George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
The things you lean on / are things that don't last
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George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
1d ago
I got it, just going for low comedy.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
1d ago
With a nod to the disappointment of @TwiceHuman (and others) I am enjoying immensely the ones of these I've read so far, and actually many I somehow missed the first go-around. The AAQC thread is one of the goodest features here.
(I intentionally didn't write best to spite my phone keyboard, which kept giving me shit as I tried to type. Take that, Xperia.)
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
1d ago
I thought he was writing Shittack.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
6d ago
I went without having sex well into my twenties, for what it's worth, largely because I saw it as a sacred act at the time but also because I was terrified of screwing up (no pun intended). And of various other parts involving intimacy. It scared me. I sometimes wonder if my own mystification of sex was a smokescreen for that. But yes, getting outside one's head does wonders.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
6d ago
I'm curious how you have arrived at (and remained with) these beliefs. You previously listed a couple of evangelical/fundamentalist-type beliefs (the YEC idea that earth is 6,000 years old etc.), that you have dismissed as implausible. Yet you hold this rather staunch belief (stated in the previous set of replies) that sex makes you (one, us) dirty outside the confines of marriage. Your terms macro- and micro-intimacy here seem very tenuously cobbled together. There are many types of intimacy--should all of these be measured out so carefully lest we sully ourselves or dilute what we have to offer some future friend? If sex is different because of its procreative nature, that's of course an argument. But that's not necessarily intimacy. You seem to be attaching a mystical quality to sex--this without ever having had it yourself.
Obviously to some degree you got these ideas from your father, but you've embraced them and I'm wondering why. I wouldn't normally comment in the face of such a long statement laying bare one's experiences, because I'm not sure I have much to offer you other than stay alive and work things out in fear and trembling. But you're digging in here and I'm not positive that you are digging in in a way that is going to help you.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
7d ago
top the infamous I'm A Man ad
I had never actually seen that. Damn. That's pathetic.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
8d ago
Being boring is not a sin.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
10d ago
Funnily enough I like oden but not everything in it. It's best in winter after a night of drinking beer with friends. You then drink more beer and eat the oden and eat the daikon radish with a bit of mustard. But you may be onto something.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
10d ago
À chacun son gôut as the French say. I make only subjective claims here, mind you. Even natto with okra must be eaten, after all. I am happy there are those who are up to the task.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
11d ago
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
11d ago
Two Kathryns in my life, one who spelled her name Katherine and the other Catherine, provided me with what I can only describe using this ASMR term, which is the only thing that makes me suspect it exists, though probably not the way the depraved, pornhungry sound-gluttons imagine it to exist.
The first Katherine was blonde, pretty in a plain way, and had a brown paper bag during show-and-tell in Mrs. Rice's 1st grade class in 1974. I forget what was in the bag, or what she said, who was there, what I was wearing, or anything else, but I recall that moment I was absolutely entranced by the crackle of the bag and the sound--the lilt, the only true meaning of that word for me--of her voice. I felt a slow fizz at the base of my spine that worked its way up to the back of my neck. It was a bizarre sensation. The closest I can get to describing it is like when the prostate is stimulated during voiding--yeah taking you right out of the beauty of the moment, aren't I? Anyway. The second Catherine was years later, also in school (I feel as if ASMR cannot be brought on, as they keep insisting online, but must be the result of a situation where you're forced to focus on something against your will, like Mr. Drigger's class) and she was also up there talking about something, but in this case there was no paper bag but just her voice, like well water. It's what I think the myths meant, at least partially, in referencing spells in the mouths of certain women. I could have listened to her all day. But this wasn't based in her appearance (she was rather plain as far as it goes) but totally her sound.
Anyway that's my defense of ASMR, but I also don't buy the idea of "eliciting" the sensation via video. That has much the same effect on me as it does on you.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
11d ago
Watching someone stir up some natto with grated yamaimo and a raw egg, then transport it with sticks into their mouth, the inevitable nebaneba (translation: gooey smelly glop) a demonic tendril connecting the bowl to their lips--well this was enough to make me realize I am in Japan by fluke and this is not supposed to be my destiny. Probably the result of one of those times I "almost" died but actually did die, was given a second chance but spared the memory of the death, and this was enough of a glitch (via interfering with fate) to settle me in a land where people eat the vilest food imaginable with great relish (if not actual relish).
That plus full body tats, piercings of any sort other than the ear, and sometimes, though this bears the sort of explaining I am not ready to attempt at 5:25 am, just looking at a woman I marvel at la difference. Mind you this is only with relatively girly, feminine women (in other words not American). This is not what you're calling "the ick" but there is certainly an unbridgeable gap there. Dress, stockings, painted or otherwise decorated nails, long carefully tended hair, mascara, blush, lipstick, earrings, etc. Not the ick. But a gap of experience. This is not even accounting for the invisible undergarments and whatnot. Anyway yeah it's early.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
13d ago
Seeing that phrase written instead of spoken and I imagine you checking your wrist.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
13d ago
I believe speak plainly is a mandate of the forum. Maybe I'm obtuse but I don't get what you're going for here.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
13d ago
What color is the minivan? Darker or greeny colors seem to have more accidents for obvious reasons. (Of course there are also many shitty careless drivers in the world who would blow a stop sign even if the car they were about to ram into were day-glo orange.)
If this is a personal question and not an hypothetical question meant to answer my own question, the answer is: Pretty much never. Paresthesia is the word, by the way. (edit: douchebag aside struck through.) The last time I felt it I think I had slept on my arm too long one night.
As far as I know self-diagnosing magnesium deficiency is very, very difficult, as the symptoms (twitchiness, cramps, tremors, jaw clenching) are part of a differential diagnosis for many other conditions. But empirically, if someone noticed these symptoms and either adjusted his/her diet (spinach, quinoa, dark chocolate, whatever) to increase dietary magnesium or went on supplements like magnesium glycinate and then noticed an absence of the symptoms, then okay. I'm wondering though how anyone would know this, though there may be places online where upping one's magnesium is considered common knowledge. My concern would be kidney issues.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
14d ago
I first heard of Kimmel when he did The Man Show way back when. I suppose his trajectory to the left is not surprising but he certainly seemed more right (in a bawdy, jokes-about-tits way) at that time.
Late night comedians always used to take potshots at whoever was in office, right up to Obama...and then suddenly the President could do no wrong. Then Obama's sainthood juxtaposed with Trump's Trumpiness happened, and "making fun of both sides" went out the window. Anyone on the right had horns drawn on their image. The rise of the Daily Show and John Stewart's (and Steven Colbert's) extremely politicized humor stirred the pot, and voilà.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
15d ago
You might balk at this, but consider going a week without taking any biometrics or monitoring at all. I'd actually suggest a month or longer. From my wild and woolly point of view the currently popular idea of "optimizing" one's physical health is more like micromanaging when maybe just grooving for a bit would be more helpful. I suspect however that this suggestion does not interest you.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
15d ago
On a related note, how do you know whether you're magnesium deficient?
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
16d ago
Is this sarcasm or are you suggesting Kirk was a Nazi? I assumed sarcasm but it's hard to be sure.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
16d ago
Don't be an asshole.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
19d ago
I think class isn't entirely or even mostly about one's salary.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
20d ago
Sorry I can't tell if this is meant ironically or not.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
20d ago
More and more I feel like deleting reddit from my phone and nearly never visiting the site (it has been about a month this time) has been a very good choice.
What's Sentinel? Is this the name of an organization that performs sentinel surveillance of disease?
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