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  1. Da5id Weatherwax
    not COVID. I checked. LFT negative. (old fart here so they gave me LOTS of boosters)
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    peeve: The "sore throat from Hell" making me cancel sets
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    Admittedly they aint what first draws the eye, but details matter
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    Dammit! My superpower against monstergirls is footrubs and it wouldn't work on those hooves....
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    Someone properly educated in the classics, I see
  6. Da5id Weatherwax
    Uffda! And geese are mean and tough enough that while you're still thinking "WTF was that?" in the ditch the goose would be picking itself up, dusting itself off and comin' for ya...
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    Judging by the commonality of experiences, bugs do seem to be something of a rite of passage for us bikers, dont they
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    @Scylla Rhiadra and @Madelaine McMasters - Yeah, in hindsight it's hilarious and I'm laughing as hard at the memory as you are at the post. But at the time all I could think was "I love her, I don't want to hurt her, but this thing has to be gone. NOW." And with my hands busy attending to that I couldn't defend myself. Try it any other way and the moment I put my hands on her she'd have slapped me silly and kicked me in the fork so hard I'd have been wearing my balls as a hat. Get the bug gone by any means necessary then drag her into the shower and wash her hair for her - because she wouldn't touch it until I had. I think that last part did the most to calm her down because at the time we both had very long hair - my braid was long enough for me to sit on - and, for us, washing and brushing out each others hair was one of those little non-sexual intimacies that so many couples have. It put her head in a "safe space."
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    I do indeed. The fact that we were both martial artists ( in the same classes, but I was a couple of belts ahead of her at the time) and all her trained responses were kicking in to the point I actually had to lean on pressure points to stop her doing me a mischief while I sorted the problem really made me feel like sh*t. Once it was all done and dusted she thanked me (after she stopped hyperventilating) but actually getting it done felt a little too close to domestic violence for my comfort.
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    And if they happen to be the ONE bug that your gf is completely phobic about, having to pin her down and quickly comb it out for her while she's freaking out severely enough to potentially injure herself ranks as a traumatic experience even if the bug itself doesn't bother you.
  11. Da5id Weatherwax
    collecting one slap in the middle of your visor at highway speeds on a motorcycle is, I can tell you, absolutely no fun at all. You really feel the impact and the monstrous smear in the center of your vision mandates an immediate and careful escape onto the shoulder where you can clean off the remains.
  12. Da5id Weatherwax
    I'm staying very quiet on that one... I've got dozens of outfits.... but I'm a guy so they are all some variant on jeans and a black tshirt.;)
  13. Da5id Weatherwax
    When somebody says they'll pray for me I give them a big smile and say something like "Thank you, but do make sure every single feather on the rooster is black. I'd hate for you to get hurt."
  14. Da5id Weatherwax
    On the subject of realistic sizing, Ive tried to get as close as possible to my RL 6'1" while still keeping sensible proportioning of the body/limbs/head etc. - a LOT easier for a guy to do realistic sizing than a lady! I've largely succeeded, at least as far as my height measured by a prim goes. The appearance editor thinks I'm a good 8 inches taller, but stand next to a 6'1" prim and it's within half an inch of my av's height visually! The crazy part of it is that mesh items when picked up by my avatar, even when I rez them next to a prim they are accurately sized, "look too small" - I have no idea why and measuring them with a prim gives the same sizes as I built them at. I typically have to scale them by a small "fudge factor" to make them look right. I'm in the middle of building a (rather substantial) house at the moment and when I started I took one of the interior rooms first and sized it 3 ways. 1: strictly to RL dimensions. 2: scaled by an average fudge factor" that makes mesh items look right with my av. 3: standard SL scales. I walked around inside all three and immediately discarded the idea of building the rest at standard SL scale. Either of the other two would work, but the one scaled by the fudge factor worked better. I've come to the conclusion that measurement in SL is just weird and I simply have to adjust to make it look right, while trying to stick to "natural dimensions" as much as possible.
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    Indeed, but if we do a little digging - like maybe lift up this piece of astroturf here and see what's crawling about underneath, what do we find? Singapore, and travels to NY "for investments" - sounds like a financial-services kinda dude to me, I've spent enough years adminning their computer systems to spot 'em. Which part of the group do you think? Deluded "little guy"or one of the greedy ones who knows exactly the stink of the BS they are peddling?
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    Nonono.. that's not how it works. They convince some truckers to support THEM. but... THEY have never supported anyone who does an honest day's work such as a farmer, miner, trucker or teacher in their entire history of existence. it's like... "We lie to these guys until they support us, then we screw 'em over and lie to them about the lies and they still support us. We don't need to support them at all"
  17. Da5id Weatherwax
    "You're too old for this job" Story of my effin' life these days....
  18. Da5id Weatherwax
    I used to do that song with my wife and daughter.... Thank you for reminding me of it. I NEED to dust it off to work in a solo format
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    Not "no one" - it just sometimes seems that way. I can honestly tell you that I have met people who genuinely do care about what is happening to other unconnected to them apart from by shared humanity. They shame me by their tireless efforts and generosity to address these problems, while I hold back fearing for my own security. But, at the same time, they also inspire me to try and emulate them, to rise above those fears and simply "be human to all other humans"
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    This is why I buy my land and pay tier to LL rather than rental to an estate owner. All the rentals in SL I've ever seen have a clause in there that if they evict you they wont refund anything. I am sure there are more "ethical" landlords out there who will do it, and some that will even do so WITH that clause in the agreement, depending on circumstances (reasonable approach IMHO, cover your tail with the clause but try and do good business) But something bothers me. Isn't this exactly the kind of behavior that a certain wing of the political spectrum lauds and applauds as "smart business"? (Although, the "business smarts" of anyone that can bankrupt a casino might be somewhat questionable, but I digress) Wasn't there a recent GOP president who has a massive track record of stiffing anyone he did business with whenever he could? From banks to cleaning staff, right across the board, and calling it "smart"? Doesn't the entire party say "caveat emptor" and say that if you entered into such an agreement its on you? Free market and personal responsibility and all that? The free market seems to be working in this case, doesn't it? At least, I'm sure that the OP will never do business with those folks again....
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    To all the people born in the 90's, including my own children. I'm sorry. I'm sorry that we couldn't realise our dreams of "love and peace" - as the cliche goes - for you and your children. I'm sorry that we took our eyes off the goal in the intervening decades, that we let complacency take the fire out of our bellies while the the same forces our parent's generation stormed beaches to fight against slithered back out into the world again instead of becoming as extinct as we had fooled ourselves into believing they were. That we deluded ourselves into thinking "it can't happen here" and let fall their oath of "Never again." That the fights our mothers and sisters fought and won for equality and autonomy were now to be fought all over again by our daughters. We had such enormous dreams for the world you would be raising your children in. And we blew it.
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    The whole point of moving every "adult business" to Zindra when they created the Adult region rating was to ensure that you could never walk, ride, sail, fly or otherwise navigate without teleporting to an Adult region from one of stricter maturity rating. The connection of Zindra to the rest of the grid by any navigable channel will never happen. However, I will make you a promise. Should I ever win hundreds of millions on the lottery and SL is still around I'll buy enough regions to make a decently sailable archipelago, Adult rate it all, then petition LL with all the influence a continent-owner can muster to allow it to be connected to Zindra's oceans and stick 10 years worth of tier in escrow. "All the planetsislands are yours except Europathat funny looking one in the southeast region. Make no landing there."
  23. Da5id Weatherwax
    I'm roughly 6'1" IRL - both of the ladies that had the misfortune to be married to me over the years were around 5' even, excluding heels (which they both occasionally wore but both thoroughly hated) So I could wander up behind her, wrap my arms around and snuggle and she made a perfect chin-rest.
  24. Da5id Weatherwax
    There's actually a reason why they teach every first responder that the first thing you have to do is assess the situation so you don't end up needing your colleagues to rescue you. Sometimes, though, the need of others overrides that training. I know I saw it happen more than once on RNLI shouts in my distant youth when I was a crew volunteer. Bear the scars with pride, they were honorably gained.
  25. Da5id Weatherwax
    There are three acapella groups really worth hearing posting online at the moment. Everyone knows about Pentatonix, the experimentalists. But there's the "theatre kids" in the form of Voiceplay and the "country boys" of Home Free.
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