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Pick
Jul 19, 2009
Nap Ghost

RatHat posted:

Christopher Lambert? He's still alive.

EDIT: Literally every actor that has played Raiden in a movie or TV show is still alive.

woah, that's a cool way to become immortal

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Pick
Jul 19, 2009
Nap Ghost

Improbable Lobster posted:

I hope your skin rugs and bone chandeliers are all legal

legal as heck, I'm not risking losing any of them

Antivehicular
Dec 30, 2011


I wanna sing one for the cars
That are right now headed silent down the highway
And it's dark and there is nobody driving And something has got to give

Pick posted:

legal as heck, I'm not risking losing any of them

Stupid question, but how do you legally/ethically acquire human remains? Are they from bodies donated to science, or can families sell them, or what?

Pick
Jul 19, 2009
Nap Ghost

Antivehicular posted:

Stupid question, but how do you legally/ethically acquire human remains? Are they from bodies donated to science, or can families sell them, or what?

they're largely unregulated. you can pretty regularly find them at garage sales and stuff. here you can buy some online.

therobit
Aug 19, 2008

I've been tryin' to speak with you for a long time

Pick posted:

they're largely unregulated. you can pretty regularly find them at garage sales and stuff. here you can buy some online.

Is this taxidermy thing just a cover? Are you the female Buffalo Bill?

Pick
Jul 19, 2009
Nap Ghost
I only have the human skull for moral consistency. So if people ask how I feel about dead animals I can say that I don't discriminate and I have dead human parts too.

lazorexplosion
Mar 19, 2016

What if your fetish was being kink-shamed.

ArbitraryC
Jan 28, 2009
Pick a number, any number
Pillbug

lazorexplosion posted:

What if your fetish was being kink-shamed.

I feel like we had an infamous poster like that.

Play
Apr 25, 2006

Strong stroll for a mangy stray
u guys r gross

Improbable Lobster
Jan 6, 2012

"From each according to his ability" said Ares. It sounded like a quotation.
Buglord

Pick posted:

I only have the human skull for moral consistency. So if people ask how I feel about dead animals I can say that I don't discriminate and I have dead human parts too.

You could also hire someone to say "Respice post te. Hominem te memento" if the skulls don't do it for you

therobit
Aug 19, 2008

I've been tryin' to speak with you for a long time

Pick posted:

I only have the human skull for moral consistency. So if people ask how I feel about dead animals I can say that I don't discriminate and I have dead human parts too.

Maybe it's a PNW thing, but I just don't get the creeps from taxidermy, and people who are uncomfortable with it seem like crunchy granola heads to me. If you eat any meat taxidermy that is not of endangered animals should be just fine. You should check out the basement of the old Abbey in St. Paul, OR if you haven't already though. Edit: Mt Angel.

therobit fucked around with this message at 02:53 on Mar 9, 2017

flick my Mr. Bean
Nov 18, 2014

My fetish is having my windpipe crushed with a femur.

ArbitraryC
Jan 28, 2009
Pick a number, any number
Pillbug

therobit posted:

Maybe it's a PNW thing, but I just don't get the creeps from taxidermy, and people who are uncomfortable with it seem like crunchy granola heads to me. If you eat any meat taxidermy that is not of endangered animals should be just fine. You should check out the basement of the old Abbey in St. Paul, OR if you haven't already though.
Taxidermy doesn't do any more harm than eating meat for sure but I wouldn't really say that makes it any less conceptually weird.

It doesn't bother me at all but it is a hobby that if I heard someone was into it I'd kinda wonder why of all the options out there they went with stuffing dead animals for decoration.

gentle pete
Feb 21, 2015

by Nyc_Tattoo
I can't get a boner unless someone murders me

Pick
Jul 19, 2009
Nap Ghost

therobit posted:

Maybe it's a PNW thing, but I just don't get the creeps from taxidermy, and people who are uncomfortable with it seem like crunchy granola heads to me. If you eat any meat taxidermy that is not of endangered animals should be just fine. You should check out the basement of the old Abbey in St. Paul, OR if you haven't already though.

Totally been there, it's a great little museum. That pig hairball is huge!

Gumbel2Gumbel
Apr 28, 2010

As a rule I try to not collect a bunch of useless poo poo and taxidermy feels like a bunch of useless poo poo in dead animal form.

Sorry Pick, I'm trying to embrace minimalism these days (in before maybe you should try that with your posting)

Batterypowered7
Aug 8, 2009

The mist that chills you keeps me warm.

Pick posted:

I only have the human skull for moral consistency. So if people ask how I feel about dead animals I can say that I don't discriminate and I have dead human parts too.

Do you ever drink out of the skull?

Dienes
Nov 4, 2009

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College Slice

Moridin920 posted:

I mean poo poo dude the police are trained to do it in order to make someone compliant it's not *that* loving dangerous is all I'm saying.

http://www.nletc.com/lateral-vascular-neck-restraint-lvnr

Its hilarious that you're using "Police do it!" as evidence that its safe.

Das Boo
Jun 9, 2011

There was a GHOST here.
It's gone now.
My only dead animal thing is a Nepalese decorated monkey skull with a pewter bowl inset in the skull cap. My mom and sister picked it up at market as a joke Christmas present, but I loved it. It sits in my bedroom to this day.

Fake e: Oh wait, I got some pinned butterflies and a pinned bat from... either Bali or Thailand.

A Wizard of Goatse
Dec 14, 2014

Pick posted:

they're largely unregulated. you can pretty regularly find them at garage sales and stuff. here you can buy some online.

what the hell makes that spine $1500. everyone has a spine, there's billions of spines just floating around out there now not doing anything particularly useful. poo poo I could probably go out and get a spine myself for, like, $50, tops.

lazorexplosion
Mar 19, 2016

A Wizard of Goatse posted:

what the hell makes that spine $1500. everyone has a spine, there's billions of spines just floating around out there now not doing anything particularly useful. poo poo I could probably go out and get a spine myself for, like, $50, tops.

Duuude. You do not want to go cheap on the spine. Like cut price ribs, that's fine, but you gotta get a high-quality spine. Trust me.

christmas boots
Oct 15, 2012

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To oohs😮 to ahhs😱 to 👏big👏applause👏
With all of my 😡anger I scream🤬 and shout📢
🇺🇸America🦅, I love you 🥰but you're freaking 💦me 😳out
Biscuit Hider
You think you'll save money on a cheap spine, but the truth is they wear out so fast. You're replacing it every couple of months.

The high end spines though, those things are designed to last. Invest in a good spine, trust me.

And don't buy used!!

Antivehicular
Dec 30, 2011


I wanna sing one for the cars
That are right now headed silent down the highway
And it's dark and there is nobody driving And something has got to give

lazorexplosion posted:

Duuude. You do not want to go cheap on the spine. Like cut price ribs, that's fine, but you gotta get a high-quality spine. Trust me.

At least use a polarimeter to assess stress in the spine and quality of the annealing. Poorly-annealed spines are a real health hazard in the home, especially around sources of heat, like heated electric dead-horse beanbag chairs

christmas boots
Oct 15, 2012

To these sing-alongs 🎤of siren 🧜🏻‍♀️songs
To oohs😮 to ahhs😱 to 👏big👏applause👏
With all of my 😡anger I scream🤬 and shout📢
🇺🇸America🦅, I love you 🥰but you're freaking 💦me 😳out
Biscuit Hider
My father in law built a spine for me as a Christmas gift which I don't particularly care for and besides I already have a lovely dark cherry spine that matches the rest of my bones.

Nissin Cup Nudist
Sep 3, 2011

Sleep with one eye open

We're off to Gritty Gritty land




my fetish is not having sex

Pick
Jul 19, 2009
Nap Ghost

fruit on the bottom posted:

My father in law built a spine for me as a Christmas gift which I don't particularly care for and besides I already have a lovely dark cherry spine that matches the rest of my bones.

oooo nice callback

Antivehicular
Dec 30, 2011


I wanna sing one for the cars
That are right now headed silent down the highway
And it's dark and there is nobody driving And something has got to give

fruit on the bottom posted:

My father in law built a spine for me as a Christmas gift which I don't particularly care for and besides I already have a lovely dark cherry spine that matches the rest of my bones.

Man, you're lucky. I've been saving up for a really good spine in solid hardwood; we've got an Ikea RYGGRAD that's still holding together okay, but it'd be nice to upgrade.

Pvt.Scott
Feb 16, 2007

What God wants, God gets, God help us all

RatHat posted:

Christopher Lambert? He's still alive.

EDIT: Literally every actor that has played Raiden in a movie or TV show is still alive.

What about voice actors?

E: most r/relationships posters aren't using their spines. Make an offer.

Pvt.Scott fucked around with this message at 04:47 on Mar 9, 2017

Pick
Jul 19, 2009
Nap Ghost
I (21, agender, female-bodied) am at a breaking point with my partner (21, FTM)Relationships
submitted 6 minutes ago by deadintheeye

To cut to the chase, we've been dating for little under 2.5 years. We are both college roommates and love each other very much. The past few days we have gotten stupid high on weed and just two days ago, we got drunk in addition to our high. I'll get to that in a minute.

When we got together we made a commitment to monogamy. My partner always identified as polyamorous, but chose to stay with me and to never cheat, etc. Things worked well for a while. A little less than a year in, my partner cheated on me by making out with a guy twice. He also was flirting with a few people on dating apps and such. We got through that awful experience and turned out better for it. It helped us to communicate and we grew closer after that experience. I was hurt so much by it and it took a while to trust again. Fast forward to now.

When we got stupid high, as we are not mega potheads, a lot of lovely dirty laundry was thrown onto the table. I usually like weed to listen to music, as it gives it more meaning to me, but these past few highs we had really deep conversations. I revealed I was agender to him.

My confession started a chain reaction. My partner revealed to me that he has been sexually messaging men online, this time seeing it as more of interactive porn. It was set up so that only men would send photos. My partner never sent any photos and would only be in it for the chat and fantasy. He wasn't sorry for it, but was sorry to have had his urges come to this point of breaking my trust and betraying me again. He says that his interest in biological/cis men is overwhelming and wants to experience what it is like to have sex with a real dick. This interest has grown since he started transitioning/taking t. His logic is that the experience would be as close to him having his own penis as humanly possible.

In terms of how I feel about all of this, it truly does hurt. When I revealed I was agender, We both felt a strong connection to each other. I told him that it hurts me that my body biologically will never be satisfactory and I feel inadequate. I feel hurt that he feels the urge to go message biological men online just because they happened to have cells grow in a different way than mine did. I'm apparently the perfect person, except the only thing I'm lacking is every now and then having a dick. I believe the situation would be a lot less serious if we were to get a strap on. I am completely open to role-playing, in a sexual manner being more masculine and assuming a male role, I am 100% into strapons and exploring most things sexually with each other. My only limit is monogamy, as that's how I feel I'm meant to be in a relationship.

My partner then tried to break up with me while we were slightly inebriated. I refused to because I wanted to work through it. I still believe this is something we can work out, as we truly do care for one another and we are best friends. My partner regularly goes to therapy. He went today and revealed to me that the therapist suggested we be sober for a while to have these conversations- I whole-heartedly agree.

He said that the relationship will go one of three ways most likely: one, we have him have sex with men in an open relationship with me. Two, we do nothing and break up. Or three, we continue on our way and he cheats on me. Obviously none of these sound great to me. I'm so overwhelmed and don't know what to do anymore. I have no one to turn to because this situation is too personal and revealing and embarrassing for me. Sorry for the length and I will gladly add more details/answer questions if you need. In any case, if you have any commentary or suggestions or advice, please help. 😞

Thanks in advance.

TLDR; partner is interested in a poly relationship or wants to call it quits in fear of hurting me by cheating. He wants to be sexually involved with cis man to see what it's like. I'm open to anything but poly. I confessed I was agender and now I'm hurt by the thought of me not being enough just because I was born in a female body and don't have a penis. Open to try strap-on se, role-playing, and anything that remains within a monogamous relationship. What should I do?

Pick
Jul 19, 2009
Nap Ghost
Am I (22M) a selfish boyfriend?[new]
submitted 57 minutes ago by NotVeryCreativeTBH

Apologies for the wall of text, but I really need this assessed.

So I've been dating my girlfriend Hadley for almost 9 months, and I really love her a lot. Like, seriously. She's so special to me and so funny and beautiful, and we have a great time together. Anyway, we go to school about 2 and a half hours from each other, but live a few towns apart at home (met over the summer at work). She loves me a lot too and we get on pretty fine.

So, Hadley and I got into what I would call a disagreement rather than an argument. Let me break down myself for you. Right now, I am a senior in college playing college basketball (not DI) and work an internship 13 hours a week. So I have one class a day M-Thurs, my internship on MWF, and practice and/or lift everyday. I also have games on weekends.

Hadley got upset with me because we haven't seen each other in almost two months and next week we are seeing each other for the first time in a while. She is coming to see me next Friday morning, and was planning to leave Monday morning. The problem my friends want to do the yearly Saint Patrick's day bar crawl in my city and I want to go. It's on Sunday, will last all day, and it will be my last. Hadley is not 21 so she can't come. She got hurt by this.
Her reasoning is that when she comes to visit (normally visits every other weekend, just had a busy few weeks), I'm always doing homework and studying, which normally doesn't bother her but she's upset I'm leaving her behind and basically sending her home so I can clear a day for my friends (she says I haven't done that for her, but we did some stuff last semester). Then she went on about how she is always bending over backwards travelling to me (driving to and from) and I can't make time to visit her for a weekend after my game. I think this is silly, cause I'm busy and we have more time together if she's here.

She then went on to say that I was pretty selfish. She wasn't nasty, but she wasn't beating around the bush either. Right now I'm on spring break vacation with the friends I'm doing the pub crawl with, and I also live next door to them. She says that's selfish of me and I feel like she was testing me cause when I told her that I wanted to go on Sunday she said I could, and then she's saying she understands but she's hurt?

Also she listed some other things: how I told her I'd never take ecstasy again (I used to with my friends years before but I'm not that kind of guy anymore), but did it two weekends in a row before telling her. She's really anti drug and she was so upset saying the only thing she's ever asked of me was to not do party drugs.

She also said I take my sweet time texting her back but when I'm with her when she's here I text my guy friends back immediately almost every time. I guess I don't notice this. I think she's being ridiculous. She says I often put my friends first and have little consideration for her. I don't feel like that's true, I think about her all the time. But my friends are important to me, I wanna be around them.

Oh, and she's also annoyed that I didn't want to buy her a Valentine's day gift because I don't have the budget, but bought an Xbox One a week later. Instead we made dinner and dessert and drank wine and danced, which I thought was nice, and I also think Valentine's day is a waste or money. I got her a card and flowers as well. If I want an Xbox, that's entirely different.

All this had me wondering if I'm really a selfish boyfriend? I love her so much and don't want her to leave me, but is she also being ridiculous? I text her multiple times a day, call her a few times a week, and always tell her I love her. I think about her so much too.

TL;DR: My girlfriend thinks I'm selfish but I think I'm just living my own life, and that's how most relationships are.

Pick
Jul 19, 2009
Nap Ghost
mr "am I a selfish boyfriend" has some comments too

quote:

The thing is I am so committed to her. I think about her all day, talk to her almost all day, hell I even think about her all day. She's the epitome of my dream girl, literally everything I can ask for. I've just been busy with school, my internship, and basketball. She said this doesn't bother her, just the fact that I cleared this Sunday so I can do the Saint Patrick's day pub crawl

quote:

She's literally always at the top of my mind and my heart, but my life needs certain things to get in order so that I can be successful. She's the one who basically told me to get this internship instead of a summer one, and then she told me I should also get a summer internship because she wants to see me be happy and successful in life. She is always by my side supporting me.

quote:

I get that last part... I guess when I just read her text it made me feel like she was trying to trick me. But she's not that kind of girl and I feel bad for snapping at her over it. She's seriously so understanding, and loving, and I am so lucky to have her. It's just this one weekend that really seemed to trigger her.

quote:

We have such a good relationship though, she is always saying how happy she is and how much she loves me and how much I mean to her. She shows it all the time. She writes me letters, bakes for me and my friends, cooks me dinner when I'm too busy, litters me with affection. I give her my heart, and love her so much. I took her to a concert back in december, and spent a whole day enjoying each other. She's really so great.

quote:

She's just so perfect and I'm an idiot but she literally does not want me to back out of the pub crawl now that I've made it clear what I want.

quote:

The thing is when I have the time, I make sure to do special things with her.

Barudak
May 7, 2007

He writes like animated characters voiced by Vin Diesel sound. Sadly, I dont expect him to have the awareness to break up with her by shouting superman and then dissappearing from her life forever.

Antivehicular
Dec 30, 2011


I wanna sing one for the cars
That are right now headed silent down the highway
And it's dark and there is nobody driving And something has got to give

Pick posted:

I (21, agender, female-bodied) am at a breaking point with my partner (21, FTM)Relationships
submitted 6 minutes ago by deadintheeye

Ah, college, a great time to learn valuable life lessons, like "if your partner says they want to gently caress other people whether you like it or not, that's time to break up and tell them to go gently caress other people in hell"

Anagram of GINGER
Oct 3, 2014

by Smythe

Pick posted:

I (21, agender, female-bodied) am at a breaking point with my partner (21, FTM)

I'll get to that in a minute.

oh no poo poo? neeext

Anagram of GINGER
Oct 3, 2014

by Smythe

Pick posted:

I (22M) really enjoy my doormat[new]

Pick
Jul 19, 2009
Nap Ghost

Barudak posted:

He writes like animated characters voiced by Vin Diesel sound. Sadly, I dont expect him to have the awareness to break up with her by shouting superman and then dissappearing from her life forever.

That one's actually a huge blood-boiler for me because it's obvious that even though she's his ~perfect woman~ she's clearly his absolute lowest priority.

chumbler
Mar 28, 2010

Pick posted:

That one's actually a huge blood-boiler for me because it's obvious that even though she's his ~perfect woman~ she's clearly his absolute lowest priority.

Well obviously she's perfect because he gets everything he wants with no investment on his part.

Anagram of GINGER
Oct 3, 2014

by Smythe
Pasta Olio iolio

LethalGeek
Nov 4, 2009

Pick posted:

I (21, agender, female-bodied) am at a breaking point with my partner (21, FTM)
I have to give the dude credit for just bring up front, though still being lovely. He should be ending the relationship at this point not trying to have it both ways but 21 yos are still dumb.

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Was their any update to the "Taken" man my best friend was planning on stealing, is my boyfriend one? I'm interested to see how that played out

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