Vent thread

@mariomarc
 
Do you have the same inane rule where you live that we had here about homosexuals who have had sex with the same gender were banned from giving blood? Cause that might be why.

@ArkyNoid
 
L.Ron Hubbard is technically the most popular sci-fi writer ever to live. Considering his clearly fictional tripe managed to inspire and entire religion.

@Zincy
 
Perhaps one of the more clever practitioners of the ancient art of charlatanism huh? I gotta admit at least his material was more entertaining though.

@Mr grump  
It’s the warrior caste of the old Kingdom of Tondo.

@Zincy  
Um  
No  
I live in Canada

Some guy is blasting out their music while almost everyone’s trying to sleep.

@Zincy  
In the here we have that rule. Though it said “for the past six months” so if didn’t get any action for the past six months, you’re good to go. It’s kinda ungrounded.

@mariomarc
 
Even Canada had it’s regressive past, and I’ve seen some laws from there that still strike me as a little dickish. I always like to make sure first.
 
But yea, that’s why I haven’t donated. Because I legally wasn’t allowed to.
 

 
@ArkyNoid
 
His actual sci-fi isn’t bad. I have a few of his books, despite my intense hatred of Scientology. I’ll give credit where credit is due.

@Zincy  
I am aware  
But I think we’re a bit better about homosexuality

@mariomarc
 
Oh loads better, most definitely.
 

 
@Albus Fahrenheits
 
It’s a hold over from a time before we understood how AIDS worked.

@Zincy
 
A little earlier I started watching little clips from Battlefield Earth on Youtube. Never saw it before. Someone in the comments said that the whole movie is like a blooper reel. I agree, comedic gold.

@ArkyNoid
 
Watch some Rifftrax clips of it, it’s amazing.
 

 
In other news, I just ate an whole slice of cheesecake with my hand, in one bite. I have no idea why I did this.

Have we calmed down yet?  
Because politics is really bad here.

Now I’m trying to find that scene from Leonard part 6 where Bill Cosby is trying to extract bullets from his gunshot wounds and screaming in the shower. When someone asks what’s wrong he says the water is too hot. It’s so stupid yet I remember laughing heartily at it as a little kid.

I have a friend whose birthday is the day they start school again, and I feel really sorry for her.

@Pacific Glow  
Will they be coming back to any friends?

Wrong thread.

@Zincy  
I can somewhat understand why in the past…with aids being disproportionate among the homosexual community at the time the rule was made…..it was made in the 1980’s right?

@Holofan4life  
Oh, it was. I just wish they had other things to choose from on Saturday mornings growing up.

@TheHappySpaceman
 
Where did you live growing up? Did you not have many channels?

@Holofan4life  
I lived and still live in a mountain near Crozet, VA. For one thing, we’re a poor family, so we can’t afford cable TV. But even if we could afford it, we live so far out that there would be no way to get the cable to our house. We can’t afford satellite TV, either. All I had growing up was NBC, ABC, CBS, PBS, Fox, and the CW eventually. (Basically the broadcast networks.) At least now we’ve also been able to get Comet, MyTV, and a few of the other PBS stations.
 
As for streaming, due to our proximity from the city, a company called Wild Blue holds a monopoly on this area and only offers 25 gigabytes of upload/download data per month, making our internet go slower if we go over that limit. This makes streaming virtually impossible.

@TheHappySpaceman
 
You are 2 hours away from where I live. You’re up past Richmond.

@Zincy  
That sounds about right. I’m close to Charlottesville. What part of Virginia are you from?

@TheHappySpaceman
 
The Bedford/Roanoke area. Dead center of the Blueridge valley.

@Zincy  
Roanoke? Interesting. The first bassist for my band, Dark Matter, goes there.