Two things – 1) If he’s not the dominant type, don’t go there with him. I have the same thing here. My husband is really just not the dominant type at all, but was willing to indulge my bondage fetish. It was horrible. He can tie a great knot, but just can’t pull off the demanding nature needed. I love him, and we have a great sex life, but uhm…that will continue to be my secret fetish.
Is the answer to your question – yes. TMI Alert I have masturbated every morning for as long as I can remember. Part of the really fucked up shit that happened to me as a toddler? Maybe, but the why is not important. It gives me that little burst of energy I need to crawl my ass out of bed. It’s very strange, though, because it also puts me to sleep at night, though I can often fall asleep without it, I always need it to wake up – or I just don’t wake up, ya know? It may be that it is just a habit for me, like coffee or cigarettes for someone else, but it does work for me.
[Hijack]Me too, and my sense of smell isn’t great at all. I have to roll up the windows and close the outside vents if someone in the car in front of me is smoking.
I remember when I was a kid and everyone seemingly smoked everywhere, all the time. It didn’t bother me so much then but I couldn’t go back to that now.
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Those of you can can smell the occasional smoker; do perfumes and colognes bother you? They annoy the heck out of me, and you smell much better than I.
That is to say, your sense of smell is more accurate than mine.
I admit I am a supersmeller. By that, I mean, I cook by sense of smell. I can figure out your recipe just by smelling the food that you have prepared. I can figure out what that odd undertone is to a cologne or perfume easily. My sense of smell is almost animalistic. It’s scary, really.
All that being said, while I can smell whether you have smoked or just been around smokers, cologne/perfume doesn’t so much bother me in a general way as I am just very sensitive to certain kinds. Of course, people who bathe in cologne/perfume should be shot, but ya know, that’s just common courtesy.
One of the things about me that is so funny is that while I loathe cigarette smoke (and my husband is currently reaping the benefits – of which there are many sexual – of quitting smoking) I absolutely adore Burberry Brit – which has a very subtle undertone of tobacco. The undertone is raw tobacco, though, which is entirely different from tobacco smoke. I am like that with coffee, too. I love the smell of fresh coffee grounds, but start brewing coffee and I gag – it is the exact same scent as skunk. Most people have never noticed that, but it’s true.
To avoid adding anything to the VISA bill for camping equipment I felt my son and I needed ( which would set you off like cheap Pennsylvania firecrackers ), I’d squirrel away $5-$10-$20 a week into the back of my wallet. When I had enough to get the Coleman lanterns or ground mats or any one of the Dozens of things that make camping easier, warmer, or more fun, I’d be ‘working late’, not shopping at Cabelas. If something was only available on-line, a ‘good friend and coworker’ was willing to buy it with their VISA (shipped to the office) and I paid them cash.
And when you went food shopping, they came out of the trunk and joined the rest of the camping gear.
Hopefully not - I was under the (possibly mistaken) impression that the cilantro-is-soap effect is a mutation rather than a supertaster-type of impression. I have a friend with a similar problem of being unable to bear the taste of broccoli or related species, which is also a mutation.
Heh, about the cilantro, I’ve never noticed it. Of course, I just don’t like cilantro, so I don’t think I have ever paid it much attention. I used to think I was a supertaster, based on the fact that I can distinguish recipes by taste so easily, but I don’t have problems with most of the “problem foods” that are listed. What’s funny is that for me, texture will be a deal-breaker. Like, I don’t mind the taste of apples, but you won’t catch me eating them, the texture squicks me out. Meanwhile, I love large curd cottage cheese (with a little salt, pepper and paprika) but small curd grosses me out.
I will eat foods that I don’t necessarily like just because I love the texture. I think that may be more of an OCD thing, but it is funny.
I can smell the skunk in coffee, the vomit in parmesan cheese, and a little of the soap in cilantro, but the smells & flavors don’t detract from my enjoyment and frequent consumption of all three.
“HoosierDaddy!” Best extrapolated DoperSO name ever.
Oh… and I have to continue to cut the moldy bits off cheese and return it to the fridge before she notices them and throws the whole block in the garbage.
They bother me a little bit, especially right after they’re sprayed on. Once they’ve had a chance to fade quite a lot, they can be pleasant, sort of like the distant smell of laundry in the spring when people start line drying certain items. But right out of the bottle they’re a bit much.
[Hijack]I also seem to be a supersmeller. You know how people have their own particular scent based on their body chemistry, soap and other factors? Sometimes I can’t stand to be too close to certain people who have a particular smell I don’t like. Those smells evoke an emotional response in me and strike a somewhat visceral chord. It’s something I’ve always had, from the time I was really little. I remember a blankie I had - a comfort object - and no matter how frequently it was washed, it had its own certain smell that relaxed me. I still remember taking a gigantic whiff of it every night before I went to sleep until I stopped needing it.
What really bothers me, though, is a dip my mom loves to eat. It’s absolutely the most raunchy thing I’ve ever smelled or tasted. It’s a horseradish cheddar cheese dip that smells and tastes like metallic vomit. I finally fessed up that I found it extremely gag-worthy and she fortunately stopped bringing it over to my house. Just thinking about having that crap put in front of me was enough to make me gag for a while. Now it’s simply enough to make me shudder a little. [/Hijack]
I noticed that schizophrenic people-and verified by someone who works in the mental health field-sometimes smell like nose sweat.
Mama Plant once tried to make Her Mama’s saltine/oyster turkey stuffing, and on the theory that two cans of oysters were good, four would be better…but we leave hijack and enter upon digression.
Sweet potatoes definitely have a soapy taste. As for the vomit in parmesan, yup, that one always bugs me, but I so love the taste of parmesan I can’t help but eat it! Salmon? Oh, gods, I will start gurking and gagging at the barest hint of the smell of that nasty pink shite.
People laugh at me because I actually notice the smell of water. It’s one of the reasons I prefer Aquafina – it doesn’t have much of a scent at all, unless it gets hot. Nestle water? Oh, gods, smells like rotten toilet water. Tastes like it too, if you ask me.
Probably not every non-smoker, but I’m willing to bet a fair proportion of them.
I personally am fairly sensitive to cigarette smoke, in the building where I work I quite often can tell when someone has returned from a smoke break, as I can smell the stink of ciggie smoke in the lift.
As to the original question, probably the fulle extent of my boys toys, gaming miniatures and books, “this one? nah it’s not a new RPG book, I’ve had it for a while, just brushing up on the rules”
