What the fuck is wrong with him? Is he going to kill my mother? I’ve never seen something like this before. At first I thought it was maybe just lint from his underwear, but no. We were sitting a few steps apart and he was free balling and I had to get up and leave.

In the makeup-free video she says: 'For those lucky enough to be able to stay at home please, please do. Everyone of us plays a roll in slowing the spread. Social distancing saves lives.

Coronavirus coincidence? I think not.

Billie Porter

Awkwafina

Jamila Jamil

Rebel Wilson

Who else?

The information age has not ushered in an era of a more educated public, according to Tom Nichols. It has "created an army of ill-informed and angry citizens who denounce intellectual achievement and distrust experts." He joins The Agenda to discuss his book, "The Death of Expertise."

This interview does a great job of explaining why so many people think it’s acceptable to pick and choose what is true. Their king is Trump, and unfortunately this attitude is going to be responsible for a lot of deaths during the Coronavirus pandemic.

More discussion of how awful it is to get your basics at the store because hoarding bitches take it all.

More face tattoos.

When/how will it end?

Lawns are an American obsession. Since the mass proliferation of suburbs in the 1950s and '60s, these pristine carpets of green turf have been meticulously maintained by suburbanites, with grass length and other aesthetic considerations enforced with bylaws and by homeowner associations.

But for nature, lawns offer little. Their maintenance produces more greenhouse gases than they absorb, and they are biodiversity deserts that have contributed to vanishing insect populations. Residential lawns cover 2% of US land and require more irrigation than any agricultural crop grown in the country. Across California, more than half of household water is used outside of the house.

If attitudes toward lawn care are shifted, however, these grassy green patches represent a gigantic opportunity. In 2005, a NASA satellite study found that American residential lawns take up 49,000 square miles (128,000 square km) -- nearly equal in size to the entire country of Greece.

According to environmental scientists, transforming lawns into miniature modular bio-reserves could not only boost biodiversity, but could cut water and petrol consumption and reduce the use of dangerous lawn chemicals.

Yet the question for many homeowners remains: how?

Always the attention whore

[QUOTE]This true tale has everything: a gay polygamist zoo owner; an animal rescuer accused of feeding her husband to a tiger; another zoo owner who has a cult-like hold over female employees; a murder-for-hire plot and a federal investigation tying it all together.

in boxed-off areas less than 6 feet apart.

What do YOU think of this?

full article @ R1

Dear Audra, you can put the pants with the forgiving elastic waist band away for now. And Chipotle is CLOSED so don't even think about it. Carry on Theatre bitches!

Oh, my udders! Muriel has absolutely had it with Fromage ever since M was cleaned-out at their last Whist game. It looks she removed the last thread in retaliation, but we must carry-on and Moo!

Attached are, I think, Norma and Moritz, on the last flight out of Heathrow to Newark.

Bertrand is much better and his cowpox was actually just acne. Please Moo to indicate you’ve got no cow-pox, or hoof and mouth disease. Norma and Moritz are going to self-quarantine due to mad-cow fears. Such drama!

On Datalounge are wonderful.

From Dukes to Hellman's to the proper way to cook pasta they have amused me for years.

Feel free to share your own food fight favorites or start a new one.

With this statement I concur: Raisins ruin everything.

Near the gates and within two cities there will be scourges the like of which was never seen: famine within plague, people put out by steel, crying to the great immortal God for relief.

Nostradamus

(title is wordplay on the film The Andromeda Strain, 1971)

They dart away 20 feet ahead of you and take their spawn with them.

I haven't watched all of these series from beginning to end. However...

My pick would be "Dynasty".

The catfights, the dogfights, the cliffhangers...

The most quotable line is, "It's burned! This champagne was obviously frozen in the bottle!"

Pick your favorite Tiger King Methhead Size Meat. Which one would you want?

Inspired by ‘Chickenpox Parties in the ’90s’

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry have left Vancouver Island in Canada for the U.S., a source tells PEOPLE.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex moved from the home they were staying in on Vancouver Island and are now settled in the U.S., the source says. They are in Los Angeles — Meghan’s hometown. They have been living in a secluded compound and haven’t ventured out amid the coronavirus pandemic.

A representative for the couple had no comment.

Although the couple and their 10-month-old son Archie had been living in Canada since announcing they were stepping back from their royal roles in January, sources told PEOPLE that they had been making plans to spend time in L.A.

Meghan, 38, has a big support system in L.A., including her mother Doria Ragland, who works as a social worker and yoga instructor, and several friends who visited the couple on Vancouver Island.

A person in their circle previously told PEOPLE that they were “looking at houses in L.A.”

“Harry is looking straight ahead at his future with his family,” another source said. “They will be spending time in California…He’s not looking back.”

On Wednesday, it was announced that Harry’s father Prince Charles, 71, tested positive for the coronavirus.

Prince Charles has spoken to his sons Prince William and Prince Harry to share the news of his positive coronavirus diagnosis, the palace confirms.

Charles was last with his sons William and Harry in public on March 9 at the annual Commonwealth Service at Westminster Abbey. The event marked Harry and wife Meghan Markle’s last official royal event in the U.K. before they officially step down as senior working royals on March 31.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have shared messages of support amid the coronavirus pandemic.

“These are uncertain times. And now, more than ever, we need each other. We need each other for truth, for support, and to feel less alone during a time that can honestly feel quite scary,” they wrote on Instagram last week. “There are so many around the world who need support right now, who are working tirelessly to respond to this crisis behind the scenes, on the frontline, or at home. Our willingness, as a people, to step up in the face of what we are all experiencing with COVID-19 is awe-inspiring. This moment is as true a testament there is to the human spirit.”

On Monday, they paid tribute to healthcare workers in a post, saying: “Around the world, the response from people in every walk of life, to protect and look out for their communities has been inspiring. None more so than the brave and dedicated healthcare workers on the frontline, risking their own well-being to care for the sick and fight COVID-19. Wherever you are in the world, we are all incredibly grateful.”

Meghan’s first post-royal gig was announced on Thursday. The Duchess of Sussex has provided the narration for the upcoming Disneynature documentary, Elephants, streaming on April 3 on Disney+.

Jerry Falwell Jr. last week partially reopened his Liberty University ― an evangelical Christian school in Lynchburg, Virginia ― despite the spread of the coronavirus.

Now, The New York Times reports that nearly a dozen students have symptoms that could suggest infection ― and Falwell is facing the wrath of both parents and critics.

One parent slammed the decision to reopen as “crazy, irresponsible and seems like a money grab.” Falwell, as the Times notes, fired back with a tweet calling that parent a “dummy.”

Falwell on Twitter said no students on campus are sick with coronavirus, and one off-campus tested positive “from local contacts in the community.” He also said the school was “embracing its responsibility to care for students instead of running away.”

Falwell has been a coronavirus conspiracy theorist, claiming an “overreaction” to the threat is really an attempt to make President Donald Trump look bad.

“Impeachment didn’t work, and the Mueller report didn’t work, and Article 25 didn’t work,” he said earlier this month on Fox News, which has consistently given voice to conspiracy theories. “And so maybe now this is their next attempt to get Trump.”

People on Twitter slammed Falwell for the opening the school and putting his students at risk ― with some suggesting that he face lawsuits or even criminal charges.

Please list whomever comes out as infected--we can update this over the weeks.

Tom Hanks, actor

Rita Wilson, actress

Idris Elba, actor

Prince Albert II of Monaco, sovereign

Daniel Dae Kim, actor

Will I still be alive when it’s delivered on Wednesday?

Zero dollars and cents until my last paycheck hits Tuesday. This is hitting hard. And nothing left in fridge or cupboards. Anyone have $30 Venmo?

DL Fave Aaron Carter has an OnlyFans account where someone took a screenshot.

Anyone know what content he is providing?

Reading the thread about fucking celebrities...I found this info and thought it might be interesting/educational if people taught us something from their job/something you are knowledgeable about.

This was from a casting agent:

"under 5" was/is a category for daytime soap operas only. The term "under 5 "is meaningless outside of daytime soap operas and it is used to describe a principal performer who speaks 5 lines of scripted dialogue or under. Non speaking roles are "background performers" In all prime time shows, network or cable and in all feature films anyone who speaks 1 line is a "principal performer" There are categories of speaking roles on television shows: Co-Star ( usually a smaller role) 1 Day Guest Star ( a more pivotal role, but works only 1 day and, paid according to the actors level of experience although often, it is scale +10 The last category of guest performer is Top of Show,( booked for the duration of the episode shooting and paid at a higher rate, these are the larger guest star roles that appear usually in several scenes. Beyond that there are recurring guest stars and Series Regulars. Theatrical Feature films have a Day Performer contract, minimums set according to the budget. Again, "under 5" is a term that only applies to daytime soaps Non speaking crowd "extras" are not paid a principal rate but a much lower flat fee for the day. Televison shows have different.

FUCK.

THEM.

Some Trump Supporters ‘Delight’ in Intentionally Defying Coronavirus Pandemic Protocols to Stick It to the Libs

Cameron Diaz? "A lucky model who's been given a lot of opportunities I just wish she would have done more with. She's beautiful and has a great presence, though, and in My Best Friend's Wedding, I thought, 'When directed, she can be good.'"

Gwyneth Paltrow? "Tell me what she's been in? I swear to God, I don't remember anything she was in. Some people get hot by association. I heard more about her and Brad Pitt than I ever heard about her work."

Claire Danes? "A good actress. Her emotional and inner life are available to her, which is a good start. But I feel like I see a lot of the same thing with every character she does. She's not that way in U-Turn, though."

Winona Ryder? "I was never a big fan of hers. In Hollywood she's revered, she gets nominated for Oscars, but I've never heard anyone in the public or among my friends say, 'Oh, I love her.' She's cute and talented, though, and I'd like her just for looking like my older sister, Leslie."

Madonna? "Do I think she's a great performer? Yeah. Do I think she's a great actress? No. Acting is what I do, so I'm harder on people when they say, 'Oh, I can do that--I can act.' I'm like, 'Hey, don't spit on my craft.'"

That is scary, That is higher than the highest levels of the Depression of the 1930's.

No medical emergency. No huge family tragedy. But, he wants to give his sons the best Christmas ever. Over $2000 has been raised and the amount will go up before Christmas gets here.

What I would like to know is, just how much does a "best Christmas ever" for two little kids cost? I don't think my parents ever spent $1000 on us at Christmas let alone 2 grand.

We're taking social distancing seriously and haven't gone anywhere in two weeks, save a couple of hikes (we live in New England). I've switched over to grocery delivery. It's very surreal. My partner and I are not used to working from home. How about you? When's the last time you ventured into society?

How did it start? How did it go?

One of you bitches must have it.

yassssss 😍💪🏾

Donald Trump appeared to back down late Saturday on the idea of imposing an enforceable quarantine on coronavirus hot spots like New York, deeming the measure “not necessary” just hours after he sparked criticism for floating it as an option.

“On the recommendation of the White House CoronaVirus Task Force, and upon consultation with the Governor’s of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, I have asked the @CDCgov to issue a strong Travel Advisory, to be administered by the Governors, in consultation with the Federal Government,” Trump tweeted on Saturday evening.

“A quarantine will not be necessary. Full details will be released by CDC tonight. Thank you!”

The CDC later released a travel advisory urging New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut residents to avoid “non-essential domestic travel” for 14 days.

The announcement came shortly after New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo warned against the proposed quarantine of “hot spots,” saying it would be nothing short of a “federal declaration of war” that would pit state authorities against the federal government.

“It wouldn’t just be New York, New Jersey, Connecticut. Next week it would be Louisiana with New Orleans, and the week after that it would be Detroit, Michigan, and it would run all across the nation. I don’t think the president is looking to start a lot of wars with a lot of states just about now for a lot of reasons,” Cuomo said in an interview with CNN.

In addition to such a quarantine likely being illegal, Cuomo said, it would cause “chaos” and “mayhem” and only make matters worse during the coronavirus pandemic.

The governor said he had not spoken with Trump after the president announced the possibility of a short-term enforced quarantine on “hotspots” of the novel coronavirus, including New York state, New Jersey, and some parts of Connecticut.

Immediately after Trump voiced the proposal, Cuomo appeared frustrated with the idea of an enforced quarantine (“I don’t know what that means”) and said the president had not discussed the matter with him when they spoke on Saturday morning.

“I don’t know how that could be legally enforceable and, from a medical point of view, I don’t know what you would be accomplishing,” Cuomo added. “I don’t even like the sound of it, not even understanding what it is.”

Trump told reporters on the White House lawn on Saturday that he had spoken to Florida’s Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, who had complained about New Yorkers traveling south—and bringing coronavirus with them.

“A lot of the states that are infected but don’t have a big problem, they’ve asked me if I’ll look at it so we’re going to look at it,” Trump said.

“We’re thinking about certain things. Some people would like to see New York quarantined because it’s a hotspot. We might not have to do it, but there’s a possibility that sometime today we’ll do a quarantine, short-term, two weeks on New York. Probably New Jersey, certain parts of Connecticut. I’d rather not do it, but maybe we need it.”

The president doubled down on his suggestion in a tweet on Saturday afternoon and in remarks at a Virginia naval base, where he was seeing off the naval hospital ship, Comfort, that is heading to New York.

“This does not apply to people such as truckers from outside the New York area who are making deliveries or are simply transiting through,” Trump said. “It won’t affect trade in any way.” He added that “a decision will be made, one way or another, shortly.”

The question of whether the federal government has the power to impose restrictions on states has been a source of speculation since the virus has spread throughout the country.

Federal laws give the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) the authority to prevent the spread of communicable diseases between states by limiting the movement of people who are “reasonably believed to be infected with a quarantinable communicable disease.” However there is no law that grants the president authority to prevent an entire nation’s movements, NBC News reported. Any attempt to do so would likely be challenged in court.

!!!!!

The British reporter was being rather cunty so I believe Karen was justified in acting totally annoyed.

Richard looks rather handsome here.

What shall we rename West 52nd Street in honor of her presence?

Thoughts?

I am speechless 😳😷

You alright?

Who are these idiots out in public for nonessential reasons wearing a panty liner with two strings over their face? Are they that fucking stupid that they think it's protecting them? And if they feel sick, stay home and quarantine yourself! Worse are the thoughtless jerks with an N95 mask. They should be walking that mask to a hospital emergency room where they desperately need them!

Kellogg's Frosted Mini Wheats - Blueberry. No milk, dry, with my fingers, pop-corn style.

Chilling naked on the couch with a cup of coffee. There is a box of Kleenex and a container of antibacterial wipes at my feet. A yoga mat, a cat rest nearby. My laptop is playing a mood mix on Spotify. It is gloomy outside and about to rain. I'm slowly making some food.

The rarely-used law, which does not apply to lesbians, can result in a jail term of up to two years for those found guilty.

(Continue the discussion here).

The entire cast is made up of previous winners!

I haven't watched Survivor in ages, but I'll probably watch this installment.

It's like Jeopardy Ken vs. Brad vs. James. Battle of the Titans.

Premieres Wednesday, February 12 on CBS.

[QUOTE] The Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency use authorization for hydroxychloroquine, a decades old malaria drug championed by President Trump for coronavirus treatment despite scant evidence.

Another paywall, another thread

Keep discussing DL's favorite young couple here

Oh no.

Report in WaPo today shows that China's effort to contain virus are working and country is starting to come back to life. Took about 6 weeks.

Washington researches testing first corona vaccine.

Malaria drug shows success in treating corona.

Got something hopeful to share?

She is elderly and says we will stay 6 feet apart. I don't really feel a need to walk with here and she doesn't need me for the walk. She is very social and walks all the time. I hear her up and down the street. Is a social distanced walk fine or not worth it at this point? I've been saying I'm busy. She keeps saying "How can you get it from 6 feet away???" Is she right?

I need some entertainment. This one time, on Datalounge, an escort wrote about good sex with Liam Neeson, and I thoroughly enjoyed the tale. Anyone got a story?

My mom made salmon cakes from canned salmon and saltines. She would fry them in the skillet and stink up the whole house. They were served with ketchup, canned peas, and sadness.

Does anyone else feel this way? I think back and remember how I was fortunate enough to just barely avoid being drafted and sent to Vietnam (low lottery number, but had a student deferment until '74), AIDS (not really sexually active), major diseases (my sister died at 55; my father when he was my current age), etc. So something or someone or some situation is always trying to take you out, and it's a contest to see how long you can survive.

And now we have another crisis upon us that will take out many people.

"The message was: ‘We want you to know we don’t like you,'" says former New York Liberty Candice Wiggins.

A former WNBA star has attacked the league, claiming most players are lesbians and that she was harassed for being straight and popular with fans.

“Me being heterosexual… and being vocal in my identity as a straight woman was huge,” Candice Wiggins, a former guard for the Minnesota Lynx and New York Liberty, told the Chicago Tribune. “I would say 98% of the women in the WNBA are gay women. It was a conformist type of place. There was a whole different set of rules they could apply.”

Wiggins, who is working on her memoir, claims there was a “very harmful” culture in the WNBA during her eight-year career. She announced her retirement abruptly in March, after receiving a contract extension from the Liberty.

TAMPA, FL - APRIL 08: Candace Parker #3 (L) of the Tennessee Lady Volunteers greets Candice Wiggins #11 of the Stanford Cardinal during player introductions prior to the National Championsip Game of the 2008 NCAA Women's Final Four at St. Pete Times Forum April 8, 2008 in Tampa, Florida. (Photo by Doug Benc/Getty Images) Doug Benc/Getty Images “I wanted to play two more seasons of WNBA, but the experience didn’t lend itself to my mental state,” she explained. “It was a depressing state in the WNBA. It’s not watched. Our value is diminished. It can be quite hard. I didn’t like the culture inside the WNBA, and without revealing too much, it was toxic for me… My spirit was being broken.”

“People were deliberately trying to hurt me all of the time. I had never been called the B-word so many times in my life than I was in my rookie season. I’d never been thrown to the ground so much. The message was: ‘We want you to know we don’t like you.'”

Her frustration is fueled by the lack of respect she feels the WNBA receives. “We’re all fighting for crumbs… Viewership is minimal. Ticket sales are very low. They give away tickets and people don’t come to the game.”

Within the league, Wiggins claims, femininity was looked down upon.

“The way I looked, the way I played—those things contributed to the tension,” she says. “It comes to a point where you get compared so much to the men, you come to mirror the men,’ she said. “So many people think you have to look like a man, play like a man to get respect. I was the opposite. I was proud to a be a woman, and it didn’t fit well in that culture.”

While she says “there were horrible things happening to me every day,” Wiggins claims it ultimately made her stronger. “If I had not had this experience, I wouldn’t be as tough as I am.”

A number of past and current WNBA athletes have come out, but there’s no hard data on the number of lesbians in the league, which has more than 120 players. Her declaration has been rebuked by other players, including Chicago Sky center Imani Boyette, who says Wiggins is reinforcing stereotypes about women in basketball.

How will YOU celebrate this momentous occasion?

In a tweet Sunday, President Trump said that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle must pay for their own security if they move to the United States. The tweet was seemingly in response to a report that the couple had moved with their son Archie from Vancouver Island — where they went after leaving the U.K. and renouncing their royal life — to Los Angeles. “The U.S. will not pay for their security protection,” Trump tweeted. “They must pay.”

Trump seems to have gotten the impression the the royals would ask the U.S. to pay for their security from an article in the Daily Mail. The article, which is largely based on claims attributed to a “royal source,” says the couple will have to “plead” with the president for protection. In essence, Trump’s tweet was a response to rumors that the couple would ask for his help, rather than an actual request.

Later on Sunday, the royal couple replied to those rumors saying, in a statement to Chris Ship, royal correspondent for British television network ITV, that “privately funded security arrangements have been made” and that Meghan and Harry have “no plans” to get assistance from the U.S.

Still, President Trump was not the only famous person to respond to the Daily Mail report. Meghan McCain also responded to the article via Twitter writing, “The American taxpayers should not be footing the bill for this under any circumstances whatsoever, particularly in this time of crisis.”

When living in Canada, which is part of the British Commonwealth, the Canadian government did for some time help foot the bill of the couple’s security, but that has since ended. A statement given to Yahoo News U.K. from the Canadian Office of the Minister of Public Safety read, “As the duke and duchess are currently recognized as Internationally Protected Persons, Canada has an obligation to provide security assistance on an as-needed basis.

“At the request of the Metropolitan Police, the RCMP has been providing assistance to the Met since the arrival of the duke and duchess to Canada intermittently since October 2019. The assistance will cease in the coming weeks, in keeping with their change in status.” The last day of their royal duties will be March 31.

All that said, Trump did receive backlash for even engaging in the conversation about the royals while the coronavirus pandemic wages on across the nation. Actress Mia Farrow replied to his tweet about the royals with this plain and simple message: “People are dying.”

They're still out there.

Incredibly efficient vacuum cleaners for all the dog hair, gardening tools, expensive brands of vodka.

Don't get too excited, DL. But churchgoers in FL have congregated, despite federal warning to keep physical distance:

The River Church in Tampa was packed to the gills with worshipers who clearly were looking for hope. Pastor Rodney Howard-Browne, who presides over the megachurch and has been reportedly defiant over social distancing, has claimed he'll cure coronavirus just the way he did with Zika.

He has vowed he will never close his church...despite every doctor and scientist saying social distancing is the only thing that will prevent the disease from spreading even more.

The Pastor boasted his place was white-glove clean, saying, “We brought in 13 machines that basically kill every virus in the place, and uh, if somebody walks through the door it’s like, it kills everything on them. If they sneeze, it shoots it down at like 100 mph. It'll neutralize it in split seconds. We have the most sterile building in, I don’t know, all of America.”

Howard-Browne said on March 17, "We are not stopping anything. I've got news for you, this church will never close. The only time the church will close is when the Rapture is taking place.”

The Pastor has peddled ridiculous theories in the past, but this takes the cake.

The scariest part...all these people showed up elbow-to-elbow. If they contract the disease, they are the ones most likely to spread it, because they are clearly not practicing or understanding social distancing.

BTW...Pastor Joel Osteen, who presides over the Lakewood Church in Houston, is doing virtual services to protect his congregation.

As for Howard-Browne...well, faith is important, but seriously...risking the health and safety of the people who come to worship...really outrageous and irresponsible.

Which group has had the biggest impact, and best songs, over the last 50 years?

2nd set, in as many days, decided this a great time for leaf blowing. It’s ok to hope these people die, right?

I’m an idiot, I know. It started off as a hook up, nothing more. He’s got an amazing body on him, gorgeous face. Didn’t think he’d even respond on Grindr, though I’m not terrible to look at either. The sex is amazing. And I find myself wanting to sell everything I own, which is substantial, and give it to him. LoL I’m only half kidding, I’m not an idiot. .. except I am, because it’s now been a four month long hook up and I’m starting to get the feels. I argue that I should just enjoy it while I can. I know there will be the tired old queens who haven’t gotten laid in this decade who will tell me I’m a fool.. but it’s so nice to have a young HUNG dude who gives me attention after a boring and dry 7 year marriage

'Cause [bold]I[/bold] do.

So bad you can’t ignore

Robert Culp

He always played characters who were "ladies man", swinging bachelor and pickup artist. How the hell did he get all those types of roles? Don't you have to have an air of sexiness or be very attractive to be believable in those roles. As a straight guy, he seems so......average.

Apologies if there is a thread - I did search.

I’m In the NYC area, working from home, but have felt ill for about 11 days. It started as a mild sore throat, then last week became a raw sensation. I also have a sinus infection, fever, strong cough that tastes like blood and last night, terrible chills. I lay on my heating pad and covered myself with blankets. Dreaded having to get up and take a leak cause I’d start shivering. Today, the chills are are gone but I still have fever and cough.

So scared I will suddenly develop the breathing problems. Do not want to go to the hospital.

And how many of you bake bread?

I am reading the US is having a yeast shortage. I had no idea so many there baked bread.

I have at least 4 kilo of dried pasta in the house but had that before. I eat a lot of pasta. At the moment there is plenty in the local stores.

I'm potentially a source of a little virus currently spreading.

Here's the scoop - some people are saying the Chinese eat me and that's how the virus got off and running.

In fact if you cook, steam, bake or boil me, the virus will be eradicated.

And there is no one in China eating raw bats. Trust me on this one. It's not a thing.

What is more likely is that I roost in large barns and other buildings used to house livestock and thus contaminated chicken or pigs which were then consumed.

The point of infection is most likely from the preparation of the food, rather than through eating the food, which is cooked.

Just thought I'd clear that up.

Squeek squeek.

I never wanted kids, but for some reason i always felt if I had them I'd have to be monogamous for the kids' sake--I always think kids crave stability. But I know that's old-fashioned. I'm curious what the rest of you think.

I think this one from Four Weddings and a Funeral, where John Hannah's character recites Auden's Funeral Blues poem.

The Bros are pushing this story beyond belief.

Is anyone here doing it?

How much work are you getting done? How are you supposed to prove it?

I'm having a hard time filling up my "teleworking" days.

Unfortunately, I have to report in on Monday and tell my boss what I did last week.

Uh oh.

Does watching porn, count?

Jealous, British bitches?

What are YOU getting, except for a lockdown?

MMPH... I couldn't care less about "The Amazing Race--Season 27". Viola Davis... you won, honey. SIT DOWN! I have no interest in identifying a model or discussing the nearly 50 year old movie; "Valley Of The Dolls". Jim Carrey, I'm sorry for your loss, but I couldn't care less... I like, "The Official Philadelphia Gay Bashing Thread", "Empire-Season 2" "Downton Abbey", and some others. I ADORE "Men Showing Affection To Each Other".

But... Jockstraps? Talking about jockstraps? Looking at HOT MEN and even women in jockstraps? NOW, you have my attention!!!

This thread is about jockstraps. Don't bring that other mess in here! It's a definitely Not Safe For Work (NSFW) thread, but I will respect others and not lead off with an image. Let's get to crackin' men!

Continued Discussion

If you've had enough, don't put up with his stuff, don't you do it

If you've had your fill, get the check pay the bill, you can do it

Tell him to just get out

Nothing left to talk about

Pack his raincoat show him out

Just look him in the eye and simply shout

Enough is enough (is enough)

Muriel murieled Part 19, so here's Justin on 3/25/20 for Gorgeous Gay Men, Part 20.

Jason Bateman plays a softball coach accused of murdering a child. I love Jason Bateman but this wasn't one of Stephen King's best.

Hillary Clinton? Who else would it be?

It’s as if Pitch Perfect and My Crazy Ex-Girlfriend had a babby. 🎤🎵🎶

Mandy Moore has put together another hit show with a fantastic top knot cast:

Mary Steenburgen

Peter Gallagher

Lauren Graham

Skylar Austin

Emma Stone

Alex Newell

Nick Baga

Lisa Marie Anderson

Michael Thomas Grant

Kapil Talwalkar

Andrew Leeds

And they all sing and dance! 💃🏻🕺🏼👯‍♂️

Damning ad using Trump’s own words.

Death Penalty for this scum?

NEW ORLEANS -- Throngs of revelers may have brought the coronavirus to New Orleans during Mardi Gras celebrations here.

But the city’s poverty rate, lack of healthcare and affordable housing, and high rates of residents with preexisting medical conditions may be driving its explosive growth and could make it the next U.S. epicenter of the outbreak.

The number of known coronavirus cases in Louisiana jumped to 2,305 on Thursday, an increase of 510 cases from Wednesday, and a total of 83 deaths, according to the Louisiana Department of Health. Nearly half of Louisiana's cases -- 997 -- came from New Orleans.

The city also reported Thursday that a 17-year-old teen died after contracting the virus, bringing the city's coronavirus death tally to 46 -- more than half of the state's total death count.

New Orleans Homeland Security Director Collin Arnold said hospital capacity in the New Orleans region is dwindling and the city will need additional hospital beds within weeks.

“New Orleans is preparing to mobilize in a way we hope we will never see again in our lifetimes,” Arnold said. “This disaster will define us for generations.”

New Orleans saw its first coronavirus case on Mar. 9. Two weeks later, confirmed cases jumped to 567 and nearly doubled the following three days, marking one of the fastest coronavirus growth rates in the country.

Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the face of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, said officials in New Orleans were likely caught off guard by the virus' stealth spread -- until it began burgeoning.

"It putters along and you think you’re OK, then it starts to go up a little and then – bingo! – it goes up in an exponential way," he said in an interview with CNN. "That’s what's happening in New Orleans now."

Infectious disease specialists point to the massive Mardi Gras celebrations, which picked up with weekend parades in February and culminated on Feb. 25, Fat Tuesday, as a likely catalyst for the coronavirus in New Orleans. More than 1 million people crammed into the city for the annual bacchanal, often squeezed shoulder-to-shoulder to watch parades or catch beaded necklaces tossed from balconies in the French Quarter.

“New Orleans is a major gateway for people who are arriving here from other parts of the world," said Richard Oberhelman, chair of the department of global community health and behavioral science at the Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine in New Orleans. "Seeing cases first in New Orleans makes complete sense."

Once here, the virus found a welcoming environment in houses crammed with multiple families, people with preexisting conditions and a dearth of drivers, according to an analysis by the Data Center, a research group in New Orleans.

Many low-income families live in overcrowded homes, raising the likelihood for virus spread, the report said. Around 24% of New Orleans residents live at the poverty level, higher than other coronavirus hotspots such as New York City (17%) and King County, Washington (9%).

Also, 1 in 5 of New Orleans households don't have access to a car, meaning access to drive-thru testing can be limited, and nearly one-fourth don't have access to the internet to follow city directives and access information, the report said.

"The virus is spreading very quickly," said Allison Plyer, the Data Center's chief demographer. "The rates we have are up there with New York City, yet we have vulnerabilities here that are worse."

Lack of affordable housing could also help spread the virus, as some communities will find it challenging to follow the shelter in place directives, said Andreanecia Morris, executive director of HousingNOLA, a non-profit housing advocacy group.

A city with around 1,200 homeless residents, 24,000 people on a waiting list for Section 8 federal housing subsidies, and thousands more without a lease or mortgage could struggle to contain the virus, she said.

Or what are some of your favorite paintings, if you can't choose just one? It seems like there was some interest in continuing this topic.

I'll start:

[italic]Salutat[/italic], Thomas Eakins

Part 3.

Continue the discussion of March Madness here!

There's been a lot of discussion of him lately on the Dylan Geick and "Actors who out themselves with their IG habits" threads, so I thought he might warrant his own thread.

What are some movies that had all the right elements - good cast, good director, interesting plot....but just didn't work?

I nominate this one

Hundreds of thousands of folks are outta work due to the coronavirus pandemic … and even smoking hot girls who get paid for social media posts are feeling the pinch. Abigail Ratchford, who has a legion of 9 million Instagram followers, tells TMZ … her IG sales are grinding to a halt amid the outbreak, which is alarming considering she’s used to making around $500,000 a year from sponsored IG posts endorsing products, paid shoutouts and merchandise.

AR says she still has monthly deals that require her to post and keep some cash flowing in, but she’s gotta get creative to produce content because she can’t call on makeup artists, hair stylists and photographers due to Cali’s “Safer at Home” order. Now, she’s a one-woman band. There is a sliver of hope for the self-proclaimed “Queen of Curves” … Abigail says other IG models are paying her for shoutouts to drive traffic to their pages, and it could continue because it’s harder than ever to bring in new followers.

The outlook is much worse for Ella Rose and her 811,000 IG followers. Ella, who is Julian Edelman’s baby mama, tells us she hasn’t had any new ad inquiries since last week, and she’s used to getting a few daily pitches from companies asking to pay her for tagged posts. Ella says she had 2 shoots scheduled this week, but the photographers both canceled. Now, she’s using a timer to shoot her own content.

Another IG model with over 2 million followers tells TMZ … a lot of her prepaid posts are being put on ice, because some of the products were from China and the companies are worried about backlash and insensitivity surrounding COVID-19. What’s more, she says a lot of her long-term contracts are ending in the next couple weeks, and companies want to wait until April to renegotiate.

Desiree Schlotz, who has 423K IG followers, tells TMZ … things are pretty tough right now, and it’s hard to get content when you’re limited to only shooting inside your house, though it’s forcing her to be more creative and think outside the box. Desiree says she’s had brands back out of working with her because of the sensitive nature of the coronavirus climate, and other people are delaying payments or scrapping plans for paid posts because everyone is losing work.

Gap has started a series of stories on Instagram and playlists on Spotify thanks to my efforts to recover and archive all of the Gap In-Store Playlists from 1992 to 2006.

In these stressful times, it's nice to listen to some great music that reminds us of treasured moments from the past.

This is very exciting! I hope people enjoy the music.

Also, if you worked at Gap and saved the paper playlists that came with each month's CD/tape, please contact me on Instagram or my Gap In-Store Playlists blog and share them with me and the world.

#GapPlaylists

What are the magic ingredients they put into store-bought bread that keep it fake-fresh for a week or more? Are they something normal people can buy in non-industrial quantities without a license? God forbid, from somewhere like Amazon?

I have a bread machine I've been using to avoid having to go out & buy bread. It's absolutely delicious when fresh... but goes stale literally overnight. I have no objection to preservatives & would love to use them myself, but have no idea what chemical(s) I actually need or where to buy them.

Usually, I'm not one of those gays who tend to watch straight porn but this guy is hot! Why haven't I heard about him before?

Apparently, he did two videos for Corbin Fisher way back (solo, straight) and hasn't done anything with guys at all. What a pity! Well, then I'll have to watch him pump Frau pussy...

He dropped Pokémon Go and is now making TikTok’s with today’s youth! Good for him.

Watch him dance while holding a piece of Pizza! That is talent!

Please take the poll.

Best known as Edmund Grey on “All My Children”. He was 66. Died after a massive stroke.

WASHINGTON — So much has changed so quickly for Joseph Palma that he barely recognizes his life.

On Tuesday last week, he was going to work, helping passengers in the customs area of the Miami airport. The next day, he was laid off without severance or benefits. Five days later, he moved back in with his 59-year-old mother, loading his bed and his clothes into the back of his friend’s pickup truck.

Now he is staring at his bank account — totaling about $3,100 — and waiting on hold for hours at a time with the unemployment office, while cursing at its crashing website.

“I’m feeling scared,” said Palma, who is 41 and nervous about the $15,000 in medical debt he has from two recent hospital stays. “I don’t know what’s the ending. But I know I’m not in good shape.”

For the millions of Americans who found themselves without a job in recent weeks, the sharp and painful change brought a profound sense of disorientation. They were going about their lives, bartending, cleaning, managing events, waiting tables, loading luggage and teaching yoga. And then suddenly they were in free fall, grabbing at any financial help they could find, which in many states this week remained locked away behind crashing websites and overloaded phone lines.

“Everything has changed in a matter of minutes — seconds,” said Tamara Holtey, 29, an accountant for an industrial services company in the Houston area, who was on a cruise to Cozumel, Mexico, as the coronavirus outbreak intensified in the United States and was laid off on her second day back at work.

Now she spends her days applying for jobs online from her home in Alvin, Texas, while she and her wife weigh whether to delay paying their mortgage for a month or two — only to have to pay more in interest.

“It’s just a constant thought in my head: Am I going to lose my house? Am I going to lose everything?” she said. They had been talking about starting to have children, but “that’s on pause now.”

In 17 interviews with people in eight states across the country, Americans who lost their jobs said they were in shock and struggling to grasp the magnitude of the economy’s shutdown, an attempt to slow the spread of the virus. Unlike the last economic earthquake, the financial crisis of 2008, this time there was no getting back out there to look for work, not when people were being told to stay inside. What is more, the layoffs affected not just them, but their spouses, their parents, their siblings and their roommates — even their bosses.

“I don’t think anyone expected it to be like this,” said Mark Kasanic, 48, a server at a brasserie in Cleveland who was one of roughly 300 workers that a locally owned restaurant company laid off last week. Now he is home-schooling his children, ages 5 and 7, one with special needs.

Julian Bruell was one of those who had to deliver the bad news to hourly employees like Kasanic. Bruell, 30, who helps run the company with his father, said that only about 30 employees are left running takeout and delivery at two of its five restaurants. He has not been earning a salary, his goal being to keep the business afloat through the crisis.

“If it’s going to July this may not be sustainable,” he said. “I just want us to have a future.”

On Thursday, he was planning to file for unemployment himself.

In many states, that has been its own wild odyssey. Kasanic said he had spent hours dialing and redialing four Ohio numbers: three wound through a maze of messages that ended with a dead line and a fourth was always busy. His strategy now is to call at four in the morning.

“Getting through is nearly impossible,” he said. “I probably tried calling over 100 times to try to get a hold of somebody.”

Going online has not been any easier.

“I’ve gone on their website and the site would crash or pages would disappear,” he said.

He still has not gotten through. But he is trying.

I've fought worse monsters before and WON!

Don't fuck with me, virus! This ain't my first time at the CDC!

It's what Jesus would have wanted

No long lists, please. What was the reply on a thread that really nailed it for you and deserved all the W&W that came its way? Tell us a wee bit about the thread and share that reply with us, please!

Who is the queen to beat?

I'm eating better than I have in years.

Carry on.....

I was listening to the version of "You'll Never Walk Alone," sung by Claramae Turner and Shirley Jones, from the movie of "Carousel" and it had me in tears.

What are the other saddest songs you can think of from musicals? The ones that just break your heart.

I'll post mine inside.

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry set up permanent home in California after fleeing coronavirus lockdown in Canada PRINCE Harry and Meghan have fled Canada amid the coronavirus pandemic and have moved permanently to California. They took a private flight to the Los Angeles area before the borders between Canada and the US were shut.

I'm fascinated by his YouTube bodybuilding He has a huge bulge which he adjusts in the last 60 seconds of this video. Has he done any nudes?

It would've been worse under Hillary. She would've tried to funnel all government funds through the Clinton foundation!

Companies that make toilet paper and all manner of disinfectants would have been ordered to ramp up production in January, if not December, and there would be no shortages of basic necessities. People would not die for lack of protective materials like disposable gloves and wet naps.

I only just found out.

After ¨gifting¨ the entire World with their virus and now that they have under control, they are back to their old way, ie eating cats, BATS, and other things.

Utterly speechless.

Does she have early onset dementia?

That's the only thing that can possibly explain why her brain has suddenly taken leave of her body.

Former super-spy, my ass. What an embarrassment!

Eric Adjepong: Season 16 (Kentucky)

Karen Akunowicz: Season 13 (California)

Jennifer Carroll: Season 6 (Las Vegas), Season 8 (All Stars)

Stephanie Cmar: Qualifying rounds of Season 10 (Seattle), Season 11 (New Orleans)

Lisa Fernandes: Season 4 (Chicago)

Kevin Gillespie: Season 6 (Las Vegas)

Gregory Gourdet: Season 12 (Boston)

Melissa King: Season 12 (Boston)

Jamie Lynch: Season 14 (Charleston)

Brian Malarkey: Season 3 (Miami), Top Chef Masters

Nini Nguyen: Season 16 (Kentucky)

Joe Sasto: Season 15 (Colorado)

Angelo Sosa: Season 7 (Washington D.C.), and Season 8 (All Stars)

Bryan Voltaggio: Season 6 (Las Vegas), Top Chef Masters

Lee Anne Wong: Season 1 (San Francisco), and Last Chance Kitchen (Season 7)

Could Teen Wolf finally be hitting our screens again in the near future?

Tyler Posey, who played Scott McCall on the MTV series, has teased a possible reboot of the show, and we are so on board with this.

It's been three years since we said goodbye to Scott, Stiles, Lydia and co in the very open-ended finale and now Tyler reckons it's about time for a reboot.

He wrote on Twitter: "Hey @MTV I think it's time to bring teen wolf back for new episodes. First Jersey shore family vacation. Now Teen Wolf high school reunion. I'm ready. And 28, so it's an appropriate age."

Sounds good, eh? Well even better, some of the original cast are up for joining him too.

Colton Haynes, who played werewolf wannabe Jackson Whittemore, tweeted "I'm in!" and Cody Christian, who played one of Scott's enemies (turned frenemy), Theo Raeken, added: "I'm. So. Down".

Khylin Rhambo, who played Mason, added: "I agree with all these things. Count me tf in."

Orney Adams, who played the lacrosse coach, took things a little further with his unique humour: "Wait a minute. What the hell have I been shooting for the past six months @MTV? Was this not an official reboot? I was wondering why in all my scenes I was naked on a lacrosse field. Alone."

Well, we're absolutely ready for a reunion to find out what happened to the pack. Have Stiles and Lydia got married and had babies yet? Is Derek still a grumpy wolfy?

While the final season was still filming, series creator, Jeff Davis, was already planning a reboot, but it never materialised at the time, so maybe now's the right time.

Come on, MTV!

Ocado exec simply MUST be a Datalounger!

Read the harrowing tale found in the Financial Times comment section below:

‘My wife was trying for almost a week to log onto the Ocado platform.

She was faced with either the system being down, crashing, or virtual queues of thousands (and wait times of over an hour) then more wait times.

Finally, yesterday, Friday, my wife got a message saying that she had priority access.

Once again there were long virtual queues and having to log-in repeatedly.

Finally, success! Order placed.

But what's this? No delivery slots. So much for so called priority access.

My wife sent a complaint to customer support and back came the automated anodyne response.

That was when I began to get mildly irritated.

Ocado prides itself on its technology. That is what its P/E is predicated upon. I spent over 25 years working in the financial information business where clients do not accept system outages or delays (not that these don't happen), but all grown-up players have built in resilience to cater not just with normal peaks but peaks beyond black swan events. You also must plan to react to events.

Ocado is a platform which should be more resilient.

Anyhow I sent an e-mail to the Chairman and CEO of Ocado pointing all the above. Please note that my criticisms were to with resilience.

OK, perhaps my comments were a trifle jocular. For example I made a joking reference to what would have happened in my old shop if the system(s) performed like the Ocado platform in recent weeks - "'would be having heads on pikes, public floggings, the guillotine if it ever got this bad.' Note this was what would have happened in my old shop [if the performance was as bad as Ocado's (and it never was).

This morning, we received an e-mail from the Ocado Executive Office, cancelling our account.

"Dear Mr and Mrs *,

Thank you both for your emails into Ocado and Tim Steiner who has asked that I, as a member of his team, take ownership of this issue and reply accordingly.

I would like to apologise for the problems you have faced in trying to use our systems, I fully appreciate these have been testing times. We have been working around the clock to adapt our award winning service to feed the nation as best and responsibly as we can with the unprecedented demand we face.

Having reviewed all communications there were suggestions that I find unacceptable, including but not limited to 'would be having heads on pikes, public floggings, the guillotine if it ever got this bad.'

We are working extremely hard to accommodate such demand whilst implementing measures to take care of the nations vulnerable. Your words are neither constructive or supportive to the challenge not just Ocado, but the nation face. It is clear we do not meet your requirements so for this reason the decision has been taken to close your Ocado account with immediate effect, this will also be extended to any other accounts that may relate to you directly in any way.

I do hope you are able to find a suitable supermarket or online delivery service to suit your requirements."

Yes or no? Right or wrong? Well?

Place Your Bets

Saying on Friday

"The American people did not elect a bunch of health experts that we don't know. We didn't elect a president to defer to a bunch of health experts that we don't know."

"And how do we know they're even health experts? Well, they wear white lab coats, and they've been in the job for a while — and they're at the CDC, and they're at the NIH…. But has there been any job assessment for them? They're just assumed to be the best because they're in government. But these are all kinds of things that I've been questioning."

Limbaugh, who lives in South Florida, went on to criticize social distancing measures in that part of the U.S.

"I've been watching people routinely accept whatever the authorities say," Limbaugh told listeners. "Where I live, the local town government is driving around town, trying to spot people violating the social distancing ordinances. And when they see it, they publish it on their web site: 'This is very troublesome. We at the town are very troubled by groups of people congregating, violating the social distancing.' Well, what do you think people are going to do? People are not just going to sit around here and stop living."

And it's keeping me awake.

I love birds, but they're being arrogant little fuckers about this quarantine.

[QUOTE] The poll suggests that while the president’s approval ratings for handling the coronavirus crisis are improving, it is so far not translating into a general election advantage against Biden.

Especially those before 1980, but newer films (especially lesser known ones) are welcome. Tell us why it's a worthwhile watch.

They can be fun, romantic or serious, but please, nothing about contagions or end of the world. Trying to take our minds off of reality.

.....

And it is truly one of the worst movies ever made. It was absolute shit. Not one good thing about it. The opening shot was the cheapest looking space shot ever. A horrible painting of the earth and some ridiculous space station. Looks like it was made for about 10 bucks. Then it shows some stupid robot cutting into the ship that Ripley has been sleeping on. Ripley's faux feminist crap could not save this movie. The little girl was a horrible non-actor. All the guys were wasted and useless. The aliens looked like a 10 dollar prop. The movie really shows the weakness of Cameron's writing and how he basically makes the same movie over and over again with the exact same images and amateurish writing.

We already know that straight guys are a lot more bisexual than people think. We also know that they secretly get off on watching gay porn. But we never knew exactly why. Until now.

A new study out of the University of Portsmouth in England has uncovered why some straight dudes have gay sex fantasies, and it all boils down to a little thing called progesterone.

Progesterone is a hormone that appears in both males and females and contributes to the formation of social bonds. Researchers found that when hetero guys are reminded of the importance of forging male friendships, they report an increased willingness to engage in sexual behavior with other guys.

The levels of progesterone were measured in the saliva of 59 males. Then, each men was randomly assigned to one of three groups and asked to complete word puzzles: one using friendship words, one using sexual words, and a third using neutral words.

Afterwards, men who were asked to complete the friendship word puzzle showed 26 percent greater homoerotic motivation than men given the sexual or neutral puzzles. Moreover, men with the highest progesterone levels who were given the friendship puzzle showed 41 percent greater homoerotic motivation compared to men with the highest progesterone levels in the other two groups.

Researchers concluded that gay thoughts go hand in hand with the need to create alliances with members of the same sex, which can be traced all the way back to the teamwork mentalities of the earliest hunter-gatherers.

“From an evolutionary perspective we tend to think of sexual behavior as a means to an end for reproduction,” Dr. Diana Fleischman, the report’s author, said. “However, because sexual behavior is intimate and pleasurable, it is also used in many species, including non-human primates, to help form and maintain social bonds. We can all see this in romantic couples who bond by engaging in sexual behavior even when reproduction is not possible.”

Fleischman continued: “Having some degree of attraction to the opposite sex is a type of adaptive behavior, and in any adaptive behavior you will see extremes of the spectrum, hence some people will only be attracted to members of the same sex.”

Ultimately, Fleischman said, “the research suggests that having exclusively heterosexual thoughts is a disadvantage — it’s better to be a little bit attracted to the opposite sex.”

Shortly after the U.S. death toll from the coronavirus pandemic reached 1,500 on Friday, President Donald Trump took to the podium at a White House press briefing and complained that certain state’s governors are not “appreciative” enough of the federal government’s help—so much so that he said he’d told Vice President Mike Pence, the leader of the coronavirus task force, to skip calling governors of some hard-hit areas.

Trump singled out the Democratic leaders of Washington and Michigan, noting that he had advised Pence not to call them as the healthcare crisis plagues their states and people fall sick and die.

“He calls all the governors,” Trump said. “I tell him, I mean, I’m a different type of person. I say Mike, don’t call the governor of Washington, you’re wasting your time with him. Don’t call the woman in Michigan.”

“If they don’t treat you right, I don’t call,” Trump said.

Michigan’s health department is reporting 3,657 COVID-19 cases and 92 deaths. In Washington, there have been 3,700 cases, according to the state, and 175 deaths.

“We have done a hell of a job,” Trump said. “The federal government has really stepped up.”

Trump’s message to governors was that he wants “them to be appreciative.”

The president’s comments Friday come as the coronavirus pandemic continues to shut down American life and states across the nation show a lack of uniformity on aggressive public health measures aimed at preventing the spread of the virus.

Earlier this week, Trump began to push on an Easter timeline to re-open the country, despite warnings that such a timeline was unwise. Even some Republican governors have pushed back. Despite his earlier emphasis on Easter, he hedged when asked about the topic Friday.

“I certainly want to get it open as soon as possible, I don’t want it to be long,” Trump said. “But we also want it to open safe, otherwise, what did we do?”

These Republicans Think Trump’s Easter Deadline Doesn’t ‘Make Sense’

At the start of the coronavirus task force briefing Trump said the nation’s governors “have been very gracious, for the most part.”

“A couple that aren’t appreciative of the incredible job,” Trump said. “They have to do a better job themselves, that’s part of the problem.”

He continued to praise his administration’s work, while scorning Washington Gov. Jay Inslee as “a failed presidential candidate.”

“He leveled out at zero in the polls,” Trump said. “He’s constantly chirping and I guess complaining would be a nice way of saying it.”

He then jumped to attacking another Democratic governor, Michigan’s Gretchen Whitmer.

“Michigan, all she does is, she has no idea what’s going on,” he said. “And all she does is say, ‘Oh, it’s the federal government’s fault.’ And we’ve taken such great care of Michigan.”

Before long, Gov. Phil Murphy in New Jersey and Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York were mentioned as Democrats who have been kinder.

If New Jersey’s governor were asked how the federal government is doing, Trump mused, “I think he’d say great. I think. He’s a Democrat.”

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump

I am a great friend and admirer of the Queen & the United Kingdom. It was reported that Harry and Meghan, who left the Kingdom, would reside permanently in Canada. Now they have left Canada for the U.S. however, the U.S. will not pay for their security protection. They must pay!

We need to start doing this now more than ever! You can do it around your house or in your backyard as well. Get to PRANCING DL!!!!

Thank you Canada for forcing their hand.

The special prosecutor in the case in Chicago is expected to announce indictment against Jussie later on today and the first court date appears to be February 24. No details on the charges

It’s past midnight in several places now and this year will bring more reading opportunities!

What are your reading plans for the New Year? And what are you reading now?

My goals are no no longer buy any ebook that aren’t from a prescribed list of favourite authors, or aren’t under $5. O have far too many unread.

I also plan to read 2 classics per month and about 6 per month in total.

I will start with big ‘uns - Moby Dick, In Search Of Lost Time and thanks to the recommendations of Prof in the Classics thread I started a few months ago, the Iliad.

That said, I’m currently on a trashy holiday read - Grace Metalious’s Peyton Place, no less - so wish me luck.

Usually in bands and music groups you have one or two really good looking members and the rest are of debatable attractiveness.

Which bands are comprised of all good-looking members?

I would say the guys in the English band BBMak were all handsome. The girls in the group TLC were all gorgeous. Your picks?

No pithy quotes, no artifice, no bullshit.

How ARE you?

Let's start with HIMBO early morning / late night sub-anchor, Phillip Mena.

I want him in me, quite deeply.

I'm 5" with a good thickness but Jesus am I insecure about it! And I'm measuring from base to tip, not the balls. Anyone else actually have a dick that's under 6"?

Continue...

Evangeline Lilly is going against the grain in a big way ... sending her kids off to gymnastics and having lots of dicey interactions, because she believes the coronavirus scare is not only overblown ... it might even have some sinister tinges to it.

Evangeline just said for her and her fam, it's business as usual. She said, "Just dropped my kids off at gymnastic camp. They all washed their hands before going in. They are playing and laughing."

It gets even more real ... The actress says she's living with her dad who has stage 4 leukemia. She says, "I am also immune compromised at the moment."

And then, there's this mantra ... "Some people value their lives over freedom, some people value freedom over their lives. We all make our choices."

One thing that she doesn't address .... if anyone in her family contracts the virus and interacts with others, they could spread it to people who might be at risk and, as you know, a number of those people are dying.

She says the virus is really just a "respiratory flu" ... despite just about every doctor saying it's more serious than the flu.

She feels the government has taken too much control over our lives and it's getting too close to Martial Law for comfort.

And then, there's this ... She insinuates there might be something fishy here as the run-up to the 2020 Presidential election ... "There's something every election year."

I just wanted to make sure that Brian's thread continues-

Boris Johnson's government is reportedly furious with China's handling of the coronavirus, with UK officials quoted on Sunday warning that Beijing faces a "reckoning" once the COVID-19 crisis is over.

UK government officials believe China is spreading disinformation about the severity of the coronavirus outbreak in its country, the Mail on Sunday reports.

The newspaper says scientists have warned Johnson that China could have downplayed its number of confirmed cases of the coronavirus "by a factor of 15 to 40 times." China had reported just 81,439 at the time of writing.

Officials also believe China is trying to expand its economic power through offering help to other countries which are trying to combat the virus.

The newspaper quoted three UK officials, who all reported fury within Johnson's government.

One said: "It is going to be back to the diplomatic drawing board after this. Rethink is an understatement."

The second unnamed official said "there has to be a reckoning when this is over," while the third said "the anger goes right to the top."

The newspaper adds that Johnson's government is so angry with China's handling of the crisis that the prime minister could abandon his previous decision to let Chinese telecomms company Huawei develop the UK's 5g network.

Johnson angered his main ally President Donald Trump by giving Huawei a limited but significant role in improving the country's infrastructure.

The Trump administration was angered by the decision, with the president himself reportedly expressing his disapproval before hanging up in an "apoplectic" phone call with Johnson last month.

The decision also riled swathes of MPs in Johnson's own Conservative party.

One Cabinet minister quoted by the Mail on Sunday said: "We can't stand by and allow the Chinese state's desire for secrecy to ruin the world's economy and then come back like nothing has happened.

"We're allowing companies like Huawei not just into our economy, but to be a crucial part of our infrastructure.

'This needs to be reviewed urgently, as does any strategically important infrastructure that relies on Chinese supply chains."

Johnson has written to every household in the UK urging people to continue following strict social distancing rules.

In the letter, which will reach Brits in the next few days, the prime minister, who this week tested positive for the coronavirus, says: "We know things will get worse before they get better."

"But we are making the right preparations, and the more we all follow the rules, the fewer lives will be lost and the sooner life can return to normal."

The prime minister earlier this week introduced a lockdown, telling people to only leave their homes for essential reasons and giving UK police the power to fine those who do not comply.

I did not know the Japanese Imperial Army was essentially on meth during WWII.

Runny nose, some coughing but not dry cough and no increase in temp. Is it a mild case of Corona? A cold isn’t supposed to last this long.

Happy Birthday to the song that propelledRihanna into International Superstardom, went to #1 and won her a Grammy (her first).

It was the lead single off her third album “Good Girl Gone Bad”, an album that would sell millions and have many hit singles.

What is your favorite RiRi song?

Will this finally be the end of HIPAA rules, the medical equivalent of the vile Confidentiality Agreements that protect #MeToo violators and enabler corporations?

I want every hospital's information about this virus public NOW.

This show is so funny. I’m not even stoned tonight.

It’s like everyone’s reacting to completely different things than what’s happening in the scenes they’re in.

The whole thing is on Hulu for some reason and each season is like 48 hours long.

I pre-ordered Devolution by Max Brooks because I loved World War Z so much. It’s one of my favorite books (sneer all you want, I love it). I have been looking forward to reading his new book while in lockdown. I think the original release date was supposed to be early April and now it’s June. Ugh.

Any recommendations for other fun, but well written and, especially, well-researched over the top fiction?

This one is even hotter than the Lawyer from the other video!!! I would be all over that!!! He’d have to get a restraining order for me to not keep getting more dick from him.

Can’t find a thread. Anyone watch first couple episodes? Why is Heidi acting so over the top? Well, more so than usual.

I am starting Part II to express my sincere gratitude to my brothers and sisters -- and all the in-betweens -- at Datalounge. I had no idea who this sad little queen was until several years ago when a fabulous Datalounger came up with the iconic appellation "COCKGOBBLER." All the vicious gossip, hateful innuendo, scandalous rumors and pointless bitchery justly aimed at this troll is the reason he is not still in DC fellating Paul Ryan and getting prostate exams from Gym Jordan in Senatrix Graham's sex dungeon.

He was being groomed for a leadership position in the Republican firmament -- and to be the single deadliest carrier of STDs in Congress. But then DL told the tale of his self-loathing anti-gay political efforts. Like a dog with a bone, DL never let it go. A catty whisper became a thunderous screech and the "Cockgobbler" garnered unfavorable attention in DC. His downfall is in some part attributable to all the rumors spread around the world by DL, which led to Downton Abbey-Gate, which led to his resignation and which -- fingers crossed -- will lead to his meth overdose. In this instance DL has verifiably provided a valuable public service.

Take a bow, Datalounge!

A long thread, so I apologize in advance but hope people will read and give their thoughts.

Fourteen days ago I woke up feeling dizzy and unwell around 4:30AM. I had a heaviness in my chest, had shortness of breath, dizziness, cold sweats, a discomfort in my lower abdomen and my left arm hurt. As the morning progressed the symptoms became worse and I called an ambulance because I thought I was having a heart attack.

When they arrived they checked my blood oxygen level, my blood pressure and did and ECG and all were normal.

The EMS worker said I didn't present any internal symptoms of a heart attack and no outward signs of a heart attack. He said I was having an acid reflux attack. I have GERD.

I've been on medication for GERD for 13 years and have been fine. The last 18 months I've gained 25 pounds and I admit I've been eating things i should not and I've been drinking a lot of coffee.

I saw my doctor who listened to my heart and lungs and said my heart sounded normal and my lungs were clear. He ordered another ECG, blood work and xrays. All were normal.

This morning at 4:45AM I woke up the same way, but the symptoms were milder. I didn't feel like I needed an ambulance.

I took my Prevacid, waited a half hour and took a Gas-X and started burping and the symptoms began to go away.

I called my doctor's RN and she said I had all the symptoms of a nocturnal panic attack. Frankly I can't believe that.

I did have all the symptoms of a panic attack, but also had a very distended stomach with gas, I was burping up reflux and had heartburn. Things that don't present with a panic attack.

I've never had a panic attack in 47 years. I haven't had any panic attack symptoms during the day. I have no anxiety in my life and to tell the truth, this virus means I can finally take time off and just sit around the house doing nothing. I've only felt some depression these past two weeks because I'm not eating like I was and I've lost about 10 pounds. I could kill a bowl of chips. I also haven't had normal BMs when I used to go first thing in the morning like clockwork.

I've had problems with congestion for years and the GERD makes it worse. I wake up with a dry mouth and throat from breathing through my mouth and feel like I need more air than I'm getting.

Did I have panic attacks, or was it acid reflux?

It usually takes months to see a specialist here in Canada and now with the virus my doctor said I most likely won't get an appointment until the end of November or even December.

#slipping

The hunt for a 5th co-host continues. Who will the lucky winner be?

I just finished watching [i]The Journey of Natty Gann.

He must have been about 18 or 19 in that film.

When asked in 2009 why he had never married, he answered, "Society doesn't tell me what to do.”

Who has he been linked with? And have there been any credible gay rumors about him?

Click the link below and start reading the classic comic "Peanuts"

It will take you from the first strip in Oct 1950 until the last strip in Fev 2000

Since you can't go out, stay in and see how the strip and the world changed. Featuring Patty, Shermy, Snoopy and "Good Ol'" Charlie Brown

Who are some actors/actress that are thirsty for an Oscar? In terms of actresses, Saoirse Ronan doesn’t do any film that isn’t Oscar bait.

Miley Virus

Purella DeVille

Hordinne da T.P.

Elle Ness

Maskathaa Reddeth

I'm all the top energy Andy has to muster up, in order to claim the bragging right of "topping a US Congressman!"

Her mouth is now a downward gash with no lips at all. I couldn't pay attention to the movie because her awful face was so distracting.

Despite the quarantine.

People claim to love red dining rooms and this one won't disappoint. Facilities and grounds for horses, bejabbers.

Carry on.

I'm not pleased with the accommodations so far. The TV's don't even have TCM! I know we're underground and all but COME ON! Some of the queens have resorted to reenacting Mildred Pierce themselves, and it's just not the same.

The lesbians aren't happy either. There aren't enough outlets for their CPAP machines and they're starting to have turf wars.

MURIEL, FIX THIS SHIT!

Still ripped.

Since rubbing alcohol and hand sanitizer are both pretty much out of stock in most areas here are a couple of alternatives. The mouthwash I've been using for over 50 years is Dr. Tichenors. It's a concentrated mouthwash. You mix 1 part DT and 5 parts water. It can also be used as a sanitizer and disinfectant. Full strength it will kill most any germ or virus. Trust me, you definitely wouldn't want to use it as a mouthwash full strength. I see it's still available in most store that sell it. Apparently few have figured out it has other uses than as a mouthwash. It's generally around $5.00 or less per bottle (pay no attention to the prices you see on Ebay, etc - it's $4.96/ea at Walmart). But one bottle will last you a very long time

Also, Listerine is a good disinfectant and can be used to clean surfaces and hands if need be. The generic brands such as the Equate brand at Walmart are just as good as name brand Listerine. Dollar Tree even has a generic brand and it is just as strong as the real thing.

Everyone wants that big cock of his.

I've never really been a bottom but I'd like to try it more after the pandemic.

I was thinking of buying a dildo online and am looking for recommendations.

I have a tight hole.

From March 31, Meghan Markle and Prince Harry will no longer be senior members of the royal family. Though they'll keep their Sussex titles, they're losing their HRH titles—which means that, for the first time in his life, Harry will take on an official last name. Though he went by "Harry Wales" at school, HRH title holders are not legally required to have a last name (although modern royals often choose to use Mountbatten-Windsor, a combination of the Queen's and Prince Philip's names). As for Meghan, she's still referred to using both her maiden last name and her Duchess of Sussex title, and she could continue to use both.

The most obvious choice for the family is to collectively adopt the last name Mountbatten-Windsor, which has been used since the '70s. The Queen is, of course, a member of the royal House of Windsor, and Prince Phillip's naturalized last name is Mountbatten. Per the royal family's website: "For the most part, members of the Royal Family who are entitled to the style and dignity of HRH Prince or Princess do not need a surname, but if at any time any of them do need a surname (such as upon marriage), that surname is Mountbatten-Windsor."

That said, both William and Harry went by "Wales" at school. That's because Charles' title is Prince of Wales, and the stand-in last name for royal family members is often the title of their parent. That tradition carried on to William's family: At school, Prince George is known as "George Cambridge," because his father's title is the Duke of Cambridge. So, even though their last name is technically Mountbatten-Windsor, their informal last name is Cambridge.

But the plot thickens! When Harry and Meghan's son, Archie, was born, they did not give him royal titles—perhaps in a nod to events to come; perhaps because they wanted him to have a more normal life—which meant that the baby needed a surname. Enter Mountbatten-Windsor, which is formally and informally Archie Harrison's last name. It sounds very formal, but it's actually a rebellious move—if Harry had followed in William's footsteps and stuck rigidly to royal tradition, Archie would have taken on his title (the Earl of Dumbarton) and been known as Archie Dumbarton.

Fast-forward to now, when Harry, Meghan, and Archie have essentially opted out of being senior royals and therefore need last names. Archie is already set—he's Mountbatten-Windsor, in a nod to his great-grandparents. But then there's Meghan, who is still known by her maiden name, Markle—although since she married Harry, she's stopped signing her last name "Markle"—and who also goes by the Duchess of Sussex (a title she'll maintain), and therefore doesn't have one set last name. She might choose to go by the last name Mountbatten-Windsor, Sussex, Markle, or something completely different (which would be a break from tradition, but when you've already walked away from an entire institution, what's the big deal?).

Either way, Meghan "Markle" differs from the last names of both Harry and Archie right now, and she may want to keep the same last name as her family. Harry doesn't actually have a clear last name right now—again, it's technically Mountbatten-Windsor, but he's used "Wales" when he's had to use a last name throughout his life. He's going to have to determine once and for all what his official last name may be, which may spur Meghan to take the same one. And that name could be anything—Sussex and Mountbatten-Windsor are the most likely options (and the latter, of course, would be a link to Archie), but they could also take Markle or a completely different name of their choice. (This is Harry and Meghan, after all.)

Along with being Sussexes, the couple are also the Earl and Countess of Dumbarton, and The Baron and Baroness Kilkeel, so let's throw Dumbarton and Kilkeel in the mix as potential last names. They may have considered a break from senior royal lineage through giving their new family a new last name, but Archie's last name is already Mountbatten-Windsor, so...

How predatory do you think lenders, banks and businesses will be when this is over?

If mortgages and rents are deferred, that just means that people don’t have to pay them right now. They will still owe deferred costs when the time comes. It’s like one of those “no payments for 12 months” furniture scams through which interest accrues over those 12 months and then people get a bill for twice the cost of what they thought they were buying because they didn’t pay attention.

Are we going to see a lot of evictons?

Let's have a nice, comprehensive thread where we can gossip about everyone from QEII to poor Crown Princess Masako of Japan, done in by the world's most misogynist royal environment, to the airy Breezed Through Princess University Crown Princess Mary of Denmark!

Brit Hume says it's "entirely reasonable" that the elderly would want to sacrifice themselves to save the economy.....so what elders should be sacrifice?

I nominate Trump, Mitch McConnell, and Hume himself!

What constitutes tasteful for you guys? I always hear “no taste,” “not tasteful,” “tacky,” “grotesque,” “middle class,” etc. on decor shown on DL threads, be it homes for sale, homes people currently live in, or celebrity homes. It’s one long string of tear down on decor. What satisfies you in decorating?

Post any updates or first hand experiences about Covid-19 related stuff, including lock down.

And their cousins, all the useless trolls.

aka Texting: The Game Show.

I’ve thought this was absolutely the dumbest show concept ever, and after binging 8 episodes I still do! Oh god, why is it so passively addicting despite being vacuous you the core?

Crazy that it is the first.

"Family Karma" will follow the lives of seven Indian American friends as they navigate cultural traditions and their lives in Miami.

Did any stars manage to hide their deaths?

THE best spot to curl up on a cool evening!

I'll start.

Signature Chrissie Snow (Suzanne Somers) on THREE'S COMPANY.

Even as a tiny gayling, I called "wig."

I figured that, given I am quarantined for the next two weeks, now would be a better time than ever to do a thorough disinfecting of problem areas around my house, like doorknobs, counters, light switches, faucets, and other places that are frequently touched. I found a bottle of concentrated Lysol (original scent) under my bathroom sink which I bought last year, but hadn't yet used. I for some reason assumed the "original scent" was lemon, but it instead it smells like a horrible mixture of tires and bandaids. It very much reminds me of the smell of hospitals. In any event, it gets the job done.

I'm sick and tired of them. I need my normal life back

There is a thread on the deliciously watchable Spanish series, but a poll is needed for this important topic. Which actor, playing one of these characters, do you most want to fuck?

Which trolls irritate you the most?

Continue from previous thread

Never enough...

I ordered some furniture from Pottery Barn before all this virus stuff happened. They scheduled the delivery for the ass crack of dawn at 7am, so I was sitting here waiting for them to show up this morning. They called at 6:30am to remind me but I didn't get to the phone in time.

The delivery guy sees me through the storm door, I waved him in. He put the two furniture items in place and then he says "Are you mad? You look mad." and I said, "No, I'm fine". He says "we tried to call earlier but no one answered" like I just happened to be sitting there fully dressed with the front door open waiting for someone OTHER than the delivery person. And then he holds out his phone for me to sign for the items, violating the "social distancing" guidelines.

Then he leaves and says "Catch you later, SIR."

Now I'm pissed. It's fucking 7am, I'm supposed to have a goddamn smile on my face and be happy that a delivery guy is in my house during a pandemic?? Like I'm sorry I'm not giving good energy and cheerful as he places overpriced furniture in my house in wrong positions at 7am.

Yes I have a bit of the resting bitch face, but it's infuriating to have someone ask me if I'm mad. That's a good way to actually make someone mad.

She’s been SPOT ON the money throughout this and other stock market debacles. Just tell us when we should put our filthy lucre back into the market!

I had a Dentist tell me I had pretty teeth. Not that they were movie star white (they're not). But the shape and arrangement of them.

Every time I smile I think of that.

Released in 1982, this album was meant to reclaim the commercial magic of Rumours after the experimental (and commercially disappointing) double album Tusk. The album doesn’t have an early 80’s sound at all and hit #1 for a single week. Gypsy peaked at a surprisingly low #12 while Hold Me peaked at #4. Gypsy has been the song that’s endured. What does DL think of this album from the classic lineup? Share thoughts and memories.

In contrast to the bands where all the members were good looking.

I'd say The Cars (and I love their music).

Kid Dynamite.

but of course we can't say.

Facts:

Abdi is approximately 5'4" in height, weighing 120 lbs.

Investigators say Abdi's cell phone is either off or disabled. They say evidence shows Abdi spends time at three places almost exclusively: his job at Target, with family at home in Des Moines and at Roosevelt High School, where he is a senior

While the surveillance video of Abdi seen Friday at Target is a starting point, police say what's giving them the most problem is his lack of presence on social media. It's something extremely rare for a teen in this digital age.

Shortly before he disappeared, Sharif posted a Snapchat that said, "I got bad news … bad bad news."

Abdi does not have a car.

His mom went to Target to pick him up around 9:30 Friday night but he never showed.

Y’all wanna be here so bad but when things get tough you run away? Lmao. So happy other states are turning these transplant hypocrites away.

Since the Picard and Discovery threads have now become subscriber only (and doesn't seem to be working for subscribers), I thought I'd start a new thread where we can discuss all things Trek.

Does he think we are watching to be entertained? Does he think this is a Tv series? This is peoples lives!!!!

So clearly nobody wants to fuck a hoe in case they're infected and streetwalkers are being ordered inside. There's only so much webcam work you can do!

Anybody here still hooking up with escorts or even Grindr randoms?

Wellington Tavares and Renato Ben

The Mayor of LA Eric Garcetti made this statement yesterday,

[quote]The mayor said L.A. is six to 12 days behind New York in being hit with a wave of positive cases. "The peak is not here yet," he said. "It will be bad."

I'm not understanding what New York has to do with the timing of events here in Los Angeles. San Francisco is already a virus "hot spot". We have plenty of people traveling from all over the world here just like New York, many from the East.

I'm trying to make sense out of his statement, is there some kind of chart or something I missed that points to what he is saying?

Now with TEN TIMES the ambiguity!! Join us, won't you?

I have a friend (gay, elderly) in hospice care, and I am helping to clear out his apartment. Yesterday I had an entire garage-full of boxes delivered to me. Since I have lots of time on my hands, I'm starting to go through them and sort them out. Apparently most of these boxes have been sealed up for 20-30 years or more ... and they're like an archive of his life. But he must have packed every single item in his house when he moved --- there are magazines, newspapers, junk mail--EVERYTHING-- from the '80s and '90s (mostly.) Record albums (vinyl), books, clothing, and more -- and I've only opened about 1/10 of the boxes.

So ... serious question -- how do I know if any of this might be of interest to anyone? Most of it is probably not inherently valuable, but he did tell me that he has a complete collection of Drummer magazines (I haven't run across those yet), and there is a lot of stuff that might be of interest to certain types of collectors or obscure museums. Is there an easy way to find out?

Yup, it's birthday time for Mariah Carey as she hits the big 50 milestone, born in March 1970. She had her first big hit "Vision Of Love" 30 years ago in 1990. Has she really been around that long?

What are these disturbing people doing in your area?

Any Tips about how to deal with them?

Have Horror Stories?

Etc?

YES, We need to protect others in our communities, in addition, to keeping ourselves and family members safe.

Anyone remember her ? Meredith was a teen actress back in the mid 80s ..... I always thought she was pretty and charming (and she starred in a favorite campy horror flick 'The Kiss')

Looking at her resume, it doesn't appear she ever really did anything 'big time', but for some reason I thought she'd be a bigger star and there must've been some 'reason' she 'fell out of grace'. (she was in a couple 'Cory/Corey movies .... maybe THAT was it).

But truthfully, I guess that, like many others, Meredith just never got the 'big breaks'.... had the looks, but not the talent to back them up. Well, I liked her anyway ............. she's 45 now, maybe she could make a comeback as a MILF

Commanding views, not far from London, countryside adjacent and bigger than Nelson’s column.

The plague spares not slaves, nor kings.

Aristotle

There doesn't seem any point to it.

Couldn't they just invent a hand lotion that makes the top layer of skin cells fall the fuck off if you touch xyz virus? Why can't we have full eye contacts to protect the eyes, nostril plugs made of the n95 material and like mouth blind folds?

Also, how come nothing is ever contagious through the ears? Can't the just make all our orifices more like the ears?

Why do we have to live on this planet?

I know logically it’s not the end but damn does it feel like it. Life has just been so weird these past few weeks and at least where I live it all came on so suddenly.

Woody Allen Describes Early Days Of Relationship With Step-Daughter, Soon-Yi

Nepal has shut their side of the mountain due to the coronavirus which would be deadly in thin air conditions.

Continue the discussion here.

Hot or not?

That's fucked up.

In my Third World crappy Central American country if you are suspected or diagnosed with it, no matter how much money you have to pay for private hospitals you are transferred to a (hastily) put up emergency hospital. No exceptions. They won't charge you tho.

We have 34 cases, and 1 dead. This Sunday will be two weeks since lockdown.

The effects on the economy will be horrible. And I (or my family) will be affected on our family business.

How did he become so huge? Also, who is the second dude?

All of the barbers, salons, etc are closed and needed a haircut. I have a set of electric clippers and blades/guides so gave it a try.

The sides turned out OK but the back was tricky. Not great but it'll grow back and it's not like I'm leaving the house.

Any tips, tricks? When I went for the back everything was in reverse and was my first time doing this.

I would prefer to just buzz my hair but my head is misshapen.

Starts tonight, January 7 on BRAVO!

These people must all be in their 50's, already.

Be objective.

I thought she was OK. They could have cast somebody who was better and somebody who was worse.

lol.

Oops.

I have an RN friend suffering from career burn-out. She's 50 and very conscientious about her job, but wants a less demanding one. She's been a hospice nurse for 12 years and before that a regular floor nurse.

How big a star was she? Any gossip especially juicy gossip or rumours about her? Did she have a clean cut angelic image? Please dish your thoughts, gossip and feelings on this underappreciated actress.

Last Thursday, as NYC was bracing for an unprecedented shutdown to curb the spike in COVID-19 cases, Amy S. received an email from her landlord. For the last eighteen months, she and her husband had been renting a one bedroom in Hell's Kitchen for $3,200/month. Given the uncertainty of the moment — and the fact that Amy is expecting to soon be unemployed — they had no intention of moving out when their lease expires at the end of May.

But at a time when so many New Yorkers are racked with anxiety about their own survival, one major Manhattan landlord is finding new ways to squeeze money from the escalating public health crisis.

"We have high demand for medical personal [sic] coming to NYC with Javits center turning into a hospital," the president of the luxury real estate company wrote to the couple, referencing his building's proximity to the new makeshift hospital intended to help treat an anticipated surge in novel coronavirus patients.

As a result of that "demand," the landlord would have no choice but to hike the tenants' rent to $4,000/month under the new lease, according to emails shared with Gothamist. The 25 percent jump was "at this time the best we can offer," a representative for the landlord wrote in another email.

(At the tenants' request, we've agreed to withhold the identity of the landlord until the couple figures out their legal options; we'll update when that changes).

A website for the company boasts that their real estate holdings are worth more than one billion dollars. They're also a member of the Real Estate Board of New York. James Whelen, the REBNY president, said in a statement to Gothamist that it was "reprehensible for anyone to take advantage at a time of humanitarian crisis. Now is the time for everyone to work collaboratively to help each other.”

Amy, who works remotely for a bookstore in San Francisco and has already seen her hours slashed, said she was "shocked and terrified" by the exorbitant increase.

"We're worried about our families, we're worried about what's going to happen, and now we're worried that we're going to be forced to move," she told Gothamist. "It feels like extortion."

Housing attorneys say the landlord's decision, while perhaps morally repugnant, is perfectly legal under existing city and state rent laws. (Inquiries to the Governor's Office and City Hall were not returned).

"The fact that a landlord is taking the opportunity to rent gouge his or her tenants during this crisis is horrifying," said Ellen Davidson, an attorney with the Legal Aid Society. "But as long as they've complied with notice requirements, it's completely legal."

While Governor Cuomo has claimed that he "took care of the rent issue" by implementing a moratorium on evictions during the COVID-19 pandemic, housing advocates and attorneys say the measure doesn't come close to providing the relief needed by NYC tenants.

The governor has so far declined to back a proposal from the state legislature that would cancel rent for the next three months. And he has long been silent on the so-called "good cause" eviction bill backed by most tenant organizers — a policy that would block Amy's landlord from this sort of rent gouging, according to Davidson.

Without such protections, New Yorkers should expect similarly predatory behavior from their landlords, Davidson said. "I expect [the landlord] will also turn around and try to get all the bailout money that's possible for him as a business person," she added.

For the moment, Amy says she's unsure what she and her husband will do next. While they can't afford the rent hike, she also feels it's not safe to be apartment-hunting given that all New Yorkers are supposed to isolate if they can. "I'm worried we're stuck with whatever the landlord decides," she said.

"If they're doing this to me, they're doing this to everyone," Amy added. "I can't imagine what other shenanigans are going on in this city right now."

I love this site and I'm a non complaint paying customer but there are some problems that seem to be on going like I press post and it doesnt highlight so I do it again causing me to have several posts. Also on a thread when I have given an opinion that someone doesnt like something happens and I cant post on that thread. It happened recently immediately after Sylia called me a cunt.

Brad Davis Yes one of those stories WELL WORTH READING

"A friend of mine who works as a health professional in a NYC hospital just presented me with a VERY GRIM picture of what is happening in the hospital she works in.

The neighborhood the hospital serves is working poor. The typical patient being admitted with symptoms is asthmatic, diabetic. Alcoholics are also disproportionally represented. Like most working poor of NYC, their diet is usually abysmal. The number of patients and the severity of cases are completely different from the typical flu of past years. As opposed to having 8 - 12 patients, she is easily seeing over 20. The work load is pushing all to the breaking point. Patients come in the morning, go into ARDS, and are dead that night. Then even more patients are admitted, and go on follow identical trajectories. The age group most affected is 40's and up, with those and their 50's and 60's having a very poor prognosis. Once they start to fail, they go extremely rapidly.

As a consequence, the MDs are treating the patients even less aggressively, and even seem to be afraid of entering the same space of the patient. None of the innovative protocols, like megadose Vit C, chloroquine and related drugs, used in other nations with success, even in other NYC hospitals, are being used.

The nurses say that if tested, they would all certainly test positive for the virus. But there is no way the system or the patients can afford not to have them there.

I asked her if these patients usually got the flu shot, and she affirmed, almost all did, and the asthmatics do as they are especially afraid of the flu. One colleague, a nurse or respiratory therapist, shared with her that it seemed that those most hard hit had received the flu shot.

While I have offered the perspective of dissident MDs who have dealt with this virus, often specialists in infectious disease, providing ample statistical data to support their positions, the severity of this virus will present as differently from nation to nation as it will from pt to pt. It will reflect the state of the medical infrastructure, the willingness of the medical community to adopt novel, innovative approaches, the general health of the local population, the environment, and especially what kind of medical interventions were used prior to infection. For instance, what is known by very few is that before the advent of asthma meds which "manage" the symptoms, asthma was rarely fatal.

None of this discredits the likelihood this is a manufactured event. In fact, it is entirely in line with research stating that it appears to have originated from a bioweapons lab, the existence of which simply cannot be denied. It also does not validate the authoritarian policy of quarantining the entire population, as opposed to the most vulnerable or actively infected. It does render as acceptable the collateral damage of plunging the entire economy into depression, jeopardizing the ability of the entire population to survive. It does not invalidate the hypothesis that the virus is being used to promote profitable Pharma drugs in the pipeline, even as other treatments appear to be effective, safe, and available.

However, this most recent information coming from an unimpeachable source, has convinced me that the virus is definitely not a hoax, not a nothing burger, and most definitely NOT just another bad flu. It is certainly something that will demand effective treatment.

The corrupt American medical system is completely unlikely to rise to the occasion. It is a system primarily to maximize shareholder profit, not to restore health to the sick. For Pharma indoctrinated MDs, necessity will not become the mother of invention. In the failed state of America, it will be up to decentralized, individual efforts to discover and implement successful treatments for vulnerable populations, and prophylaxis for the rest.

Given the political context that we live in, those efforts are likely to be met with active hostility, and do not at all conform with the goals of those in power."

What? Didn't Trump say it would all be over by March 15?

Funny how only in pornography can someone with felony assault, get an award at a vanity project that after a few years thinks it’s the “Oscars” of gay porn. Zach Sire sure loves to report in the dirt of people, but is it a possible attraction to someone that he doesn’t report on a model from a studio he’s obsessed with? And blocks people on social media for tweeting him the link. Sad.

Their name was EVERYWHERE! One could not turn and not see their name, their designs, their style. The world revolved around then and was about them! Then... POOF!

They were gone...

What the hell ever happened? What went wrong?

This thread is about those designers, and those creative others, who were the toast of the town but who went KABOOM! Let us remember them and tell the stories.

GO!

Sings parody of Ice Ice Baby

De Blasio comes to his senses.

[Quote]MAYOR DE BLASIO: “Tomorrow, I will sign an Executive Order limiting restaurants, bars and cafes to food take-out and delivery. Nightclubs, movie theaters, small theater houses, and concert venues must all close. The order will go into effect Tuesday, March 17 at 9:00 AM.”

He was a hottie.....damn and he probably passed it on to countless other gays who were there.....

Newsflash: Nobody cares about your fucking workout routine, nor are we so goddamn bored that we're gonna sit and watch a fucking video of you working out! You're not that fucking interesting. Go fuck yourselves and get a fucking clue!

When people say “proper” to mean city limits “Agency” “Optics” “Problematic”

Well?

I wonder if that was just a plot device, and if in fact Pazuzu was already looking to possess Regan because her latent psychic powers might serve useful to him.

I'm looking into using a new browser and dumping Google Chrome and I was just wondering what everyone here used.

I'll start: I'm the one who faintly regrets changing her name from Susan Katzberg to Memoree Rainsong.

When I was 12, I was old enough to stay at home alone and babysit the neighbor's kid. Next....

You know he’s freaking out.

That is, if we ever get back to "normal."

I will definitely buy it just for Joyce Hyser's creamy white tits. Mmmmmm. Even as a gayling I still wanted to own those tits as pets. Clayton Rohner was hot too.

Why do our brains create entertainment, including sitcoms, dramas, thrillers, entire songs, while we’re sleeping?

Just to entertain us?

Some of them have absolutely no meaning or double meaning.

Why?!

Brooklyn Beckham 'is moving in with girlfriend Nicola Peltz in New York... as their relationship gets serious after she "won over his family". More likely she had to do some serious ass kissing to Mommy Victoria B.

I know this can be a dicey subject for some, as they don't want to believe their 'ICONS' can be gay! But I will bear their wrath and proceed with my 'selection.': Tom Brady (Bi), Aaron Rodgers; Wes Welker(?),JJ Watt (just got married to a woman),Julian Elderman; Danny Amendola, Brian Cushing, Christian McCaffrey (currently 'involved' with a 'beard')--on the fence-Rob Gronkowski. Several more, but I thought I would let others Post their 'suspects!'

Dean to Newman: Kiss me.

Newman: Can’t here.

"He said, 'Joey, it's simple. They love each other.'"

0/10, this is so pathetic!

Hot

Overdue? I’d say Yes.

So now what. Is there an initiation? Do I get some Tupperware or something?

lmao

Reading? Writing? Learning a new language?

I can feel myself getting dumber ...

Get ready for her to be even more hormonal now.

Premieres Sunday October 6 on AMC.

I don't expect there to be huge fanfare about the premiere. It seems to have only two fans left on Datalounge.

And by the way.... who ARE these people in the trailer? I only recognize Daryl and Michonne.

Link shows the first three minutes of the season premiere.

What were they? Obviously with a World War going on the context was different, but although I am aware there was a depression in 1920, it seemed that the rest of the decade was marked by growth (which ended badly, but not for reasons due to the Spanish Flu).

Is there a reason to expect that the financial ramifications will be more severe with this pandemic? Because I would have thought a World War would have made things worse and not better.

I'm not an economist so would love a professional opinion.

That Falwell fucker should be arrested!

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Mr. Falwell — a staunch ally of President Trump and an influential voice in the evangelical world — reopened the university last week, igniting a firestorm, epidemiologically and otherwise.

As of Friday, Liberty’s student health services Dr. Edward Eppes said, nearly a dozen Liberty students were sick with symptoms that suggest Covid-19, the disease caused by the virus. Three were referred to local hospital centers for testing. Another eight were told to self-isolate.

“Liberty will be notifying the community as deemed appropriate and required by law,” Mr. Falwell said in an interview on Sunday when confronted with the numbers. He added that any student returning now to campus would be required to self-quarantine for 14 days.

Go!

Me: The Best - AWOL Nation

My favorite new meme!

Wanna organize a gangbang party

Alan Merrill has sadly passed away from the COVID-19 coronavirus.

The musician, who was part of the Arrows, and was the writer behind "I Love Rock N' Roll", died at the age of 69 due to complications from the virus.

Alan's daughter, Laura, shared the news on Facebook: "The Coronavirus took my father this morning. I was given 2 minutes to say my goodbyes before I was rushed out. He seemed peaceful and as I left there was still a glimmer of hope that he wouldn’t be a ticker on the right hand side of the CNN/Fox news screen."

She continued, "I walked 50 blocks home still with hope in my heart. The city that I knew was empty. I felt I was the only person here and perhaps in many ways I was. By the time I got in the doors to my apartment I received the news that he was gone."

Joan Jett, who had a huge hit with "I Love Rock 'n' Roll", shared her condolences of his passing.

"My thoughts and love go to his family, friends and music community as a whole," she wrote on Twitter. You can read her full statement below.

As medical professionals and local authorities across the country sound the alarm over shortages of life-saving equipment due to a surge in coronavirus patients, President Donald Trump on Thursday shrugged off their warnings because, as he put it, “a lot of equipment is being asked for that I don’t think they will need.”

Calling into Fox News host and unofficial presidential adviser Sean Hannity’s show on Thursday, Trump boasted about his administration’s response to the crippling pandemic, despite the fact that the United States now has the most confirmed coronavirus cases in the world.

Asked by Hannity about his general refusal to enforce the Defense Production Act to ramp up production of needed supplies like masks and ventilators, the president insisted it hadn’t been necessary because there’s been “tremendous spirit” from corporations that he says have stepped up. This prompted him to then take some pointed shots at Democratic governors who’ve criticized the federal response.

“Remember, we are a second line of attack,” he exclaimed. “The first line of attack is supposed to be the hospitals and the local government and the states.”

The president first took aim at Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, calling him a “failed presidential candidate” who is “always complaining” and “should be doing more” for his state. He then proceeded to attack Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, who he said was “not stepping up” and “has not been pleasant.”

Claiming he gets along well with most of the other governors, the president then suggested they are asking for unnecessary supplies from the federal government while also insisting that the states should take on the majority of the burden.

“I think that a lot of things are being said that are more,” Trump said. “I don’t think certain things will materialize, a lot of equipment is being asked for that I don’t think they’ll need.”

“But we are building four medical centers and many other things we have developed and sent thousands of ventilators and hopefully, they’re going to do well but you have to know, this has to be managed by local government and by the governors,” Trump added. “Can’t be managed by the federal government.”

Hannity, who began his program by blasting New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo for desperately declaring his state’s need for 30,000 ventilators, went on to say the governor’s request annoyed him. Moments later, Trump suggested the state didn’t need nearly that much equipment.

“I have a feeling that a lot of the numbers that are being said in some areas are just bigger than they are going to be,” he asserted. “I don’t believe you need 40,000 or 30,000 ventilators. You know, you go to major hospitals, sometimes they have two ventilators. ”

As of publication, the death toll from COVID-19 in New York City alone has topped 365. The city’s entire health-care system, meanwhile, is on the brink as more and more patients flood the hospitals. At its current pace, FEMA estimates that the city’s intensive care units will be filled by Friday.

Please help. Why doesn’t the smell wash off?

Most of the young guys whose names fall to the last half of the alphabet (Evan/Christian being the sole exception) seem to get the ax sooner or later.

WIth so many of the young hot hunks in the TPTB crosshairs for long term employment, who do you think they should give "bullet proof plot armor" to?

The thread pic is Rory (Kevin Riggin) who was JJ's best friend for awhile on the show. Casey "JJ" Moss appears to have left on his own terms (so he wasn't listed).

Discuss.

Does anyone know when Season Three is starting?

Gay soap supercouple is over and was axed by a gay head writer and gay executive producer.

For some reason only subscribers can post on the other "Gio & Tommy" thread, which is making it barely active.

I decided to create a new thread where anyone can post.

Tommy is now teaming up with Entertainment Tonight!

She seems to be getting quite a bit of attention during the CV crisis, and appears to be very bright and engaging.

Also seems like she would appeal to the Botoxed suburban fraus that the Democratic party covets these days.

They’re always so at-risk!

Or at least relatively instant, say within an hour.

That's what we need to end this quarantine.

Now with Aaron Paul, Vincent Cassel, and Lena Waithe.

Coming to HBO in 2020.

This is our first Sunday with the more serious lockdown guidelines in place ... so are churches empty?

first one just got payrolled.

but that won't stop us

Haven’t been able to use it for weeks. When I try to sign in to PayPal, it just spins. It never loads up.

Hey teachers - have you been ordered to teach from home yet? Are we expected to know how to do this, just like that, in the middle of a semester, and will they tolerate a "college try"?

I have had my class "support" materials online for several years, but I don't have online interaction built into any task design.

Also, I dislike teleconferencing of any sort - social or professional - and don't want anyone - students or staff, to be connected to me in my home. Adapt or die I suppose.

Just wondering if anyone has already been forced to do this, and how it's going.

Daytime.

Has anyone else noticed lately that certain items in the grocery store are NOT sold out? In some cases they are all that is left in that aisle. It made me laugh cause you have to wonder if the product sucks so bad that no one would want it, even in a possible apocalypse. Or it was deemed to have no use, or possibly just too expensive? For example, I noticed in the soup aisle there were still tons of campbell's soup cans even though all the other soup was sold out. In produce everything was gone except for mexican scallions and turnip greens. In dairy the milk, eggs and butter were gone, but there was plenty of yogurt. Almost all the olive oil was gone but there was lots of avocado oil and coconut oil. I wonder if the marketing departments of any of these companies are taking notice of this.

DLrs regale us with your tales of the things no one wants!

That's 10 boxes of 100 wipes, just to do the math for you.

The delivery person delivered them to the wrong address. He got the street right but the house number wrong -- like, way wrong. I am not even sure how he made the mistake, that's how dissimilar the two numbers are.

I had been planning to drop them off at the correct owner, but I just went by the store to pick up some toilet paper and shortages are still in full effect where I live. I was only able to get 1 package of four rolls due to rationing/purchase limits.

Should I keep these wipes for a "rainy day?"

What would you do?

Can you describe libertarianism in a nutshell? I heard they're basically republicans with a black/gay friend.

Hagdonna?

Competition launched to find real-life Dickens characters. Dickens helped to found the Journalists’ Charity in 1864. To mark the 150th anniversary of his death, the charity is asking for written portraits of a modern-day Dickensian character. The subject could be someone in public life, including a politician or and celebrity, or an NHS worker helping to stem the spread of the coronavirus.

As suggested by someone in another thread.

Let's make it a thing.

#TRUMPVIRUS

Raw manliness is so attractive.

Look, I get that Madonna gets a lot of hate on this board. I’m not a superfan, but I like some of her stuff and don’t get the hate.

Anyway, just popping over to her Twitter account... there are some RAGING conspiracy lunatics replying on her tweets. I don’t know what’s going on there, but it has to do with Trump followers, alleged pedophilia, adrenochrome (???), and pizzagate. It’s INSANE.

Breakfast Club—five high school teens—a trans boy, a trans girl, a homosexual African American, a non-binary Asian, and a straight white boy do Saturday detention together.

Since some of us may soon be living post apocalypse let's discuss our favorite films in the genre. I like 2004's Dawn of the Dead. It's a rare remake that outdoes the original and it has a great soundtrack.

Because we could use some cheering up.

Let’s talk about actors who were launched (or pushed on us) with an “introducing” in the opening credits of a film.

Who succeeded? Who sank?

I’ll start with Miss Lange.

Nobody rocked a wig like Carol Burnett. Even ones that looked like her real hair.

So why was Parker Posey not invited to return to Tales of the City? She was in the original and the second version. Or are they saving her for a spinoff called Connie Bradshaw Returns!!

The actor revealed he completely abstained from sex for months until he met the singer.

As the old threads keep getting locked. This will be the definitive place to talk and share gossip about Janeane's hair/wig/weave/extensions etc. Ever work or perform with her? Share your hair stories here. Know a wig stylist that knew her? talk about.

Janeane's hair is a world of wonders. Does she wear a wig? A weave? Hairpiece? Extensions?

Share your Janeane hair stories here.

Does she or doesn't she wear them? Past or present. Discuss, and she your Janeane hair/wig stories, gossip.

Does she or doesn't she wear them? Past or present. Discuss, and she your Janeane hair/wig stories, gossip.

Hot, funny, underrated. Any fans?

After nearly 500 posts, my original thread has been locked.

Discuss my massive crush, Janeane Garofalo.

If you know her, met her, worked with her, or performed with her, share your stories here.

If you know her, met her, worked with her, or performed with her, share your stories here.

If you know her, met her, worked with her, or performed with her, share your stories here.

Discuss.

American singer Madonna has performed on eleven concert tours. Which was your favorite?

Does anybody remember this cereal commercial from the mid/late90s?

This black woman is sitting at a restaurant table facing our left, and she's talking to the camera about how she's never liked Total cereal, and she takes a sip of it, and then turns to the camera and says that it's true she always liked Total she just never wanted to admit it.

She then says "You know what else" and then she takes off her wig and hangs it on the chair next to her.

The last one was paywalled.

The resemblance is striking.

On this thread!

I really hope I’m not being played.

Touch Me I'm Sick

Continue please

What’s new with Mo’ & Sidney? Will they make it through the quarantine without going to war with another powerful black celebrity via social media? Will they finally turn on each other? How is racist Hollywood to blame for the Coronavirus? Whose fault is it THIS week? Do you think they wish they’d taken what Netflix had to offer?

There! I said it!

Overwrought, overplayed, treacly piece of shit song! If there is torture in hell, it's listening to this song on an endless loop!

I will always hate you!

He is handsome and sexy. I’ve just seen pics of him and he looks so different compared to his 2012 self.

Go to Google and do a search for "stock photo + [your subject]". Then click on Images.

This one popped-up for "Lonely Housewife".

I just stumbled across "Pask Makes" on Youtube. This dude just literally made a Dyson style bladeless fan out of scrapwood!

Shit is real!

It just is.

It means you're too close to them, and that you're having trouble sorting out fantasy from reality.

Carry on.

Anyone going?

oh boy this is a real packed trailer. They don't show exactly what Monique does to Candiace in the footage below but we get a glimpse of the before and after with a producer holding her back.

The whole cast from last season returns with a new housewife, Wendy.

Relationship drama galore! Robyn/Juan, Gizelle/ex hubby Jamal, Karen/Ray and Ashley/Michael who is caught with strippers??????

this season looks amazing

trailer below. I like the cast photo

I can't stand the bitch, but I have to admit she looks really good.

Oh well, stupid is as stupid does.

Continued from the Part 4 thread (started almost a year ago).

Thread video below = "Pet Glitches In Reality"

Discuss.

What's his deal? Any gossip?

Vulgar black and white photography, hackneyed 'danger: men cooking" fridge magnets, and rubber duckies for some unknown reason.

A clever gentleman (I presume) is posting about the pandemic in the voice of 17th century English diarist Samuel Pepys.

Today he referred to “striplings” and I thought, “What a marvelous word to describe today’s youths who are so fond of posing half-naked in Instagram thirst traps.”

Anything else come to mind?

This was a really bad movie!

Girl would have loved the Datalounge.

What's your favorite Parker quip?

Post your faves.

Usually these lists are lame, but this one is good.

David Schramm has sadly passed away this week at the age of 73, it has been announced by The Acting Company.

The actor is most remembered for his role as Roy Biggins, the rival airline owner, on the television series Wings. David appeared in all 172 episodes throughout the entire series.

David's other credits include many on and off-Broadway like Alan Ayckbourn’s Bedroom Face, the 2009 revival of Finian’s Rainbow, and many more.

He also co-founded The Acting Company alongside Margot Harley, who announced the somber news.

“We mourn his loss and will miss him,” Margot shared of his passing.

The cause of David's passing is still unknown at this time.

I’m already sick of the handout requests, posting Venmo and GoFundMe. Like fuck off! Almost everyone is in a shit position. This is why we need the government to take care of society, not a fucking GoFundMe lottery based on how many followers you have.

Plácido Domingo has been hospitalized in Mexico with complications related to COVID-19, Opera News reported on March 28.

In a press statement, a spokesperson for the opera singer reported that he is in stable condition but will remain the hospital for "as long as the doctors find it necessary until a hoped-for full recovery."

The 79-year-old announced his positive COVID-19 diagnosis in a Facebook post March 22 and reported he had been experiencing fever and cough symptoms.

"Together we can fight the virus and stop the current worldwide crisis so we can hopefully return to our normal daily lives very soon," he wrote. "Please follow your local government’s guidelines and regulations for staying safe and protecting not just yourselves but our entire community."

On March 10, Los Angeles Opera said its investigation of Domingo, their former general director and once opera's biggest star, found sexual harassment allegations against him to be credible. Previously, the American Guild of Musical Artists, which represents opera performers, released findings of its own sexual harassment investigation, concluding that Domingo engaged in ​“inappropriate activity, ranging from flirtation to sexual advances, in and outside of the workplace.”

Do sellers prefer prequalification or preapproved?

He ran for governor after he dropped out. So why did people think voters would have a problem with Pete being gay or the wrong kind of gay. Liberals are so out of touch. They should all watch the Netflix series about Joe Exotic. That’s the real America. Yes. It is.

I mean, holy crap!

He’s at 44.6% approval per 538 as of this evening. That despite THIS (see link).

So at what point do we give up and say, this country has the leadership it deserves in this crisis?

Still talking about old TV shows, indeed.

From 10 Underhill Terrace to Reva Bend and the Snyder farm in Luther's Corners, chatter away about your favorite pieces of real estate.

Gimme some yuks.

Those of you going stir crazy with "cabin fever?"

Just go outside. It won't kill you.

Take a walk. Get some fresh air. Go to the grocery store. Do something normal.

It will clear your head.

The more you stay indoors, the more mental you will get.

That is all.

So did she have a thing going on with Mariah back in the day? They were awfully close.

I don't remember trying this, Invisible Food, but I would occasionally take a dog biscuit and pretend to nibble on it. My dog would get so mad! He’d tilt his head, vocalize in frustration, and wack me with his paw. Damn I miss him!

He had a good life, don’t pick on me for teasing him a few times.

What do we know about him other than being Billie Ellish's brother and is he family?

Yes unfortunately we are approaching that time of year again on datalounge when we contemplate and ponder which celebrities may pass away next year.

Sadly I feel we are likely to lose the divine Loretta Lynn next year.

Some other guesses include Jimmy Carter, Katherine Jackson, Kirk Douglas, Rhonda Fleming and Olivia Newton John.😥

Just for distraction, let's post pics and talk about our favorite candies that we loved as a kid.

I had a love/hate relationship with Now and Laters, especially the Banana flavor:

They're all back!

Jameela Jamil isn’t interested in being perfect.

“Sometimes, I do f— up, but I always apologize when I’ve gotten it wrong,” she told said in a candid interview on “Variety Live,” which streams via Variety’s Instagram account. “I learn, and other people learn with me.”

And she definitely isn’t afraid to back down from a (social media) fight, specifically when it comes to grappling with the physical and mental health struggles. In February, the “The Good Place” actor engaged in a public back-and-forth with a writer who accused her of having Munchausen syndrome, which Jamil denied.

“I’m not someone who rises above. I don’t turn the other cheek. I’m not Jesus. I’ll get down in the gutter and fight you,” she said.

Of course, Jamil is no stranger to controversy. She was criticized for her participation in the upcoming ball culture competition show “Legendary” on HBO Max; ball culture was founded mostly by the black and Latinx LGBTQ community in the late 1980s.

Shortly thereafter, Jamil came out as queer, something she admitted she could have timed better, although she it’s something she has known about herself since she was a child.

“I didn’t tell anyone about it until a couple of years ago, so I just kept it quiet ‘cause I come from a South Asian background. So, you just don’t really have a lot of queer idols. There isn’t a lot of conversation around it. There isn’t a lot of acceptance for it within my culture, traditionally,” said the British actor, who is of Indian and Pakistani descent.

The outspoken actor is hoping to start some conversations, though, on- and offline. In 2018, Jamil launched I Weigh, a mental health movement, and will be debuting a podcast focused on feminism and mental health advocacy. Guests include Tarana Burke, Russell Brand, Gloria Steinem and Neal Brennan, among others; the first episode debuts April 3, featuring “Booksmart” star Beanie Feldstein, who Jamil called a “f—ing ray of sunshine.”

She also lends her voice as Auntie Pushpa in Disney Junior’s new animated kids’ show “Mira, Royal Detective.” Set in the fictional, India-inspired kingdom of Jalpur, the show centers on 8-year-old Mira who solves cases around the city with the help of her two mongoose friends. It features an exclusively South Asian voice cast, including Kal Penn, Freida Pinto, Hannah Simone and Utkarsh Ambudkar.

Jamil hopes that young viewers, especially those of South Asian descent, can see themselves as heroes of their own stories.

“I know I grew up thinking something was wrong with me because I wasn’t thin, white with long blonde curly hair, a two-inch waist. So to now have this young South Asian girl as the hero and she’s not waiting for a prince to save her — she’s the one saving the prince if anything, she’s saving the whole town,” said Jamil.

In the meantime, Jamil, like many others, is practicing social distancing, helping her Grammy-winning musician boyfriend James Blake livestream “concerts” from home, logging off social media and checking in with her former “The Good Place” co-stars, like Manny Jacinto, whom she worried about because of the uptick in anti-Asian bigotry spurred by the coronavirus pandemic (Jacinto is Filipino Canadian).

She’s also writing a book and contemplating penning a screenplay.

“I’ve never had a plan, which is my career has been so stupid,” she said cheekily, touching on her various jobs as a TV host, presenter and actor. “Maybe I’ll be a rapper next. I don’t know.”

... for misleading their idiot viewers in Covid Reporting. Please God let this happen

A hot Alpha male

Can you imagine how fucking smug they're feeling right now?

Has anyone seen Matt’s new hair colour? I wonder if his controlling wife made him go blonde? Thoughts anyone...

For her acclaimed second feature as a director, Barbra Streisand crafted a sumptuous, emotionally wrenching adaptation of Pat Conroy’s best-selling novel—which she also produced and starred in. Summoned to New York after his sister attempts suicide, Tom Wingo (Nick Nolte) must serve as her memory, reckoning with the traumas of their southern childhood so that her psychiatrist, Dr. Susan Lowenstein (Streisand), can help her recover. But Tom’s sessions with Lowenstein will plunge him into the depths of his own long-repressed pain—and reawaken the possibility of love within him. Nominated for seven Academy Awards, including best picture and best actor for Nolte’s soulful performance, The Prince of Tides is a life-affirming tale of healing and renewal from a triple-threat filmmaker with a keen and humane insight into her characters’ sorrows, joys, and yearnings.

DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

New 4K digital restoration, supervised by director Barbra Streisand, with 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray Audio commentary featuring Streisand, recorded in 1991 and updated in 2019 Making-of featurette from 1991 Excerpt from a 2018 interview with Streisand, conducted by filmmaker Robert Rodriguez on El Rey Network’s The Director’s Chair Audition and rehearsal footage Deleted scenes and alternate takes Costume and makeup tests Alternate end credits with vocal performance by Streisand Behind-the-scenes footage Gag reel Production-stills gallery and other archival materials Interview with author Pat Conroy from a 1992 episode of Cinema Showcase with Jim Whaley Interview with Streisand from a 1992 episode of the British television show Aspel & Company with Michael Aspel Trailers PLUS: An essay by film historian Bruce Eder

Tomboy's was like a ghost town today. No one was there and usually it's packed. They had just one delivery order while we were waiting. They aren't getting any business. So sad. Tomboy's is my favorite.

“Social distancing is sooo hard! I am sooo bored! I’m going out of my miiiiiind!”

Yes, I’m sure being left alone with a mind devoid of thought is trying, but your constant complaining is a real mood killer. Now, hush.

You know it coming

Mariah, Billy, Dave, that fat girl and so many more!

Dr Hot

Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo announced during a press conference on Friday that the state would take drastic steps to “pin-point” individuals who had recently traveled to New York in an attempt to stem the spread of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.

“Right now we have a pin-pointed risk that we need to address and we need to be very serious. And that risk is called New York City,” she said. Over the past week, New York has become the epicenter of the coronavirus crisis in the United States. As of Saturday afternoon Eastern Time, New York had at least 52,318 confirmed cases of COVID-19, according to a tracker by Johns Hopkin’s University; that’s nearly half of the at least 115,547 cases in the entire United States. In comparison, Rhode Island currently has at least 203 confirmed cases, per the tracker.

Raimondo had previously issued an order, enforceable by law, that anyone coming to Rhode Island “in any way” from New York must be quarantined for two weeks. “That could be in a hotel, that could be in a rental property, that could be your own summer home,” she said.

She announced that starting on Friday afternoon, state police will monitor highways and pull over anyone with New York plates to ask them for their contact information. Officials will order “you into quarantine if you plan to stay in Rhode Island,” she said.

Raimondo also announced that, starting Saturday, the National Guard will work with local law enforcement to go “door-to-door” in communities on the state’s border, asking if anyone has come from New York and requesting their contact information. She said officials will order any individuals who have come from New York to quarantine for 14 days.

“Obviously we will be doing out best to target those homes where we know people are likely to have come from New York,” she said.

Texas, Maryland, South Carolina and Florida have all also ordered anyone coming from New York to self-quarantine for two weeks. On March 24, President Donald Trump also requested anyone who has recently been in New York self-quarantine for 14 days, although that guidance is not enforceable by law.

Raimondo also announced that all hotels, renters and rental companies will be notified of this quarantine order in writing, and will be asked to provide the guidance to their renters.

“I know this is unusual. I know it’s extreme. And I know some people don’t agree with it. And it’s absolutely not a decision that I make lightly,” she said.

“We’re not shutting down our borders, per se,” she continued. “But what we’re saying is, if you want to seek refuge in Rhode Island, you must be quarantined.”

I have heard a few including China create it in retaliation - but this one made me go hmmm.

Not many people have given this story legs but Trump and his administration have been pouring billions into farmers thanks to Trump's trade war. thanks to an old FDA law he has given more to the farmers than all the auto bailouts combined with no congressional review.

the theory goes - trump is using the virus - he knew it was a pandemic but delayed reaction to create this rush in the grocery stores - The demand for produce, meat and other foods is driving up the demand from farmers.

It just dawned on me that gay pride in SF is suppose to be in just 3 months. Im horrified at the prospect that they might cancel it. Knowing how this bitch mayor was one of the first shut the whole city down, I wouldn't be surprised if she decides ruin gay pride this year.

But who should I call?

Falwell brings them back to campus.

LYNCHBURG, Va. — As Liberty University’s spring break was drawing to a close this month, Jerry Falwell Jr., its president, spoke with the physician who runs Liberty’s student health service about the rampaging coronavirus.

“We’ve lost the ability to corral this thing,” Dr. Thomas W. Eppes Jr. said he told Mr. Falwell. But he did not urge him to close the school. “I just am not going to be so presumptuous as to say, ‘This is what you should do and this is what you shouldn’t do,’” Dr. Eppes said in an interview.

So Mr. Falwell — a staunch ally of President Trump and an influential voice in the evangelical world — reopened the university last week, igniting a firestorm, epidemiologically and otherwise. As of Friday, Dr. Eppes said, nearly a dozen Liberty students were sick with symptoms that suggest Covid-19, the disease caused by the virus. Three were referred to local hospital centers for testing. Another eight were told to self-isolate.

“Liberty will be notifying the community as deemed appropriate and required by law,” Mr. Falwell said in an interview on Sunday when confronted with the numbers. He added that any student returning now to campus would be required to self-quarantine for 14 days.

'Everybody knows that pestilences have a way of recurring in the world, yet somehow we find it hard to believe in ones that crash down on our heads from a blue sky. There have been as many plagues as wars in history, yet always plagues and wars take people equally by surprise. We tell ourselves that pestilence is a mere bogey of the mind, a bad dream that will pass away. But it doesn't always pass away and, from one bad dream to another, it is men who pass away."

Albert Camus, The Plague

Kevin Spacey says, "I'm looking forward to seeing you in your tight-fitting leather pants" during his keynote speech for the Bits & Pretzels Virtual Founders Breakfast.

(At the video's 6:47 mark.)

I think it would be hard to deal with

"I hope this note finds you and your loved ones healthy and well.

It is safe to say these past weeks have been among some of the most tumultuous and emotional that any of us can remember in our lifetimes. The impact of the coronavirus outbreak has been felt by individuals and families, companies and communities, across the United States and around the world.

The response to this crisis has been extraordinary; as much for what it has required from our society as for what it has revealed of us as a people.

Far from causing division and discord, this crisis and the social distancing it has required, has allowed us to witness something profound and moving about ourselves: our fond and deeply felt wish to be connected with one another.

The role of connector is one we're privileged to play in the moments that matter most in your life – weddings and graduations, birthdays and business trips, events large and small – and it's that responsibility that motivates us most to get back to our regular service, as soon as possible.

That is why it is so important our government acted on a comprehensive relief act to ensure our airline – and our industry – are ready and able to serve you again when this crisis abates.

I want to relay to you, in as deeply personal a way I can, the heartfelt appreciation of my 100,000 United team members and their families for this vital public assistance to keep America and United flying for you.

This support will save jobs in our business and many others. And it allows us time to make decisions about the future of our airline to ensure that we can offer you the service you deserve and have come to expect as our customers.

While consumer demand has fallen, we have seen the need for our service and capabilities shifted. And, we've adapted to help meet those needs.

Right now, aircraft flying the United livery and insignia, flown by our aviation professionals, have been repurposed to deliver vital medical supplies and goods to some of the places that need it most. We're also using several of our idle widebody aircraft to use as dedicated charter cargo flights, at least 40 times per week, to transfer freight to and from U.S. locations as well as to key international business locations. At the same time, we are working in concert with the U.S. State Department to bring stranded Americans who are trying to return home back to their loved ones.

While much remains uncertain right now, one thing is for sure: this crisis will pass. Our nation and communities will recover and United will return to service you, our customers. When that happens, we want you to fly United with even greater pride because of the actions we took on behalf of our customers, our employees and everyone we serve."

Stay safe and be well,

Oscar Munoz CEO

The story is on the page, but I saved up to move back to Los Angeles in February. A friend was nice enough to put me up for a while, but I've had to leave his place. I found an Air B&B, which I'm at now, but the day is rapidly approaching when I'll be out of money. My last day of being in this Air B&B is Monday, then I'm basically homeless.

The crazy thing is, I totally hustled when I got here. I got two jobs. One was supposed to start on the 16th, but that was the Monday that all hell broke loose, and it got postponed. As did the other job I got with the Census.

I figure $1,000 would be enough to get a cheap Air B&B till May. (I hear may places are heavily discounted.) Any help you could give would be greatly appreciated. And please let me know here if you have any questions for me. I will keep you all updated on my progress though the month, too.

Thank you!!

Why did they never have another hit?

This song is just so wonderful and powerful, even with its simplicity. I love this song so much, I can listen to it on repeat.

What makes me sad is that it doesn't seem that we are in a brighter place or easier place than in 1970, things are just more covered up now. Ugh. It makes me sad. They were so wonderful.

I have to go with Britney Rears.

Ominous inklings of troubles ahead. I'm sure nobody will starve in rich countries. But the present seasonless abundant cornucopia of imported products, which we have become used to, may take a hit.

It's time that a great director remake The Exorcist, don't you think? Here are my suggestions for cast and director.

Director: David Fincher or Alfonso Cuaron

Ellen Burstyn role: Emma Stone

Linda Blair role: Unknown actress

Jason Miller role: Adam Driver

Max von Sydow role: Daniel Day-Lewis

Kitty Winn role: Ariana Grande

Lee J. Cobb role: Robert De Niro

It would be amazing with this cast and director. Maybe even better than the original.

Something nice to think about.

It's not confirmed yet, but the suspected individual is a 55-year-old Wuhan man who was infected in November.

Even though it's not something he did intentionally or anything, it would still fuck with my head to know that I was the initial vector for a virus currently killing tens and thousands of people.

Is this happening to anyone in a red state?

I have heard of three cases in the last few days, where people say they know these people are in the hospital with Covid-19, and that it has been confirmed. However, when I do searches for these cases in my area, they are not being reported.

One is being denied, and the other one is being muddied, and no one really knows what’s going on.

The first case happened in a church, where one girl exposed tons of people. Her dad for sure has it. He is hospitalized in a different state. She flew into this area, and went to church, and allegedly tested positive when she went to the hospital because she was sick.

The other person who allegedly tested positive, just had chemotherapy and radiation therapies for cancer. He recovered well, went back to work, got Covid-19, and allegedly exposed many to the virus.

All being denied. Not one prop in the paper about the second case. The first case is now being denied, and the pastor of the church is telling everyone that it’s OK to go back to church and that it was a lie, I guess? However, I did read about the first case in the paper, several weeks back.

I am genuinely concerned that some areas will not be told the truth about this virus, and that some of us will for sure get sick because people are being greedy and irresponsible.

I am starting to realize that I am living in an area that may be at higher risk than many, because of corrupt local politicians and local businesses owners.

A gritty, true story which is overarching in it's melancholiness but, punctuated by the warmth and compassion of the two protagonists.

Instacart employees set to strike tomorrow over lack of hazard pay, among other things.

Adam Ayash

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Docs have stopped administering any experimental drugs to him.

Someone HAD to start this thread...

All those correspondents he cuts to- David Gutman, Joel Whitford, the Brit guy who wears tight shirts- are hotties. Think this was Muir's doing?

Yep.

I'm Not trolling or kidding.

This is from someone who believed the accusations against him but I've done a simple research and found out that Woody didn't molest Dylan.

Here's a lovely antique Colonial that the Realtor is doing no favors with. At one point, it was wildly priced at 1.2 million, now just popped up on the market a few years after the owner died at 450k. I suspect he may have been one of us DL. I met him but didn't really know him. He was a model/actor/designer from NY and quite house proud. While the house is overstuffed to the gills, there are great bones. It's on a busy road with very little property, but it will be wonderful for the right person with a little imagination. The heirs are basically selling it for a fire sale price, and you can tell everyone that the house across the street was once owned by the late Polly Bergen and her partner, who recently lost that one to foreclosure after Polly died. Don't know how that happened. It's a sad day, tasteful friends. A sad day.

I'll post the full piece inside because of the paywall.

The gist is: Cuomo and the other governors refuse to take his ridiculous ideas (like he'll quarantine NYC) seriously, and just dismiss them, and the media should to, since he's just trolling for attention.

I hate her and her stupid haircut.

Also she looks like a closet caneface!

Is this guy's cock for real? It seems like the pictures are a mixture of fake and real, but it could just be the photos. I can't tell. I need more experienced expert opinions.

Met Opera is hosting their Metropolitan Nightly Opera Live HD Encore Streaming Presentation for free starting March 16 at 7:30PM EST and will remain available to stream via the homepage for 20 hours.

Monday, March 16 – Bizet's Carmen

Tuesday, March 17 – Puccini's La Bohème

Wednesday, March 18 – Verdi's Il Trovatore

Thursday, March 19 – Verdi's La Traviata

Friday, March 20 – Donizetti's La Fille du Régiment

Saturday, March 21 – Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor

Sunday, March 22 – Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin

What say ye, DataLounge?

Because all I have left is Smirnoff Strawberry or Cherry and Ginger Ale or Orange Juice in the fridge. I need alcohol to get me through this.

I am, via this thread, giving a general "So young" of indefinite duration which, when one thinks of it, also describes me. Please list the dead below in the replies. It will be our own version of In Memorian at the Academy Awards, a segment on which I won't be appearing any time soon.

Are you going to watch the 8 Week Revival of the series? It’s Hosted by Jimmy Kimmel.

I believe it will be Celebrity Edition. I wonder who they are going to have on the show.

So I had did an at-home sleep apnea test last night & will have to do it again tonight. (I already did one in a hospital years ago but couldn’t use CPAP afterwards. I have a new dr who wanted a new test).

I had sleep paralysis all night long. I kept dreaming I was awake and lying in bed looking out my bedroom door towards my husband’s bedroom trying to call to him because I needed help. I couldn’t breathe. I wanted him to come in and help me to turn & change my position so I could breathe. It was really frightening.

I guess tonight I’ll make sure the chest strap is a little looser.

I will be Sophia’s wicker purse she is carrying as she tries to escape the house during Quarantine.

Oh yeah brah ⚾️

Fingers crossed!

Sad :(

Just sharing.

Time to pay girls

New decade. New looks.

Thoughts?

Jordan Torres just sent me a DM on Instagram!!!!! I am dying! I’ve been following him a couple months and I posted “lookin’ buff bro 💪 can I work -in with u at the gym sometime?” And he sent me a DM giving me the name of his gym and time he works out!!! Jealous bitches? (I won’t share the name of the gym because I don’t want you whores trying to get him)

They must be fucking non-stop, as well as singing together for us, on Instagram Live.

Reminds me of what we’re going through. Well, more at the beginning of the panic.

It was either The Birds, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (70s one), World War Z, or...? Could even be North By Northwest or The Impossible. Small window of time where everything seems OK, then chaos.

The main character is walking on a street or goes outside for a moment. Everything seems normal, and then something little happens that lets them know something isn’t right. And then there is sudden chaos.

It’s like when you’re walking and you feel a few drops of rain that warn you, you have a few minutes to seek cover, and then DOWNPOUR!

Any ideas?

I guess we all knew this was going to happen. But damn, it's really starting to kick in. But serves as a warning, he was NOT HIV positive, so stop pretending it's its just the old gays with HIV. ANYONE can die from this. Stay the fuck home guys.

Do you like our little homunculus’s pillow muscles, or is he getting too Michelin Mannish?

I mean, in spite of what the media and SM like to portray, what really drives the tourism industry is the low/middle class. There aren't enough rich people in the World to sustain the whole industry.

The luxury industry is fucked short term too.

Aussie Cameron Fitzgerald

I was 17 when this movie came out and did not get to see it until a few years later, and I loved it. It was funny, but honest, and sweet at times, and relatable, as I have been in situations where I felt like the main character. I loved that Hag Tiffany, and loved the main character and the actor that played him. He was just so damn hot. Jim Verraros was his name? Very cute.

I loved the sequels also, even the terrible camp one that should not have even been made.

I do like the second film the best. "Eating Out 2: Sloppy Seconds" is a lot more fun, a lot more funny, a lot more charming, and it has Marco Dapper, who I have crushed on since 2006. I saw this one before the original, actually. Marco Dapper is perfection, still.

Which would you say is the best of the Franchise?

How many of these have you received?

I think I've gotten over 100.

From banks, airlines, hotels, healthcare, rental car companies, utility companies, and dozens of others.

I've never felt so important in my whole goddamned life.

And it only took a global pandemic for them to reach out to me.

I guess they're missing my business, huh?

You can hear the fear in his voice.

And yet many still claim this isn’t real or being blown out of proportion.

I’ve never had this before in my life. I am stressed out a ton, as we all are. It itches and the scans are huge. Am I condemned to this forever? Also the Walmart line here in nyc is crazy long. What natural cures?

PSA via Richard Thompson

They don’t even pretend. They say they don’t care and go out to gatherings or the Park etc.

I’m getting so annoyed with some of them, who refuse to stay inside away from others! They don’t care people are dying, all they care is that they’re having fun.

My married friends in Las Vegas don’t care. They even say that it won’t harm them because they’re young, it’s only “old people” so they don’t care.

This guy Brandon says he could care less if old people are dying because he thinks the world will be a “better and happier” place without them. Smh.

I’m pissed.

PS I am 28.

It’s 10 men and 10 women living together and trying to find love while also trying to find the match through music and singing and putting on performances.

It’s like The Bachelor meets The Voice

Will you watch?

Mama: Vint, you idiot, I said give me a Corona not the coronavirus.

How long will production be halted?

While other countries have gone inside and fully locked down to help curb the spread of COVID-19, even going so far as banning bicycling and jogging, the United States has been pretty lax. And New York, the epicenter in the U.S., has been comparatively slow to take the strict measures necessary.

Before we even shut down our bars, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, had recommended a 14-day national shutdown; other health experts have agreed—in a recent NY Times piece, it was spelled out simply: if Americans just "freeze in place for 14 days while sitting six feet apart... the whole epidemic would sputter to a halt." Instead of taking these measures, creating strict rules for a shutdown, the public has been trusted to do the right thing. Look no further than the city's parks to see how that's going.

For weeks, it's been clear that New Yorkers will congregate in these public spaces if they remain open, yet Mayor Bill de Blasio has balked on shutting them down, which could be giving a mixed message to New Yorkers who aren't paying enough attention — if the parks are open, then there must be no danger there. This is incorrect, there are plenty of risks at parks—namely, surfaces and other people. As epidemiologist Stephen Morse told Gothamist, "we think most infections are spread by the respiratory route, hence the recommendation for social distancing... to get out of inhalation range of infected droplets."

Last weekend, Gov. Andrew Cuomo emphasized that New Yorkers had not been doing a good job of keeping their distance from one another outside, specifically at NYC parks, playgrounds and courts. Still, as we saw this week, even Carl Schurz Park, right outside the mayor's front door, remained packed, with plenty of New Yorkers not practicing social distancing.

This week, we checked out the situation in parks around Williamsburg in Brooklyn. These photos were taken between 3 and 5 p.m. on Friday, March 27th. Photographer Scott Lynch reported back, "When two NYPD vehicles showed up at Domino I thought there was going to be some action, but the officers just sat in their cars and blasted a taped warning about being six feet apart. Then left."

A tipster also reached out to us, saying that on Friday afternoon in McCarren Park they "saw droves of people picnicking... I usually mind my business but this is a matter of life and death.. [the NYPD] aren't breaking up groups and as the weather gets nicer more people will go out."

At a press briefing on Friday, de Blasio brought up the parks again, this time noting that "in the last day or so, we have seen some noncompliance that is really a concern. We obviously have to think about the warmer weather coming ahead and we need to make sure that people understand this is really, really serious. So, the NYPD has been instructed, of course, to educate people, warn people, move along if people need to be moved along, break up groups and make sure there's no gatherings

Instead of shutting parks down, however, de Blasio said he would consider fines. "We're going to make a decision on whether we need to start instituting fines for anyone who is noncompliant," he said. "We have not made that decision yet. We'll make it this weekend. Fines of up to $500 per incident are being discussed right now. This means if any of our officers – NYPD or Parks or any other agency tells you, you need to move along, you need to move along. If they tell you to break up your gathering, you need to break up your gathering. It does not mean you can break it up for a few minutes and then come back. It doesn't mean you can tell the officer you're not going to do it. We're going to start to bring heavier enforcement to bear if people don't pay attention to the nonstop guidance that we've all been giving."

He added, "I don't want people to be penalized who are trying to make sense of a new painful reality, but I need people to listen and understand this about protecting yourself, your family, and all the rest of us."

What are your thoughts? Call me a philistine, but I never knew this was a full-on musical. Very few spoken lines, everything is sung like in Evita. Something about Johnny Depp ruins every movie he's in for me. I also think he is a below average singer and HBC was an even worse singer. I'd like to hear your thoughts, especially those who may have seen a live stage production. Is it better live?

I think we need one to discuss the coronavirus victims there.

Thank you.

Ain't Loomer the bitch who chained herself to the doors of Twitter after getting a time out?

I was added to a WhatsApp group by a friend. One guy started posting super alarmist posts like we will be under martial law for 18 months, we would be out of work for a year. Others would react and say no way can that happen or they would be evicted, bankrupt and he would get hysterical typing in all caps that he was crying for us and we wanted people to die. People would then tell him he needed to calm down and he would respond in a super passive aggressive way saying he agreed he was a pos and he deserved nothing and wishing us health which was more than he deserved because he was a nothing and loading on the guilt and self pity.

I was about to just block the chat because of him when we got a message from his number that said “my partner took vodka and pills and has been taken away in an ambulance”

Everyone is now sending all sorts of well wishes and condolences but I can’t help but feel that he sent this himself to provoke this response? Or is he really mentally ill and had a breakdown? My friend has texted me privately with his suspicions too and we as a group don’t know if we’re being punked or if we had a very mentally ill person amongst us for the past week and some guys and feeling really guilty that they didn’t reach out.

I thought he was maybe a narcissist who was trying to suck up all the attention but I’m not so sure. Anyone any guesses as to what this kind of behavior might suggest?

I'm about to watch porn.

I don't know what to do now. Do I have rona? The thug snuck up behind me and stuffed a buttermilk biscuit in my mouth. I tried to scream but I couldn't. I feel so scared and all alone. I don't know where to turn.

Results from a controlled clinical trial from China on the use of hydroxy chloroquine as a treatment for Covid-19 have shown no significant differences in health outcomes between the control group and patients who received the experimental drug.

Thirty patients hospitalized for Covid-19 participated in the trial. Fifteen were treated with 400mg of chloroquine for five days and fifteen received standard supportive care. A week after the treatments started both groups were evaluated and results showed that no measurable difference in the progression of the disease.

Much arrested accused pedo porn star Sebastian Young gunned down by police.

Dear Mr. President,

I am an emergency medicine resident physician in one of the biggest hospital systems in New York City, the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. In the past several weeks, I have taken care of countless patients with COVID-19 ― some who didn’t seem so sick and some blue in the face and gasping for air 70 times a minute. I have put my face inches from theirs and inserted breathing tubes into their trachea, putting myself and everyone else in the room at exponentially higher risk of contracting this disease.

As I’ve sat in a room full of coughing patients for 60 hours a week, I have worried about my own safety now and in the coming months as this pandemic gets worse and our completely inadequate supply of personal protective equipment rapidly disappears. There is a major shortage of face masks, along with other supplies, across the country and without them, it can be next to impossible to keep health care workers safe and working to support the increasing number of patients who are arriving at our hospital and clinic doors.

I have sent some not-so-sick patients home and I have seen some patients die right in front of my eyes. I have spoken on the phone to the sobbing mother of a young man admitted to the intensive care unit, and told her, “No, you are not allowed to enter the hospital to see your critically ill son because we are not letting family members into the hospital during this pandemic.” To say that I have experienced countless heartbreaking moments over the past several weeks would be an understatement.

In the next couple of days or weeks, we will run out of hospital beds and ventilators. The number of critically ill COVID-19 patients who come to my hospital seems to double every day. If things continue this way, I will soon be forced to make decisions about who deserves a shot at life and who I will allow to die, and that is an unthinkable thing to have to consider, much less do.

Tell me ― when there is only one ventilator available, should it go to the young nurse or the elderly woman with multiple comorbidities who has an advanced directive that says “do not intubate/do not resuscitate”? How about the single mother of three? Or the deeply respected emergency medicine attending doctor I worked with last week? How about the middle-aged man with some medical comorbidities and corny jokes who reminds me of my father ― or is my father? Or maybe the person in prison for rape? How about the person of color in jail for marijuana possession? How about a beloved and wealthy celebrity? How about the homeless person with alcohol use disorder who spits on my fellow medical professionals and me when we try to help? How about the homeless person who lives on my street corner and smiles at me every day and says “God bless you”? It’s not so easy choose, is it?

[quote] If things continue this way, I will soon be forced to make decisions about who deserves a shot at life and who I will allow to die and that is an unthinkable thing to have to consider, much less do. This past week, between 12-hour shifts working in the emergency department and the newly created COVID respiratory unit, I have done everything I can think of to stop that nightmare scenario from arriving. I have posted on social media begging my friends and family to stay home. I have signed countless petitions and contacted my local government pleading for more personal protective equipment and ventilators. If I learn of other things I can do, I will do those, too.

My governor, Andrew Cuomo, has tirelessly worked to obtain more personal protective equipment and ventilators. He has begged you to nationalize the effort to acquire medical supplies and you have denied him. He’s begged for citizens to stay home and, while some are listening, many are not and if they don’t, it will be disastrous. But there’s only so much the governor ― or any of us ― can do alone. At this point, there may be only so much we can do together. But we must try.

An Optometrist, Youtuber and Actor.

He’s fucking phenomenal and gorgeous. 🔥🔥🔥

What's he up to?

I have an almost clinical fascination with what makes a porn star. "It takes a certain kind of person," my grandma used to say.

What sort of people work in porn other than the obvious drug use, despite VD's?

It was on late night yesterday, and I forgot how much I love that movie!

The whole movie was so well done, it makes me angry that Nicholas Cage was cast as Ronnie Camareri. He was the weakest link out of all the actors, and his accent was horrible!

Other than that, it's one of those movies that always picks me up when I'm feeling down.

It should be in top 10 movies of all time.

Kate Willett @katewillett · it's really hard to say that #metoo had any permanent social impact when Nov. is looking like it's going to be a race between two men who have both been credibly accused of sexual assault.

Samantha Jane Geimer @sjgeimer

credibly? Joe Biden was VP for years, crickets. why now is a questions that can be asked.

Samantha Jane Geimer @sjgeimer · well I came forward before Metoo at age 13 against Polanski so women aren't so inherently weak that they are incapable.

Samantha Jane Geimer

@zacharylentsch @katewillett and @AdrienneLaw: while you want to use one woman's accusations of assault to suit your own purposes, don't assume you can use mine. self preservation is a choice and it comes with consequences.

Jesus Bat-Canary Rose @JesusWalkzz · How about don't shame victims of sexual assault for being afraid to come out about it? Not everyone is you.

Samantha Jane Geimer @sjgeimer · This isn't about me. It's about the rest of you who gleefully use victims of sexual assault as weapons and tools, happy they were hurt because they are useful to you. You're just another who isn't satisfied because I won't bleed and hate for you.

Jesus Bat-Canary Rose @JesusWalkzz · No. I'm just unsatisfied about the fact that you refuse to believe a victim. You should be ashamed of yourself. #IBelieveTaraReade

Samantha Jane Geimer · @zacharylentsch @katewillett and @AdrienneLaw: Roman is a man who has admitted what he's done and served his time. No amount of true or false accusations 40 years after the fact can change that. I am not an object to be used by others for the glorification of their hated. Stop using women as weapons.

What was the story behind this friendship? They are apparently still close, and it seems to be reciprocal.

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Sondra Locke

Allan Arkin giving major Pete Buttigieg vibes.

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Take off the mask. Pick up the phone. Talk to random strangers around the world while you're stuck at home. From the site:

[bold]Our policies:

We do not tolerate hatred or jokes about suffering.

This is also not a place to seek or give medical help.

Please be kind and conscientious.[/bold]

So it's not DL.

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I wouldn't be surprised if we see very hot guys who otherwise wouldn't do it doing porn.

Also the return of past stars like Stu, Connor, etc.

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I know I'm probably going to get flamed, and I know there are any number of threads with him in it, but do any of you DLers know Justin Clynes - or have any of you met him? I'm curious what he's like in person...

They are COPS they are gay they are MARRIED they are hot guys!

See link below

The Video is a little long ( 40+ mins) but is SO Compelling, Devoid of the usual hysteria, and YES GIVES REAL HOPE that you will really want to watch.

Plus doc is a real mensch.

This is really good!

Writer and director Black Mawson takes on homophobia in Russia in his new short film PYOTR495, which sees a group of anti-gay predators become prey as they’re hunted by a gay teen they’ve tortured.

Set in present-day Moscow, the film begins with 16-year-old Pyotr, played by Orphan Black’s Alex Ozerov, using dating app Hornet to talk to a potential hookup who turns out to be a member of a violent ultra-nationalist group.

Potyr is tied up and tortured by his homophobic attackers, but little do they know he’s hiding a dark secret that comes out to play when they push him too far…

It’s a horrific premise, but one that has its roots in reality, as gay people in Russia face constant fear under the country’s 2013 anti-gay propaganda law, which bans the ‘promotion’ of “non-traditional relationships” to minors and has encouraged discrimination.

Meanwhile, in the Russian republic of Chechnya, reports have emerged of gay men being rounded up by police and held in modern-day ‘concentration camps’, tortured, and even murdered because of their sexuality.

Hi everybody,

As I'm not a subscriber (boo!), I couldn't post in the previous thread after six months. I had also some minor health issues that took me back, and when everything finally appeared to be fine, France went onto confinement a couple of days later. But enough about me.

I actually tried to post mostly after Kirk Douglas' passing, because I had found a few Himmmm-related nuggets concerning Natalie Wood that actually showed how much of a fuckup he was, even more than the stuff people had noticed about the rape story.

Another interesting phenomenon is that the biggest bump in subscriptions to Enty's paying podcast was actually Harry and Meghan stepping out of royal duties last January. It had much, much more effect than the Epstein arrest and death, while the Epstein stories still make for a lot of the content there. The discrepancy is actually quite revealing about Enty's goals and motivations.

And finally, the poster girl for laxative abuse PSAs, Tricia13. The fucking cunt has actually shown unwillingly her true racist and antisemitic colors a few days ago.

So, what would like to talk about first? One of these, something else, my overlong posts, Enty getting some actual celebrities like Valerie Bertinelli or Shooter Jennings on his podcast?

Her vent about the challenges of home schooling because of coronavirus is brilliant.

First of all, they look ridiculous and are completely impractical. And not just these, all of the in-ear headphones are extremely uncomfortable, to the point of being painful for some people. Yet the lemmings all had to line up for hours or order them months ahead so they can fit in with the cool kids.

I would never let my kid wear those in order to attempt to fit it with the crowd.

How long until it comes out that they cause premature hearing loss and the manufacturers get sued to oblivion.?

I haven't mowed grass in 10 years, but now I own a little house with a yard. These days, what are people using? Corded, electric mowers that plug in, battery operated mowers, or gas mowers? I don't like the inconvenience of gas mowers -having to go to the gas station with my cans and then my car smells like gas and it gets on your hands and so on. But are electric ones powerful enough?

Sorry, don't know how big my yard is, but it's like a modest, flat 1950s middle class yard. Thanks, you sweaty brutes!

I'm the crab rangoon.

Continuation.

Scream Queen! My Nightmare on Elm Street sets the records straight about the controversial sequel to A Nightmare on Elm Street, which ended Mark Patton’s acting career, just as it was about to begin. Scream Queen follows Patton as he travels to horror conventions across the U.S.

Each new city unwraps a chapter from his life that is met with equal parts joyful and bittersweet detail, as he attempts to make peace with his past and embrace his legacy as cinema’s first male “scream queen.” Scream Queen also finds Patton confronting Freddy’s Revenge cast and crew for the first time, including co-stars Robert Rusler, Kim Myers and Clu Gulager, as well as Freddy Krueger himself, Robert Englund.

LOL. And she really thinks people are going to believe it's because of the coronavirus. I guess R. Kelly's bff is headed back to Flopville.

He looks so fun!

No barber shops open! The horror!

I'm going to walk around to all the people I hate, and say:

"While you were running your mouth, I was running to the bank, depositing a TRUMP CHECK."

For years I defended the Academy’s decision to award Jodie Foster for The Accused, and I still think it’s a great performance. But she would win three years later for The Silence of the Lambs, so why not go back and have Glenn win for her greatest performance? She was devious and heartbreaking in a true grand diva role.

Come to think of it, I’m retroactively giving Best Picture to Dangerous Liaisons. It was so much better than Rain Man and a notch above the other nominees as well.

There's something about his lips. His mouth looks like it needs to be attached to something.

He’s got a really annoying voice and abhorrent political views, but I really want to fuck him!

Well, did he?

THIS is why they hate us. How embarrassing!

He is bored so he posted a full frontal nude and says if you wanna see more nudes to DM him and he sells them.

...yes, I'd heard about people buying up toilet paper, but I hadn't bought any in a few weeks and so it wasn't top of mind until tonight I saw I was down to three rolls and figured I'd pick some up on my drive home. I stopped at Publix, Target, Walmart, Winn-Dixie, Whole Foods, Trader Joe's, Fresh Market, Costco, CVS, Walgreens, Lowes, Home Depot and a half dozen convenience stores. I finally lucked out at a tucked away gas station run by two sweet elderly ladies. They had a, well, shit-ton of single rolls and they were not price gouging.

I know the govt is paying for testing. But if you test positive, will the govt pay if you have to go and stay in hospital for treatment? (If the govt is paying, that may be something of a windfall for the insurance companies.)

Where are Mariah and Janet Jackson on the list? 😂

Omg hag Cher is doing alright

He IG’d his tit.

How did they get there? Why don’t they leave?

I just spoke to my 80-year-old (but quite fit) mother. My parents drove up from their winter place in Florida last weekend thinking they'd be better isolated from Corona in their detached house in New Jersey than in an apartment in Florida. But in Florida, my mother had all their groceries delivered -- she said Aldi, Publix, everyplace delivered, no problem.

Now back in Jersey, she says she can't find a supermarket that will do home delivery or even curbside pickup! She tried all the chains -- Shoprite, Walmart, McCaffrey's -- nobody will deliver. So she spent an hour and a half in a Shoprite yesterday, at her age. Their only other option is Whole Foods delivery via Amazon. And they're not in the boondocks, they're near Princeton.

Can that be for real? Does anyone know if and why NJ supermarkets don't deliver?

Does anyone have news?

Maybe I'm just a big ole MARY! or a big square, but I am fascinated and a bit shocked by the whole idea of escorts and how someone hires one.

I was curious if anyone has done this and whether it was a good experience? I always thought it would be risky and icky but several of my professional friends - very hot fit men who could get what they wanted at a bar - say that they do it when they're traveling because it's easier and more of a professional exchange - they know what they are getting.

Thoughts?

Post yours

Below, with Susan Oliver in the "People Are Alike All Over" episode (1960) of [italic]The Twilight Zone.[/italic]

I hadn't seen the earliest seasons until recently on Hulu, and it's surprising how amateurish it was. Katie Lee Joel has no charisma and delivers every word with the same automaton lack of expression.

One competition was to make and present "sexy" food in a real sex shop surrounded by dildos with guest judge Rupaul, that would never be produced today.

Season two improves drastically with Padma Lakshmi replacing Katie Lee Joel, but has a completely unlikable cast.

Did you watch Top Chef from the beginning?

Following the conclusion of tonight’s game, the entire NBA season has been suspended. Holy shit.

As Broadway diva Toni Braxton sang, "I shall never breathe again. "

I hate when I pursue and land a hot guy only to find he’s an utter bore conversationally and in bed

It’s happened too many times to count.

Your experience with hot men?

My lover wants to ring in his 40th birthday with a bang, and get GANGBANGED by 11 guys at once. He wants to act out a hardcore fantasy full of DPs, fisting, and rough sex. I want to make his fantasy come true and have compiled a group of our fuck buddies, both current and former, as well as hot acquaintances. I just wanted to run it by you first DL. Any of you ever done this? I know many of you are into orgies. How was it? Did your relationship survive. Its safe right?, as long as well all bring our PREP prescriptions.

DL, Can we talk?

What are you doing with yourselves? Working? Watching television? Reading? Give us some ideas as to what to do with ourselves... what should we watch on television for instance?

Have you taken any walks outside?

Anyone else? I haven’t seen him post in over a week. He tells us all of the mundane things that happen to him...he must be dead.

I'll admit that one of the reasons I tune into the Cornavirus task force is to see what the CDC doctor Deborah Birx is wearing.

Has she brought a trunk load of clothing from Atlanta to CDC to wear? Love all her scarves. Do you think the collects them on her travels?

Have feminists completely lost their way???!

It is the ghastly reality of what we deal with and where some of us have ended up already,” the New York City nurse said.

Miriam Elder Posted on March 29, 2020, at 11:47 a.m. ET Inside a truck at an ambulance bay outside a New York City hospital, March 29. The image taken by a nurse has been altered to blur the names of the deceased.

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The 38-year-old registered nurse at a Manhattan hospital was nearing the end of his shift Sunday morning when he stepped toward the building’s ambulance bay.

There, a giant refrigerator truck was sitting, ready to carry away those who had died from complications of COVID-19. He walked up to the truck, opened the latch, and snapped a picture.

“I took it to show to people,” said the emergency room nurse. “It is the ghastly reality of what we deal with and where some of us have ended up already.” He asked that neither he nor his hospital be identified for fear of repercussions. BuzzFeed News altered the image to blur the names of the deceased.

Earlier Saturday night, he had sat with a patient and held her hand as she took her last breath. Now, her body lay inside the truck.

“I never had the patience to sit with somebody I’d just met until they took their last breath. But I really liked this lady’s cardigan and pajamas so I decided to stay and get to know her a little,” he said over text message. “Her hair was elegantly done with a sharp, meticulous clip and casually pulled up with a bandana that matched her house clothes. Perhaps if she’d covered her face with it instead, she wouldn’t have ended up here in the first place. But she didn’t die alone.”

One of the many unique horrors of the coronavirus is that its victims are frequently forced to die alone, isolated from relatives and friends, because of its high infection rate.

The nurse’s patient was 71 and otherwise healthy. He described how she gasped for air as she died. He said she had tested positive about a week ago and was sent home, only to return on Saturday with shortness of breath. She asked not to be intubated, and died overnight.

As of Saturday night in New York City, 672 people are known to have died from COVID-19 since the coronavirus outbreak began, with well over 30,000 known to be infected. Hospitals around the city are stretched to the limit, handling a constant influx of patients while running dangerously low on personal protective equipment like masks and gowns for doctors and nurses.

The nurse described a horrific Catch-22. “If we are covid positive, we are expected to work for as long as we are asymptomatic. However we cannot get tested unless we are symptomatic,” he said. “They don’t want to test us because, at the rates we are exposed, we are likely all sick and we don’t know it.”

“We are rationed personal protective equipment to absurdity,” the nurse said. He said they were given “one disposable mask and one disposable gown that we must sign out for, that is expected to be used for five 12-hour shifts before they will be replaced.”

Governor Andrew Cuomo has pledged to deliver more supplies for doctors and nurses, and said his office was “actively looking into” whether CDC guidelines on their use were sufficient. The nurse described a chaotic situation at his hospital, with ever changing rules. “Everything changes from day to day at work,” he said. “They are scrambling to figure out what to do as we go.”

“A week ago we were instructed to take off our masks at work. Now we are being instructed to wear them at all times because so many of us are testing positive.”

Texting on Sunday morning, he said he had to go to sleep, because another long shift awaited him. He couldn’t get the images of the truck out of his head.

“Maybe as a Jew i relate it to all of the Holocaust footage because that’s my only point of reference for such an image of humans,” he said. “[N]ever seen something quite like it.”

I have been on here long enough (and am using my former authentic name) to realize I am opening myself up to a world of trouble, but I realize there are more good guys than trolls around here.

I have cancer (renal cell carcinoma that is literally a foot long on my right side). That’s not the issue. I am on chemotherapy to try and shrink it (right now it is too large and intricate to try and remove), but the chemo is giving me horrible diarrhea. I have always had bad insomnia so maybe the ambien is not waking me up at the time, but I poop the bed multiple times a night (after changing sheets, etc). I went looking for something like a vinyl sheet or something that can help not stain everything (I am wearing adult diapers and it gets through). When I am awake and it happens, it is like literally pissing out my butt.

I am changing when I take the medicine (sutent) from PM to AM to see if it helps the timeframe.

I figured someone may have gone through something similar and can offer some advice. I’m desperate- afraid to sleep so I’m also tired all the time.

For the time being, they may be reached only by banana-gram.

As seen on Meet the Press...the scarf lady suggested a new website that forecasts the COVID-19 outbreak by state. Interesting...

I know, groan.

My fiance has been in ICE custody since Jan. 3. Because he came on the Visa Waiver, he was due for immediate removal. No lawyer, no hearing in immigration court. I contacted ICE directly and got his itinerary changed, so he has a change to have his case reviewed in immigration court.

ICE recently gave him the 80-day notice, stating that they will have to deport him, unless of course he gets credible fear asylum, or I can manage to get him divorced somehow and to marry him. He foolishly married someone a decade ago and never got around to divorcing the woman, who essentially abandoned him.

Any donations are more than appreciated. They will go strictly to getting him a lawyer, we've been hitting walls and still haven't secured him stable representation.

Terry is a very talented young man, kind, smart, and has survived more hardship than most will experience in a lifetime. He needs a break. He has contributed and does want to contribute to America. ICE is a barbaric institution that needs to be radically reformed or shut down altogether.

Please help. Share or donate if you can.

What is it like? What state is it in?

Worship me

After I come in from the "outside," I cover a qtip with peroxide and clean my nostrils.

Sad 😞

I see thread after thread about NYC, and while it is struggling the most, LA is right behind it. They’re the two areas hit the hardest (although I think it Miami tests more they will be up there too).

How are you all doing over there?

I will day all my friends in LA are taking this more serious and staying inside than my friends here in NYC or Vegas or Miami.

Corny? or something else?

Jealous you low down no good dirty filthy stinking cunts?

But she still drags herself out for pap shots every weekend. Meanwhile her fat fuck ex-husband "romances" the girl who starred with him in an EROTIC THRILLER.

I hope when this is all over, Jen, you go to church again.

It's funny, the things you remember.

My mother picking me up from my friend's house in the 5th grade- (they had money- they had it all) and my father had recently died...

My mom came to the door and she had some coffee stain on her shirt..

I can still see my friend's mother looking at that stain on my mother's shirt- her eyes kept looking down to it-

I was horrified.

And my same mother- When she slipped and fell on ice 4-5 years later.

She looked so innocent and vulnerable. I had never seen my mother look like she wasn't strong and in charge... When you slip on ice- you look like a fool. Vulnerable....

It's very sad to me.

Anyway.

omg. Tell me more about the perpetrator

Political satire has always been one of America’s great strengths

I am not a Trump fan, but I (in retrospect) find the second sentence below from this February 4 article astounding. If only we had all closed our borders to China.

"The Trump administration’s quarantine and travel ban in response to the Wuhan coronavirus could undercut international efforts to fight the outbreak by antagonizing Chinese leaders, as well as stigmatizing people of Asian descent, according to a growing chorus of public health experts and lawmakers.

The World Health Organization’s top official on Tuesday repeated concern that moves that interfere with transportation and trade could harm efforts to address the crisis"

We need a thread for new and upcoming gay movies. This one looks really good.

My brother just posted on Facebook

“Politics aside, we have probably bottomed. Markets. Psychology. Fear. Let’s Go!! 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸“

I was seconds from hitting the “post” icon on the obvious reply.

AustinZane ~ a bromance gone tragically wrong. What unrequited love have you experienced (details please if you can bear the pain)? Where can I get a copy of that elusive book, "Shame and Fortune"? Where is Zane Michaels now, and did you find him hot (especially with Austin's cum on his blond beard)? So many questions ...

Rumored to be bi. What do we think?

Give us more you cunt!

Continue discussing Season 3 and speculating beyond.

Everyone back to normal after the few weeks. If you had it, you will be entitled to care under the Fed Gov Covid grant, and wages lost.

If you are one of the few that has a cytokine storm, you'll get priority care at a hospital. Some people have it and don't even know. Calm the fuck down. The show must go on.

No matter how much you attack me, I'm not fighting you back. Take whatever you want in your hysteria, you lizard brains.

It’s awful the Doctors need to figure out who is the worst to help first while the others wait. This is scary and sad.

And real. To all those people who say it’s bullshit.

And the new red for diarrhea should be The Trumps.

I like this working from home too much.

And how many "I got so fat in quarantine!" posts accompanied by a photograph of rippling abs and muscles must we endure?

I don’t see or feel a hernia in my groin area but whenever I take a step there is great pain in my groin area. Could it be an inflamed or impacted bowel instead? It’s all across the top of my pubic area.

Isn't it nice how these multi-millionaires and billionaires claim to know what us peasants can live on?

Once the social distancing is over, what new habits have you formed that you'll likely continue.

Personally, I hope that people continue to maintain their distance in public places.

Quarantine finally forced me to watch Glenn Close's almost Oscar winner from two years ago, and while I thought she did an extraordinary job in the film, there were a couple of things that really bugged me about it:

1) In the opening scene, it says the year is 1992, and Glenn Close is clearly a woman in her late 60s or early 70s. Then the film flashes back to 1958, when Close is a college student at Smith, which would make her character 21 or 22 at the time. So 34 years later, that would make her character only 56 or 57. No way, honey!

2) The son sure seemed to get upset over the dumbest things. And I was always wanting to comb his ridiculous hair.

Any thoughts from the DLers who've seen this one?

Finally broke down and bought a pair (Tozo 6) for a long trip at the end of this month. However, I've been reading stories of people losing their buds on airplanes, which has made me a bit nervous. Any of you have any strategies for minimizing that possibility?

I tried them at home, and quite satisfied with the sound quality. I would be using the most them for audio books, with the occasional video. Supposed to last about 5 hours listening time, and one hour to charge in the box. I don't make all that many voice calls so that aspect of their capabilities relatively unimportant.

Thanks in advance for input!

*He's only 5'7", but insists on only playing lead roles.

*His teeth, nose and hair are fake.

*He was in a "serious" 😂 relationship with Michelle Rodriguez, a confirmed lesbian.

*He received gifts from Bruce Willis as his companion and was observed gushing over him at several Lakers games.

*Ellen won't even have him on her show.

*He went to rehab for alcohol and pills.

*He was released from rehab and "fell" at home, breaking his jaw.

*While trolling Skid Row, he got in a fight with a homeless man and had to be rescued by police.

Our David is still showing off his beefy forearms, his meaty haunch, and of course, that baseball bat between his legs.....

It’s the end. Trump is pillaging Congressional coffers, the economy & real estate will tank even harder after this, the virus is going to kill & kill and Fraus are going to be even more self-righteous about their rancid crotchfruit. Time for a cigarette.

The geniuses who live in my condo needed to meet urgently about some rubbish bylaw and I made them do it over the phone. They wanted to meet in the garage! Fucking idiots.

I wish I friends like this

A thread in which we discuss celebrities normally not thought of as fat but who may be or are indeed fat.

What are some of your favorite subreddits and can you recommend a few good gay ones?

PhD - Pretty Hot Daddy!

Last thread lasted 2 seasons, we'll see how long this one lasts.

Anyone still watching?

Continue discussing the future of this gay celebrity power couple. Will they last? Will they ever get married? Are they going to ever team up with Gio and Tommy?

Enjoy!

Amid this virus outbreak?

My 67-year-old mother, with diabetes, keeps wanting to go to the grocery store. She has food for at least a few days. I told her I would go for her whenever she needed me. We live in a big city with quite a few cases of the virus. She acts like I’m being crazy and a germaphobe. I tell her she’s increasing her risk of picking up the virus and she would bring it home and infect my father.

I have a degree in biology and have studied microbiology and immunology. I have the basic understanding of how these things work. She does not. But yet she thinks I’m being irrational. I’m beginning to question myself. Am I being irrational with her?

Quarantined New Yorker Tries to Recreate ‘Italy Magic’ By Singing Out Window — But is Told to ‘Shut The F**k Up’

Who's had him?

Seriously.......handsome daddy type. And seems to be one of the good guys at the moment.

When did it become acceptable to bring your kids everywhere? I want Adult Safe Spaces, free of kids. Strip clubs and XXX stores are about all that’s left, since these whore mommies drag their kids everywhere including bars.

With the grounding of most flights, ships, trucks, cars and the general lack of industry running - do you think there will be a substantial impact on the environment? Maybe Corona was the planet's way of stopping global warming??

I heard people died because it took so long to dial the emergency number (I guess they didn't have 911 back then)

Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are the most unlikely celebrity siblings. They don't look, act or sound alike, and both have huge Hollywood reputations while taking separate paths in the same business.

Which one do you think is more talented?

Like sands through the hourglass, so our the gays of our lives.

You're welcome.

My bf last week.

She apparently wants to join Trish Regan and millions of others in the unemployment line.

I started PrEP about 4 weeks ago and I can sleep forever now. I can easily sleep 12-14 hours if possible--not the best thing to be feeling when you have a job, of course. How long does it usually take for this side effect to pass?

Post them.

He played for Stanford and was showcased in the 2017 Football Combine. And he has legs, a big bulge, and a big bubble butt that just won't quit.

Misty water colored memories.....please share them

The other thread has been paywalled. In honor of the so-called Sunshine Double (Indian Wells and Miami) here are the returning, mismatched “Popsock team - Popsicle and Fat Sock, beauty and the beast.

They seemed to start dating recently and they're hot.

Plus unlike some couples they don't look like twins!

... we can only dream.

While reportedly setting up video equipment in Delaware over four days, former Vice President Joe Biden was apparently mulling over possible running mates.

Biden told former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid that Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) is one of his "top three" choices should he win the Democratic presidential nomination, Mediaite reported Thursday.

Reid, who was also a longtime senator representing Nevada, is reportedly nudging Biden toward choosing Cortez Masto as his VP, and Biden's campaign apparently feels she would be a strong choice and could help expand Biden's popularity among Latinx voters. Biden publicly committed to choosing a woman as his vice president if nominated over Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), sparking endless speculation over who that woman might be. CNBC says Biden's "business allies" are hoping for Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) or Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), two former presidential candidates themselves. The Washington Post, meanwhile, said Biden's shortlist probably included Cortez Masto, but also named more well-known Democrats like former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams. Biden's campaign declined to dispute Mediaite's reporting, simply saying he would vigorously vet candidates.

New York magazine wrote that Biden is spending his "coronavirus bunker" time "thinking a lot" about a potential VP, and taking lots of calls from supporters and Democratic strategists who are pushing Biden to pick their candidate of choice. None of those calls, however, resulted in much reported information on whether Biden had narrowed his list.

Biden told The View on Tuesday his "short" list was between "12 and 15" names, but if his reported statement to Reid is to be believed, he's done a lot of whittling in the past few days. Read more at Mediaite and New York.

I’d probably land somewhere between $300-$400.

I get that people are really hurting and I’ve been blessed thus far, but damn... I’ve worked really hard to get where I am.

[quote]Helen Lawson, '86', has ‘mild symptoms’ of Covid-19, which has killed over 3,200 people in New York City. She otherwise ‘remains in good health’, a spokesperson for the Broadway legend has said, and is 'self-isolating at home'.

[quote]Lawson had been working in preparation for a revival of MAME for the last several weeks, which has been scheduled to open later this year. The production is now up in the air. Lawson is one of the most high-profile celebrities to test positive for COVID-19 so far. This raises question about her appearance at a retrospective for Margo Channing earlier this week in which it was noted she had mild flu symptoms.

Oh, God. I hope this isn't the end for one of our heroes. Send thoughts and prayers her way, DL.

The thrust gif works this time

Hello DLers! I know I have some loyal fans here also in lockdown, so I wanted to say hello!

Skipper and I are here at the Malibu beachhouse with our beloved mixed-breed, Taffy. We've been amusing ourselves modeling swimsuits and restyling each other's hair for a couple of weeks now.

Every few days Ken motors over in the beach buggy and we shout a conversation to each other from my terrace while he stays in the car. Midge did the same thing: she may be plain but she has a heart of gold, that one.

Skipper is fine. She sends her love!

Shit is getting real.

(NBA = National Basketball Association)

“... UK government analysis suggests that leaving the EU will shrink the economy by up to 6.7% over the same period.“

Does anyone know who this guy is? What's his deal? He seems to me to be part of a movement of hot "straight?" guys with killer bodies who j/o on Only Fans for, you guessed it, money! Not sure if he's straight, bi, gay, curious, etc.

What do you all think?

His performance on Netflix’s ‘On my Block’ is superb

During the Cuban missile crisis, the writer Christopher Isherwood was surprised to find himself going to the gym. “If we are to be fried alive,” he wrote in his diary, “it seems funny to be working out.”

During the Covid-19 crisis, I’m surprised to find myself reviewing “Apropos of Nothing,” the memoir from the 84-year-old Woody Allen. It’s hardly the book I’d want to go out on.

Volunteering to review it, in our moral climate, is akin to volunteering for the 2021 Olympic javelin-catching team. I told my wife and daughter my plan, and they stared at me as if I’d announced my intention to find the nearest functioning salad bar and lick the sneeze guard.

When and if this ends and everything gets back to normal, where would you like to travel to?

I want to go somewhere with a damn beach.

So we die first?