Learned to throw my little cast net! Had it for years, never used it. The trick was watching videos on how to throw small nets. Don’t have a fishing license, no idea what I’ll do with this skill.

Americans tend to equate “county” with “poor” because they don’t have first-hand experience with country people. They might also be confused because ostentatious displays of wealth are considered tacky here in the South.

A day or three after Hurricane Ivan finds me (white), my two roommates (white and Taiwanese) and a stranger (black) from around the corner playing cards on the porch. No power or water, it was all we had to do.

Black guy keeps getting us white guys mixed up. He gets our names wrong again and the other white guy says, “I’m John, he’s Jules.”

This guy is stumbling over himself apologizing and I cut him off, “It’s all good! I know we white people all look alike to y’all.”

An intense 2.54 seconds follows while everyone looks around the table to see if it’s OK to laugh. Then we just started howling. Whew.

Sure glad the mod removed this post. Which made me want to read it by clicking “source”. So I read it. Backfire much?

We already have wild pigs.

I can relate to every single thing you said, and I love it! But summer has never come close to killing me, but winter has. Hell, I got a touch of hypothermia on a lonely creek in Florida, in July.

Alien. Maybe my only 10 out of 10 movie, and not my favorite!

We’ve all seen it so many times it loses it’s luster. Wife had never seen it so I sat with her in the dark and watched it for the first time in decades. Jesus. She was about to tear through the couch cushion in stress. I knew what was going to happen and couldn’t peel my eyes off the TV.

Producing quality LEDs is a hella process. Producing shit LEDs is cheap.

There are several layers (7?) and a crack of a micron or three will suck the life out of it. Add to that shitty controllers and we get shitty LEDs. But they’re cheap!

I’ve got a couple of red LEDs that were made for the original IBM PC. They still work flawlessly.

We mammals, and only we mammals, have nerve receptors capsaicin triggers. Birds don’t have such receptors. They happily chow peppers and poop the whole seeds all over.

Meanwhile, we mammals, who are supposed to hate the heat because we grind the seeds to death, have happily bred hotter and hotter peppers and spread them all over the planet.

I know of no such evolutionary win-win as peppers have pulled off. Genius.

You are very confused regarding the rank and file vs. officers.

Oh my friend! Ever heard of Iron Horse?

Simple, because he didn’t make a direct threat, didn’t direct anyone else either. Hell, he didn’t even call for her death. Trump’s using the mob boss language he learned in NYC.

“I think OP should have 9 guns pointed in his face for posting this.”

See how that works? All I said was that you should be threatened. Didn’t threaten action myself nor direct anyone else to action.

Speech like this is clearly stochastic terrorism, but the US really doesn’t have laws around it. I would hope there’s an incitement angle to this, IANAL, but our strong 1A rights make it sticky.

“Look at you! You’re scrawny, you’re an alcoholic, if you didn’t have such a big dick you wouldn’t be worth nothing!”

I, uh…

AHHH!

I was sorta expecting comments that I’m closeted and ignorant of my own sexuality. Very happy not to be catching that!

Absolutely! Very rare I think of someone, “Wow. There’s not a thing they could do to be more attractive.” LOL, it’s a tough stat to max out!

Makes me sad to see so many comments about people thinking they’re ugly and there’s nothing to be done. One of my best friend’s through school was the fattest around, by a huge margin, really freaky in the 80s. Saw a pic of him after he grew up and came out gay. My man was hot!

Sleep all day. Party all night. Never grow old. Never die. It’s fun to be a vampire.

The “use” is keeping 26-million ignorant, uneducated and otherwise backward people corralled.

I can’t imagine how Kim’s regime could be toppled without a tsunami of human misery. It would take 20-years to even begin integrating those folks into the modern world and I have no idea how it could be done gradually.

Add to that, their neighbors have zero desire to work on this.

Subscribed to a dating coach 20-years ago that was shockingly astute. Never paid for his materials, but the free emails basically said all there was to say. He really understood human nature as it relates to dating. He didn’t talk about getting laid or how to manage a relationship, only how to get more dates, the rest being on the reader. (The asshole pickup artists took work like his, disregarded anything human about it and ran full tilt into misogyny. Can’t even talk about it any more without people making assumptions.)

One thing he constantly hammered home was, “Attraction is not a choice.” We have zero control over what floats our boat. He never talked manipulation games, only about how to better yourself and be more attractive. One example, women don’t like meek men, so stand tall, throw your shoulders back and walk with confidence. (That’s not to say one requires machismo!)

Another example, women are turned off by slovenly men. It’s not like they’re making some sort of calculation, they’re simply turned off. The feeling is instant and unanalyzed. Men are exactly the same! Large breasts are a solid turnoff for me, but I never sat down and decided that.

I cannot imagine being a man sexually attracted to another man, but once I truly internalized that attraction is not a choice, the world made a lot more sense. LOL, and I got more dates!

Been sexually active, with many partners, for almost 40-years and this lines up with my experiences. The vast majority of us are solidly heterosexual, a small percentage homosexual and a tiny percentage bisexual or anything else.

Lemmy’s general take is that we’re all on a mushy spectrum. Well, yeah, the spectrum certainly exists, but almost all of us fall hard to one side or the other.

My theory is this, it’s because of the younger demographics around here and society’s new openness. I’m exactly as you, but when I was younger, and had sexuality been as openly discussed as now, there were years when I might have identified as having a touch of homosexuality or even trans in me.

Grew up playing with the girls because I wasn’t much into “boy” stuff. Never been worried that I’d be judged for wearing feminine clothes, and to this day I wear women’s outwear because it’s cut for my skinny ass. Had a few homosexual fantasies in my teens, but I would never have been turned on, even a little, in a real life situation. LOL, said many times, “I should have been born a woman.” But I now understand, having feminine traits and likes in no way speaks to my sexuality.

Add to all that the fact that teens are casting about trying to learn about themselves. Identifying as a member of the LGBT group says, “I’m different! I’m not like you haters!” I would have done it, even though in retrospect it wasn’t remotely true. Support them, please, but odds are strongly against being an actual member.

Another interesting experience, and I have no idea what this says about me: My gaydar is, and always has been, broken. Y’all would laugh at how clueless I can be. Guess I simply never cared about other’s sexuality?

Ironically, I expect this post to get blasted with misunderstandings from the very people screaming that we need to better understand one another.