First, I agree with Frederick, that people need to be more civil in their political discourse. Passion is fine, but personally attacking people is not. You get nowhere.

Now, to outline some facts.

https://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/documents/politics/fbi-director-james-b-comeys-termination-letters-from-the-white-house-attorney-general/2430/

The above provided link contains the termination letter Trump sent to Comey, and it has the two letters submitted to the white house from BOTH Attorney General Jeff Sessions, and Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein. The Deputy Attorney General, upon being nominated to the position a few months ago, was the longest serving US Attorney at the time, having served for about 30 years. If you read the documents in the above provided link you will see Jeff Sessions wrote a very brief letter stating he supported the conclusions of the Deputy Attorney General. It was the Deputy Attorney General whom drafted a Memoranda outlining his reasoning for recommending the removal of Comey as FBI Director. In that Memoranda, of which you can read, he cites multiple former Attorneys General and Deputy Attorneys General that served presidents of BOTH parties over the past 30+ years that came to the same conclusion that Comey was no longer fit to serve as head of that law enforcement agency.

Until there is definitive proof of collusion between the Trump and Russia, of which none publicly exists at this time, then you cannot jump to conclusions. Democrats and Republicans had called for Comey's firing. Now that it was done, Democrats are freaking out. Why can't people look at things through a non-partisan lens once in a while? I will be right there calling for Trumps impeachment if evidence comes to light that he directly worked with Russia or had knowledge that members of his campaign were working with Russia to sway the election; however, until that happens I will not jump to any conclusions like so many people are willing to do.

The production of pornography is illegal in Italy.

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I can't believe I'm going to be 27 this month! Hahaha.

• Extremely high doses can cause the potentially fatal ‘methaemoglobinaemia’ whereby the blood is unable to carry oxygen to cells in the body (similar to what happens during Carbon Monoxide Poisoning).

• Because Poppers cause blood pressure to drop and heart rate to rise, their use is riskier for people with glaucoma (high blood pressure in the eye) or breathing,heart or blood pressure irregularities.

• The use of Poppers after taking drugs such as Viagra is dangerous as it can cause blood pressure to drop to dangerous, potentially fatal, levels.

• Can cause eye damage or blindness because of blood flow decreasing to the eyes.

I think you're conflating two issues here. I think there is an "expiration" to being a twink, as the older we get the more our bodies change. It's very difficult to maintain a skinny/twinky look, because our metabolism slows as we age, and then the only option is to start eating healthier and working out to stay at a healthy weight (unless you're extremely lucky in the genetics department and never have to worry about weight gain). For example when I was in my teens, I could literally eat a horse and not gain a pound. I was so damn skinny. But just before hitting20 I noticed that I was starting to gain weight. I'm definitely not the type to work out, but I changed my eating habits. I'm more of an average build now, so I don't fit one of the stereotypical gay "body types" (twink, jock/gym rat, bear, cub, otter, etc.). I'll be 27 next month, and I have this mindset/struggle about not feeling like I fit into one of the "categories" that we gay men love so much. However, I'm definitely a bottom, and I don't see a situation in which I am going to "expire." When you're young men prioritize different things than they do when they're older. For example when I was 18 I found twink or jock/college-porn to be what turned me on the most, but now that I've gotten a bit older, I've noticed that body type and age is less of a "hang up" for me. I find men of all body-types, shapes, colors, ages attractive. I can see myself with a younger or older top. Hell I'm even more interested than ever in wanting to try being more versatile. So long story short, don't worry about feeling like you're going to "expire" as a bottom; your outlook will change as you get older, and you'll realize that whatever notion you have about what the "ideal" bottom's age, body type, etc. should be is all in your head, and there really isn't any specific mold that a bottom, or top for that matter, has to fit into.

I'm the only gay member of my immediate family on both my mom and dad's side. I am including my parent's siblings (my aunt's an uncles) and their kids (my first cousins) in that. I am vaguely aware of a distant cousin that is gay. I've never met him. But he's the grandson of one of my dad's uncles. And then on my mom's side my mom thinks she had a lesbian cousin. She never married and lived with a woman for the second half of her life. Other than that, I am unaware of any other gay, lesbian, or bisexual members of the family.

I have a Bachelor of Science in Political Science and a Minor in Homeland Security for my undergraduate degree. I am currently pursuing a Master of Science in Intelligence Management.

If avoiding poop is the goal then I'd recommend whomever is bottoming clean themselves out by douching first. I've been an exclusive bottom since I started having sex, and I can tell you that I always would take a good 20 minutes before sex to make sure I was squeaky clean. My ex would good annoyed by it, because he didn't like that we couldn't be spontaneous about things, and that if we got frisky I'd be like "I'll be back in about 15 minutes." However, that's me. I was paranoid by the idea that I wouldn't be spotless and something would come out, so that's the standard I place on myself. That being said even with the precautions there were a couple occasions when there was a small speck of something that ended up on his dick. Of course in those circumstances I'd end up being mortified, but "c'est la vie."

One thing that I can say is that douching, aside from making you as clean as possible, will also greatly reduce any of the unpleasant aromas that can occur with anal sex. That's another reason I always wanted to make sure I took time to prepare things before doing the deed. Hahaha.

I think I had an atypical coming out story. From what I gather from my gay friends and even the posts here, I feel most gays come out to a close friend first, then other friends, and then their parents and family much later. I didn't.

Obviously, you usually acknowledge it to yourself way before ever saying it to anyone else, so that was normal for me, and I admitted I was gay just before my 13th birthday (so technically I was 12). However, I didn't tell a soul until just before my 18th birthday. I'm 26 now.

The first person I told was my mom. It was interesting, because I assumed that she and my dad had their suspicions, but it was never acknowledged. When I told my mom she broke down into tears, but it wasn't like she was angry or anything. She and I laid on my bed together, and she cried saying how she had to rethink how my whole life was going to be. She was like, now you won't be getting married, and I won't have grandchildren by you, etc. It took a while for her to realize, even though I kept telling her over and over, that none of that had to change; the only thing different would be that I would be with another man instead of a woman. Finally she calmed down, said she loved me, gave me a big hug and kiss, and then within minutes she was forcing me out of the closet to other family members.

She made me call my grandmother next and tell her over the phone. She was in her 80s at the time, and I was freaking out because I was like how is this old-fashioned 1920s-born woman going to react to me being gay? Is she going to have a heart-attack? Is she going to disown me? That thought was terrifying to me because I was the closest to her of her 13 grandchildren. So my mom spoke to her first made a little small talk and then was like, "Your grandson has something to tell you," and she then handed me the phone. So I had no choice but to tell her, but I was kind of beating around the bush a bit, making small talk with her as well, but then finally I told her I was gay. Her reaction was funny, because she said, "OK, so what? That's what you had to tell me? What's the big deal?" So that too was a relief. I cried of happiness and we laughed and talked for a while longer together, and then I got off the phone with her.

Then my mother was like, you have to go tell your father, who had been in our living room with the TV on without a clue in the world that I had just come out to my mom and grandmother. I was terrified of telling him as well. He was always the person I was most fearful of telling because he had the stereotypical man's-man macho job. And I just had that fear that if he found out he'd be the one to disown me out of everyone. So we had this big sectional couch at the time (big L-shaped) So he was at one end of the couch, so I went in and sat at the complete opposite end (of the "L"). I sat down and said, "Dad I have something to tell you, and I'm afraid of how you'll react." He was like "Well what is it?" So I paused, gathered myself together and then just said it, "Dad, I'm gay!" His reaction was the most priceless of all. He literally said, "And you think I haven't figured that for years now? I love you son, nothing is gonna change that!" And of course I started crying again and we hugged, and it was all good.

The funny thing is my parents said they didn't want me to tell my brother, who was only 13 at the time, because they didn't think he was mature enough. They didn't think he was too immature to understand what it meant, they just didn't think he would be an adult about it, and not think it was weird. So we agreed not to tell him until a later date.

The next day, I told about 3 friends in school, but I asked them to keep it a secret which they did. Months later I started, right after high school graduation I started coming out to a number of my other classmates, even those who used to torture me calling me a "fag" and "gay" just because they suspected it. However, when I told even some of them, many of them apologized for the shit they had given me for years, and said if they had actually known, they wouldn't have been so harsh on me.

It was sometime about a year later, when I was home from a break in college (I think it was spring break actually, so pretty much about 1 year exactly after coming out to my parents) that my mom and I told my brother. He was actually really mad, not because I was gay, but because he felt hurt that we kept it from him for a year.

Then it was about a year later that my mom started nonchalantly outing me to the rest of the family. My ENTIRE family and extended family are Republicans, and every single one of them was accepting of my sexuality, so that puts to rest some of the myths that ALL Republicans are anti-gay.

I also didn't address my coming out experience at college, which was probably more terrifying than telling my parents and high school friends, since I was off on my own, and felt I had to come out to three roommates whom I didn't know from Adam, and had no context as to how they would react.

So if anyone is interested in that story I'd be glad to share it as well, but this post is already so long, and maybe some of you will be like… "Dude, wtf? This thread topic was literally just asking how old you were when you came out, not your fucking coming out life story." HAHA.

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I'm agreeing the brokers who are suggesting the market has over bought. Leaving the political issues out of it; Donald's administration hasn't actually made any significant policy changes that would cause the markets to go up more than a few points. It definitely feels like a bubble and I'm not going to be the guy with his life savings in the market when it pops. If the market adjusts back to around 20k, I would actually feel better. But the DIJA is up almost 25% for the year and there's no logical reason behind it other than promises to spend money, which shouldn't be good for the whole market.

The DJIA average is up as much as it is not because of promised spending (although the proposed 1 trillion dollar infrastructure bill is part of it), it's up because of proposed tax reform (lowering the corporate tax rate from 35% to 15%), lowering the income tax rate on the middle class, promoting deregulation of job killing restrictions, reforming healthcare so that the ACA doesn't collapse the entire health care market, granting one time tax breaks/incentives to bring cash stashed overseas by corporations back to the United States so that it can be invested here, along with a whole range of other things. The DJIA isn't overly inflated. If those policy recommendations are followed through on and implemented, economists believe it wouldn't take long for the DJIA to cross the 30,000 pt. threshold. Economic optimism is the highest its been in years.

Regardless, what other options are there to investing in stocks? Interest rates are still so low thanks to the Federal Reserve suppressing them that you can't make money in a bank or invest in treasury bonds, because the yields are so low. So you might as well keep your 401k invested, because as you stated the DJIA is up over 25% for the year, which means if it were to shrink 25%, financially speaking, you'd be right back where you were a year ago. The stock market historically does well in the long term. If you are years away from retiring its a safe place to keep your money, because over the long term stocks historically trend up, even when including recessions and depressions.