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[Porthos]

 

[Markverhyden]

Those email sales people sure are in some OT in their efforts.......

 

[britechguy]

Those email sales people sure are in some OT in their efforts.......


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I will be cold and dead in the grave for 100 years, and some meme variant of this staged photo will still be making the rounds, and I get why.

The thing I don't get is why, in the straight world, on either side of the equation, the reaction to your significant other taking even the slightest notice of another attractive individual causes such consternation. In the gay world even those of us with long time and monogamous partners routinely point out "the hot ones" to each other. Eye candy is no threat.

No one ever stated it more clearly than this:
The psychology of adultery has been falsified by conventional morals, which assume, in monogamous countries, that attraction to one person cannot co-exist with a serious affection for another. Everybody knows that this is untrue. . .
~Bertrand Russell

 

[GTP]

The thing I don't get is why, in the straight world, on either side of the equation, the reaction to your significant other taking even the slightest notice of another attractive individual causes such consternation.

This is a very complex issue, and I would like to debate on it but it's a topic for another thread.

It's a little thing called "respect." Trust and honor also play a part as does love and honesty. Jealousy also comes into it. I'm not suggesting these traits don't exist in the gay world either.

This is why so many relationships (and I'm talking about the "straight world" as you put it, I have no experience in the gay world) don't last.
Young people especially are always "looking" for something better.

 

[britechguy]

This is a very complex issue

Indeed it is. My comment was mostly focused on this particular meme image, which is clearly staged and intentionally "over the top." It's taken on a life of its own.

That, and the fact that it has been my observation that "the straight world" generally reacts to what I would consider normal, subtle "check out" behavior (which is not what this photo shows) in ways that are overreactions. That doesn't make a single thing you've said incorrect, and I agree with all of it.

 

[ThatPlace928]

 

[GTP]

My comment was mostly focused on this particular meme image, which is clearly staged and intentionally "over the top."

Has anyone else noticed that both girls look identical? Or is it just my poor sight?

 

[HCHTech]

Has anyone else noticed that both girls look identical? Or is it just my poor sight?

Right? I always thought that was part of the joke!

 

[Porthos]

 

[Porthos]

 

[Porthos]

 

[ThatPlace928]

 

[Porthos]

 

[Porthos]

 

[GTP]

And here I was thinking "Dark Matter" was some mysterious force that held the Universe together.....
How wrong I was...

 

[frase]

And here I was thinking "Dark Matter" was some mysterious force that held the Universe together.....
How wrong I was...

The answer is 42 of course.

 

[GTP]

The answer is 42 of course.

 

[frase]

 

[GTP]

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One of the dev's of Left 4 Dead 2 was so into this "number 42" that there are references to it it all throughout the game.
Example: 42 steps in staircases, 42 painted on vehicles, 42 palings in a line of fence, 42 zombies in a superhorde, 42 windows in a building etc...
Probably the most famous reference to "42" in Left 4 Dead 2 is during the campaign "Dark Carnival."
In this campaign there is a minigame called "The Shooting Gallery" where a player needs to hit or shoot targets -that pop up from holes - to earn points. Once you earn 42 points, it triggers a special audio cue: the Jockey's maniacal laugh. If you do this for the first time you get an achievement and the machine spits out hundreds of carnival ride tickets.

This is a direct reference to Douglas Adams' "The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy!"

There's also another minigame in the same campaign where you shoot 42 moving targets in a "Shooting Gallery" to acquire a "Gnome" that you must carry to the end of the campaign and get on the chopper in the finale whilst carrying it.
Doing it for the first time collects an achievement.

 

[Porthos]