Posts made by JohnAllenson

Lap dog.  When i used to have pets I found that the cats only wanted to sit n my lap when I was reading.  Their also more likely to be clawy/bitey than dogs.

Long hair or short hair pet

Autumn

Male or Female singers

BTW, I'm 56 and have been out since I was 17.  I wear baggy loose clothes particularly sports boxers and have never worn a Speedo in my life.

To me, the guys at Corbin Fisher all dress like gay guys.

Rice

Sticky or fluffy

Here are some points on why people do this.

1/  Cultures don't work if they aren't accurate about their own past and how their past affects their present.  (It's an enormous problem in Canadian culture.  Just to start with, a quarter of our population is French and there's been a major separatist movement since the '60s.  If we can't figure out how to bridge those differences our country will break up.)
2/  People who were hurt by these laws are still alive.  It's possible that there are people who aren't allowed to travel since they have 'sex offender' on their police records.
3/  Injustices that are ignored are like unhealed wounds.  Acknowledgement of the past and acknowledgement that it was wrong can helps societies heal.

Underground

Subway or bus

Thank you so very much.

I like it raw.

preserved or artificial flowers

Sauce.  (Paricularly grilled chicken with peanut sauce.)

Sweet n' Sour or spicy.

I have two questions about this video.

1/  Who is the male singer in the white shirt and green vest?  I'd love to see him sing elsewhere.
2/  What are the lyrics in English?

I already know that it was put on by Muccassassina as a fundraiser for Roma Pride.
Youtube Video

Sweet.

Cereal or fruit

Egmont Overture

Did you mistype heterosexual for homosexual? I'd never heard of this before so I did some Googling but couldn't find anything. What I did find is that for most of human history we didn't think about heterosexuality but when we did we thought of sex, the procreative function then later sexuality, the mode of sex for pleasure, not procreation. According to what I read heterosexuality had to jump the first hoop to land upon the second.

Not a typo but a mistake.  I tried to follow up where I had gotten that misconception that 'heterosexual' originally meant 'contrary sexuality' as a contrast between gay vs an unnamed 'normal'.
I used to live in Germany and found that the first description of 'homosexuality' as an identity rather than as an act was by Karl Friedrich Otto Westphal in 1870 as 'contrary sexual feeling'.
I apologize, I think I got caught up in an Urban Legend.

The rest of what I was saying is still relevant.  The unnamed norm is treated as if it were 'normal' while a term is needed for deviance.  Creating a term for both allows for them to be treated as varience within a range of normal.

Elijah Wood in Dirk Gentley's Holistic Detective Agency.

He's matured out of his feyness.  He looks really good with facial and body hair.  He's putting out an American working class loser asthetic.

The character is sympathetic while having a number of actual flaws.

It's similar with Daniel Radcliffe.  It's nice to see two actors with the financial freedom to do whatever work they want to choose quirky spec-fic roles that play against stereotyping.

Hiking

jogging or dancing

It's coming out of the same thinking that brought 'hetero/homosexual' into use.

Fun fact - heterosexual used to mean gay men since their sexuality was 'other'.  There was no term for people who were attracted to the 'opposite sex' since it was viewed as being so normal it didn't need a definition.  It would be like saying 'eyes' implies brown eyes - which is the majority but always specifying blue eyes, implying that it's an oddity rather than normal variation.

The ways that they detect planets around other stars is either by tiny fluctuations in movement (gravity from a planet is moving the star a little) or fluctuations in brightness (when a planet passes between the star and us.)

Distant bodies in our solar system take so long to travel in their orbits that we might be trying to figure things out with only 1% of the information.  It's fascinating how little of space we've actually looked at.

I saw the actual Japanese version.  One of the things I didn't mention liking - Godzilla's scream was top notch special effects even for now.

The American version intercut with Raymond Burr.

Who was the last surviving actor?  Was it Akira Takarada?

Fate.

I don't consider it a "cop-out".