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WendiStarr
01-21-2020, 12:32 PM
I wish I could just snap my fingers and my laundry would magically be all done.

AChildOfBoredom
01-21-2020, 05:07 PM
The Amish girl had a shift bid at her job, and she’s working nights now. Which was shitty for me, because we share the master bedroom of the house. I’m prone to getting really bad nightmares, and when it happened, she’d put her hand on my back or shoulder and it would stave it off. Which, it really helps a lot. But with her working nights of course that doesn’t happen, so I’ve been having them again.

So the dancer that I carpool with showed up out of the blue last and offered to stay with me. Which was really thoughtful of her, though I suspect the number of big fluffy pillows and my mattress being more comfortable than hers probably incentivized her. She’s one of only two dancers I’ve ever trusted enough to be in my home and have exposure to the others in this house (who I tend to be quite protective of), whereas I can’t think of any other dancers I work with that I would trust like that. She said she’ll see me tonight when she left this morning, and I’m a little divided on how I feel about that. I certainly appreciate what she did and her willingness to do that, but at the same time, I know there’s a point where there won’t be anybody here and I’ll just have to get used to sleeping alone. I’m not going to meet Mr. Right and fall in love - I’ve accepted that already - and I’m not going to have flings or one-nighters, since arousal for me is an extremely difficult thing to accomplish, it happens very rarely, and only when it wants to - not when anyone else wants it to. And it always was that way, even back when I was still alive. And that just is what it is. Some things just aren’t meant for some people.

Also agonizing a little over the fact that it’s really difficult to consider someone a friend. My first roommate, the Irish woman, my friend from the community who I grew up with, and of course I think nothing less than the world of the others in this house, but that’s really it. Most people I would call a friend in passing conversation are really just acquaintances, but I feel it wouldn’t be right to consider her an acquaintance rather than a friend now. So, perhaps she really is.

WendiStarr
01-22-2020, 10:31 AM
Even though I live in a much safer neighborhood, I still have this preoccupation with making sure that all doors are locked. I will have multiple locks on the door. I grew up in Detroit and it's a hard habit to kick. BD showed up unexpectedly while I was going to the bathroom. I heard a noise coming from the back door and was thinking,"Who the hell is trying to get in?!" I looked out the peephole and there's BD. I unlocked the door and the first thing he does is bitch at me for how long it took me to open the door. I told him I was peeing and I wasn't expecting him to ever show up. He looked at me annoyed and asked, "Why are you always peeing when I show up?" Really? I'm pregnant! Pregnant ladies pee a lot. Sometimes I wonder how much he was around for his first ex wife when she was pregnant with their two kids. Obviously couldn't have been much because he acts so clueless about everything. At least he went straight to the kitchen and cooked us a meal. He claims he's here to stay this time but I don't know how much I can trust him at this point because he's so wishy washy and flighty. I'm not getting my hopes up anymore.

AChildOfBoredom
01-23-2020, 04:28 PM
My ‘refugee’ and her girlfriend approached me about the possibility of them living together here after they graduate until they’re able to get their own place. Which seems like they’re putting the cart before the horse, but if it lasts, I don’t really object to it. I just have to figure out what I’m going to do to accommodate it. Right now, my refugee and sister share a room, so of course I’m not going to put a young and presumably horny couple in there with her. So, that leaves the other room, which was where the one who moved in my friend from the community stayed before moving out, and also where the mysterious sixth resident of the house stays on those rare instances when she’s here. It’s more or less a storage/sewing room, so I’ll have to contact her and see if she’s okay with sharing the bunk bed with my sister when (if) she shows up here again. Which, this is really more of a place to receive mail, provide a physical address, and even spend a rare night or two than a home for her, so I don’t think it’ll be an issue for her. I don’t know if my sister will be okay with it, though, as she doesn’t know the other woman well at all. But, I figure at most, she’d only have to stay with her for one or two nights before the lovebirds find their own place. If. The other woman is quite the sojourner. Like how I wanted to be. She spent two nights here last year, and that’s it.

JGB2009
01-23-2020, 11:14 PM
I haven't seen one of my favorite cam customers since July. Hope he is safe and all is well with him.

AChildOfBoredom
01-24-2020, 10:03 AM
Umm… I just saw photos from the fashion show for Gucci’s 2020 Fall/Winter men’s collection, and if somebody ever tried chatting me up looking like that, I swear I’d piss myself laughing.

yaya_cash
01-24-2020, 10:10 AM
So you guys are so exhausting, and my time needs to be valued so the cost has been increased by spending the time dealing with demanding guys.

WendiStarr
01-24-2020, 04:18 PM
I had my ob/gyn appointment today and while my gestational diabetes is under control, my bp was high. Baby didn't appear to be in distress during ultrasound and testing so they are letting me wait until Monday to be induced. My baby is coming into this world a bit earlier than I expected. I'm 37 weeks. I'm scared and excited at the same time.

lynn2009
01-25-2020, 05:08 PM
I hope we start getting snow soon.

carmen_b
01-25-2020, 06:53 PM
I feel like what I want from a man is kind of simple.
See me 2-3 times a week , leave me ALONE during business hours ( I'll do the same ) , evening dinner plans and activity plans, SEX.
^ I wonder if I should just remove my whole online profile and just put that up ? Haha.

I feel like I am in a weird limbo phase. I need to figure out the next steps from here. I am going back and forth trying to decide if I should try to meet someone or just be single and celibate.

AChildOfBoredom
01-25-2020, 10:49 PM
I am going back and forth trying to decide if I should try to meet someone or just be single and celibate.

I don't really think the second option is viable. Not just for you, but for most people. I know I don't know you like that, but hear me out, please. I've explained this before, and I got the point across, but it left the person I had this conversation with feeling a little alienated, so I don't know if I'll end up doing the same here or not.

We've all known someone who's gotten into an absolute shit relationship, and you'd think it would be painfully obvious that they need to get the hell out, yet they continue to try carrying on. And even in your case... logically, you really showed more patience than you should've. But you tried, even when the end result already seemed to be written in the stars. And you're a person with romantic and sexual inclinations. I am not, yet it affects me, as well. Perhaps more a matter of conditioning in my case, but I'm not unaffected by it.

And, you can say that having the other girls living in my home with me ties into it, also. While the reasons are more than one, this is a huge part of it. And maybe you've known a crazy cat lady in your time, as well.

So the problem is what I like to call "the void". I think we try to dismiss it, tell ourselves it only happens to "them", and so forth, but the void is very real, and I think in the back of our minds, we're all cognizant of this. The void is all consuming, and spares nobody. It doesn't just claim the dejected, the outcasts, "those" people - it is all consuming. I consider myself attractive, I'm definitely not starved for the attention of men, they'll pay me to sit on their lap in spite of having zero chance of taking me home, nobody believes me when I tell them my age and they insist I must be younger than I actually am. I'm financially independent and stable. I feel like I'm talented... I work in a highly technical job, I play multiple musical instruments, I'm fluent in three languages, I don't think I'm half dumb (though my sister is certainly the smarter one). So, I feel like I would have a lot to offer to any prospective partner. And yet, I'm still at least partly in the void.

So, back to why people stay in shitty relationships and pursue them even to a very hopeless end, or a large part of the reason why six of us live in my house... because the void is composed primarily of loneliness. I'm not immune to feeling it, either. And the void is terrifying... I fear it more than death itself and perhaps would see death as an only escape if I became too mired in it. What happens to people who do get consumed by it? They withdraw, deeper and deeper within themselves. So, as an alternative to that, people in such relationships may think, "well, maybe this is as good as it gets and it's better than being on my own". Even those who don't seem to try, it's not for lack of desire to.. it's for lack of confidence to do it. Taking my former roommate as a case in point. He stayed single for ten years. He'd been engaged previously. She fell into a deep state of depression and committed suicide. He wasn't just "chilling out" from dating, regardless of what he says. He was running away, and he was running deeper and deeper into the void. Then he met someone and decided to take a chance on her, and I was happy for him... until I met her. And I saw it right away for what it was.. he was resigned to thinking that was as good as it gets, and even that better than the void. And in the wake of them parting ways, I'm seeing him slip back into it. And I'm scared for him, and for others I've watched make that downward spiral. I'm scared for myself, as well.

So, why do the crazy cat ladies collect so many cats? They've felt the caress of the void, and they're clinging to something to try to fill it in. And I always felt bad for thinking this, but sometimes I've wondered if they'd be better off dead. Then I look at myself, look at these girls living with me, and I realize something.... I'm the crazy cat lady. For the moment, I have people rather than cats, but I'm there. We can both say we have a lot of pussy in our homes *drum roll* (sorry... had to try to lighten the mood). Anyhow, I look at myself... I withdrew, I built a wall around myself. I still have friends, but very few, I began distrusting most everyone else.. there's no two ways about it. Granted, I'm not without other circumstances that contribute to it, but I see people without the stings I carry in regards to those other circumstances doing the exact same thing, and they'll often openly admit it's out of loneliness. For the last week, this dancer I carpool with has been spending the night at my place. Ostensibly, because I'm prone to nightmares and having someone there mitigates it. But it really goes beyond that. She is extremely cuddly. And I know what people will say, and what they will think, and I'm pretty certain my refugee and her girlfriend began shipping us the moment she set foot inside my house, but I'm willing to deal with that. I'm being held at night, and even without having romantic and sexual inclinations, I still desire that. That feeling that someone cares enough to do that. Is it the ideal arrangement? No. But it gives me comfort that trying to find comfort in absence does not. And the void doesn't cause me to have the aforementioned romantic and sexual inclinations, but it makes me wish that I did. But, given that I don't have them, I'm grateful to have a cuddle buddy at least.

If it can do that to me, then it certainly will to someone who is so inclined. So, I don't say it in any manner to be disrespectful, but I've read your posts, I have an idea of the patience you put into trying to make it work.. your posts speak a lot of your frustration, but not of someone ready to just throw in the towel. People just aren't really engineered to cope with the void, and those that get trapped in it resort to very desperate things either to convince themselves they're not really in it, they abandon hope altogether and end up doing things they normally wouldn't be inclined to, or they latch onto anything which gives them some sense of inclusiveness, worth, belonging. Citing the first example, the aforementioned crazy cat lady, or even me. In the second, you look at a wide range of people who've gone off the deep end, whether serial killers, incels (who more or less admit that's what drives them, even if they try to twist it), people like the Unabomber, etc. In the third, Branch Davidians, Peoples' Temple, et. al. showed many couples, but these were mostly people who'd been single and met through those organizations, then became manipulated by someone of the same disposition who found power as a means of trying to fill the void. Which, I'm not saying you're going to blow something up, murder anybody, or join a cult... those of course are fringe cases, but that does manifest the power of the void.

Loneliness is a motherfucker. And a really powerful one.

Sorry if I got a little carried away. It's something I've given a lot of thought to, and I thought I could say it in not so many words, but once I get started... anyhow, hopefully I got my point across coherently enough.

yaya_cash
01-26-2020, 12:26 AM
I decided I am going to take these 4 months or a semester off - one more semester to finish one of my programs to tour.

carmen_b
01-26-2020, 01:17 AM
^ I loved that reply fyi and have more thoughts on it to come back on.

Seriously loved it because it was so spot on. I'm not really sure what my " steps out " are. No cults or cats . I hate both.

I'm already bordering on that " crazy pet person " thing anyway ( I am obsessed with this damn dog and he is with me constantly ). When he is not with me I am usually thinking about the time line to get back to him haha.

lurkingtitties
01-26-2020, 08:05 AM
I dunno that the dog thing makes you a weird pet person-they’re a lot different than cats! I have to carefully plan my time away from home too being a single dog owner. I’d be very put off by someone who owned a dog and didn’t care about spending time with it or bringing it along when possible. Plus your dog is tiny so it’s easy to bring it everywhere.

Elektra Luxx
01-26-2020, 10:45 AM
Bf woke up in a good and playful mood today. I'm in the living room watching TV and he's sexting me from the shower.

AChildOfBoredom
01-26-2020, 12:48 PM
There was a shopping cart in my front yard today. From Ikea. And the nearest ones to me are in Charlotte and Norfolk, VA… both are around a three hour drive away. How in the fuck?

JGB2009
01-26-2020, 02:51 PM
Lack of sleep and not achieving my goals makes me moody.

chanzep
01-26-2020, 04:52 PM
Sometimes social media is annoying. I'm taking a break from it.

AChildOfBoredom
01-26-2020, 05:26 PM
Some insight and feedback would be appreciated, please, since presumably all of you were raised in the 'English' life. My 'refugee' turns 18 next month, and I'm just trying to come up with ideas for her birthday. I'll bake a cake, of course (or my sister will probably be the one to do it), and picking out gifts for her is rather simple. I was thinking maybe I should do some sort of 'special day' thing for her? I know turning 18 is a big deal and all. She isn't really the 'party animal' sort, so I was thinking, because she's never been to a spa, maybe treat her to a spa day? Would that be a good idea?

JGB2009
01-26-2020, 06:02 PM
Some insight and feedback would be appreciated, please, since presumably all of you were raised in the 'English' life. My 'refugee' turns 18 next month, and I'm just trying to come up with ideas for her birthday. I'll bake a cake, of course (or my sister will probably be the one to do it), and picking out gifts for her is rather simple. I was thinking maybe I should do some sort of 'special day' thing for her? I know turning 18 is a big deal and all. She isn't really the 'party animal' sort, so I was thinking, because she's never been to a spa, maybe treat her to a spa day? Would that be a good idea?

Sounds like a nice thing to do for someone. Last year I took my 15 year old son to a movie.

lynn2009
01-26-2020, 08:53 PM
Anyone else confused by all the fuss over a rapist?

carmen_b
01-26-2020, 09:02 PM
^ I have been all day.

seashell
01-27-2020, 05:21 AM
^Yeeeah... my thoughts, as well. But his daughter died, too. :(

AChildOfBoredom
01-27-2020, 06:12 AM
Not to mention…

52678

Regardless of who is involved, I don’t like the “BIG CELEBRITY DIES… oh, yeah, there were some other people, too” narrative. It looks like at least three parents and daughters were on board, and there may have been a whole family wiped out.

carmen_b
01-27-2020, 12:49 PM
^ Exactly ! It wasn't just him ! Devastating for EVERYONE !

AChildOfBoredom
01-27-2020, 02:21 PM
And had it been two other ordinary people on that helicopter instead of a celebrity and his daughter, the whole thing would’ve been met with complete indifference. What a fucking sick society we live in.

JGB2009
01-27-2020, 09:43 PM
I wish I had a chat buddy to talk to while I work late at night. I get so bored sometimes.

miss.a.p1600
01-28-2020, 06:37 AM
Most mornings I don’t want to get out of bed and lay here for hours

WendiStarr
01-28-2020, 12:27 PM
Is there a thread for websites that are wastes of time? I'm severely limited in what kind of work I can do right now but I can't stand not making any $ so I tried out an app someone told me about called BeAmazing. Don't waste your time. You only earn 3 cents per message and that's only if a paying member responds back to your message. If they don't you earn nothing. If a free member responds back, you might earn nothing unless there's a promotion going on, which in that case you only earn 1 cent. This is in Canadian currency too, on top of it. It seems to be full of a lot of free members wanting dirty talk and free nudes. I've also tried out luckycrush.live and seriously? Wth kind of site has dudes jacking off 1 on 1 already as soon as you enter chat and you don't even know how much $ you're making per guy. I chatted with 10 different guys and was disappointed to see that I'd only made $7.11. What is with these sites wanting to pay their workers pennies? Smh.

lynn2009
01-28-2020, 07:57 PM
I guess one of my car headlights has been out for a while and I never noticed, cause now they are both out and I did not notice until I was already driving on highway. Anyway I drove about 40 min overall without getting pulled over, so that is good. Even though now I couldn't figure out how to do it after checking YouTube and the owner's manual and I literally have no one to ask.

Aurora_Sunset
01-28-2020, 08:45 PM
I guess one of my car headlights has been out for a while and I never noticed, cause now they are both out and I did not notice until I was already driving on highway. Anyway I drove about 40 min overall without getting pulled over, so that is good. Even though now I couldn't figure out how to do it after checking YouTube and the owner's manual and I literally have no one to ask.

I went to Autozone for new headlight bulbs, and the guy was totally happy to walk out to my car and put them in for me.

kimbe
01-29-2020, 01:52 AM
^ Yes, it's amazing what you can get dudes to do for you if you just show up at the repair shop nicely dressed playing a little dumb.. ;)

AChildOfBoredom
01-29-2020, 05:56 AM
^ Yes, it's amazing what you can get dudes to do for you if you just show up at the repair shop nicely dressed playing a little dumb.. ;)

Proceed with caution on that one. Not just at auto parts stores but especially at them. Some of them are quite predatory and try to upset you a bunch of shit you don’t need, or else get that, “hurrr… she has bobs and vagene, she won’t know what she’s doing” mindset. Home improvement stores are a mixed bag.

SnuffleUffleGrass
01-29-2020, 06:16 AM
Some insight and feedback would be appreciated, please, since presumably all of you were raised in the 'English' life. My 'refugee' turns 18 next month, and I'm just trying to come up with ideas for her birthday. I'll bake a cake, of course (or my sister will probably be the one to do it), and picking out gifts for her is rather simple. I was thinking maybe I should do some sort of 'special day' thing for her? I know turning 18 is a big deal and all. She isn't really the 'party animal' sort, so I was thinking, because she's never been to a spa, maybe treat her to a spa day? Would that be a good idea?

Something classy like a mani pedi kit or a set of coffee mugs. OR a gift certificate. When I don't know what to get for someone who is hard to shop for, I just do a gift card in a greeting card as a gift.

Day spas can be super pricey depending on where you live.

SnuffleUffleGrass
01-29-2020, 06:20 AM
Not to mention…

52678

Regardless of who is involved, I don’t like the “BIG CELEBRITY DIES… oh, yeah, there were some other people, too” narrative. It looks like at least three parents and daughters were on board, and there may have been a whole family wiped out.

I didn't want to post this everywhere, but due to what I know about high speed aviation accidents, the victims probably passed away very quickly in this incident.

Just terrible. I have refused to get on helicopters for most of my life since a childhood friend of mine lost his dad in a chopper crash (it was a EMS chopper crash.) Been reluctant to try going on one since then. They're more likely to crash than any "shitbox" small airplane or jet, if you wanna talk odds of crashing/ falling out of the sky.

Aurora_Sunset
01-29-2020, 08:56 AM
Proceed with caution on that one. Not just at auto parts stores but especially at them. Some of them are quite predatory and try to upset you a bunch of shit you don’t need, or else get that, “hurrr… she has bobs and vagene, she won’t know what she’s doing” mindset. Home improvement stores are a mixed bag.

I wasn't advocating so much playing dumb or even flirting or anything. Just simply asking them what headlight bulbs you need for your car - which doesn't mean you're dumb, they won't even know off the top of their head and will have to look it up on their computer. And then asking if it's a simple swap for your type of car, and, if so, if they wouldn't mind coming out and helping you since you've never done it for that car before.

It's true that some places are a mixed bag with douchey guys - I've had guys at the dealership treat me like a moron before when I had previously never had an issue with that location. But for the most part, I get perfectly professional help just asking like a normal customer, not a "bimbo" or anything.

Aurora_Sunset
01-29-2020, 08:59 AM
I made professional social media pages and one of my first "follows" on my new business instagram is a guy friend that I unfriended over 2 years ago after a weird falling out. He's had moments where I catch him sending a re-friend request on facebook, but he always withdraws it a couple hours later before I respond. But has otherwise not tried to speak to me in almost 3 years now. Did he think I wouldn't see him following my public business page??

carmen_b
01-29-2020, 09:55 AM
I'm caught up again in the " should I have more time or more money " debate.
It's a tough one. Sometimes I feel like I under preform . I do love having free time though !

I'm also deciding if I should just sign a new lease in my city. I have a free/cheap place to stay ( a property that is unique in May is possible ) but that is three months away. Three months is long for not much privacy . ;/
I guess maybe i should rent a room in this city for three months since an apartment lease can't be that short. i haven't had a room mate in 9 years ( other than the partner I lived with in 2012-2018 ).

Just gathering thoughts!
I know I should just be a grown up but I'm still brainstorming on ways to live cheaply / work less ect. ! Haha.
;/

AChildOfBoredom
01-29-2020, 02:13 PM
I wasn't advocating so much playing dumb or even flirting or anything.

I’m not really understanding where you’re getting the impression that I thought you were? Or am I misinterpreting that?


Just simply asking them what headlight bulbs you need for your car - which doesn't mean you're dumb, theywon't even know off the top of their head and will have to look it up on their computer. And then asking if it's a simple swap for your type of car, and, if so, if they wouldn't mind coming out and helping you since you've never done it for that car before.
It's true that some places are a mixed bag with douchey guys - I've had guys at the dealership treat me like a moron before when I had previously never had an issue with that location. But for the most part, I get perfectly professional help just asking like a normal customer, not a "bimbo" or anything.

All of those are reasonable things to ask… that was never the point of contention… the thing to be mindful of is that the staff there are in the sales business, and trying to up sell is a thing they do. And they don’t just do it to women… if a guy walked in there looking like any of the photos from that link I posted to the photos of the Gucci fashion show, I’m sure they’d see an easy mark there, as well. It’s just like anything else… of course not all of their staff do this, but unless you’re fortunate enough to have ESP, when you walk in and see various floor associates around the store, you simply don’t immediately know which ones are predatory in that regard or not. To that end, don’t assume women working there won’t do it to you. I’m pretty sure that, with my background, I could get convince you on something you didn’t actually need. I cringe especially whenever I see someone go to one of those stores to get codes pulled for a check engine light.

lynn2009
01-29-2020, 02:18 PM
I’m not really understanding where you’re getting the impression that I thought you were? Or am I misinterpreting that?

She was responding to the same comment from Kimbe that you did.

AChildOfBoredom
01-29-2020, 02:23 PM
Makes more sense now. Thanks for clarifying.

lynn2009
01-29-2020, 06:22 PM
I went to Autozone for new headlight bulbs, and the guy was totally happy to walk out to my car and put them in for me.

They did it for me too! They couldn't access the light on one side, but at least one is working now.

JGB2009
01-29-2020, 11:42 PM
I feel weird sometimes cause I hardly ever see a man who is attractive to me. Am I really that picky? In all honesty I don't think any man can ever make me happy. Most are all idiots to me!!!!!

SnuffleUffleGrass
01-30-2020, 04:38 AM
I feel weird sometimes cause I hardly ever see a man who is attractive to me. Am I really that picky? In all honesty I don't think any man can ever make me happy. Most are all idiots to me!!!!!

Men are all idiotic to a degree. Blame the testosterone.

SnuffleUffleGrass
01-30-2020, 04:41 AM
Anyone else confused by all the fuss over a rapist?

To clarify about the rape allegations and Kobe Bryant-

* during the discovery period for the lawsuit, the fact emerged that the alleged victim had basically entrapped Bryant into having sex, and then she went and filed a police report. Soooooo I think she settled out of court and the scandal went away.

This all happened a long time ago so I can see where people want to believe any given jock is a rapist. Naw, not all men are Ben Rothliesberger. lolllll


Random thought- gotta go to the Post Office today.

lynn2009
01-30-2020, 06:18 AM
To clarify about the rape allegations and Kobe Bryant-

* during the discovery period for the lawsuit, the fact emerged that the alleged victim had basically entrapped Bryant into having sex, and then she went and filed a police report. Soooooo I think she settled out of court and the scandal went away.

This all happened a long time ago so I can see where people want to believe any given jock is a rapist. Naw, not all men are Ben Rothliesberger. lolllll


Random thought- gotta go to the Post Office today.

She refused to testify because his publicity team threatened and terrorized her.

SnuffleUffleGrass
01-31-2020, 06:22 AM
She refused to testify because his publicity team threatened and terrorized her.

I still doubt her. If she hadn't settled out of court she could have easily won a civil lawsuit given what was publicized.

I'm not going to argue about it, we have differing opinions.

AChildOfBoredom
01-31-2020, 07:47 AM
Wish I had given my dog an actual name. Wanting to be all inclusive, I gave everyone else in the house input on what to name her, and that was a mistake. We’re all normally pretty reasonable and willing to work things out, but everyone stood their ground on this one and the back and forth over it got annoying to the point where I finally just said, “Hell with it, the dog’s name is Beagle, and this is the end of it”. So my Beagle is named Beagle, and my neighbor made light of this (as if I weren’t aware of what I named my own dog) and told me it was a bit kitschy. I asked him what he’d have done with five and women bickering back and forth incessantly over picking a name. He had nothing further to say.

SnuffleUffleGrass
02-02-2020, 05:20 AM
Wish I had given my dog an actual name. Wanting to be all inclusive, I gave everyone else in the house input on what to name her, and that was a mistake. We’re all normally pretty reasonable and willing to work things out, but everyone stood their ground on this one and the back and forth over it got annoying to the point where I finally just said, “Hell with it, the dog’s name is Beagle, and this is the end of it”. So my Beagle is named Beagle, and my neighbor made light of this (as if I weren’t aware of what I named my own dog) and told me it was a bit kitschy. I asked him what he’d have done with five and women bickering back and forth incessantly over picking a name. He had nothing further to say.

Dog naming hack- dogs only really respond to the last loud sound in a name or command. I named my rescue dog "Jack" because the "ACK!" sound is easy for him to hear. He's still dumb as a post but he will respond when needed.

AChildOfBoredom
02-02-2020, 12:23 PM
Dog naming hack- dogs only really respond to the last loud sound in a name or command. I named my rescue dog "Jack" because the "ACK!" sound is easy for him to hear. He's still dumb as a post but he will respond when needed.

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