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He played Mark Dalton. http://extratv.com/2017/09/12/soap-opera-actor-mark-lamura-dead-at-68/ http://welovesoaps.com/wls34/Mark_La_Mura-5685.jpg Gman

You forgot Barbra. I like Bette and Cher, but I'm not what you would call a "diva-phile". As for Britney, I think the only song I can recognize as being hers is 'Oops I Did It Again' which she recorded in 2000-so I'm not what you would call a devoted fan. I do like musicals-always have even as a child. Mary Poppins and Bambi are probably two of the 1st movies I remember seeing as a child along with Beach Blanket Bingo and Hard Day's Night. I liked Will and Grace once I started watching it. But I used to watch a lot of TV and I loved situation comedies. Some points where I fall off the stereotype is ballet, opera, and classical music. Gman

I didn't watch it for the first few years it was on. I didn't want to be gay (I still don't completely. But I'm not as adamant about it as I was. ). And I figured why should I watch a show about openly being gay when I didn't want to be. I did watch the last three or four years. I'm willing to give it a chance. I doubt it will be as good. I can't imagine it lasting longer than two or three seasons at the most. Gman

Maybe I don't want to visit Glasgow. (And I don't even like coffee that much) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIT9ovojzZk Gman

I'm glad you found him funny too. Do I get any credit for posting about him 1st? https://www.companyofmen.org/threads/friday-funnies.76067/page-239#post-1332473 Gman

It would be more to live so I could top them. Gman

Heath Hutchins-a model. But I probably would have liked him better before he became a model. He's 6'2" and about 170. But before he became a model he was a lifelong athlete. He was a placekicker for the University of Mississippi. His playing weight was 220. To fit into the clothes he has to model he lost 50 pounds of muscle. http://bigdonsboys.com/handsomest/pages_49_52/images/06_02_heath_hutchins_0006.jpg Gman

There are many, many, many guys I'd love to have sex with. I'm surprised no one has mentioned Anderson Cooper. Here are two of my childhood idols. http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-d5KXRBYCWM4/Tde7WYgbjsI/AAAAAAAAANM/daCNouGfhKk/s1600/michael-forest-misc-2-0035.png Gman

Here's the article on LBQTNation. I was just about to post a thread when I saw @quoththeraven The interesting things I thought 1. Before reading the article I thought the guy on the right might be gay-and this is the composite gay face. 2. Maybe it's being in Seattle or knowing a lot of Bear types. But most of the gay men I know have some sort of facial scruff when the article mentions we are more likely to be clean shaven. Possibly the results would be skewed by a dating site having younger people on it and more older people have scruff on their face? 3. I don't think I really had an inkling towards the composite female faces on which was the gay and which was the straight one. Computers can now predict if white people are gay or straight Alex BollingerSaturday, September 9, 2017 Wang and Kosinski Two researchers published a study that showed that computers can see whether someone is gay from their faces with surprising accuracy. Advertisement Michal Kosinski and Yilun Wang used about 35,000 images of people from an American dating website (they don’t name the site). About half were men and half were women. Half the men and women identified as gay, the other half identified as straight. Also, the images were all from white people between the ages of 18 and 40, and people who did not look like the gender in their profiles (according to workers hired by the researchers) were excluded. Bisexual people were not included in the study. The pictures were cropped to focus on the face, and the faces were fully visible. They plugged those images into Face++, a program that analyzes and recognizes faces, in order to develop a model that could assign a probability that someone is gay or straight, depending on hundreds of traits that the program found in people’s faces. The researchers then used that model to assign probabilities to another set of face pics. When comparing a gay man’s face to a straight man’s face, the model assigned a higher probability of being gay to the gay man 81% of the time. It gave the gay man a higher probability 91% of the time when five pics were available. For women, the model was correct 71% of the time with one image and 83% of the time when there were five pics available. (They tested the model on pics from Facebook too, just in case dating sites are weird, and they got similar results.) They also used the program to determine what parts of the face are more informative about people’s sexual orientation. Red areas provided the most information about sexual orientation. Wang and Kosinski Using the 100 images most likely to be gay and straight for both men and women, they created composite face images. Wang and Kosinski The most informative traits were both things that can be easily controlled by people and things that can’t. Lesbian women had larger jaws and narrower foreheads than straight women, and they were also more likely to wear hats and not wear make-up in their pictures. Gay men had narrower jaws and longer noses than straight men, but they also were less likely to have facial hair. So can computers tell who is gay now? Not really. The study found that a gay person’s picture would usually be assigned a higher probability of being gay than a straight person’s picture. So, for example, if two pictures were compared and one had a 54% chance of being gay and the other had a 43% chance of being gay, most of the time the first one will be the one from a gay person. But a 54% chance of a picture being from a gay person is not enough for anyone to figure out that someone is gay. Still, with more images to train on, better quality images, and better computer programs that will be developed in the next few decades, this could change. Advertisement Does this mean people are born gay? Wang and Kosinski mention this in relation to the theory that sexual orientation is set in the womb based on hormones that fetuses get exposed to. If a male fetus gets exposed to fewer androgens (hormones that include testosterone) than average, then it might turn out to be a gay boy, and the reverse for female fetuses. Considering how some of the identifying features are clearly not the result of fashion choices – like the width of the forehead, the length of the nose, and the shape of the jaw – it certainly supports the idea that sexual orientation is linked to early development. The study also found that gay men’s faces were more like women’s faces than straight men’s faces, and lesbians’ faces were more like men’s faces than straight women’s faces, which also suggests that sexual orientation is related to the development of biological sex. What about people of color? An interesting little piece of data in this study is that gay men had lighter skin than straight men. Wang and Kosinski suggest this could be related to exposure to the sun (gay boys are the “indoor recess” crowd) or testosterone (which is linked to melanin production), but consider a third possibility: gay men are less likely to identify as white compared to straight men. We tend to think of race as an immutable characteristic assigned at birth based on someone’s ancestry. But a lot of people exist in complicated positions in America’s racial classification system and they make choices about their race, mainly because they live in a culture that tells them they have to choose one word to describe where hundreds of ancestors came from, how they understand that ancestry, and how others see them. When people change their racial identity between Censuses, it’s pretty clear that there is some choice in the matter even if people aren’t going full Rachel Dolezal. So it could be that gay men who are at the edges of whiteness – Hispanic gay men, biracial gay men, etc. – are more likely to check the other box than their straight siblings because they already feel like they’re outsiders. That said, race is a social construct and it would have been interesting if the study had included all races. While Wang and Kosinski say they didn’t have enough pictures of gay people of color to do separate studies on them, a broader sample that includes all races would have avoided differences in racial identity. Privacy concerns The most obvious issue raised here is how this technology can be used to violate people’s privacy. As Wang and Kosinski point out, they used pretty common software and techniques that are known to people who work with this kind of data. They didn’t develop anything new – they just showed what could be done with stuff that’s already out there. Considering how many pictures people put online, even in professional contexts like on LinkedIn, a better version of this software could be used to out people. While that might be terrifying to some people, it’s also important to remember that there are other oppressed minorities out there who are easily recognizable, so being easily seen as gay won’t put us in new territory. Also, if straight people could see how many gay people they already know, it would do a lot to change attitudes. Either way, the technology isn’t going to go away because we’re afraid of it, so the most we can do is to reduce homophobia as much as possible. Gman

If he has, I am both happy and envious. But not, I hope, in a hateful way. Gman

A guy I met with two or three times loved to suck, but spit out immediately afterwards. When I asked why, he said it upset his stomach. Gman

Some extremely useful information. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsbyUdmd8ys For additional info-The video says don't sleep on Kotzhügel = 'puke hill'. It's a famous hill next to where the Oktoberfest is going on where drunken people crash. But there can be pickpockets preying on the 'comatose'. And someone was raped there recently. Gman

I was lucky enough to see a jogger today (Saturday) with a white shorts and a visible VPL-or at the very least a nice bulge. I was unlucky that I was in a car driving past him. I seriously considered turning the car around and trying to get a picture. But I decided, regretfully, against it. Gman

In that case it seems Chad has probably improved through the years escort-wise-although I'd need a your definition of 'a bit' before deciding for sure. Gman

I'm sure some escorts have been asked this. There are occasionally 'escorts' who only offer this. There have even been bisexual escorts who have offered to have sex with a woman in front of clients. It's interesting how we are all different in our likes. I know I'm not that great at sex. But watching two guys in front of me who are really good at sex (in the past I had two or three times hired two guys and had some but not a lot of interaction with the two of them) just depressed me more than any self-consciousness I felt about what my body looked like. Gman

Gosh I wanted to meet him. It never quite worked out. And now he's finished college, retired, and from what I know has a new career. Gman

Apparently, neither are they. Gman

I'm sorry to have to disagree with you because I know your head and heart are in the right place on this. But while not so much now, when I was younger and my libido was stronger, a stiffy could occur at odd times. If I was like that, I'm sure there are physicians, dentists, lawyers, police like that too. No one is saying they actively encouraged getting hard. There's no shame in it if it's covered up and not acted on. You might as well say no one is ever going to burp or pass gas in public. It happens. We are biologic beings. I can't tell you the number of times I've heard a doctor's stomach start to rumble when listening to my stomach. Gman

Now wait a sec @LaffingBear-acting on a stiffy yes. But having a stiffy is not totally a controllable action is it? When I was younger, I had friends in doctor training. I'm sure I remember a few of them saying something like it had happened-not often. And they said their lab coats had covered it. It might have happened when they talked about doing a sports medicine clinic at the local college. The patient never knew it had occurred. It wasn't that my friends were proud it had happened. They probably told me after a few beers when relating embarrassing things that had happened during their stressful training. Gman

The way they normally draw blood now-as I'm sure many of you know-is thru vacutainers. A needle attaches to a plastic holder, and they a sample tube with a vacuum in it over the opposite end of the needle which draws the blood out. http://www.eastcoastmedicalsupply.com/images/products/detail/BDVacutainerlarge.jpg There's a slightly alternate method where instead of the straight needle, they use a needle with plastic tubing attached to the plastic holder. It works easier on smaller veins. Or if they don't have a vacutainer, they can hook this butterfly up to a syringe. I've always hated the 1st set up above because #1 I've got small veins (I guess I should have weight lifted when I was younger. Weight lifters always seem to have massive arm veins). #2. On the first set up, if they need multiple tubes of blood, a majority of the phlebotomists end up jerking the needle a bit when they change tubes, and it hurts. Your story @BasketBaller remided -years ago these butterflies weren't that common. I was at a hospital outpatient lab. The phlebotomist was a student. She wasn't that familiar with butterflies. I've had a lot of blood drawn over my life. I know the technique yet are supposed to use. I saw her hit the vein and go thru it. Then she started moving the needle around but couldn't get any blood. I told her to stop and leave the needle in. So she moved her hand. I then took hold of the butterfly still in my arm-pulled back a bit and the blood started flowing. Thankfully butterflies are more common these days and most phlebotomists are familiar with them. Gman

I was wondering if he was in scrubs. That material is fairly thin. So it might have been easier to feel. Also @FreshFluff, you are very pretty. It might have been totally involuntary on his part, and he might not have realized that you felt it. Gman

While just my opinion, I like this one-it's more subtle. This one is just too much for a VPL for me. Now don't get me wrong, I'd probably like to see 'it' unclothed. But I like my VPLs a bit more restrained and tasteful. Gman

Looked like a pretty long penis. Gman

@TruHart1, here's one for you. Gman

This picture was so nice I couldn't resist. There's no VPL, but there is a VPHL (Visible Pubic Hair Line). http://i2.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article10096077.ece/ALTERNATES/s615b/Thom-Evans.jpg Gman