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| 08-25-10 02:00pm - 5233 days | #14 | |
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Wittyguy (0)
Active User  Posts: 1,138 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
I think if anything, despite all the anti-immigrant Tea Party blowhards as of late, Europe does have a harder time dealing with Muslim immigrants. A lot of the muslim people here are converts or second generation immigrants. Europe has been pretty homogeneous both racially and culturally for so long that it becomes difficult to accept an sudden influx of foreigners. Another problem Europe in general has is that there is still a lot of issues dealing with social class. In America, at least there is the myth that anyone can become anything they want to if you work hard enough. Most of the immigrants who come here legally buy into this and usually become "Americanized" within a generation. Europe has problems because a lot of career roads are blocked to immigrants due the need to graduate from the "right schools" or have the "right pedigree" to succeed. A big part of the violent immigrant protests in France a few years ago was that they were basically shoved into modern ghettos on the outskirts of France and the government / French society just ignored them by giving them second class schooling and no jobs or job training. The result is that the French got a bunch of angry young second generation immigrants who weren't accepted and integrated into the mainstream and who were facing a future without a lot of hope. The Euros aren't doing themselves any favors by passing laws against women wearing hijabs in public, criminalizing some types of supposed radical speech, or limiting the construction of mosques. All this does in further entrench and alienate the same culture your trying to integrate with. Lastly, Europe has never really had to deal with "race" as an issue. We've been dealing with since the Civil War and it still gets discussed and played out quite a bit today. Because Europe has been so homogeneous for so long (I'm ignoring that little Serb vs. Croat thing here) they now have to face up to the fact that racism is a problem; one that they're still grappling with. Good luck over there. | |
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| 08-24-10 01:39pm - 5234 days | #5 | |
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Wittyguy (0)
Active User Posts: 1,138 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
This summer's version of the "Balloon Boy" fiasco is the current Ground Zero Mosque march of misinformation. The only thing the controversy is good for is giving Fox news something to blather on about besides the run-up to the Fall election. In my humble opinion; "BUILD THE DAMN THING AND BE DONE WITH IT" (although it most likely won't get built because they don't have enough money on hand to secure financing ... America gets it's revenge). I will disclose that I live on the opposite end of the country, have been in NY for a grand total of a few hours and don't know anyone who was part of 9/11. Even if this weren't the case I'd still support it. Why? 1. Because nothing says desecration of hallowed ground more than moving into an abandoned Burlington coat factory building. The proposed mosque is two blocks away from the WTC area in a less than glamorous section of Manhattan that has a lot of strip clubs and other "unsavory" businesses in the area. Let's get real, isn't it really more of a desecration to rebuild on the site with tall office towers, essentially building upon a grave site for all those vaporized in the aftermath. No one's complaining much about commerce and the powers that be going on with business and signing up future tenants for the space. 2. Because they were already there before all this crap started. The groups seeking to build has previously used the space for prayer before all this got started. Things just blew up when they sought a building permit. I guess as long as you don't advertise your faith or take down the old "Coat Factory Grand Liquidation Sale" signs you're OK. 3. Because it's not just a "mosque". The proposal is to build a community center with a fitness center, study rooms and other amenities; it's not just a house of prayer. Giving young people something to do or a means to get off the street apparently doesn't cut it anymore? 4. Because it just serves as a means of diminishing ourselves. We all say we like the first amendment but apparently that all ends when something you don't like pops up in your own backyard (although you don't hear much about the possible mosque neighbors, just the rest of the country). All this does is make us look like hypocrits to the rest of the world and serves as great p.r. and fund raising fodder for actual muslim radicals and terror groups. 5. Because it's nothing more than a campaign of fear mongering. The imam who would lead the mosque has frequently been held up a nice, commonsense guy (even by the same Fox News idiots who now claim he's a terrorist) who has been sent on muslim outreach junkets by the US government. The Daily Show has been rightfully unmerciless in exposing a lot of the fantasy and hypocrisy involved in this (here's a great little article about "terror funding" for the mosque ... that would actually be coming from Fox's parent company second largest shareholder). If any of the supposed terrorism stuff were true I'd be against it but really the whole anti-mosque dialogue has been hijacked by the right wing nut jobs looking for something to fire up the idiots who don't know any better. 6. Because it's not disrespectful. As I noted in another thread, do people get bent out of shape if a catholic church is situated near a playground or school? Timothy McVeigh said he was a Christian but would anyone object to a church being built near the Oklahoma City federal courthouse? The anti-mosque argument just serves to equate a religion with the acts of a radical minority. It's sort of like the ethnic cleansing genocides in the Balkans and in Africa; "you must die because your ancestors came from somewhere else". To say that someone is responsible for the sins of someone they've never met and have never had any indirect contact with is nothing more than basic bigotry. If some group wants to build a house of prayer and community center and contribute to the neighborhood and community, who cares. Just because some sadistic jihadists committed a large scale act of terror doesn't mean that those associated with their religion cannot meet and pray because some people think it's disrespectful. The first amendment gives you the right to express your opinion; it does not give you hecklers veto power over any perceived slight. Historically, religions of all types have too often served as the fuel for starting and justifying horrific acts against other people. If someone wants to promote the good and decent side of their religion why is that disrespectful? Actually, I have to cede ground to Charlton Heston (in his NRA wingnut days) who gives a wonderful and concise argument about why the hysteria over this situation is unwarranted. Here's the clip (start at about 7:15 into into it to hear him). Edited on Aug 24, 2010, 02:08pm | |
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| 08-23-10 08:10pm - 5235 days | #21 | |
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Wittyguy (0)
Active User Posts: 1,138 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
Congress can't actually shorten the campaign timetable (that little thing called the 1st Amendment sort of gets in the way). The only thing they could possibly do is pass a law stating when presidential and congressional primaries will take place and then hope the states agree to go along with it and that it passes constitutional muster. The odds of this actually happening? 0.0% It's a total screwball process (no other country has this hodgepodge eternal election season) that we have but I guess it works. The length of the campaign (basically 18 months to 2 years) just makes the candidates have to raise all the more money. On the other hand, the extended process weeds out the screwballs (they can't raise enough money, including Sarah Palin) and it puts candidates under the spotlight long enough that if they are screwballs you start to figure it out. The only good thing about extended campaigns is that people who are relatively unknown can break into the process, thus reducing the chances of political dynasties that so many other countries have from forming. Obama, Clinton, Carter wouldn't have been elected in a short campaign. It's just that with the 24 hour news cycle and the need to raise a freakin' billion dollars to run successfully we get to suffer through the eternal nonsense just to watch the clueless minority (swing voters who couldn't find their own ass with both hand) in a couple of states decide the outcome.  | |
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| 08-22-10 08:41pm - 5236 days | #18 | |
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Wittyguy (0)
Active User Posts: 1,138 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
I think that Sims and Buffett should offer cash prizes for a bunch of unemployed middle age, heavy set gay guys to run naked through the stock exchange. Spain has the running of the bulls, we'll have the running of the bears (what better way to stimulate the economy than through trickle down economics). | |
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| 08-19-10 12:39pm - 5239 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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Wittyguy (0)
Active User Posts: 1,138 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
Apparently, some billionaire is taking pity on the rest of us fools and offering us the chance to live a life of luxury ... albeit in a federal prison hospital paralyzed after being shot by the secret service. All you have to do is get someone to videotape you running naked in front Obama with the words "Battlecam.com" printed on your stomach. A small price to pay for money and immortal fame ... to go along with your wheelchair. Here's the article: http://business.avn.com/articles/Billion...nt-Obama-408602.html. | |
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| 08-18-10 12:20am - 5241 days | #28 | |
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Wittyguy (0)
Active User Posts: 1,138 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
Man, what a pathetic excuse for a list. The best one was about them only knowing Fergie as a popstar, not a princess. Overall, it simply reaffirms everyone's understanding of what happens when college professors try to riff on pop culture (it's commonly called "silence ... followed by the sound of two nerds laughing"). If only Wittyguy's probation officer let him move out from under his bridge (at least I got bitchin' wi-fi reception here) and rightfully assume his place as the Chair of the Marvin Gaye Professorship of Sexual Healing and Women's Studies at Beloit college, then this list would get one hell of a lot better. Oh hell. Why wait for the horns of the Apocalypse to sound, here's WITTYGUY'S MINDSET / FUN FACTS LIST FOR THE COLLEGE CLASS OF 2014: The Class of 2014: 1. Has never had a cell phone they couldn't fit in their pocket. 2. Knows that there really is nothing to do in Canada since Messmer and Pat362 can't seem to find anything else to do but log post after post in the PU forum. 3. Believes that Taylor Swift actually wrote "Romeo and Juliet". 4. Learned in science class that "Homo Hypocritus" is a primitive form of man most often found in a compromising position while acting as a politician or clergyman. 5. Unanimously agreed to name their first born child "Drooler". 6. Knows that a pornstar becomes a MILF once she's made 20 videos or has turned 24. 5. Now only wears lingerie when sexting pictures of themselves just to get Messmer, Squirrel and WeeWillyWinky to shut up about the topic. 6. Keeps waiting for Chef Boyardee to appear on an episode of Iron Chef. 7. Coined the phrase "A BP-DP" to mean a porn star who starts uncontrollably squirting lube during a sex scene. 8. Believes that Johnny Cash's song "Ring of Fire" is really about gay sex with hemorrhoids. 9. Recognizes Wittyguy's avatar from their elementary school "Stranger Danger" talks. 10. No longer uses cliche phrases when having sex. Instead they yell out "Rah-rah-ah-ah-ah! Roma-Roma-ma-ah! Ga-ga-ooh-la-la!". 11. Will be the first generation to be able to automatically file for divorce just by changing their Facebook relationship status. 12. Thinks that BadAndy's ability to download 3 terabytes of crap per month to be pretty awesome ... for a day of mindless surfing. 13. Will be completely fucked if they ever come across a real vampire or wizard. 14. Defines "masturmastication" as a lengthy and epic review on PU. 15. Was more scared of the catholic church across from their childhood playground than the idea of mosque being built near Ground Zero. 16. Is more likely to have been conceived in a test tube than in the back seat of a car. 17. Often mistakes Khan for one of the ZZ Top guys. 18. Really likes Barack Obama's "Yes We Can!" slogan until they read the fine print ("because generation 'Y' will pay for it"). 19. 18% of them have had sex with Tiger Woods, Jesse James or Ben Rothlesberger (2% with all three). 20. Is waiting for Squirrel to burst his nuts over the next favorable Brazzers review. 21. Uses the phrase "I got Madoffed" to mean that some sleek looking porn site ripped them off. 22. Thinks that Capn is a BFF of Lindsay Lohan because his location is "near the beer". 23. Only understands the phrase "Greek Style" to mean an economy that takes it in the ass and expects its neighbors to clean up the mess. 24. Ranks Paul the Octopus ahead of Albert Einstein as the world's greatest mind. 25. Placed Mbaya at number 126 (ahead of any Nobel laureate but behind Dr. Ruth) on their list of PILFs (professors I'd like to fuck). 26. Knows that pimpin' ain't easy but still can't make change without looking at the cash register display. 27. Doesn't realize that they are 99.99% more likely to become a pornstar than a member of Congress ... meaning they're more likely to take it in the ass than give it to us. 28. Will be declared a universally disabled generation by the time they turn 30 after listening to too much loud music on their i-pods and watching too much porn on cell phone screens. 29. Sees nothing wrong in using the phrase "Man, I'd kill for an OJ right now." 30. Have voted more times in one round of American Idol than the number of times they'll actually vote in elections. 31. Understands the phrase "Bieber Believer" to mean someone who thinks they're hot shit but can't auto-tune themselves in real life. 32. Ranks the Jonas Brothers, LeBron James decision and cancellation of The Hills as the three greatest tragedies that have occurred in their lifetime. 33. Defines "Turboshafting" to mean the multitasking art of pounding out witticisms while pounding one out. 34. Thinks that when a road sign says "Speed Bumps Ahead" that they have to slow down in order to ogle some chicks ass. 35. Believes that a "snuff film" is just a couple chicks swapping chewing tobacco in a sex scene. 36. Will be trying to figure out WTF we're doing in Afghanistan and Iraq when one of their classmates gets elected President. 37. Laughs when grandma talks about "duck and cover" drills during the cold war era; thinking that she was practicing putting a condom on a guy with her mouth. 38. Have never joined PU because because there's no app for that. 39. Voted RagingBuddhist as being "Most Likely to Go Totally Kanye" at the next PU Forum Awards.. 40. Becomes extremely aroused when Dirty Harry says "Go ahead, punk, make my day" because they've only seen it as a porn parody. 41. Doesn't realize that their ass antler tattoos are going to look more like roadkill in 20 years. 42. Only know a Snuggie to be a cuddly blanket, not a vicious school yard attack where someone yanks your underwear over your head. 43. Will never procreate because they know that every sex act ends with a cum shot on the girls face.  Edited on Aug 18, 2010, 12:27am | |
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| 08-17-10 03:37pm - 5241 days | #9 | |
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Wittyguy (0)
Active User Posts: 1,138 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
Most of the "hymen replacement kits" are done for women who live in patriarchal societies. The only person I can think of (beyond the religious freaks) who would want to marry a virgin are those who know they suck in bed and don't want their other half to realize what they're missing. In a 21st century world, this is really more of an issue in economics. For a procedure that costs a few hundred bucks (which is a lot of dough in China), presumably only women who have the smarts to get a decent a job can afford this. This means that they're looking to marry some douchebag who: 1) Wants a virgin because that's what his grandpa said he got for the dowry price of 2 pigs and a chicken; and 2) Presumably has some economic or social class clout that will benefit the woman and her future offspring (if it were "true love", the first requirement wouldn't be necessary). Thus, all she is doing is spending some money to pass along a white lie to pass the first condition in order to reap the future rewards (real or imagined) that she envisions. In societies that mostly treat women as second class citizens, this is the game that gets played when women of at least some means get hitched with men of means. Given the out of whack ratio of men to women in China, I would expect this type of surgery to disappear in most parts of the country as women realize they are worth a lot more due to simple scarcity except for the guys who are really rich or powerful.. | |
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| 08-13-10 03:28pm - 5245 days | #15 | |
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Wittyguy (0)
Active User Posts: 1,138 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
Net Neutrality Primer: Rather than starting another thread on a technical topic, I'll just toss it in here. Recently, there's been a lot of talk about "net neutrality" and whether or not the government should pass rules or laws that permit companies to restrict the flow of data over their internet connections (aka - pay to play) or be required to treat all information equally and stream everything at the same rate (aka - net neutrality). The US government is currently trying to figure this after getting slapped down in court earlier this year with the judge telling them that the feds can't regulate the internet under existing communications laws. In an attempt to hash out some sort of compromise solution, the feds recently engaged in private talks with some of the big internet boys. Google and Verizon created a big to-do earlier this week by offering up their plan that calls for ISP's operating in the traditional world of broad band be required to follow net neutrality principals while wireless networks and future technologies be exempt. Mmmm, I wonder who might benefit the most from this concept? All sorts of other groups have their own ideas about what the internet of the next decade or so should look like so here's the minibar version of what's going on: Advocates of net neutrality (mostly consumer groups) argue that this principle basically preserves the status quo: meaning that if you're on the internet you can go to most any website and view it or download as fast as your service lets you. No discrimination. The corporate big wigs want to be able to charge different rates for speeds in the future and, conceivably, create a "pay to play" system where websites have to pay the ISP's in order for customers to view at first class speeds as opposed to whatever the ISP decides to bottleneck them into. The net neutrality folks say following the corporate model is discrimination, that it will cut out the little guys and entrepreneurs, and will just line the pockets of the ISP's by not forcing them to upgrade their services, charging more for less, and by continuing arbitrary download limits. The corporate types say that net neutrality will cost everyone more because they would have to accommodate the bandwidth hogs the same as the casual surfer which is going to cost a lot more. People with I-Phones in NY and SF already lose service because the cell towers can't handle the data, now imagine the cost being passed along to everyone when the upgrades have to go nationwide. By paying for "fast lane access" only the consumers who demand lots of speed and access have to foot the bill. The corporate dudes also argue that buy forcing businesses to pay for their site to be "fast accessible" that it will save consumers money. They also argue that competition (if you live in an area that actually has ISP competition) will keep prices low. The truth, as usual, is somewhere in between. First, the idea that there even is something like traditional broadband vs. wireless internet is out of date. How do you even tell one from another, especially if an ISP offers coverage in several different formats. That's really a misnomer, especially in the years to come. The truth is that big business stands to come out ahead the more control that they are able to retain control over the net and net access. This is not a zero sum game whereby the consumer must lose but you can bet that the more any business can control access the bigger the premium you'll end up paying. The net neutrality people are also a bit off. Currently, many ISP's do some limited form of access, either with tiered pricing for download limits or slowing down some of the bit-torrent goons who suck up inordinate amounts of bandwidth. So far the world hasn't ended. Going on a pure net neutrality model would definitely cost the consumer a lot more since the upgrade costs for infrastructure would be huge. Also, we're already used to the idea of tiered systems (see cable/satellite tv) and the idea of people paying more for more or better access. The internet will also become more unequal as more original content sites like newspapers start creating paywalls (it's not just for porn any more). Even if net neutrality were made the law of the land, it is doubtful that Congress could come up with adequate wording that could fully regulate such a complex and chaotic world as the internet (everyone enjoys debating the finer points of legalese and tech jargon together ... especially when many congressmen can't even figure out email). Lastly, a lot of arguments both for and against net neutrality are based on "what if" models (the "pay to play" feature is just a guess, not guaranteed to happen) and theories about how the web might evolve in the future. Good luck with all that. Personally, I think the issue is being made into a bigger battle than what is really at stake. For most of us, the final outcome probably won't matter much and I would guess that we'll end up with rules that probably perpetuate the status quo and probably lean towards net neutrality for wireless as well as older delivery systems. Party on. | |
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| 08-13-10 02:12pm - 5245 days | #10 | |
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Wittyguy (0)
Active User Posts: 1,138 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
Here's my list of why porn vids are still around (The 5 "I" Monster ... as opposed to the One Eyed Monster): 1) Idiots: Either people don't know how or are too scarred they'll get ripped off if they try and download porn from the internet (obviously Pornusers needs to improve their marketing campaign). This category are also includes the people who haven't figured out their finances to the point of being able to get a debit/credit card that they can use online. 2) Impulse: Some people don't want to take the time to sift through websites and trying to figure out what they want. It's just easier and faster to walk in, browse for a few moments and go home and spank the night away. 3. Internet: Some people don't have internet access at home even though they may use it for work or else they have a slow crappy internet connection in which case downloading just isn't much of an option. 4. Image Size: I think a very small minority is obsessed with watching all the action on their "Average American Body Sized" (e.g. - 52" across) tv and they know even some HD porn sites can't deliver the kind of clarity that they want. 5. It's What You Know or Want: Some people just started watching porn on cd/dvd and have never shifted over to, or liked, downloading. Also, not everything on DVD is on the internet. For those who like their particular pornstars, if you want to see their newest stuff you gotta buy the box, not the online membership. Edited on Aug 13, 2010, 02:18pm | |
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| 08-13-10 02:00pm - 5245 days | #37 | |
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Wittyguy (0)
Active User Posts: 1,138 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
Shifting back to my original point, that text speak isn't the end of the world - just a possible omen of it, the real danger is technology that has driven text speak. The whole news cycle (or lack thereof any more), the video game / porn / you-tube / internet crazed masses, the hundreds of other distractions (isn't multitasking pretty much mandatory today); all of this eats away at what has been defined as "civilization". It is a society that is fed by the eternal search for something new, novel and now; not the bigger questions. Here's a quote from TheAtlantic.com regarding a possible post literate future (although his reference to masturbation is somewhat amusing if not cryptic): "Streams -- on AM radio, CNN, Ustream, or some future platform -- are products of seconds; they reflect the passions and occupations of a moment. Perhaps valuable in their own way, necessary for some things, but deeply attached to an instant. Streams say, "This is." They rarely have time to ask, "Why is this?" And they never seem to have time to answer that question. Books are objects defined by how much time it takes to craft them -- and to consume them. They cannot be taken in at a glance. They are the distillation of many moments and states of consciousness for writer and reader alike. They slow us down and hold us steady. Books are technologies, too, and if we look at them that way, we should be amazed at how "sticky" they are, despite their lack of social media integration and bulkiness. As things, they have endured for hundreds of years while the rest of our technological society changed around them. We measure technologies by the maxim, "Does it work?" Books have worked. The stream destroys what is most precious about a literate population: the ability to briefly stand alone outside time and social relations, to have an inner life. Berkeley historian Thomas Laqueur has persuasively argued that it was the rise of books that created pervasive societal interest in and fear of masturbation, the ultimate private pleasure, the "solitary vice." Masturbation, as we know it, began in 1712, he famously argued, and it was inextricably bound to reading (or to print literacy, we might say). The slowness of books, the habits of mind they build, Shteyngart suggests, may be a key to knowing what it's like to be inside oneself, not part of the crowd or the audience or Twitterverse. "Reading is difficult," Lenny says to Eunice. "People just aren't meant to read anymore. We're in a post-literate age. You know, a visual age." | |
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| 08-10-10 02:33pm - 5248 days | #6 | |
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Wittyguy (0)
Active User Posts: 1,138 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
OMG! The walls of civilization are crumbling around us Given that the civilized world has been slowly dying since prohibition was lifted, girls started wearing skirts above the knee and kids started listening to Elvis, I think we'll probably survive this current over-democratization of the written word. Slang (like "My bad") has always been part of language and it's often how new words and ideas get started before becoming co-opted into the "standard" vernacular. Text speak is just a current incarnation of slang only on much larger scale. My guess is that as technology improves and voice recognition gets better, we'll see less of this and get more people talking to themselves like the current bluetooth crowd annoying me in line for coffee. The problem I have with the text speak crowd is that for many of them, this is their primary form of written communication on a daily basis. As such, they get the idea that text speak is fine for all forms of communication instead of just their friends and family. In other words, people just don't understand the rules (which are admittedly blurry) of when it's OK to go text speak or slang and when it's not. I equate it to the people who mindlessly blab or text away when it's not socially appropriate. In the business world where I sometimes lurk, nothing kills your credibility faster than firing off a professional email or letter filled with spelling or grammar mistakes or, even worse, text speak. It just screams that you're young and/or dumb. I don't expect a piece of prose that rivals Hemmingway but I do want something that communicates a purpose and has some structure to it. Being able to write well is not an innate skill, it takes time, practice and critical thought; things that seem in short supply these days. The increased amount of "writing" that people do everyday in the form of emails, texts, blogs, etc. has greatly increased for the average pervert. However, as with most things, the more people that jump on board the lower the boat rides in the water, effectively watering down the standards that the "Capn" (language gurus) want to enforce. While I think it's good that more people are writing, the downside is that the quality of that writing that most people engage in isn't very good and that leads people to not improve their skills. Part of it is the technology and culture that has risen around it. Part of it is people not expecting or demanding more of each other. Perhaps the biggest part is that people just don't spend that much time doing serious reading and writing ... especially when it's harvest time down on Farmville. Distractions, choices and modern lifestyles tend to dilute the time and effort people might otherwise spend honing their communication skills. However, the rules of civilization still apply: positions of leadership will still require mastery of communication to attain those positions. We will still expect and demand a certain level of professionalism in the written word in many other contexts like journalism, the law, book writers, and teachers. So, I don't worry too much about the current generation of text lemmings heading off the cliff, it's just that they are perhaps a bit slow in realizing the rules of the game. | |
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| 08-05-10 06:01pm - 5253 days | #133 | |
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Wittyguy (0)
Active User Posts: 1,138 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
It's been a while since I updated my pet thread so strap yourselves in: 1. Moron's in Charge (Part 1): I made an earlier post about some Pennsylvania teens who were facing child porn charges for sexting pics among themselves. In case you're wondering, some of them have been charged with felony child porn possession and delivery. The Pennsylvania legislature decided that this was too harsh so what do they do? They're proposing a law (along with about 20 other states) that makes sexting illegal for minors. The idea is to have more lenient charges available for "innocent mistakes" or "lapses in judgment" instead of just having felony child porn charges as a weapon. Is it just me or did someone forget concepts like the 1st Amendment? I wasn't aware that 17 year olds were barred from saying sexy in the U.S. It also doesn't resolve the issue of some minor (say a girl who takes a tittie shot and emails to her boyfriend) being both the victim and criminal; as far as I know that isn't really taken real for any other crime. If nothing else, these laws will keep plenty of lawyers employed for years arguing about it's constitutionality while doing nothing to solve the problem. 2. Moron's in Charge (Part 2): I earlier ranted about how the US government was going to use "national security" as the basis for monitoring our web use as opposed to Austrailia's stupid morality driven reasoning for doing so. Taking a page from his predecessor, Obama wants the FBI to be able to request a persons web internet activity without a warrant so long as it's for a "terrorism or intelligence investigation". Is the FBI so busy looking at internet porn that they don't have time to come up with some rational explanation for a judge to rubber stamp? Are there so many terrorists out there that courts would be flooded with search warrant requests? Is Wittyguy planning on overthrowing the government by proclaiming himself the Emperor of Porn (did I just say that on the internet, oh crap  )? Again, nice idea in principle but bound to lead to abuse sooner rather than later. The Washington Post just ran a highly acclaimed series about how big our intelligence community (oxymoron, I know) has gotten and how no one is in charge, most agencies don't know what the others are doing and how a lot of intelligence is done by private companies and not the government. Where there's a government contract to be had you can be sure that someone's going to find a shitload of terrorist postings that need to be investigated ... on a cost plus basis regardless of the outcome. 3. World Wide Morons: I gave up trying to keep track of the countries banning porn, at least 3 or 4 have in the last few months. Now, at least some Middle Eastern countries are coming somewhat out in the open like Obama/Bush is (see above) and declaring that Blackberries and other proprietary network communications are illegal because those communications can't be adequately screened by their intelligence agencies. Apparently their people are too busy looking at porn to figure out how to write decent encryption filters and deciphering programs. Once again, the bad guys go deeper and begin using technology that's even harder to break (thus greatly raising the cost of intelligence operations) while the average Abdul gets listened in on and eventually his hand cut off for spanking off to his I-Phone download ... the same stuff his intelligence agency is already too busy ogling over. If it were me and I had a business in over there, I'd think twice about being there. Most of these governments aren't exactly big proponents of democracy and forward thinking. In fact, why not just get your government into the corporate espionage business like the Chinese already do and mine what the foreign business people in your country are doing for fun and profit or, even better, sell it to their competitors for a nice profit (oil revenue ain't gonna last forever ya know). 4. A Temporary Victory: A federal court ruled that California's ban on gay marriage is not constitutional  . Round 1 done, now for rounds 2 and maybe 3 before the Supreme Court finds some way to say that gays don't deserve the right to be miserable like everyone else. Perhaps it's comforting for the morality police to know that there are more states allow you to marry your first cousin than there are states that allow gay marriage. Are three legged cross eyed babies with a permanent of IQ of preferable to gays contributing to the multi-billion dollar wedding industry? So much to rant about, so little that could change this debate. I think I'll just go back to my porn collection and hope the FBI likes my latest download .... | |
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| 08-05-10 05:00pm - 5253 days | #10 | |
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Resurrecting an older thread here, for anyone interested, the NY Times just long a long-ass article on the problems associated with the web's inability to "forget" (here's the post in case you're suffering from insomnia and lack of paranoia some night: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/25/magazine/25privacy-t2.html?pagewanted=1&hp. The article raises a couple of interesting points that address our psychological issues with on-line information. While we all like to think that we look for the best in others (OK, maybe just some of us) the web keeps everyone's dirty laundry around forever. These "negatives" (whether they be stupid drunk pictures, nasty hookups or drunken rant postings) appeal to our unconscious desire to find out the ugly side of people ... all you have to do is look at the celebrity tabloids to verify that one. It's just more fun to see someone we don't know well get torn down than it is to build them up. This psychological thrill begins to strike close to home when it smacks into our own lives. While the web may eventually cause to be more forgiving, so far it's just not happening. For example, many employers now routinely screen job applicants Facebook and other web profiles along with Googling them. The article mentions one case where a woman was denied a teaching degree because of a picture of her holding a beer and wearing a hat that said "Drunken Pirate" (the picture apparently sent the wrong message to kids ... kids who are eagerly looking to score some beer for their next party). This situation underscores the problem with being "unable to forget": bias and context. We all carry our biases around, some more universal than others. Context becomes more problematic when a picture or posting is taken out of context -- the recent case wear a senior Obama political appointee was fired for supposedly making racist statements on a YouTube posting only for it to be discovered that just the opposite was true is a prime example. Whose to say that the young woman wouldn't have made a great teacher (who says she was even drunk or that she made her costume) and what was the motivation of the blogger who originally edited and ran the racist comments. In both cases judgment was passed without knowing the real story. This is the real problem with the way the web is heading. We are all taught that more information is better and the web is definitely more. The problem is that as people we are just more the sum of our on-line parts and that point gets skipped over in a hurry if you have a black spot or two in your past. How do you redeem yourself, if you're not a celebrity who gets gobs of press, to others when the worst thing you did (or are superficially accused of doing) can't be undone? Who the hell has the time or the money to monitor their on-line reputation and who can even be sure that some site will take down pics that you didn't authorize? Should I be copyrighting and trademarking all my posts and pics, threatening legal action every time someone mentions them or reposts them? I knew there was a reason I avoid social networking and pretty much limit myself to anonymous rants on-line. | |
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| 08-04-10 04:49pm - 5254 days | #2 | |
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When they see that I've replied to their thread, they know they've become unpopular and ostracized  | |
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| 07-28-10 12:33pm - 5261 days | #9 | |
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| 07-27-10 12:56pm - 5262 days | #4 | |
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| 07-26-10 09:47pm - 5263 days | #221 | |
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I caught Inception this weekend too and generally liked it. Lots of "layers" for the movie to dive into and you can read as much into it (or out of it) as you like. I thought it was well done, not too much cgi, good story, good acting (Ellen Paige didn't really hold up her end but she was playing the token female role), and some decent action. As for logic, the whole premise of the movie is fucked when you think about it. If Leonardo needs some megarich dude to get him back into the US you would think all he'd have to do is extract some info from a judge, blackmail him and waltz back into the states ... or just come across the border like 11 million others have. Yes it has holes but they try to be consistent. Let's face it, the Matrix had lots of holes and I won't even go into some the bizaare and truly bass-akwards logic in some the Star Trek movies. Best movie of the summer so far by me. The best way to consider this movie is to take the perspective that the entire thing is a dream (it's actually set up that way according to the logic spelled out when Leonardo tells Ellen Paige how the whole dream building thing works). Not a lot of logic in dreams, therefore, my messed up dream logic premise trumps lk2fireone's real world logic (I reject your reality and substitute my own). | |
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| 07-16-10 11:19am - 5273 days | #27 | |
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Actually, he wouldn't get 32 years if convicted, that's just the max sentence that could be handed down and it won't be since Stagliano is not a hard core felon with numerous prior convictions. I'm rather surprised at how poorly the government case went. They couldn't get a video to play (think you might want to test run it before trial to make sure it works) and that resulted in several counts getting dismissed. They weren't able to bring a final witness to the stand because the witness wasn't in the courthouse at the time. A FBI agent apparently lied (worst case) or at least stretched the truth a bit about who ordered him to review a video last week. It also came out that the videos weren't even viewed in Washintong DC (the place of the trial), only delivered there (and that's not even fully established either) -- another mistake that might get the case tossed out since the court may lack jurisdiction. Reminds more of the OJ trial for the prosecutorial mistakes than a finely tuned federal justice machine. The only thing going for the feds is the fact that this is "out there" porn for most people and that in and of itself is a pretty big club for them. An issue that seems to be getting short attention is the whole access to websites concept. The prosecution has made a big deal about the movie trailers in question be open for minors to view. Obviously, there is no truly safe means of ensuring that minors don't access websites, especially the preview pages. If the feds win on this point it should send a shiver down the porn industries back because it means that virtually every porn site would be reduced to showing heavily edited previews on their sites. | |
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| 07-09-10 12:51pm - 5280 days | #12 | |
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| 07-08-10 02:52pm - 5281 days | #5 | |
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Obama's "stimulus plan" hard at work ... because nothing stimulates the economy and people's interest more than third rate homemade porn vids | |
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| 07-08-10 11:26am - 5281 days | #203 | |
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Came across this one a few days ago, it's obviously not a real movie trailer but it's a pretty hilarious clip (Star Trek meets Brokeback Mountain): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xSOuLky3n0. | |
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| 07-07-10 01:05pm - 5282 days | #5 | |
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Great list there Ragingbuddhist. Sorry, I don't have much to offer at this point as I guess I prefer to keep my porn organized under the natural laws of entropy. | |
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| 07-07-10 01:00pm - 5282 days | #11 | |
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There really was no chance the case would get dropped. This case has been trudging on for years with lots of jockeying by both sides. Obama's Justice Dept. could have nixed the prosecution but it's definitely not a priority for him (I'm thinking that the economy and a little oil leak in the Gulf are more pressing to him than porn). Besides, meddling in criminal cases once they've begun is bad politics overall. Given that it's an election year, I couldn't see the Dems standing up for porn anyway. The two big issues facing Stag boy are 1) If the prosecution can get by showing only "offending" clips instead of the whole videos, and 2) What comprises the "community" under the Miller test (the stuff that Grandma thinks is bad or all the crap you can handle on your internet connection). If you're not up to speed on the Miller test, here's a refresher: https://www.pornusers.com/forum/forum_thr...&showPost=90#_90 . I haven't really followed much of the pretrial goings on with this case but he's probably already won or lost depending on how the judge rules on these two issues. The bigger issue is that there is no real sense of how these two issues are supposed to be addressed in obscenity cases any more. Any real direction will only come if he loses and an appeals court gives some clarification on the issues. | |
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| 06-29-10 05:11pm - 5290 days | #3 | |
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You know how those librarian types are ... if they're not getting off "shushing" people then they're just plotting "unscheduled hardware failures" in order to make today's generation suffer and learn how to find books using the old card catalog system. I had a few relatives who worked as librarians and they're pretty much at the bottom of the barrel when it comes to technology in the old municipal budget. Since they aren't familiar with technology then maybe that's why they're having problems with it being "unvailable" I found out earlier today that Dell has been dealing with large scale failures of many of its computers in the 5 to 8 year old range due to buying crappy foreign capacitors that result in up to an 80% failure rate; and of course I own a Dell from that era. Apparently the capacitors will literally start leaking all over the motherboard and short it out. Guess I'd better be more consistent about backing my crap up ... which is better than getting backed up I guess. | |
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| 06-28-10 12:19pm - 5291 days | #23 | |
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This topic came up a while back in the "Free Speech and Porn" thread if you want to venture that way and read into it. First, this isn't a government act - it's just what passes for the "government" of internet domain names. ICANN is the international body that regulates domain naming. A group of marketers has been pushing for years to get .xxx as a way to make money and finally due to the operating ways of ICANN they really had no choice but to approve the new domain expansion. ICANN has no jurisdictional or internet law enforcement powers, it's just opening up the playing (or should I say "paying" field). The short term reality is that once .xxx hits the scene, probably in a few months, not much will change. Most established porn sites will still keep their .com names; they'll just be forced to spend money to register the .xxx version of their site too to prevent cybersquatting (are you starting to see why this .xxx is money driven instead of porn driven ?). Where it gets interesting is in a few years. By then, most companies operating in the .xxx realm will suddenly realize that anyone with the IQ of a lemming can write software to block .xxx domains so censorship will be quite heavy, making those limited to the .xxx realm wishing they had a .com life too. Individual countries might start to insist that all porn sites doing business in their land operate only under a .xxx name so that the government can censor them (unlikely to happen in the US but elsewhere expect to see this happen). In the long run, .xxx will be short term marketing gimmick for the new players in porn who don't know any better. The rest of the field will probably get a .xxx domain as a portal into their .com business and bitch about how .xxx is destroying porn along with pirated vids and low pricing. | |
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| 06-21-10 05:39pm - 5298 days | #14 | |
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At this point, I'd say that any woman who can play a vuvuzela with both sets of lips is probably the hottest commodity in the world at this moment. Like others I've seen a few tv shows where they talk about ideal sex characteristics, usually having to do with facial dimensions and chest to waist to hip to height ratios (see "sexual attractiveness" in wikipedia for a long dull discussion of this stuff). Overall, I think you applying these proportional studies you could get someone who was universally decent looking but would never really be someones ideal. I think this distinction between universal attraction vs. the ideal is where things really separate. If we were in the baby genome construction business, we could get a decent enough outcome using broad population samples and preference polls. It's when people start looking for their "ideal" that things go out of whack because the ideal is a nirvana state that's almost impossible to achieve (at least without a buttload of plastic surgery) and even then it's fleeting ... we all get old and dumpy eventually. A lot of the ideal characteristics are more culturally influenced (sorry, a chick who has a lip plate the size of a frisbee doesn't cut it for me) and such ideals probably have a hidden subjective basis underlying them, such as beauty being reflective of a girls status, her being unattainable by a few elite men, exclusivity (who she is associated with regardless of looks) , and other subliminal culture cues that wouldn't universally be picked up on by your average New Guinea cannibal. We could mostly agree on a woman whom we probably wouldn't kick out of bed if we were all single and unattached but we'll never agree on what's smokin' hot, especially when it comes to shelling out $$ for porn babes. | |
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| 06-16-10 11:59am - 5303 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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Admittedly I'm just a casual soccer fan, not really paying attention except for the World Cup. Since I don't pay that much attention, here's some World Cup stuff that got my attention: 1) You knew it was bound to happen. First there was the Lingerie Bowl that has played for years during the Super Bowl (hot chicks in underwear playing touch football - that is "Real American Touch Football" ). Seems like the rest of the world has picked up on it. Here's a photo gallery of supposed porn stars playing a "Germany vs. Brazil" soccer match wearing nothing but body paint: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/15/world-cup-sexy-soccer-bod_n_613410.html#s100871 ... though I see in a couple of pics that the girls just can't keep from using their hands to touch the balls; coincidence? 2) If you missed the England vs. US game, catch the highlights featuring Lego players: http://upnextinsports.com/2010/06/14/funny-sports-pictures-lego-world-cup-highlights/ 3) Pretty much self explanatory (from the England / US game):  Edited on Jun 16, 2010, 12:03pm | |
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| 06-15-10 03:45pm - 5304 days | #10 | |
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Girls can be touchy (pun intended) on this subject. If you were just wrestling with the one eyed monster (no porn) then no big deal. Some girls, however, consider porn to fall into the category of "cheating" because you're looking at other chicks and thinking what it's like to bone them instead of the gf. In other words, if you have see something rather than just think about it they consider it cheating. Pretty much everyone here sees porn for what it is; fantasy. Given that pretty much everyone knows that any guy with internet access looks at porn I don't know what her hangup would be, you were just exercising your right to internet freedom of speech ... when it all came out in the end. Hey, you're not married so if she can't deal with the situation then you might consider rethinking what you're doing with her. If you're in a long term relationship then you might bring up the subject if you hoard porn like we do. Otherwise, find a more private place to view you're spank material. | |
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| 06-11-10 11:49am - 5308 days | #169 | |
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Does the $100k 3-D tv come with it's own nuclear reactor to power the damn thing? At the very least it should be internet ready with thousands of prepaid porn memberships too. | |
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| 06-10-10 12:39pm - 5309 days | #7 | |
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I think Max has said that he intends to return to making adult vids once he gets out. However, he'll probably be on probation for some period of time and his probation terms may prohibit him from making porn (I think he's looking at 3 years of probation when he gets out; which won't happen for another year or two). So, don't expect to see him back right away, at least on video. I suppose he could move to Europe but why? He's an internet based guy so where he shoots from is irrelevant. If he's on probation he'll be prohibited from moving abroad anyway. My guess is that he'll focus more on the European market for his wares and less so here while working on his So. Cal. tan. | |
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| 06-03-10 12:16pm - 5316 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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Though this has come up before in various other posts, here's another rehash of some interesting stats about the internet and porn:  All I can say in regard to all those stats is ....  | |
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| 06-02-10 12:56pm - 5317 days | #37 | |
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This pretty much says it all: | |
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| 06-02-10 12:54pm - 5317 days | #15 | |
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| 06-01-10 06:49pm - 5318 days | #10 | |
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ExpliciteArt has a $3, 2 day full access trial going through TBP if you're interested in checking that out on the cheap. | |
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| 06-01-10 11:28am - 5318 days | #5 | |
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| 05-31-10 04:18pm - 5319 days | #48 | |
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"The Best Porn" - see the link on the top of the main PornUsers page. | |
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| 05-29-10 12:59pm - 5321 days | #9 | |
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The days of the six figure porn starlet sort of went by the wayside with the current recession. Only the top stars make that kind of money now. Most girls who regularly appear in the porn biz probably only make in the mid five figures now unless they do a lot of touring or have enough business savvy to produce and market their own content. | |
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| 05-29-10 12:56pm - 5321 days | #45 | |
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Some of the other porn review sites have blogs / forums attached to them so you might want to try looking at those (Rabbitsreviews has one I know -- you can look form some at the TBP home page, on the bottom of the left hand side under "Other Great Sites". | |
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| 05-28-10 04:20pm - 5322 days | #4 | |
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Yeah, it's pretty pathetic in comparison to the rest of us pervs. My guess is that it's a bit like women and PU, much talked about but rarely seen. I think gays have their own places on the web where they hang out and dish on their favorite porn sites. I think that there is still some stigma to reviewing gay sites here; stigma in that gays are probably thinking they'll get harshed on by some homophobic moron if they post too much on a "normal" review site. Again, I think the tone was set early on that TBP and PU are more about hetero sites and that line of discussion rather than about LGBT issues. Why be the lonely voice here when other sites are dedicated to tastes that meet what they're looking for? I'd like to see some more gay and lesbian reviewers (although a number of us do hit the lesbian sites) but I think we're going to be waiting a while. | |
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| 05-27-10 08:14pm - 5323 days | #4 | |
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This came up a while back, here's the link to the thread: https://www.pornusers.com/forum/forum_thread.html?threadid=361 Actually, a fair number of euro pornstars can be found occasionally on european escort sites and it's not uncommon for American starlets to head over to the other side of the pond on occasion to do the same. Actually, if I had the money and desire, I'd probably be more tempted to go with a porn star hookup as opposed to some call girl because you know what your getting, she knows how to act and they get tested for diseases pretty regularly so that's also in your favor. | |
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| 05-27-10 08:00pm - 5323 days | #41 | |
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The DSM, at least in my book ... which is pretty short on knowledge, is made out to be a lot more than what it is. It is mainly used as a diagnostical tool for medical billing, at least that's my understanding. The insurance company ain't gonna pay unless you have a DSM classified medical condition. I think that most shrinks take a more symptoms based approach in that what the condition ultimately is doesn't matter so much, it's what symptoms manifest themselves and how to contain/control those symptoms that matters. Yes, it matters whether someone is bi-polar, depressed, or whatever and the DSM can be helpful when making initial diagnosis but long term treatment is more dependent upon the individual symptoms and what works and what doesn't. The DSM is always changing anyway; homosexuality was once classified as a mental disorder and in the upcoming DSM V some autistic disorders are being reclassified or declassified. Relying on what the DSM for a definition of addiction is like asking someone what the Bible means -- whatever you want to make of it. | |
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| 05-26-10 04:27pm - 5324 days | #145 | |
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I saw Iron Man 2 and give it a middling grade. The first was better but the second wasn't as bad as the critics said it was. It was passable and entertaining though, I didn't feel ripped off. Mickey Rourke's character was pretty well done I thought but there was a bit too much "noise" as opposed to plot. Wondering if anyone has seen MacGruber, the most recent SNL skit to make the leap to the big screen. The probably should have stopped taking those skits to the big screen after Wayne's World but this one looks like it might have at least a small glimmer of hope in that it might be entertaining. | |
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| 05-25-10 06:09pm - 5325 days | #24 | |
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... and people wonder why submariners eagerly enlist to spend months underwater with 100+ guys  Actually, I'm responding more to Messmer's claim of anthropomorphism. Fundamentally, beastiality is a taboo act and "taboos" are really nothing more than cultural norms justified by 1) prior history of the act being labeled taboo 2) religion (basically same as #1 only with God calling the shots) or 3) morality (same as #2 only with some post 6 pack yammering reasoning - isn't that why the McKenzie brothers are the philosophical heroes of Canada?) So, all the reasons articulated above in this thread are really no more grounded than simply saying "It just ain't right ... now squeal like a pig." My point is that you aren't being "human" if getting your rocks off on some beast that really can't consent and is just along for the ride isn't being real civilized and that's the point. A bunch of internetless sheep herders from 200 years ago might be tempted but aren't we a bit better than that today? When societies concepts shift from "things we can conquer and use to our advantage" to "what things should we be preserving instead of exploiting" I think you have to raise the bar higher. | |
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| 05-25-10 01:34pm - 5325 days | #28 | |
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I view the whole excessive closeup thing as similar to a car. Once you've seen the inside of the engine you find out that it's complicated, dirty and full of stuff you don't really understand. People talk about engines but we all really like is a sweet looking ride. Besides, all you really care about is if it gets you to where you want to go. | |
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| 05-25-10 01:29pm - 5325 days | #6 | |
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Yeah, there used to be a lot more beastie stuff on the net (at least easier to find) years ago before all the legal filings on websites became standard and when the web was still pretty wide open. I remember seeing beastie stuff on some sites where they had the usual porn stuff too, just another category to view. Since no major billing processor will handle such sites I think a real risk one runs in looking for this stuff is getting ripped off and then having no place to complain. We don't see more of it because it's illegal in a lot of places, probably fits a lot of states/countries legal standards of obscenity so prosecution is a big threat and because its only a small group that really get into it for reasons ranging from morality to legality to the "Yuck" factor (I don't see a pet dog and think how I'd love to tap that ... my wandering eye usually fixes on humanoid babes, not literal "bitches" ) . While others don't view it as a big deal I don't like it simply because it exploits animals. Yeah, we exploit animals every day (I particularly enjoy exploiting parts of the tasty ones on my grill) but forcing yourself on an animal (at least where humans do the penetrating) is really just another form of abuse in my book. Again, people abuse animals every day but that doesn't make it right. In cases where the animal is penetrating a human, its just a situation of artificially stimulating the animal to do what comes naturally to an unnatural mate. I don't attribute human emotions and thoughts to animals but instead look to why people are doing it. In this respect my thought is that the situation is analogous to child porn in that the kids are being put into a situation they don't understand to fulfill someones sexual desires. Animals probably don't suffer the long term psychological scars as kids do but they're just being in an unnatural way where their consent really can't be implied - "consent" is just a stimulus response. As long as people have been around they've screwed anything from 2 to 20 legs and probably quite a few plants, trees and holes in the ground as well. If its between consenting adults or inanimate objects, who cares. When you're manipulating another person/creature to get your rocks off and that beast really doesn't know what the F is going on then you're just exploiting someone/thing because you can get away with it. So, that's my manifesto against the beastie folks; it's really just people with a fetish who exploit the exploitable. This isn't a vegan statement, we raise and always have raised animals for food, work and other uses. Sex isn't the reason we keep animals, it's something we can get them to do that isn't part of their job description. | |
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| 05-24-10 01:09pm - 5326 days | #12 | |
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Wouldn't this thread be more appropriate if it said "Please help me graduate, send me money because I'm broke" Crap, I'm only now just getting all my student loans paid off. Just wanted to say that I hope use bunch of pervs has proved useful (I did take the survey). A couple of observations though: 1) Most of us are "old timers" who fall outside the younger demographic that the survey seems more geared towards. I wonder if that, in turn, would skew the results at all in that I wonder if the experience of age allows us to separate our personal feelings from decision making (making us more practical and less ideological) or, alternatively, if we just become more settled with our personal biases and find ways to rationalize our planning. 2) I actually found a lot of the value statement questions difficult because I make a distinction between my "public/work" life and my "personal life". I make work based decisions that I wouldn't advocate for personally so I found some of those questions tough. 3) The value statements were also hard because I was looking for (and found some) "double questions" (questions that are similar in nature to earlier ones but phrased differently). I'd be interested to know how/why certain value statements or assessments are related to addictiveness to porn. | |
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| 05-20-10 03:08pm - 5330 days | #130 | |
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Active User Posts: 1,138 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
Australia ... Again God bless (or "God Damn" ) the aussies for providing a constant source of amusement. Yes, they're fine internet filtering project against porn continues but now they've decided that having porn enter the country by any means is just too much. Should you now go to or re-enter the country, you have to declare to customs officers if you have any pornographic material with you. Of course, doing so will result in a search of your belongings, computer, and person. This puts you in the same category as those who declare they have illicit drugs or weapons with them even though porn is still legal to possess there -- the purpose is to weed out child porn. WTF is the point of this? Did the customs officers negotiate a sweetheart union deal to help relieve the boredom normally associated with the job? Do they just want to know what's new in the land of pervdom? Isn't this really like the old airport questions about if "Someone asked you carry something on board for them or someone else packed your luggage?" and we all know how effective that line of inquiry was at stopping ... well, nothing. Keep up the good work Australia, showing the world how civil servants and pointless questions will save us all from child porn. | |
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| 05-18-10 01:08pm - 5332 days | #129 | |
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Wittyguy (0)
Active User Posts: 1,138 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
How to Not Hide On the Internet: Internet privacy is a big deal at least in this forum thread. It's also becoming bigger deal for the less pervie folks who don't want companies like Google tracking their IP (internet protocol) addresses in order to market to them. It turns out IP addresses are only half the battle. With the advent of browser add-ons and numerous browser configurations, most websites can now identify individual users just from their browser setups. In fact 80% of web users can be tracked in this way. While your physical location (or the location of your computer) isn't known, "you" as a recognizeable individual visitor stand out like LeBron James at a Little People convention. Several companies are now marketing tracking software based upon browser setup fingerprints as opposed to IP tracking in order to avoid the current privacy / tracking issues. Read the longer article on this topic here: http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/61355. | |
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| 05-17-10 12:22pm - 5333 days | #24 | |
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Wittyguy (0)
Active User Posts: 1,138 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
For the first time I have stuff that I haven't looked at since I downloaded over a year ago, however that's mostly because I've been lazy and haven't sorted it and put it into the regular rotation (bench players have to be vetted before making it into prime time). I've become rather ruthless about sorting my old stuff. I can usually tell when I'm in a good sorting mood for cleaning out my old crap because I find myself deleting a lot of so-so stuff. Also, why keep it if you aren't going to watch it? I'm sure if Badandy started to watch a few vids every day he could probably go well into his senior years before seeing a repeat ... and by then his brain will be shot and think it's all new anyways We all like to preach about the golden age of porn coming to an end and the need to stock up the reserves in case porn Armageddon comes. But at some point, at least for me, there is such a thing as too much. Like most everyone else, I enjoy searching for the next delectable download but I don't spend as much time doing it any more since I know is always going to be something new to find. For me, if you aren't going to enjoy the fruits of your labor you've just become a slave to the labor itself at which point you either need a raise (which I'm not giving myself ... at least literally) or reset your priorities. | |
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| 05-13-10 04:59pm - 5337 days | #3 | |
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Wittyguy (0)
Active User Posts: 1,138 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
My completely clueless guess is that things are just done differently over there as opposed to here. I doubt there are many agents or advocates for the girls. Most of them, like the fresh meat everywhere, aren't really thinking of a career, they're just thinking about cashing that check. I also think that the girls are seen as more of a disposable commodity by the producers there - "Who cares what she was once called, I'll call her 'Anya' because 'Bitch' is perhaps just a bit too crass." Eastern Europe is more chauvinistic than here so the producers don't care. Besides, it seems like there are plenty of girls waiting in line if some starlet gets wants to put up a fuss about intellectual property rights and screen names. Has an Eastern Euro model even bothered to sue someone before in that court system? Also, there's limited marketing availability for the girls. No strip club tours, conventions or merchandising is really available for them so I would guess that they don't care what their screen names are either since their job pretty much begins and ends with the shoot. I guess its just us pervs who obsess over our collections that are bent about this one. Edited on May 13, 2010, 05:03pm | |
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