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Bill Darby has spent nearly half-century with Sale Auto Mall/Poole Buick and doesn't plan on retiring any time soon.
Bill Darby wouldn�t give up his job if his life depended on it.
He turns 86 in two days, and he�s worked at the same job going on 50 years.
The Morganton native is the fleet manager at Sale Auto Mall � and he has no intentions of retiring anytime soon.
�I don�t want to retire,� he said. �What would I do all day? I�d rather be working than staying home.�
Darby enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1944 and was heading to Japan when World War II ended in 1945. He got out the next year and enrolled at what was then called East Carolina Teachers College, now ECU, where he played football from 1947-50.
A newspaper reported he was a standout halfback and referred to him as �Pirate Reliable.� Darby was less enthused about his and his team�s performance.
�That was me,� he said about the newspaper clipping, �but I wasn�t very reliable.�
He added, the team played �fairly decent� in 1950, winning seven and losing three, but lost at the Appalachian conference through rain and snow.
�At the time,� said Grant Jones, general manager of Sale Auto, �(Darby) was one of the fastest players at the East Carolina Teachers College.�
He was known as Cotton because his hair was quite light. Darby graduated, earning a Bachelor of Science degree in geography and minored in physical education. He said he couldn�t do much with his geography degree and the job market was �terrible.�
But he landed a job teaching cadets physical fitness at Stallings Air Force Base, which is now the Kinston Jetport. When the government cancelled the flight school in late 1957, Darby was out of a job.
�I had to take another job,� he said, �so I did.�
Around 1965, he was hired as a sales manager at Poole Buick downtown on North Herritage Street.
In early 1969, the dealership moved to N.C. 258 and U.S. 70. In 1987, Jack Poole sold the company to Dan Sale, who owned Sale Chevrolet next door.
Darby was included in the package.
�(Darby�s) been on this corner, basically, 50 years,� Sale said. �We call him �The Gentleman.� He�s like our ambassador.�
Sale Auto Mall holds Bill Darby Day around his birthday.
�Bill, he is absolutely a consummate gentleman,� Jones said. �He is kind to everyone. He�s friends with almost everyone.�
Sale said Darby�s wife, Nora Ellen, a retired school teacher, tutored his children. He was the one who first called Darby �The Gentleman.�
�He always had something nice to say,� Sale said.
In the early years before the Internet, the company employees would sneak new cars into the showroom and cover them until the public was invited to see the new models.
At some point, Darby stepped into the role of fleet manager, where he handles outside courtesy deliveries.
�He�s done as many as 20 (courtesy deliveries) in a month,� Jones said.
In December, Sale gave Darby a lifetime achievement award for his long career in the car business.
�It has been a pleasure to work with Bill,� Jones said.
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Bill Darby
Age: 85
Occupation: Fleet Manager at Sale Auto Mall
How long: Nearly 50 years
Family: Wife, Nora Ellen Faulkner Darby; daughter, Kim Darby Laing


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FriendFeed has unveiled a new beta that brings some rather drastic changes to its lifestreaming service. Users have always been able to import and share their activity from dozens of other communities and create content on the site. Now, FriendFeed is adding granular messaging features and the holy social grail: real-time, automatic updates.
Registered users can access this "live" new version at beta.friendfeed.com, and yes, we too hope that the drab grey background is FriendFeed's 21st century version of the animated "under construction" GIF. If you subscribe to at least a few mildly active users, the most significant new feature of this beta should quickly become apparent: new updates will appear essentially in real time as you idle on the page, refresh-button-be-damned (this includes comments and posts marked with "likes"). If you follow quite a few users for whom "mildly active" is more of an insult than an understatement, however, this feature can become as much of a blessing as it is a curse.
Existing entries on the page get knocked down as new updates arrive, so if you have an active community, you may need to make frequent use of the new pause button at the top of the content area. Pause your feed, and a number will keep count of how many new updates are waiting while you catch your social breath.
This new real-time update feature is indeed impressive, though I personally only subscribe to 80 other users and "groups" (formerly "rooms"), and sometimes the stream can be too active. The potential for drowning users in lifestream content and destroying productivity is something that FriendFeed is paying very close attention during testing, though. "One of the main things we want to accomplish during the beta period is making the defaults right and making some things stream in by default, but scaling that back if a user is subscribed to a lot of stuff," FriendFeed co-founder (and former Googler) Bret Taylor told Ars Technica. "We're confident that we can eventually find a happy medium."
Flipping the switch on a live fire hose of content isn't the only trick up FriendFeed's sleeve. The entire site was redesigned with a focus on simplicity and providing faster access to lists, subscriptions, and a new feature called "filters." Filters allow users to zone in on specific keywords or content based on rules such as who the content is from, keywords, the number of "likes" an item has received, and more. Lists allow users to organize their subscriptions into more manageable streams; you can create one list for your friends and another for coworkers, but still view everything in one main feed when you want to.
Subscriptions include both the people you follow on FriendFeed and the groups that other users create around specific topics or events, and all of these things are now organized in separate sidebar sections on the right. By default, the Subscriptions section displays the eight people and groups with whom you interact most often, but you can manually arrange your subscriptions to include whatever you want.
FriendFeed has also gained new messaging options somewhat akin to Twitter, which are exposed through a clever, powerful new posting box at the top of the page. New keyboard shortcuts allow for quickly creating a new post, and you can now send a post to specific users (a private "Direct Message," just like on Twitter) and/or groups that you belong to. Type-ahead support makes it easy to address these messages, and this new system adds a useful new layer of activity to FriendFeed, albeit one that is heavily inspired by competitors like Twitter and Facebook.
FriendFeed's new features undoubtedly make the site more engaging and interactive (for better and worse), though a few key elements have been lost along the way. In particular, the "reshare" button has disappeared from posts entirely, and the "Link to this entry" button has already confused some users with its transformation into a permalink available under each item's timestamp.
More importantly, FriendFeed has removed the icons that previously identified each item with the service that it came from. On the current FriendFeed site, each Flickr photo is identified with the site's favicon, as are Google Reader shared items, Twitter status updates, and the rest of the 60-plus services that FriendFeed supports. But the new beta site features a very Twitter-like minimalist redesign with a large icon for the user that shared the content. The only acknowledgement that an imported item was from another community is a "from [X service]" text link next to the timestamp that only links to the user's account, not the actual entry. For instance, a shared Twitter update will link twitter.com/username, not the full URL that the entry was from.
Taylor says this change is due to FriendFeed's choice to "emphasize who is doing the sharing," instead of the service where content is actually coming from. But it is impossible to miss the fact that the "cleaner" pages of this beta make it look as though users are interacting a lot more with FriendFeed itself, instead of generating so much of their lifestream's content on other sites.
That said, the purpose of the new FriendFeed is to make the site easier to use and more interactive, and in that respect, this beta puts a strong foot forward. Real-time updates allow users to watch conversations literally as they happen. The organizational power of the new filters and lists allow users to tread water much more effectively and drill down through FriendFeed to find the exact content and conversations they are looking for. Once the new features get ironed out, FriendFeed will be in an even better position to compete with Facebook's everything-and-the-kitchen-sink approach and Twitter's ?ber-minimalist constrictions.

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I frequently wonder about those silly Earthlings. Most of them Have serious problems with science, math, mathematics, and logic. How did they manage to develop anything even vaguely like civilization? But I haven't been able to figure out why they have such problems. But I haven't been able to figure out why. Is it herd mentality (which would be an inborn tendency) that makes them believe without question anyone who is said to be an authority, or what, but most humans seem to have a need to agree
It doesnt do much good to blame persons or groups for social changes, and that is certainly true in the present political climate. There are plenty of reasons why the political and economic landscapes became what they are now, and it partly happened during a period when boomers dominated to political and economic worlds, but it started and most of the damage was done earlier, and some of the present situation is just negative aspects of good things. Even the neo-NAZI aspects of Trumps political
I just read an article about The Psychology of Conspiracy Theories (Karen M. Douglas, Robbie M. Sutton, and Aleksandra Cichocka), and I had been thinking about blogging on the philosophy and logic of conspiracy theories. The only place where I agree with this article is on this point Our analysis suggests that conspiracy theories may satisfy some epistemic motives at the expense of othersfor example, by shielding beliefs from uncertainty while being less likely to be accurate. The epistemic
A couple of days ago I was involved in an excellent example of the problem with false premises. If one selects the premises of an argument properly, then one can prove any argument using pseudo-logical methods. That is why using false premises is a logical fallacy.
I was just trying to provide some interesting small talk and mentioned how I had again found a phishing site that was using one of my books as bait for people to leave their credit card information. I recounted informing
I was working on a work of fiction, when I realized that what I had one character complain about was a major problem in today's world. The character was talking about setting up a school that would teach the basics of Rhetoric and Logic, so that the graduates would later be able to make better arguments and to detect fallacious arguments. The problem is that most people never learn the basics of argumentation and logic, so they can't tell when someone is using a logical fallacy, and much of the


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I found the above link via Southgate ARC's news site & thought it may interest others here..
simplified description of the defunct MOULD radio system. The original phase provided one system per home defence sub-region and employed 120 hilltop sites. A later contract extended this with the addition of County networks bringing the number of separate networks to ninety and increased the hilltop sites to 150. Based on an article in 'The Wire' circa 1986, by A F Carter with the addition of my own observations.
Steve Scanlon - The Web Site Owner
I became interested in the UK Civil Defence for the Cold War, as a result of working as a engineer for 'Post Office Telephones' later privatised and renamed 'British Telecom'. Between 1978 and 1981 I maintained the early warning equipment and visited ROC posts in part of North Northamptonshire and South Leicestershire. At the time I never disclosed this information even to my closest friends. Now twenty years have passed since the Cold War ended the Internet provides a good medium to disseminate the details of these defunct systems.


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First north to south. Then east to west.
Union Pacific is proud to celebrate the legacy of Abraham Lincoln – who set the transcontinental railroad in motion and brought our railroad to life.
Learn more about "With Malice Toward None: The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Exhibition" at the Library of Congress, sponsored by Union Pacific.


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New Marimekko print comes to life at Lux Helsinki light festival in celebration of the 100th anniversary of Finland's independence
17 November 2016
During 2017, the 100th anniversary of Finland's independence, Marimekko will organise several cooperative projects around design and art. The year will start with a spectacular collaboration with the Lux Helsinki light festival illuminating the city centre from 5 to 9 January. Marimekko and print designer Maija Louekari will take part in the creation of an artwork combining animation, lights and print design. The artwork, to be displayed on the wall of the Bank of Finland on Kirkkokatu street, is based on a new Marimekko pattern designed in celebration of Finland's centenary.
Marimekko has for decades travelled in the borderland between art and design, bringing colours and patterns as well as functional products to people's everyday lives. To celebrate the 100-year-old Finland, the company will launch a pattern entitled Veljekset (brothers) created by Maija Louekari, one of Marimekko's younger-generation print designers. The design was inspired by Finnish folk tales and it depicts animals that live in the forests of Finland. At Lux Helsinki, the Veljekset pattern will come to life in Maija Louekari's artwork, through which Marimekko wants to offer the residents of the city a story-like experience and inspire them to dream colourful dreams in the middle of the darkest winter - and also remind them of how fascinating their northern country is.
"The Veljekset animation and light artwork
will bring our wild and exotic north to the wintry city centre, reminding us city
dwellers of our forests that are still inhabited by strong, expressive animals.
I designed the Veljekset pattern inspired by the main characters in Finnish
folk tales, the so-called totem animals, for Marimekko in celebration of the
100-year-old Finland. With its lights, the Lux Helsinki festival will bring to life
what on printed fabric stands still," says print designer Maija Louekari.
"We will create bold patterns for Finland during the centenary year. We want to contribute to building a successful future for our home country by doing things together open-mindedly. Throughout the year, we will encourage participation in and establish opportunities for bold actions and innovation, even in some unexpected ways. We are excited about the light artwork collaboration with our print designer Maija Louekari and Lux Helsinki, which will kick off the anniversary celebrations. Through this artwork, we can together provide a bright and inspiring breathing space in the midst of the winter darkness for local residents as well as visitors to Helsinki," says Tiina Alahuhta-Kasko, President and CEO of Marimekko.
All Lux Helsinki's light artworks, including Veljekset by Maija Louekari, will be on view in the city centre from 5 to 9 January 2017 between 5pm and 10pm. More information about the festival can be found at www.luxhelsinki.fi.


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Johns Hopkins, Yale, Harvard, Columbia and Cornell. What do these medical schools have in common?
Beyond their first-rate reputations, they're also on the short list of top U.S. med schools that don't have departments of family medicine. Elite schools have long focused on training specialists and researchers, but with the federal health law's emphasis on primary care, some schools are looking harder at family medicine.
Until this year, for example, the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York had neither a department nor any family physicians on staff. Students like Demetri Blanas, 26, who were interested in becoming family doctors found little support. For the first three years of school, his training focused almost exclusively on taking care of extremely ill patients in the hospital.
"I want to spend my career keeping people healthy rather than trying to bring them back from a very serious illness," Blanas says. "I think it is what society needs right now, and that is important to me."
Blanas says many of his professors discouraged him from going into primary care, telling him it was too much work, the pay was lousy, the job was boring, and it simply wasn't as intellectually rigorous as being a specialist.
Mount Sinai ranks among the bottom 20 medical schools in the country when it come to the number of primary care doctors it graduates. But that may soon change. In June, Mount Sinai started a new department of family medicine.
Dr. Dennis Charney, dean of the medical school, says the new department represents a fundamental change in Mount Sinai's mission.
"We want to be one of the leading medical schools that educates the next generation of primary care doctors," he says.
The new family physicians on faculty will teach students in all four years of medical school.
The department grew out of a new partnership between Mount Sinai and the Institute for Family Health, a network of 30 community health clinics across New York.
Health systems are eyeing partnerships like this one, between hospitals and primary care groups, as a smart bet for the future. Under the federal health law, the government will offer bonuses to places that give patients better care for less money. To do that, many health systems are bolstering primary care services to manage chronic conditions and prevent hospitalizations.
Neil Calman, president and CEO of the institute, was intrigued by Mount Sinai's partnership offer from the start. But he was also skeptical.
"It's pretty hard to have a family medicine-based organization in a hospital and a medical school that doesn't have a department and doesn't recognize it as a specialty," he says.
So Mount Sinai worked with Calman to start a department, signing institute doctors onto the faculty.
"It seemed like a natural marriage," Calman says.
"I think people are finally realizing that the country will be bankrupt if we continue to admit people and readmit people for conditions that could be prevented with good primary care," Calman says.
It is a realization he has been waiting awaiting for the past 30 years.
"I went into family medicine believing that was exactly what the country needed," he says. "Unfortunately, it's taken a little longer for everybody else to realize that than I expected."
Most people who've tried know that it can be tough to get an appointment with a primary care doctor. The good news is that more and more med students are starting to show an interest in family medicine. But the country's top med schools aren't keeping up with the demand. Jenny Gold, with our partner Kaiser Health News, has this story from New York about a school that's trying to change that.
JENNY GOLD, BYLINE: Top-rated medical schools have always focused on specialties and research, not primary care. Schools like Harvard, Yale and Cornell don't even have departments of family medicine. Until recently, Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York was on that list too. Fourth year med student Demetri Blanas says many of his professors actively discouraged him from going into primary care, with a list of complaints: Too much work. Lousy pay. Boring cases.
DEMETRI BLANAS: It has a big impact over a long period of time when your mentors who are the ones that you're supposed to be learning from don't think that you're making a good career choice.
GOLD: But Mount Sinai is changing. In June, the school started its very own department of family medicine. Dr. Dennis Charney is the school's dean.
DR. DENNIS CHARNEY: This is a fundamental change in expanding primary care at Mount Sinai. So it's a big deal for our institution.
GOLD: The new family physicians on faculty will teach students in all four years of medical school. And students like Blanas will be able to spend more time training in community health clinics like those run by Dr. Neil Calman in New York.
DR. NEIL CALMAN: So we're on the third floor of the Sidney Hillman Health Center, which is one of the Institute for Family Health's 30 primary care sites.
GOLD: Two years ago, the Institute for Family Health decided to build a giant new clinic in Harlem, Mount Sinai's neighborhood. That's when Mount Sinai approached Calman and asked him to partner with the hospital. Calman was intrigued but skeptical.
CALMAN: It's pretty hard to have a family medicine-based organization in a hospital and a medical school that doesn't recognize it as a specialty.
GOLD: So Mount Sinai decided to work with Calman to start a department. It's just the sort of partnership that hospitals across the country see as the future of medicine. That's because the federal health law offers bonuses to health systems that keep people healthy and out of the hospitals. And they do that by ramping up the kind of primary care offered at Calman's clinics.
CALMAN: Here, come look at this. So your blood pressures are controlled, your blood sugar's controlled. You're doing a great job with the medications. And, you know, doing all...
GOLD: Calman has been helping patients manage chronic illnesses like diabetes for the past 30 years. He's optimistic that students at Mount Sinai will want to follow in his footsteps.
CALMAN: I went into family medicine believing that it was exactly what the country needed. Unfortunately, it's taken little longer for everybody to realize that than I expected.
GOLD: Mt Sinai's Dean Charney is also hopeful.
CHARNEY: If you have medical schools like Mount Sinai and Harvard and Yale and Columbia and Penn saying that this is an important part of the future of medicine, there'll be a trickle-down effect to the students who will say, yup, you know, that's what I want to do. I want to be at the vanguard.
GOLD: It's too early to know how many Mount Sinai students will actually pick family medicine this year, but nationally over the past three years, the number of med students who go into family medicine has grown by 20 percent. For NPR News, I'm Jenny Gold. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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One of the MANY things I love about the Church of God, World Mission Society is the teachings that have been right there in the Bible all this time. Actually, before coming to this church, I never considered too much about my spirit. Even going to other churches before, the focus was always on how to live prosperously in this life so that when we die, we can stand before God and only HOPE that we can go to heaven. Before coming to this church, going to heaven was like a 50/50 chance.
However, now attending the COG, World Mission Society, I know about my spirit and where I'm going after this world. Actually, my life didn't begin on this earth. Did you know that before we came to this earth, our spirit was in the Kingdom of Heaven? I never saw this verse before:
Eccl. 12:7 "...and the dust returns to the ground it came from, and the spirit returns to God who gave it."
How can I return to a place I've never been to? Since God is in heaven, my spirit will return to God (in heaven). Can you imagine? There are so many verses that show this, actually. Wouldn't you want to know why we suffer and feel pain as we do on this earth? Wouldn't you want to know why you were born?
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Songs for a New World takes us on a vibrant, thrilling and moving journey through the life-changing moments that define us. Jason Robert Brown's unforgettable songs weave characters, locations and time periods together in one extraordinary evening…
This very special 20th Anniversary production features electrifying vocals from a multi-award-winning cast and a stunning five piece band. Bringing Brown's sensational score to life…
From the celebrated composer-lyricist of The Last Five Years, Parade, Bridges of Madison County, 13 and Honeymoon in Vegas
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Little Nemo - Return to Slumberland DELUXE!
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Little Nemo - Return to Slumberland
Winner of 2015 Eisner Award "Best Limited Series"
Written by Eric Shanower
Illustrated by Gabriel Rodriguez
8" x 12.25" - 156 Pages - Hardcover
All of our copies are autographed by both Gabriel Rodriguez & Eric Shanower!
See sample of signature style below. Each copy's signatures are of course unique.
As one of the most influential comic strips of all time, Winsor McCay's Little Nemo in Slumberland could only return if a creative team with a true affinity for McCay's vision was found. Today, IDW announced that multiple Eisner Award-winning writer/artist Eric Shanower (Age of Bronze), will be writing an all-new series exploring Nemo's amazing dreams. Joining Shanower will be none other than Locke & Key co-creator and Eisner-nominated artist, Gabriel Rodriguez!
Little Nemo: Return to Slumberland will see Nemo embark on a brand-new voyage in the familiar surroundings of Slumberland. However, everything else is different, even Nemo himself-in search of a new playmate for the princess of Slumberland, King Morpheus enlists the Candy Kid to help bring the latest playmate, our titular Nemo, into the dream realm. There, Nemo embarks on a visceral journey full of adventure and danger.
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TODAY'S GAME: Tonight, the Buffalo Bisons face the Pawtucket Red Sox in the third game of a four-game series from McCoy Stadium (7:05 p.m.). The PawSox have won each of the first two games of the set by the score of 3-2. After this series, the Bisons will have an off-day on Wednesday before returning home for an eight-game homestand against Columbus and Lehigh Valley on Thursday.
vs PAWSOX: The Bisons are 1-5 against Pawtucket this season after the Red Sox won a season-opening series at Coca-Cola Field, April 9-12. Buffalo has not lost a season-series to the PawSox since 2005, going 10-6 against Pawtucket in each of the last three seasons.
K-CREW: Bisons pitchers matched a season-high yesterday when they struck out 13 PawSox batters. RHP Dillon Gee fanned eight, while the bullpen combined for five more punchouts. Buffalo also struck out 13 batters on April 14 against Scranton/Wilkes-Barre. As a staff, the Bisons 3.77ERA is the fifth-best in the International League.
DONE LIKE DESSENS: RHP Elmer Dessens has been virtually unhittable this month. The veteran has pitched scoreless relief in six consecutive outings. During the stretch, Dessens has allowed just two hits and two walks in 8.0 innings of work. On the year, opponents are hitting just .178 against Dessens with only one extra-base hit.
ROSTER MOVE: RHP Fernando Nieve has been promoted to the Bisons from Binghamton (AA) and will make his Herd debut tonight. Nieve was 0-1 with a 4.91ERA in five games and four starts with the B-Mets. He is coming off his best outing of the year as he struck out six in six innings of work in a no-decision against New Hampshire last Tuesday.
THE REY TO GO: INF Argenis Reyes's two run home run yesterday was his 11th career homer in 835 professional at-bats. Reyes went 2-5 yesterday and is now hitting .271 on the season. Reyes also has 14 walks and leads all Bisons hitters with a .374 on-base percentage.


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We have a project with various interrupts. The 1ms C0 timer interrupt is the lowest priority and we would like the RXC uart interrupt to be able to interrupt this timer interrupt.
We have added a asm("sei") instruction at the beginning of the Timer ISR but when we set the timer INTFLAG, the timer routine needs to complete before it then call the Timer ISR again. We are using the JTAG ICE. Is this normal operation?
The problem we have is dropped receive bytes and it appears this is due to an interrupt routine taking too long - ie two serial bytes may be received during timer ISR.
I guess a DMA pipe would fix this but using the DMA does not look straight forward.


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Taylor Swift was white and plunging at the People's Choice Awards earlier this month -- click here for a refresher. She worked a similar look last night in Spain at the 40 Principales Awards. And of course everyone is assuming that her low-cutness is a message to Harry Styles. Supposedly she flew to London earlier this week to see him but he refused. And I'd be down with that version of events only...the source is sh-t. As are the sources reporting that she broke up with him because he's not circumcised which...
We need to talk about this because I've seen both, hood and no hood, and it doesn't make a difference to me so, forgive me, but I don't understand the squeamishness that some people have towards seeing or imagining a dick that isn't cut. Cut or uncut, it's not exactly the most attractive part of the male anatomy.
I was late to the foreskin party because I have no interest in children and only recently heard about the big ass debate among you parents about cutting or not cutting. And apparently the "no cut" movement is gaining momentum because more and more people, including Russell Crowe, I guess, consider cutting to be "barbaric" and insist that there's a lot of trauma that can result from the procedure. Some are so, um, intense about the issue that they've even started an organisation called the Intact Society, or something, fighting for the right of the foreskin.
Do you know anyone who suffers from Post Traumatic Circumcision Disorder?
But since I'm not a parent, I'm not allowed to have an opinion either way. If I WERE allowed to have an opinion though, I'd say it's up to the parents, and done. Do we really have to be arguing about it? And besides, there's an easier, smarter way to encourage people -- men! -- to protect the sanctity of the foreskin. Instead of yelling about torture and savage practices, which dudes never want to hear about anyway, why not make the campaign purely about sensation, straight up?
According to sex experts, having foreskin INCREASES SEXUAL PLEASURE because it acts like a stroking mechanism. In other words, when a man with foreskin is inside a woman, he's getting double pumped, sort of.
Now turn that into a campaign geared towards fathers, I guarantee the Foreskin Protection Act will become law.
Which still doesn't clarify whether or not Taylor Swift is into foreskin but, really, do you really believe she'd care enough to tell Harry Styles to go get it taken care of? This is a girl who willingly went undercover and dirty with John Mayer. After John Mayer and all the piss and sh-t that comes with that, you think she actually cares about a cock sleeve? Please.


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