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Carving pumpkins tonight. A few weeks ago, we put up a few decorations like masks on the backs of chairs or pumpkin-shaped statuary. Nothing major.

One year, I want to have a party with all candlelight, old-timey bobbing for apples etc. and a sitdown spooky dinner.
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UFOs: Of course. Any flying object that doesn't get an identification is a UFO. Birds, spycraft, kites, alien vessels, dense clouds that ping weird. I know Baptists exist even though that doesn't prove the existence of God or a god and UFOs are the same.

Alien species with intelligence elsewhere: It seems very likely and I would say so. Why doubt the power of natural law?

Aliens who have visited (in UFOs or otherwise): No.
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pls posted...

Apparently it isn't obvious to a bunch of CEmen. One dude literally argued recently that Bezos is bribing the government with billions of dollars lmao

I didn't see that topic, but Amazon does throw fits when the subject of regulation comes up. It and similar companies have been able to strangle major cities in bidding wares or with threats of leaving, so it's not too farfetched that a company of that size could leverage some "wouldn't it be a shame..." on a government.
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I wish you luck. It's an achy, sweltering problem to have.

Totally know what you mean by wanting to get railed without him there. Threeways can be fun, but it's so distracting to have to be splitting attention. And if you've been together a while, yeah, it would totally feel weird having him watch or worrying about whether you were enjoying the sex too much or whatever.

I'll be back in the UK in February if you want to form a support group with me. :P
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KFHEWUI posted...

i knew it on Saturday that her time was short.

Doesn't mean it's easy. I had my cat diagnosed with something fatal in May but it was still melancholy today when we had to finally put her down. I hope you're doing okay.
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Quantum Cliff Notes

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/the-talk-3
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Parappa09 posted...

@VanananaHeyHey i hope i haven't let you down

What a flatterhhhhhhnnnnnng light. <3
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Just got back from the vet with P.D. in a little box. We didn't even have her a year, so even though we weren't responsible for her getting sick, it's hard to not feel like a bit of a failure.
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I feel you. Christ, I just had the same damn issue on Facebook. I wrote it three days in advance and then just picked paragraphs from it without even needing to edit as people responded. This hobby is wasting my life and is proof that I/we/one should be writing didactic books instead.

Dat_Cracka_Jax posted...

So you're not so much interested in a discussion, but in ' winning' an internet argument?

No, it means his rationale and logic are sound and that he understands the opposing view in a comprehensive enough way that he can preempt likely retorts by the other side.
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Buzz Killjoy posted...

Pete the Cat touched every one us in different ways, sometimes without consent but never with malice.

That sure is Kirby Delauter all right! <3 <3 :') Thank you.
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Kirby Pete the Cat Delauter was born on a little, old lady's lap. She was always curled up and grew teensy feet because she never had to walk around as a kitten. The old lady's grandchildren named Pete for the famous Pete the Cat books.

When the oldest granddaughter went to college and joined a sorority, she brought Pete with her. Little Pete the little cat got Instagram famous in her new setting. Never have I seen a creature with such knowledge of cameras and angles. It's hard to take a bad picture of this cat because she perks right up whenever a phone comes out. Pete the Cat was a very funky cat.

At night while the granddaughter studied, Pete enjoyed sneaking out to check out the rest of frat row. She eventually became able to go out any time of day later in life, but the best parties are always at nighttime. The neighboring fraternity chums loved Pete and fed her taquitos, mac cheese and Five Guys burgers, the only human foods she's ever shown interest in. This, tragically, was her undoing.

Pete got fat and not in a way that was cute enough for Insta. Her poor diet resulted in a condition called megacolon. If the frat boys had known the name of the disease, they would have started their own photo account or made a movie.

The little old lady couldn't take care of Pete anymore, so little Pete with the little feet ended up in the Baltimore County Animal Shelter. This is how I made her acquaintance.

One day, in a charitable act of masochism, I was reading the pet bios and found a very picturesque cat with a rhyming description.

I'm Pete,
and I'm a female cat.
But if you don't like that,
just call me Pat.

What obsession. I couldn't let PTC go to a family who would be so hung up on something like that. Who's ever met a woman named Fluffikins, either? I went to see Petethe for a Pete meet-n-greet, but I was already decided she would join the pride with Steve, my existing female cat.

My pitterpat-kittercat was much funkier in person than online. I could relate. She was so yielding when they loaded her into the box and didn't bite me in the paws-on room, even though she would have had every right after being in that cardboard casket. On the way home, Pete clawed out of her Petebox.

The Sick Cat took her first and last names from Frederick County Councilman Kirby Delauter who doesn't like to be quoted in his capacity as a public official. I chose Kirby Delauter's name years before I met Pete, in the hopes that one day I could say things like "Kirby Delauter needs to be fixed." and "Kirby Delauter pooped on the rug." so thank you, my Musty Cat, for fulfilling your singular cat chore.

Gross Pete never fully became at ease with sitting outside on pretty days, but did find some favorite perches around the property safe from paparazzi and unexpected keg stands. Only months after the A/B release of "MEAT!" and "It's Not Okay (To Sing To A Cat)," Pete stopped eating, a remnant of her crash diets during the modeling life. With Fall, her health took a turn for the worse and she became overly dedicated to her Halloween costume of being a ghost possum.

She is survived by Cassini the Dog, who she barely survived, and Steve the Cat, who is perfect.

https://imgtc.ws/a/TIt9tEJ
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That sucks, TC. I'm so sorry. After you just found her, that feels so unfair. <3

My gross little cat is going down tomorrow. It's been a hospice case, but it's still a drag.
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Parappa09 posted...

hahah i was very tempted to do something while i was in edinburgh as well. i've been working out for the past year or so and i definitely believe it's contributed to making me feel v horny.

sometimes i gotta get it out so i can move on and do stuff in my life. i know a lot of guys feel the same way but this has never been the case with me before. in the past, i was more in control i guess

Edi's a hell of a city. :P I'm hoping to go back next year, buffer than ever. Don't know how to contend with the extra excitement from working out more, but I've been getting into food plating and stained glass as hobbies.

Is there any way you can be actionable in this without feeling like you're violating the terms of your relationship? Get freakier with your partner? Send dick pics to a woman in her thirties hungry for a thrill? Find tighter clothes to wear that turn heads?
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RieTakahash posted...

I tend not to walk back agreements, it always sucks when people do it to me.

This. Don't walk it back. You'll get a bad rep and it's not good to do to people. Price stuff a bit higher or wait a bit longer next time.
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emblem boy posted...

What about that made it horrible?

Uninvited participants
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fenderbender321 posted...

Did anyone else trick or treat at a dentist's house and get a toothbrush instead of candy? That happened to me every year. It's like come on I already have a toothbrush. And if I don't then a toothbrush isnt going to change my non existent brushing habits.

Ugh. YES. Thank you for finally injecting some sense into those novocaine brains. As a kid, the only redeeming quality of the dentist's door was that it was right next to a magic shop that had the coolest treats (whole mini bags of mixed goodies and tricks!) and decorations.
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Parappa09 posted...

how did you deal with your sexual fire in your late 20s and early 30s?

omg, absolutely terribly. I went on a business trip this past Summer and tore a goddamn hole in Edinburgh. It ended up with a disaster in Oxford and I still can't quite get over the hump, as it were. I recommend exercising a lot (except exercise also makes me horny) and having a real hobby to sublimate, like, at least 15% of your sexual urges into.
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Just take out everything and only talk to her about normal things unrelated to relationships. Yours, hers, any of them. Whatever friendship you have can be preserved while she's in a new job and you need to be handling this graciously after the previous clumsy "I like you." that irritated her.
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This is cringe. Do not do.

If you're compatible, there will naturally be a point at which conversations (NOT about relationships) will happen. If that relationship she's in doesn't work out, she WILL NOT consider you if you were already pestering her about getting together 'when you break up' when the relationship was new.

Show her outgoingness by honestly developing that skill and going out to be with people more. Make other, actual friends.
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Wax lips and wax bottles

I can eat up thirteen pieces of candy corn a year for the ritual and see why it'd be popular when only black licorice and wax candies existed.
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I was untoward with Rogers_Huxley once and feel bad about it.
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Also, put your money where your mouth is:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/400-current-events/78093689
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I've had and lost so many conjured family members in dreams. Anxiety dreams without any specific cause even in-dream are so unrestful. I frequently dream of major industrial cities in the not-too-distant future and without fail end up in a megaskyscraper on or against a corporate errand that has increasingly claustrophobic stakes. Hope you have a better sleep tonight.
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Better doing it now than later. I'm thirty and have been contending with a sexual fire bordering on mania since I was about your age. It's worse than being fifteen: so distracted and achy and lecherous and, unlike back then, I actually know (sort of) what to do and have the freedom to (sort of) access it.

It's just as much fun, but it starts to feel creepy when you notice how much younger (ugh, and sometimes how way, way, way much older) the people left at the sex buffet are than you. The only advice I can give you is to try and get it dirty with your partner. I don't recommend it, but you could also try to work out some sort of openness window or set of circumstances that they'd let you go around sportfucking during, but that's a lot of drama, heartache and pornsickness for humping.
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Happy catbirthday~


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Doe posted...

Anything that's not "iGen," guy who came up with that tried to shill it so hard

How did I miss that one? Damn. Hate it. There were some howlers for Millennials when we were tweens. I remember "Generation Why" and "Thumb Children" in particular.
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awesome999 posted...

Since when is Gen Z anyway? I don't want to be gen z but I'm 1997 x_x

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Z

They seem to put '97 as the boundary year and ending around 2012, but I'm no sociologist.

Pitlord_Special posted...

Tbh, if you can't remember 9/11 happening, then you're a zoomer in my book

This does seem like a fair delineation.
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I never liked being a "Millennial" and wondered how "Boomers" felt about their designation. I hear the current young people (15-ish to 24 or so?), the children of Gen X more or less, are GenZ.

To the extent you ever need to refer to that age group, what would you call them?

I use "GenZies," but in their hubris, the media consensus seems to be settling on "Zoomers."
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evil_zombie11 posted...

I posted me in the selfie topic but tbh I'm only slutty for the squat, bench, and deadlift.

I like this.
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The 90s
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anth0ny posted...

I like florals. And the judges noticed the character and sass it took to eat chips on the runway.

awesome999 posted...

Don't mind the mess or the lighting or the comfort wear or the fact that my face is actually a black void

+2 for comfortwear, + :( for face being a black void
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Anyone accusing someone of being hot and slutty needs to be posting recent hot and/or slutty pictures of the accused as evidence.
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jumi posted...

Four-month-old messy selfie:

Your glasses are a nice shape and it looks like your hair is clean. If you stood up and played with angles, you could be a contender if we still have three slots open.

Will there be some sort of dance-off, TC? If someone gets nominated by someone else, will they be conscripted into the role? I have some secret age-old favorites. >:3
@ssj3vegeta_
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jumi posted...

Ohhh. :-(

Mmm, pix plz.
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Don't do it. If you ask her father, her mother's going to know, too and then it's likely more of the family will hear. You essentially ruin the surprise of an announcement for your fiance to be, having them be the third or fourth (or beyond) person to know they're getting married, which just seems like a horrible deflation.
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I could be down with this.
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Why did you do this?
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I understand the urge, but I agree that it's selfish and bizarre. Adoptions from state agencies are usually subsidized, so anyone telling you IVF is cheaper is just obsessed with the purity of infants.
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That's always fun. Right on, TC!

I found 10 in a bush once, called it my 'hedge fund' and have been proud of myself ever since.
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I hate them.
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I honestly didn't, but I did read it slowly. The use of "set" instead of "sequence," "group" or "string" was sort of weird.
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I recently watched "Cells at Work!," an anime where the cells in a body are all little, cooperative people. They are vexed by viruses, bacteria and germs, but the body's defenses always come through.

It's clearly for children, but I did learn a lot about cell roles and biological terms.
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Once or twice. I think the number gets spoofed from the robots or whathaveyou. I also had someone call me back once saying they'd gotten a spam call from my number, so I know it's happened to other people with mine.
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Nosferatu double feature
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-It'll be too cold.
-Only a little scary
-I don't know if I believe your performance. Do you?
-You can't say "trick-or-treat"
-I never say anyone's too old if they have a costume, but the body hair will have most homeowners eyeing you as potentially too old to be trick-or-treating.

3/5
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