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ah for god's sake will ye stop

Look, I'm just doing what the thread title told me to do, my dude.

i know i know have at it.

controp: when yr football team is twelve goals down the ref should send everyone home early

they have that rule in uhh recreational softball, I don't think anyone minds

twouldve improved my mood tonight is all

I'm white btw

As a sheet.

i think rattlesnakes encountered in a metro public open space with [debatable traffic level, something like 'regular, hourly traffic'] should be killed summarily by park employees. To discourage visitors seeking to encounter or kill snakes, killing by a visitor would be subject to a [debatable amount] fine.

Now I want to know what the other side of this controversy is. I guess it involves trapping and releasing rattlesnakes?

we should totally release the rattlesnakes, into hospitals and schools

It's only just.

It’s the only way to revitalise the stale whacking day tradition

lol

silby i think it's basically mtb-y, youngish, hardman-y newbs to our trailsystem getting hyper "deal with it" about buzzworms. and i would agree with them that robust local ecosystems are very desirable.

and most commentary on forums is more funny "loook at this snek from my day out" stuff. but i'm like, not into getting bit by a snake, and while i do understand the risks of actual backcountry, i also know with all the new people in town, there's dogs and new user groups in the local parks. https://www.5280.com/2017/11/front-range-fraught-rattlesnakes/

I like how your local glossy magazine's url is all numbers like a Chinese casino

"We’ll monitor it and if everybody [referring to the rattlesnakes] goes to bed, we’ll open it early."

A+ use of editorial brackets here

"goes to BED?! goes to a terrifying nest of vipers is more like it!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERMA1NLFh2k

not sure where to post this but here it goes

so i'm watching the calgary stampede and i like it and i also love horses

i'm watching the chuckwagon races and i find it entertaining but i know so many of these horses get put under incredible amount of stress and many die or have to be euthanized

i feel kind of sad about it? i have mixed feelings i guess

like i sometimes daydream about having a little space outside the city with a horse or two to just get away and treat them right because they're such beautiful creatures

i remember when i was younger i'd go to the pne and watch the horse demonstration and the pacific spirit horse show in the agrodome and thought they were pretty amazing

I feel lucky that the local Oregon rattlesnakes are among the more shy and retiring of venomous pit vipers. Taken as a whole, they just want us all to get along.

when I'm out in the country (almost always on bike) and I meet a couple or a group on horses, I enjoy greeting the horses when appropriate. Broke horses, like tame dogs, have social understanding that commands sympathetic consideration from me. I guess all horses should get my sympathy, but seeing the awareness between horses and riders has an odd next-level effect on me.

horses, like dogs, develop a trust relationship with their owners/riders, because they are social animals who instinctively follow their leaders. when asked to sacrifice themselves, they will trust their leader and give until they give out. it's wretched of people to abuse this trust by asking for their horses full measure of sacrifice, all in the name of winning a stupid meaningless 'chuck wagon race'.

Agree on the treatment of social animals. oddly I think one reason I have a strong cat allegiance is that they are highly social, but not strongly hierarchical to any household order. theyre just people in your space really.

some are a-holes. but the best are the best people I know.

re rattlers, fuck no, they are alien. controp

Ya I don’t mind killing/eating those guys

a place near my office has amazing klapperschlange soup. It's spicy and delicious.

Social media, including ilx, should shut down whenever there is an extended heatwave. Pretty much everywhere is getting like Do the Right Thing.

Or perhaps I should log out and read a book.

The first seven words would have sufficed imo

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there are no bad obsidian sarcophagus jokes

that can be remedied in a hurry

people who identify as asexuals desserve more respect and visibility in our more sex positive times...

Have there been any self identified asexual characters/people out in the mainstream? I can only think of Todd from Bojack.

Stephen Fry, but he's married now so I'm assuming he isn't claiming to be asexual any more.

Hmmm. One can be in a romantic relationship without wanting sex.

True. I'm not sure that's what's going on with Stephen Fry, but who knows?

And who cares, is more to the point where Stephen Fry is concerned.

back in the day morrissey and boy george! not not with each other obv

I’m so glad no one I’ve dated turned out to be asexual

Since asexuals are a minuscule minority, it must be hard to fine one let alone one they’d want to be in a relationship with

I think Fry, much like Morrissey, simply identified as thinking sex was icky until he got laid well one time.

Fry said he was celibate for 17 years after university right up until the late 90s or early 2000s.

"I got on with my life without sex. It seems insane now that I think about it," he said.

He said he had questioned what kind of God would create human beings who would "find delight in organs of the body that are parked exactly adjacent to or indeed share a function with the organs of excretion?"

"All those damp, tufted areas of the human body with their strange odours. How can anybody find them attractive?"

When asked if he was too shy to talk about sex, Fry said he could "bore you and disgust you horrifically, talking about sex".

He said a number of things changed his mind about sex, including love.

"Love flicked the switch ... I found someone. It just happened and that's what allowed sex to take place."

quality url: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-11-04/stephen-fry-sex-love-god/6910836

I think Fry, much like Morrissey, simply identified as thinking sex was icky until he got laid well one time.

― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic)

it's really not one of those "either/or" things. i'm inclined towards the belief that an asexual who's in love with someone is more likely to tolerate sex with that person.

chronic depression, and treatments for same, do also play a significant role in these things.

If you thought Razor scooters were amusing mostly harmless newmillenium bullshit backinaday, wait til you get to “share” sidewalks with microwheeled motorized _everything_ _everywhere_ so whitecollar dipshits can get their swerve on.

BAN

#trumpyellsatlawnkidface

not controversial

*confused look* Is this the Dept of Disgusting Savages?

thanks for the responses - definitely think i could be emotionally in love with a person who is asexual, and probably abstain for awhile but not sure how complicated it would get later on. So many facets to love

asexuality is very real and otm does not get recognition (or is lumped in w incel). one of the downsides of the sex positive movement is the ignoring of this subset.

there is also a subset of people who do not have sex unless an emotional connection is forged over time - that totally makes sense to me, there is a term but i forget it atm

I don't think it's pansexual? Although that is when you are only attracted to a person, regardless of gender, after you have an emotional connection.

I pretty much think everyone's gay. But I know that is not the case.

Lol

That is definitely a controp

I by no means even get a half chub by looking at dicks

I’ve heard some dudes say they can get a hard on even if a guy is sucking them off and they consider themselves not gay

Well more power to them but that is not the case with me

Whoops, I meant queer as a term to capture all non-straight people.

Oh okay

But thanks for your personal insight into looking at dicks.