It's Personal...

OgreBattle · Post by **OgreBattle** » Mon Apr 30, 2018 10:54 am

The top snuff hentai artist in Japan now is an American from new york city.

maglag · Post by **maglag** » Mon Apr 30, 2018 12:19 pm

Considering how anime was heavily inspired by USA cartoons in the first place, then exported to the USA, and now USA artists are using that style, seems like things have gone in a double circle.

Count Arioch the 28th · Mon Apr 30, 2018 2:14 pm

I was mostly referring to 3dpd porn, hentai is another category entirely. I don't like hentai as there are too many fluids for my taste, also their lesbian porn seems underaged and creepy to me. Like what you want, but it is not to my taste

Maj · Post by **Maj** » Fri May 11, 2018 5:11 am

My son's homework was due at school today, and he didn't have it done because... I lost it. I buried it under a stack of glitter paper and promptly forgot it existed. I forgot so totally that I actually remarked to myself this morning that it was nice that my son didn't have homework this week - no doubt due to all the state testing they've been doing (yeah! that's it!).

My son mentioned it when he came home from school, and explained how he had told the teacher that we were just so busy that he didn't have time to get it done. We found it; he completed it; and I had to compose an embarrassing email to the teacher to make sure she didn't penalize Gi for my mistake.

The moral of this story: Don't get so excited about glitter that you lose your child's homework.

Shrapnel · Post by **Shrapnel** » Sat May 19, 2018 3:06 am

I had my upper left wisdom tooth pulled today, and I gotta tell ya, having a part of your skull violently yanked out of your head is not an experience I ever want to go through again. I still feel like I got socked in the jaw. Eesh.

In better news, I saw a vulture the other day at the top of my street. At least, I think it was a vulture - black, bald leathery head, evil looking eyes, and it was eating some small woodland critter in the middle of the street. It was blocking the road, actually, and it looked very put off at having to move out of the way and interrupt it's meal. I didn't even know there were any vultures in Boston.

angelfromanotherpin · Post by **angelfromanotherpin** » Sat May 19, 2018 3:13 am

https://www.massaudubon.org/learn/natur ... y-vultures

Also yeah, 21st century dentistry still has way too much yo-heave-ho in it.

Shrapnel · Post by **Shrapnel** » Sat May 19, 2018 3:30 am

Yeah, that's what I saw. Mean looking thing.

Anywhat. I also freaked out over the size of the needles used for the anesthetic, but oddly, it didn't hurt as much as I thought it would, although I still cried when it went in. Trypanophobia can be very embarrassing at times, and can ruin the manly image that I don't have of myself.

Maj · Post by **Maj** » Sat May 19, 2018 3:44 am

Shrapnel wrote:Yeah, that's what I saw. Mean looking thing.

Anywhat. I also freaked out over the size of the needles used for the anesthetic, but oddly, it didn't hurt as much as I thought it would, although I still cried when it went in. Trypanophobia can be very embarrassing at times, and can ruin the manly image that I don't have of myself.

I'm afraid of needles, too. The weirdest thing happened about a year or two ago, though. I had stitches in the bottom of my foot, and they didn't properly anesthetize the area, so it hurt like bloody hell. Like, the worst pain I've ever felt kinda hurt. My pain tolerance totally re-adjusted so that lots of things that bothered me before don't. But I still get freaked out by needles. It's like my brain has bifurcated. When I get my blood drawn or something, it's really strange because there's one part freaking out over an object that the other part looks at like an insignificant bug because it can't hurt me.

Kaelik · Post by **Kaelik** » Sat May 19, 2018 5:24 am

I had surgery for my wisdom teeth and it was actually insanely fine, like, the pain afterwords was supposed to be really bad and they gave me weeks of opiates, and I never even took advil. I probably recommend surgery over yanking?

DSMatticus · Post by **DSMatticus** » Sat May 19, 2018 8:20 am

I had surgery for my wisdom teeth and they gave me vicodin. It was perpetually uncomfortable in a weird "my mouth is all fucked up" way but not at all painful. When the vicodin ran out, I realized, oh yeah, I have a body and bodies are supposed to feel all kinds of tiny little sensations all the time, and I understood why people end up addicted to painkillers. They are the fucking epitome of chill. I have never been more comfortable in my own body, and I didn't even realize anything was different until I was off them and I started feelings things I'd always felt but never realized I was feeling until their brief absence made them noteworthy.

I wouldn't describe myself as being in any kind of chronic pain. I'm not saying I'm all fucked up and I've been that way so long I'd gotten used to it. I'm saying... I don't know, imagine you're sitting in your chair and, sure, your chair's comfy enough, but hey, it could always be comfier, right? You don't really care, you've probably never even thought about it once in your life, but now that I'm mentioning it, well, yeah, of course it could be comfier. Maybe it's not the chair at all. Maybe your body just doesn't like being plopped on its ass and if you stay like that for too long it starts giving you that soft little "please get up and move me around" ache. You're probably so used to that you don't even pay attention. Sure, you get up and stretch when you notice you're feeling it, but that isn't the same thing as when you start feeling it, is it? Maybe you just have no idea what to do with your legs. Lots of people fidget with their legs when they're sitting down. I'll sit with one leg's ankle on the other's knee, get tired of that, reverse it. Put my legs up against the backplate of my desk, but that's just metal so it feels rough on the bottom of my feet. Sometimes I'll sit cross-legged in my own chair, but the armrests make that a little cramped. I suppose occasionally I'll even sit normally. None of them are quite right, but they're all wrong in slightly different ways that make them worth cycling.

None of that shit happens on vicodin. Whatever it does to your pain thresholds, petty discomforts like that just do not register.

I'm not trying to sell people on painkillers. Guzzling vicodin because you can't find the Perfect Chair(TM) is like swatting a fly with a bazooka while the fly's on your face. But it is the only experience I have ever had that was anything like that, and it was so subtle I barely noticed. I just woke up one day a few weeks after I'd run out of vicodin and realized, "you know, in hindsight, that was actually pretty nice. I kind of miss it."

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Sat May 19, 2018 10:10 am

I had to have all 4 wisdom teeth removed . .
I had 2 surgeries for that.
I ended up badly scratched and bruised, because the painkillers they gave me made my whole body kinda numbish . . that was the most pleasant dentistry experience i have ever had in my whole life . .
All the others were horribly, especially the one where my sedation for having a tooth pulled was swapped with that of my mother in the next room having a small hole filled <.<

Shrapnel · Post by **Shrapnel** » Sat May 19, 2018 1:39 pm

Well, my mouth feels much better this morning. Still a bit sore, but it doesn't feel like I got whacked in the puss anymore. The dentist prescribed amoxicillin to help with an abscess (which is what sent me to the dentist in the first place) and acetaminophen-codine for the pain. I doubt I experience anything like DSM described, alas.

Overall, this whole process wasn't all that terrible. Uncomfortable, but not terrible. Actually, it was a lot worse when I had to get a filling several years ago, which I did without anesthetic because I was an idiot (phobias can make you do very stupid things). Believe me , the sensation of a drill touching the nerve of your tooth is an extremely unpleasant experience. Probably the most unpleasant thing I've ever gone through, actually.

RobbyPants · Post by **RobbyPants** » Sun May 20, 2018 11:36 am

When I had mine removed, it wasn't that bad. They put me on vicodin for a while, which seemed to work. My mouth was sore, but not hurting. It must have been working, because when I started alternating in ibuprofen to ween myself, I could feel a noticeable difference.

The weirdest thing about the whole experience was when I came to (somewhat) somewhere in the procedure. I remember looking at the ceiling, getting the impression it was moving, realizing that was probably the anesthetics, and figured I should tell the doctor. He very firmly told me to stop talking, and the next thing I remember, I was being lead out of the room to the chair to wait for my wife.

RobbyPants · Post by **RobbyPants** » Fri May 25, 2018 11:59 am

Where I work, Fox News is always on in the cafeteria. As I was putting my lunch in the fridge, I see two people complaining about millineals and "safe spaces". The irony made me chuckle. That whole station is nothing but a safe space.

MisterDee · Post by **MisterDee** » Sun May 27, 2018 12:13 pm

So.

Job interview on Tuesday.

Could use all of the luck in the world, please.

erik · Post by **erik** » Sun May 27, 2018 1:25 pm

Here’s wishing ya luck.

Mask_De_H · Post by **Mask_De_H** » Mon May 28, 2018 6:54 pm

Good luck, MisterDee.

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Mon May 28, 2018 8:32 pm

Luck.

Whipstitch · Post by **Whipstitch** » Tue May 29, 2018 5:49 am

My cousin had a few beers in him at Memorial Day and got super triggered when I suggested that the ending of Team America doesn't hold up very well to hindsight. I think with Trump as president I momentarily forgot that the Iraq war is still a hill many people are willing to die on for some reason.

Iduno · Post by **Iduno** » Tue May 29, 2018 6:15 pm

MisterDee wrote:So.

Job interview on Tuesday.

Could use all of the luck in the world, please.

I'll wish you luck, but only the good kind. Good luck, we're all counting on you.

virgil · Post by **virgil** » Tue Jun 05, 2018 1:46 pm

My car was criminally low on oil, so I took it to the shop and stuff was done. Final word, something internal (piston oil seal or something) is busted and I'm burning about a quart every 1000 miles or so. The solution given to me by the shop is to either deal and dump a couple quarts into it every month or so (I drive a lot) or buy a new engine for $5700. While I know the oil burning will get progressively worse, I can hope/dream it's a very slow process and stays at the current level for a long while.

Regardless, I'm going to be cutting back on the longer road trips.

RobbyPants · Post by **RobbyPants** » Tue Jun 05, 2018 2:02 pm

virgil wrote:My car was criminally low on oil, so I took it to the shop and stuff was done. Final word, something internal (piston oil seal or something) is busted and I'm burning about a quart every 1000 miles or so. The solution given to me by the shop is to either deal and dump a couple quarts into it every month or so (I drive a lot) or buy a new engine for $5700. While I know the oil burning will get progressively worse, I can hope/dream it's a very slow process and stays at the current level for a long while.

My first car was like that. I had the largest oil stain in my drive way, but when I was in my early 20s out of college, I couldn't justify the cost of the repair over the cost of oil even over the expected remaining life of the car. Also, oil was way cheaper back then...

Aharon · Post by **Aharon** » Fri Jun 15, 2018 4:58 pm

Aharon wrote: Soo... In one of those pairs, I got feelings not only for the girl, but also the guy (I didn't realize/know I was bisexual before). He isn't interested in pursuing anything sexual, but his roommate is. The roommate is cute, adorably good-natured and basically what I look for in partners. However, he would be my first male partner and I'm a bit afraid of going for it

So, I went for that, and we've been together for almost two years now. During that time, he stressed that his relationship style was polyamory/relationship amory, but in practice, we've had sexually open monogamy. However, he's now started dating someone he met on OKCupid, and I'm unsure how to react. I *prefer* the way things were in the last two years, but I am *okay* with "real" polyamory. However, I don't really desire other/more partners, but kind of feel I ought to also have other partners so that I don't rely exclusively on him for emotional support etc. - I don't want to be too needy.

Any thoughts?

Count Arioch the 28th · Fri Jun 15, 2018 5:24 pm

My advice? If you prefer the way it was for the past 2 years you are absolutely NOT okay with "real" polyamory. (I use the quotes partially to follow your lead, and partially because I don't believe that is real polygamy, he's just a slut).

The rules have changed, and you are not wrong for not liking it. Don't feel like you should force yourself to like it just because you want to have "real" polyamory.

As for what to do? I don't know enough about your situation to even speculate, I just wanted to say how you're feeling is not wrong and that forcing yourself to like the change in dynamic isn't productive (that much I know better than most, just trust me on that one).

violence in the media · Fri Jun 15, 2018 6:59 pm

Aharon wrote:
Aharon wrote: Soo... In one of those pairs, I got feelings not only for the girl, but also the guy (I didn't realize/know I was bisexual before). He isn't interested in pursuing anything sexual, but his roommate is. The roommate is cute, adorably good-natured and basically what I look for in partners. However, he would be my first male partner and I'm a bit afraid of going for it
So, I went for that, and we've been together for almost two years now. During that time, he stressed that his relationship style was polyamory/relationship amory, but in practice, we've had sexually open monogamy. However, he's now started dating someone he met on OKCupid, and I'm unsure how to react. I *prefer* the way things were in the last two years, but I am *okay* with "real" polyamory. However, I don't really desire other/more partners, but kind of feel I ought to also have other partners so that I don't rely exclusively on him for emotional support etc. - I don't want to be too needy.

Any thoughts?

Here is a brief comic that talks about 4 types of monogamy. The broader comic itself focuses on polyamory, but also discusses a broad range of relationship structures, gender, and sexual identity topics. YMMV

I disagree with Count that the rules have changed. The reality may have changed, but it doesn't sound like the rules themselves did. He never promised monogamy, even if that's what you were doing by default. How did you feel about other sexual flings during this time? What about the dating makes it feel different to you?

That said, just talk to your partner like an adult. Talk through your feelings about this and figure out where your needs aren't being met in the new situation and if there's anything either of you can, or is willing to, do to address that.