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[graceanne]

Glad to see you say that. Whenever anyone around me announces some weird craving I break it down to nutritional impulses. I get the weirdest looks.

I was always told that if someone is craving a certain food it's because their body needs something that's in the food.

For instance, since I was in my teens I could not eat enough beats. Come to learn that beats are really good for crohnies. Coincidence? I think not.

 

[Homburg]

I was always told that if someone is craving a certain food it's because their body needs something that's in the food.

For instance, since I was in my teens I could not eat enough beats. Come to learn that beats are really good for crohnies. Coincidence? I think not.

Wow, good thing I don't have CD, as I can't stand a fucking beet. Ugh. You know, I hate mushrooms more. If someone told me that beets would help my congestion, I'd give it a shot. If someone said that mushrooms would help, I'd just grab some tissues and not sweat it.

 

[Aquila1]

I was always told that if someone is craving a certain food it's because their body needs something that's in the food.

For instance, since I was in my teens I could not eat enough beats. Come to learn that beats are really good for crohnies. Coincidence? I think not.

I have to laugh at that - my mother says that when she was carrying me she was obsessed with eating canned beetroot. She ate can after can of the stuff and my father reckoned I was probably going to born a bright beetroot-pink colour. And I love them as well - fresh or canned!

 

[graceanne]

Wow, good thing I don't have CD, as I can't stand a fucking beet. Ugh. You know, I hate mushrooms more. If someone told me that beets would help my congestion, I'd give it a shot. If someone said that mushrooms would help, I'd just grab some tissues and not sweat it.

Kinda like me and pears. Or me and seabugs.

 

[DVS]

I was always told that if someone is craving a certain food it's because their body needs something that's in the food.

For instance, since I was in my teens I could not eat enough beats. Come to learn that beats are really good for crohnies. Coincidence? I think not.

Am I the only one that noticed she misspelled beets? Coincidence? I think not. Submissive throughout.

 

[DVS]

Wow, good thing I don't have CD, as I can't stand a fucking beet. Ugh. You know, I hate mushrooms more. If someone told me that beets would help my congestion, I'd give it a shot. If someone said that mushrooms would help, I'd just grab some tissues and not sweat it.

I'd like to know if I could eat something that will help my congestion. I do eat hot peppers and they help, but only for a while.

Horseradish is also good for it, but again, only for a while. Mexican food, hot Chinese food, etc., all only works for a while. God, my kingdom for clear nasal passages year round.

Yep...DVS has a devious mind and a deviated septum. Coincidence? I think not!

 

[graceanne]

Am I the only one that noticed she misspelled beets? Coincidence? I think not. Submissive throughout.

Gee, I wonder where MY mind was.

 

[DVS]

Glad to see you say that. Whenever anyone around me announces some weird craving I break it down to nutritional impulses. I get the weirdest looks.

It's true. Well, I don't know about the weird looks, but a lot of cravings are because we crave what's in it.

I crave BDSM because of what's in it. I'm sure others can relate.

 

[DVS]

Gee, I wonder where MY mind was.

Seabugs maybe?

 

[graceanne]

Seabugs maybe?

Yeah! That's it! I was thinking of seabugs!

 

[subish2009]

Am I the only one that noticed she misspelled beets? Coincidence? I think not. Submissive throughout.

You are definitely not the only one! I was giggling out loud as I scrolled down, wondering when someone was going to catch that! (She craved beats! He he!)

That was a great little Freudian slip, graceanne! And I'm sure many of us would have made the same slip.

 

[missginger2177]

Am I the only one that noticed she misspelled beets? Coincidence? I think not. Submissive throughout.

I caught it, but I was too busy thinking about 75 other things at the time to make a comment. Am so glad life decided to stop for five seconds.

Oh BTW, me too. Please?

 

[sadangel]

I would have to definitely agree with what she's saying. I still don't feel like I would be missed here if I disappeared. Sometimes I wonder if I've made a faux pas. I don't think so but like Gracie says, it just takes time. After all people don't want to invest a good bit of time getting to know someone, until they are more sure that person won't disappear without a trace.

This.

 

[intothewoods]

I would have to definitely agree with what she's saying. I still don't feel like I would be missed here if I disappeared. Sometimes I wonder if I've made a faux pas. I don't think so but like Gracie says, it just takes time. After all people don't want to invest a good bit of time getting to know someone, until they are more sure that person won't disappear without a trace.

This.

i've mostly moved to fetlife. i find when i get bored i can go find another group. There are quite a few people over there who do the whole primal thing as well as the ageplay thing and they have rant groups which can be fun. i've made several friends and since i post mostly in the same groups the regular posters know where i'm coming from when i post.

i'll always have a soft spot for Lit though. i learned so much here just reading and then months later when i got brave enough to start posting i began really finding myself and defining what i wanted.

i am going to admit something though. When i bumped my Why i don't like nice guys thread to let everyone know i did in fact find a nice Daddy and have been with him for over a year no one said anything. Now i know i'm terrible telling other people congratulations and all that because i always figure they couldn't care less what i think so i know i'm the reason i don't often get it back but it was still a let down. One person replied that i didn't know anything about relationships and that was the only response i really got. i wrote that during a very dark period and i go back to it sometimes to remember and see how far i've come.

i'll probably always check in with Lit. i like to read eastern_sun's thread and then sometimes when i come over here to read that thread i see others and get involved in discussion again but i do find it hard to be fully myself here and i'm not sure why.

i've largely gotten over the anxiety of forum posting about any topic. i mind less if the people of the internet think i'm stupid or crazy than i used to... i mind less if it makes me uncomfortable. i think i've just learned to put up the anxiety. i know i'll live. The interaction and information is worth it. i love studying the way people think and interact, especially when its anonymous.

So you're all probably going to have to keep putting up with my erratic attendance and rather anarchist D/s point of view.

Just speaking for myself, I have no urge to snub anyone else. I just don't spend enough time on here to keep up with everyone. It takes a while for me to become familiar with the details of someone's life. Often people post in a very intimate way, in a way that almost assumes you know all of the ins and outs of their existence. And they've posted in several threads that way, and maybe I've only read the one thread or whatever the case may be. So then I am scratching my head and wondering what the whole story is, but I don't usually have the time to read back through everything and figure it out.

 

[ultramarineblue]

Just speaking for myself, I have no urge to snub anyone else. I just don't spend enough time on here to keep up with everyone. It takes a while for me to become familiar with the details of someone's life. Often people post in a very intimate way, in a way that almost assumes you know all of the ins and outs of their existence. And they've posted in several threads that way, and maybe I've only read the one thread or whatever the case may be. So then I am scratching my head and wondering what the whole story is, but I don't usually have the time to read back through everything and figure it out.

That's true. I don't read many of the threads myself. Sometimes I have time and other times I don't. Lately I haven't read much that has made me want to respond. At the same time, there hasn't been anything that I've wanted to contribute as well for others to respond to.

 

[VelvetDarkness]

Hey people

I knew I could count on your guys to turn this into another cookie thread.

To clarify, I haven't just taken a step back because I'm fed up of repeating myself on new threads. It's mostly stuff that's going on in my life and the fact that I've spent enough time here to get periodically sick of the forum. None of this is the fault of our valuable n00bs.

I think that when people post about themselves and you feel a connection to them and whatever it is they're asking about, that's something I still enjoy responding to and it's how people become acquainted on the forum and how n00bs become forum buddies that we feel we know well. What irritates me is when people post very generic questions and then refuse to be drawn on their personal situation. It's an anonymous bloody forum so nobody is going to know who they are (and in all honesty, who cares who they really are?) but still they get all coy and stick to their generic question. That's when I bring out the patented idiot/asshat/troll-swatter and punt them over to the library without ceremony.

Honest. *insert eyelash-batting smiley here*

We need our n00bs, the intelligent ones who have something to contribute to debates anyway. Yes, when you're dealing with printed words on a screen from anonymous online acquaintances misunderstandings happen. A thick skin is a definite advantage but few people here really set out to upset others.

 

[FurryFury]

GREAT post VelvetD!

 

[VelvetDarkness]

GREAT post VelvetD!

Woot!

Nice to know I haven't lost my touch yet.

 

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[Evil_Geoff]

I'm on FetLife mostly for the moment... I go through phases:

I hang on Alt... I hang on Lit... I hang on FetLife...

I have more realtime connections and friends on FetLife, more face to face interactions with people I chat with there. It is a growing, dynamic community and riding herd on the n00bs and making sure they have reality based information seems to be a never ending struggle.

No offense to the authors of erotica because y'all write some great stuff. But GawdDAMN someone needs to smack the brain-dead with a clue by four to wake them up. They come in spouting cyberland fantasy wanking material as if it's the way people SHOULD live. As if... Everyone knows if you are a REAL Dominant you read Shakespeare in the original Klingon...

Jesus, Mary, and Joseph give me patience... I think I will spend the rest of eternity trying to counteract the damage perpetrated on the BDSM world by the romantic cyber fantasy vision created by CastleRealm and the like.

Grrrr...

 

[00Syd]

Jesus, Mary, and Joseph give me patience... I think I will spend the rest of eternity trying to counteract the damage perpetrated on the BDSM world by the romantic cyber fantasy vision created by CastleRealm and the like.

Grrrr...

HAHA, CastleRealm was, legit, the first BDSM website I was directed to! I might even still have it bookmarked somewhere Luckily I found the Lit forums not long after.

 

[Evil_Geoff]

There was nothing wrong with CastleRealm per se, as a source of information.

What was wrong was people using it as a MODEL, as if all BDSM relationships should work that way. It's great if that is what you and yours want, but it was never intended to be The One True Way that it turned into. And it wasn't the site owners that did it.

It was the army of little green three eyed clueless wonders* going "The CastleRealm is the Way! If you follow the CastleRealm Way you are among the Chosen..." that ruined a good resource by turning it into some kind of mythical path for perfect BDSM...

*extra brownie points for anyone getting the reference*

 

[Etoile]

Ummmm...Toy Story??

 

[graceanne]

Ummmm...Toy Story??

That's my guess.