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Good friends of ours live less than a block from where this animal was killed.
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wait, how does this work? you can own a sex doll and not have to pay to fuck it for the hour.
and hands up who wants the job of cleaning the dolls?
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I'll go check it out and report back later...degenerasian wrote: ↑Mon Aug 27, 2018 3:43 pmwait, how does this work? you can own a sex doll and not have to pay to fuck it for the hour.
and hands up who wants the job of cleaning the dolls?
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Those dolls are extremely expensive! Or maybe if you have a doll, it's exciting to cheat on it with a doll in a brothel? I really can't fathom any of this, but if it makes people happy, whatever. Probably makes for less angry maladjusted people who can't communicate with women.degenerasian wrote: ↑Mon Aug 27, 2018 3:43 pmwait, how does this work? you can own a sex doll and not have to pay to fuck it for the hour.
and hands up who wants the job of cleaning the dolls?
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The part of the article that gets me is that a client doesn't even have to interact with front desk staff. Signup online, go through the back door, put money down (or online payment?) and go straight to the room.The Sybian wrote: ↑Mon Aug 27, 2018 4:37 pmThose dolls are extremely expensive! Or maybe if you have a doll, it's exciting to cheat on it with a doll in a brothel? I really can't fathom any of this, but if it makes people happy, whatever. Probably makes for less angry maladjusted people who can't communicate with women.degenerasian wrote: ↑Mon Aug 27, 2018 3:43 pmwait, how does this work? you can own a sex doll and not have to pay to fuck it for the hour.
and hands up who wants the job of cleaning the dolls?
I find that makes maladjusted people more maladjusted. I don't know about you guys but there was a thrill to watching porn as a teenager. The risk of getting caught. Or picking out the tape from the video store and having to a) make a membership and b) face the clerk (especially if it was a woman) and c) getting that tape home in a black bag. Hiding tapes and playboys in closets or under couches at the house was half the fun.
Even if you were to get an escort today, there's that thrill of texting them and going to the location, doing some shady or getting caught.
This is all too easy!
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Well, we can disagree on this, Degen. But for me 100% of the fun was watching the porn and rubbing one out.degenerasian wrote: ↑Mon Aug 27, 2018 4:49 pmThe part of the article that gets me is that a client doesn't even have to interact with front desk staff. Signup online, go through the back door, put money down (or online payment?) and go straight to the room.The Sybian wrote: ↑Mon Aug 27, 2018 4:37 pmThose dolls are extremely expensive! Or maybe if you have a doll, it's exciting to cheat on it with a doll in a brothel? I really can't fathom any of this, but if it makes people happy, whatever. Probably makes for less angry maladjusted people who can't communicate with women.degenerasian wrote: ↑Mon Aug 27, 2018 3:43 pmwait, how does this work? you can own a sex doll and not have to pay to fuck it for the hour.
and hands up who wants the job of cleaning the dolls?
I find that makes maladjusted people more maladjusted. I don't know about you guys but there was a thrill to watching porn as a teenager. The risk of getting caught. Or picking out the tape from the video store and having to a) make a membership and b) face the clerk (especially if it was a woman) and c) getting that tape home in a black bag. Hiding tapes and playboys in closets or under couches at the house was half the fun.
Even if you were to get an escort today, there's that thrill of texting them and going to the location, doing some shady or getting caught.
This is all too easy!
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Yeah - the idea of getting caught didn't excite me.sancarlos wrote: ↑Tue Aug 28, 2018 9:32 amWell, we can disagree on this, Degen. But for me 100% of the fun was watching the porn and rubbing one out.degenerasian wrote: ↑Mon Aug 27, 2018 4:49 pm... I don't know about you guys but there was a thrill to watching porn as a teenager. The risk of getting caught. Or picking out the tape from the video store and having to a) make a membership and b) face the clerk (especially if it was a woman) and c) getting that tape home in a black bag. Hiding tapes and playboys in closets or under couches at the house was half the fun.
Even if you were to get an escort today, there's that thrill of texting them and going to the location, doing some shady or getting caught.
This is all too easy!
But pictures of breasts? Those excited me.
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I'm not trying to train maladjusted men to improve their social skills. I'm hoping guys that turn to groups like Incel and channel their frustration towards hostility to women and society can vent their energy into banging a fuck doll rather than shooting up a street, stalking women or cyberbullying.degenerasian wrote: ↑Mon Aug 27, 2018 4:49 pm I find that makes maladjusted people more maladjusted. I don't know about you guys but there was a thrill to watching porn as a teenager. The risk of getting caught. Or picking out the tape from the video store and having to a) make a membership and b) face the clerk (especially if it was a woman) and c) getting that tape home in a black bag. Hiding tapes and playboys in closets or under couches at the house was half the fun.
Even if you were to get an escort today, there's that thrill of texting them and going to the location, doing some shady or getting caught.
This is all too easy!
I'm with SCK and Pruitt, I can't relate to the thrill of getting caught or facing a Blockbuster cashier. Fear of getting caught or facing a clerk prevented me from renting porn or sneaking (more) into the house as a an adolescent.
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I remember the awkward call home from university the day my mother found my porn stash. It was the 80s, so nothing that would be considered too extreme by today's standards. (Penthouse was my thing), but still...
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Maybe "thrill" is the wrong word but part of life is facing fears. Doing things for the first time. And accepting your kinks. Not going through a back door.
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Back on topic
If you consider all the cleaning costs, $80 per "use" seems like they will be losing money. I mean, they must be providing clean sheets on the bed, clean clothes for the doll, somehow cleaning the doll, including hair?, plus all the other usual business costs.Can't be much profit there if they are doing what they should be doing.
If you consider all the cleaning costs, $80 per "use" seems like they will be losing money. I mean, they must be providing clean sheets on the bed, clean clothes for the doll, somehow cleaning the doll, including hair?, plus all the other usual business costs.Can't be much profit there if they are doing what they should be doing.
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Low labor costs?
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Maybe they bought the dolls used?
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Toronto City Hall yesterday.
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I hadn't heard of this until I read about it in the Post a couple of minutes ago.
Pop Up Restaurant In Toronto - Diners Sit In "Terrariums"
$100 for the food alone, and $150 to rent the dome.
This has angered a number of anti-poverty groups as the location - under a crumbling downtown highway - had been a homeless encampment until recently.
The opening paragraph of the article reads like one of Stefan's (Bill Hader's SNL character) reviews...
Pop Up Restaurant In Toronto - Diners Sit In "Terrariums"
$100 for the food alone, and $150 to rent the dome.
This has angered a number of anti-poverty groups as the location - under a crumbling downtown highway - had been a homeless encampment until recently.
The opening paragraph of the article reads like one of Stefan's (Bill Hader's SNL character) reviews...
One of Toronto’s hottest new restaurants is Dinner With A View. Located under Gardiner Expressway, this pop-up experience has everything: giant heated “terrariums” surrounding diners in flora, a celebrity chef preparing a “3-course blind menu” and, now, organized protests.
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They have to have known it would sound like that right?
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I'd imagine so. Otherwise, the Stefan pieces have just become that much funnier.
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The only thing missing in that is a reference to "little people."
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Riding roombas.Nonlinear FC wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2019 12:30 pm The only thing missing in that is a reference to "little people."
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Know its old but did you do this? Been looking for any excuse to drag the family to Canada. Realistically will probably be Toronto or Vancouver but with that dougj could probably visit anywhere but I'm just hungry for soup right now. Lemme know.
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Missed the soup festival - but there are things happening here pretty much all Summer. If it ever arrives.
https://www.blogto.com/sports_play/2015 ... n_toronto/
(US Dollar currently worth $1.34 - so a top bowl of soup shouldn't cost more than $6!)
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Casa Loma - in the heart of Toronto.
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If you go due west from Toronto along its latitudinal line, you end up in southern Oregon. Not really The North.
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Hm. I think Oregon is the north. It's certainly the northwest.
Anyway, you go the other way, and I think Toronto lines up with (southern) Maine. Also pretty northy.
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Part of the reason I brought that up is that my uncle who lives in Toronto used to point out to me that it was about the same longitude as Casper, Wyoming. I used southern Oregon because I don’t think very many people are familiar with Casper. .Steve of phpBB wrote: ↑Thu Jun 06, 2019 11:20 amHm. I think Oregon is the north. It's certainly the northwest.
Anyway, you go the other way, and I think Toronto lines up with (southern) Maine. Also pretty northy.
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It is a very Toronto comment.sancarlos wrote: ↑Thu Jun 06, 2019 12:36 pmPart of the reason I brought that up is that my uncle who lives in Toronto used to point out to me that it was about the same longitude as Casper, Wyoming. I used southern Oregon because I don’t think very many people are familiar with Casper. .Steve of phpBB wrote: ↑Thu Jun 06, 2019 11:20 amHm. I think Oregon is the north. It's certainly the northwest.
Anyway, you go the other way, and I think Toronto lines up with (southern) Maine. Also pretty northy.
Torontonians tend to be sensitive when Americans make jokes about our weather. Always pointing out things like the fact that we are further south than Seattle.
Next Torontonian you meet, mention how cold it gets and I will guarantee you that he or she will mention that our weather is better than Chicago and other northern American cities. (Especially Buffalo).
But the weather is still shit.
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I somehow missed the discussion about weather. My wife has a significant family presence up in the 'burbs around Toronto (mostly Ajax and Mississauga). I've spent a decent amount of time up there and I can tell you, the summers are gorgeous, but I've also been up there in July when the high was in the 50s and the wind made it feel more like 40s (we were out in lake country, to be fair.)
I was expecting this thread to contain a run-down of the city after the Kevin Durant injury. I've been out of town and while I watched that game, I didn't bore myself with reading all the hot takes in the aftermath.
A couple hundred people are quickly shushed by surrounding fans and the players on the court, yet everyone with an ax to grind running around "See, we told you Canadians can be assholes!"
Like, fucking no shit they can be "assholes." Try going to a US-CAN hockey game. It's not like they enjoy being talked down to and ridiculed as the US's hat all the time. But here's the thing: They will give you shit while they're handing you a beer and offering to take a pic of you and your kid. Canadians can't help being generally good-natured, yet passionate about their teams (and their country.)
I was expecting this thread to contain a run-down of the city after the Kevin Durant injury. I've been out of town and while I watched that game, I didn't bore myself with reading all the hot takes in the aftermath.
A couple hundred people are quickly shushed by surrounding fans and the players on the court, yet everyone with an ax to grind running around "See, we told you Canadians can be assholes!"
Like, fucking no shit they can be "assholes." Try going to a US-CAN hockey game. It's not like they enjoy being talked down to and ridiculed as the US's hat all the time. But here's the thing: They will give you shit while they're handing you a beer and offering to take a pic of you and your kid. Canadians can't help being generally good-natured, yet passionate about their teams (and their country.)
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It was so overblown... but any time you have 20 ESPN honks on site, they need something to chatter about.Nonlinear FC wrote: ↑Mon Jun 17, 2019 12:22 pm I somehow missed the discussion about weather. My wife has a significant family presence up in the 'burbs around Toronto (mostly Ajax and Mississauga). I've spent a decent amount of time up there and I can tell you, the summers are gorgeous, but I've also been up there in July when the high was in the 50s and the wind made it feel more like 40s (we were out in lake country, to be fair.)
I was expecting this thread to contain a run-down of the city after the Kevin Durant injury. I've been out of town and while I watched that game, I didn't bore myself with reading all the hot takes in the aftermath.
A couple hundred people are quickly shushed by surrounding fans and the players on the court, yet everyone with an ax to grind running around "See, we told you Canadians can be assholes!"
Like, fucking no shit they can be "assholes." Try going to a US-CAN hockey game. It's not like they enjoy being talked down to and ridiculed as the US's hat all the time. But here's the thing: They will give you shit while they're handing you a beer and offering to take a pic of you and your kid. Canadians can't help being generally good-natured, yet passionate about their teams (and their country.)
It's 1:40 now, the festivities were supposed to be at their peak at city hall (where like 150,000 have been packed in since 7 am. A Drake show, speeches etc.
The Police did not do an exemplary job of planning this parade - 3 miles long and 3 hours in already!
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Kawhi Leonard's Uncle - and apparently his confidant - was standing behind Kyle Lowry chanting "5 More Years!" and Toronto sports media has lost its mind.
That's be awesome - but I am bearing in mind that these guys have been slamming back champagne since 10:00!
That's be awesome - but I am bearing in mind that these guys have been slamming back champagne since 10:00!
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well, they have been planning the parade for decades.
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I'll tell you - the Leafs don;t get this sized crowd - certainly not this many first and second generation Canadians.degenerasian wrote: ↑Mon Jun 17, 2019 12:53 pmwell, they have been planning the parade for decades.
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Kawhi is obviously hard to read, but I think it’s more likely he signs a short-term deal if he stays in Toronto. Something like a 2-year deal where the second year is a player option. That would give him the flexibility to make a run at a repeat while also keeping the door open to go to LA while he’s still in his prime. By all accounts, Kawhi really loves Southern California, especially San Diego.Pruitt wrote: ↑Mon Jun 17, 2019 12:48 pm Kawhi Leonard's Uncle - and apparently his confidant - was standing behind Kyle Lowry chanting "5 More Years!" and Toronto sports media has lost its mind.
That's be awesome - but I am bearing in mind that these guys have been slamming back champagne since 10:00!
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A co-worker lives east of Toronto and she's in Houston this week. She had to go visit a client in Austin, so I volunteered to drive her since she's never driven here and I just love almost any kind of road trip. So it was pretty cool to be able to watch that with her at lunch today.Pruitt wrote: ↑Mon Jun 17, 2019 12:00 pm Just look at my city!
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I saw the footage - it was just Lowry and the Uncle being obnoxious. But the tape is being parsed like the Zapruder footage.Joe K wrote: ↑Mon Jun 17, 2019 12:58 pmKawhi is obviously hard to read, but I think it’s more likely he signs a short-term deal if he stays in Toronto. Something like a 2-year deal where the second year is a player option. That would give him the flexibility to make a run at a repeat while also keeping the door open to go to LA while he’s still in his prime. By all accounts, Kawhi really loves Southern California, especially San Diego.Pruitt wrote: ↑Mon Jun 17, 2019 12:48 pm Kawhi Leonard's Uncle - and apparently his confidant - was standing behind Kyle Lowry chanting "5 More Years!" and Toronto sports media has lost its mind.
That's be awesome - but I am bearing in mind that these guys have been slamming back champagne since 10:00!
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