TV stuff: I can't see clearly now, the rain is here, but let me show you under my coat little girl.

[seryn]

I've been watching MacGyver from the Netflix streaming. I'd almost forgotten why I thought the show was awesome. I especially like the prologue stories before the main story starts. Those are tight.

Funny post on being way older than everyone around you: Life as an old fart This was locked, sorry.

Still watching the Mythbusters streaming stuff, but even though I'm in season 1 still, it's being taken over by the trio of "can we make this more lame?" I really dislike them. Not because they're not smart... we've seen evidence that Grant's really great at electronics (though we're not at Grant season yet) and Tory has this subtle vibe around explosives and guns that makes you think he had experience. No idea what Kari was good at. But they don't play to those strengths, ever. No one on their team thinks anything through. It's sort of the anti-science whenever they're on board.

Strangely, Simon IM'd and told me I was cool. He was indicating a comparison with some other thing, but I didn't take it that way. I said, "Oh. I will get a sweater."

Simon has me watching the new Doctor Who show. It's available streaming from Netflix, well, sort of available in that it's like years behind what the BBC is actually showing. It's BBC, BBC-America, SyFy, Netflix. And it seems to take an extra year at each locus. I don't like Doctor Who. This incarnation seems vaguely tolerable in that if I didn't already have preconceptions causing there to be dislike to overcome before I even watched one, I might enjoy it. But I find that it's too scary. I loathe time travel. And I hate incompetence. The very first episode I saw, the Doctor seemed like he had a clue. The Tardis ended up where/when it was supposed to be, the people who were assigned various tasks, although idiotic, were aptly suited for those tasks. Normally, in the Doctor Who episodes I've seen, filmed back when they used actual film and the world wasn't all the way in color yet, The Doctor is a fuckwitted moron and the people who travel with him are cretins. So this is a tremendous improvement. (To clarify, I'm watching the bow-tie current doctor, not the one who was on Weakest Link and sang his themesong (which is instrumental). I watched a couple of those and had this tremendous desire to hurt myself to make it stop.)

There's a restaurant here that puts giant homemade egg noodles in tom yum soup. It's fantastic and I'm kind of wondering why more places don't do that instead of those nasty looking mushrooms. I really hate those. Not just because I hate mushrooms, which I do, but these always look like small penises. And it makes me wonder why anyone thought they might be worth eating.

I watched a Good Eats recently where Alton Brown cooked with ramen noodles. I have had issues with him for a while now, but is there anyone who doesn't see that as a shark-jumping moment?

My home is not arranged correctly. It seems like I should be able to fold and put away clothes while watching TV, but we don't like having electronics in the bedroom (so there's no TV and no computer in there, there's an alarm clock but that's it.) Then I'm wondering why we have clothes in the bedroom. I don't change clothes after sleeping, I change clothes after bathing. So it seems like a small room that has no closets and just room for the bed and a couple hooks for robes would be ideal. There would be a room for clothing storage elsewhere. Preferably adjacent to the viewing room. It just doesn't make sense that sleeping and dressing are conflated. It's probably leftover from when we were children and bedrooms were where we kept our personal stuff. It's probably also leftover from when people had families. My whole apartment is my space for my stuff. Simon uses the whole apartment as his space for his stuff too. So why does this have to be like that. I will have to think on it. It might make a difference in terms of what I'd like in an apartment.

There's some really stressful stuff going on here this week. Not about me. And I can't really talk about it. So I'm mostly trying to keep going since an engine stall from this height could be crash-inducing.

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[pj]

Not just because I hate mushrooms, which I do, but these always look like small penises. And it makes me wonder why anyone thought they might be worth eating.

Well nobody wants the small ones - for anything. :P~

[corrvin]

Hey! More than a mouthful gets messy.

[seryn]

um. isn't that what the less endowed say to make themselves feel better, like flat-chested romance authors saying breasts shouldn't be bigger than a handful and somehow all their hero characters don't manage to have hands big enough to palm a beachball?

[pj]

And really ~ it is all about the orgasm - big, small, in-between ~ get the O and it's all good.

I am so very amused how a paragraphs long entry went to here. I blame myself, but the part I quoted just cracked me up!

The link you posted about old farts is a protected entry.

[seryn]

Oops on the link. It was about something I remember from 25 years ago the name of which was repurposed to something now and how the people 20 years younger than me (and the poster) keep saying the old information is stupid/useless because it's about stuff only dead people care about.

I'm not sure how they got from "I wasn't alive back then." to "Everyone who was alive then is dead now." It astonishes me, frankly.

Tangential on the topic of dead people:
When people talk about how sad it was that Dumbledore died, I point out that he could have met Abraham Lincoln. When you realize more than half the world could not have met Kennedy before he was killed in office, it's hard to be sad about Dumbledore. Seems like he had more than his share of time, actually.

And yes I was amused by the one line that got all the attention. But whatever works. It got you to comment and someone to reply, like an actual conversation... meaning I'm not here talking to myself.

I don't like it when people say "more than a handful is too much!" because it makes a lot of people feel bad about something they cannot control. I also have really tiny hands. I get that the opposing viewpoint gets a lot of attention, the one where larger boobage makes for easier erogenous zones and revs up the male brain before anything even gets started, so we shouldn't harp on that lest the small breasted women feel inadequate.

[pj]

Dumbledore DIED???????????????

*laughs*

It's hard to miss big boobs. I mean really - there they are all sticking out and stuff. But I don't think acknowledging small breasts are not useless is bad, either. At my age is it not a focus for me, but when I was younger ~ there was a direct and stated correlation between small breasts and lack of sex appeal, lack of femininity, lack of arousal for the woman, etc. So a few phrases to combat that were a-ok by me. :P~ (I used to have a t-shirt that said "the smaller the grapes the sweeter the wine".)

A small penis is harder to spot when clothed than small breasts are, though a well endowed man is fairly easy to notice ... with most pants styles. And wow --- hahahaha this conversation.

[seryn]

I like the phrasing, "a handful is plenty". Because it's welcoming to the less endowed woman and doesn't say anything about how he'd needed to phone a friend to have enough hands to cover second base with previous girlfriends.

"Too much" derides someone. Phrasing.

Now we have attitudes that a woman who needs to wear a bra is too large. The ideals of beauty are androgynous teens. "No one wants a fat woman." And the magazines and television show women with exposed collar bones you can use to dock a sail boat and say she needs to watch what she eats. I was at the tail end of the voluptuous is beautiful era. I think most of the models now look like they need a sandwich more than they need clothes.

However.... I don't think I'd want to have that t-shirt you had. They crush grapes and combine them with cartloads of other grapes to make wine. It makes me want to cross my arms protectively just thinking about it.

[pj]

LOL. Well Twiggy was in the 60's, so I don't think modelling is to blame. And ideals have never really been androgynous teens. Look at Hollywood and TV - boobs! :P~

It is society judging women in ways it does not judge men. Jokes may occur about penis size (especially among men), but it is truly believed that "it's not the size that matters, it is how you use it". I call bullshit on that one. For normal range of size? True. For exceptionally small? Um, no.

I was 20 y/o when I had that shirt. I didn't plan on wearing it much at all because it was pretty bold for me at the time. (Now I am so different - I love my "This body will be a corpse" t-shirt and wear it often!) However - that t-shirt really pissed off people, so then I wore frequently until it wore out because it pissed ME off that others got upset over it. Heh, I always did have that streak in me. ;-)

[seryn]

I don't know about the whole size thing for male equipment. But it seems like the right tool for the right job. So a man who has exceptionally small resources should cultivate other skills and choose women who prefer oral or manual sex.

I would not opt for that as a preference myself.

But I do believe that paralyzed men might still like to eat women out.

[pj]

My preference, too, is traditional penis in vagina with a decent-sized penis. Have had numerous sizes, most work, one exceptionally small one really really did not. I mean yay! hurrah! for hand and mouth, but not instead of actually fucking unless like you mention there is paralysis.

[pj]

Done properly it is messy regardless. *whistles*

[sciarra]

Hang in there.