The Virginity Poll
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Topic: The Virginity Poll
Posted By: Prog-jester
Subject: The Virginity Poll
Date Posted: May 10 2007 at 10:04
Just thinking about a buddy of mine, who lost his virginity around 15 - his girl became pregnant, now they have a baby and he cries that this is not the way of life he'd choose (he's younger than me actually).
The poll is kinda anonymous, you're not forced to worn everything inside out.
Me - 18
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Posted By: Chris H
Date Posted: May 10 2007 at 10:10
I'm proud to say that it hasn't happened yet, God forbid seeing as how I'm only 14. I personally find any teenage year as too young, but that is just my opinion.
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Posted By: Passionist
Date Posted: May 10 2007 at 10:22
Frankly, I don't remember at all. I said 18, could have been 17, but I'm very bad at counting back summers. I remember how and why and where it happened, but 2 years, it feels like I was a virgin again, or would if I didn't have someone to make that right
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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: May 10 2007 at 10:40
I'm still a virgin.
And so are my daughters.
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Posted By: Tony R
Date Posted: May 10 2007 at 10:55
I was 12....
Admin Note:
BTW,there appears no harm in this poll, as long as people dont start being silly. The moment the tone of replies starts to deteriorate this will be closed.
Sorry to get heavy but you know how these things progress..
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Posted By: cuncuna
Date Posted: May 10 2007 at 10:55
17
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Posted By: Wilcey
Date Posted: May 10 2007 at 10:59
Tony R wrote:
I was 12.... |
I have a 13 yr old son, a 12 year old son and an 11 yr old daughter......... and they wont be doing it until they are 21 AT LEAST............. cos that what I have told them!!!!
I might have to take to drink to blot it out!
I am of course as pure as the driven snow
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Posted By: Tony R
Date Posted: May 10 2007 at 11:01
I have a 15 year old daughter and it scares the hell out of me too. If she hooks up with anyone like me, I'll kill him!!!
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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: May 10 2007 at 11:03
Posted By: Prog-jester
Date Posted: May 10 2007 at 11:06
Posted By: cuncuna
Date Posted: May 10 2007 at 11:08
At the age of 12 I was still watching robotech...
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Posted By: Tony R
Date Posted: May 10 2007 at 11:10
Yes, I am happy with your opening post, that's why I let it stay.
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Posted By: Melomaniac
Date Posted: May 10 2007 at 11:14
15 years old here. A friend of mine who was 19 at the time rented a motel room for us to be in peace...
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Posted By: bhikkhu
Date Posted: May 10 2007 at 11:15
Tony R wrote:
I have a 15 year old daughter and it scares the hell out of me too. If she hooks up with anyone like me, I'll kill him!!! |
That's precisely why I never wanted to have a daughter. I know exactly how I was.
But, it still didn't happen until I was 17 (not to imply that it's not still young). Now, after almost five years of celibacy, when (and if) it happens again, it will probably be a lot like the first time.
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Posted By: darkmatter
Date Posted: May 10 2007 at 11:16
I'm still a virgin at 19.
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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: May 10 2007 at 11:17
Tony R wrote:
Yes, I am happy with your opening post, that's why I let it stay. |
Thread TonyRminator!!!
I was 14, she was 19, and it happened under the Quebec flag hanging from the ceiling of her pad. This was in the very tensive days of the Separatist crisis in 77.
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Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: May 10 2007 at 11:19
I don't think it will ever happen to me.
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Posted By: cuncuna
Date Posted: May 10 2007 at 11:24
Passionist wrote:
Frankly, I don't remember at all. I said 18, could have been 17, but I'm very bad at counting back summers. I remember how and why and where it happened, but 2 years, it feels like I was a virgin again, or would if I didn't have someone to make that right |
Last time was 4 years for me. I was ok with it, since I didn't knew someone of my interest at the time. Pluas, the world was a very peaceful place during that period.
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Posted By: daz2112
Date Posted: May 10 2007 at 12:05
14
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Posted By: Bern
Date Posted: May 10 2007 at 12:06
16 for me.
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Posted By: Man Erg
Date Posted: May 10 2007 at 12:07
16,but got it back later.
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Posted By: lighthouse
Date Posted: May 10 2007 at 12:35
Man Erg wrote:
16,but got it back later. | lol
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Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: May 10 2007 at 16:11
18 (though 19 in a few months)and still a virgin.
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Posted By: Scapler
Date Posted: May 10 2007 at 16:32
16 and still a virgin who hopes to keep it that way until marriage
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Posted By: Philéas
Date Posted: May 10 2007 at 17:34
Not yet, but it will happen sooner or later. I really don't care that much.
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Posted By: paolo.beenees
Date Posted: May 10 2007 at 17:38
Front or back?
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Posted By: Tony R
Date Posted: May 10 2007 at 17:41
paolo.beenees wrote:
Front or back? |
*ahem*
why is the alarm sounding in the Admin Zone????
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Posted By: JJLehto
Date Posted: May 10 2007 at 20:56
Still a virgin at 18
Dosn't bug me nearly as much though as it did a few years ago.
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Posted By: progadicto
Date Posted: May 10 2007 at 20:58
Lesser than 15... It was wonderful cos she was older than me and experienced... Really good memories...
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Posted By: Cygnus X-2
Date Posted: May 10 2007 at 20:58
Posted By: JJLehto
Date Posted: May 10 2007 at 20:59
I'm very mad you bring that up. I still maintain that the creators of 40 year old virgin owe me money for using my life story!
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Posted By: Cygnus X-2
Date Posted: May 10 2007 at 21:02
Posted By: JJLehto
Date Posted: May 10 2007 at 21:06
Eh,....it dosn't bother too much.
It did 2 years ago like hell, but I really don't find it such abig deal anymore.
And you're right. I never tried that hard with girls. Oh well.
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Posted By: Chris H
Date Posted: May 10 2007 at 21:06
I bet Cyg lost his virginity to a Broadway fan...
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Posted By: Cygnus X-2
Date Posted: May 10 2007 at 21:10
Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: May 10 2007 at 21:11
Not yet.
I just don't have the motivation horn dogs like Tony did way back when. I also think I'm not stable enough to do that yet. I ended a relationship not too long ago without even moving into much of a physical stage because I want to be alone for now. Maybe when I get a job and move to college, but not now.I'm happy, though.
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Posted By: Chris H
Date Posted: May 10 2007 at 21:11
Gee that's a mood setter alright
I personally would serenade a woman with Barry White, but hey Zappa works too.
Especially Jewish Princess
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Posted By: Cygnus X-2
Date Posted: May 10 2007 at 21:13
stonebeard wrote:
Not yet.
I just don't have the motivation horn dogs like Tony did way back when. I also think I'm not stable enough to do that yet. I ended a relationship not too long ago without even moving into much of a physical stage because I want to be alone for now. Maybe when I get a job and move to college, but not now.I'm happy, though.
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That's what I feel right now, actually... despite my wavering mental state.
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Posted By: heyitsthatguy
Date Posted: May 10 2007 at 21:15
Scapler wrote:
16 and still a virgin who hopes to keep it that way until marriage
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same except I'm a year older
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Posted By: Chris H
Date Posted: May 10 2007 at 21:15
heyitsthatguy wrote:
Scapler wrote:
16 and still a virgin who hopes to keep it that way until marriage |
same except I'm a year older
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I 100% agree, except I'm 2 younger.
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Posted By: Chus
Date Posted: May 10 2007 at 21:16
still virgin at 20, does it bother me? sex is overrated
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Posted By: Mikerinos
Date Posted: May 10 2007 at 21:20
17, virgin. Not sure which is more sad, the fact that I haven't come close or the fact that I don't really care at all...
Hopefully you wore protection! Otherwise you and your mate will be shooting out bearded Neo-Prog Specialists by the dozen!
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Posted By: JJLehto
Date Posted: May 10 2007 at 21:24
I wouldn't say I WANT to wait until marriage, but if that turns out to be the case it wouldn't bother me.
However, I do think it should be with someone you care about. Not like, someone you love and want to spend your life with, but you should at least care for them, (and vice versa). From what I've seen, it dosn't seem worth it to get someone just to have sex with. IMO of course...
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Posted By: markosherrera
Date Posted: May 10 2007 at 22:08
AT THE AGE OF why is so important know that?
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Posted By: markosherrera
Date Posted: May 10 2007 at 22:09
Posted By: Atomic_Rooster
Date Posted: May 10 2007 at 22:18
JJLehto wrote:
I wouldn't say I WANT to wait until marriage, but if that turns out to be the case it wouldn't bother me.
However, I do think it should be with someone you care about. Not like, someone you love and want to spend your life with, but you should at least care for them, (and vice versa). From what I've seen, it dosn't seem worth it to get someone just to have sex with. IMO of course... |
As an Existentialist, I'm afraid that following your advice may lead "bad faith" or some other variety of unauthentic living for just about every male in the world.
So, it is my duty (again as an Existentialist) to encourage everyone to have as much sex as justifies their need for sexuality and no more.
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Posted By: Atomic_Rooster
Date Posted: May 10 2007 at 22:19
Chus wrote:
still virgin at 20, does it bother me? sex is overrated |
wait, how would you know its overrated unless you've tried it... (don't worry you can tell me, I won't' tell)
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Posted By: JJLehto
Date Posted: May 10 2007 at 22:22
Eh, I'm not great with girls. And I'm not very keen on just having sex with drunk whores that have no clue who I am. Which is easier but,
That's just not me.
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Posted By: Chus
Date Posted: May 10 2007 at 22:25
Atomic_Rooster wrote:
Chus wrote:
still virgin at 20, does it bother me? sex is overrated |
wait, how would you know its overrated unless you've tried it... (don't worry you can tell me, I won't' tell)
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Just saying sex is not a priority for me now.
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Posted By: Atomic_Rooster
Date Posted: May 10 2007 at 22:25
JJLehto wrote:
Eh, I'm not great with girls. And I'm not very keen on just having sex with drunk whores that have no clue who I am. Which is easier but,
That's just not me. |
you turn down drunk whores!?!?!?!?!?!!??!!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!??!!?!?!?!??!?!!??!?!?!!?!?!?!??!?!?!??!?!?!??!!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?! errr... nevermind
If you have trouble girls, just tell them that you have a buffalo p*nis (I censored it for you non-intellectuals)
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Posted By: Atomic_Rooster
Date Posted: May 10 2007 at 22:26
Chus wrote:
Atomic_Rooster wrote:
Chus wrote:
still virgin at 20, does it bother me? sex is overrated |
wait, how would you know its overrated unless you've tried it... (don't worry you can tell me, I won't' tell)
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Just saying sex is not a priority for me now. |
yeah, from your avatar, you do look kind of young for that kind of thing
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Posted By: Chus
Date Posted: May 10 2007 at 22:27
Atomic_Rooster wrote:
Chus wrote:
Atomic_Rooster wrote:
Chus wrote:
still virgin at 20, does it bother me? sex is overrated |
wait, how would you know its overrated unless you've tried it... (don't worry you can tell me, I won't' tell)
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Just saying sex is not a priority for me now. |
yeah, from your avatar, you do look kind of young for that kind of thing
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Thanks I do take care of myself so I may seem about 19 years younger than I really am
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Posted By: video vertigo
Date Posted: May 11 2007 at 01:26
had a couple chances but I'm not very attracted to intoxicated girls and I seem to have trouble with actual relationships so I'm a virgin at 21.
Does it bother me, well I can't say not entirely since I have a lot of 16-17 year old friends that are far from being virgins and they act like I'm a total loser for still being one.
I think I'm more interested in women intellectual/conversationally than physically though, if I get into a relationship I wouldn't want it to be for sexual reasons, but someone who can carry a good conversation is much more appealing.
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Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: May 11 2007 at 03:05
Melomaniac wrote:
15 years old here. A friend of mine who was 19 at the time rented a motel room for us to be in peace... |
Why couldn't I have had friends like that when I was 15?
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Posted By: andu
Date Posted: May 11 2007 at 05:04
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: May 11 2007 at 05:20
stonebeard wrote:
Not yet.
I just don't have the motivation horn dogs like Tony did way back when. I also think I'm not stable enough to do that yet.
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Youi don't need to be stable, you just need a boner!
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Posted By: markosherrera
Date Posted: May 11 2007 at 10:52
Posted By: andu
Date Posted: May 11 2007 at 11:09
markosherrera wrote:
Manuela |
Yeah, Manuela, every boy's girlfriend...
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Posted By: Tuzvihar
Date Posted: May 11 2007 at 14:02
I'm really ashamed to admit that I was... 24...
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Posted By: el böthy
Date Posted: May 11 2007 at 20:33
Those days are over... finally!
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Posted By: memowakeman
Date Posted: May 11 2007 at 22:58
I was 17.... and the first time....has been the worst so far ....
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Posted By: Viajero Astral
Date Posted: May 12 2007 at 00:38
Still virgin at 20. I dont care much that and I like the idea to keep it that way until marriage.
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Posted By: Snakes & Arrows
Date Posted: May 12 2007 at 01:16
If I was any older than 20 and hadn`t done it yet I`d be starting to worry
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Posted By: Prog-jester
Date Posted: May 12 2007 at 05:31
JJLehto wrote:
And I'm not very keen on just having sex with drunk whores that have no clue who I am. |
The word.That's how it has actually happend to many fellows of mine...they were 15 or 16 and already had that alarming signature in their minds - I'm still a virgin, what shall I do?
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Posted By: Prog-jester
Date Posted: May 12 2007 at 05:34
markosherrera wrote:
what mean other? |
Dunno
Maybe, having sex with aliens?..
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Posted By: Komodo dragon
Date Posted: May 12 2007 at 12:08
16 and i dont remember how good it been because i was drunk
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Posted By: asimplemistake
Date Posted: May 12 2007 at 14:02
Nothing yet at 16, doesn't matter much to me now
As young as I am, it doesn't seem as bad, but thinking about it from the parents perspective, I'd wanna pull a gun on anybody that touched any kid of mine. I teach martial arts to little kids and sometimes I get scarred by the words they already know and use
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Posted By: JJLehto
Date Posted: May 12 2007 at 23:17
And don't get me wrong, if someone is cool with that I say go for it. But if I lost it that way....I really would feel pretty disgusting.
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Posted By: Atomic_Rooster
Date Posted: May 12 2007 at 23:20
JJLehto wrote:
And don't get me wrong, if someone is cool with that I say go for it. But if I lost it that way....I really would feel pretty disgusting. |
that and there's about a 43% chance of someone getting covered with vomit at some point
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Posted By: Prog-jester
Date Posted: May 13 2007 at 03:55
BTW, won't you dare to ask The Whis...I mean, Robert "the Almighty" Fripp if he still a...u know...
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Posted By: ProgRockerJDS
Date Posted: May 13 2007 at 17:01
It hasn't happened yet for me.
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Posted By: yface1
Date Posted: May 13 2007 at 18:46
markosherrera wrote:
what mean other? |
Personally I thought it meant with animals or in the wrong passage or something... i think i thought about that too much.
Anyway, I was 17, drunken night out with the guys from the college... you know how it goes (or should... )
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Posted By: rileydog22
Date Posted: May 13 2007 at 20:33
Prog-jester wrote:
BTW, won't you dare to ask The Whis...I mean, Robert "the Almighty" Fripp if he still a...u know... |
Actually, the Frippster got The Clap in 1969.
Don't ask how I know that
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Posted By: Sckxyss
Date Posted: May 14 2007 at 23:41
16... what a great birthday present...
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Posted By: Proletariat
Date Posted: May 14 2007 at 23:44
other.
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Posted By: Prog-jester
Date Posted: May 15 2007 at 10:43
Proletariat wrote:
other. |
now explain what do you mean!
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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: May 15 2007 at 10:50
rileydog22 wrote:
Prog-jester wrote:
BTW, won't you dare to ask The Whis...I mean, Robert "the Almighty" Fripp if he still a...u know... |
Actually, the Frippster got The Clap in 1969.
Don't ask how I know that
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I think with the general promiscuity and the novelty of the birth control pill (still less than a decade in 69), and no-one using preservatives, mostly everybody in the sexual revolution caught tyhe clap at one point or another.
As to you knowing about it, you probably read his diary notes published all over the place.
Only Steve Howe managed to catch it otherwise in 72.
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Posted By: NutterAlert
Date Posted: May 15 2007 at 10:58
I've always gone in for asexual reproduction through binary fission myself.
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Posted By: cuncuna
Date Posted: May 15 2007 at 11:03
I've always thought that the idea of "waiting until married" can be some sort of a problem. Low performance, pain maybe. Though I must admit it must be exciting somehow.
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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: May 15 2007 at 11:38
cuncuna wrote:
I've always thought that the idea of "waiting until married" can be some sort of a problem. Low performance, pain maybe. Though I must admit it must be exciting somehow. |
Yeah!! It sounds a bit like La Fontaine's fox saying that those grapes he yearned for and couldn't catch are not ripe enough anyway!!
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Posted By: rileydog22
Date Posted: May 15 2007 at 21:53
Sean Trane wrote:
rileydog22 wrote:
Prog-jester wrote:
BTW, won't you dare to ask The Whis...I mean, Robert "the Almighty" Fripp if he still a...u know... |
Actually, the Frippster got The Clap in 1969.
Don't ask how I know that
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I think with the general promiscuity and the novelty of the birth control pill (still less than a decade in 69), and no-one using preservatives, mostly everybody in the sexual revolution caught tyhe clap at one point or another.
As to you knowing about it, you probably read his diary notes published all over the place.
Only Steve Howe managed to catch it otherwise in 72. |
Nope, it was Sid Smith's book. So there!
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Posted By: el böthy
Date Posted: May 16 2007 at 00:41
rileydog22 wrote:
Sean Trane wrote:
rileydog22 wrote:
Prog-jester wrote:
BTW, won't you dare to ask The Whis...I mean, Robert "the Almighty" Fripp if he still a...u know... |
Actually, the Frippster got The Clap in 1969.
Don't ask how I know that
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I think with the general promiscuity and the novelty of the birth control pill (still less than a decade in 69), and no-one using preservatives, mostly everybody in the sexual revolution caught tyhe clap at one point or another.
As to you knowing about it, you probably read his diary notes published all over the place.
Only Steve Howe managed to catch it otherwise in 72. |
Nope, it was Sid Smith's book. So there!
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1969?... how old was he then?... like 22?... mmm, well... I guess I can forgive him, just because he is the Fripp
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Posted By: Atomic_Rooster
Date Posted: May 16 2007 at 00:45
Those are all lies, Fripp is a perpetual virgin, as everyone knows
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Posted By: rileydog22
Date Posted: May 16 2007 at 21:31
Atomic_Rooster wrote:
Those are all lies, Fripp is a perpetual virgin, as everyone knows
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Yo, if you've got a problem with Sid Smith, you've got a problem with ME!
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Posted By: Atomic_Rooster
Date Posted: May 16 2007 at 22:50
I would be happy to duel you
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Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: May 17 2007 at 07:31
Sean Trane wrote:
I think with the general promiscuity and the novelty of the birth control pill (still less than a decade in 69), and no-one using preservatives |
I think Hughes, you mean 'preventatives', unless you know of a different use for monosodium glutamate
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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: May 17 2007 at 16:45
Posted By: Equality 7-2521
Date Posted: May 18 2007 at 12:05
Didn't happen yet, and won't for awhile. Marriage is a ways away.
There are still some practicing Catholics left in this world thankfully.
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Posted By: Speesh
Date Posted: May 18 2007 at 12:25
I was born and raised as a Catholic but now I can't get far enough away from it. But I'll agree with Equality that I'm glad there are practicing Catholics. There are far too many people with my beliefs who use them as an excuse to have a bad moral code.
But fairly recently, I've come to my own realizations that there is nothing sacred about sex or marriage. I just turned 18 and I'm planning on losing it as soon as I can.
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Posted By: Equality 7-2521
Date Posted: May 18 2007 at 13:03
^ Watch how fast society crumbles when that becomes the widespread belief.
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Posted By: StyLaZyn
Date Posted: May 18 2007 at 14:01
Equality 7-2521 wrote:
^ Watch how fast society crumbles when that becomes the widespread belief. |
We are witnessing it now. Also note that in the USA, there is a serious uptightness with sex.
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Posted By: Speesh
Date Posted: May 18 2007 at 14:05
Equality 7-2521 wrote:
^ Watch how fast society crumbles when that becomes the widespread belief. |
Well I certainly hope that isn't the case. Though based on shallow observations I've made we may already be heading down that pipe. What makes you say that?
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Posted By: tardis
Date Posted: May 18 2007 at 14:07
18 ---- on the top of a skateboard ramp.
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Posted By: Equality 7-2521
Date Posted: May 19 2007 at 17:48
Speesh wrote:
Equality 7-2521 wrote:
^ Watch how fast society crumbles when that becomes the widespread belief. |
Well I certainly hope that isn't the case. Though based on shallow observations I've made we may already be heading down that pipe. What makes you say that?
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Without a widespread belief in the sanctity of marriage(not necessarily in a religious sense) there will be a breakdown of the family unit. The family is the basic building block of society as generally noted by socialogists and historians. You'll be hard pressed to find a society without strong family units, or similar extended units such as clans. They just don't exist.
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Posted By: Atomic_Rooster
Date Posted: May 19 2007 at 20:16
Equality 7-2521 wrote:
Speesh wrote:
Equality 7-2521 wrote:
^ Watch how fast society crumbles when that becomes the widespread belief. |
Well I certainly hope that isn't the case. Though based on shallow observations I've made we may already be heading down that pipe. What makes you say that?
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Without a widespread belief in the sanctity of marriage(not necessarily in a religious sense) there will be a breakdown of the family unit. The family is the basic building block of society as generally noted by socialogists and historians. You'll be hard pressed to find a society without strong family units, or similar extended units such as clans. They just don't exist. |
It'll all change when I come into power...
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Posted By: rileydog22
Date Posted: May 19 2007 at 20:20
Posted By: T.Rox
Date Posted: May 19 2007 at 20:37
16 for me, I'm sorry to say.
Girls and sex were the end of my (potentially) brilliant education results. I totally lost focus on my future needs as I focussed on the dangling appendage. Take heed, young ones! There is plenty of time for sex and all its wonders when the time is right ...and this is a message I am trying to get through to my own kids.
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...with apologies to Friedrich Nietzsche
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Posted By: zappaholic
Date Posted: May 19 2007 at 20:38
37.
No, that's not a typo.
Pikers, all of you.
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Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: May 19 2007 at 20:51
Speesh wrote:
I was born and raised as a Catholic but now I can't get far enough away from it. But I'll agree with Equality that I'm glad there are practicing Catholics. There are far too many people with my beliefs who use them as an excuse to have a bad moral code.
But fairly recently, I've come to my own realizations that there is nothing sacred about sex or marriage. I just turned 18 and I'm planning on losing it as soon as I can.
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If you feel that way about marriage don't even bother getting married then,it would be horribly unfair to your wife.
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Posted By: Speesh
Date Posted: May 19 2007 at 22:21
TheProgtologist wrote:
If you feel that way about marriage don't even bother getting married then,it would be horribly unfair to your wife. |
Those are just personal beliefs at the moment, very likely due to the fact I suffered a bitter rejection recently that I'm still strongly feeling the effects of. And by recently I mean over two months ago, by someone religious who I very much respected as a person. I'm not incapable of love, I just seriously believe now that there are better ways of finding it than the way I was going about it (the pathetic way that brought me to this bitter state in the first place).
Doing a lot of thinking (in this bitter state of mind) just leads me to question the value of an age old ritual that our society so adamantly continues to advocate. I'm hoping that that special someone, should I ever meet them, shares the same belief. Though if not I certainly have no problem with marriage and subsequently loving and respecting my wife, till death do us part, etc. Just wanted to clear that up.
rileydog22 wrote:
Just because one doesn't believe in the existance of a supreme being
doesn't mean one cannot have a strong, cohesive family. I hate when
religious people assume that athiests are evil people incapable of
having morals/respecting their marriage/functioning in society/not
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I absolutely agree. I still like the idea of having a family, despite the religious falling out. And I seriously doubt that's the religious upbringing talking (though I could be wrong).
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If what you speak is true, consider me to be your humble servant. *bows*
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