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| 04-03-14 01:08pm - 3916 days | #18 | |
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Active User Posts: 1,958 Registered: Apr 01, '08 |
There's a YouTube video of her from a few years ago, where, among other things, it says "she's hoping to make a splash in the world of watersports." So I guess not all Muslims are that sexually repressed after all. Certainly beats her original job as a textile worker.  "It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hardcore Commie works." - Gen. Jack D. Rippper, Dr. Stranglove | |
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| 04-03-14 12:57pm - 3916 days | #17 | |
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Active User Posts: 1,958 Registered: Apr 01, '08 |
An update on the Belle Knox/Duke University porn star; apparently there's been some industry backlash because of an internship with tube site PornHub (which the industry sees as their enemy) and rumors of how she behaves on set. Suffice to say it sounds like the high school-level gossip the industry is so good at but there's also the issue of Knox being brand new to the business and only 18 at that. As usual, I'm glad my life at 18--or now, for that matter  --wasn't made public, and that I didn't have a Twitter account to boot! "It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hardcore Commie works." - Gen. Jack D. Rippper, Dr. Stranglove | |
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| 04-02-14 04:42pm - 3917 days | #3 | |
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Active User Posts: 1,958 Registered: Apr 01, '08 |
Its Amazon product page (the $40 one you have) lists both of these files under the supported types...however the reviews seem to say it's hit or miss for which ones will actually play. Very frustrating trying to deal with those files on virtually any system.  "It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hardcore Commie works." - Gen. Jack D. Rippper, Dr. Stranglove | |
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| 03-31-14 08:48pm - 3919 days | #45 | |
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Active User Posts: 1,958 Registered: Apr 01, '08 |
Yikes, biker, that's insane! I would've thought that the thermal expansion of the valve and the cylinder would make this impossibly once the engine heated up...but obviously I'm not an engineer.  Of course things like the comet-intercepting Rosetta or the Cassini-Huygens sound almost impossible from an engineering standpoint. Heck, even gas centrifuges practically sound like guesswork to me.  "It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hardcore Commie works." - Gen. Jack D. Rippper, Dr. Stranglove | |
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| 03-31-14 08:28pm - 3919 days | #4 | |
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Active User Posts: 1,958 Registered: Apr 01, '08 |
Cybertoad, you may also want to check out MPEG Streamclip, which is free. I've only used it for Mac and I know you have Windows 7 so I can't testify to how different the versions are, but it does allow transcoding from a batch list of files, including WMVs, so it might be worth a shot. My only concern would be time; it transcodes other files rather quickly (beating Apple's own Compressor program considerably) but WMVs can be tricky. Good luck!  "It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hardcore Commie works." - Gen. Jack D. Rippper, Dr. Stranglove | |
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| 03-27-14 10:12pm - 3923 days | #22 | |
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Active User Posts: 1,958 Registered: Apr 01, '08 |
Upgraded to Mavericks the other day, and I have to say it's a nice upgrade so far, and for free I certainly can't complain about the price (though the 5GB download took a little time). A lot of aesthetic changes that are subtle but give enough of a "cleaner" look without losing functionality. But I like the change of labeling files (basically giving them a color, from a choice of six) to tags so you can now add a huge number of your own. Of course once I realized I might not want to keep tags like "girl-girl" and "fisting" on my computer I just kept them as comments. It has made my organizing easier and smoother, always helpful in my book.Don't like the name though; it keeps reminding me of this guy. "It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hardcore Commie works." - Gen. Jack D. Rippper, Dr. Stranglove | |
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| 03-27-14 09:22pm - 3923 days | #8 | |
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Active User Posts: 1,958 Registered: Apr 01, '08 |
Except the half of the senate who wasn't of the same party; just look at the breakdown of votes during his impeachment. Only Republicans voted in favor of the two charges brought against him, with a handful voting against. But it's really the hypocrisy that gets my blood boiling. That somehow only the people whose sexual peccadilloes are revealed are guilty, when in reality, as you said, "everyone tosses off." Hence the hilarious (but deserved) investigation by Larry Flynt to out the hypocritical congressional adulterers who were in favor of impeaching Clinton. Maybe those assholes just thought that boners weren't allowed in the Oval Office so their extramarital affairs were okay. Or it was just the oldest, flimsiest trick in the book with which to attack someone they didn't agree with. It's my view that most of these moral accusers who are preaching about behavior the loudest are ultimately hiding the most skeletons in their closets.  "It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hardcore Commie works." - Gen. Jack D. Rippper, Dr. Stranglove Edited on Mar 27, 2014, 09:26pm | |
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| 03-27-14 07:41am - 3924 days | #5 | |
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Active User Posts: 1,958 Registered: Apr 01, '08 |
Oh, I can only imagine...but I don't like it when I do!  Family--well, immediate anyway--would probably be ranging from less than thrilled to an angry level of embarrassment. There are certainly plenty of other things about me that don't make loved ones particularly proud of me--but hey, unconditional love's a bitch! So they might understand that I'm not exactly Ned Flanders (though maybe this version, a little) when it comes to my surfing habits. Friends, it depends on who. Those who've known me a long time know my general views on sex, masturbation, porn, and personal freedom and that I'm not one to restrict any of them. The exact details of my tastes may make a few shudder and probably even some women cry, but you know what they say about making an omelet...  Really the devil's in the details because of my hundreds of sorted posts here in the forum would make for some interesting and revealing reading. A sort of personal Starr Report for my more judgmental friends to impeach me with.  "It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hardcore Commie works." - Gen. Jack D. Rippper, Dr. Stranglove Edited on Mar 27, 2014, 07:46am | |
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| 03-26-14 06:55pm - 3924 days | #33 | |
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Active User Posts: 1,958 Registered: Apr 01, '08 |
I think he may be referring to a few banned members, though I remember them being disrespectful to everyone not just women in particular. But other forums and sites are flooded with the Haterade® for women, and I'm not even talking porn related ones. Just YouTube and Yahoo! alone seem to be full of members who are so over the top pissed they sound as if they are Onion parodies--and I kinda wish they were. The porn forums can be occasionally downright scary, though I guess that's better than people going out to be the next Ted Bundy (who right before his execution blamed porn as a way to shift responsibility for his crimes).If you were to the take the arguments of these misogynist assholes seriously you'd believe that men are being "oppressed" by feminists and somehow in danger of losing their civil rights in the names of women's equality. I say if you have that much paranoia concerning feminism or just women in general the problem may be you, not the women. "It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hardcore Commie works." - Gen. Jack D. Rippper, Dr. Stranglove | |
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| 03-25-14 06:45pm - 3925 days | #4 | |
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Active User Posts: 1,958 Registered: Apr 01, '08 |
These don't have quite the poetic grace of Mark Sanford's emails to his Argentinian adventuress--"you opened up a new chapter last week wherein I was happy and content just being"--but they sure are funny. And in truth, that line was from an email where he started off talking about the "tranquility" of operating a tractor in the morning, but it still sounds like the kind of gibberish that could get some ladies all wet in their "great love divide."   DVD titles are almost universally funny in my opinion, and I give Seymore Butts some credit for coming up with some silly ones in his time: "Poetic Just-Ass," "Ass Good Ass It Gets," "Romancing the Butthole." And not to plug them, but for my juvenile tastes InTheCrack has always had some of the funniest descriptions and scene titles of a site: "Bloomin' Garden," "A Colonial Spread," "Trickle your Fancy."  Considering they have over 900 collections with at least a few scenes each it's a healthy amount of vulgarity and silliness, but I'll take it over Robert Frost any day! "It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hardcore Commie works." - Gen. Jack D. Rippper, Dr. Stranglove | |
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| 03-25-14 06:12pm - 3925 days | #3 | |
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Active User Posts: 1,958 Registered: Apr 01, '08 |
Ah yes, female "hysteria." Considering all the other bullshit miracle cures and snake oil remedies people were hawking around the same time female hysteria treatments sound relatively safe. And compared to the cocaine-laced sodas and radium-laced water and toothpastes of the time it practically does sound like medicine. I'd even go so far as to say there are plenty of women today who could still benefit from "massaging" their hysterics away, at least if we could get over our puerile fear of discussing female sexuality. How something as innocent as acknowledging the female orgasm became so taboo is beyond me, but we Americans are a strange and paranoid people. But now instead of hysterics and patent medicines we have a growing industry of bullshit and woo to relieve the more gullible of us our money and common sense: vitamin and "smart" waters, unproven herbal supplements, gluten-free junk food, "superfoods," and of course the cult of everything organic and "natural." There's a cure for whatever ails your disposable income! And to the charlatans that naively ask "But what's the harm? I'm just trying to help people live better lives." I say then stop turning everything you do into a goddamn marketing scheme with a book or some other product attached for "the solution." Stop taking people's money while making wild, unscientific claims about what they're buying.
See my  above, but I think the web has made these prudish laws obsolete as a lot of sites sell their toys as "novelty devices" only and ship to all 50 states. Even Walmart, yes that Walmart, sells the Hitachi Magic Wand for those who wish "to soothe an aching shoulder or want a more 'personal' massage experience"--talk about living better! Again, some relaxation and masturbation would be good for everybody. "It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hardcore Commie works." - Gen. Jack D. Rippper, Dr. Stranglove | |
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| 03-24-14 07:00am - 3927 days | #8 | ||
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Active User Posts: 1,958 Registered: Apr 01, '08 |
I was reading another adult forum where Bonnie participated but she refused to answer any questions regarding Max Hardcore, even whether she even did a scene with him. But she did do one and it might even have been her first adult scene ever, though why they had a falling out and she seems to have taken an oath of omertà is beyond me. Jealous of Max for getting to do a scene with her, minus all the sins he usually commits with his traumatized costars. "It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hardcore Commie works." - Gen. Jack D. Rippper, Dr. Stranglove Edited on Mar 24, 2014, 08:19pm (turboshaft: Spelling.) | ||
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| 03-24-14 06:47am - 3927 days | #8 | |
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Active User Posts: 1,958 Registered: Apr 01, '08 |
Apparently so, according to their aid and tuition page. It's a private school and the graph on the left looks like they offer aid up to students whose families make over $160k but education is insanely expensive. Hell, Duke claimed an endowment valued at 6 billion last year.  I'd like to think the tuition--whatever it is you end up paying after aid--actually goes to the faculty but I'm also aware that colleges can be top heavy in terms of salaries (some deans are paid in the low seven figures) and pricey sports programs to attract more customers...I mean students. And public schools can be just as guilty, this graphic about the highest paid state government employees includes a ton of coaches. Totally worth it. "It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hardcore Commie works." - Gen. Jack D. Rippper, Dr. Stranglove | |
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| 03-23-14 03:13pm - 3927 days | #16 | |
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Active User Posts: 1,958 Registered: Apr 01, '08 |
1. Mac OS 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard of the gigantic cat family that is Apple ). 2. Firefox 28/latest version. 3. Have Google Chrome and Safari installed but never use them; FF creature of habit. 4. New and upgrade versions of Apple OSs are quite cheap*, but I don't like Lion. * Just found out their latest OS upgrade is free, even from SL, so I might do an update. (There's probably still Foxconn child labor involved somehow.  ) "It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hardcore Commie works." - Gen. Jack D. Rippper, Dr. Stranglove | |
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| 03-23-14 02:32pm - 3927 days | #3 | |
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Active User Posts: 1,958 Registered: Apr 01, '08 |
"Natural" and tattooed seem to be oxymoronic, LPee23, and sadly Bonnie is not even natural in terms of breasts (here's a page with both for comparison). She seems kind of polarizing because of the tattoos--you have to really love them because she has a ton, and they're not exactly subtle, but I guess spiderwebbed boobs rarely are.  She did do at least one early scene a couple years ago with Max Hardcore (post-prison) in the the elegantly titled Fuck Puppets 2, though I'm not sure if it's ever been released. Apparently they "did everything but fisting and anal," which sounds kind of restrained by Max's standards. "It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hardcore Commie works." - Gen. Jack D. Rippper, Dr. Stranglove | |
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| 03-23-14 01:49pm - 3927 days | #5 | ||
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Active User Posts: 1,958 Registered: Apr 01, '08 |
That whole controversy--the student doing porn to pay tuition--made me angry because the knee-jerk reaction was the moral shock that a good, innocent college girl would degrade herself to perform in porn, rather than say that higher education now costs enough that porn is one of few practical options to completely pay for it.
And you didn't even have pay her for the privilege as the site did! Though I had no such luck with girls in high school, it's rare occurrences like this that probably keep me off of Facebook. I'm worried I might find someone I sorta knew only to discover something I wish I had known then.  "It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hardcore Commie works." - Gen. Jack D. Rippper, Dr. Stranglove | ||
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| 03-20-14 07:43am - 3931 days | #14 | |
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Active User Posts: 1,958 Registered: Apr 01, '08 |
Yeah, like I said, only the first months...after that, nearly anyone and anywhere it seems. Porn is the melting pot of pussy (Mmm!  ), and rarely involves just a single nationality. I counted 44 ITC models out of a total of nearly 350, so about 12%, way short of cable regulation though it's a website. I wonder whose job it would be to count the broadcast material?  "It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hardcore Commie works." - Gen. Jack D. Rippper, Dr. Stranglove | |
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| 03-16-14 09:12pm - 3934 days | #7 | |
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Active User Posts: 1,958 Registered: Apr 01, '08 |
Don't worry, messmer, we're laughing with you, not at you. The problem with porn is it's so heterogeneous when it comes to nationalities and geography. Even ITC was probably only "purely" Canadian in its first few months. And it still may be totally Canadian owned/operated but it's using American and Euro models in locations like Los Angeles and Jamaica. If it has one positive, porn can be, at least for fans, a place to say "Eh, I don't care where she's from/what color she is, I just liked nekkid woman!" Of course it can also exacerbate some of the uglier racial stereotypes by centering genres and fetishes around them--the whole "interracial" category, for example, or the inherent lily-whiteness of a lot of sites.Outside of porn, Hollywood has gotten quite a bit of use out of Canada. Think of all the successful Canadian comedians of the last few decades: John Candy, Dan Aykroyd, Jim Carrey, Dana Carvey, etc. It also simultaneously benefits from shooting there, because of the numerous government incentives, shooting some 1500 productions between 1996 and 2006. At least your country is honest about broadcasting porn on TV, if only to remind where it should be shot. "It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hardcore Commie works." - Gen. Jack D. Rippper, Dr. Stranglove | |
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| 03-15-14 08:39pm - 3935 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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Active User Posts: 1,958 Registered: Apr 01, '08 |
Since our top two posters are Canadian I can't believe other members haven't mentioned it first, but apparently porn channels on cable in Canada have to broadcast at least 35% Canadian content and be close-captioned (admittedly there's usually not much dialogue to caption)! Three channels were issued a reprimand a couple of weeks ago for failing said regulations. (I tried to look up the specific regulations myself but I couldn't stop laughing.) I usually frown upon nationalism and patriotism but in the case of porn I like to keep it close to home, so no reason to send the tits and ass, I mean jobs, overseas! At the moment I can only think of one site that is Canadian, the orifice-obsessed InTheCrack, which has its record of compliance address in Alberta, Calgary. Though for all I know much of its content could be shot in space it's so closeup. "It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hardcore Commie works." - Gen. Jack D. Rippper, Dr. Stranglove | |
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| 03-15-14 08:13pm - 3935 days | #42 | |
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Active User Posts: 1,958 Registered: Apr 01, '08 |
I'd also assume that's way more accurate (depending on how many digits the calculator uses) and of course easier than trying to remember 3.14...umm...  Though I'm also assuming you didn't need it so accurate that it went out to one million digits which a page from the Pi day site has. "It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hardcore Commie works." - Gen. Jack D. Rippper, Dr. Stranglove | |
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| 03-14-14 08:10pm - 3936 days | #38 | |
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Active User Posts: 1,958 Registered: Apr 01, '08 |
Don't forget Pi Day, Khan!  (Still trying to figure out how you could work a steak or a blowjob into it though. ) "It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hardcore Commie works." - Gen. Jack D. Rippper, Dr. Stranglove | |
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| 03-13-14 07:11pm - 3937 days | #1212 | |
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Active User Posts: 1,958 Registered: Apr 01, '08 |
I'll give Bay credit for getting the gist of the event right, if not the details. (But no credit to Ben Affleck. Fuck Affleck! ) And while some older films have a little more context in their portrayals of historical events they can frequently be slow at points and heavily biased. Tora! Tora! Tora!, the 1970 film about Pearl Harbor is decent but at some points gets practically glacial. As if there used to be some unwritten rule that big budget war epics must have a character realize the gravity of the situation by staring silently into space until the entire audience is asleep.  The Longest Day (about D-Day) and Patton are both guilty of this, along with a healthy dose of filmic patriotism. For the former it's any of the the scenes with John Wayne, though he's like that in almost all of his films, and for the latter it's Patton's opening monologue. But despite their considerable flaws I think they could at least make viewers aware of the general historical events and maybe even get them interested enough to study on their own. I guess you can never truly have it both ways, at least not that I have ever really seen. Patton, for example, has major technical errors regarding equipment and some of Patton's characteristics (the voice is supposed to be the biggest inaccuracy). But something like Saving Private Ryan, while being somewhat more technically accurate with equipment literally opens with a flag waving in the wind (even before the invasion scene). It felt almost like a cheesy recruiting ad. "It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hardcore Commie works." - Gen. Jack D. Rippper, Dr. Stranglove | |
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| 03-13-14 06:39pm - 3937 days | #5 | |
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Active User Posts: 1,958 Registered: Apr 01, '08 |
Damn, graymane, if it's any consolation at all I sincerely hope you get better. If it's not, at least know us regulars are thinking of you more than your doctors apparently are. I know I'm the perpetual raging cynic around here at PU (in competition with RagingBuddhist, of course), but medical stories from the U.S. always seem to get my blood boiling. I guess because people always sound as if they are more customers than patients, which in a way they are. But what do you expect when a country claims, with a straight face, that's it's morally okay to profit off of people's health? Do no harm, but first collect are charges! And the first part of your post regarding your doctor having more interest in his staff than you sounds like an episode of Seinfeld where he starts to suspect his dentist is actually a perv. "It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hardcore Commie works." - Gen. Jack D. Rippper, Dr. Stranglove | |
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| 03-12-14 08:28pm - 3938 days | #8 | |
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Active User Posts: 1,958 Registered: Apr 01, '08 |
A key paragraph in your link explains why Viagra and "female Viagra" wouldn't really be the same drug: "Viagra seemed to work best in women with sexual arousal problems who had previously satisfying sex lives. It was less effective in those who had both arousal problems and problems with sexual desire." The issue with female sexual dysfunction is desire, not just arousal. It's kind of a fine point but a big part of the difficulty in finding an effective drug or treatment (i.e., not sleazy pickup lines or Axe body spray). My uneducated, rough guess would be this is linked to hormone levels which change over the course of a woman's cycle. Whereas men seem to be either on at 100% desire or off, but mostly on.  "It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hardcore Commie works." - Gen. Jack D. Rippper, Dr. Stranglove | |
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| 03-12-14 10:18am - 3938 days | #1207 | |
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Active User Posts: 1,958 Registered: Apr 01, '08 |
Just remembered, Ben Affleck also did Michael Bay's next movie after Armageddon...Pearl Harbor.  Take that, historical record!  "It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hardcore Commie works." - Gen. Jack D. Rippper, Dr. Stranglove | |
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| 03-12-14 10:00am - 3938 days | #1206 | |
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Active User Posts: 1,958 Registered: Apr 01, '08 |
I second the unforgivable scientific errors and inaccuracies--even in sci-fi when they're just making shit up! Like how even in the first Terminator film it started messing with the "history" of the future by the Reese's actions in the present (okay, that's the entire plot...but I'm right, damn it!). A lot of times it's making up rules/physics for a series and then just lazily throwing them out for some "new" discovery later on. The Star Trek films with the original cast (Motion Picture - Episodes VI) seemed to get pretty liberal with what the star ships were capable of, even if it was the same exact ship from the previous film. Hell, after the Enterprise was self-destructed (uh, spoiler alert?) at the end of Ep. III, Kirk & co. were tried in absentia at the beginning of Ep. IV, using what was basically footage from the previous film as evidence, including wide shots of the ship. Couldn't they have just said "Uh, it was intentionally blown up and Kirk was captain and knew the countdown code"? Or "Hey, anybody notice how this guy's really hard on any ship that he gets near"? Of course when we try and make a space movie set in the present we end up with Armageddon. Hmm, and like Argo that also stars Ben Affleck... "It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hardcore Commie works." - Gen. Jack D. Rippper, Dr. Stranglove | |
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| 03-11-14 09:53pm - 3939 days | #1203 | |
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Active User Posts: 1,958 Registered: Apr 01, '08 |
No offense taken. Sometimes the truth hurts, a lot, and that in and of itself shouldn't be offensive, regardless how deeply held a particular myth is in one's heart. Monument Men, whatever its other faults, sounds pretty mild compared to other recent cinematic retelling of history. The straight-up jingoism of Zero Dark Thirty and Argo (especially concerning Canada's role in the real event) are quite revealing about what passes for historical accuracy in Hollywood blockbusters. And the might-is-right philosophy of films like Black Hawk Down and Captain Phillips is so over the top that it's cringe worthy at some points. So Hollywood is forever accused of being "liberal" by social conservatives, yet it continually spends big bucks portraying American foreign policy and its military--even the fuck ups--in a practically hagiographic light? Oh, the irony.  "It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hardcore Commie works." - Gen. Jack D. Rippper, Dr. Stranglove | |
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| 03-11-14 09:29pm - 3939 days | #14 | |
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Active User Posts: 1,958 Registered: Apr 01, '08 |
pat362, I still say it's better to have too much material than to have too little. ---
Yeah, I always just quit the whole damn thing anyway, stupid as it is. You know, it's even these little things that piss me off sometimes. "Fucking thing sucks!" Once again, I question whether you really have that much rage compared to me.  "It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hardcore Commie works." - Gen. Jack D. Rippper, Dr. Stranglove | |
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| 03-10-14 10:06pm - 3940 days | #11 | |
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Careful, or you might not get your hard drive back, at least for a while. (Just to reiterate.) You can still preview files in Finder, with less precise control than a video program but it beats opening every single file. I also find that mastering Apple's keyboard shortcuts can help make organizing and browsing more efficient--not that I'm trying to learn how to use my computer with only one hand.  That's one of the small dislikes I have with VLC; it doesn't allow you to close a video window from full screen (QuickTime does), plus its autoplay function acts too unpredictably for my tastes. These two issues definitely slow me down when organizing anything with WMVs. It does have an insane wealth of preferences that I only understand a fraction of and have yet to see in any other video program (go to VLC < Preferences... < click the "Show All" button on the bottom left, if you're curious). "It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hardcore Commie works." - Gen. Jack D. Rippper, Dr. Stranglove Edited on Mar 10, 2014, 10:10pm | |
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| 03-09-14 08:08pm - 3941 days | #7 | |
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Actually through the Finder in Mac (their version of Windows Explorer) you can preview a file with the Quick Look feature. Just hit space bar, ⌘ + Y, or click the eye icon at the top, and you have basic controls too. You can trash a file with ⌘/command + delete (the larger delete key that is normally labeled "Backspace" on non-Mac keyboards). The Cover Flow view option also also allows previews, but with less control, and I find it a waste of window space when navigating through larger folders. I prefer icon view when normally navigating, and then list view when organizing/downsizing folders as it lets you easily compare file sizes. I think the lack of a delete or trash function through VLC is because of a concern that you might easily lose too many files this way, rather than the somewhat more inconvenient process through the Finder. Though trashing a file doesn't actually delete it, it does take it one step closer to being deleted (minus copies on backup drives and through Time Machine, of course). I think the inconvenience of making it slightly harder to delete files is worth it over losing files in the process of more efficiently organizing a hard drive. Though VLC is a decent all around video player with lots of controls (except deleting a file ) I prefer QuickTime 10 for MP4s for its simplicity. I don't care much for playlists and more windows than necessary, so a simple window of just the video itself is how I like to watch things. Either way Mac is not really the preferred OS for WMVs, though they can certainly reign in the massive video files now being offered by so many sites with little loss in quality. My advice, jook, is patience and perseverance in organizing. If you want to keep what you actually like then it will take some time. And it may help to use Apple's labeling system to give files different colors in the Finder, which I find handy for differentiating content within a model's or site's folder, or just the gray color for files that need to be trashed or moved. Again, the list view helps to compare file size and weed out duplicates--unless you accidentally downloaded the same file in more than one resolution, then it'll get irritating. Good luck! "It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hardcore Commie works." - Gen. Jack D. Rippper, Dr. Stranglove Edited on Mar 09, 2014, 08:12pm | |
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| 03-07-14 06:42pm - 3943 days | #40 | |
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AIDS and HIV are still the big killers, in regards to both career and life (though with enough medication, a person can live infected with AIDS for years before dying). Yes, other STDs can be lethal if left untreated but are far more manageable than HIV, a virus (no cure) that attacks the immune system (thus making people quite vulnerable to infections that would otherwise be survivable). I've even heard in interviews--not BTS ones, mind you--that gonorrhea is sometimes treated as "the flu" where a performer won't work for a few weeks until treatment is finished, since it's apparently fairly common but not a career killer like AIDS/HIV. And though the blood tests performers get test for numerous STDs it's still AIDS scares that cause moratoriums. Despite the California law, which like so many of its other feel-good laws is just pushing people to work around it, I think it's going to be treated like injuries have been in the NFL--covered up and denied by the business but ultimately accepted by fans. Yes, porn performers get tests and football players wear padding and helmets, but people still get sick and athletes wind up with fractures and frightening head injuries. And if we're being honest none of this should be surprising. Look at the increasing aggression and violence in both professional football and porn: people literally running into each other and purposely sharing bodily fluids. People are bound to get hurt as a result of all of this. And I just don't see us going back anytime soon, laws and regulations be damned.  "It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hardcore Commie works." - Gen. Jack D. Rippper, Dr. Stranglove | |
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| 03-05-14 12:06am - 3946 days | #26 | |
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Graymane, that makes Rod Serling's introduction on that show all the more meaningful: "There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination." I think this is a pretty good description of how I feel every time I just think I have figured a woman out.  "It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hardcore Commie works." - Gen. Jack D. Rippper, Dr. Stranglove | |
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| 03-05-14 12:01am - 3946 days | #5 | |
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I think the intention is that they have more fun, or at least want to have sex--I wasn't talking about GBH or a Mickey. "She consented because she said yes to the drink I offered her!" Even if it's a pill, what kind of person is really against making women happier or at least get them in the mood to make themselves happier? "It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hardcore Commie works." - Gen. Jack D. Rippper, Dr. Stranglove | |
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| 03-03-14 02:28am - 3948 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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Reading a recent Washington Post article about the FDA's continued rejection of a female sexual dysfunction drug--a "little pink pill"--raises the obvious question: what's the holdup? Viagra, that boner-building pharmaceutical wonder of countless jokes and old man smirks has been available for prescription since 1998, and eleven other male sexual dysfunction drugs have been FDA-approved as well. The number of female drugs is still zero, citing the need for further tests for flibanserin, the drug that was developed for women twelve years ago. Granted, I'm no chemist (I don't even understand chemistry of my own brain, much less that of woman's, or a pill to make her horny) but I'd suspect there are some underlying social and cultural issues here. Because despite the moral cesspool as some may view the U.S. we still seem to have a lot of hang-ups about sex, particularly female sexuality. And unlike Viagra, which is basically to get men hard, women's problems tend to be getting horny (apparently men are presumed to be horny for life, no medication necessary ). This therefore means admitting publicly that women want to get their libido going, one way or another, and thus once again going against that whole procreative argument that some think is the sole purpose of sex. The same reason many social conservatives stupidly equate women's birth control with them conspiring to be out of control harlots hellbent on destroying the American family, or something (which I wouldn't object to, honestly). And I'm skeptical of the safety argument because the FDA has approved of some frightening stuff in the past. Like supplements that contained ephedra, which could help you lose weight. Oh, and your life as well. Or Alli, another weight loss drug (still available!) that helps remove fat from your diet, by way of your ass. Which I guess could scare you into eating a low fat diet lest you risk ruining every pair of pants you own. My bias is quite strong on this one, since I'd absolutely love to be able to give women a pill that would make them horny--rather than relying on my questionable combination of looks and personality--and I doubt I'm the only guy who thinks this way. (It might be good to change the drug company's name from Sprout though; a name that sounds like something a ten-year-old would come up with if you put him in charge of a pharmaceutical company that treats sexual dysfunction.) "It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hardcore Commie works." - Gen. Jack D. Rippper, Dr. Stranglove | |
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| 03-03-14 12:38am - 3948 days | #23 | |
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Drooler, I think a lot of guys are drawn to the mystery of all those knobs. Reminds me of a joke I once heard about research that was being done concerning whether men had a G-spot like women do or something roughly equivalent, and the punchline being isn't it already blatantly obvious where the erogenous zone on a man is!? "It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hardcore Commie works." - Gen. Jack D. Rippper, Dr. Stranglove Edited on Mar 03, 2014, 12:55am | |
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| 02-26-14 04:28pm - 3952 days | #13 | |
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 "It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hardcore Commie works." - Gen. Jack D. Rippper, Dr. Stranglove | |
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| 02-26-14 12:16am - 3953 days | #7 | |
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Those microscopic images of fertilizing eggs always remind me of how it is at a bar and a bunch of guys are competing for a hot girl. (Though if we're being honest, successfully fertilizing an egg is probably what instinctively drives us in the first place.  ) "It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hardcore Commie works." - Gen. Jack D. Rippper, Dr. Stranglove | |
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| 02-25-14 11:50pm - 3953 days | #37 | |
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No offense, graymane, but I'd give the porn industry greater hopes for discovering cold fusion than a cure for AIDS, or even a vaccine. (I doubt even supposed Mensa member Asia Carrera could come up with one.) Plus, they're a for-profit industry, so the "obscene profits" are the whole point, not safe sex education or donating to "good" causes. It'd be like the beef industry donating to PETA or promoting vegetarianism.  "It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hardcore Commie works." - Gen. Jack D. Rippper, Dr. Stranglove | |
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| 02-25-14 04:59pm - 3953 days | #35 | |
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MrLewdy, though I'm not averse condom use in real life (arguably the one hoop that almost any horny guy is willing to overcome in order to get laid), I still don't like them in porn. For the same reasons I'm not too interested in the frequently depressing and merciless background stories of performers, condoms are simply too real for the escapist fantasy I'm looking for in my porn. Granted, a lot of the porn I regularly watch would not come under the rubber jackboot of condom regulations--girl-girl, solo girl, and all the non-penile but still aggressive stuff that goes on in boy-girl. But I'm in the camp that thinks this will simply drive producers to shoot elsewhere, as we've seen happen over the last year, instead of genuine increases in health and safety. Beyond the studios and bigger sites, will these types of regulations even effectively protect amateur and webcam/shot-at-home type content? I don't think so, in the same way Seymore Butts' legal problems in the early 2000s over a single fisting scene kept fisting off of American DVDs while it flourished online and in countless Euro releases. And, like fisting, I think condom-free content will find a way. "It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hardcore Commie works." - Gen. Jack D. Rippper, Dr. Stranglove | |
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| 02-25-14 04:26pm - 3953 days | #38 | |
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No surprise there, though a lot of customers won't notice it, and even if they do won't think much of it--the whole reason it's "only" a $2 increase. AT&T raised their Internet-only service prices $2 last year...though I could have avoided that particular increase if I got their bundled service plan--landline, TV, & Internet--which is considerably more per month, especially when I only want and use Internet. In other words, "Fuck you, pay me."  Hell, if you're one of AT&T's wireless customers last year they subtlety raised bills by about $0.61 last year, "Because they can." It generated an estimated $500-600 million in revenue--great money if you just pull the justification for the increase out of your ass. I understand rates eventually need to go up, but arbitrary fuck-you-pay-me increases, with no discernible technological or service benefit is what pisses customers off. I refuse the 3-in-1 packages of TV-Internet-landline because I have no use for them, and get fucked out of higher Internet speeds because I don't want to pay for the non-web stuff. I watch TV online and already pay for a cell phone (a totally different company from my ISP, because I like to share the wealth ), and am not home enough, or at least during the hours I might find a landline practical. These greed-powered corporate assholes continue to dig their own shallow technological graves and want us to more than pay for the cost of filling in the holes. "It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hardcore Commie works." - Gen. Jack D. Rippper, Dr. Stranglove | |
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| 02-17-14 01:59am - 3962 days | #23 | |
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Parsnip, don't forget jook's thread from last month on the economics of porn industry. I don't know if I'd agree with you that they are "a complete disaster" like you said in that thread, but there are issues when you combine unlimited, or practically unlimited, downloads with high speed Internet connections. It's a delicate balancing act; how do you reward long-paying members without pissing off and possibly losing shorter term customers? I for one would certainly have some second thoughts about bothering to pay for membership to a site if I wasn't going to get the privilege of accessing all their released material upfront. I'm not talking about legitimate pay-per-view bonus content like live webcams--which hold about much interest with me as the Olympics or Sports Illustrated's swimsuit edition--but regular photo and video sets that have been arbitrarily deemed "restricted" to longer subscribing members. For the time being I think sites are going to have continue offering one-for-all levels of access restricted only by time until they can figure out a fair way to sell subscriptions and still turn some sort of profit. "It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hardcore Commie works." - Gen. Jack D. Rippper, Dr. Stranglove | |
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| 02-16-14 03:07pm - 3962 days | #25 | |
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More ignorance to give people another excuse to discriminate, arguably the reason early AIDS research was relatively slow and underfunded in the U.S., as it was originally thought to be a "gay disease" or a "gay cancer" (because of a sarcoma many patients developed). Considering it was so new and little was known about it this is a chilling reflection of how indifferent and heartless a government can be if prejudices get in the way. And biologically speaking, it makes no sense how a disease or virus could somehow determine sexual orientation before infecting a host. AIDS doesn't survive long outside the body, especially at room temperature, and it would be worrisome if barbers weren't already using Barbicide. Further ignorance about kissing, toilet seats, and handshakes doesn't help either, and was one of many reasons to actually study and understand the virus as much as possible when it first started to appear. "It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hardcore Commie works." - Gen. Jack D. Rippper, Dr. Stranglove | |
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| 02-16-14 02:38pm - 3962 days | #24 | ||
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I think condoms aren't used mostly because it's impractical (at least cheaply and quickly) to take them out in post if they are used, thus it's a risk to whoever the presumed paying consumer will be. Condoms bought in bulk are cheap and still safe, comparative to the price of buying bottled water by the case, at least if purchased beforehand. Not that I've ever really had the need for condoms by the case (I'm not in charge of the Olympics after all) but they are quite easy to find online. And an extra $40-$50 per shoot should not be a deal breaker, particularly for something that a performer could always request, however rarely that might happen. Some sites do regularly use them for toys so they aren't prohibitively expensive. "It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hardcore Commie works." - Gen. Jack D. Rippper, Dr. Stranglove | ||
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| 02-14-14 01:05am - 3965 days | #8 | |
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Is there another, if highly unlikely, possibility that one or both of the performers requested a condom? I'm also putting this theory out there as something that is separate from "safe for condom-free sex," just a personal preference on the part of performers, maybe as part of a recent industry scare. You can only dodge bullets so long before you get hit. "It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hardcore Commie works." - Gen. Jack D. Rippper, Dr. Stranglove | |
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| 02-12-14 09:10pm - 3966 days | #23 | |
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LPee23, I will say that our favorite niche seems to have a worrisome habit of eventually killing a site, at least if it's the sole focus of the site. Too many sites/series have gone extinct over the years, and I think it serves as a reminder to fans to save 'em while you got 'em; you don't know what will tomorrow will bring (or take away, as the case may be). Even parent sites that stick around, like Kink.com and its Pissing.com niche, eventually stop updating, and, who knows, may just take down that site entirely. In their case I wonder if it was too tame, compared to the myriad of crazy fetishes among their other wild creations such as Fucking Machines, Whipped Ass, and Wired Pussy? Or maybe so many other sites starting doing it too that it no longer felt unique or "authentic" enough. "It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hardcore Commie works." - Gen. Jack D. Rippper, Dr. Stranglove Edited on Feb 12, 2014, 09:14pm | |
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| 02-12-14 08:52pm - 3966 days | #13 | |
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I guess that means videos were out of the question until you could figure those out! I actually (somehow) knew I just couldn't be saving pictures to the computer's internal HDD because it was used by the family (on individual basis, when no other member was around ). So...I saved to 3.5" floppy disks, not exactly an efficient or subtle way to carry out dirty hobbies. First, floppies are tiny--a "high density" 3.5" holds a whopping 1.44 MB--fortunately a "full size" image back in the late '90s wasn't so massive as it is now, nor were there really any consumer displays to really make use of so many lovely pixels. And second, they are slow and loud little bastards that would make a modern user think the computer's having a serious hardware problem, or just being a moral scold and ruining the disk. Clicking sounds on a dying hard drive are nothing compared to the dull, metallic, spring-loaded sounds that a normally functioning floppy makes when writing/reading. To add insult to injury, they were quite cheap, so I had a small plastic storage case of disks at the time, though eventually erasing them was maddening because I was paranoid I had missed one. Also, on the Macintosh Performa we had at the time there was no physical eject button for the floppy drive, so if there was a problem with one--as inevitably there would be with such frequent use--you had to stick a straightened paper clip into a hole below the drive to force eject it. If you were smart you'd have a bent paper clip along with the floppies, though it kinda made me feel like a peeping Tom carrying around a set of binoculars knowing what was on most of the disks. --- On a side note, one of my earliest memories of just hearing about the Internet for the first time came from a Popular Mechanics cover in 1994. It was a typical cover for the magazine; ridiculously outlandish to the point of sci-fi fantasy, like all their other covers with paintings of flying cars and massive engineering projects. May have even made me subconsciously believe for a good part of the 1990s that a bunch of gigantic glass tubes would have to be built before we could give up our (superfast!) 56K modems. Though that cover looks like something that would make the more gullible of us think the Internet is a literal series of tubes, the article had a point. Once the technology and infrastructure were in place it would be possible to stream full movies, basically like we so easily do now with YouTube, Netflix, or RoxyRaye.com (okay, that last one wasn't exactly predicted on the cover). Along with streaming movies, shopping, banking, education, and video games could and would be online--and eventually through smart TVs or set top boxes (like Roku and video game systems are now). They even said the most practical way for high speed was fiberoptics, not cable and definitely not through your phone line. They don't really talk about downloading information because everything would be online, available instantly. The only downside, though not explicitly mentioned, is the rise of tech mergers and the negative effect this would have on cost to consumers (the article had the view that mergers would help bring it all to consumers more quickly, a sort of tech utopia that doesn't see the need for net neutrality laws). For a 20 year old article, it reads creepily prescient today. "It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hardcore Commie works." - Gen. Jack D. Rippper, Dr. Stranglove | |
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| 02-11-14 09:01pm - 3967 days | #5 | |
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That's a good one, LPee23! Browser pop-up menus still have "Save Image As..." and "Save Image As Background..." perilously close to each other (and too many email programs still make it way to easy to hit a "Reply All" button). Those two choices can be very different, especially if it's not your computer! And as pedantic and corrective as I can be in person, my only "good" excuse I can ever seem to come up with is the look and a meek "Uh, I don't know" response. Sure, I might have been dumb and careless enough to not hide my porn, but I'm not dumb enough to actually be unaware of looking at porn. "It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hardcore Commie works." - Gen. Jack D. Rippper, Dr. Stranglove | |
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| 02-10-14 09:01pm - 3968 days | #17 | |
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A few years ago I did; an excellent book and fairly good documentary. Should remind readers that no matter how highly held a person is he or she is only human and those we look upon as the most virtuous are more than likely anything but. I know I certainly become suspicious when words like "saint" and "blessed" are spoken seriously. And Teresa, despite having been in war zones, still called abortion the "greatest destroyer of peace today" when she received her Nobel Peace Prize. No matter how epically unqualified on a subject, religion always seems entitled to dictate to people how to live their lives. "It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hardcore Commie works." - Gen. Jack D. Rippper, Dr. Stranglove | |
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| 02-09-14 09:35pm - 3969 days | #20 | |
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Seeing as most of these all-over body paints are slaves, I'd think that most women would choose having tattoos, even the hideously cliché "girly" ones we all seem to think of when we want to make a personal case for why women shouldn't get them. Outside of porn, I know and regularly see a ton of women--younger, around my age, and older--with all varieties of tattoos. Granted, I live in southern California, where the social and geographic climates coalesce perfectly for seeing plenty of body modifications and plenty of the body in general, so I'm somewhat biased in having less of a preference regarding tattoos and whether they make someone attractive. No, not all tattoos are equal, and I've seen plenty of ugly, hideous ones, but I also have a few myself and don't exactly see the benefit in advancing some subjective argument about personal and largely harmless choices regarding a person's body. And at their most extreme, these arguments bring out the worst in supposed libertarians and "freedom" loving pundits. People who, despite a professed love of personal liberty, seem to always draw the line when people do shit they simply don't approve of; whether it be food, drugs, entertainment, or even (gasp!) manner of dress. And arbitrary exceptions for certain activities by certain people--the continual and tired argument that it's "okay" for military veterans to have tattoos, but no one else, comes to mind--only make the overall opinions seem even weaker. But I'll give PU some credit where it's always deserved--being far more tolerant than countless other sites and forums when discussing the same subject. Where the PU rant of "I don't like ___." transforms, quickly and hideously, into "Thou shalt not ___!" Suddenly an opinion needs to be an enforced rule to satisfy that authoritarian part of the brain we all sadly seem to possess.  Khan's quote above was some great food for thought: "A wise person once said: 'What screws us up most in life is the picture in our head of how it's supposed to be.'" And an H.L. Mencken quote adds some wisdom and a little humor: "Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others. His culture is based on 'I am not too sure.'" "It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hardcore Commie works." - Gen. Jack D. Rippper, Dr. Stranglove | |
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| 02-09-14 08:23pm - 3969 days | #10 | |
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Not to belabor my indifference too much (since I so rarely do that...  ), but I just don't understand the appeal. And more generally things like Sports Illustrated's annual and highly overrated "swimsuit" edition--though I've heard it's more of a body paint edition at this point--and those excessively douchey men's magazines of competing immaturity; the FHMs, Maxims, etc. If you're really consuming such things for the women, have you not heard of the Internet and its heroic abundance of porn in every niche, all with wide variances in quantity and quality? Unless, you're fighting "the temptations of the Great War" of online porn--of which I'd like to think I've sacrificed much for myself--than I don't see much good in wasting time with nearly-naked men's entertainment. At some point I'm liable to think you're a masochist. "It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hardcore Commie works." - Gen. Jack D. Rippper, Dr. Stranglove | |
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