peacefuljeffrey

Back in the '80s and '90s I was a pretty big fan of The Punisher comic books. They made a crappy movie version years ago with Dolph Lundgren, but I never saw it. Now Marvel is making a new version with some unknown guy (or at least I never heard of him; he looks like Christopher Lambert, though it's not him). I just watched the trailer online and it looks pretty cool. I'm psyched! Anyone else ever read the comics? I used to love the Punisher Armory special issues. Having been up on the latest hardware, I was able to realize that they used true-to-life information on the Punisher's weapons (right down to details about the full-auto Glock 18!). It fascinated me to think that some guys in the comics biz were studying up on weaponry so they could write accurate comics! The Punisher -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

You didn't list Gun Ownership Rights. That's what I vote about. Once those are secure, I'll go on to secondary issues. -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Congratulations, Kelly! You join some pretty respectable ranks. (I just got my card in the mail on Friday! A-44658! Of course, I'd had my proficiency card filled out and signed for a few weeks before I finally photocopied it and mailed it to USPA...) Now go have fun!

That is pretty creepy, but also sounded kind of well-meaning if not a bit despairing, said from the point of view of the deceased. Kinda reminded me of "One, two, Freddy's comin' for you... Three, four, better lock the door... Five, six, grab your crucifix..." -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

BAD!!! Every man that I have been with (always in LTR with me) have been huge lovers of pleasing a woman orally before intercourse. That is awesome because (for me, anyway) it leads to multiples every time...in other words, orgasms both during oral and intercourse.

Posting without having read responses yet: It's my feeling that if a woman has to fake orgasms then she and her man are not relating right. If two people are having sex, it should be a prerequisite that they each care enough about the other to a) be honest with each other (and that means being frank about whether one is touching the other the "right" way") b) be unafraid of the response c) be willing to adapt to the inherent request when the first person says that the stimulation is not working for them I tend to think that I have a good touch (been told so) and am sensitive and gentle when it's desired, and forceful and gruff when it's desired (though my preference is to be sensitive and gentle and flowing and smooth). Usually I have no problem giving pleasure through touch and kissing and all else. Every partner is different, though -- although a lot of what we all like and enjoy as humans is similar. If a woman is not enjoying what I am doing, I like it if she guides me to do what she would like. There's no way I would object to taking dictation, when the end result of complying with it is getting her to ecstasy! I'm not gonna be hurt if she tells me that things I did to other women that lit them on fire simply don't work for her -- she's not the same person as they are! She has different likes and dislikes! Communication is key. You can do it with body language, with spoken language, or by taking the person's hands (or other parts) and guiding them to where they should be, and doing what they should be doing. Hey, you're naked there with the person -- what is there to be embarassed or shy or reticent about? It should be about getting closer, and having a great time being intimate! It can be FUN to learn about someone's body ("can?" -- "SHOULD!"). Both people need to just shed their inhibitions and barriers and shyness and just BE there together, in the moment, sharing and enjoying the whole experience, unrushed and without expectations. That's the key: just be there to enjoy whatever happens, for as long as it goes on, without shooting for some goal. Whatever crosses your mind that might be fun -- do that! Faking orgasms is stupid because it robs the faker and the fakee. It's about inhibition and dishonesty and a misguided attempt to protect someone's feelings. If you accept the reality that a given person's technique is not necessarily "wrong," just not the right thing for a given recipient, you can accept the idea of having to tell/be told that "this isn't gonna get me off -- try this instead." Plus, every person should know for him or herself what gets them off personally. The next step is perhaps SHOWING the partner how to do it! From there, the partner knows what to do and pleasure can continue. -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Oh, also, I have noticed that when I eat a decent quantity of sour candies (Zours in particular) it makes the skin around my eyeballs feel strange, almost like it's flushed or sweating -- but no sweat appears there. It's just a weird warm-cold sensation. I have correlated it directly to eating those candies. -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Are you sure things would not be simpler for you if you if you just went out and became a nudist? Sounds like you have a clothing-aversion in general! I like being naked too. It feels free and comfortable. I even had a dream one time in which there had been a court precedent set that said people could not be prosecuted for going out totally naked in public -- so I DID IT. In the dream, I went out to a movie stark naked. I got lots of stares, but I just did the "hold your head up high" thing and asserted my right to be naturally "sky-clad," as they say. (Isn't that a cool term for naked?!)

Someone needs to tie this thread in with the one about worrying about getting cold sores. That may help answer your question about having casual sex with any stripper (or anyone else for that matter) who comes along. I'm not able to do that, and I'm just as big a fan of hot sex as anyone else -- probably more! I just can't go schtupping any old chick I meet, for fear of where she's been, and with whom. I prefer to know someone just a bit, prior to having sex with her... and that mostly rules out picking up strippers in bars and taking them home to fuck them. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

It's good that you got rid of the number... but... Why are you expecting to find, like, a librarian or something in BARS? While it's true that a good cross-section of the adult population sometimes goes to bars, a larger portion of the female patrons of bars are of the seedy variety. You would probably be better off not bothering with ANY of the women you meet in bars, even if it means going longer without nookie. It's just too small a chance that the one you meet in a bar is there for the first and last time in six years, you know? Meat Loaf said something about looking for a ruby in a mountain of rocks, and there not being a Coupe De Vill hiding at the bottom of a Crackerjack box. The man may be fat and sweaty, but listen to him. He knows what he's talking about. Most quality girls will not be found to be regular bar-hoppers. By quality, I mean settled, intelligent, non-drug-or-alcohol-abusers, faithful, non-psycho... If you want a girlfriend who's not like that, by all means, keep getting numbers from girls in bars. But remember, many of them are there to abuse alcohol or drugs, and to hook up with some dude she finds there. Not a good prospect. You've been down that road, Neo... You know exactly where it leads. - - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Hmm, well, yes, there's your date. BUT. How exactly does one bridge from there into making this a romance, which is what is pretty much desired? I don't think anyone has ever answered this question in a way that could possibly work for everyone. Some people you know have managed to learn to make it happen more easily for them (and yes, sometimes that's done simply by trying it a lot on a lot of different people: you gotta have success on some percentage!). I've ended up "friends" with girls I wanted relationships with... I've gone on dates where we just didn't feel anything for each other... I've inexplicably lost girls when everything seemed to be headed in a really good direction... But I'm with Viking. I'm a little shy when it comes to coming on to a girl. I end up blabbering, for one thing. Sometimes it just happens, though, and then I get to look back in wonderment and with my head spinning, and realize how lucky I just got. (Of course, current luck = 0...) -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

I think that the nature of the medium, i.e. simply typing whatever comes to mind, makes it easy to say mean stuff you would ordinarily keep to yourself. I fall into the trap too, even though I try not to. I think we may do it here but still we're all friends when it's said and done. I've seen apologies go back and forth, and issued some of my own when I thought I got too harsh. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

02:15 EST, and still no pic available. And I was looking forward to it! BTW, what movie? I feel like I recognize the quote, but can't place it. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

It's sweet of you to say I'm sweet. I'm flattered. Thank you. Let me see what I can do about a closer face pic. I'm one of those people who rarely likes pictures of himself, so I don't have a lot of ones I think are so "presentable" to the world. I'll go check my hard drive for stragglers. Edited: I've attached a pic -- not much closer on the face, but better-lit. Hope I look as sweet as you believe me to be. It was a good day -- Skydive SoBe's first boogie! -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

no, cold sores are not the same as genital herpes... cold sores are a form of herpes, but it is a different virus than the one that causes genital herpes. but people with genital herpes can give someone oral herpes, but I don't think it works the other way You are mistaken. An oral herpes infection (I) can be transmitted and become a genital herpes infection (still type I but located down there). Likewise, a type II genital infecion can be given to the mouth and from there, of course, the person can give mouth-to-mouth type II infection. This is stuff I read when I was researching risk factors for herpes on various online medical sources. Lucky for me, I don't have either infection, but I wanted to find out how I could be relatively sure. Fact is, it's really hard to be sure. It's easy to be infected and have such mild and/or rare outbreaks that you don't even know it. -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

True enough what you said about not wanting a virus, but I have to dispute the last part. Going barefoot is actually very healthy and does not expose you to some inordinate risk of disease -- not even tetanus, ringworm, hookworm -- all of which are not very prevalent in an industrial society. (You could get them walking around in cowshit, perhaps, but not on the grounds of your average park, let's say.) Yes, warts are caused by viruses, but no, they are not easily acquired "simply walking around anywhere barefoot." In fact, people who go barefoot on a regular basis, and who rarely wear enclosed shoes, rarely pick up that kind of thing, and they pretty much never get athlete's foot. These things (athlete's foot in particular) thrive best inside the moist, dark environment of a shoe. How many times do you clean out the inside of your shoes? I mean disinfect them? There's the source of many people's foot problems. Stinky feet? That's not caused by the feet themselves! It's caused by keeping the feet inside those coffins that confine them in their own sweat along with microbes that just love to feed off moisture, darkness and dead skin cells! Bare feet don't take on the "feet smell." Feet that come out of shoes are the ones that have it! I got barefoot just about every moment of every day except for work -- and even then I wear simple flipflops. I go barefoot all around town, at home, and at the DZ. Although I usually avoid doing so, you can generally even go into bathrooms barefoot without catching anything. Air kills a lot of stuff, and urine is sterile (so splashes on the floor are just so much salt-water, really), and people rarely splatter poop on the floor. Needless to say, I still avoid barefooting in public bathrooms, but that's just an icky-factor thing, not a health thing. Warts need an enclosed and damp and dark environment similar to athlete's foot to thrive. I joined a "club" called the Society for Barefoot Living, whose website has lots of links to info about how healthy it is to keep your feet free of stinky ol' shoes, not to mention commentary on how pleasurable it is to sense the world you're walking on with your feet. For me, putting on shoes (which I used to do unthinkingly until I moved to Florida and became a "barefooter") is like what you'd think about putting winter gloves on and then going about your day. Your hands would feel "blind." That's how my feet feel in shoes. Once you learn to enjoy being barefoot, it's really hard to be any other way. I drive, fly and skydive barefoot. I get improved "touch" as a result. Check out this site. The author of this book, a personal friend, has posted the entire contents of it online. It's a great read. The Barefoot Hiker Free your feet, and your mind will follow! - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

I've always been concerned about making sure to not get them -- I've never had one yet and so I believe I am negative for the virus. I have read plenty about the I and II viruses. About 50% (not 80%) is said to have the simplex I virus (cold sores). But here's the kicker: you can get simplex II orally, or you can get simplex I genitally! That means that the cold sore you see on someone might well have been acquired by nuzzlin' the bunny. Also, according to what I have read, the reason that tests for the herpes viruses are so unreliable is that by the time a sore is taken to the doctor and a culture is done from it, the virus is mostly gone from that site! So you end up with tests giving false negatives. What I took from that is that a sore that's scabbed and healing is probably not contagious for the virus anymore. It's when the person's lip is tingly and hurting just before or as a breakout is happening that they are contagious. And yes, people can transmit the virus from unblemished skin. It's a bummer that something as wonderful as love, sex and kissing can be the vectors for such awfulness as STDs. Sometimes I think that everyone on earth should go out and get infected so that no one will have to worry anymore about getting infected. It'd just be something everyone already had! We should just get it over with, like the first ding in the door of your brand new car. Once it happens, you forget being on-edge about it. Imagine how great the world would be if ALL love-and-sex-related stuff was totally risk-free and regret-free!!! *sigh* -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Alone and lookin' for the one I love. It gets tough sometimes... Edit follows (I guess I had more to say): I've been feeling conflicted. As I stood around and watched all my close friends from high school and college get married and have kids, I began to feel like I am the only one who didn't do that. I pretty much am the only one. I love being in love. I love having someone to give my affection to, and receive affection from. I love sex and lovemaking. I love to treasure the other person, body and soul. I just have not connected with a long-termer. Add to that the fact that I tend to be a little underconfident (picking up girls and dating tends to be the only thing I lack confidence in), and the fact that I don't get out much lately, and don't work in a job where I meet a whole lot of women, and there you have me, pretty lonely. But like many others here, loneliness does not mean for me that I am not having fun and enjoying my life. It's just that lack of love does leave a big gaping hole that I am ever-conscious of. At the same time, I'm conflicted. I like my freedom, and unattachedness. I can sleep all day if I want, do the dishes when I feel like it, spend my time however I want to, as well as my money. I didn't have to compromise on what kind of car I bought, or how much I spend on golf frisbees and skydiving gear and food and drink, or even the cat I picked out at the animal shelter. I can arrive home at whatever time I want (or whatever day). I can watch whatever I want on t.v. I get the whole bed to myself (except for wherever the cat is lying), and I can stretch out all over it. The bathroom is entirely mine, and I don't have to work around someone else's stuff, anywhere in my house. All these things are great aspects of freedom. But I don't pretend that I would not change some of them in order to have love. I'm open to it, receptive to it, even eager for it -- but it just hasn't found me. The big bummer of it is that all the time spent without it leaves the mind idle to wonder and conjecture about what it should feel like or will feel like, or even if it's a realistic possibility. When I see others walking around who are obviously couples in love, I stop and try to get into their heads and think about how it is for them, and see if my mind works in that configuration. I sure hope that it does when the right girl comes my way. I am very happy with the person I am, and I feel relatively complete (or at least complete while knowing I can always grow more and learn more). If that's happiness, then yes I'm happy, but love is the last item on the list remaining to be checked off. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

I was jumping in denim carpenter shorts and a tucked t-shirt until a week or two ago. Some of the guys around the DZ had sorta said, "Man, you gotta get yourself a suit!" and one guy, Rex from SoBe, actually brought out an old RW suit of his, with those grippy things and booties. Now, I jump barefoot, but the booties still worked with bare toes, and I had fun in the suit. I used it only twice, though, until someone else sold me a used polycotton freefly suit for only fifty bucks. When I tried to work on my sit-flying in the RW suit, the result was funny. I ended up "freak-flying" -- sitting butt low, feet and hands high -- because the booties caught air and inflated around my feet. It was like having helium balloons around my feet. I couldn't get them down low for anything, so I just arched over backward and got to my belly again. It was fun, but since I want to freefly, I don't use that suit lately, though I still have it on loan. On my last four jumps, I have gone from sitting, which is coming along nicely and I have been developing various control methods, to attempting to fly head-down. As soon as I can, I am going to do some coached jumps to make sure someone can tell me what I'm doing right or wrong, so I can pick up the proper habits. It's been fun to try, though. I get into a stable sit, drop an arm to my waist, cartwheel over, and extend again. I kinda wobble between a really steep track and a vertical, but I swear I am seeing the horizon upside down! It's a strange feeling indeed. Something not easy to get used to. Have fun and be safe. And yes, get yourself a freefly suit if you're gonna want to do that kinda stuff. I don't miss jumping in shorts and t-shirt at all. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

It's funny, first you made it seem like you don't want to be blamed for smoking because starting was a stupid mistake, and now you're addicted and can't quit succesfully. NOW you're saying that you "don't want to quit" -- but everything you say to back that up [i.e. I tried to quit and it "wasn't my time" (what the hell does that mean), haven't made the "conscious effort"] confirms that it's about not being able to quit, instead. "Want" to quit? Didn't "want" to quit? Why not admit that it's not about wanting, it's about being able to do it successfully? I mean, I could dive under the water in my pool and attempt to hold my breath there for five minutes. After about a minute and a half I'll have to come up for air. Will it be because I wasn't ABLE to stay under for the full 5 minutes, or will it be because I "DIDN'T WANT" to stay under for the full 5 minutes? Of course it's the former, not the latter. Why not just admit that instead of shining us on with this bullshit story about how you just "didn't wanna." You say that's not a copout? What WOULD be a copout then?! Of those who still smoke, there are those who would like to quit but haven't succeeded, and those who have no desire to quit nor intention to quit. Which are you? First you sounded like one who wanted to quit but couldn't, and then you sounded like one who didn't care to quit at all. Here's how you quit: Don't buy any more cigarettes. Don't get into the car, drive to the store, plunk down money for a shit product that is sold to you by people who must be laughing their asses off that you will pay them exorbitant prices to poison yourself. Don't ask anyone else for a cigarette, either. Bingo, you've just quit. Can't smoke a cigarette if you haven't acquired one. But wait, you don't want to quit. I forgot. You love that smoooooth, rich taste. That deeeeep green phlegm. That musssssky stink in your hair and clothes and car. Those creamy yellow teeth. That what-died-in-your-mouth breath. You LIKE that, as all smokers seem to say they do. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Why, did you have the misfortune to start smoking before every last motherfucker on earth knew -- tobacco execs admitting it or not -- that nicotine is one of the most addictive substances around? I mean really, I don't think it's fair to blame someone who EVERYONE knew was lying through his teeth, when you surely had to know by the time you started smoking (unless you're like 80 years old) at least several people who smoked, and acknowledged that they were "hooked" and couldn't quit? Are you saying that you had no personal experience with those who smoked and were addicted, prior to starting smoking yourself? And you wagered your health on the say-so of a tobacco exec with an obvious conflict of interest? I hope you were kidding. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

"I'm Mister Plow, and I'm here to say I'm the plowin'est guy in the U.S.A. I've got a big plow, and I move a lotta things Like your cow, if you have one..." Just thought I'd share. I love it when Homer sees his commercial, and then tells the family that all he has to do now while business comes to him is "play the waiting game." A few moments go by, and Homer gives up: "The waiting game sucks -- let's play Hungry Hungry Hippos!" - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Gonna have to spell it out for me, I'm afraid! When Lisa was born and Bart was acting out, Homer figured he would make Bart a clown bed, like those old race-car beds they sold on t.v. commercials. So he made this awful painted plywood clown bed, where the headboard was a big scary clown face with empty black eyes and crooked teeth, and hands that came around the sides of the bed like it was cradling the sleeper. It freaked Bart out. He couldn't sleep in his room. His eyes bugged out, and he kept saying, "Can't sleep -- clown'll eat me. Can't sleep -- clown'll eat me!" One of the best Simpsons moments. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

OMG!!! I have to get offline right now, but I wil return to this thread because I LOVE sour candy soooo much! It's a complete obsession...almost a fetish. Oooh, fetishes are fun! Sour candy fetish? Well, maybe it qualifies, depending on where one eats them from! My favorite lately are ZOURS. They are the BEST I've had! I also like Sour Patch Fruit Salad, but it's not the most sour thing around. Sour Starbursts are pretty sour, but they don't have that sugary coating. Sour Patch Kids are not a big draw for me anymore. I don't know if they've changed, but they're not nearly as sour as I used to think they were. Now, when I take a Zour in my fingers and get ready to put it into my mouth, I can feel my mouth squirt saliva in anticipation!. It is the only experience in my lifetime so far that has resulted in a perfect replication of the Pavlov experiment! I can feel a definite significant increase of salivation when I'm about to eat my first Zour. In fact, just thinking about the experience has caused the same thing to happen -- the only problem? I HAVE NO ZOURS ON HAND! The only places I've found them have been in certain Walgreens and certain Targets. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Um, if I remember correctly, she was elect to the House of Representatives, wasn't she? Doesn't look like the voters minded her actions all that much after all. Yea, scary isn't it. But how many people in this country were aware of the illegal purge of voters. The story was squashed. How quashed was it? I heard those allegations, and apparently so did you. Every paper down here is OVERWHELMINGLY liberal, editorially (it is no secret, and it is plainly obvious in the columns), and not only that, the writers are syndicated. So don't try to pretend that the only reason she got elected is because the story of her alleged shenanigans never got out, because here you are talking about that very story that was supposedly not released. The fact is, there is nothing that Gore complained about that he did not do himself. He tried very hard to jerry-rig the recounts so that only those counties in FL that are majority-registered democrat had their ballots recounted (seeking the extra few hundred that would have done the trick). Florida law makes specific stipulations about the way recounts are to be done and the time that is given to do them. Gore bitched his way to the Florida Supreme Court -- OVERWHELMINGLY DEMOCRAT -- and they of course found (biased) in his favor. The problem is, their finding was absolutely not legal. They essentially gave open-ended time to do the recount when the STATE ELECTION LAW LIMITED THE TIME AND THAT TIME WAS PASSED. There was absolutely no basis at law for the amount of time the Florida supremes gave Gore's recount. Gor did try to throw out tens of thousands of military absentee ballots -- so his claim of wanting to protect disenfranchised voters is just so much bullshit. Down here in FL, the democraps are so friggin' desperate that their latest initiative is to whine about the loss of voting rights of FELONS. Yep, that's right. The next power bloc of voters for Florida democrats will be the felons released from prison. They're trying to grease the wheels so that tens of thousands of scumbags can get out of prison, get their voting rights restored in an easier process, and then get the ex-con votes cast for the demoncraps who helped them out. I dunno, if I were a politician, I wouldn't want mainstream America to realize that I was hot to get felons able to vote again so they could pay me back by voting for me. That's fuckin' pathetic, but hey, pathetic is the Democrats' middle name. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"