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Neither do half the other words and phrases.

Thank you for that random thought.

I'm speechless.

I'll just end it here. I hope you feel better.

You know you are getting old when you feel fine going to bed but wake up with a sports injury.

I'm glad you recognize your behavior. It's a good first step.

You remind me of a child stamping her feet and holding her breath.

Where did I suggest in any way that you should raise someone's child? That my friend is what we call a "straw man". Yes, your response was to dismiss what I said.

By all means you should simply dismiss out of hand any observation about you that you don't like. Good job!

But you personally not seeing the appeal does not make it 'odd'. Your personal bias is suggesting that the behavior itself is 'odd' with no data to back it up. http://www.yourtango.com/2011101695/couples-who-watch-porn-together-are-more-committed-really Citation? As you are not familiar with how common it is, perhaps you should not term it 'odd'.

I'm also unsure what is "odd" about watching porn with your partner. Sounds like personal bias on the part of Raider.

Self-defeating too. But certainly self-centered. There is no discussion, no question, no request for input. The entire OP was "let me tell you about me and what I think and what I feel and how I would act". And that's just this post. Most of her posts seem self-centered. Reminds me of a self-centered friend I once had who, after giving you the latest update on all things her, would say "but enough about me, what do you think about me?"

Perhaps if you weren't so self-centered you would enjoy life more.

So a person in a coma and I are not in the same universe? A rock in my yard and I are not in the same universe?

Exactly what part of America do you live in? I can get a massage at work or even at the shopping mall. And I live in the very conservative Midwest.

A baby cannot give consent. I'm glad you are here to have a serious conversation. Citation please. Perhaps a Google search of medical benefits would be appropriate. http://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/circumcision/basics/why-its-done/prc-20013585

For me, it's watching the launch of a new iPhone. Car commercials show couples watching through their windows with envy as their neighbor drives up with their new car. It's all around us.

I think part of the problem comes in when you are claiming some benefit from the culture you are appropriating without putting in the work of the culture. For example, if you are pretending to be 'cool' black at the bars on weekends but have not lived through being pulled over for your skin color or being followed around in every store you enter, I can see that being annoying to blacks. Similarly, Vietnam vets typically don't think highly of those who claim to be vets but did not live through that nightmare. I also doubt Baseball World Series winners appreciate people who pretend they were on the club but didn't live through the grueling season that earned them that title.

I think if anyone knowingly takes actions that will cause you to draw false conclusions, and they do nothing to correct that misconception, then they are misleading you. I don't feel my cousin is generally doing anything wrong by playing the part of a black person, but if she allows a false impression to persist amongst those close to her, then that would be wrong (IMO).

"...if you listen to her talk, see her pictures, watch who she socializes with, you will assume she is black." The above sentence means she now talks like a black person, looks like a black person, and socializes almost exclusively with black people. I don't know if she is 'black' or not. Since race is basically a cultural designation, whether or not she is black can be up for debate. She is NOT visibly white. She looks like she could be black (or perhaps mixed race), and given that she sounds black and hangs out with black people she could be mistaken for black. By 'misleading' I mean that she is trying to appear to be something she is not.

Don't know exactly but low 50s. Here is a before and after pic of Rachel Dolezal who people might remember was the head of the Spokane chapter of the NAACP until people found out her birth certificate listed her as Caucasian. My cousin has gone through a similar transformation. http://edition.cnn.com/2015/06/15/opinions/rich-rachel-dolezal/

No, but she is doing something. She looks darker. Her hair now looks like she might be mixed race too. Can you be more specific?

My cousin is now black. She used to be white. She doesn't actually claim to be black, but if you listen to her talk, see her pictures, watch who she socializes with, you will assume she is black. She catches a lot of heat from many who are black. I've never heard them articulate exactly why they are offended by her actions; they mostly just loudly point out that she is not black. In my cousin's case I guess part of the issue may be that she seems to be misleading people.

Some of my all time favorite music...

I was half expecting them to cut to the SNL skit where Alec Baldwin says "Its pronounced GINA!".