...increased 7 per cent on Good Friday
Well, wood is a vital part of the story.
PornHub's annual deep dive into user stats and searches has revealed that, in 2017, people decided to take the fidget spinner trend to new levels. According to the mainstream porn site's year in review, visitors were interested in new ways of using the seemingly innocent, if highly annoying, kids' toy. (Top tip: El Reg did an …
I actually did take a look at that document. Most interesting thing for me, a drop in traffic through the path of totality, of the US eclipse. eg. A 26% drop in traffic from South Carolina. I'm no stats talking person : but to me that's an astounding amount of people who'd rather watch pr0n than see a total eclipse.
"Since the dawn of time humanity has always had a strange curiosity with orifices, from early caveman and their flint dildos (who said they were for creating fire?) to the current craze of fidget spinners. If it fits it goes."
Fun fact: The electric vibrator (motorised dildo) was invented 100 years before the electric toothbrush.
Seems there's a market for the Great British W**k Off. It could still follow much of the same formula, and involve cooking ingredients, stale wit, and "celebrity" judges commenting on the contestant's efforts.
"Oh, no, he's losing height and girth, like a souffle coming out of the oven too soon, he'll never produce cream now"
Etc, etc.
They could give Strictly come dancing a new format or bring back Blue Peter. What about the XXX Factor?
They could also bring back Eldorado because that was w*nk.
I think the best idea would be a new format to pointless where contestants have to crack one off to pictures of Ann Widdecombe or Theresa may with hilarious consequences.
"the idea that Parliamentarians watch more porn at work than they do at home"
Ever since the expenses scandal, they've realised they can't get paid for jerking off at home. It's ok at their second homes in London or at Westminster. The porn is incidental, they get off on screwing the taxpayer....
"The report found that those in the Philippines spent the longest time on the site – an average of 13 minutes and 28 seconds per visit, more than the overall global average of 9 minutes 59 seconds."
So the longest time spent on the site was longer than the average time spent? Fascinating.
"The most common desktop operating system for PornHub users was Windows – 80 per cent of users "
Given Windows is over 90% of desktop market share, does that mean that Windows users are actually proportionately less likely to visit pornhub that Linux and Mac users? After all, the other 10% of the desktop market are making up 20% of the Pornhub usage.
Of course, Windows is also predominant in the commercial world, so a goodly portion of that 90% is office PCs. But most of the news from Parliament recently suggests that being in the office has no impact on people's porn viewing habits whatsoever...
Oh come now, if our leaders are anything to go by most males (and probably quite a few women folk too) have fun bashing the bishop or flicking the bean in the privacy and comfort of anywhere out of site of the neighbours, so it doesn't come as *that* much of surprise.
That said, I'm curious as to where the Japanese get their streams from... you know......asking for a friend......*cough*
@Banksy
"I don't get this step mom/sister thing. You know all the porn stars who are in these clips. They can't all be realted!"
Maybe there is UK politico demand driving this area?
e.g. back in the day, Tory MP Alan Clark liked Mother / daughters stuff
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/clark-scandal-descends-into-tales-of-blackmail-and-lechery-1419683.html
come (late) February. Cause in March, my dear fellow UK perverts, all of you, we're gonna BAN porn in our sex-crazy little ex-EU-membered island. Unless, of course, you VOLUNTARILY provide your personal details to the gov-run member-ship club of the over-18s.*
* tor browser users excluded, but that's ok, cause it's only 1% of over 18s, never mind the 99% of the youngers!
"Sorry for the dumb question, but what is a "fidget spinner"?"
In the centre is a "ball race" bearing which you grip between thumb and forefinger (for instance) and then using your other hand you "spin" the gadget, so it turns.
The outer section of the spinner is weight loaded, so that it carries momentum and hence keeps it spinning, until eventually friction and gravity take hold.
Some have a small dynamo inside which can light up small LED's in the outer section which makes it look nice - others make sounds.
And they are available in lots of different spangly colours too ;-)
PS: It can spin very quickly and it can display gyroscopic reactions, making it more fun to play with.
Though, I have to say, I can't see what sort of application it could be used for, in a Pronhub sort of way...I guess I'll just have to do a search on PH and see what the fuss is all about. ;-)
> In the centre is a "ball race" bearing which you grip between thumb and forefinger (for instance) and then using your other hand you "spin" the gadget, so it turns.
Thanks. That's all? I'm terminally underwhelmed... How could it rise to become such a fad? (Something tells me I don't really want to know.)