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It’s the original interpretation!
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It’s the original interpretation!
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“I couldn’t care less” > “I could care less”
 
If you say that you could care less, it means that you care at least a bit.

Gman

Nihilistic Password Security Questions
 
A selection...
 


In what year did you abandon your dreams?




At what age did your childhood pet run away?




In what city did you first experience ennui?




What is the name of your favorite canceled TV show?




What was the middle name of your first rebound?




On what street did you lose your childlike sense of wonder?




When did you stop trying?

I’ve been jonesing for Souplantation for a couple of months now.
 
I once went with a (Black) friend and as we ate we just happened to discuss the name of the restaurant. “I wonder if the ‘plantation’ in the name stirs up any negative thoughts or imagery in some people’s minds,” I observed. “Yes,” she answered, “they should probably get rid of it. They’d get more Black people [customers].”

It is said that the modern interpretation of that saying is the inverse of what the original meaning was. The full, original phrasing is “The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb.” This means that your relationship to those with whom you’ve shed blood in war or those with whom you’ve made a blood covenant is paramount, of greater importance than the simple sharing of DNA, meaning the original phrasing wouldn’t actually refer to familial bonds. So liberate yourself from the shackles of this idiom’s implication if it’s at all hampering you in creating your own family/spawns guilt in you about keeping only “fictive kin,” as it were.

Scientifically speaking though, blood is slightly thicker than water, if you were wondering.

“Desire is a contract that you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want.” -Naval Ravikant

Musing: Ever notice that 12 seems to be the default age when one rhetorically asks someone how old they are after that someone has done or said something immature: “What, are you twelve?”

Thought about adding this to the “abusive parent” thread to inject a bit of levity, but I thought that maybe it would be a skosh unbecoming:
 

Hm. Yeah. Though I can pre-come a lot while not needing to be so hard, to climax I do. Go figure.

Speaking of hardness, or lack thereof: I’ve noticed quite a lot, and this is anecdotal, of course: Older men don’t seem to need to be fully-erect to achieve orgasm. I’ve taken many a guy to climax who neither appears nor feels to be sometimes even 70% hard. I however am completely firm when I come. I don’t know if I NEED to be so, but I always am when I do, so maybe. ?

“The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you’re uncool.”
 
said by Philip Seymour Hoffman in Almost Famous

She won a BAFTA. Wilder won too. Golden Globe? Since that scene is conjured in his mind it was entirely over the top. I love it.

Thanks for commiserating ?
 

 
Not to throw shade, but I couldn’t help but notice something glaring at me here — a mindset that may play some small role in an STI spike ?? ... The fact that with greater sex education or general awareness in modern times, more people know that they are so easily treated — perhaps spawning a slightly more lackadaisical approach to preventive measures — it may be a case of the law of unintended consequences.

Speaking of new life: A (straight, if it matters) friend of mine, visiting from London and struggling to make it in the States, once considered donating sperm for cash. I was like “are you sure” and he was like “why not, that’s what I’m supposed to do, spread my seed”
 
I suppose that’s right from an evolutionary-biological/Darwinian perspective, but I’ve always thought I would never want offspring out there of whom I don’t know the existence.

Yes, Latin versus the English language can also engender some contentiousness among people when pluralizing words, for example, and Greek can come into play, too. An instance of this is the word “octopus.” Should the plural be octopuses (English), octopi (Latin, as plural Latin words end with “i”), or octopodes (Greek, because after all, the word “octopus” is of Greek origin)?
 
But I love the English language, warts (read: imprecision) and all.

I’ve been meaning to read Death in Venice for ages. Thanks for the reminder.

Had to look her up and discovered her erstwhile LGBT stances. Thanks.

Quoting from a screenplay, a comedy.
 
Can you guess the movie from this quote, without Googling?
 
I love this movie. The scene is quite well known.
 
It shakes me. It quakes me. It makes me feel goose pimpley all over.
I don't know where I am, or who I am. Or what I'm doing.
Don't stop. Don't stop. Don't ever stop.
 
Why did you stop?
 
You know why I stopped.
 
Why?
 
Because.
Because now I'm going to take you in my arms and kiss you, very quickly and very hard.
 
 
 
If you give up, there is a clue far below.
EDIT: Adding an additional clue. The scene is a fantasy sequence. E.g. The actress character doesn't really say the lines. The actor, not really playing the piano, Rachmaninoff, is conjuring in his mind his hot neighbor, drawn to the music.
 
 
 
 
 
Good ol' Rachmaninoff. The 2nd Piano Concerto. Never misses.

No clue. Kindly edify. ?

My friend worked at a small clinic as the front-desk receptionist. The clinic administered both the rapid (the results for which you have to wait two weeks) and early tests (results rendered within sixty seconds). In his capacity as receptionist, he was privy to someone testing positive, as they had to arrange matters to make the appointment longer and possibly push back another to accommodate it. He said the most awkward part of the job was seeing the tested-positive people walk out and having to say "Bye, have a nice day" in a falsely cheery voice. He also (perhaps unethically ?) related anecdotes such as a couple coming in to get tested together — one tested negative, the other positive. The former berated the latter right then and there, ostensibly inferring that his partner had been unfaithful. My friend also intimated that "it's usually the cute ones" who test positive.

I’d venture that the people of whom you speak would probably label you as “sex-negative,” a popular buzzword along with “sex-positive.”