I have a best friend who's all about the hockey ass. I do agree that she knows what she's talking about there.

It's a good professional background for a legislator. Making laws that will play nice with the courts is the largest part of their job. Taking generals away from the military and sticking them into legislative or executive positions divides their time from their area of expertise. Lawyers making law and generals…

I was dumbfounded when I read about that a while ago. I'd think the monks, at least, would be against violence in a religion that has absolutely no scriptural support for violence or coercion at all.

Hmm, good point. I tend to think that Olympians are in their early 20s at the youngest, but it occurs to me that I've never actually checked.

Good ideas. Thanks. I've done some small stuff before (too small; she lost a finger vibe up there once), but we're going to step it up a bit; we have a prospective threesome with another guy coming up in the foreseeable future and I need to prepare in advance for that. I've seen pictures.

It's just weird to me. "Accept the Four Noble Truths and escape suffering or we'll increase it until you do!" It just goes to show that the social aspect of religions tends to be dominant over the scriptural and philosophical aspects in daily reality.

Yeah. It could be fine every so often, so I'm not ruling it out entirely, but I'd like something a bit more repeatable than that. That kidney stone must have suuuuuucked.

Quite so. People need to keep pressure on the systems around them in order to keep them honest, and courts are often in drastic need of some honesty.

That's part of what I'm looking forward to. I kind of like the idea of getting free stuff and giving my friends a break on getting around.

Weirdly, Myanmar has actual oppression from a nominally Buddhist government and its supporters. I still have a hard time wrapping my head around that bit of cognitive dissonance.

I can think of a few conservative posters who do fine on here. One's a religious conservative (Catholic, if I recall), one's more of a fiscal conservative. They do tend to only express moderately conservative opinions, in your phrasing, but the discussions I've seen in have been civil and I haven't seen anyone jump…

I don't disagree that the court of public opinion isn't helpful, but do you really think that "the courts will see justice is served" in this case? Unless you're literally defining justice as the final result of a suit, then I highly doubt anything like justice is going to come out of this legal morass.

Figure skating. Figure skaters do balanced workouts and get to wear fun outfits.

Perhaps some part of you wanted to see how you looked in a partner's eyes. Perhaps it's not specifically a problem with being alone, but a wistful desire for some perfectly right person that exists only as the concept of someone perfectly right. Perhaps you have a bit of a romantic streak and you're not getting to…

3D printing is supposed to be a terrible idea for sex toys in general. They're made up of many successive layers, so they have tiny ridges that would theoretically be quite rough against sensitive tissue.

Canadian drinking culture is somewhere between the US and the UK, I think. I've found that nobody has a problem with me dropping down to being an occasional drinker, but it does sort of throw a wrench in the works of hospitality. I play in a band with a guy from Cork and he keeps bringing out a second beer for me…

I don't see disclosure as being a distance thing so much as a function of whether or not this looks like it's going anywhere beyond the first few messages. If you're going to have more of the initial dating process be online, there will probably be a "first date" equivalent sort of point where getting a bit more…

Excellent. To the douchitarium I may well go, then.

I'm not doing enemas, since I've read in multiple places that doing medically-unnecessary enemas is bad for one's health, but the rest sounds good.

Oh, that'll be an enticing beginning to an evening of erotic delights. I can start a timer with a knowing wink as I emerge from the bathroom.