Posts by Jolisa
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I think some of the would-be clients might feel demeaned when it came time to hand over their credit cards.
I wonder if it's not so much demeaned you'd feel, as "Crap. Yet another service I'm apparently paying a woman-tax for, since it costs me twice as much as a bloke would pay for the same thing (see also haircuts, shoes, underwear, dry cleaning etc)."
Factor in the pay-inequity pink-collar dollar and make that three times as much.
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Syzygy - a print magazine featuring pictorial stories of gay erotica, aimed at women
Ooooh, yes ma'am, that is right up my alley. Astro-porn for the ladies!
Consisting of, presumably, "the nearly straight-line configuration of three celestial bodies [...] in a gravitational system", i.e. a trio of incredibly hot astronomer guys doing it, or trying to, on a waterbed.
I'll just shuffle over and join David H in the obscure tastes corner...
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People paying people for sex = degrading to people?
As suggested by some of the earlier comments here, actually paying for it could in many cases mean upgrading, rather than degrading.
Also, belated respect to Mr Challinor for his poetic contribution. Glad I wasn't the only one to spot the stealthy budgie/judgy rhyme. But possibly the only one to be immediately haunted by the mental image of a certain MP in his budgie-judgypants.
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"No touching the pussy"
Word! That is just wrong.
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It is a weird and heady feeling, to be able to vanquish inconvenience or manifest a glamorous treat merely by waving a wallet around. Hey presto! Instead of automatically choosing the cheapest version of a thing, or simply not buying it at all, because it's not even a choice.
Our car broke down this week. Cost to fix it: same as my entire net worth when I first moved to the US 15 years ago.
I blinked, but I paid. Because, pricey as it was, it was lower than the psychic and logistical cost of losing the freedom of movement I've since become accustomed to. Especially in a week where I'm in sole charge, with deadlines and appointments hither and yon.
Time is money, yes, but crucially, money buys you time. (Well, and helps put the nice mechanic's kids through college.)
[Tries hard to feel bad about using money magic; fails]
It was instructive to walk smack-bang into the plate-glass window of my current relative privilege, though. At the moment I have more money than time, so I can afford the trade-off. But this city is full of people who can't, and who Get Stuff Done regardless. I miss my harden-up skills, and hope they'll still be there when I am once again rich in time and poor in money.
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FD H8R
What the hell kind of libertarian asshole hates the Fire Department? Oh. Answered my own question there.
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I'd commit suicide if I ever found myself in that situation.
You know, I'm not sure if that would bring the game to a shuddering halt, or just raise the stakes. They're terribly competitive, these extroverts.
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I think I've done this myself to Jolisa Gracewood on more than one occasion. Sorry about that, dude.
Nah, that was a highlight in my lifetime album of Shy People Conversations Past Midnight. And I liked the way our socially ept partners eventually did all that polite fake yawning and barely controlled eye-rolling and then going-upstairs-to-bed thing so we could get on with the Introvert Babbling Spiral. It was very kind and socially ept of them.
(Note to Emma: apparently you just keep talking till you're the last two standing. Takes nerves of steel if you're the sensitive type, though. I hardly ever manage it myself).
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I really feel for those people (of whom I know several) who get a very placid bub first time and are so thrilled that they rush into another pregnancy mere months later only to be hit by a howling horror the second time around.
Ah yes, the phenomenon that a friend of mine dubbed "the sucker baby."
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- crafting, making things with my hands makes me smile.
Sue, your jewellery is beautiful - it makes me smile as well. In general (this goes for Emma, too) I'm just wildly impressed that the creative spirit is so willing when the flesh is weak. Brava.