Rant VIII: The Reckoning

I really don't think I'm going to have to worry about this too terribly much longer. We've officially lost our bond - which for a construction company is extremely bad and means we can no longer bid on public works or government projects, which is all we do. We haven't paid rent for 6 months, we haven't paid the rental on all of the trailers and shipping containers we're using for storage for over a year, and we're being sued by ten or more of our creditors. We have five vendors that we absolutely cannot afford to piss off, and so far we've completely burned our bridges with two of them. Everybody in management is still pretending everything is great and starting this coming Monday everything is going to turn around and billions of dollars are going to come flooding in - which I suppose is possible, if they've sold the company to someone else. As of now, no one believes that we'll be able to get in the doors come Monday.
Of course everything looks great for them, they probably have new jobs lined up and will be getting some sort of compensation when the business goes under. Fuck golden parachutes.
 
Hooray! I finally got a message from someone on OkCupid.

...oh.

Starting off the year great there, 2016. :/

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Hooray! I finally got a message from someone on OkCupid.

...oh.

Starting off the year great there, 2016. :/

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I really don't understand why people do this. It's not like you didn't spell it out in your profile.

My best friend is visiting, and we were just talking about something similar. She's single and using a dating site for relationships, says specifically in her profile she is only looking for a relationship (no hookups), and still gets stuff like the above.
 
I really don't understand why people do this. It's not like you didn't spell it out in your profile.

My best friend is visiting, and we were just talking about something similar. She's single and using a dating site for relationships, says specifically in her profile she is only looking for a relationship (no hookups), and still gets stuff like the above.
There are some gay/lesbian people hellbent on getting straight people in bed. I don't know why. It's the same as the stupid meatheads who tell lesbians that they can make them straight after one night in the sack.
 
There are some gay/lesbian people hellbent on getting straight people in bed. I don't know why. It's the same as the stupid meatheads who tell lesbians that they can make them straight after one night in the sack.
I've heard that part of it (though it doesn't make a lot of sense to me), but as my friend said, "There are tons of sites out there that offer that kind of thing. If wanted that, [I'd] be on one of them!".
 
The only man to ever do so. :cool:

On that guy's preferences: it's amazing how many bisexuals deny bisexuality.
Bisexual women are hot, bisexual men are icky and gay. Not my opinion, to be clear, just the way a lot of guys think. Being gay or bi as a man is seen as girly, unmanly, sissy, whatever. More of a stigma for a man, certainly these days.
 
Bisexual women are hot, bisexual men are icky and gay. Not my opinion, to be clear, just the way a lot of guys think. Being gay or bi as a man is seen as girly, unmanly, sissy, whatever. More of a stigma for a man, certainly these days.
The first people I really came out to openly (other than SOs) were my wife's sons a few years ago. When one of her sons was caught experimenting in high school, the other flipped out. He had all those same hangups about how this was his brother, a guy he admired, and how he couldn't stand to see him become some sissy boy.

I had to sit him down and be blunt with him. Now remember, I'd been teaching these guys kung fu for over a year, so they knew how hard I could hit, and how hard of a punch I could take. So I says to him: "Dude, I've sucked more dick than your mother ever has. You think that makes me less of a man? You think that makes me a sissy? If you do, we can take that up in class on Saturday and test the theory."

You could see so many conflicting emotions on that kid's face it was hilarious. You could tell I had just shattered his whole preconceived notion of who I was, and he was struggling to reconcile what I'd just told him with the guy he knew me to be. And while there isn't anything wrong with guys being more effeminate, I think the fact that I was "the Man of the house" and he knew I could knock him out if I wanted to really helped him get over that whole sissy stereotype and his angst about the whole thing.
 

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The first people I really came out to openly (other than SOs) were my wife's sons a few years ago. When one of her sons was caught experimenting in high school, the other flipped out. He had all those same hangups about how this was his brother, a guy he admired, and how he couldn't stand to see him become some sissy boy.

I had to sit him down and be blunt with him. Now remember, I'd been teaching these guys kung fu for over a year, so they knew how hard I could hit, and how hard of a punch I could take. So I says to him: "Dude, I've sucked more dick than your mother ever has. You think that makes me less of a man? You think that makes me a sissy? If you do, we can take that up in class on Saturday and test the theory."

You could see so many conflicting emotions on that kid's face it was hilarious. You could tell I had just shattered his whole preconceived notion of who I was, and he was struggling to reconcile what I'd just told him with the guy he knew me to be. And while there isn't anything wrong with guys being more effeminate, I think the fact that I was "the Man of the house" and he knew I could knock him out if I wanted to really helped him get over that whole sissy stereotype and his angst about the whole thing.
Dammit, Mahan, you lecherous bridge of understanding.
 
Being gay or bi as a man is seen as girly, unmanly, sissy, whatever. More of a stigma for a man, certainly these days.
Think how it is for cross-dressers. > 50% of them identify as heterosexual, but they probably get called a sissy way more often than most bi guys.

--Patrick
 
Bisexual women are hot, bisexual men are icky and gay. Not my opinion, to be clear, just the way a lot of guys think. Being gay or bi as a man is seen as girly, unmanly, sissy, whatever. More of a stigma for a man, certainly these days.
To be clear, it happens with women too, saying they're straight but they're into women too.
 
Why would gay sex be called girly? It's like, 200% manly just be definition.
Depends on the definition. I'm sure that plenty of people make the syllogism that: /A wants to have sex with men/Only women want to have sex with men/A must therefore be female "on the inside"/

--Patrick
 

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That does kind of bring up something that irritates me. Tolerance is not the same as liking, and that's a mistake people make on both sides of an issue. There's nothing wrong with thinking sex between two men is gross as long as you don't care if someone else is into it. Actually even caring if someone else is into it doesn't matter as long as you're not interfering with their rights as a human being. You can think the idea of say eating cauliflower is nasty and still have absolutely no problem with someone else doing it.
 
The worst part about a dying pet it having to constantly ask "Am I doing the right thing?" Other times it's been taking them to be put to sleep, and here we're choosing not to because my eldest rat is still cuddling with her sisters, still eating and drinking (albeit much less than before), still trying to work on the nest because her sisters are utterly hopeless ... but I know she's in discomfort and probably pain from the two growths in her abdomen. I feel like it's my responsibility to not let her suffer, but at the same time she's still herself. She still functions. If she was just waiting to die, I'd end the wait, but for the brief periods where she's awake, she's still somewhat playful and affectionate. I don't want to cut short her life when she's still enjoying it in fits and spurts.

But every time I go to her and feel how thin she's become, I have to ask myself again. And I just don't know.
 
Took Eos in to be put to sleep. Three tumors, blood in her urine, not eating much, emaciated, pale skin, and a puss discharge from her lower abdomen that spread up her legs and underside.

We've had to wipe down the cage, give one sister a bath, and my wife is sewing new beds for them because the others are stained with Eos's discharge. It's been a long fucking day and night, and I just can't wait to go to work tomorrow.

I wish we'd brought her in earlier. She looked dead while we were in the exam room at the animal hospital. If we ever have another rat get like this, we won't wait. It wasn't right to let her suffer this long.
 
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