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@Aevann can you pls

Now, this is where we need congestion pricing https://t.co/MyuhMVRpLE

— mark normand (@marknorm) February 19, 2025

"What are you saying on the Left again? 'Well actually the system is ok, guys! We don't know why they are trying to destroy the system! We need to defend the system!' You guys have been saying the system is completely fucked for over a decade now!" pic.twitter.com/7xrICJzzGu

— Destiny | Steven Bonnell II (@TheOmniLiberal) February 20, 2025

Boop

or they just tolerated each other because the heat pad was better than everywhere else

A recent discussion I had about AGP got me thinking about which fetishes cross the line into psychological disorders and it occured to me that every Masochist I've ever met has been self destructive outside of their BDSM shit and every sadist I've met has been sadistic outside of their s*x life too so the idea that the whole thing is a LARP isn't very convincing.

Granted, I'm working with a small sample size but the one hardcore sadist I met IRL was a huge bully in his teen years who did all his "roleplay" with severely depressed chicks and also liked hurting people or watching them get hurt for the fun of it outside of his s*x life and had other antisocial traits. He was also into the really extreme shit like crying and bleeding.

I've met several women into it and unsurprisingly all of them had really low self esteem and depression.

Thoughts?

As part of my Banlog, I am somewhat inclined to give @BIGBILLYKONGDONG a serious ban for the outrageous boomerphilia on display.

As a work of ironic praise for a 78 year old man's fantasy, it's a solid piece. Truly let us celebrate that we are all collectively engaged in a public arts project to facilitate the transition of boomers out of public life.

It's truly funny that we are all pretending that this old man is a president. That he is mentally capable, and not just lashing out with random whims with other aged decrepit men. The elaborate practical joke we're pulling on our elderly is a riot of laffs.

But:

For me the choice is easy.

https://archive.li/gTs2V

The article in question !neolibs

The film's Rotten Tomatoes rating is down from 75% in December, before it opened in Mexico, where viewers were unimpressed (see chart). Some of this decline is explained by "review bombing". This can happen when films take on heated subjects. "The Promise" (2016), about the Armenian genocide, saw its imdb page mobbed with thousands of one-out-of-ten ratings from users in Turkey; in response, most Armenians gave it full marks, resulting in a middling overall score.

But socially conservative Mexicans objecting to a trans woman starring in a film is not the full picture. "Emilia Pérez" is, objectively, poor. The dialogue sounds as if it has been hastily translated from French to English to Spanish, leading to jarring phrases like, "Hasta me duele la pinche vulva nada más de acordarme de ti" ("Even my fricking vulva still hurts as soon as I think of you"). The lyrics have been lost in translation, too. Consider the opening line of one song: "Hello, very nice to meet you. I'd like to know about s*x-change operations." (Somehow "hello" gets one syllable and "change" gets two.) "I see, I see, I see," is the reply, as perfunctory an iambic trimeter as you will ever hear.

A scene from the film btw !kino !latinx

Botched pronunciations have angered Mexicans. Karla Sofía Gascón, who plays Emilia, was born in Madrid and cannot always hide her Spanish accent. Emilia's wife with the sore vulva (played by pop star Selena Gomez) sounds robotic in Spanish and slips into English halfway through a line. Adriana Paz, Emilia's love interest, is the only Mexican in the main cast. She has less than 12 minutes of screen time.

Hey Folks - I have a request from Gail to all of us on my mailing list of 160 now. Some of you come for Friday coffee fairly often and some of you don't I know, but Gail is going through a pretty

tough time right now at home and with her daughter. Without going into specifics, her daughter has been having liver and other health problems and recently found out she has blood cancer

on top of everything else she's experiencing. Gail is basically the sole breadwinner, having lost her husband some time ago. Making a short story long: she needs to find a reliable CHEAP car ASAP,

for her daughter to drive to the several Drs she needs to go to every week. Gail can't afford to take days off from work and drive her everyplace she must go.

Gail says she can afford to spend like $1500.00 or so. She doesn't care what it looks like, for sure, but she doesn't want to worry about it breaking down with her daughter on her way to any

of her appts..

I'm asking for help on her behalf I guess - if ya know of a car that she could get, give Shirley a call - house 269 795 5555 cell - 269 207 5566 or see Gail directly at coffee. Can we put our heads

together and see what the Geezers can come up with?

On a "special car" related note: I think many of us made the pilgrimage to K-zoo fairgrounds Friday and today for the KAARC "swap" meet. We got there about 1030 this morning and the parking lot

was really slippery and full of cars. Good to see. As usual - some guys brought stuff folks wanted and more brought "items" that people didn't care so much about anymore. A lot of what was put

away to sell for the "big bucks" and horded, has either been replaced by good reproductions and now available on the interweb or really not needed very much anymore, as the buyers have moved

on to newer models or just haven't gotten involved in the hobby now. Shirley got plenty of hugs from fellow sellers and car show attendees that we haven't seen for quite awhile and I spent all

of $40.00 bucks on some hubcaps I don't need, along with $10.00 on a Chevrolet sales brochure for our '84 Z28. Lots of discussion on upcoming events for the summer. Changes at the Gilmore Museum,

NSRA - Goodguys - local shows-cruise ins - year cutoffs - Autorama - and PRICES. All interesting for sure.

Remember guys - it is only 12 days and a wake up til Valentines Day!!

Just Me

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!chuds !dramatards

As a practising MtF, this is highly upsetting

                                             - SERGE

I mean it's probably not going to happen for me anyway but I think I kinda want to have children. The problem is that I cannot stop thinking how selfish that is. What if my children end up hating their lives and wish they were never born? I really wish I never encountered anti-natalism.

This post https://rdrama.net/h/vidya/post/338410/wake-up-babe-concord-2-3

got an effort post like within 10 minutes of posting

but my post here

https://rdrama.net/post/335322/updates-added-the-eternal-sx-pest

TOOK ALMOST A DAY AND ME BUGGING 3 JANNIES TO GET IT MARKED EFFORT POST

And when I ask the HEAD CAPY HE TELLS ME ITS TOO SHORT AND CANT DO IT APPARENTLY

THIS WAS THE COUNT ON THE POST WHEN I ASKED HIM

Characters 15632 Words 2154 Lines 247

THEN HOW was one able to mark this Unknown 9 post effortpost!?

Characters 6464 Words 828 Lines 57

@Aevann is 15362 > 6464 ??

!jannies is 2154 > 828 ??

!metashit is 247 > 57 ??

If you didn't want to mark it, Just say it cute twink

@X formerly X (formerly chiobu) may have been right all along !!

also not hating on you or your post @Geralt_of_Uganda

also thanks for marking it effortpost finally!

I hate jannies so much

Drake:

!fashion

You know how back in High School you could send candygrams/roses to your friends and crushes on Valentine's Day? I think it would be cool if you could do that on rDrama. You could buy the person you like flowers or something, and then get a cute Valentine's Day badge Maybe you could even give the option of making these gifts anonymous for the stalkers/secret crushes

Another idea is you could have a scoreboard to see who gets the most roses.

I know it's probably too late to do it this year since Valentine's day is in a couple of days, but maybe next year? Just an idea.

UPS worker goes off on his boss for waiting until the end of his shift to fire him 👀
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— FearBuck (@FearedBuck) January 31, 2025

GO HARd In The TAint..................WORDs Of TO Live Bye......THx...