Miscellaneous Articles
A selection of articles on a variety of subjects
Why do homes in the UK have separate hot and cold taps? – A throwback to simpler times.
I’m talking about male rape to encourage other victims of sexual abuse to do the same – Sexual abuse is always unacceptable and every person will handle the aftermath differently. This brave guy has decided to speak up about his rape, but this path is not for everyone.
What Is MEPS and How Do I Deal With It? – Have you ever wanted to join the US military? THis articles tells you what to expect when you arrive at the Military Entrance Processing Station (MEPS).
I’ve an idea for a miscellaneous subject. Apart from same sex & group male nudity, how about MUD sports? Another of my essays “The Good Ole’ Days of Mud Athletics” is a tribute to to an era when mud wrestling & tackle football was played on real turf. Mud wrestling was popular on college campuses in the 1920s that became non-college tournaments in the “30s. It had a revival in the “80s & got noted/included in the 1981 film “STRIPES” & a TV movie “All the Marbles”. The latter had 2 young women wrestlers conned by their manager (Peter Falk) to wrestle in a mudpit. Swamp soccer is popular in Europe; it strengthens the legs, which is why the Russian army has soldiers play it. Tugs-of-war over mud-pits were common at Summer camps including Boy Scout camps. In fact, tugs-of-war over mud was an Olympic sport in the early 20th Century! ‘Guess the
men in charge of the Olympics then had a less serious attitude regarding that 4 year event. Apart from mud sports, YouTube has muck-luscious videos from “pxehooq” beginning with “Boggyman Swims in a Quagmire” & his “Crescent …” & “Deep Sinking …” this & that. In many of his mud immersions, he sinks out of sight! Another
good trooper is “MudboyAndy” who goes all out wallowin’ in thick mud! The 1926 silent film “SPARROWS” has a muck-luscious scene when Mary Pickford inadvertently pushes a young bully into a swamp of lethally deep thick mud. Twelve minutes into an episode of the “60s TV show “COMBAT” (A Sudden Terror) had a young soldier, played by Brandon de Wilde, wander into a BIG patch of deep quick MUD! A fictional 3 episode series on “Walt Disney Presents” titled “Willy & the Yank” had a scene where Pvt. Willy-C.S.A. fleeing Union Sgt. Gregg lured the latter into quicksand. Unfortunately, YouTube
deleted that scene that was in the Walt Disney Sunday broadcast of
January, 1967. Maybe the folks at YouTube thought it too traumatic in this era of sensitivity. It wasn’t viewed that way when it was broad-cast as family entertainment 6 decades ago! Ya’ gotta’ appreciate the tongue-in-cheek gallows humor of these from an era before vanity & sensitivity permeated the mass media.
I’ve an idea for a miscellaneous subject. Apart from same sex & group male nudity, how about MUD sports? Another of my essays “The Good Ole’ Days of Mud Athletics” is a tribute to to an era when mud wrestling & tackle football was played on real turf. Mud wrestling was popular on college campuses in the 1920s that became non-college tournaments in the “30s. It had a revival in the “80s & got noted/included in the 1981 film “STRIPES” & a TV movie “All the Marbles”. The latter had 2 young women wrestlers conned by their manager (Peter Falk) to wrestle in a mudpit. Swamp soccer is popular in Europe; it strengthens the legs, which is why the Russian army has soldiers play it. Tugs-of-war over mud-pits were common at Summer camps including Boy Scout camps. In fact, tugs-of-war over mud was an Olympic sport in the early 20th Century! ‘Guess the men in charge of the Olympics then had a less serious attitude regarding that 4 year event. Apart from mud sports, YouTube has muck-luscious videos from “pxehooq” beginning with “Boggyman Swims in a Quagmire” & his “Crescent …” & “Deep Sinking …” this & that. In many of his mud immersions, he sinks out of sight! Another
good trooper is “MudboyAndy” who goes all out wallowin’ in thick mud! The 1926 silent film “SPARROWS” has a muck-luscious scene when Mary Pickford inadvertently pushes a young bully into a swamp of lethally deep thick mud. Twelve minutes into an episode of the “60s TV show “COMBAT” (A Sudden Terror) had a young soldier, played by Brandon de Wilde, wander into a BIG patch of deep quick MUD! A fictional 3 episode series on “Walt Disney Presents” titled “Willy & the Yank” had a scene where Pvt. Willy-C.S.A. fleeing Union Sgt. Gregg lured the latter into quicksand. Unfortunately, YouTube deleted that scene that was in the Walt Disney Sunday broadcast of January, 1967. Maybe the folks at YouTube thought it too traumatic in this era of sensitivity. It wasn’t viewed that way when it was broad-cast as family entertainment 6 decades ago! Ya’ gotta’ appreciate the tongue-in-cheek gallows humor of these from an era before vanity & sensitivity permeated the mass media.
Please excuse my mistake repeating this posted comment. Maybe my Mac was slow or this website is.
Here is a idea for miscellaneous articles:
I’m a straight male and like wearing women’s clothes. I do it becuz feeling girly turns me on and I masturbate to wonderful orgasms.
I guess it started for me stealing my older sister’s clothes from the laundry room. Mmm the smell of her panties and the smooth silky material got my little dick so hard.
And knowing my behavior was transgressive further excited me. So that’s my suggestion, use it or not, cheers.
Being a child in the “50’s / early “60s didn’t always make for nostalgic swings down memory lane. Apart from bouts with the flu, toothaches, severe headaches, earaches, bee stings, scrapes, sunburns & corporal punishment, we’d become constipated😖 more than once. If there were no prunes nor EX-LAX in the house, there was a home remedy – enemas! For you later generations, our bellies lay on the bathroom floor. Mom would draw warm water into a rubber bulb syringe with a flexible stem up our butt holes, squeezing that water into our bowels. It was uncomfortable as it bloated our colons; she’d release the bulb as an uncomfortable suction drew out our stuck stools💩 into our bowels. We’d not waste a moment puttin’ our butts on the toilet! Kid’s self-esteem was of no concern to parents, but(t) it worked! As(s) did rectal mercury thermometers avoiding any chance of a child biting an oral one 🤒. O-o-h the indignity! But(t) as(s) an(al) outpatient, I was a good sport. 😏
I’m gonna’ share a memory of the old “Andy Griffith Show”. I’m old enough to remember when it was originally broadcast in primetime. In the early “60s, after the end of each of those early episodes, Andy & Opie were shown walking back on the dusty road they walked on at the beginning.
Opie was carrying several fishes hooked on a chain. As he walked away from the camera, one of the fishes dropped from the chain. Opie ran back to pick it up. Since it fell on that dusty road, he rubbed the dust off it by rubbing it on his rear end of his blue jeans. Decades later the Andy Griffith Show was, & still is, in syndication on the “ME Network”. But(t), to use a pun, I don’t see
that footage after each episode. Has our current sensitivity culture deemed, what was once seen as innocent, to use another pun, as(s) risqué?
I’m gonna’ share a memory of the old “Andy Griffith Show”. I’m old enough to remember when it was originally broadcast in primetime. In the early “60s, after the end of each of those early episodes, Andy & Opie were shown walking back on the dusty road they walked on at the beginning.
Opie was carrying several fishes hooked on a chain. As he walked away from the camera, one of the fishes dropped from the chain. Opie ran back to pick it up. Since it fell on that dusty road, he rubbed the dust off it by rubbing it on his rear end of his blue jeans. Decades later the Andy Griffith Show was, & still is, in syndication on the “ME Network”. But(t), to use a pun, I don’t see
that footage after each episode. Has our current sensitivity culture deemed, what was once seen as innocent, to use another pun, as(s) risqué?
In the early “60’s while attending Catholic grade school I got to know Eddie Staats. He was a “straight arrow”, naturally virtuous, from a good down-to-earth Midwestern family. Our houses were
within walking distance of each other, sometimes we’d invite each other over. When I came over to Staats’s house, I’ll never forget
what Eddie showed me in their bathroom. In addition to the adult-sized flush toilet, was a waterless junior-sized 🚽! They must’ve saw that indoor flap toilet as(s) a status symbol; it had to be the only one in town.
It was meant to be a flush toilet, but(t) Mr. Staats decided to forego paying a plumber to install it-according to code. To save money, he installed it, but instead of connecting it to the City water, he linked what’d normally be the flush lever to a trapdoor hinged to the bottom of the bowl. Operating the lever opened the trapdoor, below was a large coffee can on the basement floor!! Yup, when Eddie or his 2 siblings did “#2”, they’d or tried to) dumped their 💩 in that coffee can! Ed even took me down to their basement & showed me who dumped which stool – I don’t write fiction!
There was no “drain” pipe under that toilet; ya’ gotta’ wonder if they’d ever miss, dumpin’ their 💩 or forgot to open the trap door before poopin’, I doubt their💩s would’ve landed in the can when they did open it! But(t), that coffee can was big enough for a kid to sit on. It’d be a handy porta-potty.” If they couldn’t “hold it” long enough to make it upstairs, they could literally go to the can. But(t) make sure your siblings aren’t usin’ the toilet above it or ho-ho-ho, look out below – for toilet humor! The “call of Nature” can be plentiful! Bombs away! If ya’ didn’t, they might end up donning a “brown beret”! Not a French but(t) a fresh “mid-west beret”! Knowing siblings😏 don’t always get along, it 😠 might not be an accident! 😆
I wonder what the kids did with the toilet paper, maybe they put it in a pail, then flushed it down the adult toilet – when it wasn’t occupied. Maybe their household budget made ’em ration it, usin’ both sides of it to wipe, but(t) they’d better wash their hands thoroughly! Maybe they’d forego wiping if their stools weren’t too messy, ’cause I don’t recall seeing a pail for used poop paper next to that toilet.