I ate something I shouldn't have...can Steven Drakker...

[AdamSmith]

With Jale pronounced how?

- as it would be in English

- as in Spanish <h>

- as in Portuguese <zh>

- as in German (Yiddish?) <y>

 

Pronounced "Jail."

 

As a Harvard man doing a Yiddish schtick would after all pronounce "Yale."

[AdamSmith]

So jail. That's okay; it's the only institution of higher learning that ever turned me down.

 

I never tire of this silliness...

 

[whipped guy]

 

It looks an awful lot like a bidet. I'm going to have to admit to y'all but I'm not sure I've ever really seen a female urinate before. But my understanding is they need to sit. There doesn't really seem to be anyplace for them to sit on this sanistand. Are they supposed to stand over it?

Gman

Well there is something called a Turkish Style toilet where one does all their business standing up and as such are considered to be unisex. The pic should be self explanatory. I've only used them in Europe, and for a guy at least it's a no brainier. Well, at least for número uno that is! The Sanistand would seem to be an easier contraption with which to deal, but then again I have never done it female style!

 

http://www.constructionweekonline.com/pictures/Nile-Pans-Pic.jpg

 

OMFG! How did we come to this.

[whipped guy]

Pronounced "Jail."

 

As a Harvard man doing a Yiddish schtick would after all pronounce "Yale."

I would assume that it's pronounced "jail" as in "gaol" as well?!

[sincitymix]

Wasn't intentionally adding fuel to a fire or going for a 'stunt' here. I'm not on here daily so I'm just now getting a chance to respond to things that were apparently posted weeks ago; my bad for not reading dates, didn't realize they'd cooled.

 

As for being a 'stunt', Remember, by opening my mouth here and voicing my opinion, I have everything to lose in a few possible hires and nothing to gain. But yet, why would I open yap and say things then?

 

Because-->money isn't solely what drives me. Calling things as I see them; is. If I was all business I'd post travel dates and salutations and nothing else, like most wiser escorts. What I see, though, is a kid trying to progress himself and a bunch of people taking potshots and Hail Marys at him, and anyone who sticks up for him.

 

He's happy go lucky; emphasis on HAPPY. Shame that's not contagious, because it's the common denominator that a lot of their haters are lacking.

 

Have a sparking day. <3

Awww. its all right Tristan, We still WUV you!! and you do make good points. *Id post a picture of a kitty trying to hug you, but I cant find one.. so.. =^..^= mew mew + Tristan = <3

[sincitymix]

Well there is something called a Turkish Style toilet where one does all their business standing up and as such are considered to be unisex. The pic should be self explanatory. I've only used them in Europe, and for a guy at least it's a no brainier. Well, at least for número uno that is! The Sanistand would seem to be an easier contraption with which to deal, but then again I have never done it female style!

 

http://www.constructionweekonline.com/pictures/Nile-Pans-Pic.jpg

 

OMFG! How did we come to this.

That kind of looks like some toilets I saw in korea, waaaay out in the country side. My dad said they were called Kimchi squats.. my mom gave him the "LOOK -.-"

[+ FreshFluff]

Awww. its all right Tristan, We still WUV you!! and you do make good points. *Id post a picture of a kitty trying to hug you, but I cant find one.. so.. =^..^= mew mew + Tristan = <3

 

http://www.pleated-jeans.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Cat_hug.gif

[sincitymix]

http://www.pleated-jeans.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Cat_hug.gif

 

That is Purrrrfect! and oh so adorable!!

[gallahadesquire]

I do (I do)!

 

A classmate at Jale wrote a senior thesis on the notion that Proust structured his (encyclopedically long) parentheticals in A la Recherche du Temps Perdu so that the reader's descent from the main text into a parenthetical would operate as a mimesis of (thus reflexive comment on) the reader's overall descent from the external world into the world of Proust's text.

 

(So parentheticals have ever since been near & dear to mine heart.)

 

(That classmate was in fact one Andrew Paulson, striving at the moment to make himself impresario of the World Chess Championship among diverse other mad schemes.)

 

(He was a bottom. [usually. ] )

 

(A good one! )

 

Mimesis is used in The Big Bang Theory: When Leonard wants to visit his girlfriend's male friends during a football game, Sheldon comes in and asks how the mimesis is going.

 

Mimesis

(

/maɪˈmiːsəs/

;

Ancient Greek

: μίμησις (

mīmēsis

), from μιμεῖσθαι (

mīmeisthai

), "to imitate," from

μῖμος

(

mimos

), "imitator, actor") is a

critical

and philosophical term that carries a wide range of meanings, which include

imitation

,

representation

,

mimicry

,

imitatio

, receptivity, nonsensuous similarity, the act of resembling, the act of expression, and the

presentation of the self

.

[1]

 

In

ancient Greece

, mimesis was an idea that governed the creation of works of art, in particular, with correspondence to the physical world understood as a model for beauty,

truth

, and the good.

Plato

contrasted mimesis, or

imitation

, with

diegesis

, or narrative. After Plato, the meaning of mimesis eventually shifted toward a specifically literary function in ancient Greek society, and its use has changed and been reinterpreted many times since then.

- Wikipedia.

[+ Funguy]

Waaaaay to deep for me!

 

 

Mimesis

(

/maɪˈmiːsəs/

;

Ancient Greek

: μίμησις (

mīmēsis

), from μιμεῖσθαι (

mīmeisthai

),

 

In

ancient Greece

, mimesis was an idea that governed the creation of works of art, in particular, with correspondence to the physical world understood as a model for beauty,

truth

, and the good.

Plato

contrasted mimesis, or

imitation

, with

diegesis

, or narrative. After Plato, the meaning of mimesis eventually shifted toward a specifically literary function in ancient Greek society, and its use has changed and been reinterpreted many times since then.

- Wikipedia.

[AdamSmith]

Also the topic of one of the great works of literary criticism, Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature

[whipped guy]

That kind of looks like some toilets I saw in korea, waaaay out in the country side. My dad said they were called Kimchi squats.. my mom gave him the "LOOK -.-"

LOL! Yeah. On more than one occasion it was my job to check out the "facilities" in a given establishment. I was the advance scout for the women in the group. If it was Turkish depdending what business needed to be done the deal was to hold it in and try to find something better!

[whipped guy]

Waaaaay to deep for me!

Well since you admitted it first for me as well. Yes, I'm that shallow, but I did post a memes so there's at least some hope for me... Some... I guess?!?!?

[bigvalboy]

Waaaaay to deep for me!

 

Well since you admitted it first for me as well. Yes, I'm that shallow, but I did post a memes so there's at least some hope for me... Some... I guess?!?!?

 

LOL...Thank God, and here I thought I was the only one. I'm still back a few pages trying to figure out how to pronounce Yale, or is it "Jail" or "Jale"...and all this time I thought I was from LA, and now I come to find out I might be from Neoprene or Plasticine. Too much for a cheap 'Dime store Floosie' like myself...

[AdamSmith]

a cheap 'Dime store Flossie' like myself...

 

Much more than that!

 

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wSDYPjCxYXc/Ue9x88kMHVI/AAAAAAAAMEs/sapxHtGFfz0/s1600/poster1.jpg

[whipped guy]

LOL...Thank God, and here I thought I was the only one. I'm still back a few pages trying to figure out how to pronounce Yale, or is it "Jail" or "Jale"...and all this time I thought I was from LA, and now I come to find out I might be from Neoprene or Plasticine. Too much for a cheap 'Dime store Flossie' like myself...

 

Is this not what BVB wants to accomplish with this thread?!?!

http://sd.keepcalm-o-matic.co.uk/i/keep-calm-and-love-flossie-4.png

[AdamSmith]

Ehem.

 

Flossie

[whipped guy]

As opposed to:

 

http://cascadesdental.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/8.28-Reasons-to-Floss.jpg

 

Which we all should be doing... Right!?

 

Sono pronto per il manicomio!!!! Look that up! Yep, due to this thread I'm taking a trip to Aversa in Italy! Look that up as well!

[+ quoththeraven]

I never tire of this silliness...

 

 

Or "You can always tell a Yale man, but you can't tell him much."

 

Also, this place is highly educational. I keep learning new slang.

[+ WilliamM]

My first post in this thread, which I thought was about food.

 

And despite what you have heard, QTR -- you, with that aversion to nude swimming! -- I promise you it was not exactly a horror. For some of us, it was actually kind of ... clarifying. I could get into specifics about the cocks and asses I remember to this day ...

 

Agree. I also remember specific cocks and asses to this day. And I believe I may be older than you, Starbuck.

 

A classmate at Jale wrote a senior thesis on the notion that Proust structured his (encyclopedically long) parentheticals in A la Recherche du Temps Perdu so that the reader's descent from the main text into a parenthetical would operate as a mimesis of (thus reflexive comment on) the reader's overall descent from the external world into the world of Proust's text.

 

Adam, you are discouraging people from reading Proust :)

[AdamSmith]

Adam, you are discouraging people from reading Proust :)

 

[+ Gar1eth]

To a cheap 'Dime store Floosie' like myself...

 

Due to inflation a 1930's Dime Store FlooZy is now a more expensive but equivalently cheap $1.56 Store FlooZy.

 

 

 

 

Agree. I also remember specific cocks and asses to this day. And I believe I may be older than you, Starbuck.

 

As gay as I was/am, I used to have some mild fantasies about our coaches, but I don't remember really ogling guys in the shower. Maybe a bit for curiosity. I'm sure other straight guys looked a bit too. But I was more intent on trying to avoid the shower because I was fat and embarrassed. And then in 8th grade some kid I didn't like noticed I had a few hairs on my chest-he was probably totally smooth-and said something like 'Gman's got haaaire.' G-d I hated PE.

 

 

 

Adam' date=' you are discouraging people from reading Proust[/quote']

 

Maybe I've been missing out all these years. But I don't think people need much in the way of discouragement.

 

Gman

[+ WilliamM]

As gay as I was/am, I used to have some mild fantasies about our coaches, but I don't remember really ogling guys in the shower. Maybe a bit for curiosity. I'm sure other straight guys looked a bit too. But I was more intent on trying to avoid the shower because I was fat and embarrassed. And then in 8th grade some kid I didn't like noticed I had a few hairs on my chest-he was probably totally smooth-and said something like 'Gman's got haaaire.' G-d I hated PE.

 

Gman, I hated showers in the 8th grade too, but not by my last two years in high school. That's when I was enjoying some of the other guys in the showers.

 

Maybe I've been missing out all these years. But I don't think people need much in the way of discouragement.

 

I never could read Proust until I just opened one his books and started reading half way though the volumn. No pressure all of a sudden, and I started to enjoy his writing style and the story he was telling.

 

I recomment it!

[+ Gar1eth]

Gman, I hated showers in the 8th grade too, but not by my last two years in high school. That's when I was enjoying some of the other guys in the showers.

 

I only took PE the first two years of 'high school'-well to be absolutely correct the first year was 9th grade. The schoolwork was counted as part of our high school credits to graduate. But except for possibly one or two older schools in my city, 9th grade was in the junior high building. The 10th grade was actually at the high school building. But I don't really remember showering in 9th or 10th. If I did, it wouldn't have been very often, or maybe I did do it often and have just blocked out the memory. The sheer dislike of having to do it being less acute then than in my earlier years where stark horror has prevented me from forgetting it and my attempts to avoid showering. Also just my luck even if we would have showered, in 9th and 10th grade the guys in competitive-athletics had a special gym class during 6th (last period) for practice and then the practice continued on after school. So while I might have had some athletic non competitive-sports guys in my PE class, by 9th and 10th the odds were much more in favor of chubby schlubs like me being in class.

 

 

 

I never could read Proust until I just opened one his books and started reading half way though the volumn. No pressure all of a sudden, and I started to enjoy his writing style and the story he was telling.

 

I recomment it!

 

I had a few classes in school that I didn't really like. Occasionally I needed to refer to a textbook long after -and while not literature like Proust-but sometimes I would find the subject fascinating. And I would wonder why it had previously been such a chore.

 

Gman

[AdamSmith]

I never could read Proust until I just opened one his books and started reading half way though the volumn. No pressure all of a sudden, and I started to enjoy his writing style and the story he was telling.

 

I recomment it!

 

EXACTLY my discovery with him too!

 

Amazing how that works. And his writing is ideal for that -- every paragraph has so much even on its own, never mind how it advances the story line.