So when you get mugged, does the mugger freak out more because you're coming at him with a stun gun, or because you're coming at him with a stun gun. Fantastic! Double whammy.

second stun gun should be tampon.. mondays suck.

Boy, someone's day is gonna SUCK if she mixes those two up...

i LOVE the idea of a man running scared from a little pink tampon...
wait.
doesn't that already happen?

I find this pretty hilarious.

Is this from the Hello Kitty line of crowd control products?

I'm pretty sure stun guns are illegal in my state.
Even pink girly tampon-shaped ones. Pity...

Hat tip to Law Fairy, for making me choke on my Mt. Dew.

This looks like some weird superheroine weapon...especially the fact that the applicator shoots super-absorbent cotton wads...

I can't help but laugh at the "demo" video. And then there's this: "Yet a new reason for men to fear tampons the other 3 weeks of the month."

I'm pretty sure that this was posted on Feministe a few months ago, and it was determined that it's a joke, not a real stun gun.

OK, now I really have to link to this thread on Feministe:
http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2007/06/11/lady-troubles/#comments
on "made for women" stuff.

That is pretty ridiculous.

Next: "It looks like a used-up, hollow, applicator...but it's actually a gun!"

P.S. Did anyone else think they looked like nunchucks? now, tampon-shaped nunchucks, THAT would be almost funny.

Sorry to be picky, but that looks like two tampons, not one.

As far as confusing it for a real tampon, well real tampons don't stick together. Or, just start using better tampons like OB or else get a luna pad or a cup.

But really, why the fuck are sexuality and violence ALWAYS mixed up together like this? Seriously.

But really, why the fuck are sexuality and violence ALWAYS mixed up together like this?

Hmmm...

Well, me, personally -- I've never particularly associated tampons with sexuality. When I'm on my period sex is about the LAST thing on my mind ;)

But, definitely, your point is well taken.

No matter what else one might want to say about this, I must admit that the phrase "gentle glide zapplicator" is completely hilarious.

I am all for this. Especially if it gets more people to support law enforcement to use stun guns.

Thanks for the laugh... that's great.

Does it also come in lipstick form?

Now I've got "Shock Me" by KISS (Ace Frehley on vocals, w00t!) going through my head. How wrong is that?

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Or is it down to forces beyond our control, such as the overwhelming needs of global companies? The fact is that when you try to replicate the principles of those places we like the rules usually forbid it. For instance, the intimacy we might try to create is seen as a safety problem, because a fire engine cannot drive down as it needs at least twice its own width or a turning circle needs to be extra wide just in case an articulated lorry comes your way, so making a physical setting lose its sense of place.

The cities we have disappoint. Too many do not work as a fine, webbed whole, although there are urban delights in parts – the well-crafted building, an occasional housing estate, an uplifting icon, a buzzy retail centre or a comforting, small park. Too often we turn to the past to look for urban features we like: in Britain this might be the sweeping crescents of Bath, the streets of York, the lanes of Brighton, London’s Regency squares, a village neighbourhood like Hampstead, the market hub of Norwich or the gardens of once grand houses.

Think of Italian cities, which in our surveys of cities people like usually come on top. Again people usually refer to the older fabric and not the new. There are too few examples from today. What went wrong? Have we all lost the art of city-making? Is it to do with us, our addiction to cars, our love of asphalt and our blindness to pollution?

Or is it down to forces beyond our control, such as the overwhelming needs of global companies? The fact is that when you try to replicate the principles of those places we like the rules usually forbid it. For instance, the intimacy we might try to create is seen as a safety problem, because a fire engine cannot drive down as it needs at least twice its own width or a turning circle needs to be extra wide just in case an articulated lorry comes your way, so making a physical setting lose its sense of place.