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I don't actually have any direct memories of quarantines but I remember, as a kid, hearing adults talk about quarantines. In grade school, our health education textbooks were from the 1940s and they talked about scarlet fever, polio and rheumatic fever quarantines and showed pictures of houses with quarantine notices posted on the front of the house.

One of the things that has hampered development of a coronavirus vaccine is that previous contagions have been wiped out through containment and mitigation. Since the pathogen just goes away after a while, the effort to develop a vaccine is always abandoned.

They're also looking at melatonin. It's supposed to help suppress the cytokine storm

I like to swallow cum, but I'm not into the taste of it. I just like taking a load of another guy's sperm still warm from his body heat down my throat. I like him sharing himself with me that way.

Our cats seem very happy to have us around. Our older cat, who is 10 years old, used to sleep all day. Now he's become a lot more lively and seems to enjoy being around us more than he used to. The younger cat (2 years old) and the older one play a lot more than they ever have.

You don't really need icebreakers. The conversation flows or it doesnt. I don't try very hard to maintain a conversation that doesn't seem to be going anywhere.

My sister-in-law and her partner adopted a newborn when they were well into middle age. Eventually, the fact that his parents were old ladies who looked much older than the parents of his contemporaries became a source of embarrassment to him. When they took him to school, he had the drop him off a couple blocks from school so that none of his friends could see them. He generally had a lot to deal with in addition to their age - they're white and he's black, and they're a lesbian couple , in addition to being old. Just goes to show that love doesn't necessarily conquer all.

I've only encountered one escort who "needed" to do it. And he was. In fact, a very needy man, a badly damaged Iraq war veteran. Every other one has been an impressive man who seemed very much in control of himself

I love short men, esp with fireplug builds

I firmly believe that sexual orientation is self-defined. So, if you believe that liking oral sex with a guy makes you gay, then you're gay. If you don't think it does, then you're not gay.

I like ground chicken. Mostly I use it to make chicken sausage patties. I used to grind up boneless chicken thighs in the food processor. Then one day it occurred to me that buying ground chicken would be a lot easier.

My husband went shopping Saturday night. There was no ground beef. Plenty of chicken though. At the start of the lockdown, plenty of red meat and no chicken. Just the opposite now.

And the French expression "faire la toilette" means "to wash up."

No, I think you're right, on reflection. The expression "toilet water" is probably as archaic as the idea of doing one's toilet. I do note that the Google definition of toilet water is a dilute form of perfume.

Does it? "Doing" one's "toilet" is an archaic way of saying freshening up in the morning-washing face, brushing hair, etc, applying some makeup. I remember my mother using the expression "toilet water." Time was when toilets were called water closets. They started calling them toilets out of an excessive sense of delicacy. I think WC is still used to denote a public restroom.

September - exactly what i've been thinking

If you hose out, it will enhance your enjoyment. I'm into FF, and I've come to see cleaning out as part of the experience instead of a necessary chore.

It's always been that way. Hookup apps are just a force multiplier. During AIDS, I tried to just date and get to know guys, but more often than not, we ended up in bed on the first date. It takes a lot of restraint.

As Dr. Fauci said, "The virus determines the timeline."

A lot of retailers delivered, and they didn't charge. I seem to remember that they started charging when the price of oil skyrocketed in the 70s

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That's a much more constructive attitude than we had. We were similarly situated. Nice little grocery across the street and the Campo de Fiori was a short walk. One afternoon, I went in a meat market in the neighborhood. There was a big leg of something in the case and the women said it was "pig meat." It seemed way to red for pork, but I bought it anyway. She sliced us some nice cutlets and I took them home and sauteed them with wild mushrooms. Fabulous!!! Turns out it was wild boar.

When I lived in Germany many years ago, I noticed that the kitchens in German homes were tiny - Small refrigerators, not much counter space, few cabinets. And they shopped for groceries frequently - not every day necessarily, but certainly several times a week. I always wondered which came first - did they have small kitchens because they did't believe in keeping a lot of food on hand or did they not keep a lot of food on hand because they had small kitchens. A few years ago, my husband and I rented a condo in Rome for a couple weeks. The kitchen was absurdly small. We only fixed a couple meals there because the kitchen was so difficult to work in. OTOH, I have been in a few homes in England and their kitchens seem to be scaled more like American kitchens.

We got milk, bread and eggs.

I was thinking about what shopping for groceries was like when I was a kid. There were unusual things or specialty items that you just couldn't get and you did without them. If you ran out of something, you didn't run out and buy it, you did without it until grocery day. If the store was out of what you wanted you just waited for it until they restocked it. I also remember that we had quite a few older neighbors who never shopped. They called the grocery store and placed an order by phone and it was delivered later that day. All the houses had those doors for delivery men to place stuff in. They called them "milk doors." Everything old is new again.