The King of Cups expects a picnic. But this is not his birthday!

Drusilla ,'Conversations with Dead People'


Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork  

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.


Cass - Apr 23, 2011 3:08:41 pm PDT #4911 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

People skeeve me.

Why does that damn Viagra commercial music get stuck in my head?

Can I seek help if the earworm lasts longer than four hours?


Jesse - Apr 23, 2011 3:10:37 pm PDT #4912 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I'm pretty sure you should see your doctor, Cass.


brenda m - Apr 23, 2011 3:18:18 pm PDT #4913 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

I have a hard time with interracial porn, because I imagine someone getting off on the interracial part of it, like it's naughty or something, and it skeeves me.

To tie that back to the earlier porn discussion - this is one reason I'm frequently more comfortable watching gay porn than het. There's a lot of het porn that I could get off on but I can't turn off the part of my brain that's imagining what the misogynist dicks are getting out of it, and it means that there's a very narrow range that isn't tainted.


Jesse - Apr 23, 2011 3:30:01 pm PDT #4914 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

There are a lot of creepy people and things in the world.

Obviously.


Strix - Apr 23, 2011 3:31:30 pm PDT #4915 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

I've seen stuff about those young black men/white swingers parties, and while I intellectually understand people may have predispositions towards attractions for a certain type, that just skeeves me pretty much.

Those parties just seem to much Mandingo-esque for my comfort. Euch.

On the non-controversial other hand, I just had delcious Cajun food with my sister.

My family has always been lower-class, socioeconomically -- my mom worked for three years during the divorce years, but my dad was sole breadwinner for most of the marriage, and he was making 40K for a family of 4 when he retired in 1998, after working as a phone lineman for 38 years at the same company.

We never missed a meal, even though it might have been grilled cheese and tomato soup or SOS, and we always had a running car, albeit used and old. We never got electricity cut off, and my sister and I always got two new school outfits from Kmart or sometimes Penney's each September.

So, not stratchin' poor, but definitely middle-lower class, I think.


Hil R. - Apr 23, 2011 3:33:18 pm PDT #4916 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

Those parties just seem to much Mandingo-esque for my comfort. Euch.

The photo exhibit thing that I read about, the people at the parties called the men Mandingos. (I can't remember where I read about this, and I'm scared to google.)


Amy - Apr 23, 2011 3:40:40 pm PDT #4917 of 30001
Because books.

The neighbors just had me over to look at the paint colors for their living room and dining room, and I've now had two cold beers in very quick succession. While breathing paint fumes.

Re: the earlier porn discussion, I think recs like the Porn for Straight Girls ones are well-intentioned but ultimately not that helpful, because sexual turn-ons are so individual. If you take two straight women, the greatest common denominator in what turns them on is presumably someone with a penis, but that leaves a hell of a lot of variation in what kind of someone with a penis. Nothing they've recommended has been even close to something I'd like.

I'm also unsurprised, although skeeved, by the interracial cuckolding thing. I think that's a pretty standard theme in stuff like Penthouse Letters, too.


Jesse - Apr 23, 2011 3:49:20 pm PDT #4918 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

OK, I have thought this out a little more -- I'm afraid interracial porn, like anything else, follows the "90% is crap" rule, and in that case, most of the crap is totally skeevy. But it's not everything.


Matt the Bruins fan - Apr 23, 2011 4:00:19 pm PDT #4919 of 30001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

I'm always a little skeeved by situations where stuff seems to be acted out to fulfill the non-participating partner's fantasies. Which may be hypocritical since I have no such problem with the voyeuristic nature of porn. But at least with that the viewer's not generally saying "hey, gangbang my wife while I take pictures!"


DavidS - Apr 23, 2011 4:05:01 pm PDT #4920 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

I don't know. It's sounding a bit like "Everybody's else's porn is skeevy and weird, but my freaky deeky thing that I like is untainted. And anybody that thinks my thing is weird makes me angry with their wrongness."