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The Darth Vader flower (Aristolocia salvadorensis) might also pertain to Putin?

I doubt these happy alien flowers would grow here in LA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calceolaria_uniflora

A flower Zelensky might send to Putin:

A flower an expecting couple might want:

Or a kissable flower?

Or Peter Peppers?

I just found out about this flower. Too bad we didn't think about this flower for our marriage, but maybe for our garden?

My hubbie and I were watching the new Netflix show Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story, and I asked if the actress portraying the mother was Tori Spelling. He groaned and said "No, it's Chloë Sevigny...". I said I thought the two looked similar, and he replied "You think all women look alike." Well, maybe it's just a gay issue, but don't you think these two look pretty similar?

I attended a medical lecture regarding the RSV vaccine 2 weeks ago, and it wasn't extremely encouraging. There is some data potential recipients should know before agreeing to the vaccine (we're talking about the 60+ group, not for infants or pregnant mothers, which is a different kettle of fish). The absolute risk reduction to prevent one lower respiratory (lung) infection in adults is 0.26% (need to immunize 385 to prevent one serious infection), and the absolute risk reduction to prevent one hospitalization is 0.13% (need to immunize 770 to prevent one hospitalization). There was no significant difference in death. Also, muscle aches and flu-like symptoms were common, with risks of 44% and 51.6%. That being said, serious adverse reactions were rare, although about 1 in 2000 got Guillain–Barré syndrome, a fairly devastating neurological complication, and none of the placebo did (too rare to be called a significant difference). I'm not encouraging or discouraging getting it, but I think one should be aware of what the potential benefits and risks are before consenting. Also, the vaccine only appears to last one season. https://meridian.allenpress.com/jcphp/article/70/4/27/498435/Evidence-Based-Appraisal-of-Respiratory-Syncytial

Same for iPhones. Now that the 16 is out, I suspect the 15's aren't as expensive as they were last year.

Well, it looks as though most THC is about 15% these days. So 2% seems more like a placebo effect. https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/drugs-medication/cannabis/about.html "...The potency (concentration or strength) of THC in cannabis is often shown as a percentage of THC by weight (or by volume of an oil). THC potency in dried cannabis has increased from an average of 3% in the 1980s to around 15% today. Some strains can have an average as high as 30% THC...". https://mjbizdaily.com/average-thc-potency-of-illicit-marijuana-flower-is-16-percent-dea-says/ "The average THC potency of illicit marijuana flower in the United States is 16%, according to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration...".

Well, I guess you believe everything George Santos and Donald Trump say, because you believe you have to accept as fact whatever others tell you. There are certainly tens of millions in your camp, who are active MAGA supporters. Obviously, there are matters of fact and matters of opinion. When Trump says "The election was stolen," I cannot read his mind to know whether he actually believes what he's saying (i.e. he's deluded), or he's intentionally fabricating (i.e. he's lying). But I do know that the statement is factually wrong, along with countless other factually incorrect statements he makes (Haitian immigrants eating pets, and so on). Although I'm pretty sure he's simply lying, I recognize that my belief that he's a liar is an opinion. I do know for a fact, however, that he makes tons of factually incorrect statements, whether it's due to delusional thinking or mendacity. If a man gets mind-blowing orgasms from men fucking him up the ass, it's simply a fact that he's not straight--not a matter of opinion, and regardless of what the man says. Many years ago, US Senator Lindsey Graham paid my husband good money for sex, so I know for a fact that, regardless of his statements to the contrary, he's not straight. I also strongly believe that he's lying when he says he is. That does not mean I need to confront anyone who says he's straight, even if I know what he's saying isn't true. What I do accept is the fact that this is the way he presents himself. However, if one looks up the definition of heterosexual today, 2024, one gets a pretty straight-forward (so to speak) definition: Facts are facts. I'm not so foolish as to believe everything a person tells me, even when there's firm as steel evidence to the contrary.

Perhaps my favorite drag queen is Ella Vaday. I love her/his beauty as a woman (in a non-sexual way) and as a man (in a sexual way).

You were right to put "straight" in quotes. Somehow, when I look up heterosexual in the dictionary, the definition of "Someone who likes a hard dick in his ass to give him a mind-blowing orgasm" doesn't pop up. I don't have any straight friends who get mind-blowing orgasms from taking dicks ups their asses. Actions speak larger than words. These people are bi or gay, not straight. If they really love the beauty of women, in a sexual way, that is, they're bi. If they enjoy the beauty of women the way I can enjoy the beauty of a field of flowers (in a non-sexual way), they're gay.

Once again, how a person identifies himself and his actual sexual orientation can be different. There are plenty of gay men who've identified as straight, and even married and/or had children. That doesn't make them straight or even bi. Some of us knew Epigonos from another board. He sadly passed away about 2 years ago. He grew up as a schoolteacher in the 60s and had to put up a straight front. He married and had kids, but never enjoyed sex with his wife, and came out with a vengeance in the '00s. Almost everyone knows about Anthony Perkins, who also married and had children. I never personally spoke with him, but those who did say that his wife was a "beard," and that the relationships he enjoyed was with men. Director Vicente Minnelli led an openly gay life in NYC before he moved to Hollywood, and then married and had children, including Liza Minnelli, who, interestingly enough, herself married a man who later came out as gay: Aussie songwriter and singer Peter Allen. Little Richard was another who married to keep up appearances, although he told Penthouse magazine in 1995 that he knew damn well he'd "been gay all his life." https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/gq-men-of-the-year-2010-little-richard-legend "...In recent years, he has developed a more liberal view of homosexuality. "I've been gay all my life and I know God is a God of love, not of hate," he told Penthouse in 1995...". I'm 100% gay, and therefore could no more enjoy sex with a woman than I could with an encyclopedia. Certainly, some male escorts advertise as straight, because there's obviously a segment of the gay hiring populace which gets off on the fantasy of seducing a straight man (or whatever other reasons they have). However, if the man truly enjoys the sex, he is not straight. Period. If a man who says he's straight then states you gave him great sex, either he's a great actor, or you can't tell when someone's acting, or he was never straight to begin with. I have zero delusions on being able to show a straight man a great time in the sack. Other people seem to get off on these delusions, however.

It's not too complicated for most people to understand. I paid them for the encounter. I don't think either expected anything else.

I went to a live taping of Dancing With The Stars here near WeHo, and almost fainted at the sight of beautiful gymnast Stephen Nedoroscik. 😍

Well, you kind of are, and this seems to be another example of your pattern of xenophobic, transphobic, and generally LGBTQI-phobic posts. While there are people who self-identify as straight, gay, or bi, research has shown that patterns of attraction are usually quite permanent, with rare exceptions. The myth of fluidity has resulted in significant damage from so-called "conversion therapy" frauds. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00918369.2020.1840213 "... Findings support previous studies which report a strong correlation between conversion therapy and poor mental health outcomes...". In fact, many countries and states have now banned conversion therapy outright (blue), or have pending legislation for a ban: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legality_of_conversion_therapy (Blue countries and states have banned conversion therapy, and legislation is pending in the yellow states) When looking at patterns of persistence in self-identification (which is different from actual sexual orientation) in the LGBTQI community, there are generally three patterns: those who consistently identify as gay or lesbian, those who consistently identify as bi, and those who first identify as bi, and later as gay or lesbian (such as Elton John and George Michael). https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3215279/ "...At the individual level, we found three patterns of sexual identity over time: consistently gay/lesbian, transiting from bisexual to gay/lesbian, and consistently bisexual. Of the youths, 72% consistently identified as gay/lesbian or bisexual over time. This finding of consistency is similar to past research (Diamond, 2000: 70%), despite differences between the two samples on gender, ethnicity, recruitment site, and length of follow-up...". In my over 6 decades of life, and in my husband's over 3 decades of life, neither of us has ever met someone who's sexual orientation has actually changed during his life. We do know two couples who used to be Mormon, and face the prospect of ostracism from their Mormon communities if they ever came out as gay, make the difficult choice to identify as gay. However, they were always gay to begin with. Even leaders of the "conversion therapy" movement have often been unceremoniously outed as gay, even when they identified as straight, including this man: https://www.postandcourier.com/news/conversion-therapy-leader-for-2-decades-mckrae-game-disavows-movement-he-helped-fuel/article_fb56dcfc-c384-11e9-970d-bb9a2a8656c5.html "McKrae Game is gay. He was gay when he received counseling from a therapist who assured him he could overcome his same-sex attractions. He was gay when he married a woman and founded what would become one of the nation’s most expansive conversion therapy ministries. He was gay when thousands of people just like him sought his organization’s counsel, all with the goal of erasing the part of themselves Game and his associates preached would send them to hell. For two decades, he led Hope for Wholeness, a faith-based conversion therapy program in South Carolina’s Upstate. Conversion therapy is a discredited practice intended to suppress or eradicate a person's LGBTQ identity through counseling or ministry... “As former ex-gay leaders, having witnessed the incredible harm done to those who attempted to change their sexual orientation or gender identity, we join together in calling for a ban on conversion therapy,” they wrote in the letter. “It is our firm belief that it is much more productive to support, counsel, and mentor LGBTQ individuals to embrace who they are in order to live happy, well-adjusted lives.” “Conversion therapy is not just a lie, but it’s very harmful,” Game told The Post and Courier. “Because it’s false advertising.” Nearly 700,000 LGBTQ-identifying adults have undergone conversion therapy treatments or counseling, according to a 2018 study by UCLA’s Williams Institute. The various forms of conversion have been tied to emotional and psychological trauma for many, including depression, anxiety and thoughts of suicide. It’s been condemned by virtually every major medical group in the United States, including the American Psychological Association and the American Medical Association...". I've twice hired men who identified as straight, and have vowed to not make that mistake again. A sexual orientation cannot be faked or changed, any more than I could pretend to enjoy having sex with a woman.

Maybe it is for some people. I've personally never met such a person.