• Synchronet Test Site Server

    From The Millionaire@VERT to All on Mon Jan 13 16:53:13 2020
    I saw a distrotest site and it was totally awesome! Maybe a Synchronet Test Site Server might be next perhaps?

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  • From echicken to The Millionaire on Mon Jan 13 20:00:37 2020
    Re: Synchronet Test Site Server
    By: The Millionaire to All on Mon Jan 13 2020 11:53:13

    I saw a distrotest site and it was totally awesome! Maybe a Synchronet Test
    Site Server might be next perhaps?

    What would it do?

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  • From The Millionaire@VERT to echicken on Mon Jan 13 17:28:40 2020
    Re: Synchronet Test Site Server
    By: The Millionaire to All on Mon Jan 13 2020 11:53:13

    What would it do?

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    The same thing it does on distrotest.net. It would let you try out Synchronet.

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  • From echicken to The Millionaire on Mon Jan 13 21:02:57 2020
    Re: Synchronet Test Site Server
    By: The Millionaire to echicken on Mon Jan 13 2020 12:28:40

    The same thing it does on distrotest.net. It would let you try out Synchronet.

    Like distrotest.net, but it only lets you test one thing.

    Feel the thrill of editing text.dat and poking around in SCFG without committing to 15 - 30 painful minutes of installing stuff for yourself.

    Perfect for people who don't have a machine of their own to install Synchronet on. A real time saver for sysops who were probably going to abandon their BBS after a few days anyway.

    I guess an argument could be made for a site that lets you test Mystic, Synchronet, etc. A friend of mine worked on something like that years ago, but he lost interest in it. You'd have to invest a bunch of time and effort into preparing VM templates or whatever and (automated or otherwise) keeping them up to date. Then two or three people would use it every year.

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  • From Richard Miles@VERT to echicken on Mon Jan 13 21:19:36 2020
    On 13 Jan 2020, echicken said the following...

    Feel the thrill of editing text.dat and poking around in SCFG without committing to 15 - 30 painful minutes of installing stuff for yourself.

    Hehehe. I just had to laugh.

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  • From Richard Miles@VERT to echicken on Mon Jan 13 21:23:06 2020
    On 13 Jan 2020, echicken said the following...

    otherwise) keeping them up to date. Then two or three people would use
    it every year.

    My oldest daughter was talking about my BBS to someone at work the other day and I guess they asked her if it was dial-up. She wasn't sure so asked me at supper that evening. Explained what Telnet was and that I haven't had a
    dial-in machine since 1999 (Hell, haven't had a phone line since 2005).
    Anyway, I do have a 3G dongle I was toying with the idea of setting it up as
    a modem but just the fight with lines noise and poor quality for that ONE
    call a year you might get....Just not worth it.

    Think I will stick it on my HA machine and start using it to text the family instead of the email-sms gateway I am currently using.

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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to The Millionaire on Mon Jan 13 18:27:09 2020
    Re: Synchronet Test Site Server
    By: The Millionaire to echicken on Mon Jan 13 2020 12:28 pm

    What would it do?

    The same thing it does on distrotest.net. It would let you try out Synchronet.

    So, sort of like a virtual sysop king of thing? Let you configure & customize Synchronet and accept callers? Why not just download Synchronet and use it for a bit? I don't think you'd need an external site for that.

    Nightfox

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  • From echicken to Richard Miles on Mon Jan 13 22:06:28 2020
    Re: Synchronet Test Site Server
    By: Richard Miles to echicken on Mon Jan 13 2020 16:23:06

    Anyway, I do have a 3G dongle I was toying with the idea of setting it up as
    a modem but just the fight with lines noise and poor quality for that ONE call a year you might get....Just not worth it.

    The only reliable way to do it is with POTS from end to end, and it's hard to say if that even exists anymore. Once compression and lag come into play, it goes downhill quickly.

    I'm not sure how many calls I'd need to receive before I considered it worthwhile, but I'm not too keen on paying for a POTS line just to service the occasional visitor's nostalgia.

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  • From Gamgee@VERT/PALANT to The Millionaire on Mon Jan 13 20:56:00 2020
    The Millionaire wrote to All <=-

    I saw a distrotest site and it was totally awesome! Maybe a
    Synchronet Test Site Server might be next perhaps?

    What does either of those sentences actually mean?

    What's the URL of this "distrotest site"?

    What exactly is a Synchronet Test Site Server?


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  • From Alterego@VERT/ALTERANT to echicken on Tue Jan 14 16:35:26 2020
    Re: Synchronet Test Site Server
    By: echicken to The Millionaire on Mon Jan 13 2020 04:02 pm

    I guess an argument could be made for a site that lets you test Mystic, Synchronet, etc. A friend of mine worked on something like that years ago,

    So I run pretty much everything in docker - including SBBS at the moment, and mystic when I used it.

    The good thing about docker, is that you can test/play very quickly "docker run ...", and after a brief download of the image you are running - you are up and using (and configuring first if it is the first time).

    For testing/playing, where you dont care about loosing data, then docker cleans itself up when the container stops. If you want to keep it longer, then you just provide persistent storage to the container.

    So, its a good way to try, play almost instantly, and if you dont like, you "docker rm" and move on.
    ...deon


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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to Gamgee on Mon Jan 13 21:53:29 2020
    Re: Re: Synchronet Test Site Server
    By: Gamgee to The Millionaire on Mon Jan 13 2020 03:56 pm

    What exactly is a Synchronet Test Site Server?

    That doesn't exist (to my knowledge), but presumably it would be a site that lets you see what it entails to be a Synchronet sysop without actually installing it on your machine?

    Nightfox

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  • From Netsurge@VERT to echicken on Tue Jan 14 01:15:18 2020
    I saw a distrotest site and it was totally awesome! Maybe a Synchrone Site Server might be next perhaps?

    What would it do?

    It would test the Synchronet Site Server silly.

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  • From Dan Clough@VERT to Nightfox on Tue Jan 14 01:49:00 2020
    Nightfox wrote to Gamgee <=-

    Re: Re: Synchronet Test Site Server
    By: Gamgee to The Millionaire on Mon Jan 13 2020 03:56 pm

    What exactly is a Synchronet Test Site Server?

    That doesn't exist (to my knowledge), but presumably it would be
    a site that lets you see what it entails to be a Synchronet sysop
    without actually installing it on your machine?

    Ahhh, I see. Well, I get the *idea* of it, but it doesn't seem
    very realistic (or even possible) to me. As we all know, it's an
    on-going process, with a tweak-here and a change-there, and
    checking up on this-and-that. Not something you could
    "experience" with a few minutes on some "test site".

    I know you (and others) know that already. Mostly that was for
    TM's benefit... ;-)



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  • From The Millionaire@VERT to Gamgee on Tue Jan 14 00:42:32 2020
    What does either of those sentences actually mean?

    What's the URL of this "distrotest site"?

    What exactly is a Synchronet Test Site Server?

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    The site is called: www.distrotest.net

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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Richard Miles on Tue Jan 14 03:32:33 2020
    Re: Synchronet Test Site Server
    By: Richard Miles to echicken on Mon Jan 13 2020 04:23 pm

    On 13 Jan 2020, echicken said the following...

    otherwise) keeping them up to date. Then two or three people would use it every year.

    My oldest daughter was talking about my BBS to someone at work the other day and I guess they asked her if it was dial-up. She wasn't sure so asked me at


    how old is she
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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to Dan Clough on Tue Jan 14 02:13:10 2020
    Re: Re: Synchronet Test Site Server
    By: Dan Clough to Nightfox on Mon Jan 13 2020 08:49 pm

    What exactly is a Synchronet Test Site Server?

    That doesn't exist (to my knowledge), but presumably it would be
    a site that lets you see what it entails to be a Synchronet sysop
    without actually installing it on your machine?

    Ahhh, I see. Well, I get the *idea* of it, but it doesn't seem
    very realistic (or even possible) to me. As we all know, it's an
    on-going process, with a tweak-here and a change-there, and
    checking up on this-and-that. Not something you could
    "experience" with a few minutes on some "test site".

    I know you (and others) know that already. Mostly that was for
    TM's benefit... ;-)

    Yep.. :) I think it would be possible - It would be basically like a pre-built virtual machine that could be added to a cloud server and powered on, similar to Amazon AWS. But as you said, running a BBS requires a lot of tweaking. And customization too. So I'd rather just download it and mess with it on my own system.

    However, Marisa (who posts on dove-net) offers Synchronet cloud hosting, so someone could run it on a machine hosted online if they don't want to host it on a PC at home..

    Nightfox

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  • From Richard Miles@VERT to MRO on Tue Jan 14 11:36:01 2020
    On 13 Jan 2020, MRO said the following...

    My oldest daughter was talking about my BBS to someone at work the othe and I guess they asked her if it was dial-up. She wasn't sure so asked

    22. Heh. My son is about eight years older so he vaguely remembers my BBSing
    in the '90s but my girls have no idea. Just something I do on the computer
    not on a web browser. They are of the age where if they had to use a rotary phone it might take a minute.

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to echicken on Tue Jan 14 11:45:00 2020
    echicken wrote to The Millionaire <=-

    Feel the thrill of editing text.dat and poking around in SCFG without committing to 15 - 30 painful minutes of installing stuff for yourself.

    This sounds perfect as I'm VERY BUSY - I've had to resort to microwaving my morning PopTarts lately.




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  • From echicken to Alterego on Tue Jan 14 16:00:12 2020
    Re: Synchronet Test Site Server
    By: Alterego to echicken on Tue Jan 14 2020 11:35:26

    The good thing about docker, is that you can test/play very quickly "docker run ...",
    and after a brief download of the image you are running - you are up and using (and
    configuring first if it is the first time).

    For testing/playing, where you dont care about loosing data, then docker cleans itself
    up when the container stops. If you want to keep it longer, then you just provide
    persistent storage to the container.

    So, its a good way to try, play almost instantly, and if you dont like, you "docker rm"
    and move on. ...deon

    The Millionaire wants to go to a website, click on a button, and then find himself staring at a test instance of Synchronet shortly thereafter. Docker is great and could certainly be a piece of the puzzle, but I don't think it satisfies his latest wishlist item on its own.

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  • From echicken to poindexter FORTRAN on Tue Jan 14 16:09:07 2020
    Re: Re: Synchronet Test Site Server
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to echicken on Tue Jan 14 2020 06:45:00

    This sounds perfect as I'm VERY BUSY - I've had to resort to microwaving my
    morning PopTarts lately.

    Yeah, I was doing that for a while as I found that dicking around with the toaster really cut into my text.dat editing time. I found that the PopTarts got too soggy, so now I'm just eating them raw. I just rip open the foil and stack the tarts together, plain side out, so that it's like eating a frosting sandwich. If you jam them in your mouth and then press the other end against your monitor while leaning progressively further forward, the pressure will keep feeding the sammitch into your gullet while keeping both of your hands free to attend to your important sysop duties. Of course next you'll want to talk about catheters vs. diapers but that's a whole other conversation I tell you what.

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  • From Gamgee@VERT to The Millionaire on Tue Jan 14 15:26:00 2020
    The Millionaire wrote to Gamgee <=-

    What does either of those sentences actually mean?
    What's the URL of this "distrotest site"?
    What exactly is a Synchronet Test Site Server?

    The site is called: www.distrotest.net

    Thanks. Interesting.



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  • From Mindless Automaton@VERT/ELDRITCH to echicken on Tue Jan 14 17:15:29 2020
    On 1/14/2020 11:09 AM, echicken wrote:
    Re: Re: Synchronet Test Site Server
    If you jam them in your mouth and then press the other end against
    your monitor while leaning progressively further forward, the pressure
    will keep feeding the sammitch into your gullet while keeping both of
    your hands free to attend to your important sysop duties.

    I cant quite visualize this, can you upload a youtube video?

    Thanks!

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  • From Alterego@VERT/ALTERANT to echicken on Wed Jan 15 13:31:49 2020
    Re: Synchronet Test Site Server
    By: echicken to Alterego on Tue Jan 14 2020 11:00 am

    The Millionaire wants to go to a website, click on a button, and then find himself staring at a test instance of Synchronet shortly thereafter. Docker is great and could certainly be a piece of the puzzle, but I don't think it satisfies his latest wishlist item on its own.

    It certainly could be.

    That "click", could behind the scenes result in a "docker run ...", and then a redirect to the web ui ...
    ...deon


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  • From Daryl Stout@VERT to POINDEXTER FORTRAN on Tue Jan 14 17:21:00 2020
    This sounds perfect as I'm VERY BUSY - I've had to resort to microwaving my PF>morning PopTarts lately.

    I eat mine as they are...washing them down with a glass of sweet tea.

    Daryl


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  • From Daryl Stout@VERT to MINDLESS AUTOMATON on Tue Jan 14 17:21:00 2020
    I cant quite visualize this, can you upload a youtube video?

    If a proposed rule passes, making content ONLY for those 16 and
    younger, that wilL KILL YouTube.

    Daryl


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  • From Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPCITY2 to DARYL STOUT on Wed Jan 15 22:02:00 2020
    If a proposed rule passes, making content ONLY for those 16 and
    younger, that wilL KILL YouTube.

    Even if they have a large audience 16 and under, they do not usually have a
    lot of disposable income so it would probably kill them with their
    advertisers.


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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Richard Miles on Thu Jan 16 03:06:51 2020
    Re: Synchronet Test Site Server
    By: Richard Miles to MRO on Tue Jan 14 2020 06:36 am

    On 13 Jan 2020, MRO said the following...

    My oldest daughter was talking about my BBS to someone at work the o and I guess they asked her if it was dial-up. She wasn't sure so ask

    22. Heh. My son is about eight years older so he vaguely remembers my BBSing in the '90s but my girls have no idea. Just something I do on the computer not on a web browser. They are of the age where if they had to use a rotary phone it might take a minute.



    oh i think there's something wrong with her because she shouldnt be talking about bbses at that age :D
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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to echicken on Thu Jan 16 03:07:46 2020
    Re: Re: Synchronet Test Site Server
    By: echicken to poindexter FORTRAN on Tue Jan 14 2020 11:09 am

    Re: Re: Synchronet Test Site Server
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to echicken on Tue Jan 14 2020 06:45:00

    This sounds perfect as I'm VERY BUSY - I've had to resort to microwavin my
    morning PopTarts lately.

    Yeah, I was doing that for a while as I found that dicking around with the toaster really cut into my text.dat editing time. I found that the PopTarts got too soggy, so now I'm just eating them raw. I just rip open the foil an


    i just eat them cold. i like the cinnamon ones.
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  • From Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPCITY2 to MRO on Thu Jan 16 23:16:00 2020
    i just eat them cold. i like the cinnamon ones.

    Not sure about any others, but those are good cold.


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  • From Richard Miles@VERT to MRO on Fri Jan 17 00:42:53 2020
    On 15 Jan 2020, MRO said the following...

    22. Heh. My son is about eight years older so he vaguely remembers my B

    oh i think there's something wrong with her because she shouldnt be talking about bbses at that age :D

    Heh. I don't know. I was in my 20's when I started. She's probably the
    youngest person that works in our corporate office so I'm sure the lady she
    was talking to is closer to my age.

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  • From Kurt Weiske@VERT to echicken on Wed Jan 15 12:13:00 2020
    echicken wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

    Yeah, I was doing that for a while as I found that dicking around with
    the toaster really cut into my text.dat editing time. I found that the PopTarts got too soggy, so now I'm just eating them raw.

    When I switched Bink and TICK services over to Synchronet, I stopped taking them out of the foil wrapper. Efficient, I am.




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  • From The Millionaire@VERT to Gamgee on Thu Jan 30 11:43:20 2020
    Thanks. Interesting.

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  • From Daryl Stout@VERT to DUMAS WALKER on Thu Jan 16 08:04:00 2020
    Mike,

    If a proposed rule passes, making content ONLY for those 16 and
    younger, that wilL KILL YouTube.

    Even if they have a large audience 16 and under, they do not usually have a DW>lot of disposable income so it would probably kill them with their DW>advertisers.

    From what I understand, there is an "adult version" called "YouPorn".
    Of course, I'm sure kids are going to lie about their age to get access
    to that.

    Years ago, I had a user on the BBS ask "Where are the adult files?".
    When I replied "On The Internet"....<CLICK!> NO CARRIER. <G> This was
    when I was doing GT Power on dial-up...and before Paul Meiners ended his involvement with it.

    Another one said "I need access to the adult files for a high school
    sex education project". My response?? "Nice try". <G>

    While "dirty old Sysops need love, too", there's a time and a place
    for everything.

    Opening another can of worms, many folks think that NUDITY is ALSO PORNOGRAPHY. That word comes from the Greek word, PORENIA -- meaning all
    sexual intercourse and actions outside of a marriage relationship
    between a man and a woman (husband and wife).

    Otherwise, all of these items are porn:

    1) The original Coppertone suntan products logo. It was young Jodi
    Foster's poodle who pulled her bathing suit bottom down, exposing her
    butt crack, and the tan lines. As a widower, I know "we're all the same
    from the back side". Coppertone does make an excellent line of suntan
    products.

    2) Michelangelo's King David Sculpture, with the genitialia exposed in
    all their glory. I saw a photoshopped photo of that sculpture, as a
    "before and after" shot. The after shot, showed a fat pot belly, and
    empty bags from places like Burger King, McDonald's, and Starbucks,
    surrounding the statue...and said "the statue was going off tour, and
    back to its original museum". <G>

    3) Pictures of your naked infant children taking a bath, or on "a
    bareskin rug".

    4) The "Potty Training" books and manuals.

    5) All the medical anatomy publications. Nudity means nothing to them,
    but I know people who won't go to the doctor, because they don't want to
    be seen naked. I can't convince them that "it's not like something they
    haven't seen before"...and being a widower, "I know what's under the
    hood". To me, they're there to save my butt...not kiss it. I have no
    qualms of getting naked for a procedure, in the doctors office, clinic, emergency room, or hospital.

    6) Photos of women wearing "tight tan leggings" that make it look like
    they're naked from the waist down.

    Admittedly, passing child porn and sex trafficking are crimes that
    haunt. But to me, folks have gone way overboard on this.

    Tragically, I've known these ham radio operators who've been "caught
    with their pants down" in this...pun intended. Thankfully, these are
    only a small group of "bad apples" in the hobby.

    A) A "sex sting" operation in a local park caught a local TV station meterologist (who was fired the next day), and a ham radio operator (who
    was also a lawyer).

    B) A ham radio operator in northwest Arkansas was busted for an
    incestuous relationship with his 2 daughters.

    C) A ham radio operator, who was a former BBS Sysop, was caught with a
    friend, with over 10,000 images of kiddie porn.

    D) A ham radio operator, who was a registered sex offender, was using
    "packet radio" to send solicitous messages to young hams.

    E) An older ham radio operator, who was heavily active in D-Star, was
    caught doing kiddie porn.

    And, folks wonder why there is "The Felony Question" (have you been
    convicted of a felony in state or federal court?) on the ham radio
    license application.

    Daryl, WX4QZ


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  • From Tony Langdon@VERT to Daryl Stout on Wed Feb 12 18:39:00 2020
    On 01-16-20 03:04, Daryl Stout wrote to DUMAS WALKER <=-

    From what I understand, there is an "adult version" called "YouPorn".
    Of course, I'm sure kids are going to lie about their age to get access
    to that.

    There's certainly XTube, which is for adult material.

    Another one said "I need access to the adult files for a high school
    sex education project". My response?? "Nice try". <G>

    Hahaha, we used to ask the teacher if there any practicals in sex ed, as they were for any other science subject. :D No, we didn't have any practicals. :D

    While "dirty old Sysops need love, too", there's a time and a place
    for everything.

    Opening another can of worms, many folks think that NUDITY is ALSO PORNOGRAPHY. That word comes from the Greek word, PORENIA -- meaning
    all sexual intercourse and actions outside of a marriage relationship between a man and a woman (husband and wife).

    That's a real issue in society today, people conflate nudity with sex (and porn), but they're totally different things. And the result is so many people are hung up on nudity and will cover up, even when it's quite silly to do so (like when being examined by a doctor). Even worse, this, alongside the airbrushed and unrealistic images (of both men and women) in the media is a major contributor to body shame. It's simply almost impossible for the average person to see another human body "warts and all". No one knows what a real person actually looks like nowadays, and that's causing all sorts of mental health issues.


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  • From The Millionaire@VERT to Tony Langdon on Wed Feb 12 12:18:08 2020
    Well I heard on the news back years ago that we might end up walking naked on the Earth if the temperature keeps rising every year. Scary thought :-?

    $ The Millionaire $

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  • From Tony Langdon@VERT to The Millionaire on Thu Feb 13 12:25:00 2020
    On 02-12-20 07:18, The Millionaire wrote to Tony Langdon <=-

    Well I heard on the news back years ago that we might end up walking
    naked on the Earth if the temperature keeps rising every year. Scary thought :-?

    I can think of worse things. :)


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  • From Daryl Stout@VERT to TONY LANGDON on Thu Feb 13 02:06:00 2020
    Tony,

    There's certainly XTube, which is for adult material.

    Figured as much.

    Another one said "I need access to the adult files for a high school sex education project". My response?? "Nice try". <G>

    Hahaha, we used to ask the teacher if there any practicals in sex ed, as the TL>were for any other science subject. :D No, we didn't have any practicals. :

    Or practi-cums -- yes, on the sperm of the moment, I did just go
    there. <G>

    That's a real issue in society today, people conflate nudity with sex (and TL>porn), but they're totally different things. And the result is so many peop TL>are hung up on nudity and will cover up, even when it's quite silly to do so TL>(like when being examined by a doctor). Even worse, this, alongside the TL>airbrushed and unrealistic images (of both men and women) in the media is a TL>major contributor to body shame. It's simply almost impossible for the aver TL>person to see another human body "warts and all". No one knows what a real TL>person actually looks like nowadays, and that's causing all sorts of mental TL>health issues.

    True. It's like the tagline below.

    Daryl


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  • From Tony Langdon@VERT to Daryl Stout on Fri Feb 14 01:06:00 2020
    On 02-12-20 21:06, Daryl Stout wrote to TONY LANGDON <=-

    Tony,

    There's certainly XTube, which is for adult material.

    Figured as much.

    Another one said "I need access to the adult files for a high school sex education project". My response?? "Nice try". <G>

    Hahaha, we used to ask the teacher if there any practicals in sex ed, as
    he
    were for any other science subject. :D No, we didn't have any practicals.


    Or practi-cums -- yes, on the sperm of the moment, I did just go
    there. <G>

    Just remember to not start the test(es) until the teacher says so. Premature examination is not a good thing! :D

    That's a real issue in society today, people conflate nudity with sex (and
    porn), but they're totally different things. And the result is so many
    eop
    are hung up on nudity and will cover up, even when it's quite silly to do
    o
    (like when being examined by a doctor). Even worse, this, alongside the
    airbrushed and unrealistic images (of both men and women) in the media is a
    major contributor to body shame. It's simply almost impossible for the
    ver
    person to see another human body "warts and all". No one knows what a real
    person actually looks like nowadays, and that's causing all sorts of mental
    health issues.

    True. It's like the tagline below.

    Daryl


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    Good question! :)


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  • From Daryl Stout@VERT to TONY LANGDON on Thu Feb 13 18:25:00 2020
    Tony,

    Or practi-cums -- yes, on the sperm of the moment, I did just go there. <G>

    Just remember to not start the test(es) until the teacher says so. Prematur TL>examination is not a good thing! :D

    ROFLMAO!!

    * OLX 1.53 * Why do nurses leave the room when you get undressed??

    Good question! :)

    Or like Jeff Foxworthy said to his gastrointerologist, who was to do
    his colonoscopy..."I'll bet you meet a lot of @$$holes in your
    business". <G> My next one isn't until April, 2021. They've found benign
    polyps (but no cancer) before, and I'l like to keep it that way.

    Daryl


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  • From Tony Langdon@VERT to Daryl Stout on Sat Feb 15 16:36:00 2020
    On 02-13-20 13:25, Daryl Stout wrote to TONY LANGDON <=-

    Or like Jeff Foxworthy said to his gastrointerologist, who was to do
    his colonoscopy..."I'll bet you meet a lot of @$$holes in your

    LOL very true. :)

    business". <G> My next one isn't until April, 2021. They've found
    benign polyps (but no cancer) before, and I'l like to keep it that way.

    Yeah let's hope it stays that way. :)


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  • From Daryl Stout@VERT to TONY LANGDON on Sat Feb 15 09:32:00 2020
    Tony,

    Or like Jeff Foxworthy said to his gastrointerologist, who was to do his colonoscopy..."I'll bet you meet a lot of @$$holes in your

    LOL very true. :)

    The wind section is very proficient with Rhapsody In Pew afterwards.


    business". <G> My next one isn't until April, 2021. They've found benign polyps (but no cancer) before, and I'l like to keep it that way.

    Yeah let's hope it stays that way. :)

    I lost an uncle to colon cancer...my Dad and his sister to pancreatic cancer...and my grandmother to lung cancer. I don't think a single
    family has escaped this scourge. :(

    Daryl


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  • From Tony Langdon@VERT to Daryl Stout on Tue Feb 18 00:13:00 2020
    On 02-15-20 04:32, Daryl Stout wrote to TONY LANGDON <=-

    The wind section is very proficient with Rhapsody In Pew afterwards.


    Oh dear. :P

    I lost an uncle to colon cancer...my Dad and his sister to pancreatic cancer...and my grandmother to lung cancer. I don't think a single
    family has escaped this scourge. :(

    Not good. :(


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