@wmbarr Wife loves her, so I got tickets when she came to Raleigh on her Red tour. Ed Sheeran opened for her. I have to say, while I’m not a huge fan or anything, the performance was really good.
They weren’t front row, but they were really close, and they were the VIP tickets, so we got to do some other cool things and got some neat swag to go with it.
Real talk:I’ve literally written and edited erotica. I see no issue in sexuality. Twilight is awful writing. There’s a HUGE categorical difference here.
@Jamileigh17 Is there supposed to be something erotic in Twilight? I only read one and a quarter books, but as far as I got I found nothing at all arousing. Rather the contrary, it was depressing.
@kaighintze No, my point was that Twillight is awful, and that the sex stuff in the poll was a nonissue. (Also many eroticas are poorly written. Especially things out of Ellora’s Cave back a while. Twillight is still worse.)
@Pony They can be an excellent resource if you have small children who need a little extra height on the piano bench. They can also be quite useful to prop open doors. In the case of a home intrusion, they can be offered to the burglar, who would conclude that, if you own Twilight books, you probably don’t have other stuff worth actually stealing…
@duodec@Pony I am pleased to say that I don’t even understand this comment. I have almost no familiarity with the content or context of Twilight, except that it involves vampires of some sort, vapid romance situations (I think), and some sort of tension or conflict. And my understanding is that the series is, in aggregate, thousands of pages of this kind of drivel, written more poorly than this paragraph. Shudder.
@hchavers The suggestion of snickery perversity is definitely there, even when it’s a real stretch to find any connection. Me, I lost any small bit of inhibitions left when I first shopped at Good Vibrations in San Francisco. Even then, I think being seen with any kind of bodice-ripper “romantic” paperback book would wither my soul.
@2many2no@hchavers “Italian suppository” is the absolute best answer (to any question at all) that I’ve read in the last six months. I am now going to share it with friends.
@2many2no@hchavers I remember this from “Truly Tasteless Jokes” (probably volume XVIII or something). I loved those books as a kid. My parents thought I was reading something appropriate, whereas in reality I was learning crass humor. The “innuendo” joke is one of the highlights I remember to this day…
@kaighintze I can honestly say that I’ve never read the books, but not because I’ve got some kind of deep seeded dislike for Twilight or anything. I liked the movies well enough, but I’ve just never really been interested in reading them. I think I’d be open to giving them a chance.
I am indifferent to Twilight. I’ve owned three of the other choices. But I don’t know if I can say I have no shame, since that would require looking through all of the stuff in the basement to be sure, and I’m too lazy for that. So, I have to go with the ███████.
Eh. I read all of the books and saw the movies. I even read 50 shades. But my husband makes fun of me because I’ll read practically anything and watch almost anything. I mean…I loved the earnest movies for heavens sake.
@MagnaVis those movies came out at the right time in my son’s life (under 10) so we owned them all and watched them at least 100 each. Earnest scared stupid is my fav because i dearly loved eartha kitt (she was the best catwoman fyi). But warmest saves christmas is my dad’s fav.
OK, this answer frequency blew away the others. But does the result really mean what it appears on the surface?
Other than those folks above explicitly showing they “have no shame”, one wonders, is giving this easy catchall answer actually hiding some degree of shame?
…Hiding that our vanity might prevent us from explicitly exposing where we draw the line by selecting one of the other continuum-answers?
I have no shame…i don’t read novels, but business books a plenty. I have seen the first Twilight movie. To be fair, I went because I was trying to hook up with a girl. In hind sight, the movie was not worth it
@regarkecurb - You make me feel SO much better. I once read V.C. Andrews Flowers in the Attic for that very reason. In retrospect, I am probably lucky I DIDN’T hook up with her…
After some thought, I can’t honestly say it’s shame, exactly, that has prevented me from buying books from the Twilight saga. In fact just between you, me, and the internet, not only did I once buy the collected Phoebe Zeit-Geist but also Tomie DePaola’s album of erotic drawings (neither work, incidentally, being even remotely erotic.)
Shame has probably prevented me from checking that kind of stuff out of the library, though.
I’d like to get the the point where I have no shame, but I’m not there yet. I didn’t read twilght, too old/young, so blissfully missed that, however more than one of my coworkers badgered me into reading 50 shades x 3, and I am heartily ashamed of that. Not because of the smut, mind you, anything that gets more people laid/enjoying sex without shame is ok in my book, but because the writing was so bad, I swear, I’m actually dumber for it. When someone told me it was twilight slash fic, it made more sense, but I refuse to watch the movies and give that evil, brain cell killing, editor shunning bitch one more cent.
@mtb002 I don’t know how I suffered through all the books. Thank God for the library. My eyes rolled so hard I thought they were going to pop out. If I had to read about her inner goddess again, I was going to hurt someone.
The best part was when my partner came over after I had finished reading Grey. He grabbed the book and gave me a look. I told him to open it up wherever, it’s all awful. He read a page or two with a lot of inflections and eyebrow raises. I was in tears from laughing. After he was done, he walked and went to throw it in the trash.
A vibrating personal massager like they have at Brookstone
For the record, this could have read ‘A vibrating personal massager like they have at meh.com’
But for the record (no shame) I still eschew the vibes meh has sold and keep my fingers crossed for the day Doxy needs to dump some stock… or Eroscillator… hell, that thing is like two decades old, they must have some rejects lying around…
Also… ‘Medical/surgical lubricant’ has surprisingly few votes… I can think of precisely one act which might warrant this grade of lube… is this a more common need than I’m figuring?
@mtb002 Yeah, I wouldn’t sneeze at that either. Speaking of autocorrect, I was trying to text someone an address earlier this week, and the phone I was using insisted that I was speaking of Wiener Street, which cracked me up to no end because I am a damn child.
Front row Taylor Swift tickets. Don’t judge me.
@wmbarr Or Justin Bieber
@heartny @wmbarr
/giphy silently judging you
@wmbarr Wife loves her, so I got tickets when she came to Raleigh on her Red tour. Ed Sheeran opened for her. I have to say, while I’m not a huge fan or anything, the performance was really good.
They weren’t front row, but they were really close, and they were the VIP tickets, so we got to do some other cool things and got some neat swag to go with it.
Real talk:I’ve literally written and edited erotica. I see no issue in sexuality. Twilight is awful writing. There’s a HUGE categorical difference here.
@Jamileigh17 Amen to that.
@Jamileigh17 Exactly!
@Jamileigh17 Is there supposed to be something erotic in Twilight? I only read one and a quarter books, but as far as I got I found nothing at all arousing. Rather the contrary, it was depressing.
@kaighintze No, my point was that Twillight is awful, and that the sex stuff in the poll was a nonissue. (Also many eroticas are poorly written. Especially things out of Ellora’s Cave back a while. Twillight is still worse.)
I have no shame, but good sense and/or self preservation would prevent me from buying Twilight books. Why would I want to do that to myself?
@Pony They can be an excellent resource if you have small children who need a little extra height on the piano bench. They can also be quite useful to prop open doors. In the case of a home intrusion, they can be offered to the burglar, who would conclude that, if you own Twilight books, you probably don’t have other stuff worth actually stealing…
@shahnm Hmm. No kids or piano. Hubby makes 3D printed doorstops that say “Hodor” on them. Home intrusion… well, I’d just introduce them to Betty.
@Pony You were grossly unprepared for this conversation. Please come back when you have kids, a piano, and/or a deeper need for door stops.
@Pony My favorite response to Twilight was from a former Marine and a horror fan who said “All I see are two targets and a collaborator”.
I want to see his version of a Twilight movie…
@duodec @Pony I am pleased to say that I don’t even understand this comment. I have almost no familiarity with the content or context of Twilight, except that it involves vampires of some sort, vapid romance situations (I think), and some sort of tension or conflict. And my understanding is that the series is, in aggregate, thousands of pages of this kind of drivel, written more poorly than this paragraph. Shudder.
@duodec @Pony @shahnm - There is a really great Scooby-Doo episode referencing the Twilight series.
I have no shame regarding watching Scooby-Doo episodes, unless they involve Scrappy-Doo.
Any batteries that would be stored somewhere other than the fridge.
I bought the whole Twilight saga at a yard sale. Then I read them because I bought them. Yep, I did.
@sammydog01
/giphy shame
@sammydog01 My 13 year old niece badgered me into reading her copies so I’d know who the hell she was talking about all the time.
@sammydog01 That’s actually a good reason to have read them. Your niece will come around sometime, fear not.
@sammydog01 Mine is Ducky. Yep. That is what it is. Yep yep yep.
/youtube Ducky yep yep yep Land Before Time
What is this shame you speak of?
I shop online, no one needs to know what I buy,
or even if I dress appropriately.
@2many2no Alexa knows. And judges.
@2many2no @shahnm …and laughs creepily.
@Pony @shahnm Oh shit, I forgot she is always listening!
@2many2no @Pony @shahnm
And reading over your shoulder.
@2many2no @DVDBZN @Pony @shahnm
https://shirt.woot.com/offers/always-awake?ref=meh_com
I’ll take any scrap of pleasure, any whit, any morsel, no matter how small, and I don’t give a good gosh-shucks who knows about it!
Does every survey choice scream some perverted innuendo, or is it just me?
@hchavers “Innuendo” is an Italian suppository.
Now, that’s perverted… never speak of this again.
@hchavers The suggestion of snickery perversity is definitely there, even when it’s a real stretch to find any connection. Me, I lost any small bit of inhibitions left when I first shopped at Good Vibrations in San Francisco. Even then, I think being seen with any kind of bodice-ripper “romantic” paperback book would wither my soul.
@2many2no @hchavers “Italian suppository” is the absolute best answer (to any question at all) that I’ve read in the last six months. I am now going to share it with friends.
@2many2no @hchavers I remember this from “Truly Tasteless Jokes” (probably volume XVIII or something). I loved those books as a kid. My parents thought I was reading something appropriate, whereas in reality I was learning crass humor. The “innuendo” joke is one of the highlights I remember to this day…
I was going to say that I have no shame, but well… Twilight…
All right, I admit it. I read the first book. But I couldn’t finish the second one no matter how much my nieces wanted me to.
There. Now that that’s off my chest I can cleanly say that I have no shame.
@kaighintze I can honestly say that I’ve never read the books, but not because I’ve got some kind of deep seeded dislike for Twilight or anything. I liked the movies well enough, but I’ve just never really been interested in reading them. I think I’d be open to giving them a chance.
Shame never prevents me from buying anything -only common sense does.
How about a Twilight-themed personal massager?
@awk Would it sparkle?
@awk Which team would it be on?
@2many2no Team Bella. She wouldn’t need to choose between Edward and Jacob any more.
@awk @sammydog01 NSFW.
https://dangerousminds.net/comments/the_tantus_vamp_sparkling_icy_twilight_dildo
@awk @sammydog01 Only when the sun shown on it, and lets be honest, that would never happen.
@awk @RiotDemon @sammydog01 Also NSFW
And this would be Edward?
https://bad-dragon.com/products/fenrir
Because… I know what I would chose…
@MagnaVis Edward is the sparkly vampire. Jacob is the shape shifter wolf.
@MagnaVis Not that- definitely not that.
@sammydog01
/giphy lol
@RiotDemon Ha, shows how much I know.
So, yeah, that other guys. Jacob’s.
@sammydog01 lol
I am indifferent to Twilight. I’ve owned three of the other choices. But I don’t know if I can say I have no shame, since that would require looking through all of the stuff in the basement to be sure, and I’m too lazy for that. So, I have to go with the ███████.
Eh. I read all of the books and saw the movies. I even read 50 shades. But my husband makes fun of me because I’ll read practically anything and watch almost anything. I mean…I loved the earnest movies for heavens sake.
@ivannabc Are you freaking serous!? Ernest Scared Stupid is one of my favorite movies of all time!! Jim Varney was an amazing man. I miss him so much.
@MagnaVis those movies came out at the right time in my son’s life (under 10) so we owned them all and watched them at least 100 each. Earnest scared stupid is my fav because i dearly loved eartha kitt (she was the best catwoman fyi). But warmest saves christmas is my dad’s fav.
OK, this answer frequency blew away the others. But does the result really mean what it appears on the surface?
Other than those folks above explicitly showing they “have no shame”, one wonders, is giving this easy catchall answer actually hiding some degree of shame?
…Hiding that our vanity might prevent us from explicitly exposing where we draw the line by selecting one of the other continuum-answers?
…So we hide in the cloud of “I have no shame.”
I don’t have much shame left. I even admitted to watching the last 50 shades in the theatre (it was awful, just like the others.)
The twilight books sit on my bookshelf. I even own the movies. They were ok, I guess. I liked the books better.
I’ve gone shopping at adult stores by myself.
I own the items in the poll.
I just don’t give a fuck.
@RiotDemon word.
@RiotDemon i feel you. I gave all mine years ago.
I have no shame…i don’t read novels, but business books a plenty. I have seen the first Twilight movie. To be fair, I went because I was trying to hook up with a girl. In hind sight, the movie was not worth it
@regarkecurb - You make me feel SO much better. I once read V.C. Andrews Flowers in the Attic for that very reason. In retrospect, I am probably lucky I DIDN’T hook up with her…
After some thought, I can’t honestly say it’s shame, exactly, that has prevented me from buying books from the Twilight saga. In fact just between you, me, and the internet, not only did I once buy the collected Phoebe Zeit-Geist but also Tomie DePaola’s album of erotic drawings (neither work, incidentally, being even remotely erotic.)
Shame has probably prevented me from checking that kind of stuff out of the library, though.
The sort of thing shame would keep me from buying would be an adult sized Telletubbie costume.
I’d like to get the the point where I have no shame, but I’m not there yet. I didn’t read twilght, too old/young, so blissfully missed that, however more than one of my coworkers badgered me into reading 50 shades x 3, and I am heartily ashamed of that. Not because of the smut, mind you, anything that gets more people laid/enjoying sex without shame is ok in my book, but because the writing was so bad, I swear, I’m actually dumber for it. When someone told me it was twilight slash fic, it made more sense, but I refuse to watch the movies and give that evil, brain cell killing, editor shunning bitch one more cent.
@mtb002 I don’t know how I suffered through all the books. Thank God for the library. My eyes rolled so hard I thought they were going to pop out. If I had to read about her inner goddess again, I was going to hurt someone.
The best part was when my partner came over after I had finished reading Grey. He grabbed the book and gave me a look. I told him to open it up wherever, it’s all awful. He read a page or two with a lot of inflections and eyebrow raises. I was in tears from laughing. After he was done, he walked and went to throw it in the trash.
@RiotDemon
NSFW. Seriously. NSFWAF.
For the record, this could have read ‘A vibrating personal massager like they have at meh.com’
But for the record (no shame) I still eschew the vibes meh has sold and keep my fingers crossed for the day Doxy needs to dump some stock… or Eroscillator… hell, that thing is like two decades old, they must have some rejects lying around…
Also… ‘Medical/surgical lubricant’ has surprisingly few votes… I can think of precisely one act which might warrant this grade of lube… is this a more common need than I’m figuring?
@brhfl I just assumed they meant all lubes. KY is still used in hospitals, so its a medical thing. I guess.
@RiotDemon Fair point, I guess ‘medical’ suggests sterile stuff like Surgilube to me.
@brhfl
Find some Lelo overstock and I’m in. Funny, my autocorrect wants to turn Lelo into Lego. Not quite the right toy, there.
@mtb002 Yeah, I wouldn’t sneeze at that either. Speaking of autocorrect, I was trying to text someone an address earlier this week, and the phone I was using insisted that I was speaking of Wiener Street, which cracked me up to no end because I am a damn child.