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[Maxim]

Just came back from a surprise trip to Paris. It was aaaaamazing. I didn't want to go back to the grey and cold Germany. That's the positive. The negative is... I hit 30 years of age yesterday and now I can't use the excuse that I'm in my 20s for some things anymore. #oldbutgold

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[Contessa Donatella]

"I think it's an incredible shame that people go out of their way to voice their disgust or negative opinions against the ways in which two people choose to love each other. At least voice your opinions about how two people show hate and violence and anger towards each other. Isn't that more important? I think so. I also feel like it will surprise people. It's obviously about two men in love and it's obviously gay-themed and it's very easily labeled, but unfortunately, people are quick in life to label something that they're uncomfortable with. The pure fact of it is that it transcends a label. It's human. It's a story of two human beings, two souls who are in love. Get over the fact it's two men. That's the point. The movie is not the story of an epidemic or a virus or something that can be cured in a hospital. We're showing that love between two men is just as infectious and emotional and strong and pure as it is with heterosexual love. And if you can't understand that, just don't go see the movie." - Heath Ledger, press conference, BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN, 2005.

[Fevuh]

At the time I got so angry - a couple of female coworkers were talking about it and said - it was so boring and “I was like, that’s it? I mean it’s just a bad love story with guys”.   I lit in lolll.  No, I’m sure you wouldn’t get it. You’ve never been gay, never had to hide love for someone, never had to live a lie because people exactly like you “don’t get it.”  Tell me about the ending, what did you think happened.   
 

I had to explain the movie because they were so damned stupid.   So, you think Jack was really beaten to death?  Or, did he really die changing a tire on the side of the road and it was in Ennis’ head that he died by getting beaten to death because he himself was so in the closet he automatically thought the worst??  Because I can see both.  
 

oh, they hadn’t thought of it that way.  
 

Do you think Jack’s parents knew?  And understood?  They gave Ennis a moment in Jack’s bedroom alone.  Because they knew.  Or did they?  Because I do and in that moment Ennis saw his greatest love as a boy, growing up and living in that house, in that room.  And he knew he would never be able to tell him that he loved him.  You see, he allowed the world to waste his life.  Or was it really life and death and there was no real choice in the world they lived in.  
 

Did you ever love your husbands??  What if the world was all gay and lesbian and you simply WERE NOT ALLOWED to love your husbands?  Would you get it then?  
 

This from you two that went crazy over the ficking Bridges of Madison County?  Jesus. 

[Contessa Donatella]

BORING?!!!! Why don't we have a SPUTTER emoji?!!!!!

Some homophobic bigots beat Jack to death. Yes, the alternate could be true, but it's not what I personally had in my head. I agree that it was presented in such a way that people could have these two endings as their own takes. I figure the author wrote the most realistic ending which was also the most pessimistic. 

 

WHY did they see the movie?!!!!!

Mother knew. Father desperately did not want to know so was in denial. Jack clung to the fact that his mother still loved him & they never discussed it. Jack hated that his father was not proud of him.

You are a person after my own heart. So, did you see DESERT HEARTS? THE BIBLE TOLD ME SO? IMAGINE ME & YOU?

 

[Contessa Donatella]

So, my neuro Sara warned me that the test in the morning is "unpleasant". The radial nerve they think I have injured is just above the elbow. Test in 2 parts. 1st shoot electrical current into the nerve. 2nd poke it with needles. OH JOY!!!! 

[Soapsuds]

What an exciting day! A new soap opera is premiering on CBS after so many years, and the complete series of Knots Landing is being released digitally.

[Contessa Donatella]

Recently my baby brother & I had an argument about Hurricane Camille.

 

Living through Hurricane Camille warped me for ever being anywhere without electricity! Picayune is 43 miles due north of the spot in Gulfport, MS where the hurricane made landfall on this particular Sunday late afternoon/early evening. We had no power for 2½ weeks, in August, in the deep south, where humidity is just the way the air always is. Recently my brother & I got in an argument over Camille. I said it was one of the worst times of my life & he said he had a blast. It came down to his being 5 & my being 18!

 

It was a community where everyone had multiple deep freezers; fresh garden stuff was in there but also butchered sides of beef in different cuts; chickens; fish, rainbow trout, etc. - it was all going to spoil so if there was a way to cook it on an outdoor grill, it was cooked; shared; consumed with great pleasure, so my brother was right that we ate better those 2 ½ weeks than any time before or since!

 

[Maxim]

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I'M going to scream from excitement.

NICOLE is on a roll! 

[Maxim]

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[Maxim]

Nothing tastes as good as Garlic bread feels.

[Maxim]

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[Maxim]

I finally took down the Christmas decorations! 

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[Fevuh]

This house has needed vacuuming for 3 weeks because  

It’s odd how short people’s memories are. When Helene did damage inland it was like people thought they were safe, and you heard people say - meh, mountains, it is just precautionary.  Camille caused more damage in Virginia than any other storm. Entire families were lost.  In Nelson County today, people are surprised when you see boulders in a field - just odd.  And you’ll see big ones.  And they don’t know they came down the mountain in slides with Camille.  
 

People here for whatever reason didn’t remember - it’s not unusual to have water inland from Hurricanes - it just happened to be in the mountains and if it moves slow or just has a ton of water, you will be helpless.  Streams turned into raging rivers taking trees, houses everything with it.  

[Contessa Donatella]

Thank you for sharing your story! It was funny. The situation on the Coast was dire, of course, but Picayune sent everyone there to help out so we were even longer getting back on our feet!

[Contessa Donatella]

This will not be your typical post.

In Windows 11 is it possible to cut off ALL Notifications?

If so, how do I do it?