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Rainbow wrote:I think chicks are the same way with their boobs. Seriously, girls love talking about, exposing, displaying, and showing their tits. I do indulge.

Rainbow wrote:You miss the point, folks! The video is a humorous lampoon of German techno. This mockery is proof of God, just like how bananas fit into hands and penises fit into mouths.

AHMETxRock wrote:Let's all talk about our attraction to women!

AHMETxRock wrote:Let's all talk about our attraction to women!

LR, just let them know that the pipe is smaller than your penis, and that it would hurt less to smack them in the face with the pipe instead.

mountainmage wrote:I don't think words can make me throw up. Images, perhaps, but only if they're like extremely extremely disturbing.

The book is best known for the short story "Guts", which had been published previous to the book in the March 2004 issue of Playboy magazine as well as on Palahniuk's website (Palahniuk offered to let them publish another story along with it, but the publishers found the second work too disturbing). It is a tale of violent accidents involving masturbation where the reader is told "to hold his breath" in the very first line.

While on his 2003 tour to promote his novel Diary, Palahniuk read "Guts" to his audiences. It was reported that over 35 people fainted while listening to the readings. On his tour to promote Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories in the summer of 2004, he read the story to audiences again, bringing the total amount of fainters up to 53, and later up to 60, while on tour to promote the softcover edition of Diary. The last fainting occurred on May 28, 2007, in Victoria, British Columbia, Canadia, where 5 people fainted, one of which occurred when a man was trying to leave the auditorium, which resulting in him falling and hitting his head on the door. Palahniuk is apparently not bothered by these incidents, which have not stopped fans from reading "Guts" or his other works.

In a September 2004 reading of "Guts" at Cooper Union in New York City, no listener admitted to fainting. When Palahniuk showed surprise, many members of the audience replied, "This is New York!" in a nod to the alleged inability to shock the city's citizens.

Lethal Interjection wrote:

mountainmage wrote:I don't think words can make me throw up. Images, perhaps, but only if they're like extremely extremely disturbing.

The story is partially true. I don't think there has been any research on what people have done during their personal reading of Haunted, but Palahniuk has read a portion of it, called "Guts", a number of times during promotional tours, and according to Wikipedia, a total of 60 people have fainted over the total of the readings.

Rainbow wrote:Is it a good idea to read a shortbit of Haunted online, or should I wait to get the book? I hate to ruin the intensity of things by knowing parts before I read.