i'm in japan and nobody is wearing a mask anymore, but the trains are packed again and a lot of people are getting covid, so we'll see how this shakes out. (n/t) (exodus) (19:59:39 09/14/23 est)
well i didn't get covid but i did get the flu! geh (n/t) (exodus) (07:38:02 09/26/23 est)
i meant "geh" like a sound effect... i'm now remembering internet weirdos used to use it as a slur (n/t) (exodus) (07:38:42 09/26/23 est)
dang. didn't people wear masks on the commute in japan pre-covid? (n/t) (paleface) (14:40:41 09/30/23 est)
how did you know it wasn't covid but just not testing positive? (aerisdead) (17:58:15 10/24/23 est)
i didn't know, really, but had no way to find out! i didn't test positive when i got home either, with a different test, so i suspect it wasn't covid. also the symptoms were so flu-like. fever, runny nose, dizziness, sinus stuff. of course, i have never knowingly had covid, so maybe all those symptoms are there, but my sense is covid has more stuff than that. (n/t) (exodus) (19:19:22 10/26/23 est)
one more check (n/t) (paleface) (23:34:34 07/27/23 est)
okey doke (n/t) (paleface) (23:34:43 07/27/23 est)
sadf (n/t) (paleface) (23:34:59 07/27/23 est)
testing (n/t) (paleface) (23:19:48 07/25/23 est)
yahwar (n/t) (paleface) (02:41:03 07/26/23 est)
hoop (n/t) (paleface) (02:41:14 07/26/23 est)
how is life treaing everyone? what's an update from your life lately? i'm hosting a human library program at my library this evening featuring a drag queen, college professors, and someone from our lgbtqia+ resource center. we're getting a lot of complaints from the public because popular opinion is we're doing a "drag queen story hour." it's actually a program aimed at adults and will be more academic in nature. people sure get angry! (n/t) (jeurja) (15:36:38 06/26/23 est)
did video games peak with the wonderswan? (n/t) (attacker) (18:57:04 05/31/23 est)
does final fight cd have a better soundtrack than the arcade game? (n/t) (ponder) (19:32:48 12/09/22 est)
it's been 2.5 years since i posted "who all got that coronavirus" and i still haven't gotten it, against all odds, even when my partner had it for two weeks. weird. (n/t) (exodus) (13:38:44 07/15/22 est)
make a new vaccine with his bloodddddddd (like vampiface like) (00:15:12 08/18/22 est)
although neither he nor his wife, an emergency room pharmacist, nor their 5-year-old son (although who can really tell with young kids i guess) have gotten it as far as i know, so i suppose he's pretty sure i'm the one being silly at this point. which is possible but it's also better than getting/giving covid so whatever. (n/t) (paleface) (00:25:47 08/18/22 est)
wellll it's really unlikely we'll ever get out of pandemic mode here, except to go into endemic mode. they're apparently ramping down buying vaccines, too. i did manage to get a second booster shot though, which ought to help a little bit at least. i'm about to travel to pax and tgs so the likelihood of my being exposed to covid is about 100%. (n/t) (exodus) (17:16:43 08/18/22 est)
i've still dodged it, double-boosted. i'm hopeful that the improved booster(s) in future will finally do the job, but who knows, because it's obvious most people aren't going to bother to get it (and as noted, the us is going to charge people for 'em) even with re-infection so possible, so i suspect we'll never really reach a point where it's unlikely i'll catch it if i choose to live a normal, "pre-pandemic" life. after that short window last summer before the variants really started kicking in i haven't eaten in restaurants and i still mask to go inside anywhere. i don't see any problem with that, but it'll get boring again in winter when i can't eat out on patios? (aerisdead) (16:43:32 08/22/22 est)
to my knowledge, i have not had it, nor has my wife or daughter. my son got it, though, but he was fully vaxxed and it was a pretty mild case. covid. :( (n/t) (jeurja) (12:57:34 08/22/22 est)
just to update, i still haven't had it to where i knew about it. also skipped over the flu despite my partner having it, so... not sure what's going on here. my body in general is for sure getting much older (wrist damage, arthritic knees) but my immune system appears to be functioning on hyperdrive somehow. (n/t) (exodus) (18:10:16 04/24/23 est)
testing ssl (n/t) (paleface) (22:33:30 09/20/20 est)
so who all got that coronavirus (exodus) (18:53:49 03/11/20 est)
you know how sometimes you think that no one else ever thinks about you? like there's no reason for them to be reminded of you. well, i just want you to know every time i do a long, unbroken poop, i think of exodus. (n/t) (aerisdead) (14:36:10 02/21/20 est)
posts on this board go back to 2014. nothing changes around here. (n/t) (tekcop) (16:45:46 01/08/20 est)
it's too hot, that's what i think (n/t) (exodus) (18:45:20 09/26/19 est)
have any of you thought about me lately? (n/t) (vomit whore) (21:01:20 03/31/19 est)
the google translate app's camera translation doesn't recognize my terrible katakana in the logo ; ) (n/t) (paleface) (18:07:23 01/29/19 est)
it's weird that posts here have been sitting for like, up to five years. hang on i guess this will bump the bottom one off though. (n/t) (aerisdead) (19:35:42 11/30/18 est)
this part of the forum was a lot more active in 2015! but i guess so was the whole rest of the forum. sometimes i wonder if new people would help or hurt this place. (n/t) (exodus) (08:07:49 08/01/18 est)
removed the userid the board would stick in an html comment in posts --it was a partially encrypted version of the user's ip address. (n/t) (paleface) (22:28:18 06/13/18 est)
all last week i had a really good run of just straight, unbroken single poops. it was weird! i was thinking, "maybe i'm healthy right now," but maybe that's not what it means! i'm talking like one solid straight piece. in a way it was cool, but in another way it's like... when you turn around and see what's there, there's no ambiguity, because it's just all there to see. (n/t) (exodus) (14:09:42 12/28/16 est)
hello darkness my old friend... (comic-kaze) (16:28:31 02/16/16 est)
you guys are slacking, here's the first post of 2016 on this black space! (n/t) (tekcop) (16:58:21 01/13/16 est)
how graphically do you talk about sex with your male friends? i feel like between men the conversation never really goes further than "we fucked" because we're all weirdly uncomfortable with our own and other men's sexuality in "public." like if you hear about the things another man did with his dick you'll catch gay (this interpretation is reductive.) so sometimes i want to talk about sex, but i don't want to introduce it to the conversation among men in case it makes the other man/men uncomfortable? or in case it gets discussed in a gross sexist way! being a man is weird (n/t) (aerisdead) (15:19:20 12/10/15 est)
i would say it's mostly a question of respecting my wife's privacy? i'm not uncomfortable talking, or hearing about a friend's sex life (man or woman), but when i've been with the same person for a decade and a half, it's pretty obvious who i'm talking about, and given that my friends know tara makes it feel weird to implicitly divulge stuff about what she's into to people she's maybe no entirely comfortable sharing it with. (n/t) (popasmear) (15:28:38 12/10/15 est)
not at all, because thinking about sex is pretty gross for me in any capacity if i consider it for more than a few seconds. that said, because i find it all pretty gross, i am not *more* grossed out when someone wants to talk about specific things. well, that's not totally true, because once a friend friend was telling me about how much she enjoyed getting dominated by this bro that had been sending her dick picks, but that's a different kind of grossed out. also i feel like bros talk about specific sex stuff kind of a lot. so like, i don't want to talk about sex myself, but if someone else does it doesn't bother or upset me. (n/t) (exodus) (17:30:00 12/10/15 est)
i talk about sex and sexuality quite a bit but it's rarely ever super specific. if someone asks what i'm into i'm pretty comfortable with divulging it in a sort of generic way, for instance "i've always been into..." instead of "vani and i..." because then i feel like i'm breaking into something personal between us as opposed to just stating my general preferences. lately i've become a bit more open about talking about more specific things. i have two very close friends i've known for a long time and they have a somewhat open relationship/swing. not like they are out at the clubs every night picking people up but it is something they do together from time to time. it's real easy to sit around while we're hanging out with them and discuss some of that stuff. it's rarely very graphic and generally focuses on the more humorous mishaps that can happen but because they are very open and comfortable it becomes easier for us. that's really the only outlet where things get discussed in any sort of real detail. (n/t) (twelvest) (21:45:21 12/11/15 est)
you know the first time i was on this forum, i hadn't even been with a girl before. it's like i grew up in this place. i don't talk to my male friends about it except for one married childhood buddy who sometimes complained to me about how marriage was not what it was cracked up to be and he didn't "get enough". he's now getting it on a regular basis as they are trying for their first kid. i will talk graphically about it to female friends however, it seems more natural and they laugh along with me and there's always the hint of sexual tension which is fun. (n/t) (comic-kaze) (16:31:11 02/16/16 est)
pulled the trigger and got minecraft xbox one edition for the kid so that he could play with his cousin who recently moved to seattle. funny how they both insist on using facetime with video to "party chat," even though it ends up being a video feed of the ceiling. (n/t) (yoodaa) (19:01:49 11/13/15 est)
i am getting old. (n/t) (jeurja) (00:02:08 09/18/15 est)
scrolled to the bottom of the monkey forum today and was reminded to never visit on my work computer or devices. (n/t) (neogutsman) (15:24:07 08/22/15 est)
what is your favorite thing to do on a saturday afternoon? (n/t) (jeurja) (12:37:09 06/19/15 est)
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