Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking

[Trevor]

Dammit I'm visible for today. Today is International Trans Day of Visibility, the day where I am no longer invisible.

I see you 😊😊🙏

[Trevor]

Dammit I'm visible for today. Today is International Trans Day of Visibility, the day where I am no longer invisible.

 I see you!

Let's see if the improved Romulan Cloaking Device works now.

😃😆😄🖖

[lester1/2jr]

The Scorpions are coming out with a sequel to "Wind Of Change". It's called "What the f**k Happened?"

[Trevor]

The Scorpions are coming out with a sequel to "Wind Of Change". It's called "What the f**k Happened?"

😳😆😃😄😀

[claws]

Looking at the latest box office numbers, I got confused and had to google.

The Chosen is a (crowdfunded) Christian TV series that has episodes showing in theaters distributed by Lionsgate before going to streaming platforms like Amazon and Netflix and then made available free for streaming on The Chosen's website. That's a lot to take in, at least for me. But hey, they make millions at theaters, so good for them.

[ER]

Good morning, Bristol, I have three random thoughts for you to run through the sifter. Yeah, if your name isn't Bristol and yet you choose to read this, I don't want to see any complaining, as I do warn you your time could be invested elsewhere.

One: I think my son may have inherited the Celtic/Norse berserker gene that runs in my side of the family, as he has two modes, laid back and abruptly homicidal. I'm kind of proud of that but mostly worried for him, and if US doctors weren't so typically pseudo-intellectual twats unsubtly employed as salespeople to push the products of big-pharma, I'd mention it.

Two: Fresh from the IQ-elevating Jewish service I'd been to the day before, I went to a trite Methodist church the other day and the feel-good half-assed pastor up there asked everyone to envision what Heaven would be like, and oddly what came to my mind was a rom-com. We'd all be British and successful ad white and we'd all just be emerging from a breakup as we navigate the twists and turns of love, which after much madcap inanity we find, and just as we stand there in Heathrow giving our newly-discovered soul mates a long kiss, music would begin, the scene would fade out, and as amnesiacs we'd begin a new chapter under slightly different but equally pleasant circumstances, while we pursued love all over again.

Three: I have read about urination apnea, in which people, almost entirely men in this case, hold their breath during urination (urination being something no one would need to do in rom-com Heaven, though I'm not sure about breathing) and being curious as to how universal this is, I have asked men I know if they stop breathing when they pee, and after giving me a look, mostly already knowing I ask strange questions, they'll say they aren't sure and they'll pay attention next time they tinkle. Really wanting to know, I have sometimes offered them something large to drink, but they tend to get self-conscious then, so I let it go and they never remember to actually tell me if this is something that occurs with them. Since the mixed-chromosome crowd outnumbers me here by a ratio of...well totally these days as Pacquita doesn't come around much, if any outies reading this post I'm putting up for ever-shy Bristol would care to provide an answer, I would offer virtual karma by way of thanks, since the Marine who runs this place eliminated the useful feature of actual karma. (As there's no longer a way to verify it, I will note in parting that I had 7300 good karma points. Yep.)

OK, sift away, Bristol, my work here this month is done!

[Paquita]

Not sure who Bristol or Pacquita are, but me and my chromosomes are still here.

I think men breathe, or at least exhale, when they pee because they sometimes talk while peeing and my understanding is you have to use breath to speak.

Hope everyone is doing well!

P.S. ER, it was very nice of you to facilitate that message from your friend's cat.

[Trevor]

I think men breathe, or at least exhale, when they pee because they sometimes talk while peeing and my understanding is you have to use breath to speak.

😳😅😂🤣😆😄

At my age it's getting difficult to do any of those two things, let alone at the same time 😉😉🐢

[Leah]

It's still crazy how much hormone replacement therapy has changed me. I'm so much happier being in my own skin than before.

[Trevor]

It's still crazy how much hormone replacement therapy has changed me. I'm so much happier being in my own skin than before.

😊😊 I see no problems here ☺️☺️🐢

[Zapranoth]

Good morning, Bristol, I have three random thoughts for you to run through the sifter. Yeah, if your name isn't Bristol and yet you choose to read this, I don't want to see any complaining, as I do warn you your time could be invested elsewhere.

One: I think my son may have inherited the Celtic/Norse berserker gene that runs in my side of the family, as he has two modes, laid back and abruptly homicidal. I'm kind of proud of that but mostly worried for him, and if US doctors weren't so typically pseudo-intellectual twats unsubtly employed as salespeople to push the products of big-pharma, I'd mention it.

Two: Fresh from the IQ-elevating Jewish service I'd been to the day before, I went to a trite Methodist church the other day and the feel-good half-assed pastor up there asked everyone to envision what Heaven would be like, and oddly what came to my mind was a rom-com. We'd all be British and successful ad white and we'd all just be emerging from a breakup as we navigate the twists and turns of love, which after much madcap inanity we find, and just as we stand there in Heathrow giving our newly-discovered soul mates a long kiss, music would begin, the scene would fade out, and as amnesiacs we'd begin a new chapter under slightly different but equally pleasant circumstances, while we pursued love all over again.

Three: I have read about urination apnea, in which people, almost entirely men in this case, hold their breath during urination (urination being something no one would need to do in rom-com Heaven, though I'm not sure about breathing) and being curious as to how universal this is, I have asked men I know if they stop breathing when they pee, and after giving me a look, mostly already knowing I ask strange questions, they'll say they aren't sure and they'll pay attention next time they tinkle. Really wanting to know, I have sometimes offered them something large to drink, but they tend to get self-conscious then, so I let it go and they never remember to actually tell me if this is something that occurs with them. Since the mixed-chromosome crowd outnumbers me here by a ratio of...well totally these days as Pacquita doesn't come around much, if any outies reading this post I'm putting up for ever-shy Bristol would care to provide an answer, I would offer virtual karma by way of thanks, since the Marine who runs this place eliminated the useful feature of actual karma. (As there's no longer a way to verify it, I will note in parting that I had 7300 good karma points. Yep.)

OK, sift away, Bristol, my work here this month is done!

Breath control can help one avoid micturition syncope.

[Zapranoth]

To clarify:  holding breath could make it easier to pass out.  But a breath in then steady out can help with straining, which guys with BPH must do.  Lifting weights you learn the same thing.

[Rev. Powell]

As a kid I hated broccoli, but now, as an adult, I despise it.

[Trevor]

As a kid I hated broccoli, but now, as an adult, I despise it.

Agreed 100%.

[RCMerchant]

^ Broccoli is delicious, either with lots of butter, or melted cheese, or in Macaroni and cheese.