Earth Sex in the 21st Century: A pulp break/open thread

Thanks, David. It isn’t fun, but luckily my superviser, the operations manager, and HR have been very supportive.

calmdown, the archive.org site has some of the Gor books online at the moment, so you can save yourself the cost and bother of looking for the actual physical books.

Apparently a Jordan Peterson fanboy showed up on the comments to the August 12th Dumbing of Age strip, but Dave Willis deleteobombed the offending comments. Anybody here catch the “fun?”

They had me at “amatory stimulation”.

@ Bakunin,

Good on ya for being yourself 🙂 Glad to hear that most people are supportive too.

Some other thoughts I had, and I have to go to sleep soon, because I have to get up early.
OK that’s another thing too, we can all relate I think, that you don’t want to go to sleep because you don’t want to get up to do whatever in the morning.

Happy thing, I thought of a happy thing. I decided to gas up the car and go to the store for a few things, in prep for the AM. Something to eat for the morn, and something for dinner. It’s hot here but since I had the AC on I thought I would maybe get a pizza. Which I have not had the best of luck with frozen pizzas lately.

So I go gas up the car (which is still f’d up), and the gas station was busy and I had to stand on line. Bored, I noticed “the nachos”. Gas station nachos. Yeah, you probably don’t want to go there. Told self I could get those at the grocery store, look there, and it might be an alternative to putting the oven on for a pizza. Look for sim at the store.

So I go to the closest grocery store which I always go to and it’s crowded as hell!

Well I battled my way through. I forgot what I was even going to get. I did get lemon poppyseed muffins for breakfast. Did do that. Beer. And I even thought: after I have to deal with this guy, Im really going to have to tie one on! Yeah. Anticipatory drinking from projected anxiety. And let’s stock up at the store for it! Really do need to get a grip on myself.

So anyway, happy thing 🙂

I decided I wanted some kind of nachos with cheese, like at the gas station. Chips, easy. And I’ve seen these jars of “cheese” before. And they’re expensive! Like $5 a jar. I saw farther along the shelves a product of Mexico (La Preferida, it’s a big brand, and all these brands have the big US names scrambling because oh, people are choosing the MX brands instead? What, you thought NAFTA was only going to go one way?)

So I found this can of cheese. I do believe this is the first time in my life I bought a can of cheese 🙂 It was $2.30. Half the price of the others.

So I’m standing there looking at it, some guy walks by, says to me – That’s not bad. And I think the guy was stoned out of his mind 😀

I continued looking at the can of this stuff because I was wondering if you could heat it up. And or what to do with the leftovers. So I said to the guy, – what to do with the leftovers.

And he says. After giving this like 2 minutes of thought. Like if you don’t eat it all?

Me: Yeah right, can you put the leftovers in the fridge?

About another five minutes pass by.

Him: Oh yeah, probably.

🙂 I bought the can of cheese on his recommendation.

Stoner probably knows what he’s talking about there. Speaking of Mexico, I live in an area with enough of a Mexican and otherwise Hispanic population that every grocery store sells the Mexican Coca-Cola. Glass bottle and everything. Random grocery store thoughts

The “Computer Swap” reminds me of a danish Sci-Fi, where peoples lives are routinely rotated to keep them docile or something “See the light of day” would be the translated title, it’s rather good, really.

Hey all! ^^; Major apologies for vanishing without warning – I had to move house on very short notice (*incoherent ragescreeching at my former apartment’s new landlord, the most ableist person I’ve ever had the displeasure of being forced to meet, and what the hell kind of monster doesn’t like cats?!*), and my slowly-dying phone doesn’t like cooperating with WHTM anymore, so I just haven’t had the chance.

Basically, shit went belly-up for a while there, but we’re afloat again. *thumbs up*

I love how the Square Root of Sex guy is reaching behind and just pushing any random button without looking. Maybe tomorrow they’ll try the cosine of sex, or the natural logarithm of sex. Or turn the computer upside down and spell BOOBIES. So many possibilities!

SFHC – Welcome back! Sorry to hear you had to move – what a hassle. Landlords can be awful. Yours sounds like quite a prize. Hope you ended up with a better one,

We got turfed out unceremoniously a few months ago when some out-of-state investors bought the place and decided they were going to occupy our unit. My previous landlord kept yanking us around – evicting model tenants because he wanted a rent-free place for his son, constantly turning everything upside down with huge rewiring/remodeling projects that required all our stuff to be piled under sheets and moved from room to room for months on end, holes in the wall (that was awesome, with toddlers), barely any hot water, and no discount on rent. (To be fair, though, the rent was already way under market value). The last straw was when he finally decided to do something about the asbestos in the basement last December, after I had been living there for 16 years. When I asked if they were getting ready to sell, he was evasive about it. Three weeks later, the property was on the market. We had 60 days to find a new place, pack up, and move.

Long story short, we ended up in a much better place in a town with a better school system (though it’s out in the country and my kids really miss their friends and the old neighborhood). Now we’re dealing with an HOA and busybody Fox-watching neighbors who call the management company to complain every time we set foot outdoors. There’s one lady who takes photos and calls the police whenever someone entertains guests outside. I got her mail by accident once, and it was full of NRA flyers and Republican fundraising literature. White-wingers have become such hypersuspicious control freaks under Trump. They see someone they don’t like doing something they don’t personally approve of, and they run straight to the authorities to tattle.

Sorry, that was kind of a ramble. @Z&T, my sympathies to you too. We both lost our moms at around the same time last year and I’ve been wondering how you’re doing. Grief never really goes away. It’s a life sentence.

@SFHC
Welcome back! I was wondering where you were. Sorry about the landlord, that’s no fun.

If we’re making updates I’m at sea right now 2 months remaining in my contract. Since October last year I really struggle with my mental health and it just gets worse and worse and this ship is not so good which doesn’t help. But I finally decided I will go to the doctor when I go home in October, so things will be okay again soon.

SFHC – that sounds tough, landlords suck! last year we moved apartment, mainly because of the anti-cat policy. ?

I read several of the Gor books when I was very young. I was very young a long time ago (roughly 45 years ago) and they didn’t seem so bad at the time. Yes, I recognized after the first couple of books that they were mostly one-handed fiction for what we call incels these days.

You can look at them as a guy struggling to acclimate to a completely alien culture. By today’s standards, they are absolutely horrible, no question. But you might find the first couple interesting, as good examples of a type of literature that was very popular at the time. I have to confess I liked the first few. I was not as easily outraged by misogyny in those days because if you think it is pervasive in our current culture you just have NO idea.

I have my social security disability hearing today!! Wish me luck. I just wish it was over…

Also, I am a member of the Denver Women’s Chorus. We will be singing the National Anthem for the Colorado Rockies game on Tuesday August 21st. If you are in Denver, please come! If you’re not, please tune in! And if you want to, kneel!!! I would love to but it’s a very bad posture for singing.

Financial form anxiety. I have it big time. I get it. I’m sorry you’re having to deal with that. Can I just say that the estate attorney has probably seen it before and maybe the best thing is to just fess up about it. I didn’t realise until very, very, very recently that other people have this, too. Ask for help. (I have anxiety about that, too… of course!)