MsGuy

I could not care less. I am disappointed when someone I find attractive does not reciprocate, gay or not gay.

My partner and I recently celebrated our 50th anniversary living together. After the first three honeymoon weeks together, we both admitted that we were attracted to other men as well, and the only way our relationship was likely to survive was if we were honest about it. Therefore, we accepted the fact that sex with others was going to happen, maybe even affairs--they did--and we shared the necessary information about who we were sleeping with. We also had an understanding that, because we loved each other, we would let one another go if one of those other relationships reached that level of importance that one of us wanted to leave. It got close a couple of times, but we always decided that our relationship was too important to us, and we split with the potential new partner. I started hiring escorts partly because it eliminated the potential for emotional involvement. In 2013, we got married, and we have been monogamous ever since. (OK, OK! I'll admit it has been easy, since we don't get any other offers nowadays.)

99.99% of the time....not even a little.
 
But the 0.01%....more than makes up for it.

Fideau?

Chien? Words for either sex
Male Charles DeDog
Female Bridget Bardog
 
Merde

Uh, I think you might have it backwards there.
 
Kevin Slater

That is a misleading description, since he started at the Realschule in Linz the same year that Hitler dropped out, and both were 16 years old at the time. Also, they were from very different social classes; Wittgenstein was a boarding student (his wealthy family lived in Vienna) while Hitler was a day student. Wittgenstein needed a lot of private tutoring, because he arrived unprepared for the standard courses, so he probably didn't even have the same classes as Hitler, who had been a student for a few years. It's unlikely that they had any kind of personal relationship.
 
Nevertheless, once Wittgenstein became a kind of cult figure in intellectual circles, his opponents were always looking for some Hitlerian connection.

Gman

AVALON, THAT HAS GOT TO BE THE MOST EURO-CENTRIC STATEMENT I'VE READ IN QUITE A WHILE.
 
Trust me on this, English is the new lingua franca.
 
It's been a very long time since Latin exited stage left.

I was once nearly talked into buying tight white jeans by a rather smooth salesman at Neiman Marcus.
 
If I hadn't come to my senses, I'd have considered that a crime.

I wonder who broke his?

Years ago in NYC, Time Warner added the viewing of some porn movies to my bill. I was actually away (at a religious retreat mind you) on the designated dates. I called Time Warner to complain and contest the charge. After a good deal acrimony they agreed. About six months later the co-op’s handy man was summarily fired. It seems one of my neighbors returned home midday to find that handy man sitting on her couch jerking off to porn on her tv.

House broken into. Bicycle stolen twice. Front tire of bicycle stolen another time. Hit and run. Calculator stolen. Somebody took/ate my pop tarts in the break room at work.

I'm a dinosaur I don't have a smartphone.

What do you do if a Trump supporter throws a hand grenade at you?
 
Pick it up, pull the pin, and throw it back.
 
--30--
 
It's just a joke, guys.

Sorry, I have to save some private information from identity thieves.

This is not confined to Illinois. It happens in California and Arizona, too.
 

 
Years ago I worked at Eddie Bauer in Skokie, Illinois. We had a very loyal following of very long-time customers as well as new customers who would shop our store. One day, I was ringing up a 40-something lady who was talking on her flip-phone (pre-iPhone days here) and not paying attention to anyone around her, including me as I asked several times how she would like to pay for her purchase. Behind here was an elderly long-time customer and behind her was a rapidly building line. The elderly woman grabbed the phone, said "she'll call you back" to the person on the other end, snapped the phone shut, and said to the younger woman "Now pay the man. I'm an old woman and I don't want to die here." When the elderly woman stepped up to the register I thanked her. She said "sweetheart, when you get to be my age you can say thigs like that too."

A number of years ago I was dining at Valentino's in Santa Monica. It is an outstanding restaurant and it is very expensive. A cell phone rang at the table next to mine and its owner, a middle aged woman, answered and carried on a long conversation in a loud voice for several minutes. Nobody seated at the surrounding tables, myself included, said a word. The third time it happened a "gentleman" seated nearby got up walked over to her table and in a loud voice said "lady get off the fucking phone NOW" The entire room burst into applause. The woman got off the phone, quickly finished her meal and left. Damn it was a wonderful moment.

I have always felt sorry for children who misbehave in restaurants. It is really the asshole parents who are to blame. The parents are too busy doing their own things to spend the time teaching their children how to behave.
I dislike old people (I'm 77) who drive in the fast lane (75 mph) at 55 mph. I drive 80 mph.
I dislike old people who have a cart full of groceries and get in the 10 items or less line, at the market, and play dumb.
I dislike old people who in the grocery check out line wait until their groceries are totaled, then search for their check book and when they eventually find it ask the checker to borrow his/her pen before they start writing out their check.
I dislike people who no longer feel the need to say excuse me, thank you, or you're welcome.
I dislike people who, in a crowded place, insist on talking on their cellphones in a loud voice. Do they really think I give a fuck about their conversation.
Unfortunately this list could go on and on.

In general? Or a specific user?

Organizations that thank you for a donation, and immediately ask for another one, usually in the thank you letter.

Having lived in both England and Czechoslovakia (when it was one country), I was expecting this to be amusing, but it was simply inane.

http://rs919.pbsrc.com/albums/ad37/thebloodofkonstantin/reaction%20gifs/tumblr_inline_mga3nt1Kv01qzcf6f_zps709bd106.gif?w=280&h=210&fit=crop

http://headhearthand.org/uploads/2012/04/parrot.jpg Guess who I just spent the night with. . . . . Pretty boy!