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I'd hope that it's only a matter of time before Vietnam drops visa requirements for western countries. Certainly, the US has become extremely friendly with Vietnam, as we see their labor force to be a useful counterbalance towards China, and we align more with Vietnam politically as well, as the PRC takes aggressive postures in the South China Sea. The US has formal military ties with the Philippines, but would probably also side with Vietnam if there were any disputes with them as well. If the PRC keeps sinking Philippine coast guard ships, maybe the US could strike an alliance with Vietnam to counter PRC belligerence... https://www.rfa.org/english/news/vietnam/vietnamese-chinese-encounter-eez-03272023054137.html https://www.cbsnews.com/news/philippines-china-sea-conflict-us-role-60-minutes/

Wow. Looking at that man's internet footprint, he certainly seems fixated about this subject, for some reason. 🙄Yes, it is true that a sexual act in an of itself doesn't define a person's sexual orientation. Obviously, if a man has sex with another man for purely financial gain (escorting, porn flics, etc.), and he's fantasizing about a woman while having sex with men, yes, he's straight. However, if a man actually enjoys sex with other men (and isn't fantasizing about a woman while having sex with another man), then he's either bi or gay. He may be more on the straight spectrum of bisexuality, but he's bisexual nonetheless. It may be that most people are bisexual to some extent, and that my (and a majority of my friends) being gay is far more unusual than bisexuality. Speaking for myself, there's is no way I could get aroused by a woman, though I might be able to fantasize about a man and perform if I had to (haven't tried so far). And, once again, how a person "self-identifies," or presents himself to others, is not the same as his actual sexual orientation (which may be a mystery, even to him).

French pole vaulter costume.

Dear, you know that going onto irrelevant drunken stories means that you have no arguments on the merits of the dispute... 😁

Maybe you only have one head, but it seems to me that you're the one who's drinking too much, with your irrelevant stories. All of these heads are drinking on the job... https://www.the-sun.com/news/7777506/russian-soldiers-drunk-ukraine-fight/

As I mentioned in a prior post further up the string, the approved methods, aside from the medications, are the penile injections, the urethral suppository (MUSE), and the vacuum/constriction devices (such as ErecAid). Obviously, penile prostheses will also work 100% of the time, and there are various of them (some provide a fixed erection, and others can be controlled using a pump). Penile injections are over 95% effective. I've never come across someone for whom it didn't work.

Well, I hope that this testosterone level you're mentioning is at least a total testosterone level (not the best level to follow), and not a free testosterone level (the level one should be following to monitor response to treatment). Even if it's your total testosterone level which is over 1300, that's significantly above physiological (normal) levels. This is potentially hazardous and could lead to complications, especially polycythemia, an increase in hemoglobin which leads to increased blood viscosity ("thickness"), which increases the risk of blood clots (including strokes or heart attacks). I hope they're following your hemoglobin. Bremelanotide has shown efficacy in improving sexual desire in premenopausal women. It is not a treatment for ED, and certainly not approved for use in men: https://medlineplus.gov/druginfo/meds/a619054.html#:~:text=Bremelanotide injection should not be,or to improve sexual performance. "...Bremelanotide injection is used to treat women with hypoactive sexual desire disorder (HSDD; a low sexual desire that causes distress or interpersonal difficulty) who have not experienced menopause (change of life; the end of monthly menstrual periods); who have not had problems with low sexual desire in the past; and whose low sexual desire is not due to a medical or mental health problem, a relationship problem, or medication or other drug use. Bremelanotide injection should not be used for the treatment of HSDD in women who have gone through menopause, in men, or to improve sexual performance...". https://www.mayoclinic.org/drugs-supplements/bremelanotide-subcutaneous-route/side-effects/drg-20466805?p=1 "...Women who have gone through menopause and men should not use bremelanotide. Do not use this medicine to improve sexual performance...". Shockwave treatment for ED is still considered experimental. I would definitely not consider videos put out by a clinic which makes money from selling such treatment as "evidence" of this treatment's efficacy. There are plenty of approved and extremely effective treatments for ED. If free testosterone levels are low, then returning the levels to physiological levels can be helpful. Exceeding those levels is dangerous. Why mess with unapproved (by the FDA) treatments, when there are approved treatments which work for virtually all men?

The only monkeypox cases on the planet as of this time are in central and east Africa.

With targets this easy, maybe we won't have to worry about pickpockets in the future? Why bother pickpocketing when you can just ask and have people show you their money?

I have a friend who seemed to gain a paunch during 2020/early 2021, and I remember thinking "Oh, too bad. But he's still such a nice guy, maybe it doesn't matter for him." I quietly noticed that he lost the weight over the following year, and thought "Good for him. He went back to his pre-pandemic weight." Well, we had him over for dinner the other night, and he asked if I'd lost weight recently. I said "Maybe a bit, but you sure did a great job losing the weight you gained during the pandemic!". Then he said something I didn't expect: "Oh, I did that intentionally so I could get a BBL." "What's that?" I asked, and he and my husband replied simultaneously "Brazilian Butt Lift"! Apparently, there are people who intentionally gain fat, so that they can get the fat injected in their gluteal regions! I must say, I never noticed his ass before. I probably won't have another pool party until next summer, so I'll have to check it out then. I've never heard of this before. Have any of you previously heard of others (or yourself) who gained weight in order to have the fat transferred to their buttocks? Even by LA standards, that seems pretty extreme. He said he saw a celebrity leave right before he had the BBL performed on him.

Now, wouldn't that be just awful. 😄 (well, maybe for Putin)

Well, at least some Russians have courage. We should have put a booby trap in the head of the prisoner we exchanged for Kara-Murza. If Kara-Murza gets assassinated while in asylum in the US, we detonate the explosive in our former prisoner's head. That's the only way Putin can understand.

I saw this in the movie theater yesterday, and could hardly believe it was written and directed by FFC. I found the story and the dialog fairly inane. I found myself frequently looking at my watch, wondering if the movie was going to get better, and when it would end. It didn't get better. The audience seemed to laugh quite a bit. I thought it was because they found the dialog ridiculous, but quite a few clapped at the end, which surprised me. Maybe those audience members were in the movie industry? FFC apparently sunk a massive quantity of his own fortune, and even had to pay out of his own pocket to make sure the film was distributed, because otherwise no distribution company wanted to do it. Surprisingly, it got 49% on Rotten Tomatoes, so it seems someone out there likes it. Did any of you enjoy it?

Yesterday, we went to a restaurant which had two bathrooms, both just individual single-use rooms. I didn't see the point of it, but one was marked male and one female. The male one was busy for 5 minutes, and I almost went into the women's one, when an employee came out, looking a little embarrassed. I didn't hear the toilet flushing, so I suspect he wasn't using the bathroom for its intended purpose. I gave him a bit of a glare. With single-use rooms, I don't see a point, other than potentially preventing two women from clogging up both rooms, when a man wants to do #1. I wouldn't have felt badly about using the one marked "women," since I was only there for #1, so wouldn't have been in for even 2 minutes.

It depends on what they complain about. If the women complain that the man acted inappropriately, he should be confronted. If he dressed as a woman, and was obviously just trying to blend in, and she was just being a bitch, then you might explain that the women's room includes those who were assigned male at birth, but identify as women.

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?