Gregg R Thomas

_Robert_ wrote:

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
You can tell from their outfits that it is a completely heterosexual themed song. I am going to impress my girlfriend by playing it on a loop.

Be careful you “Macho, Macho Man”.

She said to me: “Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk
I’m a woman’s man, no time to talk “….

You can tell from their outfits that it is a completely heterosexual themed song. I am going to impress my girlfriend by playing it on a loop.

Simon Paynton wrote:

Unseen wrote:
BTW, if you bring up the song’s lyrics, there are fifteen references to men or boys and not one to females.

However, the writer of the lyrics has recently said that it’s not a gay anthem. He gets annoyed when people say it is.

It definitely IS a gay anthem, adopted by the gays as such, whether he likes it or…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
BTW, if you bring up the song’s lyrics, there are fifteen references to men or boys and not one to females.

However, the writer of the lyrics has recently said that it’s not a gay anthem.  He gets annoyed when people say it is.

I don’t know if it’s still true, but the YMCA used to offer dormitory-type accommodations for males along with gym facilities, a swimming pool and a locker room with attached shower. For gays, it was kind of a meat market, in the colloquial sense. And the facility offered closed doors behind which they could get to know each other better.

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When I first heard “YMCA” at a MAGA rally, I thought it was being played as part of some weird ‘anti-woke’ campaign. Later I realized they had no idea about the history of the song. When I saw a bunch of red MAGA hatters dancing to it and giving it the double fist pump routine, I literally fell off the chair in laughter. No doubt Trump cannot…[Read more]

The thing about his guitars is that, if they are anything like his watches, they are far less valuable than their price tag would indicate.

Plus, if you’re going to emulate a Gibson guitar go all the way. You see, while his guitars look like Gibsons, having the single cutaway body desoign and dual…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
OpenAI reveal they achieved AGI – OpenAI o3. Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) will have a degree of “self-awareness”, adaptability, and creative problem-solving in situations it hasn’t been explicitly trained for. It will have the ability to continually learn and adapt autonomously, mimicking human-like learnin…

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…….it must be a visceral decision at the end of the day for pregnant mothers…..

I know a few women who have had abortions and it was a practical, even a somewhat mundane decision for them. That is, except for one mother of three children who would have died in Ireland last year had the murderous Catholic Church retained any power over the…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
We do not live in a world where the average person is a philosopher who acts rationally without prejudice based on information.

That’s true, it must be a visceral decision at the end of the day for pregnant mothers.  But in wider society, on both sides, people take philosophical positions.

OpenAI reveal they achieved AGI – OpenAI o3.

Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) will have a degree of “self-awareness”, adaptability, and creative problem-solving in situations it hasn’t been explicitly trained for. It will have the ability to continually learn and adapt autonomously, mimicking human-like learning processes.

It will have the…[Read more]

Simon Paynton wrote:
What is the highest good or goal on each side?

Simon, Simon, Simon. We do not live in a world where the average person is a philosopher who acts rationally without prejudice based on information. Most people act from their gut, taking their attitudes into account, and based only on the information they want to credit or even hear.

Pro-life people say that “life” is sacrosanct no matter what.

Most pro-lifers are liars as they very quickly become anti-lifers or pro-death when it comes to capital punishment. So what if a few innocent people are murdered by the State. Yet a fetus that is about 2 to 2.5 inches (5 to 6 cm) long from crown to rump (head to bottom) and weighs abo…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
However, the disagreements over abortion are not disagreements over facts.  They are conflicts over attitudes or matters of opinion or definition.

What is the highest good or goal on each side?

Pro-life people say that “life” is sacrosanct no matter what.  Pro-choice people take a longer-term approach and think about the lifetime o…[Read more]

Simon Paynton wrote:

Unseen wrote:
It’s often “framed” by people who aren’t facing the question and the woman facing the choice has already set aside “greater good for the child” question.

We don’t know how the individual women see it. It must be pretty subjective. As men, we never will understand it directly.

It can be argued that it’s very imp…

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@Strega – Too many people are afraid to live on their own for even a short period of time. I highly recommend it.

Maybe just don’t start writing a novel about what can happen to Jack when he spends too much time at work and not enough time playing. 🙂