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Reply to Threesomes and moresomes in Personal Relationships JoeUser Forums

Sexuality and how you manifest it is one of those weird things. A book you write with invisible but inerasable (is that even a word?) ink, once you write it you can't unwrite it. As well as this irreversibility it is written in a language that only you can really understand. Getting anyone to understand yours or attempting to understand anyone else's is a hard task. When sex does happen, it happens like battles of old - on a battleground chose

Reply to Marine kills unarmed Iraqi - Murder? I don't think so. in Current Events JoeUser Forums

I think one thing should be remembered - their is a very fine line that separates a professional army from a group of people with guns. Technology aside, it basically comes down to the professionalism exhibited in combat situations. Being a professional soldier, and by inference a professional military is not predominately determined by how many or how quickly you kill. It is determined by allowing context, command and discernment to determin

Reply to fat-bottomed girls in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Fashion's dictatorship over women will only ever come to an end when women stop buying into mindless (and often futile, implausible, impossible, etc) emulation. What males find attractive is about as relevant as the alignment of the planets and the gravitational pull of Sirius B. What is really contested in these representations of women is what women find attractive in other women and themselves. Note: I realise that this point or perspective

Reply to gun control and the idiots that want it in Politics JoeUser Forums

they want world peace with no killing DUH!!!!!!! *Sorry. I just can't get the full duh effect in this medium* Now I've heard it all.

Reply to This is me. Deal with it. in Life Journals JoeUser Forums

It's amazing that all the while the mind perceives the body as the enemy, the real enemy is allowed to transgress without judgement. There are no eyes the mind can turn against itself, no mirror within which it can find its mimic, no hands to trace its contour, no ears or recording to hear the distorted sound of its own voice and no reason by which it can judge its own. Our bodies have ceased being our greatest concern. Our minds on the other

Reply to the horror of 'morning face' in Misc JoeUser Forums

I, on the other hand, quite enjoy waking up looking like the bastard son of three mile island and chernobyl. It insures that whatever mistake was made the night before is safely outside the ten mile radius of death before I gain full and regrettable consciousness And what happens if morning face is your face... permanently . I've tried scrubbing, but i find that steel wool

Reply to i'm having an affair in Home & Family JoeUser Forums

Dear GOD!!!! You skipped middleage altogether and headed straight for flower-print, saggy-bottomed pants and afternoons of scones and tea. Epitaph: Within a month she went from an impish, nymphish, devilish laugh to gardening, counting hours of sleep and worrying about slipping in the bath Marco XX I love y

Reply to a better way to hurt you in Art JoeUser Forums

I also love this, but in a weird way it makes me wince. Sort of like being friends with the mafia - overall they're decent guys, goodfellas, but you know what they're capable of. Thank God you're already married. I mean the most a friend would ever get would be a kneecapping, right? Being a fully fledged partner opens up the possibility of hit/I]. Yikes! Disclaimer: Metaphor and analogy. Mig would never actually kneecap or kill an

Reply to A Modern Girl's Guide to NOT Getting a Third Date in Dating JoeUser Forums

Yes, Marco but I want a job that pays more than five bucks an hour. i have an inferiority complex whenever I'm with my boyfriend, who can spend $3000 on a suit and take cabs everywhere. (bastard). Plus I have debts to pay, and i don't feel like being pursued by men with rifles in violin cases or finding horses heads in my bed (es

Reply to A Modern Girl's Guide to NOT Getting a Third Date in Dating JoeUser Forums

I'm taking my equivilency (can't even spell it) so i can go to uni and my brain is turning to mush. DEAR GOD!!!!!!!! Dyl has turned. My dear friend, your brain turns to mush after going to uni. You hear me...AFTER!!!!!! The idea of a movie for a second date is a good one. I was once priv

Reply to My perfect guy in Personal Relationships JoeUser Forums

Don't worry Sal, all my dates have been disastrous failures, even the ones that could have been seen as partially successful in the long run. I always seem to give out the "I just want to be your friend" vibe. More than anything else it's that which confuses both of us. I know and she knows that this is a date. She acts like it's a date but I don't. She leans in for the kiss and I run off, mumbling something about university the next day even

Reply to A Modern Girl's Guide to NOT Getting a Third Date in Dating JoeUser Forums

How curious...you're a sparkler. You sparkle and then sputter. BUT, what I believe would be found if given more patience and what all your applicants seem to have no interest in finding out is whether you reignite and sparkle once again. Isn't their curiosity piqued, don't they wonder about the sudden change in composure, about the flight of confidence and intelligence (because I am sure that you are perfectly, delightfully, witty and i

Reply to Dissent and Democracy - Synonymous in Meaning in Current Events JoeUser Forums

(or other not-directly-involved country) might desire (and deserve?) That's the problem, Hamster, we are and since the Second World War have been directly involved all the major conflicts the US has been involved in - Korea, Vietnam, Gulf I, Afghanistan and the current invasion and occupation of Iraq.<

Reply to romancing the recalcitrant woman in Personal Relationships JoeUser Forums

oh, criminy. what you did before, i suppose. (which is what you do now, pretty much, except you tell someone about it) Actually got me to laugh. I think you dislodged some long discarded organ that I had forgotten about...thaaaaat's right, my sense of humour. What? Me? Relax? Please! And remem

Reply to God's Barbecue is About to Start in Politics JoeUser Forums

All around us, history (thought to have died with the death of the conflict between the Soviet Union and the West) is resurgent. And its face is that of War. Our Pax Romana lasted approximately 2 years, i.e. end of cold war - 1989; Gulf war No#1 - 1991; in our globalised, telecommunications encased worl

Reply to Happy Birthday To... *meh* in Just Hanging Out JoeUser Forums

You can get buckets of sangria. Oh man, I'm sooooooo there. Ahhh, that's right your birthday.....have a happy and drunk one and make sure that the former is never predicated on the later, because that means that you're an alcoholic and no one wants that, but did it only take you 25 years to become this ? and if it did (and no one would ever assume that it didn't) then that's just plain remarkable, KUDOS to you - you're 25 and FABU

Reply to All marriage is unconstitutional! in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Citahellion...............YOU ARE A REDICULOUS PERSON!!! Now this is what we all have to worry about. There are too many issues that are regulated by the state that are not concurrently regulated by reason. When reason is used to attempt a solution we are met with useless protestations and insult

Reply to Life shackle, Death rattle in Art JoeUser Forums

Yeah I think I waffled my way through that pretty well.... With flying colors Sal. I always have loved your comments and I loved this one as much as any of your others. I feel a smile coming on... <TD

Reply to War More Years in Politics JoeUser Forums

I guess for us Australians this election has been somewhat of an academic exercise in prediction and emotional investment. We pretend to be knowledgeable and effectively "bet" on who will win and then we make a big deal about really caring about the outcome. It's so far away, all of it, across the pacific and across continents, so many straights and archipelagos in between, we are luckier than most and most of all because of the distance and s

Reply to HOMOSEXUALS UTTERLY REJECTED in Current Events JoeUser Forums

It seems we live in an age where steps backward outnumber those forward and this time the American people cannot point at grey haired men and shriek that it is the fault of corpses and those that have eyes in the back of their heads and none in their sockets. Many of us feel cold and alone and weary of the mob

Reply to A catch up in Life Journals JoeUser Forums

Nice to hear that things are looking on the up for you Sal. Decided to plunge into Uni eh? I finish in 2 weeks and it's just as scary coming out as it is going in. Now there's something to look forward to As far as the election goes...well...it goes and that's all that can really be said in its defence. <TABLE cellpadding=8 width="95%" align=center bgCol

Reply to romancing the recalcitrant woman in Personal Relationships JoeUser Forums

oh bah Marco you're such a cynic!! So. You've picked up on that, huh? I'm young and world weary without ever really having suffered, without ever really having lived. Never been shot at, never been hopelessly caught in the maelstrom of addiction, senseless death or self-abuse, never been a measurable di

Reply to romancing the recalcitrant woman in Personal Relationships JoeUser Forums

I promised I wouldn't read this article for entirely childish reasons, and childishly I can still pretend that I haven't, BUT... why does it seem that women always point these out as don'ts and do's for dating but quickly change their tune as soon as they get married. Suddenly those "warts" get a little less endearing and a little more annoying and the "honesty" becomes outright inconsiderate. I'm of the opinion that romance does exis

Reply to What Passes For Humor at My House in Misc JoeUser Forums

The complexity is astounding - mummy is to mommy is to female is to breasts is to lets-crack-mommy-up-with-a-mummy. Smart little whipper snappers. The absolute joy of childhood/parenthood, the last place left for insightful and intelligent physical comedy. Sounds like your sons are already excelling at the most important and satisfying jobs they're ever going to have - being your children.

Reply to Some questions about your spirituality in Religion JoeUser Forums

1) Which of your beliefs are unshakable? That we are and that we suffer (wider meaning of the word suffer, not the narrow confines of the western definition) 2) When and