Posts made by altoids582

Getting with people online has taught me a lot about what to avoid as far as pictures. Like when people have pictures of themselves leaning back with parts cropped out that would show how they were sitting, you know there's something like backfat being hidden.

When they're taking every picture with a shirt on? Man boobies.

Brags about dick that they never show? Tiny dick.

Area at base of ribcage in center of chest seem to protrude a bit? They're sucking in their gut.

@poltergeist:

\I notice that frequently people in this kind of site or social apps tend to apply "No pic no reply" rule. I don't really understand that, though. Often, when I attempt to greet and engage them in a conversation, they will ask for my picture, even though I use my own pictures in my profile, there are like of them, in my profile, but they still ask for my pic. What annoys me the most, occasionally, when I give them what they want, they will simply ignore me and stop replying.

My question is, is it really necessary to send our pictures before we chat someone, even if my only means is to simply look for friends? This makes me think that a bunch of gay or bi people only want to hook up or friends with someone's attractive. But then again, in social app like this, people can be anyone right? He may put up his ugliest picture but when you met him he turns out to be good looking and doing so because he's not a type of person who judges someone by their looks, who knows?

So why should they worry about pictures, especially if your only intention is to be friends with them? Can they just get to know each other first without asking for pictures beforehand? If you want to meet you'll eventually know what they look like in real life, really.

Their intention isn't to just be friends, but probably like friends with benefits. When they stop replying after asking for a pic it's because they decided they didn't want to be friends with benefits.

@waratah234:

@WackyRabbit:

I am at a loss for words.  Where is the compassion for human life?  What if this happen to you and you were the refugee? It sickens me when people only think about themselves.

Compassion for human life does not have to involve disregarding a country's security or fabric of society. It's an exaggeration to suggest that those who want stricter immigration/resettlement policies don't care about the situation of Middle Eastern people.

My concern comes from Europe's ability to effectively integrate these migrants/refugees. As you saw with the recent Paris attacks, these assailants actually GREW UP in Europe as second-generation Muslims. Also, their families were not very religious to begin with. Something clearly compelled them to become radicalized. It's clear they all had something in common: poverty, no opportunities to succeed in society, and general distrust by their communities.

My point is, Europe is not doing a good job integrating the families who have lived there for at least a generation. Are we to expect them to pull a miracle with this new wave of migrants?

Well said.

But I would not say poverty is that much an issue. Many terrorists actually come from decent middle class families or even quite wealthy families.

@Valicore:

The idea that political correctness is a bad thing is so ridiculous, political correctness is nothing other than society evolving into people being more sensitive and generally better people in terms of how they treat others. This is something you can see in higher education now, the LANGUAGE that people use is directly correlating with the way that they treat other people. As a linguist I can say that the words we use and the way we express themselves have a lasting impact on the way we think and the way we treat other people, so it's important to do that.

"people being more sensitive" to what? "generally better people" to who?

There are people sensitive to clapping. I'm not even kidding. There are people that feel it's just too much for them to have people clap in an audience and to be more sensitive to their needs, they do JAZZ HANDS.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/mar/24/feminist-conference-says-clapping-triggers-anxiety/

And generally better people to who? Many of those preaching for Political Correctness use their own deranged definitions to say that men cannot be raped and instead just "victims of non-consensual sex". Language certainly does affect people when they believe in these strange PC definitions, but that's not a positive thing when it means those people using that language are wanting to write off any sort of harassment or bigotry that doesn't support their world view. To many of those that say that all gay men are inherently sexist and hate women as evidenced by their lack of interest in dicking them, it is "being more sensitive" to ask gay men to recognize that they're inherently misogynistic.

PC language has hindered a lot of discussion such as occurred on Bill Maher's show recently:
Youtube Video

In the clip, Maher talks about how a large minority of Muslims are supporting wretched things like honor killings of rape victims. The horribly politically correct woman constantly tries to ignore this and say "diversity is our strength" (rings a bit of 1984 with that) and whenever anything is brought up about this portion of Muslims supporting horrific things, she ends up implying it's wrong to talk about it because she thinks if you criticize a portion it means criticizing the whole.

The Foundation for individual Rights in Education (FIRE) seems to encounter people using PC culture to censor people as well as demand others agree with them or else.

Youtube Video

I also have to mention, that many of those that preach for PC culture are often quite supportive of harassing others, which I wouldn't think of as being a "better person".

http://www.stopthegrbullies.com/2015/03/19/fionna-free-mans-book-pulled-from-amazon/

There's quite a few members of the PC police that find their delicate sensibilities offended, will go out and engage in campaigns to get books censored. Even Anne Rice has commented on this phenomena. Thing is, they often get upset with things that don't even exist in those books. Likely because of the echo chamber around political correct groups they do not allow for any information that contradicts them to enter the picture. Which is the root problem with political correctness, it creates echo chambers where no 'wrongthink' can enter.

https://search.wikileaks.org/advanced?q=Turkmen+Syria+Iraq&exclude_words=&words_title_only=&words_content_only=&publication_type[]=3&sort=0#results

Can read some of the leaked cables regarding Turkmen here.

Russian rescue helicopter was also shot down by Syrian 'rebels' with US made missile. Free Syrian Army posted the video of this so might have been a bragging event for them. Keep in mind this is one of the 'friendly' terrorist groups the US has backed and which are sprinkled about with the Syrian refugees going to Europe and US.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/footage-shows-syrian-rebels-fire-6892118

Also seems the first thing Turkey did after shooting down the jet was to contact NATO rather than Russia. Which seems to suggest that they're scared shitless about confronting Russia on the matter. NATO isn't required to help if a member country is the one that initiated the conflict which is possible to be viewed as the case here.

Pentagon put out a statement supporting Turkey.

Russian foreign minister Lavrov canceled the summit that was to go on tomorrow (or sometime this next week?) in light of events and Russia has stated that Russians should stay out of Turkey for the time being.

https://www.rt.com/news/323240-russia-turkey-warplane-downed/

Leaked cable shows Russian plane went into Turkish airspace, about 1.36 miles in depth and 1.15 in length, for about 17 seconds and was shot down by Turkey for this.

Wikileaks had a few things to say: "Turkey statement to UN odd. Distance/time shows jet would be flying near stall speed at 391km/h (max speed 2320km/h)"
"Journalists: Learn to do basic maths. Look at Turkey's statement to UN: 1.15 miles / 17 seconds x 60 x 60 = 243 miles/hour = 391 km/hour"

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/Default.aspx?pageID=238&nID=91459&NewsCatID=352

Turkmen, a fairly violent pro-Turkey group has existed a bit along Syrian border and a bit south of it in a few clusters. They number somewhere around 3 million within Syria. Russia has been into their whole bombing campaign against various terrorist groups, which are especially active in this region. The Turkish PM seemed very eager to complain about all this, and has repeatedly asked for Russia to stop attacking ISIS and other terrorist groups near their border. A bit of this is because Turkey is getting overwhelmed by refugees from these terrorist dominated areas that are now being attacked. An issue with the Turkmen group is that they are often of the opinion that the Turkish border must be stretched further south than where it is, likely to where they exist within Syria which leads to their desire to fight Assad.

Probably Czech, but then that's probably cause I am.

@BosnianPig:

Just tell them the truth.
kids don't judge unless they are taught to do so.

This doesn't really seem true. There's plenty behavior that is natural to all animals, and judging others is incredibly common.

If they feel they're different from their peers, even if it's just through having gay parent(s), then it'll affect them in a way that you have to make sure isn't negative.

Being 'fulfilled' seems subjective. If someone means having a kid to give their life a purpose because didn't know what they were doing with it before, then yeah that's bad.

But having a kid because you feel it's just a natural part of life to have a kid to raise, then I wouldn't say that's bad. I mean having a kid seems like a part in everyone's life that they have as an eventual goal as having some part of you carried on to the next generation is a natural urge.

@zvonac:

in my opinion, it wouldn't be very unprofessional to try and get closer to the guy… he is not your patient, his grandmother is, so I don't see a big problem here. Yes, you might end up without a job if he doesn't like you back, but overall, I wouldn't say it would be unprofessional on your part.

If you're doing work for someone's family then it seems appropriate to act professionally so long as you are working.

As well, if you're in a situation where someone is needing a nurse, there's probably plenty of intense emotions floating around and that just seems like a minefield not worth walking in. There's a remote chance it could go well, but personally I could imagine plenty more ways it could result in someone being absolutely disgusted.

@Cuervos626:

@OpenGLS:

I practice PUA…

Please do enlight me, what exactly a PUA is?

Pick Up Artist

There's some talks they do that people pay to attend, videos, and books. Sounded pretty silly when I first heard of it, but I watched a couple videos on youtube of some speeches going on for like an hour each and they were pretty decent. As far as the talks, they seem to be largely motivational speeches interspersed with some pretty decent hookup tips. They popularized 'negging' for instance, where you give a slight insult that seems to show you're wanting to be friendly/playful, but also that the person you're negging is just a dime a dozen. This is probably a really great example of what PUA's teach, because it helps your self esteem making it clear you feel dominant with whoever you're interacting with, point out you need to be relaxed/playful with people, and helps to keep in mind that most people are fairly average so you don't feel intimidated in the hookup scene.

I was about 13. Began noticing my eyes gravitating towards some of the guys in my class, and at home started searching on the internet for pictures of guys after noticing how guys in speedos were making me feel funny.

I was a bit disappointed starting into the game. It's alright, but just feels really lacking. I suppose after FO3 the developers just got more into the idea of banking on add-ons to help flesh out the game so they focused more on just making a framework for a game rather than a really full game on its own.

Was tragic, but I can't honestly say it was surprising given what I'd been reading about the 'jungle' in Calais.

The thing that really did take me by surprise was how many liberals I saw come out of the woodwork to say we shouldn't care about the attacks in Paris because people die all the time. With many writers for places like HuffingtonPost, Gawker, and Salon implying it's racist to care about the attacks.

Maybe a little bit. There's been a push to bring in more 'refugees' in the tens of thousands, and there's no safeguards to prevent people that were a part of terrorist groups from entering in this migrant group. So I suppose even if ISIS itself isn't an issue there's still plenty of very angry terrorists that are probably coming around.

Easiest way in my mind would probably be to suggest dieting together with him. That way he doesn't feel like you're trying to just be demanding of him, but rather wanting to work together as a team on both of your weights.

I find it kind of a shame that the few odd times I've tried hooking up with someone saying they were into spanking it was mostly love taps.

I kinda have to wonder what you have to do to get a guy to feel comfortable with really slapping the hell out of my ass.

@4west:

@YenamMan:

Wow why are you all so racist and hateful towards Muslims? 

Islam isn't a race.
And it doesn't surprise you that people on a gay-related site might be just a little bit critical of a religion that regularly punishes people for being gay?

It wasn't long ago that Sweden Democrats actually made a show of this in their country by conducting a small gay pride parade through a predominately Muslim neighborhood. It resulted in expectable anti-gay comments and various things being thrown. The reaction in the media was to say it was Islamophobic to do a gay pride parade, apparently because it's only to be expected that Muslims hate gays.

The simple fact is, those people in the middle east often hate gays, are violent towards women, and really hate Jews. Going to another country doesn't suddenly change them as individuals. It's why every country that gets more Muslims coming in from the middle east sees rates of rape increase dramatically, greater levels of antisemitism, and growing antagonism towards gays.

@alibix:

This is a pretty good video about the topic, it's short too.
Youtube Video

I've seen this video before, the sources are ludicrous. Wikipedia for instance, is not a source, it's a website constantly edited by people that have an axe to grind. Even articles about Power Rangers can end up massively flawed because some editor on Wikipedia decided their view was the right one and wouldn't dare let anyone else try to argue otherwise. The 'regular' sources that are otherwise used are also about as slanted as if you were trying to do a piece on black people using papers written by KKK members.

There's also just no civil war in Syria, it's a proxy war.

Trump's main focus has seemed to be the economy and not much else. I started following Ann Coulter a bit, and I think Trump is somewhat similar in opinion on gay marriage as her, which is to say that it seems like something that isn't even worth arguing over as there's plenty else to work on.