Merry Christmas, if you’re into that sort of thing!

It’s possible that guys like this share the view that only orgasms during het intercourse count as “real.”

By that logic, those guys wanking is a waste of time too, since it’s not “real.” Eh, maybe they’ll realize this and stop wanking all over comments sections.

And the lecturer dude – has he never been with a woman (or more accurately more than one woman – he might have “lucked out” on his first one)!
I mean – it’s what, 40% of women get between little and absolutely nothing from penetrative sex, but they ain’t frigid by any stretch. Rather the opposite, in fact 😛

Edit to add:

Way too amusing not to share: Woman pretends to be sex doll after being caught with cheating boyfriend
It’s the Metro, so expect stellar reporting. 😛

Welp. I got catcalled a few minutes ago. I’m wearing jeans, a sweater and a down coat, no makeup and I have a cold so I look like crap. I’m sure I provoked it though.

@WWTH: I was already excited but even more so now!

@Weird Eddie:
My response to the comment on the bottom of the screenshot Mish shared: “If this commenter had a brain, don’t you think I would have seen it by then?!”

@Dave: Please let me through! I’m still the same Violet…just got a new phone and slightly new name

Interesting analysis of the fact that even feminists sometimes protect abusers.

I’m amused by Burt Strider’s role in the Clinton campaign (in boldface).

The Clinton Reckoning Is One of the Most Essential #MeToo Revelations Yet
By CHRISTINA CAUTERUCCI

Hillary Clinton personally protected a senior adviser on her 2008 campaign who was accused of repeated sexual harassment, according to a New York Times report on Friday. A 30-year-old campaign staffer told a higher-up in 2008 that Burt Strider, who consulted with the then-candidate on faith issues, “rubbed her shoulders inappropriately, kissed her on the forehead and sent her a string of suggestive emails, including at least one during the night,” the Times reported. The accuser was reassigned to a new position. The accused, at Clinton’s own request, was kept on the payroll after forfeiting a few paychecks and agreeing to counseling.

These revelations are particularly damning because Clinton, who has been a conspicuous advocate for women’s rights for decades, reportedly ignored her campaign manager’s advice to fire Strider. Clinton not only knew about Strider’s alleged harassment—she took extra steps, against staff recommendations, to keep him on the team. On the continuum from bystander to accomplice, Clinton sits uncomfortably close to the latter end.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/01/the-clinton-reckoning-is-one-of-the-most-essential-metoo-revelations-yet.html?via=recirc_recent

Last night Carisma was a complete dumbf*ck and took the kitten out of the safety of the box and mamabed, and hauled him into hoomin bed. Right between Otter and I. I woke up to “oh cat jumped to the bed” and “miuuuuuu!” followed by “WTF NO!” and then there was much scolding.

I missed sleep most of the night, and took a nap in the morning… only to wake up when I felt something tiny, hot and squirmy being placed on my bum.

Yeah, Carisma. That is like one of the WORST places where you can take your kitten! I realize you’re proud, I realize you want the kitten to experience hoomin closeness, I realize you’re bored… but the fact is, while I’m extra easily woken up, Otter is not, and that’s a very quick way to get a flat kitten.

So I decided to set up a temporary warm bed in our livingroom, so she and kitten can chill with me while I’m there. Not everyone is enjoying this decision…

https://twitter.com/DidiCarisma/status/957208130257084417

WWTH,

Just popping in to say Pell was one of the funniest trolls, ever.

Good ole Uncle Monty.

Oh dear. On the flip side, Big Boi’s eyes look to be open (and cute).

@Skiriki

Lovely pics 🙂

Regarding the tingling in your hand – and I’m doing the internet diagnostic thing 😛 – have you tried taking B vitamins?

Sounds stupid, but larger than normal amounts of niacin and thiamine help mitigate the tingles. Takes a few days to notice any improvement though.

(Source – self experience. Tingling and cold hands and feet are a really common aftereffect of long term alcohol abuse and it’s attendant nerve damage.)

Regarding WWII, I recently read “The Monuments Men” (who, of course, were not all men), and “The Winter Fortress”, about the sabotage of the heavy water factory in German-occupied Norway). Both very inspiring accounts, and what the Norwegian saboteurs went through was the stuff of dystopian fiction.

This led me to reading up on the condition of post-surrender Germany, and sweet horse badorties I learned a lot. Given what I already knew about post-WWI Germany, I could imagine a generation of Germans in 1945-50 deciding collectively, ‘uh, yeah, let’s never ever do that again.’ I feel certain that very few Americans have any idea what conditions were like. Of all ship sinkings in recorded history, the two with the greatest loss of life were both part of the maritime evacuation of the Courland Peninsula in 1945 – and I’d never heard of it. The Colditz POW camp escape, by contrast, has had movies, several television miniseries, and a Parker Brothers board game (!).

I think I have a slightly better perspective on the human cost of war than many USA people; my grandfather was Navy for the Spanish American War, my father and uncle were Army and Marines during WWII, and I worked at the VA hospital my entire career. But war hasn’t touched the United States like it has almost every other industrialized Western nation – we send people to it, it doesn’t come to us.

@Robert

You pretty much nailed it, I think. It does apply, though to a much lesser extent, to the UK as well. We go to war. War doesn’t much come to us (says the guy who’s house is literally wedge shaped thanks to the Luftwaffe’s terrible aim. Bomb hits on three sides. Still finding bits of shrapnel in the garden even now. 😛 ).

Side note:

I worked at the VA hospital my entire career.

Thank you. You guys never get told that enough.

@Skiriki

Oh, wow, do I hear you. I’m over a year away from my hemorrhagic stroke, but my right hand gets cold even though my left hand is at a perfectly normal temperature.

@Skiriki

I hate that. Last year I had an episode where my right hand kept twitching. I was trying to get some sleep, but my hand had other ideas.