Mysteries of MICT
Monday, June 25th, 2007 at 5:06 amI’m looking at this site where there are two photos of half-naked guys. The model in the first one has his briefs pulled halfway down, exposing some dick. The model in the second is lying on his side on a sofa, again briefs down, twisted to show his butt crack. I can view the large version of the first, but not the second - it’s blocked by a very big man in a Batman suit MICT, the Ministry for an Ignorant and Clean Thailand. So why is dick ok and butt not? Is seme-ism fine with the manly men of MICT, while intimations of uke-ism make them squicky?
Oh, and YouTube is still off the air.
June 25th, 2007 at 6:01 am
probably either meta info for how the image is described in the html. deciphering a picture is something a computer can do, but not quickly or well, but reading text, it can do in an instant. jpegs have meta info in them of varying accuracy, but most likely, one of them has an alt tag that the twitchy software filter doesn’t like. Or the image is just broken?
June 25th, 2007 at 8:40 am
Except that the image has been viewable for the last several days - the block is only recent. Mind you, there’s a chat box on a site I sometimes visit which also occasionally gets the MICT treatment for no obvious reason. ‘Twitchy software filter’ sounds like the answer, though.
June 25th, 2007 at 5:22 pm
The only useful high speed contextual image processor is people, and if it were my job to sift though the pictures that passed through a typical ISP I’d either go mad or have the weirdest fetishes imaginable. One person’s porn is another person’s do not want, after all.
There’s always TOR.
June 26th, 2007 at 5:00 pm
The TOR download site is, heh, blocked. Getting it from Stu’s puter. Nothing is going to keep me from my smut.
June 26th, 2007 at 6:32 pm
gee whiz, the batman suit brings back some memories…
alternate memory: Nick and I trawling through Patpong market one night in search of cheap clothing and resin-cast buddha statues… outside of being fronted up to by a bloke saying “Sir! Sir! Come inside!!! Ping Pong! Banana!!!” [ note: he was NOT offering me sport and fruit… ] came the ballsy little bloke who fronted up to Nick - all 6ft 1 anglo girl - with direct-marketing pitch of “Ma’am! You come inside… [ soto voce ] SUPER Pussy!! [pronounced SOUPaa]”. Catching up with me, Easter-Island-faced, she said “I was tempted for a little while…I mean…what does that mean? Was it wearing a cape or something??”
June 27th, 2007 at 5:48 pm
You know, I still try to tell that joke(?) sometimes. And still can’t keep a straight face.
There are probably places where it wears a cape, or at least leaps tall tales in a single bound.
July 8th, 2007 at 9:04 am
it probably has something to do with where one can hang their keys from