 | Stuff Lesbians Like 40: Duct TapeBy Grace Yip |
Perhaps it is the ingrained DIYness of our peeps, but gosh almighty… lezzies love duct tape. We have a roll of it in our home, office and car. Lezzies who carry messenger bags might be packing a roll in their bag. Hell, the messenger bag might even be made out of duct tape. Some of us even wear a roll on or wrist when we go out*, in place of a watch or a leather wrist cuffystrappybandythingy that every lezzie was sporting at one point.
Wallets, keychains, shoes, tuxedos. Duct tape. Easy patching for pipes, taillights, that leaky crack in the window. Duct tape. Grip for your hammer, tennis racket, hockey stick or Nalgene bottle. Duct tape. An entire crew of drag kings performing in shiny outfits. Duct tape.
One drunken night at a pub, someone started talking about constructing a swing out of duck tape. A swing. THAT type of swing. Which led us to expound on other (easier) things one can make out of duct tape such as whips, blindfolds and restraints. Apparently, rolling and/or folding the tape must be done with care otherwise it might be uncomfortable, cause rashes or worst of all, get pet hair stuck on it. Well, unless “fuzzy” was the goal.
Oy Vey.
* I’ve not personally seen this but wouldn’t put it past some of you.
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June 13th, 2008 at 11:10 am
Yip … you have some interesting friends … enough said! LOL!
June 13th, 2008 at 11:47 am
I have definitely noticed the duct tape thing and even made a passing reference to it on my blog last November about our car window being smashed while we were out on the town…
“We were in a lesbian bar, by god. If they didn’t have cardboard and duct tape then there were bigger problems in the world than a little broken glass.”
June 13th, 2008 at 12:36 pm
I think the importance of duct tape is fully acknowledged in my own culture. I’m Finnish, and in general Finnish slang duct tape is called “jeesusteippi” or “jesari”, which means “Jesus tape”. Why? ‘Cause no matter what, you can always trust some “jesari” to save your ass.
June 13th, 2008 at 12:42 pm
Last year, some drunk doofus liberated part of Rosen’s driver’s side mirror from her car door. But Rosen used electrical tape to patch it back up. Rosen is a fake lesbian.
June 13th, 2008 at 12:46 pm
Electrical tape? Can’t patch a canoe with electrical tape. Nuff said.
June 13th, 2008 at 12:47 pm
Aleatoria… wow, how fitting! i am going to introduce that word to my entourage…
June 13th, 2008 at 12:57 pm
“Can’t patch a canoe with electrical tape.”
indeed.
June 13th, 2008 at 2:52 pm
Chu forgot to mentioned that I also used Silicone Adhesive Sealant [coughing "dyke" under her own breath - LOL!] to secure the mirror. The electrical tape was just a back up, but used over duct tape because I wanted to use something black to match my mirror. I know it sounds a bit ghetto but I wasn’t about to spend hundreds of $$s on a car that was 8 yrs old with 100,000 + miles on it. (Hardware supplies + Practical + Thrifty = REAL Lesbian!) WOOT!
It did make it harder to trade in the car … I nearly had to pay the dealership to take it! BLAAAHHH!
June 13th, 2008 at 4:29 pm
You GRACES crack my shiz up!! Are you kidding me electrical tape for asthetic purposes LMAO that is super dykey!! YOU GO ROSEN!! As for you YIP how would you use ALEATORIA in a sentence?
June 13th, 2008 at 5:33 pm
Nette: As in, “seleccionar una página aleatoria”, “to select a random page” (or “chica lesbiana”, if you’re into that…
). Not sure if the equivalent to “select” is in this case indeed “seleccionar” or if you should use “elegir” or something, Spanish isn’t my first (or even second) language…
June 13th, 2008 at 5:34 pm
Rosen: Chu thinks you are a fake lesbian, but you are pretty damn lezzie to me. (you can get back at her by withholding happy giggly fun time.. wink wink)
Nette: I mean using the new word “jesari”, not our dear reader Aleatoria. Although, if she wants to be used as a word by our entourage, I’m sure I can figure it out.
June 14th, 2008 at 5:51 am
I didn’t know of the existence of duct tape until I read my first Patricia Cornwell novel. It’s the kind of thing that I classify as ‘object in cellar of house aka my significant other’s DIY realm’.
June 14th, 2008 at 11:33 pm
I just used duct tape to mend a hole in my skirt! It works wonders!
June 17th, 2008 at 12:54 pm
This tape gives status. My ex had some… it had the black and yellow stripe thing going on. That shit was like currency. Every lezza we knew wanted a bit. It seemed to be the answer for everything.
June 17th, 2008 at 1:04 pm
you know what i never understood? lezzies using duct tape to cover their nips at the dyke march. like, OW?!
June 17th, 2008 at 1:14 pm
I think one way to avoid the “ouch” is to cut out a piece of paper, place said piece of paper over your nip, and then slap duct tape over the piece of paper.
June 17th, 2008 at 1:16 pm
Well, I have used duct tape for many things but I can honestly say that it never occurred to me to use it on my nipples. I’m drawing the line there.
July 9th, 2008 at 3:37 pm
As soon as I read this I was brought back to when my first girlfriend gave me a duct tape flower for valentines day…
July 11th, 2008 at 7:40 am
Interesting … I can understand why she’s an ex-girlfriend! Thrifty though!
July 11th, 2008 at 4:18 pm
i know this is an older post … BUT … my friend bought HOT PINK duct tape yesterday … thought i should share