You could also read A Thread Across the Ocean, a great book about the laying of the cable across the Atlantic. I read it after seeing the author on History Detectives (someone had found a piece of cable on the beach).
A wind-up LED digital clock? Anyway, I was just using clocks as an example. The same question was asked of other electronic devices. It’s a pretty safe bet that most of the products sold in the Electronics department are “electric”.
I’m curious as to whether or not it also enhances “staying power”. Modern male porn actors, the majority of whom allegedly use Viagra, seem to last even longer than Ron Jeremy did back in the day (which is one of the things I don’t like about modern porn - the blowjob goes on for 20 minutes and then the fucking goes on and on through 14 position changes and then finally the girl gets on her knees and waits patiently with her mouth open while the guy strokes himself for another five minutes before he finally blows).
Barrie Morebarlow?
*Cialis *is approved at low dose for daily use. The only time I’ve seen a Viagra prescription for daily use was when it was being used as a cardiac drug (y’know, the thing it was invented for…and the thing some people in prison are on it for, much to the dismay of shrieking harpies outraged that prisoners are getting Viagra.)
It works by relaxing muscles and enhancing the effects of nitric oxide in your body - both actions that dilate blood vessels. It works in more than one place in the body, which is why it’s good for treating pulmonary hypertension, but it also works in the blood vessels in your penis. The blood fills the spongy tissues in the penis and you get an erection. You still need sexual stimulation, though - it’s not Spanish Fly, and it won’t cause you to have an erection if you’re not sexually aroused in some way. (Which is probably a good thing. We want you to be able to have sex when you want it, not to recreate 7th grade algebra nightmares.)
A pill lasts about 4 hours, with an average onset of erection (with visual, mental or physical stimulation) of 30 minutes, although in some men it works in as little as 12 minutes. It works in 80+% of men with ED with no organic cause.
It does not increase “staying power” per se, but a lot of men with ED have quite a bit more staying power than they want anyhow. That is, one feature of ED can be the inability to achieve orgasm or ejaculation. Quite tiresome, and Viagra won’t change that. Viagra will, however, make it easier to get a second erection if the first one didn’t last as long as you’d hoped for.
I have another one. Unfortunately, from the same employee as the time release medication. When finding out I was from New York originally, she asked how long it took me to get used to the time difference. We are in Florida.
Well, I thought that yeah, they might. Erectile dysfunction is a circulatory problem, isn’t it? You take stuff daily for other circulatory problems.
But apparently it’s literally a boner pill. How about that. Learn something new every day.
Last night, my boyfriend and I were chatting in bed and we somehow got to talking about Girl Scout cookies.
Boyfriend: So who makes the cookies?
Me: I dunno. The Chinese?
Boyfriend: What? Really?
Me: I’m joking.
Boyfriend: I thought you made them.
Me: Me? Personally?
Boyfriend: Yeah, I thought the Girl Scouts baked them at home with their mums.
Me: What? HAHAHAHAHAHA.
Boyfriend: So why the hell are they called Girl Scout cookies if they aren’t made by Girl Scouts? Who buys that shit?
To be fair, he hails from Belfast.
Well, bless his heart… but weep for his school’s priorities. I always wonder if college football players are learning enough to get good jobs outside of the sports world.
I’m sure people are shocked at what I don’t know about college football. My friends assume I’ve kept track of what school each pro running back went to. I really don’t understand: Once they go pro, what does it matter where they went to college?
… Hey, wait, come to think of it, some of these sports fans are the kind of guys who still talk about their school, make a big deal out of their school colors, and even still wear their college class ring (and, man, are those things ugly – they’re advertising that they have impaired taste AND are still living in the past).
As for the Viagra…
If by recreationally, you are asking if men without ED take Viagra to give them better performance, then yes, a lot of men do. I have two friends who swear by it. On their advice, I asked my doc about getting some during my last physical. He was pretty skeptical about my really needing it but he gave me a sample bottle containing two pills and cautioned me to only try half the first time. It didn’t do a lot for me. It made me feel flushed and a little hazy. I guess I am one of the 10% who don’t get a positive effect from Viagra but thankfully I don’t need it.
You can’t get generic Viagra in the US but one of my aforementioned friends gets some (Silagra?) from a legit Canadian pharmacy who will sell to Americans who send them a scan of a valid prescription. It ships from India and it’s significantly cheaper.
Being from Germany, I’m as clueless as your boyfriend. Having heard of Girl Scout cookies several times, I’ve always assumed they were homemade cookies sold by girl scouts at their neighborhood’s doors for charity. What am I missing?
You can also get Vigara, Viggra, and V1agra, according to some of the [del]spam[/del] informational email I’ve received.
They are made in cookie factories, and sold to the GSA, who jacks up the price and sells them to consumers.
The cookie sales are the main source of funding for the Girl Scouts. Some of the money is kept by the local troop, and the rest goes to the state, local and national councils to fund activities.
Interstingly, you pronounce the ‘a’ sound in that word correctly too, but when that same sound exists in a language other than French (ex Spanish/Italian/Japanese) you tend to convert it into the ‘a’ sound in ‘cat’.
(pasta, taco, Mazda-> PASS-ta TACK-o MAZZ-duh)
Go figure. Why does French get the correct translation? Proximity?
A Canadian friend of mine once claimed that the English language is more related to the language of the Saxons than that of the Angles, so the proper term should be Saxophones instead.
Girl Scout cookies are called that because the kinds of cookies they sell can only be purchased from Girl Scouts. You won’t find Tagalongs or Samoas in the supermarket.
Maybe they often have that dream where they’re back in college and have forgotten to go to class all semester, and now have to take a final. I wear my college ring because I often have that dream, and I like having confirmation that I did actually graduate close at hand when I wake up and am not sure if the dream was real or not. I hate that dream.
Yes, you will. Sort of. In ice cream.
In general, you have to be extremely goddamned specific when asking the waitstaff what’s in the food.
I’m vegan, and (among other things) that includes not eating any animal products. While I don’t roll my eyes at having to go over what is or is not an animal product, such as “whey,” I am a bit nonplused at how often we often have to go over what’s an animal, period. (“Fish are okay, right?”)
But you have to be even more specific than that. Example: we ate at one place that served both vegan and non-vegan fare – but we did so on their vegan-fare promotion night, specifically advertised to vegans. When the waitress introduced herself, we specifically told her everyone at the table was vegan, and she commented on it (something like “Of course, welcome to vegan Night!”). People then ordered from the vegan side of the menu. I pointed to an entree on the vegan side and asked her about it, then ordered it.
When our meals came, I was brought actual meat, not vegan fare. In her own defense, the waitress said that I hadn’t specifically reminded her that I was vegan while placing my order – but I pointed out that most of the other diners hadn’t, either, and she brought them vegan fare. She seems to have concluded I was somehow different from the other people in my party. Apparently the problem was that I wasn’t wearing a tie dyed shirt and sporting anti-establishment tattoos, so she concluded I must be the token meat-eater, never mind what entree I actually pointed to and asked about.
Sometimes you’ve got to really lead people through the whole process, even if it seems like something anyone could figure out.
They are also not made with real Girl Scouts.
Does that mean they’re OK for vegetarians?
It should be noted that you said that on Wednesday.