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har ! You could take out a digital camera and start taking pictures of him while making appreciative Britney-Spearslike noises, then fondle his bicep while he's lifting arm-weights before announcing that Hot Stuff magazine had declared him the buffest guy EVER and that you'd like to have an interview with him, possibly followed by a date. Or... you could take an apple with you and sit near him saying "I don't understand" .... "I don't understand"... every time he does a repetition, and if he asks you what you don;t understand you can implore that you don;t understand how they get the pips into the apples. This is a good ice-breaker as you can then start a lengthy discussion with him about different varieties of apples, their growing seasons, the slightly but fascinatingly varying textures of the skin textures, and the impact of the monocultural apple growth industry upon small time apple growers in rural communities. Or.... you could go up to him and say "well, you may be a hot bit of stuff but i could kick your ass at Tekken" ... then, as a man his pride would need to be defended..... everybody knows that men play computer games, and that men like beat em ups, and that Tekken is the God of all beat em ups... therefore, he would assert that he could whup you at Tekken.... you could then coquettishly retort that "oh yeah you and whose army" and he might then , sensing your attraction to him, suggestively remark that maybe you could both go back to his to play a few games of Tekken to sort this out..... (*^.^*) kya ! So romantic !

That's crafty, you sneaky sneaky ninja you. If I saw a hot young bit of stuff while i was lifting weights at the gym, i would probably think "my there's a hot bit of stuff" before slipping in some quiet discreet ogling if they insisted on being buff inside my usual visual area. but i wouldn't turn round and gawp, and would generally opt to discreetly refrain from making a megaphone out of a cupped hand then hollering WHOAH HOT STUFF, NICE ASS...... GWOOOOOAAAARRRRR. Then, as they slipped out of visual range, I would do a pre-emptive strike by ignoring them before they can complete ignoring me. Then, once i was finished at the gym i would perhaps do some light shopping then visit the library, I would select some interesting books and perhaps an audio-book or two, then return home. I would then perhaps play some games or watch some anime.

Hey there Robert, I think that everyone will appreciated that very considerate, extensive and well articulated response about this situation. I'm sure that nobody doubts your motivation or integrity, well.... I dunno, for all i know maybe a few very new people might but surely once they see some of your posts here they'd be likely to feel reassured where that is concerned. When i read this topic and had my attention drawn to the Google-ads, I definitely didn;t think "what the - and I thought this was such a NICE forum - i am appalled !" , I just thought "man that sucks to have to try and fund the website using Google adverts.... I thought those things were meant to automatically be semi-relevant, but I've heard of other people having similar problems to this" ... I'm lucky in that VegansRock is woefully unpopular, especially after the phenomenal host-going-AWOL-and-breaking-stuff situation recently.... so it has never grown big enough to require paid hosting, and probably won;t for some time yet. It's presently hosted by the dude with VegCom, so i intend to give him a donation sometime as so far the hosting seems to be fine (apart from FTP access, which is a bit wobbly) but it isn't an issue for me to have to make the forum pay for itself due to its popularity or size. However, this means that i am entirely incapable of reccommending any potentially effective money-accumulation strategies other than those which you've considered yourself already. I find it incredible , the amount of different events which you arrange, all different websites which you set up, places you go, people you see, etc etc... the amount of work you invest in things, and so forth. I know what it can be like when a friend tries something, finds it to be good, reccommends it, but then when you try it things are rather different.... I had a similar (but really entirely different) situation with the first host for VegansRock..... my brother tried this one free-hosting package from this one hosting company and had a fine time with them , he had two websites and both ran excellently.... but when i tried the same hosting provision with the same people it was really bumtastic.... stuff was forever 500-erroring and timing out and stuff like that, until with a momentuous headache i eventually moved to a different host altogether. My brother was mystified by the whole scenario, as his two forums were still chugging along to themselves quite happily. And so it is, that things can be like that sometimes, i think. Hey, I hope that your journey home wasn't too arduous, and that you're settling back in happily. The adverts seem to be really trying not to offend me as much nowadays. Whether this is a coincidence, or the result of your diligent labour, I am not sure. For example, just now I have one for a vegan hotel, one for a customised vegan diet plan from Tescos (which is a customisable vegetarian one, including having a vegan one if you'd like) , one for one-stop vegan shopping, and well one for the whey powder, but 3 out of 4 being relevant is an improvement.

ha.... comedically, right after the sidebar saw me grumbling about it's content, it's popped up a whole load of new and (at least semi-) relevant adverts to placate me - one for a vegetarian home-meal delivery service of some kind, one for a vegetarian recipe book, one for gym membership, and the last one for "Thor's Raw Power Protein 100% Raw / Organic / Vegan The first healthy protein powder" let it not be said that our criticism always goes unheard ! uhhhhm.....

What the .... ? I use Firefox and I see the crummy adverts. I DEMAND A REFUND ! This morning for example, i am treated to two whey-powder adverts, one for protein powder - mmmmm (barfs discreetly) albumen from someone else's menstrual waste.... lovely..... not to mention that wonderful whey (again) And last but not least a more random advert for assorted supplements , many of which are made out of boiled-up gloop made out of hooves, snouts, lips, ears and anal orifices (aka. Gelatine) mmmmm - appetising ! I usually ignore the adverts completely, but this topic made me look I hadn;t realised how bogus Google-selected advertising could be !

Well, yes. I hadn't realised that was a point of dispute among anyone. It seemed to me as if several people behaved as if i had said the opposite of what you just did, in order to make a similar point. But i never said any such thing. So why they behaved like that, I'm not entirely sure.

I totally agree ! I mean, inserting assorted excitable parts of my anatomy into a pie is one thing.... I mean, pie is pretty hot..... and very tasty..... I LOVE pie wink wink , nudge nudge, know what I mean ? Just the thought of pie makes me wet and moist with anticipation. Every time i want to eat pie i have to get two, because I know that I shan;t be able to restrain myself with the first one... But putting it in a loaf of bread.... dude, that's just (O.o) I can;t get with that.... I just don;t swing that way..... even if it was a bread pie or something, I don;t know man... that would probably just make me feel a bit uncomfortable.... maybe if i nailed a picture of a pie onto the loaf I could get through it, but it just wouldn;t be the same as some full-on hardcore pie-action.

If it were an oral sex comparison to what I said, then in order to be a suitable comparison it would have to be asserted that a heterosexual man would enjoy receiving oral sex from another guy. Which (as with what i said before with the anal sex) isn;t necessarily the case, because factually it seems that it is not always the case. Dunno man, i still reckon that heterosexual guys are, by definition, not all entirely likely to enjoy anal, oral (or nasal, arm-pit related, whatever) sex with a guy, for whichever reasons. I'd even go to a stretch and say they were less likely to enjoy that than get it on with a woman, and less than gay guys might enjoy getting it on with other guys. I'm not entirely sure why people are disagreeing about that, since it seems like common sense that things would be that way. To me that sounds like a homosexual version of the lairy lad who says "I'm a right goer me, i could have ANY woman, I'd convert any lesbian that's for sure - i shagged half the basketball team in high school, I'm THAT hot" They weren;t right in thinking they could have any woman.... And i somehow doubt your friend had the desire to even pull ANY gay guy, never mind ANY straight one. some people do have standards.... That said, i don;t know who he was. it is possible that he was some superhero with amazing powers of sexual attraction and sexuality conversion. I could imagine it... it's about lack of empathy thus failing to udnerstand a situation from a different point of view from their own. Many people do it, independant of sexual preference or tendency... no doubt the heterosexual people think that "if gays just went for a bit of hetero action they'd see what they were missing" and i imagine that similar things go through the heads of the gay people who say similar things about how heterosexual people would all really take to gay sex if they just try it. I reckon that some people are, and some aren't. But I never said that heterosexual men didn't have anal sex.... a lot of heterosexual men make a great deal of fuss over how great anal sex with women is... and so forth. But by definition as heterosexual men, i doubt they would find it half as enjoyable with a man. If they did, surely they would be bisexual rather than heterosexual, even if their preferences are heavily leaning towards one gender rather than the other that would still be bisexuality rather than heterosexuality. And yes, it is "that" hard to believe that they would find it as pleasurable with a man, as they might with a woman. For comparison, i imagine that it would be similar for asexual people (people with sexual tendency and preference for neither gender) of both genders, in a sexual situation whether it involves men, women, anuses, mouths, vaginas, earholes, noses, armpits or whatever. Or I suppose, also true for many people who are heterosexual and opposite genders, but who feel entirely platonic about each other. I think that such a sensation would be entirely different from the sensation a person would feel, who was aroused by being with who they were with. Since sexual stimulus without arousal can be incredibly unpleasant, and usually at last uncomfortable, and not infrequently painful.... or at least numb or vacant... so it seems clear to me that it is most likely that this would be a different sensation from two hornee lovebirds (gay or hetero) all passioned up with each other. I also would have thought that gay women would be unlikely to get very excited over heterosexual penises going into them.... many lesbian women engage in penis-harness things with dildos on, to use with female partners because they recognise that their body finds penetrative stimulus to be enjoyable, but have no desire whatsoever to get any men involved... because they are lesbian. Perhaps it is like the old "what do vegans think about 'fake meat' " discussion..... Some people eat so-called "fake meats" and inextricably link them mentally to bits of dead bodies.... and apply that reasoning to others, assuming everyone else views "Fake meats" in a similar way..... then when someone like me comes along who thinks from an entirely different angle from most other people, who doesn;t connect them at all since "Fake meat" is just grains and vegetables and stuff and nothing like dead bodies at all, people become confused.... they say things like "well the texture and taste of burger X is just like a hamburger so of course by eating that people are longing after the taste and texture of a real hamburger" and I say nono, and they might say "since they really do taste the same i think there is no reason why a person who likes burger X wouldn;t like a hamburger" , and i might say but reluctance to eat dead bodies is for many people all about their feeling about it, or feeling physically repelled by the thought, rather than the physical sensation of eating it and taste/texture pleasure derived from it. They might say "people would all like eating meat if there were no social pressure against it among their friends etc" to which again, i would disagree... even if they said that lots of people who are vegetarian do admit that they enjoy the taste and texture of eating flesh of assorted kinds. Not that i think that sexuality of any description is anything like eating dead bodies, rather than in this illustratory and abstract way. I guess my elaborated point is just that some people really are heterosexual, they aren;t just like that from social pressure... many people who are bisexual lie to others about this, and often to themselves, due to their desires to be conformist and fit in with others' prejudiced social expectations of how they ought to be conducting themselves. Some even go as far as to get married to a member of the opposite sex... some produce children to compound the elaborate delusion and lie.... and yet at heart, they are not heterosexual.... they are not even bisexual... they just did it because they were scared of doing their own thing, or scared of how others would react to them doing that.... or because they longed for ease of conformity and hoped that by pretending to be heterosexual their body might 'come round to it' .... but, for many people that never happens.... I find the whole situation rather tragic. I don;t think it could really be disputed that non-asexual guys generally do enjoy some sort of back and forth friction type situation in the penis region. But i don;t think that necessarily would be related to them wanting to have actual sexual intercourse. That's strange, it's as if he wanted to think that homosexuality is about intimacy rather than sexual tendency and preference..... as if perhaps he felt that heterosexuality wasn't about intimacy, but about sex.... with homosexuality being the flip-side of that..... So wait, i didn;t understand....were the self-professed heterosexual guys having sex with guys or women, anally ? If it was guys, i think they were kidding themselves there... just a bit.

The Akira film only goes up to the first volume, so it ends after the first large battle but if you read all of it, many more themes develop as the story continues. If anyone decided to read it, then I definitely reccommend reading the original version because the quality of the colouring in the reprints really isn;t very good I think, it's over-saturated, smudgey and dark and obscures a lot of the beautiful art-detail which you see in the black and white version. The art itself is amazing though, very splendid indeed. I think that Princess Mononoke is a very good film.

I wish i could take advantage of this offer, i would have stocked up if it were possible, but somehow i suspect that postage costs to here would make the special offer pointless for me to take them up on. Here's a quick-link for anyone who can though, and who would like to - http://www.veganstore.com/sale-and-clearance/%60irregular%60-marshmallows/Page_1/marshx.html "Because vegetable gelling agents are much harder to work with than animal-derived gelatin, some of our production batches do not meet our full standards for regular retail sale in terms of texture. The taste is not affected, but the consistency is wetter/stickier. As a result, these bags are being cleared out at a much lower price as compared to our regular marshmallows. These irregular marshmallows are great for cooking and baking (rice crispy treats, etc.) but are not recommended for campfire roasting. 12 oz. bag."

I thought the film was very unfortunate, as it's really not a very great adaptation of the very start of the story, it's brutally over-censored and because it's only the start you don't get to find out what happens next unless you read the books. I think the books are very good, although overall I'm not wild about the works of Katsuhiro OTomo, as to me they seem formulaic, as if he has this one concept he wants to make into a number of different stories. But it's all a matter of taste... I usually prefer character-development / social relationshippy / cerebral stories to action films, so much of his work isn;t entirely my scene to begin with. At it's most basic, Akira is a story about social decay, disorder, chaos and the foolishness of drug development without adequate control over distribution. It's a story about the short sightedness of a society supporting social rulers who do not act in their best interests, and about the things which might go on when nobody is around to see. It is also a story about the struggle to survive in a decimated world, and about the gang-law which rules in such an inhospitable climate. It's about the quest for power, and the havoc that power can wreak when it grows out of control. It's a story about control, and the lack of it. Domu:A Child's Dream is by the same author, and is a similar story I thought, but it's much shorter being only one book long rather than six. I saw Roujin-Z, also written by the same guy, and it too is like a "lots of things attack one person and it's all very hectic" sort of story. I watched Memories, which is a compilation of 3 stories by the same guy, directed by different people. One of the stories is a straight silly action story in the same vein as his others... with lots of things attacking one guy and it all being very hectic.... one of them was like a russian war cartoon, very distinctive, and the third was the best.... a beautiful and incredible story called Magnetic Rose, which is a science fiction story about what happens as the result of a space crew receiving, and responding to, a distress call from a vessel.

Loads of vegetarians and flesh eaters are B12 deficient. It doesn't seem as if B12 deficiency is any less common among flesh eaters and vegetarians, as it is among vegans. Perhaps because flesh eaters and vegetarians like to think they're taking in enough B12 by not being vegan, so they come down with deficiency a lot. If you see nutrition analysis programmes (like the trashy You Are What You Eat show) they're packed with people who eat loads of eggs, milk and flesh..... and the vast majority have a barrageload of nutritional problems, most frequently B12 deficiency in the ones i watched. Much of the B12 in flesh and body fluids is from synthetic B12 injections anyway, so rather than farting about with those it makes more sense just to take synthetic B12 tablets straight. I would advise everyone to take B12 tablets and calcium tablets from time to time, but especially non-vegans as they're likely to have intestines lined with chyme thus very often have absorption issues when it comes to nourishing themselves, as well as of course depleting themselves of calcium by consuming animal-protein.

That would depend on whether a woman masturbates with a vibrator and inserts it into themself, or not. Even those that do would generally also go for some clitoral action as well, and while clitoral action itself is plenty in itself for loads of people, considerably fewer women feel entirely fulfilled by penetration alone. Unless you masturbate penetratively, there is very little in common between masturbation or penetrative sex, I think. Really ? I was the result of a failed condom. So was my brother. My parents were not foolish people when it came to contraception. When that is how you came into the world, then for many it is impossible to brush off concerns about condom failure and the resultant pregnancy as being senseless and not worthy of consideration. Of course, if people are enthusiastic about the idea of possibly getting someone pregnant, and thrill to the idea of raising their own children whenever, then they won;t be bothered by that... but many people wouldn;t be so thrilled about pregnancy as a result of their sexual activity if it happened, especially female people for obvious reasons. Which makes me wonder why so many of them are casual about having lots of sex, in the first place. What happens fairly often is that guys just stick on a condom as it is.... then somehow expect a whole load of sperm to shoot out of their penises then vanish into nowhere.... whereas what tends to happen in that situation is that the air trapped in the 'nipple' at the end is forced outwards by the out-shooting sperm, and the consequent increase of mass within the condom results in breakage. Just squeezing the tip a bit while putting it on remedies that, but a lot of people either don't think of it, or are too drunk (or lazy, or impatient, or whatever) to bother. A lot of other people will shag away without contraception then only put on a condom at the end.... which is dumb, since pre-cum tends to often contain some sperm. Result : "mysterious" pregnancies even though the condoms were not faulty. Moral : having sex without contraception is a good way to get pregnant. I don't know who they studied to get those statistics, or what they meant by "failure" , those are just a few of my thoughts. That seems a bit ridiculous.... it would be like a gay guy saying "I think all heterosexuals should have anal sex with a man because it's such a great feeling and that's the only way to have it" ..... but why would anyone logically think that heterosexual men would enjoy that, being heterosexual and all ? You'd think it would be more likely that they wouldn't.

I used to know someone who ran Weight Watchers groups which had extremely large members..... I always felt that if they simply joined some elephants in a session of synchronised cycling inside a shower (while having a loaded gun) then it would have done them all the power of good.... then the size of the members would have decreased and it would all have become so much easier for everyone involved. I think that it's unfortunate that elephnots are stuck with the very large members.... it makes the whole inside-a-shower thing so much more cramped.

Maybe these guys ? http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/life/2005/01/07/stories/2005010700080200.htm They've been going strong for 5 milleniae or so... http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/life/2005/01/07/images/2005010700080201.jpg

Why not ? Not everyone is wild about penetrative sex or its risk of pregnancy. I have a chronic immune disorder, so my sex drive is lame compared to other women my age. Although now i think about it, the women who i actually know personally who are my age seem to have dire sex drives also. It is better now that I am vegan, than it used to be when i was vegetarian though. And compared to other people with my condition to the same extent (which is often called 'the best form of contraception' among those who have it) I am certainly above-average libidinously, I think. Now that I think about it, it depends on what you mean by 'sex drive' .... I don;t desire for sexual intercourse, but seem rather more receptive to sexual approaches from my beloved than many if not most other females seem to usually be when approached by their partner. Then again, my beloved isn't a selfish tool sexually, as many peoples' partners seem to be. I gather that lots of (flesh eating) females never get very excited about anything at all sexually, and some haven't even had an orgasm yet ?!? Before i became ill my libido was high, though. I imagine this might be the case again, once i get better. I've been ill with this ghastly energy-depleting condition for many years though, so it's hard to remember back that far, or to know how things might be once I recover. Eating dead bodies and body fluids isn;t exactly sexy.... it's a brilliant way to deplete energy and clog up the guts with a bloated feeling, but not so great for revving up the sex drive.

Awwww.... but it could be very sweet. You'd be , like - http://webpages.charter.net/harv.olson/Blog%20pix/mullet.jpg (Small child optional, dispose of if not required)

I have several of my thoughts to share. Firstly, those before pictures are highly entertaining. Also, they scare me. (^-^) Secondly, with a beard you look like some kind of middle aged maths/english teacher, or something. I used to have a middle aged english teacher who genuinely did look pretty much like that (although not like the last "before" picture, which looks rather younger to me) Thirdly, what on earth possessed you to cover up your lovely moist young attractive face with that bizarrely enthusiastic facial shrubbery ? If the pictures are anything to go by, shaving off your beard seems to have done wonders for your mood, as well. You could knit the hair into a jersey and give it to a family member as a gift. I gather that a lot of people go for that, although the ones who do usually prefer non-human hair to be used. I think the after picture looks like a bit like Derren Brown, but younger, more zesty and less nerdy. http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41187000/jpg/_41187624_derren_brown_203pa.jpg ~ Hey ! Who're you calling a nerdy old fart ? I'm young and zesty too, you know.

I would do both. I certainly wouldn;t trust British/United Airways to actually feed me real food rather than stuff with menstrual waste and other bodily fluids mixed into it. If you want flight-food, i would also advise phoning them before you leave for the flight, to confirm that you want vegan food. The last time i flew long-distance was when i went to California, and back several months later. I was given a vegan meal on the way there, but on the way back i had problems. It was an 18 hour long journey, during which time i had no opportunity whatsoever to go to any place to eat, because i needed to have mobility assistance and when i got to each airport they just kept plonking me down in the crummy disabled-people waiting-rooms, which aren't even anywhere near a toilet, never mind near anywhere selling any food. Which strikes me as being an especially sadistic room-plan... when you think about it. I confirmed my flight and vegan meal three times before i left. This was because i confirmed it twice, then they cancelled the flight 12 hours before it was due to leave (seemingly just to save a bit of cash as they weren;t heavily booked up. I asked if that was why it was and they certainly didn;t deny it... far from it. One member of staff informally confided that this is common. Which is what i had thought. Convenience Shmonvenience seems to be their policy.) so i had to reschedule for the next day. So i rebooked with a vegan meal and called the next afternoon right before i left to re-confirm the vegan meal and mobility assistance. Well, i got the mobility assistance but they didn;t seem to have any problem with giving me no food for 18 hours straight. Which is what they did. Fortunately, i don;t trust them any further than i can throw them (which isn;t very far !) so i had stocked up on tasty vegan snacks before i went, snack-y bars and some wonderful vegan raspberry gummy heart-shaped sweets which i got in Realfoods featuring prominently in the meal selection. Of course, that was right around the time when they had a bomb scare or something, so at the time they were trying to prevent people from taking ANY food on board at all, just saying that "you get food on the plane so you don;t need it anyway" .... they never checked my hand luggage closely but if customs had thieved my food then United Airways failed to give me food for 18 hours i would have been extremely infuriated with them. Like, more than i was already even. ~ GRAAAAAAAH ! When i phoned before i left the daft bat on the other end of the phone seemed to think it was a bit silly me phoning to confirm the meal, jovially saying "we won;t let you starve (ho ho)" well teehee, guess she was talking rubbish after all Fortunately, I considered her assertions to be about as believable as the Easter Bunny. Or perhaps about 13.5 % less believable than the easter bunny, to be precise. AHHHHHHH don't mind me. I have issues with these people. I wish they had some competition.... rather than being the only flying option to so many destinations. It would make rubbish customer service so much less profitable for them, and they would feel more inclined to be less crap accordingly, i reckon. The annoying hostess on the plane even started trying to make out that it was unreasonable of me to not want to eat the repulsive-looking menses and breastmilk-laced meal which they tried to give me (she probably thought they deserved applause for having a vegetarian one ) so i told her that i hgad health problems and might projectile vomit all over the place if i ate it. Which is not technically a lie. I do have health problems as i have an immune disorder. I never said my health problems had anything to do with eating eggs or milk. And i construably MIGHT have projectile vomited everywhere. I mean, we can never be sure when such things might happen.... and i hadn;t eaten eggs or milk for ages before then so for all i knew i might have a horrible allergic reaction. She never asked how likely it would be that this might happen, in which case i would have to admit that the chances would be slim.... but she did stop pestering me about their crappy meal and left me alone after that, to eat my snacks. ~ SUCCESS ! It is probably just as well that i don;t ever have to fly long-distance, these days. I wouldn;t mind so much either, if they didn;t force you to pay a no doubt obscenely inflated price for their crappy meal (included in escalated ticket cost) , but it's a cheek to make you pay for food then not give you it, and a cheek to refuse to give you the option to not buy their lousy maybe-non-existent food and just bring your own.

WOOHOO ! That's EXCELLENT ! If everyone who bought makeup and slathered it over themselves went in for that sort of stylishness, I would understand the point of it. A lot of women try to imitate sexual arousal by putting on make-up, whether they are conciously aware of it or not.... during sexual arousal their lips and cheeks flush, and blusher & lipstick are like comedic parodies of this phenomenon.... so exaggerated, that to me it seems entirely unbelievable and rather ridiculous. Considerign that lots of people find girls even as young as teenagers to look "dull, plain, unattractive, etc" without make-up on, it seems that the above motive is more important to many people than the "imitating youthfulness" one. The reason that Geisha girls began slathering themselves with 3 inches of makeup and ruining their skin, was because they were aiming for this type of 'sexual appeal' ..... For example, society at the time when Geisha were all the rage dictated that women having pale skin like western women had, was very attractive.... so they exaggerated on that ideal by painting their faces garish white. Sexual arousement was also, of course, considered desirable in women, especially attractive ones in social situations.... which was how they came to have garish red lips... the same motive was involved in their decision to leave little strips of skin at the back of the neck bare, as apparently that makes a lot of Japanese men think of the womens' genitals (??) , or at least become aroused by the thought of naked flesh. In the Heian era it was considered to be the case that showing white teeth (ie when laughing etc) was exceptionally uncivilised and boorish - like a westerner.... so in those days, trendy women combined their white face-painting with painting their teeth pitch-black. Many guys are sexually attracted to young girls and women because those humans are very fertile, much more so than older women. If they are guys who would like to have a part in producing children sometime, they will often subconciously be drawn to people who look capable of popping one out. Of course, where gathering physical attraction is concerned it helps the youthful ones that young women are so firm, lacking wrinkles, so hot, etc..... you will notice that most men (or young men, at least) veer away from physical engagement with young women who look nerd-y, who are obese, etc... no matter how skillful their makeup application.... many will shun all females who are not long-legged, blonde, with big breasts.... dismissing the rest as "not very attractive" , which is no doubt why so many female celebrities seem to aspire to look like clones these days. People generally want to look the same and fairly tedious, they don't usually want to look different or uniquely interesting.... You can frequently see it in their hair, their clothes, and in what they smear on their skin.... all of which are defined or influenced by what others tell them to wear, or what those around them are wearing. After all, fashionable is simply another word for "manipulable" .... if you have a fashionable metal, it is easy to manipulate.... the same is true when it applies to humans. Why so many people try to wear that as a badge of merit, as if being easily manipulated is a good thing, I'm not entirely sure. If people started wearing green lipstick and painting their faces yellow, and if the fashion industry passed that off as "trendy" and "cool", I think we would soon see hordes of women daubing themselves in that manner.... even though that would have nothing to do with trying to look like a parody of someone who is young or sexually inflamed. After all, the 'white/sickly-orange lipstick' fads of the 60s and 70s were hugely popular, at the time. I think Richard's ninja/hockey-mask idea is great ! Or maybe for optimal convenience, they could just stick a paper bag over their heads and scrawl "I'm a really young woman" across the front of it. Or "I'm really sexually aroused" , "I am easy to manipulate" , "I think I look ugly" (with whichever they write on the bag being dependant on their motive for wanting to make-up, you see) ... It would save them loads of time, money and effort, and create a huge amount less environmental waste, than the present arrangement. That's self-contradictory. How can something possibly be cruelty-free if it isn't even suitable for vegans to use ?

There's no logical reason to assume he was eating soya, from what i can tell. Who ever said he was forced to do anything ? As i said, there's no evidence that he was strongly against chewing some meat, or was uncomfortable with doing so, or anything. It may have simply gone : "Do you want this job ? It involves eating meat though, it will pay well but i can give it to someone else if you like." "Well i'm vegetarian so i won;t eat it, I'm cool with chewing it though if i can spit it out, that doesn;t bother me" " I wouldn't want to force you to do anything...." "No no man, it's cool. I'm just vegetarian for health/expense/taste-preference reasons anyway" Hordes of online resources say that he chewed real flesh and spat it out. None say it was soy. I guess they could all be lying about it, or completely uninformed and just making it up.... We could disbelieve anything we find about him online, in which case there is no reason to think he is vegetarian either. I don't know the dude, though. For all i know he could be a serial-cannibal who stabbed half of the film-crew to death and ate them when the producer wanted him to eat steak , then he insisted on having soy chunks instead to chew, and that's what they filmed with. It could happen. who can say.

http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c186/Astropussycat/RSCN4169.jpg _________________________ Re: The Astrocat/Richard fight Hahaaaa, i got my own back the next day, when he ninja-ed out from the shadows and tried to attack me. It backfired when i raised my leg and kicked him right in the face - ahaaaa ! http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c186/Astropussycat/kickykick.jpg But... he grabbed my leg, and swung me around so that i was downhill from him, in order to kick me in the stomach more effectively - kya ! (>.<) http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c186/Astropussycat/abortionkick.jpg Things were looking bad for me then, as i slumped to the ground stunned and he got me in a nearly leg-breaking figure-4 hold. http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c186/Astropussycat/legbreaker.jpg But i won in the end, as I did a snazzy reversal on him and -POW!- bitch-slapped him right in the face... take that, you sissy ninja ! http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c186/Astropussycat/bitchslap.jpg

EXACTLY ! It's also like how it doesn't count as engaging with sexual relations with someone, if they suck your cock . As also demonstrated by the aforementioned uninhaling Clinton.

I think it would be better if people were a bit creative about wearing make-up.... everyone just does the same old thing though, a bit of black on their eyes, a bit of red on the lips, perhaps some whitener on the facial skin.... some cream to conceal spots despite clogging up pores.... same old, same old. Now if people would put a bit more effort and imagination into it then it would make it more entertaining, thus to my mind more worthwhile. You know the sort of thing, a few spirals, maybe some stars, a bit of tinsel on the side..... a few sequins on the nose.... perhaps multicoloured lipstick spots all over their face and neck..... that would be much more snazzy, i think. Unfortunately, most people who wear cosmetics seem to disagree with me because everyone else isn't doing that, so it isn't 'fashionable' to get creative with it... ah well, maybe someday....

Well, he is the son of writer, director, producer, and Emmy-winner Tom Gries, he is a writer actor and director himself who has been in several big-name productions.... so I feel very sceptical to consider that both of them fell on such desperately hard times all of a sudden that it was a case of (for example) begging in the street and living in a cardboard box.... or chewing up a large quantity of meat. Check out his filmography - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0340973/filmotype It doesn't really correlate with an impression of him involving him being on the point of poverty, I think. It seems far more likely that he just didn't care about chewing it, and was fine with that as long as he got to spit it out afterwards. Some sources say he's vegetarian, while others reckon that he doesn;t drink milk but does sometimes eat flesh. For example, the movie database i just linked to says that he "Does not drink milk and eats very little red meat." If he's vegetarian he probably figured that chewing is not in itself technically eating.... and if he isn;t then it would be no big deal to chew some flesh for a while.... and perhaps he just refused to eat it because he wants to restrict his intake : P it was , from what i hear, quite a lot of flesh he had to chew up after all because they did a lot of takes, and i imagine that even a flesh enthusiast is likely to feel rather unwell if they had eaten all of it. http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c186/Astropussycat/88m.jpg ~I chew meat for cash edit - edited to fix broken image, then edited again to say why i had edited it, hehe