Has Agnostic.com let you down as a dating app? Take heart, there are other options.

TomMcGiverin comments on Oct 12, 2022:

Just about as practical as trying to date on Agnostic. I have yet to meet a single member in person from here. Probably doesn't help that my state has likely one of the lowest number of members of any state in the US. Probably also better suited for Luddites like me who refuse to get a smartphone ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 13, 2022:

@DenoPenno Glad to know I have company in my habits. I have dated two women from Match in the last three years, six months each, at different times, neither one seriously. The first one bought me a few really nice gifts, that I still value, but have had no contact with her since we stopped dating. The second one remains a friend, tho I wish we had more regular contact, but she has gone on to find a steady boyfriend from Match and is also busy with her work and family, so no time for contact with me.

Has Agnostic.com let you down as a dating app? Take heart, there are other options.

TomMcGiverin comments on Oct 12, 2022:

Just about as practical as trying to date on Agnostic. I have yet to meet a single member in person from here. Probably doesn't help that my state has likely one of the lowest number of members of any state in the US. Probably also better suited for Luddites like me who refuse to get a smartphone ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 13, 2022:

@KKGator I know it does, for some people, but not for me, so far. it's been over three years, with very limited success.

"The Transformed Wife" has an INSANE guide for being Christians, not feminists - YouTube

rainmanjr comments on Oct 12, 2022:

Sex, according to god, is not for fun. It is for creating new human critters and, according to those religions which say life begins at fertilization, every sperm is sacred. This is a battle of words over a detail of a much larger subject. Just attack the larger subject, put an end to it in any way ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 12, 2022:

Love that Monty Python song, Every Sperm Is Sacred...

Saturday I went dancing.

MerlinZap comments on Oct 10, 2022:

I started up my dance class 2 months ago. I am an Arthur Murray trained Ballroom Dance instructor. I teach 15 different dances. From Tango to Waltz. So far so good. Of course many of my students are old friends. And none of the newbies think or talk that way. I am a screaming bloody liberal so, ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 11, 2022:

You also live in Oregon, one of the bluest states in the union.

Saturday I went dancing.

273kelvin comments on Oct 10, 2022:

I sympathise, but the important thing to remember here is that you really love dancing. So think of it like Vietnam, some guys went, some guys protested, and some did both. But everyone that lived, experienced that time. There is not much profit to be made dwelling on the different stances and ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 11, 2022:

Except where I live, you might have to be careful which women you call ugly. They could be packing a gun and might well shoot you for it. You, Kelvin, live in the UK, a much more civilized place, when it comes to gun control.

Saturday I went dancing.

TomMcGiverin comments on Oct 10, 2022:

Nice to see you back here on the boards, Stephanie. Your perspective was missed, at least by me.. I can relate somewhat to the bind you are in, whether it's worth it to go out and enjoy an activity you like and yet probably, in order to do that, have to put up with some stuff you don't want or like....

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 11, 2022:

@Stephanie99 I think you mean blocked, rather than banned. If so, I don't remember doing it, but it could have been some time ago. Anyway, my comment stands, I like your latest post.

[tiktok.com] Yeah . I have to say 😂😂😂😂

TomMcGiverin comments on Oct 10, 2022:

Maybe I'm too much of a romantic. Maybe I'm just too old to get or relate to this. Or maybe I have just not had enough bad, long term relationships to join in or relate to all the snark and bitterness I constantly hear from divorced people who are single. Maybe they should consider that not ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 10, 2022:

@Pralina1 I respect others having a different experience, background and viewpoint, I just don't share them nor relate to it. But the divorced, at least in my age group, make up the vast majority of singles, so they dominate the social media culture of singlehood for that age group. But when you get up into the singles age 70 or above, the numbers get a lot more balanced between the divorced and the widowed. I just hope for their sake, that the currently divorced singles, never end up joining my club of singles, the widowed....the one nobody wants to join...

[tiktok.com] Girl . It gets worse w time 😂😂😂😂💪💪💪💪💪

Mitch07102 comments on Oct 10, 2022:

Good one. I find it equally funny when older guys try to hit on much, much younger women. It's also sad.

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 10, 2022:

I agree. There's a 75 yo guy that is a former radio DJ that is a regular at one of my two weekly karaoke shows. He is a very mediocre singer, but that's another matter. My beef is his clownish, rude, tacky behavior. He is constantly hitting on much younger women, often when they are sitting there with their man. His need for constant attention, esp. from women, and his useless hitting on young women, are both really pathetic, way beyond sad... I think the reason the men sitting with the women he is hitting on don't get mad at him or pound him, is because they think it's pathetic and amusing, as do the younger women. So the guys with those women just give him a pass....

3 Jewish women file suit against Kentucky abortion bans on religious grounds It's the third such ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Oct 7, 2022:

I hope it causes them as much squirming and exposure of their hypocrisy as possible, but I know it will not change their theocratic agenda and conduct.

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 10, 2022:

@anglophone The religious theocrats treat government as if all citizens share their beliefs, and if they don't, then those citizens should be without any rights or freedoms, if not persecuted as well. All of that is the definition of theocracy, not that the theocrats would ever admit it about their policies and conduct.

Saturday I went dancing.

Sticks48 comments on Oct 10, 2022:

I just got the latest booster, and have been doing fine. I play in bars 8 or 9 times a month. Stay on top of getting the booster shots and go live your life. This thing could be like the flu as far as being around all of the time.

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 10, 2022:

That's what I've been doing after I first got vaxed, went back to singing karaoke at bars and going to hear live bands. I'm going on with my life, for the most part, like I did before Covid, because it's going to be around for years, and who knows how many years of life I have left?

Trump Visibly Disoriented, Brain Glitches Badly at Hispanic Event - YouTube

Druvius comments on Oct 9, 2022:

It's from 2019 and has been edited to make him look confused. https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-trump-video-disoriented/fact-check-clip-of-trump-lost-and-disoriented-has-been-selectively-cropped-idUSKBN25Z25Q

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 10, 2022:

@Druvius That's what I've always felt about Trump, he is a creep and a fascist, but he's a symptom of the disease. Seems like nobody wants to see or discuss the disease, which is that we live in a plutocracy, not a democracy, where more Americans realize that federal elections are just a charade, where the candidates are pre-selected by corporations, so more people now don't vote than do vote for either major party. And the corporate media never discusses this problem. Finally, the working class rightfully feels abandoned by the Dems, so they are always vulnerable to being conned by the Repubs into voting for them, every time that the Repubs promise to help them while lying about it. These things, caused largely by the Dems selling out to corporations and shitting on unions and the working class, are what made it possible for Trump to win in 2016. The Dem Party will get what they deserve, but they really don't care anymore about winning elections, no matter what they say publicly. But progressives like us do not deserve the government we keep getting from the duopoly when we know better and have been rejecting it over and over. But maybe, in a way, we do, because we have never established a viable third party to blow the Dems out of the water they way they need to be. Both major parties support militarism and empire, instead of peace, globalization, neoliberal economics, and increased poverty and inequality, instead of progressive economic policies and fair tax policies that make the rich and corporations pay their fair share. Both parties support our continued system of legalized bribery and money being treated as political speech, instead of federal campaigns being limited in length, limits on campaign spending, and full funding of federal campaigns for all qualified candidates. These things are the rot that led us to Trump being elected.

Trump Visibly Disoriented, Brain Glitches Badly at Hispanic Event - YouTube

Druvius comments on Oct 9, 2022:

It's from 2019 and has been edited to make him look confused. https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-trump-video-disoriented/fact-check-clip-of-trump-lost-and-disoriented-has-been-selectively-cropped-idUSKBN25Z25Q

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 9, 2022:

He's got way bigger things about him that make him unfit for office than any dementia or confusion, even if that were the case with him, which I don't think it is.

Gubernatorial Candidate Mastriano Would Outlaw ‘Pole Dancing’ In Pennsylvania Schools At a ...

Charlene comments on Oct 4, 2022:

What's next? No more floor exercises in gymnastics? They've already outlawed the furry kids Cat Boxes in bathrooms, and kindergarten CRT..when will the madness stop?

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 8, 2022:

@johnnyrobish I think most housecats already think that most hoomans are nuts...

It does my heart good to see these things happening.

Garban comments on Oct 8, 2022:

Not that there’s anything wrong with “chasing sin”.😉

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 8, 2022:

I have always found it strange and disturbing that so much country music, a genre that I generally hate with a passion, is so filled with songs that revere or glorify religion, while at the same time, an equal number of country songs seem to celebrate and glorify alcohol abuse and casual sex. The fans of that genre sure seem to be a contradictory crowd...

As an atheist, what are my chances of having two bisexual women?

waitingforgodo comments on Oct 8, 2022:

The negative binomial distribution describes the probability in the absence of a covariance of 1 with money as the independent identically distributed random variable. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVuSYUNAekc

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 8, 2022:

I love the cold, droll, deadpan delivery of the band's vocals. I realize you are speaking in smartass, but the fancy verbiage you are using is probably over the head of most readers on here, jus' sayin'....

As an atheist, what are my chances of having two bisexual women?

TomMcGiverin comments on Oct 7, 2022:

Well, I'd say it's kind of like the guy in Office Space who was the neighbor of the lead character, Peter Gruber. The neighbor told Peter that if he, the neighbor, ever had a million $, he would fulfill his ambition of having a threesome with two women, because, as he told Peter, " If I had a ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 8, 2022:

@BananaFlambe I think baldness is not tied to evolution, it's just a trait that is passed on, same as height or skin pigmentation. Not a plus or minus as far as adaptation to environment, etc..

As an atheist, what are my chances of having two bisexual women?

TomMcGiverin comments on Oct 7, 2022:

Well, I'd say it's kind of like the guy in Office Space who was the neighbor of the lead character, Peter Gruber. The neighbor told Peter that if he, the neighbor, ever had a million $, he would fulfill his ambition of having a threesome with two women, because, as he told Peter, " If I had a ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 8, 2022:

@BananaFlambe Some women are attracted to baldness with a man, some aren't. Some are attracted to some bald guys, but only if the bald guy also happens to have a cute face and a smoking hot body, such as the actor Shemar Moore, otherwise, if the bald guy is average looking, they won't give him a second look. It's complicated like that. I think the most telling evidence is how few male actors who play lead roles or esp. play romantic lead roles, are bald. That tells me that Hollywood, and most women, don't find most bald men to be attractive, compared to men with full heads of hair. Hollywood execs aren't stupid. They cast male actors with hair, because that is what most of their female audience finds attractive, so they give them what they want to see on the screen... The other evidence is how many billions of dollars per year are made by companies that sell drugs they say prevent hair loss or that provide hair replacement services, because most men know from their experience, how much baldness is a turnoff to most women, and they don't want to experience it themselves. As far as tats, maybe that works with some women as a way to attract them despite being bald, I don't know. I do know that many or most bald men grow facial hair, with beards and mustaches, in order to either balance out their look or distract women with facial hair so they don't focus on the bald top of their head, but I have no idea if that works or not with women. To me, it looks stupid, weak, and foolish, as I'm sure most women still notice that the man is bald on top, and all the facial hair in the world is not going to prevent the woman from still noticing the guy's baldness...

Is DeSantis nothing but a Trump clone, or is it just my imagination?

Scott321 comments on Oct 8, 2022:

Not only is Desantis a savvy attorney with a knack for framing issues in a manner appealing to Tea Partiers and deplorable MAGAts, he also is a veteran…Navy JAG with SEAL team connections. The latter service has patriotic appeal to conservative voters. Unlike Trump he’s not a shirker. Plus, ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 8, 2022:

I do agree with you that Liz Cheney is positioning herself to run for prez this time, as a way to kneecap Trump, but I would not fall for it and vote for her. She may have done the right thing regarding Trump and Jan.6, for whatever personal reasons she had, but I don't trust her at all with being prez, knowing that on policy, she is no different than her dad, Dr. evil himself.

Is DeSantis nothing but a Trump clone, or is it just my imagination?

TomMcGiverin comments on Oct 8, 2022:

I would be careful not to underestimate him and see him as a fool. I remember how many people, including me, saw W. (Bush) as the dim-witted chimp he was, and thought there was no way he would beat Gore, but he did, at least officially in the end. But there was no way it should have even been close ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 8, 2022:

@Scott321 The Nader thing is bullshit. Bush won FL because the SC stopped the recount, as Gore would have won if the recount had not been stopped by the US Supreme Court. Secondly, even with Nader, it wouldn't have even been close if lots of elderly voters in one part of FL hadn't gotten confused by the type of ballot that was being used in that area, where conservative Pat Buchanan, a Repub, was on the ballot in a spot that the elderly voters were obviously mistaking his spot for Gore's, who they were trying to vote for. Thirdly, the ballot mistake was still enough for Gore to have won if it hadn't happened, regardless of what happened with the Cuban voters. Again, I am sick of people wrongly blaming Nader for Gore's loss, when the election shouldn't have even been close, if the Dems had put up a better candidate, and Gore had run a decent campaign. Gore had no charisma and came off to most voters as very unlikeable, compared to W. Quit believing the Nader mythology, which the corporate media was more than happy to spread, since it gave the Dem Party cover, years later, when they screwed Bernie twice, so they could point to Nader and justify it by saying how bad nominating a progressive would be, etc..

Does deprivation of sexual relationship for 14 years constitute cruel and unusual punishment?

antman comments on Oct 7, 2022:

Not punishment. But coming from my former marriage where we never got out of single digits in a year it’s certainly extremely sad and annoying.

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 8, 2022:

@BananaFlambe Video won't play...

Does deprivation of sexual relationship for 14 years constitute cruel and unusual punishment?

Aaron70 comments on Oct 7, 2022:

A better question is why would someone stay in a relationship with someone who clearly no longer wants them….🤠

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 8, 2022:

In the words of the immortal philosopher Lou Reed, " I do believe, if you don't like things you leave".... esp. if young children are not involved....

Does deprivation of sexual relationship for 14 years constitute cruel and unusual punishment?

lerlo comments on Oct 7, 2022:

Let's say it does. Since this isn't in the lots of laughs category, I'm assuming you're serious. Consequently it would violate the Constitution and would give you a right to sue...who? The government? Do you actually blame the government for not providing you sex? Pretty sure prostitution's legal ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 8, 2022:

As my brother, the lawyer who is now a judge, used to say, " You can sue whoever you like, for whatever reason you want to, but actually having a case is a whole other matter"....

Does deprivation of sexual relationship for 14 years constitute cruel and unusual punishment?

Paul_Clamberer comments on Oct 7, 2022:

If you aren't getting any, you'd better sue Madame Palm and her five daughters.

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 8, 2022:

Ding, ding, we have our winner!......

3 Jewish women file suit against Kentucky abortion bans on religious grounds It's the third such ...

racocn8 comments on Oct 8, 2022:

My understanding is that life does NOT begin at conception, and numerous examples demonstrate that making that claim has little scientific support. For example, 1) swimming sperm are obviously alive and a woman's eggs are known to be alive; 2) identical twins where the egg then splits to form...

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 8, 2022:

The truth does not matter at all to the courts, esp. to corrupt conservative courts, because it's all based on ideology and power, even law and precedent don't matter anymore, much less science and truth...

Does deprivation of sexual relationship for 14 years constitute cruel and unusual punishment?

KKGator comments on Oct 7, 2022:

No one is entitled to sex, even if they're in a relationship. If you don't understand that, seek professional mental health assistance. Characterizing it as "cruel and unusual punishment" implies that you feel entitled to it.

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 7, 2022:

@BananaFlambe WTF are you trying to say in this last comment? "Human rights"? "1984 trolls at the dollar store"?, as well as the rest of the bizarre stuff about the two rights of free speech and buying a gun, "other documents sound better".. As a shrink would say, regarding schizophrenia, you are making a lot of what are called "loose associations", and it makes me wonder how well your mind is functioning...

Dirtbag lied on application to purchase firearm by omitting drug history and cheated on taxes.

nogod4me comments on Oct 7, 2022:

Look at how many egregious crimes Trump has committed, he should have been locked away long ago. If lying on his taxes would just put Hunter Biden in jail, then Trump should be executed.

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 7, 2022:

Agree, but you will never get a conservative or MAGA to ever admit that Hunter's crimes pale in comparison to Trump's. Their whataboutism is breathtaking, and even after the country is in civil war due to Trump, the right wing will still be fixated on repeating, " What about Hunter's laptop?", as if it was still relevant and the most important issue of the day... I'm not saying at all that Hunter is not a scumbag in his own right, but, as racocn8 would say, this is one hell of a false equivilency...

Does deprivation of sexual relationship for 14 years constitute cruel and unusual punishment?

xenoview comments on Oct 7, 2022:

I haven't had sex in over a decade. Nothing cruel about it.

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 7, 2022:

@xenoview Suit yourself. I really do, along with the affection I also had with her. To me, both are equally important and satisfying..

Does deprivation of sexual relationship for 14 years constitute cruel and unusual punishment?

xenoview comments on Oct 7, 2022:

I haven't had sex in over a decade. Nothing cruel about it.

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 7, 2022:

I'm closing in on that in a few years, it's a scary thing to face...

Does deprivation of sexual relationship for 14 years constitute cruel and unusual punishment?

TomMcGiverin comments on Oct 7, 2022:

Your ? is vague and ambiguous. What do you mean, are you talking about a partner in a marriage or committed relationship refusing to have sex with someone? Or are you talking about any person who is deprived of sex with someone other than themselves for 14 years, such as an incel? Or, as someone ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 7, 2022:

@BananaFlambe Thanks for clarifying it. I have a computer, a landline phone and membership on Match.com for over three years now. I have been unable to find a long term relationship, tho I did date two women for six months each, at different times. That is the best I could do, with the way the numbers game of online dating works, how mismatched I am for most of my local online dating pool, and how much competition I face in that local pool, but I never blamed the people that run my phone service, that just sounds crazy, sorry to be so harsh. I do feel some resentment at whoever runs Match, because they keep making the profile formats worse and more limited over time, and that does hurt all but their most best looking members from connecting with compatible people. But I still don't feel that the folks running Match are singling me out for mistreatment, just that they only care about money and want to limit their member profiles as much as possible, because it saves them money in what they spend on IT services. Join the club, almost all of us singles are screwed by the online dating sites, but it's nothing personal. The sites don't care about any of us or about helping us find partners, they just care about money and they aren't regulated at all, so we are on our own.

Trump, Mad About Mar-a-Lago Raid, Plots Revenge on National Archives – Rolling Stone

rainmanjr comments on Oct 7, 2022:

He's not going to retake the WH. Ever. I believe he will suffer a heart attack or some other form of induced exit before that could happen. If he were to reclaim it his coronation would likely set off an actual Civil War (provided liberals find some courage to actually do something instead of ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 7, 2022:

I hope you're right about Trump, but I know you're right about liberals not having the balls to do anything in response to Trump winning, besides mockery and trying to censor the right wing.

Here's your sign....

Buttercup comments on Oct 5, 2022:

I can't believe I would ever say this but Kid could do better.

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 7, 2022:

Possibly, possibly not. I've always thought that Kid Rock was a POS asshole, so I'm inclined to think they both would deserve each other. Picture has long been my most cringe-worthy song at karaoke that I absolutely loathe every time some millenial couple gets up there to sing it. To me it only shows how trashy and stupid they are to think a song like that about low-life white trash singing about cheating on each other and still missing them is somehow romantic and cool. I used to like and respect Sheryl Crow, but her recording that song with him lost all of that for me. I blame Rock more than her for that stupid song.

Herschel Walker paid for an abortion. His Christian supporters won't care.

racocn8 comments on Oct 5, 2022:

Hypocrisy is the one true universal religion (But the GQP are the most ardent followers.)

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 7, 2022:

That, greed, and white supremecy, appear to be the only things they truly believe in, certainly not the teachings of Christ, unless you count their revised teachings of Repub Jesus.

Obviously. All Republicans are now terrorists. [washingtontimes.com]

p-nullifidian comments on Oct 7, 2022:

Not all Republicans. Only those who kowtow to Donald Trump and his ilk in perpetuating the Big Lie, and further damage this country through the illegal removal and mishandling of classified documents. Only those who directly, or indirectly through their support, plot to kidnap governors and storm ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 7, 2022:

MAGA Repubs not only want to make America white again, they also want to put women back into their place as they were in the 1950s, before modern feminism, contraception, legal abortion, and women had any rights to equal employment and pay compared to men. In other words, to erase any civil rights laws that improved things for racial minorities and women, beginning in the Sixties...

I do not find this funny I will say straight up.

TomMcGiverin comments on Oct 5, 2022:

I don't find it funny either, I find it embarrassing and pathetic. The only people I have found who seem to strongly feel Biden does not have dementia, are Dem Party loyalists and other defenders of the economic status quo, such as the corporate media, who hate Bernie and his ideas for reforming the...

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 6, 2022:

@BDair Right now the only one I would like and trust would be Nina Turner, but nobody knows who she is and as a black woman, she'd never have a chance... Another person I trust so far and am impressed with is Katie Porter, a congresswoman from CA. Again, she would probably have no chance... I agree with your last comment, except for saying that "they" attempted to destroy Trump, since he deserved every bit of it and then some..

I do not find this funny I will say straight up.

MsDemeanour comments on Oct 6, 2022:

Do you have a retirement age in USA? I don't know anything about this video but let the senior cits retire.

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 6, 2022:

There is a retirement age here, that varies from 62 to 67, depending on when you were born and when you want to start taking the government's old age pension, Social Security. But the only mandatory retirement age for jobs is for judges, who must retire from full time work as a judge at age 70, at least in my state.

I do not find this funny I will say straight up.

TomMcGiverin comments on Oct 5, 2022:

I don't find it funny either, I find it embarrassing and pathetic. The only people I have found who seem to strongly feel Biden does not have dementia, are Dem Party loyalists and other defenders of the economic status quo, such as the corporate media, who hate Bernie and his ideas for reforming the...

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 6, 2022:

@BDair, @DenoPenno Agreed. I am tired of all those countries having geriatric leaders.

I do not find this funny I will say straight up.

TomMcGiverin comments on Oct 5, 2022:

I don't find it funny either, I find it embarrassing and pathetic. The only people I have found who seem to strongly feel Biden does not have dementia, are Dem Party loyalists and other defenders of the economic status quo, such as the corporate media, who hate Bernie and his ideas for reforming the...

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 6, 2022:

@BDair Thanks.

I do not find this funny I will say straight up.

Diaco comments on Oct 5, 2022:

I don't know if you're Super Naive and Dumb like this! or a Traitor( if you're an American )! IDK, maybe a Putin Ass kisser! If so, Be Sorry for yourSelf!... if you're Not one of these... Pls. it's Not a Good time for these Childish games... Don't be Other countries useful Idiots and Hand ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 6, 2022:

@Diaco I don't laugh at it. I find it sad and disgusting that our system, our corporate media, and most of our voters are more afraid of socialism than they are of electing figureheads like Reagan, W., and Biden. Where is the pride in that? Seems more to me like fear of the bogeyman that they are brainwashed in to thinking will ruin their lives, just because it's labeled socialism, lumped in falsely with communism and totalitarianism, which is what we are going to get if a Repub is elected prez in two years, totalitarianism that is in a fascist dictatorship. I have pride in what our country used to be, during the New Deal and The Great Society years of LBJ, except for the the Vietnam War of that time. No, I don't have any pride in what our country has been since 1968, nor should I have. I stand respectfully during the national anthem at sports events, not because I buy any of that patriotic bullshit these days, nor have a ever flown a flag where I lived. I stand respectfully, but not with my hand on my heart or any of that reverent bullshit I see from other people then, but simply because I am too tired and disgusted to want to deal with any of their bullshit and harassment if I failed to comply with their ritual. At the senior center where I live, they used to recite the pledge of allegience once each week before we ate lunch, and I boycotted that, as well as the daily moment of silence, which was just a thinly veiled substitute for a moment of prayer, which I'm sure about all of us would boycott. I did it very conspicuously, and am proud of it. When the center moved to a new building, they dropped the rituals, but I would have still boycotted them. I have pride in what our country was long ago and what it could be, but not for it being any kind of good example for the rest of the world, because it quit being that long ago when I was a child. If you still think we have a functioning democracy, which even Jimmy Carter admitted recently that we don't have, then you are the fool and the naive one... The war to fear is the coming civil one, not one from a country outside our borders... Maybe you're a shill for the defense contractors or weapons makers, for all I know....

I do not find this funny I will say straight up.

Diaco comments on Oct 5, 2022:

I don't know if you're Super Naive and Dumb like this! or a Traitor( if you're an American )! IDK, maybe a Putin Ass kisser! If so, Be Sorry for yourSelf!... if you're Not one of these... Pls. it's Not a Good time for these Childish games... Don't be Other countries useful Idiots and Hand ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 6, 2022:

@Diaco That may well be true of Puff, IDK, and I don't make a habit of investigating everyone who posts and comments on these boards. I do know what I have read online from foreign media that are certainly not friends with or dupes of Russia or China, so why do you assume that everybody that disagrees with you is knowingly or unknowingly helping those two countries? It is equally or more naive and blind to just support an American president, or any leader of a country you live in, simply because you think being critical of them is aiding the enemies of that country. Using that logic, any criticism of any leader, for any valid reason, could be dismissed as lies or treated as treasonous. So, are you by any means trying to equate criticism of Biden's cognitive functioning as being on the same level as any of Trump's treasonous acts against the country? That would really be laughable.... The ruling class and the corporations here in America, that really own things, including the pols in DC, and that really run things, are far bigger and more present dangers to the lives and welfare of most Americans. They are willing to kill or sacrifice as many of us as they need to in order to maintain their profits and power, because they no longer even need most of us as workers, or even as consumers of their goods and services, in a globalized market like we have now. So fear or hate China and Russia as much as you want, I'm not saying they don't deserve some of it, but they are not nearly the threat to most of us like we have from the neoliberal, corporatists and warmongers in both major parties. As long as we continue electing them to congress and the WH, we are doomed, no matter what other countries do. Only a revolution can save us now, but much as I would like to see it happen, I have no faith that it will. What I do see happening, in the next couple years is either a low grade civil war here, or a fascist, permanent dictatorship if the Repubs win the WH and control of congress in two years, both of which I think will happen. The civil war will happen if they don't win control of DC in two years. Either scenario will be a terrible experience. It reminds me of the old Woody Allen joke where he describes two horrible, nightmarish paths that the world can take as the future unfolds, and then says, " Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly (or wisely, I can't remember which)"....

I do not find this funny I will say straight up.

Diaco comments on Oct 5, 2022:

I don't know if you're Super Naive and Dumb like this! or a Traitor( if you're an American )! IDK, maybe a Putin Ass kisser! If so, Be Sorry for yourSelf!... if you're Not one of these... Pls. it's Not a Good time for these Childish games... Don't be Other countries useful Idiots and Hand ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 6, 2022:

@Diaco You are being willfully obtuse, as the character said in The Shawshank Redemption. The OP is not only talking about Biden's pants issue, he is making the connection between that and Biden's obvious dementia, which you are in denial about. Fine, suit yourself with that.. I could give a fuck, esp. since you mention nothing about your own experience with dementia patients, so I can only assume you have none, or at least less than me, or the OP, for that matter, who mentions his own father's dementia. Maybe you might want to read the OP's post again and notice the connection he makes between Biden's noticeable things and the OP's father's dementia that the OPs shared with us. Or maybe you could wow us with your own considerable experience, research, and knowledge of dementia? I thought not....

I do not find this funny I will say straight up.

Diaco comments on Oct 5, 2022:

I don't know if you're Super Naive and Dumb like this! or a Traitor( if you're an American )! IDK, maybe a Putin Ass kisser! If so, Be Sorry for yourSelf!... if you're Not one of these... Pls. it's Not a Good time for these Childish games... Don't be Other countries useful Idiots and Hand ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 6, 2022:

What the hell does that prove, Diaco? That he can read a prepared speech on a teleprompter for ten minutes? Show me where he can take unexpected ?s, actually have to think and show that he can not only attend to what is being said, be oriented to what is going on, process the ? and then come up with his own answer. Your defense of him with just this video is laughable... I won't speak for the OP or Druvious, who can defend themselves capably, I'm sure, but I sure as hell, figuratively speaking, am no fan of Putin, nor am I dumb, naive, or any kind of traitor to America, tho I do hate our current plutocratic system, our corporate media, our two corrupt major parties, as does any intelligent, intellectually honest, and thinking person who values equality and fairness, as well as truth. And I will put myself up against about anybody on Agnostic as far as how well-informed I am on at least American politics.

I do not find this funny I will say straight up.

Druvius comments on Oct 5, 2022:

Biden is a loyal party apparatchik doing what the Pentagon, the arms industry, and fossil fuel lobby want him to do, he's not exercising any real power, like the two Bush presidencies. His state of mind isn't really relevant. We are in a stupid and apparently endless war with Russia because it's ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 5, 2022:

I can and do agree with you on all that, but I also do strongly feel that he has dementia, but agree with you, that the way the system is now, the way his handlers have been able to get away with working around it, and the way the Repubs play along with the Dems in congress by not going after Biden on his dementia to get him impeached, or force him to resign, because they know their party could well end up in the future with another demented Repub prez like Reagan in the WH, and don't want to set a precedent of impeachment or forced resignation for dementia, they will give him a pass on the dementia, same as the Dems gave Reagan, same as the Dems gave W., a dim-witted incompetent figurehead if ever there was one, even when it was obvious that Cheney was really running things. BTW, Harris would be a terrible candidate in two years and no way she would get elected, nor do I think she would be any better than Biden on policy. She's just another Dem party hack or loyalist, centrist, corporate Dem, just like Biden. From what I hear, Newsom is being built up to be the one who's nominated in two years, and from what I hear, he will also be another supporter of the status quo, except for the usual ID politics and culture war stuff.

I don't feel so bad now.

TomMcGiverin comments on Oct 5, 2022:

Truly an example of how being married to the wrong person can actually be worse than being single, unless, of course, maybe, if the sex with her was incredible, and I'm skeptical of that being the case here... between her and her hubby, at least...

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 5, 2022:

@BDair You may well be right, that in their case with her, it was great, but I'm wondering if she was that great with him, since she chose to cheat on him? Wouldn't be surprised if she wasn't as passionate with him...

He might be a conservative, but you have to give him credit when he is right

Garban comments on Oct 5, 2022:

Standing up to an abusive father takes balls. He should have done it in person, but good for him anyway.

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 5, 2022:

I do agree, it's not easy to do, even in private, but I managed to do so with my father, even tho he was an important public figure. But I never did expose him for his abuse in public, mainly because it might or might not have been fair to him or relevant enough to his position, but also, more importantly, because I knew that none of my siblings would support me or corroborate anything I said, so why risk making myself look like a nutcase or an ingrate child? So I limited myself to just continuing to stand up to him ever since I was in college and no longer living with him. Of course, once he was old and frail, the balance of power shifted, as it always does with parents and their adult children, so in his last decade, he finally started to treat me with the respect I had deserved for so many years before, but never got, simply because he now needed me in his life, while before that, I had kept only very limited contact with him and made it clear that I was always prepared to end all contact with him if he was emotionally abusive again, or too disrespectful to me. My longtime friends supported me in doing this, had become my real family and support system long ago, and made me feel secure enough to be able to handle cutting ties with him, if it came to that.

An Ohio man was arrested for writing a Satirical piece about his local police on Facebook.

Betty comments on Oct 5, 2022:

Freedom of speech is not so free is it.

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 5, 2022:

It's only as free as the people in power, and those with badges that enforce their power, choose to make it.

The business cry for years was train people for the jobs, don't train them to think and this is what...

TomMcGiverin comments on Oct 2, 2022:

So true on both counts. I have met so many tech people that are inevitably conservatives or Libertarians, because they have never studied any liberal arts or humanities courses, so they know nothing of history, economics, sociology, poli sci, philosophy, etc, and think there is a technical solution ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 2, 2022:

Well, I'll be damned, we seem to starting to agree a lot lately, as long as things stay away from the dating game and the faults of the Dem Party...

Now blocked by TheoryNumber3, after I commented on a post she made about how dating and a bottle of ...

Garban comments on Oct 2, 2022:

You’ve been blocked by some of the most thoughtful and genuine people on this site.

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 2, 2022:

@Garban I seldom block those that offer a different opinion than mine, more often I get blocked by people who disagree with my opinion, start losing arguments with me, then resort to personal attacks on me to distract from the arguments I am making, then block me after I confront them on that and point out how they are using personal attacks instead of addressing my arguments. In a nutshell, the truth hurts, for them, so they block me because they can't stand losing the argument and being called out for their personal attacks as a distraction. People can't stand being correctly called out and exposed for things they find embarrassing. They get butt hurt when I pop the balloon of their pride, so they feel they have to block me to end their embarrassment.

Now blocked by TheoryNumber3, after I commented on a post she made about how dating and a bottle of ...

Garban comments on Oct 2, 2022:

You’ve been blocked by some of the most thoughtful and genuine people on this site.

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 2, 2022:

@Garban Your sarcasm is not appreciated and just confirms, for me, how unimpartial and biased you are against me. It also reveals you are not at all trying to be caring or helpful here, so fuck off and keep your opinions on me to yourself.

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TomMcGiverin comments on Oct 2, 2022:

The online dating sites recognize this and Match has the religious affiliation category, along with Christian, Catholic, etc. of Spiritual, but not religious as one of the label choices for members to use for themselves. I use it because, frankly, where I live, being labeled Agnostic is not only ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 2, 2022:

@rainmanjr I have a friendship with another man, a former Unitarian my age, that is almost that long.

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TomMcGiverin comments on Oct 2, 2022:

The online dating sites recognize this and Match has the religious affiliation category, along with Christian, Catholic, etc. of Spiritual, but not religious as one of the label choices for members to use for themselves. I use it because, frankly, where I live, being labeled Agnostic is not only ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 2, 2022:

@rainmanjr Believe me, lying to get a woman is something I know is extremely common, and a big reason why women are so damned cynical and suspicious, rightly so, on dating sites. So many things I would not and will never do. Using fake or outdated photos, saying they are politically liberal when they're not, changing their political label back and forth depending on the woman they are messaging with. Same with religious affiliation. Attending Christian and Catholic churches and faking it just to meet women for dating, the list goes on and on. Saying they are into cycling, yoga, working out, etc. along with other interests they know women are into and want to hear that they are into as well. Saying in their profile essay how much they love kids and how well they get along with their kids and their ex.

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TomMcGiverin comments on Oct 2, 2022:

The online dating sites recognize this and Match has the religious affiliation category, along with Christian, Catholic, etc. of Spiritual, but not religious as one of the label choices for members to use for themselves. I use it because, frankly, where I live, being labeled Agnostic is not only ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 2, 2022:

@rainmanjr I totally get that, Neil. Thanks for clarifying and explaining yourself, as well as not getting offended at my disagreement with the line about women not being worth the bother, since I didn't pick up on the snark intended. This is the kind of interactions I miss on here that used to happen all the time, before most members got into the sport of simply putting all the blame for someone's problems in the dating game all on the member who dared to bare their soul, so to speak, and put their feelings and experiences out there for all to read and hear. I wish more people here had your open-mindedness, empathy, and compassion, but they don't, so that is why the subject of dating on this site has become almost taboo, unless of course, the person posting or commenting limits themselves to simply posting joking observations about other people from online memes or makes light of their own dating experiences. All stuff that is non-controversial and nothing directly personal or intimate about the member posting it. And you're right, some people are not to be trusted. Most of my offline friends are women, some younger than me, some my age, and some older. Fewer male friends, probably because I am more sensitive than most men my age, because I share more common interests with women than men. etc. It has always been that way for me, so it's ironic that most of the people on here that have blocked me are women, but I think the reason for that is that they are so damned defensive if any men on here butt heads with them or disagree with them about general behavior of women in the dating game, because they take it as a personal attack and rush in to defend their whole sisterhood of women. I call that out when I see it and they hate me for it. I recently ended two friendships with men who I used to really enjoy spending time with. One because the guy had become more and more controlling and critical of me, probably because he is very smart, but has little tolerance for someone who does not want to always behave the way he wants, agree with him on almost everything, and accept most of his choices for what activities to spend time doing together. I am too independent for that, so we parted ways. The other guy, it was because of a long-standing issue involving church politics with the local Unitarian church, where I finally got fed up with how he would never take my side or even believe my side of how I was getting screwed over and mistreated by other people that he was friends with there. In other words, he put his church friendships with them over his personal friendship with me, for almost ten years, and I finally got sick of the contrast between how he sold me out and treated me on this compared to one more casual friend from the church and another new...

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TomMcGiverin comments on Oct 2, 2022:

The online dating sites recognize this and Match has the religious affiliation category, along with Christian, Catholic, etc. of Spiritual, but not religious as one of the label choices for members to use for themselves. I use it because, frankly, where I live, being labeled Agnostic is not only ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 2, 2022:

@rainmanjr Speak for yourself. I had only one long term relationship, because I am very offbeat for where I live and my local dating pool. I dated about as much as most guys when I was a young man, but the whole issue of me not wanting to have kids or even be a stepparent, made me unacceptable for all the women I dated as far as a long term relationship, since, here in Iowa, having kids seemed to be everything to the young women I dated and they would not settle for a man who didn't want to have kids with them and be a parent with them. I was in my late thirties, because of that, still single, when I met my late wife in 1995, after she was married and divorced twice, and was 15 years older than me and childless, which finally made the whole huge issue in my dating pool, of me being childless by choice, a non-issue for her and me, since she was too old to have kids by then. The first 16 years with her, before she developed dementia in 2011, were the best years of my adult life. So yes, it is worth it to me to find another life partner, not someone exactly like her by any means, but someone compatible that I can trust and that loves me as much as I love her. And since I, like my late father, am likely to live another 25 years or more, after me being widowed for five years, you're damned tooting that I want to share as much of my life that's left with another partner. Some people are wired for being happily single. I never was before her and I never will be now or later. Thanks for your reaction, Neil, finally, someone who listens, gets it, and accepts me for who I am.

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TomMcGiverin comments on Oct 2, 2022:

The online dating sites recognize this and Match has the religious affiliation category, along with Christian, Catholic, etc. of Spiritual, but not religious as one of the label choices for members to use for themselves. I use it because, frankly, where I live, being labeled Agnostic is not only ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 2, 2022:

@Castlepaloma Interesting that you bring up drugs. Match also has a traits ? in the profile's checklist of traits. The trait is weed use or not, and the only two options are 4/20 friendly and Not for me. I leave that one blank, again because of bullshit assumptions that women make about someone using either answer to that ? I am fine with dating someone who uses weed, but the two choices don't make that clear in any meaningful way. If I say I am 4/20 friendly, even tho I don't use weed, I get pegged as a pot user and sometimes even as a user of drugs in general. If I choose the Not for me label, I get pegged by women who are pot users as intolerant and unwilling to accept their weed use. Since you can't win either way, with either label, if you are a non-using, weed user accepting person, I leave it blank. Like the other guy said in this thread, some lying is necessary to attract even compatible women within the limits of online dating profiles, and it also wouldn't be worth it or effective to use the profile essay part to state an explanation of my views on weed, as it probably would just complicate things, seem weird to add a statement about it in there, and get me rejected anyway for having something so unusual in my profile essay. Women are generally suspicious about men's dating profiles, probably for good reason, and adding some statement about how I don't use weed, but am tolerant and accepting of it in a partner, would probably raise red flags and be seen as just another guy trying to have it both ways and tell women what they want to hear. So, like most things in the dating game, you just can't win, no matter how honest you try to be...

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Paddypereira comments on Oct 2, 2022:

Somebody spiritual doesn't mean that they believe in God or any sort of deity. It means they give more attention to matters of the mind/spirit.

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 2, 2022:

I like and agree with that, and that's why I can use that Spiritual, but not religious label for my religious affiliation trait label in my dating profile. I can do it without feeling phony because I do believe there is something to life and the world besides just physical matter and such. And that we are more than just flesh and blood, there is something to us having minds and even the existence of spirits in animals, nature, and people.

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nogod4me comments on Oct 2, 2022:

SPIRITUAL: The ability to be able to interpret a fart as being otherworldly.

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 2, 2022:

@Castlepaloma Like the line in the Shawshank Redemption, by the warden, where he says the character Andy "vanished like a fart in the wind"...

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TomMcGiverin comments on Oct 2, 2022:

The online dating sites recognize this and Match has the religious affiliation category, along with Christian, Catholic, etc. of Spiritual, but not religious as one of the label choices for members to use for themselves. I use it because, frankly, where I live, being labeled Agnostic is not only ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 2, 2022:

@Castlepaloma I never try to deceive anyone. I just fudge a couple of my trait labels in the profile so I can at least have a fighting chance with a decent number of women in my local online dating pool. Because if I didn't do that, I would have no chance at all in the dating game. The problem is that the homegrown women in my dating pool have usually never lived anywhere else, have a very narrow comfort zone and limited experience with anyone who is not part of the cultural and lifestyle mainstream here. So if I want to have any chance with finding someone, I need to temper my trait labels a bit on a couple of them, so I don't seem so extremely different from them and everybody they know, otherwise those traits of mine would be seen as a red flag and I would be rejected before they even got to know me at all. One trait is being a non-drinker, where social drinking is a huge part of the social life here for mainstream people, so I identify as a social drinker, even if I'm not. Because I am open-minded and very tolerant of someone who is a moderate drinker. Same with identifying as Spiritual, but not religious, because Agnostic would be seen as something too weird or extreme. I would usually be immediately red-flagged and rejected, but I have found that many times using that mild label initially allows me to become accepted later as Agnostic, if the woman is only moderately religious, which is something I can easily accept and tolerate. The fact is, I have a lot of competition in my local dating pool, three men for every woman, and the reality is, with that competition, the women, esp. ones who are in the mainstream on culture and lifestyle, know that they can be very narrow and rigid in their checklist of traits for men they want to date, so I know that if I list any traits that they see as unusual or extreme, then they will red flag me and instead choose men that fit every one of their traits checklist. Online dating is brutal and competitive, whether people choose to recognize and admit that or not.

Now blocked by TheoryNumber3, after I commented on a post she made about how dating and a bottle of ...

Garban comments on Oct 2, 2022:

You’ve been blocked by some of the most thoughtful and genuine people on this site.

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 2, 2022:

Whatever. I differ on your opinion of them if they resort to personal attacks once they begin losing an argument. Exactly how does that make them thoughtful and genuine, as you say? Maybe you see them that way because you always agree with them or because they have never attacked you personally on the boards. I bet you are no different than me in that if someone personally attacks you on the boards, you would defend yourself, same as me. And here you are, making a negative judgement of me, just like I said many members on here do of others, even tho you've never met me and really don't know me at all. Which is what I said in TheoryNumber3's thread,, which she quoted and used against me, rather than answering the argument I was making about my local dating pool. And here you are proving me right about the general behavior of members here on the boards, arrogantly judging others as if they know the other person. You've also insulted me recently on the boards, so you can take your opinion of me and shove it.

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TomMcGiverin comments on Oct 2, 2022:

The online dating sites recognize this and Match has the religious affiliation category, along with Christian, Catholic, etc. of Spiritual, but not religious as one of the label choices for members to use for themselves. I use it because, frankly, where I live, being labeled Agnostic is not only ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 2, 2022:

@Castlepaloma True and I agree, but where I live religion is such a big thing with most people, that refusing to pick a label and leaving no answer or label for that trait in the profile would be seen as a red flag and also as evasive by most women in my dating pool, and thus would gaurantee rejection for it. Same thing with the kids situation trait. Leaving it blank would be seen as a red flag and evasive, so I have to just bite the bullet, be honest, and list myself as having no kids, even tho I know that 80% of the women in the dating pool, including some women who don't even have kids themselves, will make all their negative assumptions about me for it, because it's so unusual in Iowa, and reject me for it. There's simply nothing I can do about that...

Now blocked by TheoryNumber3, after I commented on a post she made about how dating and a bottle of ...

racocn8 comments on Oct 2, 2022:

I can't comment on the evolution of the community because the increasing political polarization (and offensive dementia) has forced me to block the conservatives (as they have blocked me). Regarding your discussions (paragraph 1), try to consider that winning an argument doesn't necessarily move ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 2, 2022:

Already getting therapy, have been getting it for several years after my late wife's dementia reached its middle stage. So, essentially, there is nothing more to be done. My needs aren't being met, obviously, but your advice doesn't really help and the community here is not supportive, so your advice really doesn't add anything or help me. And if people resort to personal attacks instead of addressing the arguments I am making, you bet your ass I will defend myself on these boards, as just about anyone else will. I will not just let someone bash or slander me. I not only share your situation with the conservatives, in that there are blocks between all of them and me, but by now that is also true of most of the women on here, because, as you used to openly say on these boards, I refuse to tolerate the obvious, frequent misandry and male-bashing that they engage in on these boards whenever the subject of dating is discussed on these boards. When they do that, I will and have continued to call them out on it, and thus I get blocked most times after I do that. I'm surprised that you seem to now be retreating from what you yourself used to do and are asking me to do the same on that, more or less. And once again, here is a prime example of a member, (tho I know you well enough, Howard, to know that you are not doing this arrogantly) making a judgement about someone without knowing the facts of their offline life very well, because if you had, you would have already known I have been in therapy for some time now. I mentioned this trend on Agnostic not only here, but in TheoryNumber3's thread, and my point is proven right here as well, tho she quoted it and used it against me in her thread. So what is wrong with being right about what I said and pointing it out? Don't we all do it and have the right to do it on the boards?

I love this!

TomMcGiverin comments on Oct 1, 2022:

That is so true, it's all about supply, demand and location. Unfortunately, I live in a shitty, mismatched dating pool for me, where guys with my traits and type have a very low supply of women who are compatible, and thus, little demand for my type around here in the dating game. Which leaves me ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 1, 2022:

@TheoryNumber3 I'm not asking you to judge anything or anybody. I just resented your arrogant comment that clearly implied I was "in the wrong place mentally" regarding dating. I resented that, rightfully so, and responded to it, and then you got all butt hurt and attacked me personally. I'm not contradicting myself at all. I am simply asking people not to make sneaky implications about me and my mentality, like you did in your first comment, and then personally attack me after I defend myself regarding that comment of yours. You just simply can't stand someone disagreeing with you and having a superior argument. No wonder when you post, few people still bother to comment on your posts, since they know you will not be very open to them disagreeing with you, as we all saw with your post on men's dating profiles and their fish photos. More than a couple people disagreed with you and you seemed to get very personally offended with their comments. So don't act so damned superior to me regarding your attitude towards other members here.

I love this!

TomMcGiverin comments on Oct 1, 2022:

That is so true, it's all about supply, demand and location. Unfortunately, I live in a shitty, mismatched dating pool for me, where guys with my traits and type have a very low supply of women who are compatible, and thus, little demand for my type around here in the dating game. Which leaves me ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 1, 2022:

@TheoryNumber3 Well, it's true, I judge other people sometimes. But I don't assume I know anything about how someone is offline and away from here, but it's very obvious from what I read on these boards all the time, that lots of member DO act like they really know what is going on in the lives of other members who post and comment. And anyway, that does nothing to negate the points I made about me and the dating game. I don't see you making any argument against what I shared from the two women that I actually know offline and what they said about me and the dating game. How about addressing that, TheoryNumber3? Please enlighten me about how you know more and better than them about me and my local dating pool? Please be sure to think about that..... You are being the same as glennlab did recently with me. You are losing an argument on here, so you have to resort to attacking me personally instead of addressing the points I am making. And honestly, I don't think I'm as guilty of that as most. I really try to just form my opinions of someone's character from what they put on these boards, but not act like I actually know them or what their lives are about or like. But you suit yourself, you just want to bash me and put me down because I say things here you don't like, and refuse to just accept your judgement of my dating woes being all inside me, instead of being willing to accept that maybe those two women know me and my local dating pool situation a hell of a lot better than you. I mean, they only live in my area, are single and on Match, like me, and have spent a fair amount of time with me offline, so how could they know more about me or better about me than you??? And you also probably cynically assume I am lying about what those two women friends said, but exactly what evidence do you have that I'm doing that? Oh wait, you don't have any, as you've never met me, talked to me on the phone, or have any idea what friends I have or don't have, based on your personal experience with me, which is nothing outside this site. And of course, I have never heard you judge anyone, like, say for example, any of the men whose profiles you saw on dating sites that had them holding a fish? You only did a whole post about that.... As I've said so many times recently on this site, there's a reason almost nobody but me ever shares anymore on here about their dating experiences, and it's that almost everybody that comments on their posts ends up bashing and blaming the messenger, so why should they bother setting themselves up for the criticism and blame for their woes? Answer, they don't, they just stop posting and sharing, because they rightly see the majority of the members here as callous, unsupportive, and overly-critical.

I love this!

TomMcGiverin comments on Oct 1, 2022:

That is so true, it's all about supply, demand and location. Unfortunately, I live in a shitty, mismatched dating pool for me, where guys with my traits and type have a very low supply of women who are compatible, and thus, little demand for my type around here in the dating game. Which leaves me ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 1, 2022:

@TheoryNumber3 No, I really don't think it's that. And it's not just me saying it. Tonite I asked two women who know me fairly well by now. One is a woman I met from Match that turned me down on dating due to her age (she's 12 years older but really cool and compatible otherwise) and health issues, but we have remained friends, chatted regularly by phone or FB messaging, gotten together occasionally for meals and movies. The other is someone I met from Match about a year and a half ago, dated for six months and then ended it amicably and remained friends after that. She is now dating someone from Match for the last several months. So you tell me, both women think there is nothing wrong with me mentally or my attitude towards the dating game. They tell me that I am pretty mismatched for the local online dating pool, as is also the older woman who I didn't date, but met on Match, but that they think I will eventually meet someone and that there is someone for me, etc. So you tell me? They both know me way better than you or anyone on here, hell none of you have ever even met me in person or spent any time with me. I think a lot of members on here are very arrogant in how well we think we know the other members here, just from reading them on the boards, which is nothing like an offline, long term friendship.... We have only the details of their lives that they choose to share on the boards, and then most of us, not me tho, probably just fill in the rest with our imaginations and prejudices in pegging what we think they are like offline, even with no personal shared history with them.

It's called Karma Florida

bookofmorons comments on Oct 1, 2022:

yeah but Hunter Bidens laptop

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 1, 2022:

Yup, that is always their go-to, comeback response, showing they are all ignorant morons... I suppose it somehow manages to give them some kind of comfort, tho I don't see how.....

Retired Gen.

glennlab comments on Oct 1, 2022:

There were reasons that Obama had his security clearance pulled and fired him.

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 1, 2022:

@glennlab Certainly looked to me like you did, your posts and profile were unavailable to me for a couple days, but go ahead and deny it. All I care about is lay off the personal attacks if you don't like what I say about your beloved Dem Party. I have enough class to not personally attack you for anything, real or imagined, in your personal life, so show enough class to not do that to me. Deal?

Retired Gen.

glennlab comments on Oct 1, 2022:

There were reasons that Obama had his security clearance pulled and fired him.

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 1, 2022:

Decided to grow up and unblock me, eh? Hopefully you can refrain from personal attacks anytime you're losing an argument on here.

It's not healthy to deny the freedom of life ,that locked down was hell on earth.

waitingforgodo comments on Sep 30, 2022:

I enjoyed reading your thoughts on freedom. I'd like your permission to chat with a counsellor about the issues you've raised if I get the urge. I'd like to hear more stuff from you. I really like this song and hope you enjoy it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6X8YnCq6UME

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 1, 2022:

You are being sarcastic, right, I hope?

It's not healthy to deny the freedom of life ,that locked down was hell on earth.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 24, 2022:

The 14 months of Covid where I was pretty much sheltering at home were very tough and lonely for me, but I never blamed the rest of the world for it, and did my best to adjust to it. I coped by making a lot of phone calls to friends who were going thru the same thing, reading a lot, borrowing books ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 1, 2022:

@phoenixone1 Precisely.

It's not healthy to deny the freedom of life ,that locked down was hell on earth.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 24, 2022:

The 14 months of Covid where I was pretty much sheltering at home were very tough and lonely for me, but I never blamed the rest of the world for it, and did my best to adjust to it. I coped by making a lot of phone calls to friends who were going thru the same thing, reading a lot, borrowing books ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 1, 2022:

@phoenixone1 You are wasting your time and breath with this fool. Why do you bother to keep trying with him?

Trump Wanted To Send Murderers and Rapists to Cities Democrats Controlled Former Department of ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 29, 2022:

Not only do they want to exploit these immigrants for political gain, I know for a fact that these Repub motherfuckers will turn around and hire these undocumented immigrants for their cheap labor while in the same breath bashing them as criminals, etc. I personally worked at a plant several years ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Oct 1, 2022:

@johnnyrobish Thank you. And the fact that he gave so much money to the Repubs and was very politically connected, is why ICE never came to raid his plant, even tho it was common knowledge that he hired workers who were here illegally. Positive proof that if you are rich and connected, you are above the law in the US.

A court in Israel recognizes online civil marriages, even for gay couples, as valid : NPR

DenoPenno comments on Sep 30, 2022:

An Online marriage might have the same validity as a proxy marriage.

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 30, 2022:

I've heard a lot of prison inmates use proxy marriage to get hitched while in prison. I think they've also been used for military personnel serving overseas to get married while their partner was still in the US.

I posted a singles ad meme yesterday mocking MTG's pending divorce.

NostraDumbass comments on Sep 30, 2022:

Lookin’ for a little piece of Ginny Thomas. Where’s the justice?

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 30, 2022:

@NostraDumbass She definitely has that. Clarence must agree with Sir-Mix-A-Lot on that subject.

I posted a singles ad meme yesterday mocking MTG's pending divorce.

BDair comments on Sep 30, 2022:

I do not know much about either, but the brunette has a nice body. From what I've seen of her workout routines, MTG could wipe the floor with anyone on this site.

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 30, 2022:

All body, no brains or mind....

I posted a singles ad meme yesterday mocking MTG's pending divorce.

Garban comments on Sep 30, 2022:

🤢 🤢 🤢…… 🤮 Sorry.

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 30, 2022:

I generally despise emojis, but in this case, they say it so well....

I posted a singles ad meme yesterday mocking MTG's pending divorce.

NostraDumbass comments on Sep 30, 2022:

Lookin’ for a little piece of Ginny Thomas. Where’s the justice?

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 30, 2022:

@OldMetalHead Yup, has that Church Lady stick up her ass look...

Christian influencer gets holy water breast implants

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 30, 2022:

Good gravy, what a nutjob!

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 30, 2022:

@Beowulfsfriend Actually, both of them appear to be what we call "people with issues"...

See my post over in Liberal Progressive Party group, about how glennlab blocked me today after he ...

racocn8 comments on Sep 29, 2022:

False equivalences have consequences...

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 30, 2022:

@racocn8 I really feel no loss about those Dem apologists blocking me. I just wanted to call them out on how they resorted to personal attacks once they knew they were losing the argument about the corruption of the party.

It's not healthy to deny the freedom of life ,that locked down was hell on earth.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 24, 2022:

The 14 months of Covid where I was pretty much sheltering at home were very tough and lonely for me, but I never blamed the rest of the world for it, and did my best to adjust to it. I coped by making a lot of phone calls to friends who were going thru the same thing, reading a lot, borrowing books ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 30, 2022:

@laidback1 No idiot, they deserve it for knowingly making a stupid choice and refusing a vaccine that would protect them from death and serious illness if they get Covid. You have the freedom to die or make stupid choices, but don't expect sympathy from me if you make those choices.

See my post over in Liberal Progressive Party group, about how glennlab blocked me today after he ...

Garban comments on Sep 29, 2022:

Being an adult means that sometimes you must choose between two bad options. In the existing political environment choosing the third option is the same as saying “I’m taking my ball and going home!” You weren’t winning.🙄

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 30, 2022:

Suit yourself. I won't endorse their fake democracy and support their fake opposition party. And I'm very much an adult, but, like glennlab, you have to resort to a personal insult of implying I am immature, when the reality is that I simply am less willing to tolerate bullshit from the Dems and let them vote shame me into supporting them. Being an adult means having enough self respect and guts to call them on their bullshit and challenge them to start earning your vote, instead of caving into a platform of nothing more than identity politics and culture wars, along with the pathetic claim of "I'm less shitty and crazy than they are"... I have too damn much self esteem and self respect to cave for that bullshit. I don't know you, but in my experience, the people that easily cave for the Dem Party's appeals to them tend to be people who are very comfortable with the status quo of capitalism and are doing just fine, as part of the top 15% classes, so they have no real struggles or problems from the one-way class war that is being waged against the lower classes, so they see nothing wrong with the neoliberal economics of the Dem Party. Would I be right about you and that? They are fine with the Dems crushing progressives and being neoliberals, because they don't need Bernie's policies to stay comfortable, and they are scared that his policies might knock them off their comfortable perch, so they gladly support the corrupt Dems because all they really care about is identity politics, culture wars, and the separation of church and state. Actual working class people have long ago caught on to how the Dem Party has betrayed them on economic issues, and so they either vote for the Repubs on culture war issues or identity politics, or else don't vote. And I can't blame them at all. They are being very adult and rational, thinking quite realistically, that the Dems will do nothing for them economically, but maybe the Repubs are worth voting for because they do seem to hate the same people that I either fear or resent. The more emotionally secure and emotionally healthy working class folks are probably the ones who don't vote, because they know neither party cares about them and they don't have fear or resentment towards people who are different from them.

See my post over in Liberal Progressive Party group, about how glennlab blocked me today after he ...

racocn8 comments on Sep 29, 2022:

False equivalences have consequences...

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 29, 2022:

Care to elaborate? Of course the two major parties have differences on culture war stuff and identity politics, but those are merely distractions to get voters to ignore how they are the same on everything else. And until voters do, and start voting third party, we will never have any real progress on issues of fiscal policy, war, or climate change.

A farmer is out working his crops in the field when a stranger driving by stops.

ThinkingFree comments on Sep 29, 2022:

I think the point is, that you get back what you give out. Whenever I'm confronted with someone who seems angry or whatever, I try to say something nice to them, and most of the time their disposition changes.

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 29, 2022:

@ThinkingFree No, I disagree. I think most of us, including me, see what is there, not what we assume is there. I honestly don't think I am pre-judging that much, as you are implying. I am just applying my experience to the present. I have often checked my initial impressions of people later with others that share my views on things and gotten confirmation that I was seeing and reading these new people correctly for how they are. As far as rednecks, they look at someone like me, and assume from how I'm dressed and how I look, that I have to be their cultural and political enemy, because I don't look working class, blue collar, and redneck enough, so they assume from that that I am either a conservative or some liberal Dem who votes for the corporate Dems that sell them out. When the truth is that I am a socialist that is actually more on their side economically than anybody in the US. But it's all about appearances and past experiences with snobby upper class educated people that influences rednecks in who they hate, so I am not willing to waste my time trying to convince them I'm different and in the meantime get bullied and possibly assaulted because I invaded their enclave and made them feel uncomfortable with my presence.

A farmer is out working his crops in the field when a stranger driving by stops.

ThinkingFree comments on Sep 29, 2022:

I think the point is, that you get back what you give out. Whenever I'm confronted with someone who seems angry or whatever, I try to say something nice to them, and most of the time their disposition changes.

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 29, 2022:

I get that, but there is also the harsh fact that most people are who they are and they act like themselves most of the time, no matter what other people give out to them. And over time, esp. living around other people, their true nature will come out, even after their initial welcome wagon manners wear out or are dropped. Case in point, I hate rednecks and they usually take a quick dislike or hatred of me, because I don't hide who I am at all from them. So they resent me and I despise them. We are each other's cultural, and nowadays, political, enemies. So I don't waste any time pretending otherwise. I stay the hell away from them as much as possible, and as long as they avoid me and leave me alone, we will get along fine, as far as not ending up in physical violence or verbal confrontations, separated by the cultural fence, so to speak. Thus, I avoid rural areas and redneck, working class bars as much as possible, not because I am against working class people in the class wars, but because they usually see me as their cultural and economic enemy before I even open my mouth and let them know I am on their side, economically. Because they sense I have more education, money, and sophistication than them, so they assume I must be a conceited asshole who votes Republican or for corporate Dems and politically feels they deserve their economic woes and need to stay in their place.

A farmer is out working his crops in the field when a stranger driving by stops.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 29, 2022:

Or maybe the farmer, as are most people here in Iowa and the Midwest in general, is too "Iowa Nice" or, as I see it, too chickenshit to actually speak up and voice a negative opinion on anyone. You don't live in my area of the country, where most people are infuriatingly too chickenshit to confront ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 29, 2022:

@Buck Exactly, he's a chickenshit people pleaser, can't take a stand to save his life. Probably ought to go into politics as a corporate, centrist, Dem. I hate people like that, with no guts or integrity, and I won't accept them as friends, and also have no respect for them as people. I will accept friends who don't like confrontation as much as I do, but they have to be willing to take stands and not just tell people what they want to hear.

Never forget, November is coming.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 28, 2022:

Vote away all you want, just don't have any illusions that it will really change anything at the federal level not related to culture war issues like abortion and identity politics stuff like gays, God, etc.. Because if you do, you will be quickly disappointed by the corporate Dems who have all the ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 29, 2022:

@glennlab Fuck you, Glen. I have plenty of balls and courage. You can shove your judgement on me. I do plenty of things and you know nothing about me or my local dating pool, so you have no idea why I have trouble finding someone to date. Did you ever consider that it might not be my fault and that I live in a terrible dating pool for someone like me? I thought not, because until you come here and check out the dating pool, you have no fucking idea what you are talking about with me. So shut the fuck up until you actually have some direct knowledge and evidence to make your bullshit judgements about me. And as for surrendering to anybody, I guess you didn't see my comments in the other forum thread where I mention my plans for getting armed in the future and shooting as many of the MAGA pricks as I can if they end up coming after me in our coming civil war. How about you, Glen, are you planning to just be a sitting duck and depend on thinking that voting Blue No Matter Who is somehow going to save you from being murdered by those pricks? Go ahead and block me, if you like, you aren't the mod of this group, so I would still be able to view it, just not your posts, which would not be much of a loss...

Never forget, November is coming.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 28, 2022:

Vote away all you want, just don't have any illusions that it will really change anything at the federal level not related to culture war issues like abortion and identity politics stuff like gays, God, etc.. Because if you do, you will be quickly disappointed by the corporate Dems who have all the ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 29, 2022:

@glennlab Blah, blah, blah.. I am tired of your worn out, vote-shaming arguments. Let it go... There is a reason the US has by far the lowest level of voter participation of any industrialized so-called democracy. And that reason is that most of the eligible voters have figured out what I am saying about the corrupt system and the duopoly and have chosen to not waste their time and effort on it anymore. And I bet most of them are actually more informed than most of those who still vote.

Never forget, November is coming.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 28, 2022:

Vote away all you want, just don't have any illusions that it will really change anything at the federal level not related to culture war issues like abortion and identity politics stuff like gays, God, etc.. Because if you do, you will be quickly disappointed by the corporate Dems who have all the ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 29, 2022:

@glennlab And if you do vote, you are legitimizing their charade of democracy and choice. I'm saying, vote away if feel like it, but don't kid yourself that you really have any choices in federal elections or that we live in a functioning democracy. And also don't buy their bullshit when they say every time "this is the most important election ever, etc.".. And I would also argue against your point of not voting makes things worse, because voting Blue No Matter Who is how we have ended up with a Dem Party that is now to the right of Nixon. Voting for third parties instead, during the last 50 years, would certainly produced a better result than that. So as far as I'm concerned, voting for corporate, centrist Dems is just as much or more of a wasted vote than voting third party, because, at least with the latter, you are voting for what you actually want, and are discouraging the Dems from moving further to the right. Make the motherfuckers start earning your vote, instead of taking it for granted or treating you like Rahm Emanuel does, and telling you to shut up and fuck off, calling you a moron, etc..

Proud Boys, Neo-Nazis, and White Nationalists Protested ‘Drag Bingo’ at Texas Church

Flyingsaucesir comments on Sep 27, 2022:

I find it rather amusing that these white militias feel so threatened by gays, trannies, and drag queens. Real men are not bothered by such innocuous stuff. 😂

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 28, 2022:

@Flyingsaucesir Yup, in that situation, violence and war are the only options.

Proud Boys, Neo-Nazis, and White Nationalists Protested ‘Drag Bingo’ at Texas Church

Flyingsaucesir comments on Sep 27, 2022:

I find it rather amusing that these white militias feel so threatened by gays, trannies, and drag queens. Real men are not bothered by such innocuous stuff. 😂

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 28, 2022:

@Flyingsaucesir I agree, and that's the example I always use for how useless non-violence is when it comes to fighting fascists. Non-violence is merely a tactic, not a religion in itself, altho it's advocates sometimes treat it as a religion. It's usefulness and effectiveness as a tactic depends completely on the type of opposition you're facing, the morality of the society in which you are waging your struggle, and the ability of non-violence to win alliances from the political system in the country and also the ability of the non-violent movement to get their message out and get support and sympathy from and thru the mass media. Those last two areas have changed drastically from the 60s. The corporate media does not give sympathetic coverage to non-violent movements seeking more power for the masses, instead they only give sensationalistic coverage, at best, of any violence that happens with protests, and little, if any, coverage of the issues driving the protests. And the political system also no longer supports non-violent movements that actually threaten the status quo of all power being held by the rich and corporations. The Dems will give lip service to those movements, and use them for political gain, but they will not ever support any real changes to the status quo regarding how power is held and used in the US. Choosing to use non-violence as the tactic, no matter what the circumstances around the struggle you are waging, is about as sensible as choosing suicide no matter what your life circumstances are at the time. It may or may not be the best option for the situation, but it does ensure a certain outcome and carries a clear moral choice. But waging social and political struggles should be about more than just making some moral point. It should be about doing your best to get a positive, tangible result, not just making some moral point.

Proud Boys, Neo-Nazis, and White Nationalists Protested ‘Drag Bingo’ at Texas Church

Flyingsaucesir comments on Sep 27, 2022:

I find it rather amusing that these white militias feel so threatened by gays, trannies, and drag queens. Real men are not bothered by such innocuous stuff. 😂

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 28, 2022:

@Flyingsaucesir, @KKGator Agreed. If the civil war I see coming actually begins to get close, I will buy my gun or two, learn to shoot, and take all of the assholes I can with me, should they dare to come for me. I will not depend on or count on any protection from the cops, because it would be foolish to do so, esp. where I live.

Proud Boys, Neo-Nazis, and White Nationalists Protested ‘Drag Bingo’ at Texas Church

Flyingsaucesir comments on Sep 27, 2022:

I find it rather amusing that these white militias feel so threatened by gays, trannies, and drag queens. Real men are not bothered by such innocuous stuff. 😂

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 28, 2022:

@Flyingsaucesir I agree. As a non-drinker, I always have my wits about me, so I don't need to worry about being hustled...

So Rolling Stone just came out with top100 tv shows of all time.

puff comments on Sep 27, 2022:

Brits are #1 I'm afraid. Blackadder Faulty towers The young ones Dr Who I am a great admirer of Lucille Ball and "I love Lucy". Without her, no Star trek. Also, "The twilight zone" was brilliant for it's time.

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 28, 2022:

Monty Python's Flying Circus was the best Brit show I ever watched.

Proud Boys, Neo-Nazis, and White Nationalists Protested ‘Drag Bingo’ at Texas Church

Garban comments on Sep 27, 2022:

Why do they feel threatened by how another man dresses? Pathetic!

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 27, 2022:

You are correct, real men, who are emotionally strong and secure, are not threatened or bothered by it. As long as they take "Not interested" at face value, I am not offended at all if a gay man says he is attracted to me. To me, it would be a compliment, same as from a woman. All that matters is respecting my lack of interest, no matter the gender.

Proud Boys, Neo-Nazis, and White Nationalists Protested ‘Drag Bingo’ at Texas Church

Flyingsaucesir comments on Sep 27, 2022:

I find it rather amusing that these white militias feel so threatened by gays, trannies, and drag queens. Real men are not bothered by such innocuous stuff. 😂

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 27, 2022:

@DenoPenno Yeah, but that's the diff about people on the right, versus people on the left. The former group does not want to live and let live, they want control and domination of others who are different, and feel violence is justified to get those things. People on the left, for the most part, still believe in non-violence and electoral politics as the way to get what they want. However, that no longer seems to work as well as it did in the 60s. And I personally no longer believe in it as a generally effective tactic, because appealing to the conscience and better natures of people with power these days is a waste of time. What works is massive direct action, like general strikes and other ways of disrupting business as usual by the rich and corporations, preferably without violence. But these days, it seems like only the threat of violence happening is what makes protests effective, because most of the time, the powers that be would prefer to avoid having regular disruptions of business as usual caused by violent protests.

Ouch! Living in America is crazy even for crazy Ozzy Osbourne.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 26, 2022:

If I was that rich and could live anywhere, I would be in BC, British Columbia..

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 27, 2022:

@Castlepaloma It figures.

I would not normally do this but I am so sickened by a comment made in answer to one of my comments ...

racocn8 comments on Sep 21, 2022:

What bothered me was when he said that there was no genetic nor physical component to the concepts of empathy and altruism. I'd be very surprised to see anything that supported that claim, especially, as I noted, that animals demonstrate both. It is essentially a baseless lie. In my recollecton, TMW...

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 26, 2022:

TMW is an asshole, at least to me, so I blocked him a long time ago, or maybe he blocked me, doesn't matter which. And yes, I still hate you, asshole. Just wanted to let you know, since there are no blocks on here. As for the admin. punishing him, dream on. The admin. is gone, and whoever is still minding the site, seems to only crack down on people who are politically lefties, which TMW is clearly not.

It's not healthy to deny the freedom of life ,that locked down was hell on earth.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 24, 2022:

The 14 months of Covid where I was pretty much sheltering at home were very tough and lonely for me, but I never blamed the rest of the world for it, and did my best to adjust to it. I coped by making a lot of phone calls to friends who were going thru the same thing, reading a lot, borrowing books ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 25, 2022:

@phoenixone1 I've had Covid twice now, first time before there were vaccines, got the Regeneron immuno Tx and had mild symptoms, was sick about ten days. Second time, a couple months ago, sick about five days, mild symptoms, after being fully vaxed and boosted. Anyone who is not so immunosuppressed that they can't get vaxed and refuses to do so, is a fucking idiot, and, as far as I'm concerned, deserves whatever death or serious illness they may get from Covid....

I wonder if Tina Forte and her drug dealer family are aware that casting for The Sopranos ended 15 ...

Flyingsaucesir comments on Sep 25, 2022:

For me, use of profanity is not an automatic disqualifier. But please let it be in service to an intelligent message, and not just some boneheaded rant.

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 25, 2022:

I don't see any intelligence coming from her at all, same league as MTG and Lauren Boebart... I use the F-word a lot, but it's always combined with an intelligent message and/or genuine, justified anger.

It's not healthy to deny the freedom of life ,that locked down was hell on earth.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 24, 2022:

The 14 months of Covid where I was pretty much sheltering at home were very tough and lonely for me, but I never blamed the rest of the world for it, and did my best to adjust to it. I coped by making a lot of phone calls to friends who were going thru the same thing, reading a lot, borrowing books ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 24, 2022:

@laidback1 I don't give a fuck which admin. produced it, according to you. The drug companies produced it, and all I care about is that it works in preventing me from serious illness or death if I get infected with Covid. You can wallow all you want to in your conspiracy theories about Covid, government, whatever....

Netflix needs an email explaining why the lip movement should line up with the audio.

Fit50something comments on Sep 22, 2022:

I have the same issue with Hulu.

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 23, 2022:

@azzow2 Very likely. The film companies only care about cutting costs, esp. after the filming is already completed.

I finally found Jesus!!!! Turns out he’s been hiding at crocs.com all this time!?!🤗

mischl comments on Sep 21, 2022:

This guy is an impostor. Jesus mows my lawn every Tuesday, and he doesn't speak English.

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 21, 2022:

Much as the Repubs hate immigrants who aren't white, how would their lawn services and landscaping survive without Jesus? You sir, are a superior smartass, and I bow to you!

UMass football team schedules 'Pride Day' for game against Liberty U.

phoenixone1 comments on Sep 21, 2022:

Do you think Liberty will FORFEIT rather than show up and play?

TomMcGiverin replies on Sep 21, 2022:

I'll take "Yes" for $500. Alex....