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Without disrupting the original thread topic (I seem to be doing that a lot lately), I should clarify something. If it turns out that I'm gay, I really don't care. In fact I already know that I'll be infinitesimally happier just because I'll have that one huge question off my shoulders. The problem is getting other people to understand why and to not hate me. Of my two best friends, one has already drifted away because of her boyfriend/fiance and the other has gotten a lot closer to me since his girlfriend broke up with him. Both of them are homophobic, the latter being a lot more so. I'm also pretty sure that my friends here at school have figured it out. You don't go to GSA religiously every Wednesday night, and forget to go to the Residents' Association (of which my roommates and friends all run) almost every Thursday evening and not have them wonder. I'm guessing that my family would be okay too since my sister is hardcore pro-gay-rights, even though she thinks it's ironic that I have every season of QAF and also thinks I joined the GSA just for the hell of it... and my mom has stated that she loves me no matter what and just doesn't want me to be alone -- she doesn't care about grand children. My dad hasn't said anything in that regard but I know he cares.

As a budding engineer, I have a philosophy. I don't care how the equation came to be, just give it to me! As long as I can derive acceleration from velocity and velocity from position, I'm good on kinematics! What was the point of this thread, again? Oh right, jobs, lmao.

I've liked boys since I was 8 years old and had a small crush on a boy in my class... didn't know what it was until middle school when we had to change for gym class. Come high school, when the other boys started to develop into men, I knew I wasn't straight at all. I was perfectly fine with being bi-sexual up until recently. I've had a girlfriend only twice in my life. Thus far I've avoided deep relationships that would have otherwise prevented me from experimenting with my perceived sexuality (have yet to actually do so). As of recently I have found that my previous conclusion of bi-sexuality might not be entirely accurate and I am now finding that I am afraid of myself. I used to have the exit strategy that so many people hate bi-sexuals for, but now that strategy is slowly deteriorating into nothingness. I used to be able to escape the drama of being gay, but now I'm not so sure. In light of that, I chose that I am still figuring it out, with no horizon on when the answer to the equation will be found.

I voted all three "yeses". Why? Until recently I figured that bi-sexuals were a happy medium... then I met a few people (some gay) who do not trust them. One of them has since changed his opinion since his boyfriend is bi-sexual, but there are still some who don't trust bi-sexuals, which is a real shame when you consider how much gay people fight for their rights when they don't even trust a group of people who fall within the same demographic. I listened to one guy say his mistrust piece which involved the term greed. I replied with, "I'm probably bi-sexual. I'm also a virgin. Gee, I didn't realize that a virgin could be sexually greedy." Additionally, I'm living proof that "not-straight" people have much more difficulty in determining their sexuality and therefore take longer. Here I sit at 21 with no concrete evidence pointing one way or another, all I can say is that I am not straight. One example is when one of my car magazines had an ad featuring Danica Patrick, and then a few pages later had an article about 19 yr-old Marco Andretti. Both of them rile me up, though I supposed the open-wheel racing helps.

Being that I have this dilemma right now, I voted that I would consider it. There are the obvious negatives of attachment forming, which could destroy the friendship, but I honestly would feel a lot more comfortable having casual sex with a close friend than someone who I barely (or don't) know. A close friend would care more about you and you would care more about them, which would overall lead to a better sexual experience. This isn't true of all sexual friendships, but the logic is certainly sound.

Why do people always gotta knock the Physics...

I hate my present job with a fiery passion, hence why I applied for a new one yesterday. I'm double majoring in Physics and Engineering and I'm pretty happy so far. I really don't give a shit about the Physics degree, it's just a resume booster really. I want the engineering degree because I REALLY want to get into alternative energy research and the engineering degree is a significant stepping stone to that.

When I go to Taco Bell, Mountain Dew: Baja Blast. When I go to Burger King: Dr. Pepper or orange soda. At work or Panera: Sierra Mist. At restaurants, some combination of the above, depending on what they have. At school: Dr. Pepper. At home: It's been Coke recently, but only because that's what my mom bought. I'm not fond of drinking battery acid but it's a choice between that or Diet Coke, which just tastes nasty.

I could be way off base here, but it sounds to me like he's gotten himself into a lot of trouble and he's crying out to you for help. He might have recognized that his current situation is unacceptable and the to way to fix it is to take a few steps backwards, to old friends that made him happy (this is where you come in). Unfortunately it seems as though he's forgotten what you guys did to be happy, and so he wants to do with you what has recently made him happy -- drunk sex. I would try as hard as you can to get together with him, but not for sex. In fact, don't do anything sexual at all, just hang out with him. Again, I could be way off-base, but the comments about work and sober sex are sending up a lot of red flags, and the sooner you meet with him the better. My best friend was recently sent home by his school (military school) because he was depressed and they were afraid that he would be the next school shooter. They wouldn't let him back on campus until he'd seen a psychiatrist. I made it a point to head home that weekend as soon as possible to talk to him and make sure he was ok. Spent that Friday night and all day Saturday with him. He's depressed because his hardcore girlfriend of three years broke it off, and he's been bouncing around with other girls, lost his virginity to a crazy one in bareback sex, and has been getting drunk and high a lot since he got his class ring. His ex is a bitch, and he recognizes that now, but his problem is that he attaches himself people way to easily and feels like he needs to have a girlfriend to be happy. I think your friend might be the same way, and he attached himself to the wrong people, and so now he needs to be used to be happy.

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I'm looking forward to Jumper, for the eye-candy if nothing else.

The only way religion would affect my relationship with someone is if they forced theirs on me. I was born and raised Roman Catholic, but I am non-practicing. If some was religious and tried to convert me, I would run them over with a stolen armored car/truck. If someone was religious and didn't give a shit about my religion (and was interested in me), then I would do them from sun-down to sun-up. The only thing that would disrupt that is if their religion was against homosexuality, they are male, and at some point they let their religion decide their love life for them. In which case I would say, "Adios," and move on.

I find it hilarious that the article mentioned their $10,000 income. Artists have never made a whole lot of money off of the sale of MP3s, CDs, Cassetes, or LPs. No, their millions come from tours, concerts, merchandise, etc. I remember there was a South Park episode that was centered on the topic of piracy, and a news reported showed artists feeling the weight of it. Britney Spears had to settle for a Leer 2 private jet, instead of the Leer 3 with cup holders. Another artist couldn't get a private island, or something to that effect. Artists and musicians aren't affected much by piracy. It's the record labels who are affected because they're the ones who record the songs to be sold in brick and mortar stores as CDs or online at music e-stores as copyrighted MP3s. In fact, many artists actually LIKE piracy because it's just another form of exposure for their music that attracts people to their live performances where entrance tickets can exceed $100 per head at certain venues. I paid $60 this past summer to see TOOL live in Atlantic City. I forget which band it was, but they released an entire album online for free download just to get the exposure for live concerts and such. Piracy is not wrong and doesn't make artists poor. It makes them richer and encourages them to continue making music. It's the record labels who have to learn that media is changing, and if they want to make money then have to start selling songs individually on e-stores, or has whole albums for less than the cost buying the songs separately. EDIT: To add to the e-store thing, DRM-encoded MP3's must die. When I buy the music on a CD, I can rip it to my computer and put it on my MP3 player. Some places sell you the songs and prevent you from burning them to CD. It's good practice in theory to prevent people from turning around and selling the songs on blank discs, but it's annoying as shit when you have no MP3 player or MP3 capable home or car stereo and want to listen to the songs there.

Storm trooper. Covers the whole body so nobody can see me

I'm claustrophobic, to a degree. If I can't move my arms and legs, I start to panic, even if they're just caught in my sheets. Hence why I don't tuck them in. I also chose commitment and identity theft. The former because it was convenient, and the latter because my old bank tried to pull a fast one on my dad and wound up striking me instead. Long story short, they opened a credit card in my name, used my SSN, lied to our faces about it, and we are now in the process of cutting off all of our ties with them. My dad still has a checkbook with them and I still have a basic student credit card.

DAMN YOU! I was able to keep my mind out of the gutter all day, and then you posted that!

Blessings are and aren't important. Parents are important only in that children often look up to their parents for advice. Friends are less important for a variety of reasons. Example, if Kevvers was to get a boyfriend and one of his friends wants to be with this new guy, then there is a greater risk that this friend would not support the relationship. A true friend would support the relationship in spite of their feelings, but it would be understandable if they didn't. Another example is maybe the friend doesn't trust the boyfriend out some sixth sense. Again, the true friend would support the relationship, but it would be understandable if they didn't. Now, this isn't true all of the time. The friend might not approve because they don't like seeing Kevvers kissing a boy, in which case they are not a real friend and are disposable. HOWEVER, parents are indispensable and, being that they raised you from day one to day whenever-you-moved out, their opinion(s) tend to have a lot weight. They still aren't of relationship-ending importance (the mother-in-law of death!), but they certainly carry more weight than friends do. Personally, I think the weight of a friend's opinion is directly related to the length of time of the friendship as well as to their values. The closer their values are to yours, the longer you have been friends with them, and the greater the chemistry between you and your lover, the higher the friends opinion will be. Apologies to Kevvers if he gets offended for being my guinea pig.

Honestly I find that the bleeps make it funnier! That was *bleep*ing hilarious! Especially with Robin Williams and Cameron Diaz.

Right now I wear a mix of boxers and boxer-briefs. I don't like briefs because they make me feel too juvenile. I wore them all the time as a kid, so I associate them as little boys' underpants. That, and the feeling that I'm not wearing enough underneath to feel comfortable. I am a very introverted person, so anything less than boxer-briefs makes me feel naked, which means that I also never go commando, but there are other reasons for that... like having nothing between the family jewels and a series of interlocking metal teeth -- never was too appealing for me. The reason I try not to wear boxers too much anymore is because that old myth about your nuts sagging is true. I've been wearing boxers since I was a pre-teen, and since then my guys have dropped far enough that they bounce quite dangerously while snowboarding, even while wearing boxer-briefs. I have also sat on them more than once... ow. So boxer-briefs provide the support that I need and also provide the skin coverage that I want. BUT I have so many boxers still that I normally wear those instead. I like them in that they aren't constraining, like briefs, but I try to wear boxer-briefs more and more to keep the boys from hanging out, if you know what I mean.

My connection varies with location. At home we have a cable connection and both of my computers connect to it through our Wireless-G home network. I don't know about upload, but download speeds are typically around 300-600 KbPS. Here at school, the connection varies with the time of day. The school uses a single T1 line for the ENTIRE campus AND the ALL FIVE residential complexes. During class time (8:30am to 9:50pm), most of the bandwidth is sent over to the main campus. What this essentially does is it leaves the residential complexes with so little bandwidth that AIM and MSN messenger can't find the internet connection. When AVG updates itself, the download is, on a good day, 2 KbPS. Even when I go surfing on FireFox, it will either timeout or lose the server connection alltogether, and do it repeatedly until it realizes that I actually DO want to go to that website. Late at night and on the weekends it tends to be relatively ok, but still very shaky and hard to made a connection.

Now that I've seen Archuleta in different angles and heard his voice, I'll agree that he's very cute. He also has a very interesting voice because not only does it sound excellent, it makes him sound older than he really is. His singing voice, that is. I could tell while he was talking afterwards that he was very excited and nervous, particularly when Simon gave him the thumbs up. I almost went ahead and voted for him, but American Idol will never get that from me, ever.

I've read two incest stories and they were both weird. One involved a boy, his best friend, and his sister showing them the ropes. The other was a boy and his father. It was very odd, not the acts themselves, but how the main characters reacted, but then again my parents never raised me to like my sister in that way lmfao. I voted maybe only in that, if I was asked to read an incest story, then I would... but it's not something I'll read out of the blue.

Those are the kind that I use for football practice... they're the football.

Today's workplace standards are all over the place. It used to be that a woman would be hired because of her good looks, and if she was sexually assaulted and sued, she could never again find work because employers would be afraid of her suing them. This still happens, but there's a whole other level to gender discrimination in the workplace. A prime example would be, if I was lined up for a job with a woman as my competition, chances are high that they would higher the woman, regardless of whether or not she is better for the position than I am, just because they have to fill a minority quota. Likewise, opportunities that used to benefit the white man now benefit everyone but him simple because they're a black Jewish lesbian woman with one leg. The REU (Research Education for Undergraduates program run by the government) was created originally with the intent of bringing women and minorities into science positions during and after college. They expanded it to everyone since there were so few women and minorities in the sciences applying (a joke in my friends biochem class, where she and a single white boy are the minority in a class full of Asians, Hispanics, and blacks). My professor said to the females if they put emphasis on their gender then they have a strong chance of being accepted for that sole reason. I as a white male now have fewer options and opportunities simple because of my skin color and my gender. Kind of ironic how the tides have flipped to the opposite end of the spectrum in the wake of equal rights. God forbid I say as much in front of a "minority" without being branded a racist. I could go on an on on the subject, but then I would bore you all and go totally off-topic... what was the topic?

No reality TV show is better than another. They are all equally terrible.