Russia threatened to retaliate against new sanctions passed by the U.S. House of Representatives, saying they made it all but impossible to achieve the Trump administration’s goal of improved relations.

The measures push U.S.-Russia ties into uncharted territory and “don’t leave room for the normalization of relations” in the foreseeable future, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said Wednesday, according to the Interfax news service.

Hope “is dying” for improved relations because the scale of “the anti-Russian consensus in Congress makes dialogue impossible and for a long time,” Konstantin Kosachyov, chairman of the international affairs committee in Russia’s upper house of parliament, said on Facebook. Russia should prepare a response to the sanctions that’s “painful for the Americans,” he said.

The bill, passed by a vote of 419-3 on Tuesday, would strengthen sanctions against Russia less than three weeks after President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin held their first official meeting at the Group of 20 summit. The measure, which now goes to the Senate, would let Congress block any effort by Trump to unilaterally weaken sanctions imposed under the Obama administration for Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential elections and its support for separatists in Ukraine. The White House has sent mixed signals about whether Trump will sign the bill.

Is this a viable option?

CNN had a really good diagram up on screen, showing what the GOP will be voting on this week.

1 - Repeal and Replace (FAILED)

2 - Repeal and Delay (up next). Allows Congress 2 years to come up with a replacement for Obamacare

3 - Skinny Repeal - End the individual and employer mandates for healthcare, as well as the medical device tax.

4 - Graham/Cassidy Amendment

Option 3 seems like we'd still have Obamacare, but without the penalty for not having health insurance. Is that good or bad?

I'm completely 100% in favor of Obamacare, but should the republicans vote in force against the law, would a "skinny repeal" be a viable option?

Breaking just now. Buckle up.

Were you ever bullied in your adult life? I'm wondering how many people find that their poor treatment is a problem that has followed them throughout their lives. I have a cousin who was bullied when we were in school and I always wondered what it was about her that made it a constant problem in school, but no where else. She was very pretty and her family moved often, so perhaps that had something to do with it?

So apparently:

- Carbs are fine. It's fat that is the problem, since it clogs your arteries. (This feels like 1989) But, your body can handle carbs by turning it into glycogen in the liver - and no this does not raise the risk of diabetes. Instead, eating meat raises the risk of diabetes and causes inflammation and heart disease based on studies of tens of thousands of people's diets who developed diabetes.

- Eggs are bad (again) The "eggs are good for you" studies all have some funding by the egg industry. Although they don't raise serum cholesterol, the cholesterol in the egg still finds its way to your arteries. It has to go somewhere.

- Processed meats are listed in the same class of carcinogens as cigarettes (hence the image below). Grilled meats are just as bad.

- Dairy from cows is very bad for humans, which I have heard & ignored before. In the doc, they mention how it is too high in protein (like 8% vs 1% in human breast milk) and cheese is even worse. Interestingly, cheese has has opioid-like compounds in it that make people like it so much. Dairy consumption is linked to many types of cancer (30% increase in breast cancer among women who eat a lot of dairy), yet groups like Susan G. Komen Race for the cure happily take money from companies and put their ribbon on yogurt.

- All protein that is necessary to live is in plants. They are the only things that can convert nitrogen to protein, not animals. You don't need to eat any animals to have enough protein. Vegan bodybuilders exist.

- (Gratuitous images of factory farms - of course - making the whole thing disturbing). North Carolina is full of pig shit and other carcinogens due to all the factory farms and the inability to do anything with the pig shit... which ends up in the ground water & people near pig farms all basically have cancer. These scenes make you never want to eat pig products ever again.

- The American Diabetes Association, American Heart Association, and American Cancer Society are all funded by food companies from Cargill to Pepsi to Dairy companies (though they overstate this claim... the funding is only a fraction of the total)

If you watch this, the first half will seem ridiculous - given all the info we've gotten in the last 10-15 years. (Also, the narrator sounds like a surfer bro idiot). By the end, though, it sort of makes a case.

I don't want to live to 100 but I do want to lose weight, and that's what made me want to watch this. I just can't imagine going vegan would change anything except for calorie restriction (since it's hard to eat 1000 calories of broccoli) - and then result in weight loss. Most vegans are skinny-but-flabby anyway.

What do you think?

What do you think of this fabulous porcelain? Please delve into the site and admire the incredible awesomeness of the artist's work.

Im trying this as my first thread to continue the love and support of fakedness and bitchery towards Renner and his circle of hoes.lol!

is Sarah Huckabee Sanders Wearing?

Continue the discussion as the Carlivati era begins....

I love my microwave oven! MICROWAVE! MICROWAVE! Cooks all of my food (delicious).

Gay rights opponent picked as ambassador to Netherlands by Trump

Nomination of Pete Hoekstra, one of Tea Party’s founders, raises eyebrows in first country to legalise gay marriage

Daniel Boffey in Brussels, Wednesday 26 July 2017 10.42 EDT

A gay rights opponent who was once accused of appearing in a racist campaign advert and has claimed that refugees pose a threat to Europe has been named by Donald Trump as his choice for US ambassador to the Netherlands.

The nomination of the former congressman Pete Hoekstra, one of the founders of the conservative Tea Party movement, has raised eyebrows in the Netherlands, a bastion of liberal values and the first country in the world to legalise gay marriage.

The Dutch newspaper Der Volkskrant observed that Trump had “put a Dutchman in the Netherlands – but it is a Dutchman from the Netherlands of the 50s”.

Hoekstra, who represented Michigan’s 2nd congressional district in the House of Representatives from 1993 to 2011, was born in the Netherlands but left when he was three years old.

He will need to be approved by the Dutch government and confirmed by the US Senate in order to take up the post.

As a Republican politician, he has spoken out against gay marriage and as a congressman consistently voted to limit women’s right to abortion. He is also a strident supporter of the death penalty.

Hoekstra caused a stir when running for the Senate in 2012 when he appeared in a campaign advert featuring a young Chinese women with a thick accent cycling by some rice fields thanking the US for borrowing heavily from her country.

The Asian & Pacific Islander American Vote group described the advert as “very disturbing” and claimed it had been designed to stir up “anti-Asian sentiment”.

Hoekstra also once claimed there was chaos in the Netherlands due to a “secret jihad” in Europe. “Cars are being set on fire. Politicians are being set on fire,” he said. “Yes, there are no-go zones in the Netherlands.” He has also spoken in recent years at congresses of the anti-Islam American Freedom Alliance, where the far-right Geert Wilders was also once a guest.

The Dutch liberal MEP Sophie in ‘t Veld said: “We are looking forward with interest to cooperating with Mr Hoekstra. We will certainly remind him his roots lie in a country that values tolerance, equality and inclusion.

“We are proud of being the first country worldwide to have legislated for same-sex marriage. We are proud to have the lowest abortion rates in the world, and it is safe and legal.

“We are proud in our country that people of immigrant origin can be mayor of a big city or speaker of a parliament. We expect the representative of our friend and ally the United States to fully and wholly respect our values and to show that respect in his all his acts and words.”

When asked in an interview in 2006 with Volkskrant whether he feared the Netherlands had become a modern day “Sodom and Gomorrah”, Hoekstra denied it.

“I do not feel like that at all. I’d like to come here,” he said. “It is clear that the Netherlands has made a different choice in a number of areas than the USA. You must respect that as a foreign politician, even though you have a different opinion.”

[quote]a source with knowledge of the situation says that the studio is working on plans to usher out Affleck’s Batman — gracefully, addressing the change in some shape or form in one of the upcoming DC films.

[quote]Exactly when and how that might happen has yet to be determined, but it would be wise to bet against Affleck starring in The Batman. He has already stepped away from directing the film and Reeves is dropping the script that Affleck wrote with D.C. Entertainment’s Geoff Johns.

[quote]Affleck will turn 45 in August, so he would be pushing 50 before The Batman arrives in theaters. If Reeves makes a trilogy, Affleck would be in his mid-50s at best by the time that’s done. Maybe Tom Cruise could pull that off, but Affleck’s body hasn’t exactly been a temple.

[quote]And while male stars have been able to stretch their action-film relevance further in an age when there are fewer bankable young stars (Robert Downey Jr. is 52 and going strong as Iron Man), studios favor the fresh-faced — look what happened with Spider-Man, successfully rebooted with 21-year-old Tom Holland. (Affleck also just dropped out of the Netflix project Triple Frontier, and it’s not clear what his next movie will be. His reps declined to comment.)

‘Misery’ — I turned that down because I didn’t want to saw off someone’s foot, even though the role won an Oscar,”

Ms. Midler said of Kathy Bates’s turn in the adaptation of the Stephen King thriller. “It was stupid to say no to those pictures.”

“As an actor you’re supposed to take jobs that will challenge you or force fans to see you in a different light. By the ’90s I wasn’t really an actor anymore. I was someone who went on the road with these gigantic concerts. I got so far away from what they told you in acting class: Do something different. Producers kept offering me the ‘Sister Act’ movie, but I said, ‘My fans don’t want to see me in a wimple.’

Trump gave a speech at the Boy Scout Jamboree today and discussed things like loyalty, Obamacare disasters, yachts, cocktail parties, voting for healthcare and shopping.

Interesting interview. Sounds like some real shit went down with her and Brad.

She lives in California and looks rich

Remember when Greyson set the world on fire with his cover of Gaga's "Paparazzi"?

He gay!

Was she the ultimate in gold diggers?

I'm weary of Trump and special elections and Russians. May they all rot in hell. But Game of Thrones returns on July 16th and I'm facing reality. Which is that they can't all live a make it to the end. I feel bad about that because the ones who are left are, mostly, characters I've grown fond of. I'm interested to know how you think things will go. Arya, Sansa, Jon, Jaime, Bronn Podrick, Tyrion, Varys, Dany, even The Hound, Brienne, Thormund. I'm assuming Littlefinger and Cersei will die at some point, but who knows? I'm actually dreading these last 13 episodes when it comes to who survives. Maybe everyone dies, and that's the way their world ends.

If you thought they were taking over LGB, YOU AIN'T SEEN NOTHING YET! . I am worried that trans will appear sympathetic and continue to piss on gays and lesbians while promoting their " you don't have to be bio man to have a period" VERY dire for gays

New York company offering tours of Bronx neighborhoods has shut down after officials objected to its advertising that claimed to give visitors "a ride through a real New York City 'ghetto'," according to a statement from Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr.

The tour's controversial description states that when thinking of the Bronx, people envision when the borough "was notorious for drugs, gangs, crime and murders." It promises to take visitors on a three-hour journey into "this diverse and mysterious borough called the Bronx."

The website for the tour company, Real Bronx Tours, was no longer accessible on Thursday, but an advertisement for the tour is still viewable on NewYorkPass.com, a site intended for purchasing tourism tickets.The letter, addressed to Real Bronx Tours company owner Michael Myers, urges the company to stop profiting off of a tour that paints the borough "as a haven for poverty and crime, while mocking everything from our landmarks to the less fortunate members of our community who are availing themselves of food assistance programs."

"Using the Bronx to sell a so-called 'ghetto' experience to tourists is completely unacceptable and the highest insult to the communities we represent," the letter read.

In a second statement from Diaz on Tuesday, he announced that in response, the tour company had decided to end its "inaccurate and disrespectful tours."

"I am relieved that this company has listened to the overwhelming complaints of community members, as well as public officials, who were outraged and sickened," the statement read.

Representatives of Real Bronx Tours did not return CNN's calls seeking comment.

On January 4, 2017 they denied her parole for a second time .

This poor woman . I'm afraid she'll die in prison .

[quote]Francis Lee's debut feature is the rare gay film that does not sacrifice artistry for representation.

[quote]The sexual tension mingles with the mud and sweat of a hard day’s farm work in Francis Lee’s stunnign debut film, “God’s Own Country,” which released its first official trailer today. The movie played Sundance earlier this year to rave reviews, with its country setting and restrained storytelling earning inevitable comparisons to “Brokeback Mountain.” But “God’s Own Country” has the benefit of two fresh young faces in the leads (Josh O’Connor and Alec Secareanu) to fully inhabit the roles with no prior associations, as well as the freedom to buck Hollywood tropes. Including that pesky one where gay films have to end in tragedy.

[quote]The film is set in the bleak but beautiful Yorkshire countryside, where young Johnny (O’Connor) carries the burden of managing his family’s livelihood int he wake of his father’s stroke. To help with lambing season, the family hires a Romanian migrant worker named Gheorghe (Secareanu). While Johnny is well-versed in soliciting random sex at livestock auctions, he isn’t prepared for the intensity of real human connection. But when the two head up the mountain to birth the lambs, things get very muddy.

[quote]Beautifully rendered and engaging from beginning to end, “God’s Own Country” is the kind of gay film more people should be making. The almost documentary-style farm scenes elevate it way beyond more conventional gay dramas, and it doesn’t make the mistake of confusing tragedy with quality.

Jayne Mansfield

Anton Yelchin

William Holden

The continuing adventures of DL's favorite bisexual British man of mystery!

As you were.....

Ooh, Donnie, you in danger girl! Will Vlad release all the dirt?

The Black Youth Project

Why I’m tired of white gay men telling queer stories POSTED ON MARCH 20, 2017 BY HARI ZIYAD IN CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, FEATURED ARTICLE /t 2 A few days ago, it was announced that Ryan Murphy, the mind behind queer favorites like Glee and American Horror Story, is developing a show slated for 2018 called Pose that will explore 80s LGBTQ ball culture. According to Deadline, the series “examines the juxtaposition of several segments of life and society in New York City: the emergence of the luxury Trump-era universe, the downtown social and literary scene and the ball culture world.”

I hate it preemptively.

It’s not that I don’t believe this is a culture worth exploring or that the show could have no entertainment value. Murphy is a talented storyteller who had little difficulty drawing me into the worlds he weaved in Glee and American Crime Story. I have no doubt Pose will bring an equally new and refreshing approach to the television experience. But I was immediately reminded of all the ways white gay men use ideas of queerness universalized around their own experiences to tell our stories that are ultimately harmful to other queer people like myself.

There is a thin line between entertainment, appropriation, and historical revisionism when it comes to who gets to tell queer stories and why. Two years ago, when Roland Emmerich released Stonewall, a fictionalized account of the riots most recognize as the start of the modern gay rights movement, the film’s obvious whitewashing and erasure of major trans Black and Latinx figures did not go unnoticed.

Stonewall was only a small part of a legacy of cisgender white gay men taking up space in the LGBTQ community with no regard for anyone else, a legacy to which Murphy himself has willingly contributed.

As many have already pointed out, Murphy’s shows have had a consistent problem with anti-Black portrayals of Black women specifically, perhaps most noticeably on American Horror Story and Scream Queens. As Kerensa Cadenas writes for Complex, “(Murphy) knows what he’s doing—there’s always a wink, a hair flip, a smirk to acknowledge the tongue-in-cheek nature of his jokes—but that doesn’t lessen the vileness of these moments on his shows. In fact, it makes it feel even worse because as the audience, we’re supposed to just accept them.

But the problem with Pose is bigger than one person or a few problematic portrayals. Ball culture was created and driven by Black and Brown queer folks to provide protection from the violence that necessitates that far too many Black and Brown LGBTQ people to seek homes outside of their own. Within the scene, queer youth, many of them homeless, create new family structures and support systems that they might not find anywhere else. It is just as much a safe haven from the racism of white queer people as it is from the straight people in their families and communities in which they grew up.

LGBTQ stories are much bigger than what white gay men live, and much bigger than many can even envision. But because of white gay men’s experience with marginalization on behalf of their queerness, it is far too often assumed that they can speak to the marginalization of other queer people as well. This ignores how whiteness and maleness intersect to encourage white gay male violence against those even more marginalized within the LGBTQ community.

And if Sessions won't do it, he'll just have to find someone who will.

Is that so much to ask of Sessions Trump says?

Just AXE the Russian Investigation and start proceeding to prosecute Hillary.

How difficult is that to do muses Trump.

FLEET STREET - While Henry has been dispatched to the Southern Hemisphere to film Mission: Impossible 6, the critically endangered specimens of the Jersey Zoo (formerly Durrell Wildlife Park) have been preparing for his upcoming PR run in advance of Justice League's November release. The Bruneian Swimming Scorpions have taken a freelance post at the Daily Mail, where they have been preparing several months of puff pieces for Cavill as well as writing the crossword puzzles.

July 14: "Look Out Lois Lane! Superman Cavill Has Eyes For (name to be inserted.)"

July 21: "Dynamic Duo! Cavill and (name to be inserted) touchdown in San Diego."

August 10: "Just-Us League! Cavill and (name to be inserted) enjoy romantic dinner date in Belgravia."

September 15: "She's His Kryptonite! Cavill and (name to be inserted) inseparable at London Fashion Week."

September 30 puzzle: Thankless Jobs

October 3: "And Krypto Makes Three! Cavill and (name to be inserted) walk dog in Regents Park."

November 28: "Man of Steel and Woman of Platinum? Cavill and (name to be inserted) engagement rumoured."

December 16: "Back to the Fortress of Solitude! Cavill and (name to be inserted) call it quits."

Did it work for you?

They seem to have lost popularity since they were the big thing in the early '90s. Floatation Tank places popping up everywhere.

Bobby is back! Yay!

Hanner is back and Ben is gone. Boo!

Exhibit A: Oh my god, bro, those legs! And shut the fuck up, woman!!

Why is it that, when you get older, you have to wake up at least once and maybe more in the night to pee

Is their a physical reason for this? I miss sleeping for 7 or 8 hours at a stretch.

Is it just men or do older women have to do this as well?

Does anyone know?

I don't know why I'm even asking this, because it clearly is. There's no other movie with so many laugh out loud scenes in mere 90 minutes.

I have just one question about the accents in this movie - do Minnesotans really sound like that or did the cast use over-the-top accents on purpose?

Internet is rife with speculation that Tyler the Creator from Odd Future is coming out as gay based on lyrics from his new album. Did Frank Ocean convert him?

What a fucking god. Every inch of him is perfection.

I want to be Blake Lively...

Examples are "giving shade" and "tea". Would someone explain these and other common DL terms for the uninitiated. Thanks.

An Oakland Muslim plotted to attack a gay club in San Francisco and talked about killing thousands of innocents on behalf of ISIS.

Holy shit!

51 to 50, with Mike Pence voting to break the tie.

Still no actual plan, though.

Continuing discussion of Malec, Malec and Malec.

and he's hung like a horse!

The crapfest continues, and I still want to just murder the little kid.

Anyone else watching?

Barbara Starr is on CNN at the Pentagon, and they had no idea he was even going to release this statement. They were discussing it, but it wasn't ready to be communicated yet. There are existing trans people in the military & nobody has a plan on what to do about them yet.

My co-worker spends about 300.00 a month , she said that is about right for someone that does a good job , I am curious what do you spend

Do you ever worry that you have too much stuff that you've collected over the years?

I collect vintage pocket watches and have over 300. I've documented all of them; the prices I paid and update their values each year based on ebay sales of similar watches. The entire collection has a current market value of about $80,000 to $90,000.

If I died tomorrow I don't know what would happen to them all. No one in my family wants them and I'm sure my BILs would sell them for whatever they could get.

Sometimes I think I should just sell them all and enjoy the money I'd get from them, but the truth is I really love these watches and use many of them.

And, no, I'm not talking about that dreadful Taylor Swift album. FYI, THIS was the best song of '89, but let's hear some runner ups...

I know a few DLers commented on seasons past so I thought some might want to chat about the current season which started on June 13 and has already aired two episodes. The twist this season is all of the contestants have been divided into two competing workshops with one contestant selected each week to serve as foreman which oversees the design, work and presentation. Only one cute guy this season - Phil from New Jersey.

It was her big comeback role and widely considered then and now as her best work. I believe she was considered the favorite to win at least somewhat but then Grace Kelly swept away with the trophy. I mean, it's not a total surprise that Kelly won - she was in three huge films that year, she was expanding as a dramatic actress and (superficially) she was a gorgeous, young blonde and who doesn't like those? I've read that Judy supposedly only lost by a handful of votes and that when A Star is Born was a bomb the studio didn't back Garland or give her a publicity boost or whatever. Or were they just unconcerned about Judy in general (not uncommon)? And Judy really wanted that Oscar - who knows it could have put her on a new track and steered her to a less destructive path.

(I also heard a vicious story that Judy called Grace on the phone and called her a bitch for stealing the award.)

Born Nicholas James Muscarella. I believe he's English and plays gay on "The Haves and Have Nots", although I've not watched the show. Reminds me a bit of DL fave Chad Michael Murray "The Chad". Any more info on him?

Another bullshit list. Look at the top 10! Now that it's 2017, it's almost all black women (including hip-hoppers and Beyoncé) who are the greatest female musical artists? We're just realizing this now?

Or is it just more pandering to SJWs?

I've been dealing with this for most of my adult life. It has not stopped me from having a great sex-life, but as I get older, I hate the way t-shirts look on me and I am embarrassed to take my shirt off at the beach. I never thought I would consider plastic surgery, but beginning to think this could change my life.

Smart man. Get out of Dodge as soon as you can.

Humans make me sick.

Girls, you know it's always about ME ME ME ME ME ME. Kadooz, ladies. Where's the Ramona Pinot?

From allah's perspective, we goils are defective, sharia is a girl's best friend...

To slice off your clit might seem quite fundamental, but sharia is a girl's best friend...

He's got a new girlfriend (who is not Paris Jackson) and is filming a new movie. Is he on his way to more $20 million movie paydays?

It is Camilla that won Charles in the end.

It is Camilla that one day will be Queen

It is Camilla that BEAT Diana to wed Charles

It is Camilla that Diana's Grandkids call Grandma

Yes no dispute in the war between Diana vs. Camilla...

Camilla WON THE WAR! Jealous bitches?

When glamour fades.

A heated battle is brewing in Hollywood for film rights to the former president and best-selling author's upcoming novel.

Hollywood will be getting a visit from one of the most high-profile names in politics this week as a battle begins to brew for the film rights to one of the biggest literary properties of the year.

Former President Bill Clinton and best-selling author James Patterson will be meeting producers to talk about an adaptation of their novel The President Is Missing, due out in June 2018.

CAA's Richard Lovett is handling the rights to the project, which is being treated as a top-secret property. Sources say a 10-page proposal was sent out to buyers and top producers on Monday. It was sent via an expiring link and watermarked. Not everyone who received the proposal will be invited to have a meeting with Clinton and Patterson, however.

Sources say that Clinton and Patterson themselves will meet with interested producers this week. J.J. Abrams, Steven Spielberg and George Clooney are among those who will be taking in-person meetings with the pair. Producer Steve Bing, known to be a close friend of Clinton, is also said to be getting a meeting.

The project would be the first book-to-film adaptation for Clinton, who has written three books since leaving office in January 2001. Patterson has seen five of his books adapted for the big screen and has served as a producer on the three most recent films. Another eight of his stories have been adapted for TV, most recently the 2015-17 CBS series Zoo. He is working on a CBS pilot, Instinct, based on his book Murder Games.

Plot details on The President Is Missing are scarce, but a May 8 statement announcing the book promised "insider details that only a president can know." Added the 42nd POTUS, "Drawing on what I know about the job, life in the White House and the way Washington works has been a lot of fun."

After re-watching Sabrina and an ILL rerun he starred in I became curious and googled him. I remember his death from a drunken fall but did not realize he wasn't discovered until 4 days later. I just find it strange that a man who is supposedly in a relationship (Stefanie Powers) can lie there dead without his girlfriend checking up on him. Apparently they didn't live together either. Is there anymore story as to what their real relationship was or is that normal in Hollywood?

Loved him in Sabrina.

I would think so. I find it obnoxious that they take a week's work out of the hands of directors needing a paycheck.

I think we're in Bipolar territory now... ironically, Abe's domain.

More Hirsute Hotties!

A friend recently took me out for Congee. Mine had a wonderful "umami" savoriness, rich pork belly, sous vide egg, fried garlic and bok choy. I found it a bit too heavy to enjoy first thing, but it was delicious. And it got me thinking, we seem to reserve "ethnic" cuisine for lunch or dinner. Do you ever go out for an 'ethnic' breakfast? If so, what do you enjoy?

And, no, I'm not talking about breakfast burritos -- not that there's anything wrong with that deliciousness.

Let's continue.

Ike the Spike is kinda cute, right?

Trump apparently suggested raising the gas tax. I'm all for it. Gas prices are relatively low, so it won't hurt as much, and we need it. Nobody likes paying taxes, but we need it to fund maintenance on our infrastructure.

DL's President!

He was always such an enthusiastic bottom.

[bold]SHUT THE MOTHERFUCKING GODDAMN HELL UP OR WE WILL FORCIBLY SHUT YOU UP FOR GOOD![/bold]

You know nothing about gay people so you are not qualified to comment on anything we say and do. Just shut up and don't speak until you're spoken to.

Sincerely,

Gay people

She doesn't waste time, does she! Putting that yacht to good use!

I wonder how he's planning on killing America's sweetheart?

What do you think

With outcast Andros rumoured to be penning a book, Crazy Kenny in danger of destroying his Foundation meal ticket, and the elusive Fadi still delivering on Facebook, the drama surrounding the death of singer George Michael continues apace...

Join the flurry of speculation here.

It was one big space with millennials clustered around circular tables, elbows to elbows. There was music blasting and ping pong being played, and people with earphones. Some were seated at chairs that were kind of booths. I couldn't wait to get out. This is madness: an environment for children. No wonder baby boomers are being squeezed out.

... where Lorie tells Brad, he need not worry about being blind, because he still has BDF, and that's all that really matters.

WOOF!

I think she really likes....her work....in Atomic Blonde.

Do any men make it, or are they all women?

Merman, Rivera, Lansbury, Cook.

Dear Dataloungers

I'm not having much success with The Google. I understand the meaning but can someone explain the origin of the expression "he's family", as used in same context as the perhaps older "friend of Dorothy".

And where does the song "We Are Family" fit into this? It's on every top 10 "gay anthem" list (even used at the end of The Birdcage) but were the lyrics intentionally related or just a coincidence?

TIA

Please continue here. PS. I wrote male in the headline for a reason. I don't want this thread to be hijacked with lesbian characters. If the lesbians want to discuss that then they can start their own thread.

Best album cover since [bold]from the choirgirl hotel[/bold].

Premiere tonight! First night on the new network!

Interestingly, after reading reports that Cat wouldn't be on the show anymore (because Calista Flockhart refused to move to Vancouver)... she's in the premiere at least.

Superman is HOT. Win is HOT. And the new mystery Kryptonian is HOT!!!!

I want them in hot three way action (even if mystery guy remains in a coma)

Anyone else watching? Hopefully season 2 is better than season 1.

He pings to high heaven. One year ago, Heughan and his rumored bf -Luke Neal- spent over a month travelling together around the world. Sam also brought Luke to the Outlander premiere and several private parties. . After this trip, the gay rumors about Sam were everywhere and Luke -an actor and writer- deleted ALL his SM.

People who met Heughan at the British theatre, say that Sam was openly gay before the STARZ contract:

[quote]"Knew him in the theatre scene back in the day. Nice guy. And openly gay then."

[quote]"Oh darling, of course I’m an old gossip. Have you never met a theatre queen before? Everyone in the biz knows he’s gay, which is not a big deal here. But it is in the US and in the movie industry, so I don’t think anyone was shocked or upset that he’s decided to closet.And really he’s not exactly closeting hard. It’s like Luke Evans 2.0"

Mario Thomas of ABC-TV's That Girl series and Lynda Day of the same network s forthcoming The Silent Force are not only two of the most attractive young women on TV but two of the most right thinking.

On my recent visit to hollywood both told me they have ! flatly refused to wear the midi on camera or off, during the coming TV season.

"I hate them," said Marlo Thomas. 'They're so ugly."

"They look just awful," said Miss Day. "I'd never wear one.

Miss Thomas and Miss Day are not alone among TV's lovelies in their convictions and that is good to hear.

In the Aug. 15 issue of TV Guide Dr. George Weinberg, a clinical psychologist and therapist of good reputation, says of the situation comedies: "The honest ethic of the characters . . . their devotion to value, their ability to express affection and love for one another . . . are important to us." He is talking about their value as examples.

If that is so, then perhaps American women will also be inclined to follow the lead of women they see on TV with regard to fashion.

Any woman who wishes to resist the midi-which, of course, Is a homosexual plot to demean women and to make them pay for their lost femininity-will stand on firm ground when she says, "Until Mario Thomas and Lynda Day give in, I won't either."

--------------

Patty Duke, whose performance last season in "My, Sweet Charlie" was exceeded only by her performance at the Emmy award ceremony, will star in a television special to be filmed by Universal studios for next season.

It will be called "An Evening With Patty Duke" and will consist of several dramatic portions in each of which Miss Duke will portray a different character

Continue on...

His most recent rebranding:

[quote]Colton Haynes Uncle. Actor. Fiancé. Goof. Dance champion lol. I like wine. I like to stay home and watch tennis. I like sleeping. I like laying down. I like Ranch

Our recently platinum-haired Colto also has a verrry hot new buddy Ryan Cooper after spending (at least one) Rough Night together.

More than being a hole-haggard househusband, our happily engaged heartthrob longs to be a daddy and nurse his spermlings alongside Cheyenne, Neil, Elton and Ricky. His goal is to lounge around the Rosebud Palace, eat bonbons, sip chardonnay, and dip his perky nips in Ranch to breastfeed a brood of Jefflets. And in between, he may actually do a bit of “acting” just to keep his IMDB profile active. Ah, goals!

PS: Pick a cute baby name, Colty! (We strongly suggestion avoiding Apple, Blanket, Wolfgang, and anything that rhymes with Horace.) 👨‍❤️‍💋‍👨 + 🔬 = 💗👨‍👩‍👧💗

Fred Savage's character is gay.

I am going to start it tonight. Anybody else going to watch?

Well she sure didn't waste any time moving on from poor Steve.

There's a lot of joking here on DL about looking far younger than your years. But here's a guy who apparently does.

this is Part II.

I'm going to be in San Diego for a couple of days in September. Any advice from the DL? I think we're going to do the zoo, but what else should I try to see/do on this short trip? I'm staying near the Gaslamp area.

I'll just set this down here.

You have to click through to get the full effect of the photo.

Makes Lindsay Lohan look like the picture health.

She was a cute girl in the 90s. What happened?

How do I love thee, let me count the ways. Your sweet yet salty crunch, your thin-ness, your square shape with crispy right angles, your brightly colored yellow and blue box, your crispety bite size morsels, your smattering of salt to tickle my tongue and gums, your flat top and bottom that I crunch as soon as my mouth hits them, the lovely sound that comes out of my mouth as I pop you into my waiting gullet, the whole wheat grainy and healthful bounty of farm raised goodness that nourishes my body and soul as you travel through my system and the vitamins and minerals stored in your molecules cause my muscles and tissue to flourish.

Why don't these trannies fess up and admit what they are rather hide it and risk being beaten up or murdered?

“I don’t want anybody’s career to be destroyed because they do something unfortunate and inappropriate,” Anderson Cooper said during his Friday appearance at Arizona’s Comerica Theatre alongside Andy Cohen, according to USA Today.

He later added: “Look, I wish her well and I hope she bounces back and keeps doing what she does best, which is make people laugh.”

“CNN made the decision not to bring her back,” Cooper said at Friday’s event. “I had nothing to do with it, but I certainly understand why they made that decision.”

“People were assuming I was somehow responsible for this and I just felt I should point out that I actually think this is pretty important as somebody who works overseas and, you know, journalists get beheaded and this is not a joke,” he said.

The way he is talking he makes it sound like they hardly knew each other.

Canadian Conservatives across the country are lose their minds and having that coronary.

I don't necessarily mean old, I mean one who hasn't done porn in a decade or more.

I mean there are classics like Kyle Carrington, or Mike Branson who did a few pornos then seemed to have disappeared. Now assuming they're still alive, someone should know them right? Or maybe not if they are not recognizable. I know there were many of my classmates at my 25th reunion, I'd never have recognized after all that time.

It seems like so many British actors are stage-trained thesps who went to RADA and can move from Shakespeare to big budget movies with ease......but surely they must have some bad actors over there, right? The only one I can think of is Henry Cavill, who makes Keanu Reeves look expressive.

[quote]EXCLUSIVE: Matt Bomer and John Carroll Lynch topline Anything, a drama from first-time feature director Timothy McNeil that stars Bomer as a transgender woman who falls in love with a straight man. This is the first look at the Mark Ruffalo-exec produced pic, which has its world premiere this weekend in the LA Muse section of the Los Angeles Film Festival.[/quote]

A sultry Bomer says, "I like things deep, know what I mean?"

Edward Theodore Gein, gone 33 years 😢

Born: August 27, 1906 / Died: July 26, 1984

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A plan to repeal and replace Obamacare that Senate Republicans have been working on for months failed to get the 60 votes needed for approval Tuesday night.

The vote was 43 in favor and 57 against. Nine Republicans voted against the measure.

The plan would have made deep cuts to Medicaid, the health insurance program for the poor, and reduced Obamacare subsidies to lower-income people to help them defray the cost of health insurance.

It was the first of many expected votes this week on repealing or replacing elements of President Barack Obama's signature healthcare law.

Would someone tell her it's 2017. Her scene was decades ago and people have moved on. It's a little spooky to still be doing the same schtick for so many years.

Hi! I'm 24 and my boyfriend and I are visiting San Francisco from Nashville for an extended weekend. It'll be my first time in California so I'm super excited about this trip. What are some recommendations? We'll be staying at the Donatello off Post.

He's had some very high profile failures recently as both an actor and director but Hollywood is still betting on Ben. His Oscar bait movie, written by critical darling Mike White, comes out this fall. Of course, it's a "dramedy" and the music in the trailer appeals to Gen X.

Can this career be saved?

Starts streaming on Amazon in July. Who will be watching?

Holy Jesus, the pastor is grossly ugly. Seeing him naked every Sunday would make me quit church. There's one decent looking male congregant, Robert Church, and everyone else wisely keeps their clothes on. Several old men attending church to see some boobies.

Here's Mr Justin Clynes, opening the Show as usual:

About ten years ago there was supposed to be a movie forthcoming about the women of Watergate called "Dirty Tricks." A dream cast had supposedly been signed, with Meryl Streep starring as Martha Mitchell, and also featuring Jill Clayburgh as Pat Nixon, Gwyneth Paltrow as Mo Dean, and Annette Bening (of all people) as Helen Thomas. For whatever reason, it was never made.

He does it in front of Carson. So funny!

... as a fan of RuPaul Drag Race

It's driving me crazy.

I'm cancelling the account this week though I didn't want to do so. I kept it to catch stragglers.

Yes, I'm grateful they write at all, but FFS!

ever get it? i have a mild case of it. using lotrimin for it. it helps.

She's finally lost the plot

He is fuckin' losing it!

[quote]Ukrainian efforts to sabotage Trump campaign - "quietly working to boost Clinton." So where is the investigation A.G. @seanhannity

[quote]Attorney General Jeff Sessions has taken a VERY weak position on Hillary Clinton crimes (where are E-mails & DNC server) & Intel leakers!

I know it has its flaws, but I'll be watching. They're posting tease trailers all over the place.

Will you be watching?

What ever happened to BILL TAYLOR???? He is hilarious.

Has anyone noticed how many more straight or non-gay dudes today are calling other guys "baby?" I have noticed that these guys saying this tend to be disproportionately urban, African American, and Latin. A lot of "hip hop" type White guys are doing the same. Today, in my gym, one of the African American male personal trainers saw me an said "wassup up, baby." Other guys at the gym have said the same to me a lot lately, especially black guys. I have also heard them say it as a greeting to other guys or in passing conversation to other dudes such as, "That's wassup, baby!" I would never admit it in person, but it turns me on when a hot straight guy calls me "baby."

I agree that a child should be off limits but I'm curious about the behavioral issues that would require a 13-year-old (Collin) to be institutionalized. Especially when all other 5 kids have no issues.

Apparently, he and his sister were taken out of school at age 6 for anger issues. But the sister is fine while Collin still needs medical or therapeutic care.

Does anyone have any experience with this issue or insight to share? Why does he need to be removed from his family? Is he a danger to himself or others? And why him and only him out of the sextuplets?

President Trump went on a Twitter tirade Saturday morning, lashing out at multiple targets, including Obamacare, Hillary Clinton, two newspapers, his own administration and the investigation into whether his campaign colluded with Russia to influence the 2016 election.

Notably, he announced that “all agree the U. S. President has the complete power to pardon.”

The Washington Post reported Friday that, according to a source, Trump has asked his team about “his power to pardon aides, family members and even himself” in connection with the Russia inquiry. Another source told the Post that “Trump’s lawyers have been discussing the president’s pardoning powers among themselves.”

Constitutional lawyer Laurence Tribe and two former White House ethics lawyers contended Friday that presidents can’t pardon themselves.

Trump’s Saturday Twitter flurry began with an attack against the Post. The paper reported the day before that, according to intelligence intercepts, Attorney General Jeff Sessions discussed campaign issues with Russia’s ambassador. Sessions has repeatedly denied having such discussions with Russian officials.

“A new INTELLIGENCE LEAK from the Amazon Washington Post,this time against A.G. Jeff Sessions,” Trump tweeted. “These illegal leaks, like Comey’s, must stop!” (“Amazon” refers to the Post’s owner, Jeff Bezos, who founded the online retail giant.)

The commander in chief’s Twitter feed quickly moved on to attack the New York Times.

“The Failing New York Times foiled U.S. attempt to kill the single most wanted terrorist,Al-Baghdadi.Their sick agenda over National Security,” wrote Trump, who earlier this week granted the Times a wide-ranging interview.

His tweet was apparently referring to a Fox News report on Gen. Tony Thomas’ comments the day before at the Aspen Security Forum. Fox reported that Thomas, who heads the Special Operations Command, said the U.S. military had a “very good lead” in 2015 on Islamic State terror group leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

“Unfortunately, it was leaked in a prominent national newspaper about a week later and that lead went dead,” Thomas recalled, according to the report.

Those comments seemed to refer to a summer 2015 Times story, in which the paper reported that the U.S. gleaned a trove of information about ISIS from a Delta Force commando raid.

“The Pentagon raised no objections with the Times before publishing the story in 2015 and no senior American official ever complained publicly about it until now,” a Times spokesperson told Yahoo News on Saturday, adding that the paper has asked the White House “to clarify the tweet.”

Trump’s Saturday Twitter tirade moved on to Clinton, his 2016 foe.

“So many people are asking why isn’t the A.G. or Special Council [sic] looking at the many Hillary Clinton or Comey crimes. 33,000 e-mails deleted?” the commander in chief asked. “What about all of the Clinton ties to Russia, including Podesta Company, Uranium deal, Russian Reset, big dollar speeches etc.”

Sessions recused himself in March after the Post revealed that he met twice with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak during the campaign. In his confirmation hearings, Sessions had insisted he had no such contacts. Since then, he has maintained that he never met with “Russian intermediaries about the Trump campaign.” The Post’s Friday report suggested that also was not true.

Trump has repeatedly complained about the Russia probe, which is now overseen by the Justice Department’s special counsel, Robert Mueller, who was named to the investigation after Trump fired James Comey as FBI director. (Trump has misspelled “counsel” in two prior tweets as well.)

The president has also repeatedly attempted to deflect the spotlight of the Russia investigation back onto Clinton and her campaign, though Clinton was defeated over seven months ago.

Continuing the effort, Trump exclaimed Saturday, “My son Donald openly gave his e-mails to the media & authorities whereas Crooked Hillary Clinton deleted (& acid washed) her 33,000 e-mails!”

Let me start by saying that I don't want to provoke anyone. This is only a personal experience and I'd like to share it because it does make me feel uncomfortable.

So, I have recently realized that I'm experiencing a mild attraction to women. It's something that had never happened before, and I'm not happy about it mainly because I really like being gay. The thing that annoys me the most is that it comes and goes (it doesn't happen that frequently), but when it arrives it can be pretty intense, and it has occurred increasingly frequently over the course of the last few months.

I have thought that maybe it has to do with hormonal changes brought about with age (I'm in my early thirties), and I wonder how to "correct" it, not because I have anything against women, but because I've always been happy as I was and this isn't a welcome change. I don't really have any interest in women at all sexually or romantically, but on some days I see a particular woman and I get the same feeling of excitement and lust that I normally get when I see a guy I really like.

What surprises me the most is that it had never happened in the past (maybe two or three times over the last two years or so), and I never really minded because it wasn't intense at all, and we all react to beauty. But these feelings have become slightly more frequent over the last year, and since I am rather unhappy about them, I do notice them more when they come, and this just makes me feel really annoyed.

As I have said before, I don't mind women - they are OK. I have two sisters and female friends and I get along really well with them, but it was never sexual at all. Now, I occasionally surprise myself checking out co-workers and a few random women on the street, and it's weird and unsettling. My attraction to men hasn't diminished at all, by the way. It's just that it seems to have "extended" to a territory to which I'd never gone before, and it kinda sucks.

To add some context, I have been single for the last three years and I really crave a stable relationship, but all the guys I meet appear to be assholes and I have had problems with cheating boyfriends in the past. There's also a co-worker I really like who is also gay (and obviously, a guy), but I'm weary of pursuing anything with someone at work and he is really promiscuous, so I'm not sure I should pursue anything with him...

So yes. Is it hormonal? Is it that I'm just desperate for affection and looking for it where I don't really want, or need to find it? Could it be that I find women more relatable emotionally, because they are easy to communicate to and always talk about monogamy?

I don't know. I certainly don't want a relationship with a woman because I just see them as friends and the sort of people with whom you can have a "sisterly" relationship with (in the brother/sister kind of way), but as I said before the attraction is more physical, and it disappears for long periods, but then comes back very strongly for a couple of days before going away again.

More than anything, it's annoying, because as I have said before, I am happy as a gay man in spite of all the relationship drama I've been through in the past.

So, I would really welcome constructive comments and well, a solution of sorts, because as I have said before, this is an annoyance.

Thanks.

Andrew Garfield

Ben Whishaw

Samuel Barnett

Matthew Goode

Hugh Dancy

Jamie Dornan (Irish, true, but Northern Irish)

It would make me happy to take any of them in my mouth, and make them happy.

Do you have sufficient?

It seems like all of a sudden they're everywhere.

No wonder she's a Republican.

Let the talk continue!

We left the last thread on the sour note of Court's decision not to fly Qantas as a protest against the company's pro-gay marriage stance (cue sound of deafening applause from Qantas cabin staff). But RG2917 is just around the corner, so we needed a new thread STAT!!!

The UK rags have pics of a shirtless Matt on vacay. Shockingly out of shape but scary part is he's had some kind of surgery. He's cut up like a salmon.

Wonder if he had breast or lung cancer:(

Smell of garbage on street

"So why aren't the Committees and investigators, and of course our beleaguered A.G., looking into Crooked Hillarys crimes & Russia relations?"

Sessions is either going to resign or be fired by Cheeto within the week.

Oprah. I don't get it. I know she's adored but I don't get the adulation. She was a talk show host. Don't think she's a good actress at all, I can see her "acting". Don't hate her, don't really care about her at all and don't understand the fawning and fainting.

What don't you get?

We must discuss them!

He deserves to have a thread here (there was an old one but it was deleted....)

It was just his birthday!

Did Wil get acid thrown in his face?

I think this is just the beginning of the end for this country and wonderful nation. He's absolutely gross. Big slap to all the LGBT morons who voted for him. This is pure shit. It is quite saddening. What are your thoughts?

[quote]"I feel like in the case of that show [Glee], that show was just a s--tstorm of difficulty, largely because, what do you do when you're 18 years old or 19 years old and you wake up one day and you're world famous? I think a lot of that was informed by their youth and being involved in a phenomenon. And I know for a fact that they [Lea and Naya] admired each other's work, ‘cause I directed them both in scenes. I don't think I would take on Lea and Naya. I think for a feud to work on this show, it has to have decades of pain behind it. But if they're still feuding at 40, I might consider it. I'll call them up in a couple years."

[quote]Then he dropped this little unknown fact: "There were many boys on our show that didn't get along. And you never hear about that. You never hear about that in our culture."

I think it is.

What was the last tv show you watched?

When TBS would run the James Bond movie marathons. I have all the movies on DVD but it was fun looking forward to those week long marathons with the campy commercials and clips.

That aspect about her always seems to be underplayed.

I think she was beautiful.

& I think she remained very pretty for a very long time.

Maybe her strangeness marred the beautiful aspect.

In her book, she said when her mother first saw her on Peyton Place she said she "passed for pretty with make-up on". She was better than that.

She posted the photo @ link on her instagram this week - which is what made me think about this.

What did you think of Mia's looks?

Nancy's 16-year-old twin sons were assaulted by Ann's husband on her tour bus:

"Nancy's then-16-year-old twin sons asked their uncle, Ann's husband Dean Wetter, if they could see Ann's new tour bus. Wetter brought the teenagers and Nancy's stepdaughter to the vehicle, but asked them to keep the door closed so the dogs on the bus couldn't escape. When the twins exited the bus after the visit, the first one out left the door open for the other two behind him, enraging Wetter.

According to a detective's report in court documents obtained by Rolling Stone, "Dean became immediately upset and began calling [one of the teens] names … slap[ping] him on the back of the head, causing pain." The teen asked why he hit him, with Wetter responding by "punching [the teenager] in the back of the head with a closed fist, causing [him] to be stunned and see stars." After Wetter grabbed him by the throat, Nancy's other son intervened. Wetter grabbed the other teen by the throat and, according to a police report, began "squeezing [the other son's throat] to the point that [he] could not breathe. [He] said that he was unable to breathe or talk and that he feared for his life and felt pain in his neck." Police arrested the then-66-year-old Wetter, charging him with two counts of assault, one felony and one misdemeanor."

New cover of Rolling Stone.

The 41-year-old beauty also thinks bisexual love is under-represented in movies.

Asked whether it was important for her 'Atomic Blonde' character to be bisexual, Charlize said: "Why not? It should be normalised by now. It's something not represented enough in cinema."

Earlier this month, meanwhile, Charlize admitted to having gone on a date with a "really cool dude".

The Hollywood actress - who ended her engagement to Sean Penn in June 2016 - confirmed she is back in the dating game, but refused to reveal the identity of her new man.

Charlize shared: "I went on a date maybe, like, a month ago. I had a great date, I've got to tell you. I had an incredible date. This guy really impressed me.

"We went for a nine-mile hike in the middle of the night. It was a full moon. But I was really impressed. It was fun."

Charlize remained coy about her unnamed man, but admitted she enjoyed spending time with him, describing their date as "fun".

She explained: "I'm not going to say where we met, but we ended up going for a walk ... It was just really fun. He was super-funny. "I think he's just a really cool dude. It was super private ... that's what made it so much fun, too."

Luke Evans is still filming The Alienist in Hungary and he may have found more than work to occupy his time and thoughts. Speculation is that he's been seeing a Hungarian restaurant owner named Hubert recently. They took a break with friends recently on a trip to Lake Balaton and they were in London together this month as well. Unless Hubert agrees to leave his businesses, family and friends behind in Budapest, this may be either a summer dalliance or a long distance romance. The other possibility is that they're just friends. Stay tuned.

Now, do try to keep calm and carry on.

If so, how did you get it?

A coherent narrative explaining the untimely death of beloved Grunger Chris Cornell is yet to be established. Help us piece together the soundbites, leaks, lies, social media meltdowns, and everything in between to work out... What the Hell - Why Chris Cornell?

This sex scandal won’t be going away.

Usher paid out $1.1 million to settle a lawsuit with a stylist who claimed the pop star infected her with herpes, court papers show.

The documents were first published Wednesday by Radar Online, but they appear to date to late 2012.

The 38-year-old “Confessions” singer, whose real name is Usher Raymond IV, was diagnosed with herpes in 2009 or 2010, according to the court papers. But nonetheless, he had unprotected sex with the claimant without confessing that he was carrying the virus, the papers add.

The law is clear in California: It is illegal to knowingly or recklessly transmit an STD. Usher allegedly did just that when he told the victim he had tested negative for the virus, despite a “greenish discharge” from his penis, the court papers say.

“Believing Raymond’s statements that (the discharge) had been nothing and cleared up, (she) continued her relationship,” the legal docs said.

The claimant was later diagnosed with herpes, complete with vaginal sores, fevers and chills, she alleged in papers.

Usher paid some of the victim’s medical bills in 2012 — $2,754.40 in all, the court papers show. That’s when he also had his doctor call the woman to tell her that the singer did indeed carry the herpes virus.

He had, apparently, for many years. The legal documents noted that Usher was “exposed to herpes” in 2009 or 2010, around when he finalized his divorce to Tameka Foster after she accused him of cheating.

The singer married his current wife, Grace Miguel, in 2015.

The Daily News reached out to the R&B singer, but a request for comment was not immediately returned.

In the U.S., one out of every six people ages 14 to 49 years have genital herpes, which is spread through vaginal, oral or anal sex. It can be spread to sexual partners, even when people who have it show no symptoms.

Australia. Lack of enunciation.

OK I've been coming here for a long time..mostly for work and extended vacations. Something changed this trip. Realized I no longer like it here actually feel numb. I don't think I'll ever be coming back. It has to be one of the loneliest places on earth. I would feel less alone in an Arizona desert. Crazy as you get older your feelings change towards cities you onced loved.

The other day I found my neighbor's kitten in my house. My cat was playing with her. Yesterday I found the kitten in my porch.

Today I was out in the yard and I saw my cat running across the yard with something in it's mouth. Yes it was my neighbor's kitten. He ran into the house with the kitten in his mouth. When I found them they were curled up and my cat was licking the kitten.

The kitten is a girl, 12 weeks and spade. He is an old man of 13 and neutered, so I don't know why he's molesting this kitten and stealing her to boot.

Linkin Park singer Chester Bennington has committed suicide ... TMZ has learned. Law enforcement sources tell us the singer hanged himself at a private residence in Palos Verdes Estates in L.A. County. His body was discovered Thursday just before 9 AM. Chester was married with 6 children from 2 wives. The singer struggled with drugs and alcohol for years. He had said in the past he had considered committing suicide because he had been abused as a child by an older male.

Chester was very close with Chris Cornell, who himself committed suicide by hanging last May. The band has had a string of hits over the years, including "Faint," "In the End" and "Crawling." Linkin Park crossed music genres, collaborating with Jay-Z.

The band's album, "Meteroa," was one of the biggest alternative albums in music history. Bennington was 41. RIP

post them Parts 1, 2, and 3 maxed out.

I purposely went with something safe for post 1

Did you know that Janet Jackson's then secret husband Rene Elizondo directed the music video for her No. 1 1993 hit "That's The Way Love Goes"?

I DID! See I know things too Janbot!

Looks like every short wop Tony I grew up with. Sweet, cocky, clever and hot tempered. BDF? I found a pic where the goomba really comes out. From LongGuyland by way of Harvard Law.

I want to read it but it costs over $182.00 on Amazon!

Christ!

It's "Feud: Olivia and FX."

On the eve of her 101st birthday, two-time Oscar winner Olivia de Havilland has announced she is suing FX and producer Ryan Murphy over the unauthorized use of her identity in "Feud: Bette and Joan," according to a statement released Friday morning.

The miniseries about the longtime rivalry between actresses Bette Davis and Joan Crawford featured Catherine Zeta-Jones as de Havilland — the "Gone With the Wind" star who was a confidant of Davis' and a commentator throughout the eight-episode show.

De Havilland, who resides in France and turns 101 on Saturday, filed the lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court against FX Networks, LLC and Ryan Murphy Productions "based on the unauthorized commercial use of Dame Olivia's name and identity in the FX hit series," according to her attorneys, Suzelle M. Smith and Don Howarth of Howarth & Smith, noting that all the other real-life players who are featured in the series are dead.

Speaking on a panel at the Television Critics Assn.'s winter press tour, Zeta-Jones was asked whether she had ever met de Havilland.

"No, I didn't, unfortunately. I was going to try and get to see her. I was in the south of France this last summer. Then, unfortunately, there was the horrible tragedy that happened there in Nice, so I didn't get the chance to," Zeta-Jones said in January.

"Miss de Havilland was not asked by FX for permission to use her name and identity and was not compensated for such use," her attorneys said in a statement to The Times. "Further, the FX series puts words in the mouth of Miss de Havilland which are inaccurate and contrary to the reputation she has built over an 80-year professional life, specifically refusing to engage in gossip mongering about other actors in order to generate media attention for herself."

The suit accuses FX and its partners of appropriating de Havilland's name and identity and placing her in "a false light to sensationalize the series and to promote their own businesses" while ignoring her interests entirely.

"A living celebrity has the right to protect her name and identity from unauthorized, false, commercial exploitation under both common law and the specific 'right to publicity' statute in California," Smith said, asserting that, "FX was wrong to ignore Miss de Havilland and proceed without her permission for its own profit."

Her team plans to file a motion seeking an expedited trial date because of de Havilland's age.

De Havilland is no stranger to legal proceedings. In 1943, she filed a landmark lawsuit against Warner Bros. that resulted in the collapse of the binding long-term contract system and put the de Havilland Law on the books.

FX declined to comment ont he lawsuit and Murphy's team did not immediately respond to The Times' request for comment Friday.

His, his family and aides

When I was in high school, my neighbors house burned down one night. The hot dad ran out right away and was outside in his white briefs watching his house burn and his huge bulge and ass was out there for all the world to see. I lost count of how many times I jerked off to the memory of that.

See Zach Snyder? This movie looks fun and colorful.

Mary Lou Retton was the first ever American woman to win the all-around gold medal at the Olympics and was the only one to do so for twenty years.

In July and August 1984, Retton was the all-American "It girl," and had many commercial endorsements, including bowling and shampoo. She was the first female athlete to be pictured on the front of a Wheaties box. Wheaties sales improved after her appearance

Do you remember the summer of Mary Lou?

raves

The brain disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy, believed to be caused by repeated head trauma, has been found in 87 of 91 deceased former NFL players tested, according to researchers. See the most-read stories in Sports this hour >>

"People think that we're blowing this out of proportion, that this is a very rare disease and that we’re sensationalizing it," Dr. Ann McKee, chief of neurophysiology at the VA Boston Healthcare System and director of the lab where the tests were conducted, told PBS' "Frontline." "My response is that where I sit, this is a very real disease. We have had no problem identifying it in hundreds of players."

In research conducted by the Department of Veteran Affairs and Boston University, 40% of those testing positive for CTE were offensive or defensive linemen, according to the report.

Though those linemen aren't typically subjected to the big concussion-causing hits sustained by other players on the field, it's the consistent minor collisions that could pose a greater risk to players, according to the research.

The disease has been also been found in 79% of those tested who played football at any level going back to high school. For former NFL players tested, that number rises to 96%.

Signs of the disease's existence in living players can be identified with brain scans but CTE cannot be officially diagnosed until after death.

The suicides of Hall of Fame linebacker Junior Seau in 2012 and former Chicago Bears safety Dave Duerson in 2011, who were both diagnosed with CTE following their shooting deaths, helped raise awareness of the neurodegenerative disease.

Hotter now than he was 20 years ago

Who's his fan base?

We keep hearing so much about the opioids crisis. Has it affected you personally?

$7300 Federal refund

$720 State refund

I haven't quite figured out where I'll spend 8 grand, but it's a nice problem to have.

And YOU?

This time last year, I stupidly put my Game of Thrones beer mug in the dishwasher. When I took it out, the words “Winter is coming” and the show’s logo had disappeared. Only the image of a snarling direwolf remained. It was a sign.

Later that day, I read the recap to the denouement of last season’s finale, which posed the following conundrum: “The question now is how much has Sansa learnt – will she decide it’s better to be the lady of Winterfell and the power behind Jon’s throne ... or will she listen to Littlefinger’s attempts to spread discord?” No, I realised, that was not the question. The question was: why I had ever cared about this guff? How had I cared for so long about which claimant would install their derriere on the Iron Throne, be they Ye Lannisters of the Westerlands, Ye Greyjoys of the Iron Islands, or Ye Lentil-Weaving Guardian Readers of Islington North?

I’d been suckered into the franchise five years earlier by a scene adapted straight from George RR Martin’s original novel. A sweet little boy, Bran Stark, was climbing a tower when he saw something he shouldn’t have. He glimpsed Jaime and Cersei, smouldering Lannister siblings, in an incestuous clinch. Jaime pushed the boy to the stones yards below, which is why Bran spent the rest of the drama being carried around by a linguistically challenged giant.

The scene typified for me two things. One: how Martin’s brutally bravura plot twists were thrillingly realised by showrunners David Benioff and DB Weiss. Two: how unfitted I’d be living in the cod-medieval mash-up Martin had created. I would not, for instance, be able to stand to attention as one of my nipples was sliced off to prove my readiness for battle. But even those bracing pleasures curdle. When did this good TV turn bad for me? It was around the time some sex worker glumly pleasured a hard-faced descendant of some decadent ancient king for the umpteenth time. I was getting tired of being implicated in that exploitative scenario week after week. Or when Dany emerged naked from the fire, a CGI dragon landed on her shoulder, and looked off into the middle distance towards Westeros, where she would fulfil her manifest destiny. Or when yet another British thesp slummed into shot (Stephen Dillane, I’ve seen you in Beckett; you’re better than this!).

Advertisement

It’s hard to be precise. It took me a while to realise how right Ian McShane was when he described Game of Thrones as “only tits and dragons”, by which he meant, surely, formulaic hokum that degrades its viewers by commodifying women’s bodies, making entertainment out of sexual torture and pimping up its spectacles.

To clinch that last point, Benioff recently teased season seven by boasting that in one battle scene he and his team had “set more stuntmen on fire than have ever been simultaneously set on fire”. One headline glossed this remark thus: “Game of Thrones Decided to Set Even More People on Fire This Season, Because Sure, Why Not”.

Why not? Gee, you’d think, because of the law of diminishing returns. Life is short and Game of Thrones, like many TV franchises, is too long, stuck in its ways, creatively bankrupt. It’s projected to carry on until 2019 then, doubtless, will diversify into spin-offs. But I’m gone.

The actor is on a mission to bring sanitation and safe water to the entire planet.

He’s a famous, award-winning actor, producer, and screenwriter. But Matt Damon, 46, also is co-founder of Water.org, a nonprofit that promotes access to safe water and sanitation. I interviewed him in Washington, D.C., as he prepared to address leaders at the World Bank.

Susan Goldberg: So let’s have a conversation about poop.

Matt Damon: Great. With the group’s name being Water.org, if we ever solve the access-to-clean-water side of water and sanitation, I wonder if the name would become [deleted].org …

SG: I can’t print that! That’s pretty funny though.

Seriously: In trying to report and photograph the story on sanitation that is in this issue, it became clear that this is a hard thing to talk about for a lot of people.

MD: Yes. If you talk about something like cancer or AIDS, even if you’re talking about the developing world, people in the developed world totally relate. We all have people who’ve battled one of those diseases, and it’s instantly relatable. But something like this just isn’t.

Maybe we’ll have stories of grandparents or great-grandparents who were going to the outhouse, but this is a problem that largely has been solved in the developed world. We can’t really relate to something like open defecation, which is a huge issue in the developing world.

SG: That’s even hard for some people to say aloud. One of the things we really try to do in our story is to show the impact of the lack of sanitation; maybe then you can get people to rally around.

MD: It’s hard to get people to comprehend the enormity of the problem—that 2.4 billion people lack adequate access to sanitation. More people have a cell phone than a toilet. You lose a kid under the age of five every 90 seconds because of lack of access to clean water and sanitation. Those two really go hand in hand.

SG: So what do you do?

MD: The first hurdle to clear is to get people to understand that it’s an issue, and then the second is to try to make it easier to talk about. We can use humor. We had an idea of shooting a PSA [public service announcement] at some fabulous Hollywood celebrity’s house and I’d ask to use the bathroom and they’d go, Oh, no, we don’t have bathrooms—we practice open defecation.

SG: Were there any celebrities you had in mind?

MD: I thought it would be funny if it were at Jimmy Kimmel’s house. [Editor’s note: That line got a laugh because for nearly a decade Damon and talk show host Kimmel have pulled pranks on each other and pretended to be feuding.]

SG: So the world is full of important causes, lots of things that you can spend your time and energy and money on. Why this mission?

MD: I started to look at issues of extreme poverty and wanted to get involved; water and sanitation just undergirded everything. It was just so massive, and I didn’t hear anybody talking about it. It’s just endlessly fascinating and vastly complex, and there’s no kind of one silver bullet that’s going to fix it.

You know the drill.

Anyone remember this film? Saw it in 1988 when I was 14 and fell in love with the movie--and Mark Hamill. Part of me was disappointed when Kenny loses his virginity to Vanessa, instead of some hot Vegas stud.

Roughly half of voters who said they voted for Donald Trump last November, 49 percent, believe Trump won the popular vote, according to a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll. That's compared to 40 percent who say Democrat Hillary Clinton won.

Overall, a majority of voters, 59 percent, believe Clinton won more votes than Trump, but 28 percent believe Trump won more votes.

Respondents were asked which presidential candidate won the national popular vote and the Electoral College after Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach — the vice chair of Trump’s controversial Presidential Advisory Commission on Electoral Integrity — said in a televised interview last week that "we may never know" whether Clinton won the popular vote.

The president himself asserted in late November that he won the popular and the electoral vote. "In addition to winning the Electoral College in a landslide, I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally," Trump tweeted.

A report from the Federal Election Commission, compiled earlier this year from official state election results, credits Clinton with winning nearly 2.9 million more votes than Trump out of a total of almost 137 million votes cast.

The poll results were more resounding when it comes to the Electoral College: 72 percent say Trump won, compared to only 14 percent who say Clinton was the victor. Trump won 304 electoral votes, to Clinton’s 227. (There were seven faithless electors: Two of Trump’s electors defected to other candidates, as did five of Clinton’s.)

The POLITICO/Morning Consult poll was conducted July 20-24. The poll surveyed 3,981 registered voters and has a margin of error of plus or minus 2 percentage points.

Please continue.

I am a handsome (for my age) and physically fit Elderbottom. But I am 60 years old. So I have no delusions.

I feel a little sad at the prospect of never getting pounded again. But (surprisingly) I don't feel desperate.

Anyone else?

I'm tempted

I'd be Tabonga, the tree monster in "From Hell It Came"

He's full of shit. Nauseating. Disgusting. He's a Trump mini-me. Anything more about this douchebag?

In Sunday’s episode, Molly invites Jared over for a night of dinner and kinship during which both of them get onto the topic of things they have done in their pasts. Molly begins sharing parts of her college experience, specifically sharing that during her college years, she had a fling with another woman. Throughout this conversation, Molly continues to pressure Jared into sharing a secret with her that will surprise her.

Surprise her is exactly what he does.

Jared states that while out with one of his really good friends a few years back, he opted to go back to his place and let said friend provide him with some lip service. This information wasn’t a shock to Molly until Jared confessed that the said person he connected with was male.

It was evident that this information did not go over well with Molly. We find out that the idea of Jared having intercourse with another male is something that makes her very insecure and ultimately leads her to break things off with her love interest. Later on in the episode, a few of Molly’s friends challenge her by asking why it seems that Jared should be OK with the fact that she has had relations with another woman, yet it is not OK for him to have had relations with another man.

This episode offered a very salient question for me as the viewer: Why does it seem that black men are never able to explore their sexuality without fear of rejection or embarrassment within our culture? Sunday night’s episode of Insecure had to be one of the best in the series so far. The HBO show does well painting a picture of what it means to be a modern-day single black woman dating in Los Angeles, while examining topics of racism, sexism and microaggressions not only in the dating scene but also within the daily lives of black women.

Throughout the first season, many of the characters in the show have experienced various situations that have led them to feel insecure about who they are, most recently in the storyline between Molly (Yvonne Orji) and Jared (Langston Kerman).

In case you haven’t been able to keep up, Molly is a well-to-do attorney who continues to search for Mr. Right while finding only Mr. Right Now. In her endeavors to branch out and date someone different from who she is usually attracted to, she meets Jared, who we later learn isn’t an Ivy League lawyer or attorney but a salesman at the local Enterprise Rent-a-Car. After another love interest goes sour for Molly, she decides to reconvene with Jared, only to find out that they both have more in common than what she expects.

In Sunday’s episode, Molly invites Jared over for a night of dinner and kinship during which both of them get onto the topic of things they have done in their pasts. Molly begins sharing parts of her college experience, specifically sharing that during her college years, she had a fling with another woman. Throughout this conversation, Molly continues to pressure Jared into sharing a secret with her that will surprise her.

Surprise her is exactly what he does.

Jared states that while out with one of his really good friends a few years back, he opted to go back to his place and let said friend provide him with some lip service. This information wasn’t a shock to Molly until Jared confessed that the said person he connected with was male.

It was evident that this information did not go over well with Molly. We find out that the idea of Jared having intercourse with another male is something that makes her very insecure and ultimately leads her to break things off with her love interest. Later on in the episode, a few of Molly’s friends challenge her by asking why it seems that Jared should be OK with the fact that she has had relations with another woman, yet it is not OK for him to have had relations with another man.

This episode offered a very salient question for me as the viewer: Why does it seem that black men are never able to explore their sexuality without fear of rejection or embarrassment within our cuLure.

Remember, it is not the size of the mast, but the wind in your sails!

I think he should be celebrated with his very own thread!

Gotta find someone like him

Seems Billy might be an even bigger creep than many thought.

I give them out but can't receive them, curse of an iPad.

What I'd like to know is, when you receive them, do you know which of your posts is being applauded?

What does the notification look like, what does it say?

No one ever talks about them but somebody must be fucking them. What are they like in bed? How are they hung? Cut or uncut? Discuss.

He was great in Westworld and the Sundance series Hap and Leonard. He's cute in a nerdy kind of way. What do we know about him?

I have sufficient!

Legal or not cougars get less slack for going after younger guys even when it is not legal. However when men dating younger girls (or if they're gay guys) it's disgusting nasty and disgraceful. America especially has a problem when it's an older guy with a younger dude. Someone got answers?

Out in Malibu.

Steve Grand just done advertising his wares in San Francisco.

He will be playing in P-town all summer. Any t̶o̶p̶s̶ fans out there who can quench his poor thirst?

If you can't pass a drug test

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio — Just a few miles from where President Trump will address his blue-collar base here Tuesday night, exactly the kind of middle-class factory jobs he has vowed to bring back from overseas are going begging.

It’s not that local workers lack the skills for these positions, many of which do not even require a high school diploma but pay $15 to $25 an hour and offer full benefits. Rather, the problem is that too many applicants — nearly half, in some cases — fail a drug test.

On to number 11....

DAYM the ugly

And who has them? This seems to be a DL-unique concept like "adjacent".

What do you bitches think? The right move or annoying as fuck?

Poor subway is a victim of its own success, more people are using it that it was built to handle.

Francois Truffaut:

[quote]Isn't there a certain incompatibility between the terms 'cinema' and 'Britain'? This might sound far-fetched, but I get the feeling that there are national characteristics — among them, the English countryside, the subdued way of life, the stolid routine - that are anti-dramatic in a sense. The weather itself is anti-cinematic. Even British humor - that very understatement on which so many of the good crime comedies are hinged — is somehow a deterrent to strong emotion

He STILL has a hot, tight little body!

My new favourite GayHoopla model, surpassing Sean Costin.

The essence of hot bro

Just look at him. You know he is completely soulless.

Are the burgers uniformly bad &/or mediocre - or are some of them very good?

An invasive species the city's leadership can't get enough of.

In the early 2000s, after 20 years of popularity, an iconic T-shirt vanished from the streets. "Welcome to New York," it read. "Now go home." Its disappearance mirrored the disappearance of a caustic attitude. In Bloomberg's city it was no longer kosher to complain about tourists. We were told we needed them after 9/11. With the Americanization of New York after the attacks, with Ground Zero turned into a morbid attraction, and with the mayor hyperfocused on increasing tourism, out-of-towners made themselves very comfortable. They began pouring in, slowing down the trains and clogging the sidewalks. Fran Lebowitz had earlier complained, "What a nightmare! No one who isn't from New York knows how to be a pedestrian. Pedestrians don't mosey. And they don't walk five abreast. I'd like to make New York unsafe for tourists." But it was too late. During the 2000s, the impact of mass tourism—bringing touristification and "tourism gentrification"—would do its part to change the psyche of the city's streets.

What's the physical flaw in celebrities that makes them lacking in sexual attractiveness to you?

Time for a new thread. Here's the link to the old one.

Honestly, I couldn't either if I were her. And please stop with the new age pablum nonsense about how forgiveness is for you and not the other person. Hold onto that grudge dammit!

There’s a typical story that plays out in the aftermath of police shootings. One side, critical of police, comes out pointing to the excesses of police brutality, particularly in cases in which officers killed black men and boys. The other side, supportive of police, comes out pointing to the nuances of the cases and perhaps the ways that the victims are to blame for their deaths — he had a criminal record, he didn’t listen to the police, and so on.

This didn’t really happen after Justine Damond, a white woman, was shot and killed by a black police officer, Mohamed Noor. While many people — including some Black Lives Matter activists — criticized the shooting, very few defended Noor in the same way they have stood up for police officers in previous incidents. Not many articles focused on nitpicking the lack of information we have to try to weaken the case against the police. There’s been little to no victim blaming.

Consider the ultra-conservative news outlet Breitbart. The outlet has been unusually muted about this particular police shooting, running few original articles on Damond. One of the articles it has run, however, paint her as a victim who was just trying to get help: “Woman Calls 911, Shot Dead by Minneapolis Officer.”

In contrast, Breitbart ran many original stories about the police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, in which it painted Brown, his family, and even his supporters as criminals. After reports said prosecutors would drop charges against the officers allegedly involved in Freddie Gray’s death in police custody in Baltimore, Breitbart ran the headline, “Report: Prosecutors Drop All Charges in Heroin Trafficker Freddie Gray Case” — again, describing the victim as a criminal. After Cleveland officers shot and killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice, Breitbart ran headlines suggesting that Rice was large and dangerous: “The Latest: 12-year-old Tamir Rice was 5’7″, weighed 175 lbs” and “Cleveland Officers Claim Tamir Rice Lifted Shirt, Reached into Waistband.”

The difference in reaction is alarming. But it’s not unexpected. The research suggests much of America really does react differently to tragedies involving white victims than black ones. We are seeing that play out in real time in the response to Damond’s death.

The reaction to Justine Damond’s death was different

Here's a link to the first thread

Surely I'm not the only gay man who collected the in-store playlists for Gap stores while he worked there? I worked for Gap from 1992 to 2006, and each month, a new CD (or cassette pre-1998) would arrive to play in the stores for the designated month. Along with it came a playlist with all of the songs and artists listed in order (each CD or tape was a full four hours),

I loved the music and I would keep the paper playlists for each month that I worked there, using them to build my music collection. So many different styles throughout the years, with a great selection of Nineties music, both well-known and obscure.

In February 2006, I lost the box that I kept the playlists in. I later found a cache of duplicates that I had stored away, and with that, I began the work of reconstructing each month for the years I worked for Gap. I had already been buying music since 1992 and putting the songs into folders but I had not gotten around to making full-on playlists for every month.

I'm looking for scans or photos of any Gap in-store playlists from 1992 to March 2006. I buy my songs from iTunes, and, if they are not available there, I buy used CDs; NO illegal downloading at all. Nor is there advertising on my site, so this is not "advertising" or trying to get clicks. I'm just trying to make my playlist collection complete.

The site shows how to contact me if ANYONE is able to help me out.

1992 was really great with all kinds of House music, endless Annie Lennox, and the beginning of the resurgence of Disco!

Such an American hero. And hungry, obviously, to take your healthcare away.

I smell an ulterior motive. And something zombilicious.

I can't tell if the people were cheering or booing when he said this. Who do you think he would replace on Mount Rushmore? Lincoln, Kennedy, Jackson, Washington?

Paige Davis with it, or GTFO.

In a Wednesday essay titled "Was That Racist," reporter Greg Howard singled out white women for forcing him "off the sidewalk completely" when walking toward him, not allowing a straight path.

"In seven years of living and walking here, I’ve found that most people walk courteously — but that white women, at least when I’m in their path, do not," Howard writes.

For shock value alone, for me it has to be the death of Diana Muldauer on LA Law.

Continuing the discussion of the gorgeous actor and bondage-crazed fetishist.

The famous line is "Looks fade so you better enjoy it" can someone Jennifer Lopez Charlize Theron Rob Lowe and Jennifer Aniston then?

To be honest, I never paid much attention to him on Smallville. But wow, a little silver in his hair = woof!

He looks fantastic.

Will be interesting to see him on Lucifer.

Justin Bieber has performed more than 150 shows in 40 countries across six continents and 16 months on his “Purpose” world tour. But the final 14 scheduled dates were just too much.

On Monday, he canceled his remaining concerts for this year, which were spread across four months and included shows in East Rutherford, N.J., Hong Kong and Singapore, citing only “unforeseen circumstances.”

“Justin loves his fans and hates to disappoint them,” a statement sent by a publicist said. “However, after careful consideration he has decided he will not be performing any further dates. Tickets will be refunded at point of purchase.” (Last week, Mr. Bieber had been barred from performing in mainland China because of past “bad behavior.”)

Fan reaction to the news was swift and plentiful online, split along the lines of disappointment and understanding. On Instagram, where Mr. Bieber was most recently shirtless on a hike and at 7-Eleven, commenters flooded his page with purple heart emojis and messages like, “We respect your decisions.”

Well, what did you think?

Simone Biles?

Serena Williams?

“Of course I’d do it,” Cantone said. “It would be a very big deal for me and a lot of fun. I know this guy. I have cousins.”

If Cantone is actually considered, he’ll have to fend off another fan favorite in the form of Rob Lowe. On “The View” on Monday, the actor joked with Whoopi Goldberg about the blogosphere also pointing to him for the part. “I stand ready to serve my country,” Lowe said.

What will 2017 hold for their solo careers?

Niall, Zayn and Harry have new music out, with songs dropping soon from Liam & Louis.

His account is chilling. Aside from the low pay, male models are prayed upon sexually at every turn. I would think most of the top models have been exploited this way. When you think about it, it really is like dealing with the mafia. It's so sad what he went through.

New music out soon from Liam & Charlie Puth and one of these days, from Zayn. Niall, Liam and Louis all have songs out and Harry is in a Nolan film. Discuss it all here...

What do we know about this Scottish Disney twink?

Lets say for an example an attractive person is insanely rude to an ugly person who just asked him/her out... they dont know what it's like to be unattractive and having a tough time building up to courage even ask someone out so of course they can't relate and would act rudely. Same with rich people who don't understand how certain people are in poverty (they've never been born so they can't relate to that).

Returns May 30 on TNT.

I really hope that Deran and Adrian get back together. Hottest gay tv couple ever!

He was such a stud.

Has anyone ever met Elvira herself?

While playing around with WhatsApp, I stumbled across a weird chat history between two people I don't know. It scared the hell out of me. When I tried to find it again, the app crashed, and kept crashing.

Luckily, I managed to make a copy. Here it is:

And she's younger and of the fairer sex too. Shame.

Granted the internet made it a lot easier to find other gay people. But it was definitely a different world when everyone wasn't staring into their cell phone and on the internet all the time. Does anyone else miss those days of walking into a bar or club and no one was looking at a phone? Or leaving answering machine messages telling your friends where to meet you?

I loved her as Jolene Hunnicutt on Alice!!!!

Well did they?

Has-been

Dude on left is hot

In which we continue to discuss Emmy-winner Chandler Massey, his "implants", college education and Mandarin skills and, of course, his return to DOOL!

From the old days, Chan and Moob/FCF/Mexican Guy:

Move over Kirk Cameron and Stephen Baldwin. Justin Bieber is now gonna be a preacher! Are YOU a belieber?

I'm gonna rest my case here. I am an Iraqi 18-year old guy. I look like anything and anybody but a twink. I have hair everywhere on my body (My ass is a jungle; don't even ask). I'm closeted and lonely as fuck and a virgin bottom. Whenever I open DL and search for Iraq-related topics, I find nothing but crude, rude, bitchy and cunty remarks from most of the queens. Tell me why is that happening? You make me seem like a backward, retarded and totally filthy being. This is my favourite gay gossip board and it just makes me sad to see all of this hatred in here.

Due, in part, to the Trigglypuff SJWs. The Winooski VT gay bar is closed.

Continue the discussion of this apparent Christian closet case with a pretty face and nice ass. Discuss his "people's" attempts to suppress the DudeTube pics and videos. Go on then!

Is anyone watching?

How badly does it suck?

[post redacted because independent.co.uk thinks that links to their ridiculous rag are a bad thing. Somebody might want to tell them how the internet works. Or not. We don't really care. They do suck though. Our advice is that you should not click on the link and whatever you do, don't read their truly terrible articles.]

Some reshoots were planned for this summer.

As you know Sean Spicer resigned. Scaramucci, Trumps new communications director...is off. I grew up around mentally ill people and this guy looks "off". Also strikes me as runt sized bottom feeder. But the real reason I posted this is because I found this interesting article from a few years back in which he calls himself "a real shit stirrer"....it's a great look into his psychology. I rolled my eyes at "Maroon5".

That's Men's Fitness cover was not a Photoshop

Charlie was such a great DL contributor, who was always hounded by trolls, jealous of his life experience. Is he still around? Who else created memorable posts?

Continue here

Who would it be? Who would get the biggest ovation at the Oscars of anyone living?

Jack Nicholson? Barbra Streisand? Clint Eastwood? Warren Beatty? Julie Andrews? Doris Day? Gene Hackman?

I would always get those two confused, What was I smokin'?

What was I thinking?

Did he really die in a car crash while he was blowing his 14-year old servant's dick (Murnau was 43, by the way)?

He was a genius but that sounds just icky. I guess pederasty was more common among wealthy gays in those days.

Anybody watched it? Did they completely straightwash the character? I don't think it officially starts for a day or so, but apparently some of the early eps are out there.

Did you ever know about the plans behind Walt's EPCOT? People wouldn't have voting rights, no one owns their land, everyone would be forced to work, unions would be banned, etc, etc. It was like a Nazi social project of his that he was still working on up until his death. You can check it out on Wikipedia too. He was a fucking lunatic.

Is it simply too soon?

What happened to all of the Hill supporters who insisted that President Obama needs to "step down" and let Clinton take over?

Almost everyone I know is excited about Bernie Sanders. All ages, and races.

Hillary's various supporters keep insisting that the "little girls love it and are excited."

Little girls can't vote, ya'll.

Now in Africa

Africa appears to be the next continent to feel the effects of the strain of Zika virus that's been circulating around the Americas.

On Friday, the World Health Organization said it had confirmed that the Zika virus strain that's been circulating on the African island nation of Cabo Verde is the same as the strain that has been linked to birth defects and neurological conditions in South and Central America.

"The findings are of concern because it is further proof that the outbreak is spreading beyond South America and is on the doorstep of Africa." Dr. Matshidiso Moeti, WHO's regional director for Africa said in a release. "This information will help African countries to re-evaluate their level of risk and adapt and increase their levels of preparedness.”

The Zika virus was originally identified in 1947 in Uganda. It was relatively unknown until 2007, when there was an outbreak of the virus in Micronesia. That Asian type is the one that made its way to Brazil in 2015.

The Zika virus, which is transmitted mainly via mosquitoes, has been identified in the US but only in people who've recently traveled to Zika hot spots. Once infected with Zika, only about 20% of people ever show symptoms, which most commonly include fever, rash, joint pain, and red eyes. There is no vaccine or treatment available for the virus.

One reason this strain of Zika is so troubling is because it is a cause of birth defects including microcephaly (a condition where the baby's head is abnormally small) in babies whose mothers have had Zika. The virus also been linked to a neurological condition called Guillain-Barré Syndrome. Cabo Verde has had locally transmitted Zika since October 2015, and the WHO reports there have been three cases of microcephaly but no cases of GBS.

Raves from THR and Variety.

I don't have a foot fetish, but I do find men in bare feet rather masculine and attractive.

You?

Give it your best shot!

Josh pings

The Texas Tribune reports:

As part of Republican efforts to revive the controversial “bathroom bill,” the Texas Senate on Tuesday gave initial approval to another version of the legislation.

The 21-10 vote — identical to the Senate’s March vote on a similar proposal — came after several amendments to the bill on the floor throughout an eight-hour debate during which Republicans once again espoused the need to pass the legislation for the sake of privacy in bathrooms while Democrats objected to its passage because of its discriminatory effect on an already vulnerable population.

Senate Bill 3 by Republican state Sen. Lois Kolkhorst would regulate bathroom use in schools and buildings overseen by local governments, including cities and counties, based on the sex listed on a person’s birth certificate or other IDs issued by the Texas Department of Public Safety.

The legislation would also nix parts of local nondiscrimination ordinances meant to allow transgender residents to use public bathrooms of their choice. Unlike the Senate’s proposal from the regular session, the bill would not regulate bathroom use in state buildings and public universities or impose civil penalties for entities that violate the bathroom restrictions.

GLAAD reacts:

“By approving SB 3, the Texas Senate has displayed outright negligence for the safety and will of their own constituents,” said Sarah Kate Ellis, President and CEO of GLAAD. “This law is designed to make it nearly impossible for transgender and gender non-conforming people to go about their daily lives like other Texans and opens the transgender students to discrimination, bullying, and violence. Encouraging discrimination against fellow Texans serves no one, and with Texas’ largest employers opposed to SB 3, it is sure to cause a devastating economic panic.”

Texas House Speaker Joe Strauss, a Republican, has repeatedly voiced opposition to anti-transgender bills, once saying he doesn’t want “the suicide of a single Texan on his hands.” Strauss is under enormous pressure from evangelicals and other haters to allow the House version of the bill to come to the floor during this special session.

He s 26, she's 49. So this is another Hugh Jackman type thing?

It's time for you to put up... or, shut up! Many circuit parties will be here before you know it. Or, you want to get all of the boys on the beach! Post Hot images of men wearing speedos! Exercise routines! Whatever the hell ya want that is speedo related! Make this the HOTTEST thread ever! A LOT can be done in 12 weeks!

You've been following:

-Men In The Kitchen

-Hot Guys in Underwear thread

-Let's talk about Personal Trainers: What's Their Value To You?

-Pictures Of Hot Beefy Men

-HOT! HOT! HOT!!! Men In Exercise Wear!

-Hot Dudes Working Out

-And more!

Hot Man-on-Man Action

Why are they so much bigger than white ones?

A friend just gave me a year's subscription to Netflix for my birthday. I would welcome recommendations for shows and movies to watch. I started off by binging on Stranger Things. TIA, DL.

I can imagine him campy and bitchy in private (but still a top).

Are all these women just beards?

Robert Newton died at the age of 50 after years of heavy drinking. His last role was in Around the World in 80 Days in which he stared with his good friend David Niven who recommend him for the role of Inspector Fix.

who else kicked the bucket too early

I'm 57 and I need to have one, but I'm in the dark. Can someone with knowledge of what these things are and what they do help me out? There seem to be so many different kinds. How do you choose? TIA.

Asa is pregnant; MJ and Tommy are still a couple; Reza and Adam continue in wedded bliss; Mike's divorce is still in the works; and GiGi life is even more nuts. Unfortunately, it appears super hot Shervin is not returning this season.

According to Matt Bomer:

Yep. That happened,” Bomer laughs, only looking slightly sheepish as he explains how signing on for a season of American Horror Story that was supposed to be a Civil War piece starring Jessica Lange evolved into being on set in a hotel in L.A. “and the next thing you know you’re having a blood orgy with Lady Gaga.”

UK soap Hollyoaks premiered 20 years ago, growing into a television touchstone with a revolving cast and sometimes hysterically overwrought melodrama. One thing the show has not skimped on (especially over the last decade) is gay representation, with same-sex romance and hot button issues (gay domestic violence, homophobia) a large part of the landscape.

Or did he just use the gay community for attention and after he got what he wanted just dipped?

Let er' rip.

Preferably of hot and sweaty men...

I often feel like I'm filled with an directionless rage, that's just waiting for something to attract it's attention.

A NEVER-before-seen letter in which Madonna slams Whitney Houston and Sharon Stone is up for auction.

The Material Girl allegedly penned the letter to actor John Enos in the early 1990s and in it she describes both Houston and Stone as “horribly mediocre”.

Madonna starts the letter by explaining that she’s been in a “foul mood lately” and is “so uncomfortable in my own skin right now”.

The star then goes on to vent: “I have made so many people angry that I’m being punished and basically made to be quiet and sit in a corner, whole other less interesting and exciting people are reaping the benefits of the roads I’ve paved.

“It’s so unequivocally frustrating to read that Whitney Houston has the music career I wish I had and Sharon Stone has the film career I’ll never have. Not because I want to be these women because I’d rather die, but they’re so horribly mediocre and they’re always being held up as paragons of virtue and some sort of measuring stick to humiliate me.”

Madonna was obviously feeling underappreciated when she wrote the letter and complained, “Everything I do is so original and unique and I put so much of myself into it like my book and record and it’s only brought me heartache and pain”.

One can assume that she’s referring to her controversial 1992 Sex photo book and accompanying Erotica album, both sexually explicit works that saw Madonna face a wave of backlash.

“I don’t think I can play the game to be accepted,” she wrote, “I’m too intelligent, I have too much pride”.

Madonna, who won her first of her seven Grammy Awards in 1992, suggested to Enos that she was “born in the wrong place and time and probably the wrong sex!” And the legendary entertainer ended the letter on a rather dark note.

“I feel like I have no career, no family, nothing permanent or tangible,” Madonna wrote.

“My outlook on life is black black black that’s why I’m no good for you or anyone else right now. I have to regain my sense of power and my joy for living.”

This just popped up on my discover on instagram. People are still shipping and hoping Larry will happen? What is wrong with these fangirls they barely even talk anymore

Maybe the best he has looked so far?

I hate it when people say something is "bananas", or that someone is a "whack-a-doodle". Those people are likely frauen housewives and should be discouraged, or smothered. Just say the person is crazy as fuck or an insane nutjob!

I'm done!

You're such a fucking bitch!

Own it!

I'm a business woman.

Star Wars actor John Boyega is calling out fantasy favorites Game of Thrones and The Lord of the Rings for a lack of diversity.

“There are no black people on Game of Thrones. You don’t see one black person in Lord of the Rings,” Boyega said in a recent interview with GQ.

“I ain’t paying money to always see one type of person on-screen. Because you see different people from different backgrounds, different cultures, every day. Even if you’re a racist, you have to live with that. We can ruffle up some feathers.”

The legendary Marlon Estrada

When I was a young gayling, I suffered from acne, sometimes it was pretty bad. I used benzoyl peroxide but I never had clear skin until my 20s.

Teens these days all seem to have FLAWLESS skin, not a pimple in sight! What are they doing differently now?

I remember eating my dad's furry ass while camping once. He tasted so...toasty

Cmon spill a lil. I know it's anonymous here and it stays that way.

It's a murder mystery taking place in Scotland's Loch Ness area (famous for the legendary Loch Ness monster). Serial killer on the loose in a small village.

I'm five episodes in and totally hooked. I'd love to murder the female cop's daughter for being such a brat disobeying her mother and putting herself and her mother's career at risk in almost every episode.

Every morning when I wake up I have this eerie feeling someone really important or really famous has died. Like The Queen or Pope Francis or Jimmy Carter. I think we should revisit our 2017 predictions to see who's on the list....

Good dog.

And it's attracting the wrong kind of attention.

Any advice?

Or did you think it would be just sweeping conservative victories, one after another, making our lives hell?

I just can't escape it.

I had a horrible dream that my niece was being strangled. She was 8 at the time. The next day her mother told us that the day before, when my niece was walking home from school, a disturbed boy put her in a choke hold. He thought he was "wrestling" like he'd seen on TV. The baby sitter who was waiting to meet her had to run out and pull the boy off. Freaked me the hell out.

sorry to post another photo link from Mia's Instagram so soon after the other one -

But I saw this photo she took this week, so close to her house and, as a Brit, it made me wonder what the hell I'd do if I saw this. In fact I had no idea they had bears in places like CT.

Do you hide inside? Grab all your pets and lock them indoors? How do you know when it's safe to go out again? Do they attack?

Looks like she's thrown some food out for them. That can't be wise.

Canceah schmanceah!

coming I'd have baked a cake

I feel like the character in the movie "Shame" in that I can't seem to stop with compulsive sex. I'm really getting to the point that I hate myself. I do the video peep shows, the apps, the secluded woods- you name it. Last night I was drunk and an anonymous hookup (who was high) peed in my mouth without even warning me. I had dry heaves for hours later, from both that and my alcohol intake. My life has really spiraled out of control, and I don't even use drugs yet it feels like I'm an addict. I hate the person I've become. I know suicide is a stupid non-solution but I swear sometimes it seems like the best option for someone who has no self control and makes poor choices over and over again. Medication doesn't help me. I feel like I'm doomed.

Lee Pace

Jonathan Bennett

Thomas Dekker

Barrett Foa

Who else?

Here's some fun EDM from an LA band, "Classixx."

The two guys at the beginning of the video are the artistic wizards behind this song. I caught them at Coachella 2017. Three bands were selected for the highly coveted spots to close down the festival, each on their respective main stages (Stage 1, Stage 2, Stage 3), "Gaga," "New Order," and "Classixx."

I would love tasting her pussy juices. Mmmmmm

Are you being rude if you dont date someone with a wonderful personality because he has a not so nice face? And I'm talking about snubbing in him. I just simply mean turning him down hes ugly but being nice about it.

The season is actually not really over yet as there is the World Team Trophy at the end of the month but the other thread reached 600 comments

So the most important questions left for the upcoming months:

- how many La La Land programs will we get to see next season?

- how many underwear shots will Guillaume instagram during the summer?

- how many gifts from his suger daddies will Deniss get for his 18th birthday this August?

- for the nostalgics, how good figure skating used to be compared now?

I've been reading some pretty heavy stuff lately and need a few laughs. What are some of your favorite funny books? I'm open to both fiction and non-fiction. The last really funny book I can remember reading was The Confederacy of Dunces.

I'm the pile of paper towels by the door. I get added to by the people who wisely refuse to touch the door handle with their clean hands. Management hasn't figured out to put a basket by the door, so I'm growing and growing!

Vagina feels better than an asshole

Dear lord, is anyone watching this on TLC?

The worst has to be the 58 year old closet case from Maryland with the 19 year old fiancee from the Philippines, who looks like a transexual. And they got married!

I can't believe that there are so many American suckers, falling for these foreigners who are just looking to become citizens.

The gay Mormon boy from Idaho, marrying the Russian girl from Prague? The Jamaican guy who wants to send all of his income to his family back home, while his gf in Pennsylvania pays all the bills?

Forget the fucking wall. Close the K-1 Visa!

I do have to admit, though. Alexei from Israel is super hot!

I love his cantankerous ass.

I have posted about The FED before, but it's so important that I want to again. Of course you really should watch the whole film. There is also a book written by Bill Benson called The Law That Never Was. Benson researched the 16th Amendment and found that was never even passed. These evil frauds have been operating around the world for ages and are responsible for assassinations for those who oppose them, and wars.

Searched and couldn't find any current thread available, so starting this one for us literate types.

Listening to the audio of POND by Claire-Louise Bennett. Talk about a love-hate relationship with a book for me! Much of the time each sentence quasi-repeats the one before as a style, which can grow VERY annoying. However, the idea if a self-absorbed woman with no real life is proving a fascinating premise, and a fine criterion for Datalounge membership as well!

This version is an even bigger clusterfuck than the last!

I love Danielle's sassy big blonde friend. She's a hoot.

Could Mohamed possibly be straight?

I think that there's more sexual chemistry between Russ and Paola's gay best friend, than between Russ and Paola. I think that's where all the tension is coming from.

Anfisa is a fucking maniac. Jorge is an even bigger idiot than previously thought.

As someone who's spent nearly 20 years in Tennessee, I'd rather pay higher taxes and enjoy a good standard of living than live with cretins who think the Earth is 6000 years old.

Much like the dystopian series “The Man in the High Castle” on Amazon, and the popular video game “Wolfenstein: The New Order,” HBO’s Confederate offers a look at the world in which the Confederacy, and not the Union, won the Civil War and managed to secede.

Writing for the Univision-owned publication, The Root, Yesha Callahan asks: “Who asked for this?” It’s apparently high crime for writers like Benioff and Weiss to imagine an alternate history of the world.

Callahan calls the show a “white nationalist’s wet dream,” as if the show’s creators would callously and stupidly promote racism to offend their whole audience.

In the world of Confederate, America has faced not one, but three civil wars. Slavery remains legal, and persists through to the modern age in some parts of the Confederacy.

As the blogger herself points out, Benioff and Weiss aren’t alone in creating it. Malcolm Spellman and Nichelle Tramble Spellman, both of whom are black, have signed onto the project. Furthermore, the show will revolve around a diverse cast of characters, including abolitionists and freedom fighters.

Callahan isn’t the only one upset by the show’s existence. On social media, numerous social justice warriors took to complaining about it and the possibility that some people might don confederate regalia and merch for ironic purposes.

Samuel Sinyangwe ✔ @samswey

How is @HBO showing an "alternate timeline" when the current prison system requires thousands of black people to work with no pay?

Zora Neale Hustlin' @MarsinCharge

The fandom for the new #HBO show #Confederate is gonna be Tragic. Can you imagine how much harmful imagery they're gonna produce? pic.twitter.com/P9xbxfQQtv

Zora Neale Hustlin' @MarsinCharge

#HBO's #Confederate is about to have people 'ironically' wearing confederate flags for fandom purposes. It's gonna be like 'hail Hydra'.

peat ape @kamilumin

Like even if Confederate is critical of current day racism, do we need another series about the suffering of POC, written by white men?

----------------------

It will be a phenomenon.

Sriracha is currently winning. WTF, I hate sriracha. I already know what that would taste like. They're just going to sprinkle some cheap red chili powder on it. Big whoop. Please vote for something else.

[insert reason here]

What do you do for a living? Do you ever come into contact with celebrities? How much does the entertainment industry affect your day to day life?

What is wrong with so many gays? Why are they so hooked on masculinity in a guy? We shouldn't worship masculinity. Instead, we should be accepting and appreciative of all men, whether masculine or feminine.

I've had it with my cunt of a boss.

She's coming after me with a vengeance, and there's no way I'm going to give it to her. I'm going to walk right off the job with no notice, and tell her what a fucking cunt she is, as I walk out the door.

Only question is, what do I do next?

(WASHINGTON) — Congressional Democrats announced Saturday that a bipartisan group of House and Senate negotiators have reached an agreement on a sweeping Russia sanctions package to punish Moscow for meddling in the presidential election and its military aggression in Ukraine and Syria. Rep. Steny Hoyer of Maryland, the No. 2 House Democrat, said lawmakers had settled lingering issues with the bill, which also includes stiff economic penalties against Iran and North Korea. The sanctions targeting Russia, however, have drawn the most attention due to President Donald Trump's persistent push for warmer relations with President Vladimir Putin and ongoing investigations into Russia's interference in the 2016 campaign. Passage of the bill, which could occur before Congress breaks for the August recess, puts Congress on possible collision course with Trump. The White House had objected to a key section of the bill that would mandate a congressional review if Trump attempted to ease or end the sanctions against Moscow. But if Trump were to veto the bill, he risks sparking an outcry from Republicans and Democrats and having his decision overturned. The sanctions review was included in the bill because of wariness among lawmakers from both parties over Trump's affinity for Putin. The precise mechanics of how involved House Democrats would be in the review process had been a key sticking point, but Hoyer said he was pleased with the outcome. "The legislation ensures that both the majority and minority are able to exercise our oversight role over the administration's implementation of sanctions," Hoyer said. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer called the sanctions legislation "strong" and he expected the legislation to be passed promptly. "Given the many transgressions of Russia, and President Trump's seeming inability to deal with them, a strong sanctions bill such as the one Democrats and Republicans have just agreed to is essential," said Schumer, D-N.Y. . . .

The first 4 minutes are great.

Two leads are freakin' HOT.

Anyone else watch? (currently watching on DVR)

Good taste.

We've had numerous threads on skincare over the years, I've read them all and used their info (thank you!!). Yes I know I order Retin-A from India and use MUAC. Are you one of the unlucky mother fuckers who BATTLES their skin constantly? WTF and FML!! It's such a bitch. I try to live simply and frugally, I only want to look healthy, and it's like a full-time job. Here are my issues:

Daily sebum in nose pores Flakey skin on nostril sides Keratosis Pilaris on outside of thighs Dandruff -- thick, almost gummy, literally sticks to head, have to scrape it off with sharp comb - if I didn't have flakes by my face I would just leave it but the only place it flakes bad is around the face Moles and freckles A few moles that have HAIR growing from them Getting age/sun spots on face Getting broken capillaries on face Body skin does NO natural exfoliating, I have to SCRUB Body skin perpetually Sahara level dry, heels look like rhino skin if not treated Incredibly wrinkly feet with toe callouses that need weekly shaving as they're visible Sunspots increasing all over body now Cuticles have to be nipped or they're uncomfortably thick Cold sore/herpes virus in/on nose Eyebrows are changing with age, not as full I have curly hair including eyelashes a bit. Eye lids dropping (as I age) onto lashes distorting their growth pattern

This is all true. I'm 44, Polish/Bohemian, dark hair/fair skinned. I do TONS of things I'm not going to list right here, but I do it all, from special Naoxcin shampoo to plucking to lasers to pore extraction to retin-a to drinking tons of water to peels to oil washes to an AMAZING dermatologist. I am guilty of no sun block because my eyes react really terribly to it, but that's my only no-no. How in the fuck am I to maintain this forever? Is this NORMAL??

Inspite of all of this, I actually get regular compliments on my skin, which is great and helps with the frustration a bit. But it's such WORK. And I'm not so vain that I actually give a shit this much, I just want to look healthy but it's all or nothing with my fucking skin!

Any of you mother fuckers cursed like this???? Any of you feel like a slave to maintaining your skin? WTF WTF WTF!!!!

What explains it? Genetics, surgery, hormones, childhood injuries? Did (does) he want a body like that? Do others want a body like his?

How do they reconcile and justify supporting gays, and remain hidden? I know the deeply closeted ones are less likely to even mention gays.

The olive-skinned one; saccharine-sweet, Southern paparazzi caller Jennifer Garner; manly Snookus, sexual harasser white brother Casey; feminine BFF Matt Damon and his rabbit-faced Latina wife.

Continue your foolishness here.

Asian, of course. Although, how much of this is photoshop I'll leave others to guess. That body, though. Damn.

I say they're drug pushers for the FDA and tend to have serious issues of their own.

Anyone use this, as either host(ess) or guest? How does it compare to airbnb?

Discuss.

Post them and discuss. This one makes me laugh:

Their nom-deplumes are now Colin Hart and Alexis Monroe.

40, never married...

(CNN)President Donald Trump's nominee to head up the criminal division at the Justice Department has disclosed to members of the Senate judiciary committee that he previously represented a Russian bank whose computer server activity has been under scrutiny by FBI counterintelligence.

Brian Benczkowski served in the Justice Department under President George W. Bush and is currently a partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP. He told senators in a letter obtained by CNN that he specifically disclosed his law firm's representation of Alfa Bank in connection with completing his SF-86 security clearance form. Questions about the bank's activity first arose last year when a group of computer scientists raised concerns about internet records that showed that Alfa Bank servers repeatedly looked up the unique internet address of a Trump Organization computer server in the United States. The bank later hired a cybersecurity firm called Stroz Friedberg to investigate unusual computer server activity, and background materials submitted to senators by Viet Dinh, one of Benczkowski's partners at Kirkland, now show Benczkowski supervised that project. Dinh, also a former DOJ official, further defended the bank in a letter accompanying the submission to senators. "Neither the bank nor its owners have had any relationship of any kind with the Trump Organization at any time, including over the past year," Dinh said. "The bank pledged its full cooperation with government authorities, which continue to examine whether Alfa Bank has been the victim of illegal conduct." Authorities never alleged any wrongdoing on the bank's part and the bank denied any misconduct, but Benczkowski said he nevertheless obtained permission from his former client to discuss the fact and scope of his representation with senators at his confirmation hearing Tuesday. Benczkowski, who led the Trump-Pence transition team at the Justice Department, has a longstanding relationship with Attorney General Jeff Sessions. He worked as a staff director for Sessions back in 2009 when the then-Republican senator from Alabama served as ranking member of the Senate judiciary committee. As part of his standard submission to senators, Benczkowski also described his representation of Volkswagen, which was the target of a criminal investigation by the Justice Department under the Obama administration and eventually led earlier this year to a $2.8 billion criminal fine for conspiring to dodge emissions standards and obstruction of justice. Benczkowski noted that he litigated the Volkswagen case against Andrew Weissmann -- former chief of the Criminal Division's fraud section at DOJ -- who left the department to join special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe earlier this year. CNN's Marshall Cohen contributed to this report.

Don't let the door hit you on the ass, you FUCKING freak. JUST QUIT!

BTW, Tillerson is Putin BFF.

US state department has leaked so much about him- STUPID, BIZARRE and A FUCKING FREAK.

I was talking to my mom about all my problems and how things weren't going well for me (job, friends,etc.) she's a hardcore Catholic and gave me a small statue of the Virgin Mary to pray to.

Honestly didn't believe in that stuff but I was desperate so I said what the hell. I'm holding this statue in my hand praying and all of the sudden the faucet in my sink turns on full blast! Freaked me the fuck out.

Anyone else have any freaky religious or spiritual experiences?

No top five or top ten lists, but in your opinion the greatest song of the decade. I love lots of them but for me this is it.

Old yellow skin returns.

Why can't more women be like her?

I'm the rancid microwave popcorn, wafting out of the kitchen and spreading my 'buttery' misery each day down the hall to AP and even making it as far as Marketing.

From Angelina: An Unauthorized Biography :

"Teased because she was so skinny as well as for her punk getups—at that time common teenage attire in London or New York but not in sunny Beverly Hills—she hung out with a small clique of like-minded outsiders in Roxbury Park or at Westwood Arcade, which was a short bus ride away. In those days Westwood Arcade was the place where kids went to experiment with drugs (magic mushrooms were popular) “Angie was a rebel ahead of her time,” recalls a classmate. “If someone was going to get into trouble, it would be her.”

Budding artist Windsor Lai, socially excluded and bullied because of his hearing disability, remembers seeing Angie and her gang in Westwood Arcade, where he smoked his first cigarette, a Marlboro, thanks to her. “As a person she was very quiet and just blended in,” he recalls, “but then she did all kinds of mad things. Sometimes she would act spaced-out like a drug addict or seem wasted. Then she would grab you unexpectedly and start silly dancing like a mad waltz.”

Her circle included Evelyn Ungvari, whose sister Natalie later became inadvertently embroiled in the White House scandal involving her friend and fellow Beverly Hills High alumna Monica Lewinsky; Elan Atias, who became a reggae singer; child actor Keith Coogan; and Chris Landon, son of Little House on the Prairie star Michael Landon. During this time Landon and Angie were “inseparable,” united by the fact that both were cursed with famous fathers, and both felt they were misunderstood outsiders.

She affected a brittle, intimidating presence, chilly and unapproachable, with the edgy “don’t mess with me” attitude of the outcast. Doodles on her school notebook give an insight into her adolescent mind-set. There are drawings of the devil and of swords, knives, and other weapons, and phrases like “Death: extinction of life, hell, suicide, mental suffering,” and “Autopsy: examination of a corpse.”

As macabre as her musings seem, there was a practical and personal purpose behind them. She had an ambition to be a funeral director, and even sent away for the Funeral Service Institute handbook, which she still has, and completed the multiple-choice test.

Such a pretty face

Thread 15 was filled up in less than One Month! Come celebrate this Wildly Popular Couple and post your LUV here!

Does anyone have a recommendation for a good VPN? I want to watch the "Inside..." documentaries on Channel 5. Hola doesn't work in this instance.

And has anyone seen these shows and are they worth watching?

Does her pussy stink?

Bitchy fucking queens!! who HATE everything. They love to condescend and mock. FUCK THEM IN THE ASS!!!

If so what are your thoughts? I haven't watched it but may do so tonight despite not liking JLo at all.

Wow.

Louis has a little earworm of a single out called Back to You with Bebe Rexha, but he looks like a chavtastic 40 year old homeless man in the video.

Liam is looking smokin' but he still thinks he's a rapper.

Niall is doing well, just got certified double platinum in Australia for Slow Hands.

Harry is being lauded for his role in Dunkirk and has been nominated for two VMA awards.

Zayn remains stymied by anxiety but should be releasing an album this year.

Is anyone still watching this?

SOC has a lot to answer for by inflicting Alex and Mads on us for months on end. But at least Max is back along with his lovely little tush.

Also, Manafort took notes during the meeting last year with Veselnitskaya and has promised to provide them to investigators.

I don't get it.

Enjoy.

Kittens, this town is about to be turned on its ear. The whole place is up for grabs. So many changes coming down the pike, and the cast is being gutted like a fish to make room for the return of a character and a storyline nobody even likes.

I say there's only one thing that will save this show now:

NEEDS MORE DRAGONS!!!

What?

ST LOUIS – A black off-duty St. Louis police officer was shot by a white on-duty police officer from the same department who apparently mistook him for a fleeing suspect, according to a statement from the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department.

At about 10 p.m. Wednesday evening, St. Louis police received a report that a stolen vehicle had been spotted. Officers laid down spike strips and turned on their lights, but the occupants of the vehicle allegedly opened fire on police. Officers followed the car until it crashed.

According to the police statement, the armed suspects then fled on foot. Meanwhile, an off-duty officer who lived near where the crash occurred came outside with his department issued firearm after hearing the commotion.

Two officers "challenged the off-duty officer and ordered him to the ground," the department said. The officer complied and once they recognized him the on-duty officers told him "to stand up and walk toward them."

At about the same time, another officer who had just arrived on the scene saw what was happening and"fearing for his safety and apparently not recognizing the off-duty officer, discharged a shot, striking the off-duty officer in the arm." The injured officer was taken to the hospital and has since been released. He is described as 38 year old with 11 years of service. The department says that the officer who allegedly shot him is 36 years old with over eight years of service.

Seven officers have been placed on administrative leave while the shooting is investigated.

In addition to therapy and quitting drinking, it turns out Frank Ocean is helping Brad Pitt move past his recent personal troubles.

In a stunning catharsis interview with GQ Style, Pitt revealed that elusive singer Ocean had become quite important to him. “He’s painfully honest. He’s very, very special. I can’t find a bad one,” the “Allied” actor concluded of Ocean’s music.

Pitt’s fandom comes from a larger and recent understanding of R&B music, the 53-year-old star of the upcoming drama, “War Machine,” explained.

“I just got R&B for the first time. R&B comes from great pain, but it’s a celebration. To me, it’s embracing what’s left,” Pitt said.

It’s been a tumultuous ride for the actor and co-founder of reigning Best Picture winner (Plan B Entertainment’s “Moonlight”), as last September, Pitt’s superstar wife Angelina Jolie shocked the world by filing for divorce.

The subsequent fallout saw Pitt investigated by the FBI and Child Services stemming from an alleged conflict with his eldest son Maddox on a private flight from France to Los Angeles. The chaos was purely in contrast to the loving, charitable and stable Jolie-Pitt family brand.

Also Read: Brad Pitt Goes to Battle in Trailer for Netflix's 'War Machine'

In the same GQ cover story, Pitt elaborated on his drinking problems and the dark, “solemn” period of time without his family (final custody arrangements for he and Jolie’s seven children is still being hashed out, he said).

“You’ve played characters in pain. What is pain, emotional and physical?” GQ’s Paterniti asked for the spread, accompanied by a brilliant Ryan McGinley photoshoot at three of America’s national parks.

“Yeah, I’m kind of done playing those. I think it was more pain tourism. It was still an avoidance in some way. I’ve never heard anyone laugh bigger than an African mother who’s lost nine family members. What is that?” Pitt wondered.

“To me, it’s embracing what’s left. It’s that African woman being able to laugh much more boisterously than I’ve ever been able to,” he said.

Is this gay porn star Kris Evans?

Just telling this because Datalounge is the only place I can think of that will understand the weirdness...

Yesterday morning, I checked Twitter before heading to work and saw I had a notice of a new follower: Joyce Bulifant.

At first I honestly thought, "Someone on Datalounge is fucking with me. Who's next? Constance McCashin? Deborah Raffin?"

Turns out, Joyce is selling a book, so she probably paid some company to blast her out in the Twitter Universe. I did start following her anyways. A few tweets about the book, but also some tweets about her home remodel and whatnot.

She has even liked a few things I have posted. I'm thinking about DM'ing her to ask a few questions about MTM and The Match Game.

Will repost if I get a response...

Who is your most famous Twitter friend?

Chase Ketron

Hot dudes showing off the muscles!

Goes off on a rant at the Apollo theater that Oprah, Tyler Perry and Lee Daniels can suck her dick if she had one. Bitch, when will you realize you did this to yourself?!

Let's continue linking pics here >>

To assume, just because someone is bisexual, that they’ll automatically be interested in anyone and everyone, including yourself, is not only narcissistic, but it’s harmful to the bisexual community. This kind of thinking hypersexualizes a sexual orientation by assuming that a person must be attracted to the entirety of whichever gender they’re attracted to. This is why you’ll hear dude-bros say, “I can’t hang out with that gay guy, he might make a move on me.” In short, attraction and infidelity are not the assumed uncontrollable urges for those with sexualities other than heterosexual. I experience attraction to both genders, but when I’m with a person, they’re the only one on my romantic radar. Another difficult aspect of the hypersexualization of bisexual people is the threesome effect. I make a point of avoiding the subject of my sexuality around other couples because the moment that I reveal that I’m bisexual, the next words I usually hear are, “Would you ever have a threesome with us?” Again, just because I experience attraction to both men and women does not mean that I want to have sex with both of them at once. At all. And, it does not mean that I want to have sex with either of them. To presume that because I’m bisexual that I automatically am attracted to you and your partner is ridiculous. I know this sounds like a no-brainer, but for some reason I’ve had to field this question way too many times. Luckily, my boyfriend and I have an amazingly trusting relationship, and he’s never been nervous about me hanging out with other people alone or that I’d be hard to keep around because of my sexuality. And to my fellow bisexuals out there, if your partner is suspicious of you simply because of your sexuality, they are not worth your time. Sexuality does not determine fidelity; fidelity is a choice.

Who is he?

Does this slightly chubby, scratchy voiced, short Jew do it for anyone else? I actually think he's really funny (even if the shows he's on frequently aren't). But, something about him... damn!

Born in the Netherlands, infamous femme fatale Mata Hari became involved in World War One by becoming a spy for France. But then it was discovered that the seductive vamp was a double agent and was a spy for Germany.

In 1917, at the heighth of the Great War, she was put in front of a French firing squad to which she seductively blew them a kiss before they shot her dead. No one claimed her body and it was used for experimentation purposes. Screen legend Greta Garbo starred in a movie about Mata Hari's life.

Black People, I Need Your Help!

It starts at 7:10 and sounds like Salt N Pepa/TLC or Erotica era Madonna but I could be wrong.

Because the first thread OP really meant well, but really screwed it up with the opening and introductory pics. Cake, Cake, Cake!

The old thread is full... starting a new thread with this:

A guy at work told me he was really into it. He'd play with his nipples at work and get really erroused and distracted.

You could always tell because he'd have little rub marks on his dress shirts he got transferred

When the highest ranking Democrat in Washington takes a public swipe at Hillary Clinton and undermines the “Russia won the election for Trump” narrative you’d think it would be pretty big news.

The Daily Beast thought so. So did the Washington Free Beacon. As did Slate. Here at Mediaite, we saw the obvious news as well:

[quote] “When you lose to somebody who has 40 percent popularity, you don’t blame other things — Comey, Russia — you blame yourself,” Schumer said. “So what did we do wrong? People didn’t know what we stood for, just that we were against Trump. And still believe that.”

However, the Washington Post didn’t appear to find this infighting between top Democrats as worthy of a headline or even the lede in their account of the Schumer slam. Even more astounding: Schumer gave the quote to WaPo directly in an exclusive interview.

Yup, the Daily Beast, Free Beacon, Slate and Mediaite stories (as well as many other outlets) all pulled the quote from the 6th paragraph of Ed O’Keefe and David Weigel article headlined:

[quote] Trump had ‘The Art of the Deal.’ Now Democrats say their economic agenda is ‘A Better Deal.’

It’s not uncommon for journalists to bury a lede, but two politically savvy journos like O’Keefe and Weigel have pretty good instincts on what’s going to cause a stir in the town they cover and when so many other outlets highlight this nugget while the thrust of their article is nothing more than a PR write-up on the Democrats’ new branding efforts, it’s worth asking what happened here.

Setting aside the notion that these two reporters didn’t recognize the hot quote they stumbled upon, it could be that the exclusive access to Schumer was granted under the agreement that the thrust of the article would highlight the “Better Deal” narrative the Democrats are rolling out this week. This kind of thing happens all the time in Washington. However, it’s fair to ponder whether these same reporters (or any other DC reporters for that matter) would honor such an agreement if Paul Ryan or Mitch McConnell had said an equally volatile statement about President Trump. What are the odds?

It could also be a blatant case of good-old-fashioned bias where these reporters are so taken by the stunning brilliance of the Democrats’ new slogan that they truly found it to be the most riveting issue they had to write about Sunday night and had no idea that catty aside from the senior Senator from Clinton’s “home state” would even matter to anyone when compared to the game-changing “A Better Deal” party slogan.

Frankly it doesn’t matter. This sort of thing adds to the perception from many Americans that any bit of news that can cast the president in a negative light would be the screaming banner headline at WaPo or the New York Times or any of the other 57 major newspapers that endorsed Clinton (compared to 2 for Trump.) And any item that even barely undermines the “Hillary would have won if it weren’t for Putin” narrative will be virtually ignored by papers like WaPo.

As major publications and media outlets continue to have their fragile egos bruised by President Trump’s insistence to fight back against their shoddy work, it’s probably best to not give him so much ammunition to prove his point. After all, it doesn’t take a career journalist to recognize that Schumer’s slam on Hillary was a major story. Even this guy figured it out:

Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump

After 1 year of investigation with Zero evidence being found, Chuck Schumer just stated that "Democrats should blame ourselves,not Russia."

Instagram Fitness Models, Part 2, is clogging up the system. Let's move to Instagram Fitness Models, Part 3. Here are Rogan O'Connor (L) and Joss Mooney (R).

Did everyone see Max on The Real O'Neals? He played "underwear model." I hope he becomes a regular.

I know he is straight, but will he do it? With his body and face he could, but what will his girlfriend say?

Just in case the Amanda topic gets out of hand...

By talents I mean that they are good or at least decent in their respective fields. Two come to mind for me: Maya Rudolph (comedienne) completely different from her singer mother and Elle King (singer/rocker) completely different from her comedian father.

If you could change places with someone else, you take over their body and life but it is still your mind, would you change places with them? Who would it be? Someone rich and young, someone powerful, someone really good looking.

I don't want a tough, urban and gritty. I want chocolate box English villages, tea rooms and bumbling vicars.

Where should I start?

Apparently there are Dlers who know all about this sort of thing.

Can you recommend?

My GOD, every single person behind him is a pinhead, a dim frau or a horror hag.

I'll let you guess whether I'm a troll or not

Jonessi

No carbs bro!

We have lots of delicious black cocks, now we have the best pingas on the planet too!

& who's Mr. Smiley - anyone know?

I'm looking at the man in the mirror....

Deangelo

Playful Einstein photograph goes up for auction

Signed and dated copy of the jovial 1951 image to go under the hammer on 27 July; previous copies have sold for almost $44,000

Nicola Davis, Tuesday 25 July 2017 18.40 BST

Wild haired with a bushy moustache and his tongue sticking out, the photograph revealing Albert Einstein as something of a prankster is one of the most recognisable images of the physicist. Now a signed and dated copy is about to be auctioned.

Snapped by United Press International photographer Arthur Sasse as Einstein departed in the back of car following his 72nd birthday celebrations in 1951, the image shot into the public consciousness after publishers overcame their initial qualms and printed the jovial image.

Even the Nobel laureate himself was amused at the photo, requesting cropped copies which he then signed and gave to friends.

But the current auctioneers note that the image that is set to go under the hammer on 27 July is unusual in also showing the companions who left the Princeton club with Einstein that night: Frank Aydelotte, director of the Institute of Advanced Study at Princeton, where Einstein worked, and Aydelotte’s wife, Marie Jeanette.

If previous sales are a guide, the latest lot could scoop a sizeable sum: copies signed by the physicist have recently sold for almost $44,000, with a signed, cropped version of the photo bearing a handwritten German rhyme selling for $125,000.

Einstein’s leather jacket sold for £110,000 last year, but a photograph may be a safer bet for Einstein aficionados: the jacket was dubbed “rather pungent” by the auctioneers.

Huffpost needs to be put out of its misery. This is just sad.

Not just thick dicks, but hot dudes with thick dicks.

Part 1

The bar later changed its name to the Bridge Club but never took off.

A message on its website and a Go Fund Me page say the business is closed.

They're awesome

I'm craving steak tips for dinner. Will someone come over and fix them for me?

Apparently his brain leaked out of his ass along with that last load of cum.

[quote]“I’m a little surprised he’s as aggressive on ‘the wall’ as he said he would be,” Keller told Mel Magazine, “but I’m not surprised people like Trump and corporate America are going to the lengths they are in a system that’s no longer defensible. They’ll stop at nothing.”

In my group it's me; nothing I do ever works out no matter how much I plan or prepare or try.

Forty-four years of trying and never succeeding really sucks.

Now performing under the name "Brandon Cody."

"'Comeback'? I hate that word! It's a return--a return to the millions of people who've never forgiven me for having deserted the screen!"

--Norma Desmond

After all she told all her Bernie supporters

"Don't Vote Out Of FEAR - Vote Green"

Let the horror continue!!!

I spent a couple of years in my later teens as a "street youth." Not pleasant.

I use Neutrogena

he going rate for ads on cable news shows seem to suggest liberal viewers are cheaper than conservative viewers.

…at least, that’s a likely take given the vast disparity.

While MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow has been topping Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson in viewers of late, brands are paying three times more for ads on Carlson’s prime time show than on Maddow’s, according to Standard Media Index.

Again, three times as much.

What's our verdict on him - hot or not?

"Once I was supposed to play the clarinet onstage and for some reason when I went to play it, no sound came out. I had a two minute solo, probably so I could cover costume changes or something. So I stood there and made "I'm playing a clarinet" gestures for about 80 years."

(I thought that was funny. I just read that his guy was married to Rebecca Hall. So you can make this thread about flubbed lines/onstage mishaps, which are always funny, or about him.) .

Find another way to make your puss sparkle, ladies.

What are some really strange gay rumors you've heard?

Michael J. Fox and Bruce Willis were caught getting it on in a limo at the Emmy Awards in the 80s

Winston Churchill got it on with Ivor Novello

Parents had a disordered baby with not much hope. Hospital suggests letting him die with dignity. They go on a PR blitz - crowdfunding, US fundie/deplorable pro-life crowd takes them on as way to showcase evils of socialised medicine, indignant courtroom outbursts, death threats to doctors and nurses. Yesterday, they finally realize they birthed a vegetable and gave up. But now, the same strident demands to remodel their house on the public dime so the little zygote can expire at home. Can't they just recycle for parts already and STFU?

Post hot twink photos here.

I've got to book a last minute work trip from CA to FL next week. My two choices are Delta or American. I haven't flown either airline in YEARS. For this particular route and time in economy seats, both are pretty much the same in terms of ticket costs, total flight duration (including layover) and both have aisle seats available (a personal preference).

So, should I go with American or Delta?

In the latest Berkeley controversy over what speakers may talk about, the progressive radio station KPFA has canceled an Aug. 9 on-stage appearance by the scientist Richard Dawkins.

KPFA had invited the British scientist to discuss his newest book, Science in the Soul: Collected Writings of a Passionate Rationalist, which it termed “excellent.” But on Thursday the news organization canceled the event, citing concerns about the tone of some of Dawkins’ tweets about Muslims.

“We had booked this event based entirely on his excellent new book on science when we didn’t know he had offended and hurt – in his tweets and other comments on Islam, so many people,” KPFA said in an email sent to ticket buyers. “KPFA does not endorse hurtful speech. While KPFA emphatically supports serious free speech, we do not support abusive speech. We apologize for not having had broader knowledge of Dawkins views much earlier.”

Dawkins challenged KPFA’s interpretation of his tweets through a press release issued by the Center for Public Inquiry. In 2017, his Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason & Science merged with the Center for Public Inquiry and Dawkins holds a board seat.

“The idea that I have engaged in abusive speech against Islam is preposterous, which even the most rudimentary fact-checking by KPFA would have made clear,” Dawkins is cited as saying in the press release. “I have indeed strongly condemned the misogyny, homophobia, and violence of Islamism, of which Muslims — particularly Muslim women — are the prime victims. I make no apologies for denouncing those oppressive cruelties, and I will continue to do so.”

Dawkins later wrote an open letter to KPFA and posted it on his website:

“I have called IslamISM “vile” but surely you, of all people, understand that Islamism is not the same as Islam,” Dawkins wrote. “I have criticised the ridiculous pseudoscientific claims made by Islamic apologists (“the sun sets in a marsh” etc), and the opposition of Islamic “ scholars” to evolution and other scientific truths. I have criticised the appalling misogyny and homophobia of Islam, I have criticised the murdering of apostates for no crime other than their disbelief. Far from attacking Muslims, I understand – as perhaps you do not – that Muslims themselves are the prime victims of the oppressive cruelties of Islamism, especially Muslim women.”

A perusal of Dawkins’ recent tweets shows that he comments often about Islam, but he also comments about other religions. Dawkins, an evolutionary biologist, is an atheist. In his 2006 book, The God Delusion (which he spoke about in Berkeley) Dawkins criticizes religious faith as a delusion and says a supernatural creator does not exist.

Dawkins has sent out tweets and made statements that are critical of extremist Muslims, the female genital mutilation practiced by some Muslim societies, and the requirement that women must wear burkas.

When Dawkins was a guest on Bill Maher’s HBO show, Dawkins said Islam was often given a “free pass” for some of its practices because liberals were afraid of not being politically correct.

Then he said: “Well, to hell with their culture,” the newspaper reported. “There’s this notion Islam and Muslims are this protected species.” That if we talk about them at all or criticise at all, it’s somehow hurting or humiliating Muslims. It’s a ridiculous idea.”

“KPFA, like so many, is guilty of confusing free speech with “abusive speech,” banning a talk, and thus depriving people of the chance to hear Richard – and probably ask him questions or even criticize him,” Coyne wrote. “Here’s the station’s inevitable “but”: While KPFA emphatically supports serious free speech, we do not support abusive speech. Give me a break! Criticism of ideas is not criticism of people, nor is it “abuse.” Shame on KPFA for not realizing this, and for their craven behavior in canceling the talk.”

Mine is this one

I'm moving from a city with great public transport to one with virtually none, so I'm in the market for a car for the first time in 4 years. I'm not a fancy gay, I don't need a luxury car, but I also don't want the basement level sub-compact. I'm playing in the premium economy / small sedan area. Don't worry, I'm going to be doing plenty of research and test drives. I'm not buying new -- aiming for a certified model that's 1 to 3 years old with low mileage.

Initially, at the start of this process, I'm leaning toward the Elantra, which I've rented before and thought it had a pretty smooth ride, was nicely appointed etc. And it has Hyundai's respected 10 year 100,000 mi warranty.

Anyway, do you (or have you) driven any of these cars? What did you like about it? What didn't you?

When I was six years old I broke my leg. I was running from my brother and his friends. And tasted the sweet perfume of the mountain grass I rolled down. I was younger then, take me back to when I found my heart and broke it here. Made friends and lost them through the years. And I've not seen the roaring fields in so long, I know I've grown. But I can't wait to go home.

My second earliest memory:

Fifteen years old and smoking hand-rolled cigarettes. Running from the law through the backfields and getting drunk with my friends. Had my first kiss on a Friday night, I don't reckon that I did it right. But I was younger then, take me back to when we found weekend jobs, when we got paid. We'd buy cheap spirits and drink them straight. Me and my friends have not thrown up in so long, oh how we've grown. But I can't wait to go home. I'm on my way driving at 90 down those country lanes, singing to "Tiny Dancer" and I miss the way you make me feel, and it's real. We watched the sunset over the castle on the hill.

In response to the NPR list of the 150 Best Albums Created by Wonen.

Hoar!

[quote]This late night talk show host is trying to work his magic by trying to stab one of his best friends in the back to get their plum job.

They're like little trolls with burn-victim faces.

Bono - Self-righteous, loud mouth, power hungry, scam artist, God complex, and lead singer in one of the most over-rated groups of all time.

They bully you into relationships especially if they have a small dick. Then cheat on you. I should've known I was warned that they are notorious cheaters.

Her new song Bomb Apple Teeth came in #15 on iTunes and has dropped to #22. Everyone hates it and her power lesbian buzzcut. Poor thing.

Unfortunately it was a Grindr hookup. Nothing romantic, I'm afraid. An older gentlemen. Very nice though. I insisted on a using a condom (like a good boy). I came out two years ago and had only done oral with men. I've never bottomed. Quite honestly, I was happy to get this next phase over and done with. However, it wasn't pleasant. He had the time of his life. After he was done, I looked down and the condom was halfway up my shaft. The head was still covered by it. Again, 50% of the condom was still still covering my penis -- okay, may 45%. My question, am I gonna die because of this? I'm not sure if it rode up during sex or once he got off of me. I didn't even cum when all was said and done unfortunately. I'm glad he enjoyed it though. Maybe he'll give me a letter of recommendation in the future -- if I'm still living.

What was the audience thinking?

It's actually weird.

Are you a nostalgic New Yorker?

& it's not the recent-ish gentrification - it was like this long before all that.

& AZUMA was a shithole, quite frankly.

Can be showtunes, montages or anything else.

I'll start with Maggie Smith channeling Danny La Rue in Oh! What a Lovely War.

The lady behind Trump at his speech today broke the internet with her brows, which many called for to be replaced or at least repealed.

I'll start

Billionaire Barry Sternlicht of Starwood divorced his wife last year and has been seen out and about with a new boy toy - who happens to be an exec at Starwood Capital.

What do we know - any gossip?

Who knew?

An acquaintance of mine who is 40, only hooks up with twinks who look really young.

Right now he's seeing a 18 year old that seriously looks about 14 or 15. He's about 5'3 at most, really skinny and just young looking.

The guy I know even bragged about how young his new boyfriend looks to a mutual friend. I know his partner is legal age, but I get a creepy vibe from it, especially since our mutual friend told me that the young twinks are all he'll date.

Dolores is hunting down humans!

The syringe slides in between the thumb and index finger. Then, with a click, a microchip is injected in the employee's hand. Another “cyborg” is created.

What could pass for a dystopian vision of the workplace is almost routine at the Swedish start-up hub Epicenter. The company offers to implant its workers and start-up members with microchips the size of grains of rice that function as swipe cards: to open doors, operate printers or buy smoothies with a wave of the hand.

"Wow, who knew there was so much slash fiction featuring President Macron and myself online already!"

......"If a man wants to wear makeup, dresses, even get breast implants, who are we to stop him? If he wants to legally change his name to Maureen, great! But language policing, the implication that by misusing a pronoun we are savaging a person’s very core, is untenable. Using “he” instead of “she” may very well hurt someone’s feelings, but that is a level of sensitivity on par with agoraphobia (fear of crowded or enclosed public spaces). The onus is on the person to find ways of coping. The world cannot be responsible for validating a confusing, opaque issue that has been too quickly transferred from “disorder” to “condition,” from irrational to heroic."

Anyone watched this fascinating doc? Peterson was a closet queen who may have killed his first wife's best friend, and was convicted of killing his rich second wife. He was seeing guys in both marriages, one was Brad AKA 'Soldier Top' who gave evidence at Peterson's trail. Brad AND Peterson seemed like DLers to me and I am sure both have posted here in their time. Peterson was released this year.

Brahs being Brahs

Since we are all getting married now, this article points out the best ways to reduce taxes when we leave our spouses or friends with our IRAs, 401ks, taxable brokerage accounts, etc.

It is an eye opener. Don't leave your IRA to minor.

Dan Savage has been a huge voice in gay rights for a long time by writing about his personal life. He promotes and fights for whatever relationship model he is in. Early on it was "traditional" family structure and stability "the kid" Then the fight for marriage "the comittment" Then he coined the phrase "monogamish" and has done interview after interview promoting this idea of mostly monogamous couples having a little bit of NSA fun on the side. Then Terry started becoming a softcore pornstar and the insinuation was that the marriage moved on from monogomish to open. Now it's clear they are in some form of polyamorous relationship. How long before a "heartfelt and humorous" book about how they met their bf? How they told their families? How they introduced him to their son? Do they share finances and parenting duties? Do they plan a ceremony with him?

I bet within 3 years Savage will create a firestorm in the gay community by calling for marriage/partnership laws to include multiple partners.

Here's a g-rated one.

[quote]After Reed praises Collins’s handling of the hearing, held by the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies subcommittee of the Senate Appropriations Committee, she laments the administration’s handling of spending. “I swear, [the Office of Management and Budget] just went through and whenever there was ‘grant,’ they just X it out,” Collins says. “With no measurement, no thinking about it, no metrics, no nothing. It’s just incredibly irresponsible.” “Yes,” Reed replies. “I think — I think he’s crazy,” apparently referring to the president. “I mean, I don’t say that lightly and as a kind of a goofy guy.” “I’m worried,” Collins replies. “Oof,” Reed continues. “You know, this thing — if we don’t get a budget deal, we’re going to be paralyzed.” “I know,” Collins replies.

[quote]“[Department of Defense] is going to be paralyzed, everybody is going to be paralyzed,” Reed says. “I don’t think he knows there is a [Budget Control Act] or anything,” Collins says, referring to a 2011 law that defines the budget process. “He was down at the Ford commissioning,” Reed says, referring to President Trump’s weekend event launching a new aircraft carrier, “saying, ‘I want them to pass my budget.’ Okay, so we give him $54 billion and then we take it away across the board which would cause chaos.” “Right,” Collins replies. “It’s just — and he hasn’t — not one word about the budget. Not one word about the debt ceiling,” Reed says. "Good point,” Collins replies. “You’ve got [Budget Director Mick] Mulvaney saying we’re going to put in all sorts of stuff like a border wall. Then you’ve got [Treasury Secretary Steve] Mnuchin saying it’s got to be clean,” Reed continues. “We’re going to be back in September, and, you know, you’re going to have crazy people in the House.”]

Then they move on to reading Blake for filth, I mean, he is just so damn ugly

[quote]In a more salacious part of what was recorded, Collins then addressed a radio interview in which Rep. Blake Farenthold (R-Tex.) suggested that if Collins were a man, he’d have challenged her to a duel for opposing the Senate Republicans’ Obamacare overhaul bill. “Did you see the one who challenged me to a duel?” Collins asks. “I know,” Reed replies. “Trust me. Do you know why he challenged you to a duel? ‘Cause you could beat the s— out of him.” “Well, he’s huge,” Collins replies. “And he — I don’t mean to be unkind, but he’s so unattractive it’s unbelievable.” “Did you see the picture of him in his pajamas next to this Playboy bunny?” she continues, referring to an infamous photo of Farenthold, below.

The thread about sexting and the "model" is full. If DL can have 300 threads about those Gio & Tommy, we surely can't miss one about Dustbin Lance Black and Tom Daley.

Thanks to those who captured this frame in the previous thread, here's one of the best picture capturing this love story.

Also starring: Matt Lucas (Little Britain).

In her new tell-all, the Partridge Family matriarch says she was very in tune with the sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll lifestyle of her day. Sometimes she’d even flee the show’s set for a quickie with playboy hubby Jack Cassidy.

“At the height of ‘The Partridge Family,’ now and again Jack would pick me up from the studio in the car, then drive us into the garage adjacent to our house, where he would have intercourse with me in the backseat,” she says.

Jones also says her stepson David Cassidy was definitely his father’s son. According to the tell-all, both Cassidy men were very well endowed. “David’s brothers called him Donk, for Donkey,” she writes.

She also reminisces about exotic escapades they enjoyed “wherever and whenever we wanted,” including one go-round on the floor of a sailboat, dalliances in bathtubs and in backstage dressing rooms.

The actress and author claims her sex encounters often involved other stars, and reflects back on one crazy night in the late ’60s, after she and Jack had dinner with Anthony Newley and Joan Collins at their home.

According to Jones, Newley bragged to her and her hubby that he was in possession of a few porn flicks and suggested the four of them get naked and have a kinky movie night. Jones says she declined the invite.

The book also has a chapter about the night Jones and Jack Cassidy swung by Sammy Davis Jr.’s Beverly Hills home, where lines of cocaine were waiting on every tabletop and porn played on TV screens throughout the house.

While the ’60s may be over, the 79-year-old Jones says she isn’t done yet.

“I still want to make it clear that I believe that a woman can remain sexual right through her 70s and 80s and beyond. I am living proof of that.” Jones writes. “Despite my advanced years, that hasn’t changed a bit, although it can take longer than before for me to achieve sexual fulfillment these days.”

Well, “Come on, Get Happy,” Mrs. Partridge!

It's on BBC 2 later this month.

"Tell us about Man in an Orange Shirt…"

"‘It’s in 2 parts: the first is about [my character Michael] a man who falls in love with a [male] war artist during WWII. That was forbidden, so he marries and has a child, but over the course of 15 years he continues this relationship with this artist, and his wife finds out about it – it’s pretty horrific really. The 2nd part picks up when the wife is much older – Vanessa Redgrave plays her, and she’s amazing, incredible – and you find out how [the affair] kind of affected her whole life, how it’s affected her relationship with her son and her grandson. It’s all about repression and actually it’s insane when you think about it, about what used to happen to people that were in that situation. It’s terrifying. It’s a really eye-opening, well-written script and a beautiful love story. It’s heart-breaking – the most intense shoot I’ve ever done.’

without an explanation.

The couple think it's because he's a Muslim and has Turkish heritage.

[quote]A British couple say they were treated like criminals when they arrived at Los Angeles airport for their dream honeymoon. Natasha Politakis, 29, and husband Ali Gul were due to fly to Hawaii after saving £7,000 for a romantic getaway to celebrate the beginning of their marriage. But instead the pair were thrown into a detention centre without explanation before being sent on a flight back to England.

'It's a dream come true': Million Dollar Listing star Fredrik Eklund buys stunning $3.5 million four-bedroom mansion on eight acres in Connecticut

If someone is past their twenties, they are NOT A TWINK. And don't you dare start with that 30s are the new 20s mess!

No debate. It is a truism of life.

Stereotypically a twink is 18-22, we'll generously allow it to extend later into the 20s, but NOT BEYOND THAT. EVER.

I've seen a lot of misuse by twink-cultist that think any skinny white dude younger than Olivia de Havilland can be called a twink.

NO MORE THIRTY-SOMETHING TWINKS EVER.

What's next, mandatory castration?

A "manipulative" woman who tricked a friend into sex with a fake penis by blindfolding her and pretending to be a man has been sentenced to six and a half years in prison.

Gayle Newland created multiple "disturbingly complex" online personas to achieve her own "bizarre sexual satisfaction", Manchester Crown Court heard.

The "deceitful and crafty" 27-year-old used one fake identity to create a Facebook account and pose as a half-Filipino half-Latino man called Kye Fortune.

Over a two year period, Newland developed an online relationship with the victim, also in her 20s, under this name.

She lowered her voice when they spoke on the phone and used pictures of an American man on her Facebook page to give 'Kye' a physical identity.

And when the pair eventually met up, Newland told the victim to wear a blindfold because she was insecure about her appearance.

The victim only discovered she was having sex with Newland, and not her boyfriend 'Kye', when she took off the mask during one of their 15 sexual encounters.

Sentencing Newland today, Judge David Stockdale QC said the offences demonstrate "an extraordinary degree of cunning and a chilling desire to manipulate and control the lives of others".

Newland grabbed hold of the dock's glass panels and screamed 'no' when her sentence was read.

Shaking her head and crying, the 27-year-old looked up at family members in the public gallery, who shouted words of comfort and blew kisses.

Last month, a jury at Manchester Crown Court found Newland, from Cheshire, guilty of committing sexual assault by using a prosthetic penis without her blindfolded victim's consent, following a retrial.

The court heard the defendant spent "hundreds" of hours talking on the telephone to her friend as 'Kye', who said 'he' was undergoing treatment for cancer and was paranoid about his physical appearance.

The victim agreed to wear a blindfold at all times during their sexual encounters and other face-to-face exchanges.

In her defence, Newland claimed both women were gay and struggling with their sexuality. She said when they met up and had sex they used 'Kye' as a fantasy figure during role-play.

She denied concealing her true identity but was found guilty of three counts of sexual assault and cleared of a fourth count.

Newland was jailed for eight years in November 2015 after she was convicted of the same offences by another jury at Chester Crown Court.

But the conviction was quashed in the Court of Appeal last December and a retrial ordered after it was ruled the trial judge's summing up of the case was not fair and balanced.

Mental health experts blasted the original jail term, saying troubled Newland should not have been locked up and instead needed psychiatric care.

A tourist needs answers.

Women have been flocking to recently separated Jim Acosta, the CNN White House correspondent who President Trump derisively called “a real beauty.”

The handsome Cuban-American was married for 24 years to Sharon Mobley Stow, a registered nurse with whom he has two daughters and a son.

But since the couple quietly split earlier this year and started divorce proceedings, Acosta has been embracing the single life in Washington, DC.

“A friend lives in his building and [has seen] him with different women,” one White House colleague told me.

Acosta also was quite popular on the recent presidential trip to Saudi Arabia, sources say.

Last year, when Acosta asked Trump a question he didn’t like, the president interrupted him, saying, “Excuse me, excuse me, I’ve watched you on TV. You’re a real beauty.”

Such a class act, she really should be the ultimate Gay Icon. A Phoenix Risen from the Ashes.

It's a cool Saturday night in my East Village apartment, and Alok Vaid-Menon has just created a Tinder account for me, while Jacob Tobia bats their eyelashes in the background.

Alok and Jacob are two of the most publicly visible gender nonconforming femmes I know. As a performance poet, Alok has just gone solo after touring in dozens of cities in the US and abroad as one half of the poetry duo Darkmatter. Jacob was named to 2016's OUT 100, has made a web series for NBC, and been the subject of a GLAAD-nominated episode of MTV's True Life. Both are trans-identified, but belong somewhere in between genders.... They've become celebrities in their own right, with Jacob regularly walking down the red carpet at LGBTQ galas and Alok featuring in the Janet Mock–narrated HBO documentary The Trans List.

But if you think all that would land them a date, you'd be wrong. And nobody is more puzzled than me as to why such obvious catches are having dating problems when so many clamor for their attention.

It's a reliable source of ennui in our group chats, and as the elder among my nonbinary pals, I've been giving Jacob and Alok dating advice for weeks. Trans dating is tricky, because you have to deal with prejudice on top of all the usual insecurities around wanting to be as attractive as possible for a potential mate. Dating among nonbinary femmes is even trickier, as the vast majority of people, even queer ones, imagine themselves as dating men or women exclusively, so nonbinary folks can complicate how others view one's sexuality....

I'm partnered and not really looking, but since my relationship isn't exclusive, Alok and Jacob convinced me to open a Tinder account so I could demonstrate IRL the maneuvers I'd long touted. I intended to show them something I've learned over time—that if you treat being trans like it's a source of shame, then that's how your date will feel, too....

Instead, what I learned during the social experiment that followed is that Jacob and Alok, like many gender nonconforming femmes, live in a world where admirers applaud them for their radical politics on social media, and people they're attracted to associate with them because of their slayworthiness and social capital, but refuse to make love to them....

As Alok set up my Tinder account, I became confused when they asked whether I wanted to set my gender as "man" or "woman." This all happened in those dark days of autumn 2016, before Tinder added 37 new gender options to the app. Since I'm on the femme side of nonbinary, I thought it would be obvious that I wouldn't label myself a man. Alok then added pictures of me from Facebook. In each of them, I was androgynous and without makeup—except for one...

"OMG, I'm going to switch my gender to 'woman' too so I can look at straight guys!" Alok exclaimed as they picked up their phone, and Jacob followed suit. I'd vaguely known that most of their prospects had been gay-identified men, but it didn't even occur to me that if given only two gender choices, they would need to pick "man" on Tinder so they would get gay instead of straight matches, along with the rare bi and pan guys.

I personally felt that dating straight-identified men was the right choice. My experience has been that straight guys are more willing to experiment with GNC folk than gay guys, because their attractions aren't as socially defined and don't come with a lifestyle attached. Also, there are a lot more of them. This was my experience, anyway.

"Straight boys are soooo cuuuute," Alok said as they and Jacob started swiping, their exaggerated intonation managing to feel both sincere and ironic. "Maybe we should get electrolysis and take hormones," Jacob added in jest, perking up at the bevy of new options.

Bingewatched. It was like a train wreck. I couldn't look away!

Surely she's family, right?

Why waste good content?

For all you Marys like me out there!

A thread for his fans, so that the "Call Me By Your Name" thread can stay more focused.

Sailor accidentally hits "self-destruct" button on missle launch.

Did you like it? What did you bring back from there that you still keep as a memento?

ALSO - which is the nicer city, Zurich or Geneva? Could you settle in either?

The food is very good, isn't it? Someone once said to me "It's hard to have a bad meal in Switzerland". Do you agree?

Are YOU Swiss?

I was last in Geneva a long time ago, as a youth. GAYS everywhere. Making passes at me on the trams, by the lake (& NOT discreetly). An elderly friend of mine (now dead) lived there on the 1950s!! and said it was V. GAY THEN!! and very openly so. (She'd come from London where they were still locking gays up). Of all places - Geneva! - in the '50s! Who knew?

DLers, I know some of you bitches are sitting at home and have nothing better to do. Make some calls! Susan Collins is probably the only definite no vote, the other possibilities are.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) (202) 224-6665

Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) (202) 224-6472

Sen. Dean Heller (R-NV) (202) 224-6244

Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH) (202) 224-3353

Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) (202) 224-4521

It really is the only thing we can do right now to help.

Get it trending. And how about shutting down DC? Republicans don't think twice about shutting down the government, let's pay them back and shut it for them. We could shut down the east coast if every person who is sick of political corruption by political predators got themselves to DC. Political predators want to take away health care and give breaks to billionaires. They want campaign money, they want perks, they want freebies, they want swag. Fuck em.

Stop calling them. Meet them in DC. Swarm the roads and the airports. Get serious. They don't give a fuck for your phone calls and faxes. You don't matter. Make them see you all at once. Single payer healthcare for all Americans. Any politicians or billionaires who don't like it can give up their citizenship and go live in exile in a third world hellhole.

He was a runaway gay teen from Minnesota

Sad story

Let's do this people!

It is all on them.

Give me your fucks and theorums on this.

Can't believe she's been gone that long.

We got even richer!

Another actor I'd add to the "Scary Portrait in the Attic" club. He could still play 20s.

I always wished he'd gotten to play Montgomery Clift.

Donald Trump appears to have confirmed the existence of a classified CIA programme - in a tweet.

In a series of posts last night the President took aim at a report on Syrian rebels in the Washington Post, owned by Amazon founder, Jeff Bezos.

The article detailed Trump’s apparent decision to “end the CIA’s covert programme to arm and train moderate Syrian rebels battling the government of Bashar al-Assad, a move long sought by Russia”.

US officials told the newspaper in the story published 19 July that ending the secret programme was related to Trump’s concerns about re-establishing a working relationship with Russia.

Trump, apparently just catching up on last week’s news, obviously took umbrage at the report and unleashed a volley of angry tweets including this one which appears to confirm the existence of the classified program.

Which did not go unnoticed.

White House deputy press secretary Sarah Sanders declined at the time to discuss cessation of the program, telling reporters she didn’t know if it had come up in discussions that Trump had with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G-20 summit in Hamburg, Germany.

Trump continued his tirade against The Washington Post and Bezos, accusing them of lobbying. The tweets appear to have been timed to distract from yesterday’s real story - his son-in-law.

Kushner on Monday answered questions from staff on the Senate’s intelligence panel, acknowledging four meetings with Russians during and after Trump’s victorious White House bid and insisting he had “nothing to hide.” He emerged smiling to publicly declare, “All of my actions were proper.”

A quiet insider who generally avoids the spotlight, Kushner is the first top Trump lieutenant to be quizzed by the congressional investigators probing Russia’s meddling in the 2016 presidential election, reports the Associated Press.

Hours before the Senate meeting, Kushner released an 11-page statement that was billed as his remarks to both the Senate and House committees. In it, he acknowledged his Russian contacts during the campaign and then the following weeks, in which he served as a liaison between the transition and foreign governments. He described each contact as either insignificant or routine and he said the meetings, along with several others, were omitted from his security clearance form because of an aide’s error. Kushner cast himself as a political novice learning in real time to juggle “thousands of meetings and interactions” in a fast-paced campaign.

“Let me be very clear,” Kushner said afterward in a rare public statement at the White House. “I did not collude with Russia, nor do I know of anyone else in the campaign who did so.”

How come he doesn't have his own thread yet? I think he's one of the better male vocalists around today, better than Justin Bieber, certainly.

What's the DL consensus on his orientation? Does he ping at all?

He said he would arrest Hillary on January 20th, 2017 as Attorney General

I want to appreciate him all day long. On my knees.

Discuss the most pedestrian parts of your lives.

The thead on Anna May Wong got me thinking on other now forgotten movie stars ....

Nils Asther - Swedish silent star, gay?

Anton Walbrook - perfect as Lermontov in Powell's The Red Shoes in 1948.

Kay Kendall - maybe because she died so young in 1959, her two with Cukor (Les Girls) and Minnelli (The Reluctant Debutante with husband Rex Harrison + Sandra Dee & John Saxon & Dame Angela in bitch mode) are still delicious fun now, plus the British comedy Genevieve.

Okay so I am soon to graduate (hopefully) but a year ago when I was a junior this guy I had a crush on treated me awfully and would constantly embarrass me but I allowed it since I had strong feelings for him. I wasn't that popular in school (not hated just invisible) however when we were alone he'd grab my ass and like my flirtatious marks at me. Moving on I found out he started dating my friend and she told me how much shit he talked about and how he thought I was ugly and other stuff that wasn't true . Now I've kinda grown into my looks and I recently moved to my old neighborhood. Should I try to front on him and make him feel jealous (I'm never gonna date him) but I kinda wanted to do a "look at what you're missing out on" thing. Anyway should I?

Those Fascists.

A buddy of mine recently returned from there. This was the 63rd country he visited so far and he said he had never encounter such friendly and hospitable people anywhere else in the world. He said almost everyone he started talking to on the streets tried to drag him home for dinner and a possible sleepover. I heard similar things from many other travellers too. But since Iran is becoming more and more popular as a travel destination I'm guessing this is the last opportunity to go there and experience their famous hospitality, before the tourists start to annoy the local population. (Apparently Isfahan is already pretty crowded by the tourists.)

Has anyone here visited Iran yet?

[post redacted because independent.co.uk thinks that links to their ridiculous rag are a bad thing. Somebody might want to tell them how the internet works. Or not. We don't really care. They do suck though. Our advice is that you should not click on the link and whatever you do, don't read their truly terrible articles.]

OK - This is pissing me off and need to vent! I bought my nephew a $300 lego set (4000 pieces that he begged me for). Fine, he loves legos. Weeks ago, he started the set (up to bag 2) and now for the past week, it sits untouched, collecting dust while he plays Roblocks and iPad etc. I love legos and said if he doesn't want to do it, I will do some and we take turns. He had a fucking meltdown! He doesn't want to do it, but I can't touch them either. I said I will pack them up until he is ready to continue. Fucking meltdown #2 - don't touch! $300 dollars just sitting there strewn across my table. I wish I never bought it. Kids these days!

Is it any good? That Asian guy is hot. Will they make it a series when it is over like they did Dome? I may binge it if it'a a one off.

Thanks

Some models actively link to they're real name for promotion while others (Quentin Gainz I'm talking to you) freak out and try to erase themselves from the internet. I mean, we'll find out eventually so really, what's the point?.

Season 2 out Jan. 2nd. More Malec!

fucking a-holes.

Ever worked at a chain restaurant? How and why did you end up there? Any high points or low points from working a minimum wage job where you're required to provide really fast service for peanuts? Spill.

HIV/AIDS is no longer the death sentence it once was, but maintaining the strict regimen required to keep the virus at bay — one or more pills daily — still poses a major challenge to many people who are infected. Adherence is low among some populations, given the effort that is required to obtain, keep and store the medications.

That may soon change. On Monday, scientists reported an important advance in the development of a long-acting antiretroviral shot. According to an international study involving 309 patients, an injection that combines two drugs, cabotegravir and rilpivirine, appears to be as safe and effective at suppressing HIV as the daily oral regimen.

Writing in the Lancet, David Margolis of ViiV Healthcare, called it “the next revolution in HIV therapy.”

In the study, which was conducted at 50 centers in the United States, Germany, Canada, Spain, France and Germany, patients were begun on 20 weeks of daily oral medication. Once that medication had brought their viral loads down, they were given the shots as a “maintenance therapy.” Some were given the shot at four-week intervals and others at eight-week intervals. A control group continued to take the pills.

The majority of the patients tolerated the therapy well, though nearly everyone reported some mild to moderate pain at the injection site. The rates of some adverse events like headaches were similar across all three groups.

At 96 weeks, 84 percent of the patients in the oral medication group were able to keep their viral load suppressed, compared with 87 percent of the four-week shot group and 94 percent of the eight-week shot group.

The shots could revolutionize patient care in places like Africa, where it can be difficult for many people to get to a pharmacy regularly. But Mark A. Boyd, a professor at the University of Adelaide, wrote in a commentary piece accompanying the main article that there are trade-offs with both a pill and injection.

In his home country of Australia, for instance, he said people can get up to a six-month supply for antiretroviral pills. For them, going to a health-care provider for a monthly shot actually may be less convenient.

“This is compounded by the fact that health-care systems are generally not configured to facilitate regular, recurrent injections in a timely and convenient way to people who are well,” he wrote. “Changing this will take innovation, political will and time.”

More at link

What's it like these days? I'm going next week. Are there still gays bars or is everyone on grindr. I assume the Marais is still the neighborhood to go to. Can anyone recommend a good gym?

Trailer!

Its like the anti-girls. Its funny, well written, has an amazing soundtrack plus it has lots of male nudity. Like lots of gorgeous black men

...on MSNBC right now

I'm the penis cake! I was made by the bride-to-be's step sister! OMG! Sooooooo naughty! But soooooooooooo YUMMY!

Lydia's back and Shannon's fat!

New season starts July 10.

SNOPES.COM COMMUNITY: WE NEED YOUR HELP Snopes.com in Danger of Shuttering Dear Readers,

Snopes.com, which began as a small one-person effort in 1994 and has since become one of the Internet’s oldest and most popular fact-checking sites, is in danger of closing its doors. So, for the first time in our history, we are turning to you, our readership, for help.

Since our inception, we have always been a self-sustaining site that provides a free service to the online world: we've had no sponsors, no outside investors or funding, and no source of revenue other than that provided by online advertising. Unfortunately, we have been cut off from our historic source of advertising income.

We had previously contracted with an outside vendor to provide certain services for Snopes.com. That contractual relationship ended earlier this year, but the vendor will not acknowledge the change in contractual status and continues to essentially hold the Snopes.com web site hostage. Although we maintain editorial control (for now), the vendor will not relinquish the site’s hosting to our control, so we cannot modify the site, develop it, or — most crucially — place advertising on it. The vendor continues to insert their own ads and has been withholding the advertising revenue from us.

Our legal team is fighting hard for us, but, having been cut off from all revenue, we are facing the prospect of having no financial means to continue operating the site and paying our staff (not to mention covering our legal fees) in the meanwhile.

As misinformation has increasingly threatened democracies around the world (including our own), Snopes.com has stood in the forefront of fighting for truth and dispelling misinformation online. It is vital that these efforts continue, so we are asking the Snopes.com community to donate what they can. (Our suggested donation is $10, but if you can give more please consider doing so — every little bit helps.)

We need our community now more than ever, as it is only through your support that Snopes.com can remain the community and resource we all know and love.

Sincerely yours,

Team Snopes

Discuss

Who was your first celebrity crush? And please state your age.

Mine was Ryan Phillippe. I first saw him in Gosford Park when I was about 12. I'm 28 now.

G*nd*r is not a thing; it is hate speech against women and gay men. The correct word is sex, and if you cannot use the word sex, then you are neither 👏🏼mature 👏🏼nor 👏🏼intelligent 👏🏼enough 👏🏼to 👏🏼discuss 👏🏼the 👏🏼subject. 👏🏼👏🏼End of. 👏🏼👏🏼Period.👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Isn't that sweet?

Share your thoughts.

Top Trump approval ratings:

60% - West Virginia

59% - North Dakota

59% - South Dakota

Bottom:

26% - Vermont

29%- Mass.

30% - California

Hanks will play Ben Bradlee and Streep will play Katherine Graham.

DL meltdown in 3,2...

He speaks! Have you ever heard Jared Kushner's voice before? Here you go.

She's single! She's pregnant!

Who's the unnamed daddy? Will it turn out to be some random celebrity like David Crosby?

Stupid goddamn blobfish.

I have this buddy who's bisexual and had anal sex with a guy. Anyway he told me privately and how much enjoyed it (he bottomed). However he NEVER wants to talk about it (not him bottoming just the sex in general). Anyway one day I slightly mentioned it and he threw a big fit and bitched at me threating to beat me up saying that was a personal shit (reminder he already announced he was bi I didn't out him). He's not exactly a fem guy so I guess he didn't want to seem like the "girl" by bottoming. Anyway in your opinion is him being secrective about him sex life internal homophobia? And yes we are millennials before you ask

Continue discussing the upcoming film starring Tim O'Tay and Arm & Hammer, who will alternatively be known as Wrists & Rope or Buttock & Whip.

Starting with Chicago in 2001 all the way to Into the Woods.

In between those films EVERY SINGLE Hollywood musical has had a Christmas Day Release.

Why?

Returns June 25

Abderrahman El Ouadrassi

Is he just jealous that Jeff Bezos is far richer than he'll ever be?

[quote]The Amazon Washington Post fabricated the facts on my ending massive, dangerous, and wasteful payments to Syrian rebels fighting Assad.....

[quote]So many stories about me in the @washingtonpost are Fake News. They are as bad as ratings challenged @CNN. Lobbyist for Amazon and taxes?

[quote]Is Fake News Washington Post being used as a lobbyist weapon against Congress to keep Politicians from looking into Amazon no-tax monopoly?

Can they recover from the stumble they took with Iron Fist?

They sure can, if Sigourney Weaver has anything to say about it.

Americans are clamoring for bold changes to our politics and our economy. They feel, rightfully, that both systems are rigged against them, and they made that clear in last year’s election. American families deserve a better deal so that this country works for everyone again, not just the elites and special interests. Today, Democrats will start presenting that better deal to the American people.

There used to be a basic bargain in this country that if you worked hard and played by the rules, you could own a home, afford a car, put your kids through college and take a modest vacation every year while putting enough away for a comfortable retirement. In the second half of the 20th century, millions of Americans achieved this solid middle-class lifestyle. I should know — I grew up in that America.

But things have changed.

Today’s working Americans and the young are justified in having greater doubts about the future than any generation since the Depression. Americans believe they’re getting a raw deal from both the economic and political systems in our country. And they are right. The wealthiest special interests can spend an unlimited, undisclosed amount of money to influence elections and protect their special deals in Washington. As a result, our system favors short-term gains for shareholders instead of long-term benefits for workers.

And for far too long, government has gone along, tilting the economic playing field in favor of the wealthy and powerful while putting new burdens on the backs of hard-working Americans.

Democrats have too often hesitated from taking on those misguided policies directly and unflinchingly — so much so that many Americans don’t know what we stand for. Not after today. Democrats will show the country that we’re the party on the side of working people — and that we stand for three simple things.

First, we’re going to increase people’s pay. Second, we’re going to reduce their everyday expenses. And third, we’re going to provide workers with the tools they need for the 21st-century economy.

Over the next several months, Democrats will lay out a series of policies that, if enacted, will make these three things a reality. We’ve already proposed creating jobs with a $1 trillion infrastructure plan; increasing workers’ incomes by lifting the minimum wage to $15; and lowering household costs by providing paid family and sick leave.

On Monday we are announcing three new policies to advance our goals.

Right now, there is nothing to stop vulture capitalists from egregiously raising the price of lifesaving drugs without justification. We’re going to fight for rules to stop prescription drug price gouging and demand that drug companies justify price increases to the public. And we’re going to push for empowering Medicare to negotiate lower drug prices for older Americans.

continued

My question is inspired by the lesser-known AIDS victims thread where a clip of Grand Hotel is linked.

What about gossip on Shonda Rhimes? Viola Davis? Linda Blair? Miley Cyrus? We need to keep this thread going. Peace.

Impart some words of wisdom to help me navigate through the world of confusion and gaydom.

.............

Idk why I find him so fuckable

Look 'im up if you don't know him. If you, he was (is?) a narcissistic, privileged, straight white drug addict who had a surprising but medium-sized talent writing comforting ballads sung by the appearance of a kind of sexy, sensitive everyman. Bullshit. JT was/is a bitter, opportunistic businessman-musician who's managed to hold out an "I'm still a hot fuck" aura even as an old, bald man.

He turned on dumb Carly and after she endured his raging entitlement episodes and drug addiction, she then realized she was a bigger star and that she wanted to be pounded by non-narcissists. Now he's renounced her name and disowned his kids. Bluebood deep-down hates Jew ex-wife?

Enjoy the banality--both of them drone on in a haze of mutual self-absorption, as if the world cares.

I'd fuck him (here) but she has the remnant of a soul, which he doesn't. James Taylor is like the perfect, efficient Nazi.

Master Chief?

Suck. My Dick!

He was such a hot commodity during GLEE . We all thought he would be next Gay superstar . But it seems his star has been faded and now he is peddling some of his boring books to his followers on twitter .

He is completely forgotten by DL and even other media outlets

I can't think of a single animal product used in its manufacture.

It's storming here. I'm watching Batman: The Animated Series and eating Ben & Jerry's "Americone Dream".

Heaven. Sheer heaven.

Favorite flavors?

This trashy suburban soap is sure to be the next DataLoumge obsession, is it not?

Solange Knowles notably leaves out the name of her shrieking, overhyped sister Beyonce during BET award win.

Beyonce is nothing more than a catalog model turned overhyped backup singer, and Solange finds her annoying as fuck.

She's sick of the twins, the forgettable music, Jay Z, her adulterous father, and frankly wishes Beyonce would disappear for years, and churn out weird named babies.

Omitting Beyonce's name was the middle-finger, good riddance Bey-OTCH she's been meticulously plotting for years...and the world had better buckle up and take notice.

It's a new era. The era - OF SOLANGE!!!!

The internet is shook after GoT character Grey Worm's first love scene revealed that he may be penisless, but bro has a very hot buff bod. Grey Worm definitely lifts!

All raves so far.

Report: Donald Trump Jr. ‘miserable’

Rebecca Savransky July 19, 2017 - 07:39 AM EDT Donald Trump Jr. is reportedly "miserable" and can't wait for the next four years to end.

A friend of President Trump's sons told People that Trump Jr. and Eric Trump "never wanted this."

“Don can’t do any deals, because he’ll be overly scrutinized. He just goes to work every day and is miserable," a source in their circle added.

Trump Jr. is facing backlash after news surfaced earlier this month that he took a meeting last year with a Russian lawyer.

Last week, Trump Jr. released a chain of emails detailing his conversations about setting up the meeting with the Russian lawyer who he was told had compromising information on Hillary Clinton. Trump Jr. has since appeared on Fox News, where he said he would likely would have "done things a little a differently" in retrospect.

President Trump has defended his son, saying most politicians would have taken similar meetings.

A family friend especially close to Trump Jr. and Eric Trump told People the loyalty within their family is "insane."

“They would never speak against their dad," the family friend said.

The source in the brothers' circle added: “You can’t bite the hand that feeds you, but he [Don Jr.] can’t wait for these four years to be over.”

The belief is that if we mar the architecture and stop calling it "Suicide Bridge," the problem will be solved.

Flexibility and personal time. In this age of technology, employees are no longer limited to the 9-to-5 workday, or regulated to their office desk. In fact, because of this, work/life balance has never been more popular.

According to the study linked above by Deloitte, when choosing a job, the number one priority for Millennials is one that offers a good work/life balance. That means that the companies that offer flexible schedules will have a better chance at snagging and retaining top Millennial talent. Additionally, give them some personal time throughout the day so that they can work on personal projects, attend training sessions, volunteer, or just have a couple minutes of downtime.

Bonus tip: Not all Millennials want to work from a remote location. Some would rather come into the workplace at 10am, and stay until after 6pm.

Get to know your employees so that you know they're ideal schedules and how they want to spend personal time when on the clock.

Provide frequent feedback. On the outside it may appear that Millennials may crave freedom. The fact of the matter is that they still demand to know how they're performing and want to be accountable.

According to a report by the University of North Carolina, regular, honest, and constructive feedback will help make these employees feel fulfilled at their job.

In the past, leaders this was done every six months with performance reviews. Millennials may want something more often, but the good news is that it doesn't have to formal.

You can simply pop-by their workplace to offer some encouragement or shot them a quick email with a couple of pointers.

You can also implement an "open door policy" where Millennials are free to come-in and ask questions.

Create new titles and in-between steps. Despite the misconceptions, Millennials aren't lazy or slackers. They're committed to furthering their careers and don't want to wait any more than three years for a promotion. Same goes for a title change. They need to "prove" to their friends and share their new status online.

This doesn't mean that you should give more rewards without a reason, it means that you should consider incentives. Produce incentive like a bonus or paying for them to attend a training course. This gives them assurance that they're on the right track.

Encourage multiple ways to collaborate. Don't forget; This generation loves their devices. It makes sense. They grew up with technology at their fingertips and they have no qualms with harnessing its power if it makes them more productive

If you haven't already, incorporate new ways to collaborate with your team that takes advantage of technology.

Additionally, don't hesitate to host roundtable discussions where you encourage innovative thinking.

Offer office perks. Just because you don't have the budget of tech-titans like Google doesn't mean that you can't offer office perks.

For instance, you could create Zen spaces where employees can decompress in peace. Encourage them to take breaks in a room that has a couple of plants, better lighting, a nice coffee machine.

Find that something that your employees would enjoy. You could also have weekly pizza parties when a goal has been met or allow them to bring-in their dogs.

Cut the bullshit. "Millennials have a very low tolerance for inauthenticity. They value colleagues that treat each other with respect. They gravitate towards supervisors who are relatable and accessible," writes Peter Gasca in Entrepreneur.

Jenny Gottstein, director of games at The Go Game and a millennial herself, tells Gasca that it's simple to define bullshit.

"If you are going to reference pop culture in order to relate to your millennial employees, just make sure you actually know what you are talking about. "If you are simply out of touch with millennial culture, embrace that and just be yourself. Never try too hard to impress people. Just remember: Most millennials would rather work with Dwight Schrute than Michael Scott (there is no shame in having to look up that reference)."

Forget the Davis and Crawford comparisons - that was nothing but a silly feud. The real comparison should be between Davis and Hepburn.

Both were born (within a year of each other) and raised in New England, and both started their Hollywood film careers in the early 1930s. Hepburn received (and won) her first Oscar nomination in 1934, while Davis got her first nomination in 1935. Hepburn ended up with 12 nominations and 4 wins; Davis with 11 nominations and 2 wins. All of their nominations were for Best Actress in a Leading Role. They went head-to-head four times - in 1936 (Davis won), 1941, 1943, and 1963.

Davis' final film credit was in 1989, the same year she died. Hepburn's final credit was in 1994; she died in 2003.

Both women had reputations for being tough as nails and for doing things their own way.

Will DL Icon Serena Joy rule Gilead?

Will Aunt Lydia exact her revenge?

Will the Commader or Nick believably emote?

Will Elisabeth Moss win her first Emmy?

And remember, don't toe the bastards grind you down, bitches!

What are, or what should be, celebrity nicknames here. We have Colto/Colto for Colton Haynes. What are others? What others should we have?

What should Matt Damon's nickname be on DL?

Muumuus combine comfort and style! While comfort is king at The Vermont Country Store, when it comes to apparel, style counts too. That's why our muumuu dresses combine superior comfort with quality fabrics and beautiful designs. Muumuu dresses, also known as moomoos or mumus depending on whom you're talking to, are one-piece dresses that offer absolute comfort. Unhampered by tight waistlines or belts, muumuus hang loose, allowing you to move freely and completely unrestricted. At The Vermont Country Store, we have vintage-styled muu muu dresses of all types. Our muumuus feature the classic styles along with bold color combinations and more elaborate designs. We've found that women of all ages just can't get enough of them. Slip into something a lot more comfortable , one of our muumuu dresses! Shop now for the best selection

That is all, bro....

In your opinion if one chooses to not be around or date feminine men are they suffering from internalized homophobia? Why or not

I say Sessions resigns on Friday.

Any fans? It's pretty good...

A statement from his team confirmed Justin had pulled out of the last of his 14 shows, the first of which was due to take place in Texas this weekend. It's unclear what led to Bieber's sudden cancellations, but the Canadian singer has hit bumps along his tour recently. The statement read: “Due to unforeseen circumstances, Justin Bieber will cancel the remainder of the Purpose World Tour concerts. “Justin loves his fans and hates to disappoint them. He thanks his fans for the incredible experience of the Purpose World Tour over last 18 months.” However claimed Justin pulled out of the dates because he was “just over it”. Justin has not spoken publicly about the report but has been silent on Twitter since July 6 where he was pushing merchandise from the epic tour.

I am the ten boxes of no name macaroni and cheese in the cabinet. The cabinet door sits precariously on edge, the bottom hinge is rusted and ready to give.

Simon Baker

A late night McDonald’s visit turned into a full on Magic Mike moment when an impatient customer stripped completely naked and jumped behind the counter.

MSNBC has done a good job bringing them on screen during this election cycle. I really like all of them. Not one bad thing to say.

Hallie Jackson, Katy Tur, Kasie Hunt, Jacob Soboroff, Kristen Welker... I think they will all be big stars once this election is over.

Hopefully one of them can force Andrea "Compromised Old Bat" Mitchell into a very late retirement.

What do y'all think?

They were on The Tonight Show. Such a shame, Rob was so hot at that age.

Mariah Carey is on a shopping trip in Barcelona in searing temps. Any fashion advice to help make her trip a little more....ahem comfortable?

Has anyone here ever had either of these two cars? I love them, but according to Reddit forums, they're not very reliable. True? False? Neither? Both?

Mine died two days ago and it's too hot for this shit. It was a Quirky Aros 8000 BTU window unit, wifi connected with an iOS app and various programmable features. Got it for $100, no tax or shipping fee, from TekServe 4 years ago. TekServe is now out of business. Quirky filed bankruptcy and is now owned by someone who isn't responsible for their pre-existing products. This A/C will never be president. It kept the entire 2nd floor (and more) of my old, drafty 4 story house ice cold. It was also EXTREMELY LOUD, which was great because it blocked out the sound of the Corn Bros playing endless thunk thunk games of corn hole. I want something comparable. What do you suggest?

So, in m group, most of the guys think LOOKS are most important- "I mean, that is what is important", my pal says "anyone that says no is either a liar, or one of those that hates the fact that it is true and they are left on the periphery". So, I hate it but-I think it may be true. What say you all? Looks/brains/humor/job/ WHAT is most important to you?

I feel like we need an all-purpose one.

The new Archie is blazin hot.

I'm remembering that "Curb Your Enthusiasm" episode where Larry befriended his girlfriend's young son, who enjoyed "Project Runway."

Have you ever felt like it but stopped short of hitting your partner? Have you ever had a physical altercation with a significant other where to both of you were taking swings at each other?

I can't stop listening to it and thinking about whether or not they're evil.

Twitter is Savage

Keiynan Lonsdale comes clean about his sexuality. The actor best known for his role as Wally West a.k.a. Kid Flash on "The Flash" reveals that he's bisexual. "I like to change my hair, I like to take risks with how I dress, I like girls, & I like guys (yes), I like growing, I like learning, I like who I am and I really like who I'm becoming," he wrote on Instagram.

"Spent way too many years hating myself, thinking I was less valuable because I was different.. which is just untrue. A couple years ago I was able to accept myself, & it saved my life, but now I've gotten to a new road block & I feel kind of lost. I gotta take the next step & actually embrace who I am, which is pretty exciting. Not faking s**t anymore, not apologising for falling in love with people no matter their gender."

The 25-year-old star went on, "I've become bored of being insecure, ashamed, scared... no one should feel like that about themselves, especially when there is so much good life to live. Ya know more & more I see so many young people being their best / truest selves, it's f**king inspiring... so what have I been waiting for!? Who knows."

"Everyone in their own time. I hope we can all learn to embrace who we are & not judge people who aren't exactly the same as us. The truth is we are all family, we're all one. Just love. Keiy," he concluded.

Read more:

OK - This is pissing me off and need to vent! My gay uncle bought me a $300 lego set (4000 pieces that he begged me for). Fine, he loves legos, but the dumbass doesn't realize it's a BLOCKO set not a genuine Lego set. When I told him he was all like "what's the difference?" I told him it's like when he hooks up on Grindr with 10" and gets 5".

So out of kindness I made a half ass attempt at the set (up to bag 2) but it's so cheap it barely works and now for the past week, it sits untouched, collecting dust. I would rather be playing Roblocks and using my iPad etc, you know the good gifts bought me, by those who took five seconds to figure out what I liked and would need.

He loves legos and said if I don't want to do it, he will do some and we take can turns. He had a fucking meltdown! He's too stupid and immature. All he does is build BLOCKO penises and other rude and crude gay paraphernalia. He doesn't want to do it right, but I can't touch them either. I said I will pack them up until he is ready to continue.

Fucking meltdown #2 - don't touch! $300 dollars for BLOCKOs just sitting there strewn across my table. I wish I he'd never bought it. It's not my fault he payed LEGO prices for BLOCKO ripoffs.

Seems impossible,

What is their end goal? To be famous? Of course they want to be adored and are narcissists, but what where do they want to take this "fitness" "model" occupation? To Hollywood?

and mostly by keeping his mouth shut and being all enigmatic and shit -- just the way itt should be

Just watched this again: Jonathan Rhys Meyer, Ewan McGregor, and Christian Bale, all before they made it really big, all playing gay or bisexual men. Rhys Meyer and McGregor are both gorgeous; Bale is not (but he is not supposed to be).

It's funny that to me there's not been any rumors about any of these three men. Bale supposedly did it once with a male porn star (Nick Cara?) at the command of a dominatrix, but that's it, and I've never heard anything about the other two men.

He looks like a Chord Overstreet made out of silly putty. He's apparently based in Chicago, travels a bit in business or first class so he appears to either have a sugar daddy (not pictured), work for United or has family working for the airline. He has a nice body and ass.

All of the White House drama has basically been great for the CNN careers of Jake Tapper, Brian Stelter, Jim Sciutto and even Don Lemon.

Floating like an aging luxury liner at the dawn of the jet age, it seems like Anderson has become invisible.

Sure he made news by eye-rolling Kellyanne Conway and stupidly talking about Trump taking a dump to that idiot Jeffrey Lord, but it seems since the Presidential debate he is a non-entity.

Is Anderson being phased out on CNN on purpose or is he doing it intentionally? Or am I totally wrong?

Let the party begin. Henry is in Miami