Best posts made by eobox91103

How do I get a taste test?

This connection problem absolutely must be fixed. I'm sure admins notice that the traffic on the forum has gone way down with the new system, both because of the connection issues and the clumsiness of the interface.

Once connection issues are resolved, I suggest two more fixes:

1. Restore the "mouse over" functionality that lets one read the initial post when mousing over a title.
2. Restore the "frozen pane" at the top of the forum screen so one can go immediately back to the torrent section/search features rather than clicking once to get to the torrents, and then again to select a search option.

Good luck as you work on these issues.

And guys think that they have to have perfect bodies, huge cocks, and cum liters to be "normal."

The worst take-away from porn as an educational tool is that the models never talk to each other--they're being told what to do by a director. In real life, communication is what makes sex even greater.

@andergarcia said in What kept you from completing suicide?:

@bc22

Had never thought of completing suicide... If I ever thought of that, I would just need to think of all the great people I have around me (my boyfriend, my parents, my brother, my closest friends...).

I had a boyfriend some years back who committed suicide. The wreckage that leaves among family and friends is overwhelming. I've had some dark times now and then, but I could never have my legacy be that kind of destruction.

Suicide is not a grand Shakespearean "to be or not to be" existential decision. It's about ending one's pain. But it doesn't solve anything--it's surrendering to the pain and darkness because one cannot see any alternatives.

I am not passing negative judgment on those who attempt/complete suicide--I still love my lost boyfriend very much. It is, though, tragic that he, and many others, did not see an alternative to resolving their pain.

@homppeliboy Welcome to posting on the boards. Unfortunately, you've noticed the worst thing about them: There are a few trolls on here who, when they disagree with your viewpoint, will start insulting the poster, rather than making arguments. This is the classical fallacy of arguing ad hominem...which essentially means that when someone can't make a reasonable argument, they just start calling people names. At that point, the forum thread has lost any value and is best ignored.

I hope you post on other threads that don't get similarly corrupted.

@raphjd Fact check: The US national debt is about $28 trillion. See https://www.usdebtclock.org/, or any other reliable source.

That's still a huge number. If only the Americans had elected Donald Trump as President in 2016: He promised to pay off the debt within eight years. (https://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/275003-trump-i-will-eliminate-us-debt-in-8-years )

Instead, the person who was in the White House from 2017 to 2021, with the consent of a Republican Senate, increased the national debt by 36%.

@beachbum99 said in Hey everyone! Bore da!:

Send some snow our way, Ill take some pictures in it haha

We can send snow, but maybe we can also send you some you some vowels. With place names like Cwmystwyth and Bwlchgwyn , it seems like you might have a shortage of them...

(Just kidding/teasing; my family is from the England and I remember nice visits to Wales when I was a wee lad.)

@vmalar The thumbnail maker will do those collages. There was another application (whose name I've forgotten) would also so collages and had tremendous flexibility, allowing one to select specific frames in the video to appear in the collage, the size of the thumbnails, etc....but it doesn't work under Windows 7 or later. (I don't know about the Mac environment.)

VLC Media Player also permits one to snap a specific frame out of a video at full size. If I'm posting a torrent, I like to use that to give an example of the quality of the video. Some older material isn't very crisp, and this way people can set their expectations accordingly.

@ricky said in Costly Mistake for Homophobe Actress:

@flozen Wow, that's progress! Looks like her beliefs and her job were at odds.

Ms. Omooba had to be living under a rock if she wanted to be an actress and a homophobe at the same time. There are LOTS of LGBT people in cinema, theatre, music, and dance. Some of them might have been her friends...

@bc22 Let me try this with an uploaded image:

which should show up above.

@anythingold I agree with what you're saying. My posting was a bit tangled up because there are several issues going on here:

1. The OP said, "Despite what we've been told for the last 15 years, being obese is not healthy." I don't think that's been the message, but there has been a greater consciousness that overweight/obese people still deserve ordinary human respect, and media stereotypes that women should look anorexic are counter to that.
2. The article's purported link between being overweight and COVID death rates is not the result of a study--it's anecdotal at best, and skewed because of national policy phenomena.
3. The article is also sloppy in shifting terminology from the initial mention of "overweight" to "obese."

Bottom line: Yes, indeed it is complicated, but many people crave simple solutions to complicated problems. The best we can do is follow the current cutting-edge medical advice to protect our own health and the health of others. I've had my two Moderna jabs...and while I'd rather have other things stuck into my body, it's still a good feeling.

@freakmagnet said in Frequent "lost connection":

Anyhow, it hasnt posed any issues for me (it happened again twice in a comment -and my typing is not that slow!)

I notice this as well. Whenever I compose a post, I always copy it to my clipboard to that if the broken connection loses it, I can easily put it back.

@anythingold said in Do you have a good gaydar?:

Our culture has changed significantly, and now we have more trans people that exists more than ever. I think it takes a lot more careful observation to spot a gay guy nowadays. (just my opinion).

I agree. A radical take on this would be from the [late] sociologist Michel Foucault, himself a gay man, who saw "gay," "lesbian," and "bisexual" as social constructs, rather than actual categories of people. He didn't deny that GLB people exist, only that they were sociologically more similar to "left-handed people" who aren't a social category. (This is a simplification of his view.)

I'm not saying I agree with him, but it's an interesting idea to consider.

@raphjd said in Scotland officially bans free speech:

@bi4smooth
I didn't attack him for a different opinion, but for his useless claim ...

Thank you for admitting that you attack people, rather than address issues. That is the essence of the (useless and pitiful) ad hominem style that has no place in thoughtful discourse. It makes the Politics and Debate section almost useless.

@john32123666 I get this problem as well from time to time. The forum software went through a major redesign/downgrade several weeks back, and many people abandoned them. (They worked fine for years; there was no reason to mess with them.)

I suggest hanging in there and trying back from time to time. They might eventually get fixed.

@raphjd So do I presume that somebody with an "administrator" icon next to their name counts as staff? You no doubt inferred who I wanted to block.

Very well then, I'll just step away from the Forum (which is much less useful now given the redesign), It's clear that you want it to be your own litter-box designed to hold your own droppings.

@raphjd said in National Debt Exceeds $123 Trillion, or Nearly $800,000 per Taxpayer:

@eobox91103

https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_morningbrief/true-national-debt-exceeds-123-trillion-or-nearly-800000-per-taxpayer_3782624.html?utm_source=morningbriefnoe&utm_medium=email2&utm_campaign=mb-2021-04-20&mktids=264a2775d74370d0e4428c91d45154f2&est=sH5xqaqyzXsP75fzFLdPiH3MiIiI7jJb2Rdt1dHV1ite9viv2kEBLYW5IC8i

That's where I got my figure.

Being such a liberal, you clearly are ignoring the Dem controlled House.

Your beloved Dems thwarted Trump at every turn.

Three comments:
First, the "Epoch Times" is not reliable news. The article you cite states that they have inflated the real number, which they correctly cite as $28 trillion.

Second, spending bills in the US have to pass both the House of Representatives and the Senate. The Republican-controlled Senate approved all of Mr Trump's extravagances.

Third, for the umpteenth time when you can't make a rational argument, you attack other posters. So I'll do the same: You are the problem. Your ignorance of facts is appalling. Your posts are worthless.

@hubrys All of us who are homeowners know the perils of "deferred maintenance." When bridges carrying national highways literally collapse and fall into a river ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-35W_Mississippi_River_bridge ), it suggests that there's a backlog of work that needs to be done. The last several US presidents have made note of this, but nothing's happened.

Playing "catch-up" is going to be expensive for Americans, but at least it's spread out over 15 years. This is a different approach from the stimulus program placed after the 2008 "Great Recession," which cost about $800bn but happened rather quickly. It did seem successful at providing employment and doing some infrastructure repair.

@raphjd And you refuse to admit that MoscowMitch and his Senate approved everything.

Every few months I think I'll try engaging in a "Politics and Debate" topic, thinking perhaps that you've grown up. But no, instead of facts you resort to calling names, which is the last refuge of cowards. Even my 12-year-old knows better.

Go play in your sandbox and pretend that you're superior to everyone else...even though we all know better.

@raphjd Jeez, you really need to get a clue.

OK: Democrats controlled the house from 2007 to 2011, and again from 2019 to the present. But your beloved Republicans controlled the House and the Senate from 2011 to 2019.

And Epoch News (and I use that last word with irony) is not absolved from quoting incorrect numbers just because they got them from another crapsheet. The "debt" reported by their source includes an estimate for payments due for Social Security and Medicare for many years into the future. They are not current "debts" of the US government. Perhaps checking the source was too much effort for you.

I'm not going to read any of your crap any more...it's like smearing feces in my eyes. You're lucky, I suppose, that you're a forum moderator...because if anyone else had that job, you'd be permanently banned from the site.