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  • Beans/SilentGeneration
    Beans/SilentGeneration replied to What invention doesn’t get a lot of love, but has greatly improved the world?:
    • 4 minutes ago
  • Walt O'Reagun
    Walt O'Reagun replied to In recognition of the UK's ban on memes, care to share your favorite?:
    I don't know how they would decide what broke copyright laws.At least in the US, you are allowed to use a limited amount of copyrighted material ... such as a picture from a movie ... under certain circumstances, which (IIRC) memes qualify under.
    • 6 minutes ago
  • Merlin
    Merlin replied to What invention doesn’t get a lot of love, but has greatly improved the world?:
    • 20 minutes ago
  • Merlin
    Merlin replied to What invention doesn’t get a lot of love, but has greatly improved the world?:
    HUGE GIGGLES!  Mine has placed an ad on Craigslist and in the local newspaper.  It is begging to be moved to another keyboard and adopted by another owner. :(I must say, my little delete button has seen better days.  I have used it, abused ...  more
    • 20 minutes ago
  • Merlin
    Merlin replied to What invention doesn’t get a lot of love, but has greatly improved the world?:
    I'm right there with ya Beans! :) :)
    • 34 minutes ago
  • Merlin
    Merlin replied to What invention doesn’t get a lot of love, but has greatly improved the world?:
    Absolutely!
    • 35 minutes ago
  • Merlin
    Merlin replied to How would you react if you found out things about your partner's sexual past that you were previously unaware of? :
    I like your statement about having the things you don't want to let go and enjoying life.  There are necessities and desires.  In my relationship, sex isn't just sex.  It is both a necessity and desire.  I have never thought of it as v...  more
    • 38 minutes ago
  • Pearl
    Pearl replied to Black folks here...Have you ever been pulled over for DWB? My brother-in-law has several times. :
    i dont blanne hinn for connplaining, that shouldnt have happened
    • 52 minutes ago
  • Merlin
    Merlin replied to How would you react if you found out things about your partner's sexual past that you were previously unaware of? :
    The Jenga comparison was  Right On!!  It's one of my favorite games. :) :)
    • 53 minutes ago
  • Beans/SilentGeneration
    Beans/SilentGeneration replied to What invention doesn’t get a lot of love, but has greatly improved the world?:
    The delete button...
    • 57 minutes ago
  • Beans/SilentGeneration
    Beans/SilentGeneration replied to What invention doesn’t get a lot of love, but has greatly improved the world?:
    • 59 minutes ago
  • officegirl
    officegirl replied to How would you react if you found out things about your partner's sexual past that you were previously unaware of? :
    Thank you for explaining JA.   I realize I have depended upon sex for personal validation and to some extent still do  even though I now have many other abilities, skills, achievements, and reasons to feel good about myself.  I guess I seek...  more
    • 1 hour ago
  • Kittigate
    Kittigate replied to What invention doesn’t get a lot of love, but has greatly improved the world?:
    Viagra
    • 1 hour ago
  • Element 99
    Element 99 replied to Black folks here...Have you ever been pulled over for DWB? My brother-in-law has several times. :
    Some cops are beyond hope.
    • 1 hour ago
  • Element 99
    Element 99 replied to Does calling things stupid around people make people ask what's smart about things then? :
    I only consider the word stupid as a human attribute. Things are neither stupid nor not stupid.
    • 1 hour ago
  • Beans/SilentGeneration
    Beans/SilentGeneration replied to Black folks here...Have you ever been pulled over for DWB? My brother-in-law has several times. :
    Yes, several times...  My Justice Department I.D. while on duty resolved the situation real fast.
    • 1 hour ago
  • officegirl
    officegirl replied to You wonder WHY women who are sexually abused don't come forward? Kav/super don adorers are attacking her. WHY?:
    Haha hardly an opportune time for impartiality.  We don't want none them attempted rapists in Washington!
    • 1 hour ago
  • Element 99
    Element 99 replied to Black folks here...Have you ever been pulled over for DWB? My brother-in-law has several times. :
    Correct.
    • 1 hour ago
  • Element 99
    Element 99 replied to Black folks here...Have you ever been pulled over for DWB? My brother-in-law has several times. :
    Driving while black. Very common  here. For instance, in this city you can't have anythink hanging from your rear view mirror. My wiife has never been pulled over for that. My brother-in-law has.
    • 1 hour ago
  • Just Asking
    Just Asking replied to How would you react if you found out things about your partner's sexual past that you were previously unaware of? :
    OG- I'm back in college in addition to work, my single mom duties, and being here. I come here several times a day to check on the site, but I don't usually comment due to lack of time/ pure exhaustion. As for the back-and-forth, you talk about start...  more
    • 1 hour ago
  • officegirl
    officegirl replied to You wonder WHY women who are sexually abused don't come forward? Kav/super don adorers are attacking her. WHY?:
    Doubt very much that many men are "taught" to rape.  A lot of it is I think men just use what they have at their disposal to get what they want.   Which of course we do as well.  Yes some men are turned on by violence and by victimizing us ...  more
    • 1 hour ago
  • Stu Bee
    Stu Bee replied to Bob Woodward said that he was unable to find evidence of collusion between Trump and the Russians in the 2016 election.:
    What part of no evidence of collusion is not clear? "Maybe a casual connection" is meaningless.
    • 1 hour ago
  • officegirl
    officegirl replied to When the only way they can survive is to lie, they lie. Whether t'is a SCOTUS nominee or a presidential candidate. Do you blame them? :
    Or when we have a gun to our head or know that otherwise we will lose what is dear to us?  Of course we lie to survive. Though you may choose to condemn us for not measuring up to whatever standards you want us to have.  We are not - not one of ...  more
    • 1 hour ago
  • Adaydreambeliever
    Adaydreambeliever replied to Black folks here...Have you ever been pulled over for DWB? My brother-in-law has several times. :
    Dunno what DWB is but stats here reveal that black people are more likely to be stopped and searched than white :(
    • 1 hour ago
  • Adaydreambeliever
    Adaydreambeliever replied to You wonder WHY women who are sexually abused don't come forward? Kav/super don adorers are attacking her. WHY?:
    It is an interesting subject isn't it.. very much to think about.. I think I meant allow as in... if so many women are abused and raped and so few, relatively speaking report, and fewer still get convicted, (that part's out of our control as you demonstra...  more
    • 1 hour ago
  • my2cents
    my2cents replied to You wonder WHY women who are sexually abused don't come forward? Kav/super don adorers are attacking her. WHY?:
    Okay, attempted rapists. An person who attempted to rape someone....that is what Mrs Ford is describing an attempted rape, would not go for 36 yrs without another victim of an attack. To me an attempted rapist is a rapist...but that is just semantics.&nbs...  more
    • 1 hour ago
  • Element 99
    Element 99 started a discussion:
    Black folks here...Have you ever been pulled over for DWB? My brother-in-law has several times.
    A cop here was harassing him and he complained to the police department. He received an apology.
    • 1 hour ago
  • officegirl
    officegirl replied to Do you have secrets? Things you will never share with anyone for any reason? Do you think we all do?:
    Not really "secrets" but rather I keep my personal affairs personal.  Except on the net - where no one  (or let's say very few) know who I am!
    • 1 hour ago
  • Adaydreambeliever
    Adaydreambeliever replied to When the only way they can survive is to lie, they lie. Whether t'is a SCOTUS nominee or a presidential candidate. Do you blame them? :
    Yep. I blame them.. because there's always a choice.. Someone, or even some people on here reminded me of that a while ago.. when I posted a question about people being corruptible. we all are, it's just the price or threat that determines whether or how ...  more
    • 1 hour ago
  • Merlin
    Merlin replied to do you charge your crystals under the full moon:
    I did on the Super Blood Blue Moon this January 31st.  I did again on March 31st on the second Blue Moon.  I don't every full moon.The moon does seem to charge Don up every month with or without the crystals. ;) :)
    • 1 hour ago
  • Adaydreambeliever
    Adaydreambeliever replied to Do you have secrets? Things you will never share with anyone for any reason? Do you think we all do?:
    You know.. I was always a very open person.. online and in person.. I'd tell anyone anything.. and believed that was the best way to be.. no secrets and no one can harm you.. but I learned, and this was relatively recently, within the last year, that actu...  more
    • 1 hour ago
  • Adaydreambeliever
    Adaydreambeliever replied to What is it the makes something your "favorite"? Whether it's shoes or clothes or kitchen gadgets or shop tools you always reach for it. WHY?:
    I think sometimes it's un-explainable... and dependant on the object/person etc.. I love all my felines.. but I have a favourite.. his name is Shadow.. and I love him because he is a black kitty and that has always been my favourite, I've had special cone...  more
    • 1 hour ago
  • Element 99
    Element 99 replied to Why aren't you here tonight?:
    Shopping for 'ms'
    • 1 hour ago
  • officegirl
    officegirl replied to You wonder WHY women who are sexually abused don't come forward? Kav/super don adorers are attacking her. WHY?:
    Oh thank you - that means a lot coming from you. Well the first time I did prosecute - in 1978.  I was a chambermaid in a motel and a man staying there btw with a woman surprised me in a utility closet and held me down. I heard him moving around in t...  more
    • 1 hour ago
  • Adaydreambeliever
    Adaydreambeliever replied to Opinions are cheap. A dime a dozen. TRUE real-life experiences can be very costly. Sometimes they break you. Ever been broken?:
    I've very nearly been broken a number of times... I am very fortunate that I was made with a survivor spirit ... I won't let things beat me but there have been times when it's been a pretty close run thing.. One of these was recently.. I truly felt as tho...  more
    • 1 hour ago
  • Adaydreambeliever
    Adaydreambeliever replied to Too many buy LIES THEY WANT TO HEAR and reject truths they don't. Are all humans similarly broken or just Americans?:
    To some extent this is a natural tendency.. but I do see it more in some areas than others.. as if some quarters are trained, indoctrinated, to believe certain things and this supersedes any quest for facts and learning about a situation, evaluating both ...  more
    • 1 hour ago
  • Adaydreambeliever
    Adaydreambeliever replied to In the San Fernando Valley going to TOMMY'S for chili/burgers was a "rite of passage" for teenage boys. What rite of passage did YOU honor?:
    Very boringly, I found opening my first bank account a rite of passage.. It seemed very intimidating, almost like for the first time I was an adult and had to start doing adult things.. I was 16 and had never had a bank account.. I am still with the same bank.
    • 1 hour ago
  • Adaydreambeliever
    Adaydreambeliever replied to Are kaleidoscope patterns infinite? Do they ever repeat themselves?:
    I'd assume they are not wholly infinite.. they can repeat.. but question is, would we notice..  I was always fascinated by them as a child. Heck I even loved looking at those my kids had :)
    • 2 hours ago
  • Adaydreambeliever
    Adaydreambeliever replied to "There there there. Don't worry your pretty little head. Everything will be alright. You will see". Crap right? How can ANYONE KNOW THAT?:
    Totally agree.. all those statements are well-meaning but they are belittling and also dis-empowering..  Often things won't be ok.. I get this said to me.. everything will be alright, or I hope things get better soon.. NO, they won't.. and it belittl...  more
    • 2 hours ago
  • Beans/SilentGeneration
    Beans/SilentGeneration replied to Bob Woodward said that he was unable to find evidence of collusion between Trump and the Russians in the 2016 election.:
    Maybe a Causal Connection - in law, a connection between the behavior and actions (or inaction) of a person and the consequences of such behavior or actions.
    • 2 hours ago
  • officegirl
    officegirl replied to In your opinion which profession attracts the most honorable honest ethical people? Can't think of even one?:
    None because those are personal rather than professional values. 
    • 2 hours ago
  • Nanoose
    Nanoose replied to You wonder WHY women who are sexually abused don't come forward? Kav/super don adorers are attacking her. WHY?:
    Well I think one of the many reasons is because they know that during the police investigation their dignity will be raped. - police will ask a lot of questions that suggest  that the victim had it coming to them or are lying. Cheers! 
    • 2 hours ago
  • officegirl
    officegirl replied to What features of town planning best encourage and support a sense of community?:
    I wouldn't say that comes from town planners but from people themselves. 
    • 2 hours ago
  • officegirl
    officegirl replied to Bob Woodward said that he was unable to find evidence of collusion between Trump and the Russians in the 2016 election.:
    No kidding.  Well I don't need Bob Woodward or any other journalist or whatever he is to tell me what I already know. 
    • 2 hours ago
  • officegirl
    officegirl replied to Why are some people so fascinated by and interested in politicians? :
    But then why can't we just vote for them - do you imagine that if I don't choose to make them the focus of my life then somehow I don't care?While perhaps not "wealthy" we do well and yes pay a lot in taxes.  And yes am offended by how it is used or ...  more
    • 2 hours ago
  • Thriftymaid
    Thriftymaid replied to What features of town planning best encourage and support a sense of community?:
    You can't make community; it happens.  Build houses and people will make them homes and create communities.  You also can't make two people friends.  It happens by itself.
    • 2 hours ago
  • Pearl
    Pearl replied to Bob Woodward said that he was unable to find evidence of collusion between Trump and the Russians in the 2016 election.:
    not sure
    • 2 hours ago
  • Pearl
    Pearl replied to Why aren't you here tonight?:
    i was busy with sonnething else
    • 2 hours ago
  • Pearl
    Pearl replied to What invention doesn’t get a lot of love, but has greatly improved the world?:
    people
    • 2 hours ago
  • Thriftymaid
    Thriftymaid replied to What features of town planning best encourage and support a sense of community?:
    Who are your working for?
    • 2 hours ago