Aside from the Clown Mask Rapist episode of Little House on the Prairie or the child molester episode of Diff'rent Strokes, that is.

There was an episode of Cagney and Lacey that does still haunt me. It was a fairly gritty show for its time and they tackled plenty of controversial topics. The episode that I still think about after all these years. Doug Savant played a teenager who stole some booze from a liquor store while holding a fake i.d. that said he was over 21. He was afraid of his parents finding out he was arrested (!!??) so he stuck with the story that he was the person on his fake i.d. Well, because of that he winds up thrown in Riker's Island for the weekend where he his gang-raped by three or four men for FOUR HOURS in his cell. When Cagney and Lacey finally do track him down, he is understandably traumatized and from the looks of it is afraid to sit down in the questioning room because ... well he was just gang-raped for four hours. I never thought Savant was that great of an actor, but he certainly looked terrorized in that scene. The ringleader of the rapists turns out to be the Latino policeman from Barney Miller for God's sake. (The actor playing him, that is, not the actual person.) That's pretty terrifying in itself. Poor Doug Savant. From this role to being cast as Matt in Melrose Place, where he was often being beaten and abused by his boyfriends. Gay roles weren't that kind to him. At least he grew up and finally got a good role as hot daddy Tom on Desperate Housewives.

Is anyone else here haunted by creepy episodes of their favorite TV shows?

Mentions her sis , Jaimie and her grievances against her parents .

She made Kevin Sessums promise not to publish her secret about Dean until the day she died.

I just love that fucking thing. But it makes me yearn.

Anybody else in?

Previous thread below.

This is such a tragedy, but this girl went from nobody to (posthumously) a robot genius and animal rights activist. How did this happen???

Is it the overdone Americana? The non-vintage vintage stove? The Malaise-era sticky countertops? Or the Stoplight Red bedspread that seems to shout "PUT AWAY YOUR GENITALS IN THIS HOUSE!"

I have something to tell ya on my IG.

first thread has been paywalled

linked below

now Mumbai, Beijing and Moscow

It was (and remains) an iconic Broadway show, but as a feature film for the rubes who never saw it on Broadway or the West End, it just couldn't measure up to its own hype. People expected it to be a smash hit, but it lost millions at the box office. It was directed by Oscar winner Richard Attenborough, and starred white-hot Michael Douglas in the lead role. It even had choreographers and set pieces taken almost directly from "Flashdance." In other words, it was set up to be a winner. And yet, it wasn't. It was nominated for all the big awards, but lost to films both subtler ("Prizzi's Honor") and grander ("Amadeus" was the smash hit that year). When people talk about the show today, they're still almost always talking about the original stage productions and the revivals, and this movie is swept aside like an ugly stepsister.

So what's the story? How could such a beloved stage musical be such a flop as a feature film? Was it timing? Style? Or was the original stage show simply overrated to begin with?

Also, it's free to watch on YouTube at the link below. Cheap Cunts rejoice!

I did once, as a teenager. I was really sick in the middle of the night and needed medicine but couldn’t find any. Knocked, thought I got the all clear, walked in. And there was dad on mom.

Lots of embarrassment was avoided because I was so sick. They stood outside the bathroom while I vomited my guts into the toilet, helped me clean up, and none of us ever hinted at it again.

The guy lied to Congress. That we know for sure. That’s a federal crime. And god knows what else.

Now that there is a new AG, shouldn’t this guy be arrested for his crimes?

It’s ridiculous. All our lives we are told we will go to jail if we break the law. And that no one is above the law.

But this guy gets off scot free? Seems a tad unfair.

NEW YORK (AP) — The Rev. Craig Duke has been a Methodist minister for three decades, building a reputation as a staunch advocate of LGBTQ inclusion. His pastoral duties have now been terminated — the result of a bitter rift surfacing in his Indiana church after he sought to demonstrate solidarity by appearing in drag alongside prominent drag queens in the HBO reality series “We’re Here.”

Duke, 62, said he thought most of his 400-member congregation at Newburgh United Methodist Church shared his inclusive views, and he was taken aback when a prominent congregation member, soon backed by other churchgoers, circulated emails attacking him.

“You have thrown NUMC under the bus to elevate a minority of individuals,” said one of the emails. Another, according to Duke, said Satan must be pleased with the discord over LGBTQ rights.

Duke, who declined to identify his chief critics, told The Associated Press that the attacks “felt very personal,” causing him to worry about his mental health.

“It was a matter of sadness and disappointment and heartbreak on my part ... realizing I was losing the ability to lead,” he said.

Under United Methodist Church protocol, a pastor does not have the option of resigning, but Duke said he made clear to his immediate superior, regional superintendent Mitch Gieselman, that he needed to step away.

On Nov. 26, Gieselman — who had been hearing from the pastor’s critics and supporters — sent a letter to the NUMC congregation announcing that Duke “is being relieved of his pastoral duties.”

Through the next three months, Duke said he and his wife will be allowed to continue living in the NUMC parsonage, while he incurs a 40% pay cut. They must relocate no later than Feb. 28, when his pay will be halted, Gieselman said.

While Gieselman noted in his letter than Duke’s actions had “polarized” the congregation, he said none of those actions constituted formal violations of UMC’s Book of Discipline, which functions as a legal code for Methodist clergy.

“I was bullied out,” Duke said.

The episode of “We’re Here” featuring Duke — at one point shown in a dress, high-heeled boots, a pink wig and heavy make-up — was taped in July but did not air until Nov. 8.

Duke was invited to participate in the show by an LGBTQ Pride group in nearby Evansville and accepted in part to show support for his 23-year-old daughter, Tiffany, who identifies as pansexual.

The premise of “We’re Here,” an Emmy-nominated series now in its second season, is that three renowned drag performers travel to towns and small cities across the U.S., recruiting a few locals to join them as drag queens.

Even before the episode was broadcast, some congregation members complained that Duke hadn’t given them advance notice of his decision to be in the show, which included scenes filmed at the church. In response, Duke wrote to the congregation in August, saying he was sorry that trust in his leadership had been damaged.

But he defended his motives, saying, “I was willing and excited to share God’s love with the LGBTQ community on a national level.”

Any hope that conflict would subside vanished in mid-November when the emails attacking him began to circulate.

The rift within Duke’s congregation reflects broader divisions within the United Methodist Church, the largest mainline Protestant denomination in the United States.

Conservative leaders in the UMC have unveiled plans to form a new denomination, the Global Methodist Church, with a doctrine that does not recognize same-sex marriage. The move could hasten the long-expected breakup of the UMC over differing approaches to LGBTQ inclusion, including whether LGBTQ people should be ordained as clergy.

Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the UMC’s General Conference — at which the schism would be debated — has been postponed for two consecutive years and is now scheduled for August 2022 in Minneapolis.

According to Duke, one of the reasons he was invited to appear on “We’re Here” was because of the divisions in both his own church and the UMC.

Be honest. What do you do when you encounter a woman, or other person with Danger Hair? This is hair dyed in zany, toxic colours, most typically green, but also regularly blue or wild unnatural reds. Anything that looks like it's come out of a barrel of toxic chemicals. It's called Danger Hair because it supposedly mimics nature in marking something poisonous with bright colours; ie insects that contain toxins. This is meant to ward off other creatures. The whole concept of Danger Hair plays on the notion that many of these people are perceived to be insane, irrational or obnoxious. I will admit that Danger Hair sends me running. It's so associated with insane behaviour and delusions.

He was hot in the 90s

Sad. I love 3 in the Attic but because of the hot boy mostly.

Aside from the band name, why would they market a woman in her late 20s as "Mama" anything?

From what I've been told, Cass Elliot was a talented singer and a colorful person who was surely wounded by the constant fat jokes. She tried to headline a show in Vegas in 1968, but it was a bomb. Then she died at the age of 32, and spawned decades of cruel urban legends about the cause of her death.

She seems lovely to me, and someone The Gays should speak of more often.

"Unlike most other honours … which are awarded on the advice of the government and are selected by expert committees, this is in the direct gift of the Queen," said Craig Prescott, a constitutional expert at Bangor University in Wales. "This is entirely her decision."

When Diana was still alive and married to Charles, she wanted this Order badly.

Edmund White's new novel gains not exactly a rave in the London Telegraph.

"The main character is a Sicilian aristocrat called Ruggero, whose name translates as “famous spear”. Sure enough, he’s possessed of an uncommonly large penis.... Most detailed of all is the affair Ruggero had in 2018 with the “ridiculously prolific… gay novelist” Edmund White .... The sex scenes that follow confirm White’s fondness for lurid masochism... Such masochism perhaps extends to White’s description of his 78-year-old self as “old, impotent, fat, feeble”, with an “overly inflected ‘gay’ voice” and a “tiny penis”....So what, you may be wondering, did Ruggero see in him? The answer is never clear. Then again, it’s by no means the only question that this strange and perplexing novel leaves dangling."

Do you believe Karen spoke to the GMA producers before her 1981 interview?

Hard to believe she was just 31 years old.

What does a person do if they're addicted to all three? I feel hopeless; it crept up on me so fast. Is my only option rehab? Lost 2k tonight playing poker. FML

"Until 28 December, Heena Vashisht was a happy bride-to-be. The 28-year-old was pleased her family had put in place early all the arrangements for her wedding on 10 February, right down to the last candle. But her plans have been shredded by India’s Omicron surge. The nuptials can go ahead in New Delhi as planned, but only if she cuts her guest list down from 650 to 20.

“My own immediate family is 80. How can I reduce the guests to 20? The tension in my family is unbearable right now. No one knows what to do and my mother’s blood pressure has shot up with all the tension,” says Vashisht.

With India’s Omicron-driven third wave firmly under way, the New Delhi government has, along with other restrictions, limited wedding guests to 20, dealing a huge blow to India’s traditional wedding season, which runs from November to March."

Perhaps it's because I'm gay and don't really fetishize huge weddings, but I'm having a hard time feeling sympathy for them.

It’s actually Oasis of the Seas. I’m sure they’ll have no issues.

[quote]Today in 1893, Hawaii's monarchy is overthrown when a group of businessmen and sugar planters forced Queen Liliuokalani to abdicate. The coup led to the dissolving of the Kingdom of Hawaii 2 years later, its annexation as a U.S. territory, & eventual admission as the 50th state.

As Australian I am aware about my own country’s colonial past but little clue about the annexation of Hawai’i by the USA. It’s like America succeeded doing what England was aiming for in India but couldn’t because of the vast population. It’s a surprisingly recent, tragic story.

Each artist had a big Top 5 hit and high expectations. Sadly, there were no more hits for any of these singers. What went wrong?

Like an idiot I bought 500g of pre sliced Colby cheese. Ugh. Bland, fatty and unctuous. Any ideas about how to make it taste better? I thought of adding a bit of Parmesan to a grilled cheese to disguise the taste but am otherwise out of ideas.

We got the jazz standards thread, so, I figured I'd embellish. I don't really have just one favorite. But I'll start with the one playing now: "After Hours" by Ronny Jordan

Look at this cunt. On his throne.

Gurls, so many biopics happening right now!

Zendaya is going to KILL THIS!!!! Oscar, here she comes! Feel the force that is Zendaya!

Show me a sexier one. I’ll wait.

Naia Ōkami (born 1994) is a transgender British Columbia wolf and red fox therianthrope. She is the founder and current administrator of Kinmunity.

Otherkin Community History

From a young age, Ōkami felt that she was "not human" on the inside. After watching the anime series Wolf's Rain at age twelve, she gained a fascination with wolves and as she read more about them and began to understand them, she began feeling as if she were "a wolf in a human body".

Ōkami first entered the online therian community through the now-defunct WereNet. She "didn't find werelist members to be the friendliest bunch" and ended up migrating to Werelist where she eventually became a docent staff member. In October of 2011, Ōkami founded the Wulf Howl otherkin community. She later founded Kinmunity in December of 2014, followed by Wolf Howl in 2020.

In February 2021, Naia confirmed that she was hellhound kin.

The only one I can think of so far is St. Elsewhere.

For God’s sake, if you don't tip drivers, don’t order delivery, or you support slavery, you will eventually be enslaved!! Look at how much money I made, spending total 4 hours, $71!!!! Less $8 gas.. WTF

I recently received some orders that’s large during the pin, like $13/5 miles, you are happy with order like this right? That means the tip is at least $8. You make the one-time delivery, these motherfuckers slick. It will reduce the tip back to $2, the order ends up at $7. Contacted DoorDash, there is nothing they can do. I hope these MFs get choked while eating the food. SoB

What did she look like before? She was a swimmer so there must be some shirtless "before" pics right?

There is that one but it only has her (then him) with a jacket just a little bit open.

I want to see if she was better looking as a he or a her.

The return of Terry Silver!

Mine: I keep my car parked outside and it has a rack on the top. When it snows, I take contractor garbage bags which I cut along the sides to make one long piece. I drape two bags over the roof and rack and tuck the ends into the doors to hold them in place. And I raise the hood and put a third one over it and tuck the ends inside before closing the hood. I also have one of those windshield covers. I take a bristle broom and shove the snow off the bags (not worrying that I will scratch the paint, because the bags are there). Then I remove the bags and the car is cleaned off.

It sounds complicated, but it takes me about 3 minutes to place the bags and about 3 minutes to clear the car of snow. And I don't have to worry about the snow that is much harder to remove because of the rack (and I don't have to worry about leaving it there and seeing it fly off in giant chunks while I'm driving).

I re-use the bags, so there's no waste.

Roxanne Gay responds that all he has to do is be young and white and she's exhausted with his professed exhaustion.

The "Exhausted" graphic is killing me. And his sighs.

Evra, retired footballer for major English Premier League teams (notably Manchester United) and for the France national team, has recently come forward to speak about his experiences with negative attitude toward homosexuality in English football club dressing-rooms during the 2000s.

In an interview with French magazine LE PARISIEN, Evra revealed:

[quote] When I was in England, they brought someone to talk to the team (unspecified) about homosexuality. Some of my colleagues said, ‘It is against my religion, if there is a homosexual in this locker room, let him leave the club’ and other comments. At that time, I said, “Shut up!” I played with players who were gay. Face to face, they opened up with me because they were afraid to speak otherwise. There are approximately two players per club who are gay. But in the world of football, if you say so, it’s over.

Since Evra’s retirement around ten years ago, the Premier League has taken steps forward to encourage acceptance of sexualities, and has introduced numerous measures to foster an inclusive environment, the foremost of these measures being the Rainbow Laces campaign. The efficacy of these efforts must be questioned, however, when examining the current climate within the game around homosexuality—certain fans still shouting abuse from the stands, certain players publicly espousing homophobic attitudes, and most of all sponsors and owners supporting and taking money from homophobic organisations.

Another reason to cover up.

The president of the University of Michigan, Mark S. Schlissel, has been fired for having a relationship with a subordinate that the university’s Board of Regents said violated university policy and was carried out “in a manner inconsistent with the dignity and reputation of the university.”

The board terminated Dr. Schlissel’s employment effective immediately after a special meeting on Saturday, ordering him to return all university property and canceling an agreement that would have continued paying him his base salary of $927,000 for two years after his contract was supposed to end in 2023.

The board named a former president, Mary Sue Coleman, as interim president.

In a letter to Dr. Schlissel on Saturday informing him that he was being fired, the board said that it had received an anonymous complaint on Dec. 8 that Dr. Schlissel had been involved in an inappropriate sexual affair with a subordinate.

“There can be no question that you were acutely aware that any inappropriate conduct or communication between you and a subordinate would cause substantial harm to the dignity and reputation of the University of Michigan,” the letter said.

Allegations of sexual misconduct in academia are not rare, but they more commonly involve students and professors, not university presidents. Dr. Schlissel’s firing is notable because it involved the leader of one of the country’s most prestigious universities.

Dr. Schlissel, who is married and has four grown children, according to his university biography as of Jan. 1, could not be reached for comment.

The investigation found that Dr. Schlissel had sent dozens of emails to the employee from his university account over several years. The board posted 118 pages of those messages on the university website in the interest, it said, of full disclosure.

In one email exchange on July 1 that was cited by the board, the employee said that her “heart hurts,” and Dr. Schlissel replied, “i know. mine too.”

The email finished with Dr. Schlissel saying, “I still wish I were strong enough to find a way.”

The emails continued, and in November, Dr. Schlissel wrote to the subordinate that he was disappointed that he might not be sitting next to her at a University of Michigan basketball game. He wrote, “the only reason I agreed to go was to go with you.”

The emails used “inappropriate tone and inappropriate language,” the letter from the Board of Regents said, and showed that Dr. Schlissel had used official business to carry out the relationship. Dr. Schlissel’s conduct was “particularly egregious” because he had taken a public position against sexual harassment, the board said.

After a provost, Martin Philbert, was accused of sexual misconduct, Dr. Schlissel had sent a letter in August 2020 to the university saying that “the highest priority” was to make the university “safe for all,” the Board of Regents’ letter noted. Mr. Philbert left the school.

Is it me or one of them looks super young? Or maybe it's just the other who looks old

The airline industry claims a “catastrophic” event could unfold on Wednesday when AT&T and Verizon activate their new C-Band 5G networks. In a letter obtained by Reuters, the CEOs of several prominent passenger and cargo airlines, including Delta, United and Southwest, warn interference from 5G cell towers could affect the sensitive safety equipment on their planes.

"Unless our major hubs are cleared to fly, the vast majority of the traveling and shipping public will essentially be grounded," they state in the letter, which was sent to the heads of the White House Economic Council, Federal Aviation Administration and Federal Communications Commission, as well as Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. "Immediate intervention is needed to avoid significant operational disruption to air passengers, shippers, supply chain and delivery of needed medical supplies."

The airlines have asked that AT&T and Verizon not offer 5G service within 2 miles of some of the country’s busiest and most vital airports. They’re also urging the federal government to ensure “5G is deployed except when towers are too close to airport runways until the FAA can determine how that can be safely accomplished without catastrophic disruption." The agency established 5G buffer zones at 50 airports on January 7th.

The letter is the latest development in the ongoing back and forth between the airline and wireless industries. AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon spent nearly $80 billion at the start of 2021 to secure the repurposed C-Band spectrum the FCC had put up for auction. In November, AT&T and Verizon agreed to delay their C-Band rollouts to January 5th to help the FAA address any interference concerns. They later proposed limiting the power output of cell towers close to airports and agreed to a further two-week delay on January 4th.

Joss Whedon has started his redemption tour. Not sure if he has a way back to filmmaking, but he has enough money even if he doesn't.

He admits to some things, denies others. Other people chime in, some anonymously, some on the record.

Cheers premiered almost 40 years ago on September 30,1982. What are your favorite moments from this iconic show?

I just rewatched “Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood” and Cliff Booth is watching TV in his trailer when the commercial for “3 In The Attic” comes on. I decided to look it up and it’s available on Paramount+, and I’m loving it. It’s almost like a time capsule from 1968, and ahead of its time.

The synopsis

“When three coeds discover that the campus Casanova is dating them all at once, they lock him up in an attic and take turns having sex with him... to drain the stud of his potency.”

It’s very interesting, especially because in 1968 the censors had just changed so this film would have been banned just a short few years prior because of its salacious subject, as well as an interracial hookup.

It’s an interesting watch.

I could eat crackers every day! I love so many different kinds and flavors! My pantry is stocked with boxes and boxes of tasty crackers! There is nothing better to snack on than crackers and your favorite spread! I just love them so much!

He's the husband of superagent (and Carrie Fisher's ex) Bryan Lourd, and the BFF of Andy Cohen, whom he's hung out with on Barry Diller's yacht. He loves to hang with his dear pals SJP and Jennifer Aniston.

He has a body of death even still, but the close-ups of him in the article show his face looks a bit odd now (I think he's had work done, which is too bad--he was stunningly handsome in his youth). He sounds like a nice person, if incredibly thirsty.

Did anyone actually like this "piece o' shit"?

Sad.

Detectives are investigating the death of Jorge Diaz-Johnston, who took on Florida’s anti-gay marriage ban and won a landmark same-sex marriage case in Miami-Dade County.

After vanishing on Jan. 3 from Tallahassee, detectives found him dead in a landfill on Saturday morning in Jackson County. He was 54.

Diaz-Johnson is survived by his husband, Don Johnston, and his brother Manny Diaz, the former mayor of Miami.

“He touched so many people with his kind and generous heart,” Johnson wrote on Facebook.

Diaz released a statement saying in part, “My brother was such a special gift to this world whose heart and legacy will continue to live on for generations to come.”

Detectives are asking anyone with information about the homicide to call 1-850-891-4200.

Diaz complete statement

I am profoundly appreciative of the outpouring of support shown to me, my brother-in-law Don, and my family after the loss of my brother, Jorge Diaz-Johnston.

My brother was such a special gift to this world whose heart and legacy will continue to live on for generations to come. I am also so very grateful to the Tallahassee Police Department- with the support of Mayor Daley and City Manager Reed- who have worked tirelessly to locate and investigate the circumstances surrounding my brother’s disappearance.

Their commitment has meant the world to my family and will continue to mean the world in our search for justice. We kindly ask for privacy and continued prayers.

I'd never even heard of this man until last week. Of course I'd heard of Full House, but never watched it when it was on.

He doesn't seem like that much of a public figure to me. Is it just because of the circumstances of his death that he is getting so much attention? It was probably a suicide, a lot of people go to luxury hotels to do that so their body doesn't decompose for days at their personal home for days before it is found.

Can someone explain why this is getting so much attention?

I think documentaries must be my favourite genre of film. What are some of the best documentaries you’ve ever seen?

This is a really excellent article by NBC's Brandy Zadrozny about one man's path down the QAnon rabbit hole and his slow climb out.

I actually find it quite impressive.

Bold and daring on the part of editor Edward Enniful, although probably not terribly commercial

Good for them. Good for them.

Why loot stores? Cut out the middleman and take it from the train.

Union Pacific sent a letter to Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascon last month threatening to route rail cargo traffic elsewhere if he would not prosecute theft and looting from cargo trains more aggressively, it was revealed on Monday.

The letter added that “like our customers, UP is now contemplating serious changes to our operating plans to avoid Los Angeles County.”

In reality the UP has no way not to use Los Angeles County facilities.

I didn't see an official thread - or really any thread - for Season 14.

And whores.

Well this seems like an interesting turn of events. What say you, DLers?

Help him take a load off, won't you?

Last night in a speech Mario made the following remarks (starting at 00:40).

"If your daily routine is to wake up, turn on MNSCB, ride your Peloton before going on twitter and drinking your caramel macchiato then reading the NY Times and eating avocado toast," before going on to more stereotypes, insults, and and lies about liberals.

Just for fun, shall we imagine what a trumpsters morning routine might be?

Team TERF 4 Life!

A restaurant that serves different varieties of chicken salad. The food sounds good but it's seems like the kind of place where ladies have lunch. Anyone here ever tried it?

He’s been hospitalized as he battles cancer!

[quote] Skarsgard doesn't set off my gaydar at all. Something is definitely amiss with him...I can't really put my finger on it but he doesn't feel like family or like he's batting for the other team. Some kind of asexual or trauma going on behind the striking looks.

New Year, New He. How will our favourite Hairband pull through his purple patch?

And are we ever going to see his arse again, or is that now only the privilege of his teammates and managers and boyfriends?

Did I miss it or must I wait until tomorrow? 👴

I have no money and I don't know anyone there.

Help, please.

It's pretty well agreed that when Joan Crawford was let go by Metro in 1943, her position as the grande dame of the studi was pretty much taken over by Greer Garson. Garson not only was born in the same year as Crawford (1904), but they had a physical similarity... and of course Garson and Crawford enjoyed a facial similarity (although I would argue that Garson was more beautiful in the 1940s than Crawford). Garson even got to play Crawford's dream role, a biopic of Madame curie, whom Crawford referred to as "that egghead scientist."

Yet despite being her equal in glamour and beauty, and having more Oscar nominations (and as many Oscars) as Crawford, Garson is nearly completely forgotten on Datalounge. Is there no love here for the tangerine-haired beauty?

Fab place! Love the rain and village feel:)

How many chances is this going to get to screw things up?

Anybody else would have been sacked a long time ago.

WWIII is about to break out.

Russia will attack the Ukraine

White House: Russia Could Launch Attack on Ukraine ‘at Any Point’ White House press secretary Jen Psaki raised the alarm during the daily briefing.

“We believe we’re now at a stage where Russia could at any point launch an attack on Ukraine,” Psaki said. “I would say that’s more stark than we have been.”

“President Putin has created this crisis by amassing 100,000 troops along Ukraine’s borders,” she said.

Who is number one?

Is it all about the fame and money or do they have genuine passion about the projects they take on?

I get the feeling it's a complicated stew.

I think he may actually beat Madden out of the closet.

* The young Roman emperor was openly and voraciously homosexual - and exclusively a predatoty botton

* Scoured the known world for men with giant penis who would be brought to Rome to service him

* Married sexy gladiators

* Turned the palace into a brothel and performed as a prostitute

I feel like he's treated as a meme or even a camp event by many -- including parts of the media -- as if he were an AOC or a Marjorie Taylor Greene instead of a distinguished physician.

Let’s take a moment to remember one of the most fun Oscar seasons DL had, the year Rami won his much deserved Oscar (and Timmy was wrongfully snubbed for his beautiful performance in Beautiful Boy). What a great time to be on DL!

And boy oh boy did Timmy and Rami look handsome! Beautiful boy? Try Beautiful MEN!

😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

I can see this actually working.

Some of these are pretty good! Why don't the owners want to make some more cash on them?

She's lost an alarming amount of weight. Like easily 120lbs. She's also an alcoholic. She said she's been having pancreas problems. I'm worried she's dying

Because that is the city's REAL name and because of Covid too.

Marla must be over the moon. How did this moonfaced brat land the son of a billionaire?

Ivanka must be livid.

Xe has been signed!

I've been watching old episodes on YouTube. This show scared the shit out of me as a kid!!

Who remembers the Rain Boy episode? I watched this with my grandmother when I was in third grade. She must have been babysitting. Anyway, I remember specific quotes from the episode, like "I can make it rain." And a lot of details came back as I was watching. I remember having a long talk after the show with my grandmother before bed because I was so unsettled.

I feel like I've been in love with this guy for almost 40 years. Do you remember him? What was your favorite scene? Does anyone know what he's up to today?

It will make airplanes crash

Klan Grannies foiled again!

What small things make a bid difference in living well? I’m feeling restricted in spending and never seem to get to a place where I am living more comfortably. I do save for retirement, but at the expense of living in the now.

Only room for 10. Pick your favorite, or name another. You could put Beethoven 3,5,7,9, in this but to add other composers here we just have two. Personally, I like the 8th but few other people do as much.

6 bucks wholesale is quite the mark up

I got a Google alert and came here just to offer realistic perspectives on how wonderful Seth Sikes is. Had I known this website was nothing but the scum of the earth I would’ve never bothered.

You can trash me or you can trash him, because you guys are so far off that it’s almost becoming funny. Unfortunately sad is what it’s actually becoming. So go for it. Knock yourself out. Tell all my stories. I’ve probably already told them myself.

But to say Seth Sikes can’t sing or that he has bad breath, I have no use for you. He didn’t even have bad breath first thing in the morning. And his voice is indisputably phenomenal. So go sit in a corner and be jealous of both of us someplace else.

Continuing discussion of John and Paul's relationship

I constantly see them using the word BIZARRE to describe everything and anything.

Parks, docks, piers, campus men's rooms highway restrooms. Spill, with your personal experiences.

I have a few different people who I report to at my work. Whenever I receive positive feedback from a supervisor on my work, it does make my day better and give me extra motivation. I had a client presentation today and my boss emailed me after to tell me it was excellent. It definitely meant a lot to me that my hard work was recognized. Does your boss give you good feedback on a regular basis? Do you feel like it helps you when they do? If you dont receive compliments on your work, do you feel like it would help you to receive them?

It checks out with what DL has said about his “relationships.”

Full House's Jodie Sweetin revealed she accepted her longtime boyfriend Mescal Wasilewski's proposal after four years of dating on Monday evening.

Just two days ahead of her 40th birthday, the Hollywood Darlings actress announced the exciting news by posting a selfie with her husband-to-be.

Still glowing after her man popped the question, the mother-of-two smiled brightly while holding her unique engagement ring up to the camera.

She has previously walked down the aisle three times. First with Shaun Holguin, who she was married to between 2002 to 2006, before going on to wed Cody Herpin in 2007.

During their three-year marriage, she and Herpin welcomed daughter Zoie, 13.

Most recently, she tied the knot with Morty Coyle, the father of her 11-year-old little girl Beatrix, in 2012, before divorcing just four years later.

Ban these dogs!

An anti-vax Czech folk singer has died after deliberately catching Covid to obtain a health pass to allow her to visit the sauna and theatre.

Hana Horka, the vocalist for the band Asonance, died on Sunday after contracting the Delta variant at the age of 57, according to her son Jan Rek.

She voluntarily exposed herself to the virus when her husband and son, both vaccinated, caught it before Christmas, Rek told public radio iRozhlas.cz.

Proof of vaccination or a recent infection is required to access cultural and sports facilities as well as for travel and for visiting bars and restaurants in the EU member state, which is facing a soaring Covid count.

Jan said: 'She decided to continue to live normally with us and preferred to catch the disease than to get vaccinated.'

Two days before her death, Horka took to social media to say: 'I survived... It was intense.

'So now there will be the theatre, sauna, a concert... and an urgent trip to the sea,' she added.

Horka went for a walk outside but when she returned she started to complain about back pain and soon after, died choking in her bed, her son said.

Rek blamed the death on a local anti-vax movement, saying its leaders had brainwashed his mother against vaccination and had 'blood on their hands'.

'I know exactly who influenced her... It makes me sad that she believed strangers more than her proper family,' Rek said.

'It wasn't just total disinformation but also views on natural immunity and antibodies acquired through infection,' he added.

The country of 10.7 million people announced more than 20,000 new Covid infections on Tuesday.

She's posted the last page of it to Twitter and is now basking in the attention of people telling her that her feelings and mental health matter more than some letter!

(not sure if BPD refers to Borderline Personality Disorder or Bipolar Personality Disorder, perhaps someone else can clarify).

The letter mentions some incidents where she has been loitering near bridges and overpasses in a way that caused her friends to be concerned, multiple times apparently, as well as calling emergency services, both her and her friends, because she is feeling suicidal or is acting in a concerning manner.

Is she in the right here or does it seem like she's mainly doing it for attention, and then hiding behind the mental illness diagnosis (not sure if self-diagnosed or other) and the support of others like her on Twitter? A quick glance at her Twitter shows a person who spends the majority of their time talking/venting about their mental illness.

Is she blameless in this because of her mental illness, or does she bear some responsibility?

I am rooting for the Rams! Rooting against the Patriots! I’m watching the Bengals Raiders game right now. Pretty good game. Let’s talk football!

Also, this hottie slipped under my radar: Sam Hubbard! Go to the link and click on his Twitter photo. Woof!!!

Uh oh. We know all about his “cures” here at the datalounge. The guy is a shameless snake oil salesman. I think he has a show now on OAN.

So now he wants to push his snake oil on the public from the US Senate. PA citizens, I implore you, remember the last time you came close to voting for a shameless con man (for president in that case). He tried to steal your votes! Let’s not go down this road again.

Americans aren’t so smart.

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- On average, Americans' political party preferences in 2021 looked similar to prior years, with slightly more U.S. adults identifying as Democrats or leaning Democratic (46%) than identified as Republicans or leaned Republican (43%).

However, the general stability for the full-year average obscures a dramatic shift over the course of 2021, from a nine-percentage-point Democratic advantage in the first quarter to a rare five-point Republican edge in the fourth quarter.

Line graph. Quarterly averages of U.S. party identification and leaning in 2021. In the first quarter of 2021, 49% of U.S. adults identified as Democrats or leaned Democratic, while 40% identified as Republicans or leaned Republican. In the second quarter, 49% were Democrats or Democratic leaners, and 43% were Republicans and Republican leaners. In the third quarter, 45% were Democrats and Democratic leaners, and were 44% Republicans and Republican leaners. In the fourth quarter, 42% were Democrats and Democratic leaners, and 47% were Republicans and Republican leaners.

These results are based on aggregated data from all U.S. Gallup telephone surveys in 2021, which included interviews with more than 12,000 randomly sampled U.S. adults.

Gallup asks all Americans it interviews whether they identify politically as a Republican, a Democrat or an independent. Independents are then asked whether they lean more toward the Republican or Democratic Party. The combined percentage of party identifiers and leaners gives a measure of the relative strength of the two parties politically.

Both the nine-point Democratic advantage in the first quarter and the five-point Republican edge in the fourth quarter are among the largest Gallup has measured for each party in any quarter since it began regularly measuring party identification and leaning in 1991.

The Democratic lead in the first quarter was the largest for the party since the fourth quarter of 2012, when Democrats also had a nine-point advantage. Democrats held larger, double-digit advantages in isolated quarters between 1992 and 1999 and nearly continuously between mid-2006 and early 2009.

The GOP has held as much as a five-point advantage in a total of only four quarters since 1991. The Republicans last held a five-point advantage in party identification and leaning in early 1995, after winning control of the House of Representatives for the first time since the 1950s. Republicans had a larger advantage only in the first quarter of 1991, after the U.S. victory in the Persian Gulf War led by then-President George H.W. Bush.

So this is a case that could go either way on here. So a model and her friend went out partying at a "warehouse" in EAST L.A. and went home with some men they just met that night. The model's lifeless body dumped at a hospital and friend brain dead on life support. The husband suspects murder, snuff porn, sex slaves etc since the girl in the coma tested positive for heroin and she "would never do that". There are people theorizing that these women went home with a man seen with"lots of camera equipment" and so that automatically =snuff. The men wore all black, wore baklavas, and had no plates on the car.

The replies are often magnificent.

The S&P is down almost 7% in 2022.

This is the big one! The collapse is coming. If you own stocks, you should sell them all right now!!!

He should have been killed for this hairdo alone.

DOOL Spoilers: Doug Dies Vanquishing ‘Mar-Devil’?

TV personality Billy Bush is "livid" at being excluded from a video montage marking the 70th anniversary of NBC's "Today" that aired on Friday, the New York Post reported.

Bush featured in the notorious Trump pussy tape. In one widely-cited phrase Trump said he would not bother to see if women were interested in him but "grab 'em by the pussy."

"When you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything," he also said.

The release of the tape threatened to derail Trump's campaign, but he survived the scandal and was elected to the presidency.

However Bush's career at NBC did not last. He was axed as a host of its "Today" show, where he had worked for only two months, after the scandal broke.

Per the New York Post, Try Bush’s Baked Beans. Roll that beautiful bean footage. Bush was upset that he was not in the video while presenter Matt Lauer, who was fired after being accused of sexual assault in 2017, does briefly feature.

"Billy was livid they included everyone except him," a source close to Bush told the tabloid. "When they chose to include Matt Lauer — who was accused of anally raping a young staff member while on a work trip — but chose not to include Billy, you know something is very wrong."

A former colleague, Brook Nevils, was identified as Lauer's accuser by Ronan Farrow in a 2019 book, with Nevils alleging that Lauer raped her on a work trip in Sochi, Russia, in 2014.

Lauer had worked as an anchor on "Today" for 20 years before he was fired, and denied the allegations.

The nephew of former president George HW Bush, Bush now hosts "Extra" on Fox.

This sentence about the Atlantis Gay Cruise amid Omnicron

“It’s time to start living our lives again and vaccines and tests allow us to do that. This isn’t Covid 2020,” said Andre Mayer, a graphic designer from Germany who paid more than $4,000 for the weeklong cruise on board Royal Caribbean’s Oasis of the Seas. “This is going to be the wildest party for our community in two years. I’m talking dirty dancing, sex, drugs, raves, orgies and sweet, sweet freedom.”

Gay men are OUTRAGED over being stereotyped like that

"The author of this article, ironically, has in her bio that she fought for gender equality issues in Turkey. How ironic that she doesn't understand how her article is slanderous towards gay men," writes Darren in a long post.

Another — Danielle — says she works for a cruise company and disputed the Times reporting.

"This article is garbage, because without the homophobic 'gay' sensationalist clickbait it wouldn't have been published. As someone who works on cruises I can attest that all the cruise lines are sailing with thousands of guests, and all are vaccinated and tested as is the crew. The ratio of Covid cases to guest counts is remarkably small (on a Christmas cruise I was on there were 1500 guests and 3 Covid cases). Cruises are doing a great job considering the nature of their business. The only reason this article exists is to have mention of orgies and drug taking. How about writing about the heterosexual swinger's cruise I worked on in October, on the same ship, which is far more "debauched" than a gay cruise? No? Didn't think so."

A Times reader named S.S. writes: "As a gay man, I'm personally perturbed by this portrayal of gay people - and the quote below from Andre Mayer, a self-appointed spokesperson for the gay "community", is most repulsive !"

Anon wrote a pointed response: "What happened to the woke N.Y. Times (or are gay males now part of white male supremacy and thus good targets for its wrath)? This coverage reminds me of early coverage of AIDS as the "gay plague." Thanks for pointing out that gatherings of gay men are not necessarily orgies. Who even thinks like that anymore? Your reporter, I guess."

Paul writes: "You've just given Fox News their next homophobic story, complete with graphic quotes about "the decadent gay lifestyle" that Democrats are plotting for the viewers' children and grandchildren . . . thanks NYT!"

Times reader Whaaa? asks, "Seriously, NYT? This is not newsworthy in mid-pandemic-omicron-surge-governors-banning-mask-mandates-jam-packed-school-cafeteria-petri-dish America.

"Nor does it have anything, except coincidence, to do with gay culture, and so your title is, as others have pointed out, nothing but cheap (or expensive, as the case may be — I don't know what what the per-word rate or writer salaries are these days) clickbait. Homophobia-promoting clickbait, at that."

David M was confused as to the writer's intent: "I'm not clear what novel insight about the pandemic the writer was attempting to convey with this article. The risks of taking a cruise are well known and have been previously publicized. How safe is any cruise with 5,500 passengers? What about a Disney cruise with unvaccinated three and four year olds running around? This reads like cheap sensational reporting. Disappointing, NYTimes."

And a Times reader named BigGuy offered a reality check to the pic (one from Atlantis) used in the story:

"A man like the fellow in the photo does NOT buy a ticket for a cruise. A man who desires his company buys the ticket. I'm 66, 5'8", and 345 pounds with a 58" waist. Many, many more men aboard look like me than look like him."

What do you think?

These people need to be rounded up and studied.

Well?

I never considered my parents sexual, especially when they decided to have separate bedrooms when I turned 13. When my mum died and my dad remarried, I remember visiting one time and going to the hall bathroom in the middle of the night. Their bedroom door was open and they were both nude in the bed, but no apparent sex. They were way too old. Ewww.

Well, just when we thought it was impossible to love Mariska Hargitay's Capt. Olivia Benson any more, she gave us a pretty great reason to on Thursday night's "Law & Order: SVU."

At the end of the episode, her son, Noah (Ryan Buggle), who's about 8 years old, made a very big — and important — revelation to his mom: that he is bisexual.

His coming out happened after a cruel instance of bullying at the beginning of the episode, when Noah could be seen on all fours in a cage with a collar on being told by a boy named Hudson, who was filming the scene on his phone, to "bark like a dog."

Not long after, Hudson's mom stumbles upon the scene with Olivia close behind, and Hudson insists they "were just playing," and Noah says the same when asked by his mom if he's OK.

"Let's get you home," Olivia says, as she ushers him out of the room.

Outside, Olivia asks Noah to explain what happened, and while Noah remains silent, she follows up wondering why his neck is red.

"If I tell you, will you stop asking?" he replies. "Hudson's a jerk. He put his dog's collar on me, locked me in the cage and he wanted me to eat dog food."

"What!" Olivia says, as she bends down to speak to her son at eye level.

"I said, 'No,'" Noah explains. "I don't want to talk about it anymore."

Olivia and her squad catch a case, so the conversation with Noah doesn't pick back up until the episode's final scene when mother and son are taking an evening walk together.

Olivia informs Noah she suggested to Hudson's mom that the next play date be at their house instead.

She also tells him she talked to Hudson's mom about the dog cage incident, even though he told her not to mention it.

"Mom, I asked you not to! Hudson's just an idiot, no one likes him anyway," Noah says. "He bullies everyone: It was just my turn to be his target."

When Olivia asks why, Noah says he doesn't understand why and explains how Hudson went after other kids, including one who uses they/them pronouns whom Hudson started calling "a fairy."

"Then I said that I was bi," Noah tells his mom.

At this moment, the camera lingers on Olivia's face as she takes in her son's news. (Again we ask: Where is Hargitay's Emmy?)

"And that there's no shame in being true to yourself," Noah continues.

"That's right, Noah," Olivia, clearly proud, replies, acknowledging how her son stood up for himself as well as the other bullied kid.

"That is incredibly brave," she says.

"Well, it's my truth. I just hadn't told anybody before," he tells her.

"Well thank you for telling me," Olivia says, smiling at her son.

"No big deal," he replies. "It's not like I have a boyfriend or girlfriend, it's just not fair for anybody to be left out."

"I hear that," Olivia says while pulling Noah in for a hug and dropping a kiss on his head, "I'm really proud of you."

In that moment, Olivia let Noah take the lead in the chat and didn't interrupt or push him as he spoke his truth. She also treated their talk like any other conversation.

After the episode aired, Buggle opened up about his character's big moment and how Hargitay supported him ahead of filming.

"Filming this episode was such an important, incredible and exciting experience for me. @therealmariskahargitay personally called me to talk about the script before it was finished and I felt so involved and respected," he wrote on Instagram.

"It is incredible to see Noah beginning to discover who he is. My feelings are the same, there is no shame in being true to yourself and no one deserves to be left out or bullied because of it," he continued.

"I wanted to take the time to connect you with an incredible organization that I’ve learned about that is creating safe and inclusive K-12 environments for all students. @GLSEN thank you for all you do. ~Ryan #noahbenson #svu"

"SVU" fans took to Twitter to share their thoughts on the scene.

I couldn’t find video of this episode.

No wonder employees aren’t showing up to work anymore.

This is so pathetic. You can’t even get a meal for that.

DirecTV to Drop Right-Wing News Network OANN

90 percent of OAN revenue in 2020 came from DirecTV (AT&T) contract

If you were ever kidnapped, your kidnappers would end up returning you after having to go through hours of hearing you talk obsessively about  _________.

He looks so different

Enjoy your Rachel Maddow Show while you can.

Only two weeks left!

This profile of her in the Guardian is basically a love letter, but she sounds like she deserves this.

I saw a commercial for this "new" healthcare provider. They try to focus more on preventative measures and monitoring (from what I can tell), but what had me skeptical was all the "Star Trek" like tech they show off in the ad along with LED mood lighting.....

I know marketing and it comes off as too gimmicky to me, but perhaps I'm wrong. Has anyone had any experience with Forward healthcare?

"Everyone will get it sooner or later..."

"Case numbers aren't an important metric..."

"Hospitalized WITH omicron, not FOR omicron..."

"Just get and get it over with..."

"Life must go on..."

He's too disgusting and embarrassing with the kiddie porn rumours and who knows what else? Besides, have you noticed how so many uber-macho, obnoxious straight guys who watch his stupid and unfunny shows DIE when they get told he's sucked off male porn stars, fucked a young Corey Haim, etc.

Poor Corey.

Anyway, as long as at least one of Charlie's dumb shows is in syndication, he's safely sheltered in Closet Central.

Asshole, or a racist or a rapist? I recently discovered that George Jones and Tammy were not only racists, but performed at George Wallace rallies. I liked Michael Ray until I realized he is a cheating asshole. Don’t get me started on Jason Aldean : blackface, misogyny, open cheater, disrespectful to his children, and he said he hasn’t read a book since college. And just today I found out that Dustin Lynch played at a conservative rally with Tucker Carlson, The Father Coughlin of Fox News. Now being a Republican isn’t a sin, Miss Loretta and Reba are members. But based on their actions I don’t think they would perform for George Wallace. The problem with country music has always be the continuous defense of the music against the backdrop of a stereotype of confederate flags, hound dogs, fat sheriffs, and a deep racial hate.

Miss Lindz?

Josh Hawley?

Someone else

Right?

They are not just going to sit by, right? What do we have this huge military for?

This is a test of American might. Too many attacks have gone unanswered. Now is the time to respond.

We've recently heard stories from women who struggle to make friends because their beauty makes others jealous, as well as others who have found dating difficult thanks to their good looks.

But one 27-year-old model has insisted it is almost impossible for her to find a boyfriend, as men are often "intimidated" by her.

Elizabeth Marie Chevalier, from San Diego, California, USA, is a Playboy model who has also graced the pages and front covers of magazines such as MAXIM - but despite her stunning looks, she's been single for six months.

The beauty - who has over 2.9 million followers on her Instagram, @marieechev - split with her ex half a year ago and has now said her "intense personality" paired with her intimidatingly good looks has made it a nightmare for her to find a date.

She said: “I’ve been told that I’m intimidating to guys because I’m tall – I’m 5ft 10 – and I’m beautiful and I have a very intense personality.

"I’m actually very sweet and loving so if they took the time to get to know me they would realise that.

“I’ve been on dates where guys just can’t speak to me."

Elizabeth does get attention from men when she goes out on the town, but it's often from people who see her as a "trophy" rather than those who want to settle down with her.

She added: "The men that do chat me up are usually too cocky and self-obsessed, they clearly go for every pretty girl in the room. They see us as trophies.

“I would 100% date a fan but every time I’ve met a guy through my Instagram they have just treated me like a commodity. I know I wear a bikini online but it’s a job, most guys can’t see past that.

“Dating is hard – guys are scared because I'm so beautiful. I would totally let a friend set me up with someone. In fact, I would prefer it."

The model says her beauty has been a blessing and a curse throughout her life, as people often make snap decisions about her personality based on her looks.

And it's not just men that find Elizabeth intimidating - the beauty also says women can sometimes jump to conclusions about her intentions too.

She added: “I remember once being at a Halloween party and I was wearing a costume and I put my headdress down on a chair.

"This guy came over and told me he had been sitting there and his girlfriend saw him speaking to me and completely freaked out. She started screaming in my face and I’m not a confrontational person at all so I just ended up leaving.

“It was pretty crazy. If she knew me she would know I’m not like that at all – I would never steal someone else's man – but I find other women are always saying things behind my back.

"I think they're just jealous. I do find it hard to make new female friends but luckily I have a very solid group of girlfriends that have known me for years who I can count on."

When Elizabeth does find someone to settle down with, she's hoping he'll fit her idea of her dream man - tall, dark, and handsome, with green eyes.

She said: "My ideal man is someone who is the strong but silent type. I like the tall darker features, a handsome man. Age is not a problem to me nor is their job, as long as they are successful and passionate.

"He would just have to come up and say 'Hello beautiful can I ask you on a date?'. I like a guy who I very forward and knows what he wants."

Did they ever threaten you or try to kill you?

I remember when I was about 12 years old waking up one night and seeing my mother standing there staring at me, holding a pillow like she was about to put it over my face. She must have seen me looking panicked, because she said she was just fluffing it, but I knew she was full of shit.

I started locking my door after that, and I found an old crowbar in the garage and hid it under my bed.

Is anyone watching this? I really liked the first episode. It’s like a more horrific version of Lost, lots of flashbacks & mystery…and cannibalism! I really like Juliette Lewis in everything she’s in.

On "the Brady Bunch" Mike brings home a record album to play on the new Hi-Fi stereo Alice won and for some reason was in the family room not her room

This proves Mike was a gay.

But I was wondering, what songs do the gays of Datalounge think would be on a "“Best of Gilbert and Sullivan” album?

F Murray Abraham & more cast.

Democrats admit they’re losing ground with Latino voters.

But Latino Democratic leaders and operatives are increasingly worried that time is running out to do anything that would make a significant difference ahead of the 2022 midterms, when the party needs a robust Latino turnout to preserve its slim majorities in Congress. For years, those leaders have warned that the party needs to invest earlier in outreach, hire more Latinos for decision-making positions and talk to Latino voters about more issues than just immigration. But even after a presidential election marked by former President Donald Trump’s impressive gains with Latinos across the country — not just in Latino-heavy South Texas and South Florida — they see a lack of urgency in addressing those issues. Between that and a failure to keep pace with GOP efforts to communicate with Latinos on newer platforms, there’s a creeping fear that the traditional Democratic advantage with Latino voters will continue to erode in November.

“Intellectually, Democrats know they have a problem,” said Maria Teresa Kumar, founding president and CEO of Voto Latino, a grassroots political organization. “But I haven’t seen the investment that needs to happen for it to translate.”

Latinos — the largest of the nation’s fastest-growing demographic groups — have long been viewed as solidly blue Democratic voters. While President Joe Biden captured the majority of the Latino vote in 2020, Trump improved his margins in 78 of the nation’s 100 majority-Hispanic counties. Since then, a spate of reports, analyses and polls have made it clear that the party has reason to worry if it doesn’t change its current approach. A recent report by Democratic research firm Equis found that a majority of Latinos believe that Democrats take them for granted. It also found that Trump’s policies on the coronavirus pandemic and economy were popular among Latinos and that GOP attacks claiming Democrats embrace socialism have been effective.

Another analysis by Democratic voter data firm Catalist found that, while six in 10 Latino voters backed Biden, Trump’s share of the Latino vote increased by 8 percentage points compared to 2016.

Kumar points to Florida — where Trump saw some of his largest gains with Latinos, both among conservative-leaning Cuban Americans and voters from other Latin American countries, such as Colombia, Venezuela and Nicaragua — as an example of Democrats having “a deficit in communications and connection.”

“Trump and the Republican Party never left Florida. They kept cultivating and communicating with the Latino community,” Kumar said. “Sure, a lot of it was disinformation and messaging that Biden is a communist and a socialist, but they kept doing it — and it was effective.”

One Democratic super PAC found that the party’s English-language ad spending dwarfed Spanish-language ads in numerous Latino-heavy House districts that Republicans flipped in 2020.

According to a spreadsheet shared with POLITICO — assembled out of frustration by the super PAC, which favored more Spanish-language ads — Democratic groups combined to spend almost $5 million in English-language ads in California’s 39th Congressional District, and not a cent on Spanish-language ads.

In that district, which is more than 30 percent Latino, Democratic incumbent Gil Cisneros lost to now-GOP Rep. Young Kim by just over 4,000 votes.

In the nearby 48th District, which is about 20 percent Latino, Democrats spent just $33,000 in Spanish-language ads, compared to more than $12 million spent in English-language ads. Democratic incumbent Harley Rouda lost narrowly there to Republican Michelle Steel.

“It should be a wake-up call to Democrats. When there are no people of color at the decision-making level of a campaign, our constituency becomes an afterthought and you underperform because you’re not reaching out to them with the same priority as white suburban ‘persuadable’ voters,” said Chuck Rocha, a Democratic strategist and former senior adviser to Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-Vt.) presidential campaign.

What’s her problem exactly? Could it be meth? Heroin?

God, he's such a fucking idiot. Andrew is taking a lot of well-deserved heat, getting a lot of criticism, and this dumbass can't just keep his head down and his mouth shut. I wonder if he'll mention his dead mum.

Prince Harry is to discuss 'personal stories and challenges' in his first appearance of the year at a virtual summit in February, as he continues to earn his keep away from royal life.

The Duke of Sussex, 38, who is currently living in his $14 million mansion in California with Meghan Markle, 40, having stepped back from royal duty, will attend a virtual event on February 3 for BetterUp.

Announcing the news on Twitter, the couple's journalist friend Omid Scobie wrote: 'In his role as Chief Impact Officer at @BetterUp , Prince Harry will join CEO @Arobichaux for a virtual event on Feb 3 to discuss their "bold commitment" to the company's new #InnerWork initiative.

'Expect to hear the duke talking about personal stories, challenges, and successes.'

The post Sean Penn Says He’s Glad He’s Old and Won’t Have to “Deal” with Where the World is Heading appeared first on Consequence.

Growing old is more-or-less a sin in Hollywood, but 61-year-old Sean Penn isn’t mad about it. In a recent interview with the Toronto Sun, the actor said he was happy to grow old so he won’t have to deal with the world’s increasingly apocalyptic future.

“I’m a little frustrated with the world,” Penn said. “I’m glad I’m old and won’t be having to deal with where this stuff is going.”

Penn’s misanthropic comments seemed to be inspired by so-called cancel culture, as he went on to denounce those who pick and choose issues to be upset about.

“We give too much of a shit about what we are going to be accused of by people who want to be self-righteous because they can get a quick reward,” Penn said. “And they’re self-righteous hypocritically — they damn this, but don’t worry about why kids are being bombed in Yemen, because it’s not getting them into a club right away.”

Penn has never been shy about his political beliefs. Back in July, he refused to resume shooting the Starz series Gaslit until every cast and crew member was vaccinated against COVID-19. Before that, he chided the “salacious” #MeToo movement because it “divides men and women.”

More recently, he directed the film Flag Day, a drama based on Jennifer Vogel’s 2004 memoir Flim-Flam Man: A True Family History. Starring Penn and his daughter Dylan, the film tells the story of Vogel’s charming father, the bank robber and conman John Vogel. In keeping with the film’s father-daughter theme, its soundtrack features contributions from Eddie Vedder and his daughter Olivia, as well as Cat Power and Glen Hansard.

Governor Glenn Youngkin today signed nine Executive Orders and two Executive Directives at the Virginia State Capitol, acting on several of his Day One promises to Virginians:

Executive Order Number One ending the use of divisive concepts, including Critical Race Theory, in public education. - He's going after the Bogeyman.

Executive Order Number Two to empower Virginia parents in their children’s education and upbringing by allowing parents to make decisions on whether their child wears a mask in school. - He's making it okay for the parents of one child to infect an entire school building with hundreds of other students; also, undermining the authority of 133 local School Boards.

Executive Order Number Three to restore integrity and confidence in the Parole Board of the Commonwealth of Virginia. - If you're Black, don't plan on being released any time soon . . .

Executive Order Number Four to investigate wrongdoing in Loudoun County. - He's not even making a secret of the fact he's now using his new Office to go after his political enemies.

Executive Order Number Nine to withdraw from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI). - He really is a brain-dead A$$H0LE intent on killing us all.

Homeless activists complain the movement of the homeless off the streets and into shelters is "banishment." Activists have harrassed city workers seeking to arrange shelter for those living in tents.

Kevin De Leon, a city councilman and mayoral candidate, says homeless activists have been paying the homeless to continue to live on the streets.

Activists have compared the homeless shelters, which are repurposed hotels that cost the city hundreds of millions of dollars, to prisons. They say the homeless have the right to live in tents on the street if they wish.

Fasten your seatbelts. It’s going to be a bumpy year.

What's his story?

(full movie on Youtube.)

Discuss

His ex-wife alleged he had affairs, including "emotional" ones, with cast members. I was a huge fan of his show back in the day, and still watch it from time to time. I'm guessing for some reason Amber Benson - he seemed awfully chummy with her during the making of the famous musical episode.

It sounds like a disease and it erases women-hood. Women who are same sex attracted should refer to themselves as gay women.

Authorities are still looking for a 21-year-old Texas State University student who was reported missing earlier this week after his car was found crashed in an unincorporated area of Caldwell County, near Luling.

He has major gay face? Maybe a late night Grindr hook gone bad???

Noah Blaise, 22, and Leaon Gordon, 26 NEWTON FALLS, (WKBN) – The two men who troopers say led them on a wild chase a week ago were back in court again Tuesday. Noah Denious, 22, of Cuyahoga Falls and Leaon Gordon, 26, of Connecticut, were both arrested after troopers say Gordon drove his Jeep into the scene of a double fatal crash in Braceville Township.

A preliminary hearing was held Tuesday for both suspects.

At some point, officials say Denious grabbed the Newton Falls police officer’s gun and the pair sped away.

They were caught near the Portage County line.

Denious remains free on bond for now while Gordon is in the Trumbull County Jail. They’ll return to court again next month

That was a big medical fad back in the day. People took baby aspirin to prevent blood clots/heart attacks. I think people did it for about 20 or30 years.

I knew those queens always had raging boners for basic white women with facial paralysis, but I've never seen anything like their collective orgasm for Kristen Stewart. Absolutely not a single less than ecstatic word can be said about her without a whole bunch of them ganging up on you. She's been compared with Natalie Portman, Cate Blanchett, Sandra Bullock and hell even Anthony Hopkins and has somehow remained undefeated in all head to heads.

So what is so special about this basic white girl with perpetually chapped lips and reads every line like she's still getting over the cold she got 20 years ago, whose crowning achievement since The Twilight Saga has been that haircut in that Charlie's Angels remake? Do we really have enough reasons to believe that Hollywood is tripping over themselves to give her an Oscar?

Some say he was a genius, others say retatded

The police said the woman was shoved in front of an R train as it approached a 42nd Street station in Manhattan on Saturday morning.

Jeopardy #26 is paywalled and I keep wanting to say that current champion Andrew He looks like a troll doll. You have use your imagination a bit with the hair, but when he's smiling during the introductions or beaming after a win, he reminds me of a troll doll, especially around the cheeks.

Which of the following would give prospective partners of either sex pause for thought at something serious, even with someone as hot, rich and powerful as BP?

He has six kids

He has a vengeful yet highly thirsty ex with all kinds of rumoured personality disorders and substance dependencies, who is considered improbably beautiful due to multiple facial and body "refinements" and alterations and many, many dumb tattoos. There's good tatts and then there's dumbo AJ ones. Behind only M Fox and the male Beckhams when it comes to dumbass tatts. And she probably pays Brad's staff for dirt on him she can leak to the tabloids and/or use in the never ending divorce

The never ending divorce with said ex. Until custody is settled, he is in a state of flux and under scrutiny

That he was foolish enough to cheat on Jen with AJ, publicly lie about it, have six kids with her and then eventually marry her shortly before being brutally dumped and labelled an abuser after a decade and a half or however long

That he put up with AJ's shit for soooo long and even married her. If she's batshit crazy, what does that make him?

That he went along with AJ dressing Shiloh as a boy, even as an infant

That Maddox wore a Mohawk hairstyle from toddler years to late teens. And Brad didn't stop it

His fame is counteractive to privacy

He's in recovery so pot and booze are OUT

Did I mention he has six kids AND a vengeful yet thirsty ex who won't settle the divorce/custody arrangements?

it's a tie

It's nice being wealthy.

If I were this rich I think I would buy a beautiful, private island.

Lmao so funny! I love Ru!!! The greatest Drag Queen we have ever had! She WORKED to the top.

Behar is taking it too personal.

Who do you feel was in the wrong?

Jenna Jameson is in the hospital and unable to walk after being diagnosed with Guillain-Barré syndrome.

Over the weekend, Jameson’s partner, Lior Bitton — with whom she shares 4-year-old daughter Batel Lu — revealed on Instagram that she was in the hospital undergoing tests after “not feeling so good.”

The ex-porn star had been throwing up for two weeks before going to the hospital last week, only to be sent home, Bitton explained.

“Then she came back home and she couldn’t carry herself,” Bitton said in a video on Saturday. “Her muscles in her legs were very weak. So she wasn’t able to walk to the bathroom. She was falling on the way back or to the bathroom, I would have to pick her up and carry her to bed. And then within two days, it got really not so good, her legs started to not hold her, she wasn’t able to walk.” The Israeli businessman took Jameson back to a hospital, where more testing occurred and it was determined that she was suffering from Guillain-Barré syndrome.

According to the CDC, it is a “rare, autoimmune disorder in which a person’s own immune system damages the nerves, causing muscle weakness and sometimes paralysis.” The symptoms can last from weeks to several years. Most fully recover but some have permanent nerve damage.

In an Instagram Story, Bitton announced that Jameson was being given a high dose of immunoglobulin therapy.

“She’s doing physical therapy to try and stand on her legs, but at the moment she cannot stand on her legs. They’re starting the treatment so they’ll see how it goes. So keep praying.”

On Monday, Jameson posted a video confirming her diagnosis, thanking fans for their good wishes before writing: “I did NOT get the jab or any jab. This is NOT a reaction to the jab. Thank you for your concern.” (Jameson has previously espoused anti-vaccine views on her social media.)

To me, this period in horror film making is such a delight. There is amazing stuff, terrible stuff, campy stuff, good idea/bad execution, etc. but I have enjoyed watching nearly all of it that I have come across. I think I just enjoy the aesthetic of this time too (I was born in 1981 so smack bang in the middle of it, but never really watched any of these movies until very recently, bar a few exceptions). Posters on here are really good with this stuff, so any recommendations out of the ones I have left would be very much appreciated. I do know I want to see "My Bloody Valentine", "Happy Birthday to Me" and "The Prowler", but it's just a matter of finding copies. I've chosen the years from 1976-1984, but if there is a recommendation later or earlier in that time period, feel free! (Just to note, I have already seen Black Christmas, which I loved). I'm particularly interested in the slashers/one-by-ones, but again, it's all good.

The following is what I have already seen, from memory/Wikipedia:

1976: Alice, Sweet Alice; Carrie; The Omen.

1977: Alucarda; The Hills Have Eyes; The Psychic; Suspiria.

1978: Dawn of the Dead; Halloween.

1979: Alien; The Amityville Horror; Nosferatu the Vampyre; When a Stranger Calls; Zombi 2.

1980: The Changeling; City of the Living Dead; The Fog; Friday the 13th; Inferno; Prom Night; The Shining; Terror Train.

1981: An American Werewolf in London; The Beyond; The Burning; The Evil Dead; Final Exam; Friday the 13th Part 2; Halloween II; Hell Night; The House by the Cemetery; The Pit.

1982: Friday the 13th Part III; Halloween III: Season of the Witch; Manhattan Baby; The New York Ripper; Pieces; The Slumber Party Massacre; Tenebrae; The Thing.

1983: Sleepaway Camp.

1984: Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter; Gremlins; A Nightmare on Elm Street; Silent Night, Deadly Night.

Now that the fake casting outrage is over, I’m thinking what to make of this movie. As a Cleopatra expert, I feel like it would have been better if made into a miniseries.

It would be more interesting for them to do Cleopatra’s last year with Mark Antony. They lost the Battle of Actium. Mark Antony is depressed and Cleopatra is doing everything she can to stop Octavian from invading Egypt.

I don’t know how they’re going to fit everything into 3 hours and it be good. And I’m also worried they’ll make it a love story instead of going for politics, which is more interesting.

Jim O. has moved back to his hometown on Lake Erie, and hopes to unseat Republican D. J. Swearingen (who is 35 but looks 55 in his photos) in the next election.

HuffPost claims Jim's name recognition and access to queer dollars will be an asset to him in this race. But that didn't help Clay Aiken, did it?

What’s it looking like for New Years?

The Oscars will be next!

Because she said she stood in solidarity with the Palestinians.

Animal shelters flooded with donations in honor of Betty White's birthday

By Caitlin O'Kane

Updated on: January 18, 2022 / 4:17 PM / CBS News

Betty White would have been 100 – and proud – Monday when fans flooded animal groups with donations in her honor. The donations were encouraged by the popular "Betty White Challenge" on social media, which asked fans to donate to shelters on January 17, what would have been the animal-loving star's 100th birthday.

White, who died just shy of her birthday, was an animal activist and a volunteer and board member of American Humane, the first national humane organization in the U.S. and the largest certifier of animal welfare in the world. Web traffic and donations supporting American Humane have quadrupled since White died in December, a spokesperson for the organization told CBS News.

In Boston, the Newhouse Wildlife Rescue in Chelmsford said it was "blown away" after $17,000 was donated on White's birthday. The group, which helps rehabilitate orphaned or injured local wildlife, now has the funds needed "to prepare for the coming baby season and the orphans that will flood through our doors," they wrote on Facebook.

Another animal group in Boston, MSPCA-Angell, set a goal of donating 100,000 pet meals to those in need of assistance during January. Thanks to donations, the veterinary and advocacy group has already distributed 101,172 pet meals and counting.

Pawfect Life Rescue, another local animal rescue in Massachusetts, set a goal of raising $3,000 and raised more than $8,000. Several other groups in the state also helped raise thousands of dollars in White's honor, according to CBS Boston.

And it wasn't just Massachusetts shelters and animal groups that reported an influx of donations on January 17. Dog Days Rescue in Kennesaw, Georgia, said they received more than $4,000 in Betty White's name, founder Tina Lee told CBS affiliate WGCL.

FurKids, a dog shelter in Alpharetta, Georgia, received over $10,000 in donations for the Betty White Challenge, said Talley Davidson, social media marketing specialist with FurKids.

Nashville Humane said it raised $1,100 in just 17 minutes on Monday. At last count, more than $30,000 had been donated to the local animal protection group, according to CBS affiliate WTVF.

And in Kentucky, Ashland Animal Rescue Fund said they raised $5,100 so far – plus mail-in donations they have yet to count.

The Betty White Challenge even went international, with Calgary Humane Society in Canada raising a whopping $91,845.81 and counting. "We're speechless!" the organization wrote on Twitter. "Thank you for all the support! We know Betty White would be proud."

It wasn't just monetary donations that helped shelters. The San Diego Humane Society began waiving adoption fees for all adult animals with a hope of finding homes for 100 pets before January 17. They ended up adopting out 253 adult pets as of Monday afternoon.

CBS News has reached out to ASPCA, Animal Humane and other large animal organizations for comment and is awaiting response.

Why are so many gen z bisexual? It's not only girls anymore, a ton of guys are openly bisexual too. Are we seeing a shift in acceptance? If so that's great.

Continue your discussion of the Sirius/XM show, Howard, Robin, the staff, Wack Pack and more...

It’s now on Cozi!!

Episode 1:

Nell is sassy and sucks Gertrude the fish up into the vacuum cleaner.

Chief makes a lot of racist, homophobic, old fashioned remarks. He slaps Katy across the face.

Julie is studying her sex education homework assignment with George the runt.

Katie is caught shoplifting and is brought home by Simpson to the custody of her father who tells her to get out of the house.

And he looks like Colton Underwood.

Christina, you in danger gurl!

Let’s continue the discussion. The Australian court hearing begins shortly.

One after the other. They’re really shit D-list movies. He’s basically Dennis Quaid. Sad.

The sad discussion continues...

Previous thread below.

Let's not throw out the baby with the bathwater.

If so, is it as good as the trailer? I want to see it, but am not sure about going to the theater. Should I wait until it's on demand next month?

Premieres tonight (Wed. January 5) on CBS.

Almost two years in the making, it'll be a season like no other!

And so I watched it.

And I couldn't stop thinking: "what on earth is going on?" when in the middle of everything we stop for a disco dance-off with JLC!

I actually kinda loved that bit. And the knock-off disco song, haha!

"Prom night! Everything is alright! Prom night! No more feelin' uptight!"

And it DOES NOT DISAPPOINT! Wow. It got very uncomfortable. The final 10 minutes are tense. You can see this cast truly never liked each other outside of a few, complete opposite of the NY cast.

Their unresolved drama from 28 years ago comes back once they’re back together.

Wow. Such a good episode. But David is a mess, although a part of me agrees with him. He just can’t seem to go about it the right way ever.

Anybody remember him?

He was a secondary/character actor in mostly straight porn in the 70s and 80s, but some gay too. (most famous probably being Debbie Does Dallas, Insatiable, Aunt Peg, Blonde Ambition, and Centurions of Rome). In 1989 he was in The Night Boys with Melchor Diaz (hot gay porn star who died of AIDS a few years later). In the 90s he was doing mostly low budget gay and straight BDSM.

Barely any info online about him.

Born David J. Reingold on Jan. 9, 1952 in White Plains, NY Died: May 22, 1999 in Delray Beach, FL

The best personal info I found here on DL (thanks, whoever you are):

"...He was one that fell in to drug addiction, and contracted Hep C from his heroin use. He did a few gay movies and loops earlier in his career when he looked good, but did several after he got out of shape and always looked tired and sweaty near the end of his career. He ended up dying in Florida in 1999 of a overdose."

"I heard that about Morris from a few other performers who worked with him and from a guy who is writing a book on the history of porn who has interviewed a lot of people from back then who are still alive and willing to talk. He was apparently a relatively intelligent guy also, so it's a shame his life ended the way it did. From the sleuth work you've done, it sounds like a few of his brothers have their share of issues too."

Me, I found info about his three brothers online (one is an ex NYPD cop accused of raping at least two women, another lives near St. Louis and was arrested on a drug charge, and another took over the old folks home business after the father died) but nothing about him.

I also contacted Rialto Report asking if they planned to do anything on him. They're reply: "We've spoken to many, many people who worked with him - and we always ask about what they remember about him. Without fail people have the same response - good looking, easy to work with, but kept himself to himself... and so was a bit of an enigma."

Know anything about him?

Guatemala has hired for $900,000 a major supporter of former President Donald Trump to seek influence with U.S. officials in an unusual lobbying contract paid for by its ally Taiwan, foreign lobby records show.

The contract, dated Jan. 12, was signed by Alfonso Quinonez, Guatemala’s ambassador to the U.S., and Brian Ballard, president of the namesake lobbying firm and a longtime Trump ally.

[QUOTE]"If this pattern continues globally, we are likely to see a decoupling of case and death rates, suggesting Omicron may be a harbinger of the end of the epidemic phase of COVID, ushering in its endemic phase."

I'll start. Always ignore r1. It's supposed to be cunty.

Which masterpieces takes the prize?

DL, you are wise and experienced. Please continue to share your collective knowledge of actress Kate Jackson with me.

I just watched the new HBO Documentary about Nora Ephron. I'm a huge fan and have read almost all of her books. It was a good documentary.

I had watched the HBO Documentary about Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds, and also read a recent biography of Carrie, along with most of her books.

Now, you would think they probably encountered each other along the way, starting with 1950s Hollywood when they both grew up in Beverly Hills. They were both big media stars in the 1970s and 1980s, and ran in some of the same circles in Hollywood and New York. So, why did I never read of any encounter between them?

I’m getting in DEEP with Barbara Streisand.

My God! She truly is an icon!

I searched for a Cheer thread and found none! Is anyone watching season 2? It's pretty fascinating--much deeper than season 1.

They are not destroying - they have destroyed American democracy.

I'm disturbed at many levels by this but maybe primarily because it looks some version of pop psychology (New Age self help?) is extrapolated to become a political and social commentary.

It's just shit at some level. The NY Times is horrible now.

The author is non-binary and trans as they say prominently in the article. Apparently they and the New York Times feels that is enough to validate this political analysis.

Many have stories of their awful parents, but how about those of you who actually had nice ones? Tell us how your childhood was growing up with them, and how it influenced how you turned out as adults.

I know we all are!

Even after recovering from her recent illness, she’s looking so frail. She must have lost 20 lbs. in the last month.

He made an appearance on The Burns And Allen Show in 1957

Do dl people find him doable back in 1957?

Informative or not?

Sorry - I screwed up on the poll.

Fat whores, if you could only add bacon to one item for the rest of your life, what would it be?

Anyone watch it?

DL poster-monster-turned-piñata Milo Donkeytooth has a prominent spot in it, hilariously interviewed to position him as the more credible than Martin Shkreli.

I forgot that Shkreli was an alt-right Nazi troll.

A woman in Tennessee was arrested after allegedly faking the death of her 12-year-old autistic son and reportedly leaving him in a motel room.

The woman, who police identified as 39-year-old Vanessa Blanchard, is facing charges in the city of Clarksville, Tennessee for contributing to the delinquency of a minor and giving a “false impression of death” according to local TV news reports.

According to an arrest warrant in the case first obtained by local outlet WKRN, Blanchard was first approached in late October by a school resource officer from her son’s middle school who was inquiring about his absence from class. At that point, Blanchard allegedly told the officer that her son “died from a seizure two days earlier.”

Now, police know that was not the case, but at the time, the news stunned the boy’s classmates. A parent of another student in the class, Alicia Maslo, explained how awful the (now known as false) report of the child’s death was for the other kids:

“The kids were so upset the teachers were crying on the phone to the parent. My son came home bawling his eyes out, hugging me, talking about how he couldn’t believe he was gone. He was like, ‘I just saw him, I don’t understand why he’s gone.'”

OMG…

After the school heard about the boy’s alleged death, his classmates started to raise money to pay for his funeral at a local mortuary. School officials eventually contacted the funeral home to donate the funds, but Blanchard’s ruse was discovered after the funeral home reported they had never heard of the boy, and no funeral arrangements had been made. The school supposedly then reached out to Blanchard, who told them that the boy’s autopsy was “still pending.”

The case came to a head more than two weeks later, on November 16, when the boy’s school-issued laptop was discovered to be active at a local motel in the Clarksville area. When police arrived at the motel to see what was going on, they discovered the boy alive and alone inside a motel room, according to WSMV.

I love so many, but something about "Stardust" makes me pause just to appreciate the sheer beauty of the melody.

He had posted this covered up more on his Insta-story but now he just posted it as it is.

Vapid but HOT!

#selfcare

They seem to be very inconsistent. For instance, why is there a shortage of cream cheese? It’s not like it’s being shipped in from overseas. What else have you noticed shortages of?

Personally I would pick Hank Williams and Dolly Parton

Overall: I think Sondheim and Bob Dylan are the best. I think their writings are the best examples that a difficult song about a difficult subject can be done well, be witty, and be remembered, and still be art that reflects the American culture without fear.

It's almost time for Fashion Week? Down to the Final Five!

Who will make the cut?

I say the four remaining women. Bye, Bones.

No sex needed. No partner needed. Pros and cons please.

The late, great Carole Lombard died in a plane crash coming home from a war bonds rally. A month later, Lombard's last film, "To Be or Not to Be" was released. This satire about a group of Polish theatrical actors fighting the Nazis is both smart and hilarious. Carole Lombard and Jack Benny make a great team, directed by Ernst Lubitsch. Here's my look at Lombard's fine finale:

Last thread got locked.

Inspired by the threads on symphonies and conductors.

For me, its Kubrick's brilliant use of Schubert's piano trio in E flat in "Barry Lyndon". It's as beautiful as it gets and, at the same time, full of impending doom...just like life.

....and pressured to kill a story about Donald Trump raping E. Jean Carroll

Fuck all the trolls and bots who keep linking to bullshit NY Post stories

Dialling telephones with a pencil simply could NOT prepare him for this!

The new normal pretty much sucks.

Omg I can’t wait, and I know you bitches are excited also! HBOMAX has been DELIVERING the goods. Great show after great show.

Zendaya is a force!

Gurls, our boy is struggling!

40 bags of fentanyl found at school where 13-year-old overdosed, police say

Larry from "Three Is Company" is too ugly to attract the women he had

Others?

As a frequent, but not daily, viewer of Live With Kelly and Rysn, why is Kelly Ripa and her husband still broadcasting from some vague location in Michigan? It makes no sense - why isn't she here in New York City?

Pink drawers

There is a bedroom in a very weird place.

And looking incredible… he is giving DADDY vibes lately, and his body looks amazing ever since Eternals. Yes ZADDY Richard.

Other than he's been photographed with Brandon Flynn and Froy (is Froy out)? Do you think he's at least bisexual, since he dated many women?

What a time to be alive!

And its going to arrive tomorrow. This will be my first time drinking Yerba Mate. I always wanted to try Yerba Mate but there were none available in my area ever. So, I just ordered a Cruz De Malta brand on Amazon. I'm so excited about drinking my first Yerba Mate and it will be quite an experience since I have no reference to judge it on. Have any of you DLers had Yerba Mate? And did/do you like the taste of Yerba Mate? I read that it's loaded with anti-oxidants. Ahhh Yerba Mate. I wanna hear more about this exotic drink that is Yerba Mate.

I realized it was a really bad movie. The way they switch from saying nasty things to each other, then they seem at least okay with one another. Claire wants Bender in the end??? Under all those clothes - black coat and sweater - Alison has on a frilly white shirt?

(Or how old were they when they adopted you?) I'd be interested to know whether the fact that your parents were older/younger had an impact on how you related to them.

My father was 42 when I was born and my mother was 37. I sometimes think that I might relate better to my father, in particular, if we were somewhat closer in age. For example, if my father had been 20 years old or so when I was born, maybe we would see eye-to-eye. It doesn't bother me but what's it been like for you?

After creating the "Conductor of the 20th Century" poll, I did not realize there were so many Mahler fans on DL.

What is your favorite symphony he wrote?

Favorite recording of favorite symphony?

Favorite non symphonic piece?

Favorite recording of favorite non symphonic piece?

Add anything else you want to add about Herr Gustav Mahler.

Mahler is to classical music what Kafka is to literature.

Most of my adult life I weighed in at around 140, but I admit that about two years ago my weight crept up to 160. Last summer I went on Weight Watchers and got my weight down to 145. Sadly, it crept up again and no matter what I do I can't seem to keep the last 10 pounds off. I don't eat junk, I exercise, I eat healthy most of the time and I rarely drink.

Should I accept my new weight or keep trying? Is this just normal as you age?

Male, 5'6, 46.

They haven't been on each other's IG page in quite awhile.

He looks amazing. I have an odd obsession with him. I don’t know why but he has me hooked.

He comes from $$$ and isn’t afraid to show it off, in the most humble way possible.

I posted a live performance of The Righteous Brothers' 'Unchained Melody' a minute ago. I've watched it several times and it draws tears out of my eyes, strangely, simply because of the vocalist's tone and his manner of performing—I don't think the lyrics have much to do with it.

Joni Mitchell's 'A Case of You' does the same to me, both her original and Tori Amos's cover of it, which is how I first heard the song. In this specific case, the lyrics do have a lot to do with why I get weepy—specifically, the amazing lines "You said love is touching souls/Surely, you touched mine/'Cause part of you/Pours out of me/In these lines/From time to time." But it's also the melody itself that just sucks tears out of my face. I find it really fascinating. I cannot listening to this song without crying every single time.

What songs do this to you?

I am not a big cryer in most circumstances. I am pretty emotional, but in most cases, I don't produce tears in situations when many other people would. But some music just turns on the waterworks reliably, like the composer hit on a perfect alchemy to tap into emotions.

And I don't mean in a movie or in an online photo, magazine, etc. I've seen a few:

- Hank Azaria in the locker room at The Sports Connection in WeHo back in the 1990s. I was really disappointed at how small it was. I mean like micropeen small.

- Forest Whitaker at the urinal in a bathroom at LAX. Again, small - a nubbin.

- John James of Dynasty fame, again at a urinal in a hotel in Denver. Quite girthy and beautiful.

What are your stories, DLers?

Ok, I get that he’s a big deal right now, especially after the latest Spider-Man’s super success, but he is no model. I mean, come on. He’s “cute” but his face isn’t that of a model. He’s short too. This isn’t hot. It looks like a 15 year old trying to be sexy.

Well?

Will this masterpiece ever get an official release on home video?

We are so fucked

Made for porn, but instead on a shitty sitcom.

He needs to move to cable work so he can run around naked.

Your guess is as good as mine. This is about what you think the SC will do, not whether you agree with it or not.

UK and Wimbledon? US and French Opens? In other words, should Djokovic eat humble pie and get vaccinated? Or will he stick to his principles and drop out of tennis?

New year, new booty

Several of us were planning on spending Christmas 2022 in a nearby historic town in the historic district. We decided to plan early so we'd have an idea for budget and to snag a great place. Problem I'm running into is everything is already blocked out for that time period.

My question: are they actually booked or are the owners simply saving them until later in the year?

Francis Collins in fine musical form because megathread 11 was getting super glitchy.

Spot on!

Conventional wisdom has it that he's an interesting actor, has been in a few movies, including the starring role in Richard Jewell.

But....apparently a loose cannon - see the Twitter screencaps. He apparently threatened AO Scott and Manohla Dargis at the Times and then deleted his Twatter.

Mine might be where they go to the South of France but I also really like Isolation Tank.

All episodes, specials, and even the film are included in the polling.

Chasten Buttigieg is the prime example. Do you know any gays who behave like a 1950s housewife?

Lately my sex drive is way down. I'm 48 and up until about a year ago it was very high.

Anyone have experience with TRT and if so, what were the result? Would you recommend/discourage?

TIA!

Remember her awkward, chubby phase? Totally gone. She looks stunning now. I believe she's the prettiest celebrity kid out there.

A new era is coming

He was pushed and pushed and now is an embarrassment.

Loved the first episode. Bridget Everett is fantastic. Anyone who’s ever felt like an outsider needs to watch.

I'm not talking about has-beens who show up in the occasional "Where are they now?" segments or ones who still act but in shit no one watches....I'm talking about actors whose whereabouts are completely unknown.

Jamie Smith, the leading man from Stanley Kubrick's early film Killer's Kiss, completely fell off the radar.....no one seems to know if he's even still alive

Who knew this bitch was so crazy?

I hate listen to Megyn Kelly’s podcast. She was a recent guest.

Not saying I doubt her, and I only half follow this whole story. But I also wonder about the possibility that maybe this man didn't do what she claims. Is it possible? I hear so much about him but I've not heard any specific details of her situation. She signed a settlement with Jeffrey Epstein and she had years to go after Andrew. Are her allegations just that, or does anyone know what actual evidence she has, aside from a photo with him? Sometimes I wonder if some people accused of sexual abuse/harassment might, in fact, be innocent or at least innocent in the ways the abuse is claimed because we rarely hear about hard evidence, just supposition that eventually becomes guilt by default. Go ahead bitches, have at me. But it's a serious question.

Lmaooooo

Scientists spent years mimicking the tissue structure and muscle tendon of real chicken so you get just that right chew and resistance. Will you try it?

...and after every number Cass sat and shat

She then would perspire, fart and blame the choir

Doing both kinds of scat

And no one's fat...

Except for Cass and her massive ass

What a way to start the new year! #loadcountgoals

What disease does she have? She’s on CBS Sunday Morning and she’s is shaking while she’s talking to Jane Pauley?

She got her uterus and some fat sucked out.

When is she going to be funny again? It seems like the worst decision she made was getting married and having a kid.

I like her therapist voice.

This Facebook/Meta ad is pure cringe, from the multicultural teens to the teens and animals dancing to the monkeys to the "this is going to be fun" tagline - and it's been showing endlessly on Hulu and other streaming platforms with ad tiers (no idea about cable). And it's all completely bullshit and does nothing except communicate, I guess, the name change at the end. (NB: My friend who is a Facebook/Meta employee says the general employee consensus is that the new name sucks).

Which do you prefer?

It just went live and is overloaded so just keep refreshing if it says it's too busy. It is legit, the Vermont health site has information on it, yours may also

WHET transexual wack packer Siobhan?

The concept of decimal time, wherein a day is broken down into multiples of 10.

By the eve of the French Revolution, the idea had evolved into a year split into 12 months of 30 days apiece.

That there are 365 days in a year is an immutable fact dictated by the movement of the Earth around our local star. So, 12 months of 30 days apiece resulted in 5 days (6 in a leap year!) left over. These, the revolutionaries reserved for national holidays.

Each week was divided into 10 days, every day was split into 10 equal hours, those were split into 100 minutes, with each minute divided into 100 seconds (roughly 1.5 times longer than conventional minutes) and each second into 1000 “tierces.” Individual tierces could also be divided into 1000 even tinier units, called “quatierces.”

Decimal time was formally adopted by National Convention decree in 1793, “The day, from midnight to midnight, is divided into ten parts, each part into ten others, and so forth until the smallest measurable portion of duration.” As such, midnight would be denoted as 00:00 while noon would be 5:00.

...the Soviet Union mandated a five-day week, with each day designated by color as a state rest day for a different 20% of the workforce; families usually did not share rest days.

Three weeks a year were six or seven days, because interrupted by holidays. From 1931 to 1940, the Soviets mandated a six-day week, with state rest days for all upon the 6th, 12th, 18th, 24th, and 30th of each Gregorian month, as well as upon March 1.

This also necessitated varying weeks of five to seven days over the year.

The trailer for this movie reminded me of Dataloungers. I know some of you basic bitches can relate.

Mine is people who wear a belt with suspenders. If you have a belt, why would you need suspenders? It is a stupid affectation. What's yours?

No human can ever be such a good and sweet friend like an animal. I don't know what I'd do without that dear ball of fur.

Tell me about your pets.

Part 2 has been paywalled.

Here’s Nick wishing everyone Happy New Year!

Wendy Melvion and Lisa Coleman were Prince's proteges, but later had their own solo careers, in addition to being romantic partners.

This has been going on a few weeks now but the Republican infighting is reaching fever pitch this week with Trump going after DeSantis AND MCTurtlle and Tucker Carlson blasting Ted Cruz.

But let’s back up a few weeks and catch everyone up with all the current Republican infighting that is taking shape to play out over the next year.

Who will ultimately take the deplorable throne?

Putin gives no fucks. He knows Biden is “weak and feckless” as is the EU.

This man looks nothing like the other Kennedy's and that family has a strong and ugly gene pool. So who else was Jackie fucking in January/February of 1960?

Wanted Josh so bad, she drove off a bridge!

I need a drink. I don't know who I feel more sorry for. Jason Dottley because he has to forever live with the fact that Seth Sikes broke his dick. if you live within 66 blocks of Hell's Kitchen then you know Seth Sikes can take it with the best of them, all of them, tony winning bear can sized ones.... so what is so wrong with Jason's cock? The pictures I've seen everything looked A OK.

Or is it Seth I feel worse for because, well, he's Seth?

I'd pay $2 to hear the details of this dick breaking.. question six.

I'd pay $4 to watch Jason fuck Seth hard enough to try to break it again. A collab while both of our 40-somethings are in PV for your OF, Jason? Oh Sorry, Jason, you're the only one in his 40's - 41, right? Seth is a few hours younger than 38. Seth's Peter Pan Syndrome he's been loved and identified with for having by his group of ahem much older, wealthier, successful (well, truth) twink-loving friends is upon a new chapter in his book of twinkdom's opportunity, somethings Jason and Seth certainly bonded over. Maybe if they combine their forces they can land ONE successful daddy for them both? What a tragic story. Two over-the-hill users with nothing to use each other for. Especailly when one of those things just breaks during sex.

Big storm in many places. We're under a blizzard warning in Toronto and 12"-20" expected by the time it ends this afternoon. First big snow of the winter. The dog couldn't figure out where to pee the snow was so high in the back yard.

If you devoted five years to it, could you write the first couple books of a series that becomes a global franchise? Twilight, Maze Runner, and Percy Jackson are additional examples.

Yet all the corporate media is calling this “inflation” at the same time their sister companies are price gouging on everything.

Let’s set this narrative straight once and for all:

“What has gone underreported in the American press is that a significant amount of the inflation American households are experiencing is simply strategic behavior of businesses to increase prices in order to increase profits.”

Corporate America is making a cash grab during Covid. It’s not genuine inflation. There is no need for these price hikes. They have all amounted to pure profit.

Of it was inflation, then profits would be flat. Don’t fall for the big lie that this is monetary inflation when it’s clearly a cash grab/price gouging from corporate US.

Missy Elliott.... bit less so....

Where was this filmed? Some old hotel in LA?

You gotta admit, at least she’s her biggest fan. - LAS VEGAS (AP) — Her husband campaigned to help unite the country, but Jill Biden says “healing” a nation wounded by a deadly pandemic, natural and other disasters and deep political polarization is among her chief roles as first lady, too.

Leftwing former student leader Gabriel Boric, 35, will be Chile’s next president 🇨🇱

He is on course for a resounding victory over far-right José Antonio Kast with more than half of the vote counted

The Lost Daughter debuted on Netflix.

Leda was kind of a nutter. She was also kind of a baller. The movie didn't make sense at times. So many shady characters and oddities. But, I was still transfixed. There was this constant unease permeating the film.

"I'm going to cut all of your tiny dicks off and feed them to you like peanuts."

Colman was wonderful. Dakota Johnson continues to impress. And Jessie Buckley is always a welcoming presence.

Have you seen it? What did you think?

Jodie Sweetin is engaged!

The Full House star, who turns 40 on Jan. 19, revealed that boyfriend Mescal Wasilewski popped the question, posting a photo of the pair on Instagram on Monday in which Sweetin is sporting some serious bling on her ring finger.

The Hollywood Darlings star started out the sweet caption announcing the big news with a quote by Maya Angelou, writing, "In all the world there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world there is no love for you like mine."

"I love you Mescal, for always. You're my person. I can't wait to see the life that lies ahead for us," the caption continued. "Here's to us, @ghostfacelito and our life of adventures. Together. I think I'm really gonna like turning 40 ❤️❤️❤️💍."

Danica McKellar, Christy Carlson Romano, and Eboni K. Williams were among the celebrities who congratulated Sweetin on her engagement.

Wasilewski shared the news on his own Instagram page, reposting the snap of the newly engaged couple with the caption, "So that happened…"

Sweetin and Wasilewski first confirmed their relationship in February 2018 after the actress posted a collage of the couple on Instagram, writing in part, "Find someone who you can share this kind of love with… Someone who doesn't just show you they love you one day a year. Who isn't afraid to look silly when they tell you they love you."

The news of Sweetin's engagement comes just over one week after beloved Hollywood icon and Full House patriarch Bob Saget died.

Sweetin and the rest of the Full House family, including series creator Jeff Franklin, stars John Stamos, Dave Coulier, Candace Cameron Bure, Lori Loughlin, Andrea Barber and Scott Weinger as well as Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, issued a joint statement addressing the comedian's death shortly after news of his passing.

"Thirty-five years ago, we came together as a TV family, but we became a real family. And now we grieve as a family," the statement read. "Bob made us laugh until we cried. Now our tears flow in sadness, but also with gratitude for all the beautiful memories of our sweet, kind, hilarious, cherished Bob."

The group's statement continued, "He was a brother to us guys, a father to us girls and a friend to all of us. Bob, we love you dearly. We ask in Bob's honor, hug the people you love. No one gave better hugs than Bob."

On Friday, the Full House cast, as well as Saget's family members and loved ones, came together to pay their respects to the former America's Funniest Home Videos host as he was laid to rest.

On Johnny Carson. At the 10 minute mark, Bette let's it be known that she wouldn't work with Miss Dunaway again for a million dollars!

Check out this live feed of birds at a birdfeeder in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

Now I can't unsee it.

This looks so good, but looks like it will lack the heart of the original, but I will give it a shot.

Hilary Duff as the lead may not be good. But Kim Cattrall is booked and busy!

Omicron is loving this bitches!

Straights with mild wanderlust and mild travel funds seem to enjoy taking cruises to Alaska and the cleaner parts of the Caribbean. But cruises seem to have a lot of food poisoning, balcony murders, crew labor abuses, and pollution problems. Also, they seem like they're just a floating hotel full of fats and drunks.

Are they ever worth it, or are they just a low-rent way to get loaded in the sun for a week without having to speak a word of Spanish or carry a suitcase through a hotel lobby?

"For lunch I'll have the Waldorf Salad and an Earl Grey tea with honey and lemon, not sugar."

"a liar and a con-man"

LOL

It will probably be moved to twitter soon.

It’s for her standup in 1999 where she went off about Mariah Carey. She really did do too much.

😅🤣 Holy shit, what a clown 🤡 he is. Does he think this'll help his ratings?

What would you do?

Love both on their own but struggling while doing them together. My trainer says I need carbs but eating them is a slippery slope since I struggle moderating them.

... and how they are perceived here (select all that apply)?

Does he want out of his 911 contract or something? I’m confused.

The first 3 episodes have been posted. I'm watching episode one now and my hopes are high, but so far it has a surprisingly heavy-handed "men are bad vibe."

This is supposed to be the next big show. I'd love to know what people who've read the books on which it's based think.

Why do you?

Poor guy…..not on Christmas, Dawn….NOT ON CHRISTMAS!!!

Part 10 was recently Murieled. Today's Landon's birthday, so let's join in the celebration by posting this new thread.

I used to love PG Tips and Tension Tamer tea bags. Then I discovered Angela Lansbury only drinks 'Taylors of Harrogate Yorkshire Gold' and had to try it.

Can anybody tell the difference between tea bags?

What about those men caused such questioning or arousal?

I will be having radiation for perineal squamous cell carcinoma very soon. I had surgery in December and now it's healed pretty much and time to get zapped.

How bad will it be? Will I want to die? It's going to be even worse considering where it is and all the activities that will go on down there. I haven't been to the cancer center yet so don't have any idea. It's going to be complicated because I also have HIV. My appointment with the surgeon is next Tuesday and I guess he will hand me over then.

At least once a month they feature people whose jobs do not in any way match the property they bought and (often) renovated.

Today we have Zack, a 32-yo salesman for a market research firm and his wife Nicole, who "handles external communication for a city agency" buying a $1.25MM apartment with $1900/month maintenance (HOA) and, as Nicole notes "There is stuff I never considered before, like oversized windows, which are so nice when it comes to having natural light, but so expensive when it comes to window treatments. We have to go fully custom, which is a blessing and a curse.”

And if you are wondering WTF is up with the Amish hat, he does state that the area around Lincoln Center is "soulless"

They were a big part of so-called modern rock stations in the 90s. One of those bands where you don't realize how many of their songs you know until you hear them. "The World I Know" is probably my favorite. Beautiful production!

Lots of stories from abused assistants and flight attendants-it seems like something you cows would love.

From 1980 - 1983, several female artists had big MTV and radio hits.

Madonna's debut changed pop music. Tthese artists suffered the biggest declines in popularity.

I see references to critical thinking a lot and I get the gist of what it is but I don't recall ever having a course in it in K-12 or in college. Yet people talk about how it needs to be taught more.

Amy smaller than ever! Tammy bigger than a house!

Political views aside, who are the classiest people in politics within the last twenty or so years (2000-2022).

My choices:

David Souter

Christine Lagarde

Condoleezza Rice

Pete Buttigieg

Theresa May

Emmanuel Macron

Donald Rumsfeld

Barack and Michelle Obama

George H.W. and Barbara Bush

she's talking like an eldergay on Datalounge!

I mean she is at the advanced age of 56 but surely she's still pretty enough to get an attractive guy in her age group. Not all of them want a younger girl to boss around

Started streaming today. Watched the first episode, ok so far.

We're they retarded?

Pacey Witter is a young serial killer surgeon who will stop at nothing to rack up the body count. Young, charismatic and ostensibly brilliant, Dr. Duntsch was building a flourishing neurosurgery practice when everything suddenly changed. Patients entered his operating room for complex but routine spinal surgeries and left permanently maimed or dead.

As victims piled up, two fellow physicians, neurosurgeon Robert Henderson (Alec Baldwin) and vascular surgeon Randall Kirby (Christian Slater), as well as Dallas prosecutor Michelle Shughart (Michelle Williams) and Meryl Streep’s daughter (Grace Gummer) set out to stop him.

Macmanus also serves as showrunner. Todd Black, Jason Blumenthal, Steve Tisch, and Taylor Lautner also executive produce via Escape Artists, as well as Hernan Lopez and Marshall Lewy of Wondery.

So I spent a long weekend on fire island with seth and jason. I was around them morning, noon, night. You could see them radiate at each other. Their love was palpable. Everybody told them this too, strangers. I had never met Jason, and he was what you'd expect a modern Mississippi man to be, a hospitality queen. He was making us breakfast! Everyday! They were both extraordairy, charming, nice, fun Southern Guys, well Jason Southern, Seth NYC but soft and southern. That's why when I heard about of this I joined to write some damn truth on here. I'm sure since the break-up jason's friends arent liking seth and seth's friends aren't saying nice things about Jason. That's a break up. And that can be changed. but I bet you can't find ONE other of any of their real friends who would say one negative thing about them. Well one. They were annoyingly adorable together. Jason was so attentive and always making sure we were doing okay, he was just always thikning of his guests, and funny! and Seth couldn't be any less drama-oriented than all of this nor could he be any more easy going. We have a gazillion mutual friends. We all talked about them. They had magic. It was so intense that most of knew it would be forever epic or it would blow up. But that kind of love, the types that other people can see, once the dust settles, that love will still be there for them. This break up breaks MY heart. And you don't even know anything about them, spreading all this hate and lies and flex your finger typing bravery. I couldn't read another one, I had to make this post. Not sure I will ever check it Not sure I will remember my password. The memory isn't what it used to be.

It seems to be like a modern day The Shining meets Rosemary’s Baby with DL’s very own favorite, Matt McGorry.

I was already going over the speed limit but apparently that wasn't fast enough for her, and she was driving some Kia van thing covered in lesbian bumper stickers.

Boy did she give me an angry look when she passed, but where would she possibly need to go to be driving 90mph?

Um.

She’s really disturbed. Is this performance art?

Why is this movie not in the Criterion Collection?!

It is a hilariously quiet satire about British culture. I love this movie!

Directed by Malcolm Mowbray.

Written by Alan Bennett.

Produced by George Harrison.

Music by John Du Prez.

Starring: Michael Palin, Maggie Smith, Richard Griffiths, Jim Normington, Liz Smith, Jim Carter, Pete Postlethwaite, Bill Paterson, Tony Haygarth, and the great Denholm Elliott.

Blazin hot

So my uncles business closed down for a few months because people were getting very sick again, so he’s been home with his mother (my Grandma) who lives with him, and now my other uncle who is a drug addict and alcoholic moved in with them too. He’s out of work and collecting unemployment but for some reason he was having issues with them and he wasn’t receiving his money. On top of that, he tried getting an EBT card and for some reason they denied him. So my father decided to apply (knowing he would get denied) just to show them he tried because they keep bitching how no one will help and they’re struggling (not true though, my father is paying some of their bills to help and I sent some money more than once). I decided to do what my father did, just apply knowing you will get denied just to say “look, I tried, not my fault”.

Today I get home from work and my doorman says to me “You have mail sitting by the mailbox that ended up in someone else’s mailbox. They gave it to us so we left it there so when you arrive it’s there for you”. I walk over to the mailbox and see it’s a fucking letter from SNAP!!!! And on the envelope it says SNAP by the address!!!! Are you kidding me?! I live in a doorman building and pay a shit ton for my small apartment only for them to think I’m on EBT?!!!!

He asked me if it’s mine and I said yes, thank you then walked away toward the elevator fast.

I signed up knowing I would get denied (and I did for making far too much) and not even for myself and i still ended up embarrassed!

I’ve never had my mail end up in someone else’s mailbox (although others do end up in mine) but now the mailman makes an error? I’m so mad.

All new couples. This guy, Mike, is sure cute, don't you think?

Just to be safe

Well it’s better than brandishing an ak-47.

I am a regular drinker (and pot smoker) who wants to give both up. What are some of your success stories for getting sober for those here who have?

Continue discussing your favorite Canadian here

You can instantly make your cock one inch thicker or longer? What would you pick, and what would your new dimensions (length x circumference) be?

I'm 33 and I've been in a relationship since I was 18 years old with the same guy, so all of my adult life. 3 years in I started cheating, and a few years after that when he caught me on a hookup app we opened the relationship, under the guise of me travelling with work so much. Following that, I still found it very difficult to be honest about who I hook up with, until this summer one night I gave him a rundown of my sexual partners since opening things. Turns out he doesn't make much use of the open status. I work from home, so while he's gone I have more opportunity.

Similar to the open thing, I always seem to get my way and take the lead - most of our friends start as my friends, most group/3ways are things I've instigated. I think overall I enjoy sex with alot of guys, but part of me thinks my outlook on life is warped and I should do some work to rewire myself. He still gets aroused around me all the time, whereas I struggle to get hard or also use porn to help. He had gained weight at one point but has lost much of it and really put the effort in this year. We have a house, a dog, good careers, and are discussing kids, but the sexual drive has gone for me while at the same time I could go have sex with strangers today and be rock hard throughout.

Now on the scene is a guy who I hooked up with who does have his own issues with self esteem, but who is amazinf and I love spoiling him and taking him out to what have essentially turned into dates. He knows about my situation, and is trying to date other guys while we figure out what it is we're doing - when we've been out together strangers have come up to say how great we look together. He would never in a million years want an open relationship.

What do I do? Part of me thinks what I have should be enough - I have a ton of freedom with my partner, but I find myself zoning out of conversations with him now. But is this new guy just a honeymoon phase? Would I even be thinking of what I should do if I hadn't met him? We talk for hours every day and the sexual chemistry is great, but is it even possible for me to do something to be satisfied with only one guy - can I rewire myself?

I've a feeling I might have BPD with how intensely I feel things and the recklessness of my sex life at times, but that's another story.

When Vietnam’s communist rulers gave Facebook an ultimatum to censor anti-government posts earlier this year or leave the country, Mark Zuckerberg personally made the call to appease them. It’s among the damning revelations about the company to emerge from whistleblowers in recent weeks, most of them contained in the so-called Facebook Papers. The trove shows how Facebook knowingly amplified anger and misinformation about the platform and the company’s engineers chillingly identified ways to manipulate the behavior of its 3.5 billion users, meaning about half the planet’s population may ultimately be swayed by the whims of one man.

I like Kiehl’s Creme de Corpse for my body. L’Occitane shea butter hand cream and Kiehl’s nurturing baby cream for face & body, Ceramedx restoring body lotion and J.R. Watkins Aloe & Green Tea body lotion.

And why not?

The Hulu mini-series starring Michael Keaton is excellent. It is an expose' on the opioid crisis, and how Perdue Pharma, and the Sacklers targeted rural poor and build a fortune on a drug they lied about and promoted shamelessly. I love Michael Keaton, he's brilliant. This is some really good shit. Show how it all started. It will piss you off. Is anyone watching it?

And yet somehow my pay effectively went down due these very same men price gouging.

When is this inequality crap going to end? It just keeps getting worse every year.

People are acting like it is a done deal the senate will flip.

Hypocrite much?

Real Wages Tumble For 9th Straight Month ("I'll Tumble 4 U")

Inflation at 7%

Did your wages go up? If not, you LOST money.

I know that gay men tend to hate this topic because it makes it seem like homosexuals are being erased. But I think that there is more to this situation that meets the eye. For one thing, the ideas of sexuality and sex are becoming an afterthought for a subset of gen z. I came to the conclusion that part of the reason for gay FTM is that they have discomfort with heterosexual. They don’t like how heterosexuality is portrayed and identifying as gay men to circumvent it. I think that a quarter of them know that they’re not male or really men. But they don’t want identify as women or females. I’m not sure how to the explain the guys who entertain them. Though, there does seem to be a push for people to be bisexual in porn. Even some of my heterosexual acquaintances notice a trend to some type of pansexuality in porn. It looks like only homosexuality is being erased, but so is heterosexuality. We’re just the canaries in the coal mine. Sooner or later, heterosexuals will probably face the same issues. In fact, the rise of ftm is just the first sign. Ftm are just symptoms of a larger problem.

Not Actress. Not Actor. Not Performer. MOVIE STAR!

In fact, they’ve all made a fortune. Oil companies, rental cars, hotels, airlines, and car companies, big tech, the grocery sector, Amazon, Walmart and all the usual suspects have made a fortune.

How is this possible if there is all this “inflation” and a “labor crisis?” They haven’t lost a cent. They have raised the rates on everything. And are making huge, record profits. Why don’t they pass that down to their customers and employees?

Timothy Champagne

For those who aren’t aware, Urban Dictionary defines “thirst trap” as “a sexy photograph or flirty message posted on social media for the intent of causing others to publicly profess their attraction. This is done not to actually respond or satisfy any of this attraction, but to feed the posters ego or need for attention.” This phenomenon has made its way onto the TikTok video-sharing platform in the form of 15- to 60-second videos, and even more specifically into the platform’s military subculture. And while the women seem to take the most heat for sharing “provocative” content, there certainly is no shortage of male service thirst trapping.

A soldier using the name John Bland, who goes by the handle @notohkayjohn on TikTok, is perhaps one of the most infamous military TikTok users. His account primarily features him partially dressed in uniform, staring off seductively while music plays in the background. In some of the more risqué posts, however, he can be seen suggestively grabbing his crotch or tugging at his underwear.

Bland has 5.1 million followers to date, but he’s not the only one who uses TikTok this way. A purported Marine Reservist, Garrett Nolan, who posts as @garett__nolan, shares similarly seductive TikTok videos. He boasts a whopping 6.3 million followers. There are an unknown number of service members across the platform in uniform thirsting, dancing, working out and sharing their life stories despite the late 2019 ban of the Chinese-made app by the Pentagon, Army and Navy. However, as it turns out, the ruling on TikTok stands that individual service members are technically free to use to the platform in non-work capacities. The ban only extends to formal military entities connected to a chain of command or formal military group, Army Col. Joe Buccino, spokesman for XVIII Airborne Corps told Military Times. “With regard to conduct on TikTok, it’s the same as conduct on any other platform,” he said. “The governing document is under regulation 600-20, which is understandably vague on this matter. However, Buccino notes, “A good way of thinking about this is if you would not say it in front of formation, you should not say it on social media.” The Army’s social media handbook in particular embraces a three-pronged approach when it comes to individual soldiers posting on social media in general: Think, type and post. “The U.S. Army defines online conduct as the use of electronic communications in an official or personal capacity that is consistent with U.S. Army Values and standards of conduct. It is important that all Soldiers know that once they have logged on to a social media platform, they still represent the U.S. Army,” the guide says. “Online misconduct is a term that describes unacceptable or improper behavior through the use of technology.” But whether or not “thirst trap” posts in uniform mark of a violation of that policy is, as of yet, unclear.

Your goal is to make the cashier as uncomfortable as possible, what do you buy?

I feel like gay men tend to have overweight female friends. Tell me about her.

I have not dealt with this for a long time, and slowly some family members have “gotten over it.” Recently, I realized that some elderly members have passed the shunning along to the next generation, which has been a shock. I will survive, as I have gotten used to it. I am older, wiser, and less vulnerable to their hate. I’m surprised I even have an emotional response, but I do. There is a lot of wisdom and humor on the DL, which is why I love it here. I am genuinely curious, and hope to get some new insights. Thanks in advance…

Ron knows what we like.

From “apart” I thread:

[quote] He’s to sexy to be single and apparently still is. I’ve never really seen a female on his IG feed, in stories or pics. He always takes pics of his dogs and there is always a male normally taking his videos. Anyone know his story?

In early 2021, Wisconsin man Chandler “Chaz” Michael Halderson, 23, appeared to be a pretty impressive guy, according to opening statements in his murder trial. He told family he was a college student about to graduate, he worked at an insurance company, he helped police as a scuba driver for a rescue team, and he just got hired to work for SpaceX, prosecutor William Brown told jurors on Tuesday.

It turned out to be an elaborate web of lies, the state said. This all fell apart after the defendant’s father Bart Halderson, 50, found out he was not even going to school, the prosecutor said. “Chaz” shot his dad in the back, murdered his mother Krista Halderson, 53, when she returned home, and discarded their dismembered body parts throughout southern Wisconsin, Brown said. Then he reported them missing, telling a story about them going hours up north to their cabin, the prosecutor said . . .

Meghan Markle had dirt on Prince Andrew!

$1.25????

And I don’t mean mussy or boi pussy. I mean like if they AMR their cock “the commander” Or “little Steve” name their mitts like back door Dave

The White House is fitting back but consumers need to help them push back on the predatory oil companies. They can’t do it all. Tighter regulation takes time.

In the meantime, don’t accept the artificial price increase or the cash grab from oil execs. Go buy a hybrid, cancel your Shell or BP credit cards, walk instead of Lyft for closer distances. Just do anything to push back.

He doesn’t seem to be well

What are your thoughts on this phenomenon? Any personal stories?

Every season of Unsolved Mysteries is on YouTube for free. The soundtrack to my childhood. Which episode is your favorite? I like the one where the church blows up during choir practice but every member randomly called in sick that day.

Smoking is cool again, according to the NY Times!

On a recent not-so-wintry Thursday in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn, when the only snowflakes seen were over text, a gang of 20-somethings stood in a circle outside Clearing Gallery, sharing a pack of American Spirits.

A few days earlier, at Columbia University, a 19-year-old pre-med student stared enviously at her phone screen — at Parisian women in cute dresses walking, cigarettes in hand — before stepping outside for a cigarette with her friends. (She requested not to be identified by name because she didn’t want her habit to affect her career in medicine.)

People are smoking online too. On Instagram, Tasmin Ersahin, a photographer and stylist, posted a story of her boyfriend, Arsun Sorrenti (son of the photographer Mario Sorrenti), catching a lit cigarette in his mouth. On TikTok, Charly Jordan, a D.J. and model, tried a sexy French inhale for her 7.7 million followers.

“Smoking is back,” said Isabel Rower, a 24-year-old sculptor, one of the spirited Americans outside Clearing. “Weirdly, in the last year or two, all my friends who didn’t smoke, now smoke. I don’t know why. No one is really addicted to it. It’s more of a pleasure activity.”

The discussion about Niall Hogran, Lewis Fataldi and Fat Niko of Lard Channel continues here. Their obese super fan Gemma keeps posting about her love of fat men and fattening meals.

Fat Niko is an alcoholic. He Should seek help. He looks ridiculous in the link. I think he believes he looks cute.

Is he ill? Have Covid? Or something more deadly? He's been silent from the pages of the Daily Mail, and with what has happen both here and in the UK, you'd expect him to be front and center. He isn't

The Navy admits they are real. The time of pretending they are swamp gas is over.

(CNN)The parents of Austin McEwen, one of the six victims killed after a tornado pummeled an Amazon warehouse in Edwardsville, Illinois, last month, said Monday during a press conference that they are suing Amazon over the alleged wrongful death of their son.

Will you be watching? The teaser trailer looks promising.

Decades later, it's still not known how the Nazis discovered Anne Frank, her family, and four others in their secret Amsterdam annex during the Holocaust.

Tonight, “60 Minutes” speaks with a former FBI agent leading an investigation into the theory that they were betrayed.

This is why gas is so expensive. The oil execs and oil families are bringing in a few billion extra dollars this year alone. EACH. The top 5 oil families/CEOs will probably net 10 billion dollars each on this latest heist from the American people.

And they say this is because of democrats? This is the biggest scam since big tobacco. These are individuals at the end of the day, not corporations, and these individuals are raking in billions of dollars from working families., hiding behind the smokescreen of Covid chaos.

And this is on top of the usual billions. This is obscene and frankly don’t understand how working people can afford this?

I know you're brave for raising awareness of fat-shaming, being Bi, lesbian, Pan-sexual, sexually assaulted, drug abuse, recovery, relapsing, recovering,, almost dying, non-binary, being hyper-femme, singing to a ghost to help it overcome trauma, alien bigotry, and finding your true self, but what are you doing in that pic? 👇 A spider?

He is just like Matlock. He added: “If she knows anything and has been involved in Andrew’s circle in any way, shape or form, it’s her duty to speak about it.

I bet he has never raised his voice once in his life.

He works so tirelessly for this country. He doesn’t get enough respect in my opinion, but mainly because he is not quite a household name. But he should be. And he should be given a higher profile role. Maybe Supreme Court or even department of justice. President?

We should all be thankful for what it’s done to hot young men. They’re so thirsty for attention and easy money now they put it all out there.

Thank you Onlyfans!!!

What a funny film!

I have seen this movie several times. I am always able to get laugh at something new, notice a character trait I missed previously, and and just sit back and the mystery unfold.

Written by playwright Neil Simon.

Directed by the theatrical Robert Moore.

Opening animation by Charles Addams.

Music by David Grusin.

And a cast of who's who of character actors going back to the 1920's (and a few still relevant today)- Eileen Brennan, Truman Capote, James Coco, James Cromwell, Peter Falk, Alec Guinness, Elsa Lanchester, Richard Narita, David Niven, Peter Sellers, Maggie Smith, Nancy Walker, and the legendary Estelle Winwood.

Make Murder by Death a hilarious, often overlooked, comedy classic.

That was just bizarre all-around. It's also bizarre that no one really talks about it anymore.

Thoughts?

I did and I adopted an orangutan in her honor. I hope the other kids at school don't make fun of her hair.

It will soon cost a bit more to stream shows like "The Witcher" and "Emily in Paris."

Sadly...she lived.

Residents along the banks of the Rideau River were credited for thinking fast after they used a kayak to save a driver whose vehicle went through the ice in Manotick on Sunday afternoon.

Ottawa paramedics also went to the scene, but said the lone occupant of the vehicle did not want to be assessed, and police said the driver was not injured.

“Thankfully no injuries and an amazing job by local residents saving the driver by using a kayak and quick safe thinking,” Ottawa police tweeted.

As she stood on the back window of her car waiting for assistance, she was composed enough to take a smiling selfie. Before help arrived, the car had sunk to the point that just a portion of the roof was showing. She was able to climb on to the kayak and be pulled to the river’s edge.

Police said the driver was charged with one count of dangerous operation of a motor vehicle.

When he's not getting himself inked, Brooklyn is focusing on his new career path after ditching his photography hobby and deciding to rebrand as a chef - despite having no formal cooking experience.

The eldest son of David and Victoria Beckham launched his own online cooking show after developing a passion for it in lockdown, with the first episode dropping on Instagram and Facebook Messenger on Wednesday.

Cookin' With Brooklyn saw the former photography student rustle up a plate of steamed clams alongside pasta and stone crab for his sibling Romeo, 19, and his fiancée Nicola's little brother Zach, 18 - yet he failed to mention the quantity of ingredients needed.

In your opinion. I've stumbled across some great foreign content on HBOMax, Amazon Prime and Netflix. Which platform is your favorite?

Does anyone else love this movie? I am watching it right now for the first time in years and am surprised by how funny it really is. It holds up well and if you were a fan of the series (or just watched it like many did growing up) you get all the jokes so well. Even more so now as an adult than as a kid.

The casting was spot on and the script very witty. I always loved Jan in this. So funny. And Marcia was always my fav ❤️

Also, was the 90s rock version of Davy Jones’ “Girl” ever actually recorded? It’s actually very good and works well as a rock song. Love this scene (and the follow-up when the lesbian punches that gorgeous asshole out after he calls Marcia a slut).

I remember hating the sequel.

Since we're nearing the end, I'm starting part 2.

I can't really add anything as I'm not a whore, but please, keep the facts coming!

I’m reading about them all the time and apparently they are (usually shitty) digital art that people can support by buying them, but you don’t actually get ownership of them?

One Zee said in trying to explain them like they’re virtual beanie babies, but of course that’s bullshit, because you have physical custody and ownership of the beanie baby and can sell it, cashing out your interest. Then the buyer has sole custody of the image.

So what am I missing? Meanwhile who gets the money paid by the suckers for the NFT?

Someone should ask her why she doesn't speak to her father.

Ava Phillippe is opening up about her sexuality.

The 22-year-old daughter of Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Phillippe responded to questions from fans during an Instagram Stories Q&A on her page.

“Do u like boys or girls,” one fan asked.

Ava responded in a post shared to her 996,000 followers, “I’m attracted to… people! (Gender is whatever).”

While it’s not clear if they’re still together, Ava has been open about her relationship with boyfriend Owen Mahoney. Last summer, they snapped a selfie while attending a baseball game together and we also have some great candid photos of them stepping out in L.A.

Reese recently opened up about her kids growing up in the spotlight. She told InStyle, “It’s an odd situation because I didn’t grow up famous. So [Ava is] living an experience that I did not have, and so are my sons. We are lucky enough to have friends who grew up in Hollywood and can help give them advice on how to navigate. Ava is so down-to-earth. She wants to do great things in the world. She’s studying and learning and trying to find herself. It’s a big thing in life to try different things and figure out what is really your path.”

Do you think its because he is still upset that Bob Saget stabbed his father in the back?

What gift did you bring the guest of honor?!

Ideas?

Raquel Welch seems to have disappeared from social media with no acknowledgement of her 80th birthday. Her Facebook account seems to have been deleted, no Instagram posts in over 2 years and no tweets in 18 months. Now of course she might just have got bored or fed up with all social media and chose to stop posting .

But I have a feeling , an intuition that something is wrong especially with nothing for her 80th birthday in September. Perhaps a serious health problem or vanity because she doesn't want to be seen in public when she can no longer maintain the standard of her look. I believe Lana Turner became reclusive in part for this reason. I am wondering if maybe she has become all Greta Garbo or Norma Desmond in her twilight years.? Any dataloungers heard any rumours or gossip about this or has speculation to share?

What's their story? Both are gay, worked together for 40 years now, don't have long term partners, often together in social situations, always denied they were or are lovers, but according to some old gossips on PSB board (which is shockingly homophobic for fans of group like PSB), they were couple at least in the beginning of their decades long relationship.

I kind of think they were lovers, had on and off relationship and other lovers, and now probably like rather independent married couple. And they lied about their relationship because of privacy reasons. What do you think?

I keep getting clips of gay scenes from HollyOaks.

Is it a gay soap opera?

For me: Tapping, tracing, face brushing and the ASMRtist showing their personality/giving their opinions on things.

I think she is gorgeous and sexy, with a natural and healthy glow about her. I’ve enjoyed her in lots of movies. She’s a versatile actress.

However, since following her on Instagram, I’ve come to see her as an insufferable, precious, self obsessed beast.

I love her and I hate her!

Here she is giving beauty tips for Vogue. Yes it’s chick click stuff but whatever. She comes across as self deprecating and charming.

Think I might watch My Cousin Vinny tonight. Haven’t seen it since 1991 or so.

I am afraid of big financial commitments but think I am going to finally bite the bullet and buy a condo.

I'm currently undergoing a pre-approval process with a lender.

I am kinda old (43) and yes, I know that this is something I probably should have done at least a decade ago but c'est la vie. Here I am.

What advice do you have, whether irreverent/expectedly mean or actually helpful?

Here's my overall plan: 30-year fixed mortgage with an approx. 10% down payment. (Yes, I know about PMI.)

I am not a high-maintenance person or someone who likes to move around. I am a gay Taurus who likes to settle into in nice-looking surroundings for the long haul, and ultimately, my ideal situation would be to find something I like a lot in a neighborhood I like a lot, move in, pay down my mortgage in 15-20 years and stay there without any worry of having to pay much for housing in my retirement era.

I am a middle-class, middle-management nonprofit staffer and as I mentioned somewhat anxious about money matters. I've used 20 different "how much house can I afford?" calculators, all of which give different maximums, and I know I am willing to spend significantly less than what I can afford on paper and have applied for less than what I can supposedly afford. At this time, I have no debt and quite a healthy cash savings.

I'm looking for a one-bedroom condo with an HOA fee under $550. I will have a home inspection. I know the neighborhood I want. Amenities are not very important to me, but I do have a list of "musts" and a list of "it would be nice to have..." and a list of disqualifiers.

Some things I don't exactly understand: mortgage "points" and the practical implications of buying a condo vs. a co-op. I'm sure there's more I don't understand yet.

Maybe in some cool ways, maybe just bad ones?

Which one of you is this??

Oh God they are going to get married, it’s happening, it’s really happening

At approx. the 7:25 mark of this video, shit gets hella confusing when the bald chick starts talking about wanting to "try bottoming..." with a her FB. Who is apparently male. Or maybe not? What is this fuckery?

I am not a concern troll. Quite the opposite. I always try to find a glimmer of hope in even the direst circumstances. That said, I am losing hope for our country. The Republicans have won. Dems will lose the Senate and the House. Impeachment will begin immediately and it will work. McConnell will immediately eliminate the filibuster. States will choose which electors are acceptable, Trump will return to the White House and never leave until he dies. Without voting rights, we are done. Manchin and Sinema will go down in history as the ones who chose to put the final nail into the coffin for democracy. To believe otherwise would be denial. My only hope is some kind of "Deus ex Machina" to save us in the final act.

I'm frequently-voiced concerns about the fate of Broadway during the pandemic!

No doubt it's been posted, but I couldn't find it.

I'm beginning to think they are trying to humiliate her daily. She seems depressed.

It used to be the Jennifer Lawrence fans but Kristen Stewart fans are giving her a run for her money.

Fat whores, if you could only add bacon to one item for the rest of your life, what would it be?

Something I still haven't figured out.

She's got a lumpy chest. Instead of showing off her arms, she should go to the bra shop and get a fitting.

According to her brother, she is confined to a wheelchair having lost circulation in her legs. Showing signs of dementia.

In my late 20s, and she has only recently come to my full attention. I grew up on a farm with hillbillies, what do you want.

So now I’m looking through her enormous list of credits and wondering what to see. I like obscure old films, so after the obvious classics (Oz, Star, St. Louis, etc.), which are the best of her movies to watch?

what a motley crew

lol at Tamra whipping her phone out to take a pic

Alencar has implants in his ass, right?

Just watched it for the first time. He's like the star of it.

Who should have won instead? John Malkovitch is surprisingly cute in the film and lost for Places in the Heart to Ngor.

Other nominees: Adolph Caesar, Pat Morrita, Ralph Richardson.

Hawaii will require visitors to the state to have received a COVID-19 vaccine booster if they want to skip quarantine.

Currently, under the rules of the state's "Safe Travels" program, travelers who don't want to quarantine for five days must either be fully vaccinated -- meaning two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna vaccine or one shot of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine -- or have a negative COVID-19 test within one day of travel

However, the program is changing the definition of "fully vaccinated" to include booster shots, Gov. David Ige announced at a news conference last week.

This means fully vaccinated travelers who haven't received a booster shot will have to quarantine in Hawaii for five days.

Ige said changes to the program will not occur for at least two weeks so people traveling to Hawaii can adjust their plans accordingly.

"We know that the community needs time to react to that, so we would have to provide at least two weeks for those who may not be up-to-date to go to have the opportunity to go and get vaccinated if they need to," he said, according to Hawaii News Now.

During the news conference, Ige also said he was speaking with mayors and other local leaders about requiring booster shots to dine in restaurants and participate in other activities and events. However, he said he will leave that decision up to individual counties.

Last month, Maui Mayor Michael Victorino revealed booster shots would be required for locals to be considered fully vaccinated.

The rule was supposed to go into effect on Jan. 8 but was delayed until Jan. 24 so people have time to schedule booster shots, reported KHON 2.

This move comes as the Hawaii Tourism Authority announced the Safe Travels program would be undergoing several changes, including reducing the mandatory quarantine period for unvaccinated travelers without a negative COVID-19 test from 10 days to five days, in accordance with updated Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines.

Additionally, visitors will no longer be required to fill out an online questionnaire 24 hours before arrival to receive a QR code.

The governor's office did not immediately reply to ABC News' request for comment.

In his memoir, Damn Shame, David Pevsner writes about feeling aroused by the very idea of having sex with men as part of his job. As the years went by, he found himself feeling increasingly attracted to the idea of sex work. So after years of exploring his sexuality through bathhouses and leather bars, David decided to try out his ultimate fantasy – and it was everything he could have dreamed of.

“I know plenty of guys who have done it, and everybody has a different experience,” he says. “My experience was very pleasurable. It taught me a lot about myself, it taught me a lot about men. When I was escorting, it wasn’t just about, ‘I show up, I f**k and I make money’ – it was so not just that, because I was dealing with individual people.

It wasn’t until David started escorting that he was forced to challenge all of those preconceptions he had about what makes a man sexy.

“Escorting really changed how I looked at men’s bodies,” David says. “ I was trying to deal with my struggle about how I felt about his body, which I think about now and I just go, that’s ridiculous. But it’s what happened as part of my journey. And then came escorting, where I was having sex with a lot of guys whose bodies were not ‘the ideal’, but I still had to perform sexually. How do you do that? You start to look at a guy differently. It made me look at personality and brains and humour. I had to because I was being paid, but what it was doing was it changed my aesthetic when it came to men. I was much more open about the physicality of men, and from that point on it really changed me.”

Escorting wasn’t the only way David expressed his sexuality – he also did numerous erotic photoshoots over the years with a wide variety of photographers. That led to him curating his own Tumblr account where he shared his pictures with fans all across the world. Later, after Tumblr banned adult content, he moved to OnlyFans.

“OnlyFans is a great place, because it’s very much the case that you are there because you want to be there,” David says. “You pay to be there, so it’s not like it’s going on XTube where just anybody can click on it and have an opinion. I’m not interested in your opinion, I just want to do my work.

“I started posting those videos and I started shooting more and more stuff, and I found that I can approach the videos I shoot the same way I approach the photoshoots, the same way I approach my acting work, the same way I approach escorting – there’s lots of layers to everything. When I shoot a video, sometimes it has a story to it. Sometimes it’s a role play, and sometimes it’s just me shoving a dildo up my ass. But I’m not going to post it if it’s just a one layer thing.”

The main thing, of course, is that David is enjoying exploring his sexuality with the world on OnlyFans. But it’s about more than just enjoyment – he also thinks it’s important that men his age show the world that they can still turn people on.

“Doing this, to me, feels like activism,” he says. “A 60-something year old guy filming these videos, putting them up shamelessly, and saying: ‘This is what I do at home.’”

“Everybody had different needs, everybody had different ways of asking for their needs. As an actor, I found it fascinating the characters that I met – some really sweet people who were either lonely or needy or hungry – whatever it was, I always tapped into it. It turns out, I enjoyed it. Sorry everybody who wants to take sex work and put shame on it – my personal experience of it was great.”

I've tried, but I can't sustain it. Where do I place my jaw, my tongue, my lips? How do I get that sound using my nose? Any exercises I can try?

Can we laugh, or are some of you going clutch your pearls, and shit in your knickers?

Heard the one about the Winter Olympics that didn't have any snow? If anything sums up the bemusement over China's controversial £2.5 billion Games that begin in a little under three weeks, perhaps it is the absence of the one element central to the event.

One telling statistic is that between January and March last year, the competition venue at the National Alpine Ski Centre in Yanqing, roughly 50 miles north-west of the capital, Beijing, had just 2cm of snow, less than London – or Madrid.

And pictures of the venues tell their own story. The new national ski-jumping centre is certainly impressive – but sits incongruously in a barren landscape of dirty brown hills. It's hardly alpine. (conitnued)

Margot Robbie: Average at best, yet keeps getting cast in big movies and working with top Hollywood directors. Looks can only get you so far, so her agent must be out of this world. She's like the female Brad Pitt.

Post your best hairy man holes

Feel free to start a new thread if the "dead to me" part is that important to you.

[quote]Sinead O'Connor has shared a heartbreaking message after the death of her son Shane.

[quote]Paying tribute to the "light of my life", the singer confirmed the 17-year-old passed away on Friday.

[quote]She wrote yesterday: "My beautiful son, Nevi’im Nesta Ali Shane O’Connor, the very light of my life, decided to end his earthly struggle today and is now with God.

[quote]"May he rest in peace and may no one follow his example. My baby. I love you so much. Please be at peace:"

[quote]Later she tweeted a Bob Marley song with the caption: "This is for my Shaney. The light of my life. The lamp of my soul.

[quote]"My blue-eye baby. You will always be my light. We will always be together. No boundary can separate us."

[quote]It comes after gardai confirmed that a body had been found in the search for the missing teenager.

[quote]Shane was last seen in the Tallaght area of Dublin on Friday morning.

[quote]Officers had said they were "concerned for Shane's welfare" and issued multiple appeals for information.

[quote]However gardai confirmed that the search has been stood down after a body was found in the Bray area of Wicklow on Friday.

Her hit song, with some hot male back-up.

D1 college football player Ryan Deluca came out as gay on Instagram. His team showed an outpouring of love

Ryan Deluca found immediate support this week coming out at Furman University in South Carolina.

Will the Gen Z's step-up and fight?

Will there need to be a draft? Will they honor it- or dodge it?

This announcement seems so LA new age fake.

I'm starting this new thread as it was suggested the title of the old thread was out-dated. The link is from r263's post in the old thread.

Did anyone else on here experience early Puberty for no medical reason.l?

Mine hit when I was 8 years old and it was strange I was 6'1" at 10 (still am) and got wisdom teeth (third molars) at 11.

Nobody really freaked out about it, but I knew it was odd when my schoolfriends were more than a foot shorter.

Just wondered how common my experience was?

Prince Harry has applied for a judicial review of a Home Office decision not to allow him to personally pay for police protection for himself and his family when they are in the UK, a legal representative for the Sussexes confirms.

I used to love this fucking show. I made sure to watch it every week. Janice was a fucking loon and psychotic but boy is she entertaining.

There were so many gorgeous men in her agency, I always wonder what happened to them. Brian and JP were her two most popular guys, JP mostly for coming out on the show.

I remember this one photo shoot a few of her guys were picked for where they had to have their asses out. It was a gay shoot. Back when that network showed bare ass.

I wish Janice didn’t fuck it up and it got canceled. A fun show.

Well?

That Lezzie thread is filling out, so on to the next!

"Walmart's fried chicken special is THE BEST meal for a gospel brunch!"

"I wish Carhartt still made jockstraps..."

Heather said the N-word.

Fraser is feeling left out.

Captain Lee is wearing heels.

Rayna is still lazy.

And Jake is still straight.

Thought you needed to know this.

I predict that this is the last Democratic president we'll see in our lifetimes. Congress will fall this year. This is American representative democracy's swan song. American fascism will take root in 2024. If you think I'm overreacting, bookmark this, then check back on Wednesday, November 9, 2022.

They’re back for the last time, the egomaniacal New Yorkers are out of control as always and going on one last romp being the awfullest people on the planet. John Early is doing a master class as bitchy entitled Queen manipulating his ex boyfriend and entering fatherhood with him by getting a bioengineered child from John Waters.

Let's continue the discussion and the lusting.

Is it just in certain books? Which ones?

Jesus would have been tolerant of gay people.

For me, Joni Mitchell. An absolute treasure who represents a time before everything went off the fucking rails.

I saw this wonderful movie called "The Last Color." It was so good!

Cute, happy, sad, funny, and heart warming. Naturally, I cried at the end.

I swear, the best movies are not coming from Hollywood any more. They're coming from foreign countries.

If you get a chance, try to watch this movie.

Another good one was Blue Bayou. The only thing was that it was too long. But the story was really good.

I watched both of these movies by accident, on a long Delta flight. And I'm happy I did.

What other good ones are out there?

Keep posting here.

This is one of those rare moments she sang live on her Circus tour. She sounds so good! But I don’t recognize the song.

Long forgotten by his mother Libby, who is serving time for January Sixth related crimes, and never acknowledged by his father, Russell, who has a vague memory of a penis lurking underneath his beer gut.

May god have mercy on your soul, Figment.

Next week on In Memoriam, we talk to Davidump Shoepoopie Flushing, who claims her delicate eyebrows were stolen by George Clooney but it still doesn't explain that bathing suit.

Also, Tugboat Terri: where's your Spacey Messiah now?

Did anyone else watch this show on cable?

Maxwell has been found guilty of sex trafficking. Andrew had sex with trafficked women and is therefore guilty of rape.

I’m glad they love to show them off 💪🏽

And TAB HUNTER CONFIDENTIAL is on at 6:15pm!

She fucking lost it. Our dogs were off leash because we were going up a semi-slippery path and the dogs, being labs and in love with snow and the woods, pull. She passed us at top speed, babbling into her earbuds on a call - then the dogs ran past her on either side of her. She did not fall. Understandably she was annoyed and absolutely we were in the wrong, the dogs should have been leashed. We both apologized and tried to explain, if not excuse, but she needed her moment. And then she wouldn't let it go. Started getting all Karen. I wasn't sure how many times we were supposed to apologized so then I said: We hear you. We've apologized. Let's just keep going. And she kept going, but not in the movement sense. And in my head, I knew what was coming. It would be my Karen moment. I was living history. And I knew, when I said, her head would explode. So I said it: OK, Karen, let it go. WHAT DID YOU CALL ME? I HEARD WHAT YOU CALLED ME! (and then she starts lunging toward us.). I KNOW WHAT IT MEANS! So I said Good, then you'll know why I said it. She stomped off.

Is it worth checking out?

Aren’t they all a bit long in the tooth to keep behaving like teenagers?

Does Bradley look dangerous and sexy?

I think it's cute and the backsplash design is a winner.

Just ignore the guy who is talking.

ELVIS PRESLEY'S only child, Lisa Marie Presley, fears she and her famous family are cursed — and is convinced she'll be the next to die, sources dished.

According to insiders, troubled Lisa Marie recently visited the graves of her father and son, Benjamin Keough, at The King's Graceland estate in Memphis and wept as she told her late loved ones she'd be joining them soon!

"Lisa Marie always makes a special Christmas visit to Graceland," spilled a source. This year, like always, it was clandestine, under the cover of darkness, after all the tours had ended for the day." But the tipster claimed the grieving 53-year-old hasn't been the same since her beloved Ben, 27, ended his life with a self-inflicted shotgun blast in July 2020. He was laid to rest next to Elvis, who died when Lisa Marie was nine. "Lisa Marie is filled with sadness and grief!" the source confided.

As The National ENQUIRER reported, sources also claimed sober but ailing Lisa Marie — who's struggling to physically recover from years of boozing and drug abuse —may need a liver transplant to survive!

A tipster said ex-husband Danny Keough has been ((watching over her closely," but added, "It's my understanding Lisa Marie had a liver biopsy this past August."

More recently, Lisa Marie's daughter Riley Keough —spurred by her brother's tragic end — became a death doula, a counselor who helps terminal patients and their families cope with their devastating trauma and impending loss!

"Perhaps Riley will be with her mom when she makes that final trip to the other side, to be reunited with her father and her son," added the friend. "Lisa Marie's convinced that time may be even closer than she suspected!"

Or is it just me?

I've been watching Grantchester on Amazon Prime. I can't decide if I like this show or not It is so tragic and sad but it's interesting because I like the period costumes and sets and social mores. The mysteries - eh. Some of the episodes are so well done.

Also, James Norton is pretty, although I understand he leaves the show after the fourth season, but they seem to bring in a prettier replacement.

I just started the third season and I'm wondering why they never say *What the Dickens!" anymore. Also I can't believe Amanda the Nose would leave her gorgeous bearded landed gentry husband to be pregnant out of wedlock with a poor vicar. They do a pretty good job showing her as unhappy but come on, girl!

Every time I see the show title I say "Grahntchestuh!" like an old-timey Mid-Atlantic accented actor would say. I don't know why.

I don’t know why but this made me laugh lmao

I could watch him all day long.

That is all.

There! I said it.

Don't even get me started on that Belfast crap.

Continued from the previous, now closed, thread.

I'm appalled he only got 21 years. They are too lenient. Apparently, he's shown no remorse.

Any fans of this cute artistic guy on here?

He can combine the Avengers & Justice League into fused characters (both good & bad).

Turn famous vehicles (Mystery Machine, Batmobile, etc.) or even video game consoles into characters from Transformers.

He's also drawn fan submissions into heroes & villains (or vice versa) for several years now.

What a talented well spoken artist!

Discuss.

I’m happy they showed up. There were people who thought they may not. Will this finally shut up the trolls who claim he molested them?

There were so many memorable one hit wonders in the 1980s. How well do these songs hold up?

I would stand and laugh the entire time as they screech and yell 😂😂😂😂

I don’t know if have another full season of Monique Heart in me.

It's a tie between Captain Horatio Magellan Crunch and Trix Rabbit.

🐱🐈‍⬛🐈🐱🐈‍⬛🐈😻

Designers say that it conveys a sense of aggressiveness, independence, and sexuality, but I always think it looks tacky. It used to make me think of Norma Desmond and the silent era, but when it became popular again in the 1980s, it began to make me think always of Mafia wives (see Michelle Pfeiffer in photo from "Married to the Mob") if it's in the IUS or chav women in the UK.

Is it possible to wear it and not look tacky? And why is it almost never used for men's clothes, unless the men are camping it up?

[quote] When she was 15 years old, Jenny Pentland — the daughter of actress Roseanne Barr — was surprised in her Los Angeles home by a group of large men who, with no warning, placed her in handcuffs, drove her to an airport, and flew her to Utah.

[quote] There, against her will, she was brought to a wilderness survival camp where she was forced to live in the woods for two months. She ate little more than raisins, peanuts, raw cornmeal and half-cooked beans, braving the elements with no connection to her family or the outside world. At one point, Pentland, who alleges was beaten by a staffer during her ordeal, even helped someone skin a squirrel for food, and was gifted with the animal’s leg to eat for the effort.

[quote] When she not only failed to lose weight but actually gained a few pounds, she was accused of “running an underground food railroad.”

Which one of you elder gays gave Roseanne this idea back in the day?

Ordained by the media.

Discuss.

Rejoice, stoner whores! This may be why I haven't gotten it.

Starring Susan Hayward It’s on TCM right now. I’m enjoying it!

This acclaimed biopic tells the cautionary tale of Broadway star Lillian Roth (Susan Hayward), who by the age of 20 has risen to fame due to the efforts of her pushy mother. Though a success on stage, Lillian has her hopes of happiness dashed when her fiancé dies tragically, and responds to her loss by drinking. Alcoholism and a string of failed marriages destroy Lillian's career and ultimately leave her destitute. After a brush with death, however, Lillian resolves to return to the spotlight.

He jumped in front of a MARTA train on Friday night. Poor guy must have really had some issues.

When I was 16 my mother, an Austrian-born but fun-loving lady, socialist, heiress, and Oxford-trained anthropologist teaching at Barnard, took me on a 6 month field trip to Eastern African. It culminated in a month long Safari in the Serengeti. When she saw I was attracted to our guide's son, Amidah, a dazzlingly handsome, charming and prodigiously endowed young Sukuma man of 19, my mother arranged for us to be tent mates, breaking all protocols.

American Idol sucks

Which politician has caused the most harm?

The Independence Day franchise. The first one was horrible but it was saved by only one man: Will Smith. I am watching its wretched sequel right now and I can't believe how horrible it is. Nothing works. Every character is so fucking obnoxious I want to stab every one of them ten trillion times. Especially the two horrible male leads.

I siffer from tgerapy-resistant major depressive disorder. Recently I heard that ketamine therapy is supposed to be near miraculous in the treatment of resistant MDD. Has anyone here tried it? What about electric shocks? Any good? This is my last hope.

Lemme guess, her whole fatuous existence is consumed with IG, TikTok and Snapchat.

It’s a serotonin boost .

Continuing coverage of the people of CNN....

CNN must be reading these threads, as they have fulfilled my request of non stop Joey Jackson. He has been on at all hours of the day, when does he sleep? Do they give him cocaine or something?

I also enjoy hot daddy Boris Sanchez on the weekends, yassssss🔥

She is also a strong Iron lady.

The best commentary came from some lady named Ellen Bursting who, I presume, is an actress who portrayed Marilyn or inherited her mantle as a sex goddess sometime in the 1970s. Anyway, everyone was in complete agreement that Marilyn Monroe was the original JLo and Kim Kardashian.

I find it fascinating.

It's an Irish Wake for Mickie O'Hoolihan.

Everyone seems to be doing and thinking something different. Some even look dead.

Any thoughts?

(Click on the magnifying glass to make it really large)

Btw, Mickie looks like he was a hottie.

The new trend is teenagers pretending to have Dissociative Identity Disorder on TikTok.

Who do you prefer?

Patti, for me.

She has stated her boundaries!!

...and she gets called out on it.

If she runs for president, she will very likely win!

Apparently this is the first show to focus on women in their 50s….

I saw this and just had to post it here... talk about pecs that jut out!

Arguably his sexiest performance. Peter proves that artists can sing 100% live while doing intricate choreography.

Of course I mean the ones who still look male not the ones who look like women

She came out as anorexic in May of last year and says she's been going back to her old ways.

Ummm, fat bitch, you've actually GAINED weight since May. How are you anorexic? Do people just not even bother to understand what something means before they claim it as an identity? Anorexia means you're starving yourself. This cunt has never missed a meal in her life. Why would anyone want to claim to be anorexic, anyway? It it suddenly glamorous? Did I miss the memo?

What do you think of how he looks like now?

And your pet was sitting on it, wouldn't you just move your pet, get what you need from box, reassemble box and put pet back on box?

As opposed to leaving pet in place, taking photos and alerting the world by asking publicly for more boxes?

Apparently some people wanna see them end up together because they display so much chemistry… LMAO

I can’t imagine him putting up with her as more than a friend.

He looks like a dpressive.

She's on roll.

Conversion starts @ 12:03

Money quote @ 12:49 "90% of the guys who do gay porn don't identify as gay"

Do you guys this is an exaggeration? Sounds very high to me.

Also she dribble pee on self when she laugh.

The Cuban performer claims he gets a pass because he part Black

This is the free advice thread. Ask your questions, and get some answers.

All are welcome.

Let’s jump right in…

Why the cut me off?

I work in a grocery store and yesterday, New Years Eve, while standing there listening to a woman berate me for not having any spiral cut hams in stock, I realized I've been working for years. And I will be working for years. I will most likely work until I'm too old or sick to work. And that thought depressed the hell out of me.

I have some small savings and manged to buy a very small modest house which has a mortgage. I will never be at the point where I can afford to retire because I won't be able to support myself. I don't live a lavish lifestyle, I don't have any vices, I don't travel, I don't go out, but even then I just get by.

Lately, as I hit 50 years old I wonder what the point of this is. Any joy I had in my life disappeared years ago. I just work and come home to an empty house and go to work again the next day. I can't afford to do anything else.

I just saw her pull a butcher knife on Rose, Blanche and her own daughter, Dorothy.

What do we think caused the split DL?

When will justice be served?

Cousin & his (beard, possibly?) wife are dismissive of me, but nonetheless he has condescended to invite me for his sister and our grandmother’s joint birthday (probably only because I help take care of grandma). He also wants to announce his wife’s 2nd pregnancy at the same time, which is kind of a h!jack of the event, but🐣

Problem is, I’m shy by nature and don’t usually manage to stand up to bullies & bitches well. I want to sack up and become better at it, though, as I’m sick of being ignored and spoken down to when I talk, as if I’m still the weird little girl sat at the kids’ table (I’m now a grown educated woman well into my 20s). What’s more, they tend to make snide veiled remarks about my single status and my lack of a high-flying career, and while I try not to care or react, honestly it makes me angry that they do brazenly look down on me and my family for such classist and heterosexist reasons. To me, they’re judgemental and shallow social-climbers with whom I don’t want to socialise (I’m only going to this lunch at all for my grandmother and mother’s sake).

So I don’t want to stoop to their level of snobbery and pass-agg behaviour, but I do want to make it clear that I’n unimpressed and undaunted by their attempts to belittle. How shall I handle it? Please coach this quiet geeky babydyke, my Elder uncles & aunts.

LOL!

In Sweden, after 18 weeks, a woman has to have permission from a National Board of Health and Welfare to be allowed to abort the baby.

This crazy cat queen did, and he has 10 plus cats.

Danish series starting on PBS this weekend, many seasons and many episodes. Any gay content ?

It was round two of the semifinals on Season 7 of “American Idol,” and David Archuleta had just closed the Feb. 28, 2008, episode with John Lennon’s “Imagine.” The performance — a master class in immaculate pop vocal precision — earned the then-17-year-old wild screams from the tween and teen girls in the studio audience and instant raves from the judges. Randy Jackson told Archuleta he was “born to do exactly what you’re doing.” Paula Abdul gushed that he was “destined for superstardom.” And Simon Cowell proclaimed, “Right now, you’re the one to beat.”

In that moment, with his father, Jeff, beaming from his seat just feet away, Archuleta knew he should be nothing but grateful for the praise. Instead, one thought kept drumming through his head: “I don’t want to be here anymore.”

He didn’t understand why those girls were screaming, let alone why tens of millions of people would vote for him week after week — ultimately catapulting Archuleta to the finale, where he would finish second to David Cook. He didn’t understand, either, why older male fans kept yelling at him to come out already, or why his own father would tell him about online speculation about his sexuality like it was hot gossip. He was overwhelmed by the unrelenting schedule. He hated being pitted against other singers. He desperately missed his family back home in Utah. Fundamentally, Archuleta didn’t know that he wanted any of this at all.

“I felt so disconnected from everything,” he says now, perched on his publicist’s couch on a scorching Los Angeles day in October. “Like, 13 years later, I’m piecing together what actually was going on. But it’s still a process because I still don’t understand why people were so into it.” Now 30, the singer breaks into a nervous laugh familiar to anyone who watched him on “Idol.”

“I think I was just in protection mode the whole time,” he says. “If anything, I was putting a wall between me and everyone else.”

Last June, Archuleta tore down that wall with an Instagram post in which he came out as being a member of the LGBTQIA+ community. The decision came after Archuleta — a lifelong and devoted member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — says God told him to share his story with the world, and Archuleta obliged by picking up his phone, writing the post and sending it without telling anyone in advance other than one of his sisters. Archuleta instantly became one of the most high-profile members of the Mormon faith to be openly LGBTQ, which has put him at odds with his church’s prohibition against acting on same-sex attraction — although Archuleta’s asexuality, which he also revealed in the Instagram caption, has made that particular hurdle a bit less onerous to navigate.

Still, it’s a journey that has been both bewildering and excruciating, pushing Archuleta to the brink of his religious beliefs and his desire to live at all. In a nearly three-hour conversation with Variety, it’s also clear that Archuleta’s coming-out post was the latest, most significant step in his decade-long struggle to wrest back the control of his life — and career — that he believes he lost that fateful February day on the biggest TV show in America.

When Archuleta was on “Idol,” he was perpetually abashed and tongue-tied, straining to string together a few sentences even when host Ryan Seacrest tossed him the easiest softball questions. As an adult, he does not have that issue. He’s retained his boyish, aw-shucks charm, but his words now tumble out of him, undaunted by even the most personal disclosures.

“My parents never talked to me about puberty,” he says. “I didn’t know what wet dreams were. I didn’t know what arousals were. I didn’t know that hair was going to be growing in parts of my body. All that was foreign to me. I didn’t know. And so I was freaking out.”

From Fame to two bombs (Grease 2 and Supergirl) then nothing practically. What happened. Miss Dunaway thinks Supergirl killed her career but it was really Maureen who suffered the most.

What ever happened to this manslaughtering cunt?

Where did that start? Who was the first person used in the joke. It's on a Golden Girls episode but I think Joan Rivers did it too.

Who started it?

They are made in ........ China.

Will he retire to a zoo? Will he have a distinguished latter part of his career, or will he continue to put in his foot in his mouth so much that he slips into ridicule and irrelevancy?

We've got the Julian Morris gang, the David Tyler Muir gang, the (emerging) Jake Tapper gang, and the (bizarrely inexplicable) Brianna Keilar elves.

I'm not sure if this place is frau central or frau at heart central.

What other past or present obscure persona fetishes have I missed? (Not hissed, that's for the worshipping offended.)

I'm the child on it that serves as your reason for supporting abortion, euthanasia and the death penalty.

Here's mine.

Wait for it at 3:12. Fucking piss my self hilarious moment.

Does it embarrass you?

Which personalities truly embody NYC in all its glory (besides Michael Musto)? And Fran L?

I'm thinking people like the late Jerry Orbach, or Warhol.

Well?

Just announced!

Life is a banquet if you’re attractive, on Prep, get tested regularly for other STIs.

Is Nikki Haley the best looking female politician ever?

A find I made yesterday on YouTube! Thank me later!

And so it begins...

A Florida Republican who last Tuesday lost a congressional special election by a landslide in a heavily Democratic district has declined to concede the race, according to CBS Miami.

Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick — a Democrat who pledged to fight for $1,000 monthly checks for Americans and who backs progressive policies such as the Green New Deal and "Medicare for All" — easily defeated the Republican Jason Mariner in the race to succeed the Rep. Alcee Hastings, who died in April.

With all precincts reporting, Cherfilus-McCormick defeated Mariner 78.7% to 19.6% in Florida's 20th District — a 59.1-percentage-point victory. She received 43,663 votes to her opponent's 10,883 votes.

But in a move reminiscent of former President Donald Trump, who continues to dispute his election loss to President Joe Biden, Mariner has made claims of irregularities in the South Florida district.

Someone HAS to have his dick pics by now!

What is the best bassoon concerto? No criteria, just personal preference.

The Weber is the most reflective, but the Mozart overflows with joy. The Françaix offers a modern take.

A few years ago, a top came inside of me without warning. I had to run to the urgent care for an HIV test and a prescription for PEP the next day. While the daddy doctor calmed me down and comforted me, I got incredibly turned on and definitely upped the queeniness quotient. Here I was openly discussing the load that was freshly deposited in my butt less than 24 hours ago with a health professional, looking directly in his eyes, wondering if he was picturing me getting railed by another dude. Here he was proscribing me a pill to deal with the sperm that we both knew was in my butt. In spite of the fucked up circumstances and being worried about contracting HIV, I can’t deny that I was quite turned on and enjoyed that appointment.

This was a few years ago. Imagine looking at THE ZENDAYA and thinking she can’t afford to buy gift cards? The things we go through. Y’all really don’t understand.

Get help. Seriously.

They can't be serious.

Ten minutes ago1

Jimmi Simpson, one of the stars of HBO's Westworld, has filed for divorce from wife Sophia Del Pizzo.

The 45-year-old actor reportedly filed for divorce on July 26 in the Los Angeles County Courthouse, according to The Blast.

Jimmi married Sophia on April 5, 2019 and the divorce filing states that they separated a year and seven months after their wedding. That puts their split date at around November 2020.

Sophia, 32, is an English actress who appeared alongside Jimmi in an episode of Hulu's Into the Dark. She also appeared in an episode of his Epix series Perpetual Grace, Ltd.

In an interview in 2019, Jimmi talked about the interesting story behind their wedding.

"Basically Sophia and I were planning on getting married last fall and then Perpetual Grace came. This career, as my family knows, it's a blessing and a curse. Yes, I get these opportunities, but goddammit, I can't hold a family meetup date for anything," he told Los Angeles Confidential. "At the end of the shoot we were like, 'Okay, we have a month and a half before things get silly again. How do we organize all the families?' She's from London, so her family would need to come in from there. I have family all over the country. And we just looked at each other and said, 'I want to get married! Let’s just get married because it'll feel nice.' And so, we set up an appointment at the courthouse, went in and got the rules, and then we went about calling our folks for permission. We basically had kind of an expedited wedding ceremony and it was just as beautiful as anything I could have hoped for."

Mainly a thread where I and another poster from Croatia can talk about the future of the EU and not clutter up the Novak Djokovic thread.

After Brexit and with the refugee crisis and the debt crisis and so on, I'm very keen to know what people in the East and the New Accession countries (eg Croatia, joined 2013) think of the project they have just joined and just how European they want to be.

Here in Ireland, support for the EU has gone through the roof since Brexit, which doesn't mean that Ireland wants the EU making all its decisions.

Everyone welcome, please indicate your country of residence if you are from Europe.

Yassssssss! Get it, gurls!!!

I know it's been on DL before but this is one of those feelgood videos that stands the test of time. I remember the song and everything about it is just so perfect for its time. Anyone out there had him? He's been single since his 1969 divorce. In the video, the guy to his left is pretty amazing too. The guy to his right, meh.

"Featured front and center was a young male dancer, whose dark hair and black button eyes made him an immediate standout, aside from his impeccable rhythm and the fact that he was tearing into it like his last meal. His name turns out to be Bobby Banas, and besides how brilliant he was in that particular performance, before and after that he’d already made featured appearances in such films as West Side Story, The Unsinkable Molly Brown and as one of the chimney sweeps in Mary Poppins, besides being known as the boy who kissed Marilyn Monroe in Let’s Make Love

That's all. He's hawt!

The Great American Bake-off:

How have you evolved as a person?

If you drew out a timeline of your life, what would you consider to be the biggest developmental milestones of your life?

It is one of the last photos of her before she died 11 days later. 😭 omg I miss her already!

This man is absolutely stunning. Anybody have any info on him? He not only is great looking but he dresses perfectly and seems to come from a very posh background as well. He showed up on my Instagram today with Aldous Bertram, another very handsome British man and decorator now living in Charleston - I wonder if they are a couple.

(I'm having a hard time getting a pic of him to post on here so I'm linking is web page and you can go to Gallery to see pics - if someone else can posst a pic of him for me, please do)

I hate people with square heads.

Who has the squarish head. Both living and dead people can be counted so long as you can provide a pic.

Sort of.

Drugs or Booster?

Labrinth did such an amazing job on it! The entire thing is brilliant, but Nate’s theme song “Nate Growing Up” is the best one. Love this show so much!!!!!!

His name is Dominick Brascia. He played Joey in Friday the 13th: A New Beginning.

I can’t believe that Corey Haim would consent (to the extent that he could where it wasn’t legal for him to consent) to putting out for… THAT.

Well, I shall no longer feel bad for Joey when I watch this scene.

Japanese and Russian Nationals going on this week.

Europeans to start on 10th January if Covid doesn't cancel them.

Dish out

It's actually very sweet that she's stayed in and upgraded her childhood home. Sounds like she's being smart with money, too.

They look great together but this is the mother of all “I am the second wife!” photos

When James Fox first hit the British cinema in the early 60s, he right up there with Finney, O’Toole, Hemmings, Bates, Stamp, Williamson, et al. He was edgy, dynamic, made very creative acting choices, and was anything but conventional. Four outstanding performances: The Servant, King Rat, The Chase, and Performance. If he doesn’t write his autobiography, we will never know what happened to that early spark. Whether it was exhaustion or a breakdown, when he came back in the late 70s, it was as if he had been subjected to daily electro shock treatments. His acting was dull, conventional, stuffy, and simply boring. Just right for the parts he’s played since: mainstream, button-down, square, English fuddy-duddies. Didn’t happen to his brother, though Edward Fox did become rather one note. His niece Emily is brilliant. Looks like his son, Lawrence has taken up the ballsy mantle with his un-woke convictions. Aside from the fact he's got talent.

I just checked in for my room in Hawaii and was told Housekeeping is only available every four days. The room is almost $800 a night. I realize it's a fucking pandemic but I'm not in the room when housekeeping comes. If I wanted to make my own fucking bed and use the same towel every day I'd have rented an air-fucking-bnb.

a lot of companies seem to be using Covid as an excuse to cut corners.

Virginia McLaurin, whose 113th birthday is March 12th.

So, what is your family's ethnic and/or cultural background?

Do *you* have an accent? Does it match the rest of your fam or differ?

Do you code switch between language, behaviors, colloquialisms, etc?

Add and answer other questions you'd think that should be asked

There was such optimism, after the cynical Watergate years. But this event is just weird.

I think it’s gross and don’t want to brush my teeth in hot water but I know lots of people who do it.

I'm a younger man and have met this amazing guy. We click on every level, have had deep emotional talks about our lives, and aren't really seeing other people. However, I have not been able to get too hard when we have had sex (twice three days apart).

There has been no penetration, just kissing and oral. I really like kissing and performing oral on him, but he feels guilty because he can't do that to me because I am not very hard. We have even tried to jack me off, but it hasn't worked. He thinks it is him, which it definitely is not.

Has anyone else had this problem before? How did you fix it?

Sad story

Have you noticed how things have gotten worse since everyone with the sniffles is now too sick to work?

Didn't Asner anger people with some political stance? Did that hurt the show?

I'd have to change the dining room immediately and eventually change the paint color in a few rooms. but the period details are irresistible.

Que Rico!

Recently I posted in an "I Want to be Underwhelmed" thread that my elderly cat was showing signs of dementia. Well, now she's dying; won't eat, taking water but not using the litter box, confused, can barely move around. A little bit ago she climbed into my arms and dozed. She has never climbed into my arms in all her life and hates to be picked up. Well, I am breaking down now. The last two years have been okay, but the previous ten were a shit show and she was literally the only constant in my life. When I had nothing and no one I still had her. I don't know how I will stand this.

Miss Maxwell doesn't want to release their names so sent a letter to the judge who sentenced her that he could release them if he wanted. She know longer cares but is afraid that the Johns might sue her for violation of their privacy. Obviously, one of them is ex-Prince Andrew thus the Queen's his quick expulsion from the Royal Family.

I'm the plaintive saxophone solo accompanying the montage of the protagonist's walk home through the city at night, as he realizes he's in way over his head.

Why?! This is perfection! You would think this would have gotten more people interested in them but people loved this one song then stopped listening to them almost! This is just so good and one of those songs that takes you right back to the 90s when you hear it. It’s so good!

Also, that sexy Latino shopping is hot.

But the DL Republicans assured us that they support "academic freedom"

I'm surprised she's not Asian.

Taylor Lautner is engaged!

The 29-year-old Twilight actor took to his Instagram account on Saturday morning (November 13) to share the happy news that he’s engaged to longtime love Tay Dome.

“11.11.2021. And just like that, all of my wishes came true,” Taylor captioned a photo of him on one knee while proposing to Tay.

Taylor popped the question with a ring from Ring Concierge.

Tay also shared the photo on her account and said, “my absolute best friend. I CANNOT WAIT TO SPEND FOREVER WITH YOU.”

Taylor commented on his new fiancee’s post and said, “Got news for you, the feeling is mutual.”

Taylor Lautner and Tay Dome first sparked dating rumors back in 2018 while attending a wedding ceremony, and soon thereafter confirmed their relationship. Check out the rare photos that they shared over the summer!

I'm not talking the Karens and the Rogue Cops and all the other assorted crazies we read about here on Datalounge.

I'm talking locally.

Because I am seeing (and hearing) a lot more crazy people, everywhere I go.

Screaming, and swearing, and acting out in places where they never used to be.

It just seems like the pandemic has really set off people who already suffered from mental illness, as well as adding more to the ranks.

I'm actually getting scared.

It would be like having your own Kennedy compound surrounded by family members. The only difference being this is in godforsaken Carthage Missouri.