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What Is It Like To Be Asexual
(photo: @spacemonkey)
OK, here’s how basic asexuality works for me. And it took me until 40 to figure it out. The only times I’ve wanted sex, was simply out of hope that This Would Be It, I would finally feel what other people feel!
Aaaand it never happened. Sex for me was an awkward, boring, kind of gross experience. Every single time.
And I was married and had three kids.
I faked it, EVERY TIME. Because it was always a weird, messy, body function that was slightly more pleasant than washing dishes. A chore.
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Meet Brendan Walsh, Professional Poo Diver
Brendan Walsh runs a commercial diving business in Melbourne and spends his days in all sorts of no-air environments, with a small part being sewage.
Sewage diving in Australia is essential because we use bacteria instead of chemicals to break down the solids.
Big stirring machines run 24 hours a day and moving parts constantly break, which is when Mr Walsh’s business is called in to repair them.
Life Advice I Wish I Would’ve Known Earlier
- Life lessons will be presented to you in the order they are needed. Everything you need to master the lesson is within you. Once you have truly learned a lesson, you will be presented with the next one. If you are alive, that means you still have lessons to learn.
- No one is as impressed with your possessions as you are.
Linkage
She Played Lorraine McFly in Back to the Future. See Lea Thompson Now at 61 – Ned Hardy
An Unconventional Guide to Happiness – Mark Manson
Awesome budget-audiophile level turntable that is a great start on your fidelity listening journey – Amazon
3 Ways to Make Your Writing Clearer – HBR
Do You Understand What Normal Blood Pressure Is? Many Americans Wrongly Assume They Do – The Conversation
Elon Musk and top AI researchers call for pause on ‘giant AI experiments’ – The Verge
Why the Stock Market Makes You Feel Bad All the Time – Wealth of Common Sense
She Played Stephanie Barnett on The Big Bang Theory. See Sara Rue Now At 44 – Ned Hardy
How to Stop ‘Shoulding’ Yourself
20 Tourist Attractions Travel Editors Actually Love Visiting – Afar
Build Yourself Out – Small Business Systems for Entrepreneurs – Jeff Serini
7 Essential Elements to a Good Photo – Peta Pixel
The 10 Most Useful Websites You Didn’t Know existed – Linkiest
What Ever Happened to 80’s Actress Felice Schachter? – VL Wanderer
Girl On Scooter Hits A Car Head On (video) – Leenks
BJJ blue belt claims no woman can beat him, a female brown belt breaks his leg – Reddit
A serial sperm donor who has fathered 550 children is being sued for increasing the risk of accidental incest – Insider
Lamborghini’s first plug-in hypercar is the 1001HP, Aventador-replacing, Revuelto
– Car and Driver
Confessions of a Former Incel
I was an incel when I was younger. I was an ugly teenager and an ugly young adult and people told me, often and repeatedly. Due to my somewhat dysfunctional upbringing, I had acquired relevant social skills a bit later than other kids.
27 Crazy Things Car Mechanics Had To Deal With
Ramblings From The Forever Alone Community
1. Sometimes I remember just how lonely I am, how deprived of physical or emotional intimacy I am, and it just leaves me with a cold, numb, empty feeling that radiates from my core to my extremities. Sometimes I think back on a time, any time, that agirl smiled at me, or laughed at a joke, or any basic, every day, little social cue that she’s potentially a little interested, and I’m overcome with frustration bordering on rage because I couldn’t bring myself to do anything about it. When that happens I might just sort of growl/moan to myself if I’m somewhere with other people around, but if I’m alone (especially in the car)I’ll scream at the top of my lungs, either a stream of profanities or just a wordless bellow.
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The only known picture of President Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe together, 1962
This black and white image, taken by White House photographer Cecil Stoughton, is the only known photograph of JFK and Monroe together. Monroe is still wearing the infamously tight-fighting, sheer rhinestone-studded dress she wore when singing earlier at Madison Square Garden.
13 Things You Experience When You Step Out of Your Comfort Zone
It doesn’t matter how old you are, what you have done or where you have been – at some point you will have to step out of your comfort zone. You know already whether you ever truly have or not. It is not so much a memory of a specific event, rather than an inner knowing. A mental toughness and emotional stability that tells the world that you can handle anything that it decides to throw at you. This solidity cannot be faked.