Posts made by Too Old For This

@aria I got one on the tip of my ring finger sometime this morning. I did not realize until I got to work and saw that I was bleeding on my keyboard.

@ganymede I was young. And stupid. And there was about to be a fight throwing down. I slammed a shot of it with 'the posse'. Never again. Most foul tasting horrid sewerwater of a liquor I have ever tried.

But I do hear Blue is pretty smooth and tasty.

I have too many 'likes' to list... I will drink anything, really, with two exceptions.

I am super sensitive to beers and thus extremely picky about it.
I will never touch Johnny Walker Black again so long as I live. Or die. Never. NEVER EVER EVER.

@wretched Stop putting my brain on the internet!!!

@silverfox KITTIES!!!! They look fabulous!

@crawfish I may have sniped your Etsy and ordered before the post was up. I must have more of the artwork!

@aria Backed! I just threw $30 at the new season of MST3K, too. SEASON 13, baby!

@crawfish She's gorgeous! Really, SUPER well done!

@crawfish Was that Joscelin?? Or non-Arxian just plain awesome?

@Ganymede I concur, cat-lawyer-bot

@Cupcake I'm a cat person, though I would also play a dog-based one.

@Crawfish I would say 'shut up and take my money' but you already have it. XD

@cupcake I can't +1 that hard enough.

@ominous I had a half Maine Coon that would try to squeeze his giant fluffy ass into my puzzle boxes. Not the regular sized ones either. Those little 4x4 inch boxes for the mini puzzles. The other one we had at the time (normal tabby ASH) had a thing for tissue boxes.

@ortallus said in Random funny:

Yes

I Object! There's no Tenchi Muyo or Ranma 1/2 in there!

The sea battle. That scene was EPIC and BADASS. I laughed multiple times, shrieked with glee so loud I startled my cats AND my son, and even teared up once or twice. I am so glad for everyone that was there, and for the staff that ran it. You guys are all rockstars and that was possibly one of the best events I've ever been in!

One of my elder cats was a Heckin' Chonker for awhile. He's now down to A Fine Boi... but with a paunch from his Chonker days. XD Old kitties are fun.

@greenflashlight So. Doctors, Hospitals, Radiology... doesn't matter, they will bill you as the patient because if their scare tactics work, they get money from you AND the insurance company and good luck getting it back once they've been paid.

@greenflashlight Everything @Aria said. And yes. Which is sad, since they are no less virile for having a vasectomy. The procedure changes neither sperm count nor motility. It just temporarily keeps you from having an accidental baby that could, I don't know, cost their SO their health, or worse, their life. Or could prevent a woman that is raped from also having to undergo the trauma of then finding out she is pregnant and having to decide what to do with the baby (and the insane amount of mental/emotional trauma that will accompany ANY of the choices she may have). Or could almost entirely erase preteen/teen pregnancy.

And it would have a cascading effect, too! Less unwanted pregnancies = less children being run through 'the system' = more attention and funding able to be given to those that are in 'the system' = ability to be more discerning in who is allowed to foster/adopt as regulations and requirements are able to be more strictly enforced... and it keeps going. Fewer children overall means less people needing welfare to care for their 5 kids. Means fewer kids in school/childcare so THOSE regulations are able to be more strictly enforced AND teachers are now able to give more attention to the kids in class. Fewer mouths to feed = lower likelihood of defaulting on bills of any kind. Millions of women no longer feeling like they have to put their education on hold so they can raise a child, or like they have to sacrifice large chunks of their life so they can try to do both at the same time.

It goes on and on and on.

@ganymede That's what I was saying. I wasn't advocating tube-tying over vasectomies, just showcasing how much easier it is for men to get it than women, and yet men will scream bloody murder at the idea of having it done like it will end their lives for forever.

To go 'feminist' for a moment... its worse than that. Anti-abortion movements are a way to showcase and prove that women aren't people. We are merely objects and incubators for the 'precious life' inside us. This is a way for men to keep power over us, to control us.

A man can walk into a doctor's office with no symptoms, no issues, and get a vasectomy with zero problems because its his right to choose whether or not he wants to have kids.

A woman has to be screened by OB/GYN, has to under go psychological screening, and can still be told that she can't have her tubes tied because of the possible future children she might be giving up. Even when its a matter of her health over those potential future children, she has to jump through flaming hoops for the procedure because she's told her body isn't her own, it belongs to those future children she might one day have.

Women are not viewed as individuals with rights and needs, we are treated as objects for men to control and use as they see fit, including telling us that we have to put the lives of fetuses that don't even exist yet above our own health and welfare.

But God forbid we infringe upon the rights of men like ours have been since... forever. With an easily reversible outpatient procedure covered under health insurance that requires less recovery time than the COVID vaccine.