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I hope the "The Giant Dildo Ride" wasn't damaged. It's a pain in the ass but a lot of people look forward to it when the carnival comes through. Just ...
June 21, 2023 at 22:46
Or, why not a holiday for the Emancipation Proclamation which was the news to arrive late in Galveston. Lots of notable black people to commemorate. W...
June 21, 2023 at 06:06
Thank you! It's an old gay heart and needs a blessing every now and then.
June 21, 2023 at 05:56
Aristotle being ridden by Phyllis. Keep this image in mind when people quote the old man. https://cdn.quillette.com/2023/06/Screenshot-2023-06-10-at-1...
June 21, 2023 at 05:55
The dog probably wouldn't worry about getting its hair wet.
June 21, 2023 at 05:51
I presume that being trans, like being gay or straight, is NOT a choice. The style in which one lives out his or her sexuality, however, is a choice, ...
June 21, 2023 at 03:18
You raise an important issue. 1 in 7 Americans have a disability that interferes with ordinary life activities. Even so, advocates and legislators hav...
June 21, 2023 at 03:01
I raised that very issue in my post above.
June 21, 2023 at 02:18
The term "sexual/gender orientation" doesn't help discriminate between one kind of "woman" and another kind. Would "sexually" or "chromosomally" defin...
June 20, 2023 at 22:46
Stereotypes do change over time -- maybe not a lot, but certainly some. The housewife stereotype of decades past (mother, caregiver, thrifty homemaker...
June 20, 2023 at 04:28
The most satisfying answer so far to this ancient question.
June 19, 2023 at 22:30
According to Freud and Melanie, a thing's a phallic symbol if it's longer than it's wide. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRuru1nO0QU
June 19, 2023 at 22:29
You have come to the wrong place for refuge. The Shoutbox suffers from highly repetitive food reports. "For lunch I had..."; for supper I made with li...
June 19, 2023 at 21:02
Why do men want to urinate in women's toilets in the first place? It used to be the case that women's urinary-function facilities were appointed with ...
June 19, 2023 at 20:54
If everything is possible and nothing is certain, then all our thoughts are just so much straw. (This sentence makes reference to St. Thomas Aquinas' ...
June 19, 2023 at 07:36
Excellent points! Trans theorists want it both ways: a) there is such a thing as objective gender (penis, vagina, breasts, testicles, ovaries, hormone...
June 19, 2023 at 05:33
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f8/Internet_dog.jpg?20191015175927
June 19, 2023 at 01:25
We're pretty much on the same page. I am an adult human male who identifies as a man and looks like a man. I am attracted physically and emotionally t...
June 19, 2023 at 00:41
I am quite surprised that Velveeta is still being developed -- adding jalapeños, for example. Wonder bread is (still) being made by Flowers Foods, a l...
June 19, 2023 at 00:02
Live simply. Use Helvetica. Spread pimento Velveeta on Wonder Bread.
June 18, 2023 at 04:31
P Pimento cheese spread on Ritz crackers is the closest I've come to a pimento cheese sandwich. It's a tasty highly processed food-like product. A pim...
June 17, 2023 at 23:06
Minnesota public Radio is Gay Pride (aka GLBTIA... something or other) this month. No good deed goes unquestioned, and I, for one, find it a bit annoy...
June 17, 2023 at 20:21
Macaroni salad with diced cheddar cheese, diced celery, other dicings, and mayo is my childhood's summer food nightmare. I still avoid it like the pla...
June 16, 2023 at 19:01
On a quiet warm night one can hear the corn grow. Rapidly growing stalks crack and break as the plant lifts itself upward and enlarges it's leaves. It...
June 16, 2023 at 18:47
I biked 2 or 3 miles, errands to the post office, drug store, credit union, etc. It was all around irritating. Any worse and I'd either stay home or r...
June 16, 2023 at 06:08
End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration by Peter Turchin. It's about the problem of immiserated masses, over-produ...
June 16, 2023 at 05:04
The Mayo Clinic prescribes Hellmann's. I prefer Miracle Whip. IMHO tuna salad should have diced up egg, pickle, tuna, mayo -- and no celery. Bits of c...
June 16, 2023 at 04:51
There is gradual impoverishment of the masses and an an overpopulated elite establishment -- too much money, too much education, too much desire for p...
June 15, 2023 at 04:57
Looks like a crepe to me as well. Pancake and crepe batter may be very similar, but crepe batter has to be thinner and possibly have a bit less leaven...
June 14, 2023 at 06:29
If you weren't galavanting around Eurasia as much as you do (even Alberta and BC) I'd say you needed to get out more. Clearly, that's not your problem...
June 14, 2023 at 06:19
Well, call her up and ask her. "Are you STILL making those gritty, buckwheat pancakes? Oh. Ok, then, good bye." Buckwheat groats (the seeds) have a lo...
June 14, 2023 at 06:03
Japanese restaurants serve soba noodles.
June 14, 2023 at 04:24
s Soba noodles are made out of buckwheat. Buckwheat is a broadleaf plant (related to rhubarb) whose seeds are ground into a meal. It's not a grain at ...
June 14, 2023 at 04:22
That "something" about an Agua Vulva man is that he reeks from splashing on cologne like it was water. When I was in college (60s) English Leather was...
June 14, 2023 at 03:08
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No, given the topic, it's INEVITABLE!
June 13, 2023 at 04:55
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Ufologist -- that's UFO-ologist, not Urologist. Fortunately he is retired from medicine. He should see a gastroenterologist ASAP since he is probably ...
June 13, 2023 at 04:37
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Stop pretending that you are frank, and don't call me Shirley, either.
June 13, 2023 at 04:25
But what if I want to ignore @"Ignore list browser extension"; is there an app for that?
June 12, 2023 at 18:43
The antecedents of the "proud boys" existed and operated before the internet: Militias, Ted kaczynski (the 'unibomber), Timothy McVeigh (blew up Oklah...
June 11, 2023 at 18:15
A medieval history scholar said we know more about ancient societies (2000 - 3000 years ago) than we do about medieval society. That was several decad...
June 11, 2023 at 03:30
Sure, because in the early medieval period there weren't any capitalists. The local Lord had the income of land rent (from peasants, yeomen, etc.) so ...
June 11, 2023 at 00:32
Luther's father started out a peasant, true, but he fairly quickly succeeded in being a miner, then a mine owner, then a business man (doing what, don...
June 10, 2023 at 23:30
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Or, they have noticed us the same way we have noticed that some stars have planets in the 'goldilocks zone". We know almost nothing about these planet...
June 10, 2023 at 22:48
If they both hated capitalism, their reasons for doing so were quite different. Laborers were toiling in the 'dark, satanic mills' ; long hours, dange...
June 10, 2023 at 18:15
AI comes to mind first. It's a new and potentially dire threat, depending on who deploys it for what purposes and whether or not it has big OFF switch...
June 10, 2023 at 06:21
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In a science fiction story, the aliens showed up on earth to announce that the Galactic Authority was evicting humans from earth. Why? We weren't maki...
June 09, 2023 at 05:47
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An astrophysicist on the radio today said that one part of our alien-knowledge problem is that when pictures are taken of alleged alien vessels, it's ...
June 09, 2023 at 04:17
There are certainly "ethnicities" among the N & S American Aboriginal people--Astecs, Inca, Toltecs, and Maya to name 4. There are numerous others, al...
June 09, 2023 at 03:11
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It would be quite impressive if we heard accounts of strange dish-like ships in the sky over France in 1817, for example. As far as I know, stories ab...
June 09, 2023 at 01:04
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FERMI'S PARADOX The following are some of the facts and hypotheses that together serve to highlight the apparent contradictions behind the Fermi parad...
June 09, 2023 at 00:45