I never said the historical meaning or method made any sense - just what it meant. After being inspired by an earlier comment on how people dress.
Historically, most actual old maids dressed to attract men. Learning about all these origins and old meanings is fun, especially when you see how they're used today.
I think an important part of the issue is also in what you define as a cheater and what constitutes as cheating. Another writer by the name of Dorsai has a series called The Next Door Neighbour series that handles a lot of interesting philosophical discussions on love and relationships.
Back in the 1970s I knew some people who were in an interesting situation. At that time it was unlawful to engage in homosexual activities, and even the hint of being involved in one was enough to see their careers destroyed. Yet they came up with an answer, they lived in a semi-detached house - this is two homes built with only one common wall, as if an overlarge house and often had common back yards. Unknown to most, three doorways had been made through the common wall and it was now like one huge house. I don't know exactly how the situation started, but a brother and sister married another man and woman, and each pair officially lived in one half of the house. Each man and woman loved their spouse and were very devoted to them, but all four were of a homosexual orientation, whenever they wanted to have any sex, they would pair up in that manner, spending part of the night with their sexual lover and the rest with their spouse. All four were seriously devoted to the other three.
Another situation I know of involves a married couple whose libidos are badly mismatched, but they really love each other - they both work as high paid professionals and have a live in housekeeper. Their sexual life is a sort of triangle in that the housekeeper assists one spouse with keeper the other, more sexually charged spouse, sexually satisfied.
In both these cases, the spouses are involved in sexual relationships outside their marriage partners who they love a great deal - BUT they are NOT cheating, as the spouse knows all about it before hand and agrees, and actively helps. In each case, society would cause trouble if their situation became known to the general public. All I can say is that their situations suit them, and it's their business - I feel privileged that they trust me enough to allow me to know about them. They have previously given me permission to discuss their situation with other (we've spoken on this often) but not to provide sufficeint information for personal identification.
Hello Dennis,
Sorry about what happened. A lot of people aren't aware that sex is a physical activity and love is an emotional activity. It's rare for two people's sexual needs to be matched when their emotional feelings are - it's this mismatch that leads to a lot of issues within any relationship.
Discussing relationship in general is usually fairly easy, but when you get to a specific case, it's like trying to make a bomb while suffering from an extreme case of the shakes - it can be done, but it's likely to blow up in your face unless you're very. very careful.
An old expression 'take it with a touch of salt' meaning be very wary of it. Back in medieval days people sold fresh meat etc. But often, it was just on the verge of going off and not really fresh, adding salt drowned out the slightly off flavour and allowed you to still eat it, thus the expression. A bit like the 'let the buyer beware' expression.
I recently bought a set of DVDs that are the modern Japanese of animation and it's definitely an adult show, but not 'X' rated - it's called Ghost in the Shell - Stand Alone Complex a brilliant action drama series. So I'm very much aware that animation isn't just for kids this would be rated as MA or R for the violence, much like the Terminator movies.
Once proven to be a cheater, you need to be very careful after that, regardless of the gender - people can change, but they can't complain if you keep an eye on them and use a lot of salt when they talk about cheater related things.
Any one remember the Rocky and Bullwinkle show and Mr Peabody - if you don't try having a look at any reruns, and keep an eye out for all the delicious puns and witticisms in it - definitely aimed at adults, even if much of it was aimed at kids.
I never classed South Park as a kids show (I classed it as black humour rubbish aimed at adults) - but some of the TV execs did - and that was the point I was getting at - some people will class an animation as kids without looking at it at all. I think that's what may have happened with the clip shown.
Oh, I have no trouble learning that some idiot programming exec thought it was a kids show, but it clearly wasn't written and created as such. Look at South Park, many see that as a kids show, yet the makers claim it's adult satire - which it is - adult black satire.
Just because it's animation doesn't mean it's for kids - a lot of animation is aimed at adults, and this looks like one of them. More an animated dissertation on a part of philosophy.
Changing subject slightly, as a matter of interest - How old do you think an old maid is supposed to be? I ask as I believe many people today have the wrong idea of what is meant by the term.
Interesting little test - I just did it and got
"Your score is 80
You seem to be putting your eggs in the right basket when it comes to blind dates - or at least you would have the right approach if the opportunity should ever present itself. Going on a blind date is essentially taking a giant leap of faith; you put your life in the hands of the friend, coworker or family member who is playing cupid and setting you up. While you realize that a blind date is risky territory, you pay it the same amount of respect as you would a "normal" date. You try to show consideration for your date, behave responsibly and show the real you…all while giving the date a genuine chance to win your heart. Whether or not you've actually been on any blind dates, this approach will help you hook in that special someone. Or, if you're already taken, it probably means you're a keeper!"
I did find it interesting that some of the questions didn't have answer choices which would be my preferred answer - such as the 'dressed wrong' question - I'd have taken time to explain what I thought we'd do and ask the date if they wanted to go as is, get changed, or change the plan. There were a couple like that where the options offered didn't include what I'd actually do, so I ended up selecting the closest to it.
The test seems to be weighing your level of acceptance of risk factors.
Must be a fundamentalist Hebrew site - they can't be Christian as Christians follow the teachings of Jesus Christ, and he taught tolerance of all things and acceptance of people for themselves, as well as to love you enemies.
That makes sense, your enemies can't do much to hurt you while you've got them having orgasms.
I don't know, I'm just a sucker for them. lol.
Just reached the Beatles doing 'Octopusses Garden.' How's that for a bit of difference to yours.
Got an Amarok playlist running (like Winamp for Linux) - mostly Seeker, some Sam Cooke, Righteous Brothers and some others - had 'Thanks for all the Fish' from Hitchhikers Guide playing when I read the post.
Better to give more info than not enough.
When I started to research what they did in the USA, I found it interesting that the USA - founded by people seeking religious freedom seems to have indulged in worse religious persecution than it's founders suffered. The Mormons aren't the only ones persecuted in the USA during the 18th and 19th century - look up the history on the Puritans, Amish, - oh basically any church not Roman Catholic, Church of England, Baptist or Methodist got persecuted in the USA; despite what the USA Constitution and Bill of Rights say.
I spent some most of the 1990s working with the Australian Dept of Defence as a civilian employee - just a pen pusher.
My understanding was that it was ht CIA who recruited Bin Laden and gave him some training, they alter sought help from the UK and got some sort of help, not sure exactly what it was the Brits did, but I do remember thinking it sounded like they sent a couple of SAS instructors over to train some troops for him. To me, this is a classic case of 'My enemy's enemy, not being a good enough reason to help them.'
Look what's happened every time the western powers have taken someone on board as help a they were the enemy of their enemy - WW2 accepted the USSR and helped them, got the cold war. Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein to fight the Russians - now look at it.
Us Aussies accepted help from the USA and now it's the USA corporate run government trying to screw us over to help their own big business. Ahhggh. If the majority of the USA citizens weren't nice people, we could get a tad upset about it.
Ah yes, a good conspiracy theory never lets the known and proven facts interfere with it. I like the ones where people list a bunch of music stars and claims they were offed by the CIA without the security being breached - yet the CIA couldn't get Castro, even when they had two of his inner staff helping them.
You were unlucky, I had a cousin who had this happen while she was at uni. Two guys started chasing in the same week, it was a while before it was anything but casual with either, but she couldn't make up her mind on which one to drop. Got caught out at a uni function, the guys got together and talked things over. After the function they both walked her home and spent the night double teaming her, according to her, they had a nice threesome going for several months. I was never sure if she actually liked that arrangement or not, her attitude towards it seemed to vary all the time.
, a few old and out of date ones, but most current.
. Yet they've listed it as a new sex story. Makes me wonder if they ever read anything more than the title of the story before they copy it over to their site, or is a case of them branching out into non sex stories. 
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