I made my own coffee, and it turned out very well! And it's not *rob* like, I know how to find the damn beans, grinder and mugs in my own damn kitchen!
I beg your pardon. I was tastefully dressed in mournful black in honor of Brooklyn's loss on your move. (The Puma designation is required by health & safety regulations.)
I'm going to start a daily (or even more) posting of a picture of 1% lifestyle. I hope that it will encourage more people to aspire to that lifestyle and work harder towards that goal, instead of voting Democrat so that the country will continue a downward spiral into mediocrity, welfare and entitlement; all resulting in less than ideal living situations:
i was going to ask wtf "reclaim wisconsin" meant, but i didnt because i felt like it would have annoyed me lol. oddly i wish some of the moonfaces in nyc WOULD reclaim wisconsin as their places of residence.
such TRICKERY! i got my first statement for that care credit card bill for my dentist bill and it says minimum payment : 25 dollars. :-/ how would i pay 439 dollars off in 6 months if i just sent 25 dollars in?! if you miss one payment late by one day or dont pay it off in full in the 6 months, you retroactively get charged and switched over to 29% interest! ouch! and a 30 dollar late fee. why would they make it big and bold and say minimum payment 25 dollars? why cant they just divide 439 by 6 and say THAT is the minimum payment grrr. i hate fridays
Cobble was pretty well dressed or simply looking FINE - should've said that to her as there was no BH around to scare me with "Hey, don't you try hitting on my girl CHINAman"
"such TRICKERY! i got my first statement for that care credit card bill for my dentist bill and it says minimum payment : 25 dollars. :-/ how would i pay 439 dollars off in 6 months if i just sent 25 dollars in"
THIS is why i dont take my dog to any dog runs these days. bunch of freaks! does this idiot not understand what dogs DO in dog runs!?!? i already have a mental image of what this person's dog already looks like..
Any lawyers or well-informed dog owners out there? I've got an important question.
I have a very social dog here in Manhattan and unfortunately I have to take her to the dog run. Not having canine interaction would make her wither and die. And 99% of the time, the dog run is a positive experience.
So now here's the question, what are your rights when a dog consistently attacks yours after you've brought it to the attention of the owner? I recently stopped playing nice and have started going after the dogs myself to protect mine. But I want to make sure that I'm not going to get hit with charges for animal cruelty. Am I within my legal rights to attack a dog that is attacking mine? I've learned the hard way not to expect the aggressive dog's owner to break it up and am fairly liberal with my punches and kicks these days. Luckily it's a very small subsection of the population I'm talking about, but it only takes one bad apples as they say.
I want to make it 100% clear: not going to the dog park is not an option, so please don't let this discussion evolve into a pros and cons of dog parks more generally. All I want to know is can I legally kick a dog that is dragging mine by the neck across the asphalt?
Any lawyers or well-informed dog owners out there? I've got an important question.
I have a very social dog here in Manhattan and unfortunately I have to take her to the dog run. Not having canine interaction would make her wither and die. And 99% of the time, the dog run is a positive experience.
So now here's the question, what are your rights when a dog consistently attacks yours after you've brought it to the attention of the owner? I recently stopped playing nice and have started going after the dogs myself to protect mine. But I want to make sure that I'm not going to get hit with charges for animal cruelty. Am I within my legal rights to attack a dog that is attacking mine? I've learned the hard way not to expect the aggressive dog's owner to break it up and am fairly liberal with my punches and kicks these days. Luckily it's a very small subsection of the population I'm talking about, but it only takes one bad apples as they say.
I want to make it 100% clear: not going to the dog park is not an option, so please don't let this discussion evolve into a pros and cons of dog parks more generally. All I want to know is can I legally kick a dog that is dragging mine by the neck across the asphalt?
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1. This round of "class" warfare started on the GOP side.
2. Typical, dems and independents run around and do all the organizing and grunt work while republicans complain about how the help is underdressed.
Let it also be noted that I tried to be "ecumenical" at the gathering. As witnessed by many, I offered an embrace to Cobble. She spurned me. Others also avoided me.
YOU DID NOT! You said hello, I said hello, and you ran off somewhere, and I thought I might see you again later to say a proper hello, and then I heard that you'd left! So I say that you did not say a proper hello to ME!
"Let it also be noted that I tried to be "ecumenical" at the gathering. As witnessed by many, I offered an embrace to Cobble. She spurned me. Others also avoided me.
I tried."
True, benson was offering an olive branch the whole evening.
I'm usually very nice to benson, in person. I didn't want to get into it that night. And I've said many times to many people that he's very pleasant, friendly and nice, in person.
Cobble, wait, you've never met bfar before??? No, bfar is not the tall dude. He is around Andy's height & build - dude does look like a photographer, artist, etc (has that artist cool look)
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Hey bfar — say HELLO next time, would ya?! I'd love to meet you! I'm the tall old white lady with glasses.
i think he did say hello to everyone and talked for quite a bit. perhaps your death glares scared him. i sweat at one point i saw peacock feathers sprouting from your aura.
At one point I was speaking with one of your colleagues from the hedge fund. I said to him: "You realize that half the people in this room hate you?" He smiled.
cobble, since I'm not allowed to have mopar's real email address (her loss, frankly), if you do, will you please let her know that her coat is at Montero's, on a hanger in the kitchen to the right of the freezer. She can ask Alan or Andie or Pepe when she stops by, and they'll give it to her.
...CGar,
of course I didn't forget you were singing as well,
I only pointed out biff and slopefarm because of the Chomsky and Retake Wisonsin t-shirts!
You even got those people from the other party to join in on your side. lol
I just texted Mopar about her coat. She texted me late that night. I have her number b/c she finally read her emails and came over to pick up a table i promised her
oh crap. i was going to go pick up my train tickets at penn station tomorrow. i forgot tomorrow is st. patrick's day. i should probably do it on sunday right? my ID still hasnt come in the mail either grrr
HAAAAAAAAAAA legion!!! when i first got my dog i noticed he had 6 or 8 nipples too and because of that i was under the impression (for a number of years actually) that my dog was a hermaprhrodite cuz i didnt know male dogs could have that many nipples and a penis.
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You don't need an ID to pick up tickets you bought online if you get them printed at the QUICK TRAX machines, just the card you used to pay for them
wait, i need to use that debit card? i printed out some bar code thing, i thought all i had to do was scan the barcode in the blue machine and the tickets will print? also if i lose the tickets before my trip, can i print them out again?
Old Man, I'll withdraw my nasty to post to you - assuming you're correct, that is - but how did you know that's the Eagle's Washington bureau? And who knew it had one?!
Bronze medal in the "Jewish Olympics" apparently.
I have no idea whether that's impressive as I have no view on whether Jewish people are better than any other group at table tennis.
Well, and it sounds like, aside from possibly losing clients, recruiting may take a hit, as well. Per this article in Dealbook...
“The claim of investment banking that it serves a social purpose by ‘lubricating capitalism’ has eroded,” Professor Wiggins said. “It’s simply very difficult for young people to believe that they’re serving any social purpose now.”
"“I have no interest in working at Goldman,” he said. “I want to build something. I don’t want to be working in an industry that effectively leeches off other industries.”"
Banker's Trust was doing well until it was revealed that they evaluated clients by the R.O.F. - Rip Off Factor. Aggressive investors like it until they discover that they, too, are considered to be Muppets.
There is no objective standard of value. It is in the eye of the customer. If their clients believe that GS is providing something of value, they will continue to succeed. That's the beauty of capitalism and free markets.
...speaking of nipples,
I've always gotten a kick when I see my dog's underbelly.
He's got 8 nipples which you don't usually see on dogs because they have a lot of fur.
On my dog, however you can see them because he has very little fur underneath.
Talk about vestigial!
What use does a male dog have for 8 nipples?
looking at pics of blankfein, gary cohn, this smith guy --- Is bald head, shaved head the au courant fashion of GS - or all wall street? more important than the power tie these days?
"“The claim of investment banking that it serves a social purpose by ‘lubricating capitalism’ has eroded,” Professor Wiggins said. “It’s simply very difficult for young people to believe that they’re serving any social purpose now.”
I would have expected nothing less from someone who doesn't actually work in the industry but only teaches about it.
In fact we would not have companies being financed or going public without investment bankers.
I loved most of the people with whom I worked at GS, loved the work itself, and got amazing experience. But, I was very unimpressed by the firm once I was on the inside and surprised at how poorly its managed. And I am honestly not at all bitter about leaving there so that is my best objective opinion.
"I would have expected nothing less from someone who doesn't actually work in the industry but only teaches about it.
In fact we would not have companies being financed or going public without investment bankers."
You can say that, but the banks ignore it at their own peril. Pretty lame to fall back on the 'those that can, do..." old saw. If they cannot attract good talent, and the quants, etc. decide to 'go fish' elsewhere...
Yes, honest, hard-working people like plumbers never set their price by what they believe a customer will pay. Only the Princes of Darkness on Wall St. do that sort of thing.
"But, I was very unimpressed by the firm once I was on the inside and surprised at how poorly its managed."
I can say the same about the investment bank I worked for. Aside from my boss, who was that rare and exotic creature — a dream boss, the overall culture and management was bizarre, extremely bureaucratic, and frankly wasteful and inefficient.
Cobble, face reality. If GS and the others REALLY treated their customers that poorly, they wouldn't have any; yet they do, and are making a lot of money in that business.
Everyone on the sell side talks about the clients in many different ways. many of them are the butt of jokes and derision. It's just what goes on on a day-to-day basis.
I'm not supporting GS here but that guy's letter made no mention of specifics.
If clients think they are getting treated unfairly, there are other firms who will gladly accept them!!!
During my brief stint on the sell side doing Asian equity institutional sales, the best part of the day during all the boring downtime was talking about the clients. there are a lot of incompetent clients
"Everyone on the sell side talks about the clients in many different ways. many of them are the butt of jokes and derision. It's just what goes on on a day-to-day basis."
Exactly right, from someone who has been in sales for 15 years. My office had a running joke about one of our best customers for years. This customer had 90% of the power at the negotiating table. Our jokes were a way to blow off steam about the fact that the balance was in their favor.
Yes, benson. I have a friend who has a large property in Greenwich, CT and you can't imagine the prices he is charged by the trades. I can imagine what the trades say when they talk about the clients up there!!!!
how about that other kinda whistle-blower story , Schoolcraft I think the name is, from NYPD who bigger brass
escorted to psycho ward because was revealing alledged crime-stat minipulation?
"If GS and the others REALLY treated their customers that poorly, they wouldn't have any; yet they do, and are making a lot of money in that business."
I'm just saying that these discussions do raise questions, and the mere existence of these discussions/questions does have repercussions.
There was also a whistleblower letter sent to the CFTC yesterday from someone at JPMorgan about alleged wrongdoings in their dealings in the short silver market. It was not signed though
I just got an email from LL Bean about their Fly Fishing Sale. This would be another example of how the 1% spends their leisure time and something else for people to aspire to...
It would all depend on the context, Dave. If someone posted it as being funny, then I'd be all over them, but if they posted it as a topic for discussion, fine with me. These things need to be discussed, once in a while.
And, MM, as long as you've sauntered in, can I just say that I love your note to dave in Snappy's book. So nice to see that someone as educated and refined as yourself has, like the rest of us, been dragged into the gutter by dave.
That bumper sticker is one moron's opinion. To extend it to a larger group, like Cobble is trying to do, is what's really wrong here. There's no "our cause" here or there.
There is no place for that sort of nonsense in our important political debate.
If that bumper sticker is circulating in the Left-centered media, ask yourself if that same media reported this more real threat to our public officials:
The scenery is beautiful, Dave, but why anyone would want to stand hip deep in freezing mountain fed streams to feed the fish is beyond me. You 1%'ers are strange people.
no surprise that attitude exists - but is surprising that someone feels acceptable to display publicly.
is it person has so much vitriol or just thinks it is acceptable humor?
Legion, so what? One has nothing to do with the other. Finding left wing zealots talking crap does not justify right wing zealotry. Both need to dial it down big time. Obama certainly does not appreciate his name being mentioned in the same sentence as some nutball's rant. The guy is mentally ill. It's like blaming Jodie Foster for John Hinkley's assassination attempt on Reagan. It's not an indictment on the left, or Obama, or anything else. He's a nutball, plain and simple.
I'm off to the hedge fund lunch. We do in fact talk about GS in disparaging ways at times during these lunches. All though with an eye on whether or not we can make any money.
CGar, we have several months to find an appropriate song, and practice. I've noticed that numbers from musical theater don't come out too well for anyone involved.
MM,
you are attempting to have it both ways.
On the one hand you seek to discredit an entire party because some nameless individual put a dumb bumper sticker on his/her car.
On the other hand, the fact that an avowed supporter of Obama is threatening a Republican and his family has no relevance?
..huh?
There are nuts on both sides. period.
attempting to parlay that into a representation of the entire party on the Left or Right is obviously a tactic and not useful to move America forward.
For years, the left has been tearing into Republican women like chew toys.
Yet somehow, it never became a "war on women".
...actually, polling data shows that Americans themeselves are becoming immune to such blatant attempts at manipulation.
Good for America I say.
Let's talk about getting people to work.
And I don't mean by playing with the seasonally adjusted non-farm payrolls!
what a load of crap those numbers are.
Whatever cobble. Step back and listen to yourself. Condeming all the right because of one bumper sticker doesn't fit with your self imposed persona of an open !! Minded liberal
Ask yourselves a simple question:
Where you even aware that Maher and Shultz and Letterman had at one time or another called Republican women "sluts" or worse?
If not,
you will understand the depths to which you are living in the New York media bubble.
If you think it's justified,
put yourselves in the same category as that psycho I just posted about.
I agree that there are bigots all over. Undeniable.
However, that bumper sticker was squarely obviously and with ZERO doubt aimed at our president and the left. So...am I manufacturing something that isn't there? No. Where is it coming from. And why. Not too hard to figure out. Don't yell at me, go find that jackass with the bumper sticker and slash his tires or something!
I knew that about Schultz and Maher, not Letterman. I've always loathed Ed Schultz. I used to love Bill Maher, but not anymore - he's too knee-jerk and self-righteous for me.
Letterman yes.... that whole thing was big news.....Shultz - I never heard of him.
And still to even compare is major stretch ......saying something like she (and it could often be a he) is a media-whore
(when that person is public figure) and going on a tirade calling prostitute/ slut ---saying she wants us to pay her(non-public person) to have sex and then later says SHE SHOULD POST SEX VIDEOS ON INTERNET for everyone TO WATCH !
CGar -- hang up on that ear worm and try another number. Wilson Pickett: 634-5789. Or, the Marvelettes (I think): Beachwood 4 - 5789? Or: Pennsylvania 6-5000.
There is a gaggle of daffodils in my backyard now. I guess at some point I'll start thinking about what I am going to plant. Lillies coming up too.... Tomorrow St. Pats!! I'm going to the Bronx to do something tomorrow duing the day. Trying to figure out what combo of green to wear....
"MM,you are attempting to have it both ways.
On the one hand you seek to discredit an entire party because some nameless individual put a dumb bumper sticker on his/her car."
Legion, please show me where I said anything about Republicans when I posted the photo. Nor did I mention Republicans when I said that posting a link to some radical left wing nutball in defense of that bumper sticker did not justify either one. Stop projecting what you'd like me to be saying. I'm quite capable of saying it directly, but I did not.
Unlike you, I don't try the tit for tat, well, so-and-so did this, therefore..... as a justification for something "my" side did. Wrong is wrong.
Cobble Hill Park, which I took a quick scoot around last night, has some lovely daffodils blooming right now, but not nearly ENOUGH of them. I'd plant a several hundred more, if I were in charge, but I'm not. : (
MM,
You act like we haven't been arguing Left and Right in here for years!
In an election year, you post an offensive bumper sticker pointing to Obama's political opposition.
Ok, I'll take everything posted from now on, outside of the OT context.
Any mention of cats, for instance, will just be taken as an individual instance of feline affinity.
The fact that it happens 50 time a day will be ignored. ;o)
ugh really? we live in a seriously fucked up society if we can't secretly record people having sex without going to PRISON for it. wtf? first of all the room he was recording was HALF his room as well! so now some kid's life is ruined because he had a roommate who trolled for skanks on craiglist and and invited them over to a room that was both of theirs!?!?!? this sets an AWFUL precedent.
Actually very rude to use your Blackberry, iPhone, etc. when you're out in the company of others, especially at a restaurant. I have too much class to ever do something like that.
there is definitely no hidden camera in my apartment. i dont violate peoples privacy like that, that's not my deal. however im not going to deny i dont enjoy watching porn on the internet of people who didnt know they were being secretly recorded. they can be pretty lolzy
But it's ok if others have their privacy violated. Ok, now I'm just going to have to figure out how to have a camera hidden in your apt. I mean since you don't think it's a problem.
and someone would have be totally ignorant, naive, or just flat out dumb if they go to someones place they dont know and have sex with them that there is a 99% chance they are being recorded.
"someone would have be totally ignorant, naive, or just flat out dumb if they go to someones place they dont know and have sex with them that there is a 99% chance they are being recorded."
Oh? You don't expect privacy in your room/apt?
Perfect, then we have your approval to hide a camera in your room, and you won't mind. Fantastic! Hmm, maybe someone already has.
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But it's ok if others have their privacy violated. Ok, now I'm just going to have to figure out how to have a camera hidden in your apt. I mean since you don't think it's a problem.
lol. and that would be SUCH a fascinating video im sure. i was secretly videotaped once doing something nasty and found out about it right afterwards pretty easily, i was really angry about it for like 2 seconds then i got over it. i dont go and and off myself.
Sorry, *rob*, but I totally disagree with you. Total violation of privacy to record and play for others his roommate having sex, or doing anything else for that matter.
Well, if everyone reads every posting on any topic with a political connotation as another general GOP v. Dem final referendum, we will be perpetually at war with each other here. We globalize and escalate our debates (and grounds for taking offense) far too quickly (and I include me in that as well). If we keep this up, I'm setting the over/under for attendance at the first post-election PLUSA party at 3.
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Oh? You don't expect privacy in your room/apt?
of course i do. but i wouldnt expect it in someone elses apartment. you cant really trust anyone. especially in a skank hook up. which is why i dont DO such a thing.
The 'hook up' occurred in Clementi's DORM ROOM, idiot. The room he was paying 1/2 the rent for. Hence, expectation of PRIVACY. Which part of this story did you not understand, rob?
"I'm setting the over/under for attendance at the first post-election PLUSA party at 3."
I might come if one of the Dems buys the drinks.
That said both Canada and the UK have conservative govts so I may just try to be in one or other of them instead.
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The 'hook up' occurred in Clementi's DORM ROOM, idiot. The room he was paying 1/2 the rent for. Hence, expectation of PRIVACY. Which part of this story did you not understand, rob?
you're the fucking moron. i stated that it was a SHARED room. a SHARED room with beds across from each other. there is NO expectation of privacy in such a set up.
Whatever, rob. I can't discuss this with you any further, I'm too busy trying to figure out how to hide a camera in your shared home where you pay 1/2 the rent.
Slopey - Three? I infer from that that you think the GOP will win.
M4L - I didn't correct 'lillies' - very forebearing of me.
The guy was done for bullying as much as anything else: plus he lied by saying he was afraid his I-Pad would be stolen but the camera was not focussed on that.
*rob*, since I don't think you remotely believe what you're posting, I'm playing along for sport . . . the guy could've taped HIS half of the room and what HE was doing, but not his roommate's. Doesn't matter if it was a shared room.
No arkady, that's my estimate of how many liberals will be ambulatory then. We've got some trigger happy PLUSAs on both sides, so I factored in casualties.
Right, CGar, or his half of the day in the room. Could think of it as a time share. Dona has the right approach, though the wrong symbol for St. Pat's.
I feel bad for the Ravi guy. Crummy thing to do...but in college and at that age kids do lot of stupid things. (myself excluded).
lot of insecurities and naivate about sexuality. Some of his legal problem is also obstruction or covering up. No way to have imagined the horrible outcome.
I agree, Pete. It was a crummy and hurtful thing to do but it would probably not have been treated as a criminal matter, just a campus discliplinary matter and possible civil suit, without the suicide. We are still wrestling with what to do legally and culturally with social media's power of amplification.
im not saying it's immoral and a lousy thing to do. i just dont think it's a prison worthy offense. the fact his moronic closet case roommate killed himself over it should be totally irrelevant. like i said, this sets a horrible precedent.
Ok, you discuss the shamrock and 4 leaf clover as appropriate or inappropriate symbols and let me know what you come up with, . I have to meet someone downtown. Later...
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We are still wrestling with what to do legally and culturally with social media's power of amplification.
ugh. society has become one giant pussy these days. social media's power of amplification? ugh, barf.
coddle, coddle, coddle <--- should be our new national anthem
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"I often wonder how it is that I happen to be married to a gay republican, let's not bring up having sex with one! ; )" --
is this not what she wrote? does BH know you have a husband out there?
I often think I would like to be 20-something again. But then I talk to a 20-something and know that it's not always so great to be so young. I'm wishing I could do a vulcan mind meld with BH's daughter right now, and impart what little life knowledge I have to her and spare her some of this angst and pain she is experiencing.
"It was a crummy and hurtful thing to do but it would probably not have been treated as a criminal matter, just a campus discliplinary matter and possible civil suit, without the suicide. We are still wrestling with what to do legally and culturally with social media's power of amplification."
I agree completely. I also thought it was hardly fair that the third party in the this, the girl who testified against her friend, isn't sharing a cell with Ravi. He screwed up big time, but I hope some leniency is given, as he was young, extremely dumb, but aided and abetted by encouragement from her.
And I don't think the poor Clemente kid was a moron. Not everyone springs forth as gay as Paris in spring, fully accepting of themselves in a society that isn't exactly welcoming them with open arms. A lot of people take years and years to accept who they are. And not just gays, either. Life is hard for a lot of people. It's absolutely absurd to "expect" that you will be filmed in the privacy of your own room, in any kind of private act, including sex. No one expects that.
I don't understand why Ravi didn't take the plea that was offered in December where he would have avoided jail alltogether. Seems risk/reward was not part of equation or that Ravi doesn't really understand the ramifications of spying, lying and hiding.
because of the stigma involved with taking a plea deal. it still infers a bit of guilt in other peoples eyes. i wouldnt have taken the plea deal either. of course i wouldn't have gone to court either, i'd be in acupulco right now sipping on smurf juice with a brand new name and identity. he really should have skipped town, he was never much of a flight risk.
TEN YEARS IN PRISON FOR AN INNOCENT PRANK PEOPLE! cobble called me a moron earlier. ooooh now my little feelers are hurt. now if i go jump out the window does she deserve 10 years in prison!?
if you can't handle being gay, dont do gay shit like sucking on a strangers wang! the whole incident just makes gay people in general look like a bunch of cry babies. and i refuse to be lumped in with gay cry babies.
okay im sounding a tad too harsh. who knows what was going on his head, i guess i shouldnt be SO judgey, but i still think that's the harshest punishment ive EVER seen.
*rob*
Why are they keeping his identity a secret? Ravi faced charges and was found guilty of crimes toward this person. Why is he being protected? Maybe if he wasn't creeping teenagers this would have turned out differently. Ravi was dumb, very dumb, but I really feel for him. I'm sorry, he's a kid. I have one a few years younger, and its scary sometimes the way they just don't think of consequences.
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Why are they keeping his identity a secret? Ravi faced charges and was found guilty of crimes toward this person. Why is he being protected? Maybe if he wasn't creeping teenagers this would have turned out differently. Ravi was dumb, very dumb, but I really feel for him. I'm sorry, he's a kid. I have one a few years younger, and its scary sometimes the way they just don't think of consequences.
EXACTLY! i can guarantee you the other persons identity was not revealed or not pictures cuz most likely the dude was a borderline pedophile (yes 18 is an adult) but it's still gross from old men are into that. and from the descriptions of the guy he sounded like a gross old pervert and clementi killed himself cuz he felt like he was going to die of embarrassment anyway because of who he was sucking off
Being filmed performing a sex act is hardly an innocent prank. I don't think there are too many of us who would be cool with that if it happened to us. Especially when you are barely able to admit to yourself that you are gay. Then to have it spread all over the internet and have everyone on campus know about it? As a teenager, I might have been on the bridge myself.
Moral of the story, it is never all right to film other people without their consent or knowledge. I don't care how popular You-tube is, or how "everyone" is doing it, or that modern society expects every act to be recorded. That is pure bs. Our privacy is eroding more every day. We don't have to willingly participate in further erosion. Also, bullying and ganging up on people who are weaker than you, both physically and emotionally, is cruel and unworthy.
i completely agree, it IS morally a horrible thing to do to someone. but this was just a live stream of HIS OWN DORM ROOM! one should have the right to videotape their own BEDROOM. it's not his fault colleges are stupid and put two single men in a room who dont know each other. blame the college for that idiotic practice. sorry but the punishment doesnt fit the crime, and then they tried to make it a bias incident. :-/ please, he would have done it if his roommate was sleeping with a chick as well.
TC was comfortable enough with his sexuality that he brought a 32 year old man into his dorm room approximately 2 weeks into his freshman year. Did he sneek him in to be sure no one saw them? I sound like I'm blaming the victim, but I am not, I just don't believe the suicide was because of the steaming of the video, and, I was glad Ravi wasn't charged as such, but I think it still effected the outcome.
"colleges are stupid and put two single men in a room who dont know each other."
I do agree with that (although do they get the option not to share via paying more or living out if they don't want to share?).
Very glad my college was all single rooms.
Yes, 32. I don't understand why he's being protected. Apparently, and I only heard this today, after TC saw the camera on, they shut is off and continued what they started.
no, we didnt really get the option of single rooms. tho some people lucked here and there. my freshman year roommate was AWFUL. but he disappeared (LITERALLY), eloped with his girlfriend (that he met on ther internet. i was asked all kinds of stupid questions. i was like how the fuck do i know the kid didnt say a SINGLE word to me the first two months living together. akward! my sophomore year roommate was an AWFUL wannabe-hippie moonface. i came home one night all ready to study for an exam the next morning and there were like 10 of his smelly ilk all SITTING ON MY BED WITH THEIR DIRTY ASSES blitzed out of their mind listening to some god awful 60s music. guh-ROSS.
then junior year i roommed with krazy. we stopped being friends when i showed a girl on my floor his sketchpad (he drew naked pictures of almost all the chicks on our floor) they were innocent pictures, but creepy none the less because they all had pepsi cans in their hands in the drawings. then moved off campus and finally had fun roommates for a while. sadly i decided to stay there after the others graduated and invited a new set of freaks in and that was too much drama rama
Don't think it's a student visa.
Basically if you are found guilty of something serious enough and you are not a citizen you can be deported. Green Card holders can be deported for felonies.
Pretty sure it's not automatic though - separate hearing & done case-by-case I think.
He is here on a green card. His father had a technology job for which he got a visa and then permanent status. Anyone with a green card convicted of a felony is deported (after the prison sentence, although sometimes they work it out with the other country).
Like I said, I heard alot today, I haven't been following that closely. I heard he could face deportation, and, one of the media folks said today, 5 seconds of streaming, then they did have relations afterward. Just repeating what I heard, just chatting you guys up. Please don't call me a moron.
actually if he has to spend his 10 years here in the US in prison, and then get deported to India, most likely he will be going from from the third world to the new first world. 10 years from now america will certainly have been circling it's final spin down the toilet, no?
If he gets real jail time, they better build more prisons because this will set a precedent (which I believe is the point). If they make an example of him because of the nature of the crime, courts are going to be very, very busy. Just my opinion.
One fact you're overlooking in your argument: after he was filmed the first time, and found out about it, Clemente asked Ravi if he could use the room again for another hook-up. Prior to starting the act, Clemente spent 1/2 hour scouring the room to make sure there were no hidden webcams. Hence, it is arguable how much he was affected by being filmed in the act. Having the film going viral on the campus may have done more damage to his psyche.
Yes, of course, Pete, one can't be in the room, but one can speak up and talk to kids in a good positive way and let them know serious consequences are attached.
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so what would you do/say if your offspring away at college says bringing home boyfriend/girlfriend for the wkend?
i would say that's fine, but the guest has to use the bathroom down the block at the mcdonalds, or a gas station, or whereever. if they have a problem with that i would insist that i check their genitals for crabs or infectious diseases before sleeping in my house or sitting on my toilet
I would say: I'm paying for this college and this house and am not paying for you to have sex. you slut. that makes your a prostitute. and me paying for you to have sex makes me what...a john, a pimp? fine, if want to have sex why don't you tape and post on internet for everyone to watch.
then I would say I'm sorry, kinda.
Precisely! : P It could be a real send up of Park Slope Parenting, which we all know rob loves so...
Chapter 16: On the correct use of strollers: When to yank your ugly crotchfruit out of the stroller and teach the little overly pampered jerk to walk! (Hint: Before College)
I've actually seen that happen in real life, Pete. It's never pretty. But one woman I know, who married a much older man (30 yrs. age diff.) has navigated the situation exceptionally well. That said, now he's almost 93, and it's kinda difficult for her to have a life.
Folks follow the ups and down of the price of oil religiously. Folks and politicians get bent out of shape if it hits $4.00 a gallon, for a product that has to be extracted from the earth, transported halfway around the world, refined, and then distributed to your local gas station.
At the same time, a can of Benjamin Moore Paint, manufactured in Harrison, NJ, costs $31/gallon, and no one makes a stink.
Benson and DIBS, you can still find sales of Coke for .99 for a 2-liter bottle. That's the price it was on sale 20 years ago when I lived in Park Slope.
The sales are a little harder to find but it's two 2-liter bottles for $3 at Pathmark this week.
Dharun Ravi grew up in Plainsboro, New Jersey, in a large, modern house with wide expanses of wood flooring and a swimming pool out back. Assertive and athletic, he used “DHARUNISAWESOME” as a computer password and played on an Ultimate Frisbee team. At the time of his high-school graduation, in 2010, his parents bought space in the West Windsor and Plainsboro High School North yearbook. “Dear Dharun, It has been a pleasure watching you grow into a caring and responsible person,” the announcement said. “You are a wonderful son and brother. . . . Keep up your good work. Hold on to your dreams and always strive to achieve your goals. We know that you will succeed.”
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I buy the 16oz ones. plain. I prefer fage over chobani but market upstate charges $4.99 for fage whereas Met is $3.99.
Both are made upstate Newyork. Helping NY industry.
My freshman college roommate was a closeted gay; he told me once I was the best friend he had ever had, the best compliment anyone has ever paid me in my life. There are still a lot of Internet crimes yet to have their signature case; for me the absolute worst was the Missouri girl who was tricked into thinking a handsome boy had rejected her, when the boy's whole social media was a revenge plot by someone. That is horrifying.
" i think SodaStream is the company I'm thinking about"
It's super popular, and I just watched the demo—it seems great. It could work for us, but I'd have to buy extra bottles. BH can go through 2 liters a day.
I just went to Bark to watch Vermont lose to UNC. Out of 4 main tables with 8 seats each, I moved 6 times. The sixth was so this group could sit together. Eight of them entered, and moved to the table where two were seated. Sizing up the problem, I moved across an aisle. "Oh you don't need to move! There's enough seats!"
"I was snowboarding in the Alps," I overheard one say. "Then I took a side route to Poland. We spent the holidays in Krakow. My friend had never met her father's family."
Later she complained of the security paid to snowboard carriers in international airlines.
There was someone else at their table who was Tool personified but I will refrain from describing it. Earlier a gaggle of kids came in with their parents; they were falling all over themselves to not be obtrusive.
I'm in Bark all the time - only 50 steps from my place - but that was a signal change.
Actually, I lied DIBS. I do have a home seltzer bottle/maker like this, but it won't fit in the fridge, it's too big. And it's difficult to clean because the neck is so small.
I remember being quite embarrassed back in college....roommate, his girlfriend and maybe another guy kinda joking, laughing...apparently they musta walked in room one night when I was sound asleep and I had hardon and sheet had fallen off.
today kids probably would have taken out cell phone and gotten pictures.
He wrote me a letter after his freshman crush was inconsolable from being rejected, someone more ok with us getting hammered ever weekend (my roommate never drank), and it was obvious why. He showed me the various cumstains. "He had his eyes closed," the rejectee said, and everyone who had had sex already nodded in understanding - you only did that with a fling you cared nothing about, they told me.
One of my very best friends growing up was in the closet until he was nearly 30. Of course, we all knew he was gay growing up. It just took him a little longer than us to accept.
"today kids probably would have taken out cell phone and gotten pictures."
No doubt, Pete. A little scary to think about. I can imagine some events in my life that might have ended up 'documented' for posterity, which I would rather not remember.
Infinite: TMI. I do not need to hear about cumstains.
I don't understand last scenario, IJ. your roommate had a freshman crush on some guy and then what? guy rejected your roommate? roommate rejected the crush? whose eyes were closed and whose cumstain?
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I know a couple who started a fancy paint company. One of those no/low fumes, whatever paints. They're rich and famous now.
moronic. the fumes are the BEST part of painting! i love the smell of a freshly painted room. i nearly did pass out once painting a room entirely in spray paint, and two of my roommates were ready to throw me out (this was up in harlem). they claimed the smell permeated the entire 5 bedroom apartment for WEEEKS :-/
ROFL! I dunno, it just struck me as a gross detail better left out! I'm even questioning someone showing someone not involved in the act a thing like that!
My roommate and this guy were both closeted, and both in our circle. They slept together, my roommate rejected the guy, and then every beer/pot party for the next six months was the rejectee crying how he could win him back. In disbelief I was like, my roommate had sex with you? "Yes!" he said. "I'll show you." I then asked me roommate if it was true and he inserted a letter into my luggage before the Thanksgiving break, saying "I don't want to lose the best friend I've ever had." I quickly assured him he would not.
I'm friends with both on Facebook now, water under the bridge.
"In disbelief I was like, my roommate had sex with you?" gee IJ, that was low blow to rejects deflated ego. Had sex with YOU?
(I guess your roommate washed his sheets as often as cobble does).
Tell us a happy ending. they are both happily married now.
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"I don't want to lose the best friend I've ever had." I quickly assured him he would not.
barf, he sounded mad needy. who says that kinda shit? well other than closeted gays i guess. personally i was never in the closet. people asked all the time, people assumed, people accused, people made fun, people joked. i grew up watching porn and i liked all the sexual organs of both genders. i had just as many girl crushes as boy crushes. never thought i was bisexual though because it never crossed my mind people were anything. my grandparents totally knew, well honestly, everyone knew. i never internalized gay jokes and anti gay remarks, even hearing them in passing of people talking about other people. got to college and all of a sudden started attracting WAY too many fruitflies (the nicer term for fag hags).i enjoyed being gay for a while, then i totally grew out of it a few years ago. it happens. i still have a nutso libido tho, so that's not the issue. i just not can';t be 100% who i am even within the first second of meeting someone, and too much of dating and potential partner finding is hiding way too many aspects of yourself and molding yourself to fit in their worldview. i can't be asked! at least not now at 35. but i am not totally so averse and closed off to any possibilities of finding a boyfriend, it would just have to randomly happen, i refuse to put any kind of concerted effort into such a thing.
Infinite, so was it college when you first noticed friends having sex?
My friends and I were having sex as young as about 16/17/18. But really, all my friends were experimenting really young. Including the gay or gay-curious ones. Maybe it's just that we were city kids or in pretty socially liberal families. I started sleeping with a boy around the corner at 17, and my parents didn't love it, but they allowed it. His parents were surprisingly ok with it. I guess they were happy enough that they knew where we were.
My junior year I ran into my roommate on the street in Burlington, we went for some dinner spontaneously. He told me he'd just had sex with two guys, one of which held him by the throat the whole time. My roommate seemed quite alarmed by the whole experience.
Our senior year, after we graduated, we met again (Vermont is a large school). We again decided to go out, to lunch this time. He was in the midst of seeking a corporate job - he is conservative. I was hoping to go to grad school.. We went to some random bar but neither of us drank. All I could think about was the cosmically large distance we had both traveled in 4 short years, and how mature we both were. We had nothing in common anymore and yet a shared history and that was enough. When the check came, we both only had $20s. We laughed at that.
ew at all yalls cummy sheets :-/ this is why i love sleeping on a bare leather black couch. tho honestly i dont think that couch has ever seen a drop of cum (at least not from me, who knows about the last owners). but if it would at least you can wipe it off with a clorox wet nap and not have to wash your clothes are be embarrassed of someone seeing cum stains on your sheets that's nasty. when i first got my dog he was humping my pillow ALL the time, it was so gross constantly changing the pillow cases, and at the time i slept on a raft but had sheets on the raft, i eventually just stopped using pillows and stopped putting sheets on the stupid raft, until he finally broke the raft and i was sleeping on astroturf (my apartment was astroturfed). ugh how the hell did i live that way for like 4 years!? that's another thing, when youre 24 you can bring someone home and people will find it funny your living set up, but fast forward 10 years and eh, people find it creepy or sad. i was dating this one guy for a few months or so when i first moved here and i lied and said my leather couch opened up and had a bed inside.) even THAT has to be sad and creepy even if it's true, which it totally wasn't. i wound up dumping him because a neighbor in this building who moved to england was like omg, seriously you could do SOOOOOOOOOO much better. and then i never did any better hahahah, but i kind of agreed with her. i think what she said gave me good reason to dump him but around the same time he casually brought up he smoked meth and tried to get me to do it and i was like oh helllls no. i really should have known by his teeth. he didnt have full meth mouth, but there those teeth should have been a total red flag. (the thing is i like imperfect teeth and do not like super white teeth on other people so maybe i wasnt paying too much attention). that person who got me to break up him probably did me a favor... im sort of a really bad judge of character. oh yeah and he completely LIED about his age the whole time by about 5 years :-/ how long do people think they can get away with that anyway and not eventually be found out!?!?
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I started sleeping with a boy around the corner at 17, and my parents didn't love it, but they allowed it.
omg LOL only chickenheads sleep with guys who live around the corner from them. wtf? you didnt have a metrocard!? (or subway tokens?) sorry if im assuming you were a chickenhead if the subway wasnt even around back then. i guess then i could consider sleeping with someone around the corner okay. ha, funny my ex the one i was with the longest when i first met him he lived in chinatown and i lived on the LES and then after like 4 months he moved right around the corner too to rivington street and i was on ludlow street, so i guess i was a bit of a chickenhead myself!
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We went to some random bar but neither of us drank. All I could think about was the cosmically large distance we had both traveled in 4 short years, and how mature we both were. We had nothing in common anymore and yet a shared history and that was enough. When the check came, we both only had $20s. We laughed at that.
now your old enuf to be a chicken hawk. You already admitted that age is important to you.
"yeah and he completely LIED about his age the whole time by about 5 years :-/ how long do people think they can get away with that anyway and not eventually be found out!?!?"
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now your old enuf to be a chicken hawk. You already admitted that age is important to you.
"yeah and he completely LIED about his age the whole time by about 5 years :-/ how long do people think they can get away with that anyway and not eventually be found out!?!?"
even if he stated how old he was when we first met i wouldnt have had an issue with it. i dont really have an issue with age and ive always really only been attracted to people plus or minus 5 years of my own.. it's been pretty steady throughout my entire life that way. i was 31 and he said he was 34 but turns out he was 38. i wouldnt havent had a problem with that, but just find it strange people lie about their age. i can understand if it's people who met with the sole intention of a one night random hookup via the internet. but we didnt meet that way. it was thru another ex bf of mine who was in nyc and invited me out and we wound up sitting with these other dudes and i guess now that i think about it, maybe i do understand why people would lie about their age. the place this was at was mega gay, like drag queeny gay. it wasnt drag queen bingo, but it was similar, i wanna say drag queens doing stand up or something. still, we were friends for a bit before hand, why lie about age right off the bat like that?
I always like older women though.
Growing up in East New York there were still old ladies around from the burlesque days in the 50's or something.
I remember one showing me her photo all done up in black and white.
That kind of scared me at first but then I was like, you know, boobs look good in black and white too.
oh jeez i just called my friend krazey to see what time he is coming over and his mom picked up lol (yes he still lives with his mom and he's 35). she said he was on his way and im like oh sorry i thought this was his own phone line and she LAUGHED hahahaha and said he left on his way here about 10 minutes ago. oh man, i hope im not judged by the company i keep
"CHiller - I have an ISI siphon I've used for 30 years & it's still functioning well. A whole lot cheaper than that other one."
Oh, and they're very cute and small enough to fit in the fridge, I see. I could get two or three of those. BH likes his seltzer cold (not on ice). Hmm. Must ponder. Thanks for mentioning!
my "first" i guess if you wanna call it that (it was just me getting a blow job), but this guys mom walked in on us cuz i guess she heard talking (yes i babble incessantly when getting blown.. cuz i dont find blow jobs all that fun). she bugged out, called his dad to come upstairs, and then they kicked me out. i was in the middle of some suburb in new jersey and it was pitch black and i was like oh wtf am i gonna do now!? this was pre cell phone days for the most part. i was sitting at the end of some other houses driveway trying to figure out what to do and he wound up finding me half an hour later and was like let's just go back to your dorm :-/ this was when i was living with the hippie, so it wouldnt have been a problem (i did see him wake up with random skanks in his bed, never cared about that much... one of the skanks i recognized in a group therapy session years later tho hahahah). i was kinda grossed out cuz it was a single bed and i didnt want him sleeping in bed with me so i slept on the floor. i was scheduled to go to the mall the next saturday afternoon (he was STILL lingering around) with my faghag fruitfly girls and i was like ugh fine you can come if you want. they ALL MADE FUN OF ME! and they were not even sly about it. it was very mean girls and i was completely embarrassed. he was really ugly, but i liked his taste in music, but not enough to ever wanna get blown by him again so i ended that. we did hang out many times after that. somehow i got tricked into babysitting 3 white trash children in some random suburb while him and his friend (the mom who was like 21 seriously) went out. i was like omg wtfffffffff?
okay, gonna go now, i dont like dredging this shit up that i havent thought about in years.
chickenhead 2437 up, 546 down
1. a female who likes cock
2. a female who likes giving head, bobbing up and down like a chicken
3. a dance move
not to be confused with "chickens," or chicks, which is not a deragatory term
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2. chickenhead 1279 up, 448 down
Usually a female, who likes to give oral sex. The word chickenhead comes from the movement that the females head makes while performing oral sex.
Lots of guys like chickenheads because they don't even have to be in a relationship with them to get their dicks sucked.
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A) A felacious woman.
A chickenhead, you can find one anywhere, on in the hood, on the street. It's a bird that you take home and wear out.
Rob, on Amtrak again. Not in quiet yet nobody is talking. The good news is that the Amtrak lounge is now open to all Amtrak ticketed passengers so if u arrive early, you can at least have a proper seat while you wait
i didn't say it was. yeah, im sure it was all romantic with sticky glow in the dark ceiling stars, and zimas, and 80s new wave playing in the background or something :-/ sorry, but sucking dick, i find, to be, well, eh, something i do not like to do or to get. me personally i only like fucking (not getting fucked) and making out and i like getting massages and having my back and ears scratched. occassionally i'll kick it up a notch and get rough. (non sexually rough... im talking like just beating each other up in a non domestic violence kinda way where both parties approve and laughing is involved the whole time).
oh that's good to know jessi, thanks!!!!! i was thinking about renting a cheap motel room in times square the night before i have to leave. (something under 99 a night!? is that possible?) so all i have to do is walk to penn station to make my 6.15 am train. does anyone know anyone who lives in the penn station area who's apartment i can sleep in that night before my trip? i feel like im not going to be able to get to sleep the night before a 615 am booking in penn station.... and i want to be there a few hours a head of time in case of any problems. ugh. i guess i can sleep the whole way on the train there, but that would really ruin the trip since the only part of the trip im looking forward to is the train ride and the scenery and the partying in the aisles.
i feel like i picked a really stupid departure time, not only that, but at 330 the day before my trip im getting my permanent crown on my tooth. too much drama packed into 24 hours like that doesnt work with my mellow aquarian nature :(
"was all romantic with sticky glow in the dark ceiling stars, and zimas, and 80s new wave playing in the background or something :-/ sorry"
It was cozy, only there weren't glow in the dark stars, just black light posters, street lights or candles. And it wasn't Zimas, it was vodka or beer & pot, and it wasn't 80s new age, since that hadn't been invented yet in the 70s, it was jazz fusion or rock.
I wonder what santorum will do once his wife goes through menopause. If he can only bone to procreate he's gonna be in trouble. Bible written for a time when people didnt live too long.
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What's the average age for dudes to stop getting boners?
like spontaneous ones? i have no idea, i never got a spontaneous one before. when around someone a man finds sexually attractive i'd imagine very easily when it comes to closeness? probably well into their 40s? viagra was made for men in the 50s and up. most erectile dysfunction at any age before 50 is usually psychologically related. seriously ladies, if you are making out with a guy under 50 and he doesnt get an erection within a few minutes, he's not into you or has serious mental blocks involving the two of you. obviously there can be medical conditions involved, but what woman wants to be with a limp dick under 50 years old!? id imagine the sexual corollary for woman is a dry vagina and inverted nipples? id be offended if i was shagging the sahara and reaching up and finding valleys instead of mountains kindaa thing, but women can at least get away with their sexual deprowessness, but that comes at a price since most likely they have no more eggs or a wack uterus. i think men still produce sperm til they die (guh-ROSS!). so if you can get the dick "working" the game is good to go, you cant say the same for women, which is why so many men trade in for younger chicks. i dont envy straight women, that sucks. but 85% of straight men are the same, they are always looking for ass and dick that is barely legal as well. i guess it's a guy thing. deal with it or move to the mythical island of Lesbos
i bet the rents are real cheap down there!
*rob*
Well, I can see the conversation went south post the shamrock/ 4 leaf clover discussion. I am wearing a green silk jacket and kelly green duppioni silk scarf tomorrow. I have a seminar thing tomorrow day and then going out in the pm, dressed in green.
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I just don't understand people like Santorum. They seem to spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about other people's sex lives.
agreeance. it's fucking creepy as hell. i thought republicans were all about staying out of peoples businesses and personal lives? i do agree with them on financial levels, but yeah dudes, good luck (any of them) getting someone like me to decide to vote. they are cutting their noses off despite something (i dont know how the quote goes) but totally weird. however, lots of theories going down that 2012 *IS* when the NWO is taking over anyway, so i think it's possible (out there duh...) that all these repub candidates are just pawns and stuff for the NWO. there is no real republican party, there never could be, everyone is in bed with each other.. we're rubbing BRIC's nipples right now!
donna that sounds great!!!! tomorrow i have a green outfit picked out as well, and still have two CLEAR contact lenses!!! the only day of the year i show off my real eye color (puke green) is on st. patrick's day.
So Dr S-H, do men over 50 who need Viagra still get horny and need the pill to get the sails up or is ED at that age tied to no longer having sexual desire?
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And Dr. Smurf-Hoodlum's next book after the Sex Ed for Teens, and the Parenting book will be on Middle-aged/Senior's sex lives.
you are mocking me totally, and i get it, but i dont get that my outlook is even anywhere slightly off the cuff. i know almost everyone in this board cuz of that brownstoner website, but why was i even ON that website to begin with? i wasnt trolling, ive never trolled. i do have a tendency to wind up in places where im an ill-fit. (i argued in a paper against the goodness-of-fit model of psychotherapy and psychology in general back in the day and got an A! my professor said it was, um, A-worthy.) granted everyone but the one chick who never came to class cuz she said she had brain cancer got an A, it most likely doesnt mean much, but still.. i have my outlook on life, as do all of you. which is why i could NEVER post on brownstoner again, omg that has turn into one giant uber-gentrification let's raise the rent, omg my house is gonna be worth a gazillion dollars in a year, circle jerk! at least in the OT when it existed over there, some of you were not that bad.
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So Dr S-H, do men over 50 who need Viagra still get horny and need the pill to get the sails up or is ED at that age tied to no longer having sexual desire?
i think it's literally a physiological thing just to get hard. i think the old men who take viagra literally wanna fuck their wives/girlfriends/mistresses, but just cant get it up. if im wrong about that, tell me, i dont know. lots of gays like to mix viagra and meth :-/ cuz smoking meth gives people meth dick. but then they fuck for hours and hours and hours and they just wind up passing each other diseases cuz the meth makes them not wanna wear a condom. guh-ROSS gay people!
anyway, im gonna go take a shower with my lady soap now. g'nite
50 is not a virility Rubicon, for heaven's sake! At least not in all men - or even many. Even into later years, if the mind is willing the flesh is usually accomodating.
krazy is here and is watching old school episodes of batman with my roommate and his boyfriend, and Duke. i had to come back into my room. i cant be asked :-/ i hate that show
Note that our three Republicans (myself, DIBS and Legion) came dressed smartly in a sport jacket. (Lech is excused because he was running).
On the other hand, some of our lefties here came dressed in a T-shirt with a bumper-sticker slogan ("Team Chomsky", "Reclaim Wisconsin").
Republicans: we're just so much classier!
I haven't had my coffee yet, so do not f*ck with me!
:-P
Rather *rob* like wouldn't you all agree???????
1. What part of "dive bar" don't republicans understand?
2. I consider it classy to take a shower after exercising before attending a party. Apparently, not all of you republicans feel the same way.
I made my own coffee, and it turned out very well! And it's not *rob* like, I know how to find the damn beans, grinder and mugs in my own damn kitchen!
And, of course, the award for best undressed goes to a certain cake.
Typical Republican rationalization.
I gave Biff the Team Chomsky t-shirt, benson, so now I'm offended and not speaking to you.
Mother was right that wee need to keep the silver locked up. what with all these irish about.
1. All that dick had to be balanced out
2. Well, I have cleavage even in a turtleneck.
I was a well dressed Independent, ya jackasses!
*rob*
*rob*
*rob*
there's other things you three have in common that might explain the "smart" dress
that's how credit card companies make money.
*Legal rights in NYC dog runs
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Any lawyers or well-informed dog owners out there? I've got an important question.
I have a very social dog here in Manhattan and unfortunately I have to take her to the dog run. Not having canine interaction would make her wither and die. And 99% of the time, the dog run is a positive experience.
So now here's the question, what are your rights when a dog consistently attacks yours after you've brought it to the attention of the owner? I recently stopped playing nice and have started going after the dogs myself to protect mine. But I want to make sure that I'm not going to get hit with charges for animal cruelty. Am I within my legal rights to attack a dog that is attacking mine? I've learned the hard way not to expect the aggressive dog's owner to break it up and am fairly liberal with my punches and kicks these days. Luckily it's a very small subsection of the population I'm talking about, but it only takes one bad apples as they say.
I want to make it 100% clear: not going to the dog park is not an option, so please don't let this discussion evolve into a pros and cons of dog parks more generally. All I want to know is can I legally kick a dog that is dragging mine by the neck across the asphalt?
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*rob*
Aspire, my good man, aspire.
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Any lawyers or well-informed dog owners out there? I've got an important question.
I have a very social dog here in Manhattan and unfortunately I have to take her to the dog run. Not having canine interaction would make her wither and die. And 99% of the time, the dog run is a positive experience.
So now here's the question, what are your rights when a dog consistently attacks yours after you've brought it to the attention of the owner? I recently stopped playing nice and have started going after the dogs myself to protect mine. But I want to make sure that I'm not going to get hit with charges for animal cruelty. Am I within my legal rights to attack a dog that is attacking mine? I've learned the hard way not to expect the aggressive dog's owner to break it up and am fairly liberal with my punches and kicks these days. Luckily it's a very small subsection of the population I'm talking about, but it only takes one bad apples as they say.
I want to make it 100% clear: not going to the dog park is not an option, so please don't let this discussion evolve into a pros and cons of dog parks more generally. All I want to know is can I legally kick a dog that is dragging mine by the neck across the asphalt?
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"Republicans: we're just so much classier!"
OK, two final points on blazer-gate:
1. This round of "class" warfare started on the GOP side.
2. Typical, dems and independents run around and do all the organizing and grunt work while republicans complain about how the help is underdressed.
I rather like the inspirational messages you're giving the folks here.
I tried.
I offered an embrace to Cobble. She spurned me.
lol. i got a death glare from her. i was thought, wtf, are we on the set of Gossip Girl?!
*rob*
M4L, Thank you, dear, I could have used the compliment! At (almost) 50, they come fewer and further apart!
YOU DID NOT! You said hello, I said hello, and you ran off somewhere, and I thought I might see you again later to say a proper hello, and then I heard that you'd left! So I say that you did not say a proper hello to ME!
How come I didn't see *rob* at Montero's?
In the spirit of unity, let me say that it was fun singing "8675309" with slopefarm and biff,
even with the Team Chomsky and Wisconsin T-shirts!
I tried."
True, benson was offering an olive branch the whole evening.
Aha! I knew it.
that she actually has a charming New York accent!
dibs, as promised, I will bring some cigars next time.
*rob*
http://www.sadanduseless.com/2012/01/famous-paintings-improved-by-cats/#qZizJC8V2Qb5KImP.01
Hey bfar — say HELLO next time, would ya?! I'd love to meet you! I'm the tall old white lady with glasses.
And Arkady was also dressed in a t-shirt that I gave her, and looked like the hot Puma that she is.
I laughed when they announced arkady as "the Puma"
Hey bfar — say HELLO next time, would ya?! I'd love to meet you! I'm the tall old white lady with glasses.
i think he did say hello to everyone and talked for quite a bit. perhaps your death glares scared him. i sweat at one point i saw peacock feathers sprouting from your aura.
*rob*
Says the man photographed munching on balls!
At one point I was speaking with one of your colleagues from the hedge fund. I said to him: "You realize that half the people in this room hate you?" He smiled.
I didn't enjoy singing 8675309 with you either Legion.
That was also part of my ecumenical effort!
I hate that photo. My mouth is open and I look like a total slob.
Keep 'em coming, people! Brownies are in the mail!
of course I didn't forget you were singing as well,
I only pointed out biff and slopefarm because of the Chomsky and Retake Wisonsin t-shirts!
You even got those people from the other party to join in on your side. lol
Only cuz you were too busy ogling jackal.
http://blogs.wsj.com/runway/2012/03/15/michelle-obama-wears-marchesa-to-the-white-house-state-dinner/tab/slideshow/
slide 13
You probably didn't see me because I'm vertically challenged, Legion.
every time I see another photo of myself I seem to be shrinking in stature but widening in girth!
I don't want any purple nurples though. :o(
*rob*
out to LI anytime tomorrow evening.
So far it hasn't done nearly the damage that jessi's sweater did
*rob*
You don't need an ID to pick up tickets you bought online if you get them printed at the QUICK TRAX machines, just the card you used to pay for them
wait, i need to use that debit card? i printed out some bar code thing, i thought all i had to do was scan the barcode in the blue machine and the tickets will print? also if i lose the tickets before my trip, can i print them out again?
*rob*
Yes, dh, we discussed that yesterday. Please try and keep up
http://www.shorpy.com/node/5126
He must've been there.
Rob sums it up nicely.
Bronze medal in the "Jewish Olympics" apparently.
I have no idea whether that's impressive as I have no view on whether Jewish people are better than any other group at table tennis.
Unlikely: 1) he wasn't that senior 2) average banking comp very much inflated by a small number of people at the top.
“The claim of investment banking that it serves a social purpose by ‘lubricating capitalism’ has eroded,” Professor Wiggins said. “It’s simply very difficult for young people to believe that they’re serving any social purpose now.”
"“I have no interest in working at Goldman,” he said. “I want to build something. I don’t want to be working in an industry that effectively leeches off other industries.”"
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/03/15/wall-streets-latest-recruiting-crisis-on-campuses/
I've always gotten a kick when I see my dog's underbelly.
He's got 8 nipples which you don't usually see on dogs because they have a lot of fur.
On my dog, however you can see them because he has very little fur underneath.
Talk about vestigial!
What use does a male dog have for 8 nipples?
I would have expected nothing less from someone who doesn't actually work in the industry but only teaches about it.
In fact we would not have companies being financed or going public without investment bankers.
I was thinking earlier that same was true about the cock, I mean cake! : P
*rob*
Yes. My dog has eight nipples, a penis and no nuts
but he's definitely male.
In fact we would not have companies being financed or going public without investment bankers."
You can say that, but the banks ignore it at their own peril. Pretty lame to fall back on the 'those that can, do..." old saw. If they cannot attract good talent, and the quants, etc. decide to 'go fish' elsewhere...
I can say the same about the investment bank I worked for. Aside from my boss, who was that rare and exotic creature — a dream boss, the overall culture and management was bizarre, extremely bureaucratic, and frankly wasteful and inefficient.
Everyone on the sell side talks about the clients in many different ways. many of them are the butt of jokes and derision. It's just what goes on on a day-to-day basis.
I'm not supporting GS here but that guy's letter made no mention of specifics.
If clients think they are getting treated unfairly, there are other firms who will gladly accept them!!!
*rob*
Exactly right, from someone who has been in sales for 15 years. My office had a running joke about one of our best customers for years. This customer had 90% of the power at the negotiating table. Our jokes were a way to blow off steam about the fact that the balance was in their favor.
I always thought you were on the buy side when you did Asians???
escorted to psycho ward because was revealing alledged crime-stat minipulation?
Dibs - is that the science project you worked on?
I'm just saying that these discussions do raise questions, and the mere existence of these discussions/questions does have repercussions.
Yeah, sure, but only because it would afford you more brownies!! ; )
Please, someone try to justify this:
http://comments.cftc.gov/PublicComments/ViewComment.aspx?id=57019&SearchText
I'd be very content with 1/5th of that!
At most levels, Goldman pays no differently than any of the other banks.
Yes, as I said regarding the recent debacles against women's issues...let them keep showing their true selves. It can only help to serve our cause.
http://www.llbean.com/llb/shop/511038?qei=463732403&qs=3057380&cid=00453914585
And yes, she is very elegant, a lovely woman.
There is no place for that sort of nonsense in our important political debate.
If that bumper sticker is circulating in the Left-centered media, ask yourself if that same media reported this more real threat to our public officials:
http://www.wnd.com/2012/03/obama-fanatic-guilty-in-arpaio-death-threat/
*note: the guy threatening to kill an Arizona politician and his family over an Obama investigation, is white.
Well, there wouldn't be an 'our cause' if the far right didn't keep pushing these social issues, and falling off the cliff with them!
is it person has so much vitriol or just thinks it is acceptable humor?
Get a grip.
JACKASS.
Also his race is irrelevant.
Interesting. I imagine the opposite. (Does anyone know where this was spotted? I'm guessing Florida, due to the duck/wind mill issue.)
True. But some of it is distracting and distressing.
you are attempting to have it both ways.
On the one hand you seek to discredit an entire party because some nameless individual put a dumb bumper sticker on his/her car.
On the other hand, the fact that an avowed supporter of Obama is threatening a Republican and his family has no relevance?
..huh?
There are nuts on both sides. period.
attempting to parlay that into a representation of the entire party on the Left or Right is obviously a tactic and not useful to move America forward.
For years, the left has been tearing into Republican women like chew toys.
Yet somehow, it never became a "war on women".
...actually, polling data shows that Americans themeselves are becoming immune to such blatant attempts at manipulation.
Good for America I say.
Let's talk about getting people to work.
And I don't mean by playing with the seasonally adjusted non-farm payrolls!
what a load of crap those numbers are.
Yes, or for ice, for that matter?
Ask yourselves a simple question:
Where you even aware that Maher and Shultz and Letterman had at one time or another called Republican women "sluts" or worse?
If not,
you will understand the depths to which you are living in the New York media bubble.
If you think it's justified,
put yourselves in the same category as that psycho I just posted about.
However, that bumper sticker was squarely obviously and with ZERO doubt aimed at our president and the left. So...am I manufacturing something that isn't there? No. Where is it coming from. And why. Not too hard to figure out. Don't yell at me, go find that jackass with the bumper sticker and slash his tires or something!
I wish we could go back to the 80's for a weekend.
And still to even compare is major stretch ......saying something like she (and it could often be a he) is a media-whore
(when that person is public figure) and going on a tirade calling prostitute/ slut ---saying she wants us to pay her(non-public person) to have sex and then later says SHE SHOULD POST SEX VIDEOS ON INTERNET for everyone TO WATCH !
Nice pre-emptive strike there, CGar! ; )
Re-write: Some of my best friends are nut jobs!
And that's just on the OT. What would be the over/under on # of PLUSAs to show at a Montero's party Thursday night two days after election day?
Re-write: ALL of my best friends are nut jobs! ; )
Joshua Tree album was just released and there didn't seem to be a care in the world.
Classy.
that's what I mean,
I had no responsibilities.
Now I'm thinking of that song: "we didn't start the fire".
On the one hand you seek to discredit an entire party because some nameless individual put a dumb bumper sticker on his/her car."
Legion, please show me where I said anything about Republicans when I posted the photo. Nor did I mention Republicans when I said that posting a link to some radical left wing nutball in defense of that bumper sticker did not justify either one. Stop projecting what you'd like me to be saying. I'm quite capable of saying it directly, but I did not.
Unlike you, I don't try the tit for tat, well, so-and-so did this, therefore..... as a justification for something "my" side did. Wrong is wrong.
are you showing them your retirement souvenir book and telling them about the party?
You act like we haven't been arguing Left and Right in here for years!
In an election year, you post an offensive bumper sticker pointing to Obama's political opposition.
Ok, I'll take everything posted from now on, outside of the OT context.
Any mention of cats, for instance, will just be taken as an individual instance of feline affinity.
The fact that it happens 50 time a day will be ignored. ;o)
ugh really? we live in a seriously fucked up society if we can't secretly record people having sex without going to PRISON for it. wtf? first of all the room he was recording was HALF his room as well! so now some kid's life is ruined because he had a roommate who trolled for skanks on craiglist and and invited them over to a room that was both of theirs!?!?!? this sets an AWFUL precedent.
*rob*
...any relation to Duran Duran?
[still daydreaming of the 80's]
I wonder if there is a hidden camera in your apt. right now.
Classy."
Actually very rude to use your Blackberry, iPhone, etc. when you're out in the company of others, especially at a restaurant. I have too much class to ever do something like that.
*rob*
Good.
Also DIBS and legion are right. As usual.
But it's ok if others have their privacy violated. Ok, now I'm just going to have to figure out how to have a camera hidden in your apt. I mean since you don't think it's a problem.
*rob*
Oh? You don't expect privacy in your room/apt?
Perfect, then we have your approval to hide a camera in your room, and you won't mind. Fantastic! Hmm, maybe someone already has.
(Trying out new material)
But it's ok if others have their privacy violated. Ok, now I'm just going to have to figure out how to have a camera hidden in your apt. I mean since you don't think it's a problem.
lol. and that would be SUCH a fascinating video im sure. i was secretly videotaped once doing something nasty and found out about it right afterwards pretty easily, i was really angry about it for like 2 seconds then i got over it. i dont go and and off myself.
*rob*
Clementi was having sex in his own room.
Looks too French, as if the last syllable could be pronounced 'oh' rather than 'ott'.
Your sarcasm detector needs a new battery, MORON.
Oh? You don't expect privacy in your room/apt?
of course i do. but i wouldnt expect it in someone elses apartment. you cant really trust anyone. especially in a skank hook up. which is why i dont DO such a thing.
*rob*
Clementi was having sex in his own room.
so he's even MORE of a clueless idiot. it was also ravi's room btw. why can't he have a live cam show OF HIS OWN ROOM?
*rob*
I might come if one of the Dems buys the drinks.
That said both Canada and the UK have conservative govts so I may just try to be in one or other of them instead.
*rob*
New to the OT, are you, Slopefarm?
*rob*
Hey, dp, what part of "rob" don't YOU understand?
On second thought, don't answer that question.
The 'hook up' occurred in Clementi's DORM ROOM, idiot. The room he was paying 1/2 the rent for. Hence, expectation of PRIVACY. Which part of this story did you not understand, rob?
you're the fucking moron. i stated that it was a SHARED room. a SHARED room with beds across from each other. there is NO expectation of privacy in such a set up.
Snort! Exactly.
No, just staking out the moral high ground before the tsunami hits.
M4L - I didn't correct 'lillies' - very forebearing of me.
The guy was done for bullying as much as anything else: plus he lied by saying he was afraid his I-Pad would be stolen but the camera was not focussed on that.
lot of insecurities and naivate about sexuality. Some of his legal problem is also obstruction or covering up. No way to have imagined the horrible outcome.
I've already got a big ass target on my back, so just called me Dead Man Walking.
Why shouldn't I, CGar? rob's given his tacit approval!! : P
(H)
*rob*
I often wonder how it is that I happen to be married to a gay republican, let's not bring up having sex with one! ; )
We are still wrestling with what to do legally and culturally with social media's power of amplification.
ugh. society has become one giant pussy these days. social media's power of amplification? ugh, barf.
coddle, coddle, coddle <--- should be our new national anthem
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*rob*
is this not what she wrote? does BH know you have a husband out there?
life."
Snort! Yes, I think we would ALL go blind and be scarred for life! There isn't enough money in the world for those therapy bills! : P
Well, ONLY in that my avatar Cora is married to DIBS avatar Robert. : P
"does BH know you have a husband out there?"
Well, If BH would make an honest woman out of me, these things wouldn't happen!! ; )
I often think I would like to be 20-something again. But then I talk to a 20-something and know that it's not always so great to be so young. I'm wishing I could do a vulcan mind meld with BH's daughter right now, and impart what little life knowledge I have to her and spare her some of this angst and pain she is experiencing.
I agree completely. I also thought it was hardly fair that the third party in the this, the girl who testified against her friend, isn't sharing a cell with Ravi. He screwed up big time, but I hope some leniency is given, as he was young, extremely dumb, but aided and abetted by encouragement from her.
And I don't think the poor Clemente kid was a moron. Not everyone springs forth as gay as Paris in spring, fully accepting of themselves in a society that isn't exactly welcoming them with open arms. A lot of people take years and years to accept who they are. And not just gays, either. Life is hard for a lot of people. It's absolutely absurd to "expect" that you will be filmed in the privacy of your own room, in any kind of private act, including sex. No one expects that.
Yes, I think I saw that on page 641 of your CV/list of your experiences! ; )
Dumb kid, send him back to India.
*rob*
Yes, part of a pattern of arrogance on his part.
Feel more sorry for Ravi's parents than I do for him, but at least their son is still alive.
if you can't handle being gay, dont do gay shit like sucking on a strangers wang! the whole incident just makes gay people in general look like a bunch of cry babies. and i refuse to be lumped in with gay cry babies.
*rob*
*rob*
How do you know what the guy looked like? Don't think there have been any photos in the press and his identity was not revealed at the trial.
there were reports of his what he looked like in some articles about the case. i didnt see any pictures either.
*rob*
Why are they keeping his identity a secret? Ravi faced charges and was found guilty of crimes toward this person. Why is he being protected? Maybe if he wasn't creeping teenagers this would have turned out differently. Ravi was dumb, very dumb, but I really feel for him. I'm sorry, he's a kid. I have one a few years younger, and its scary sometimes the way they just don't think of consequences.
EXACTLY! i can guarantee you the other persons identity was not revealed or not pictures cuz most likely the dude was a borderline pedophile (yes 18 is an adult) but it's still gross from old men are into that. and from the descriptions of the guy he sounded like a gross old pervert and clementi killed himself cuz he felt like he was going to die of embarrassment anyway because of who he was sucking off
*rob*
SilverDaddies?
Moral of the story, it is never all right to film other people without their consent or knowledge. I don't care how popular You-tube is, or how "everyone" is doing it, or that modern society expects every act to be recorded. That is pure bs. Our privacy is eroding more every day. We don't have to willingly participate in further erosion. Also, bullying and ganging up on people who are weaker than you, both physically and emotionally, is cruel and unworthy.
And yet you do it to rob every day.
Tsk, tsk
*rob*
Also, bullying and ganging up on people who are weaker than you, both physically and emotionally, is cruel and unworthy.
unfortunately it's how the Universe runs, in EVERY facet of life.
*rob*
I do agree with that (although do they get the option not to share via paying more or living out if they don't want to share?).
Very glad my college was all single rooms.
then junior year i roommed with krazy. we stopped being friends when i showed a girl on my floor his sketchpad (he drew naked pictures of almost all the chicks on our floor) they were innocent pictures, but creepy none the less because they all had pepsi cans in their hands in the drawings. then moved off campus and finally had fun roommates for a while. sadly i decided to stay there after the others graduated and invited a new set of freaks in and that was too much drama rama
*rob*
eva, you are wrong about what you said regarding turning off the recorder. i heard the testimony.
*rob*
Basically if you are found guilty of something serious enough and you are not a citizen you can be deported. Green Card holders can be deported for felonies.
Pretty sure it's not automatic though - separate hearing & done case-by-case I think.
*rob*
*rob*
Being in a generous mood this week, I'll pay for the bus ticket
*rob*
Now I just need a new buoy for the week
*rob*
No doubt so were your potential roommates.
*ROB*
Well, I suppose if Martha Stewart could handle it, so can I! : P
...And we're back to buggering. The perennial favorite! You just can't lose with buggery, now can you!?
this young woman at Stonehill College is suing because her roomate was a hosebag:
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/deaconsbench/2012/03/catholic-college-sued-over-dorm-sex-complaints/
Your roommate having sex in your dorm room is one thing, but in front of you!?Ewwwww!
In this case the roomate not having sex was suicidal.
-How to deal with all the sex issues that arise in the internet age,
everything you wanted to know about sex but were afraid to google.
Chapter 1: The appropriate use of a bean bag chair.
*rob*
One fact you're overlooking in your argument: after he was filmed the first time, and found out about it, Clemente asked Ravi if he could use the room again for another hook-up. Prior to starting the act, Clemente spent 1/2 hour scouring the room to make sure there were no hidden webcams. Hence, it is arguable how much he was affected by being filmed in the act. Having the film going viral on the campus may have done more damage to his psyche.
I think Smurf-Hoodlum looks pretty good as a double-barreled surname.
"Tell me, are you related to the Jersey City Smurf-Hoodlums"
so what would you do/say if your offspring away at college says bringing home boyfriend/girlfriend for the wkend?
i would say that's fine, but the guest has to use the bathroom down the block at the mcdonalds, or a gas station, or whereever. if they have a problem with that i would insist that i check their genitals for crabs or infectious diseases before sleeping in my house or sitting on my toilet
*rob*
Snort!
"Parenting in the Internet Age"
by *rob*
I would pay for a copy of that one!
I think he could get an advance by simply submitting a chapter on Nannies.
then I would say I'm sorry, kinda.
This could be rob's BIG chance to make a pile of money! rob...START WRITING! (You think I'm joking but I'm not. This time. : P )
"Dr. Smurf-Hoodlum's Guide to Parenting in the Internet Age."
Subtitle: "Everything you thought you knew is wrong!"
If that woman made a bestseller out of TigerMom,
why not this one?
Precisely! : P It could be a real send up of Park Slope Parenting, which we all know rob loves so...
Chapter 16: On the correct use of strollers: When to yank your ugly crotchfruit out of the stroller and teach the little overly pampered jerk to walk! (Hint: Before College)
I would have freaked out if my dad did that!
Folks follow the ups and down of the price of oil religiously. Folks and politicians get bent out of shape if it hits $4.00 a gallon, for a product that has to be extracted from the earth, transported halfway around the world, refined, and then distributed to your local gas station.
At the same time, a can of Benjamin Moore Paint, manufactured in Harrison, NJ, costs $31/gallon, and no one makes a stink.
Strange, but true.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Coke is probably a better example than paint. $1 per liter, and no one talks about "Big Soda".
YMLP
It has a yield close to 9% I bet it eventually trades at a premium
The sales are a little harder to find but it's two 2-liter bottles for $3 at Pathmark this week.
No, but recently a friend was selling me on the SodaStream system. She loves it. Now that I have counter space, I should reconsider it.
Read more http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/02/06/120206fa_fact_parker#ixzz1pJsUOJW6
Really stupid that he didn't have citizenship.
Both are made upstate Newyork. Helping NY industry.
It's super popular, and I just watched the demo—it seems great. It could work for us, but I'd have to buy extra bottles. BH can go through 2 liters a day.
"I was snowboarding in the Alps," I overheard one say. "Then I took a side route to Poland. We spent the holidays in Krakow. My friend had never met her father's family."
Later she complained of the security paid to snowboard carriers in international airlines.
There was someone else at their table who was Tool personified but I will refrain from describing it. Earlier a gaggle of kids came in with their parents; they were falling all over themselves to not be obtrusive.
I'm in Bark all the time - only 50 steps from my place - but that was a signal change.
today kids probably would have taken out cell phone and gotten pictures.
No doubt, Pete. A little scary to think about. I can imagine some events in my life that might have ended up 'documented' for posterity, which I would rather not remember.
Infinite: TMI. I do not need to hear about cumstains.
I know a couple who started a fancy paint company. One of those no/low fumes, whatever paints. They're rich and famous now.
moronic. the fumes are the BEST part of painting! i love the smell of a freshly painted room. i nearly did pass out once painting a room entirely in spray paint, and two of my roommates were ready to throw me out (this was up in harlem). they claimed the smell permeated the entire 5 bedroom apartment for WEEEKS :-/
*rob*
I'm friends with both on Facebook now, water under the bridge.
BH likes the smell of diesel fumes. It has sentimental associations from his days working at a Yacht Club! LOL!
Just don't ask to see ours if you come over! ; )
(I guess your roommate washed his sheets as often as cobble does).
Tell us a happy ending. they are both happily married now.
They are both happy, roommate lives in Atlanta and is partnered, rejectee in LA and also partnered.
"I don't want to lose the best friend I've ever had." I quickly assured him he would not.
barf, he sounded mad needy. who says that kinda shit? well other than closeted gays i guess. personally i was never in the closet. people asked all the time, people assumed, people accused, people made fun, people joked. i grew up watching porn and i liked all the sexual organs of both genders. i had just as many girl crushes as boy crushes. never thought i was bisexual though because it never crossed my mind people were anything. my grandparents totally knew, well honestly, everyone knew. i never internalized gay jokes and anti gay remarks, even hearing them in passing of people talking about other people. got to college and all of a sudden started attracting WAY too many fruitflies (the nicer term for fag hags).i enjoyed being gay for a while, then i totally grew out of it a few years ago. it happens. i still have a nutso libido tho, so that's not the issue. i just not can';t be 100% who i am even within the first second of meeting someone, and too much of dating and potential partner finding is hiding way too many aspects of yourself and molding yourself to fit in their worldview. i can't be asked! at least not now at 35. but i am not totally so averse and closed off to any possibilities of finding a boyfriend, it would just have to randomly happen, i refuse to put any kind of concerted effort into such a thing.
*rob*
My friends and I were having sex as young as about 16/17/18. But really, all my friends were experimenting really young. Including the gay or gay-curious ones. Maybe it's just that we were city kids or in pretty socially liberal families. I started sleeping with a boy around the corner at 17, and my parents didn't love it, but they allowed it. His parents were surprisingly ok with it. I guess they were happy enough that they knew where we were.
for Holloween in the dorm,
somebody went as Casper the Cum Stained Ghost.
Our senior year, after we graduated, we met again (Vermont is a large school). We again decided to go out, to lunch this time. He was in the midst of seeking a corporate job - he is conservative. I was hoping to go to grad school.. We went to some random bar but neither of us drank. All I could think about was the cosmically large distance we had both traveled in 4 short years, and how mature we both were. We had nothing in common anymore and yet a shared history and that was enough. When the check came, we both only had $20s. We laughed at that.
Last time I ever saw him.
No! LOL! But I did have friends when I was more like early 20s that were into that. Not for me!!
*rob*
*rob*
Leaving on a good note... Peace, all!
I started sleeping with a boy around the corner at 17, and my parents didn't love it, but they allowed it.
omg LOL only chickenheads sleep with guys who live around the corner from them. wtf? you didnt have a metrocard!? (or subway tokens?) sorry if im assuming you were a chickenhead if the subway wasnt even around back then. i guess then i could consider sleeping with someone around the corner okay. ha, funny my ex the one i was with the longest when i first met him he lived in chinatown and i lived on the LES and then after like 4 months he moved right around the corner too to rivington street and i was on ludlow street, so i guess i was a bit of a chickenhead myself!
*rob*
We went to some random bar but neither of us drank. All I could think about was the cosmically large distance we had both traveled in 4 short years, and how mature we both were. We had nothing in common anymore and yet a shared history and that was enough. When the check came, we both only had $20s. We laughed at that.
let me guess. and THEN YOU GRABBED HIS BALLS
*rob*
"yeah and he completely LIED about his age the whole time by about 5 years :-/ how long do people think they can get away with that anyway and not eventually be found out!?!?"
He was really cute and a badass, and we'd grown up together, but it was kind of cozy and nice.
now your old enuf to be a chicken hawk. You already admitted that age is important to you.
"yeah and he completely LIED about his age the whole time by about 5 years :-/ how long do people think they can get away with that anyway and not eventually be found out!?!?"
even if he stated how old he was when we first met i wouldnt have had an issue with it. i dont really have an issue with age and ive always really only been attracted to people plus or minus 5 years of my own.. it's been pretty steady throughout my entire life that way. i was 31 and he said he was 34 but turns out he was 38. i wouldnt havent had a problem with that, but just find it strange people lie about their age. i can understand if it's people who met with the sole intention of a one night random hookup via the internet. but we didnt meet that way. it was thru another ex bf of mine who was in nyc and invited me out and we wound up sitting with these other dudes and i guess now that i think about it, maybe i do understand why people would lie about their age. the place this was at was mega gay, like drag queeny gay. it wasnt drag queen bingo, but it was similar, i wanna say drag queens doing stand up or something. still, we were friends for a bit before hand, why lie about age right off the bat like that?
*rob*
What the hell is a chickenhead?!
didnt you grow up in nyc? were you sheltered from urban culture? how could you not know what a chickenhead was.
*rob*
Growing up in East New York there were still old ladies around from the burlesque days in the 50's or something.
I remember one showing me her photo all done up in black and white.
That kind of scared me at first but then I was like, you know, boobs look good in black and white too.
Sadly no. :o(
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Not all that sheltered, but we weren't street kids either. So are you going to tell me what a chickenhead is or not???
If always attracted to 5+-,, then you'll have a hard time finding good porn when you're 50.
Oh, and they're very cute and small enough to fit in the fridge, I see. I could get two or three of those. BH likes his seltzer cold (not on ice). Hmm. Must ponder. Thanks for mentioning!
okay, gonna go now, i dont like dredging this shit up that i havent thought about in years.
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Santorum wants to totally ban internet porn.
1. a female who likes cock
2. a female who likes giving head, bobbing up and down like a chicken
3. a dance move
not to be confused with "chickens," or chicks, which is not a deragatory term
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2. chickenhead 1279 up, 448 down
Usually a female, who likes to give oral sex. The word chickenhead comes from the movement that the females head makes while performing oral sex.
Lots of guys like chickenheads because they don't even have to be in a relationship with them to get their dicks sucked.
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3. chickenhead 1089 up, 414 down
A) A felacious woman.
A chickenhead, you can find one anywhere, on in the hood, on the street. It's a bird that you take home and wear out.
Santorum is a total freak. Is he scared of sex? What is up with him? Has he met many humans?
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TMI TMI!
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Well, given that he has a bunch of kids, I wouldn't say that sex is an issue with him.
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Sex toy???
It was cozy, only there weren't glow in the dark stars, just black light posters, street lights or candles. And it wasn't Zimas, it was vodka or beer & pot, and it wasn't 80s new age, since that hadn't been invented yet in the 70s, it was jazz fusion or rock.
I didn't get any cock, I mean cock cake! Damn you! : P
Then the news stories about his secret extra kinky sex life will come out!
What's the average age for dudes to stop getting boners?
like spontaneous ones? i have no idea, i never got a spontaneous one before. when around someone a man finds sexually attractive i'd imagine very easily when it comes to closeness? probably well into their 40s? viagra was made for men in the 50s and up. most erectile dysfunction at any age before 50 is usually psychologically related. seriously ladies, if you are making out with a guy under 50 and he doesnt get an erection within a few minutes, he's not into you or has serious mental blocks involving the two of you. obviously there can be medical conditions involved, but what woman wants to be with a limp dick under 50 years old!? id imagine the sexual corollary for woman is a dry vagina and inverted nipples? id be offended if i was shagging the sahara and reaching up and finding valleys instead of mountains kindaa thing, but women can at least get away with their sexual deprowessness, but that comes at a price since most likely they have no more eggs or a wack uterus. i think men still produce sperm til they die (guh-ROSS!). so if you can get the dick "working" the game is good to go, you cant say the same for women, which is why so many men trade in for younger chicks. i dont envy straight women, that sucks. but 85% of straight men are the same, they are always looking for ass and dick that is barely legal as well. i guess it's a guy thing. deal with it or move to the mythical island of Lesbos
i bet the rents are real cheap down there!
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Have a good night and Happy St. Patricks's day!
I just don't understand people like Santorum. They seem to spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about other people's sex lives.
agreeance. it's fucking creepy as hell. i thought republicans were all about staying out of peoples businesses and personal lives? i do agree with them on financial levels, but yeah dudes, good luck (any of them) getting someone like me to decide to vote. they are cutting their noses off despite something (i dont know how the quote goes) but totally weird. however, lots of theories going down that 2012 *IS* when the NWO is taking over anyway, so i think it's possible (out there duh...) that all these repub candidates are just pawns and stuff for the NWO. there is no real republican party, there never could be, everyone is in bed with each other.. we're rubbing BRIC's nipples right now!
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And Dr. Smurf-Hoodlum's next book after the Sex Ed for Teens, and the Parenting book will be on Middle-aged/Senior's sex lives.
you are mocking me totally, and i get it, but i dont get that my outlook is even anywhere slightly off the cuff. i know almost everyone in this board cuz of that brownstoner website, but why was i even ON that website to begin with? i wasnt trolling, ive never trolled. i do have a tendency to wind up in places where im an ill-fit. (i argued in a paper against the goodness-of-fit model of psychotherapy and psychology in general back in the day and got an A! my professor said it was, um, A-worthy.) granted everyone but the one chick who never came to class cuz she said she had brain cancer got an A, it most likely doesnt mean much, but still.. i have my outlook on life, as do all of you. which is why i could NEVER post on brownstoner again, omg that has turn into one giant uber-gentrification let's raise the rent, omg my house is gonna be worth a gazillion dollars in a year, circle jerk! at least in the OT when it existed over there, some of you were not that bad.
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Mr I'm afraid of bedbugs wants to rent a seedy hotel room in times square?
shut up, ill leave the bedbugs in south carolina. duh!
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So Dr S-H, do men over 50 who need Viagra still get horny and need the pill to get the sails up or is ED at that age tied to no longer having sexual desire?
i think it's literally a physiological thing just to get hard. i think the old men who take viagra literally wanna fuck their wives/girlfriends/mistresses, but just cant get it up. if im wrong about that, tell me, i dont know. lots of gays like to mix viagra and meth :-/ cuz smoking meth gives people meth dick. but then they fuck for hours and hours and hours and they just wind up passing each other diseases cuz the meth makes them not wanna wear a condom. guh-ROSS gay people!
anyway, im gonna go take a shower with my lady soap now. g'nite
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