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Large domestic cat in British Columbia mistaken for a cougar: https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/amp/entry/cougar-surrey-fat-cat-rcmp_ca_5d66ce38e4b022fbceb549cf/?__twitter_impression=true

Cats of a feather flock together: [MEDIA=twitter]1166054796463357958[/MEDIA]

It works the other way, too. The most alpha of my alpha cats (all ten pounds of her) discovered that the dogs next door could see her over the fence if she was on the roof of my car and enjoyed driving them crazy. Otherwise she didn't spare a thought for dogs. What she hated were other cats, although she eventually reconciled herself to living with two of them once she sufficiently established her dominance over them. They were each twice her size. One of the two cats the above alpha cat had to put up with liked the way a very primitive water dispensing unit gurgled when she pawed at the water. We had to stop using it because she would get water all over the floor. Fortunately, she didn't eat dry cat food, so we were able to continue to feed her brother by using a similar automatic dispenser for dry cat food. He sometimes pawed the dry cat food out of the bowl for fun, but not in quantities large enough to be a problem.

Or with getting the hoomin's attention in order to get food. Very often the message I get from my cat is that I'm the dumb one (in the colloquial, not literal, sense) because I've missed all her previous signals and she's reduced to direct action.

Higher thread counts are less rough but they are more absorbent. I swapped my highest thread count sheets recently for some that don't have as high a thread count because they were getting clammy and uncomfortable from sweat.

From the department of cats are cute, but they're still assholes: [MEDIA=twitter]1165942022508859394[/MEDIA] From someone who feeds the cat when I get up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom because it's preferable to the cat keeping me awake by stroking my face with her paws when I get back in bed. (The claws come out if I don't respond quickly enough.)

Obviously the bird is the dom in this relationship.

But they may get more than they bargained for! One of the "detectors" is whether there are two people in the potty, which could happen because an adult is accompanied by a child too young to be left outside alone or who is assisting a child too young to use the bathroom alone or because one person is ill or disabled and needs assistance. I can't wait until the doors fly open and people using the portapotty to vomit are revealed and drenched with water! https://abc7.com/amp/society/new-toilets-detect-when-someone-is-having-sex-in-bathroom/5477133/?__twitter_impression=true This really seems like a solution in search of an actual problem.

Btw, in male/female relationships, women get tired of sex with the same person faster/more often and benefit more from being able to play around. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/02/women-get-bored-sex-long-term-relationships/582736/ "Women in long-term, committed heterosexual partnerships might think they’ve “gone off” sex—but it’s more that they’ve gone off the same sex with the same person over and over."

Polyamory is whatever you want it to be. It can involve a closed circle, where everyone involved is in a relationship with each other, or an open one, where each member of a couple has other usually non-primary relationships, or where only one member of a couple sees other people and the other one doesn't. My gentleman caller is polyamorous and sees people other than his wife. With the exception of me, they're all married. Most of them have partners who aren't able to engage in penetrative sex. If he wasn't seeing others, he would want to have sex with his wife pretty much every day. In that regard I suspect his polyamory may be a relief to her. I prefer the terminology "open relationship" because it comes with less philosophical baggage than polyamory.

That so-called "business model" was always rotten, illegal , unethical and wrong and took advantage of the marginalization of whoever was preyed on, whether female singers or teenage students. All that's changed is that more people are willing to call it out.

For a slightly different perspective: [MEDIA=twitter]853079042844745730[/MEDIA] @ArVaGuy, you might appreciate this.

I've had it up to here with the recriminations between baby boomers and millennials. There's always overgeneralizations and the Boomers sound like old folks yelling at people to get off their lawn. Blaming Boomers for everything that's wrong is equally annoying. Why doesn't anyone drag Generation X into this? Are they now too old to get dumped on? I seem to remember a time when they were blamed for everything, back when they were the young whippersnappers. Seeing as they are reputedly more apathetic and apolitical than Boomers or Millennials/Generation Y, it seems to me they make better targets of disdain if one absolutely must engage in intergenerational disdain. I helped get myself into the medical condition I'm in now by putting work ahead of my health, so complaints about supposed laziness and lack of work ethic don't ring a bell with me. Full disclosure: I'm a Boomer and my daughter is a late millennial.

There's a difference between refusing service to someone who is smelly, gross and unhygienic and discriminating on the basis of race. Clients who are larger need to be realistic about physical possibilities (for example, a client with a large belly may not be able to top effectively) but an inability to perform with overweight clients is going to not only lessen an escort's potential clientele but flies in the face of the whole reason many people hire. Same with racial and ethnic preferences. That is why I say people with such preferences shouldn't be escorts in the first place. It's like being hired to working in a cafeteria and insisting you won't touch dirty dishes. (I had the pleasure of working with someone like that in college.)

It's only helpful to use a term if there's some agreement as to what it means. Pew suggests 1981-1995 for millennials, with everyone born later falling into the post-millennial/Generation Z category. (Millennials started out as Generation Y.) http://mentalfloss.com/article/533632/new-guidelines-redefine-birth-years-millennials-gen-x-and-post-millennials That makes the oldest millennials older than most of those who have already responded think.

Sorry, it's entirely appropriate to judge them for these preferences. If they're so important, then don't become a sex worker. (I agree it's better if they state the preferences up front, but come on, suggesting that should be a judgment-free experience is asking too much.)

Considering that for years research has ignored women and thus not noticed differences in presentation of symptoms or the efficacy and safety of drugs, calling this "gender politics...masquerading as science" is insulting. The people who have died, suffered and been misdiagnosed because women aren't included in studies would disagree with you.

Actually they do need to disclose that they're sponsored, but many of them are ignoring FTC guidance to that effect.

Based on the most common compliment I've received, my epitaph will be "she was smart." "Smartass" and "pain in the ass" (as in dogged) have also been mentioned.

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Do you close your eyes when you sneeze? Some people close their eyes when they are close to orgasm or at it. As also mentioned, anonymity is a turn on for some, and darkness enhances the anonymity. Not everyone cares about their partner's looks at every encounter.

This is Curious Zelda. [MEDIA=twitter]1142482500779945990[/MEDIA] The other difference between Sofia and Zelda is that Sofia had a white-tipped tail.

What is a peaked ear Scottish Fold?

Was Willy altruistic too? I don't know if you know Curious Zelda (she's on Twitter), but she looks like my previous cat would have if she had bulging eyes.

Some cats are altruistic (see above); some cats aren't. [MEDIA=twitter]1144222087713828864[/MEDIA]