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Will Roger Federer win another major at age 33? Will Serena Williams overcome her recent difficulties to continue to triumph? Will there by a last gasp by Venus? Can Stan Wawrinka and his childbearing hips and ass manage another win? Rafa can "ween" here again, no? Nobody really wants Sharapova to win, right? Will mopey Andy Murray every look up from his constant despair to win another major and blot out the wet nightmares of his Lady Macbeth mother? Andy Murray is on Margaret Court today, something few men would want to claim. Will he ever have an ass as good as his namesake Andy Roddick? And speaking of Roddicks, is Brooklyn Decker Roddick still thin? And what will Mirka Federer be eating to calm her fat-covered nerves? What inane comments will The World's Worst Tennis Commentator, Chris Evert, make? Please don't refer to Djokovic as "Nole"; it wounds. I have state my boundary. And, at long last, my dear lord, will known and avowed heterosexual (and f/ormer Bond girl), Pam Shriver, ever find a MAN! Finally, as always, let's keep the discussion here consistent with the expected behavior in this most civil of sports. Let's keep it clean, elegant, and worthy of the better angels of our nature (and Roddick's ass).
Broadway abuzz again about Streisand's "Gypsy remake! Will it be Jessie Rose Lee? Or Emma the Ecdysiast? Does the new script really have all of Rose's scenes done in a dimly-lit room? Did Julian Fellowes really want to open with Babs in a coffin? In other news "Follies"! On screen! HIV - are the reviews translating into sales or is the provisional closing notice staying up? The slate of new and newish musicals is about to start. Will they all last till Tony time? Or will the Broadway be littered with bombs by June?
I'm nestled in my suite at La Mirage! I wish you all a delicious Saturday-
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Tensions are that bad!
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[bold]*[/bold]Came up with the idea for Gone Girl (she's the original Amazing Amy) [bold]*[/bold]Wrote Purple Rain for Prince [bold]*[/bold]Named Apple computer as well as Google, Facebook and Yahoo [bold]*[/bold]helped Michael Jackson come up with his ranch name Neverland [bold]*[/bold]Michael Hutchence gave her the nickname Tiger Lily for the Peter Pan character. [bold]*[/bold]Named Papa John’s Pizza after writing the song Papa Don’t Preach recorded by Madonna Oh my god, it scares me that this woman walks amongst us. She makes Kellie, "The Muse" look sane!
Ok, there is no doubt now. NONE.
and that she had an affair with William Holden
Jackie''s tapes with Schlesinger reveal she thought LBJ killed JFK
I know y'all are here. Maybe you don't write so good. Maybe it's your typnig. Or you're just anti-social. Poor Engrish? We don't care! No snark tonight. One word topic suggestions welcomed. Examples: Maschalagnia; Pygophilia.
John Travolta/Christopher Walken in HAIRSPRAY Meryl Streep in DOUBT Johnny Depp in SWEENEY TODD Barbra Streisand in HELLO DOLLY
I know a few bi men who identify as straight. They''re completely comfortable within themselves and acknowledge that they like guys/girls equally, yet if you asked them they''d say they were straight....Is this common amongst bi men?
Nazis killed Jews, gays, gypsies, and the disabled in the concentration camps but we only hear about the Jews. In fact, when planning was going on for the Holocaust Museum in Washington DC, controversy erupted when there was going to be no mention of gays. That got resolved but we only rarely hear about the pink triangles.
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I was flipping channels yesterday and caught the beginning of one episode. I could not believe how dated it was even if set in the 40's and the bad acting of the kids. They were nothing in the looks department either. I cannot believe my family used to watch this religiously.
Interview LBJ did with Walter Cronkite after he left office. LBJ (who was probably involved in the conspiracy himself) looks very nervous and uncomfortable during the discussion. What are your thoughts on LBJ's body language?
LBJ admits to Walter Cronkite that JFK's killing might have been a conspiracy
There it was after Washington Week in Review -- smiling faces of pilots and map watchers, helicopter gunships, fighter jets, tank corps guys waving at the camera. If you had told an American in the 1960s or 1970s that such an ad would air anywhere on tv, let alone on PBS, you would have been thought insane.
Be proud and show off the little guy.
So Casper Andreas, best known as creating the quasi-Colton Haynes biopic "Going Down in LA-LA Land" needs help. The movie stars DL fave Gale Harold, DL fave Van Hansis and openly gay cuties from Mad Men Kit Williamson and from Buffy Tom Lenk. It's a gay murder mystery that will no doubt become a DL camp favorite so throw them some money bitches.
Support a gay film starring DL fave Gale Harold
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Very hot actor who just played a gay role onstage in LA.\ \ Is he also gay in reality? Any stories?
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The formerly out and now seemingly out again gay British actor Luke Evans, part six
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By request. The season is about to start. Actual game discussion would be welcome too.
Now filming the highly anticipated blockbuster, Henry Cavill's Gigantic Tit Muscles v. Henry Cavill's Gigantic Ass Muscles: Dawn of Justice.
Henry Cavill's gigantic tit muscles are struggling to break free, part 2
It's only been two or three years since TED has become almost a fad with the public. Most couldn't give a shit, or had no idea what TED was. It's the same with Alan Turing. How did TED become the "in" thing with the young folk?
Jumping Off the Jennifer Lawrence Bandwagon By Tyler Coates People don’t ask me often why I’m not on the Jennifer Lawrence bandwagon. Given my hyperbolic instinct to use “hate” carelessly, one friend of mine explained to an acquaintance that I “just like to hate things.” Being someone who writes online, of course, means that nonsensically disliking elements of pop culture is a given — providing a contrarian take on what is deemed “too popular” is, after all, a pretty clever click-baiting tactic. (Go ahead and count how many writers, either in headlines or just on Twitter, have timed their thoughts on how overrated Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is to the release of a sure-to-be-polarizing big-budget adaptation of the classic novel.) So let me assure you that what I’m about to say isn’t a cheap way to troll an audience. But I’m afraid I just don’t care for Jennifer Lawrence. Now, I don’t think she’s a bad actress. Winter’s Bone is a fantastic film, and Lawrence gives an incredibly nuanced and realistic performance. Even though I didn’t completely love The Hunger Games when I read it, I enjoyed the film version, and Lawrence’s natural style brought a necessary weight to a movie that could have otherwise derailed, given the heavy-handed, blockbuster elements of the narrative. I will confess, however, that I hated Silver Linings Playbook so much that I left halfway through the film, and snickered when I heard someone mutter, “What?!” as I made my way back up the aisle. What bugs me about Jennifer Lawrence — or, more specifically, the cult of personality that surrounds Jennifer Lawrence — is the notion that she’s just an everyday, relatable girl who found herself in the acting biz, a narrative perpetuated by the February cover story in Vanity Fair. In a piece that, oddly, included almost as much revealing information about its author as its subject (a tactic that puts both on equal footing), Lawrence confides that she has the same kinds of neuroses as anybody else — the anxiety, for instance, that comes with being the object of attention. (I always find it odd when actors admit this, as if they didn’t choose a profession that requires being the center of attention.) She revealed how excited she was to meet Daniel Radcliffe at a talk show taping. And she expressed her love for food. It’s a narrative that promotes the idea that Lawrence is a refreshing version of a starlet, who’s excited to be at the party because she doesn’t think she belongs. Lawrence was almost universally lauded when she referred to acting as “stupid” in the same profile. “Everybody’s like, ‘How can you remain with a level head?’” she said. “And I’m like, ‘Why would I ever get cocky? I’m not saving anybody’s life. There are doctors who save lives and firemen who run into burning buildings. I’m making movies. It’s stupid.’” Sure, it’s not on the same level as being a surgeon, but acting is still a profession that garners a lot of fame and money. Being an office clerk or working in a factory or writing books or cooking hamburgers at a fast food joint are, to be honest, as noble as acting. It’s the attitude behind that sort of statement, and especially the back-patting that followed it, that bugs me. If she thinks acting is stupid, she shouldn’t do it. If she gets fulfillment — or even just enjoyment — out of it, especially considering how many people study to act and struggle to make a career out of it, it’s meaningful. There’s a whiff of ingratitude about Lawrence that continues to be rewarded because most see statements like this as “honest” or “irreverent.” Perhaps I don’t dislike Jennifer Lawrence so much as I dislike.....
This calls for a poll.
Post interesting vegetable ideas. Both simple and exquisite. We need more vegetables in our lives and need ideas.
Jill Soloway posts a parody ad for "Transparent" called "Transdashian," with an image of Bruce Jenner instead of Jeffrey Tambor. Of course, it's not funny -- it's just another example of CIS SHAMING or something... "Why Transparent creator Jill Soloway’s Facebook post hurts so much" [quote]Now, I’m sure straight cisgender men everywhere will go ahead and break this down for us trans people that we have no sense of humor and she’s an ally and she has a trans parent whom she supports very deeply and blah blah blah, but the reality is this shit hurts. A lot. [quote]I learned something from Jill Soloway. I will never ever trust or give a pass to a cisgender person telling trans stories. I will never say “but she gets it!” She doesn’t. And the next cis person who comes along won’t either.
Is it because of endless lonely days and nights out on the rig?
I have had this problem for many years now and have actually seen a couple of doctors about it with no results. Now, I am thinking I need to try another doctor again but, not sure if I should just to see a dermatologist, proctologist or what? I don't want to waste my time plus embarrassment seeing the wrong doctor.
In their early days on television, Chris Hyndman says, he was tormented daily by hate mail. The worst part? Much of it came from the gay community. “The gay community can be pretty cold, and it’s pretty hard on you if people turn on you that you expect to really accept you because you’re a screaming queen,” Hyndman says. “Well, a lot of us are, but when a gay person says you’re a screaming queen, that’s pretty insulting because then you’re, like, Oh my god, you’re a queen to the queens.” “You would take them personally,”Steven Sabados chides. Ignoring the hate came more naturally to him. “It just rolled off my back because I don’t really care. You can’t hurt me. I’m just doing the best I can do, and if you don’t like it, then I don’t care,” he says.
Design Guru Chris Hyndman (of Steven & Chris) "The gay community can be pretty cold"
How is this possible? More than one-third of people who are still uninsured under Obamacare -- but appear to be eligible for coverage -- were told that they were not eligible for health insurance under the law, according to a new report. The finding, from a survey of 10,500 uninsured Americans by the non-profit Kaiser Family Foundation, is truly perplexing. If you extrapolate out to the overall uninsured population in the United States, it means that more than 5 million people who by the letter of the law should be covered were told that they weren't qualified. "I've got no possible explanation for you," Caroline Pearson, vice president of Avalere Health, an independent consulting firm and a top expert on health policy, told TPM. That's a bit of an exaggeration -- she and others had some educated guesses -- but it's not that far off. Kaiser found that about 48 percent of the estimated 30 million people who remain uninsured were likely eligible for either Medicaid or private insurance subsidies under Obamacare. The rest were ineligible because they made too much money to qualify for tax subsidies or had access to employer-sponsored insurance (17 percent), their immigration status disqualified them (14 percent) or they fell into the law's coverage gap because their state didn't expand Medicaid (18 percent). Of the 48 percent who are eligible for coverage, 30 percent said that it was still too expensive. Another 33 percent gave another reason, which covers a range of possibilities, including ideological opposition to the law or they didn't finish their application. But the maddening finding is the 37 percent of eligible uninsured who said they were nonetheless told they didn't qualify for coverage. The survey didn't follow up with a question about how they were told they were ineligible. "It jumped out at us, too," Larry Levitt, vice president at Kaiser, told TPM in an email. Two possible explanations came to mind for Pearson and Levitt. One is that some of those people who are eligible for coverage now actually were ineligible when they first tried to apply. The lower a person's income, the more volatile their income often is. It's plausible that a chunk of these people had become eligible between the time they applied and the survey, conducted from Sept. 2 to Dec. 15, 2014. The other is that people misunderstood what they'd been told, whether by the insurance exchange websites, an assistant who helped them try to sign up, etc. The insurance information gap has always been seen as a major challenge to Obamacare. "People may have been confused about what they were being told," Levitt said. "Or, they may have been told they were ineligible for marketplace coverage but eligible for Medicaid, or vice versa, and were confused by that or didn’t follow up." Some of that responsibility could also lay with HealthCare.gov and the other insurance exchanges. "I think some of the messages for people who appeared to be Medicaid eligible were particularly muddled" in the early days of 2014 enrollment, Pearson said. TPM reached out to administration officials for their take on the Kaiser findings. But whatever the explanation, it demonstrates a remaining obstacle for Obamacare: Most of the easily enrolled have been swept up in the law's first two years. Getting through to the rest of the uninsured is the next assignment as the law works toward its goal of near-universal health coverage.
WTF? Experts Stumped By New Finding On Obamacare And The Uninsured
My partner and I were out last night with some friends and we were nearly back to the house when this thing ran in front of the car. I was driving and not going too fast, so I hit the brakes and we both watched what we realized was a raccoon run across the street and leap into a window well of this guy's house. The guy who owns the house is a mean old closet queen who goes out of his way to be an asshole. He's a snowbird, so he won't be home for at least another month, during which time that raccoon could do a lot of damage. We're good friends with a lesbian couple who lives on the other side of the guy, and we're going to walk over there tonight and tell them. They hate the guy, probably more than anyone else.
...or does he? What do you think all these years later? Photo then and now:
I had to start new thread for all things Louis. Fuck that bloke is fit. Anyone still on the fence about him being gay?
Tyler's new soap about a dysfunctional wealthy family is set to premiere on OWN on May 28. The cast includes John Schneider as the wealthy family patriarch and Aaron O'Connell (the hot guy from those Liquid Plumr commercials) as his alcoholic son.
Watch what happens in this thread, and why does he like Anthony Recker?
Ali MacGraw has aged gracefully in her 75 years, embracing her naturally gray hair and dismissing the shallow side of fame, but even this confident Hollywood star has had moments of trepidation about getting older -- until her 65th birthday, that is. That's when MacGraw's fears dissipated in an experience she won't soon forget. Video:
My favorite is the Levi's commercial called "French Dictionary" starring Gael Garcia Bernal. So sexy. I didn't just want to have those jeans, I wanted to BE those jeans.
Kim Richards (storyline to date: off the wagon; off the turnip truck; out of her whack-a-doodle vodka-soaked pill-addled mind) Kyle Richards (storyline to date: more dysfunctional drama with sis Kim; currently serving as Brandi's punching bag) Brandi Glanville (storyline to date: still a bitch and a drunk; hated by everyone except equally drunk Kim) Yolanda Foster (storyline to date: ticks are getting the upper hand; hot kids are leaving the nest; gay hubby losing interest) Eileen Davidson (storyline to date: still chill and cool, except Brandi is slowly drawing her into her black hole of chaos and misery) Lisa Rinna (storyline to date: provides best confessional snippets EVER!, especially the ones about "Out of her fucking mind" Kim and "Alcoholic and crazy" Brandi) Lisa Vanderpump (storyline to date: still manipulating all of the other housewives; out for vengeance against Brandi and slowly drawing Kyle into her web to do all the dirty work) with... Joanna Krupa and Denise Richards waiting in the wings to replace some of these crazy hos
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They are selling cars that apply the brakes when they get too close to another car. Will there be a day when a drunken, stoned Aunt Diane will be unable to kill innocent men and children? Will we finally be safe from hungover, controlling fraus who demand chicken sandwiches at breakfast time and fast dissolving acetaminophen?
Are there any classical music aficionados here? I'm fairly ignorant about it...there are certain composers and pieces that I really like (as well as ones I can't stand), but I couldn't tell you about styles or eras, or anything like that. I guess I'm mostly looking for suggestions for more classical music that I would like. For instance, I really love Debussy, Paganini, and some Mozart. Vivaldi's Four Seasons is wonderful. Cannot stand what I've heard of Wagner. Is this enough to go on to figure out where my taste lies?
Seems a bit unfair to keep Kevin's name in the title as we can safely assume Epstein's girls aren't really Miss Spacey's thing. Epstein's black book of the great and the maybe not so good at the link, for those who missed it in Part 2
I was pleased to see Jacob Pitts' character on "Justified" get much more air this season. He certainly has turned out to be a handsome, sexy little man. Still only 21 years old. Must be tough to get ass-ravaged by a multi-dildo machine in your only previously remembered movie and then have people (like me) watch to see any shots of how it has held up, the ass, that is. None so far. This must be why (on the left in the photo link) Have you ever seen a man (still a boy actually) afflicted with such a case of giant butt so early? This does NOT go away. So tragic.
Fox News Radio host Tom Sullivan told a caller who said she suffered from bipolar disorder that her illness is "something made up by the mental health business" and just "the latest fad." When the caller told Sullivan that she "would not be alive today" if she hadn't received mental health treatment, Sullivan wondered if "maybe somebody's talked you into feeling and thinking this way." Sullivan, who is also a frequent Fox Business contributor and guest anchor, began his January 28 program by complaining that people with mental illness have figured how to "game the system" by receiving disability benefits. "They're mostly government employees and they know how to do it," he added. Sullivan also defended Sen. Rand Paul's (R-KY) controversial and false statement that "Over half the people on disability are either anxious or their back hurts." A caller later challenged Sullivan over his remarks, saying she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder thirteen years ago and mental health treatment allowed her to graduate from college and obtain a full-time job. The caller, who now volunteers with Stop Stigma Sacramento, noted that bipolar disorder isn't a made up illness and is biological. Sullivan responded by telling her, "I've got to tell you, if you haven't been told, I will tell you. I think bipolar is like the latest fad. Everybody and their brother is getting diagnosed with bipolar. And last time I checked, we all have good days and we all have bad. And I don't consider that an illness. And I don't consider it a disability." He added that bipolar disorder is "something made up by the mental health business just to be able to give people prescriptions and keep them coming in, and keeping you -- paying them money." The caller told Sullivan bipolar disorder "truly is a disorder and a disease. I know that personally I would not be alive today if it were not for medications and for therapy. Because I would have killed myself. When I was in college, I was there, I almost did it." Sullivan replied: "You ever think that maybe, maybe somebody's talked you into feeling and thinking this way?" Fox News Radio headlined the segment on their website: "(AUDIO) Bipolar Woman Says She DESERVES Disability Benefits. Tom Tells Her She's WRONG!" The site also put up a stock photo of a woman in a bathrobe watching TV on her couch. Sullivan's remarks are factual garbage. The American Psychological Association states that "Bipolar disorder is a serious mental illness in which common emotions become intensely and often unpredictably magnified. Individuals with bipolar disorder can quickly swing from extremes of happiness, energy and clarity to sadness, fatigue and confusion. These shifts can be so devastating that individuals may choose suicide." The National Institute of Mental Health similarly notes that "Bipolar disorder is a serious mental illness" and "If not treated, bipolar disorder can lead to damaged relationships, poor job or school performance, and even suicide." False and incendiary remarks like those from Sullivan only contribute to stigma surrounding mental illness. USA Today spoke with health advocates and professionals for a series on this stigma and noted it "forces many to live in shame rather than seek support, even as their lives unravel. Yet patients who want help often can't find it, says [former Rep. Patrick] Kennedy, who has acknowledged his own struggles with bipolar disorder and drug addiction." The Mayo Clinic notes that "False beliefs about mental illness can cause significant problems" including "Reluctance to seek help or treatment," "Lack of understanding by family, friends, co-workers or others you know," "Fewer opportunities for work, school or social activities or trouble finding housing" and "Bullying, physical violence or harassment." From the January 28 edition of Fox News Radio's The Tom Sullivan Show: SULLIVAN: I'm very skeptical. And I've got to tell you, if you haven't been told, I will tell you. I think bipolar is like the latest fad. Everybody and their brother is getting diagnosed with bipolar. And last time I checked, we all have good days and we all have bad. And I don't consider that an illness. And I don't consider it a disability. CALLER: That is very true, however, there are people that have the extremes of that. They have their bad days, are beyond -- I mean you literally cannot get out of bed. Not because you don't, that you don't want to -- SULLIVAN: What were these people called 25 years ago? CALLER: Well, you know what, it's funny -- SULLIVAN: Before they came with this bipolar diagnosis. I mean, I just think it's something made up by the mental health business just to be able to give people prescriptions and keep them coming in, and keeping you -- paying them money. [...] SULLIVAN: You ever heard of these doctors that say the psychology business is full of basically people -- it's big pharma that's pushing the whole thing because they make a ton of money? Your parents never would have gotten this. There wasn't even a diagnosis as bipolar when your parents were your age. CALLER: No, that's true. SULLIVAN: So -- and you know what? They did just fine. Society did fine. I don't know, I don't know why we have to create these new illnesses, and create all these medicines for something that really wasn't a problem in the first place. CALLER: Well, I understand what you're saying. And that is a common, that's a common feeling for a lot of people. They don't understand it, and honestly, you won't understand it until you experience it. And I would never wish this on my worst enemy. But it truly is a disorder and a disease. I know that personally I would not be alive today if it were not for medications and for therapy. Because I would have killed myself. When I was in college, I was there, I almost did it. So if, you know, there are actual problems. I'm actually affected physically, not just mentally, you know, having disabilities -- SULLIVAN: You ever think that maybe, maybe somebody's talked you into feeling and thinking this way? CALLER: I wish. No.
Fox Host Tells Caller Her Bipolar Disorder Is "Made Up" And "The Latest Fad" For Money
1. I'm "big-boned". 2. I have a slow metabolism. (This claim has been tested time and again and there's no such thing as a slow metabolism. When obese patients are monitored and compared with skinny people their metabolism are burning calories exactly the same. The difference is that the morbidly obese individual consumes drastically more calories than a skinny person.) 3. I have an (unspecified) medical condition (very few medical conditions cause one to be fat. There are diseases that can cause fluid retention and such, but few cause one to get fat.) 4. I was molested. 5. It's genetics. 6. I don't make enough money to eat healthy. 7. My medication makes me fat. (There are some medication that can cause weight gain. However, doctors are quick to switch patients to other drugs if they notice this problem developing.) 8. I had an injury which limits my activity. 9. I'm diabetic. (Yes, certain people would have us believe that it was their diabetes that caused them to become morbidly obese and not the other way around.) 10. I have a thyroid condition. (Very rare. The majority of thyroid conditions cause a hyperactive metabolism, keeping someone super skinny. However, even if a person does have a genuine thyroid issue, treatment is effective which will end weight gain.) 11. Fatorexia, the tendency for fat people to perceive themselves as not being fat. Women who believe they are merely "curvy" or "big and beautiful" fall into this category as well. The fatty from "My Big Fat Fabulous Life" falls into this category as well as number 3 as she blames her weight gain on a medical condition and not the fact that she likely consumes 10,000 calories or more a day. 12. I was teased or bullied as a kid. 13. It's society's fault or society should accept me for how I am. 14. I had a kid, or multiple kids. (As if this is a free pass to be a blob for the rest of your life.)
Mine is Death Becomes Her. I know it's not "Oscar material" but it has some of the best lines and driest humour ever. And watching Meryl and Goldie beat the shit out of each other is epic. The ending always makes me laugh out loud.
When did it all go bad? I remember the first season was well written, dark, funny and endearing. Season 2 started strong but the show started to believe its own hype and I checked out after that. Did it ever rebound?
Ugh. How much HGH have Dawson and Connor had to inject to look like the Incredible Hulk. They're repulsive. And where the hell is Lucas, Cade, and Brent. Link NSFW
It only took two weeks to need a third thread.
Taking this cruise next week. First gay cruise. What am I in for?
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How many cocks has he had in his mouth?
It needs work, but for the price and THAT VIEW, I'm thinking it's worth it. What say you, DL?
They may have just been a walk-on, or had only a few lines. But their appearance was burned in your memory for some reason. I like the cashier in "Paper Moon".
They are one of the most irrelevant countries in the world. I can't even understand why they would try to threaten the U.S. Why doesn't the United States just throw a nuclear weapon and blow North Korea to a smithereens. Is anyone tired of them constantly threatening to blow up Texas. Fuck them.
The leader of a small West African nation that receives American humanitarian aid has warned that any gay or lesbians found in his country will "regret" being born. Yahya Jammeh, who has been president of Gambia since a bloodless coup in 1994, is not shy about expressing his anti-gay opinions. The president's latest rant came during a speech on March 28 at the opening of the country’s parliament, according to Gambia's Freedom Newspaper Online. In an interesting juxtaposition of themes, Jammeh called for continued peace in his country, promised to root out criminal activity and warned homosexuals to stay out of the region or suffer severe consequences. “Homosexuality is anti-humanity. I have never seen homosexual chicken, or turkey," Jammeh said, according to the Freedom Newspaper. "If you are convicted of homosexuality in this country, there will be no mercy for offenders." He continued thus: Homosexuality is anti-god, anti-human, and anti-civilization. Homosexuals are not welcome in the Gambia. If we catch you, you will regret why you are born. I have buffalos from South Africa and Brazil and they never date each other. We are ready to eat grass but we will not compromise on this. Allowing homosexuality means allowing satanic rights. We will not allow gays here. These statements, while extreme, are in line with the president's previous comments on the subject. In April 2012, for example, the leader opened the legislative year by maintaining no foreign aid incentives would ever cause him to change his mind on homosexuality, a criminal offense in the predominantly Muslim country. “Sometimes you hear of a lot of noise about the laws of this country or my pronouncements," Jammeh said at the time, according to The Point Newspaper in Banjul, Gambia. "Let me make it very clear that, if you want me to offend God for you to give me aid, you are making a great mistake; you will not bribe me to do what is evil and ungodly." And in 2008, Jammeh said he would "cut off the head" of any gay person caught in the country, a threat he later retracted, according to Agence France-Presse. Despite Jammeh's anti-gay stance, the United States still maintains an Embassy in the country. Having lifted sanctions in 2002, the U.S. provides humanitarian, democracy-building and education assistance, according to the U.S Embassy website. The Gambian government, meanwhile, "has provided steadfast, tangible support for the war on terrorism," the U.S. Embassy notes. Dr. Stefan Baral, a public health specialist and human rights advocate who has studied Gambia's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) population, said in a phone interview that Jammeh is not just a talking head. Baral told The Huffington Post that Gambians don't ignore pronouncements like Jammeh's last week, especially since such statements come with the backing of the country's powerful Imams. Anti-gay rhetoric is also a developing public health issue, according to Baral, as HIV prevalence in Gambia is relatively high. The people the government should be supporting are the people it is discriminating against the most, he told HuffPost. Countries like the U.S. might consider this a human rights issue, he said, but Jammeh's attitude is the LGBT community is not human. The Gambian Embassy in the U.S. did not respond to a request for comment.
African President Warns Homosexuals To Stay Away, Or Regret Being Born
C'mon, girls- vote now!
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Starting from season one, and God, it is bloody awful! Big hair, bad acting. Yikes. Don't understand how it managed not to get canceled, but I'm sure I'll enjoy it more when Heather Locklear shows up.
For the few people who want to discuss the last two episodes
In previous years there's been mucho excitement about the halftime act. This year I had to Google who it would be, because I've heard nothing at all. Is the whole world underwhelmed?
Anyone hit the jackpot?
If you have more than 100 moles, you will age more slowly, resulting in fewer wrinkles, and a much reduced risk of osteoperosis. %0D\ %0D\ The reason involves segments of DNA called telomeres which shrink over time, but if you are a man of many moles, your telomeres are much longer. This helps put off the moment when cells are no longer able to divide and renew tissue.%0D\ %0D\ But, it''s not all good for the estimated 10% of moley Caucasians, because they might be more prone to cancer.%0D\ %0D\ Does not apply to frecklers.
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Gloria, you're always on the run now. Running after somebody, you gotta get him somehow.
His descendants wouldn've cared about him at all. Too busy writing code. San Francisco. And when the male descendants get told by their male or female sexual partners "you have a huge fucking dick!" They'll look out the window in mock humility and never acknowledge their 5x great-grandfather, dead at least 225 years, for giving them that big-dicked legacy.
What makes her a particular expert on old movies?
Dildoes seems so cold and impersonal. Could someone explain why they turn you on to use them, particularly when you're alone?
He's still hot. Did his balls drop to his ankles at 15? Jesus. How did someone so young at the time have a voice like that?
Would the wars and the fate of Europe and its possessions turned out differently? If so, how?
Wags and pundits said Michael Keaton had the Oscar in the bag. But Eddie Redmayne pulled off an upset at the SAGs, DEFEATING Keaton. Should come as no surprise if you think about it. Oscar history suggests that this was Eddie Redmayne year all along. Oscar loves to reward actors who play real people. In addition to rewarding actors who play a character with a disability. With this SAG win, Eddie now has the momentum with a clear path to the Oscar stage. While Keaton is playing catch-up. So is it over for Michael Keaton? And his real reward this year is just the nomination and NOT the Oscar?
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The original Star Trek The Odd Couple Gilligan's Island
Also list where you live. Just trying to do a comparison.
Because the last thread is just about full
Brick and Skipper ?
I'm talking about a serious fetish of having your throat fucked good and proper by a fat, hard cock?
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I've never been in love before Now all at once it's you It's you forever more. I've never been in love before I thought my heart was safe I thought I knew the score But this is wine that's all too strange and strong I'm full of foolish song And out my song must pour So please forgive this helpless haze I'm in I've really never been In love before. I've never been in love before Now all at once it's you It's you forever more. I've never been in love before I thought my heart was safe I thought I knew the score But this is wine that's all too strange and strong I'm full of foolish song And out my song must pour So please forgive this helpless haze I'm in I've really never been In love before.
I've never fallen in love. Ever. Never ever crazy scream it from the roof tops fallen in love. Never ever torturous unrequited love. Nothing, de nada, pas de. Lust I can do. Love, not so much apparently.
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Is this a thing? I feel like I'm seeing it right now.
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He instantly became my favorite on the show.
and why?
I was talking late one night over drinks with a straight co-worker - dishing about a 'Bi' guy in our office. "Oh, he's a total Top," said my friend. "He won't suck a dick or take it up the ass. He told me so. He'll cuddle, but won't kiss a guy. No way!" "Well, then he's not gay." "Of course he is! He likes to get ..." "His dick sucked. Yeah. That's not GAY that's being a GUY." So there we have it. We pondered that for a while. Does having a guy suck your dick make you gay? Or are the truly gay guys the ones that actually want and crave cock? I personally think TOPS are frauds.
My questions after reading the article: Did he sexually assault the other young soldier who sent him the texts? Was it his pattern to get other soldiers drunk and then sexually assault him? How did his mom know about the topless bar maids? How did she get the pictures? Is he really "bisexual"?! This tale reads like a Dean Koontz novel! Story intro: [quote]The first sign of trouble about the one-off sexual encounter appeared in the form of angry text messages on Corporal Ezekiel Wilkinson's phone. [quote]"What you did was so wrong on so many levels….what you did to me when I was trying to go to bed was f--ked up," said the messages from the male soldier with whom Cpl Ezekiel says he was intimate. [quote]Cpl Wilkinson, 29, an experienced serviceman who had hidden his bisexuality from most in his unit, was not overly concerned, believing the messages were from a spurned former lover confused about his sexuality. He believed they would quickly stop and the issue would go away. [quote]But he was soon mistaken. ...
HOT Bisexual Aussie Soldier Gets Skewered by Jilted Ex and by Mom
Mario wins the battle though with his humor. Hickey seems like a freaky closet case supporter. (starts around the 6 minute mark.)
"Manhattan" star John Benjamin Hickey defends the Hollywood closet to Mario Cantone
The vast wealth of DL knowledge has yielded great advice before and I could really, really use some now if anyone can help. My mom is on Mass Health and has developed a quickly growing pancake-type mass on each side of her lower spine. (She has degenerative disc.) Her insurance has been dragging its feet for months — rescheduling tests and insisting on less expensive preliminaries — while the thing gets bigger. Her GP finally got her to one hospital for an MRI, which was for shit. Specialists saw it and shrugged. Her GP said it was a bad MRI. Now the GP is trying to get her admitted to other hospitals as an emergency admission because the thing is getting bigger so quickly. But he doesn't have hospital privileges. Brigham and Women's just said no. They're trying Mass General now. Im afraid the time it's taking to get her appropriate care could lead to real health consequences, and I don't know what to do, who to ask for help, what cages to rattle, etc. The fact that her GP is trying for emergency admission makes me nervous. Should she just bring herself to an ER and beg to be admitted? I would be so grateful for any advice you guys might have. (Please, someone have advice. Or at least a good resource for help.)
Because the first thread was full. I find the new Verizon commercial loathsome. A mother and daughter are lamenting that the daughter is moving out. They are crying so much (and so dreadfully artificially) that there are subtitles. How do advertisers not understand such a commercial is so repulsive?
GET HIM!!!! I can't believe I had a crush on this douche back in the day....what a fake he is. He is even worse than Aaron Rodgers.
Troy Aikman denies being gay (again) and says homosexuality is a "lifestyle choice"
[quote] Start a thread series [?] on Jack [F]alahee please. He is in [G]lass [C]loset and is a part of [the show,] [How to Get Away with Murder]. I was shocked to see no thread on him while umpteen are [about] [C]olto[n] [H]ayes. Yikes. [Here's a gif from] his [I]nstagram link:
Has she poked her head out spouting her stupidity in any threads? Or is she quite while mourning her "great loss"?
Suge Knight has been arrested and charged with murder after a fatal hit and run. Knight claims that he was being attacked by two individuals and tried to get away wen he struck three people, one of whom was one of the two people allegedly attacking him. One of the men later died of his injuries. Knight fled the scene. His bail has been set at 2 million.
Keram knows that only the tip of the proverbial iceberg has been revealed thus far from the Sony hack. The Amy Pascal-Scott Rudin bitchfest is child's play compared to some of the other stuff that was housed in Sony's email archives, and Sony execs are shitting themselves with worry that the real "Christmas present" is yet to come, hence the reason they yanked "The Interview" so quickly. Keram knows that the email discussions in the Sony leak include extended ones about hiding James Franco's true sexual proclivities (sex with men being the least of them); line items in at *least* a dozen films for either Dr. Feelgood scrips (mostly Oxy) for actors, or coke & heroin in some cases; and a certain overhyped actress who tried to kill herself while filming a certain movie in Sweden a few years ago (there's a reason she hasn't worked since). Keram knows that the most "open-minded" Hollywood actor these days - sexually speaking - is Nicholas Hoult. Keram has heard the detailed sexual proclivities of hundreds of showbiz figures, but Hoult may top them all. He is up for anything and everything with anyone and everyone. Of *course* Tom Ford hit that while filming "A Single Man." Of *course* Luke Evans did the same on "Clash of the Titans." Of *course* he was game for Michael Fassbender's various kinks, up to and including scat. Keram would not be surprised if Hoult had even let Ian McKellen diddle him, though he's heard no such info. Keram knows that the Force wasn't the only thing awakened by the new "Star Wars" movie. Luckily Carrie Fisher isn't in all that many scenes, because otherwise her coke-fueled bipolar meltdown could have halted filming for weeks. Instead, she was very quietly sent to a rehab center in Switzerland, and Abrams delayed filming her scenes for a month. Keram knows DL fave Jake G. had to sacrifice a few things while adding 50 pounds of muscle for "Southpaw," in particular the use of his cock. All those 'roids left him with such a serious case of limpdick that even a max dose of Cialis couldn't do a thing to get him even partially hard. Keram knows Jake immediately started making up for lost time after filming ended, surprising more than a few Angeleno boys on Grindr when he showed up at their pads. (Like many on the app, he had only a shot of his torso on display.) Keram knows that the most genuine celebrity in Hollywood these days may be Chris Pratt. He is genuinely amazed that "Guardians of the Galaxy" is the highest-grossing film of the year, just as he was genuinely amazed that he ended up marrying Anna Faris. Keram is glad to see him getting some long-overdue major success. Keram knows that one of Pratt's costars, Vin Diesel (albeit only in a voice role), has once again developed one of the biggest egos in Hollywood, thanks to the dual success of GOTG and the "Fast & Furious" films. One might think that a decade of consistent failure might have humbled the man; if so, one would be sorely mistaken. Keram knows that the fact that his current "ask" is $20 million for non-F&F films ($30M for F&F sequels) is the reason he's gotten virtually no work to speak of since the success of the fourth F&F film, and that he only did GOTG because it required a mere two days of studio work. Keram also knows that Vin is as gay as ever, despite having a child with his longtime "girlfriend," and is one of the regulars at David Geffen's infamous pool parties. Speaking of which, Keram knows that Geffen's parties have become the *only* place to be now that Bryan Singer has been forced into veritable seclusion (socially speaking) in the aftermath of the lawsuit against him. Geffen has become selective to the point of absurdity in choosing the boys to "service" partygoers. Mere stunning looks are no longer enough: Geffen demands *perfection*. Keram knows of at least two young men who've gotten cosmetic surgery -- specifically, nosejobs, pinned ears and veneers -- simply to gain *entry* into Casa Geffen.
And Bruce is a conservative Republican.
(If this all he has, his ‘evidence’ seems pretty thin to me, but then again what do I know) • Roger Stone claims Johnson ‘micro-managed’ Kennedy’s Dallas motorcade, demanding it pass through Dealy Plaza on the afternoon he was shot • He also says that Johnson, instructed Richard Nixon to hire Jack Ruby several years before he shot Lee Harvey Oswald • The revelations are made in is his book 'The man who killed Kennedy - the case against LBJ' out later this year A renowned Republican strategist and lobbyist has claimed that former president Lyndon B. Johnson set up John F. Kennedy’s assassination, which occurred on November 22, 1963. Roger Stone, 61, makes the claim in his upcoming book 'The Man who killed Kennedy - the case against LBJ' which is set to be published in October. He also writes that Richard Nixon and Johnson had a documented relationship with Jack Ruby, Lee Harvey Oswald’s killer, years before he shot Oswald in the basement of Dallas police headquarters in 1963, reports The Daily Caller. Stone worked for Richard Nixon’s Committee to Re-elect the President in 1972 and later served in the Nixon administration. He claims that Johnson, a congressman at the time, instructed Richard Nixon, also a congressman at the time, to hire Ruby onto the House of Representatives payroll in 1947. Stone claims Johnson ‘micro-managed’ Kennedy’s Dallas motorcade, demanding it pass through Dealy Plaza on the afternoon of November 22, 1963, the infamous day when Oswald shot Kennedy from the overlooking book depository building. ‘Nixon knew Jack Ruby, hired him on House payroll in 1947 at request of … Lyndon Johnson. Newly released documents prove it. In my upcoming book “The Man who killed Kennedy- the case against LBJ” Out Oct 1–order yours today,’ Stone wrote on his Facebook page on Thursday. ‘LBJ and Gov. John Connally micro-managed Dallas JFK’s schedule and demanded the route thru Dealy Plaza where the motorcade came to a full stop and LBJ had JFK killed,’ he added. ‘They had no interest in JFK stops in Austin or Houston!' Stone, now a member of the Libertarian Party, co-wrote his book with Libertarian writer Mike Colapietro. Ruby, whose real name was Jacob Leon Rubenstein, moved from Chicago to Dallas in 1947, the same year Stone alleges that Nixon put him on the House payroll at Johnson’s request. Ruby died of a pulmonary embolism on January 3, 1967, a little more than three years after killing Oswald. Johnson died of a massive heart attack on January 22, 1973. Nixon died of a severe stroke on April 18, 1994
I don't get why men will latch on to a team and become happy or sad based upon how that team, to which is has contributed nothing, wins or loses.
They're [italic]baaack![/italic] And joining them are previous winners, Dmitry (Season 10) and Michelle (Season 11). Your thoughts?
"To train and equip Iraqi soldiers and moderate Syrian opponents of Islamic State militants". Is that war-by-proxy?
Does anyone else think so. She is so ugly and I'm not talking about personality-wise, I'm talking about physically.
Apparently he was hyped up on the energy drinks for which he was doing the commercial. He was purposely running on the tracks directly in front of the train, trying to show that he had enough energy to outrun it. He lost big time.
Gregg Plitt didn't trip on the tracks. He was in front of the train trying to outrun it.
How often do you have sex? My partner and i have be together for 9 years, im 35 and hes 39 but we rarely have sex. Maybe 2x a month. I have a higher sex drive but isnt this relatively low?. We're both healthy and are monogamous. I'm Not at all interested in a third or outside party. I've talked to him about it but he doesn't seem to care. Honestly what would some of you do?
Do not talk to me as if I were her. I am NOT Shirley MacLaine. I may look like her, in your eyes, but I am NOT Shirley MacLaine. I may move like her, but I am NOT Shirley MacLaine. I may even sound like her, but I am NOT Shirley MacLaine. Sincerely yours,
Shirley MacLaine
Now, how to they break it to him that they've been fucking each other for the past three years?
Mitt Romney will not run a third time for president, he will announce Friday on a conference call with donors, sources familiar with his plans told POLITICO. “After putting considerable thought into making another run for president, I’ve decided it is best to give other leaders in the Party the opportunity to become our next nominee,” Romney will say on the call.
Is it an aesthetic thing, or is it because they feel better when they''re inside you?\ \ I don''t have enough experience with bottoming to judge if it feels better to get fucked by a big dick than by a medium one, but I find medium(-to-smallish) dicks much more aesthetically pleasing.\ \ To say nothing of the fact that they''re much more comfortable to suck. But then I have a very small mouth - do all size queens have a mouth like Julia Roberts?
Are there ANY people of color in Portland because he show tells me a big NO.
I was watching one of his old movies today. He was so hot when he was young. Is anyone here a fan of his work as an actor or a writer? Did any of you older guys know him? Any stories?
Only the rich should be allowed to live!
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They couldn''t have thought that by doing so, it would result well.
Just watched this movie for the 10th time. This movie is just perfect in everyway. Is it an allegory for America (i.e. the selfish cowboy, etc.)? %0D\ %0D\ I wonder if Newman and De Wilde hooked up.
Or is she going to screw them out of it even in death?
The New York Post has a rivetting interview with five of Michael Jackson's former maids in which they dish the dirt on the King of Pop -- literally. The maids, who are expected to testify in the Wade Robson sex abuse suit against the Jackson estate, say that Jackson lived in filth that was beyond gross. Some choice quotes: -- “Michael sometimes ran around where the animals were, and he’d track . . . poop throughout the house and think nothing of it,” Maid No. 1 recalled. “Then, if you said something, he’d threaten to make doo-doo snowballs and throw it at you.” -- “He literally peed on the floor of the entryway, right where you saw Oprah walk in. It was surreal. He just stood there, unzipped his trousers and watered the floor,” Maid No. 2 said. -- “There were many times I had to sneak in and change his linen. I couldn’t understand how he’d sleep in such filth,” Maid No. 2 said. “There’d be socks and underpants in the bed and half-eaten chicken and potato chips, empty bottles of wine and whiskey on the floor. “And you knew he wet himself — the place reeked.” -- Maid No. 3 said Jacko’s bed, as well as a sofa in the living room, once became infested with bedbugs. “He said, ‘Get them the hell out of here. Call the exterminator,’ ” she recalled. “He said we should do a better job, and he said he knew that we came from poor countries so we were used to bedbugs, but he couldn’t live with them. “Everybody he brought in to clean, and sometimes we’d even get cleaning services to come in for the extra help. Everybody was repulsed. His bedroom smelled horrible. If everyone else was like me, they hated going in there.” - The most scurrilous item Jacko held on to? “I’d say there were two,” recalled Maid No. 2, who worked at Neverland from 1994 to 1996. “A soiled baby’s diaper, and a pair of Fruit of the Loom that was obviously worn by someone who was either a teen or an early-age adult.” The maids also say Michael was a hoarder, a "depraved drug addict" and a creepy anti-Semite who would rant about how people like Steven Spielberg would end up in "Jew hell." But I'm sure all five of these women just made this shit up out of thin air and it's all a part of the massive conspiracy against him. Cue the hysterical Michael fangurls and boyz . . .
The last thread had a dramatic ending, so let's continue...
I have. Been with my partner for15 years. We went through a rough patch about 5 years ago. While away on business, I went to a bathhouse and got fucked by 5 guys. I was just craving sex, passion, getting nasty. Once it was done, my craving ended. I've never told my partner.
Damn is he sexy as all get-out. His bubble butt is a thing of beauty, as is his incredibly muscled bod. I'm also kinda getting a gay vibe from him. I know he's just divorced, and now that his body is in better shape than ever, maybe he's dipping his toe in lake homo?
I don't get it. It looked pretty though.
Heatwave gaffe fuels another hot forecast: viewers love a male model Cory McCloskey of Fox 10 in Arizona explains the 3,000F weather prediction that went viral and breaks out the old modelling portfolio Adam Gabbatt in New York, Friday 30 January 2015 17.45 EST A week of extreme weather conditions in the US is due to be topped off by near 3,000F heat in Arizona – at least according to one local weather forecaster and former male model. Cory McCloskey, weatherman for Fox 10 in Phoenix, inadvertently predicted a furnace-level heatwave on Wednesday after his map malfunctioned on air, showing four-figure temperatures across the Arizona area. And the forecaster caused Fox 10 temperatures to soar once again on Friday, when he brought in his old modelling portfolio for a video Q&A explainer on the gaffe. Viewers were variously sent scrambling for their rosary beads, loved ones and hand fans on Wednesday after McCloskey’s weather segment predicted the kind of temperatures that could liquefy bronze and iron. “Wow 750 degrees in Gila Bend right now,” McCloskey said as his map began to malfunction. “And 1,270 in Ahwatukee,” he continued. “Now I’m not authorised to evacuate Ahwatukee but this temperature seems pretty high.” Cave Creek was the hottest place on McCloskey’s map at 2,960F, with Wickenburg a close second at 2,385F. Fox 10 Phoenix hosted a 50-minute YouTube Q&A with McCloskey on Friday in which the forecaster explained that his weather map “populates itself” with temperatures. McCloskey said had not checked them before the broadcast as “it has never been a problem, ever”. “When I turned round to the map and I saw quadruple digit temperatures, you know me, I immediately thought, this will be fun,” he told his colleague Samia Khan. The wide-ranging Q&A focused on McCloskey’s college education, his upbringing, and his favourite Pokemon character, until – in a moment almost as surreal as McCloskey’s predicting of 3,000F heat in central Arizona – the forecaster revealed, unprompted, that he had “brought something”. That something turned out to be McCloskey’s old modelling portfolio from the mid-1980s. “Oh wow,” McCloskey said, as Khan held up one shot of him posing in a vest behind some bars. “I didn’t know that was happening.” The pair proceeded to thumb through perfectly preserved shots of McCloskey in ski gear, in hunting gear and in underwear. “That’s the kind of stuff I was up to back in those days,” McCloskey.
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Because they're all FAT AGAIN!
The BIG FAT truth why Biggest Loser won't do reunions -
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And I'm a Refluckcuntian! This is one of the reasons I'm supporting Hillary. This did not happen to her as SOS and won't as President. You know why? She has had Secret Service for nearly 20 years now and has learned a few things. I have this lovely image of her physically taking down some Saudi princeling and educating him about the 21st Century!
Ladies & Gentlemen .... The DOROTHY MALONE mambo to celebrate her 90th birthday today. A gal who knows how to live. Mamboing the night away while her father collapses & falls down their grand staircase in the overly dramatic WRITTEN ON THE WIND (1956).
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The competitors are 100% GAY !!
There are some hotties at my gym who wear CK undies. Do straight men wear CK?
It's the only only thing that'll get me through Cunty Perry. Who's making the wings?
So, the predicted 24-36" of snow was 4-6". The entire city was shut down for a tiny snowstorm. But we're supposed to believe we can predict the climate 48 years from now while predictions 48 HOURS ago were spectacularly and ridiculously wrong. How can any sane person believe bullshit like this?
Producer Alan Ladd’s Wife Accuses Bill Cosby of Drugging, Raping Her in 1969 January 26, 2015 | 11:57AM PT, Variety Staff Cindra Ladd, a former film industry exec and wife of producer Alan Ladd Jr., is the latest woman to accuse Bill Cosby of raping and drugging her years ago. In a first-person article published by Huffington Post, Ladd recounts her experience with Cosby when she was 21 and working for producer Ray Stark in New York. Ladd asserts that after becoming friendly in a non-sexual way with Cosby, one evening as the two were heading to a movie he gave her a pill that he said would help her headache. “For more than 45 years I have tried to recall exactly what happened that night. To this day it remains a blur. I have a vague recollection of feeling like I was floating while walking through Times Square and watching some kind of Japanese samurai movie with him. I don’t remember where the theater was nor very much of the evening,” Ladd wrote. “What I do recall, vividly and clearly, is waking up the next morning nude in the bed of his friend’s apartment and seeing Cosby wearing a white terrycloth bathrobe and acting as if there was nothing unusual. It was obvious to me that he had had sex with me. I was horrified, embarrassed and ashamed.” Ladd wrote that it “never occurred to me” to contact law enforcement, given Cosby’s stature as an entertainer and in an era before “date rape” was recognized as crime. She told her husband about the incident nine years ago when another woman accused Cosby of similar acts, Ladd wrote. Ladd joins more than two dozen women who have come forward during the past few months to accuse Cosby of drugging and sexually assaulting them. The scandal has cost the 77-year-old comedian a sitcom development deal at NBC and a comedy special that was to air in November on Netflix. Ticket sales to Cosby’s live appearances have fallen sharply in many cities although he has dates scheduled through at least May, according to his website. Reps for Cosby have denied many of the allegations. Friends and family members, including his wife Camille, have recently criticized the news media for the damage done to the entertainer’s reputation and for failure to scrutinize the women making the claims. Reps for Cosby did not immediately respond to a request for comment regarding Ladd’s allegations.
as a child that you think most people have forgotten after all these years. When I was 11 I told a dirty joke that I didn't understand at Thanksgiving dinner. That was 30 years ago and I'm pretty sure no one remembers that.
He seems like the most boring and personality free person on this planet. Did his money and good looks give him everything he has going for him?
Is it a good thing that for TV they added a gay character to the stories, even if he is a very fem queen?
HBO gives "Girls" a fifth season renewal before the fourth season even premieres.
Is it required to go to IKEA this Sunday?
is undeniable in these Daily Mail photos. Scroll down and you can see a worm-like vein running down her forehead. She has no facial fat or body fat. Even before her post-cancer reconstruction, she had breast implants because she has no breast fat. Is AJ known to be an obsessive exerciser or does she just starve herself?
It seems it was firmly in place by the time she flopped in A STAR IS BORN and started doing all those concerts in the US and the UK--but had she already had it in the 40s when she was an MGM star? It's hard to imagine gay men flocking around an ingenue, no matter how talented.
What's the deadline--anybody know? I am beginning to fear for BIRDMAN, which I favor for Best Picture as well as Best Actor. So have the die been cast?
Didn''t Daniel Day Lewis have some kind of a breakdown while playing Hamlet? Can that be topped in the stage disaster sweepstakes? %0D\ %0D\ %0D\ Or how about Keanu Reeves as Hamlet?
I vote HOT!
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and the girl ended up committing suicide? She pretended to be a boy and sent a friend request to the girl. She kept up this online romance with the girl, planning to, in her words, lure the girl to the mall and make fun of her for falling for their prank. Right before the girl committed suicide, she sent dozens are horrible pm's saying that everyone hated her, and that the world would be better off without her: [quote]Everybody in O'Fallon knows how you are. You are a bad person and everybody hates you. Have a shitty rest of your life. The world would be a better place without you. The girl had just switched schools because of bullying. She transferred and was doing well. The other girl went to her old school, and used to be friends with her. Once this girl switched schools, she no longer had time for her. The girl's mother responded with harassment. Once the girl committed suicide, the mother invited the girl's parents over for her daughter's birthday, even asking them to hide a present she was going to give her for Christmas. This is the woman who caused their daughter to hang herself. The government got involved and prosecuted the mother for fraud, pretending to be someone else on Myspace, ignoring the user contract. She was found guilty and sent to prison, only to have the verdict overturned. She's a free woman now. This began back in 2006. A law was enacted in the end to combat cyber bullying, the Megan Meier Cyberbullying Prevention Act. WEHT this fat, ugly, hippo cunt mother? Anyone know? I know anonymous made her life a living hell, destroying her business, forcing her and her husband to be put out of their jobs. They even hacked her phone, and changed the outgoing message as such: "Hi! Lori Drew, world famous teenage girl murderer! Um, if you need any advice on how to drive the suicide of a fourteen year old teenage girl, um, or boy, I'll be glad to return your call. Um, to the media outlets, my only statement would be that I did it for the lulz, L-U-L-Z; my only purpose in life was to do it for the lulz. Um, you know, um, we were just doing it for the lulz, it's not our fault she offed herself to be quite honest with you. Um, so, so what? I mean, she probably would have done it anyways. I mean, she was obviously a dumb fat angry bitch. Um, I'd off myself too, wouldn't you?" About them having to leave their jobs, from AP: "Since the case became public, the woman has had to close her advertising business "because people have been attacking her advertisers and they want nothing to do with her. They don't want the bad publicity," he told NBC. He said her friends and neighbors are afraid to talk to her. "Her daughter has had to drop out of school because of the harassment," he said."
Into movie stardom? Was she up for any big roles back then?
He's an engineer and makes $500k a year. They live in a gorgeous home in Dallas, she has a nanny for the kids. Ill grant that he's not the nicest guy in the world, but he's hardly ever home. She says she has reason to believe that he screws around on her when he's out of town. I told her she needs a reality check. She's got a rather well-off husband. She doesn't have to work or take care of the kids. If he's got other women, then she doesn't even have to fuck him anymore. I'm trying to talk some sense into her, but she's rather idealistic. She's got no good reason to leave. Besides, he works so much that he'll probably keel over from a heart attack soon enough. And if he leaves her, she can take him to the cleaners. Texas is a community property state. Is there anything else I can say to make her see the light?
The first new antibiotic to be discovered in nearly 30 years has been hailed as a ‘paradigm shift’ in the fight against the growing resistance to drugs. Teixobactin has been found to treat many common bacterial infections such as tuberculosis, septicaemia and C. diff, and could be available within five years. But more importantly it could pave the way for a new generation of antibiotics because of the way it was discovered. Scientists have always believed that the soil was teeming with new and potent antibiotics because bacteria have developed novel ways to fight off other microbes. But 99 per cent of microbes will not grow in laboratory conditions leaving researchers frustrated that they could not get to the life-saving natural drugs. Now a team from Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, have discovered a way of using an electronic chip to grow the microbes in the soil and then isolate their antibiotic chemical compounds. They discovered that one compound, Teixobactin, is highly effective against common bacterial infections Clostridium difficile, Mycobacterium tuberculous and Staphylococcus aureus.
What''s her appeal?
Their stupidity is putting others at risk, namely the very young and the immuno-compromised. They have a right to their stupidity, but people have a right to be protected from completely preventable diseases. Fuck them! Unvaccinated children and adults should be barred from schools and large events.
I've always loved this show. Nell Carter was truly a spitfire and wonderful to watch. The Chief may have been the head of the household, but Nell wore the pants.
Male and female. Teeth in the biggest teeth thread. This thread is for ass.
She'll get $12 million to spill her guts. Monica Lewinsky is reportedly set to write a tell-all book about her affair with Bill Clinton - including her intimate love letters to the ex-president and how he had an insatiable desire for threesomes. The former White House intern, 39, reportedly wants revenge on Clinton, who she believes escaped unscathed while she has never been able to shake the disgrace of their Oval Office trysts. Friends claim publishers are scrambling to get their hands on the book, and after holding meetings, she has learned she could get as much a $12 million if she recounts every tawdry detail. While she has not yet secured a book deal, her apparent attempts to cash in on the affair could rattle the Clinton marriage - and wreck Hillary's bid for the presidency in 2016. Speaking to the National Enquirer, her friends said the memoir could even spark further health problems for the former president, who has undergone heart surgeries. 'Her book could be more than just revenge, it could kill him!' a source said. Her bids for a book deal will at least shake Clinton - bringing him crashing down from the success he enjoyed after an energetic speech at the Democratic National Convention earlier this month.
Monica Lewinsky says Clinton wanted threesomes and didn't like Hillary
She must be sooooooooooo jealous. Almost as jealous of when Madonna stole all the press on Desperately Seeking Susan.
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Do straight guys watch the Golden Girls? I interacted with two different guys today (one socially, the other professionally) and BOTH made Golden Girl references. One guy is divorced (twice) and the other guy is married (to a woman). I mean...seriously?
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We just filled Jonathan's hole with 600 replies. Here comes Round 2!
1. Increasing money and credit by the Fed is not the same as increasing wealth. It in fact does the opposite. 2. More government spending is not equivalent to increasing wealth. 3. Liquidation of debt and correction in wages, salaries, and consumer prices is not the monster that many fear. 4. Corrections, allowed to run their course, are beneficial and should not be prolonged by bailouts with massive monetary inflation. 5. The people spending their own money is far superior to the government spending it for them. 6. Propping up stock and bond prices, the current Fed goal, is not a road to economic recovery. 7. Though bailouts help the insiders and the elite 1%, they hinder the economic recovery. 8. Production and savings should be the source of capital needed for economic growth. 9. Monetary expansion can never substitute for savings but guarantees mal–investment. 10. Market rates of interest are required to provide for the economic calculation necessary for growth and reversing an economic downturn. 11. Wars provide no solution to a recession/depression. Wars only make a country poorer while war profiteers benefit. 12. Bits of paper with ink on them or computer entries are not money – gold is. 13. Higher consumer prices per se have nothing to do with a healthy economy. 14. Lower consumer prices should be expected in a healthy economy as we experienced with computers, TVs, and cell phones.
After reading the blind item below I have to wonder why Taylor Swift beards? I could maybe understand her doing it when she was new and trying to make a name for herself, but she has been ubber famous for years now. Why continue to make a fool of herself? Is she just dumb?: This girl is furious about her most recent failed relationship! Her anger is directed at two parties in particular: the guy with whom she recently broke up; and her management team, for getting her into this relationship in the first place. While her jet was being readied to whisk her off to her next location, she ranted to a friend about the coupling. She is mad at the guy because she feels that he didn’t hold up his end of the bargain. She called him a “F*cking idiot!” and “A bad actor” and complained that “He didn’t even f*cking try!” to make them look like a real couple. This is especially infuriating to her because his management team was the one that originally hatched the plan to set them up. She is also mad at her management team because this is not the first time they have set her up in a relationship that went wrong. When her friend questioned her why she continued to allow herself to be set up, she went ballistic. “Why?! Why?! Because we need the f*ing publicity, that’s why! And instead of getting good publicity, now I look like a f*cking slut!” She finished the conversation by declaring, “I’m done! I am never doing this again! I am ready to quit this whole f*cking thing!” The entire time she was saying this, Our Girl was pacing up and down near the runway, yelling and crying and gesturing to emphasize her fury. That’s a far cry from the sweet, together girl you see during performances and TV interviews. Oh, and given all this, we think it’s safe to say that this couple is never getting back together. Taylor Swift
Val Kilmer Hospitalized For Throat Tumor 1/30/2015 1:50 PM PST BY TMZ STAFF Val Kilmer was rushed to a hospital this week after he began bleeding from the throat ... and we're told it's a throat tumor. Law enforcement sources tell us paramedics rushed to his Malibu home Monday night after someone called 911 and reported the bleeding. The "Top Gun" star was taken to UCLA Medical Center, Santa Monica. Doctors performed surgery and he's currently recovering. We're told family members have been upset because they feel Val has ignored the problem and allowed it to get worse. In October Val was in small claims court over a dispute with his former landlord and he told the judge he was unable to speak because his tongue was swollen. Kilmer was last seen in public at a Clippers game with his son Jack. Val had his neck covered during the game.
The other thread seems to have disappeared.\ \ Apparently Lisa is still the family''s main bread-winner.\ \ [italic]True story: I just received two residual checks in the mail for one penny each! Just send me the two unused stamps![/italic]\ \ And she includes photographic evidence at the link!
Super sexy Colin Woodell with his super sexy voice is joining season 2. Is it worth wasting my time to watch the first season?
Bruce Jenner is transforming into a woman and is documenting it for a reality show of his own. Well ... that explains a lot. The former Olympic decathlon champ will discuss his ongoing transformation on an upcoming episode of "Keeping Up With the Kardashians," according to Us Weekly. Jenner has been the butt of jokes and the source of rumor and speculation for months, as his appearance has become more feminine. InTouch magazine superimposed Jenner's face onto the body of "Dynasty" actress Stephanie Beacham for the cover of its Jan. 26 issue. "He feels like he doesn't have anything to lose," a source told Us Weekly. Jenner's family has been mostly supportive. His stepdaughter Khloe Kardashian posted a picture with him on Instagram on Jan. 26, captioned "Father/Daughter time." Jenner's other stepdaughter Kim Kardashian earlier this week told Entertainment Tonight, "I think everyone goes through things in life, and I think that story and what Bruce is going through, I think he'll share whenever the time is right. I feel like that's his journey to talk about." She was also quoted recently as saying Jenner was "as happy" as she has ever seen him. Jenner split from wife Kris Jenner in 2013. Since then, he's grown his hair, been seen wearing nail polish, and had surgery to shave his Adam's apple. At the time, he told TMZ "I just never liked my trachea." Well, that's probably true. When questioned about her estranged husband's changing looks, Kris Jenner dismissed the talk as "silly." Us Weekly reported the 65-year-old Jenner -- who was married twice before meeting his latest wife in 1990 and has kids with all three wives -- was already "taking steps to live as a woman" when he met the Kardashian matriarch. A source reportedly said Jenner "had gone to doctors, started plastic surgery, and begun the transition." Kris supposedly talked him out of it, but the issue was reportedly a source of tension throughout their marriage. They filed for divorce last fall. While most of the family is on board with Jenner's transition, Us Weekly quoted sources saying Kris has "refused to accept the truth" and remains in "denial" and "she has made no attempts to understand" what Jenner is going through.
Bruce Jenner is becoming a woman, will document process with reality TV show
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The Oscar snub of Selma sucked. It was one of the best movies I've seen in a theater this year. But, by portraying a democratic president (LBJ) as an evil monster, it lost votes. Why can't people accept that ALL presidents are monsters?
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I have to say... the premiere was a bit underwhelming. It seemed awfully "forced" and "contrived". I hope it's just the nature of being a pilot that has to set up so much, and that future episodes are better. I'm still in.
Um, "Mark", Becky''s boyfriend, was waaayy to hot for Becky. Shit he was too hot for the 2nd Becky.\ \ I mean what was wrong with Jackie? She was probably just a few years older than Mark and a career girl - cop/truck drivers bring in good money for those kind of people.
She now says "my children didn't sign up for this." But they did, because all three are paid for being on Real Housewives and have signed contracts. Also, apparently her "kids" don't mind the red carpet appearances, the money from that awful BLK water, etc.
See video of them shirtless and pouring water over each other
Humorous lies in every-day life... what can you add to those in the link? There are so damn many...
We post a lot about individual films and awards and years - the best films, the worst actresses, who got robbed when, and so on. But what was the worst year ever, with the most Oscars gotten wrong, across the list of winners and categories? Going over the winners' lists, I was surprised at how many years managed to balance things out - terrible errors in some categories redeemed somewhat by getting others right (in my opinion). At the moment I think 2002 is the worst so far in the century. A BEAUTIFUL MIND, Ron Howard, Denzel Washington, Halle Berry, Jennifer Connelly, and A BEAUTIFUL MIND for adapted screenplay offer a mix of films and individuals that seem bad choices. But the all-time worst? I think the awards for 1967, the year of BONNIE AND CLYDE and THE GRADUATE, in which IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT won Best Picture, Steiger beat Beatty and Paul Newman, whose COOL HAND LUKE was wonderful, and Hepburn beat both Bancroft and Dunaway. Terrible. I don't fault the Kennedy and Parsons supporting awards, but from the lousy CAMELOT awards (beating BONNIE AND CLYDE for costumes and art direction), to ITHOTN winning editing with BONNIE AND CLYDE not even nominated, it was ridiculous. I love THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE but it beat Quincy Jones's tremendous IN COLD BLOOD for score. And even Best Song was absolute shit. "Talk to the Animals" beat "The Bare Necessities," "The Look of Love" and "Thoroughly Modern Millie." The money campaign to push DOCTOR DOLITTLE was infamous at the time, at its nomination for Best Picture cut such films as COOL HAND LUKE, WAIT UNTIL DARK, THE DIRTY DOZEN and IN COLD BLOOD out of recognition. 1944 was the shits, too, but not quite in the same way. And Hitchcock was robbed over and over.
Continuing the jutting tradition!
The best foreign language prize remains as baffling as ever. But what about Blue is the Warmest Colour? Here we go again. Every year, as autumn looms, we consider the puzzle that is the Oscar for best foreign language picture. As you will probably be aware, each country is only allowed to enter one film. The list is then whittled down to manageable proportions for those voting members courageous enough to sit through a film in a language that is not their own. Sometimes the movie picks itself. On other occasions, the film should pick itself, but ends up being shuffled aside for some less troubling, more digestible baloney. It’s hard to know quite what’s happened here. The French authorities have decided to go with Bertrand Bonello’s indifferently received Saint Laurent. There’s is no real chance that the picture could win. It would be faintly remarkable if it managed to pick up a nomination. Now, you might reasonably argue that this has not been a spectacularly fine year for French cinema. But there is another elephant in the room that has not been addressed. What about Abdellatif Kechiche’s Blue is the Warmest Colour? Stay with me, here. Yes, that film won the Palme d’Or at Cannes close to a year and a half ago. But, as it was released later than October in its home country, it failed to qualify for the 2014 ceremony. Remember that The Hunt, which opened at Cannes way back in 2012, was a nominee in this year’s foreign-language category. So, the French could have picked the searing lesbian romance. This, despite the fact that Blue was eligible for all other prizes this year. It would have been entirely possible (I think) for Adèle Exarchopoulos to be nominated as best actress this year and for the film to compete in best foreign language picture 12 months later. Anyway, the French didn’t pick the thing. Our money is on the Dardennes brothers — selected by Belgium for Two Days, One Night — to take their first Oscar. Though we’d prefer to see Xavier Dolan’s Quebecois drama Mommy do the business. It seems that the French language may triumph even if the nation itself does not. They may as well have retained their honour and picked the bloody Godard film.
He owes one billion dollars in back taxes. Why does everyone love this guy again??
He was the king of the world when the Matrix came out but now very few people know his name. I'd think that anyone who starred in something as big as the Matrix would have a great career but not poor Keanu Reeves. Why did it happen?
There is a Nazi running around in the Jeffrey Epstein thread. Please ban it, it is completely insane and keeps posting anti-Jewish comments and spewing its rabid conspiracy theories. Many thanks!
Just before the final fadeout, Heath whispers something. What is it?
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Someone posted this article on Facebook, and my initial reaction was to roll my eyes viciously. What does Data Lounge think?
It's such a great film, but it has a lot of problems in it. The "Crazy Veil" sequence is beautiful but it stops the whole movie cold. The "Gotta Dance" sequence is great, but it makes absolutely no sense whatsoever how it could possibly be interpolated into "The Duelling Cavalier" (and it has nothing to do with the rest of the wider movie). Worst of all, Lina seems punished too cruelly at the very end, and yet she always gives audiences more pleasure than anyone else in the film. But you can forgive it everything for its great musical numbers and its brilliant dialogue ("If we can bring a little joy into your humdrum little lives, then all our hard work ain't been in vain for nothin'").
What TV show from the 80's did you jerk off to the most? Considering I was born in the 80's my taste is late-80's Theo from Cosby and Dwayne from A Different World. And Zack from Saved by the Bell. And Tony Randall from Head of the class. I guess I was a cock-whore from the beginning.
He's 26 has never had a job in his life. He dropped out of college before graduating and has done nothing for five years. He still lives with his parents which is fine, but he contributes nothing to the household either financially or by helping his parents. His parents drive him everywhere and buy him everything he wants. This morning I went to pick up my sister and he was whining that he had to put his dishes in the dishwasher. Then started asking his mother how to work the dishwasher. Frankly he acts infantile and it's embarrassing to watch my sister and BIL baby him. This isn't normal, is it?
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This frau at work succumbed to her diabetes. (she could never get the hang of portion control) I thought it would be nice if some of us formed a chorus and did a few numbers at the funeral. Suggestions!!!!!
Not for Bill Maher, but Mel Brooks is his guest and he still just cracks my shit up. PLUS he's promoting his special which is on tomorrow night.
No matter what Julianne M. and Don C. say with their canned comments, she just clings a little harder, looks aside when she thinks the cameras aren't pointed and tosses her lawyerly hair on occasion, yet again once the cameras return to her bored countenance. Good job, George. At least you didn't lose your bet to Julia Cunterts. Oh, look. He won!!!
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It looks like the old thread was deleted. Maybe it was the comments made about the building in Saudi Arabia. I want to compliment the person who chose Lake Point Tower in Chicago and the attractive photograph.
I heard tickets were on sale for a concert this morning. WTF? Are these old farts still around? Do they still have druggie fans that do nothing but follow them? These guys were already old when I was in high school and I'm 50 now.
I am Kris Kardashian. Please, for the love of god, or dog, or anything, just kill me now. TIA.
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Let's say you fell in love with a closeted celebrity. He says the two of you can be together as long as you keep the relationship a complete secret. You can never reveal to anyone that the two of you are lovers. Would you go for it if you really loved the guy?
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The winds of political change are coursing through austerity-weary Greece, but a financial whirlwind may lurk round the corner. Opinion polls ahead of Sunday's closely-watched national election agree: The radical left opposition Syriza party, which has vowed to rewrite the terms of Greece's international bailout, is poised to defeat Prime Minister Antonis Samaras' conservatives. To govern — in a historic first for the Greek left — it may need the backing of a smaller party, but most seem willing to oblige. "I want this government to go. It has disappointed me," said Babis Limnaios, 41, an Athens electrician who last voted in 2004 for the conservatives but will now back Syriza. "I want them to change everything — tax, health care, education." Communist-rooted Syriza has alarmed markets and investors with its talk of massive debt forgiveness and riding roughshod over the bailout deals. But the mood is less fraught than in the last national election in 2012, when many saw a Syriza victory as a precursor to a possible Greek exit from the eurozone, the 19 nations that now share the euro currency. For one, Greece's European partners are less exposed to fallout from a Greek financial collapse. The eurozone has a bailout fund and the European Central Bank has committed to buy the bonds of troubled countries, if needed. And despite erratic bombshells from some Syrizan officials — one candidate suggested printing euros if push comes to shove — the party is straining to play up its mainstream, Eurocentric aspects. Still, Greece's next government faces an enormous to-do list. It must consolidate reforms, keep running balanced budgets, strengthen weak growth after a six-year recession, conclude frozen talks with bailout inspectors to secure a 7.2-billion-euro ($8.1 billion) loan tranche and negotiate further relief for its bloated, 320-billion-euro ($359 billion) debt. Creditors insist Athens must honor its bailout commitments if it is to receive continued support. If things go wrong, Greece could again face default — despite its 240-billion-euro ($269 billion) bailout and years of belt-tightening — and find its eurozone membership untenable. Samaras, whose New Democracy party governed since May 2012 in a coalition with its Socialist former archrivals, has promised some tax relief, saying economic growth and investment will gradually reduce unemployment. He was forced to call Sunday's vote to end an impasse over the election of Greece's new president. Syriza's 40-year-old leader, Alexis Tsipras — a former Communist youth member — favors a radical approach: Writing off most of Greece's debt, a burden he describes as "not just unbearable, it objectively cannot be repaid." Tsipras voiced confidence Friday that he can strike a "viable, mutually acceptable and beneficial" deal with creditors by the end of June, after which Greece will need to pay maturing bonds worth more than 10 billion euros that are held by the ECB. Syriza wants to ditch primary surplus targets, while still pursuing a balance between non-debt-related spending and revenues. It proposes to restore the minimum monthly salary from 586 to 751 euros ($657 to $842), provide free power and food coupons to 300,000 households, raise the tax-free income threshold from 5,000 to 12,000 euros ($13,500), reverse public sector firings and liberalize labor laws. Greece's electoral system gives a 50-seat boost to the first party, making it effectively impossible for the runner-up to form a coalition if the winner fails. In a deeply polarized campaign, the conservatives have demonized Syriza, stoking middle class fears of bankruptcy and a return to the old drachma currency. "The only thing they haven't said so far is that, if Syriza wins, it will round up your children and seize your women," Tsipras joked. But the invective doesn't seem to be working. Opinion polls published on the last day of campaigning showed Syriza increasing its lead, with five surveys giving Tsipras an advantage of between 5.2 and 6.7 percentage points — a gain of about 2 points in a week. In the name of national salvation, Greeks have suffered five years of gruesomely high unemployment, during which the economy shrank by a quarter and average incomes by a third. Jobs, where available, are mostly underpaid or part-time, offering no social security or prospects for advancement. Health care services have deteriorated, pensions have been slashed, and most apartment blocks lack central heating because so many residents can't pay. Meanwhile, the average tax burden has multiplied. The final straw was last year's decision to make permanent a hated new property tax. That hurts, because for decades ordinary Greeks had invested in real estate. Since 2009, however, market prices — but not taxable values — have dropped 40 percent and rents have shrunk. Cinema production electrician Gerasimos Soulis said he would vote for Syriza but without great conviction in its ability to enact change. "Jobs have opened, but they're not jobs. It's like you're making pocket money," he said. "We are trying with a third of the money to do what we used to do. And we're happy that we now have a third, because they made us grow accustomed to having nothing." What remains doubtful is whether Syriza will secure the minimum 151 seats in Greece's 300-member parliament that it needs to govern alone. If not, it must look for a partner from a smaller party. Tsipras said Friday that he is "one step" away from an absolute majority, which would spare him an alliance with "the forces of yesterday, which have every reason to want to trip Syriza up after the election." But he indicated that he would compromise, if needed, to avoid a second election a month later. With the politically untouchable, Nazi-inspired Golden Dawn party, whose leadership is in jail awaiting trial for running a criminal organization, and the Communist Party — which refuses to cooperate with anyone — out of the picture, possible partners include the new, centrist but untried Potami (River) party or the once-formidable PASOK Socialists. Friday's polls suggested Golden Dawn has made late gains and is challenging Potami for third place. A third option for Syriza could be governing with the populist right-wing Independent Greeks, who agree with Syriza on need to end the austerity but disagree on about everything else.
Seattle Police Chief Kathleen O'Toole has reassigned an officer involved in the arrest last summer of a 69-year-old man who refused to drop a golf club he was carrying on a city sidewalk. Officer Cynthia Whitlatch ordered the man to drop the golf club, saying he had swung it at her patrol car in a threatening manner and struck a stop sign. A video of the encounter last summer shows that after driving around a block, the officer pulled her cruiser up to a corner where the man, William Wingate, was standing, and yelled at him to drop the golf club.
69 yr old black man using golf club as cane gets arrested by butch female cop
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If so, have you ever hooked up with the same person?
Pundits are chalking it up the greatly improved (and improving) American economy. On CNN, Gloria Borger just noted that it's beginning to look like the presidential landscape will look very different from how it appeared that it might look just a few years ago. I'm telling you, he's gonna go down as one of the greatest.
What does that mean?
Over on the 'Pippin' thread there's a filmed version of the show. Is this something that happened (or still happens) often? Also...do you, personally, ever rate them or are these shows impossible to capture on film? (Just to be clear, I don't mean movies, such as, Chorus Line, that were based on a Broadway show).
At the beginning of the first scene of the play, Maggie is talking to Brick through a closed door while he's getting out of the shower. In this few minutes, he seems generally happy, he's talkative, he responds to her conversation attempts, and asks questions in return. He even seems to be joking around with her a bit. Then he steps into the bedroom. Instantly, he's sullen and quiet, and ignores her for the next five minutes. Nothing has been said that would specifically change his mood, but he does a complete 180 when he steps into the bedroom. Not sure if that's exactly how the movie is cut (with all its deleted text), but that's how the original play is written, and that's how it's presented on stage in the three productions I've seen. Is this just bad writing, or am I missing something that would cause his mood to turn, instantly?
With a fake accent. Alexis also rags on Oprah, Perez, and Janice Dickinson, and repeats that she had sex with Jared Leto.
Alexis Arquette: "Sharon Osbourne was a fat, huge, fat, huge, greedy, fat person"
Openly gay actor/screenwriter Wentworth Miller will join the CW's ever-expanding roster of gay and possibly-gay actors when he joins "The Flash" this fall. "The Flash" is an "Arrow" spinoff and stars Grant Gustin as the titular superhero from the DC comics universe. Wentworth will play a villain (of course). In other Wentworth news, he is interviewed in latest issue of Details magazine and has the following to say: [quote] DETAILS: Last year you also publicly came out as gay. Was a burden lifted? Wentworth Miller: I feel more fully expressed. After Prison Break, I came to grips with the fact that my public persona was in misalignment with how I actually felt. I was out to a handful of people in my twenties, and once I hit 30, I was out to family and friends. But professionally, I was feeding a fantasy. I created this air of "We don't address that thing." [quote] DETAILS: Do you ever regret lying in interviews by saying "I'm not gay"? Wentworth Miller: My face was on billboards, and I thought it was my job to act a certain way. But I think audiences knew to a certain degree.
I don't mean "pretend" rape with a guy who wanted to acted out a fantasy, or hoping on top of a guy when you knew his "no" was really "yes," I mean knock him down force yourself on another man without consent rape? Did you do it? Why? Can you live with youtself?
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A new book reports that two days before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor that officially brought the United States into World War II, President Roosevelt was warned about such a possible attack in a memo from naval intelligence. U.S. News' Paul Bedard writes more about the story: In the newly revealed 20-page memo from FDR's declassified FBI file, the Office of Naval Intelligence on December 4 warned, "In anticipation of open conflict with this country, Japan is vigorously utilizing every available agency to secure military, naval and commercial information, paying particular attention to the West Coast, the Panama Canal and the Territory of Hawaii." The memo comes from Craig Shirley's new book, December 1941: 31 Days that Changed America and Saved the World, which also reports that the Japanese were building a network of spies through their U.S. embassies and consulates. However, Shirley doesn't blame FDR for failing to act on the memo; instead, he compares the Roosevelt administration's inaction to the executive branch's failure to act on pre-9/11 intelligence. In each instance, Shirley contends, the evidence suggests "that there were more pieces to the puzzle" that the White House missed in the days and weeks leading up to the attack. "So many mistakes through so many levels of Washington," said Shirley. "Some things never change." And in a bit of unusually related news, 45,000 residents will evacuate a town in Germany after the discovery of one of the largest unexploded bombs in history. Stars and Stripes reports the 4,000 pound bomb, with more than 3,000 pounds of attached explosives, was dropped on the town of Koblenz by the British Royal Air Force during the war. The bomb was discovered in the Rhine River, where water levels have dropped due to lack of rain. A 275-pound American bomb was also discovered nearby.
I am watching the movie Mahogany , I plan to reinact the infamous modeling montage on the DC Metro
I haven't owned a car in a decade, so I'm home today goofing on the web and who knew that the Korean car makers, Hyundai and Kia, make ultra-luxury cars? The Equus and the K900 are ridiculously expensive. Does anyone here own one? Would anyone be willing to shell out that amount of cash for such a car? I don't see these succeeding.
His wife Sonni wants prenup to be invalidated due to "fraud".
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I've read that you really need to take it out every few hours and lube it up because if you wait to long to take it out you can cause tearing. I'm fascinated by men who claim to wear one all day long, even to work. I think that's how. I would love to be able to look at a guy walking past me and be able to tell if they have a butt plug in.
Nice house. I wouldn't read much into the furnishings, however. They have all the telltale signs --and casually displayed throws-- of a correspondence course certificate holder in "Staging for Sale - (Beginners Level)" You can almost smell the aerosolized chocolate chip cookies.
Look at this, tasteful friends...Josh Hartnett's 1887 house in Minneapolis listed for sale
DL what do you think of Calvin Harris?
Calvin Harris Goes Shirtless In New Emporio Armani Campaign!
Continued salute to part one and two and all the guys who aren't shy about showing their bods at the beach.
This happened near a friend's town, but I haven't seen it widely reported.
Famous t.v. exchange of Jack Ruby with reporters where he explained that if Adlai Stevenson had been V.P., and not LBJ, then JFK would not have been killed:
Did we know this? How gross is this quote: [quote]"We're trying to all get wealthy. That's the point of life. I believe it's my right as an American to make as much money as I possibly can, and for everyone around me to help me do that and not ask for anything back, ever. I'm a Republican, by the way, in case you couldn't tell."
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And did he "service" the Curiosity Rover?
He is a hole shredder, would you let him top you!
The game has a lot of followers on DL, and the original thread was a great place to share excellent tips, get clarifications, and post sour, bitter, frustrated rants about game fails. What level are you on? Let's visit each other's towns and whack each other's snakes!
Why isn't this guy in a series just so I can watch him walk around?
She was on the Home and Life show today on the Hallmark Channel and in Los Angeles this weekend reuniting with some of her Dynasty co-stars. It seems like she couldn't distance herself enough from the show when she left in 1984 but now shows up at EVERYTHING Dynasty related from TV reunions to autograph signings. I always loved her though. Some actors and actresses have this aura and she is one of them. From The Poseidon Adventure to Nancy Drew to the first and best Fallon (Emma Samms let's face it sucked). Any other fans?
I can't even remember which season this is. After half the cast died or is in limbo in last season's finale, it'll be interesting to see how they get them all back. Again.
Do they eat snakes or run away from them?
Any gossip?
Grandson of Clark Gable. Host of Cheaters. Hunky.
Alex Pettyfer = Gorgeous.
Damn boy!
The accusation that Batman was a homo, as strange as it might sound to our own ears, was taken quite seriously by government and public alike. It wasn't leveled by a marginal nut or crank, but by a world-renowned psychiatrist, Dr. Frederic Wertham. Wertham was the Chief Psychiatrist for the New York Department of Hospitals and an important figure among the New York City liberal intelligentsia. His writings were respected enough to help form part of the legal strategy for Brown v. Board. In 1954, Wertham published a scathing indictment of comic books, The Seduction of the Innocent, which argued that comic books were an invidious influence on American youth, responsible for warped gender attitudes and all manner of delinquency. Wertham's accusations garnered the attention of Senator Estes Kefauver and his Senate Sub-committee on Juvenile Delinquency, where Wertham repeated many of his central claims. Batman and Robin, Wertham charged, inhabited "a wish dream of two homosexuals living together." They lived in "sumptuous quarters," unencumbered by wives and girlfriends, with only an aged butler for company. They cared for each other's injuries, frequently shared quarters, and lounged together in dressing gowns. Worse still, both exhibited damning psychological characteristics: proclivities for costumes, dressing up, and fantasy play; secretive behavior and double-lives; little interest in women; and, most damning of all, neurotic compulsions resulting in their violent vigilantism. Indeed, Wertham argued, depictions of Batman and Robin were frequently homoerotic, visually emphasizing Batman's rippling physique and Robins splayed, bare thighs. "Only someone ignorant of the fundamentals of psychiatry and psychopathology of sex can fail to realize the subtle atmosphere of homoeroticism which pervades the adventures," wrote Wertham. "The Batman type of story may stimulate children to homosexual fantasies." [Full article at link.]
I would hardly have recognised Jeremy from this 1998 film Very Bad Things, where he is chunky if not beefy with a terrific hairy chest and not quite so much on his head. A total contrast to his sleek Mr Selfridge, now in its third season here in the UK. I think I prefer the old Jeremy ... so deliciously bearish,before he got toned and slimmed and more head hair. Did he do a transformation like chubby Dan Stevens did to be so practically unrecognsable. Is Jeremy still gay too, as far as we know .... ?
From 1986. Faye brings the walk, the shoulder pads and the cheekbones. She plays this shit like it's Chinatown and still looks great, right before she started fucking up her face.
... not that there's anything wrong with that, but I find it curious. Don't a majority of writers tend to write about things they are at least somewhat familiar with? Some of these women write very realistically torrid M/M sex scenes. Just the product of a very vivid imagination.
Let's post pictures of amazing balls... goose-eggs, low-hangers, or just plain amazing sacks. Whatever, as long as the focus is on the balls!
Mindy Cohn and Kim Fields didn't want to participate.
Allison Williams's debut as Peter Pan adds her to the pantheon of famous people who have enormous oversized teeth. Whose are the biggest? Please take my poll
Would you have done him then? How about now, with the muscles and all?
Since the "Grimm" and "Once upon a Time" thread is mostly a "Once..." discussion, I wanted to have a place to discuss Grimm. Any fans out there? I think it's getting better but I have a feeling it won't last long.
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We now have SSA, Men who have sex with Men, Guys into Dudes, even Str8 for Str8. I believe this is because few men attracted to men want anything to do with the queens and nellies. I recently went to the wedding of two men in NY. The officiator opened with 'This is not a gay wedding, the men marrying today find it offensive when they are called gay. They are quite simply two men who love each other and have decided to create a life together. They would appreciate it if you don't take the G word to the reception." I know many of you on DL LOVE gay, and are gay. I now think the majority of men who have sex with men do not identify as gay and never will.
I haven't followed it for a while, maybe I'll try again this season.
I know she''s not everyone''s cup of tea, but I''m personally glad to see her career in recovery mode. Robert Downey Jr and Lindsay Lohan did far worse things yet they were able to find work...why was Winona treated like an outcast following her arrest? All she did was steal some designer scrunchies and socks. \ \ Anyway, I''ve been a fan of her since I was 6 years old (Beetlejuice!) and even though people make fun of her acting, I''ve always found her to be tremendous (even in crap like Bram Stoker''s Dracula).
The old thread is full, so we start anew!
AKA, Melanoma needs a new mommy for the next year and a half.
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Damn he's hot - had some scenes showing his pecs on the last "Grimm." Link is to an earlier performanc but shows a nice ass and body. Any stories about him?
Fuck these assholes. Legislating bigotry is the shame (of many) in this country regarding civil rights. In almost every one of the bills being introduced that freedom of religion business comes up. How these politicians have become the puppets of the Christian Right is repulsive and embarrassing.. We should start a religion like those colander hat people so where we have the right NOT to provide services to Christianists based on our beliefs. I am so sick of this. I am so sick of our government ignoring the separation of church and state. Why aren't these denominations and churches taxed....I could go on...
States Introduce Bills To Stop Same Sex Marriage...in nefarious ways
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Just broke up with a straight guy I'd been "dating" for a month. We went to movies, dinner, took him sailing, a Giants game, and went on long walks together on the beach at sunset and talked for hours. Call me old-fashioned, but I just don't kiss on the first, second, ... or fifth date. But I tried on the sixth. Didn't work out so well. His name is Greg-o-ree. How many straight guys with incredibly cute butts do you know who call themselves Greg-o-ree? Not "Greg," which is the proper, hetero version. Gregory is pissed that I tried to break up with him and isn't having any of it... "We were never even a couple" etc.. and won't stop texting me. Greg is coming over for dinner tomorrow. He says this isn't the first time this situation has happened. I just don't have the time to clean the hot tub or call him Greg-oree, but I can cook a mean lamb shank with couscous. We will likely watch the All-Stars game after dinner. But I'm not gonna try to hold his hand. Fuck me, please.
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For me, I make it a rule in the interest of saving water to only shower at the gym. So usually twice a week.
According to various reports, four gay NFL players will soon come out of the closet. But veteran free safety Kerry Rhodes wants to make it clear: he will not be one of them. Pictures of Rhodes surfaced this week on Media Take Out in which the player's arms are around a man in a tank top, but Rhodes tells TMZ the shots are harmless. "Photos have been circulating of my former assistant and I that have caused some rumors regarding my sexuality, and I wanted to address the situation," Rhodes says in a statement. "I am not gay." The free agent adds that the pics were snapped during a "casual" vacation with his "entire business team." Rhodes does say he agrees with Magic Johnson overall, however: he's all for those athletes who actually are homosexual: "I know a lot of people are recently talking about athletes struggling to come out to their fans right now, and I support them, as well as wish those individuals comfort."
It's not got great quality, since it was priated by a handheld camera by someone at the IMAX showings of the lats 2 episodes of Season 4, but it does reveal quite a bit. Spoilers inside! (And yes, there WILL be spoilers.)
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I know the Scientology angle seems attractive, but don't forget her brother Larry Cohen and her recent employers the Zanucks have just as much pull around town. Maybe there was something else to it.
The new TV show "Constantine" premiers tonight! And unlike the Keanu Reeves movie, it looks like they're trying to get this one right! (well, except for expunging the character of his casual bisexuality). Anyone else going to be watching? I hope it's as good as I want it to be!
Do you love it? Like it? Hate it? When did sushi become such a popular food item in the US.
If someone has lost weight, how much time would have to go by without them gaining much of it back for you to consider it more or less permanent?
He's getting ready to bolt, isn't he?
They leave tomorrow y'all. Republicans feel free to chime in on this thread...
Anti-Semitic Hate Group Funding Republican National Committee Israel Trip
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Here it is, and it's had a deep, deep cleaning. Those walls have never been so white. $26 million and monthly charges of $11,146.
Here it is at last: the listing of Lauren Bacall's apartment at the Dakota
Meet the LGBT rights activists taking on the US south: 'Why run from your turf?' Moving ‘the cultural needle’ of deeply religious US region means convincing LGBT opponents that shared identity outweighs difference. It’s not always easy Timothy Pratt, Friday 30 January 2015 11.51 EST Starting in the seventh grade, Justin Kelly would pray every night that the feelings he had for other boys would “go away”. “I thought maybe it could be something that no one noticed,” he recalls. Growing up in a military family in Greenville, Mississippi, Kelly felt under pressure to deny who he really was. He hid his sexual identity through his years at Mississippi College, a Christian school whose student code of conduct prohibits premarital or extramarital sex and “homosexual activities, or other sexual expression that may conflict with the Christian identity or faith mission” of the school. In 2011, by then an army sergeant deployed in Iraq, Kelly learned his father had died after a short bout with brain cancer. He then decided that he was only going to live once, and that he had to start being who he was. Fast-forward four years, and Kelly has come out again. He is part of a 30-second ad – itself part of a larger campaign called All God’s Children – organized by the Human Rights Campaign. Its aim is to build stronger relationships between Mississippians and LGBT people in their communities through TV ads, online stories, direct mail and billboards. Kelly has been surprised by the mostly positive responses he has received for his participation in the campaign – including from colleagues at work. “I was afraid I would get fired,” he said. Family members in other parts of the country have sent him emails and texts applauding his courage. And although he doesn’t currently have a partner, he has also changed his mindset about public displays of affection. “Holding hands in public is important, because it exposes people to being gay,” he said. All God’s Children is part of a larger HRC program that includes the states of Arkansas and Alabama. It is one of several projects aimed at changing the social and cultural landscape of the south. The idea behind these efforts is to “move the cultural needle,” says Zeke Stokes, vice-president of programs at GLAAD, a LGBT media advocacy organization. The group has recently launched Southern Stories, an online campaign featuring LGBT southerners and their families and supporters. Stokes says that even while, legally and legislatively, the LGBT rights landscape has dramatically changed since he was a child 25 years ago in the small town of Bishopville, South Carolina, a cultural gap still exists. Although his birth state, as well as neighboring North Carolina, have become the first deep south states to legalize same-sex marriage, gender and sexual-orientation minorities are often not accepted or tolerated in day-to-day life, he says. With Southern Stories, Stokes hopes to change hearts and minds about what it means to be LGBT and to have an impact on workplace and housing protection legislation. The efforts have not been without pushback. Although Mississippi-based nonprofit organization the American Family Association would not comment, the group issued a press release in November about All God’s Children. Titled Human Rights Campaign Declares War on Christians, it included this comment by AFA president Tim Wildmon: “[We] will not be fooled by this campaign to normalize homosexuality in the southern states ... And we hope others won’t be fooled either.” Peter Sprigg, senior fellow for policy studies at the Family Research Council, said the campaigns “reflect a misconception about people’s opposition to homosexuality. It’s not about whether they’re good citizens, or good family members, or good neighbors – it’s ... whether the sexual relations they engage in are appropriate or not.” Also, he said, while the efforts may appeal to some people’s emotions, “I don’t think they will succeed with Biblically literate Christians.”
Meet the LGBT rights activists taking on the US south: 'Why run from your turf?'
Hugely fat white straight man, angry that his huge fat white straight maleness isn't giving him every possible perk in life anymore, launches new site to wail about "religious liberty in peril." Have a cookie.
Obese male journalist who was fired for complaining about "gaystapo" trying to launch new website
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As predicted, the fans are leaving in droves. But what of the faithful staples, Prue, Fern et. al.? They can't leave because the voices won't let them! But we will remember the lost: The Reverend; Mimi "fake husband" Collens; Lisa "the photo is old" Homes ... The list goes on and on - who will remain? Oh, the suspense!!! Let the mocking begin in 3, 2, 1 ...
My guess would be:\ \ Kraftwerk\ \ Rammstein\ \ Scorpions\ \ Tokio Hotel\ \ Nena\ \ Falco (Austrian, but I''ll include him here, cause he''ll get mentioned anyway)\ \ Tangerine Dream\ \ Marlene Dietrich\ \ Snap! ("The Power")\ \ Plus, among the hipster crowd: Faust, Can, Neu!, Cluster, Einstuerzende Neubauten, The Notwist\ \ Any others?\ \ (Are Trio with "Da Da Da" still remembered? Nina Hagen?)
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I''m sure I''ve left off important options on this (there are only ten options, but thousands of TV shows), but if you don;t like my choices, hit "Other" and list your choice.\ \ Remember: instrumentals only. Even the original "Star Trek" theme can''t count for this (because there are vocals), not "Andy Griffith" (there''s whistling).
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Sharpened labia of the night / Their breasts two strained and livid dots / Demons of piqued wicker drone...
Has anyone read this series of books or heard interviews with the author? It's outright frightening. Basically out of the thousands of missing people each year, dozens go missing in state parks. You might think there are easy explanations for the disappearances but for many, there aren't. In fact, just the opposite. The disappearances seem a slap in the face of logic. Here is just a bit of what I learned. - Most of the missing are never recovered. Those that are recovered alive tend to be children who are too young to talk, children who are mentally disabled or handicapped and thus can't tell of their experiences, and children who have amnesia and have no memories of their experience. - Clothing and other items are found in the opposite direction from which the remains are found, in the few cases where the remains are found. It's like someone is purposefully trying to deceive people by leaving a trail of personal belongings far away from where the body actually is. -Clothing is often found in an extremely bizarre fashion, something which would occur if the person just vanished in the blink of the eye and the clothing just fell to the earth, talking about socks in shoes, pants on top of shoes, shirt on top of pants. -People have disappeared while only being feet away from another person or merely going out of sight for mere seconds. In one case a family was walking up a hill. A female family member was walking faster and made it up and over the hill just seconds before the family did. When the family made it over the hill they were shocked that the woman was nowhere in sight. She was never recovered and is presumed dead. In another case a man literally watched a boy disappear. The boy was accompanying him and decided to return to camp. There was a clear line of sight from their location all the way to camp. Halfway there the man turned his attention briefly to something he was working on, talking seconds, and the boy was just gone. -Many of the children who are recovered, and remember they usually are too young to talk or can't tell of what happened to them, are found naked and barefoot with no sign of injuries to the soles of their feet. If they had been walking around barefoot in the wilderness they surely would have cuts and sores on their feet. -In many cases Park authorities either try to hinder any researchers from having access to files on the disappearances or lie and claim that no such files exist. In other circumstances they want an absurd amount of money, even up to over a million dollars, before releasing the files. In at least one case the Park authorities and I think the police refused to release case files even though the disappearance was not ruled as a homicide. Even the intervention of a senator have not been successful in getting the files release. When the parents of the missing girl asked for the files they too were told no. Luckily, a few Park employees have acted as whistle blowers and tipped of the author of weird goings-on in state parks across the country. -One girl who was recovered after being missing for days had no memory of her experience only except that a wolf took care of her. The girl showed no signs of starvation or dehydration. If you are looking for something spooky, definitely look this guy up and hear his interviews and read the books if you can. Oh, and he has never said what is going on. He doesn't know.
Yuck. And an assist from Lenny Kravitz doesn't help much. Idina Menzel(voice of Elsa, Frozen) is singing the National Anthem. John Legend is singing America the Beautiful.
Gay or not? Let's get a conclusion.
What have you got going on? I'm staying in and watching Grimm and maybe reading a few chapters of "I'll Take Manhattan". Pretty boring night.
Well, except about the story about cocaine being blown up my butt.
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I would say it's agreeing to be a contestant on "The Apprentice." Allowing yourself to be subservient to Donald Trump is the lowest degradation a human being can sink to.
Only time for one. Two Days, One Night or The Most Violent Year.
Anybody else watching this? After a nuclear war, the remnants of humanity are floating in a crumbling space station. They send 100 teen-aged criminals down to Earth to see if it's inhabitable. Only half-naked guys but they are cute. I been pleasantly surprised that it has a pretty good storyline, and situations that lead to more questions. This week I started wondering how much a language would change and sound different if people have been separated for a 100-plus years. Hmmm? Linguists?
I hate saying it -- but he looks good!
He said so when asked at SB Media Day. I knew that boy had taste.
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He's gay, right? I'm watching him give the forecast on Good Day NY in my doctor's office. He's incredibly muscular, really well-groomed, and has a certain "pingy" quality about him. So what's the verdict on this gorgeous weather hottie?
Finally?
Does that mean anything is wrong with the computer. It kind of beats like a heart.
Romney has issued an announcement that he will not seek the office of the president for 2016.
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He's the new daddy to a black girl! He's the coach of an underdog Mexican track team! He's trying to rebuild his rep for being a creepy pervert!
Anyone else watching? Please, UK DLers DO NOT SPOIL THE ENDING FOR US!
George Zimmerman, the Florida man who was acquitted in 2013 of the shooting death of unarmed black teen Trayvon Martin, was arrested in Florida late Friday night on charges of aggravated assault with a weapon. According to Seminole County booking documents, Zimmerman, 31, was arrested by the Lake Mary police and was booked at the John E. Polk Correctional Facility at 10:10 p.m. He is being held without bond and will appear in court at 9 a.m. Since his high-profile acquittal, Zimmerman has had three other encounters with the Lake Mary police. In September 2013, Zimmerman's estranged wife, Shellie Zimmerman, called 911 to tell police he had punched her father and was threatening her with a gun. She opted not to press charges. In the second incident, which occurred in November 2013, Zimmerman was arrested and accused of domestic violence by girlfriend Samantha Scheibe, who later said investigators had misinterpreted her statements and dropped charges. In September 2014, Zimmerman was involved in an incident of road rage.
Trayvon Martin murderer arrested again for gun violence
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"I was getting divorced and getting sober and I had a mustache--and people's heads exploded!"
Cheyenne Jackson says he was NOT having an early midlife crisis
I used to do it with 45s, then using my CD player's "repeat" function, and now I do it with iTunes. If I really love a song, I'm perfectly happy to listen to it for an hour or more. Right now it's Lucinda Williams' hymn to New Orleans, Louisiana, "Crescent City." "Tous les temps sont temps." Which songs do you listen to over and over and over and over?
Seems like the models are getting uglier and uglier...
What will happen now they have been exposed as dirty little cheaters? I call dibs on spanking Gronk's tight naked ass.
In jeans:
I'm calling it. If he doesn't win for Best Actor, he'll get the producer award, and the Tony is his for the taking. He is excellent in The Elephant Man.
What is the most important information I should know about TRUVADA? TRUVADA can cause serious side effects: Too much lactic acid in your blood (lactic acidosis), which is a serious medical emergency. Symptoms of lactic acidosis include weakness or being more tired than usual, unusual muscle pain, being short of breath or fast breathing, nausea, vomiting, stomach-area pain, cold or blue hands and feet, feeling dizzy or lightheaded, and/or fast or abnormal heartbeats. Serious liver problems. Your liver may become large and tender, and you may develop fat in your liver. Symptoms of liver problems include your skin or the white part of your eyes turns yellow, dark “tea-colored” urine, light-colored stools, loss of appetite for several days or longer, nausea, and/or stomach-area pain. You may be more likely to get lactic acidosis or serious liver problems if you are female, very overweight (obese), or have been taking TRUVADA for a long time. In some cases, these serious conditions have led to death. Call your healthcare provider right away if you have any symptoms of these conditions. Worsening of hepatitis B (HBV) infection. If you also have HBV and take TRUVADA, your hepatitis may become worse if you stop taking TRUVADA. Do not stop taking TRUVADA without first talking to your healthcare provider. If your healthcare provider tells you to stop taking TRUVADA, they will need to watch you closely for several months to monitor your health. TRUVADA is not approved for the treatment of HBV. If your healthcare provider has prescribed TRUVADA to help reduce the risk of getting HIV-1 infection, you should also know: You must be HIV-negative before you start taking TRUVADA to reduce the risk of getting HIV-1. You must get tested to make sure that you do not already have HIV-1 infection. Do not take TRUVADA to reduce the risk of getting HIV-1 unless you are confirmed to be HIV-negative. Many HIV-1 tests can miss HIV-1 infection in a person who has recently become infected. If you have flu-like symptoms, you could have recently become infected with HIV-1. Tell your healthcare provider if you had a flu-like illness within the last month before starting TRUVADA or at any time while taking TRUVADA. Symptoms of new HIV-1 infection include tiredness, fever, joint or muscle aches, headache, sore throat, vomiting, diarrhea, rash, night sweats, and/or enlarged lymph nodes in the neck or groin. Just taking TRUVADA may not keep you from getting HIV-1. You must continue using safer sex practices while you are taking TRUVADA to reduce your risk of getting HIV-1. To further reduce your risk of getting HIV-1: Get tested for other sexually transmitted infections. Other infections make it easier for HIV-1 to infect you. Get information and support to help reduce risky sexual behavior. Have fewer sex partners. Do not miss any doses of TRUVADA. Missing doses may increase your risk of getting HIV-1 infection. You must stay HIV-negative to keep taking TRUVADA to reduce your risk of getting HIV-1: Know your HIV-1 status and the HIV-1 status of your partners. Get tested for HIV-1 at least every 3 months or when your healthcare provider tells you. If you think you were exposed to HIV-1, tell your healthcare provider right away. If you do become HIV-1 positive, you need more medicine than TRUVADA alone to treat HIV-1. TRUVADA itself is not a complete treatment for HIV-1. If you have HIV-1 and take only TRUVADA, your HIV-1 may become harder to treat.
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They are torture devices. I'm in my bedroom, working on my laptop, windows closed, and I can hear the windchime next door! I want to take my .38 and take that clinky nuisance out! But then I would be the one getting arrested. The high pitch is more obnoxious than church bells.
I'm okay with this.
Celebrity Big Brother star quits after calling Perez Hilton a ‘faggot’ 18th January 2015, 12:27 PM, Nick Duffy R&B singer Alexander O’Neal has walked out of Celebrity Big Brother, after getting an official warning for calling Perez Hilton a “faggot”. The singer and the gossip blogger had a tense confrontation last night, after Hilton seemed to deliberately provoke him. O’Neal ranted: “I know exactly what you’re doing, you know exactly what you’d get in America. You’re taunting me. You coming over here, you following me. “How could Big Brother let you do this? Oh wait, you ARE Big Brother. You not gonna say one word? “You just gonna sit there will that silly ass faggot look on your face?” The housemate was given an official warning by Big Brother for his use of ‘unacceptable’ language – but was not thrown out the house. Ken Morley was removed from the house earlier this week after using the word “negro”. Mr O’Neal later walked out the house today, becoming the third celebrity to leave. A statement from Channel 5 said: “Alexander O’Neal has chosen to leave the Celebrity Big Brother House.” Drag Race judge Michelle Visage also recently had a confrontation with Hilton, claiming he is “setting the LGBT community back” half a century”. Visage told Big Brother: “[Perez] sets our community back fifty years. He’s an embarrassment, I do not want people judging the gay community on this ass.” Celebrity Big Brother will continue tonight, at 9pm.
I did like this show and its shark jumping verified. I figured out what ruined it for me...among other things.. Huck..it is just a ridiculous character with one note. Quinn's involvement with him is ludicrous but it's the Huck freak that just puts this show in the even more ridiculous realm. There, I feel better
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James and his huge British horsecock will be in.....well, it kinda sounds like a lame comedy version of LOST. But hey, he'll be in a swimsuit a lot.
James Scott cast in new comedy pilot
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Unless you are into hard rock/metal, you probably don't know who he is. What a bummer!
OH NO! I just found out one of my favorite musicians is a member of Scientology..
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This is good for a laugh! I got this list from, I kid you not, "www.IsMySpouseGay.com". It says it is a "survival guide for straight couples". LOL!!! 1. Suspicious non-verbal communication with other men -- a look, a touch or hug that lasts a little too long or seems to be intimate. 2. Possession of homosexual pornography (videos, magazines, photos stored on his computer). If your husband has consistently viewed homosexual pornography, on the computer (check the history in your internet browser!) remember that he probably would not be doing this if he did not enjoy it. It is simply too risky an activity to merely "check out". 3. Your husband's inability to be sexually aroused by you. If sexual activity steeply declines within the first few years of marriage, or if you're always more sexually aggressive than your husband, don't think it is all your fault! 4. An abundance of male friends with whom he seems to be too close or too familiar. Watch out if your husband spends too much alone time with one man or a small group of men. This is a sign that perhaps your husband is gay. At the very least, you can suspect that he is involved with his male friend(s) with a level of intimacy that he should be saved for you. Trust your instincts if he spends a great deal of time with one man or a few without inviting you to the party. If you really feel as though something strange is going on, there is probably a reason. 5. Lots of phone calls from other men. If they are men you don't know or men that your husband does not willingly tell you about (such as an old friend from high school who happened to get in touch with him), be concerned. 6. Buying or receiving expensive, intimate, or overly personal gifts from other men. 7. A consistent overreaction to anything concerning gay men -- extreme homophobic behavior. If your husband turns almost militantly angry when confronted by someone who is gay, it may indicate that your husband is gay. This doesn't make sense at first, but take a minute and think about it... People often lash out at those who embody traits they do not like about themselves. They are in fact empathizing with that person, but it doesn't come across that way. 8. A strong preference for non-typical sex. 9. Unusually high percentage of male friends who are gay. Watch out if your husband's new best friend is gay! 10. Male friends who are overly friendly. 11. A tendency for your husband to brag about gay men complimenting him on his looks.
Quinn Jaxon's new thread, since the last one got closed...
We bought a double-headed dildo and go ass-to-ass. Then we get into a scissoring position and rub our taints together until we cum. It's totally hot. Surely we're not the only gay men to have discovered this?!
It's bad enough everyone's teeth on tv are so white now that they're practically lilac, but recently teeth have become gigantic. And all the same size. It used to be the front teeth were the longest teeth; the canines were pointed and the other teeth were smaller. Now everybody's blindingly white teeth are the same size throughout the head. They look like the fakest dentures ever made. What is with that? Dentists used to try to make dentures look like real teeth. Now these giant fantasy teeth have taken over and they are so big they are popping out of people's mouths. Why are fake-looking teeth so popular? Is it a way of showing how much disposable income one has? "I have do much money, I can replace all of my normal looking teeth with giant fake teeth."
Discuss.
This is *my* definition of a perfect body. Also, the hair on his chest and stomach is perfection. Thanks you Nick!
Consider this a reverse humblebrag thread. Tell Datalounge how sad your life is. And remember girls, this isn't a competition. We're all sad cunts. I'll start. My 20 year old nephew gets laid more in a week than I do in a year. He's got two girlfriends and he services them both on a regular basis. I on the other hand, haven't had human contact in so long I can't remember what a penis looks like.
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Or more. Of snow.
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Returns 01/29. I wanna see Viola-sours. I wanna see Connor's feets. I wanna see Bonnie drop a few.
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Let's begin with the awesome trailer. How hot does Jaime look?! Premieres 04/12/2015.
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It looks like LGBT activist Dan Savage is making his next move. The "It Gets Better" founder is slated to be the focus of a semi-autobiographical, single-camera comedy on ABC, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The show, still untitled, will follow the younger years of Savage's life and the experiences of his family following his decision to come out of the closet. "What seems like the end of their idyllic life turns out to be the beginning of a bright new chapter when everyone stops pretending to be perfect and actually starts being real," The Hollywood Reporter notes. According to Entertainment Weekly, "David Windsor and Casey Johnson will write and executive-produce with Savage, Brian Pines and Dan McDermott."
Dan Savage's Life To Serve As Basis For New ABC Sitcom...DLers welcome to title it
Jan 30, 2015 For Mitt Romney, it appears that the third time is not the charm. On a conference call with supporters on Friday, Romney said he was taking a pass on another White House bid. “After putting considerable thought into making another run for president, I’ve decided it is best to give other leaders in the party the opportunity to become our next nominee,” Romney said. Romney did not endorse any of the numerous potential Republican candidates who have expressed interest in running for president. “I believe that one of our next generation of Republican leaders, one who may not be as well-known as I am today, one who has not yet taken their message across the country, one who is just getting started, may well emerge as being better able to defeat the Democrat[ic] nominee," Romney said. "In fact, I expect and hope that to be the case.” Romney has been flirting with another White House run in recent weeks, and looked like he was edging closer to a bid -- until today. "I’ve been asked, and will certainly be asked again, if there are any circumstances whatsoever that might develop that could change my mind. That seems unlikely," Romney said. "Accordingly, I’m not organizing a PAC or taking donations; I’m not hiring a campaign team." He then essentially released his donors, telling them they were free to support other candidates. Just Thursday, Team Romney suffered a high-profile defection that agitated members of Romney’s inner circle when former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, who is seriously considering a 2016 run, announced he was signing up David Kochel to oversee his exploratory efforts and ultimately run his campaign. Kochel is one of the best Republican operatives in the business, based in Iowa, but involved in races across the country. He was a core part of Romney’s 2008 and 2012 teams, but he is also close to Mike Murphy and others in the Bushes' orbit. Matt Rhoades, Romney's 2012 campaign manager, told ABC News: "Mitt Romney is a good man who always does the right thing for his party and our country. Working for him is an experience I will always cherish. I look forward to seeing what new big challenge he tackles next." Though the former Republican presidential nominee's message on the call was clear, he also sounded notes of confidence, asserting that he was “convinced we can win the nomination” and would have enough funding to do so. But he acknowledged, it would be a “difficult task.” He even said he would have the “best chance” to beat the Democratic nominee, specifically citing the new focus on poverty that he has been talking about in recent speaking appearances. Nevertheless, Romney told supporters he did not want to make it "more difficult for someone else to emerge who may have a better chance of becoming that president." He added, "You can’t imagine how hard it is for Ann and me to step aside, especially knowing of your support and the support of so many people across the country." Romney ended the call without taking questions. Romney and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, another potential 2016 contender, will dine together this evening, a source familiar with the plans told ABC News. This news, which was first reported by The New York Times, comes after the recent meeting between Jeb Bush and Romney last week. Bush was among the first probable Republican White House hopefuls to weigh in on Romney's announcement. "Though I’m sure today’s decision was not easy, I know that Mitt Romney will never stop advocating for renewing America’s promise through upward mobility, encouraging free enterprise and strengthening our national defense," Bush said in a statement. "Mitt is a patriot and I join many in hoping his days of serving our nation and our party are not over." Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., said of Romney: "He certainly earned the right to consider running, so I deeply respect his decision to give the next generation a chance to lead." Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., noted: "I hope to work together with him to grow our party and lead our country forward."
Us Weekly – 52 minutes ago No longer wanting to be Mrs. McDreamy! Patrick Dempsey and his wife Jillian Fink have called it quits on their 15-year marriage, a rep for the couple confirms to Us Weekly. "It is with careful consideration and mutual respect that we have decided to end our marriage," the couple said in a joint statement to Us. "Our primary concern remains the wellbeing of our children, and we ask with profound gratitude that you respect our family's privacy at this very sensitive time." According to TMZ, Fink was first to file for divorce from the Grey’s Anatomy actor. According to the site, Fink filed citing irreconcilable differences and is seeking joint custody of their daughter Tallulah Fyfe, 12, and their 7-year-old twins Sullivan Patrick and Darby Galen. Fink also reportedly wants spousal and child support. The couple, who wed in 1999, reportedly do not have a prenup and Dempsey is estimated to be worth $40 million. Dempsey was previously married to Rocky Parker from 1987 to 1994.
Patrick Dempsey's Wife Jillian Fink Files For Divorce After 15 Years of Marriage
I read the book Raven, about Jim Jones and The People's Temple, after reading about it on a DL thread. Fascinating and, naturally, very disturbing. Now I've bought Jesus Freaks, a book about The Children of God. Have you had any direct involvement with a cult? Or did any of your family or friends? How did they approach you? How did you break free?
Listen to the unhinged redneck on the video. I'm in Houston and luckily the crowd was small so they are a minority.
Were we done?
Oh, and if he kept his relationships with the brothers on a bit more professional level. I might fall in love, for a couple of months for sure.
Can you name some? For instance standing up when a lady walks into the room.
Well, I don't know what we did to cause Chapter Two of this thread to not open. Mr. Webmaster??? Anyway... I enjoyed that thread and I do not want to derail it at all. So, until Two reopens, if at all, let's proceed to three! It would happen anyway. Mr. Originator of that thread would you please the requirements of this thread. Thank you. Reminder: Some images are NSFW and please note--Like this first one: NSFW!
Men Showing Affection To Each Other - Chapter Three...
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Are there any countries on my list that would nix the plan for you? Could not live there no matter how wonderful, hot, kind, hung, rich he was.
Is it just me, or are we having to endure one cohort of rapidly decomposing elders and a younger bunch of cutie* airheads? * And today's "cute" is not standing up well at all.
I'm not there this year, but I'm guessing at least a couple DLers are there, since, you know, there was a thread on The D Train. So, based on what you've seen so far, what should we be looking forward to? Early reviews are raving about Me & Earl & the Dying Girl, which was believed to have been bought by Fox Searchlight for a record-breaking $12 million, though the actual number is considerably lower. Other ones that seem to have piqued critical interest include The Witch, The End of the Tour, The Diary of a Teenage Girl, and The Overnight. Has anybody seen any of these? Were they actually good? I'm sort of skeptical about Me & Earl & the Dying Girl, because it sounds so much like that crappy Fault in Our Stars film. But the reviews are pretty ecstatic and say that it's largely humorous, so I'm tempted. Anyway, here's a link to a list of the films that have been bought so far.
Best Movies of the Sundance Film Festival 2015
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Anyone familiar about this case? The guy was gay. They just made a film about this. Politicians are now involved in trying to find him. From Wiki: Aeryn Gillern was born on April 28, 1973 at Elmira, New York, the son of Kathryn Gilleran (born 1952). In June 1991 he graduated from Groton High School in Groton, New York. In 1997 Gillern graduated the Franciscan University of Steubenville (Ohio) with a Bachelor of Arts degree in theology. From 1997 to 1998 Gillern attended the seminary at Graz-Seckau (Austria). In 1999, Gillern received a Master of Arts with honors in Theology and Christian Ministry from Franciscan University of Steubenville. In 2003 he was appointed by United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) in Vienna (Austria) committed as a research assistant. In September 2007 he flew home to his mother, Kathryn Gilleran in Cortland, New York, to visit his family for ten days. His mother was planning to sell their house and move to Vienna to study with her son. On October 27, 2007 Kathy phoned her son and talked to him for the last time. He disappeared two days later.
I could not have kept a straight face.
WHEW!!! Now I don't have to pretend to care about the poor.
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Did that show ever get any good? Am I the only one watching it? So far it's just a bunch of indistinguishable brunettes. Not a lot of plot either and the mob boss or whatever he is is played by one the most annoying actors ever.
Can anyone tell me where this is from, and if I can find more of it?! :)
I swear I just noticed my warm brown eyes now have slate blue rings around them.\ \ I''m firmly in middle age and I used to wear contacts (started with the hard ones in 1969) so I am used to looking closely at my eyes over the years.\ \ Anyone else experience subtle eye color changes as you''ve aged?
My favorite is Poirot
I only know him from writing the songs for "A Boy Named Charlie Brown." What was his major appeal?
Gay and smoking hot!
Momma has cheerfully invited this one to come live under her muumuu upon his release!
This inked *Italian* cagemeat has Momma's mussy dripping like an Easter ham!!
Momma
The former Hollywood home of Marlon Brando is on sale for a whopping £2.3million ($3.5million). It might not be On The Waterfront, but to buy this it you'll have to make an offer the agents can't refuse. The Godfather and Last Tango in Paris actor's stunning home has panoramic views over Sunset Strip and Los Angeles. Built in 1926, the Spanish-Mediterranean three-bed was revived by AF Leicht - once dubbed 'LA's quirkiest dead architect'. The dramatic, winding staircase and the wrought iron balcony give the house a massive dose of Old Hollywood glamour. The 4,363-square-foot house boasts three and a half bathrooms, flying buttresses and a red-tiled roof. Unsurprisingly for an A-list pad, there's a castle-like art studio perched above the master bedroom, which completes the upstairs. The magical Maison Marlon comes complete with a wine cellar with pebble floor, two-car garage and chauffeur's quarters. link is to Daily Mail, only because they have the best pictures
Former Hollywood home of Marlon Brando goes on the market for $3.5million
Katie attended Epstein's dinner party right after his release from prison. He's a registered sex offender. Katie is a self-proclaimed feminist and the mother of 2 daughters.
Blessings.
God
Is it basically just not being an integral part of the so-called gay "community"? Is it having few or no gay or lesbian friends? Is it just not having much interest in the generally same things the gay community is noted for? And what if you went for years being very much a part of said community but have found yourself not particularly needing it, wanting it anymore?
Gwyneth's at it again, this time raving about the benefits of steam-cleaning her vagina. Yes, you read that correctly: in a recent Goop update Gwyneth says her lady parts need a regular "V-Steam". Apparently it works like this: "You sit on what is essentially a mini-throne, and a combination of infrared and mugwort steam cleanses your uterus, et al. It is an energetic release – not just a steam douche – that balances female hormone levels." Cheryl - what do you think?
Gwyneth Paltrow advises women to 'steam-clean' their vaginas.
On Dlisted (yesterday was his birthday). Is there a straight bone in this body? MARY! (He looks good, though!)
Please continue discussion. Include fights about diversity, whether or not you shut ins can relate, Patrick/Kevin vs Patrick/Richie, just how awful Agustin is, and how delectable Murray Bartlett is proving to be.
Ok, so I'm relatively new to gay life and one thing I have found to be curious (well, "one" of the things) is this: Many gay men are not readily identifiable in style or demeanor...seems there are all types. But why is it so different for lesbians. I would say that probably 95% of lesbians that I've met or seen around all look the same: the short kind of style-less haircuts, masculine or "sporty" clothes, no make-up, little if any adornments (except sometimes little earrings, which I think look rather ridiculous considering all the rest.) I have a neighbor who is a lesbian and we have become friendly. She is very stylish and pretty "glam", but also frustrated and unhappy. She does not like butchy types at all, yet that is mostly what she encounters when she is out and about. Are lesbians in general so dull and non-inventive that they all feel they have to look alike? Is it just a way to recognize each other? My neighbor says she likes women who look and act like women, that's why she's a lesbian in the first place. Nothing wrong with stereotypes,I guess, but I personally like defying stereotypes. Just curious.
It''s my favorite kind. I have a boyfriend, I''ve never had sex with a woman, but nothing turns me on more than two guys and a girl going at it. Kissing, pussy licking, woof. I think I''m.... unusual?
So I've been going to the same barber for quite a while now, I really like him. He does a great job and we always have had a good conversation while I am there. I thought he knew I was gay, but thinking about it now I can't remember that it has ever come up. So he probably doesn't. Today a twinky little Indian guy came in to get a haircut with the barber the next chair over. When he left my barber repeated a couple of the sentences the twink had said putting on a ridiculous gay accent. Granted, this kid did have gay voice but the two of them were just openly laughing about it while I was sitting there getting my haircut. Like a bitch, I didn't speak up or say anything. Now I don't know what to do. I don't really want to change barbers.
Jethro
What a hot young thing, all wet and full frontal. I've thought of him often.
WHET him? He cheered in high school.
That is all.
Two sitcoms about a middle-aged woman who served as a sort of den mother for a quartet of rambunctious boarding school girls debuted in 1979. The Facts of Life starred Charlotte Rae & Dorothy starred Dorothy Loudon as teacher / surrogate mother figure. Both Rae and Dorothy Loudon were Broadway veterans – they knew each other, had vied for some of the same roles. CBS executives saw in Annie and thought she would be PERFECT for a TV sitcom about a den mother. What no one had told CBS was something that the company of Annie had discovered very quickly: that Loudon, in the words of the show’s composer Charles Strouse, “really, genuinely, sincerely, hated children . . . . She was very ill-natured, in that respect.” Loudon would shoo away not only the many little girls in the show’s cast but also the dog, Sandy, whom she also despised. Doubtless she was less than thrilled that, in her bid for more widespread recognition, the baggage of Annie made youngsters an unavoidable part of the package. While Loudon’s pedophobia might have been perfect for the larger-than-life hostility of Miss Hannigan, it couldn’t work for a den-mother sister to Mrs. Garrett. “Dorothy really didn’t like the kids, I don’t think,” director Alan Shayne said. “And although she was at war with the kids, you had to feel that she also loved them. That didn’t really work. Dotty was a tough lady, you know. She had a lot of hostility.” Loudon’s husband, a television arranger and composer named Norman Paris, had died unexpectedly just six weeks after she won the Tony for Annie, upending her personal life just as she reached her professional peak. Kip Gilman also observed Loudon’s discomfort around her young co-stars, and thought that Linda Manz (the "Jo" character in Dorothy) – a casting director’s off-the-streets discovery whose experience up to that point had been limited to Terrence Malick’s highly idiosyncratic style of moviemaking – was especially ill-at-ease with the demands of performing comedic material in front of a live audience. Gilman suggested that, as a consequence of all that, the other three episodes may have been altered to reduce the girls’ roles and build up the screen time of the (still underdeveloped) faculty characters. See link for more
Why Dorothy Loudon Flopped while Charlotte Rae Succeeded as Den Mothers in sitcom TV.
A lot of DL people think he was too "girly"? But there are so many hot videos that are instant hardons . . .
His best-known songs, some written with the Belgian composer Jacques Brel, include "Birthday Boy," ''A Man Alone," ''If You Go Away" and "Seasons In the Sun," a chart-topper in 1974 for Terry Jacks. He was nominated for Oscars for "Jean" from "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" and for "A Boy Named Charlie Brown," the title track from the beloved Peanuts movie. RIP
Rod McKuen, Oscar-Nominated Songwriter And Bestselling Poet, Dead At 81
For Janbot, since her other thread was closed.
The day my mama socked it to the Harper Valley PTA. Made into a movie starring Barbare Eden What a song!
After only four months. Sources say she had trouble reading her Teleprompter.
Who''s gay, who''s bi? What are the secrets in the world of hip hop?
Even when they''re not protesting or mad, they''re all snarly and frowny-faced. And ugly.
Now he and Ann can (hopefully) drift away into obscurity......
well do you?
Can some savvy DL travel and sex lovers enlighten? Not whores, but straight-identified men
Read and watch? And I don't mean "sci-fantasy." Real deal only.
I can't do that thing that they do, hand grip, pull in close, pat on the back crap. Does anyone else have this problem?
My brother and I (I'm gay, he's straight) share a house together and he just informed me that we're having a "bro night" this Friday. Is this a "thing"? I've never heard of it.
Confess if you dare.
Is this mainly over her anti-vaccination stand?
I never understood why One Direction's management never makes Zayn Malik the lead singer. I mean he clearly has the best voice out of the group, he's a little skinny but still attractive. And he's the only one of the group that can hit those high falsetto note's effortlessly. But in their new video "Steal My Girl" (below) when Zayn's singing part comes on towards the end, they switch camera's to him and Harry Styles when it's clearly Zayn's voice throughout doing that high note NOT Harry. Is it because Zayn is a muslim that 1D's management downplay his role in the group? I'm just curious. What do you think DL?
Why Does One Direction's Management Always Try & Downplay Zayn Malik?
After their demonic leader died? They went very quiet so I can only hope that they disbanded.
I know they broke up. But did they both leave pron as well? They were my two favorites.
My favorite Instagram fitness model, Max Emerson:
When Blanche told Marguerite "before I go, I want you to know that Tootie is my favorite." By that time, [italic]Facts[/italic] was still on Saturday night at 8/7 central, and do you expect anyone to believe Blanche would be home by then?
Joe Flacco turns me on. I can''t find any shirtless pics, but he has a great body and sexy face. %0D\ %0D\ Who''s your favorite?
What did you jerk off to?
Out TV/Radio personality Clay Cane is hot with dreds...
$40k for 9 scenes - around $10k a scene. And if you''re thinking of doing porn and no-one will ever find out, read on...\ \ He''s gay, but says a lot of guys on Sean Cody are straight because the money is so much better than straight porn.
Our long national nightmare returns...
Mitt drops out….So it seems that another Clinton v Bush is real...
It's getting pretty good reviews. Entertaining soapy drama. [quote]A music mogul plans for the future of his empire after learning he has a disease in the series premiere of this drama, which follows his struggle to choose an heir as his three sons and his ex-wife battle each other to take over the hip-hop throne. One of his three sons is apparently gay, and it has his diva wife played by the awesome Taraji P. Henson. Anyone else gonna be tuning in?
Right now, gay marriage is legal in The Netherlands, Belgium, Canada, South Africa, Norway, Sweden, Iceland, Spain, Portugal, and Argentina.%0D\ %0D\ What country will be next?
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...because she was jumping up and down in excitement after her bf proposed to her!
WTF?
What does he elicit?
And I think his cock will end up in my mouth. Yum.
Andrew Sullivan announced on Wednesday that he will be giving up blogging.
With people, not cartoons.
Why can''t RuPaul pronounce the word "faculty" correctly? He repeats it several times on each episode of Drag U, and always says "falcuty".
Gaye Gayerson, Nitpicker-at-large
I make all the effort in the world to look fuckable and this overweight, old, unappealing woman lands Rachel Maddow????%0D\ Anyone please explain, I don''t get it.
pissed off lesbian
What films do you think people will still be talking about in fifty years? Mine, in no special order The Godfather Wizard of Oz Anything from David Lynch
What is the most fabulous gown in all of cinema?\ \ My vote: Bram Stoker''s DRACULA and the wedding dress Lucy wears, designed by Eiko Ishioka. (Best picture I could find is linked below)\ \ Also, Cate Blanchett''s coronation costume in ELIZABETH is also exquisite, as are the rest.\ \ Furthermore, what film has the best overall gown design? GOSFORD PARK and THE AGE OF INNOCENCE come to mind for me. Minnie Driver and Emmy Rossum''s costumes in THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA film were gorgeous, as well. \ \ It doesn''t have to be a great film to have great gowns! Show DL what you''ve got, girls!
The Most Fabulous Gown/Dress In Film
Couture Cunt
Who's had him? I want to be in him quite deeply.
Micke Ekvall finished the race in 21st place. In a post-race interview, a reporter asked him, "Did you ever consider stopping to clean off?" "No, I'd lose time," he explained, "If you quit once, it's easy to do it again and again and again. It becomes a habit." "Despite the enormous problems with stomach cramps that lasted between two and 12 kilometers, Micke completed his goal," Swedish site Jesper.nu reported, "He did fine with [a time of] 1:09:43 and came in a creditable 21st. This is despite the misery! Imagine what he could accomplish without a bad stomach." The poop man, now 25 years old, has accomplished quite a bit since then. He ran the same race the following year, placing 9th. He went on to set a Swedish national record at the Copenhagen half-marathon in 2014, and represented Sweden at the European Athletic Championships. Ekvall's story is truly an inspirational one: Never quit. If you can live down running around in public with your own feces streaming off your bare legs, you can live down practically anything. Either that or never, ever, leave the house, because anything you do could go horribly wrong and everyone is looking at you. Whatever. It's up to each of us to receive the poop man's wisdom in our own way.
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People thought I was either having a seizure or a stroke. Instead it was dystonia, which was brought on by a medication I took. If you don't know what dystonia is: [quote]Dystonia is a neurological movement disorder, in which sustained muscle contractions cause twisting and repetitive movements or abnormal postures. The movements may resemble a tremor. Dystonia is often initiated or worsened by voluntary movements, and symptoms may “overflow” into adjacent muscles. I was found on my bed acting like a possessed 12-year-old Linda Blair. It got to the point where I couldn't control my jaw, and I could no longer swallow. My head kept rocking side to side into the mattress. My body looked like a craftmatic bed. My legs and my head were almost hitting one another. I'm all bruised from my arm constantly bashing itself into the wooden footboard. I loved being strapped down when they took me out to drive me to the hospital. I had been having problems before with falling due to dizziness. That should have been a sign, I guess. Has anyone dealt with dystonia, or know someone who has? Mine was from medication, but others have it chronically.
I Ended Up In The Hospital With Dystonia This Week
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If he was straight, it'd be the biggest waste.
He's back to work after the birth of his son back in September. Daddy's predicting and answering weather-related questions on his FB page, while also documenting his new life as a DILF. People are asking him about their flights, and he's getting all involved with their activities. lol. Is Phillysnoop in the house? You ready for all dat sno?
The bigger the cast, the higher the tension! The Real Housewives of Orange County will return later this year with all of its current cast intact, plus two more additions, a source close to the cast confirms to Us Weekly. The new women, Meghan King Edmonds and Katie Chadwick Hamilton, are not only residents of the plush West Coast community, but they also happen to be married to pro athletes. Edmonds is the wife of former MLB player and current Fox Sports announcer Jim Edmonds. Other newcomer Hamilton, meanwhile, is the wife of MLB player Josh Hamilton. PHOTOS: Remember these former Housewives? They will join regulars Vicki Gunvalson, Tamra Judge (nee Barney), Heather DuBrow, as well as season 9 newbies Elizabeth "Lizzie" Rovsek and Shannon Beador. Gunvalson has impressively been with the RHOC -- the very first installment of the entire Housewives franchise -- since season one. While the rookies are likely to bring fresh drama to the mix, a memorable former housewife from the franchise will also make her return as a "friend" in season 10. Original RHOC Jeana Keough, who made quite the splash in the first five seasons of the series back in 2006 to 2011, teased her role reprisal via Twitter last week.
Real Housewives of Orange County Season 10 Cast Revealed: All Women Returning, Plus Two More!
Well, this is embarrassing for her, innit?
If you have type 2 diabetes you might be interested to learn there is a cure. However, the cure is something that you may not even think you need, in addition to it being highly controversial. That cure is weight loss surgery. Scientists and researchers have known for years that diabetes is cured in a good majority of people who undergo weight loss surgery. In fact, today there are diabetics who don't need to lose weight who are undergoing the procedure strictly to cure their diabetes.
A Shocking Cure For Type 2 Diabetes That Is Terribly Underreported
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The Real Housewives of Atlanta, Season 7 Part 2!
Claudia%20Jordan
"Free" - A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
I've loved this song and video for a while now and I though my fellow Dataloungers would get a kick out of it.
Did you have dinner as a kid at 6:00 ... or at a shockingly later hour ... like 6:30!
Hoping there's a housing/tax/etc expert here. My father is terminally ill, and upon his passing, I will most likely take over the house since my mother can not afford it on her own. The mortgage and title are in their name only. How would ownership of the house be transferred to me and my partner without having to pay gift taxes, etc? They owe about 250k on the house, and we would most likely take out another 100k for improvements, if any of that is relevant. Thanks
She''s always going on and on about the lyrics she''s writing for this play or that play; sadly for her though, the plays are usually playing at some tiny theater in Michigan.\ \ She name drops all of these obscur Broadway music people, always making sure to refer to them as "famous" or "legendary". \ \ When did she decide she''s such a great singer/entertainer? Was she doing this back when she had the show with the old gay guy or is it a new thing for her?
Eleven years into the 21st century, a new poll indicates there are a lot of Mississippi Republicans still living in the past. A survey conducted last month shows 46% of GOP voters in the state believe interracial marriage should be illegal - a plurality of the people questioned. Forty percent felt mixed-race weddings should remain legal, while 14% said they were not sure in the survey conducted by Public Policy Polling of Raleigh, N.C. The poll, conducted between March 24 and 27, showed 76% of the respondents considered themselves somewhat or very conservative. And it reflected the views of older Mississippi residents: 68% of the respondents were age 46 or older. The polls had a margin of error of plus or minus 4.9%. Interracial marriage in Mississippi became legal in 1967 after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling forced the state to change its laws.
New magazine cover
When I woke up this morning I realized I'd done something that wasn't a dream. I'm on Ambien and last night after I took a pill I signed up for one of those sites where you can check to see if someone has a criminal record. I can't believe in my Ambien induced state I was able to type a credit card # onto my iPad (something I have trouble doing normally) and looked up about five friends. They're all clean as a whistle. I feel horrible that I did it, but I'm blaming the drugs.
"I just want to make the best impression on people and be kind and loving and gentle and soft." The apology does not extend to his music.
Whenever I call you, "Friend", she says to him, "Has anyone ever written anything for you?" And he says, "Why did you do it?" and she says, "Why do you stay? Just like the white-winged dove sings a song sounds like she's singin'. . ." Oh, Sisters of the Moon, what questions you? MDNA is a blue lamp in my velvet room. Stand back! I'm going to the Imperial. The Imperial Hotel. Any recommendations? Ooooh, thank you. And the candles. And the souls. And the white-winged doves. Sara. . .
Stevie Nicks. Via Text Message.
Ronni Chasen, Madeline McCann, Jon Benet Ramsey etc.
Her E! talk show is canceled. Her NBC sitcom is not far behind.
Who should play Alex's leading man?
Lee Daniels to make gay, interracial "Mr. & Mrs. Smith"-style action movie starring Alex Pettyfer
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I have some fresh off the tree, juicy peaches.
I just spent a day getting a constant "huh" so that's my vote.
Bars altar girls.
Dress shirts, t-shirts, wifebeaters, jackets, whatever. For the nitpickers, don't shit over someone's post if you don't happen to like it for whatever reason. Just move on! Other than that, let the hotness begin!
Starts tonight on FX. Be sure to be there. It's your duty. Your country needs you. We Soviets must win this war.
Claudia
I wonder if she got a referral from Chicago gal-pal Renee?
Any questions?
Alright try to be honest bitches. If a stranger met you taking into account your normal looks, voice and mannerisms how masculine or feminine do you come across? Curious how most posters see themselves. Gay or primarily gay men only of course
Wifey tries to take care of her husband's gay needs (NSFW).
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Was reading a little about him. Apparently he always clashed with producer Sherwood Schwartz on the quality of the scripts. He refused to appear in two episodes because of the especially low quality of the scripts--the one where Alice quits and gets a job a the diner, and the final episode where Greg's hair turns red after he uses Bobby's hair tonic. What was he expecting...Shakespeare? Seriously, just suck it up, do your job, and collect that big fat check. He supposedly loved the kids like his own, but Florence Henderson resented his constact bashing of the writing. Overall he seems like a very angry guy who felt he worth so much more than the material he was given.
Release Date: Jan 28, 2015 Huge distant planet has rings 200 times wider than Saturn’s First-ever ringed planet beyond our solar system. You could think of it as kind of a super Saturn. Called J1407b, its ring system is 200 times wider than Saturn’s. An international team of astronomers have discovered that a ring system around a distant planet – called J1407b – is of enormous proportions, much larger and heavier than the ring system of Saturn. The planet orbits star J1407, located approximately 434 light-years from Earth. The ring system – the first of its kind to be found outside our solar system – was discovered in 2012. A new analysis of the data, published in the Astrophysical Journal, shows that the ring system consists of more than 30 rings, each of them tens of millions of kilometers in diameter. Furthermore, the analysis found gaps in the rings, which indicate that satellites (“exomoons”) may have formed. Erik Mamajek is a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Rochester and a co-author of the study. He said: [quote]This planet is much larger than Jupiter or Saturn, and its ring system is roughly 200 times larger than Saturn’s rings are today. You could think of it as kind of a super Saturn. The disk of rings is so vast that, were it around Saturn, it would dominate our night sky, the astronomers said. According to Matthew Kenworthy of the Leiden Observatory in The Netherlands: [quote]If we could replace Saturn’s rings with the rings around J1407b, they would be easily visible at night and be many times larger than the full moon. Mamajek put into context how much material is contained in these disks and rings: [quote]If you were to grind up the four large Galilean moons of Jupiter into dust and ice and spread out the material over their orbits in a ring around Jupiter, the ring would be so opaque to light that a distant observer that saw the ring pass in front of the sun would see a very deep, multi-day eclipse. [quote]In the case of J1407, we see the rings blocking as much as 95 percent of the light of this young Sun-like star for days, so there is a lot of material there that could then form satellites. Astronomers expect that the rings will become thinner in the next several million years and eventually disappear as satellites form from the material in the disks.
...except this has never happened.
Pebblephile Lens Dunham: "I applaud Judd Apatow for publicly condemning Woody Allen"
What sayeth the Datalounge?
Richard and Lee do Greenwich Village
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I think suit pants should be a little baggy, with a little swing. Now all the styles are tight. I'm not very happy about it.
Shazam.
No family is safe when I sashay!
Norman Lear plans Latino version.
DAMMIT.....
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She is Roseanne without the irony. I just think she's crass, tries too hard, and I want her to go away. That insipid "Identity Theft" is a total waste of celluloid, and I have and will never see her CBS sitcoms. McCarthyians - how do I best appreciate her? Learn me!
Let''s discuss.\ \ What the fuck is wrong with him?
I know we comment about this all the time here but I really can''t believe what happened to his looks in just a few short years. \ \ These side by side photos of him make the change even more dramatic.\ \ The Windsor curse gene really is strong, isn''t it?
Lots of fans here.
Hedwig fanatics shrieeeeek at John Cameron Mitchell's return.
WOOF!
Is this what a gay mid-life crisis looks like?
I might have been born just poor white trash but Fancy was my name.
Is that too mean?
A monolithic brand? Are we automatically included (against our will) when we come out of the closet?
I'm trying to like it, but the heading, the ad and the original post take up half the screen on my IPad Air...trying to scroll through the comments is clumsy. It might help if there is an area without any links that an iPad users right thumb would touch. Otherwise it is exciting to see the remodel. Thanks WM.
From President Obama's speech today, see below. This is why it's important to vote Democratic in the November election. We need more representatives who will fight for the working man and woman, to keep these gains from being reversed and to move forward with more gains. When President Obama was elected, businesses where laying off 800,000 people a month; today, they are hiring 200,000 people a month. The unemployment rate has dropped from 10.9% in 2009 to 6.1% today. Over the last 4.5 years, businesses have created 10 million new jobs. This is the longest uninterrupted stretch of job creation in our nation's history. There are more job openings now than anytime since 2001. During the Obama Administration, the US has put more people back to work than in Europe, Japan, and every other advanced economy COMBINED. Of course, there are people who are still struggling, that is why we need to vote Democratic in all offices this November, to elect people who will fight for the working man and woman. We can't afford to have these gains reversed.
Turns out the beloved sitcom treated fat people as punch lines and kind of had a homophobia problem “Friends” hit Netflix for the first time in 2015, and while it’s certainly not the first time people have had the opportunity to rewatch the show since it went off the air in 2004, it has provided a handy excuse for people to ruminate belatedly on the show’s impact — and for crazy super-fans to binge-watch all 10 seasons, obviously — and perhaps learn something new about the gang in the process. And they did! Some revelations were goofy, some light, and others pretty damning. Here’s what the Internet dug up about our favorite sitcom when viewed in the cold harsh light of 2015: Chandler is the worst, and he’s also pretty homophobic. As Ruth Graham wrote in Slate: “Chandler’s treatment of his gay father, a Vegas drag queen played by Kathleen Turner, is especially appalling, and it’s not clear the show knows it. It’s one thing for Chandler to recall being embarrassed as a kid, but he is actively resentful and mocking of his loving, involved father right up until his own wedding (to which his father is initially not invited!)… his continuing discomfort now reads as jarringly out of place for a supposedly hip New York thirtysomething — let alone a supposedly good person, period…. When it comes to women, Chandler turns out to be just as retrograde as Joey, but his lust comes with an undercurrent of the kind of bitter desperation that I now recognize as not only gross, but potentially menacing.” Although, this, of course, is not the first time the show’s homophobia has been addressed: Refinery29, meanwhile, delved into the issues with the show’s use of “Fat Monica” as a punchline. “In the show’s storyline, Monica loses weight in college after overhearing Chandler make fun of her size. Shamed into thinness, Fat Monica becomes just Monica — desirable and (finally) human. Monica is many things: funny, uptight, loving, competitive. Fat Monica is just fat… and always hungry. I was grateful for Fat Monica as a kid. She was proof I could overcome my disgusting plumpness and be seen as lovable, too. True, I would always bear the shame of my inflated past, just like Monica did, but I was willing to live with that if it meant I’d be a person instead of a punchline.”
After reading the word "fortnight" for a few decades I finally found out what it meant. Also for a shorter period "tosser" Still not sure I get what "chav" means.
Get it, girl!
What are the "red flags" that tell you a guy is probably a 'mo? For me, it's a guy who surrounds himself with cute guys. He has hot friends, and will gravitate towards the cutest guys in any room he's in.
self absorbed arrogant . but damn he is hot. like to have him tied up in my bedroom for just a few weeks, maybe months. just looking at him gives me a stubby....ok i am going to go rub one out
Let's ignore the fact that now real estate agents include garage square footage as part the house square footage to make the house seem bigger than it really is. I'm annoyed with people--like my brother and sisters--who have garages but use them for storage. My brother turned his two door garage into a "games room". My older sister uses hers to store off season stuff; winter stuff in the summer, summer stuff in the winter. My younger sister uses hers to store every fucking article of clothing she's ever bought for herself and her family. She has leg warmers she wore in the mid-eighties packed away. I would give my left nut to have a place with a garage just so I don't have to clean snow and ice off my car.
Billy Crystal brought up a point the other day. The Botox’d and beloved comedian blanched that gay sex scenes on TV sometimes push it “a little too far” for his tastes. While some were quick to scream homophobe, one should understand that the man’s been schticking it up on the boob tube for literally 800 years and the TV times they are a-changin’ — from Lucy and Desi sleeping in separate twin beds to Patrick sweatily topping Kevin on Looking. Whereas straights have been pushing the boundaries of good taste for years, the gays are finally starting to catch up with shows like the aforementioned Looking, How to Get Away with Murder and Empire. (Gay sex is getting very realistic.) We’re out of the closet and screwing on the kitchen table! Here’s a celebration of some sex scenes that would make Billy Crystal — or anyone uncomfortable with two men going at it — clutch his pearls....
Ann Romney gave birth to five baby boys, and studies have shown that with each baby boy, the likelihood of being gay goes up -- they say it's more likely for one of the younger sons to be gay. Just curious if anybody was looking into that. 1970 Tagg 1971 Matt 1975 Josh 1978 Ben 1981 Craig
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Hot to death. Anyone else a fan of his or the show?
I'm thinking about buying a Bissell Steam Shot and want to use it to clean a few small folds on my vag and carpet after hearing Gwyneth Paltrow extol the virtues of steaming. I know it's probably not exactly designed for that but is there any reason I can't use it for that? There's steam, pressure, and little brushes which would do the job I think. Any experience with these things? Serious replies only. And no Cheryl jokes, please.
Both are unfunny Jimmys. One dated Sara Silverman right? ickkkk.
He was hot and hunky, but never married. He kept an apartment in San Francisco during the week, but came home to his clingy possessive mother in the small town on the weekends. He had no interest in Suzanne Pleshette, but seemed captivated by Tippi Hedren (but what gay man isn't?).
Let it snow: words that skiers and employees of resorts around the country are fervently repeating as flakes resist falling on slopes from California to New England.
Two former Vanderbilt football players found guilty of raping an unconscious woman. The others are awaiting trial
What do the gays think?
I guess they all do, but some think they're gods, worship themselves, orgasm over themselves, etc. Who are they?
Before today I had never seen a Taylor Swift video. Last night I was listening to back episodes of How Was Your Week and Julie Klausner mentioned that she had just heard Shake it Off for the first time and proceeded down a very funny TS rant. Today I was bored at work so I looked up the video for Shake it Off. Some of the dancers are sexy, to be sure, but the real takeaway is that TS looks like she has no soul. There's nothing going on inside her--either mentally or emotionally. Taylor Swift has dead eyes.
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Tell us the restaurant and the city and some of your favorite dishes on the menu.
Two gay-themed shows I've recently watched have both featured Scott in a supporting role: the TV series Looking, and the feature film Geography Club. Two projects released so closely together...is he trying to tell us something?
Ross Mathews is the gay best-friend you wish you had and know you need.
You probably haven't spent too much time thinking about Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman's marriage lately, but a new documentary is going to change that. Going Clear, Alex Gibney's exposé on the Church of Scientology, makes some shocking claims about Cruise, one of the church's most famous (and infamous) members. The film suggests that the Church of Scientology intimidated Cruise into breaking up with Kidman because they were suspicious of her father, a prominent psychologist. In fact, her dad's position put Kidman on the "Potential Trouble Source" list, which the church says is for people "who are in some way connected to and being adversely affected by a suppressive person." Going Clear also claims that between 1992 and 2001, Kidman pressured Cruise into distancing himself from the Church of Scientology. When Cruise went MIA from the organization, his silence allegedly made Church head David Miscavige so angry that he tasked second-in-command Marty Rathbun with "facilitating the breakup between Tom and Nicole," Rathbun says in the film. According to Rathbun, the church started a task force to get Cruise to dump Kidman, which included wiretapping her phone—Cruise's suggestion—and sending the tapes to Miscavige. The Church also "audited" Cruise by gathering every bit of personal intel they could dig up. This information was purportedly given to Miscavige, who later shamed Cruise for his "perverted" sexual fetishes. And what's worse than having "perverted" sexual fetishes (whatever that means in this context), the Church attempted to turn Cruise and Kidman's adopted children—Connor and Isabella—against their mother so Cruise could take custody. In 2001, Miscavige got his wish. The couple divorced and Cruise, who became more active in the Church, went on to receive their Freedom Medal of Valor, which is given to a person who "brings greater freedom to mankind." Going Clear also suggests that the Church of Scientology goes out of its way to please Cruise by buying him limos, airplanes, and once, they even created a meadow for Cruise and Kidman to frolic in, which was apparently one of Cruise's greatest fantasies. This is all particularly interesting in light of the rumors that cropped up during Katie Holmes's divorce from Cruise in 2012, which also claimed that Scientology got in the way. Add these to the Maybe Don't Date a Scientologist file...
Scientology Shamed Tom Cruise for His "Perverted" Sexual Fetishes
What's your favorite cult movie? And what other cult movie do I have to see, and why?
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Someone is linking to documents with personal identification information. I regret starting that thread!
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Having evolved in an atmosphere of pure water vapor, they have an extremely fine molecular structure and are able to materialize here on Earth. A highly moral and spiritual race, they have deemed us too primitive and violent to warrant further contact!
The thing that led to the Holocaust, among other atrocities. Is there anything to it?
It really is a wonder drug isn't it? Anyone here use it?
Comics delayed due to the fucking snow but I wanna know today!!
I'm ashamed I preordered.
Batshit crazy Instagram exhibitionist Cody Deal announces plans for Erotic Calendar
Anyone watching this mess? Sample quote: "There is nothing more gay than Ryan Reynolds"
Deal with it.
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An unexpected arrival changes the situation north of The Wall. Bran learns more about his mystical destiny. Arya and The Hound finally part paths. New concerns in Meereen arise about the dragons. And beneath the Red Keep as he awaits his execution, Tyrion discovers some important things he thought he knew about his life were not true.
How come we never hear anything about him? Wonder what Barbra's niece and nephew are like.
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Alright ladies, place your bets. Will Zsa-Zsa buy the farm or will we find out that she died years ago?
Bravo's first scripted series premieres tonight. I'm loving it already: funny, quick-paced, and SOOOOO many gorgeous guys! LOVE IT!
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I would not be surprised if these two were secretly seeing each other on the low.
Harry Styles Wears A Green Bay Packers Hoody In Support For Aaron Rodgers!
Slam away.
You all here think so, at least if you read the Timberlake threads. But on other gossip sites they think he's straight. Celeb writers/bloggers who traffic in gossip say he is straight - EG Ted C, that Lainey person. If you read on him here and other sites, it's like two different people. What's the real deal? Is he gay or not? Am curious to hear from DLers who actually know something, not so much a bunch of speculating fraus, fans and haters...
Brandi Glanville, Ian Ziering, Vivica A. Fox, Kenya Moore,Kevin Jonas, Lorenzo Llamas, Jamie Anderson, Kate Gosselin, Keshia Knight Pulliam, Leeza Gibbons,Shawn Johnson, Johnny Damon, Geraldo Rivera, Gilbert Gottfried, Sig Hansen, Terrell Owens. Bring it on!
Or has it been filled in by suburban blight?
Who do we like more and why?
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Why is he suddenly getting [italic]all[/italic] the big roles for young adult males? He came out of nowhere - hadn't done any film or tv work before last year. And he's not even cute. At all.
I heard one of the reasons William and Kate wanted to get married this year was to do it before Philip kicked off.\ \ So it''s all done now and he got to see the beautiful trees in Westminster Abbey and everything. Can he leave this earthly plane now? Like, soon?
I'm from the South but haven't tried this Derby drink. Of course I'm not much of a bourbon drinker unless it's very good quality.
Hot indian guy gets bitch slapped.
I've always wondered if it's true, or just gossip, and urban legend
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What is your favorite way to fix them? Some ground rules: 1) Everyone must be polite 2) No comments such as - "you type fat" 3) And assume that everyone already knows that potatoes have carbs. Carry on...
I'm thinking about buying a Bissell Steam Shot and want to use it to clean a few small areas on my sofa and carpet. It's not exactly designed for that but is there any reason I can't use it for that? There's steam, pressure, and little brushes which would do the job I think. Any experience with these things?
Any guesses? _________________________ The nightmare continues for the bad boy of the royal family as rumors swirl that his nude photo scandal could just be the tip of the iceberg. A source told the Las Vegas Review Journal that the strip billiards game is mild in comparison to other shenanigans that allegedly took place during Prince Harry’s stay in Sin City. Whatever it is, hotel developer Steve Wynn – who owns the Encore Wynn Resort where Harry stayed – is reportedly unhappy about the major security breach, which stunned the world and embarrassed the royal family. According to the Daily Mail the billionaire paid for the third in line to the British throne and his pals to stay at his luxury resort. Although he is taking a break in St Tropez, Wynn is apparently reviewing security at his complex, which is a popular hangout for high profile celebrities. Olympic gold medalist Ryan Lochte also partied at the Encore Beach Club and the Wynn nightspot XS during the royal’s stay. As RadarOnline.com previously reported Prince Harry has now returned to the UK where the fallout from his public indiscretions continues. According to reports the cheeky royal has been dumped by his girlfriend Cressida Bonas who told friends she was left “humiliated” by the photos showing her man cavorting naked with other women.
Prince Harry Vegas Scandal Could Get Far Worse, Report Claims 'Something Pretty Gigantic' Involved
01.25.15 Scientology Doc ‘Going Clear’ Claims the Church Split Up Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman Alex Gibney’s highly anticipated documentary Going Clear, which premiered at Sundance, makes some shocking claims about Scientology A-lister Tom Cruise. Alex Gibney’s Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief is arguably the most hotly anticipated film premiering at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival. HBO Documentary Films, which is releasing the eye-opening documentary on the Church of Scientology later this year, hired a team of 160 lawyers to look over the movie, and the church, despite not having seen it, took out a recent ad in The New York Times accusing Gibney’s film of being “a Rolling Stone/UVA redux.” I just attended the first screening of Going Clear, which is based on the book of the same name by Lawrence Wright, and can report that it is a scathing exposé on Scientology and makes some startling accusations about its most famous member, Tom Cruise. The film alleges that the Church of Scientology used a number of intimidation tactics to force Cruise to split from Nicole Kidman. According to the testimony of Marty Rathbun, formerly the second-highest ranking official in the Church of Scientology who left in 2004, Scientology head David Miscavige was suspicious of Cruise’s second wife, whose father was a renowned psychologist in his native Australia. Scientology is vehemently opposed to psychiatry and psychology, and Rathbun claims that because of Kidman’s father, she was labeled a “Potential Trouble Source” (PTS), defined by the Church of Scientology as “a person who is in some way connected to and being adversely affected by a suppressive person.” Gibney’s film claims that Kidman, who was raised Catholic, convinced Cruise to distance himself from the Church of Scientology between 1992 and 2001, and that during the filming of Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut, Cruise wasn’t returning Miscavige’s phone calls, though Miscavige was one of Cruise’s best pals and served as best man in his wedding to Kidman. Cruise’s silence allegedly infuriated Miscavige, who then assigned Rathbun to the A-list couple. “I was to facilitate the breakup with Nicole Kidman,” Rathbun says in the film. Rathbun alleges in the film that the Church of Scientology then waged an aggressive campaign to get Cruise to dump Kidman, including having a private investigator wiretap her phone—at Cruise’s apparent suggestion, according to Rathbun—and sending the tapes to Miscavige. The Church of Scientology also began “auditing” Cruise around the clock, according to the film, aggressively psychoanalyzing him and gathering personal information. The information was then allegedly sent to Miscavige, whom Rathbun claims blasted Cruise for his “perverted” sexual fetishes. Furthermore, Rathbun says the Church of Scientology “re-educated” Cruise’s adopted children with Kidman, Connor and Isabella, into turning against their mother so that Cruise could retain custody. Cruise divorced Kidman in 2001 and following the split became more active in the Church of Scientology, receiving the church’s Freedom Medal of Valor in 2004 and becoming Scientology’s de facto Hollywood spokesman. Going Clear also claims that the Church of Scientology takes great pains to accommodate Cruise, including installing all the audiovisual equipment in his home, purchasing him limousines and airplanes, and once even having its members design a meadow for Cruise and Kidman to run through—an alleged fantasy of Cruise’s. Cruise and Kidman, the film notes in a card before the film’s final credits, both refused to be interviewed for Gibney’s movie.
Scientology Doc ‘Going Clear’ Claims the Church Split Up Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman
Peaches Geldof was found dead Monday afternoon. Peaches Geldof, the daughter of musician Bob Geldof, has died. She was 25. Authorities were called to a Kent residence Monday afternoon, according to BBC News, after at least one report of "concern for the welfare of a woman." The woman was later pronounced dead by South East Coast Ambulance services, the news site confirmed. Geldof, who had a blossoming career in media, had been a contributor to the Telegraph and Guardian newspapers since she was 15, and had been a reporter for ITV's show "OMG!” The cause of her death has not yet been revealed, but police are classifying it as “unexplained and sudden.” Geldof had been known to struggle with substance abuse in the past. Her mother, Paula Yates, died of a drug overdose in 2000. Geldof leaves behind a husband and 2 sons. 'Me and my mum' Peaches Geldof and mother Paula Yates in a recent Instagram post. Yates died of a drug overdose in 2000.
This man is HOT and has been in soooo many gay porn vids. But now he is married to an escort who is six months pregnant. And they're starring in a foot fetish porn vid, featuring the little porn prince. Ooooh or ewww? Oh well, at least they're keeping the family legacy going!
Christian Wilde: gay, then bi, now married & starring in fetish vid with pregnant hooker wife!
Look what Maria''s mother looked like just before she died.\ \ This is not photoshopped.\ \ Imagine waking up to this every morning in your old age.
What's the worst thing you've ever done? We're you caught? Procescuted? Not sorry?
Sean Penn has filed papers to adopt Charlize Theron’s son. Theron herself adopted Jackson, now 3, in 2012 when he was a few months old. Penn’s legal documents request permission to become the boy’s adoptive father. The couple’s reps have not commented, but many are taking the move as indication that they plan to wed.
Just a little Southern girl from the wrong side of the tracks.\ \ \ Sent from my iPhone.
The ultimate comfort food. Warm, noodley, salty, eggs, pork. To ramen I lift my caftan and declare YUM
Most of my Social Security check is going to tokens to keep a certain blond self-sucker in business. You?
Anyone read this book? Salacious? Do you believe it?
First day of summer and Moi feels pretty!!!!!
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Don't worry, this thread has been coded so our Toughtful Leader cannot see it.
.... after a long absence ... HOWEVER, he is NOT posting any pictures of himself. Are there recent paparazzi pics of him ? What do you think ? Is he hiding because he's a big, fat girl (wide in the hips) ? Or is he hiding so he can *shock* the world with his major weight loss (and announce he is a weight loss program spokesperson ....
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My next door neighbor is a fussy old queen who is a total busy body. He's really annoying and I've reached the end of my rope with him. Today he decided to take my recycling can off the street and stick it in my driveway I'm assuming because the city was supposed to pick it up on Wednesday. Only problem was they skipped me and 4 neighbors north of me. I called the city yesterday and the were going to send a truck out today to get the houses they missed and of course they came by after he moved it. The can is full and I've been cleaning out my garage and already have enough stuff to fill it up 3 more times. He's always sticking his nose into things that shouldn't concern him. Trying to think of some ways to fuck with him to teach him to mind his own damn business. Talking to him is a waste of time. I've tried to tell him to stay away from me, but he doesn't listen. Any good ideas on how to mess with somebody who won't mind their own business?
Because the original was so popular. Original thread at link.
Which is better, and why?
How far into the future do you think you could go and still stand living? In other words, how awful is it going to get, and how soon?
Is it Lindsay Graham?
Dementia brings out what we really think. "Even Gwyneth Paltrow’s mom doesn’t fully understand the star’s much-maligned “conscious uncoupling” from rocker Chris Martin. We spotted Blythe Danner at a VIP dinner for her Sundance film, “I’ll See You in My Dreams,” this week and asked how Paltrow was doing. “Wonderful,” she said, adding, “People make fun of this, um, what do they call it? What is that thing that they’ve been doing? Separating, but being?” “Conscious uncoupling,” we reminded her, of the peculiar phrase that inspired endless think pieces and tweets since Paltrow announced the politically correct breakup in March. “Yes,” Danner said, “but it’s called ‘conscious’ . . . not ‘conscious uncoupling.’ Conscious …” We assured her we were regrettably, but intimately, familiar with the phrase that was, as one national outlet put it, “mocked round the world.” She gave up trying to recall the exact term and summed up the uncoupled couple: “They are so smart … both incredibly brilliant. They’re making it work, they’re great friends and the kids are in wonderful shape. So I have to take my hat off to both of them.” Danner had just managed to catch the last flight out of Newark before the “blizzard.” “I was supposed to be inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame [Monday night] and that was canceled, thank God, so that allowed me to be here for this.”
Blythe Danner: I Don't Know What the Fuck My Stupid Daughter is Talking About
I decided that when I was finished I would come over here and start some riveting new threads.
UPDATED Emma Paulsen, B.C. dog walker, gets jail time for animal cruelty After 6 dogs died of heat stroke in her car, Paulsen lied and said they'd been stolen Emma Paulsen, the B.C. dog walker who pleaded guilty to animal cruelty in the deaths of six dogs in her care, has been sentenced to six months in jail. She can also not own an animal for 10 years, and has a lifetime ban on caring for one in a paid capacity. B.C. dog walker pleads guilty to animal cruelty PHOTOS of 6 dogs The audience in the gallery of the Surrey provincial court broke out in applause after Judge Jim Jardine handed down the sentence on Wednesday morning. During the trial, some of the owners of the dogs that died cried while the judge described how Paulsen initially lied to them, police and the public. The judge said their victim impact statements were difficult to read. They told how they missed their pets horribly and felt guilty for hiring Paulsen. When the dogs went missing in May 2014, Paulsen reported they had been stolen from the back of her pickup truck. Police later learned the animals died from heat stroke while shut inside Paulsen's truck. Paulsen told the court she had nothing to say before her sentence was delivered. "Paulsen did not intend to harm the dogs," the judge said when he was giving the reasons for her sentence. "[But] she was trying to cover up her wrong-doing."
I work in a small office with six other guys. We all share a bathroom and in the past two weeks somebody has jized on the floor like five times! I've stepped in it twice and its getting out of hand. I haven't discussed it with my co-workers and I'm not sure if I should. What is a polite way to address this? Should we hang a sign? Our cleaning lady only comes in once a week and I'm not cleaning it up.
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"Thunderbirds back in action" The first image of characters from the rebooted Thunderbirds series has been released, with the former marionettes now replaced by trim and toned animations. Fan reaction has been mixed, with some embracing the update and others missing the traditional look (and visible strings, apparently) of the original. Produced by ITV Studios and Pukeko Pictures with CGI produced by Weta Workshop, who did the effects for Lord Of The Rings, The Hobbit and Avatar, the 26-part series commissioned for ITV is due to air this year. See photographic evidence at link.
Did anyone see this film? It's very good, but I'm not sure if it did well outside the Pacific region. I like the ambiguity that you cannot tell whether there is a monster or if she is just going mad. I would love a copy of the picture book, but cannot find one anywhere - I guess I would have to make my own one?
Nothing involved with lesbians, trannies, or cis gender stuff please.
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I believe it's "Camelot" (1967), with its horrible twee, artificial, earth-toned fakitude overwhelming every scene. Got anything worse, bitches?
For me, the old Uncle Charlies on Greenwich holds a special place in my heart. It was the first bar I'd ever set foot in back in '92 when I started grad school at NYU. I was pretty much closeted and had never even kissed a guy, but I remember the exhilirating sense of freedom and liberation (I know...MARY!) that I felt for the first time. Addicted to that feeling, I probably went there more than I should have, but it was such an amazing experience. It's where I met the guy with whom I had my first kiss, first date and first same sex encounter. It seems so long ago, but the memories are still vivid. And it was a time before big muscles and shaving every inch of the body were in vogue. Yes, I sound old. I also remember a place called Pieces that I went to a few times. Not sure that's still around. Anyone else care to share their memories?
My friend had to dislodge an impacted bowel movement in an elderly man. In other words, the old man was so constipated, his feces had hardened into a dense ball and she had to pick it out of his rectum, piece by piece.
He'd certainly make a pretty jailhouse bottom. I'm sure a tattooed gangster top would love to grab onto those moobs.
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What are good sides? Potato salad or mac and cheese??
She''s a female and adorable. Any ideas?
They could be actors, writers, directors, musicians, politicians, etc.
I had several in the 90s. About six in each ear, only two in each lobe. Abandoned them a few years later. Now I get acne under my earlobes where the piercings were
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Did anyone sign up for this? Any good?
Why can't they find inner validation?
Famous doc says she remained in the surgical room. Other doctors say she left her patient.
Was Joan Rivers abandoned by specialist throat doctor when things turned bad?
I'm super psyched about this!
no wonder she says the dumb things she does
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What says you? I think she should die because you know that bitch will never be able to be reformed. She'll go to her grave claiming that Travis was a child molester and that she did the world a favor. It would be best to just kill her and let her sort it out in her next life. However, I think she will probably get life w/out parole as too many cowardly sapsuckers are opposed to the death penalty, or should I say opposed to the death penalty when it comes to women.
Film or TV show. Dorothy - Kim Cattrall could pull this off, but it would be a stretch Blanche - Michelle Pfeiffer Rose - Goldie Hawn Sophia - Ellen Barkin Supporting characters: Stan - Henry Winkler Gloria - Marcia Cross Kate - Julie Bowen Michael - Virginia - Charmaine - Clayton - Rebecca - Miles - Kirsten - Bridget - Elisabeth Moss
After an amicable separation since July, Todd and I have decided to end our marriage. Although our decision to separate comes with a great deal of sadness, our focus on the future and overwhelming desire for our family's happiness has given us the strength to move forward on separate, yet always connected paths. Todd and I share a beautiful daughter and a lifetime of great memories that we both treasure more than anything. We are so thankful for our friends and family, and really appreciate the support in this time of change.
NEW YORK -- The actor best known for playing the TV character Gomer Pyle in the 1960s has married his male partner of 38 years. Hawaii News Now reports Jim Nabors and his partner, Stan Cadwallader, traveled from their Honolulu home to Seattle to be married Jan. 15. he 82-year-old Nabors says you've got to solidify something when you've been together as long as they have. The couple met in 1975 when Cadwallader was a Honolulu firefighter. Cadwallader is 64. Nabors says he's been open about his homosexuality to co-workers and friends but never acknowledged it to the media before. Nabors played Gomer Pyle in "The Andy Griffith Show" and "Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C." television shows.
There is something really wrong with them, right? This lady at the office doesn't have custody of her kids. She seems really nice and sweet. I wonder how messed up she is outside of the office to not have her kids.
For most men, you get horny and your dick gets erect. Mine never has. It engorges a bit and then stops. To get to full erection, I have to jerk it or it has to be sucked. I have a very tough time keeping it hard if I'm standing. My cock is big so I used to think it was just the hydraulics, but I've seen tons of large-dicked guys have no problem. Viagra worked for about a year and then just stopped. (Granted, I used it often) I'm figuring it's a psychological issue because I do get spontaneous hard ons every now and again, but they're not usually linked to sex (waking up some mornings, for example) The odd thing is the few times I've been in love, I had no problem with hardons. Anyone else have this problem? How do I go about fixing this?
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I'm out of town, alone in a hotel and I wanted a massage with release. Couldn't find a guy at this later so I called a service. It was promised that she would be pretty but she wasn't at all and she had a horrible wig that wasn't even on right. I think she was in her 50s. She had no massage skills and her hands were cold. I asked if I could fuck her. It did nothing for me, partially because I'm on a medication that makes it hard to cum. Then I asked for a handjob but that didn't work either so I told her I was done and that she could leave. Cost me $180. What is wrong with me? I'm gay by the way.
Today on goodmorning showi say a dog.they said the dog was so loved. but the wife died and husband is now in nursing home. Broke my heart. i have couple dogs. did a small will . but i put best friends as caretaker and read some shit about them. if i leave money tocare for my dogs, does anyone have idea who or what is best agency? they are my life and very dependent on me. if i go they will probably die
I was just checking out goodreads and it's all women on there, bleating about books, Apparently the world of publishing is very female dominated too.
Was it just an eerie coincidence that the AIDS epidemic in NYC seemed to coincide perfectly with the onslaught of gentrification? It almost seems on purpose.
House Speaker John Boehner's invitation of Israe1i Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to speak before Congress on Iran is an unprecedented rebuke of President Barack Obama as he and Congress are preparing for a battle over Iran sanctions, experts told TPM. The move came the day after Obama threatened in his State of the Union address to veto legislation putting new sanctions on Iran. He warned that new sanctions by Congress would disrupt the negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program. Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) acknowledged the week before that ending negotiations "is very much an intended consequence" of a new sanctions bill that has been put forward with some Democratic support. Although the US and Israe1 maintain a "special relationship," the discord between the Obama administration and Netanyahu's government has been well documented. Netanyahu welcomed 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney in a visit Israe1 in the midst of the campaign. And anonymous Obama administration officials have been quoted calling the Israe1i prime minster "a chickenshit." But even with that context, experts on American-Israe1i relations expressed shock that Boehner had invited Netanyahu to address Congress on Iran next month. One described it as an effort to "humiliate" and "embarrass" Obama as the two sides dig in over Iran. The invitation from the Ohio Republican positions Congress, rather than the White House, as Israe1's ally. "It's unprecedented. It's hitting below the belt. It's taking partisanship to a whole new level," Guy Ziv, a professor at American University who has studied U.S.-Israeli relations, told TPM. "It is a way for them to embarrass and humiliate the Obama administration." It does track, though, with a broader trend of Israe1 becoming an area of partisan divide in a way that it hasn't always been. "My reaction was that 'Wow, Boehner really wanted to bigfoot President Obama's State of the Union address," Matt Duss, president of the Foundation for Middle East Peace, which advocates for a two-state solution, told TPM. "It's part of a pattern we've seen, taking the Israe1 issue and using it as a partisan wedge." Foreign leaders, including Netanyahu, have addressed joint sessions of Congress before. But the transparently political element of having Netanyahu, who has been a forceful critic at times of the international negotiations with Iran, speak on this specific topic and at this particular time makes the invitation from Boehner distinct from those past examples. "It has a symbolic meaning that is not very positive in the long run," Yoram Peri, who served as senior adviser to former Israe1i Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and is now a professor at the University of Maryland, told TPM, "because we know there is a major difference of opinion between the House and the president." Netanyahu's forays into American politics have a long history; he would sometimes align himself with the Newt Gingrich-led Republican Congress in the 1990s. But the Boehner invite still struck those familiar with the issue as wholly different given its political symbolism. The White House even called it a breach of protocol, according to the Associated Press. "It's moving behind-closed-doors politics into the public arena," Peri said. Or as Ziv put it: "They've taken it to a whole different level." Others, however, argued that while there was certainly a political element to Wednesday's theatrics, it is important to remember that Republicans and the Israe1i government do have substantive policy differences with Obama on the Iranian question -- even if personal acrimony might be adding to these public disputes. "This seems to have become very public and very personal. That kind of nastiness adds an edge to it," Jonathan Rynhold, a politics professor at Bar-Ilan University near Tel Aviv, told TPM. "But it also shouldn't be dismissed as politically maneuvering. There's a very, very serious foreign policy issue at stake. There's a really genuine disagreement." Netanyahu's visit would also come about a month before Israe1i's March 17 elections, and he has received substantial contributions from Americans, as BuzzFeed reported earlier this month. But as TPM's Josh Marshall noted, there is some evidence that his perch as prime minster might be precarious as voters head to the polls. Congress' embrace of Netanyahu therefore allows him to assume the role of international statesman and play to some internal Israe1i skepticism about the Obama administration's stance toward Iran, the Palestinian peace process and other Middle East issues. "The one thing that the opposition can play is, 'Look, you're screwing up relations with the United States.' But if Netanyahu's invited, then that's moot," Rynhold said. "It's a good time, it's a good issue. It works politically because it's founded on what these people actually think." Ziv even suggested that Republicans were rewarding Netanyahu for his tacit support of Romney in 2012. It will undoubtedly play well with a substantial part of the Israe1i electorate. "This will really demonstrate that the other candidates are not as his level," Ziv said. "Who else has close friends in Congress? This shows gravitas."
Boehner's Netanyahu Invite Is An 'Unprecedented' Diss Of Obama
In honor of DL's most-used salutation, please list your favorite MARY! in history.
who would you cast in the main parts?
Has anybody else caught this trashy, guilty-pleasure of a show on TLC? It's about American men and women who bring potential international spouses from abroad, and they have 90 days to figure out whether to tie the knot. Anyhow, caught this appalling pairing: Danielle (overweight, unattractive 41 y/o woman from Ohio) who brings over Mohamed, this hot young 26 y/o Tunisian stud. The pair is so physically mismatched, it's painful to watch. It's obvious to everyone else except Danielle that he is only using her for a green card. He looks like he's enjoyed the mansex in the past, as well..
.... what the hell ever happened to that Madeline McCann and Kyron Horman ??? It's always creepy to me when people just 'vanish'.
Do you watch it the show for hot dudes? Do you ever yell at the teevee: "Hey, brainiacs! How come I knew the answer and YOU didn't!"
Still so many questions- Viola-to wig or not to wig? Is Jack Falahee family? Has Oliver hit the gym between episodes?
How old are you and where do you live. Im 33 and live in Chicago and get the impression Im amongst the youngest group on here.
1.) Her first win was one of the best Oscar wins in the last fifty years. 2.) She's adored by the public. 3.) She's a bombshell, pin up in the range of Betty Hutton. 4.) It would be a much needed surprise and boost to the awards show. 5.) It would make up for snubbing her for nominations for Election and Legally Blonde 6.) She's considered Hollywood royalty. 7.) She's fascinating.
Mine is the Dyatlov Pass incident.
The host pings to high heaven despite supposedly being married to his designer, a female. My bf watched it with me last night and asked me who that snippy bottom bitch was supposed to be. Any one else think he's either closeted or just outright lying and he's not really married at all?
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Cut a hole in your mattress, fuck it, then cum on the floor (NSFW)
I'm always turned on I feel like I'm always besides myself or I'll jump right out of my skin
Mine is "Jupiter and Io" by Correggio. The wispy face of Jupiter by Io's mouth is just amazing. I have never seen this painting in person but came so close twice. When it came to NYC, I was too poor a student to pay the admission price to the museum (I didn't know there were free nights). When I was visiting Vienna, I went to the art museum. As the museum was closing, I stopped in the gift shop. After a while, I noticed a postcard with this painting on it. I couldn't believe it was there! Unfortunately, I couldn't go back up into the galleries to see it. I'll never forgive myself.
First in a biographical series retrospective of my life 1959 Miami Beach April I was working as a cocktail singer at the lounge at the Fountianbleau Hotel in Miami Beach, I finished my last show at 11pm , little did i know that Cesar Romero had seen my show, he came back to my dressing room and invited me to take a midnight drive . I quickly freshened up and slipped into a black christian dior dress with red sling backs. Caesar drove his emerald green Cadillac Elder ado convertible and picked me up at the hotels entrance, I felt like a princess !!!! We drove out to a swampy area and he stopped the car. He had brought along some rum and coke a cola and we drank our cocktails while leaning on the hood of the Cadillac watching the full moon shadowed by the palm and cypress trees. He suddenly pulled me close to him and could see the intensity in his eyes. I could smell his bay rum cologne and felt the "excitement" building in his loins. I knew my moment of ecstasy was at hand. I was strangely attracted yet hesitant about his advances so I broke our embrace and stepped back. I accidentally stepped into the swamp , a flamingo flew out of the brush and scared me, my sling back shoes got stuck in the mud. Caesar picked me up in his arms and placed me on the still warm hood of the Cadillac, the full moon shined behind him and I could not resist his advances, he slowly removed my dress luckily in those days I was slim and trim and I did not have to wear constricting foundation garments so dress removal was easy, he was gentle yet forceful. I do not remember much after that, however I did hit my head on the hood ornament at some point. It seemed like hours but in reality our ecstasy lasted only 10 minutes, Cesar had a "control" isssue he drove me back to the Fountianbleau , we did not talk . Contraception in those days was not very effective, a month later I found myself on a plane incognito flying to Cuba to go to a clinic in Havana for an "operation" The next time I saw Caesar was when he was on Batman. I will never regret our night of romantic ecstasy!!!
My Affair with Ceaser Romero in 1959
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Mine was 1988. I was 15 and over the summer had lost over 50 pounds so started the new school year slimmer and feeling much better about myself. I got my first part time job, started seeing the gay world around me and actually made a couple of friends. TV and movies were fun and so was the music. I buckled down and started working harder at school to pull my grades up. I learned to ignore my father's abuse which was liberating.
He'll be in bed with a woman by the end of the season. They're already setting it up.
Theatergoers even walked out!
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After watching Animal Planet this seems to be the norm.
Creepy
Aaron Hernandez trial begins...next to Lizzie Borden's house!
based upon my olfactory experiences at the gym among-est the diverse crowd there, this does seem to be true in some circumstances
We all know this is true. Yes, there's misogynistic gay men, but still, the majority of gays can relate to women more so than to men for some reason. Is it because we grow up gay, and can't really fit in with a society full of straight males, so they look towards the other gender? Is there truth to gay men's brains are more in line with women's? I'm just really curious. It's not bad to somehow have a woman as a role model, but with gay men, it seems overwhelmingly so, more than they can relate to straight men, or men period. Just a sociological question.
CABARET will be released on home video and blu ray February 5th. Join Liza and cast members as they remember the iconic Bob Fosse film.
LIZA MINNELLI,JOEL GREY,MICHAEL YORK and MARISA BERENSON on NBC TODAY SHOW Wed, Jan 30th
Are you bitches jealous?
Which do you prefer?
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Hell has a new guest. As overheard at the funeral I went to this morning. The priest said the bit about the new angel and an old guy in front of me leaned over to his wife and said the bit about hell. I nearly pissed myself laughing.
Well, that was a great opening! Glad to have Ollie, Felicity, Roy, and Diggle back!
Anyone? Do you find yourself strangely attracted to certain parts of the female body, and have thought about trying sex just once with a woman? I've known a few gay guys like this. One actually did it. Enjoyed it, but was still gay, and didn't want to do it again. He did remark that fucking pussy was great in and of itself, because it gripped his cock and was self-lubricating. The girl was a friend of his. She told him that she came four times - something she never received from a straight guy. In the end, he still liked ass better, but sort of understood straight men better when it came to hetero sex. So, is anyone curious to try it, or have you tried it already? I'm referring to those who already came out as gay, and never tried heterosexuality before coming out. This isn't about people who experimented with both sexes until they figured out their orientation. You're gay, and thought about having sex with a woman for the first time afterward.
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40, never married...
even after a good bath it still stinks.
In an update Monday on Clinton's condition, her doctors say the blood clot did not result in a stroke, or neurological damage. The clot is located in the vein in the space between the brain and the skull behind the right ear. You got that, Marco Rubio? She's still gonna kick your fat ass.
Hillary Clinton Progressing After Blood Clot In Head, Expected To Fully Recover: Doctor
Ginger "presents" on the sales floor.
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What was Thomas injecting himself for? Did they explain? I think I may have got distracted.
This was the first reply in the WTC thread on DataLounge on 9/11/01. The thread used to be archived; I don''t know where it is now.
Any encounters with him by men?
The Waschowski siblings have made 2 great movies- Matrix and Bound. Everything since has been shit. Could this movie possibly NOT suck? I love the look, but I fear another $175M disaster.
by: Mrs Patrick Campbell (Hollywood veteran) "Miss Keanu, along with Tammy Cruise, are two of David Geffen's 'corn-hole' sucess stories, that is, Geffen corn-holed both of them and then made them stars!" I believe you Mrs. Patrick Campbell...about Keanu and Tammy and David. But from what Van Sant said, HE had a longterm secretive affair with Keanu so, do you think David was jealous?
It's like they picked up deaf guy and brought him to the video shoot and told him "just do what everyone else is doing." Sometimes I watch the video with the sound off, just to appreciate it.
Up today on Vanity Fair is an excerpt from Molly Bloom’s book, Molly’s Game: From Hollywood’s Elite to Wall Street’s Billionaire Boys Club, My High-Stakes Adventure in the World of Underground Poker. It documents her time running a high-stakes poker game for celebrities and wealthy people in the Viper Room, and if the rest of the book is half as interesting as the excerpt, it’s bound to be a fascinating insight into particular celebrities who like to gamble for huge sums of money. She only uses first names, but some of the celebrities named are obvious: Ben Affleck, Leo DiCaprio, and Tobey Maguire. From the four-page excerpt provided Affleck and DiCaprio seem as you’d expect them to seem: Likable and friendly. Tobey Maguire, on the other hand, not so much. He seems to be akin to the villain of the novel: A controlling dick who won the most money and left the smallest tips. While it was Molly’s weekly game, Tobey clearly had a lot of control over it. At one point, he brought his $17,000 card-shuffling machine and insisted it be used, but then insisted on charging Molly a $200 rental fee each time it was. He always left the smallest tips, and when he lost, he blew his cool. One particular scene in the excerpt stands out. It was a very, very high stakes poker game that included Affleck, where the buy-in was $50,000 and the amount of money on the table at one point was $2 million. Maguire, however, was not having a good night, but after knocking out one of the players, Jamie, he decided to assert his power over Molly, who I should mention was a 26-year-old cocktail waitress before she began putting these games together. “You have to cut Jamie off, you know.” “I know,” I said, counting Tobey’s chips. He held a thousand-dollar chip in his hand. He flipped it over a couple times in his fingers. “This is yours,” he said, holding it out. “Thanks, Tobey,” I said, reaching my hand out. He yanked the chip back at the last second. “If … ” he said. “If you do something to earn these thousand dollars.” His voice was loud enough that some of the guys looked up to see what was happening. I laughed, trying not to show my nerves. “What do I want you to do?” he said, as if he were pondering. The whole table was watching us now. “I know!” he said. “Get up on that desk and bark like a seal.” I looked at him. His face was lit up like it was Christmas Eve. “Bark like a seal who wants a fish,” he said. I laughed again, stalling, hoping he would play the joke out by himself and leave. “I’m not kidding. What’s wrong? You’re too rich now? You won’t bark for a thousand dollars? Wowwww … you must be really rich.” My face was burning. The room was silent. “C’mon,” he said, holding the chip above my head. “BARK.” “No,” I said quietly. “No?” he asked. “Tobey,” I said, “I’m not going to bark like a seal. Keep your chip.” My face was on fire. I knew he would be angry, especially because he had now engaged the whole audience, and I wasn’t playing his game. I was embarrassed, but I was also angry. After all I had done to accommodate this guy, I was also shocked. I had made sure I ran every detail of every game by him, changed the stakes for him, structured tournaments around him, memorized every ingredient in every vegan dish in town for him. He had won millions and millions of dollars at my table, and I had catered to his every need along the way—and now he seemed to want to humiliate me. He kept pushing it, his voice growing louder and louder. The other guys were starting to look uncomfortable. “No,” I said, again, willing him to drop it. He gave me an icy look, dropped the chip on the table, and tried to laugh it off, but he was visibly angry. Wow. What a f**king dick. That sounds exactly like a scene out of a mafia movie, and to anyone that’s ever seen some of Maguire’s more intense roles (Brothers, for instance), you can absolutely picture Maguire’s face. F**king asshole.
No one could play the beautiful retard better than she did in both THE TIME MACHINE and THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA. Unfortunately, such roles are few and far between.
...Because the original was prematurely closed. Hopefully, our beloved webmistress will deign to restore that delightful little thread that achieved 89 wonderful posts during its brief existence. Alas, just like my son, its beautiful essence was snuffed out by an inconsiderate MARY! Well, carry on, my dears.
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I was listening to one of Howard Stern's interviews with her the other day, and it sounded like she really did not care for that husband of hers at all. She cheated on him several times, and even left him for another man once. What was the story there? I've heard that Edgar was a closet case. I never cared much for Joan, but her life seems so interesting. I get the overwhelming impression that she is incredibly bitter and angry, though.
This guy is sizzling hot.
Joe Manganiello Puts On One Heck Of A Gun Show.
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For those of us who have never been down on the clam, what does a vagina taste like? I understand that Dataloungers are very sensitive and adverse to frank discussions of sexuality, but please be as explicit and graphic as possible.
Damn, he has a fantastic body.
R54 of the Phyllis McGuire thread got me wondering about all the famous women pre-Roe vs Wade who remained childless, despite multiple marriages and expressed desire for children. Were most of them really messed up from bad/multiple abortions? Some, like Jane Russell, ended up adopting children. What other Old Hollywood/Broadway/DC insider women were rumored to have visited illegal chop shops that destroyed their reproductive systems? Well-known heiresses count, too. Spill, DL!
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CBS's new gay-themed sitcom is receiving horrible reviews from critics. Let's have a Datalounge Viewing Party! Tonight on CBS at 9:30 eastern.
What's to update so much?
He used to be so handsome. Now, well? Not so much.
To this day I love this show. I watched it all the way through to the end. One of my favorite story lines was the Kelly becomes a cokehead one. I also really loved Brandon''s ex who tried to blow up a float. Any other 90210 fans on DL? What are your favorite episodes or characters?
Sarah Palin speech inadvertently raises $50,000 for Hillary Clinton The speech, which was also criticised by Republican partisans, prompted a defensive fundraising drive for Clinton that has already brought in thousands Jon Swaine in New York, Thursday 29 January 2015 17.28 EST Sarah Palin’s eccentric speech to a Republican conference in Iowa last weekend, which has been criticised even by some of her conservative supporters, has now helped a group backing Hillary Clinton to raise $50,000, a spokesman said on Thursday. Ready For Hillary, the political action committee (PAC) collecting money and support in anticipation of a second presidential campaign by Clinton, used Palin’s speech to the Freedom Summit to fuel a fundraising drive after she mocked the former secretary of state. Waving a “Ready For Hillary” car magnet as she stood behind the podium at a theatre in Des Moines, Palin said: “Hey Iowa, can anyone stop Hillary? To borrow a phrase, ‘Yes we can!’ And it starts here and it starts now.” Palin, the 2008 Republican vice-presidential nominee and former Alaska governor, also appeared to make a jibe about Clinton’s age. “Is Hillary a New Democrat,” she said, referring to the party’s 1990s centrist faction, “or an old one?” Clinton is 67. Ready For Hillary promptly drew attention to the speech in an email to supporters. “Palin was trying to say that Republicans will be ready to launch relentless attacks on Hillary from the moment she announces her decision,” it said. The group asked for donations of $20.16 to help counter the Republican effort, offering a car magnet in return. The group told supporters on Tuesday that Palin’s speech had brought in more than $25,000 in contributions. “The response we got was overwhelming – hundreds of supporters stepped up,” a spokesman said in an email, joking that the total meant Palin qualified as a co-chair of the group’s national finance council. However Seth Bringman, a spokesman for Ready For Hillary, said in an email to the Guardian on Thursday that the total haul of contributions directly prompted by the email about Palin’s speech now actually stands at “over $50,000”. Ready For Hillary has raised about $12.2m since its formation, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Palin’s speech, in which she described President Barack Obama as an “overgrown little boy who is acting kinda spoiled”, received poor reviews from several conservative commentators, while Republican operatives cast doubt on her latest claim to be considering a presidential campaign of her own. Former colleagues on Fox News, where Palin once worked as a political analyst, appeared to join the ranks of those puzzled by her remarks. Sean Hannity, typically a loyal supporter, noted to Palin that “a lot of people” had been critical. “Did the teleprompter go down, did you have trouble with the copy, was there any moment in the speech where you had any difficulty?” Hannity asked. Palin was also engaged in an unlikely dispute with Bill O’Reilly, the conservative broadcaster and author who is frequently the channel’s top-rated anchor. After O’Reilly appeared to mock her as a mere reality television personality, Palin returned to Hannity’s show to complain. “The left doesn’t do that, OK?” she said. “They take this serious, because this is war.” O’Reilly defended his remarks during his show on Wednesday. He said that Palin and Donald Trump, the television host and property tycoon who has also claimed to be considering a presidential campaign, were “very high-profile folks, and both have starred in reality TV shows.” O’Reilly added: “It was perfectly in context and harmless.”
Sarah Palin speech inadvertently raises $50,000 for Hillary Clinton
They're like half the size of his head
Since David's trying to revive his career, such as it was, eventually the [italic]How I Met Your Mother[/italic] money well is going to run dry. Before that time comes, they'll have to think of another star vehicle for the two of them to pay for their kids' education.
The star of "The Marriage of Bigaro" seems to be reinflating to previous proportions. [quote]The ENQUIRER previously revealed that the former co-host of the daytime talk show had secret gastric bypass surgery in 2003. Star shrunk from 307 pounds to a slender 140 pounds, while lying to loyal “View”-ers that she was shedding the weight through diet and exercise. Now experts believe Star’s weight has broken the dreaded 200-pound barrier in just the past year. “She looks as if she weighs about 220 pounds,” said Dr. Sue Decotiis, who has not treated Star. “Surgery is only effective if the patient adheres to the lifestyle changes.”
Enquirer: Star Jones' Gastric Bypass NIGHTMARE!
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after Knight fled from a fight.
Evil fat fuck Suge "Huge" Knight kills man in Compton in hit-and-run
May the games begin again.
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Congratulations to the happy couple!
Dish.
The Vampire Diaries is one of the most homoerotic shows on basic television, but the supernatural series has never had an out gay character—until now. E! Online is reporting that when the show returns in 2014, the show’s cast include Luke, a gay teen of the handsome and sarcastic variety. Oh great, another sassy gay character! A new hottie is enrolling at Whitmore after winter break! And he’ll be spending time with Caroline! Except he’s so not into her in that way as Luke, handsome and sarcastic, is gay. And also happens to have a sister on campus, one that he will do [or sacrifice] anything to protect. If Luke has to be the bitchy gay sidekick, we pray producers give him at least the hint of a sex life. I mean its bad enough we have to drool over Paul Wesley and Ian Somerhalder without any hope of a love connection.
Any 4Channers here?
The commercial at the link. Definitely. I loved going to the supermarket with my mom and dad on Friday nights. We'd always eat at McDonald's first. Dad would give me a dollar. I could buy a can of soda pop (35 cents), 3 comic books (15 cents each)and a big candy bar (20 cents). Then I would hurry my mother along so that I wouldn't miss "Donny and Marie" on ABC at 8pm. It was such an innocent time for me.
Things you remember from your childhood that still make you smile
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Where is she? What happened?
The search function is not working for me, so this may have already been posted--if so, my apologies, and please just link this thread to the first thread. But this student's flip-out says so much about student entitlement these days.
They've been letting her bark all night next door and she would pace outside by my bedroom window. I tried earphones and earplugs but it was a shrieking kind of sound, with howling. She was young, part retriever. I guess they were trying to get her to grow up. They're horrible people and I couldn't talk to them. No one else would do anything. People here aren't like that. Eventually someone just would have given her antifreeze of something. So I started tossing raw meatballs over the fence with a tiny amount of my Xanax and Diazepam in them, one each night around 10. It worked fine. But I guess there was a build up of something because Tuesday morning I heard screaming and they had found the dog dead with froth all over its face. The woman came to my door and asked if I had seen anything and then as much as asked if I did something. I said no of course not, I loved Shelly. (I would give her treats and even walked her when she was a puppy a few times before the people got weird) Now she's going all over accusing people. She says they're getting two pit bulls and if anything happens she's going to start civil war. Now I don't know what to do. Should I just go and tell her the truth? It was an accident. I could say I was trying to soothe the dog and it was a terrible mistake. If she gets pit bull they'll be barking all the time and I'll have to move, and I can't afford more rent. I'm afraid they'll hurt my cats, which Shelly never did. I have an understanding with my landlord and I'm worried. Can I be arrested if I confess? All I wanted was some sleep. I know how this sounds, but any ideas will be helpful. Has this ever happened to you?
The vital records people say I can't put it off any longer. It's just been so hard. Please help. P.S. We're Ainu but I'm not sure what side of the family she takes after.
I guess the question is: Why wasn't George asked back? He certainly wasn't the weak link on the show. If anyone is expendable, it would be Kelly Osbourne. George's clothing line debuts on QVC in February.
George Kotsiopoulos wasn’t asked back to Fashion Police after Joan Rivers’ death
Well?
Am I the only one who gets flashbacks to the "Men on Films" sketch from "In Living Color" whenever this is on?
He was hot stuff in "The Birds."
This is terrifying.
...to pound my boygina mercylessly. Is that wrong?
Is it alien abduction? Appalling. Do you know of anyone who just... disappeared?
Both Julianne Moore and Reese Witherspoon have had straight-to-DVD movies in the last few years, and both of them are having career renaissances this winter withe the multiple nominations they've received for STILL ALICE and WILD (respectively). Moore is widely expected to win Best Actress at the Oscars, but even so Witherspoon is considered her most serious competition. Witherspoon's career resurgence comes after a time when many in the industry felt she played too many rom-com roles after her expiration date, and most markedly after she had a widely-publicized drunk driving arrest 2013 drunk driving arrest in Atlanta, where she was caught on tape asking the arresting officer if he knew who she was. Though she quickly did major damage control on talk shows later during the week, the image of Witherspoon as an arrogant unlikeable diva caught hold. "Wild" (which Witherspoon arranged herself to be brought to the screen) has been her first genuine hit in years, and also effectively rehabilitates her public image because its a clear redemption story of a young woman with a history of substance abuse rehabilitating herself with difficult physical effort. As expected, Witherspoon was nominated for a best Actress Academy Award... but is expected to lose to the older Moore, who unlike Witherspoon does not have an Academy Award. Moore is over 50, and many in the industry (where Moore is well liked and much admired) feel she is well past her due. Despite her recent Emmy turn as Sarah Palin in GAME TURN, Moore's ability to headline prestige studio films has suffered in the last ten years as she's aged. A win for Moore would not reverse this process, but would likely improve the kinds of roles she's been offered in recent years. The popularity of WILD plus the great press she's garnered for her role as Cheryl Strayed should also improve the kinds of roles Witherspoon's been offered in recent years (as well as her public image), but oddly her career might continue to do better if she does not beat Moore. Two Best Actress wins can breed resentment among other actors if the winner is not perceived talented enough to warrant it, as Hilary Swank's career after winning her 2nd Oscar for MILLION DOLLAR BABY (and her lack of a nomination this years for THE HOMESMAN) has demonstrated. A win by Witherspoon might likely be perceived as robbing Moore of her just due after years of great performances (with many nominations but no wins).
Many Americans reject evolution, deny climate change and find GM food unsafe, survey finds Study points to worrying gulf between the opinions held by scientists and the general public in the US on key issues Ian Sample, science editor; Thursday 29 January 2015 14.00 EST A major survey of US opinions has revealed that huge numbers of people reject Darwinian evolution, consider GM foods unsafe to eat, and doubt that human activity is warming the planet. The report by the Pew Research Center in Washington DC was conducted with the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and sought to compare the opinions of a cross-section of the US public with those held by the AAAS’s scientific members. Published in the journal Science, the survey found that 31% of the US public believed that humans had existed in their present form since the beginning, with a further 24% stating that humans had evolved under the guiding hand of a supreme being. In contrast, only 2% of AAAS scientists said humans had not evolved in their time on Earth. The proportion of the public who believed evolution had happened through natural processes, as described by Charles Darwin more than 150 years ago, was only slightly greater than a third at 35%. The survey drew on phone interviews with 2,002 US adults chosen to be representative of the nation, and online questions of 3,748 US-based members of the AAAS. The US has embraced genetically modifed crops, with 69m hectares (170.4m acres) given over to their cultivation, but the survey suggests the technology is still regarded as contentious by a significant portion of US society. A striking 57% of the public surveyed by Pew believed that GM foods were unsafe to eat. The overwhelming view of the scientists, was that the food was safe, with 88% having no concerns about eating GM. Perhaps the most contentious issue the survey touched on was climate change, where only half of the population agreed with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change view that climate change was mostly driven by human activity, such as the burning of fossil fuels. Nearly half said there was either no good evidence for global warming, or that the recent warming of the Earth was due to natural climate variability. Scientists and the broader public disagreed most strongly about the safety of GM foods, though their views differed substantially on global warming too, with 87% of scientists believing that climate change was mostly caused by human activity. Alan Leshner, the chief executive of the AAAS, said the survey revealed a worrying gulf between the opinions held by scientists and the general public. “There is a disconnect between the way in which the public perceives the state of science and science’s position on a variety of issues,” he said. “And that’s a cause of concern.” Cary Funk, lead author of the report, said the number of issues that scientists and the public disagreed on, and the amount to which they disagreed, were both surprising. One of the few issues the two groups did agreed on was that the International Space Station had been a good investment for the country. There were some other areas where scientists and the public shared concerns. Both delivered damning verdicts on US science education, the K-12 primary and secondary school system. Among the general public, 68% considered US science education average or below average, and an overwhelming proportion of scientists, 84%, agreed with them. In some cases, a poor science education was at the heart of the differences in opinion, Leshner said. “Sometimes it’s simply a lack of understanding, sometimes it’s an economic or a politicial issue, and sometimes it’s a conflict between, say, core religious belief, or core values, and what science is showing,” he said. “In all of these cases, science is being trumped by these other factors and scientists need to do something to turn that around.” “It’s not about whether the public is dumb or not. It’s partly a function of the American educational system that does a terrible job ... at educating young people in science, math and technology,” he added. Perhaps reflecting a common scepticism over climate change, the survey found greater support among the public for fracking and offshore drilling than among the scientists. Enthusiasm for building more nuclear power plants was far higher among the scientists than the public, with 65% versus 45% in favour. In an accompanying editorial, Leshner issued a call to arms, urging scientists to strike up “respectful dialogues” with groups in community clubs, science museums and religious institutions. “The opinion gap must not be allowed to swell into an unbridgeable chasm,” he warned. “We need to have what scence is showing be represented accurately and for people to at least have that in their toolbox when they make their own decisions,” Leshner said. “It works against the benefit of humankind for people to have distorted views of what the actual facts are.”
Many Americans reject evolution, deny climate change and find GM food unsafe, survey finds
Republican congressman: ‘Homosexual rights are not human rights’ 29th January 2015, 6:29 PM, Scott Roberts A Republican congressman has been condemned for saying that he does “not construe homosexual rights as human rights.” Chris Smith, who represents New Jersey’s 4th district in the US House of Representatives, made the comments during Tuesday’s sitting of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa, a day when 12 men were reportedly arrested for attending an alleged same-sex wedding in Nigeria. The Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Caucus of the New Jersey Democratic State Committee blasted the comments, calling them “close-minded and “appalling”. “It’s simple: LGBT rights are human rights. It’s shocking that Smith — or anyone in his position — would make such close-minded comments to the contrary,” said Chris Hillmann, LGBT Caucus Co-Chair. “For a person in his position to dehumanise such a large segment of our society and to suggest that members of the LGBT community are creating hurdles for US diplomats is appalling on so many levels. Representative Smith should apologise for trying to pit some people’s human rights against those of others.” The caucus said Mr Smith’s position is particularly offensive given that he serves as Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs’ Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organisations —a “position from which human rights should be defended, not attacked.” Ty Cobb, Director of the Human Rights Campaign, said: “On a day when 12 men were reportedly arrested for simply attending an alleged LGBT wedding in Nigeria … it is unconscionable that Representative Smith would not only object to the basic human rights of LGBT people, but argue that their rights should not be part of the administration’s policy in Nigeria.”
Republican congressman: ‘Homosexual rights are not human rights’
Is anyone following this story? Lots of local speculation. ATF immediately called in. One body still missing, 5 discovered. Creepy story.
Mystery: Annapolis, Md: 16,000 square foot mansion burned to the ground. 6 Missing
It seems to me Madonna isn;t very good at keeping her friends. She''s seriously quarrelled with many of the people closest to her to the point of not speaking to them again--Sandra Bernhard, Caresse, Gwyneth, J-Lo, her brother Christopher.\ \ Has she kept any close friends throughout her life whom she hasn''t seriously quarrelled with?
Chris Kyle also bragged that he shot 30 looters during Katrina.
Bradley Cooper and Clint Eastwood are whores for romanticizing this piece of shit.
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