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Non-smokers who are bothered by smoke – you know how far away you need to be from someone smoking before it doesn’t bother you. Stay that far from others. And we all know how long the smell of smoke hangs in an enclosed space.

Non-garlic-eaters who are bothered by the smell of it on someone’s breath (or their garlicky lasting body-odour) ditto.

Shouting REALLY loads the air with particles. Stay away from protesters. Except from polite ones. First comment refers.

We are all on this planet because we were born from another human. If you do not already know, to naturally have a child/family, it takes two people of the opposite sex to procreate.

I do not know how norms, culture, and society works across the globe, so I can only reference the country I live in and how it operates.

It has been always the man's duty to approach the woman and take the initiative on creating the harmonious bond, where the couple eventually make a family in many cases (average family size 2 1/2 kids).

The man brought home the bacon and the woman fried it up in the pan.

The woman, man, and children lived a life under one roof and given our human nature, they bonded.

In some cases, that did not happen. There were tensions, but not in all cases. At worse, the man knew he was a father and the mother knew she was a mother....very rarely did it happen that the parents did not recognize themselves as parents.

Fast forward to today with feminism....and in many cases life is not like it was 20+ years ago. The man has become less valuable to some feminist women. I do not know the numbers or percentages on this...but they have become less valuable.

Our human nature, both men and women, are to procreate...otherwise our s*xual urges would not exist. These urges are beyond our control...they are innate. So with that said, it is our nature, both men and women, to produce offspring.

Now in traditional days...I would argue even today (because some women like to have their cake and eat it too) the female gender was at an advantage for having the opportunity to have offspring. Because of the tradition of men approaching women, they had ample more opportunity to engage in practices to produce offspring. Does that make sense? If she is getting approached by men and she is feeling her natural urges at a particular time, she then chooses to "engage." Some women got approached by men hundreds of times a week...some maybe ten times a week. In everyone of these cases, if she wanted to "engage", she could simply oblige.

With men, they didn't have that luxury. They might approach hundreds of different women per week, or some men maybe ten per week...and not get any female takers. The bottom line is, women decide. He had to prove his worth to the woman. She needed to know that the man was going to be there for her and not leave her high and dry...fending for the care of the family on her own. In addition, if the woman was not in the mood..no go. In addition, if the woman was not attracted to him...no go. In addition, if her friends gave the thumbs down...no go. Most men had it fairly tough...that is even in traditional days.

Today we have feminism. Even in traditional days, a man had to get "lucky" to get a woman in his life. The feminist days are going to require even more luck.

Now what about abortion? Say there is a man and woman couple together in today's society and they engage in their nature given urges and procreate. The man wants a child but the woman does not. She has a right to end the pregnancy.

With more difficulty of man finding a mate and the female having a right to abort....

When coming to genders, does that give the female more power over life than the male?

If so, is it fair?

I don't know myself...but a question to ponder...I think anyway.

Well, the interesting stuff started happening about a few weeks ago. A few weeks ago I was at the club. Why does weird shit happen in the bathrooms at those places? Anyway, I am in the bathroom and there are about four college age guys in there. I am at the sink washing my hands when all four of them started talking about performing gay sex with each other. Not sure if they were being serious or not, I kinda said something in a joking matter. They responded by saying something about that is how we are....in other words, they were being serious. I told them to have at it and left.

As I mentioned before, I have nothing against gay people. As long as they don't bother me, I am okay.

So a couple of days ago, I am on my walk...about 9pm. There is a party on the opposite side of the street at somebody's home. There are about 20 or so people outside. As I am walking by, I hear some guy yell out, hey big guy...I am going to stick my d*ck in your corn hole. Okay....I just continue walking....thinking to myself, he sure is not talking to me (at least I am hoping he is not).

I never mentioned any of these stories to anybody. I felt they might be just some fluke isolated events.

So yesterday, my brother and I are going to the restaurant. He starts telling me a story about the night before at the bar. Just to give a little detail here, we go to bars in the same town. lol...no, I do not consider us alcoholics. He usually drinks only one beer when he is out.....anyway...back to the story. He starts telling me about these guys who kept on coming up to him and putting their arms around him and getting really close. He told me that he felt very uncomfortable and thought they might be some sort of s*xual advances. Shocked, I told him about my two encounters.

Before I could elaborate any further...he went on to say that he was starting to question if it was going to be safe for men to go out by themselves anymore. Funny thing, I kinda felt the same way.

We both agreed it was only toward the middle of this year we noticed this sort of behavior from the men.

Has anyone else noticed this sort of behavior increasing with guys? Do you feel a single guy can safely go out on the town by themselves?

We both felt that these men were not outright gay...maybe bi-s*xual....or just sex crazed.

My brother mentioned it could be due to the fact that same sex marriages has been legalized and now that sort of behavior is more socially acceptable. Also, he pointed out, there are a lot of "real" tv shows that promote this sort of stuff.

What are your thoughts....

Again, I mean no offense to anyone who is gay. This is actually a blog concerning the potential loss of safety to society.

Are you hungry?

Everyone is hungry.

Just that everyone has a different level of an empty stomach.

Give a homeless person a dollar....they are greatful

Give a millionaire a dollar...they look with disgust.

this example is with money...

but....it fits with everything a human values...

including a mate

Many of you will have seen this video already - for those who don't click in, or it doesn't show in your country, it is groups of people. Businessmen and women, people on the dole, immigrants. Religious. Sporty types, bikers - one guy has the biggest and most tattooed biceps EVER. All of them are people you judge instantly on their appearance, standing together with those who look like them.

Then the Danish controller of the experiment asks who was the class clown at school? and suddenly there are people coming out of their boxes into the square.

Who is a step-parent?

Who had sex in the last week? (Lots of giggling with that one)

And the boxes are breaking up, reshaping, reforming, in one the redneck with the giant biceps is next to a tiny woman in a hijab, it is - mind-boggling. I like my mind boggled.

It is worth watching.



Next time you are truly angry and irritated by someone on CS, remember we don't only stand in our political, religious, nationality, even gender, boxes. We have being single in common (most of us. )

Hands up if you're scared of clowns?
Hands up if you like to hike?
Hands up if you prefer people to animals?
Hands up if you ever had a threatening person at the door?

This is why I like the blogs, especially the unexpected offbeat ones - you suddenly find yourself agreeing with someone you never thought you had anything in common with.

And of course this is why I don't personally like the angry point-finger blogs, because that's not where I want to find common ground

Shutting up now. But that video is worth 3 minutes of your time. If it isn't coming up for your country, check youtube for "what happens when we stop putting people in boxes"

Comment, don't comment. But a great comment would be one that opened up a new box! I'll personally be in and out as I have teaching today, but this isn't an OP-driven blog anyway. It could poke a hole in your way of looking at others.

what were you doing?

Has your life changed in small ways, huge ways, or not at all?

In 3 years you can get pregnant, have a baby, and have a toddler trying to get your attention right now. In some ways, quite a long time. In some ways, a blink of the eye.

I picked 3 years because it's coming up to when I first joined CS. That started a series of changes which could continue for years.

There was a revolutionary year before that but the 10 years before - well, I can't actually remember a single thing of interest that happened in the whole 10 years, apart from crashing one car and buying another.

You?

(With apologies to Ian O’Doherty, on the Independent.ie, full link to his original article will be posted in the first comment. I took liberties)

I didn't sign up for an unwanted mammy to tell me where I was going wrong and what I needed to do to buck myself up. When was the last time you allowed yourself to be lectured by someone about your moral failings? But that's the world we now live in; one which has become increasingly censorious and priggish.

We now seem to live in a climate where simply disapproving of something is enough to want to ban it. Cigarettes, alcohol, the 'wrong' food. The proposed sugar tax.

Even rugby is under the microscope of the unbearably smug who simply will not rest until they have managed to insert their grubby, interfering tentacles into every aspect of both our public and private lives.

When it comes to issues such as drinking, eating, or even watching the wrong thing, the personality types are the same. The common thread running through all of them is this astonishing arrogance which leads them to believe that they know more about your life than you do and are more qualified to make your choices than you are.

The most recent statement by freshman TD Jack Chambers, who wants to ban McDonald's from sponsoring a movie slot on RTÉ, is a perfect example.

Whether he realises it or not, what Chambers is calling for is a reduction in the right of parents to raise and feed their kids as they see fit.

We are surrounded and assailed on all sides by people who think they know more than you do. Surrounded by busybodies who used to be known as cranks, but who are now called health experts.

You could call it the salami effect, where people gradually chip away at your rights until, without you even noticing, you have no rights left at all. However somebody, somewhere probably objects to the promotion of such a fatty sausage.

The next time you comment with smug disdain about someone doing something you don’t personally approve of, think. Next time it could be someone complaining about something you DO approve of. Like, perhaps, the right to live your life your way.

...What alonely world, only people who cares are few

To add a bit of fun to this, the Halloween season, here is a blog on palmistry.
Whether you believe it or not is irrelevant, it is all a bit of fun.
And who knows, you might learn a little something about yourself from it
Bear with me, as it will be spread over a few posts as I cover the main lines.
It has been taken from if anybody wants to check out minor lines as well




1. The Heart Line
Sometimes also referred to as the love line, the heart line runs along the top of the palm just below the knuckles. You can read the heart line from the little finger to the index finger or in the reverse direction.

The heart line is believed to demonstrate your romantic perspectives, your cardiac health, and your innate emotional stability.
You can determine more specific information with a closer look at the placement and the shape of this all-important line.
A line that begins below your index finger shows that you’re content with your love life.
A line that begins below your middle finger tells that you’re selfish in areas of love.
A line that begins in the middle of your hand means that you fall in love easily.
A short and straight line indicates that you have less interest in romance than many people.
A long and curvy line shows that you freely express your thoughts and feelings.
A line that touches your life line means that your heart is broken easily.
A line that runs straight and parallel to your head line demonstrates your good control of your emotions, your stability, and your approachable demeanour.
A line curving upward shows your verbal dexterity and your ability to speak about love and feelings.
A line curving downward, however, indicates your inability to express your feelings and your weak character.
A wavy line represents your many relationships but your lack of serious relationships.
A circle, also called an island, on your line marks sadness or depression in your life.
If your love line has many circles, making it look like an iron chain, you are sentimental and potentially involved in many emotional entanglements.
A broken line indicates that you have undergone emotional trauma.
Smaller lines crossing your heart line demonstrate further emotional trauma.
A doubled love line shows that you’re especially good at expressing love and that you’re capable of accepting two different relationships at once.