That was my description of myself for many years. “If I’m having feelings for X, then it must mean that my feelings for Y aren’t real.” Break up, date X, meet Z, have feelings, rinse, repeat. Poly has worked very well for me mentally. It’s not for everyone, but it was my life saver.
With one exception, I never broke up with anyone.
Agreed.
And I’ve never been in any of those small towns. I think I’ve been within 30 miles or so of New Berne, N.C., but that’s it.
I have met Frank Pallone and I’ve met Cory Booker. At the time I lived in Pallone’s district but I don’t now. I’ve had no need to contact their office. I do want to try and do a White House tour so I might be contacting someone soon.
I presume the contacting-your-representative poll isn’t limited to the person currently in office. I’ve contacted more than one of the prior ones; but there’s probably no sense at all in trying with the current one, and I haven’t gotten around to it.
Does sniping at them on Twitter count? Because Marco Rubio’s twitter feed is basically an alternation of bullshit and random Bible verses, and I have responded to the bullshit messages on multiple occasions.
Re Nudity: I picked “I think it’s fine if necessary for the plot”… but i can’t think of any
movie where it is.
Not even Boogie Nights?
Gratuitous nudity is the best kind.
When I read the question about contacting your representative I only thought about contacting them to help with a problem. I had an acquaintance who had to try and fix constituent’s problems for a congressman. I didn’t think about just contacting them to give your opinion on an issue. The answer is still no for both. I’ve never needed congressional help with an issue and I giving my opinion is a waste of time.
Same here; I’ve met several of my congresspersons in the past, but have not met any of my current ones.
When I was a younger person, living in Wisconsin, Bill Proxmire was one of our senators; he spent a lot of his time back in the state just going out in public to meet his constituents. I must have run into him a dozen times: at the mall, at Packer games, etc.
I guess that’s what promoted by poll. I don’t see any reason to object to attractive naked people on the big screen. I assume those objecting are not prudes, so I thought we might get some insight.
I’ve done both. I didn’t get any help with the problem; but some people have apparently gotten help with theirs. I didn’t get direct results from giving my opinion; but I hoped, with that person, to contribute to a small dent in his policies, and may have done so. I doubt anything’s going to dent the current incumbent short of getting voted out of office, and unless we get redistricted again (which looks possible) that probably won’t happen.
I can’t recall ever being upset by nudity in a movie or TV show. Sometimes I’m surprised. Sometimes a sex scene bothers me. But a nude body? So long as the actor isn’t pressured, it’s fine with me.
Agreed.
I had two brief Congressional internships in college, with my own member of the House at the time, Doug Applegate, and with Marcy Kaptur. I met both and spoke briefly with them in the course of my work. On the 1988 campaign trail I got to meet Sens. Al Gore and Paul Simon, and Reps. Dick Gephardt and Jim Traficant. A few years later I met and got to know a bit better Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones, by then my Congresswoman, and also her successors Marcia Fudge (now HUD Secretary) and Shontel Brown. I’ve also met and spoken several times with Sen. Sherrod Brown.
The only time I’ve ever contacted a public official with a problem and not regarding policy, I think, was when I wrongly got a parking ticket in my small Ohio hometown. I called the mayor’s office and was prepared to argued my case but the secretary immediately and very cheerily said, “Don’t worry about it, sir, I’ll see that it’s dismissed.” And it was!
My only real issue with nudity in movies is that I can’t help noticing that far more directors feel it’s necessary (for the story, no doubt) that attractive young women be nude than any other characters.
How I pronounce “aunt” depends on the context.
“That’s my aunt.” - rhymes with can’t
“That’s Aunt Martha” - rhymes with daunt.
I wrote a moderate length letter to our Rep., Fred Upton (R) back when Trump was facing his second impeachment where I outlined several reasons he should vote to impeach. I’d like to think I played some tiny part in his decision, because he turned out to be one of the 10 Republicans in the House who actually voted to impeach.
I had one ant and one awnt.
Back in February I emailed my rep, Greg Stanton, for his voting yes on H.Con.Res.9, “Denouncing the horrors of socialism”, which states that “Congress denounces socialism in all its forms, and opposes the implementation of socialist policies in the United States of America”.
Cribbing from another poster’s letter, I asked him to specify which socialist implementations he was not in favor of, naming Social Security, the Post Office, and the public education system among others, finishing with, “I would think that in a state that returned Andy Biggs, one of the planners of January 6th, and Paul Gosar, who posted an animated video that depicted him killing Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, you would want to distance yourself as far as possible from them and their seditious showmanship. Perhaps I was wrong.”
I have yet to receive a reply.