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This picture makes me wish, once again, that my high school had a wrestling team.

I just picked up on this series. I do hate that they've shaved Steven Strait's chest :-) It took a while to grab my interest, there's a lot of politics going on, but I'm about halfway through season 3 now and definitely enjoying it. I'm even starting to enjoy the belter patois.

it's funny how some words are worse in other languages. I worked with a couple who'd just relocated from England. "Dickhead" is a much milder slur in England than it is in the US, and "cow" in England doesn't imply "fat" like it does in the US. They were shocked that Phil Collins got away with saying "wanker" on TV when he guest-starred in "Miami Vice".

That reminded me of a one-season series called "Muscle", in the mid-90's. I watched it mainly to see Dan Gauthier naked, and think I was mostly disappointed.

There's this thread... https://www.companyofmen.org/threads/how-many-packs-dude.127998/

I've wondered where my preference for hairy men comes from. I can't remember a time where I didn't have that preference, even when going through my dad's hidden porn magazines for the occasional pictorial that included a man.

Alex Lederman, my current obsession...

I have my mother's old KitchenAid stand mixer, which she got around 1976. Still works like a charm. I'm not sure why she replaced it with a newer model, my youngest sister got that when Mom died.

This has been covered in other threads although I'm too lazy today to look them up. When it's happened to me, I don't acknowledge how we met, and sometimes it's easier just to pretend we've never met. I've seen an escort I hired at a friend's Halloween party, he was there with his boyfriend; I played like we'd never met. In the gym locker room, I ran into a club dancer that I'd taken home a few times; we said hello but he seemed uncomfortable.

There's a saying, something like "The satisfaction of quality outlives the thrill of a bargain". On the other hand, on a zoom call with old friends, I was drinking ALDI's $3 "Winking Owl" wine. One friend, always a fan of "the finer things", sniffed dismissively at that - a couple other friends chimed in to defend me and said they liked it too.

He was a favorite of mine from years back. He did a wrestling video where I got the impression the other guy was a little too into being dominated for the director's taste.

Wow. Had to google this guy, Ben Todd, a canadian fitness model. A couple slightly more revealing shots...

Visiting one of my old roommates, I noticed a sweatshirt of mine hanging on the back of a chair at his house. I asked him if that was mine, he said he'd wanted something of mine to remember me by.

At work, we had an ongoing email discussion with one of our vendors about a technical problem we were having. At one point, they replied accidentally including some discussion between themselves not meant for us, where they said something like "Leave it to poolboy to say in 20 words what he could have said in two". I shared it with our team but never called them out on it.

This is from "Vision Quest", he plays Matthew Modine's wrestling rival. One of the most homoerotic movies ever.

I knew a dancer at the club, his private dances were "anything goes" at first, but after a while they got more conservative; he wouldn't even strip down fully. I asked him about it and he said he was just getting more uncomfortable with it. I also asked and he said it wasn't just me, he was more limited with everyone; that was a bit of comfort.

I'd just started at a new company, and in my first paycheck there was a mixup (too low), right before I left for a weekend trip. I contacted the payroll department, figuring it'd be as futile as interactions with payroll usually are, but she saw the error, fixed it immediately, and told me she'd try to get the correction out to me in tomorrow's expenses payroll run. I emailed her boss telling her I was impressed with how quickly she'd fixed it; the payroll clerk sent me a nice note when I got back.

My mother, normally pretty prim, told my youngest sister after we'd all moved out of the house that "your father and I still enjoy each other". I think this was after the sister had dropped in to pick up her mail and heard the parents in the bedroom. My dad told me I was born about 9 months after they'd moved into the house we grew up in, then paused and said "Exactly nine months, actually. I was surprised, I thought I'd be too tired from moving in".

Don't know. I have a subscription by virtue of having HBO included in my cable package; my big hurdle was finding a device I could play it on. I don't like watching TV on my computer.

I got it working on my Roku midday yesterday too! Took some fiddling, at one point I went into my Roku options & downloaded a new update.

Nah, it's a valid objection. I noticed the "inherit your porn" post showed a new update and thought "Maybe I should just post it there". I blame too little coffee.

From today's Detroit Free Press: OTTAWA COUNTY - A Grand Haven couple must pay their 42-year-old son back after destroying the son's extensive pornography and sex toy collection, according to a federal judge. Paul and Beth Werking of Grand Haven were sued by their son David Werking after they destroyed his collection of DVDs, VHS tapes and other pornographic materials in 2018. The son estimates the value of his collection to be around $25,000. The lawsuit was filed in federal court in April 2019. In the lawsuit, David Werking claimed his parents illegally destroyed a large amount of pornography that he had left behind at his parents' house when he moved out at the “request of local law enforcement” in August 2017. The son now lives in Indiana. According to emails between the father and son, the collection of items included 12 moving boxes “full of pornography plus two boxes of sex toys.” David Werking included an itemized list of the destroyed property, including 1,605 individual titles of pornographic DVDs and VHS tapes. There is also a list of at least 50 sex toys and paraphernalia. He originally valued the items to be worth $28,940.72, but said many of the titles are irreplaceable. In later court filings, the items were listed at $25,557.89. I wonder what Thanksgiving was like at their house. ?

For the last few years I've been a Croc wearer. I wash them in the shower or kitchen sink. The very, very few times I wear dress shoes, I have one of those quick-shine sponges that I'll use on my dusty dress shoes.

Just tried that on mine, and HBO Max takes me to the normal HBO channel. I'll give them a day or two to straighten out the kinks.

Is this done? The article (from yesterday) says "starting Thursday", but I'm not seeing HBO Max as an option on my Roku just now.