Posts made by eobox91103

@raphjd said in Dems who once decried "loose cannon" Trump, now defending Biden "going off script":

You're talking about Biden, right?

Re-read the sentence carefully, although I know that reading comprehension can be challenging:

... on the rare occasions that Putin's not behind layers of handlers, he can call upon his decades of experience as a professional liar.

"he" and "his" refer to Putin. That should be clear from the grammatical construction (my apologies for using multi-syllabic words).

We know that you love Putin because he is adored by the Dear Leader. Perhaps, though, you feel some conflict when you see what Vlad is doing? Or perhaps not. That would require thought.

@bi4smooth said in Dems who once decried "loose canon" Trump, now defending Biden "going off script":

Could Biden have said the same thing WITHOUT providing a "the yanks are coming - after us" soundbite for Putin's propaganda machine? you know it! That's what speechwriters are for!

This is the take-away point from the overall situation: Presidents (and probably everyone else) need a filter between their own thoughts-of-the-moment and what gets released publicly. Biden shares the view held by most people that Putin should not have the power to do what he's doing. Putin likely feels the same way about Biden, but on the rare occasions that Putin's not behind layers of handlers, he can call upon his decades of experience as a professional liar.

@raphjd My bad. I thought we could have a rational, fact-based discussion...but that can be threatening to a simplistic world view.

@raphjd said in Dems who once decried "loose canon" Trump, now defending Biden "going off script":

Please try again.

Will do...although this will require reading, and confronting facts, which you may find distressing:

Here's a partial transcript of your Dear Leader's comments about the "Unite the Right" march in Charlottesville:

Reporter: (Inaudible) "… both sides, sir. You said there was hatred, there was violence on both sides. Are the --"

Trump: "Yes, I think there’s blame on both sides. If you look at both sides -- I think there’s blame on both sides. And I have no doubt about it, and you don’t have any doubt about it either. And if you reported it accurately, you would say."

Reporter: "The neo-Nazis started this. They showed up in Charlottesville to protest --"

Trump: "Excuse me, excuse me. They didn’t put themselves -- and you had some very bad people in that group, but you also had people that were very fine people, on both sides. You had people in that group. Excuse me, excuse me. I saw the same pictures as you did. You had people in that group that were there to protest the taking down of, to them, a very, very important statue and the renaming of a park from Robert E. Lee to another name." [emphasis added]

(Trump frequently praised Robert E. Lee as a "very fine general," even though he commanded an army that fought against the United States.)

@bi4smooth said in Dems who once decried "loose canon" Trump, now defending Biden "going off script":

The Dems were all "The President's words matter" at the time...

Now, the President is an even OLDER man: Joe Biden... and one who, while not as often (IMHO: because he's not actively trying to be the headline of every news-cycle!) ALSO has a tendency to put his foot in his mouth!

Going off-script has its perils--that's why people have scripts. At the same time, extemporaneous remarks often give a clearer view of what the person is really thinking, and that's not always good to share in a public setting. But there's a difference between a "Trump moment" and this "Biden moment."

Biden's riff echoed what any sane person in the world world would think: That it's wrong to have a brutal dictator in power who bombs hospitals and kills children.

Trump's more frequent riffs included things like "there were some good people among the white supremacists" and "injecting bleach might cure covid." (For a musical riff on the latter, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPDPzbLFeP4. This is especially useful for those who can't or won't read.)

@Fennekin said in Site changes 7 March 2022:

... So by removing that [request] section, you've essentially killed the forum.

@kalayaan said in Site changes 7 March 2022:

@Fennekin "Killed the forum" is a little bit stretched, don't you think?

Forum death started several months ago with the new software, making things clumsier, deleting topics, etc. Anyone keeping metrics would have seen a sharp drop in participation.

There are lots of forum topics that you can go to.

Yes, but fewer now than before the redesign...or if they're still live, it's very hard to find them. Many disciplines follow the maxim "if it ain't broke, don't fix it." Software--and especially web--designers seem to take an opposite approach: Once they get something working, they redesign it.

@bi4smooth said in Which City/Country are you guys from?:

West-Central Florida (Tampa Bay area), USA
Home of the:

• 2020 Stanly Cup Champion Tampa Bay Lightening
• 2020 Super Bowl Champion Tampa Bay Buccaneers
• 2020 MLB AL Champion Tampa Bay Rays
• 2020 NASL Soccer Bowl Champion Tampa Bay Rowdies

If only we had an NBA Franchise....

Of course, this is a gay board... there are, maybe 5 other sports fans here? LOL

Perhaps I am one of the five: I enjoy (men's) swimming, water polo, and gymnastics. And then we have American football, which has men in tight pants grabbing each other, and each play of the game begins with all of them bending over. Often the quarterback place his hands up between the center's legs in order to receive the (game) ball. Make of all this what you will.

@russbill said in Which City/Country are you guys from?:

Having said that - where are you guys from?

Hard to answer: My family is Dutch/Swiss; I call Calgary (Canada) home, but I work a lot in the US. I've also worked in UK, France, pre-Putin Russia, and UAE. Maybe I'll settle down some day.

@lololulu19 It does indeed sound like denial--he's definitely attracted to men, not simply the physical sensations of male-male contact (as was the case with the two "buddies" I mentioned).

Probably the most you can do is be a kind and affirming friend to him, which seems to be happening. He could probably benefit from some quality therapy, but most people will take that suggestion as an insult. Hang in there....

@GareMyster said in Copyright Infringement - Information:

I've read the rules over, and over, and over, but I don't find any rumors that these files are copyrighted, considering I've downloaded them elsewhere.
If you help me shed some light on the matter, I would be grateful, otherwise I find it difficult to download considering that (donors aside), considering that I should also upload my files.
I conclude by saying that I am very happy to share my files, but I find this unfair.

First off, thanks very much for sharing your material--that's what makes this site work, and I hope you continue to do so even if there are frustrations along the way.

As others in this thread have noted, pretty much everything here is copyrighted, and it's ultimately up to the copyright owner how much--or little--to enforce their copyrights. If something is posted on this site and someone can prove to the site owners that they own the copyright and want the material to be removed, the site will do that. There are some studios that are very vigourous about this. I won't mention their names, but some of them will make a take-down request within a few hours of something being posted. Other studios are more lax...in fact, I got a notice from the site that some material I uploaded was being removed some five years after it went up.

(The situation can get more complicated if the studio that produced the material no longer sells it--maybe they fired a model or their was some other legal issue. In that case, the studio is not losing any revenue by having their material on here for free, so they're less likely to ask for it to be taken down. They might even like to have it here, as advertising for what their studio produces.)

If you're uploading material from studios that ask the site to take down the material, I'd suggest that you keep doing so, because people who like that studio will probably keep an eye out for it and grab it quickly before it goes away. I also suggest uploading smaller torrents (i.e., one or two files) that users can fully download before the torrent goes away. A "mega-collection" of 50 GB will can leave people with a lot of incomplete files.

Again, thanks for your contributions, which make this an even better site.

@lololulu19 said in What is to become of our young generation?:

... THEN to my complete surprise, he started sending me photos and video clips of himself jacking off.. his cock and balls and ass.. etc. He has very little access to porn.. and suffers jacking off to things like Chaturbate and Flirt4Free.. watching guys for hours doing nothing in hopes that you might see a short blowjob or lush vibrator. How is this young man ever going to become a full-fledge gay homosexual.. if I cannot supply him with the cream of the cum in gay porn?

Interesting story; thanks for sharing. It does sound like this guy is most likely gay if he's into porn. I had a couple of buddies who are married (to women), with kids, and probably count as straight from a psychological standpoint as they said they were not "attracted" to other men and didn't watch porn. BUT: one of them really likes the feeling of getting fucked, and the other enjoys sucking and swallowing...so even though I met up with them several times, they were clearly just hookups, and nothing more.

@raphjd said in Because the science says so:

@eobox91103

NO. You, people, are happy to force things on others just like the Nazis.

There's no point to continuing this thread, when all that remains is childish name-calling.

@raphjd said in Because the science says so:

Didn't Hitler do something like you support? Certain people had laws passed against them, while others didn't.

No. If people choose the anti-social posture of refusing to vaccinate (without medical reason), then they should take responsibility for their actions, rather than whining about discrimination. There is no parallel with Hitler.

Umm, you brought up Boris, but totally forgot to mention the people on your side

This is not about "sides." I was hoping that this thread might actually bring about intelligent discussion of the issues at hand...but I was wrong. This topic has become useless.

@raphjd said in Because the science says so:

@eobox91103

What does driving too fast have to do with being able to (or not) buy booze? Banning dangerous driving is not the same as banning certain people from buying certain products.

The topic of this thread was government regulation/overreach. My point, which I thought would be obvious, was that governments impose laws and regulations with the intention of protecting people--and that people accept that in many cases like speed limits and traffic signals.

The WA ban does seem odd. One approach might have been to ban the unvaxxed from entering a food store/market at all--but that would be going much too far: An unvaccinated person, no matter how idiotic and dangerous he or she may be, still has the need to buy food. I think the argument could be made, though, that such person does not have a need to buy alcohol.

What did Biden do?

It's amazing to me how some people have to bring up Biden and the "durned Libberulls" when they're not part of the discussion topic. But I agree that politicians--left, right, center, up, and down--do not always follow the rules. Resolving that problem is the task of the voters.

@raphjd said in Because the science says so:

It's all about control.

No, it's about government encouraging responsible behaviour...which is part of a government's role in protecting the rights of the people. That's why, for example, we have rules against driving too fast on the motorways or ignoring traffic signals.

Not surprisingly, the people making the laws are the same ones that constantly violate their own laws. The laws only apply to the plebs.

I haven't researched this phenomenon in Western Australia. Perhaps you're referring to BoJo...the next former PM in the UK.

@raphjd said in Because the science says so:

@serenity

Where in the science does it say anything about covid and buying alcohol?

It's not about the science but about control.

It should be noted that "WA" refers to the Western Australia, which has the one of the lowest covid rates on the planet. More story on this at https://au.news.yahoo.com/customer-confused-aldi-sign-new-covid-rule-starts-wa-215555092.html .

Science shows that having more people vaccinated reduces incidence and seriousness of covid infection. Encouraging people to get vaccinated can take many forms The mechanisms taken for this by the WA government may seem severe, but something out there is working.

@geobear40 said in NTSB to investigate Pittsburg bridge collapse just hours before Biden visit on BBB plan:

@bi4smooth
A great deal of infrastructure spending had been considered pork belly spending or was doled out to buy votes on bills that should not pass.

I absolutely agree, which is why having a dedicated infrastructure bill/programme is a good idea.

(And I think you mean pork barrel spending. Stop teasing me; I'm on a diet, and I love pork belly.)

This would definitely be a bad thing. I say "would," because implementation of this change (by the United Conservative Party-led government) is on hold for a few months. It is possible (but in my opinion unlikely) that this $50/$150 scheme will be turned back.

It's worth noting how this crept in: Last year a similar approach was applied to impaired-driving cases, following an approach taken in British Columbia. When this came up in Alberta, few people objected because nobody wanted to be seen as "soft" on impaired driving. Unfortunately, that opened the door to applying this barrier-to-due-process scheme to a wider set of offences.

The argument given by those in favour of this measure is that the courts are overburdened with hearing traffic cases, and that this will stop frivolous challenges--especially by "rural repeat offenders." Having due process available to people can seem inconvenient and expensive, but losing it would be much more costly in a broader sense.

For an example editorial in opposition to this plan (written before it was put on hold), see https://edmontonjournal.com/opinion/editorials/editorial-ditching-traffic-court-denies-justice .

@bi4smooth One would think that anybody conspiring to make this an opportunistic event would have been more subtle.

But what's really remarkable is that it happened at all: I think Donald Trump proclaimed "Infrastructure Week" 208 times during his administration, always reminding us that he knows how to build things. The must have missed this one.

@bi4smooth said in Georgia Officials Tampered With and Deleted Hours of Ballot Box Video Before It Was Released to Investigators:

Like many Americans, Trump has already planned for his funeral... a State funeral at that!

While the Dear Leader is not familiar with church rituals, there are a number of Christian hymns that will be rewritten by his sycophants for use at his funeral. Ones that come to mind are:

• Lead on, O Trump Eternal
• Onward Fascist Soldiers
• Praise to the Trump, the Almighty, the Boss of Our Nation

The possibilities are endless.