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That wasn't crazy because it was a question out of the blue that you didn't have time to think about and saying no was a normal professional reaction. What makes you are crazy is that you haven't gone back to her to see if you can change your no into a yes :)

Bras come in sections - fuck me, women's clothing is way too complicated! You've all heard "never eat yellow snow". Today I leaned to dig down in the snow a bit before eating it because yellow snow can be covered by fresh snow :(

Honesty is always the best policy, especially about something that will be obvious when we finally meet; a blatant lie is a terrible thing to start a relationship off with. In civilian life, would you have a 2nd date with someone that lied to you on the first? Not being the tallest fella, I will sometimes pass on a lady that I think will be too tall for me so the added inch or three may make an amazing experience never happen.

Is it random to post a question like "is this random" in the Unhijackable Thread of Randomness thread?

Are twin SPs like bigfoot - you're pretty sure there out there someplace but you can never find them.

Way to go Mr. Green!

Belated Happy Birthday Excaliber!

Belated Happy Birthday Emily!

Congratulation Summer - your 'Ask an Escort' post was a great way to polish off your 1,000 with!

Belated Happy Birthday Cato!

My circumstances were similar to romanguy's. Photos are important - I don't want to date someone that looks like an ex-girlfriend. The ad was key because it gave me some insight to the lady as well as some physical details. Not being the biggest guy, things like a lady not being too tall or too big for me were factored in. Some of my friends have dated girls that they spoke highly of that I thought were ugly on the inside, as I dated girls my friends didn't like - recommendations are interesting to read but didn't play a huge role for me. In the end, I was looking for someone I thought I could click with. An outside website/presence can be useful if it has more information that you'd like to share that doesn't fit into cerb's cookie cutter. Yes - all of them! Often - I use those sessions as learning experiences to make the next ones better.

Great topic Summer, thank you for starting it, I've learned so much! How do I find out what really pleases a lady and what she actually likes or dislikes? (In person, not on the phone/email) Things like to be stroked here, touched there, don't whisper the word "bongo" in my left ear. I've tried various ways of asking and I'm often told "Whatever you like". I'm a giver and take direction well - what I really like/get off on is to please a lady! My perfect encounter is leaving knowing that she was pleased. Also, how do I find out what I'm doing right, and more importantly, wrong?: faster, slower, harder, softer, more to the left, ow! you're knee is on my long hair, the left one needs some attention too, etc.

This is a problem everywhere no matter the product or service offered. People just don't care to read and will call and ask a question about a product/service that is answered in the very first sentence on the website. Or they have a memory that lasts 10 seconds and forgot what they read - a problem exasperated by being super nervous when talking to a super hot lady :) Don't get upset about this, it's just the way people are and something all providers have to endure - it just goes with the territory.

Having an app on your device called "Hide SMS" is telling in itself and a suspicious SO wouldn't need to read the messages to know that something is up.

For "a rotation of hot girlfriends and have easy access to providers" both Ottawa and Toronto will fit the bill with their large populations. Canada is a big place, the best place depends on what your other needs are that you didn't mention - depending on what they are, Montreal may still be your best choice.

Galileo's optical illusion explained by neuroscience A light-colored object on a dark background appears larger than a dark object on a light background, as shown in the image above, but until recently, no one knew why. Now, a study suggests that a difference in how the brain's cells respond to light and dark could explain the illusion. Neurons that respond to light objects may distort the objects more than neurons that respond to dark objects possibly an advantage for human ancestors who needed to see in low-light conditions such as nighttime on the African savanna. The distorted response to light might even hint at why reading in dim lighting may be bad for your eyes, the researchers said. "Every time we think about blur in an image, we usually think about optics," said study leader Dr. Jose-Manuel Alonso, a neuroscientist at the State University of New York's College of Optometry. "But what we're seeing is, there is another component -- the neurons themselves," Alonso told Live Science. Galileo's observation When the Italian astronomer Galileo was making his observations of the planets, he noticed something strange. With the naked eye, the brighter of the two planets Venus appeared larger than Jupiter, but when viewed through a telescope, Jupiter was clearly larger. Galileo believed the lens of the human eye caused this so-called "irradiation illusion." But the German physicist Hermann von Helmholtz showed that if the optics of the human eye were to blame, dark objects should be distorted just as much as light ones, which they were not. In the new study, Alonso and his colleagues used electrodes to record the electrical signals from neurons in the visual areas of anesthetized cats, monkeys and human brains while the researchers showed the animal and human participants dark shapes on a light background, light shapes on a dark background, or light or dark shapes on a gray background. The visual system has main channels: Neurons sensitive to light things are called "ON" neurons, whereas neurons sensitive to dark things are called "OFF" neurons. The researchers recorded from both types of neurons in the experiments. The scientists found that the OFF neurons responded in a predictable, linear way to the dark shapes on light backgrounds, meaning the more contrast between a dark and light object the more active those neurons. But the ON neurons responded disproportionately to light shapes on dark backgrounds, meaning for the same amount of contrast they had a bigger response. The distortion of light-sensitive neurons finally provides an answer to Galileo's puzzle. Venus, a light object on a dark background, appears disproportionately larger than Jupiter, a more distant, and thus darker, object. Light in the night The distorted vision turns out to very useful for humans, Alonso said, "because when you're in a very dark place, it allows you to see small amounts of light." This would be helpful to, say, alert you to predators at night. But during the day, more dark objects are visible, so it's better that these aren't distorted, Alonso said. The study's results suggest the distortion may actually occur at the level of photoreceptors, the light-sensitive cells in the eye itself, rather than deeper in the brain. (This contrasts with Galileo's view that the lens of the eye was somehow to blame for the illusion.) Having a stronger response to light than dark may be important when a baby's vision is developing. During the first few weeks after a baby is born, its vision is blurry, which could result in the light-dark distortion. The findings could also open new windows into understanding problems with vision. Scientists believe that blur causes conditions such as myopia, or shortsightedness. "We now think 'neuronal blur' could be an important part of this story," Alonso said. Neuronal blur might even support the notion that reading in low light is bad for a person's eyes, though that subject remains for another study.

Every species has assholes:

Congrats on your milestone Frank!

Sitting on a picket fence can hurt your butt! As others have mentioned, you can pick a side based on the information you currently have and later change your position when additional or new information is made available. And there is no reason to pick either side - as Phaedrus mentioned, having no opinion on a subject is perfectly acceptable. Should you paint your kitchen yellow or blue - I have no opinion, besides, I'm no interior designer so why would you care what my opinion is? Often when people ask for your opinion/advice they are either wanting you to make the decision for them or to feel better about a decision they already made if your opinion matches their decision (e.g., "Do you like my new tattoo?").

It is often said "forgive and forget". Especially when dealing with relatives, forgetting may be an easier solution than forgiving. After sufficient time, simply forget about the issue and continue the relationship as if the issue never happened. Family is forever, and as we all get older, kids aside, we have less and less family left.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/02/09/cat-bite-hospital-stay/5276997/ Mary Bowerman, USATODAY 11:09 a.m. EST February 9, 2014 A cat bite on the hand can turn into a hospital stay, according to a new study. A recent Mayo Clinic study shows that one out of three people who sought treatment for a cat bite to the hand were hospitalized. Published in February in the Journal of Hand Surgery the study looked at 193 patients who received treatment for a cat bite on the hand from January 2009 through 2011. Two thirds of those hospitalized during the study required surgery to flush out the infection in the wounds and middle-aged women were the most common bite victims. Brian Carlsen, a researcher on the study and orthopedic surgeon at Mayo Clinic, said cat's fangs penetrate the skin and push bacteria deep into joints and tissue, causing infection. He said people tend to ignore cat bites because they are so small, but they can lead to a laundry list of medical treatments. "The bites lead to serious infections that can require multiple hospitalizations, antibiotics and sometimes surgery," Carlsen said. Just how bad can a cat bite be? Dawn Bothun, of Minnesota said a bite on her hand turned into an eight-week hospital ordeal and $150,000 in medical bills. Bothun said she waited one week after her black cat, Mr. Binks, bit her hand to go to Saint Mary's Hospital, part of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. "I washed the wounds on my wrist and put antiseptic on them," Bothun said. "I thought I could manage them on my own but I couldn't move my wrist after a week." She said what followed was eight weeks in and out of the hospital, two weeks of surgery every other day to flush the infection out of the wound and remove infected tissue, and antibiotics to treat the rampant infection. "The infection from the cat bite reached my tendon," Bothun said. "Every time they would stitch me up after flushing the wound the infection would just get worse. The pain almost drove me up the wall." According to the study patients with bites directly over the wrist or any joint have a higher risk of hospitalization. Carlsen said the study showed the hand and wrist are the perfect breeding ground for bacteria, making outpatient antibiotic treatment hard. The study showed that administering antibiotics failed in 21 of the 193 patients, who later received treatment in the hospital. "A bite on the thigh probably isn't an issue because the cat probably just bites the fat," Carlsen said. "When the cat bites the hand, the joints and tendons are protected with fluid and there is no circulation so bacteria can grow like crazy, making treatment longer in some case." Bothun said she still feels pain in her wrist and does not have full movement. She said because she was uninsured the hospital wrote off some of the bill but she is still making payments. As for Mr. Bink's, she said they are still on good terms, but things have changed. "We don't play like we used to," Bothun said. "When my grandkids come over I don't let him around them, because things happen." Carlsen said the lesson is that people need to be careful of cat bites and monitor them for swelling and redness. "It may look like a pin prick, but rule of thumb go see a doctor if a cat bites your hand," Carlsen said.

Time sure flies when you're having fun!

Buy the cheapest set you can that has a screen big enough for you - but not too big for distance between the face of the screen and your lazyboy. In a couple of years you'll be able to buy a better, cheaper set with bigger screen for less than the difference in purchase price between this set and one of the fancy ones. In 2-3 years whatever you buy will be out of warranty and will die just when you and a couple of ladies are sitting down to watch the hot porn that they brought along.

Well said. I have trouble asking for extra bread at a restaurant, I don't think I could bring myself to asking for any kind of extra in this context.

My score was 11, I'm just getting old.