River: The human body can be drained of blood in 8.6 seconds given adequate vacuuming systems. Mal: See, morbid and creepifying, I got no problem with, long as she does it quiet-like.

'Safe'


Natter 60: Gone In 60 Seconds  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Jesse - Aug 07, 2008 5:51:49 pm PDT #1698 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Oy vey, Allyson. You definitely need to reassure K that you are NOT the problem here!

There were some tornado warnings in the area here, but it just now started raining.


sarameg - Aug 07, 2008 6:37:49 pm PDT #1699 of 10003

Hey, the storms followed! I'm trying to type with 12+lbs of cat snoring on my shoulder and upper arm and a 'puter balanced on my thigh. HARD. Who thought wireless was a good idea? Obviously my cats. Time to give up and go plug it in and free my torso.


Allyson - Aug 07, 2008 6:43:54 pm PDT #1700 of 10003
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica

Oh, totally told her that this was craxxy and that I'm not party to kicking her out of my spot.

She's aware that this isn't me.


msbelle - Aug 07, 2008 7:24:49 pm PDT #1701 of 10003
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

Whew. I just spent an hour looking through my place up one side and down the other because I could not find the file folders with mac's original adoption papers in. I was seriously starting to freak out. But I found them. I must must must focus and get busy on the re-adoption which is coming up on a year late (not that there is a real due date, just that you can officially do it at 6 months). Tomorrow is the day to go through and figure out what I have, what I need and what to do next.

Allyson, that whole situation sucks. Are you scared to be month to month with this lady with no signed papers?


Allyson - Aug 07, 2008 7:33:40 pm PDT #1702 of 10003
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica

Oh hell yeah. All I have is cashed checks. It's pretty much on her that she has no paperwork. No one here does.


msbelle - Aug 07, 2008 7:39:43 pm PDT #1703 of 10003
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

but she is saying you don't get a guaranteed parking space because you are month to month, right?


tommyrot - Aug 07, 2008 7:49:02 pm PDT #1704 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

From McSweeney's:

HAMLET
(FACEBOOK NEWS
FEED EDITION).

Polonius says Hamlet's crazy ... crazy in love!

Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, and Hamlet are now friends.

Hamlet wonders if he should continue to exist. Or not.

Hamlet thinks Ophelia might be happier in a convent.

Ophelia removed "moody princes" from her interests.

Hamlet posted an event: A Play That's Totally Fictional and In No Way About My Family

The king commented on Hamlet's play: "What is wrong with you?"

Polonius thinks this curtain looks like a good thing to hide behind.

Polonius is no longer online.


Allyson - Aug 07, 2008 7:56:30 pm PDT #1705 of 10003
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica

Oh yeah, I am totally month to month. Which is okay, I was month to month in my old place for almost 6 years.

It's the whole parking dealie that bugs. She hordes cars. There are four cars in the back, along with motorcycles and a boat. None of them work, and one has a puddle of transmission fluid under it.


tommyrot - Aug 07, 2008 8:03:03 pm PDT #1706 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

What If You Only Thought You Were Gay?

An article about men who thought they were gay - until they suddenly figure out they'd been wrong and they were actually straight.

Despite the insistence of many—straight and gay—that switching between sexual preferences can't technically happen, Rothenberg isn't the only man to have believed he was homosexual before deciding that he was wrong. These aren't gays who attend faith-based programs to be "cured," or bisexuals who rotate between male and female sex partners the way the rest of us alternate pairs of shoes. And they're not the type who hide gay urges in public while privately trotting off to the local bathhouse.

....

For Ethan Robinson (not his real name), a 37-year-old film editor from Los Angeles, chasing women during his post-college years became a chore. "If I went to a gay bar I got hit on like crazy, whereas at a straight bar the women all but turned their backs," Robinson says. "At gay clubs you danced, you had fun. At straight clubs, you sat around, posed, and tried to affect a degree of indifference."

Frustrated by his relationships with women, convinced that romantic relationships with men would be easier, and figuring that if he never tried it he'd never know whether it was for him, Robinson got into a casual relationship with a "really attractive, interesting" guy for about two months. After the first time they had sex, "I thought, 'Well, that wasn't as weird as I thought it would be,'" he says. "I didn't recoil from the experience."

After that relationship fizzled, Robinson dated another guy but eventually realized that he wasn't gay. "It just didn't fit," he says. "It wasn't what I ultimately wanted." The switch back to women wasn't complicated, in part because he was never officially out.

Huh.


meara - Aug 07, 2008 8:08:01 pm PDT #1707 of 10003

After that relationship fizzled, Robinson dated another guy but eventually realized that he wasn't gay. "It just didn't fit," he says. "It wasn't what I ultimately wanted."

Dude. That's...OK. I think I have to read that article. But honestly, I'm fine with someone who wants to try out their sexuality like THAT. If that's really what it's about, and not like, a crazy "OMG, must be down with THE BIBLE!" reversal shit.

But I have a feeling that's not what most people do.

Then again, LOTS of women date other women, then go back to men. It's a lot easier for women to do that than for men to do that, in our society. So it doesn't faze me. I think guys should be able to do that too, but society isn't cool with it.