know because I saw it in a cartoon.

  40. 40.

    New Yorker

    @Tsukune:

    I was wondering if the post title was a deliberate reference to Oral Bill’s crusade against penguin lust.

  41. 41.

    Sarah, Proud and Tall

    That’s exactly the noise that Ann Coulter makes when she orgasms.

    Go on, listen to it again with your eyes closed and try to get THAT visual out of your head.

    I’ll give you cute and fucking fluffy.

  42. 42.

    Comrade Mary

    Yeah, that is a bucket of squee, right there. I also suggest that “tickling the penguin” not just go into the lexicon, but that it becomes a tag, also, too, SQUEE!

    The full video. His name was Cookie, he was a showgirl.

  45. 45.

    Fe E

    @Yutsano:

    I know that is true for Antarctic Penguins–especially the Adelies they are just fearless out of the water. And very curious too and cute as all-get-out as well.

    I don’t know about African penguins though, they may have learned to be wary of onshore predators.

  48. 48.

    JustPeachyAndYou

    Cutest damn thing I’ve seen this week. The obgligate carnivore in my lap wanted to eat it.

  50. 50.

    twiffer

    hehe. already saw that, courtesy of TMBG. did not drive the kitten nuts, probably because she’s off napping somewhere else. or chasing a particularly wily pit of paper.

  51. 51.

    donnah

    My teenage son watched it again with me and said, “Well, now we have to get a penguin”.

    Teh squee is a good thing to have during these troubled times.

  64. 64.

    gastropoda

    I contend that penguin is not giggling but shrieking. Penguins were not designed to be tickled by humans for Youtube consumption. Sorry to be a downer.

  65. 65.

    flukebucket

    Sorry to see Balko no longer on the blogroll. I found Balko thru Balloon-Juice back in ’04 and I had hoped that one day he might be a front pager over here. But who knows. Hearts and minds are changing.

  67. 67.

    Waratah

    This made me doubly envious of my sister who in a couple of weeks will be in Melbourne going to the King Tut exhibition and seeing the fairy penguins.

  68. 68.

    Lysana

    Considering the penguin was actively going to get the pettings, had clearly sought them before based on the video commentary, and stayed put after it was over, I don’t think it was being tortured. @gastropoda:

Comments are closed.