Toronto Trim's Hotel Cum Drop-in Centre - Page 66

robustpuppy · 06-15-2005, 11:54 AM

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Originally posted by ltl/fb
Apples and oranges -- it's a stupid comment (uh, no offense to your friend; well, whatever, offense works for me actually). Saying, "isn't a rabbit much better?" or "isn't the Magic Wand much better?" might be on point. Willing,* skilled tongues are not always available.

This post reminded me that I had a dream in which some guy actually did blow himself last night. Huh.

*Can you believe that there are guys in their 30s who don't like to do oral? WTF?

Maybe the friend was talking about The Tongue, a device advertised in the back of Cosmo magazine. The advertisement was amusing in itself because it was a small black and white square and the graphic on it was of a woman sitting in profile as if she were appearing on an 18-wheeler's mudflap. Someone else on this board must have seen this ad at some point in her life.

ltl/fb · 06-15-2005, 11:56 AM

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Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
*Yes. (sigh)

Who are trying to get laid and not in a relationship?????

It's a sad, sad, sad world.

ltl/fb · 06-15-2005, 11:57 AM

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Originally posted by robustpuppy
Maybe the friend was talking about The Tongue, a device advertised in the back of Cosmo magazine. The advertisement was amusing in itself because it was a small black and white square and the graphic on it was of a woman sitting in profile as if she were appearing on an 18-wheeler's mudflap. Someone else on this board must have seen this ad at some point in her life.

I remember those ads, and thought of The Tongue, but it didn't make sense in the context -- why would The Tongue be automatically assumed not to last as long?

ThurgreedMarshall · 06-15-2005, 11:57 AM

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Originally posted by ltl/fb
Can you believe that there are guys in their 30s who don't like to do oral? WTF?

On you or in general?

TM

robustpuppy · 06-15-2005, 11:58 AM

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Originally posted by ltl/fb
Who are trying to get laid and not in a relationship?????

It's a sad, sad, sad world.

What's sad is that your inability to be satisfied by his penis alone reflects your profound orgasimmaturity. No wonder you are a spinster.

ltl/fb · 06-15-2005, 11:59 AM

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Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
On you or in general?

TM

Apparently in general. Given the amount of time that has been spent there by other people, I don't think it's my issue.

robustpuppy · 06-15-2005, 11:59 AM

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Originally posted by ltl/fb
I remember those ads, and thought of The Tongue, but it didn't make sense in the context -- why would The Tongue be automatically assumed not to last as long?

I don't know. Maybe the friend is an engineer.

ltl/fb · 06-15-2005, 12:03 PM

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Originally posted by robustpuppy
I don't know. Maybe the friend is an engineer.

Do I have to fly out there and slap upside the head?

sebastian_dangerfield · 06-15-2005, 12:04 PM

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Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
I have decided to lament not having fed my self gratification monster enough since college.

I intend to feed him thoroughly and relentlessly from this point forward.

It ain't that great. You get to a point where you're just "getting back to normal." You have to screw it on to the point of near stroke level blood pressure and severe, irreversible liver damage to get back to that peak you hit years ago, where, with the right mixture, you felt like you were turned into a point of light and fired across the universe from a laser cannon. Its a constant game of switching the mixtures. But no matter what I do, I can't grab that same feeling of euphoria I got when I was 18 and had my mind sandblasted with really insane hallucinogens. Its harder and harder to get "Monday" out of my head. But you try, and thats noble, and its all you can do. And its a fun experiment even when the results aren't earth shattering.

ltl/fb · 06-15-2005, 12:05 PM

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Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
It ain't that great. You get to a point where you're just "getting back to normal." You have to screw it on to the point of near stroke level blood pressure and severe, irreversible liver damage to get back to that peak you hit years ago, where, with the right mixture, you felt like you were turned into a point of light and fired across the universe from a laser cannon. Its a constant game of switching the mixtures. But no matter what I do, I can't grab that same feeling of euphoria I got when I was 18 and had my mind sandblasted with really insane hallucinogens. Its harder and harder to get "Monday" out of my head. But you try, and thats noble, and its all you can do. And its a fun experiment even when the results aren't earth shattering.

Don't fucking rain on her newly single parade, asshole.

Replaced_Texan · 06-15-2005, 12:06 PM

I think that he probably has a lot of weird and dark fetishes, though, and it probably wouldn't be as much of a romp as fucking Mr. and Mrs. Smith.

Batman Begins is the better movie, but Mr. & Mrs. Smith is more fun. There's more development, characterization and emotion in Batman Begins, and my companion--who, as it turns out, is also a comic geek--was blown away at the faithfulness to canon.

It's probably the best Batman movie I've ever seen, and I'm a big fan of the original Tim Burton/Michael Keaton film. This effort is less comic-booky in feel. Tim Burton (and his descendant Joel Schulmacher) stylized their films quite a bit to draw attention to the cartoonish nature of the series. Big, colorful sets and costumes. Over-the-top performances by villians. Lots of monologuing. According to the IMDB's trivia page for Batman Begins, Director Chris Nolan (Momento, Insomnia) made his cast and crew watch Blade Runner before they started filming this Batman movie, and this is a more subdued, bleak, desperate Gotham. Where Burton uses color and texture, Nolan uses darkness and light.

Christian Bale is top notch. He's physically beautiful (so is Cillian Murphy, who I'd never paid much attention to before), and he's captured the manic depressive, fucked up caped crusader quite well. He also pulls off aristocratic entitlement better than any of the other Batmans. His struggle with the duality of his public/masked persona is evident, and he's quite good at maintaining a simmering rage and guilty that drives the character. I was particularly impressed with his ability to act as a younger, pre-Batman Bruce Wayne. (The 8 year old version of Bruce is also very, very good.)

The side characters are also excellent, and they must have an amazing budget. Michael Caine, Liam Neeson, Morgan Freeman, Gary Oldham. All excellent performances, especially Caine, whose Alfred was simultaneously familiar and fresh. Katie Holmes wasn't bad, though the archtype fiesty district attorney bugs me. I've seen it hundreds of times before and she really didn't add much. Rutger Hauer, Ken Watanabe and Cillian Murphy were excellent as well, and the movie left a lot of room for sequel with this set of characters.

The only really downside was the filming of action sequences, and that's because of comparison to another action film seen recently. Frankly, I think that Doug Liman films some of the best action sequences in the business. The action shots in the Bourne Identity and Mr. & Mrs. Smith are thought through carefully, and each punch has not only a point, but is also very well filmed for maximum effect. I remember watching Bourne Identity in the theater and wincing with every bounce of the head as I watched a motorcycle cop fall off his bike. Mr. & Mrs. Smith's considerable action sequences were equally well executed. Nolan isn't an action director, and though the sequences in Nepal were well done, I've seen better. Darkness hides a lot of what's going on in the action sequences in Gotham, and contextually, it makes sense that you don't know exactly what's going on. The unknown is Batman's primary advantage, and it's not important how Batman fucks someone up, only that he's fucked them up. But as an action fan, you want to see him fuck the guy up.

It's a dark film and a dark character. I think Nolan and Bale did an excellent job of showing how fucked up this guy really is. I'm not a devotee of the comic books (I'm a Marvel girl), but the geeks in the theater last night seemed very, very happy with the outcome.

Shape Shifter · 06-15-2005, 12:06 PM

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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Wouldn't an artificial tongue be to a real tongue like an artificial vagina is to a real one? That is, a pale imitation. I understand that with the artificial, you can have complete placement control. Still, I find that if I grab my partner by the hair and pull the head around, specific tongue placement is achievable naturally.

Your partner has an interesting vagina.

sebastian_dangerfield · 06-15-2005, 12:07 PM

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Originally posted by ltl/fb
Don't fucking rain on her newly single parade, asshole.

I'm sorry. I didn't know.

Sparklehorse · 06-15-2005, 12:07 PM

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Originally posted by robustpuppy
I don't know. Maybe the friend is an engineer.

Neither an engineer nor a Cosmo reader.

Shape Shifter · 06-15-2005, 12:08 PM

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Originally posted by NotFromHere
Schiavo autopsy report backs husband
Medical examiner says she suffered from 'irreversible' brain injury.

TAMPA, Fla. - In a victory for Michael Schiavo, a coroner who performed an autopsy on Terri Schiavo reported Wednesday that she suffered from an irreversible brain injury and would not have recovered as her parents insisted was possible.

What I'd really like to see is Michael Schiavo gathering these people together and saying a big "Fuck You - thanks for interfering in my life these past 10 years assholes. Mind your own fucking business next time."

Could that happen?

It has probably happened already several times.