Toronto Trim's Hotel Cum Drop-in Centre

[dtb]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
This is why I'm never living with anyone ever again ever. Except maybe in my dotage in the retirement villa. Or unless I have a full-time maid.

Wait a minute. Don't you have a spot reserved in Branson?

A related note: in my kindergarten-son's class, on the 100th day of school, they were doing a bunch of projects related to the number 100, one of which involved drawing a self-portrait of what they'd look like when they were 100 years old.

Most of them drew canes, the boys drew beards, many had hats; one day as I was looking at the various pictures, the teacher called my attention to one girl's portrait: there were two people in the picture -- one was she (the artiste) and the other was her home aide.

It took every ounce of my self-control not to burst out laughing - but believe you me, I was laughing on the inside.

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
I bet Shape Shifter cleans up after himself. Or doesn't miss in the first place. {Sigh.}

I bet he picks the wet towels off the floor too. He's so dreamy.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
At least he doesn't take my Real Simple magazine in there with him.

the issue with the new bra styles?

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
This is bullshit. Men are much more adept at avoiding emotional confrontation at all cost than women. They'd rather let shit fester, or walk away without addressing it, then talk it out. Just because a guy is willing to punch someone in the face in a bar or have words over a parking space doesn't mean he's willing to confront real issues.

What tha...? Define "real issues," then.

TM

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Define "real issues," then.

TM

Things that vary in importance with menstral cycles.

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
What tha...? Define "real issues," then.

TM

I don't want to talk about it.

[dtb]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
What tha...? Define "real issues," then.

TM

Pfft. Well, if you don't know, I'm certainly not going to tell you.

[dtb]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
I bet he picks the wet towels off the floor too. He's so dreamy.

Paws off, ladies. He's MY internet boyfriend.

And he won't cheat on me -- he told me so.

[bold_n_brazen]

Originally posted by dtb
Are you kidding? Of course they do - I'm just saying MARRIED women are less likely to act on it unless there's some emotional involvement attached, so that what bn'b said about a married woman's cheating (i.e., that she is probably more emotionally invested than she would be in a tawdry one-nighter) is probably right.

Of course women dig it. Of course it's a kick. I think about it all the time (for example, the hot kid who sits next to me would be a good candidate, but for the whole married thing - my being married, that is), but I can't imagine acting on it unless I were otherwise invested in a relationship; it's not worth it to me otherwise.

dtb got this exactly right. This is what I was trying to say. For me, one of the big signs that my marriage was really in trouble wasn't when I was looking at the cute tennis pro at the club and thinking "yummy". It was when I started trying to figure out how I was actually going to explain the hotel room on the Amex bill if I actually went ahead and did it. Ultimately, I decided to get divorced before I actually had sex with anyone who wasn't my husband, but the fact that I was seriously considering it (rather than just fantasizing about it) (a) was a product of how I felt about the person I was seriously considering, and (2) evidence that my marriage was really over.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
This is bullshit. Men are much more adept at avoiding emotional confrontation at all cost than women. They'd rather let shit fester, or walk away without addressing it, then talk it out. Just because a guy is willing to punch someone in the face in a bar or have words over a parking space doesn't mean he's willing to confront real issues.

This is bullshit. If I have an issue, I just fucking say so. The stereotype of men not asking for directions or clamming up until they explode is nonsense. And I was probably wrong to claim all women are passive aggressive and speak in code.

But I can't help make the generalization when so many of them my whole life have said things like:

"I didn't want to have to say 'Pick up those magazines.' I thought leaving them there for a week would clue you into the fact that they needed to be picked up...'"

"I don't want to have to tell you every time something needs to be done around the house. I want you to be able to recognize when things need to be done yourself."

My favorite, of course, is "I'm hoping you're going to change," which really means "act in accordance with the way I want you to act."

I never did figure out when it happened, but I've been taking orders from several women in my life for a long time. Yet I would never think of telling any of these people to change themselves, and trying to do so would be met with an extreme violent and indignant response. Why is it that some folks - women or men - just decide they get to doctate what the norms of behavior shall be, and expect everyone else to kowtow. My sister calls me up and dictates to me all the time and I just ssit there and say "Ok, you're right." Then I hang up and think "WTF?"

[Alex_de_Large]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
At least he doesn't take my Real Simple magazine in there with him.

That magazine is such a fucking joke. We got a gift subscription and began throwing it away upon receipt after the first issue. Who need a magazine about de-cluttering your home, when all that mag is going to do is adding clutter by its very existence?!?

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
While your acceptance is conditional, SS has met the condition.

Yea!

In honor of the two of you:

A sudden blow: the tongue forked, speaking law
Above the conjugating girl, her thighs caressed
By his dark webs, her nape caught in his claw,
He holds her helpless breast upon his breast.

How can those terrified vague fingers push
The slick scaley gorey from her loosening thighs?
How can anybody, laid in that gray rush,
But feel the strange heart beating where it lies?

A shudder in the loins, engenders there
The broken wall, the burning roof and tower
And the Paigow/Slave story dead.
Being so caught up,
So mastered by the cold blooded shifter,
Did she put on his knowledge with his power
Before the indifferent anole let her drop?

Good god. This is pure crap.

TM

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
I never did figure out when it happened, but I've been taking orders from several women in my life for a long time.

Pussy.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by pony_trekker
I have read that it is impossible to get DNA from a turd.

I bet Mr. Lipschitz could do it.

TM

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
I'll bet he sits down to pee.

Every time I hear that I picture Charlie Murphy's character in Chappelle's "Real World" spoof.

"You pee when you sit down, understand?"

God, how was that guy overlooked for so long?