Posts made by bi4smooth

@ricky said in Just started getting Usage Violations -:

@goodblowjob Has your User Agent or other Firefox settings changed?

Please try Google Chrome or a different browser to see if you can download a torrent.

Just a technical note: The user pointed out that he was using Firefox on Ubuntu 20 - that's a Linux system.

A lot of tech-savvy users (like myself) use Linux systems to browse porn and download Torrents because these sites are often RIFE with viruses and other malware. And, quite simply, most of those attack-vectors just do not work in Linux! What's more, Linux does a much better job of "privilege separation" so that any malware installed is limited to the logged-in user (unless they're fool enough to do these things logged in as "root")!

The point being: Chrome doesn't exist on Linux.
There is the open-source chromium - upon which both Chrome and the new Microsoft Edge browsers are BOTH based - but no Chrome, per se.

If the GT.ru team is in need of Linux-aware "support", I'm happy to oblige... when you get a Linux-oriented question, just shoot me a note and I'll look at it! I've been working in/on/around Linux since before Linux Torvolds released 1.0 of the kernel!

@raphjd

As has been pointed out, "Cancel Culture" is a societal problem, not a liberal or conservative one...

Liberals have "deployed" cancel culture on certain conservative extremists, and conservatives have done the same to liberals.

Hell, conservatives are "doing it to their own" - right now, with the attempts to oust the Republicans (in some cases [e.g.: Liz Cheney] LEADERS of the party!)... solely because they won't fall in line behind "The Orange Don-ald"!

Part of the problem is that the Internet has given us nearly unlimited capacity to store data - so, for example, there was a CFO who lost his CAREER because he was incensed about hearing that Chick-Fil-A (a chicken fast-food joint in the US) was making corporate statements that were anti-LGBTQ. His (the CFO's) offense? He video'd himself lambasting a Chick-Fil-A drive-thru clerk for working for a hate-filed company. (Damn, the poor girl just wanted a JOB! I'm pretty sure she didn't check the political leanings of the company when she applied for that low-as-shit-wage job!)

So he got some hate mail (ok, deserved)... his COMPANY (employer - he was the CFO of the company) was attacked in the social media: threatened with bomb threats, boycotts, etc, so they fired him. (MAYBE deserved, but only because he was a C**-level employee, and he "represented the company" poorly)... But shit didn't stop there... he got a new job (NOT a C**-level job), but "activists" found out, notified that company, and he was fired again! (NOT cool!) And this repeated for over 5-years! These people would not let the man get and keep a job to support his family?

EDIT: OOPS! To be clear: maybe he should have lost his job for posting the video and identifying himself as the CFO of his employer. NO! His employer should NOT have received bomb threats, etc from social media activists!)

When is enough, enough? In the Internet Age, you cannot outlive your past sins! It's there FOREVER!

Should that nutball lady in Central Park be FOREVER ostracized because she called the cops on the birder in the park - because he was black, and she was scared? (Totally a racist thing - but not unforgivable, and should not be a life-ruining thing!) Even the victim told activists: enough! Leave the poor lady alone!

Should Kevin Hart never work in hollywood again because he made some anti-LGBTQ jokes 10-years ago??? Fuck no! He apologized for it - noting that they were different times - but "cancel culture" wouldn't hear of it! There can be no atonement! He cannot host the Emmy Awards if he - even 10 years ago - made fun of queer people!

BULLSHIT

BUT some of the arguments in this thread are off-base too:

There is no such thing as Speech that is FREE OF CONSEQUENCES!

Speech in America is free of persecution by the Government!
When you call your neighbor a FAG in a street-side argument, and the neighborhood queer kids TP your house that night, your rights weren't violated! You were sent a message - by the local queer kids - and now, you have a 6-month supply of TP! The only problem is: it's in trees!

In America it is legal to believe the Holocaust isn't real. (In Germany, making such a claim is a criminal offense.)
In America telling people your belief that the Holocaust was faked will get you thrown out of a lot of parties, but it won't (at least, not by itself) get you thrown in jail!

Thus, "cancel culture" isn't illegal - at least not in America...
But it IS (IMHO) completely amoral and wrong (I know, redundant much?). It's an ugly addition to our culture, and one that history will not remember with any fondness...

@andergarcia said in THIS or THAT: the game:

@ricky

I would say outdoors when there is no privacy... fucking outside with snow around must be so dammed cold!!!

fucking in an orgy or just with one person?

Oooohhhh.... I love a good orgy! For a totally VERSATILE and insatiably horny guy, that's just a BUFFET of good times!

OK, a 3-way (in honor of the orgy question):
Pubes: shaved? trimmed? of full-natural?

@hottie124

I had a friend (had - quite a long time ago - we're not friends now because we moved to different places and just never kept in tough) who worked in a pet shop...

People think "puppy mills" are bad!

The "fish as pets" industry is 10-x worse! And SO MANY people buy fish because they think they're "hassle free"! Those poor creatures go home to tanks that aren't cleaned, food that's either too much or too little (or old!). Hell, sometimes fresh-water fish are dumped into salt-water tanks, and vive-versa! Water is water, right?

Locally, our tap-water is treated with chloramine & flouramine... but once a year, or thereabouts, they switch up to chlorine for a few days (about 2-weeks usually) to disinfect the primary distribution systems... more fish are killed by owners NOT PAYING ATTENTION TO THE MAILED WARNINGS!

Anyway, my point is:

KUDOS TO YOU for doing right by your scaled little dependents!
They are living creatures, and if you take them into your home (for other than food purposes), you OWE them a decent, safe habitat!

NOTE: the "other than food" I'm referring to here are the pets who eat live prey - like some snakes and some spiders....

@raphjd

Honestly, man! As-if the left had a monopoly on STUPIDITY?

Qanon? Donald Trump's Big Lie?

Enough said?

That's not to say the left DOES NOT come up with some stupid shit!

Bernie Sanders "free for all"? Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (the AOC) "free the planet, now!"?

@cuppednoodle

Just a thought:

In PRACTICE on this site:

• Anal = Condom
• Bareback = No Condom
• BOTH = Anal sex

@ricky said in ENGLAND: NHS tells midwives to use terms such as ‘chestfeeding’ and ‘human milk’:

@bi4smooth
No matter what opinions come up, @raphjd will always have my respect and admiration, for reasons that will never be revealed.

Don't get me wrong - there's a lot to admire and respect about people that do not entail any kind of politics! And I personally do not consider politics to be bloodsport... I have good friends who are solid Trump supporters (even one who is certain that there is a secret plan for Trump to be restored as President next month). I have equally good friends who were HUGE Biden supporters in the elections - this year, and in prior Biden runs. On a personal level, we all know, love, and respect each other. (They know me as a Conservative and Libertarian)

I haven't seen a LOT of posts from @raphjd other than his political ones - and in those, he's pretty intolerant of opposing positions... But I DO note that he is an Administrator here... and that means he plays a significant role in making this site available, and I'm very certainly grateful for that.

I have no idea how he would be as a father, a teacher, a preacher, or hundreds of other facets of his life... and I don't hold his politics against him... but that doesn't mean I don't challenge his generalizations and radical statements, either!

@ricky said in How old are you?:

Dad has a newspaper saved from the day after that happened. Some years it will be on the news, and it used to put a small sad side note in my day.

I know exactly where I was when JFK was assassinated - I was in my mother's belly! I would be born just over 3 weeks later...

Oh what a world I was brought into!

To directly answer the question, in Feb, 2021 I am 57 (and still have the same libido I had at 19!)

@hottie124 said in How many times do you jerk off in a week?:

@ricky yeah im 30 and I enjoy once a day, up to 3 times a day sometimes

That's me too... I can't get to sleep at night if I haven't cum... and since I don't have my soulmate to offer up his sweet behind anymore, it's just me and lefty

Thank God for porn - but if I'm honest, I sleep best when I beat off to interracial porn and think of/remember my ex...

BTW: @Ricky -- I'm 57 you're a young sprite !!! LOL

@raphjd said in This Is Such Bullsh*t:

Advertisers don't tend to care until the social media mobs go mental.

Advertisers care about money. Start, Stop, Middle: MONEY.

When sponsoring someone will help sell product, they're in!
When sponsoring someone will hurt sales, they're out! FAST!

They don't care whether the message comes from Social Media (though it does make it easier for them to "keep an eye on the pulse of the buying public"!); hand-written, US-Mail delivered, writing campaigns; or sky-writing!

@ricky

LOL - you don't know @raphjd yet...

He's a QAnon/Trumpite!

You either believe everything he says, or you're a Liberal!

Oh, and so you know the score: in spite of my activities with the Republican Party, I'm a RINO... because I think Trump was a low-class, crime-boss-style thug...

@arpheus said in My tracker only seems to register my Upload ratio as long as I keep my gt.ru profile logged in on the browser:

I've been trying to keep my ratio up, I keep my client open during day and night and the site only records about 5% of my upload data.

Just curious: do you use a VPN?

It discouraging to try to keep a good ratio if the tracker only logs a small percentage of the data. The only way to keep a good ratio nowadays is to upload which promotes reposts and lazy collection torrents.

My own tracker (qBittorrent) reports how much data is uploaded - and I am on a VPN (NordVPN, to be exact)... and I've noted as well that my ratios are way off as reported on the site vs. my tracker.

Specifically - over time, my own client reports that I've uploaded about 2.5x the amount I've downloaded.... but I've been stuck - FOR YEARS - on this tracker at about a 0.83 ratio.

Mind you, after being here for years, I've downloaded 23TB of data, and uploaded only about 19.5TB... (I almost rounded that to 20TB, but then i thought about it: that's 500GB of data I'm rounding! That's a LOT of data!)

My point is this: At 20TB of data (plus or minus), I've been making this work - even over a VPN and even using Linux (vs. Windows) clients - for a long time... be patient, and work within the rules.

@raphjd said in ENGLAND: NHS tells midwives to use terms such as ‘chestfeeding’ and ‘human milk’:

https://www.theage.com.au/world/europe/new-policy-tells-midwives-to-stop-using-terms-such-as-breastfeeding-and-breastmilk-20210210-p571b7.html

HA! And you thought this lunacy was a uniquely American mental disease

Or... maybe it's the next pandemic??

@raphjd

White supremacy? More like cultural appropriation!

Just another example that you can find almost anything on the Internet, assuming it's not important to your job that you find it - in which case, it will be beyond the scope of any modern Search Engine to find what you need.

"You can believe it - it has to be true, I saw it on the Internet!"
... - Abraham Lincoln (ca. 1869)

@duke4172

FUCK YEAH! I'd welcome him to my massage table!

@duke4172

FUK YEAH! I'd bat his balls in a heartbeat!

@john32123666

Hmmmm... articles I HAVE READ the move was made only when advertisers & financial backers insisted.

Not that your outrage isn't valid, only that it may be misplaced.

Do advertisers have too much sway???
It's the American Way: Money talks!

@anythingold said in Are good movies getting scarce?:

On the other hand, it could be an issue similar to music. Most of us stop listening to new music after a certain age. Just because the era that we came from was just better. I still love many types of porn; butt porn did change; and unfortunately it's made me somewhat picky. In the end, I wind up searching for old porn rather than the new.

I agree - the current in thing in gay porn is guys with tattoos, piercings, and facial hair... I'm not a fan of any of those! I'm being drawn into more Latin and Asian porn as a result (masking should be illegal LOL)

OMG - my Gaydar is non-existent! I'm generally clueless about other people in groups.

Case in point:

In 2014, I attended a party - a mixed party: gay/straight, male/female, old/young - and there were about 50-70 people there. I was still at the end of a 4-year marathon divorce process, but i was "livin the single life" and made it clear to several people at the party that I was "available"... Nonetheless, I went home alone

2 days later, I got a text from an unknown number. This guy says we met at the party, and that another person there gave him my number. He wanted to have dinner. I wasn't sure WHO this guy was, but there was this dreamy 55 y/o guy there I had had my eye on. He too had kids, but he was financially well off and retired... (I was struggling financially because of the divorce). He was looking forward to traveling and "enjoying his life to the fullest"! Anyway, we had chatted briefly, but he had "moved on" and started chatting up a group of very young guys... message received.

But, now I wasn't so sure! The thing was: I was certain his name was Richard, and the caller's name was David. But, I'm awful with names, so I went on the date.

Instead of 55 y/o Richard, this beautiful 26 y/o ebony God sits down at the table, says HE is David, and he was so glad I agreed to see him. Well, I did NOT go home alone that night...

David, being much younger, was still a very active "socialite" in the scene of Tampa Bay's Gay Life... we were invited to parties, and David liked to go out dancing (I'm an absolutely horrid dancer!)... On MOST nights, David would point out guys who HE SAID were checking me out...

The romantic thing would be to say "I only had eyes for David", and while that is true, the fact is: I was as oblivious to their presence or interest in me as I was to David at that first party!

Hence: I HAVE NO GAYDAR!

PS: Sadly, David passed away in 2017 as a result of a medical missed diagnosis. My heart remains, to this day, broken...

@gerggently

OK, so there needs to be some "bleed over" here from another topic:

Porn is FANTASY

Watching fantasy should not be confused with reality!

I don't have issues with anyone's fantasy - so long as it remains fantasy!

However, I know there are others who would ban certain kinds of fantasy porn - including dad/son porn - based on some of the kinds of posts in this thread.

ACTUAL SEX between a father (or even a father-figure) and an underage BOY is illegal, abusive, and mentally damaging to the victim. It is illegal in EVERY COUNTRY IN THE WORLD!

Even the ANCIENT GREEKS (by far the most homosexual of human civilizations) did not permit boys to be sexual with their FATHERS! They were allowed to choose their partners (and the relationships were more mentors and teachers and seldom, if ever, purely sexual).

Look, IMHO:

• discussing fantasy father/son sex is one thing - I've had much-younger-than-me lovers, and some even called me "daddy" (my own children do not use that term)
• discussing past events where you were a victim of real father/son sex is also fine, as it can have healing effects on the victim... But I think I'd balk at glorifying it
• discussing plans to, or past actions of, being the abuser in a real father/son sexual situation is illegal ... period.

So, where am I going with this?

Please make sure that, when you write about fantasy, you make it clear (somewhere) that it is fantasy...