MsGuy

A very New York love story, or so it seems to this very rural redneck. Enjoyed your post, Paragon. Thank you for taking the trouble.

Way to go, Gap!!

A boiling water enema? I'd have to ask for a 2nd opinion first. ==== I recall the Persians used to do something similar in way back times. I'm pretty sure it wasn't a medical treatment though.

Are we limiting this to legitimate actors or are porn stars included? I hate to think of all the time I've wasted watching really bad porn actors.

Jeez. One little thing goes wrong and there's always somebody rushing out to demand an exorcism. Why not try a little exemplary discipline on the programmers first?

Seems I must have been in my late teens before I discovered the English say biscuit when they really mean cookie. Come to think of it, I still don't know what they call a real biscuit. Surely they don't just conflate the two! And why do they put milk in perfectly good tea? Or just drink coffee, like real people? Daffy knobs, the lot of them.

Playing with their food?

With any luck at all, Darwinian selection will kick in before they reach breeding age.

Just a heads up that this season's Downton Abbey cranks into gear Sunday, Jan. 5, 9:00 pm Eastern. Also the reason they killed off the heir apparent Matthew Crawley in last year's auto accident is that the actor found better employment elsewhere. I really couldn't figure that one out since it left so many story lines dead in the water. Stupid me, I guess it's obvious once they tell you. http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/tv/downton-abbey-season-4-premiere-review-slow-grief-stricken-start-1.6701598

Good point, wayout, but I'm not sure that really qualifies as a legitimate 'tackle'. More like he caught the returner within a foot of the sideline and managed to bump him out of bounds by throwing a shoulder block on him. I bet McAfee was a real football player in high school! Seriously, the defining characteristic of an American football player is his taste for violence. Every single one I've ever known on a personal level has waxed poetic about the thrill of plowing into somebody hard enough to scramble his innards (& has taken pride in his ability to get his own innards scrambled and pop up and keep on playing). The PC word for all this is "physical". Whenever you hear a sports commentator yapping joyfully about a physical team, a physical game, a physical play, just substitute the word violent. Works every time. So punters and kickers are deemed "defenseless" even after they've performed their specialist function. They just aren't up to the hits real football players take every game. LOL, if they were, they wouldn't be kicking and punting, they'd be out there playing football with the rest of the guys.

I can't say that I recall anyone connected to the national security apparatus expressing any shame for their activities. They do seem to be extraordinarily pissed off about having to talk publicly about it. Not the same thing.

Be sure to read the comments too. Like many of this type of article, the commentary from readers add a lot to the context of the main message.

Nobody that writes a book titled Beautifully Unique Sparkleponies is a football player. No way. Not even if it were an 'as told to' book which apparently Kluge's is not. He's a punter, not the same thing at all. No seriously, it's not the same. It's even recognized in the official NFL rulebook that a punter isn't really a football player. Real football players aren't allowed to touch him. LOL, even if some addled punter is trying to tackle (giggle, snort) a punt returner, nobody is allowed to block him out. I guess it's kind of like one of those Civil War stories you read about where some battle fogged idiot is riding up and down between the lines waving his sword and nobody has the heart to shoot the fool out of the saddle. Don't get me wrong, I recognize that punters are athletes because clearly they are, just not football type athletes.

So Bennie Bratton's answer to the oncoming Singularity is to give more attention (& funds?) to him and his deep thinking friends and wait for them to sort it all out? Or did I miss something? I think I'd rather go to one of those TED meetings. At least they're entertaining.

Some guys are really really dangerous to be around. Some will kill you with no warning; some will kill you for no particular reason; some will kill you because it's just a little bit more convenient to kill you than not kill you. I have personally represented some of these guys and have reliable knowledge of others. I give you my word of honour, there are men in this world you don't want wandering around loose. (Women too, I would guess, but I have no direct knowledge or experience with any.) A lot of those confinements are not justifiable, they're just casual brutality. Ignorant politicians pandering to people who don't really care and don't want to know the reality of prison life. It's not their brother, son, father right? Still, what are we to do with the really dangerous guys, men too dangerous to be walking around loose in the general prison population?

Evolution still wins (60% vs 55%) but gay marriage is coming up fast, at least according to the latest polls. http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/12/30/us-usa-poll-evolution-idUSBRE9BT0LC20131230 Since belief in the Darwinian heresy seems to have stalled out at about 60% and gay marriage is still rolling right along, we should pass Darwin sometime on the early 2020s. If you factor out the 1/4 of pro-evolution opinion that holds that evolution is divinely guided, we've already lapped the field. Yea for us, I guess, but I'm not sure what all that says about our fellow citizens. On the brighter side, the Flat Earthers seem to have abandoned the field of battle.

Thanks for the link, EXPAT. I suspect most of us are like me, saw the news clips but had no knowledge of the back story.

Oh Jeesus, I'm still laughing. Loved it. I only regret my local grocers don't stock high fibre Haynes Baked Beans. Made my day, lookin.

Interesting metaphor, lookin. I never thought of it in terms of two way transparency. Peeping us is all well and good but they sure get their panties in a knot if we put an eye on their keyhole. Oddly enough, the same advanced tech that makes us so naked to their gaze would make it possible, for the first time since hunter/gatherers, for human governance to be transparent to the governed. If only they wanted it. Or, maybe better put, if only we insisted. Hey, look at you.

You can natter on all you want about McDonalds but the slow food at my local coffee shop/truck stop makes McD's look like a tofu bar on Telegraph Avenue. At least Micky D makes the franchisees keep the facilities reasonably clean. You talking about me? Yeah, Harry, it always has to be about you, doesn't it! Shut it, guys! Just once I'd like to take a dump in peace.

Paragon, if you aren't planning to visit Thailand, by all means please feel welcome to speak your mind. Being ill informed never stopped any of us from staking out a position before. Sure as hell never stopped me! But if you're thinking about a trip to Bangkok, you might want to watch your mouth when you speak of the King. Thailand's lese majeste laws are draconian by Western standards. Please note that Oz, who is hardly a shrinking violet (& who is our go to guy on all things Thai), has maintained a discreet silence. Hell, he hasn't even posted any more pictures of his Thai BF.

I hear now-a-days the cool kids swear by Rohypnol, TY. Personally, I recommend roofies but I'm a stick in the mud. Real old-timers over at the assisted living place mumble some jingle about liquor and/or candy. It's hard to see how that could be very reliable, so consider the source on that one.

OMG! OMG! OMG! Is that really me? I mean I'm not photo-shopped or something am I? Guess I gotta be more careful about letting guys I don't know buy me drinks.

Davy talks a good game but I can't recall him ever showing the full monty.

After a 3 day search, poor Oz is found crushed under a toppled pile of happiness.