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[Graknorke]

The hormone thing isn't technically untrue.
Enough of the correct drugs can make people do/feel most anything.

[Xantalos]

The hormone thing isn't technically untrue.
Enough of the correct drugs can make people do/feel most anything.

Sounds not at all like 'fixing' people. Nope.

[Sirus]

Actually, I feel much the same way. The important part is the relationship, not the sex (granted, sex is still good, but it's much better when it's with someone you already care for). And now we're back to my cake metaphor.

Going back to the cake metaphor, I stand in front of the bakery and admire the cakes on display

[Frumple]

Sounds not at all like 'fixing' people. Nope.

Especially considering what "enough drugs" tends to do to people, heh. Fixed definitely isn't the word for how that often ends up.

Going back to the cake metaphor, I stand in front of the bakery and admire the cakes on display

... the sort of bakery that has a cover fee?

Though now I'm kinda contemplating that. Do they have all you can eat bakeries? E: Looks like there actually is a few out there. Wonder why that isn't more of a thing. Cost?

[Graknorke]

The hormone thing isn't technically untrue.
Enough of the correct drugs can make people do/feel most anything.

Sounds not at all like 'fixing' people. Nope.

I never said that it was a good thing. It's just possible.

[Mego]

Sounds not at all like 'fixing' people. Nope.

Especially considering what "enough drugs" tends to do to people, heh. Fixed definitely isn't the word for how that often ends up.

Going back to the cake metaphor, I stand in front of the bakery and admire the cakes on display

... the sort of bakery that has a cover fee?

Though now I'm kinda contemplating that. Do they have all you can eat bakeries? E: Looks like there actually is a few out there. Wonder why that isn't more of a thing. Cost?

I have the weirdest hunger right now. I want *actual* cake. Not metaphorical sex cake, but actual cake.

[Lightningfalcon]

Actually, I feel much the same way. The important part is the relationship, not the sex (granted, sex is still good, but it's much better when it's with someone you already care for). And now we're back to my cake metaphor.

Going back to the cake metaphor, I stand in front of the bakery and admire the cakes on display

I do not want to think about the cake metaphor while baking cake.  It makes everything feel wrong. 

Sounds not at all like 'fixing' people. Nope.

Especially considering what "enough drugs" tends to do to people, heh. Fixed definitely isn't the word for how that often ends up.

Going back to the cake metaphor, I stand in front of the bakery and admire the cakes on display

... the sort of bakery that has a cover fee?

Though now I'm kinda contemplating that. Do they have all you can eat bakeries? E: Looks like there actually is a few out there. Wonder why that isn't more of a thing. Cost?

I have the weirdest hunger right now. I want *actual* cake. Not metaphorical sex cake, but actual cake.

Why not both?

Whoever set up these online classes should be shot.  Nothing about it is intuitive, the links you need to get to places are hidden as deeply as possible, if you're not active for 20 minutes it logs you out, even if you are writing a report, the messaging system is broken,  if you want to see your actual grade you have to go find the grading rubric, get a calculator, and spend several minutes counting up each individual grade, and so on.
Like right now.  I'm trying to update some information, and nothing leads to what I think it should.  Academic records?  They contain the contact information.  Student records?  They contrain the information I'm looking for, but to actually change it I need to go to  a different menue that I've been looking for for the past 20 minutes.  There are  five main menues to select from for navigation, but two are one time links that you'll only ever need to use once.  As such as I click on each of the remaining three menus, they are filled with a large amount of other links to navigate to, instead of being spread out more evenly.  And most of the site does not support the ability to open in a new tab.  You have to click on each link, which takes about 10 seconds to process, just to view a small message.  So a simple task like checking messages and reports that should only take a minute takes several minutes. 

[nenjin]

Personally the romance is the part I'm interested in, it's more the idea other people have that such a thing is inherently intertwined with sex that I just find perplexing, that a relationship is about sexual attraction as much as emotional and if you can't experience the former then you can't have a "real" relationship. I mean, for the 'sexual' the increasing openness of our culture towards sex is a positive thing, but the downright refusal by many to accept the existence of someone distinctly not 'sexual' is...scary at times, and shows how far we still have to go. Invisibility ain't good for anyone.

I'd like to be able to say "I'm not interested in sex" without the default response being "You haven't had sex with me" or "Get your hormones checked", but I guess people as a whole are still so culturally insecure about the subject. None the less, only so many times you can be told those things without it making you rage inside.

A question. Have you ever been really, truly sexually attracted to someone? Like full on, eating up your thoughts kind of sexual attraction? If you've never felt that way, yeah, the obsession is going to seem bizarre to you. Some people simply aren't emotionally charged that way.

That said, when you find your real romance, you might be surprised how suddenly it doesn't seem like the decision to be sexual or not is up to you. It's very easy to dismiss the physical side of sex because we live in an age of readily available porn, media saturation and over-messaging about sex. Having sex with "a body" is a totally different experience than having sex with "a person" though. I put a decent emphasis on looks as the basis of who I'm attracted to. But in truth it's the personality that is the most sexually attractive part of a person to me, ie. having a connection with someone who is also pretty sexual by nature.

Put another way. It's hard to quantify what real sexual attraction feels like until you've had a relationship with someone who is very, very sexually attracted to you. Maybe you already have, and it wasn't really a thing for you. To me, it made all the difference. I was a romantic growing up, I still basically am. Courtly love, all that. It wasn't until I met a woman that really dug me that I found my sexuality though. Being desired by someone, genuinely, is a powerful aphrodisiac and ego booster. (Which, when men are feeling successful, they've got higher levels of testosterone, which can make them more sexual.)

There's nothing wrong with being a-sexual though. Life certainly is simpler. I just wouldn't write sex off if you haven't really experienced it fully. Because it rules. If you feel like you have, be glad you've figured out something that billions of people struggle with their whole lives.

Whoever set up these online classes should be shot.  Nothing about it is intuitive, the links you need to get to places are hidden as deeply as possible, if you're not active for 20 minutes it logs you out, even if you are writing a report, the messaging system is broken,  if you want to see your actual grade you have to go find the grading rubric, get a calculator, and spend several minutes counting up each individual grade, and so on.
Like right now.  I'm trying to update some information, and nothing leads to what I think it should.  Academic records?  They contain the contact information.  Student records?  They contrain the information I'm looking for, but to actually change it I need to go to  a different menue that I've been looking for for the past 20 minutes.  There are  five main menues to select from for navigation, but two are one time links that you'll only ever need to use once.  As such as I click on each of the remaining three menus, they are filled with a large amount of other links to navigate to, instead of being spread out more evenly.  And most of the site does not support the ability to open in a new tab.  You have to click on each link, which takes about 10 seconds to process, just to view a small message.  So a simple task like checking messages and reports that should only take a minute takes several minutes.

It was probably built by comp-sci students.

[Lightningfalcon]

Whoever set up these online classes should be shot.  Nothing about it is intuitive, the links you need to get to places are hidden as deeply as possible, if you're not active for 20 minutes it logs you out, even if you are writing a report, the messaging system is broken,  if you want to see your actual grade you have to go find the grading rubric, get a calculator, and spend several minutes counting up each individual grade, and so on.
Like right now.  I'm trying to update some information, and nothing leads to what I think it should.  Academic records?  They contain the contact information.  Student records?  They contrain the information I'm looking for, but to actually change it I need to go to  a different menue that I've been looking for for the past 20 minutes.  There are  five main menues to select from for navigation, but two are one time links that you'll only ever need to use once.  As such as I click on each of the remaining three menus, they are filled with a large amount of other links to navigate to, instead of being spread out more evenly.  And most of the site does not support the ability to open in a new tab.  You have to click on each link, which takes about 10 seconds to process, just to view a small message.  So a simple task like checking messages and reports that should only take a minute takes several minutes.

It was probably built by comp-sci students.

The worst page for the actual classes is the one for my web-design class.  I feel much less confident in that course right now purely because of that. 

[Akura]

Computer problems. First my internet is flaking out. No idea why. Then my computer crashes, and when it reboots, it thinks I don't have a hard drive attached, and when I fixed that, it seems to have scheduled itself to do a full Checkdisk scan(which takes 8+ hours) which it's gonna bug me about until I let it do it.

By the way, how do you remove a scheduled scan?

Thank you, Jack Chick. By your logic, I could spend my entire life mutilating, raping, and eating babies and I'd get into heaven so long as I accepted Jeebus.

You know, that sentence pretty much sums up everything I was told by every one of those fundaMENTAList pricks I used to work for.

[Mego]

Should be Control Panel - Administrative Tools - Task Scheduler.

[misko27]

What a uplifting story. Well, I'm off to slaughter men, women and children, see you in heaven! (Although not really because you are all atheists. Stupid gits. But I hear Hell isn't all that bad, It's got fire right? Fire is good stuff. I'll remember to burn a few people too, to mix it up a bit. Say hi to the burning infidels kay? )

[Akura]

Seems like my headphones are really starting to fail now. I have to hold my head at certain angles to hear anything.

[Lagslayer]

Seems like my headphones are really starting to fail now. I have to hold my head at certain angles to hear anything.

Have you tried pushing in the little wires that attach to the head piece?

[Akura]

The cafeteria closes at three, so I head over to the psychology professor's office to see if he has anything for me to do. He's not there, so I go home. Unfortunately, I have sit with some jerkass who seems a little too into my personal life than I care for.

Seems like my headphones are really starting to fail now. I have to hold my head at certain angles to hear anything.

Have you tried pushing in the little wires that attach to the head piece?

Made it worse. Now I can't hear anything, except by turning my head to the left 90°, and even then barely.