Posts made by raphjd

I agree.

Puerto Rico needs to make up it's mind, but I'd only give them to options; statehood or full independence with all the burdens that entails.

My best friends growing up were Puerto Ricans, well mostly, as their mom {one of my mom's best friends} was half German.

I always found my hometown {not rural but not urban} in northern Illinois kind of odd.  While like most of the towns in the area, it had a high German population, our town's 2nd highest population was Puerto Rican, while the rest of the area's towns 2nd highest population was what's now the former Soviet block.

Illinois may give a few token rights to gays, but it won't want to upset the people in the south part of the state.

Illinois is a weird state.  The northern half is fairly liberal most of the time, while the southern half is very conservative all the time.  As an example, Illinois never had a state law banning interracial marriage, but the entire southern half had local laws that banned it, while the northern half it was completely legal.

My {smallish} home town in northern Illinois currently has 3 gay bars {1 of which opened in 1981}, but the surrounding 3 towns refuse to grant liquor licenses for gay bars.

I don't see Illinois changing their laws for a long time.

Homosexuality is a minority group in that, as a whole, we are discriminated against by laws and people.

As for the other minority groups, as a whole, they have plenty of laws {Affirmative Action, quotas, etc, etc} to protect them and give them special rights.  When we lived in Houston, they had laws that required x amount of city contracts be given to the "good" minority groups, even though the contracts usually cost the city more than those given to white men. I remember one city contract that was given to a woman {to fill the quota} and it cost nearly 40% more than her nearest competitor.

Btw, as this is an international site, you can't always assume that everything is about the US.

The question was asked here because this is the forum section it best fit into.  Also, the fetish torrent section is pretty active on this GAY site.

I'm not offended by the question, even though, like you, I'm gay and not into BDSM.

I do question where you get the idea that it's most prevalent with older women and their male partners.

And NO, I don't think the original poster looks like an asshole for asking.

I doubt any of this is true.

I think a lot of guys are extremely over acting when they cum.

If the file is small I do it from my pc, otherwise I use my seedbox.

"Is it worth it", well we can't answer that for you, only you can answer that.  However I can give you a of help for you to decide for yourself.

1. Do you do a lot of torrents?

2. Do you need your computer for other things?

3. Do you turn off your computer a lot during the week; ie over night?

4. Do you share the computer?

If you answered YES to any of those, you might want to consider a seedbox.

It's difficult to recommend a seedbox because it varies by region.  In Europe and North America {probably others as well} you can get full severs that you control or purpose built seedboxes that are completely setup for you to do torrents.  Getting a server tends to be a better value as you get a larger size hard drive for the same cost.  On the flip side is if you don't really know computers, then a pre built seedbox is a better value as it's all done for you.

Yes, that's why we are letting it drop to the bottom of the forums.

@martini20:

Give it another week, and they will be blaming the abuse victims.

Actually, they did that for the 1st 40ish years of the molestation being public.

Huckabee told the interviewer that not every group's interests deserve to be accommodated, if their lifestyle is outside of what he called "the ideal."

My lifestyle is a lot better than my neighbors'.  We rarely drink and we grow our own fruit and veg.

Maybe this dick headed bigot means "sexual orientation".

My MP {Anne Begg} admits that she is completely against the new law and so are the people of her district, but she had to vote the party line.

Not votoing the party line would mean not getting party support in the current election cycle.

Sadly, the voters are the last people politicians care about, as we don't line their pockets.

Seems like the courts are whoring to business, instead of looking out for the concerns of the people.

Should we be surprised?

David Cameron is the leader of the Tories {think Republicans in the US}.

The last couple of years, they have tried to claim to be gay friendly, but then one of their front benchers opens their mouth and says something pretty hateful.

But let's not be fooled, the Labour Party {think Democrats} have put in laws that give preference to religion over equality to gays.

This still hasn't made it to the UK as far as I know.

David Cameron has an extremely poor voting record on gay issues, so why should we think he and his party have changed?

I read that article.  I don't know Spiegel, maybe it's a legit news source.

Even if it's a legit news source, there's been a bunch of stuff that's been posted around the world that's an April Fool's on proper news sites.

It does seem like an April Fool's joke.

I'm not really sure about this as I can't find any reference to a proper news site or before 26 March 2010.

Contact a moderator and ask for help.

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