The New Isolated Blurt BDSM Thread

[the captians wench]

Families can be very difficult. I don't know you, but I am sure you are indeed awesome

No-one knows how to push your buttons as successfully as your passive aggressive family (speaks the voice of experience....) *hug

You are awesome and they're jealous

Thanks ladies.

I spent the past few days with some amazingly supportive women, and I'm feeling like "I can do this" again.

The past few months have been a bit of a whirl. I left my job and I'm perusing this corset/costume making thing by itself. I have a really great relationship with the local burlesque troupe, and there are some other really amazing things in the works. I have an amazing support system of business women/mentors/friends, but as I always seem to be hard on myself anyway, it's so easy to let my family get to me.

Here's to adventure!

 

[CutieMouse]

It makes me stupidly happy to realize I unintentionally painted my nails the same shade of pink as my pajamas.

Stupidly.Happy.

 

[Conager]

There's no point in analyzing other people's kinks and lables. If it works for them and whoever they are interested in then it's valid of course.


I can't help it though sometimes. Certain things just cry out to me arrested development. I'm waiting for somebody to self-identify as a mama's boy DOM. Or maybe a lactation daddy.

 

[IrisAlthea]

Thanks ladies.

I spent the past few days with some amazingly supportive women, and I'm feeling like "I can do this" again.

The past few months have been a bit of a whirl. I left my job and I'm perusing this corset/costume making thing by itself. I have a really great relationship with the local burlesque troupe, and there are some other really amazing things in the works. I have an amazing support system of business women/mentors/friends, but as I always seem to be hard on myself anyway, it's so easy to let my family get to me.

Here's to adventure!

Yay for support systems. Sounds like you have a lot of good things going for you.
To adventure!

 

[midwestyankee]

So I've been roped into going to Graceland with my mother and aunt (again) in two weeks. I'm mostly indifferent to the Graceland part, but it'll be nice to get out of the house for awhile.

Anyway, does anyone know anything a person can do in Memphis with two 60+ year old women in tow? (Last time, there was a lot of driving around aimlessly and very little actual "doing" anything.) If so, I would be much obliged if you would share.

I'm not sure I can help much, but that won't stop me from making an observation. I've been to Memphis exactly once and, as I recall, the best thing I did on that visit was to leave town.

 

[Dianthus]

So I've been roped into going to Graceland with my mother and aunt (again) in two weeks. I'm mostly indifferent to the Graceland part, but it'll be nice to get out of the house for awhile.

Anyway, does anyone know anything a person can do in Memphis with two 60+ year old women in tow? (Last time, there was a lot of driving around aimlessly and very little actual "doing" anything.) If so, I would be much obliged if you would share.

The Botanic Gardens would be nice at this time of year. Maybe a riverboat cruise? Or visit Mud Island River Park in Downtown Memphis. Apparently, it is a family-fun location with a Riverwalk, Mississippi River Museum, amphitheater, monorail ride and more.

 

[BiBunny]

I'm not sure I can help much, but that won't stop me from making an observation. I've been to Memphis exactly once and, as I recall, the best thing I did on that visit was to leave town.

Yeeeeah, the one time I went a couple of years ago, I didn't think it was much to write home about, either. But I'm going to be generous and blame that on the company rather than on the town itself.

The Botanic Gardens would be nice at this time of year. Maybe a riverboat cruise? Or visit Mud Island River Park in Downtown Memphis. Apparently, it is a family-fun location with a Riverwalk, Mississippi River Museum, amphitheater, monorail ride and more.

Thank you! I'd love to do the riverboat cruise myself, but those two are afraid of boats and water. The Riverwalk is probably something I can talk them into, though. The other stuff sounds great, too. It is most appreciated!

 

[La damnee elle la licorne]

 

[LallyH]

I travelled a journey of extremes today - from home through some of the most beautiful and breathtaking English landscapes to one of the most impoverished, depressed and depressing towns I think I've ever been to. I'm still a bit shocked.

 

[the captians wench]

I bought new clothes pegs. Simple wooden clothes pegs. I put them on the kitchen table and smiled. He said, ' oh...that's perfect! I've been wondering what I can use to secure the net over the red currants' and sauntered off with them.

I pouted.

He came back later and said. They are in the cupboard, I know where they are, when I want them, I'll get them.

I shivered.

I have bright coloured plastic pegs for the washing mainly. They don't get that black mould on them.

The anticipation is one thing, but too long and I fall asleep.

I have tried a lot of pegs. All different size, texture, material. Pretty much every time I see a new kind I buy them.

In my experience, Plastic hurt a lot more than wood.

 

[La damnee elle la licorne]

 

[LallyH]

My teenage, UK, drumming, metal/rock guitar playing son rushed through before, plonked himself down next to me and insisted in a very excited manner that I had to listen to something that he'd found on facebook, because it was "sooooooo good."

So I braced myself for the sonic onslaught and he played me this.

At the end, as we both wilted at that sublime final phrase, he announced that he's changing nationality

 

[desertslave]

My teenage, UK, drumming, metal/rock guitar playing son rushed through before, plonked himself down next to me and insisted in a very excited manner that I had to listen to something that he'd found on facebook, because it was "sooooooo good."

So I braced myself for the sonic onslaught and he played me this.

At the end, as we both wilted at that sublime final phrase, he announced that he's changing nationality

Oh damn! That gave me goosebumps!

 

[cfuhrer]

My teenage, UK, drumming, metal/rock guitar playing son rushed through before, plonked himself down next to me and insisted in a very excited manner that I had to listen to something that he'd found on facebook, because it was "sooooooo good."

So I braced myself for the sonic onslaught and he played me this.

At the end, as we both wilted at that sublime final phrase, he announced that he's changing nationality

Oh damn! That gave me goosebumps!

It really is so much better when it's *just* sung and not embellished or hyped or futsed around with.

 

[Curious_in_Cali]

Egads!

 

[Endless_Night]

Okay. So I'm never quite sure what to do with these long blurts, but this doesn't really seem to fit into either the Smile or Pissed Off thread, so I'm sticking it here.

I recently acquired a new cell phone, an iPhone. This was less exciting than it sounds. I viewed the whole transaction with trepidation, and wouldn’t have succumbed to pressure except that my old phone was crapping out. All my previous phones have been android and I am sloooooooow to pick up tech. Generally, I learn enough to get along and abandon all features I don’t grasp instantly.

Circumstances have place me in the car lately. Driving. A lot. One of the few positives of auto isolation is that I’ve been learning to use iPhone’s Siri as an alternative to trying to call or text while I’m on the road.

It’s been...interesting.

Day 1
Having left the house at the crack of dawn I forgot to send an important text. It was nearing noon when I realized the oversight. Noon was the time I needed to deliver this particular information.

Me: No problem, I have Siri!
Step 1: Turn Siri on. Check.
Step 2: Have Siri locate messagee. Check.
Step 3: Tell Siri message. Fail.

Every time I ended my first sentence the darn program cut me off! I think I mentioned having speech idiosyncrasy in the Say Something thread. I pause a little longer than normal between phrases or sentences. At first - in my chronic tech paranoia - I thought the program wouldn’t take my message because of my little oddity. Further experimentation got me nowhere. No matter how short the pauses I couldn’t get Siri to accept more than one sentence. I eventually gave up, but fortunately arrived at my destination early enough to send my text.

Day 2
I’m driving (my life at the current moment) and have finished sending a message.

Me: Thanks, Siri.
Siri: Okey dokey, artichokey.

A.I. come to life. I nearly wrecked the car.

Day 3
By this time I’m all sophisticated in my voice messaging. Getting ready to leave the house, I saunter over and pick up the phone. The first message goes out easily enough.

Me: Siri, text my SO and tell him I’m leaving the house.
Siri: Okay. Would you like me to send that message?
Me: Send.
Siri: Okay. Sent.

The second message is not quite as smooth.

Me: Siri, text my SO and tell him I’m taking (the dog) with me.
Siri: I don’t understand what you said. Master?
Me: No! I’m taking (the dog) with me!
Siri: Did you say, master?
Me: No! I’m taking (the dog) with me!!!
Siri: Okay, master. Would you like me to send?
Me: No! Cancel!
Siri: Okay. Sent.
Me: Noooooooo!!!

I look down, and sure enough I’ve just texted my SO, “I’m leaving the house. Master.”

There follows…well, some unladylike language. I try to send a corrective message to no avail. Siri keeps making a hash out of my SO’s last name: master, bathroom, master. In the middle of all this my SO texts.

SO: Ummmm, what?

Let’s just say that the odds that I would be addressing him as master in a text are, ummm, not high.

I’m now yelling at the phone. The phone is still bleating “master” and “bathroom” at me, and at this point it’s touch and go whether I’m going to throw the thing out the sliding glass doors to sail to the concrete below. And then it gets really scary.

Siri: I don’t understand. I’m going to close the program now.

…………………………………………..

Do the phones come with some type of self-preservation device? Do they automatically shut off when the voice of the person holding them climbs to a certain decibel?

It’s possible. Damn phone.

 

[BiBunny]

OMG, EN, I shouldn't laugh, but that was hilarious.

I'm sorry you're having problems with it, though!

(If it makes you feel any better, my accent--which I honestly don't think is thick at all--is apparently weird enough that there has never been any sort of voice-recognition thing I've ever encountered that could understand me. Soooo frustrating.)

 

[Endless_Night]

OMG, EN, I shouldn't laugh, but that was hilarious.

I'm sorry you're having problems with it, though!

(If it makes you feel any better, my accent--which I honestly don't think is thick at all--is apparently weird enough that there has never been any sort of voice-recognition thing I've ever encountered that could understand me. Soooo frustrating.)

OMG! This will be funny at some point, right? Dang phone!

My accent isn't all that thick either, a light urban Texas drawl, but voice recognition programs just give me fits!!! Admittedly, my accent gets a little more drawly when I'm tired, but still. A large part of the country's population is southern, dang it!

 

[desertslave]

I love my Android, I love my Android, I love my Android!!! (LG G3, awesome!) The push to Lollipop was a little awkward, but once I figured out where my 'quiet time' had wandered off to, it was all good.

 

[BiBunny]

OMG! This will be funny at some point, right? Dang phone!

My accent isn't all that thick either, a light urban Texas drawl, but voice recognition programs just give me fits!!! Admittedly, my accent gets a little more drawly when I'm tired, but still. A large part of the country's population is southern, dang it!

Oh, silly...surely you know by now that nobody living below the 36th parallel counts for anything.



Not that I'm bitter.

 

[Endless_Night]

Oh, silly...surely you know by now that nobody living below the 36th parallel counts for anything.



Not that I'm bitter.

Of course not! Let's go kick some northern voice recognition programmer butt.

 

[BiBunny]

Of course not! Let's go kick some northern voice recognition programmer butt.

When do we leave?

 

[desertslave]

Oh, silly...surely you know by now that nobody living below the 36th parallel counts for anything.



Not that I'm bitter.

I live in AZ and was going to take exception to this, til I realized that I still have my PA accent (occasionally with a smattering of Brooklyn LOL). Then again, Silicon Valley (from whence most of this comes) is S of 36 so....that wonders me.

 

[midwestyankee]

Okay. So I'm never quite sure what to do with these long blurts, but this doesn't really seem to fit into either the Smile or Pissed Off thread, so I'm sticking it here.

I recently acquired a new cell phone, an iPhone. This was less exciting than it sounds. I viewed the whole transaction with trepidation, and wouldn’t have succumbed to pressure except that my old phone was crapping out. All my previous phones have been android and I am sloooooooow to pick up tech. Generally, I learn enough to get along and abandon all features I don’t grasp instantly.

Circumstances have place me in the car lately. Driving. A lot. One of the few positives of auto isolation is that I’ve been learning to use iPhone’s Siri as an alternative to trying to call or text while I’m on the road.

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Do the phones come with some type of self-preservation device? Do they automatically shut off when the voice of the person holding them climbs to a certain decibel?

It’s possible. Damn phone.

E_N, your experience reminded me of this scene from The Big Bang Theory.

 

[Etoile]

Two weekends in a row of fun and fucking, about to head into #2. I am gonna get SO LAID. Aw yeah.