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Friday Fun Thread for February 6, 2026

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Did you guys know Patton wrote poetry?

I read this making the same face and noises that my son does when watching highlight reels of high school sports.

Speaking of poetry, there is an Australian Comedian, James Donald Forbes McCann, that writes books of poetry. And then advertises that he is the best selling poet in Australia. The joke being that he has basically zero competition for his poetry books.

He was a pretty cool dude. The eponymous movie about him is worth watching.

I haven't laughed this hard in a long time (link courtesy Scott's "links for February"): https://x.com/peligrietzer/status/2018198275237556472

A few live performances from the 70s tv show The Midnight Special for your Friday viewing/listening:

  1. Spooky Tooth doing "I am the Walrus" as a slow-burning English blues song.
  2. War doing a 10-minute version of "The World is a Ghetto."
  3. The Cars doing "Moving in Stereo," which is remarkably good live considering how layered the studio version is.

rdrama, the /r/drama spinoff site that themotte.org's code is based off of, experienced roughly a day and a half of downtime from late Wednesday until half an hour ago. This was the longest outage event in the site's history (previous record was ~7 hours) and the first that was not caused by botched code deployment.

This time, the cause is "the hosting provider lost physical access to and control over their [edit for clarity: rented] US datacenter".

[sound warning, rdrama warning, bright colors warning] https://rdrama.net/post/790694/pictured-leaked-screenshot-from-our-illustrious

The site is currently in its annual "Donkey Kong December" theme event, which takes place in February.

The most recent backup that was not hosted in the same lost datacenter is from September of last year, so there has been a substantial rollback. Admins are working to retrieve a 2/4/2026 backup from another provider, but negotiations are ongoing.

I read it as "the datacenter owner lost access to the whole data center", which would be extremely eye-popping event. But it looks like in reality, the data center owner just decided to kick those folks out. Which is always a risk, especially for high-drama platforms.

Well, rdrama is presumably not the only customer of the hosting provider that got booted. But it is entirely possible that the hosting provider only served similarly radioactive clients. Details are scant.

This time, the cause is "the hosting provider lost physical access to and control over their US datacenter".

Is this a legal thing, or is this like when Meta put the key card control system in a data center that didn't have physical keys?

Legal thing by the looks of it. Hosting provider is not US-based, but rents from a US datacenter. Datacenter unexpectedly and forcefully terminated relationship with hosting provider. Unknown whether rdrama being hosted there had anything to do with it. Unlikely, I'd say.

Want to fly farther?

Get that dick up, king <-- This is a link.

TLDR;

Ski jumpers, ahead of the winter Olympics (which begin, officially, today!) have, allegedly, been inflating their penises via various methods in order to expand the surface area of their ski jumping suits during official fitting.

After they've de-cocked, so to speak, the extra suit material acts as a small "sail" and they stay aloft just a bit longer.

Anything for an edge, I guess. This leaves me to mourn mostly for whichever ski jumper is legitimately packing a howitzer downstairs. That poor fellow will probably have a room full of scrutinizing IOC eyeballs on his Johnson.

Any other good sports cheating stories like this?

Can't you do the same with, I don't know, your chest or belly? Why it has to be the penis?

And, of course, how hilarious would be the countermeasures? Are they all going to have their penises inspected before the jump now? Or maybe required weekly inspections for a year before the event, to establish the baseline and prevent the anomalous inflation?

Or maybe required weekly inspections for a year before the event, to establish the baseline and prevent the anomalous inflation?

If there isn't a "Norwegian Penis Inspection Team" t-shirt, there should be.

I feel like it would be less hassle to take a heroic dose of viagra and then think of England.

How are they fitting the suits? Couldn't the athletes just stuff a sock down there rather than inject paraffin into their cocks? Or are the suits fitted during penis inspection day?

Or are the suits fitted during penis inspection day?

It's this one.

The rule is the crotch of the suit is based on the bottom of your genitals. So, bigger genitals, longer suit, and bigger wing. The point is you can't wear a squirrel suit, and so there are rules about how big and webbed the suit can be. Exactly this big, depending.

This seems ACTUALLY unfair to guys who are growers not showers.

Seems like they should probably standardize something regarding the uniforms here to make it so jump length isn't so directly correlated with junk length.

Wouldn't it be the opposite? The grower could get aroused for the fitting and experience significant shrinkage when he gets out into the cold air.

Or pick the largest junk and set everyone else's to that length.

And have everyone competing to be the guy that sets the standard?

I feel like Goodhart's law would become a problem real quick LMAO.

This seems ACTUALLY unfair to guys who are growers not showers.

Shouldn't be a problem unless you're chuffing before the jump.

DO YOU NOT?

That poor fellow will probably have a room full of scrutinizing IOC eyeballs on his Johnson

That poor soul having to endure a room of people staring at his giant penis. Truly the stuff of nightmares.

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