K-Mac

Oh, yeah, baby!

Someone else started a thread about this a few days back. I think several people ordered the book to check it out.

Congratulations, Tenure!

I don't recall anyone saying that slut meant "exceptionally good lover" but I tend to think a slut would be an experienced lover simply due to the definition of the word. And I don't consider myself to be "confused by having different definitions for different rooms of the house." There's no confusion...bedroom talk is bedroom talk. It is not talk for my friends or my family or for strangers...it is for my spouse/lover. If you want to interrupt a passionate moment with your loved one to invent a new word, you are certainly allowed to do so, but I feel sorry for the bored partner in the bed next to you. I prefer NOT to role play Dr. Lillith and Frasier Crane in my bedroom.

I think we should just leave out the whole concentration camp scenario unless you want to argue it with the individual that brought it up. I think the vast majority of people would not find that sexually stimulating; however, I still fail to see the harm in pretending (via role playing) to be a woman who is experienced in frequently pleasuring men (a slut.) Like I said before, there are many more things I would prefer to have said to me during sex, but as long as you have two willing, consenting adults role playing, I see no harm in it. And how would that cause a woman to have no sense of life or be less of a heroine? And why is a slut necessarily brainless or worthless? Yes, a genuine slut definitely has some psychological issues, but I don't think that makes her brainless or worthless. There were several sluts at my high school and college that went on to be productive, non-slutty members of society. Everyone makes mistakes and has the potential to learn from them.

Like Dan, I feel the need to make a "just for the record" comment. I heard this song on the radio on the way in to work this morning and it reminded me of this thread. I would much rather be talked to like this than talked dirty to, but I'm not opposed to dirty talk. I think different situations/moods call for different behavior, both in and out of the sack. Robin Thicke wrote this song for his wife, who is also in the video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3_gIi4ECok

Yeah, what she said.

It would get me going. Of course, I know that I'm no dirty slut in real life, so I would accept it as a role playing invitation. On a lighter note, all of this is reminding me of that episode of Seinfeld where his girlfriend is dirty talking about per panties and Seinfeld's response is, "you mean the the Panties your mother laid out for you?" Just so we're clear, THAT type of comment would NOT get me going.

Only in Louisiana!

Yet another reason to dislike enviros... http://www.laweekly.com/news/news/monkey-m...-at-ucla/16986/ Granted, these are the extremists, but I'd be willing to bet a lot of main streamers approve and just don't voice it. On a more humorous note, I saw a bumper sticker yesterday that said, "I LOVE GLOBAL WARMING!" I thought I would like to have one of those, but ELF would probably vandalize my SUV as a result.

I'm afraid I don't have too much "economic data" for you, but I do know what theft is. There must be a better way than to steal money from people. Humans are smart enough to come up with something. From personal experience, I think personal and corporate donations would work. It worked for volunteer fire departments and it works for churches so why wouldn't it work for something as important as national defense, personal and property protection and the courts? Just because I don't have a crystal ball with all the solutions doesn't mean that I will accept theft in the meantime.

My first thought, on a more simplistic level, is that if all these miracles are occurring, why are there so many sick people out there? If people were really being healed, don't you think the world's sick and infirm would be jumping on the bandwagon? Why are they all going to hospitals instead of their church? And if God wants to heal all of his people, why is he letting them become afflicted with horrible disease and disfigurement in the first place? And I agree with y_f, it's hard to argue with someone who accepts blind faith and is so irrational. That's what's so dangerous about it.

This is, of course, brought up in the documentary I mentioned above. Many people visit the bridge for days before deciding to jump. The survivor describes sitting there crying for around 45 minutes as he tries to decide whether or not he really wants to jump. As he's sobbing, a German tourist walks up to him and asks if he will take a picture of her and her husband. He wondered how she could ask him such a thing while he was in such obvious angst, but he realized that she hadn't even noticed he was crying. She was on the bridge, walking around, enjoying the sites and her vacation. And he realized all the people around him were going about their lives. For some reason, people who commit suicide seem to think there lives will never be like all those others they see moving around them. This surivor also describes how as soon as his feet left the platform, his first thought was that he wanted to live. One of the most chilling moments in the film for me. Does everyone who commits suicide think that just as it's too late? End of Reason, I wonder if your family member has ever seen It's a Wonderful Life? As silly as it sounds on the surface, that movie really illustrates the value of one single life and how one can change so many for the better and not even know it. It also illustrates how life is full of ups and downs, and it's how you react to the downs that make you a better person.

I agree. I say cut funding to all government programs, by repealing income tax laws, and let them "wither on the vine."

I am very torn on this issue, so I am not sure how to answer your question. I would like to recommend that you watch the documentary, The Bridge. Cameras were installed in different locations around the Golden Gate Bridge and caught about 24 people jumping to their deaths in 2004, if I'm not mistaken. Family and friends of the deceased speak about their loved ones, what they went through prior to their deaths and for how long. There is even one survivor who recalls his experience. I am not sure if it helped me make up my mind as to whether suicide is okay or not, but it definitely gave me more to think about. One thing I am pretty sure of after watching the film is that if someone has it in their head to kill them self, there's not much anyone is going to be able to do to stop them. It's a remarkable, eerie film. I've never seen such beauty contrast with such chilling moments. The music is also beautiful, yet haunting. I highly recommend it. http://www.thebridge-themovie.com/new/index.html Click to watch the trailer.

Getting rid of income taxes and the IRS would be my first move also.

I still would have killed him had I been given the chance. If anyone ever tries to pull that crap with me again, they're going to get a .44 pointed at them so fast they won't even know what hit them. I'm shooting first and asking questions later. "...I'm gonna change you from a rooster to a hen with one shot! And don't think I can't do it." - Doralee Rhodes (Dolly Parton's character in Nine to Five)

Not that I can imagine creating anything like that with watercolor, but Nature's Beauty really amazes me with the clear reflection on the water and the rocks underneath. How do you do that with watercolor???

It's real...I remember seeing the ad campaign on TV.

Okay, I love Quiznos and that commercial makes me not want to eat there anymore.

Wow, what a crazy case! When you're out of your head and dying, who know what choices you will make? And should you be lucky enough to survive, should you be held accountable for those choices? I also think that it would be punishment enough to live with those memories and images every day for the rest of your life.

I agree. I misinterpreted the question. I was thinking more along the lines of another person is trying to kill me, do I have the right to kill them in self defense? (And although that would be an emergency, there are, obviously, other sorts of emergencies.) Yet another reason I shouldn't be posting at work...get in too big of a hurry. On the second part, I figured I would take some slack for that, but that's my opinion. (That's why I said, "I probably...") I did not claim that to be how the law or the courts would look upon it. I have had to live the past 14 years of my life as a different person due to being robbed in my own home. So a fleeing robber, to me, is still a threat. The stupid, violent, drug-addicted, loser that threatened me in my own home is not worthy of surviving the ordeal he put me through. He took something away from me that I will never get back and most Americans take for granted; the right to feel safe and secure in my own home at night. That's a freedom that no one should have to live without. If only I had owned a firearm then...

Well I think you stuck it to him pretty good. I sure would like to hear that in Russian with all the passion that I'm sure both of you put into your arguments.

I didn't see it, but I think I'll pass. I'm kinda queasy about stuff like that. Your vivid description in chat was enough for me.

1.) of course not (unless you've already fought the perp off and they're running away and you shoot them in the back or something like that, but even in that case I probably don't have a problem with you shooting them) 2.) this reminds me of Hurricane Katrina. If I remember correctly, those that were stealing food and water were not prosecuted, but those caught with TV's, electronics, jewelry, etc., were. I had no problem with that. 3.) same scenario as #1 4.) same scenario as #2 Basically, I cannot find any reason to disagree w/ David. (And I'm sure the Katrina victims that were stealing food/water instead of other non-essential items are the types of people who would have been happy to repay the store owners for what they took once the initial emergency situation was over.)