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Sven and Dora have a talk

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I wanted to apologize for being such a control freak.

0 (0%)

Dora, it's been MONTHS since I hooked up with ANYBODY.

2 (7.7%)

Well, I rescind my apology then. Hey, no takebacks!

1 (3.8%)

Really? It's been MONTHS? Yep.

0 (0%)

Because of Faye? I dunno... partially? It was a bunch of things.

0 (0%)

How do you feel? Horny, mostly. I meant EMOTIONALLY.

1 (3.8%)

If horniness isn't an emotion, I've got more to learn than I thought.

6 (23.1%)

What about you? Get any action? ...I shouldn't be seeing anybody but my therapist right now.

1 (3.8%)

Play the field a bit... I don't think slutting it up would be "good for me."

0 (0%)

Why do you care if I'm getting laid or not?

0 (0%)

Legend has it that if a year goes by without a Bianchi having sex... (Dad and grandpa's got us covered)

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I don't mean to be pushy. I just want you to be happy, sis.

1 (3.8%)

Talking to you tonight helped, I think.

0 (0%)

My balls are so blue Pantone wants to license the color....

4 (15.4%)

Can we NOT talk about your junk while we're hugging, please?

5 (19.2%)

Padma just replied to "Skinnysaurus"

3 (11.5%)

She's doing okay, and she's sorry it didn't work out.

0 (0%)

It'd be pretty hypocritical to get all emo over it now... tryin' to get my mack on with that Lieutenant.

1 (3.8%)

I was totally gonna say something, and probably punch you in the arm as well.

1 (3.8%)

Total Members Voted: 26

[JonathanXS]

Trying to figure out what color would be THAT blue

#0040FF blue, of course.

[Magdalena]

Mason Jars - I very vaguely recall using jelly jars as a child for tea/juice/milk. Doesn't bother me one way or the other. As to why Sven is using them, why not? Probably is a case of a fan or band member he wrote music for either did canning themselves or knew someone who did, gave him the jars, he ate whatever was inside the jars, and decided "Meh, why not keep them around for when all the cups are in the sink/dishwasher."

Cracker Barrel - Having grown up in the Deep South I can say that when I'm REALLY hungry for Southern-ish food (now living in New Mexico) I'll go there. Is it the same as a real hole in the wall restaurant that tastes just like your grandma cooked it place? Not at all. Kitschy enough to make me forgive it for it's not so authentic Southern southern? Sure. And anyway who doesn't love sitting at the table with the peg board game waiting for your food?

That awkward brother sister talk - My brother and I haven't spoken in years - but I don't think this conversation would work for us even if we did speak on a regular basis.

Blue Balls - I'm not a man so I can't really speak to the condition itself, though I did have some friends who worked at planned parenthood (who had actually asked the clinicians) said that most of the condition itself is psychological, yes there is SOME pain, but the great majority of it (ironically) is in the guy's head. Not dismissing the amount of pain one might feel in such a situation of course.

Sven Creepy? - :S Sadly slightly yes.

[Bachi-Atari]

Blue balls? Yeah I've had em, although they wern't so much from length of time not -ahem- releasing.  But from being on a date and being teased throughout most of it, was the most physically painful night of my love life.  But it ended well 

[Method of Madness]

I mostly stop into a Cracker Barrel when I'm on a long drive for a book on CD. 

Which I promptly forget to return for three weeks...


which gets kinda expensive. 

I'm confused, is Cracker Barrel a restaurant and a library?

[Bachi-Atari]

No, but they have gift shops

[Is it cold in here?]

Hysteria?

Yes. The symptoms for which doctors treated women with vibrators sound to modern ears like sexual deprivation.

[Bachi-Atari]

Better than anything Dr Kellogg would've done... he'd have melted it off.

[DSL]

Dammit, now I want chicken'n'dumplings .or. pot roast from Cracker Barrel.

[vettechinohio]

No no, you want the broccoli cheddar chicken. It is the BEST. THING. EVER.

Chicken and dumplings are nothing more than boiled and unseasoned chicken tenders with lumpy squares of dough in a strange and tasteless floury gravy. ::shudder::

Did y'all hear about the shooting at the Cracker Barrel in Brooklyn, Ohio a month or two back? I live near there, and I was just there the day before. The second daughter, the one he chased into the bathroom to shoot, just died last week ):

[jwhouk]

There is a Cracker Barrel about 15 minutes south of Northampton off of I-91 in Holyoke...

[DSL]

vettech, the Sandusky one's out every time I ask.

Yeah, I heard about that shooting. Sick miserable b*****d. People like that make me hope Dante was right.

[Redball]

Did y'all hear about the shooting at the Cracker Barrel in Brooklyn, Ohio a month or two back? I live near there, and I was just there the day before. The second daughter, the one he chased into the bathroom to shoot, just died last week ):

God help me, my first knee-jerk reaction was to make a joke. Yuck! And I had read about it.

[jmucchiello]

But I think that people don't like the idea of women (other than porn stars) masturbating, maybe?

What people? Being disturbed by that is nonsense.

There was a girl in my class at school who was well known for being a big fan of sex, but vehemently denied ever touching herself in any way.

Did you ever see her sitting with her legs crossed swinging the top leg with a hint of vigor? For some women....

[WAYF]

Marten's learning his faults. Slowly but surely.

[Is it cold in here?]

Did y'all hear about the shooting at the Cracker Barrel in Brooklyn, Ohio a month or two back? I live near there, and I was just there the day before. The second daughter, the one he chased into the bathroom to shoot, just died last week ):

God help me, my first knee-jerk reaction was to make a joke. Yuck! And I had read about it.

I was once feeling bad about enjoying a piece of black humor, and a wise friend pointed out that laughing at evil is a way of denying it respect. “The devil...the prowde spirite...cannot endure to be mocked.”

[Soulsynger]

@Comic:
Kind of anti-climactic, no?

[Tova]

[ ... ]
But I think that people don't like the idea of women (other than porn stars) masturbating, maybe?
[ ... ]

Yeah, I noticed. What is THAT all about? It seems to be an opinion quite common in America.

really depends on where you are and who you talk to. my hypothesis is that the act is considered as coarse regardless, but men get a pass because we are generally expected to be coarse/gross/pervy/etc.

I suggest this with no small amount of hesitation, but I was under the general impression that society saw men masturbating is seen as shameful, whereas for women it's empowering.

I am thinking in particular of their depiction in Smallville versus American Beauty, for example. Although that may not be the best example...

OK, I'd be happy to be proven wrong! I probably am. It's happened before. 

[Kugai]

Well, at least Faye hasn't had to hit him

[snubnose]

I guess promiscuity as a percentage between males and females would be pretty even. [...]

Thats the politically correct assumption, but in reality I would expect there to be more males than females being promiscious. Because women are kind of more concious about feelings, on average, and being promiscious isnt really a healthy attitude towards your own feelings. In fact in more serious cases its even a state of mind that might demand theraphy (*).

Unless you go promisicious = sex without being married = including serially monogamic, then thats pretty popular with pretty much everybody nowadays. But thats kind of a definition from past ages.

Not that I dont consider the idea of finding one partner and only having with that person sex in your whole life highly romantic.



(*): I wanted to link the article about Hypersexuality on Wikipedia at this place, but man thats a heap of bull. Reads like written by teenager virgins from the USA bible belt, not by doctors of medicine. Seriously, Hypersexuality includes the sensation of pleasure from masturbation ? We are all doomed.

[Welu]

I remember reading some study where they asked a load of twenty somethings of male and female, if they would have satisfying sex consequence free with no-strings. Apparently the rates of they would were pretty even between male and female. It wasn't the no-strings thing that got women to say no to casual encounters, it's that basically, women weren't sure if it would be worth their time because generally the first sex with a new stranger wouldn't be all that satisfying in the technical department.

[Barmymoo]

I think it depends hugely on where you are and who you're asking. I personally feel that women, or at least young women (I'm talking about people from age maybe 15 to about 25, because that's the age range I know best) are more worried about the emotional attachment of a relationship than the sexual pleasure, whereas young men in the same age range are more bothered about sex than emotions. It seems to even out a bit as people get older and manage to throw off the societal expectations and discover how they actually feel about things.

Also, I wouldn't say that being serially monogamous is universally popular. A lot of my friends only date people if they think they're likely to get married - not so much serially but singularly, although obviously sometimes they discover they wouldn't want to get married and break up. Whilst this is generally amongst my Christian friends, we aren't talking about Bible-belt southern states Christianity but well-educated and liberal-leaning British women (I think religion has a more balanced view on sex on this side of the pond).

[pwhodges]

(I think religion has a more balanced view on sex on this side of the pond).

Well, once you move away from Rome, that is.

[Border Reiver]

Well, at least Faye hasn't had to hit him

Yet

[jmucchiello]

I suggest this with no small amount of hesitation, but I was under the general impression that society saw men masturbating is seen as shameful, whereas for women it's empowering.

Masturbation is nothing to crow about for either sex. "Guess what I just did? WOOOT!" But that doesn't make doing it a shameful act, either. It is what it is. Most people will just see at a waste of time. But frankly, so is watching most television shows, getting drunk with friends, "hanging out", etc. So as a time waster, it isn't the worst way to waste time either. Anyone telling you it is a shameful act should mind their own business.

[Redball]

I suggest this with no small amount of hesitation, but I was under the general impression that society saw men masturbating is seen as shameful, whereas for women it's empowering.

My impression is that many see either gender masturbating as a negative. Those who see it empowering for women would have no reason to see it as shameful for men. But I'm wary of generalizing about my culture, especially in this forum. I don't watch a lot of TV, don't see a lot of movies, and assume most forum folks are more clued in than I.

[jwhouk]

Re: Today's comic - Sometimes, after you've been doing things for so long, dialogue just writes itself.

[Carl-E]

But frankly, so is watching most television shows, getting drunk with friends, "hanging out", etc.

Not to mention reading webcomics and posting on forums. 

[Schmorgluck]

i've never understood what the shape of the container has to do with the specific beverage a person is supposed to drink it out of.

It has to do with texture, aromas, and temperature control. For example, some people drink whisky in a tumbler, while a snifter is far better - but this kind of glass is actually the optimal choice to benefit from the aromas. The material is important, too: according to a Belgian friend of mine, who's the most impressive beer nerd I know (even more of a beer nerd than your average Belgian), some special beers are better served in an earthenware cup, for better temperature control. Champagne is better served in a flute than in a coupe. Etc.

[jwhouk]

Definition of Creepy?

Talking about blueballs with your sister...    1 (2.2%)
...while you are hugging her.    9 (20%)
Putting little hats on your AnthroPC's.    0 (0%)
Saying "yesssssss" after doing so.    10 (22.2%)
Creating threads including the words "hot" and "Hannelore".    4 (8.9%)
Bearhat guy.    4 (8.9%)
Pink t-shirts.    0 (0%)
Pink t-shirts with the name of a punk anarchist band.    0 (0%)
Trying to figure out what color would be THAT blue    2 (4.4%)
...and if it was humanly possible to have them.    0 (0%)
Talking about blue ovaries.    2 (4.4%)
Wanting SPATHE HAM! (#CC3366, by the way)    1 (2.2%)
Writing slashfic, of course.    1 (2.2%)
Stuff like ==MODERATOR EDIT==    11 (24.4%)

Total Members Voted: 45

[jwhouk]

Boy, this is going to be a low-turnout poll.