peacefuljeffrey

Um, more sex is usually what makes me feel good after sex. Either that, or some cuddling and making out. Or a good meal.

I work in the advertising department of a newspaper, proofreading the ads before they are released to print. We come across some funny stuff, bad wordings, misspellings, etc. Most of the time, we catch them. These didn't necessarily run in the paper, but they were found by proofreaders in my department. I thought they'd be good for a chuckle. - Restaurant offers fun, first-rate fate - Home maliciously maintained - Estate has lushes garden - Ambience permeates throughout this home - Understated elegance abounds throughout this house - For all those mothers who need nutering (this was to run in a Mother's Day ad, supposed to say "nurturing") - A winding lake (???) - A calm and serene waterfall - 4bd/4ba w/mother-in-law - Chilled Crapmeat Salad - Grandness permeates thru home - Room over garage is fit for animals or mother-in-law! - Coiffured ceilings - rod iorn furniture - 2 yrs new builders loaded - charm exudes from the master bedroom - dungenous crabs - We Do It In Days, Not Hours - Baked Stuff Shrimp - You might catch yourself sleeping

Are you still so humble that you actually believe there is a picture of you in the world that is not sexy?! You are so too much! -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Me too! Plus, one of my arms is all tired now! -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

I'd name the folder, "all that John Kerry stands for, and any legislation he ever got passed." -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Just make sure you freeze the body fully before you introduce Mr. Wood Chipper. You want the chipper to make a sharp cracking sound, not a squishy/mushy sound while chewing through the body. And if you're really lucky, your wood chipper will be cursed, and instead of blood, flesh and bone, their net worth in MONEY will come out the other side! (Yes, big "Friday the 13th: the Series" fan here!) -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Gambling is evil, so you should do the only right thing and give that dirty money to the Catholic Church so they can throw it on the pile and, er, do some good with it. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Seconded! -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

The town of Palm Beach (the rich-people infested, pretentious island east of West Palm Beach, home of Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago club, and Rod Stewart, among others) put an ad in our paper a few months ago. It was a legal ad giving public notice of a town council vote on a BB-GUN BAN for the town. I was flabbergasted (though not affected, since I live in WPB). Why the f*ck would they ban BBguns? Are the octogenarian millionaires causing trouble with them?! Then it took a few days, but I finally realized what must have spurred the idiot town fathers to write a BB gun ban. I remembered that I had read in the paper that some crotchety old f*ck who lived on the island had been shooting people's cats when they strayed onto his yard. There was nothing they could do about him doing this, apparently. So the idiot town fathers wrote a law forbidding EVERYONE from using BB guns within the town, just to provide a means of stopping this evil prick from shooting cats vindictively. Isn't that wonderful? -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Does that mean you're gonna have to go dig another hole? -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

P-TEX!!!! OMG I have a scar on every finger from using that stuff for snowboard/ski repairs back in '96! LOL Badges of honor. I was a badass ski repair tech! -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

I'm at work right now, wearing my typical jeans shorts, nice t-shirt, I have about four days' beard growth, my hair is down and all curly and long, and I'm sitting with one bare foot tucked under myself in my chair. I guess I don't look very dorky. Just average. Some people say I look laid back.

Oh, come on, don't be hard on yourself. You are not, now, the person you used to be -- you are the person you make yourself at this very moment, and if that person is a non-smoker, then you can be proud of who you are for that. You don't live in your past, you live in your present, and you live for your future. So please don't let what mistakes you've made limit how you feel about yourself now. Nothing good comes of that. Gotta be liberated from the past and its mistakes. You can remake yourself in an instant, regardless of what you used to do, just by deciding to think differently. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

If you are a parent, because of what you might be doing to your kids...health and otherwise. As a kid I was traumatized at school when someone would ask what "that smell" was or who had been smoking because I smelled so much like smoke. I will never forget walking into the living room on a weekend morning as a kid and seeing a haze of smoke floating in the air. I have always wondered how much their smoking had to do with the asthma that plagued me as a kid. The only good thing that came of growing up with two smoking parents is that I saw how disgusting it was and to this day have never had even the slightest interest in trying a cigarette. Thankfully they both quit a few years ago. This is funny! I grew up with two smoking parents, who smoked in the house, in the car, all over. But things turned out very differently. I'll get to that. A friend of theirs even smoked cigars, and in the '70s and '80s, that couple would come over and play canasta, and my parents even let him smoke cigars in our house! Talk about annoying -- to be in your own house and not be able to stand it. My parents screwed around with those bullshit plastic disposable filters to try to quit. They also smoked a good amound of pot -- and yes, in the house, in front of us, even in the car when we'd go out to dinner! (It was much much later on that I realized that the smell of pot must have been on our whole family when we would arrive at a restaurant! I'm glad I never realized it then, because I have no idea what I would have done!) Eventually, my mom and dad realized that Mom was wayyy too into pot -- "needing" it morning noon and night. She decided to go to a rehab, in like '86 or so. She was in a really ritzy part of Connecticut (New Canaan) at a place called Silver Hill. Celebrities go there, as I understand it. She met the brother of Bill Paxton there. When she quit pot, Dad quit too (but it was easy for him). He also quit cigarettes COLD TURKEY after having smoked for a few decades! What is funny to me, is that not one of the four kids in my family EVER smoked. BUT, when I was a little kid, like in elementary school, I would pretend to be "cool," by "smoking" a plastic lollipop stick, whenever I got the kind of lollipop that had one (as opposed to the paper sticks that got soggy and gross). I actually found it fun to pretend I was smoking, but then grew up never to smoke! I have no idea how difficult it is to quit smoking; I just know that my mom quit numerous times for varying lengths, and Dad quit just the once and has never smoked in almost 20 years. It's almost impossible for me to picture him smoking, now! Since I know how awful smoking is, and how much I loathe it, and since I have an appreciation for the difficulty of quitting, I always try to be supportive and congratulatory to people who are making or who have made the effort to quit. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

It also sucks because if your friends or loved ones stay near you, you'll make them stink, too! So it forces you to be not-nice to people you supposedly care about! Well, Liz, I'm glad/proud that you're making the effort to give it up. I wish you all the best at succeeding.

Whoa-ho-ho-ho, you're talkin' about if we were married? I can see differences in response depending on if I was married to the girl or not. But not what you'd think: I believe I would be more likely to divorce a wife who had cheated than to break up with a girlfriend who had cheated -- because the wife has broken a much more serious commitment, and I think I would find that unforgivable. I can't say for sure, though, because I have never been married, and I don't yet know the depth of love that married people (ostensibly) feel. I thought I felt love that strongly once with my college girlfriend, but we were from the same hometown and went to far distant schools, and never lived together. So I don't know love in that kind of proximity/closeness/intimacy. Like being on the toilet when she comes in to brush her teeth or something. Never been in that close a situation, so I can't know if I would feel the love that strongly to want to patch it up after an affair. But I'm thinking, if we're supposed to be married and in love, and she screwed around, then WHAT LOVE?! I voted "divorce." -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

That comes close to warranting death. In fact, people have been charged with CRIMES for doing that -- knowingly exposing unwitting people to risk of STD infection. Prison rape is too good for a person who would do that. Of course, sort of like in skydiving, a person assumes a burden of risk just for willingly having sex with someone. First off, it behooves you to ASK the person if they have any diseases they might give you. (You have to judge the honesty of the response you get; and you have to realize that a person saying they're "clean" without having been checked is not really justified in making that claim -- but some people do. They assume or assert that they would "know" if they had something, and this is simply NOT true.) And some people will lie even if they have some disease, because they don't want to be shut out from ever having sex again, which would be a real psychological fear to deal with if you had an incurable infection, like herpes. So a person who truly doesn't want an STD will not have casual sex, will not rush into sex without knowing a person and their character a good while, and will expect and demand to see doctors' tests that verify lack of infections. A lot of the romance goes out the window when you do this, but it could be worth it in the end, yes? -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Your answer is very thoughtful, and develops deeper than what I just said. I too know someone very dear to me who contracted herpes AND genital warts from the very first guy she ever slept with (you don't know her, and I'll never tell who this is). She is up-front about it as well. Both can be "kept under control": the warts can be cut, burned, or frozen off, and the herpes can be medicated. Fortunately, she had a very severe first outbreak and the doctors told her that because of it, she has a pretty good immune response to it that keeps it better in check than other people have. HOWEVER... you should be aware that with regard to Herpes, it IS possible to contract herpes from an infected person who does NOT have a current sore or outbreak! It happens through the skin from what they call "viral shedding." I guess maybe the risk is LOWER, but it is NOT ZERO. If I were totally in love with someone and wanted something very long term with her, I would consider having sex with her despite her having an STD. I don't relish the idea, but love can make certain bad things alright. Who knows -- if the two of you share the same disease, maybe it strengthens a love bond between you? Maybe? I dunno. But in the meantime, it's a tough question, because yeah, good people with a disease they didn't really deserve also deserve love. But with so many people who they say have herpes, you'd think it would be easy to find someone you couldn't give it to, because they already have it. Me, I'll do what I can to keep from getting it. I even did break up with a girl I was boinking -- and she was FUN and it was about to really take off and get CRAZY -- because she told me she had something to tell me. We were sitting in her car talking, actually we were about to leave work and go to my house for some intended raucous uninhibited sex! -- and the way she was acting so grave, I said, "What, you're acting like you're gonna tell me you have herpes or something!" And she just looked at me all serious, so I said, "You have herpes?!" And she claimed yes, she did. Now, we had had sex once before, I wore a condom, and I had not gone down on her (though I wanted to really bad) because she claimed she didn't like receiving oral sex. (It was something I had planned to set about changing.) So I was spared getting it that way. But later on, after I called the game on account of herpes, it became clear that she was kind of a compulsive liar/thief, so I came to actually NOT believe she had herpes...! But even if she didn't, she was so mental that I wasn't willing to dive back into a relationship with her. But she's still worth killing a kitten for now and then. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Same here. I made the mistake of having casual sex with a girl in college and found out afterward just how sluttily promiscuous she had been. I got TERRIFIED. Got tested right away, then again some time later, and WHEW!! I was in the clear! But what a learning experience! I had been an oblivious college student, making the assumption that "surely anyone my age just hasn't been around the block enough to carry diseases I might get." As soon as I found cause to worry even just a little bit, I got reallllly cautious. Probably denied myself a lot of sex over the years that I could have had, or at least pursued, but for the fact that I'm not willing to chance getting a disease, not even one of the ones that they can cure. The last time I dated a girl, I went to my doctor, told him I was starting a new relationship and wanted a clean bill of health (or at least an assessment that I hoped would be clean) and he ran a series of standard STD tests and again, I was fully clean. But wouldn't you know it, I did that so I could reassure this girl before we got serious, and she called it off before we did get serious. I'd say she missed out: a guy who cares enough to make sure to be able to show her he's not a disease risk to her, someone that thoughtful, and she decided against me. Oh well. I wonder if the next guy she decided to date was that mature and responsible and considerate. Does it show that nice guys finish last? Well, I can't say for sure, because it's not like I had a chance to tell her that I had gone and gotten tested for her, or anything. So it wasn't even something she could weigh in her decision. But who knows; I think things worked out that way for a reason. We had a lot in common (and we made out really well together) but there were differences I was aware of, like she liked to smoke pot, and I'm fully non-drug, so maybe we weren't right for each other after all. But I do have the luxury of knowing that I'm disease free for the next cutie who comes along.

That is SICK. And I think I would have demanded to see what was written on the form. Sue the power company? What would be the tort?: "They didn't need to put power lines there!!" "They didn't light the entire length of every powerline so that it would be visible to skydivers!!" It's scary indeed how popular is this notion that never is any harm done that someone can't be sued for. -Jeffrey That seems to be a pretty standard set of questions used to give the hospital a few options if the patient isn't able to pay. I had insurance at the time and there was no problem with payment, so I never heard about that form again. -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

this is (in my opinion) where the DZs which issue these waivers have crossed the line of trust. you all talk about "being a family" and "dont sue friends". well, once the DZ did something knowingly that risks my life, they are no longer my friends. things i can check/ my fault? i wont sue anyone. a poorly maintained plane or a tandem master on drugs mean the DZ broke their word to me (and not every word has to be written in a legal form). the "waiver" type of contracts is often rejected in court anyway since its a one sided agreement and not the result of negotiations. especialy if the DZ actions were criminal. O You make good points about the DZ breaking faith with the "friend," but as for th one-sidedness of a contract waiver that is not agreed upon by negotiation: signing the waiver is not compulsory. Failure to "negotiate" can easily result in you turning your back on the contract and the skydive. I can't see that the contract would be invalid just because it was not the result of a negotiation. You don't have to sign it! That's your negotiation! If you tried to negotiate on a clause and were denied, that just means "talks broke down and no agreement was reached," i.e. the contract never reached completion, and the terms of doing a skydive were never met, and the skydive doesn't happen. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

That does get into what I consider a gray area. I have always wondered how it got to be a standard thing to include, in the waiver, a statement that you won't sue people connected with the DZ even if they are negligent. That seems kinda reaching. The premise of suing justifiably is all about determining if they were negligent! And I think it could be called dicey to give anyone carte-blanche to be negligent, knowing they cannot be sued. Isn't that a disincentive to do things right? I mean, granted, do things negligently just because you can and you won't likely build much of a business, but still... There are certain rights you cannot even sign away. I guess that's why courts let a suit against a DZ proceed. They scoff at the idea of a hold-harmless waiver that indemnifies an agency against liability explicitly even if it is outright negligent. Isn't it established in commonlaw that if your negligence harms another, you can be held liable for damages? For the record, I believe I would never sue a DZ. I believe in the doctrine of being responsible for the outcome of my skydiving. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Ditto. We ALL KNOW that we skydive at our OWN RISK. I can see how someone might hedge if he were injured because of some failure on the part of the DZ, or outright negligence (although we also know that we sign a waiver that indemnifies them even for that!), but if someone caused his own troubles and then sued, that person is shitwad, in my book, and I have no compunctions about him being banned from skydiving anywhere, ever again. You just don't do that, not when the fault was yours, especially. You take your lumps and leave people who didn't cause them ALONE. Why should a DZ be expected to invite a skydiver to jump there when he has proven he will not keep good faith with the contract waiver he signed?! Is it fair to expect the DZ business, and all the people who depend on it, from owners, employees, fun jumpers and tandem tourists on down, to expose themselves to the kind of risk this jumper presents? I don't think so. Break faith with the "you jump at your own risk" tenet of our sport and you rightly lose credibility across the board. What I don't understand is, if the jumper caused his own injuries, and the DZ can't be found at fault (witness other skydivers had no problem on the same jump, etc., no one collided or interfered, etc.), what would be the stated reason on the lawsuit for suing the DZ? You can't, hopefully sue them just because they conducted the skydiving operations there! -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Good points. Well, of the choices in the poll, I said Aircraft, Location, and Local Friendliness. I can deal with washrooms that are not perfectly spiffy, and I have yet to jump where there was not shaded packing area or adequate landing area. But I can't help wishing that the water at Sebastian did not smell like ten million match-heads!! UGH!! -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

I don't think that Boar's Head hot dogs (or any of their stuff) has anything non-natural. Boar's Head is the only kind of cold cuts or hot dogs that I buy anymore. It's just too much better than the nearest competitor. The stuff is AMAZING! Have you had the Maple Honey Glazed Turkey?!!