Male and Female Imponderables - Not for the Faint of Heart

POSTED BY: PhoenixRose
UPDATED: Monday, July 17, 2006 21:53
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RAY53208

Monday, July 17, 2006 8:28 PM

well, our world is largely puritanical and still possesses lingering victorian mores.

this means sex is usually something that is best dealt with discretely.

hickeys are just the opposite. personally i like giving and receiving them, but its not entirely appropriate in the professional world.

PDAs arent always appropriate and neither are hickies on open display. common sense should be the guide. granma shouldnt have to see them, nor would it be best to show em off at church.

as to the side question: my ears. go there and its on.

ray

“With the first link the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, changes us all irrevokably. The first time any man’s freedom is trodden on, we are all damaged."

MSG

Monday, July 17, 2006 8:33 PM

Hey I'll be back shortly...just have to run a laptop up to my friend and then hit the gym HUGS and such

I choose to rise instead of fall- U2

FUTUREMRSFILLION

Monday, July 17, 2006 8:40 PM

Slumber party at MsG's!

one of the Forsaken TM

TRISTAN

Monday, July 17, 2006 8:54 PM

Welcome, Ray! Don't think we have had the pleasure of your company before. Glad you decided to join us imponderable-ingishness...or some such.
You've got a point with the Victorian morals in this society...it's too bad!

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SERYN

Monday, July 17, 2006 8:59 PM

ahhhhh, tough one.

I'd say i instantly get along much better with men - i enjoy 'social intercourse' (fnar fnar) much more with men than with women, saying that, i form deeper friendships with the girls. That may change. things always do.

I'm about as domesticated as a dinosaur. I'm not neat or tidy (i am hygenic however!) i will eat my cooking, but i wouldn't expect anybody else to, my interests include many things that ain't so feminin. In principle i hate pink. I detest rom-coms. I take less than half an hour (including bathing) to get ready, and i rarely cut my hair properly and never get my nails or whatever done, i utterly detest clothes shopping, rarely bother to put together 'outfits' I can't stand womens magaizines, and girly talk will have me walking away quicker than you can say periods. shoe shopping is done in raids, and the thought of having to have children near me often fills me with unspeakable dread (when i'm not, for some unkown reason, firmly convinced that i cant have kids)

Yet my rooms are littered (literally) with florals, my clothes are mostly girly. I love romantic films like Amelie and Gardenstate, I have a keen interest in fashion and design, i gossip like no bodies business when i'm in the mood. I trained in an age-old female job, and i've no particular love of femininsts.

so where does that leave me in the social conditioning/high maintenance/eccentricity stakes?

Your robot reminds me of you. You tell it to turn it stops. You tell it to stop it turns. You ask it to take out the garbage it watches reruns of Firefly.
http://www.myspace.com/seryndippyt

TRISTAN

Monday, July 17, 2006 9:02 PM

Seryn, were I not happily married, and if you were interested, I would move to England to be with you!
Eccentric, maybe, but in a good way.
High Maintenance? I say not.

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SPACEANJL

Monday, July 17, 2006 9:09 PM

Seryn - what do you consider a feminist? This could be the start of something interesting...

Feminist to me is a belief that your gender should not dictate your job or your salary, or your status in society. That you have a right to the same education and opportunities. That you have the right to dress and behave as you please (with a certain element of common sense and decency involved) and that your body is your own to do with as you like.

RUGBUG

Monday, July 17, 2006 9:11 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by msg:
Hey the new bed's a king and the mattress is so tall it the top of the bed is even with my belly button:) It's all pillow on top too...you're all welcome to pile on:) You just sort of sink in ( it's got 4 inches of memory foam underneath the pillow top)

RANT

New mattresses suck arse.

Let me 'splain. Breakin' the arm meant sleeping ONLY on my back. Old mattress was, well, old. Nice, but old. My back started really hurting after about 6 weeks. Got to the point I was taking Vicodin for the back pain, not the arm. So I decide to buy a new mattress.

I shopped, I compared, I laid on the dang sucker for 1/2 hour. I LOVED it. Got it home, it feels like a different mattress. I was in even MORE pain. It already has a hole in it. Now, I'm no waif, but I shouldn't be making a divot in a mattress just a few weeks old. I think after 6 months my back is starting to get used to it, I don't wake up at 3am too sore to sleep. But still, GRRRRRR. Worst part is it only had a 4 week return. I couldn't get it set-up for 3 weeks (again, one arm, no friends available to help) and it was a dream for the first two weeks. So at week six I was in terrible pain and got a "too bad" response from the seller. Double GRRRRR. Apparently my "electronics" curse carries over to major furniture purchases.

/RANT

MSG: I wish you much better mattress luck than I have had. A good mattress is a godsend.

(Post script to mattresses: Almost 40 weeks (tomorrow) into this and I still can really only sleep on my back. I get about 30 minutes on either side before I hurt too much and have to roll back onto my back.)

Other topics: I used to have a majority of male friends. That, sadly, has all changed. I have mostly female friends, and because I can't handle many women, there's only a few.

TRISTAN

Monday, July 17, 2006 9:15 PM

RugBug, sorry to hear about the bed problems...I have always been lucky in that five minutes after lying down anywhere, including places you wouldn't think of sleeping, I am toast.

And don't feel bad...I can't handle many women either...prefer it one at a time.
(Sorry, could not pass that one up)

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CALIFORNIAKAYLEE

Monday, July 17, 2006 9:23 PM

Rugbug, I hear you on the sleeping troubles. With my joint pain, I can only lie on my side for a minute or two before it hurts too much. I roll around a lot in my sleep, and I think split my time pretty evenly between sleeping on my back and on my stomach.

My new rheumatologist gave me a muscle relaxant, cyclobenzaprine, to take at bedtime every night. It's helped the muscles in my back relax so that I don't wake up so stiff and in pain in the morning, and it makes me drowsy so I sleep through the night now, rather than waking up every time something hurts.

Of course a mattress that didn't hurt your back would be ideal, but if you're going on nearly a year with these problems, maybe a trip to the doctor to see if there's something else wrong might help?

~CK

You can't take the sky from me...

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