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void-tiger · 1 year ago
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My feelings for you are warring hope and doubt fueled by quiet observation and wistful dreams.
#tiger’s musings#it’s like living in a Wait&See and Idiots to ?? fanfic#i am annoyed#I am also patient#but mostly wondering if I’m a fool#…gosh. I just want friendship returned in a way I can understand enough to trust#instead of the constant quiet observations#that I Think are twoway but#…right. he’s finally gonna be back this weekend. yet another Wait&See#I’ve wanted to be his damn friend for so long#okay. concern is nice. but what do I even do with that when it’s felt like all summer was Still us…talking less than he does with others#and I ran out of steam to try and gently and playfully tease him to coax any banter#I mean…there is definitely open and consistant observation. but what I need is communication. otherwise that feels an awful lot like pity#and I Cannot STAND feeling like a pity project#(also…why I kinda hate it that the church choir has to pay for my uniform. turns out I only have enough money leftover#(for getting my shirt tailored. and I’m kinda embarassed if they look at the sizes ordered as well#(or if anyone will judge for wanting the shirt fitting properly vs baggy + too tight)#(if…me wearing something that fits…will have him fleeing Yet Again)#(WHY was he running away from me at all?! even if he stopped that. I don’t understand.)#(there’s So Much I can bob along with IF I know how things are. it’s left to unknowns that makes me capsize with doubt and anxiety spirals#(I can handle quiet days and long distance. rambling hyperfixations. need to vent or need for space. anxious and depressive ‘negativity.’#(…BUT. I have to have that communication to build security. then I’m pretty ride&die#(otherwise…I’m such a mess. and seriously struggle with avoidance to not act clingy#(all while being emotionally impulsive—if I like you my face is damn obvious unless I blunt everything I feel with a blank expression#(…the only reassurance here is that I Think his expressiveness is similar. I swear he noticed me needing to study his reaction#(and lowering his own Blank Expression)#(…mygod I swear we’re pretty similar in this regard with how we show/not show emotion and realizing we need to lower our guards to be read#(but…it’s still so so hard. when what I need is to know talking is Okay)
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askmeanythingmeme · 5 years ago
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[MSG]: If you come home and see an ambulance outside, don’t worry. I’ve got it all under control.
[MSG:] One time I thought I was heterosexual.
[MSG:] I’M WEARING A FLAG.
[MSG:] Just get in the fucking blanket fort.
[MSG:] I think the only option is to smoke so much weed I pass out for 3 days.
[MSG:] I am going places. Maybe not college, but places…
[MSG:] I don’t think meeting his drug dealers counts as a relationship landmark.
[MSG:] THE SUPER HOT BARTENDER WHO LOOKS LIKE RYAN GOSLING JUST WALKED IN. BUT HE DOESN’T EVEN WALK HE GLIDES. LIKE AN ANGEL.
[MSG:] We’re making a scrapbook of dick pics, you want in or what?
[MSG:] Can you pick me up? The threeway turned into a twoway while I sit here alone in the corner…
[MSG:] Every time you mention the threesome around him I will high five you. Do what you will with this information.
[MSG:] You know, my friends think I make these stories up…
[MSG:] I’m bonding with your girlfriend. I like her. We’re plotting your demise.
[MSG:] My cute new neighbor has a cast on his leg. How sad is it that my first thought was, “Hey! This one can’t run away!”.
[MSG:] OMG he dropped his pants for me. Granted it was to show me where he got stabbed but still…
[MSG:] I started the day with dreams of getting laid and ended it with the reality of eating Taco Bell in my bed with my dog.
[MSG:] I just walked into the room at this party and someone shouted “dibs!”
[MSG:] He held my hand in public and I nearly came. Like he needs to be inside of me yesterday.
[MSG:] Uh, I almost got the bride to go down on me. I’m the smoothest maid of honor ever.
[MSG:] Somehow a ride to Walgreens turned into a threesome.
[MSG:] Yeah, don’t like to call her my roommate. Too cordial. I prefer to call her “the whore that was assigned to live with me.”
[MSG:] Why does every bad decision I make end up with at least 100 likes on YouTube?
[MSG:] I feel like I don’t show you my boobs enough. And you deserve to see them like all the time.
[MSG:] I told you not to buy lube from a tourist shop!
[MSG:] He must be a special kind of stupid to cheat on a women who works at a funeral home. Does he not understand you can get rid of dead bodies easier than most Americans?
[MSG:] STOP BREAKING THE LAW, ASSHOLE.
[MSG:] There were containers of weed in the piñata.
[MSG:] So far today I’ve had six shots of tequila, one joint, I’ve hit three parties, made out with two people and been chased by security. It is spring break.
[MSG:] OMG SOMEONE JUST CRASHED THIS LECTURE SCREAMING “TROOOOOLLLL IN THE DUNGEONS!!!” I CAN’T STOP LAUGHING HELP
[MSG:] I understand why animals eat their young in the wild after watching your kid this afternoon.
[MSG:] Uh, I think that pic was for someone else. At least, I hope so…
[MSG:] My gaydar is infallible. Trust me.
[MSG:] I’m actually kind of scared about the prospect of us living together. We’re just going to eat pizza and drink wine before retiring to our rooms with vibrators.
[MSG:] Would you accept a fantastic blowjob as payment?
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hgrpmeme · 6 years ago
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[MSG]: If you come home and see an ambulance outside, don’t worry. I’ve got it all under control.
[MSG:] One time I thought I was heterosexual.
[MSG:] I’M WEARING A FLAG.
[MSG:] Just get in the fucking blanket fort.
[MSG:] I think the only option is to smoke so much weed I pass out for 3 days.
[MSG:] I am going places. Maybe not college, but places…
[MSG:] I don’t think meeting his drug dealers counts as a relationship landmark.
[MSG:] THE SUPER HOT BARTENDER WHO LOOKS LIKE RYAN GOSLING JUST WALKED IN. BUT HE DOESN’T EVEN WALK HE GLIDES. LIKE AN ANGEL.
[MSG:] We’re making a scrapbook of dick pics, you want in or what?
[MSG:] Can you pick me up? The threeway turned into a twoway while I sit here alone in the corner…
[MSG:] Every time you mention the threesome around him I will high five you. Do what you will with this information.
[MSG:] You know, my friends think I make these stories up…
[MSG:] I’m bonding with your girlfriend. I like her. We’re plotting your demise.
[MSG:] My cute new neighbor has a cast on his leg. How sad is it that my first thought was, “Hey! This one can’t run away!”.
[MSG:] OMG he dropped his pants for me. Granted it was to show me where he got stabbed but still…
[MSG:] I started the day with dreams of getting laid and ended it with the reality of eating Taco Bell in my bed with my dog.
[MSG:] I just walked into the room at this party and someone shouted “dibs!”
[MSG:] He held my hand in public and I nearly came. Like he needs to be inside of me yesterday.
[MSG:] Uh, I almost got the bride to go down on me. I’m the smoothest maid of honor ever.
[MSG:] Somehow a ride to Walgreens turned into a threesome.
[MSG:] Yeah, don’t like to call her my roommate. Too cordial. I prefer to call her “the whore that was assigned to live with me.”
[MSG:] Why does every bad decision I make end up with at least 100 likes on YouTube?
[MSG:] I feel like I don’t show you my boobs enough. And you deserve to see them like all the time.
[MSG:] I told you not to buy lube from a tourist shop!
[MSG:] He must be a special kind of stupid to cheat on a women who works at a funeral home. Does he not understand you can get rid of dead bodies easier than most Americans?
[MSG:] STOP BREAKING THE LAW, ASSHOLE.
[MSG:] There were containers of weed in the piñata.
[MSG:] So far today I’ve had six shots of tequila, one joint, I’ve hit three parties, made out with two people and been chased by security. It is spring break.
[MSG:] OMG SOMEONE JUST CRASHED THIS LECTURE SCREAMING “TROOOOOLLLL IN THE DUNGEONS!!!” I CAN’T STOP LAUGHING HELP
[MSG:] I understand why animals eat their young in the wild after watching your kid this afternoon.
[MSG:] Uh, I think that pic was for someone else. At least, I hope so…
[MSG:] My gaydar is infallible. Trust me.
[MSG:] I’m actually kind of scared about the prospect of us living together. We’re just going to eat pizza and drink wine before retiring to our rooms with vibrators.
[MSG:] See, remember when you wanted to get an Ashley Madison account and I told you not to and you hated me? You. Are. Welcome.
[MSG:] Would you accept a fantastic blowjob as payment?
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im-hiding22 · 6 years ago
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uhhhhh if it was apoccy (and gene and a few others) against the majority? they prob would overpower him
huh yea makes sense. it’s kinda like majority vote maybe? never been in a fusion with more than one dudd
honestly i just hope they keep fighting. just dont even budge. got to sleep maybe even. like. what the hell are they gonna do? wake up your soul?
…now that i think about it, can you even sleep in a fusion like that? in the twoway one you just kinda…fell asleep together? and if one stayed awake you did too but we usually worked it out….how does it work in something like that? are you just…forced awake forever?
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anomadscause · 3 years ago
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Oh.. and, ..["..🤣.."].. #BeforeIForget.. Kinda feelin’ like #theUniverse . •[#Universal; I see them too sometimes as if any of that #FuhkShht is serious or is about me personally]• . yah created is trying to tell me something.. #TwoWays in which a ‘#Gun’ is relevant to me. I straight up just zoomed past it at first but then I got the thinking that it might’ve been the piece I would need anyway— Only to have stopped and seen that it’s from some kind of #Toy although I’m not sure (wasn’t really tryna touch it or anything) what it shot.. 🧐'kinda thinking that I have to "MakeThatPurchase".. even if it’s just a matter of wanting to see if it #changes anything like how NOT getting what I’m referring to seemed to— ..really type trippin’ off this ‘ish still. Especially when #FederalGovernment (#theGoverningBodies) is #theReason for whatever it is that may have been "#Allowed" in yah’ having #StoppedMe as yah did. 🤨.. #WhatAFuhkingJoke: "#theSecretSociety.. [🤣’#TwistedHumor, I got from all the "#suffrage"] 🤨’AND, thats #Technique'ally #theRightWord, I used to describe it too..🤦🏾‍♂️ These dudes wanna do and maneuver and control shht all they fuhkin’ want until it seems that they can’t just MAKE #aVillageIdiot do as they are told.. as it is suggested.. as they are maneuvered to (via #theSwitchAndSwap or #Otherwise for that matter)..:#LifeIsOverRated” **not an exaggeration**😔 - thēIlluminaut’😒 ____________________________ "#ToyGun. ..and strangers." Like, "#WhatAWave"😑.. . —and, IM suppose to be the OPENLY crazy one nobody knows, trust or listens to, #REMEMBER?! Type of thing that’ll make you question what "#Help" actually is as well as what it does.. on top of who EXACTLY are you helping. “These niguhz are DUMB_FR.. *FreeMason, FreeMasonry|#MasonicRule and their #Illuminati* ::ItWasntAlwaysThisWay.. (Right?!)…askTWITTER_” [#WarOfRoses]'revisited, like this point in the path— (at Jötunheimr) https://www.instagram.com/p/CcR3ZiUM8lC/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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Best Bluetooth Earbuds Online
An earbuds that gives a twoway association with the client's cellphone through Bluetooth. Fitting in one ear just, the part that is squeezed somewhat into the ear waterway commonly accompanies removable little, medium and enormous tips. For the best fit, custom ear pieces can be moled to the person's ear. We love a wide range of earbuds, from in-ear buds to goliath studio jars, AirPods to wraparounds, on-ears and over-ears and everything in the middle. However, on the off chance that you've never claimed a couple of Bluetooth earbuds previously, you may be contemplating whether they're truly great we're taking a gander at the reasons why you totally ought to.
1) They're remote, duh
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2) Sound quality and association dependability are significantly better Back in the exciting beginning of Bluetooth earbuds, associations would nonconformist, blending was an aggravation, they were insane costly, playback was questionable and sound quality was the melodic adaptation of the old metal can phone you made as a child. Yet, circumstances are different.
Nowadays, matching is regularly pretty much as basic as tapping a NFC tag or flipping open the top of your AirPods' case. Bluetooth 5.0 is here, and guarantees twofold the inclusion distance, and four-times the throughput. The unwavering quality and strength of remote associations are pretty much as great as they have at any point been and for all intents and purposes everything electronic has Bluetooth sound help (with the exception of the Nintendo Switch, ahem!). Indeed, even obvious remote association steadiness is improving: more organizations are compelling a free association from a cell phone to each earbud to lessent association drops and postponements.
Also, we see a many individuals portray Bluetooth sound as horrendous, and this is fairly cruel. It is actually the case that it isn't just about as great as wired sound as there's still information misfortune, yet Bluetooth quality is sufficient for most broad customers. Great Bluetooth codecs have progressed significantly since their origin, and surprisingly the standard SBC codec has gained ground. We're at a remote sound articulation point what with the coming of Bluetooth LE Audio and the LC3 codec. Again, this isn't to say wired sound has lost is place; a remarkable opposite, it's energetic supporters are gripping their links more tight than at any other time, however saying Bluetooth streaming is "dreadful" is only exaggeration in 2020.
The fact I'm attempting to make here is that whenever wired earbuds are still better compared to their remote partners, the quality hole between them is developing more modest consistently.
3) Battery life is incredible (for earbuds, earbuds are another story)
While I know charging one more battery may seem like an agony, all versatile results of accommodation include some significant downfalls: need a remote work area? Prepare to charge your mouse and console. Cell phone, PC, Nike AirMags: everything fun and helpful requirements a battery. The equivalent is valid for sound.
Luckily however, the battery life of Bluetooth earbuds can undoubtedly approach, if not surpass, the 20-hour mark, contingent upon the pair you purchase. Remote neckbuds supply 10 hours of recess on a solitary charge; while genuine remote earbuds are somewhat all the more a bet: those battery cells are minuscule, and exhaust quickly since they're continually going through charges.
In any case, most all earbuds give a very sizable amount of playback to a whole day at the workplace, a few outings to the rec center or endless laps around the square (on a bigger pair like the Sony WH-1000XM3 commotion dropping earbuds, you can undoubtedly get 20 hours). Thinking of you as of now need to charge a large portion of the stuff you take with you consistently, what improvement will connecting something more truly make?
With extraordinary reserve times on certain items—I've gotten a couple of Plantronics on-ears following a half year that actually had a full battery—charging your earbuds' battery can be something you just need to do one time per week or something like that. Not a terrible value cost to pay for being remote constantly. Additionally, a lot of bigger remote earbuds permit you to just associate them with a link if the battery bites the dust: win, win.
4) Keep your telephone opened with Trusted Devices
In the event that you don't have the foggiest idea what Trusted Devices are now, they are essentially devices that you own or "trust" that you can use to keep your cell phone opened. The solitary necessity for setting up a believed Smart Lock blending is the presence of a battery and Bluetooth. You can utilize a wellness band or smartwatch to keep your telephone opened while they're in closeness, and exactly the same thing works with your remote earbuds. Wired earbuds don't uphold this component since they're not ready to communicate anything to your telephone. However, in case you're not into wellness lashes or different wearables, you can in any case partake in the advantages of Trusted Devices by giving your Bluetooth earbuds the ability to keep your telephone opened. Furthermore, in case you're the sort to keep your earbuds either on your ears or around your neck consistently as am I, Trusted Devices can be a gigantic efficient device each and every day.
So those are five exceptionally basic motivations to try Bluetooth earbuds out. Thinking about a portion of the extraordinary remote earphone bargains going around, you can get a nice pair for close to nothing and see with your own eyes how incredible they are. The most amazing aspect of all however is that purchasing Bluetooth earbuds doesn't mean you need to discard your old cabled 'telephones. Use them when it's advantageous and change to cabled when it's not. The inquiry isn't actually why you should purchase remote earbuds, however is there any good reason why you wouldn't?
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siva3155 · 5 years ago
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300+ TOP XAMARIN Interview Questions and Answers
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Xamarin 2.0 was released in February 2013 Xamarin.Android and Xamarin.iOS that make it possible to do native Android, iOS and Windows development in C#, with either Visual Studio or Xamarin Studio. Xamarin.forms: Introduced in Xamarin 3 on May 28, 2014 and allows one to use portable controls subsets that are mapped to native controls of Android, iOS and Windows Phone. On February 24, 2016: Microsoft announced it signed a definitive agreement to acquire Xamarin On March 30, 2016: Microsoft acquired the xamarin. And made it for all with free of cost. 32. What are disadvantage of Xaml in Xamarin.Forms? XAML cannot contain code. All event handlers must be defined in a code file. XAML cannot contain loops for repetitive processing. (However,ListView —can generate multiple children based on the objects in its ItemsSource collection.) 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The major difference between the two is the manner in which they lay out their items, and it’s easy to change the layout so each control emulates the other. The ListView control displays its data stacked vertically, much like a standard listbox. Use this control to display an ordered list of data, especially long lists that require scrolling like a list of email messages, a list of contacts, or search results. The TableView control displays its data stacked horizontally in rows (although you can alter this behavior and have it displayed in columns first, as well). You use this control when you need more space for rich visualization of each item to be displayed. One of the big differences is ListView provides you a ItemsSource and a Itemtemplate and TableView does not. So items must be added as children manually. 35. What are the layout controls available in Xamarin.Forms? Layout is the process of sizing and positioning child elements in UI. 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littleandroidwrites · 7 years ago
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[MSG:] So the threeway turned out to be a twoway while the third one sat and watched in a chair. // [MSG:] So it turns out he’s not into bondage. // “I can’t believe you’d say that. Even in an argument, that was low of you.” ACEEEEE OBV THE FIRST 2 ARE B4 SHE LEFT
[Ice → Axel]: So the three-way turned out to be a two-way while the third one sat and watched in a chair.
[Axel → Ice]: u were the third. admit it. 
[Axel → Ice]: ur just a creepy virgin. CAN’T RELATE
[Ice → Axel]: So it turns out he’s not into bondage.
[Axel → Ice]: yeah my day was good thanks for asking :) did get rained on but that’s life haha! 
[Axel  → Ice]: that was me ignoring that NASTY SHIT YOU JUST SENT ME 
[Axel  → Ice]: I’M NOT YOUR DIARY
[Axel  → Ice]: GET A THERAPIST 
[Axel  → Ice]: OH MY GOD
“I can’t believe you’d say that. Even in an argument, that was low of you.”
The guilt flushed down the back of his neck, heating him uncomfortably from the inside out, but he couldn’t back down. Axel never was good at vulnerability, and apologizing was perhaps the most compromising act of all. Showing your claws only to throw yourself to the other’s mercy? No. He wouldn’t do it. Not even for Ice. 
Especially not for Ice. 
“It’s true. You fucking know it’s true. You didn’t tell me ‘cause you didn’t give a fuck -- you just wanted out.” And now he wasn’t just saying the worlds to hurt her -- he was saying them because they were true, or had been in the years that had followed her disappearance. All of his fears without evidence to suggest otherwise lead to their culmination as fact. He’d explained away her behaviour to himself until he was sick, again and again, until it was all he could think about. Until he felt so much hatred for himself, the boy that had been worth leaving behind, that he couldn’t feel anything else -- not betrayal, not abandonment, not sadness. Just hate. Maybe a little anger, too.“I mean, Christ, Ice. How many times did we talk about how fucked up our lives were -- how often did we talk about leaving, packing bags, getting away from our parents -- but there was always something in the way. Me, mostly.” Axel laughed then, bitterly. He couldn’t look at her. “But when my dad gave you that out, I bet you didn’t even think about it. About me. I bet you just thought: this is it. I can finally get away from all this batshit drama. I bet you didn’t even care that meant me too.” Now, he did look at her, solid in his accusations though he knew they weren’t true. He knew now how Michael had threatened her. But he didn’t want to be reasonable about the pain she’d left him in, didn’t want to explain it away and accept it for what it was: the girl he loved, had always loved, innocent. Innocent, and right there in front of him. Out of reach. 
No, he couldn’t accept that. And so he let himself buy into her leaving him behind, forgetting about him -- hating him, maybe. Because it was easier that way. Easier to consider that he’d almost married someone else. Easier to accept that he’d spent years trying to forget Ice, to turn himself into a person worthy of her abandonment. Easier to accept all of the life he’d wasted. 
“That’s the way it is, Ice. No matter what anybody says about me, I wouldn’t have left you behind. And that makes you worse than me, which is a pretty fucking impressive feat.” Axel looked at her, knuckles gripped tight on the edge of the table. He was almost completely moved out of his childhood home. He wasn’t sure where he would go after this, and that was a good thing. If even he didn’t know where he was going, then no one could follow. Not his father, not Rachel, and especially not Ice -- the only person who might be able to convince him to come back. “So if you’re done fucking with my life, I would love it if you could get the hell out. Cool?” 
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void-tiger · 1 year ago
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Thinking about you, even when I can’t be around you, I want to be better, and want better for myself. I feel brave enough to be ambitious.
And when anxiety isn’t eating away at either of us? I can finally feel safe enough to be at rest. Not need to fade away or else be “on” all the time. (I still want you to feel as comfortable teasing me playfully and cracking jokes directly with me and letting yourself ramble that you are seemingly with everyone else, though. That’s how I truly know I’m connected to someone.)
In short, I miss you. And it has nothing to do with your travels.
#tiger’s musings#…I’m so damn smitten uuuuugh.#…BUT. clearly as much as it hurts. it’s also given me that Nudge to resume goals I had to set aside for years#due to mental and physical health stomping on me#and well. wanting a Newish Person having a good impression of you is a helluva motivator#buuuuut… there’s only so much steam Future Hope can give. (same as rage.)#I…really do need us to be able to talk and hang out now#sorry to be actually clingy but.#(…we’ll see. we’llseewe’llseewe’llsee.)#(he did finally acknowledge a stupid comment I made to an anti colonizers joke he made so there’s that)#((gosh. the more I Can learn about him. the more I like him.))#((and the little I don’t like I do think I can quietly say ‘hey so that actually upset me’ if he didn’t pick up on it nonverbally#(((it is. nuts. that things are 80% nonverbal. that this is how we’re largely learning eachother. and I do think it’s a twoway observation)#((and yeah. I feel like I’m going insane with that. BUT he’s either good at it or practiced at it#((and at this point I swear I know a lot of his Tells…while not knowing what he actually Likes#((BUT I think I have a good idea about what he values so))#((but…yeah. IF we can get out of this rut. I think he would truly listen to me and not get mad that I’m upset#((he and his family HAVE shown that they’re not phased by mental health whatsoever. even with me#((if anything. they’re more distant when I try putting on a brave smiling face#((instead of. say. getting a bit bossy or snippy.#((and…who’s actually like that?? what is this?? wHAT?!))#(BUT! Actual Verbal Commimication vs Nonverbal Is Hard.)
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[MSG:] Can you pick me up? The threeway turned into a twoway while I sit here alone in the corner…
TEXT   MESSAGE   STARTERS  /  ACCEPTING.              *      ↝    @nxmue.
(   SMS  :   HEN    )    📩   :    You know I was gonna ask but on second thought
(  SMS  :   HEN    )    📩   :    I think this time around Im just gonna keep my mouth shut
( SMS  :   HEN    )    📩    :    Where are ya at
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shit-bc-haters-say · 8 years ago
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Anon Submit: Gator Logic - OMFG!!!
Here is a sample of “Gator Logic” - the funny thing is she actually thinks this is something that is plausible. Imagine the brain power that would be needed to handle a conversation between two morons like Gator and twowaypr! I am picturing something akin to the wattage that is required to lightly toast a couple of slices of bread. Certainly not anything more!
So here’s Gator in deeeeeep contemplation… “I’ve been getting a lot of asks about when I think we’ll get the split announcement. I was talking to @twowaypr about this privately, getting her take on the things pr looks at in these situations. She made a great point: what if Marvel is concerned about all the evidence of no pregnancies and sham we have been collecting over the years?! What if THEY were behind the “Google cleanse” from earlier this year? Twoway mentioned they may be concerned about the general public going to the web to find out more about the “marriage”, when they see the split announcement. If they are going with a “not his”, they don’t want MORE people stumbling on the fake babies theories than already have. That would explain why SoGo is still at the top of Google Search, even though she hasn’t posted much recently. Marvel may not be concerned about what we skeptics say once the split occurs…but they may be terrified of our archives. How ironic would it be that the very people who have been trying to help Benedict escape this toxic situation are the ones who inadvertently are keeping him in it (at least officially in it)?! I personally don’t think the majority of people out there care enough to look that deeply into it to go searching the archives. If they are going to, it’s more likely they are already thinking about it. So an announcement isn’t going to make them look any more or less. It’s a bit late for them to worry about that. But what do my fellow skeptics think?”
I sort of know what most of the “fellow skeptics” would say already but I thought I would chime in with an alternative opinion.
I’ve been getting a lot of asks about when I think we’ll get the split announcement. -
Of course you have dear. That’s because you have been talking non-stop for almost 3 years now that BC and SH were not married and don’t live together and would be officially split. It isn’t surprising is it that your little cabal of followers would be anxiously waiting for it to finally happen. Funny thing is just perhaps some of them are starting to realise that what you have been trying to sell them stinks like rotten moldy cheese - ever consider that possibility?
I was talking to @twowaypr about this privately, getting her take on the things pr looks at in these situations. -
Well that would be a complete waste of time since everything that I have read from twowaypr in no way indicates that this person knows anything about the ins and outs of public relations from within the industry. Everything looks like it was taken from a basic primer on PR off the internet.
She made a great point: what if Marvel is concerned about all the evidence of no pregnancies and sham we have been collecting over the years?! What if THEY were behind the “Google cleanse” from earlier this year? -
Really? You think that was a “great point”? How about this - Marvel doesn’t give a shit about how Ben (someone who isn’t associated with any kind of troublesome private life) conducts his marriage. And where is there any kind of hard evidence that Marvel/ Disney even knows the “super sleuth skeptics” have obsessively been stalking Ben and his wife over the last 3 years?
Twoway mentioned they may be concerned about the general public going to the web to find out more about the “marriage”, when they see the split announcement. If they are going with a “not his”, they don’t want MORE people stumbling on the fake babies theories than already have. -
Oh that makes total sense - NOT! First, Marvel doesn’t care about the so-called “Cleanse” that only the Haters are worked up into a frenzy about. Not only does Marvel not care - NEITHER DOES ANYONE ELSE!! Second, they wouldn’t even care even if Ben and Sophie actually got a divorce. People get divorced all the time and guess what … movies still get made! Marvel still hires actors who have had divorces!! And third, Marvel wouldn’t be in charge of putting out the information about Ben’s private life! Ben’s own PR and agent would (you idiots!).
That would explain why SoGo is still at the top of Google Search, even though she hasn’t posted much recently. Marvel may not be concerned about what we skeptics say once the split occurs…but they may be terrified of our archives. -
That doesn’t make any sense at all. Why SoGo is at the top of your search is you are always looking at that site. It isn’t at the top of my search! And BTW sweetie… Marvel isn’t “terrified” of you or any other skeptic’s archives. they don’t even know they exist. What an over blown sense of your own self importance! Narcissistic or what!
How ironic would it be that the very people who have been trying to help Benedict escape this toxic situation are the ones who inadvertently are keeping him in it (at least officially in it)?! -
“Officially” now is it? Marvel and Disney seem quite happy to let Ben talk all over the place, when the PR tour for DS was going on, about how he missed his child and wife and how excited he was to have another child. So where do you get the idea that they are trying to get him out of his married life? And BTW, aren’t you the one who has been saying for God knows how many years that Ben NEVER even lived with Sophie? So now you are admitting that it sure appears like he is happily married with 2 children and a wife who is now collaborating with him and his production company? About time! And just to keep things on the up and up, the only thing “toxic” in any of this is the vile hatred that the “skeptics” have been spewing all these years about Ben’s wife. Even he told you “skeptics” in no uncertain terms that your behaviour was obsessive, scary and delusional. Try and listen to the man you keep saying you are being so supportive of.
I personally don’t think the majority of people out there care enough to look that deeply into it to go searching the archives. If they are going to, it’s more likely they are already thinking about it. So an announcement isn’t going to make them look any more or less. It’s a bit late for them to worry about that. But what do my fellow skeptics think?“ -
So if you believe that what the fuck is this whole conversation about anyway? Why would they go through any effort at all to manipulate Google Search, why be "terrified” of skeptics’ archives, why even give a shit about Ben’s personal life at all - if the majority of people could care enough to look at all this crap? Yes, it is true - if they are going to look it up then more in likely they are already thinking about it BECAUSE they are already in your little obsessive “cult” already! Meaning once again, ONLY SKEPTICS REALLY CARE ABOUT THE SORRID LITTLE LIES YOU FOLKS PUT OUT! Not Marvel, not Disney, not the ordinary fans of Ben’s work. The skeptics are the obsessive, delusional fanatics who spend waaaaay too much time seeking out every scrap of info about Sophie Hunter from every source on the internet. They are the ones who scour all the dark nether regions and find “connections” where there are none, shady shit where there is nothing and “fuckery” where there is just two people who got married, had children and are trying to live their lives together.
So, here’s what I THINK - you all are full of shit and should just accept reality (Ben is married to someone who he loves and had a family with) and get on with your lives.
Please keep me anon. Thanks.
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You know what ticks me? It's when I see a great post from "whenisayrunrun" saluting BC for his BAFTA nom and slimy Hater names (aeltri, twoway pr, etc.) are in the notes. I know the tailgating can't be helped but it makes me feel sick that they sneak in to these great tributes by real fans. I especially feel like gagging when I see notes with things like "nuttyarcadestarfish" said "It's OK to attend alone!". Just can't keep away from the hatred of Sophie even when congrats are in order for BC!
I hear ya and I agree. I do wonder how our talented gif making bloggers feel when they see the SGB names in their notes, or if they even know who they are. I think about sharing the list with them, or telling them there was one, but maybe they don’t want to know. Some people prefer to just ignore their existence. 
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auskultu · 8 years ago
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On Bein’ at the Be-in
Cal Steimetz, Berkeley Barb, 20 January 1967
I work 40 hours a week but am not stratifyingly ambitious. I dress modestly, sometimes wear a tie, but keep also a beard. I am married, but not to a Caucasian. I drive a 1965 car but of course it’s a VW. I admire the eloquent silence of Buddha’s flower sermon as well as the several-hours speeches of Fidel.
I see that source of unity which is a revelation of inner harmony and not anyone’s putdown, but sympathize with “people’s armed struggle.” I steep in Buddha’s cosmic universalism but belong to a socially conservative Buddhist temple.
Not knowing then what tribe I belong to I went to the great BE-IN gathering. I had heard that the hippies and the activists might lovemagically coalesce and bring forth Buddha (the Great Compassion and the Great Wisdom!)
Majestic Moses and Sweet Jesus were seen many times, soft eyes with revolutionary beards. Angels from the very gates of Hell protected the erstwhile wantonly cut electric power and also suffered little lost children to come unto them. (Electric guitars will never make it in the Sierra Maestras, comrades!) No anger, no reproach for the act of non-love (or was it Divine Mischief!); Allen Ginsberg provided a special mantric spell to divert any likely lingering, lurking evil spirits. In this he was aided by inspired percussionists in front, and by much of flutes, bells and tambourines among the communicants.
A little more than an hour before the commencement of the more formal rites, my wife and I camped by the ends of the streamers from the skyward rocket, phallic multicolored submarine, with a couple of friends who rushed in from Davis. Ginsburg invoked Shiva and the lively kind-faced youths behind us worshipped the grass fragrantly. Gary Snyder intoned the sutra in traditional Japanese inflection.
With joy I saw that Suzuki-roshi was on the platform and wished that at least one of my Buddhist Churches of America ministers was there. Upon leaving we did meet at the crowds fringes one of the lay brethren from my particular religious circle; he wondered what WE were doing THERE. He was taking pictures.
A painted face behind us bent to a squat little stone flute it seemed, but it sounded like an ecstatic meadowlark. In the quietness of the sunlight it soared, and amid the humming of all those golden honeybe-ins; in and out of strands of speech and chanting it was always harmonious: the One and the Many. A nobly beautiful couple rose to dance.
Near us a shy, very young looking pair looked with wide, serious eyes and they blessed us by accepting eagerly our food offerings. (Dana is a twoway street). When the Davis-friends split we found our neighbors to be another pair of tall beautifuls, he black, she blonde and rosy, modest mature types. We had some Japanese style fried chicken which they accepted with a special kind of joy to be long remembered. The man especially felt something wonderful had happened.
But that was only one corner. In the spirit of the Five Thousand, the Diggers began to feed the multitude. Some say as many as four times Five Thousand were present and all seemed filled, contented and giving.
A lad unfurled a poster-sized picture of Ho Chi Minh - just a picture, not a thousand-words. We saw there that Ho was beautiful. (“Well, what do you mean by beauty? - happily none bit THAT apple.) “I found this picture of Ho down there on the road.” So now we know where the Ho Chi Minh trail is!
My heroic wife who tho great with child made the pilgrimage, could sit no longer and from closeup-center we had to make for the periphery. So close packed were the merged communicants that to avoid altogether treading on bare toes was almost impossible. But again, no hostility. The age of miracles has not ended! We departed in a shower of flowers, ribbons, balloons and sugarcubes.
My friend Dr. Allen Cohen, the psychologist and devotee of MEHER BABA, the mahaguru who also as avatar raises his voice against psychedelic chemicals, was not there that I could see. But such a large crowd - but Gleason in the - (there I am again!) - Chronicle, noted Baba-signs “LSD IS MORE ILLUSION, GOD IS THE ONLY REALITY.”
There are so many perspectives. The Buddhist says God too is an illusion, the grandest of them all; but tolerable and sometimes useful if it does not become the “opiate of the people.” Did find one Babalad sitting in the dust with a sign, a forlorn non-communicant sight ( as if self-cast out of the “tabernacle of the congregation”).
I don’t remember the Meher Baba quotation but I do remember the credit at the bottom: “MEYER BABA.” (“His name is Meyer?”) Probably some brotherly Jewish Marxist-Leninist made the sign for him, the same kind of fellow who has a left- handed kind of fondness for Hubert Lindsey the Berkeley campus evangelist-our evangelist. “The lion shall lie down with the lamb...”
Most of the Berkeley lefties I know are not doctrinaire in that inhuman, mean, uptight sort of way - sectarian - (yet steeped in doctrine) and they even find Buddhism a worthy subject of eager inquiry. But after the gathering I met a respected lefty who hit me for a few bills of bail fund at the Med. He asked me how I liked the BE-IN and I saw in his eyes that he wasn’t so sure. “Didn’t the activists speak as planned?—Rubin was there,” etc., I asked, explaining my earlyish departure. “Not so you could notice it” was the tone of his answers.
Well, I can still hear Dan Sorkin crowing on KSFO as I drove home from that Great Gathering, about how wonderful he found it while he could stay; he spoke repeatedly of the spirit, the beauty, the gentleness, the Buddha leading them all down to the sunset service on the beach.
Sometimes I think anything might be possible if the sincerely compassionate revolutionary saints would take up some regular consciousness - expanding meditations. The bodhisattva drops IN not OUT. Out is where we were, in the cold.
When’s the next one? Shall Berkeley host? Maybe not only will the Hell’s Angels be in there but also the Baba-boys and later, the Red Guards. 
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Pullin Me Back Song Lyrics – Chingy Featuring Tyrese
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Pullin Me Back Song Lyrics From Popular Hollywood Artist Chingy Featuring Tyrese from Album.
This song is sung by singer ” Chingy Featuring Tyrese ” in Year 2006.
Lyrics of Pullin Me Back :
every time i try to leave something keeps pullin me back me back tellin me i need you in my life every time i try to go something keeps tellin me that me that everything gon be all rightevery time i try to leave something keeps pullin me back me back tellin me i need you in my life it was meant to be you were meant for me so that means we gotta make it workit was all good at first spendin money goin shoppin eatin at the finest restaurants and if im club hoppin she was right thurr wit me bottle poppin livin that life she just didnt understand my lifestyle and that i aint likewe didnt have a worry in the world gotcha diamonds gotcha pearls but i cant help it if chingaling be attractin all the girls say what baby ima superstar and that come wit it gotta good nigga on your side you betta run wit iteven though im on the road doin shows i made time for me and hurr relationship to grow they tell me dont trust a woman in this industry but she not any woman more like a sacred friend to mecuz when im outta town always think of hurr might conversate wit some chicks but no one come above hurr i thought i was ya man guess you aint understand and now im sittin here lookin crazy like damnevery time i try to leave something keeps pullin me back me back tellin me i need you in my life every time i try to go something keeps tellin me that me that everything gon be all rightevery time i try to leave something keeps pullin me back me back tellin me i need you in my life it was meant to be you were meant for me so that means we gotta make it workwalk in the house wit hard work my head hurt instead of arguin can i have dinner wit some dessert uh uh she talkin bout this phone number she found aint gimme time to put my bags down she straight up clowninbefore we end up fightin let me leave im exhausted and this here i dont need now im wit the fellaz ridin and drinkin she blowin my twoway up but i need some time for thinkinyeah i wanna go back but sumthin sayin naw lemme give her some space and the next day i might call what should i do look lemme ask yall should i stand tall or let this relationship falli aint down wit havin my feelings crushed but it happens sometimes either love it or give it up i thought i was your man guess you aint understand and now im sittin here lookin crazy like damnevery time i try to leave something keeps pullin me back me back tellin me i need you in my life every time i try to go something keeps tellin me that me that everything gon be all rightevery time i try to leave something keeps pullin me back me back tellin me i need you in my life it was meant to be you were meant for me so that means we gotta make it workto all the fellaz know you feel me you ever had a woman good times led to bad times and you aint see it comin tried your best to make her happy but it wasnt enough cuz mama told me in relationships the road get roughand i aint the one to have my head down weepin stressed out as bad as it hurts i gotta move to the next route yes i thought i was her man guess she aint understand and now she sittin thurr lookin crazy like damnevery time i try to leave something keeps pullin me back me back tellin me i need you in my life every time i try to go something keeps tellin me that me that everything gon be all rightevery time i try to leave something keeps pullin me back me back tellin me i need you in my life it was meant to be you were meant for me so that means we gotta make it work said we gotta make it work baby
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simsislovesimsislife · 7 years ago
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GOOGLE HOME REVIEW
The Amazon Echo may have come first, but the Google Home is no mere imitation. It’s a credible rival with distinctive strengths and weaknesses. That the device has a character of its own is obvious from the moment you set eyes on it. Next to the textured cylinder of the Echo, its two-tone design and angled top make much more of a statement. The upper section comes only in white, but the grey fabric speaker cover can be replaced with a jaunty coral fabric, or for a more industrial look metal shields in carbon or copper.
The interface is more futuristic, too. While the Echo’s ring of LEDs is clearly visible around its top edge, the Home conceals them beneath the top panel: when it’s thinking, they shine through, spinning in tasteful pastel colours. When it’s dormant, the lights wink out and the device appears featureless again.
No doubt, the Google Home creates a striking impression, but the design has its compromises. The Echo’s light ring is designed to be clearly visible from all angles, something that the Home can’t claim. And the minimalist philosophy means that the physical controls aren’t exactly intuitive: to adjust the volume, you have to drag a finger clockwise or anticlockwise around the Home’s unmarked upper panel it’s a capacitive surface or tap to manually pause music or stop a timer. Wisely, Google has given the Home a physical button to mute the mic, but it’s hidden round the back, so it can take a moment of fumbling to successfully engage.
Still, as with all of these devices, the whole point is that you should rarely, if ever, need to use the manual controls. Voice control is where it’s at, and when you address the Google Assistant it responds promptly and it must be said with impressive intelligence. Much has been made of the Assistant’s ability to understand context, and you can more or less get into a conversation with it to a greater extent than you can with Alexa. “Where’s my nearest pizza restaurant? What do the reviews say about it? Do they deliver? What time does it open?” The Google Home takes such interrogations in its stride. Even so, once you start your first chat with the Google Assistant, a few niggles quickly become apparent. The first is the wake word: you can say either “Okay Google” or “Hey, Google” (which is helpful for those of us who have other devices listening for the former phrase). There’s nothing exactly wrong with this, but say it a few times and you realise it’s a much more mealy-mouthed mode of address than “Alexa”, which flows neatly off the tongue. In a back-and-forth it’s tiresome to have to prei x it to every statement and, unlike the Echo, the Google Home doesn’t give you any other choice of name.
That touches on a more subtle point. For better or worse, most major voice assistant technologies are somewhat anthropomorphised: Alexa, Siri and Microsoft’s Cortana all have personal names, and talk about themselves in the first person. The Google Assistant, by contrast, is overtly inhuman. Ask its name and it will simply respond “I am the Google Assistant”. To wake it up, you invoke the corporation that operates it. Sci-i ai cionados might love the idea of interacting with an impersonal intelligence, but it doesn’t feel like a comfortable presence in my home. It doesn’t help that the Google Assistant’s speech comes across as slightly stilted and artificial, in contrast to the relative fluency of Alexa and Siri.
Still, it’s something you can certainly get used to, especially since most of the time you’ll be issuing short, one-off commands. One obvious example would be instructing Google Home to play music: predictably enough, the Assistant integrates with Google Play Music as well as Spotify, and if you have a premium subscription with either then it will play more or less anything you ask it to. Disappointingly, though, if you only have a regular, free Play Music account, you can’t play songs you’ve uploaded yourself even though this exact capability is available on every other Play Music platform. You can stream your songs to the Home over Bluetooth, or via the Home’s built-in Google Cast feature, but it’s an irritating speedbump.
On to the important question: how does it sound? Not bad. It certainly has a different character to the Echo, sounding more open and warmer at moderate volumes, versus the matter tone of the Amazon device. However, it’s not so good under pressure. Dial up the volume and things start to sound unpleasantly boxy and its maximum volume of 74dBA feels a lot quieter than the Echo’s. It’s fine for a dinner party, perhaps, but nothing more raucous than that. As with the Echo, though, you do have other options. There’s no physical connector for an external speaker, but thanks to a recent software update you can now divert the audio from your Google Home to one or more other speakers over Bluetooth. You can also cast your playlist to a Chromecast-compatible device, so you could, for example, route your playlist through your TV’s sound bar. If you have multiple Google Home devices, you could also use the Google Home smartphone app’s multiroom feature, and stream your music to several devices at once. There’s currently no support for setting up two units as a stereo pair, but the US-only Google Home Max speaker has that ability, so hopefully it will come to the Home at some point in the not too distant future.
Another slight disappointment about the audio hardware is that where the Amazon Echo has seven microphones, the Home has just two. This doesn’t make it unusable – we had no problem speaking to it from across the room in normal conditions. But when there was music playing, or  the TV was on, the Google Assistant seemed to miss our invocations slightly more often than Alexa.
As you’d hope, the Google Home integrates with Google Calendar, so you can ask it what your next appointment is, or create new events by voice. Alexa can do that too, but Google Home takes it a step further by recognising the voice of the person asking, and automatically selecting the appropriate calendar (if it’s been registered). There’s also simple integration with messaging apps and services, and you can use voice control to cast and control the playback of YouTube videos and Netflix shows.
There’s some support for voice communications, too: you can broadcast messages from a Google Home device (or from your bought iphone) to all the other stations in your home, but you can’t open a twoway intercom connection. You can’t drop in on a friend’s Google Home device either, but you can use your Home to call their regular phone – something Alexa can’t currently do. If their number’s in your Google contacts, it’ll be picked up automatically, and you can even set the correct caller ID, so they’ll see it’s you calling and, hopefully, pick up.
On top of that, you can use IFTTT to connect your Google Home to a wider range of online services and Internet of Things gadgets: the Google Home works natively with big names such as Philips Hue and (Google-owned) Nest, but it doesn’t have such extensive partnerships as Amazon, so you may have to do a little plumbing yourself. In truth, this can be a little confusing to set up at first, as there’s no dedicated Google Home channel in IFTTT – the relevant applets are all found under the general Google Assistant channel. It’s a similar situation with the Google Home app. It’s nicer looking than the Amazon Alexa app, and much more responsive, but the sheer range of menus and settings on offer (for both Home and Chromecast devices) makes it rather overwhelming and difficult to navigate. On paper, the Google Home is a solid, point-for-point competitor to the Echo. Yet, we didn’t warm to it in the same way in use. Part of that is to do with its more impersonal character – but there’s more to it than that. The design isn’t quite as practical as the Echo’s. It doesn’t hear quite as well, it doesn’t go quite as loud, and at present there’s no stereo option.
None of those criticisms ruins the basic idea, and if you’re a fan of the big G, we certainly wouldn’t discourage you from investing in the Google Home. It’s a very capable device, and with Google’s immense resources behind it it’s surely only going to get cleverer over time witness the recent arrival of Bluetooth streaming, which had been missing at launch. Right now, though, the Google Home feels like it’s half a step behind the Echo and decidedly more expensive.
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jonnhyhills-blog · 8 years ago
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[MSG:] Can you pick me up? The threeway turned into a twoway while I sit here alone in the corner…
[text] Yes, sure..i think
[text] But Where are you exactly?
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