Dimensional Door - Freeople Thread 33

Today | Me

[sweetliberty]

"Lemme guess... a ghost?"

Well...not exactly. More like a character who got in over his head with magic and ended up trapping himself in this between worlds place.

[Darksheare]

Ah, dimensionally shifted flypaper victim.

[sweetliberty]

Something like that.

[Darksheare]

But I don’t get stuck.
Unless you count being stuck in NY state.

[null and void]

I’m sorry to hear about your friend. I need to catch up on my reading and posting! Is she going to be okay?

She just called. Too sick/drugged for visitors today. They need to pop out her gall bladder, but can't do that until they fix her ticker, else she's at real risk of dying.

Angiogram and probably stents today. Most likely gall bladder removal in a few days.

She's in pretty good spirits all things considered.

[null and void]

How do you like your Junior Sinator?

[Darksheare]

The carpetbagger?
She’s got more issues than National Geographic, she has more baggage than American Airlines, and she goes down in a withering storm like a tramp steamer.

[null and void]

Okay.

Don’t hold back, tell us how you really feel...

[Darksheare]

*cough*
I can’t.
One canot translat such loathing and disgust into written words, ad in spoken language, ‘vomitus’ doesn’t translate into understandable concepts.

[null and void]

Yeah. I’m from the land of Feinstein, Boxer, and Pelosi...

[Darksheare]

Ah yes, Fineswine -Mizz “I’ll hold this nasty looking rifle pointed straight at my colleague while preaching about how evil nasty looking guns are.”

[Lady Jag]

Let me guess which sex the author is.

It is important for men to remember, that as women grow older it becomes harder for them to maintain the same quality of housekeeping as when they were younger. When you notice this, try not to yell at them. Some are oversensitive and there is nothing worse than an oversensitive woman.

 

My name is Paul  - Let me relate how I handled the situation with my wife, Sue. When I was laid off from my consulting job and took "early retirement" in April, it became necessary for Sue to get a full-time job, both for extra income and for the health benefits that we needed.

 

Shortly after she started working, I noticed she was beginning to show her age. I usually get home from the Golf Course about the same time she gets home from work. Although she knows how hungry I am, she almost always says she has to rest for half an hour or so before she starts dinner. I don't yell at her. Instead, I tell her to take her time and just wake me when she gets dinner on the table. I usually have lunch in the Men's Grill at the club, so when I hit that door, I'm ready for some home cooked grub.

 

She used to do the dishes as soon as we finished eating, but now it's not unusual for them to sit on the table for several hours after dinner. I do what I can by diplomatically reminding her several times each evening, that they won't clean themselves. I know she appreciates this, as it seems to motivate her to get them done before she goes to bed.

 

I really think my old business as a consult ant helps a lot. I consider telling people what they ought to do is one of my strong points.

 

And speaking of bed, her age really shows up there. I go out and golf all day, come home dead tired, then after a two-hour nap and a good meal, I'm ready, if you know what I mean. Age has gotten to her so bad, that she actually dozes off during lovemaking. But that's okay. Her satisfaction in that area is important to a sensitive guy like me, and if she enjoys sleeping during our little trysts, what the heck.

 

Now that she has gotten older, she does seem to get tired so much more quickly. Since our washer and dryer are in the basement, sometimes she says she just can't make another trip down those steps. I don't make a big issue of this; as she finishes up the laundry the next evening, I'm willing to overlook it. Not only that, but unless I need something ironed to wear to the Monday lodge meeting, or to Wednesday's or Saturday's poker club, or to Tuesday's or Thursday's bowling, or something like that, I will tell her to wait until the next evening to do the ironing. This gives her a little more time to do some of those odds and ends like shampooing the dog, vacuuming or dusting.

 

Another symptom of aging is complaining, I think. For example, she will say that it is difficult for her to find time to pay the monthly bills during her lunch hour. But boys, we take them for better or worse, so I just smile and offer encouragement. I tell her to stretch it out over two or even three days. That way she won't have to rush so much.

 

I also remind her that missing lunch completely now and then wouldn't hurt her any (if you know what I mean). I like to think tact is one of my strong points also.

 

I'm a fair man. I tell her to fix herself a nice, big, cold glass of freshly squeezed lemonade and just sit for a while. And, as long as she is making one for herself, she may as well make one for me too, then take her break by my hammock.

 

I know that I probably look like a Saint in the way I support Sue. I'm not saying that showing this much consideration is easy. Many men will find it difficult. Some will find it impossible! Nobody knows better than I do, how frustrated women get as they get older.

 

However, guys, even if you just use a little more tact and less criticism of your aging wife because of this article, I will consider that writing it was well worthwhile. After all, we are put on this to help each other.

 

Paul

 

EDITOR'S NOTE: Paul died suddenly Thursday, Jan. 3. He was found with a Calloway extra long 50 inch Big Bertha Driver rammed up his rectum with only 2 inches of grip showing. His wife, Sue, was arrested, but the Grand Jury (made up of mostly women because the men are so busy) accepted her defense that he accidentally sat on it and she was released on Friday.

 

 

 

[Lady Jag]

Ok girls - we need pics.

Here's a picture for you to study, Cardy boy.

NOTE:   This could be why Cardy fled the UK.

[Cardhu]

I have seen that before and it really made me jealous. I though I was the most considerate man alive, but he was/is a saint compared to me.

I am sorry to hear of his unfortunate demise - they say only the good die young.

[Cardhu]

I have always felt she was stuck in the first seven days of her cycle..."Women experience slight problems with understanding other people and prefer to simply smile back. The ability to express thoughts weakens..."

Cardy left the UK to spread enlightenment throughout the world. Unfortunately, it is true, a Prophet is not without honor except in his own country.

...also in those countries that understand English.

[Lady Jag]

Honestly, you guys are always so jealous.

[Cardhu]

Carnal Knowledge | Why do men like porn more?
Studies of humans - and monkeys - offer insight.

By Faye Flam
Inquirer Staff Writer

While some sex differences are still up for debate, one that's hard to argue away is men's greater fondness for pornography.

Over the years I've heard men explain this in various ways. One of the most popular is that men are "more visual" than women, a convenient excuse for ogling at the beach.

Is there any science behind this? "More visual" is too vague to investigate, but some studies have offered insight about why men consume most of the world's vast store of Internet porn.

Neurobiologist and anthropologist Michael Platt of Duke University is studying differences in how the sexes respond to pictures in general. On average, his research shows, men will pay to see images of women. But you have to pay women to look at images of men!

Platt started with similar studies in monkeys. While most animals are indifferent to photos even of individuals in their own species, monkeys and apes respond to pictures much as humans do.

Rhesus macaques that Platt studied, for example, easily recognized the faces of familiar monkeys. And they liked some faces more than others, though the face wasn't always the favorite part.

Platt found that male macaques strongly preferred to look at pictures of females' rear ends and dominant males' faces. They liked them enough to pay, by sacrificing a chance to get a treat. But you had to bribe those same monkeys with treats to persuade them to look at female macaque faces or the faces of subordinate males.

Female monkeys' rear ends develop pink swellings around the time they ovulate - critical information that it makes sense male monkeys would be wired to detect, said Platt.

Those same males may also gather potentially lifesaving information by studying dominant males who could kill them if crossed. Platt is still waiting to do a reverse study - to see what catches the eye of female macaques.

Meanwhile, he's applied the same technique to humans, male and female.

He used images of clothed people from www.hotornot.com, setting up the experiment so subjects had to pay a small amount of money to look at these images. Male subjects generally were more than willing. Not the females.

"For the most part, you had to pay females to look at any male pictures - even those where the guys were rated super hot," Platt said.

Subjects were asked to rate the hotornot pictures, too. Males enjoyed the task; many wanted to keep going after the hour was up, Platt said. Female subjects, on the other hand, were begging to stop after 10 minutes.

I could relate to those women, but not because I don't like looking at pictures. I just don't care for pictures of strangers.

Another study, out of Emory University, more directly addressed the question of pornography and sex differences. Scientists put men and women under a brain-scanning machine known as functional MRI and then handed them some naked photos.

This time, both men and women reported being aroused by the pictures, which featured nude men, nude women, and heterosexual couples having sex. Participants' brains showed activity in the visual cortex and a few other regions. The researchers found only one difference between the sexes - in men, the pictures caused more activation of a primitive region known as the amygdala. It's an area we share with rats.

"Historically the amygdala has been seen as the center for fear and learning," said Emory University psychologist Kim Wallen, one of the study's authors. "More recently it appears the amygdala is involved in emotion."

He speculates that men may find the sex pictures more emotionally salient than women do. So men and women may be equally visual, but men on average have different visual interests.

The researchers say these studies may eventually help pinpoint why some people with autism and other disorders don't show an interest in gazing at other humans, naked or clothed. It may also help explain why, for some men, porn can go from a guilty pleasure to a destructive addiction.

It's a losing battle for those trying to fight such addictions by ridding society of pornography. A better understanding of ourselves may go much further.

Philadelphia Inquirer

[Cardhu]

I wish I could fly a plane like you Miz Jaggers.

[Lady Jag]

That’s funny. Just last week in the news a woman made a killing selling her husband’s porn collection.

The wife made a bundle and her husband was arrested.

[Cardhu]

Ain´t no justice in this world. LOL