What's everyone up to right now?

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Watching Tony Randall strangle Jayne Mansfield.

Boru

[arewethereyet]

I took and failed a polygraph several years ago when applying for a job.  The main thing that tripped me up is when they asked if I had ever had sex with a minor when I was an adult.  That was a tough one because there was a guy I dated off and on through high school and after who is two years younger than I am.  So there was a point when I was no longer a minor and he still was.  MEH - I didn't lie about it but I did hesitate and wasn't sure how to answer.

That’s kinda a depressing thing about those sort of questions: it’s shockingly broad. I can remember reading Rationalwiki and hearing them talking about a poll by NCMEC that claimed, well, I’ll just let the text speak for itself:

19% of the teens surveyed said that they had "request to engage in sexual activities or sexual talk or give personal sexual information that were unwanted or, whether wanted or not, made by an adult." A highschooler asking a fellow high schooler if she is a virgin would be a case of this, if the person did not want to admit they were/were not a virgin. This criterion is so broad and encompasses so much that it even could include an 18 year old (adult) asking his friend, a 17 year old (minor) who could be as little as a day younger than him, if he had gotten lucky on his date the previous night.

Fortunately, it looks like, according to Section 22.011(e) of the Texas penal code, you’re in the clear. At least, assuming that you were based out of Texas then, and that this law was actually in the penal code at the time, which I’m unsure of.

We were in Iowa at the time.  Not sure of the laws there but there were a lot of people still technically minors who were dating people who were technically adults.  That really needs to be better defined.  As you mentioned it could be a one day difference.

[Rev. Rye]

We were in Iowa at the time.  Not sure of the laws there but there were a lot of people still technically minors who were dating people who were technically adults.  That really needs to be better defined.  As you mentioned it could be a one day difference.

Then, in that case, it looks like the Romeo and Juliet laws don't really apply, since the age of consent is 16. Bloody Hell, we need to properly standardise that shit, preferably with an age where sexual debut isn't correlated with trauma, future mental illness, and drug addiction.

[arewethereyet]

We were in Iowa at the time.  Not sure of the laws there but there were a lot of people still technically minors who were dating people who were technically adults.  That really needs to be better defined.  As you mentioned it could be a one day difference.

Then, in that case, it looks like the Romeo and Juliet laws don't really apply, since the age of consent is 16. Bloody Hell, we need to properly standardise that shit, preferably with an age where sexual debut isn't correlated with trauma, future mental illness, and drug addiction.

It seemed to be a thing when I was in high school that Senior boys dated Sophomore girls.  That two year difference was pretty common...it's just that I did it backwards.  Oh well, I have fond memories of my first younger man. 

[The Valkyrie]

Meeting my new chew-toy in ten minutes.

Do I pretend to be nice or let the poor little bastard see what he's in for from the start?

[no one]

Fudging some num.....bers,......um,......I mean,..........doing my taxes.

[The Valkyrie]

I feel I'm going to be in a really bad place soon.







Hamilton!

[Rev. Rye]

I recently managed to buy a copy of Vampires Suck at Half Price Books a few weeks ago (specifically for Deep Hurting Project related reasons). It was $2 and the back side of the case had torn plastic, but at least there's no holes or hairline cracks. Probably the sort of condition this movie deserves. I finally decided to watch it today and I'm about 35 minutes through it. It's fucking stupid, but in its defense, I have managed a few snorts of laughter and I suspect someone up on their FACS could probably detect a few moments where I started to anticipate a laugh but it died because Seltzerberg are shit at comedy. This seems to be the critical consensus for this movie. At this point in Disaster Movie, I was closer to this:





And for the record, I watched it because, coming soon to the Project is a Twilight spoof even worse than this, an unofficial sequel (because it covers the book that Vampires Suck couldn't) called Breaking Wind, Part One (which only covers Eclipse because neither part of Breaking Dawn was made yet and Craig Moss didn't have the creativity to bring some of the insane shit in that book to life, and, to be fair, neither did the filmmakers who adapted it).

Also, Dad finally got to watch The Shining. Apparently, one of his friends knew someone auditioned to play Danny. I briefly hijacked my Dad's phone to text her if he actually got to meet Kubrick during the audition. And I referred to Kubrick as Him, with the capital.

[arewethereyet]

As part of my quilting marathon that started after I had made about a zillion masks, I spent about six hours ironing. Yeah, that pretty much sucked...and I am not even done...I just had enough for one day.

[Gwaithmir]

Getting very sleepy. I think I'll take an hour's nap before suppertime.