The No Topic Thread

[+ Charlie]

12 hours ago, wsc said:

Although it feels a little strange to use the "quote" function on my own post, it seems the easiest way to provide an update.

Yesterday, and at long last -almost a year later- I finally found Stouffers Tuna Noodle Casserole at my Giant store. I scoured all the local supermarkets trying to find the product - more out of stubbornness than appetite - but all was in vain until yesterday. And I found that Giant added insult to the injury by labeling it "New Product," convincing me that between the two of us at least one of us doesn't know what the f*ck they're doing.

I bought two of them.

It's the little things that make life worth living.😬

Next!

That is one of my favorite products, too.

[BigK]

I like Stouffer‘s spinach soufflé, and corn soufflé

[Thomas_Belgium]

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[WoolCave]

Yesterday a mouse got in my office as I was working late and it scared me. But it was very cute. I ushered him back outside. 

[+ purplekow]

On 4/22/2026 at 6:05 PM, BSR said:

I found out last night that the escort I saw a couple of times Feb 2025 is becoming a priest.  Yup, he’s about to complete his first year in seminary.  Wow, he was so cute, and his body was perfection … Father What-a-Waste.

If this is truly his calling, I’m happy for him.  But selfishly, I’m bummed I won’t be able to see him again.  Well, I guess I could attend mass at his parish, but that wasn’t the kind of seeing I had in mind.

I have had several priests as patients and more than one with a venereal disease.  Celibacy in the Catholic Church clergy is more hyperbole than fact.  The first time I had a priest as a patient, in fact, he was in for a perirectal abscess.  As a rather naive Catholic, I wsa embarrassed to ask about sexual activity but I knew it had to be done.  The answer I received to my question was about sexual contacts was something along the lines of:  "Of course I have sex but only with men.  The celibacy vow was instituted to save the church money as it did not have to support the families of priests.  No chance of any of my partners getting pregnant and as a result I feel I am keeping with the spirit of the justification for celibacy without being celibate, which would lead me to leaving the preisthood."  This was before marriage for same sex couples was common.  

[+ purplekow]

I was thinking the other day about a brief conversation I had with my father many years ago.  He said that as is was that his father died when my father was 5, that my father felt as though he had no guide as to how to be a father.  My grandmother never remarried and there does not seem to have been any other men in her life.   

For those posters her who are fathers, did your own father model behavior, either good or bad, that shaped your fathering style?

 

In addition, I do not recall my father having any friends.  He had relatives, employees, neighbors and colleagues, but no friends. As a result, he thought it was peculiar that I had friends from grammar school who I still saw regularly for decades.  Do others here know of relatives or others who have no friends but are living normal lives otherwise?  

[wsc]

49 minutes ago, purplekow said:

I have had several priests as patients and more than one with a venereal disease.  Celibacy in the Catholic Church clergy is more hyperbole than fact.  The first time I had a priest as a patient, in fact, he was in for a perirectal abscess.  As a rather naive Catholic, I wsa embarrassed to ask about sexual activity but I knew it had to be done.  The answer I received to my question was about sexual contacts was something along the lines of:  "Of course I have sex but only with men.  The celibacy vow was instituted to save the church money as it did not have to support the families of priests.  No chance of any of my partners getting pregnant and as a result I feel I am keeping with the spirit of the justification for celibacy without being celibate, which would lead me to leaving the preisthood."  This was before marriage for same sex couples was common.  

A man went to see a doctor for a problem that was diagnosed as a prostate condition. The doctor told him the cause was a lack of proper irrigation and that the only way to get relief was through regular and frequent orgasms and told the man to see again in a month. At the next visit the doctor looked at lab results and saw only minor progress and asked the man about his sexual encounters. The man said he'd increased them from rarely to about twice a month. The doctor said that would not solve his problem and that he must increase his efforts. After another month the results were still unsatisfactory to the doctor even though the patient had said he had increased his encounters to once a week. The doctor scolded the man on the still too low frequency of his orgasms, sending him forth to do much better if he was serious about getting relief. In the next appointment the man reported he was now up to twice a week, and the doctor got visibly upset about his patient's lack of adequate care for his condition. The man then became annoyed with the doctor and told him. "I know you're trying to help and I appreciate that. But I truly am trying my very best. And for a priest in a small town, I think I'm doing remarkably well!"

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