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2012-04-08, 05:54 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-04-08, 06:08 AM (ISO 8601)
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Because there's a huge mess of who's going to raise a (possible) baby. The guy could run away and leave the lady with the whole burden. But that might just mean a dead baby, since human babies require so much nurturing. So maybe he should contribute? But as much as the woman? More than the woman (she has just served as an incubator, after all)?
And our instincts haven't caught up with things like contraception. They go by a rule-of-thumb - "having sex means possible baby".Avatar by CoffeeIncluded
Oooh, and that's a bad miss.
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2012-04-08, 06:25 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: LGBTAitP - Part 22: The Best There Is
These are very wise words. I find many people are surprised about surprise pregnancies when they have not taken the right precautions. Well, sex was intended to be the only mean of reproduction, it only makes sense that it is good at inducing pregnancies. Pleasure is only a peculiar side effect or encouragement for doing it.
It's like walking around with a gun, shooting a living being, then acting surprised when that being drops dead.
One thing that doesn't help my asexuality is my utter disgust for pregnancy, and the knowledge many women become pregnant without being aware of it, sometimes until the baby is born, even after they took all reasonable contraceptive precautions. I'm incredibly grateful it's physically impossible for my BF to get me pregnant.Originally Posted by on Dwarf Fortress succession gamesOriginally Posted by Dwarf Fortress 0.40.01 bugs
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2012-04-08, 06:29 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: LGBTAitP - Part 22: The Best There Is
Because it's so intimate? The more intimate an act, the more emotional, and the more emotional, the more of a problem it is if the emotions of the parties involved don't line up properly? Like, if I nod at someone I met once on the bus and they don't nod back, my emotion is rejection and theirs is unknown to me but could be ascribed to shyness or cruelty or anything in between. But I don't care very much. Whereas if we were having sex on the bus (wait, this analogy is falling apart somewhere ) and they did something that I interpreted as rejecting me, that would be a whole big mess. Messier even than the mess we'd be in for having sex on the bus.
'o' End of November! But if I'm allowed be forward, I'm graduating at the end of June and graduation gifts are very welcome in my culture...
Why do you think we got as far as we did? All official measurements are in metric, like food packages, road signs, government things, etc. Some people, especially older people, would still use miles and inches, and a lot of people would use stone (of all things) for people's weight. But we use metres and kilometres, kilograms, litres, degrees Celsius etc.
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2012-04-08, 06:30 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: LGBTAitP - Part 22: The Best There Is
*Hugs* Guess I'll have to stop, too... I wonder if Greasemonkey could provide a way? Maybe prettying everything else up will feel even neater.
Could have some blue, some purple, a splash of red here and there...
I wouldn't mind having a silver version of the steampunk ring with a tiny yet brilliant sapphire embedded on cylinder set in one of the gears. Of course, the microtasers would make it a tad expensive... >.>
Right though, *hugs*. You're a wonderful person, and I'm sure you'll find love someday.
I'd kill for his mastery of the English tongue.
... And I just pictured a giant tongue with a saddle. I've been not sleeping for longer than I thought. @_@
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2012-04-08, 06:55 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: LGBTAitP - Part 22: The Best There Is
I'll talk to Mum. I can promise no more. But if all goes as planned I'll be in Dublin the third week of June.
ETA: I'm sorry. It's a memory from one of her trips with dad.
I thought a geologist would be at home with using stones. Or maybe you want them to specify what kind of stone...
ETA: Paper on 'bigender' people - people who alternate between gender identities.Last edited by Asta Kask; 2012-04-08 at 12:38 PM.
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2012-04-08, 01:24 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: LGBTAitP - Part 22: The Best There Is
Misaligned things also bother me. I'm curious, though; is comorbidity of Asperger's and OCD a fairly common thing? I think I remember you saying you had the former condition, but please correct me if I'm wrong. I'm asking because I think I have either one of those conditions or the other, though I've yet to be diagnosed. One of these days I'm going to have to do that.
Mucho agreement. Also; what. *backs away slowly*
But hey, I'm adjacent to a state where same-sex marriage is legal. Not that you'd ever get me to live in Iowa, of all places. No offense to any Iowegians who may be reading this...
Thanks for the reassurance. I guarantee the couple's grand entrance shall be on a Final Fantasy-esque airship, of course.
And I'll use my hair color for posts! Or continue doing so, anyway...
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2012-04-08, 02:50 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: LGBTAitP - Part 22: The Best There Is
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2012-04-08, 03:19 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: LGBTAitP - Part 22: The Best There Is
Hehe, cute. But it does make sense to specify which kind of stone it is because the density and size of the stone in question affect its mass.
ETA: Paper on 'bigender' people - people who alternate between gender identities.
Yeah, I'm a high-functioning Aspie. I have no clue whether OCD tends to go with that or not, though. Besides, I don't think my OCD diagnosis would actually hold up anymore because it's much less severe than when I was a youngster.
Today I decided I should stop complaining about the lack of gender-neutral pronouns in English and just go with a set of the ones some people have already proposed. So which gender-neutral pronouns should I adopt?Jude P.
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2012-04-08, 03:55 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-04-08, 04:15 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-04-08, 04:20 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-04-08, 04:36 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: LGBTAitP - Part 22: The Best There Is
He, she, they.
It all works. "They's got food for us."
Sure, it sounds like the accent of a Southern person, but that's alright. You just need to correct them with a double-barrel. I'm sure they'll understand. It was obviously satire.Steam username is Triscuitable.
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2012-04-08, 04:47 PM (ISO 8601)
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Merriam Webster's editors actually made a video about that.
Personally, I like they. But everybody should be able to use their own pronouns, as long as it is manageable. Language is a fluid form of art, one that we should encourage to continue its neverending journey.Treasured Quotes
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2012-04-08, 04:50 PM (ISO 8601)
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"Elephant trunks should be used for elephant things only. Nothing else."
Thank you Geomancer for the Death avatar.
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2012-04-08, 05:05 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-04-08, 05:12 PM (ISO 8601)
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I'd love to. xD
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2012-04-08, 05:27 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: LGBTAitP - Part 22: The Best There Is
Steam username is Triscuitable.
I got VAC banned in COD: Ghosts for using an FOV changer.
I try not to think of how sad that is.
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2012-04-08, 05:34 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-04-08, 05:49 PM (ISO 8601)
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Well, I suppose that makes sense.
"Hey, mam, can I take your precious memento from a good time and give it to some random lady in a different country?"
"Um, no."
Very sweet of you to ask, though! I was rushing back here to tell you that I'm moving at the end of May. In fact, I probably won't have a Dublin address between the end of May and the start of October. I'll be homelessly travelling to and with first my family then my partner.
"Stone" is near-meaningless to me! I like it better, as a word, than rock. But I use "rock" in general, rock names for specific rocks, and the recognised set of grain sizes for individual lumps of rock (which are, mud, silt, sand, gravel (an inch or so), cobble (a heft), and then boulder (too big for an average person to pick up).
Also a very good point! Being 12 "granite"s would be well different from being 12 "porphyry"s.
I use singular "they", for everyone, unless the gender is known to all (like I don't say "I'm seeing my mother later, they're bringing me a book", but I would say "I hear my mother's friend visited her, they brought her a book"). Or if the gender was somehow relevant. [Insert a sentence about my mother and her friend here in which the friend's gender is relevant, I couldn't make one. I'm tired!]
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2012-04-08, 05:50 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-04-08, 05:55 PM (ISO 8601)
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That is a good point, although one I can only admire outside my own native language. It would indeed be a shame to be unable to read such old texts.
But yet there are changes necessary due to the improvement of the culture and knowledge behind the language.
Perhaps some change is necessary, but excess should be avoided?
I hope that made sense, because I miiiight be a wee bit tired. At least if that is why everything is all wobbly, might just be my usual madness. @_@Treasured Quotes
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2012-04-08, 06:00 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: LGBTAitP - Part 22: The Best There Is
I imagine the same way any other over-the-internet relationship starts. Of which there are quite a few on this forum alone, including several marriages. And 16-19 isn't an unreasonable age-range. Unless there's some other unspecified information involved, I'm not really seeing any "reason" she needs to see.
One moderator's "nitpicking" of the rules... And I confess, I'm another coloured-post-skipper.
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2012-04-08, 06:01 PM (ISO 8601)
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They've never met, and she has a ridiculous amount of faith in him. She believes he's perfect, "in [my] eyes." She hasn't even seen him, mind you. Not only this, but her parents are the most overprotective people I've ever met, and her father is a racist against Irishman. He called me a "mick" on our first meeting. What a swell guy.
A. Hadn't seen the post by Rawhide before I made my post. I had only seen another poster's opinion, and thought the post was made on that topic.
B. Administrator. The corrected corrects the corrector.Last edited by Triscuitable; 2012-04-08 at 06:07 PM.
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I got VAC banned in COD: Ghosts for using an FOV changer.
I try not to think of how sad that is.
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2012-04-08, 06:13 PM (ISO 8601)
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"Never seen" as in "never met in person", or "never even seen a picture of him"? If the latter, that is odd. If the former, that's common. Believing someone's "perfect" is bad news in a relationship, but is also neither uncommon nor particularly relevant to it being an online relationship. And I just think implying that being in an online relationship is a bad thing by default is kinda a bad idea on a forum like this...
That has exactly nothing to do with the relative quality of her relationship...
Probably should've checked, then. Doesn't mean my comment's not still relevant.
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2012-04-08, 06:16 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: LGBTAitP - Part 22: The Best There Is
Salutations, LGBTAitP (that acronym always gives me the mental image of a rather large sandwich for some reason)
This is really the only place... thing I frequent that has a sizable enough LGPTA community for me to ask the following question:
Do you support alternatives to the terms homophobia and heterophobia, such as hetero/homosexism and/or just plain sexual prejudice.
I'm not trying to spark a political thing, maybe some small, friendly debate. Mainly I just want to get a nice sample size from a stand-up group of fellows such as the OotS community.
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2012-04-08, 06:17 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: LGBTAitP - Part 22: The Best There Is
I'd also say it's pretty common of young love to find their partner as flawless. I always thought it was some kind of oddity when my friends would have these attitude back in high school but it's been pretty universal in my experience.
And also I have to agree; I'm not really seeing the flaw you're pointing out. What's going on?
Um, are you asking about what people think of those terms? I think as long as it gets the point across to the reader it's just as valid.Last edited by Gnomish Wanderer; 2012-04-08 at 06:20 PM.
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