1375? Die from malaria, I guess? Be eaten by an alligator? Or oh no, hasten the demise of the Tocobaga with my exotic biology? Either they would kill me or get me sick, or vice versa. Also, fall on my ass when my house disappeared.
I would follow the river to the bay, I guess, and see if I could find anyone, or anything I might be able to eat.
I didn’t ever marry my ex, was irritated at how discriminatory legal marriage was back then, and we had kids so were a family anyway.
My husband now? He really wanted to be married, and “stepdad” is a different legal status than “mom’s boyfriend”, it smooths things when he had to do school pickup or doctor visit. So since he pushed and as I did see an upside we did.
Also you can’t foster or adopt here unless you are married - unmarried man in the household is a known risk to the kids he’s not related to. Statistically, it raises the risk of the kid getting hurt so single people can, or married couples but not unmarried hetero couples.
I am with you logically, I don’t need it, and don’t feel different and it’s weird for the state to license families. I understand religious marriage but am not religious.
“Federal law prohibits state and local actors from resisting, obstructing, and otherwise failing to comply with lawful immigration-related commands,” wrote Emil Bove, then acting deputy attorney general.
Well, did they approach the bench and show a legal warrant? Did they prove the legality of their detention of the person? Or were they doing a smash and grab?
I think that rule is fair enough, but this whole campaign of terror is riddled with illegality. If the kidnapping is illegal, or they didn’t prove to the judge that it was legal, this rule doesn’t apply.
Caw! Caw!
(Thank you! Thank you!)
Corviknight. A seven foot tall crow is terrifying!
ETA the best design is Banette.
He’s out now, thank God.
No, I would have no idea. It’s a standard notification? You can’t choose the sound? If it was a ladies site I’d say “vibrate” would be the obvious choice, but for a gay men’s site, no idea.
But I am a lady, and women are beautiful, and we are more physically affectionate with each other. I think at least a large minority try? It wasn’t traumatic, just felt nothing like sex. Performance only, no excitement, no nothing. Though I guess it might be like that with a guy I wasn’t into, as well.
I think when you think all sorts of everyday experiences can “turn you gay”, you might possibly be gay? And what do the scanners do to gay people? Turn them straight, or somehow more gay?
Like, I’ve tried all sorts of things in my life, including same-sex sex, and am still straight - like even if I were actively trying to change my sexuality it doesn’t. Sometimes to my despair, as I get older, it would be easier to not have such a strong preference.
25 is so young. For me, I just had casual relationships until something “stuck”, for lack of a better word. Stayed with my ex for 25 years, with my husband now for 11, we are so happy together and the sex is still good. Husband said he knew at the start he would be serious about me, I didn’t know until it lasted and got better and I liked his family, and his kids liked me and all our kids got along (more complicated situation when older, obviously) AND the sex stayed good and we still felt affectionate and loving.
I would say, at your age, it’s entirely possible you just haven’t met someone yet who you can feel that way about. You do have to be open to it if you want it, if that makes sense.
And I need to add- it’s not a requirement for a full and happy life, if you don’t want to pair up you don’t have to.
Not as far as I know. My mom was Christian and read plenty of mythology, visited Egypt and learned about their ancient gods, it’s my understanding that they just aren’t supposed to worship or believe in other gods. Not that they are supposed to be ignorant of the past or of other current religions either.
I don’t know about more fundamentalist sects, but she was Christian her whole life, well read and into learning about history and religion in general.
I only have one data point but my kid’s teachers (high school) have always both called my kid their preferred name and pronouns. I did get “the letter” this year to send back saying it was ok. Ridiculous.
This is just such a mess, why oh why.
What I really and truly can’t understand are the parents. How can you be THAT controlling? What do they think it’s going to accomplish?
I’ve been reading the responses and it reminded me of the class I took called Business Communications, where they emphasized that CYA style communication was absolute nonsense, your responsibility when communicating is to convey information in a way that can be received, and if that doesn’t happen it’s your fault, not the recipient’s, you can’t control them only you.
So if this is just one person who misses all the questions, sure, it’s them, but you still need to figure out how to get your answers. If it’s everyone, it’s you. Maybe these questions aren’t amenable to email, maybe it’s your format, if you want answers (and not just to prove you asked in some sort of gotcha game) you need to ask the people who aren’t answering why they aren’t.
Everywhere I’ve worked, people answer these by choosing a different font color and writing answers back in the email, but there are not a lot of questions by email. Maybe a note to “provide answers in BLUE” with the word blue in blue font would help?
Awesome. We went to see Lord Huron at a smaller venue here and were so surprised when they brought out a theremin to play, I had not realized that was in their sound, such an oddball instrument.
I don’t see how buying or not buying is going to hit the guy who is doing this.
As long as you aren’t buying trump-coins or whatever they are called, or a Tesla.
In the end there can be only one!
I like this, but you can’t have kids and be immortal, that’s a recipe for overpopulation.
Would enjoy not aging past adulthood (or not past 45, that was my “vampire age”), but life has to end unless you want all the same people around forever and no or very few new ones.
Was he asking you directly if you thought he could make pro? Then no, I think your honest opinion is the right answer.
If this was just unsolicited parental advice then yes, jerky thing to say. He will figure it out soon enough, right? 16 is when recruiters start looking and if he doesn’t get attention then he should know, I don’t think it’s the kind of thing you have to point out.
My kid who was a good - not - great athlete leveraged it for a good high school career and a scholarship to help with college, and an alright college sports career, there’s no reason to squash him down, if he enjoys the sport it can still be good for his life.
This has to be a generational difference but the unopposed moustache screams gay to me, because when I was a young adult only my gay friends had that style. I cannot shake the association. It seems like it started with some guys being ironic then got picked up by the mainstream.
Can’t wait for the shorts that are actual shorts to come back too, I’m tired of men passing off culottes as shorts. If they are longer than your knees they aren’t shorts. They are mediums or something but if they are not short, they aren’t shorts.
So a no from me.
I do also balance the carton. Not always absolute symmetry but don’t want someone to drop them.