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I believe I’ve been a member 13 consecutive years and have maintained the same screen name. The respectful nice guy that gifted me was a former member, a member on my friend list, someone I knew under a different name. It just took him a couple of years to say “hello”.
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It's not the needle that I fear, it's the sting.
It's because of a few bad experiences. It was for a work health checkup once. That needle to draw blood thicker than usual. We always have a survey after the checkup,
so I complained about that needle hurting. They got back to me and told me that no one had ever complained about it (
Another time was during the Covid pandemic. There was a shortage of needles, so they used every Eastern European drain-pipe that they could find. The first and third jab were fine, but the second was very much not nice. It still hurt minutes after.
It’s been many years since then and I honestly DO NOT like needles. I have to look away, the phlebotomist and/or whoever is administering the injection, is a witness to my anxiety and sometimes tears. I never would have been able to be a needle using drug taker…..
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but only you yourself can improve your health.
Health or lack of it is not just genetic or accidental,
you have a lot of influence over it with food, water, sleep and exercise.
Ask Grok: "What type of diet is best to reduce heart and arteries disease?"
Good food choices for hypertension management include:
Bananas (contain about 420 mg of potassium per piece)
Leafy greens (spinach, kale, Swiss chard)
Beans and lentils
Sweet potatoes
Avocados
Oranges and melons
You can do exercise without spending a cent. It's just a matter of moving some muscles, raising the heartbeat and working up a bit of a sweat.
My hypertension is reaching risky levels too, I've just measured close to 180/100. It's up and down, depending on how I treat my own body. I went to sleep too late, woke up too early, didn't take my supplements, didn't do any exercises, so it's up today. Last week,
I got it down to 140/85, by doing everything right. It's not fun, I would rather eat what I want and I don't like exercises, but heart disease and needles are no fun either.
My doctor isn't giving me any medicine yet. I have to improve my food, water, sleep and exercise, just like I'm telling you. I mainly have to loose weight. Maybe that's not your problem, but the regiment for your health problems is still almost the same.
The worst you can do is take artificial sweeteners. They tell the brain that something sweet is coming in, creating an insulin spike, lowering the sugar in your blood, because there is no actual sugar coming in. Then the body starts screaming for sugar even louder.
Bananas are just an easy source of potassium and slow sugars (which balance the sugar in your blood). There are other sources of potassium. If there is no potassium food that you like, just buy potassium pills, because potassium is really important if you have hypertension. It can give almost immediate relief. Just don't overdo it, because that's not healthy either.
And just to be sure, I assume you know that salt (sodium) is very bad for you when you have hypertension. You don't have to cut it to zero, because then all food tastes like cardboard, but try to reduce it to the minimum. If you are emptying a bag of potato chips each day, you're killing yourself. Factory food almost always contain lots of salt, sugar, saturated fats or oxidized unsaturated fats. Healthy food is expensive, but if you buy smart and invest time, you can eat much healthier for the same money.
Food factories are turning the cheapest ingredients into PROFIT. They turn unhealthy ingredients into something that people love to eat, by adding sugar, fat and salt,
and feeding the addiction. If you cook for yourself, and be smart about it, you are making money and saving your health.
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Like him or not, agree with him or not, he was supportive of the marketplace of ideas
and willing to debate everyone.
There's just one thing though, just because he was active in politics, doesn't mean
that this was political violence. Remember the attempt on Trump's life?
All of the right-wing pointed fingers at the left, but it turned out to be just another lunatic.
When he turned out to be a right-winger, you lot either shut-up immediately or you kept blaming the left somehow. Some even kept saying that he was a lefty of liberal.
Can you wait with pointing fingers, until you have evidence?
And another thing: the same day that Charlie Kirk was murdered, there was another school shooting. Only the shooter is dead and 2 kids were wounded, but you know
how often this turns out worse. It hardly gets any coverage from the news anymore.
Do you think that political commentators have more right to be safe than children?
Charlie Kirk never empathized with school shooting victims. He calls them 'worth it'.
I support his right to say these horrible things, but I don't think that people like him
should be immune from the danger that children suffer each day, because of his ideas.
Care about all the victims, not just your preferred political commentators.
On August 8, 2025, DeKalb County Police Officer David Rose was killed by Patrick Joseph White, a shooter who fired at the CDC complex in Atlanta. White, who died by suicide after the attack, expressed deep discontent with mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, believing they had harmed him and others. The incident, which involved over 500 rounds of ammunition, heightened anxiety and trauma among CDC workers and prompted calls for improved protections for public health employees. I didn't hear anyone talk about this, here.
That's a proven politically inspired murder and mass murder attempt. Does anyone care?
All Democratic politicians are shouting that from the rooftops right now, including all liberal news outlets, and all liberal and lefty channels on YouTube. You really have to search hard and long for a lefty extremist who celebrates Kirk's murder. They exist,
of course, but I've found no one with a big platform.
Have you seen all Republicans say murder is wrong, when a Democrat or liberal
is murdered, or attacked with the intent of murder, with a clear right-wing motive?
All the right-wing media is still blaming the left, while every right-winger with a platform is calling for violence against the left.
They are all hypocrites.
When I have an infected wound, it's not "necessary" to take antibiotics, but I generally prefer it over cutting out the infection or waiting until I possibly need an amputation.
The chance for anyone to get Covid at some point in life is close to 100%.
The question is: "Do I want to beat it myself or do I want a immunity system head start?"
I think that I would have survived Covid without getting vaccinated, I'm not old and weak, and I generally have a decent immune system. Still, my brother is 4 years younger, and he had Covid before anyone else had it, because he was at the carnival parties in the south of my country, when it first started to spread quickly. He told me that he had never been as sick as that before. He felt very sick for a week, then had a horrible cough for weeks, and 3 months later, he still had trouble walking up a flight of stairs.
After 2 shots, I eventually got Covid. It wasn't fun, but I have had worse flus and migraines that were much worse.
[Before you think that I am saying that Covid is a flu, I'm not. Those are 2 completely different species of viruses. It's just as wrong to say that Covid is Ebola.]
I missed work for a few days, because I didn't feel like working, but I didn't spent any daytime in bed. After I beat those symptoms, I had a bad cough for a week.
What's important to say that I'm overweight and my brother isn't because he does a lot of physical work. There were many UNVACCINATED men of my age and weight who went to the hospital, were put into sleep on a ventilator for sometimes weeks, and lots of them died. More than 1000 men of my age and weight have died. Vaccination reduced that risk by >90%. The risk of severe illness is reduced by about 95%.
So, I had a personal benefit from getting vaccinated.
The general benefit of me getting vaccinated is that I probably missed less working days, when I eventually got sick. I suffered no long-term effects from it. There were hundreds of thousands of people in my country who did suffer long-term effects or
are even still now not fully recovered. That's a burden on society.
I don't know if the mRNA-COVID-19 vaccine saved my life, but it's possible. Many unvaccinated people died, I know several cases from within my circle of acquaintances. I also know people who almost died and people who are still having after effects.
I don't know anyone who died after getting vaccinated, not from Covid and not from side effects of the vaccine. The statistics are in line with the anecdotal evidence around me.
Besides the mRNA-COVID-19 vaccination, I'm vaccinated against Diphtheria, Tetanus, Polio, Pertussis, Measles and Mumps. That's all the standard ones and Mumps at a later age, because I never had it. Those vaccinations were also not necessary to maintain my health or save my life. I never had any of those diseases, except Pertussis, a few years ago for 3 months. The vaccination effect diminishes after 40 years and the bacterium Bordetella pertussis has mutated. After 3 months, the doctor gave me an antibiotic and then it was gone in a week.
Why would you NOT get vaccinated, if all the information shows you that the benefits are much higher than the risk? I looked into all the claims that the mRNA-COVID-19 vaccine was killing people, and I concluded that those claims were either false or unverifiable. Those claims were coming from the same side that was spreading nonsense to people who don't have the knowledge to dismiss the nonsense. When they are telling me that mRNA-vaccines are gene-therapy, I know that to be nonsense.
There is no system in human cells to include mRNA information into our genes.
And that was even the least dumb conspiracy theory. They were saying that there are micro-chips in the vaccines to track you? Why? People are already carrying their surveillance devices in their pocket. Do you think they can make an injectable micro-chip that can do the job better than your smartphone? They claimed that vaccines were a time-bomb to decimate the population. Really? So they want to kill all the people who trust the government and big pharma and kill all the "critical thinkers"? If it's all a big conspiracy, then that vaccine will keep all the obedient people alive, while they kill the "critical thinkers" with the 100% lethal virus. That's much more logical. I'm still waiting, but neither conspiracy turned true yet.
Let me reverse the question: do you only accept medical treatment, when it is necessary to maintain your health and save your life? Did you ever use medication? Was that medication 100% safe? When you take medication, who do you trust that the benefits outweigh the risk? Are those other people than who told you that the mRNA-COVID-19 vaccine is safe? Can they ever prove to you that mRNA vaccines are safe or will you never trust them?
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Perhaps y’all have heard me say that I enjoy McDonald’s iced tea, IF NOT, I DO! So today I pop into my local McDonald’s to purchase and enjoy an iced tea after my 3 mile-ish walk. Just another average day in small town Michigan…… What wasn’t “average” was that I happened to be in line behind a man who apparently identified today as being a woman. How did I come to this conclusion? The masculine voice, the larger feet, the leg hair all screamed “MAN” however the purse as well as the silhouette of the bra appearing through his tight tee-shirt and the massive “lady humps” that the bra held were an attempt to present him as a “female”. In one respect, I applaud him for living his authentic life however it bothers ME that I recognize that I am left confused and bothered.
Out of one side of my mouth I say that I’m happy he’s living his authentic life and being his authentic self, yet it bothered me. Perhaps it’s that mentality, MY MENTALITY of; not with me, not in/with my family, not in my life, not in my town, this only happens to someone else, this only happens somewhere else…… Does that kinda make sense? I probably would not think twice if I experienced it in California or New York City, but not in my town. I would like to think that I am open minded but apparently I am not and that bothers me a great deal.
I will “admit” to this, I’m not keen about too many tattoos OR piercings, either. Regarding piercings, sometimes both guys and girls go too far with piercing their face. If he wants to pierce his scrotum, have at it. If she wants to pierce her nipples, oh well, I don’t care. Now tattoos are another matter. On the face, in my opinion, not good, kind of a scary look. A sleeve, full sleeve on a man is kinda sexy. A sleeve/full sleeve on a woman, not so much…..
A co-worker is a manly, but slender guy with long hair and a mustache.
Sometimes he wears manly clothes and sometimes he wears women's clothes.
He doesn't behave any different, but sometimes he just wears a dress and feminine ear-rings, like big red, orange or pink ones. That confused me. I didn't let him or anyone else notice, because I value his right to wear whatever he wants, without raising uncalled attention. Of course there is a dress code, so he shouldn't walk around in just a leather harness or something. He's just a gentlemen dressed as a lady, without in any other way pretending to be one. That confuses me. I have so many questions. However, that is none of my business, so I don't ask. If it doesn't come up in conversation, and he doesn't show any desire to talk about it, then I don't think I have a right to know all about his personal opinions or feelings.
Would I say I'm bothered? A bit, because my curiosity is not answered to, but other than that I have no negative feelings about it. I do have very positive feelings about him being accepted like he is.
I don't think society will ever progress to a state in which no one even notices anymore. Most of us have the standard sexual identity and attraction wired into our brains. That results in behavior and feelings which are consistent with the standard biology. Society might learn to more accept the biological variations, but people with standard biology will never appropriate those biological variations, even though some people are very worried that it's happening. People didn't all start writing with their left hand, when left-handedness got accepted. We are not all trying to do that, to fit in with the minority. We just accept it from others. People still say "Oh, are you left-handed?".
If I read correctly, the only thing you are bothered about is being bothered about it?
What is the feeling that you get when you are near them? When I first saw my co-worker,
it resulted in a feeling that I would describe as an 'error message' in my brain. I wouldn't say it bothered me, but I noticed some discomfort. I was still able to have a normal conversation with him. He never talked about pronouns, so I just call him 'him'. But, I wouldn't call him 'him' to his face, when he wears women's clothes, without raising the subject. It just didn't come up yet. That discomfort is gone now. I am always interested
in what he's wearing that day though, which I couldn't care less about for anyone else.
I did have such an 'error message' in my brain before, but a much more urgent one.
Years back, we went to an erotic fair, for the second or third time. That year, they had drag queens as greeters, they call themselves 'door bitches'. These ones were over the top, very tall, and I would say sexy too. They made me shy, and that doesn't happen a lot.
One of them made a kiss in my direction and said: "Hi honey!", in a very low voice.
That resulted in an 'error message' in my brain, of the likes last seen on Windows ME.
One part of my brain was filling my dick with blood and the other part of it screamed
"IT'S A GUY!!!!!". Interesting feeling. I hope I didn't show it too much.
Yes, you are correct, it bothered me that this man standing no more than 3 feet away from me, seemed to bother me and my senses. As an f.y.i., I am enrolled in a cardio drumming class and the instructor is a very butch female. Throughout my years of living and working, I have encountered a number of super butch women and I did not stare OR “analyze” them with the same intensity as this man. My actions bothered me.
Maybe you are spot on with regard to what you call it, my brain experienced an “error message”. Whatever it was, I didn’t like it, again, I thank you for your kind and wise words.
I can confirm that I never had the same “error message” in the brain, for a woman
who acts, dresses or even looks like a man. Over the years, we had friend circles that included gay men and lesbian women. We also got to meet their friend. One or two of the friends of the gay men gave me a few of those “error messages”, but the friend circles of the lesbian women never did. Don't you think that is strange?
I don't think it's societal, it must be something biological, but it's so strange that a woman feels it the same, for the same people, as a man. Overtly gay behavior is exaggerated feminine behavior. Drag queens are dressing and putting make-up on to create an exaggerated feminine look, with big tits, big butts and big red lips. That should only cause an "error" in the brain of a straight man, because it is attractive to straight men. Why would this cause an "error" in the brain of a straight woman? Straight women shouldn't be attracted to exaggerated femininity? However, butch lesbians are appropriating masculine behavior and looks. That should be attractive to straight woman. Why would that not result in an “error message” in their brain?
I am sure it's related to attraction, because I have had similar feelings, that I wouldn't really describe as an "error", but more like a "siren". I had that feeling in the sauna, when we were in a hot-tub with several people. There was one beautiful brown women that had already caught my attention, but I acted cool. But then she stood up to leave, passing along with her perfect ass about a foot from my nose, giving me direct view of her shaved pussy. Calling it a "siren" in my brain is an understatement. Can your head explode, without anyone noticing? I think I managed it.
I got a similar "siren", but only DEFCON 3, not DEFCON 1, when a very good looking woman showed me how to lay down on an x-ray machine. I was sitting on a chair next
to it and she lay down in a fetal position, making her tight jeans work very nicely together with her lower body, at very close proximity.
I accept the similarity of the brain "errors" and brain "sirens", as good evidence that
they are both related to my biological attraction.
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$1.4 billion! That's absurd. How about 14 prices of $100 million or seven prices of $200 million?
In Canada we have something called Lotto Max. The prize limit is capped at
$80 million and anything above that the kitty gives away $1 million prizes called Max millions. In order to win the million dollar prizes you have to have seven correct numbers.
There could be 2, 10, 15 or 20 million dollar prizes.
but in regards to this big jack pot, i would wait until it was won and then buy a ticket a week later. to many being sold right now because of the big jack pot making the odds alot less in my favor.
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I knew Great Danes are large but there were a couple of breeds in there that I could not identify and have no idea what they are. Can you imagine one of those being a trained police K-9 partner? Who needs to train German Shepherds or the Belgian Malinois? Can you imagine one of those things charging in after you? They are the size of a Mini Cooper…….me, I would shit bricks and surrender immediately!
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1 double shot glass
Fill half way with stollitchnia 100 proof vodka
Top off with pickle juice
Garnish with a dill stem
There very good
The name of this facility is the panhandle pokey
You got to love Florida
they should find where all the whiners live and put the illegals in their homes and let them feed them a while, r@pe their daughters and eat their cats, then maybe they would be ready to get rid of the illegals.
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Yesterday, a 15 year member, someone who was here right from the inception of this site was deleted because of “Illegal images”, yes, the reporting member called it “self-hurting” because spatzi, the 15 year member, held a knife to his penis in one picture and an opened scissors in the other! Can you imagine being referred for review by a new member who looked through your gallery of photos and found one picture posted 6 years ago and the other was posted 12 years ago? YIKES! The first 4 knuckleheaded voters voted to delete, one went as far as saying that this type of picture has no place here then the other 3 sheep folk their leader. I put a “FREEZE” on the voting when I recognized it was a 15 year member who had not been online in more than 30 days and reached out to admin for help. Thanks to admin, he deleted the offending pictures however that DID NOT stop the last two dumbasses from voting to delete!
admin clearly states that the voting member must have “common sense” but some of you verified and tenured members seem to lack a healthy dose of common sense and should really not be voting!
It is exhausting to see how little effort and thought some voters use when casting their votes, many offer no comment/reason for how they arrived at their vote. For someone to find a report pictures that were uploaded 6 and 12 years prior to them becoming a member is beyond me!
The SYC member, the 8 year member, sure did say something in her bio about sex but it would “cost”. So what!? Premium paid member UnderCoverAngel aka AndreaAsian advertised her underwear for sale. There’s SYD members that blog about selling their used underwear, too! What is the difference between the members that sell underwear versus the member that “sells” sex? It’s like the members that are reported for having cannabis in their pictures. SO WHAT!?
As for the 15 year member that was deleted based on one photo that was uploaded 6 years ago and the other that was uploaded 12 years prior…… SO WHAT!? Gee, isn’t there some type of STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS that should be invoked?
Think of it this way, my friend, if you were deleted tomorrow for a LAME REASON, yes, in a week or two you could return however you would have lost everything that you had established for the last 12 years. Do you consider that fair treatment?
Listen trump is doing exactly what the people want now stop slowing down the process let’s storm their cities gather up the illegals and ship them the fuck out
You loud mouth niggas remember what happened to Martin Luther King don’t you so shut the fuck up
that city has been a criminal shithole since Al Capone, and even though he was a criminal, he invented the soup kitchen to help the starving poor during his time. the criminals now would take away the bread and water. nothing but a democrat shit hole.
I hope Trump sends troops in and cleans the place up.
"Women vs Men Closing Car Doors"
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She doesn't have a drivers license, but a personal chauffeur, me.
She even picked it out for me. I was looking for a car on only registered users can see external links,
but couldn't find 2 specific brand/types/vintage/model on the top of my list.
Then she found one a little bit lower on my list, in red metallic with a sports pack on it. She urged me to go look at it. I liked the look of it, the ride was nothing exciting,
but acceptable, it's full of extra's that would have made the other cars very expensive,
so I made a deal and bought it.
She's fond of the car. Still, she lets the tailgate just drop, while I guide it down.
She slams the doors, and she always lets the seat belt hang down and backwards.
I don't know what it is. However, if I see how she mistreats her bike, while she also
lets someone fix it every time it breaks, it must be some disability to care about things,
or something like that.
I always fix the seat belts, every time someone used any of them. It's not just women.
I just accept the door-slamming now. I just accepted the car as transport, instead of 'treasure'. Five years ago, I was in a pile-up. I hit the brake in full ABS, but it was so wet that I still hit the car in front of me at about 10 mph. The back was hit even harder by the person behind me. Their insurance paid for the damage to the back, and my insurance paid for the car in front of me. I have all-risk insurance, so it paid for my front damage too, but I lost some claim-free years and my maximum no-claim discount. The damage was fixed perfectly, but the metallic shine is off a bit. That bugged me for a while. I had to relinquish some love for the car to accept it.
A few years back, I still paid money to fix some scratches, but I stopped doing that. There's a crack in the back bumper, that would probably cost several hundred dollars
to fix, but I just said "fuck it!". As long as nothing is at risk of falling off, I just let it deteriorate. Maybe someone hits the back again, and then I can have it fixed
on their insurance.
A hundred years ago, my parents purchased my clothing, my shoes, etc. They expected my sisters and I to take care our things, to come home from school, change from our “school clothes” and into our “play clothes”. The school clothes were properly hung on hangers, folded up and put away in the chest of drawers, etc. But if we tore up our school clothes or shoes, we knew mom and dad would replace them with new.
Fast forward to my early 20’s, I’m working and indecently living outside of my parents home and I have to buy my own clothes and shoes. I am glad that my parents taught me to respect my possessions and take care of them properly. I realize money does not grow on trees and how many hours I must work to afford that “must have” purse I desperately want.
Perhaps I’m generalizing too much and I don’t want to pigeon hole every renter however I do not feel that all renters respect the home and property that they rent. The home is not theirs, when they want to move on they do so and they may leave you, the homeowner, with a mess.
Getting back to your car and your girlfriend, my guess is that if she invested her 30k (plus) to purchase an automobile, she would treat it more respectfully. My guess is that most people are not in a position of replacing their cars every year and attempt to take care of it so that the car can provide reliable service until it is paid off and possibly beyond.
But why would that be more applicable to me, that to my girlfriend?
We have a shared pool of money that we both work for. Her job is tougher than mine.
We spent the same money for the car as for her bike. She feels less bothered when spending money than me though. I'm pretty frugal. It's mostly my girlfriend who tells me when we need to spend money on something. However, she knows that if we spend money on one thing, the list of expenses is not getting additions for a while.
I paid $17.500 for the car. I never took out a loan for a car though.
I only borrowed $3000 from my parents for a car once, when I bough the car
before my current one, but I paid them back in 3 months.
I have driven all my cars to "beyond economical repair".
The first one was an absolute death trap, when I drove it to the junkyard.
It was one brisk braking action removed from the front wheels breaking off.
The cars after, still had some trade-in value left.
A hundred years ago (when I was 23) I bought my first house. I was so excited, I bought new furniture for what we call the living room (some call it a lounge and now these rooms are located more toward the back of the house and they’re supersized and called “family room”). Anyway, I had a female roommate who would dig her feet into my brand new sofa/couch. My mother NEVER allowed us to put our feet in the furniture so when Nancy did this, I had a problem with it. That coupled with she would could in one of my nonstick pans and rather than dirty a plate that she would have to wash she would eat out of the pan. There were cut marks and scratches, you can imagine. She would pack her lunch and take my utensils, knives, forks, spoons, as needed and sometimes they never made it back home. My guess is that because she did not dig into her pockets and pay for these things, she was not aware of the cost. I only had a roommate for 4 months and I told Nancy that she needed to find a new place……
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Anyone else follows European soccer?
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only 2 of those things i didn't have interaction with, the delivered milk and the party phone line. still have about 500 45 rpm records, still play 8 tracks and have worked on a couple studebakers.
still have my metal black lunch box that was recovered from a dump back when i was a kid for me to carry lunch in, and i have my grandfathers as well.
didn't need roller skate keys but remember them
it wasn't called home ec when i took it but it was the same thing, we were shown how to use a stove, how to fill out a check to pay for something and so on.
i vaguely remember the movie "Hawmps" at the drive in as a kid, a calvary using camels, that's about all i remember.
so much of it has went away and no really good reason for it to.
I ❤️ TITTIES & BEER
What in the world is wrong with this country OR WORLD that parents allow this?
I never had children BUT IF I HAD….. I probably would not allow that type of shirt at 16. My philosophy is that you can wear what you want when 1) you pay for it out of your own pocket AND 2) when you are no longer living under my roof.
Congratulations to dgraff who received an award of 30 points in the PLAY BALL! game! Way to go, Dan!
Thank you team
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“ Fifty people awaken in a darkened room, arranged in two concentric circles around a black dome. When they attempt to move from their designated platforms or touch the others, alarms sound off. When someone ignores the warning and leaves formation, a beam from the dome kills them, and their body is quickly removed. As the others panic, a man attempts to calm them, but the device kills him mid-sentence. Thereafter, every two minutes, another person is killed. After several people die, the group realizes that the room's technology allows them to use hand gestures to vote for who dies, while arrows on the floor show each person their own vote but not others'. They attempt to boycott the vote, but someone is randomly selected to die after two minutes.
Following a college student's suggestion, the group buys time to think by deciding in advance to eliminate the elderly for the next selections. The captives discuss where they are, how they got there, who has abducted them, and why. A young man, Eric, remembers attempting to flee Los Angeles, and others concur. Eric says that he was pulled into the air, later waking in a red room with other humans. The old man next in line agrees, saying he saw and heard aliens. The disbelieving group eliminates him instead of listening.
After the college student aggressively targets a 52-year-old cancer survivor over the objections of people who do not consider her elderly, he is eliminated. Several people say they recognize the others: a man identifies the woman next to him as his wife, another man identifies the doctor he was having an affair with, and a tattooed man is eliminated after he admits to a cop's accusation of domestic violence. After several minorities are quickly eliminated, an African-American man claims the process has become racist. Several others dispute this, but when the cop goes on a racist rant, he is selected next.
The captives experiment with voting, find they cannot vote for themselves, and attempt to give one vote to every person in the circle. One man gives a second vote for a pregnant woman, so Eric votes for him; this causes a tie and the man is killed in a run-off vote. After several take their own lives by leaving formation to buy the others time, an atheist antagonizes the theists who praised the volunteers' faith. The atheist is briefly saved, but when he mocks the girl beside him for having her boss pay for her breast enlargement, he is killed. A homophobic lawyer targets a lesbian, and he is killed as a result. The group realizes that one of the final two people left must not vote (and be killed) to render a winner.
The group creates a schism. One bloc (led by Eric, a Marine, a one-armed man) believes that everyone should sacrifice themselves to save a pregnant woman and a little girl, while the other bloc (led by a bearded man and a banker) wants to eliminate them immediately as a threat to their survival, as they believe everyone is equal and no special privileges should be afforded. After eliminating a Spanish translator, a Hispanic immigrant and the little girl tie, resulting in him sacrificing his own life. The husband is forced to vote with Eric's bloc when they threaten to eliminate his wife, but, under interrogation, the couple admit that they concocted the relationship to curry favor, resulting in the "husband's" elimination.
Eric's faction incurs heavy losses after a six-way tie but eliminates the other faction, leaving only Eric, the pregnant woman, the girl, and a silent man who has never voted. Eric theorizes that aliens have used the process to learn about humanity's values. After the silent man is eliminated, Eric and the girl agree to simultaneously sacrifice themselves. As the girl dies by suicide, Eric instead casts a last-second vote to kill the pregnant woman, only to realize that the pregnant woman's unborn child counts as a person. Eric votes to kill the child and then wakes up in Los Angeles where he joins a group of people, composed primarily of children and pregnant women, watching a fleet of alien crafts float over Los Angeles.”
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See below. I DID NOT understand the joke. mr_blue presented his spin and I still have no admit that I’m confused and saying “what if”…
Boy, that person was out to win, no matter what. It was pretty shocking to me that he could backstab like that but it's allowed in the game and being devious sure is part of human nature. The last scene...maybe those people standing and looking were other winners of other games (if "games" would be the right word) and simply wondering what the aliens were going to do next. Why they're not quickly walking away looking for a place to hide, I don't know. I like the red and black colors theme of the alien stuff.
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Tell me this, that is assuming the “jerkster” is right hand dominant, right? Don’t guys use their dominant? What if he’s a leftie?
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and i know the younger generation will disagree but trucks no longer drive like trucks, in the old days, you shifted gears, the load slowed you down, you never forgot what you were doing . now, trucks drive like hondas ,have lots of power so the average load is not even felt while driving, the trans is automatic, freeing up the right hand to hold phones, dicks,whatever.
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old ,outdated, but still funny
Okay, okay……. Yesterday was a long day for me, I was up and out of bed at 7a and didn’t get home until shortly after 11p, so it was a 16 hour day of rippin’ and runnin’ mainly in the water and sun. I’m in bed just before midnight and I’ve got my phone, reading a few emails and watched a few things on YouTube. This morning I wake up and my phone is in bed with me and stuck/frozen on
YouTube content that I have listened to HOWEVER now the guy is speaking in Spanish. My guess is that sometime during my sleep, I mashed something somewhere and this IPhone is capable of changing the language of the YouTube content.
Has anyone experienced this issue, do you know how to change it back to English?
One thing I did learn at my iPhone class, when I bought the phone in March in Fort Myers, I was looking at an iPhone 16 and the Xfinity store sold me an iPhone 15. That day on my drive home, I called Xfinity and apparently iPhone has a new release launching somewhere between September 7 through the 21st and they will take back this phone and credit me with the full amount against the purchase of the new version. I asked the Xfinity rep that I spoke with what the “new features” are and although most of it sounded like “blah, blah, blah”, she said something about the newer phone wouldn’t get so hot. That is one of the things that I have noticed about this phone, it gets hot super fast when I’m playing games.
I seen him on the news this morning hugging and kissing fellow California Democrats
I bet after the news briefing they all get naked and jump in a pile
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Massachusetts had been a Democratic leaning state since 1928, and a Democratic stronghold since 1960, and is still considered a deeply blue state today.
You were saying?
and on that smooth Hollywood face, but he wouldn't like you.
It looks like the crooked, immoral idiot is kicking it straight to hell.
"Nebraska MAGA farmers Frozen In Fear & Regret After Realizing
They’re Going Bankrupt #FAFO Season"
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of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who
do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.” - Aldous Huxley
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Lovely on the outside, but sadly nothing inside of that pretty head.
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“A PIT maneuver, or Precision Immobilization Technique, is a law enforcement tactic to force a fleeing vehicle to stop.”
This police agency used the “grapple” method! Pretty neat!
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Today’s lunch consisted of a $10 mocktail, a $24 salad, a $28 dish of pasta and his $39 main course. And the guy has more than 350k followers!
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And I ate it all
By the way, i have never tried lobster.
I’m certain there’s a reason why he comes and goes so much. None of his past friends have changed their screen name so IF he wants anyone to know if he’s here and who he is, he will so. Allow him the opportunity to make that contact and allow him that anonymity until then. That’s just my opinion though, my guess is that members will do what they want.
Seems that you have a “delayed reaction” about what you notice. When Jamie, member #693639 deleted his profile, you lost your verification status and when I noticed that, I became the third member and your green tick was restored.
That brings me to Jamie. I don't spend a lot of time on site. I seldom notice things like verification or who touches my heart and I didn't notice I was no longer verified. That's when I thought of Jamie and I asked in your thread about him.
Personally, I don't care what you think or don't think. Jamie and I have reconnected and exchanged friendships. I didn't even asked him to verify me again. I like Jamie and always will. He's a good guy and for that, only, he's worth knowing.
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Oh, BTW, I would prefer you withdrew your verification. I prefer friends to do so. Thank you.
POOF! and done.
edit,ok i skipped wimpy google and went to Elon, here is what i learned
what does the word argue mean
The word argue means to present reasons or evidence to support or oppose an idea, opinion, or point of view, often in a discussion or debate. It can also refer to a verbal disagreement or dispute, typically involving differing perspectives.
For example:
Discussing or debating: "She argued that renewable energy is essential for sustainability."
Disputing or quarreling: "They argued over who should pay the bill."
The tone and intensity can vary, from calm reasoning to heated confrontation, depending on the context.
Yes, I'm being petty and ungrateful. Deal with it.
Never look for me. It was me that look for her.
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