Another good job lost to mechanization?

An automatic condom fitter that allows condoms to be put on in a fraction of the time it usually takes is on display at the International Exhibition of Inventions.


Reported via Ananova.

Designed by inventor and businessmen Mor Maty Seck it has been such a success in his native Senegal that he is now selling it internationally, and has already had offers from European businessmen who want to team up to offer it in Europe.
Mr Seck said: "People don't like to talk about contraception but there are a lot of men who find condoms difficult to use, and it can be so embarrassing that the moment is completely lost.
"My auto condom fitter guarantees nothing more than a brief second's pause in the action, with a bit of practice the man's partner probably won't even notice that he had reached over and used his trusty auto condom fitter."
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OK, on the serious side, anything in the Age of AIDS that makes using a condom easier should be hailed. The inventor should be feted and paeans should be sung in his name. Honorary coins should be stuck bearing the name and likeness of Mor Maty Seck.

So as a note to the new Pope, whoever he may be: You wanna be taken seriously at the REAL Culture Of Life Bar-n-Grill? Drop the ridiculous, lethal, Flat Earth14th century nonsense and tell every Catholic on the face of the Earth that the Vatican commands that they used condoms when having sex.

That while the Church still believes that sex outside of marriage is a sin, well, so is not going to confession. So is having a rib tips on Friday (or is it still? I never know. I guess Infallibility ain’t what it used to be.) So is lying. So are a lot of things, but it is insane to make your flock risk a death sentence – and risk becoming a disease vector to spread our own Black Plague on to countless others – because you can’t get over the fact that people don’t reproduce by mitosis, and that sometimes they fuck around.

Shit, if you can be a safe harbor and Apologists for Child Rapists, why the hell can’t you let the People of God wear a raincoat when they get a little nookie?

Give condoms away in the church. Have ‘em in a little bowl next to the holy water. Have ‘em glued inside the gimme-gimme-gimme envelopes. Fling them like Mardi Gras Beads during every Catholic-based parade.

You, Mr. New Pope Guy, are absolutely fated to be a wee, little footnote in the massive shadow of JPII. Get ready to be the Millard Fillmore of Popes. The answer to future trivia question: “Who the hell was that guy after Rockstar John Paul”? So, you want to make a Name for yourself? You want a Big Idea?

How about this: “Yeah, JPII was the Pope that ended Communism. And the guy after him was the guy that ended AIDS.” How does that sound? John Paul took down one of the Great Blights of the 20th Century. You took down the other one. We’ve seen the bling – we know you people have, well, not more money than God, but lets just say you have exactly as much.

Be bold. Be clever. Be...Papal, and in one, sweet move you solve a lot of your own problems, definitively reframe the Church for the 21st century and incise your name into Imperial Marble for all time. And best of all? It also happens to be the right thing to do.

Oh, and stop with the Child Raping. And the shielding of Child Rapists. You remember excommunication don’t you? Well, if it was good enough for the Inquisition and good enough to hold over Galileo’s head, why isn’t it good enough for Child Rapists and those that aid and abet them? Kick these monsters to the curb and disavow them forever.

On the less than serious side...mna, sometimes Capitalism Rules! And, let’s just say, I see extremely naughty revolutions coming is fashion, music, teevee and the complex semiotic dance of the hook-up. But hell, a low-hanging slow pitch like this? C’mon. Y’all can make up your own jokes, right?

After all, you’re a very clever bunch :-)