Enlightened Irishman, your gross fantasies and irrelevant homophobia have no place in this thread, and are hard to view as anything other than trolling. Any more posts like that and we’ll have to ban you.
That’s it?
$81 a month to ride anywhere in NYC.
I cannot even fill up my gas tank for $81.
Don’t let it bother you too much. We get what we pay for. 
I’m a hetero man, but I’m thinking you seriously need more fiber, and a visit to the proctologist if that’s the condition of your poor “crap chute”.
I will read more posts on here to see what is allowable before I post again. BTW, what is gross about making love to a woman anyway? Just curious and I’ll behave.
I was exaggerating there astro. As far as the proctologist goes, I feel an appointment for you would be more urgent due to the serious case of head in rump you have. Don’t hiccup man or you’ll disappear. Have fun!
What’s really astonishing about infants learning language is that they learn what is and what isn’t grammatical without ever seeing examples of ungrammatical sentences.
The other thing that always gets me is that we all know what happens to an egg that’s dropped off the Eiffel tower, even though almost no one has actually dropped an egg from there or any other similarly tall structure.
Everything.
Seriously, it just astonishes and amazes me that reality is such that complex things like everything described in this thread and also everything else actually exists. That’s just bizarre. Even the simplest things in reality need complicated math to describe them. Then there’s life. And consciousness. What’s up with that?
Nice try… but inflicting your rectal health on everyone else is just a bit harsh. I mean I can understand you sweating, face beet red, and grunting in pain like a wounded warthog as you try and force the remains of your impacted Taco Bell Bean burrito log out of your bleeding, hemorrhoid laced orifice that looks like 20 miles of bad road inside… and thinking "Now why would some fancy fellow want to pork this? Why it just doesn’t make any sense!
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astro - Enlightened Irishman!
Not here. Take it to the pit. I don’t care who started it, I’m finishing it right now. This is IMHO.
And Enlightened Irishman - learn the rules or you’ll find yourself out of here real quick. Let me give you a hint about our number one rule here:
Don’t Be A Jerk
Learn it. Live it. Love it.
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Cats.
Another species entirely, yet they understand some words and express affection to me.
I second cats. Right now my cat is stretched out on the floor near the couch, sleeping. In a bit, she’ll jump up for a cuddle, and she’ll be the most affectionate beast you can imagine. When I’m home alone, she always sits very close to me and keeps me company all day, like she doesn’t want me to be lonely (she’s not so clingy when my husband and sister are home). When my husband does come, she runs to the door to greet him. But she’s like the perfect killing machine. She’s a little wild animal living in my house.
The London Underground system, especially when they’re doing building works on it or enlarging it.
Seriously, you’re talking about building TUNNELS underneath one of the most dense population centres on the planet. Just thinking about the logistics involved in digging up the ground without destroying the local water/electricity/phone cable networks is enough to boggle my mind, and that’s before they’ve started employing all that engineering sorcery to create tunnels, stations, rails and electrical systems down there - and then they put TRAINS inside them!!!
Oh, and consciousness - I don’t even know where to start with how astounding that is.
The idea that human beings, who can be so evil, crass & mean, can also be so incredibly good and giving. Whenever there is a major disaster, the outpouring of just plain good deeds astonds me.
What keeps this world going is that people are basically good.
This sounds so stupid to say aloud, but sometimes I’m amazed that I’m, that’s we’re all, well, sentient. What makes us different from animals that we can create art, read, write, communicate in so many nuanced ways … invent medicines … oh, on and on. Why can we do it? Why? I guess it’s one reason I so strongly believe in God. There just is no other way to explain it.
we continue this banter back & forth? You seem quite upset over my opinion that gays are missing out on a wonderful experience. True, I may have gotten carried away with my description but I believe I got my idea through. Reading your above paragraph, I’m lead to the conclusion that yes, you may be hetero…, some of the times. Carry on ole fellow!
P.S. Let’s drop this line and discuss a more appropriate issue before the moderator bannishes us both. I feel that would be best for both are interests.
It certainly would be – any more off-topic comments in this thread from you and you’re going to lose your posting privileges. Seriously, hijack over.
Of course, all the marvels of modern technology are amazing, but they’re getting to be almost expected.
What really amazes me is the incredible human capacity to go on and even start over after a major tragedy or disaster. After a devastating earthquake or flood or fire, people go on. And you will always hear about people who insist on rebuilding their house in the same spot where it just burned down! That’s amazing.
Idiot savants also amaze me because I have no idea how they can do the things that they do.
The vastness and beauty of the universe, such as seen from the Hubble, don’t amaze me as much as they inspire a sense of unfathomable awe in me.
Wind is amazing, nodding through tree tops, whispering through tall grasses, ruffling up the surface of lakes, swirling through dry leaves, twisting into hurricanes and tornados.
The degree to which horrible and obnoxious intrusions into daily life are accepted. This is mainly in reference to the gas powered leaf blower that was used for about 20 minutes at the apartment house next door, a couple of hours ago.
Who the hell decided this was acceptable? Granted the leaf blower means the gardener can do a more thorough job of clearing away leaves and clippings, but is it worth it? I’d be happier to see him spend the same amount of time using a rake. He wouldn’t be able to get all the leaves, but who cares?