George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
The things you lean on / are things that don't last
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George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
1d ago
"xyz gives some people a hard-on" is just guy talk. I don't see it as "weird(ly) sexualized" in any way, and I'd be surprised if it were a left-coded way of communicating. I'd be more surprised if someone took time to do a study to determine this.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
1d ago
I generally read past this kind of internet abbreviation unless something in the post is particularly compelling. In this case I looked up the actress first, the acronym later, and didn't see the connection. On reflection, it's a stupider issue than I imagined, and not the kind of thing I typically discuss or care to engage in. That probably sounds arrogant but we all have our lines.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
2d ago
It was a joke and I didn't mean to start a fire here.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
2d ago
With far less catchy lyrics, I might add.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
3d ago
(Cough)
Due to wording, this post reads differently than you probably intended.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
4d ago
It certainly didn't read that way.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
6d ago
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George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
6d ago
Interesting take; I know you're in Texas. The last time I was in Mexico was in the 70s.
I still have unpleasant stereotypes of early 2000s drug cartel victims hung from overpasses in my mind just based on readings and media exposure.
Edit: Second sentence is worded sloppily.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
6d ago
Female sexuality is fundamentally stupid and evil in a way that male sexuality simply isn't.
This kind of comment reminds me oddly of feminist arguments that men are evil because they're, well, men. And I suspect that to some degree a statement such as this is borne of years of exposure to precisely such arguments (though I'm speculating.)
I'm more sympathetic to railing against individual women than against the entirety of the dance. At the risk of breaking into parody, you have a choice: Accept the dispassionate world as it is and deal with it as best you can, or complain incessantly against the unfairness of it all.
To some extent the railing against female sexuality in the western world is done by the very people who suggest that the asexual/androgynous model, where we eschew our roles and meet in some vague middle and ignore the elephant of sexual differences in the room, is equally unpalatable and goes against nature, or whatever.
It doesn't have to be one way or the other. We've created the current monsters of dating apps and optimizing romance (or sex, if you prefer). This model will then fail to the degree that it is unsustainable, leaving the bodies of a lot of lonely hearts, newly minted lesbians, or angry incels in its wake. Or it will transmogrify into something worse. I think, however, that as reassuring as it may be to lay it all on women, it is not particularly helpful.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
6d ago
Walk around a sorority house and you’ll find lots of girls who have physiques similar to Brie Larson or Scarlett Johansson
True. Find those same girls ten (or fewer) years later and they will all have physiques similar to pre-semaglutide Melissa McCarthy. The frat guys may or may not have gained beerguts.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
9d ago
Once and it caused stomach upset for some reason. About a clove.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
10d ago
Well, whatever we're doing I look forward to all the photos from 2016. To some of us that feels like yesterday.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
10d ago
You may (or may not) appreciate Walker Percy's The Loss of the Creature.
PDF warning
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
11d ago
Where the acquisition of Greenland fits in. I get the idea that having access to Greenland would be strategically advantageous for the United States, it just seems a weird drum to bang on. And no, there is no military action in Greenland as there is in Iran and Venezuela, but it is a sovereign country and Trump has made noises about how "We need Greenland." How does that fit in the "Donroe" Doctrine?
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
16d ago
I react differently to this kind of statement, as myself an expatriate (immigrant) living in Japan as a permanent resident. I sympathize with those here (in Japan) who grumble generally about foreigners, though I realize many of them are grumbling specifically about non-Japanese inability or failure to grasp basic politeness, cultural norms of quietude, humility, cleanliness, or language, etc. It's not that they despise anyone not-Japanese, it's that they're growing frustrated with the ever-increasing number of foreigners noisily crowding the bus, or smoking in the street, or spreading their giant suitcases all over the train aisle, or whatever. To say nothing of the occasional foreigner criminal.
What I am less sympathetic to is the straightforward contempt for anything that isn't 100% Japanese (forget that defining what qualifies as such is likely impossible) and the occasional stated desire to kick out all the foreigners. The 尊王攘夷 (sonno jooi)/"Revere the emperor, expel the foreigners!" type racism of late Edo. This is simply an unworkable, even bizarrely emotionally immature way of perceiving the world.
Copypaste this into America and say it's sovereignty; that's odd to me. I may be misunderstanding you.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
17d ago
Superman: The Movie. Lot of nostalgia there-- the night I went to see it, the era, everything.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
18d ago
It's me but the reconstruction blurred my face grotesquely. Both those dudes were the actors I knew growing up so maybe I was channeling unknowingly. Or something.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
18d ago
Well I happen to be a dude from Alabama so my hand warmth advice may be less than compelling. Good to hear you've pushed through some preparatory climbs.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
18d ago
You have to get into my head and free associate emoji to image to website.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
18d ago
This makes me wonder what will happen when I use the image tab. This is a ChatGPT "rework to look like a modern photo" of me in a 1966 Sunbeam Alpine, circa 1987. What will we see when I post?
Edit: Nothing interesting happened.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
18d ago
but women feel colder more easily
I thought this sounded fishy but looked it up and you're right! So I guess all the Japanese high school girls showing far too much leg in 34F temperatures are just slaves for fashion. Or for something.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
19d ago
As far as I know the research suggests that humans, at least, can become very used to cold.
The original L'enfant sauvage Victor of Aveyron (one among several documented feral children) was reported to like the snow, even when wearing very little clothing:
Bonnaterre reported that one morning, after a particularly heavy snow storm, Victor of Aveyron looked out his bedroom window and with a cry of joy, ran half-dressed into the garden, where “giving vent to his delight by the most piercing cries, he ran, rolled in the snow, and gathered it up by the handful, devoured it with incredible eagerness."
Acclimatization to cold weather is probably the first step @SkookumTree should take if he ever does the Hock. From a brief bit of research on the issue, apparently a German Shepherd is more likely to have a problem with heat than with cold.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
20d ago
Well Billy Squier will never be rid of that music video.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
20d ago
I had never seen interstitial used in this way, well done.
Looks amazing. The photos, but also the experience.
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