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We all know you're plenty of fun, WG! I know of at least one porn star who loves sounding (Jessie Colter). Although it's more of a hypothetical for me as a cisfemale, after a painful experience with a cytoscope inserted in my urethra to check out my bladder, my inclination would be to protect my (non-existent) junk from such invasion. But to each their own. I know a writer who made sounding seem hot, and she wasn't writing from experience, just from research. Those of you who do not like kinky, intense stories or Dr. John Watson of BBC's Sherlock depicted as not-entirely mentally healthy should not click the link.

Totally accidental! And I have no clue.

Let me rephrase. I agree with you. And there were other legitimate concerns expressed in the Snopes article Kurtis Wolfe linked to. (Not just you; there have been other times recently when someone didn't recognize I was agreeing with them and expanding on the point they'd made. But it's possible it wasn't clear enough that I agreed with them.)

There were other legitimate concerns expressed, as explained in the Snopes article Kurtis Wolfe linked to.

Ah, for the days when "lol" meant "little old lady." She has a point, though, whereas public nudity at the golf course is generally frowned upon while golf balls are abundant. Not everything is about one's genitals. /dodges tomatoes

*facepalm*

He's making a database He's sorting it twice SELECT * from contacts WHERE behavior = 'nice' SQL Clause is coming to town Source

That's not an angel, it's a cat http://41.media.tumblr.com/ae279bfb61d90c016a95e90ce930be9a/tumblr_nz0vi74o3B1qewacoo1_540.jpg Source

Some things never change-- http://40.media.tumblr.com/5d192a2f2af36024f9fafba73be3339c/tumblr_nkcgksgZjZ1qewacoo1_500.jpg For more, see this. The person the complaint is addressed to was apparently the original underhanded businessman (name of Ea-nasir) and "kept all of his angry letters - hundreds of them - and meticulously filed and preserved them in a dedicated room in his house. What kind of guy does that?"

The LIRR terminal is in fact in Penn Station. It may be a remote area of Penn Station, but it's still Penn Station. The person I went to Penn Station to meet in May came in on the LIRR, and I went to the LIRR waiting room to find her. Of course, by the time I got there, she was in the main concourse by the Amtrak information booth. We exchanged a couple of phone calls (with crowd noise in the background) before I found her.

I was last in Port Authority in the early aughts, probably, so it well could be much improved. I'm just having a hard time picturing it.

I haven't been in it for awhile but last time I was there I would have said the same thing about Port Authority.

Yes. Look at those photos. Beautiful but a bitch to keep up.

Pretty sure this predated Koch, who I thought was mostly useless. He was a cheerleader for the city and that was it.

The military-style police presence with bomb-sniffing dogs is typical of the NYPD response to raised terrorist threat assessments. After Paris and San Bernardino, it is only to be expected, especially since there is no screening for train passengers. I am sure the unspoken motto of every NYC mayor since 9/11 has been "never again."

Not really. That's what that section looks like. Others are darker, dingier, and more run-down. Or did you mean this photo cherrypicked one of the nicest areas?

Tearing it down made short-term economic sense. Once an older building has become decrepit, it is cheaper and faster to pull it down and rebuild. Without public pressure and a visionary owner with deep pockets, it would never have been saved. The railroads were already in trouble themselves. To expect both historic stations to be saved is expecting too much. Full disclosure: I was in Penn Sation recently (May). I found it dull and confusing to walk around, but not smelly. Only the major areas of Grand Central, which I walked through recently and which has its rundown areas too, are better. The platforms at Penn Station are nicer.

Shades of a gender flip of Sharon Stone in Basic Instinct.

UCC is about as liberal as a denomination gets while remaining theistic and nominally Christian. (Great emphasis on social gospel, almost none on personal salvation. Also, they are the progressive wing of what used to be known as the Congregationalist church, aka the Puritans.) That puts them just to the right of Unitarian Universalists. In fact, UUA and UCC collaborated on a progressive sex ed curriculum that does not advocate abstinence and doesn't demonize same-sex attraction. I know someone from a UUA congregation who's used it, teaching such things as how to put on a condom and consent.

These really work for me. Very few still photos do. Thanks for posting!

I especially like it because the church I grew up in was an American Baptist church. Now it's dually affiliated with a United Church of Christ congregation. It's been a Welcoming, Accepting, and Affirming church (aka LGBT-friendly) since 1998. That said, you'd think the church would realize the problem with that sign.

True dat!

Duh! Otherwise it would cut half their market. It would also be illegal to keep women out.

D'aww!