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Can someone explain why this was in my news feed?
https://thetakeout.com/how-is-char-kol-a-new-philly-korean-bbq-pop-up-offens-1844701957/amp
It has all the hallmarks of a whiny sjw article within the first sentence. "Whitness, problematic, cultural appropriation." I had to say not interested in the takeout like give times before I stopped getting a link
https://thetakeout.com/how-is-char-kol-a-new-philly-korean-bbq-pop-up-offens-1844701957/amp
It has all the hallmarks of a whiny sjw article within the first sentence. "Whitness, problematic, cultural appropriation." I had to say not interested in the takeout like give times before I stopped getting a link
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I can guarantee both dudes printed off their invoices and now it's a conversation starter at parties.
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She didn't even get a reply. Why write the article? "I got mad and nothing happened". How is that news?
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She compared herself to Mariah Carey who, while nothing special in the looks dept does have an amazing voice that millions of people are willing to pay money to listen to while Nnkea writes stories how she tried to get her exes to pay for having banged her. Her therapist is set for life.
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wait, we can do that? i need the help of an accountant, NOW! experience in flower and chocolate math required.
the Junkyard pays the same even if its dented...
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As someone who was in a shitty, abusive (not physically, but mentally... demeaning, belittling, manipulative, controlling, manifestly one-sided and unfair, and me being a doormat and accepting it) relationship for a while?
Go fuck yourself, bitch. If you even think money would have helped assuage your angst and regret, you didn't really have it that fucking bad. I would have *paid* an invoice like that if I could have gotten back the time from that relationship, or even could just get rid of the lingering scars in my mind that I'll always have from it.
Go fuck yourself, bitch. If you even think money would have helped assuage your angst and regret, you didn't really have it that fucking bad. I would have *paid* an invoice like that if I could have gotten back the time from that relationship, or even could just get rid of the lingering scars in my mind that I'll always have from it.
Agent of Z.O.G.
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Sneed's Feed And Seed
Well you're certainly doing your job today Mr. Sun
True & Honest Fan
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Do not argue in the monetary affairs of fools. If they wish to determine something is worth 4 figures, let them think that. "Do not interrupt your enemy as he is making a mistake."
I know what it's actually worth. But they think it's worth more than that. So they're right.
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The fuckin' Innsmouth Look again. Is she related to the Mayor of Chicago by any chance?
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A man lived in a Tampa Bay-area stadium's luxury suite for over 2 weeks before he was arrested, police say
Daniel Albert Neja, 39, stole up to $1,000 worth of merchandise from the team store as well as $200 worth of food items.
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A man lived in a Tampa Bay-area stadium's luxury suite for over 2 weeks before he was arrested, police say
A homeless man in Florida allegedly stole up to $1,200 of merchandise and food while living in the luxury suite of a Tampa Bay soccer stadium for over two weeks, police said.Daniel Albert Neja, 39, was arrested earlier this week when an employee of AI Lang Stadium found blankets in the luxury suite. The stadium is home to the Tampa Bay Rowdies soccer club.
Neja stole up to $1,000 worth of merchandise from the team store as well as $200 worth of food items, according to St. Petersburg police spokeswoman Yolanda Fernandez.
"He got into the merchandise store and was wearing a bunch of team merchandise," Fernandez told CNN. "He made himself quite at home there."
Using surveillance footage, police determined that Neja had been living in the luxury suite since July 26. Neja was arrested shortly after officers got to the stadium, according to Fernandez.
"While the officers were there, one of the employees spotted him and went into the stadium, and officers caught up with him right outside the stadium and he was wearing the same clothing and everything," Fernandez said.
Neja was arrested on charges of third-degree felony burglary and a first-degree misdemeanor of resisting an officer without violence and his bond is currently set at $5,150, according to jail records.
It's not clear whether Neja has legal representation at this time.
Fernandez said that something as unusual as this would not happen under normal circumstances.
"It's very unusual and it's the sort of thing that probably would only happen during Covid, because under normal circumstances that stadium would be full of people, and luxury suites would be in use and cleaned regularly," she said.
The Tampa Bay Rowdies play in the USL Championship, the second-tier US soccer league behind Major League Soccer. The current club was founded in 2008 but it shares its name and logo with the original Tampa Bay Rowdies, which were formed in 1975 and played in the now-defunct North American Soccer League. The original team folded in 1994.
The original team was the first professional sports franchise in the Tampa Bay area, according to the club's website, and "remain one of the most recognizable and well-loved brands in soccer."
Al Lang Stadium seats 7,227 and located in downtown St. Petersburg along the city's waterfront. Built in 1947, it was originally a baseball stadium but was renovated into a soccer-specific stadium by the Rowdies.
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday signed a bill into law that requires students at the California State University system, the nation's largest four-year public university system, to complete an ethnic studies course in order to graduate.
The Democratic governor signed AB 1460, which was proposed by Assemblymember Shirley Weber, D-San Diego, his office said in a statement.
The law "reflects 50 years of student, faculty, and community advocacy for curriculum reflective of and responsive to our diverse state," Weber tweeted.
In July, the California State University Board of Trustees, which oversees the system comprising 23 campuses across the state, voted to include a course addressing ethnic studies and social justice as a requirement.
That action by the trustees was reported at the time to be more broad than the requirement that is now law, because the trustees-approved plan also allowed for social justice courses.
"The university will begin work to implement the requirements of the new legislation," Mike Uhlenkamp, a spokesman for the CSU Chancellor’s Office, said in an email Monday.
Starting in the 2021-22 academic year the system shall provide for ethnic studies and starting with the 2024–25 academic year undergraduates will be required to complete one three-unit course in ethnic studies as a graduation requirement, the law states.
It defines ethnic studies as focusing on Native Americans, African Americans, Asian Americans and Latina and Latino Americans.
When the CSU board of trustees approved its own plan in July, Chancellor Timothy White said it was "grounded in ethnic studies, but it is broader, more inclusive, gives students choice," according to The Associated Press.
Supporters of the bill said that trustee-approved plan was weaker than the legislation.
The California Faculty Association, which supported the bill, tweeted that Newsom's signing Monday was a historic moment.
It says that studies have shown that students of all backgrounds benefit from completing an ethnics studies class.
The systemwide Academic Senate for the CSU warned that Legislature getting involved in setting degree requirements "could ultimately mean that the government's agenda supersedes faculty expertise as the basis for curricular decisions," according to an analysis of the bill.
CSU's website says it educates around 482,000 students every year. The CSU system announced in May that it planned to offer most of its courses for the fall virtually because of the coronavirus pandemic.
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Can't graduate until your brain gets culturally enriched lmao
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Why the emphasis on Latina and Latino, especially if California is supposed to be a non-binary Latinx paradise? I'm sure they specifically mean Chicano/a, because otherwise would have just said "Latin" or "Hispanic."
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I Have Tourette's and He's on the Autism Spectrum. Here's How We Have Sex
"We take showers together. We touch. We kiss. We sleep together. We hold each other. We meow like cats."
By Mark Hay
17 August 2020, 6:45pm
When people with neurodevelopmental disorders that affect their social communication capabilities—like Paul and Grace, an older couple who, respectively, have Asperger’s syndrome, an autism spectrum disorder, and Tourette’s syndrome and some related problems with focus and impulse control—talk about their their sex lives, it can make outsiders (even doctors and family members) feel uncomfortable. Many such people assume that the communication issues conditions like these pose should desexualize those with them—that they simply wouldn’t or shouldn’t pursue physical intimacy.
People with ASDs may find it difficult to understand others, or communicate their own wants and needs, in some contexts. They might struggle with nonverbal cues, abstract language, social norms like those around personal boundaries, or adjusting to other's needs. These potential communication barriers can lead outsiders to worry that people with ASDs might struggle when navigating the complexities of physical intimacy and end up getting hurt.
Tourette’s, for its part, is characterized by physical and verbal tics that can only be suppressed temporarily, and often with great and distracting effort and discomfort. In rare cases, these tics can include involuntary sexual comments or actions, like groping someone else without consent. Some cases of Tourette’s co-occur with symptoms of other conditions, like attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) or obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), which can cause attention and learning issues, as well as socially inappropriate behaviors. Outsiders looking at these symptoms may worry that they will make it uniquely difficult for people with Tourette’s to communicate clearly and fluidly in sexual situations.
But this is not necessarily a reflection of people with these or similar conditions’ sexualities. Most have the same sexual needs and relationship capabilities as neurotypical individuals. People with autism and similar disorders may just struggle with forming and maintaining relationships without early, ongoing, and tailed education on, and support in exploring these topics. People with Tourette’s, for their part, may just need help controlling, and communicating with others about, their symptoms.
In recent years, ASD activists and organizations have helped to develop and disseminate in-depth and tailored sexual education resources and support services for people with these conditions and their wider communities. People with autism like Amy Gravino have started speaking openly about their experiences with sex—the good and the bad. A smaller group of organizations and individuals with Tourette’s have also started sharing guides on how to introduce and manage symptoms in relationships, as well as personal narratives.
VICE recently spoke to Paul and Grace about their experiences navigating sex and intimacy, as well as communication and expectation barriers stemming from their conditions. Their experiences are not representative of everyone with ASDs, Tourette’s, or similar disorders, but their open accounts of their own experiences contribute to expanding public conversations about disabled sex and relationships.
[Editor’s note: A psychologist and expert on disability and abuse who has worked with Paul in the past and known him and Grace for years connected VICE with the couple. Paul is an avid proponent of independent living and self-advocacy, and Paul and Grace confirmed they understood and consented to discussing the topic at hand. They asked VICE to change their names to protect their privacy for this article, given the intimacy of the subject matter. This interview has been lightly edited and condensed for clarity.]
Grace: When I was a kid, I had crushes on guys and acted out inappropriately because I wanted their attention. Later, I learned that if I want to draw attention from someone to make them like me, it should be positive attention, but that sometimes that doesn’t work out either. So, I just have to stop and think and feel good about Grace, and remember that I can’t change how they feel.
Paul: When I was young, I preferred to do things alone, like rock on a rocking horse. Teachers tried to encourage me to interact with other children, which was harder for me. When I feel turned down, I go back to my own, indifferent world and try to find pleasure in that. It gets tough at times to form certain relationships with Asperger's because change is very difficult. You think life goes in one circle, then when other circles get added in, it drives you crazy.
I had dated and had sex with other women before I met Grace. At the time I met her, I was in a relationship with another girl, but we split up a year later. Then I was single for four years. During that period, I spoke to Grace over the phone, and something about her turned me on. It was her sweet personality. We decided to give a relationship a chance, and it is beautiful.
Grace: I had great times when I got together with Paul. I was really excited, going to all of these events with him, going to his house, and meeting his friends. That was a lot of fun.
Paul: There have to be compromises on both parts in a love relationship and that was difficult for me in the past. I did try to encourage her to get into the things I’m really into, reading and the arts. But due to her disability, her attention span is shorter than mine, and I’ve come to gradually accept that.
Relationships require what you learn even from Sesame Street: Cooperation and learning to do things together and work through things instead of chickening out and giving up on the relationship. I know that I can sometimes have a one-track mind. But one has to think about the other person to figure out solutions.
Grace: This relates to sex, too. We can’t have sex because Paul’s penis will not fit in my vagina. We have tried several times throughout our relationship, and it was incredibly painful. I don’t know how I got that way. But we’ve always accepted that we can’t have sex. I’m sure not every other guy would have accepted that.
Paul: It’s something that did not work out. We didn’t make a fuss about it. The fun part is being together. We can still show our affection to one another, and that’s beautiful.
Grace: I’m very grateful to have Paul in my life, and we do other sexual things all the time. We take showers together. We touch. We kiss. We sleep together. We hold each other. We meow like cats. Paul always says, ‘We’re the cats. We are the cats.’ There’s a song he sings to me me in the car all the time when we’re together where he claps his hands and says, "We’re the cats, we’re the cats…"
Paul: We’re the cats. We’re the cats. We’re the cats!
Grace: And that makes us feel good.
Paul: We make sounds like cats as a come-on, sexually, in the form of meows or imitation purring. We think in terms of what affection would be for a cat, petting and stroking each other and acting as if we are cats with each other.
Paul: We have sex in different ways. Touching, feeling each other, and so forth. I masturbate until I ejaculate.
Grace: We masturbate together all the time and have lots of orgasms.
Paul: There are things she likes to do and that give her pleasure, and things that give me pleasure. I may have a desire for penetrative sex here and there that she can’t fulfill. It might be a dream here or there. We have to focus on finding a balance between those things and having an equal lifestyle. We figure out how to make it work.
Grace: I sometimes need to ask him not to be self-centered and to understand if I can’t do something. I have to accept that with Paul too. But that happens in any relationship. I’m a flexible person, and so is Paul.
Paul: The kissing, the hugging, the touching each other on the shoulders—we enjoy all of the sexual things that we do together very much equally.
Grace: In the past, it was harder for us to balance things. When my mom got real sick with diabetes and lupus after we got together, I had to take care of her. I wasn’t available to go to all of those events. He had a few affairs behind my back because he said I wasn’t available. That was very wrong to do, because that made me lose trust in him.
Paul: I didn’t understand that cheating wasn’t something you should do in a relationship. At times, I thought I wanted something more. I didn’t like a lack of sex. I eventually realized I was not thinking in terms of how Grace felt about things, or where she was coming from. I don’t do affairs anymore. We came to an understanding of what is expected in a mutual relationship for it to work out.
Now, if she tells me what she wants and gives me a reason why she wants it and if I understand the reason for it, then we can work it out. Then it works for both of us. It took a long time of learning and practice to develop this ability to understanding and compromise.
Grace: Now that I see Paul every single day, he says he’s learned his lesson about affairs and working through things together and not chickening out.
There are times that I ask him, "Are you sick of me, are you tired of me?"
He says, "No, not at all. We’re the cats." He cares and wants to work things out. I’ve never had a boyfriend who’s done that. I feel very lucky to have Paul in my life.
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"We take showers together. We touch. We kiss. We sleep together. We hold each other. We meow like cats."
By Mark Hay
17 August 2020, 6:45pm
When people with neurodevelopmental disorders that affect their social communication capabilities—like Paul and Grace, an older couple who, respectively, have Asperger’s syndrome, an autism spectrum disorder, and Tourette’s syndrome and some related problems with focus and impulse control—talk about their their sex lives, it can make outsiders (even doctors and family members) feel uncomfortable. Many such people assume that the communication issues conditions like these pose should desexualize those with them—that they simply wouldn’t or shouldn’t pursue physical intimacy.
People with ASDs may find it difficult to understand others, or communicate their own wants and needs, in some contexts. They might struggle with nonverbal cues, abstract language, social norms like those around personal boundaries, or adjusting to other's needs. These potential communication barriers can lead outsiders to worry that people with ASDs might struggle when navigating the complexities of physical intimacy and end up getting hurt.
Tourette’s, for its part, is characterized by physical and verbal tics that can only be suppressed temporarily, and often with great and distracting effort and discomfort. In rare cases, these tics can include involuntary sexual comments or actions, like groping someone else without consent. Some cases of Tourette’s co-occur with symptoms of other conditions, like attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) or obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), which can cause attention and learning issues, as well as socially inappropriate behaviors. Outsiders looking at these symptoms may worry that they will make it uniquely difficult for people with Tourette’s to communicate clearly and fluidly in sexual situations.
But this is not necessarily a reflection of people with these or similar conditions’ sexualities. Most have the same sexual needs and relationship capabilities as neurotypical individuals. People with autism and similar disorders may just struggle with forming and maintaining relationships without early, ongoing, and tailed education on, and support in exploring these topics. People with Tourette’s, for their part, may just need help controlling, and communicating with others about, their symptoms.
In recent years, ASD activists and organizations have helped to develop and disseminate in-depth and tailored sexual education resources and support services for people with these conditions and their wider communities. People with autism like Amy Gravino have started speaking openly about their experiences with sex—the good and the bad. A smaller group of organizations and individuals with Tourette’s have also started sharing guides on how to introduce and manage symptoms in relationships, as well as personal narratives.
VICE recently spoke to Paul and Grace about their experiences navigating sex and intimacy, as well as communication and expectation barriers stemming from their conditions. Their experiences are not representative of everyone with ASDs, Tourette’s, or similar disorders, but their open accounts of their own experiences contribute to expanding public conversations about disabled sex and relationships.
[Editor’s note: A psychologist and expert on disability and abuse who has worked with Paul in the past and known him and Grace for years connected VICE with the couple. Paul is an avid proponent of independent living and self-advocacy, and Paul and Grace confirmed they understood and consented to discussing the topic at hand. They asked VICE to change their names to protect their privacy for this article, given the intimacy of the subject matter. This interview has been lightly edited and condensed for clarity.]
Grace: When I was a kid, I had crushes on guys and acted out inappropriately because I wanted their attention. Later, I learned that if I want to draw attention from someone to make them like me, it should be positive attention, but that sometimes that doesn’t work out either. So, I just have to stop and think and feel good about Grace, and remember that I can’t change how they feel.
Paul: When I was young, I preferred to do things alone, like rock on a rocking horse. Teachers tried to encourage me to interact with other children, which was harder for me. When I feel turned down, I go back to my own, indifferent world and try to find pleasure in that. It gets tough at times to form certain relationships with Asperger's because change is very difficult. You think life goes in one circle, then when other circles get added in, it drives you crazy.
I had dated and had sex with other women before I met Grace. At the time I met her, I was in a relationship with another girl, but we split up a year later. Then I was single for four years. During that period, I spoke to Grace over the phone, and something about her turned me on. It was her sweet personality. We decided to give a relationship a chance, and it is beautiful.
Grace: I had great times when I got together with Paul. I was really excited, going to all of these events with him, going to his house, and meeting his friends. That was a lot of fun.
Paul: There have to be compromises on both parts in a love relationship and that was difficult for me in the past. I did try to encourage her to get into the things I’m really into, reading and the arts. But due to her disability, her attention span is shorter than mine, and I’ve come to gradually accept that.
Relationships require what you learn even from Sesame Street: Cooperation and learning to do things together and work through things instead of chickening out and giving up on the relationship. I know that I can sometimes have a one-track mind. But one has to think about the other person to figure out solutions.
Grace: This relates to sex, too. We can’t have sex because Paul’s penis will not fit in my vagina. We have tried several times throughout our relationship, and it was incredibly painful. I don’t know how I got that way. But we’ve always accepted that we can’t have sex. I’m sure not every other guy would have accepted that.
Paul: It’s something that did not work out. We didn’t make a fuss about it. The fun part is being together. We can still show our affection to one another, and that’s beautiful.
Grace: I’m very grateful to have Paul in my life, and we do other sexual things all the time. We take showers together. We touch. We kiss. We sleep together. We hold each other. We meow like cats. Paul always says, ‘We’re the cats. We are the cats.’ There’s a song he sings to me me in the car all the time when we’re together where he claps his hands and says, "We’re the cats, we’re the cats…"
Paul: We’re the cats. We’re the cats. We’re the cats!
Grace: And that makes us feel good.
Paul: We make sounds like cats as a come-on, sexually, in the form of meows or imitation purring. We think in terms of what affection would be for a cat, petting and stroking each other and acting as if we are cats with each other.
Paul: We have sex in different ways. Touching, feeling each other, and so forth. I masturbate until I ejaculate.
Grace: We masturbate together all the time and have lots of orgasms.
Paul: There are things she likes to do and that give her pleasure, and things that give me pleasure. I may have a desire for penetrative sex here and there that she can’t fulfill. It might be a dream here or there. We have to focus on finding a balance between those things and having an equal lifestyle. We figure out how to make it work.
Grace: I sometimes need to ask him not to be self-centered and to understand if I can’t do something. I have to accept that with Paul too. But that happens in any relationship. I’m a flexible person, and so is Paul.
Paul: The kissing, the hugging, the touching each other on the shoulders—we enjoy all of the sexual things that we do together very much equally.
Grace: In the past, it was harder for us to balance things. When my mom got real sick with diabetes and lupus after we got together, I had to take care of her. I wasn’t available to go to all of those events. He had a few affairs behind my back because he said I wasn’t available. That was very wrong to do, because that made me lose trust in him.
Paul: I didn’t understand that cheating wasn’t something you should do in a relationship. At times, I thought I wanted something more. I didn’t like a lack of sex. I eventually realized I was not thinking in terms of how Grace felt about things, or where she was coming from. I don’t do affairs anymore. We came to an understanding of what is expected in a mutual relationship for it to work out.
Now, if she tells me what she wants and gives me a reason why she wants it and if I understand the reason for it, then we can work it out. Then it works for both of us. It took a long time of learning and practice to develop this ability to understanding and compromise.
Grace: Now that I see Paul every single day, he says he’s learned his lesson about affairs and working through things together and not chickening out.
There are times that I ask him, "Are you sick of me, are you tired of me?"
He says, "No, not at all. We’re the cats." He cares and wants to work things out. I’ve never had a boyfriend who’s done that. I feel very lucky to have Paul in my life.
Follow Mark Hay on Twitter.
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"My mom had Down's Syndrome and my father also had DOWN'S SYNDROME. They slammed their crotches together until their privates looked like RHUBARB."
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We prey at night, we stalk at night, we're the... cats?
I can't tell if this is a consequence of something like vaginismus or they're both so retarded they don't know how to use lube.
Anyways, stop putting CatParty out of a job
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Just...stop writing about sex, at all. It's private. It's not journalism to blog about how you fuck.