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Cake day: June 19th, 2023

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  • Nah, the temp really isn’t an issue. To the contrary, the cold is pleasant. Even in winter here, the water never gets that cold. I’ve used bidets at places with wells, and that’s actually warmer than what comes out of my taps since the pipes are exposed for less distance.

    Regardless, the anus and perineum aren’t particularly sensitive to temperatures. You have to get close to freezing on the low end before it even resisters as cold. It otherwise is the equivalent of a cool breeze on a summer day. Even close to freezing, it isn’t exactly uncomfortable.


  • Well, first off, implants were not involved. The lady was known for her chesticles waaay before implants were a thing. She may or may not have had some kind of implants later in life to keep her existing measurements, but they were the same size in the oldest pictures of her as an adult. I don’t know about anything later in life, but i do know that boobs like that exist naturally, and that she started with that.

    I’m not sure where folks get the idea she had implants when pictures exist like that.

    Anyway, it’s kind of a tripartite thing. Music, charity/beliefs, and personality.

    Musically, she’s one of the better songwriters out there. She was on par with, or better than, anyone of her generation for sure. Part of that was her ability to use her real life to make songs that resonated with a lot of people.

    Her voice shifted a lot as she aged, but she was well loved for both the sweetness she could use, and her gentle vibrato. A high, almost crystalline tone that managed to never be shrill or piercing because she knew how to be delicate with it. You don’t have to like her music to recognize the skill she had with it.

    In terms of her public works, she truly believed in doing good. Her book based reading initiative made sure that multiple generations of people grew up not only knowing how to read, but having access to materials that made doing so a normalized and omnipresent thing.

    She was an outspoken advocate for “loving thy neighbor”. She was one of the celebrities that was behind gay marriage, and equal rights for gay people. That was also the case for trans people.

    In other words, she practiced what she preached. She made a ton of money between her music and related business ventures, but she was willing to put it to work doing good things without making it missionary work. She didn’t just hand out bibles like some supposed reading initiatives do. Despite having a deep faith, she never pushed it on anyone.

    And, importantly, that wasn’t just her public face. In her private life, she was well known for doing good acts for their own sake, even when nobody would know about it. But you talk to people from around where she lived and worked, and her generosity is legendary. Again, generosity without strings.

    She also was known for having hiring policies with her businesses that were inclusive. Orientation, race, gender, nobody was excluded. And, again, it wasn’t just a front, because it wasn’t something she made a big deal out of. That was just how things were.

    Then it comes down to her. She was a larger than life performer. When she was being DOLLY, she put forward the brighter, flashier side of her self, but in interviews and in person, she was open and honest and nice. She treated people well, and did so with no ego, and a down-to-earth simplicity that often belied how sharp she was. She had an almost self deprecating way of handling being famous, and that’s how she really was. She didn’t think of herself as being special, she was just grateful to have the chance to do something she loved and was good at.

    Now, I never met her. But I know a ton of people that did. And I know a ton of people that had access to books as a kid due to her charity efforts. That’s going back decades, and it was not really a well known thing until maybe fifteen years ago or so.

    Everything you hear about her from people that knew her, that had regular contact with her, it’s all about how damn good she treated everyone.

    There’s places in Tennessee in specific that when people call her a saint, they aren’t just being nice. There’s folks that have been touched by her good works and place her on a much higher pedestal than she ever would have. Which kinda sums it all up. She never abandoned being a simple mountain girl, no matter how famous or rich she got, and she lifted others up along the way.

    Me? I grew up hearing her music, but didn’t really become a fan until well into adulthood. I loved her as an actress, but it took me a while to “get” her music. Now, I can’t hear her sing without crying a little.


  • Ngl, when I first heard this thing existed I thought it was total facepalm territory, as in who the fuck would enjoy power washing as a video game?

    Wellll. This fucker, it turns out.

    It punches outside its weight class in terms of pleasurable time killing. Pws2, is just as good, though lacks the number of extras available. Mind you, the star wars dlc this pws2 is fucking geek heaven. Crawling all over iconic ships and machinery that’s executed in high detail is just fucking amazeballs. Pws1 has warhammer40k that’s equally detailed, if that IP is more your speed.

    But just the base “game” career mode has weeks of shhhhhhhhsssshhhhhing available.

    It still befuddles me how much I enjoy it. It’s totally not my kind of video game. I tend to prefer strategy or action stuff, with some racing and fighting thrown in. Pws 1&2 are essentially reverse coloring books. Dull as old people fucking as a concept, but it works.










  • Ngl, I’m not sure I want to lean against walls either. Public toilets rarely have lids, and even less often are they used when they do have them. So you’ve got the usual aerosolized poo water landing everywhere.

    But I agree that good hand washing fixes half of the problem. The half being trying to aim a penis one handed, then zip up one handed too. I can aim one handed, not so much the zipping lol.

    Truth be told though, the types of pathogens involved are fairly low, and they don’t all survive well on hard surfaces. But they aren’t non existent, and the ones that will transfer that way tend to be the worse ones. Enough so that I don’t blame anyone for being upset at a pissy seat, much less a crappy crapper.