At what age did you stop believing in traditional love as perpetuated in music / movies / mainstream...

memorylikeasieve comments on Sep 30, 2018:

Aeons and ages and thingee ago. And I keep getting shown that it's not a thing no matter how much I want it to be.

When did you start drinking coffee and why?

memorylikeasieve comments on Oct 31, 2018:

I was the same way--i liked the smell far more than the taste. Then my now ex-gf introduced me to mocha frappuchinos about 10 years ago and I was hooked. Then it spread to other ways of drinking coffee. It's a good pick-me-up when I'm feeling especially narcoleptic, but it's not too kind to my insides, so I don't have it very often any more.

Which toy(s) would sum up your childhood?

memorylikeasieve comments on Jun 7, 2018:

I was born in 74, so I had things like Tinker Toys, Lincoln Logs, LEGOs, etc, but also Barbie dolls, Cabbage Patch dolls, and about a hundred Star Wars toys. I had a wee Fisher Price record player and also the cassette player. When I look back on it, it's interesting the kind of technological advances I saw in my childhood. My favorite toy, though, was an electronics kit. Just a 'breadboard', a tonne of wires and diodes/transistors/etc, light bulbs, switches, dials, and instructions. I will say this about my parents, they weren't at all sexist when it came to kids' toys.

Cuddle buddy

memorylikeasieve comments on Apr 9, 2018:

Good grief, no. That's just creepy. I'll snuggle my cat or hug my housemates or something.

At what age do you start to feel "old"?

memorylikeasieve comments on May 16, 2018:

Meh, I'm 43 and I'm in better shape than I was in my 20s.

I'm hoping get this Group kicked off soon.

memorylikeasieve comments on Jun 26, 2018:

I dunno, but I don't want opioids for my joint hypermobility pain. They don't do much other than make me puke. It does, however, make me wonder what other meds they'll go after once they think they're done 'fixing' this 'crisis.'

How important do you think our buying power is?

memorylikeasieve comments on Apr 28, 2018:

I don't think mine really makes any kind of a difference. Sure, I shop local when I can swing it, but that isn't very often. Too broke to really expect my tiny purchases to even be noticed. Also, I don't boycott.

Well, I did a dumb thing.

memorylikeasieve comments on Oct 16, 2018:

Can't say for partners or lack thereof, but HOAs are a blight upon civilisation.

How do you feel about people who just want to put people down, whether it's in opinions or ...

memorylikeasieve comments on Apr 5, 2018:

Iiieeeee would be careful regarding any action further than calling them out unless they're slinging threats, but that's just my brainwave.

With mind reading technology improving, how confident are you that Big Brother won't haul you in for...

memorylikeasieve comments on Apr 13, 2018:

What mind reading technology would that be? Have I missed something? O.o

What do you smoke?

memorylikeasieve comments on Aug 4, 2018:

I vape my weed. That way it doesn't bother my housemates.

Do you read "fiction" or "non fiction" or maybe "historical fiction"?

memorylikeasieve comments on Aug 4, 2018:

I read a little bit of almost everything, but mainly a lot of fiction and science and medical texts.

Who remembers those awful cheap plastic masks for Halloween masks and costumes?

memorylikeasieve comments on Oct 18, 2018:

I remember them. They were banned for pretty much that exact reason--you can't see a thing while wearing them and some kid probably wandered out in front of a car. For ages after that, all that was allowed was face paint. They've brought masks back, now, but they're loads better.

Just a question to the Star Wars fans out there.

memorylikeasieve comments on May 28, 2018:

Probably the same way anything else got from one planet to another--hyperdrive. I get the feeling mass isn't much of an issue as hyperspace has its own physics.

What one physical feature would you change about yourself?

memorylikeasieve comments on Aug 22, 2018:

I'd get rid of my double chin.

How do u politely tell a religious person they have their head wrapped around a fairy tale?

memorylikeasieve comments on Mar 8, 2018:

I don't think there is a way to do so politely.

Is it bad that I can cook?

memorylikeasieve comments on Mar 22, 2018:

I think everyone should know how to cook. For self-sufficiency if nothing else.

People have been sharing and posting such tremendous music on this site recently.

memorylikeasieve comments on Aug 4, 2018:

Try a YouTube to mp3 converter.

What's something that has never (or will never) changed about you?

memorylikeasieve comments on Mar 2, 2018:

My sense of humour, my nulliparity, my refusal to smoke cigarettes.

Seriously! That is disgusting!

memorylikeasieve comments on Jul 19, 2018:

Flip flops are a crime.

As a gay man I grow increasingly tired of the seemingly shallow attitude in the dating pool.

memorylikeasieve comments on Mar 20, 2018:

Sounds awful. I don't even know what other lesbians want. Everything is so vague and silent and hidden.

How do you spend your Sunday mornings?

memorylikeasieve comments on Apr 15, 2018:

I do the heatheniest thing imaginable--I go to the game store with a bunch of friends and play a role-playing game! ?

I've asked this question in a different forum, and the answers were interesting.

memorylikeasieve comments on Sep 28, 2018:

I have no idea. It's been way too long, I'm way too ugly and socially inept, and I've no clue if lesbian dating has any similarity to hetero dating. I realise as I type this that I'm out to sea on this, too. ?

Even though we have each other on this site.

memorylikeasieve comments on Mar 20, 2018:

My family have probably shunned me, but I don't care. In fact, I'm happier not having to deal with them. My friends are either as nonbelieving as I am, or are very accepting.

What is your go to beverage of choice?

memorylikeasieve comments on Jul 30, 2018:

Caffeine. Any kind. Coffee, tea, soda, all good. Though my relationship with coffee is a difficult one. If my narcolepsy meds are working, I can get away with having mild caffeine. If not, it's coffee all day, especially if I have important things to do.

How do you handle people who tell you that they will keep praying for you?

memorylikeasieve comments on Apr 28, 2018:

For me it really depends on why they're saying that. If it's because I'm sick, I usually just smile and say something like 'thanks--I'll shore that up with some NyQuil/pain meds/etc.' or 'thanks--now, if you'll excuse me, I've got doctors to talk to.' They mean well, for the most part, so I'm not gonna make a scene. On the other hand, I've heard them say this because I'm an agnostic, and because I'm gay. In these cases, they sincerely think it'll get their god to /change/ me, and I have no tolerance for that. If they think my lack of belief or my sexuality are things that are fundamentally wrong with me, then there's no reason to mollycoddle them. If I'm in a decent mood, they'll get a 'please don't, you'll be wasting your time,' and if I'm not, I've been known to really give them a piece of my mind. I've wanted to slap a few of them, but thankfully it's never actually come to that.

Can you evolve or devolve from being a human? asking my my sanity

memorylikeasieve comments on Aug 26, 2018:

Technically, no. Still, sometimes I wonder, with some 'people.'

TAROT Card reading

memorylikeasieve comments on Sep 11, 2018:

Eh, kind of. They prompt me to look at an issue from different angles, and sometimes that does make a solution a bit easier.

Who else is part of the LGBTQ+ community?(:

memorylikeasieve comments on Oct 1, 2018:

Hi! ?

Do You know Your Ancestry?

memorylikeasieve comments on Jun 9, 2018:

No idea. 23 And Me says, essentially, 'British, maybe Irish... fuckin I dunno, white?'

To Trust or not to Trust

memorylikeasieve comments on Jun 25, 2018:

No. I stopped trusting my parents ages ago and never went back. They did nothing to earn it back, either. Especially my mother. They're both dead, now, but while they were alive I did not trust them at all.

You’re as young as you feel? True or false?

memorylikeasieve comments on Mar 9, 2018:

Very true. And it annoys me when people the same age as me complain that they're old.

Can we quite the “White Privilege” nonsense?

memorylikeasieve comments on Jun 22, 2018:

Sure our lives aren't as bad as those of racial minorities, but not by much.

Costumes for pets?

memorylikeasieve comments on Oct 31, 2018:

Dogs, I've noticed, seem a bit more patient about that than cats. I don't think I'd try to put clothing on a pet unless it was a Sphinx cat or a dog with really short fur.

Aliens are often portrayed as being anthropomorphic which is highly unlikely given that on earth ...

memorylikeasieve comments on Jun 17, 2018:

They might look like this. https://goo.gl/images/J6zpiJ

I feel like we should have an emoji for nausea.

memorylikeasieve comments on Oct 16, 2018:

We have one. Or, at least, we do for Android.

Another death question: why is it ok to speak lll of the living, thing not the dead?

memorylikeasieve comments on Apr 19, 2018:

If they were shit human beings in life, their being dead isn't going to magically change that.

As you consider your Halloween costumes this year.

memorylikeasieve comments on Oct 20, 2018:

I'm glad I got the 'cultural' thing out of my system when I was 13 in 1990 (I think)--I went to parties that year as a 'gypsy' fortune-teller. After that it was all monsters or steampunk or, like this year, some good ol cyberpunk body horror. I don't miss cultural or historical costuming at all. I don't have any desire to implement it. I find it boring, uncreative, and, yes, offensive.

Neil deGrasse Tyson's side of the story. [facebook.com]

memorylikeasieve comments on Dec 2, 2018:

Oh, Neil, hunny, no... The first rule in the court of public opinion is to never defend yourself. ?

Got my divorce papers today.

memorylikeasieve comments on Aug 10, 2018:

Hang about, are those legal documents? Isn't lying on legal documents perjury?

Tesla , move over

memorylikeasieve comments on Oct 31, 2018:

I want one.

I am a avid Podcast listener and I like to know what podcasts You all like.

memorylikeasieve comments on Nov 3, 2018:

The F-Plus. It's essentially an analysis of the internet with bonus jokes thrown in.

Who do you look like?

memorylikeasieve comments on Aug 14, 2018:

I've never been told I looked like anyone else. I'm apparently a member of a species consisting entirely of, erm, me.

At what point is a technologically enhanced human not a human anymore?

memorylikeasieve comments on Aug 19, 2018:

When they don't ask this question any more.

CRICKETS.

memorylikeasieve comments on Aug 22, 2018:

Too good to be true, maybe? Or it could be that Dems are waiting for the investigation to conclude before doing anything. Kind of a 'don't jinx it' approach.

Are you a "Hummer"?

memorylikeasieve comments on Sep 16, 2018:

Nope. But I'm hard of hearing.

How would you explain humanity to a visiting alien?

memorylikeasieve comments on Apr 12, 2018:

I'd tell them that humanity is young. It's only just got started, still hitting a lot of stumbling blocks and figuring out how to get over them and how to avoid future ones. I'd tell them that humanity is capable of terrible cruelty and amazing kindness. That it can destroy and create. That it hates and it loves. But with all that, it still isn't done growing. It deserves a chance to find out what it'll become, just like any sapient species. ...And I'd probably say all that with stirring, inspirational music playing in my phone because of course I fuckin would. ?

For those interested in the Death with Dignity programs. I am not letting go of this

memorylikeasieve comments on Apr 13, 2018:

This woman is medically illiterate. Furthermore, the rape comparison is inaccurate, cheap, and tasteless. She's the last person I'd take any kind of advice from.

Fill in the blank. If someone would invent__________________they would get all my money.

memorylikeasieve comments on Aug 5, 2018:

Coffee that didn't give me the shits for the rest of the day.

We need a national womens walk out to protest kavenaughs nomination.

memorylikeasieve comments on Sep 29, 2018:

This sounds flippant, but, make a really good viral vid or meme? It seems to be the best way to reach people these days--a concise and attention-grabbing thing on social media.

What do you think of MGTOW (Men Going Their Own Way)?

memorylikeasieve comments on Oct 19, 2018:

If you (as in the general 'you' ) want to go about your life the way you want to and forgo romance and whatnot, more power to ya. I'm all for not bending to the will of society. Not everyone needs a romantic relationship. But this hated of all women is just unproductive. The Venn Diagram of MGTOWs and incels is almost a single circle.

"Looking for someone into fitness." Is this the PC way of saying "no fat chicks?

memorylikeasieve comments on Jul 8, 2018:

If one is 'into' fitness it's going to be a big part of their life, and they might want an s/o that they can share that part of their life with.

Admin , I did a Google search for various “unique” member names on here as an experiment to ...

memorylikeasieve comments on Sep 16, 2018:

I also don't quite understand what the hubbub about this is. Unless one lives in a country where this kind of association is punishable or they're avoiding a stalker I don't see why anyone would care. It's a very big internet and it doesn't give a shit what total strangers do.

Clean Freak......

memorylikeasieve comments on Nov 9, 2018:

A few coats of good quality shellac should suffice.

Was anyone else required to kneel and say a prayer before bedtime?

memorylikeasieve comments on May 9, 2018:

Yup. Both of them. And praying at dinners with extended family. I hated every second if it.

Does something someone has done in one area of their life, negate something they've done in another?

memorylikeasieve comments on Apr 5, 2018:

I see this all the time on the HP Lovecraft forum I'm in. He was a xenophobe from a very insular New England community in the early 20th century and some of the things he wrote are egregiously racist. However, he was also a genius and invented an entire genre of literature whose impact can be seen far and wide. As we become more and more able to dig up dirt on folks, I've come to a decision. Essentially every human being is a terrible person. Everyone has done something that someone, somewhere, is going to find offensive. Sometimes it's clear and obvious, like with Lovecraft. Other times, it's a matter of interpretation. But if I'm going to stop following the work of every person who did/said awful things, I would literally have to throw everything out. I have to draw a line and consider things like time period and severity of what they did/said. I will continue to read and positively discuss Lovecraft's fiction while acknowledging that his racism, while common for the time, is still inexcusable. However I will never knowingly watch anything involving Kevin Spacey ever again. These are just my examples, though.

Anybody out there like musicals?

memorylikeasieve comments on Sep 6, 2018:

I'm a huge musical theatre geek. I was in a few local productions, as well, in MN. Hope to get back into it soon.

[yahoo.com] More Than 500 Law Professors Condemn Kavanaugh For Poor Temperament

memorylikeasieve comments on Oct 3, 2018:

The gop are going to cram him in there, anyway.

What do the words "mindfulness," "awareness," and "presence" mean to you?

memorylikeasieve comments on Aug 27, 2018:

Absolutely nothing, now. They're just buzzwords. 'Mindfulness' might have meant something when I was in DBT sessions, but now it's just another meaningless noise like so many other things these days.

Mithur Sheridan's answer to Why do we rarely hear about the Chinese Tiangong space station? - Quora

memorylikeasieve comments on Nov 19, 2018:

Shenzhou is just Soyuz with the serial numbers filed off. Odd, though, that everyone is using a Russian ship, when their space program was shite back when it was the Soviet Union. I'm embarrassed that the States decided to retire the shuttles.

You are not responsible for anybody else's happiness.

memorylikeasieve comments on Sep 26, 2018:

I've been saying this for ages. I refuse to have the onus for other people's happiness or mental comfort on me.

Caps (typing not hats)

memorylikeasieve comments on Aug 26, 2018:

I don't like it when people use it for emphasis, that's just annoying. It's like they're screaming that specific word at me. Locate the asterisk and use it.

Can you share your experience with stock market?

memorylikeasieve comments on Apr 26, 2018:

My dad and my uncle set up a hypercomplex network of stocks and mutual funds and all this other arcane stuff and then bequeathed it to my brother and me. Neither of us have even an inkling of how any of it works so, rather than try to touch it ourselves at all and end up investing badly and bankrupting ourselves, we have trained professionals at the bank handle it. That is the beginning and end of my knowledge of it. It's not, in my opinion, something amateurs should handle unless they're really got at not only the maths but at speculation.

And the difference is

memorylikeasieve comments on Jul 1, 2018:

They both suck. I used to get so cold that no amount of layers and such would even make a noticeable difference. I'd be wrapped up in a sweater and a blanket, have a space heater going, be drinking hot tea and still be so cold that I was in pain. Nowadays even looking at warm clothing makes me sweaty and vaguely nauseated. So, yeah, I hate both.

Do Americans feel guilty about their history?

memorylikeasieve comments on Sep 29, 2018:

Guilty? No. Ashamed? Yes, very much so. We are a young species and have lashed out at one another everywhere and in all presently conceivable ways. We've come a ways from that point but still have a long way to go.

Opinions about Myers-Briggs Type Indicator?

memorylikeasieve comments on Apr 9, 2018:

In my opinion it doesn't mean any more than any other 'personality quiz' you find on the internet. I don't even remember what my result was other than that it started with 'E'.

What's the worst job you've had? Why?

memorylikeasieve comments on Mar 27, 2018:

Production office in a plastic thermoforming plant. They made clamshell cases and whatnot. There was a constant particle haze in the air and I went home every day with a terrible headache. The office had only just enough ventilation to make it not lethal, and there was a literal 15-degree temperature difference between one side and the other. They measured it. I was cold all the time anyway, and was stuck on the cold side and they refused to let me move to the warm side. So picture it--it's June in Illinois. I'm wearing layers, I have a space heater, I'm drinking hot tea, and I'm still blue with cold. I step out of the office and my glasses immediately fog up because it is literally 120 degrees on the production floor. Again, they measured it. To top it off, I'm in a constant somnolent daze because of undiagnosed narcolepsy, and I had to stay at that job for over a year because if I quit, the abuse at home would have gotten even worse. I was miserable.

Can you have too many books?

memorylikeasieve comments on Mar 27, 2018:

No such thing.

Do you like being outside?

memorylikeasieve comments on Jun 13, 2018:

I like the outside but it doesn't like me. I sunburn way too easily. ?

Is everyone tired of talking about the weather?

memorylikeasieve comments on Jul 4, 2018:

Come to the PNW. It's nice and cool.

First Lady's Parents Become U.S. Citizens Thanks To 'Chain Migration' : NPR

memorylikeasieve comments on Aug 10, 2018:

Well, yeah, they're white.

Dating (this site and others)

memorylikeasieve comments on Feb 25, 2018:

For dating, I check age, gender, and location, first, then whether they smoke cigarettes and whether they have/want children. Then I look at pictures which, while not as important as the abovementioned, are still a factor.

Homosexuality?

memorylikeasieve comments on Oct 2, 2018:

Uhm, siblings having sex with each other, which is what it looks like you're talking about in your replies, is incest, not homosexuality.

The Bad and the Ugly

memorylikeasieve comments on Sep 1, 2018:

No clue. Adopted. They pretty much hid the records in the 70s.

So I was just telling the kiddos about some of the most influential characters in my life.

memorylikeasieve comments on Oct 20, 2018:

Real people include astronauts/cosmonauts/etc (all of them), Carl Sagan, Verity Lambert, and counless others whose names aren't coming to me at the moment. The only fictional inspiration I had, still have and, indeed, need is the Doctor.

Do we need some nasty space aliens threatening to destroy us?

memorylikeasieve comments on May 8, 2018:

I've been saying essentially the same thing for years.

Have you ever just been so fed up with society that you have considered moving off the grid and ...

memorylikeasieve comments on May 11, 2018:

Hahahaaaa, nope. I'd be dead inside of a month, probably.

What do you do when asked to bring dessert?

memorylikeasieve comments on Sep 19, 2018:

I once had gluten free rhubarb pie, which was fantastic. If I can make it sugar free as well, I'll have everyone covered.

Using four letter words doesn't make you look cool. You just look like someone with an ugly mouth.

memorylikeasieve comments on Oct 10, 2018:

I feel sorry for you.

Misophonia My daughter is sitting next to me eating and it is freaking making me want to stab ...

memorylikeasieve comments on Jul 22, 2018:

Yes. I have been enraged by mouth sounds for as long as I can remember. Not just chewing, but also those little smacky noises some people make when talking, or when they make that *tsk* sound between words. Also, throat clearing, noisy breathing, rustling plastic bags, and typing. I curse the day people came up with audio files of that shit and decided to call it ASMR.

The most disgusting food!

memorylikeasieve comments on Jun 24, 2018:

Creamed corn. It bears such a striking resemblance to puke that it actually did make my gorge rise once.

My Kudos to Sacha Baron Cohen. BIG KAHUNA KUDOS! Just Watch! [youtube.com] [youtube.com]

memorylikeasieve comments on Jul 19, 2018:

Ohhhhhh my fucking god I just about died laughing. 'rudimentary knowledge of mortars!'. ?????

I beg each of you... The news on this is devastating.?

memorylikeasieve comments on Nov 4, 2018:

It's not just inattentiveness. People deliberately run the stop lights on buses. I'm the last one to be all 'Fow da chiwdwen', and even I think running those stop lights is reprehensible.

Napoleon Dynamite

memorylikeasieve comments on Oct 20, 2018:

I think I'm the only person who hates that movie.

Wrinkles... "laugh lines"... "crow's feet"... "crepey skin"... What's the deal?

memorylikeasieve comments on May 25, 2018:

I can't speak for anyone else, but to me, signs of ageing mean I'm that much closer to death, which is something I'm definitely not ready for.

I've discovered/concluded that I really can't stand baby talk in a relationship.

memorylikeasieve comments on Jun 15, 2018:

I only talk that way to animals. You know, there's the 'cat voice' and the 'dog voice' and they both involve a kind of 'Ooza floofy doofy schmoople blerble meeble fleep' kind of babble. With people, I'll often use a squeaky voice for comedic effect, but at least I use real words with it! ?

BRUNI: MIKE PENCE, HOLY TERROR NYTimes [nyti.ms] We are in so much trouble.

memorylikeasieve comments on Jul 30, 2018:

I'd been saying this from the beginning. Pence is so much scarier.

Fathers and daughters

memorylikeasieve comments on Dec 26, 2018:

That is a lot of questions. I probably won't remember all of them, but here goes. I got on with my dad a lot better than with my mother, but even that wasn't too well when you step back and look at it. I don't know what role he felt he had but to me it seemed like he was playing peacekeeper--just enforcing my mother's crazy in order to keep things quiet. I really think he should have divorced her because she was abusive to him, too, but they were of a generation that Just Didn't Do That. That said, I know his sense of humour and love of technology kinda rubbed off on me. As to marrying someone like my dad, I'm a lesbian so probably not.

If I was the parent of a child with Autism, I would be outraged.

memorylikeasieve comments on Apr 28, 2018:

...Dogs don't have enough cognition to vary enough from any standard.

Hi, Does any one know about bdp(boderline personality) How can I manage it ??

memorylikeasieve comments on Jun 23, 2018:

Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, maybe?

Do you say coo-pahn or q-pahn? Milk or melk? Pillow or pellow?

memorylikeasieve comments on Sep 2, 2018:

Coo-pawn, melk, pellow. I have an unplaceable speech pattern, I've been told.

Stay away from Linux, sjws!

memorylikeasieve comments on Nov 28, 2018:

I'm not an sjw and I'll gladly give it a wife berth.

Kirk to Bones

memorylikeasieve comments on Dec 16, 2018:

Man, I wish.

For those near Seattle, I just created a new group for us. &Seattleish

memorylikeasieve comments on Dec 13, 2018:

Tacoma is close enough!

Time to Pay Attention: Facebook is Aiding the Police State By Purging Police Accountability Pages:...

memorylikeasieve comments on Nov 13, 2018:

Facebook itself doesn't police individual pages. Y'all have some idiot with too much time on their hands reporting you, is all.

Well, I do see people mention this: No islamophobia, what about christianophobia, atheistophobia, ...

memorylikeasieve comments on May 16, 2018:

Neoliberalism is an economic term referring to the resurgence of lassez-faire capitalism.

What do you do or take for your chronic pain? Remember, this is a Judgment Free Zone

memorylikeasieve comments on Jul 2, 2018:

NSAIDs, CBD, TENS, heat/cold, physical therapy, and braces and orthotics. All of that together and I'm pretty functional most days. ETA: also cyclobenzaprine for when I'm in too much pain to sleep.

Did the city of Atlantis exist?

memorylikeasieve comments on May 20, 2018:

I agree that there probably was a city that ended up under water and history became legend and legend became myth, etc. Though I'll admit a fondness for theories about Antediluvian/Hyperborean civilisations.

Political issues

memorylikeasieve comments on May 12, 2018:

Civil rights.

Do you think it is a right for someone to get healthcare and not be bankrupted from it?

memorylikeasieve comments on Dec 13, 2018:

Yes. Yes, I do.