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I'm complaining that a great artist has been taken from us prematurely. Tony de Carlo passed away yesterday:https://www.facebook.com/tony.decarlo...
The vibrancy of his work will, however, live on for future generations. RIP Tony.
Roger wrote: "I'm complaining that a great artist has been taken from us prematurely. Tony de Carlo passed away yesterday:I echo Roger's words because I have the same complaint.
I don't know how to begin this as a complaint. When I took the garbage out this morning, I saw that my upstairs neighbor tossed spaghetti (thankfully no sauce) onto my front porch. Wtf?
Averin wrote: "I don't know how to begin this as a complaint. When I took the garbage out this morning, I saw that my upstairs neighbor tossed spaghetti (thankfully no sauce) onto my front porch. Wtf?"Well, really. What good are spaghetti noodles without the sauce? Or at least Parmesan? Hmph!
Maybe they were drunk Averin? I had a neighbour who lived in the apartment above me and used to throw his cigarette butts into my garden. I had to write him a letter asking him to stop. Sometimes people are just so careless and unthinking.
I don't know. At first I thought they were flower pistols, we had serious thunder, lightning, and rain this morning. But no other flower parts and my next door neighbor only received the usual tree debris, no pasta.
It is with deep sadness and profound regret that I advise you that The Warlord and the Bard is going to be available at AMZ on 8/28 for an amazingly low price.
It is with even worser dismay that I have no choice in life except to share the blurb with you:The Warlord and the Bard:
The Kingdom and Empire: a thousand worlds across the galaxy called the Heart, linked by magic-driven Gates.
A Goddess who isn’t content to just sit back and watch.
DarkFire: Crown Prince and Heir Presumptive. Warlord. Battle mage. Bearer of the Sword of Souls, and Speaker for its Voices. Black of hair and eye, and heart as well, if the rumors are true. Dangerous. Driven. Extremely drunk as he looks down on the crowded ballroom floor at the Summer Ball. Wondering if his plan to catch those behind the botched spell will work. Wondering how the plan can possibly work since it relies on Niallan. Wondering if he will ever be free of the damned prophecy.
Jerril: A flame-haired commoner just arrived on the Throne World. The Empire’s new High Bard, a man with a Goddess-granted Gift of music. His first performance is later this evening. In the meantime, he leans against a pillar and looks up at the man on the balcony in Imperial black and silver. Wonders why the Warlord is so very drunk, and how he could possibly know that. Wonders if the Warlord had really just looked at him and then pretended not to. Wonders what in the Nine Hells is going on.
The Warlord and the Bard are about to meet. The Kingdom and Empire will never be the same.
Royalty Note: 100% of all royalties will go to an LGBT organization in my community.
~WOW~! (I know WOW is not a complaint but I can't help it. It just slipped out looking at Eric's post.)
Cube the Philosopher of Cynicism wrote: "I am very displeased with television. Like, it is taking all of my willpower not to express my disgust with colorful language. There is this TV show called Once Upon a Time here and I really like i..."Hi Cube, So sorry they are invading stuff you love on television. Take solace that there is still something on television to love. Keep on keeping on with Percy Jackson, Hetalia and Once Upon A Time.
I am very disturbed by the the number of straight men who are pairing up and reducing the number of men available for gay men because the percent of men available to us for happily-ever-afters is not much to begin with. This is what I have learned from my reading M/M Romance books. These trends are also disturbing because these straight guys haven't even had any experience in being gay and that dilutes our heritage and cause a situation where more and more straight-to-gay transitioned men cannot even tell you Lady Gaga's shoe size.Too many straight cops are going gay-for-you and hooking up with their cop partners or firemen. Too many straight firemen are stealing all the bi and gay paramedics. In several books that I've read lots of mafia guys are being pushed by their grandmothers into taking gay, virginal twenty year olds. And don't even get me started on shape shifters. I haven't been able to date a shape shifter for years because they are all mated for life with straight men. Jocks are another problem. There are hardly any straight jocks left because they have all fall fallen in love with nerds or emos.
Not only does this reduce the number of nerds and emos available to us gay men but it should be a concern to women too because if the books are right there are very few jocks left who aren't married to these young bookish lads. The same is also true for fraternity brothers. There are a great number of formerly straight frat boys who have fallen for their formerly straight fraternity brothers. Isn't this incest? This greatly reduces the number of these guys we gays have been used to converting to our side through our extraordinary powers to spread homosexuality through our nefarious gay pride parades, bars and gay books in schools and public libraries.
Don't even get me started on all they gay athletes we have been deprived of dating. According to my research in reading M/M Romances every guy in every sport has fallen in love with a teammate but is keeping it secret so they don't have trouble in the locker rooms and showers or so the don't ruin their pro athlete careers. If they would all just come out they would realize there aren't any straight men left in professional sports judging by the number of books with these stories plucked from real life.
Speaking of real life I am shocked at the number of married men who have been secretly seeing gay lovers. This has increased the numbers of divorces in this country and inflated the number of straight failed marriages which I am sure would be under that 50 percent figure quoted if the straight men turned gay by some scheming homosexual (aren't we clever!) were excluded from the statistics.
This is also destroying families which ought to be a worry to those concerned with the raising of children. Every body knows (or thinks they know but it's an old wives tale) that two men cannot raise children yet so many books document widowers who remarry, but the person they wed the second time is gay.
I hope both men and women would join me in complaining about this disastrous situation which leads to only one conclusion, we who defy Leviticus are running out of men to sin with and straight men are going to become extinct.
Preston wrote: "I am very disturbed by the the number of straight men who are pairing up and reducing the number of men available for gay men because the percent of men available to us for happily-ever-afters is n..."ROLLING ON THE FLOOR LAUGHING MY QUEER ASS OFF!
This requires more than just an acronym.
Marvelously funny, Preston. May I steal...er...borrow, some of it, sometime?????
>g<
Eric
Same here Preston. You are so right! What Eric said.
Preston wrote: "I am very disturbed by the the number of straight men who are pairing up and reducing the number of men available for gay men because the percent of men available to us for happily-ever-afters is n..."
laughing too hard to complain, sorry Preston looks like I need my knuckles rapped again.
Why is everyone laughing? Can't you see the anguish, the pain, the sense of… well loss of choice?:::muttering… oh well time to grow a sense of humor obviously…mutter:::
Roger wrote: "Why is everyone laughing? Can't you see the anguish, the pain, the sense of… well loss of choice?:::muttering… oh well time to grow a sense of humor obviously…mutter:::"
Uh, is "grow a sense," anything like "grow a set, mate?"
I deeply regret having to change the topic and focus our attention on matters of greater importance, such as moi, but one does what one must. I also regret to announce that the 149,000 word novel, a Regency MMM romance set in "Another England" (an alternative England where history changed with the Restoration) will be published sometime in September as part of the Love's Landscapes 2014 writing event. For free, too.To wet...er...whet your appetite for these three very hot men:
Peregrine James Woodhall, Viscount Somerville, a blond British bombshell of a man.
Ruaidhri Fearghas MacLean, second son of Viscount Strathairn, a brawny, rough, hairy (red, of course) Scot
Michel Louis Arsenault, le vicomte de Vidal-Sansouci,tall, lethal, languid, born on English soil but with a French title.
So many trials and tribulations, including a duel, but, mesdames et messieurs, such a glorious HEA!
Preston wrote: "I am very disturbed by the the number of straight men who are pairing up and reducing the number of men available for gay men because the percent of men available to us for happily-ever-afters is n..."As entertaining as I found this, distressingly, I must point out these two posts: http://www.mindbodygreen.com/0-14997/...
and http://www.mindbodygreen.com/0-15147/....
Save me the in-laws are arriving in less than 3 hours!!!!! Darn them...they aren't suppose to be here until tomorrow. Not ready and online stuff will be curbed :( Frickin' homophobes!
Tj wrote: "Save me the in-laws are arriving in less than 3 hours!!!!! Darn them...they aren't suppose to be here until tomorrow. Not ready and online stuff will be curbed :( Frickin' homophobes!"Again Tj? But are they really only staying for a one day? You are sure they won't settle in and stay seemingly forever like before? If they really leave tomorrow that will be a miracle and we will rejoice with you.
How's that grandbaby of yours doing? I bet he's getting big!
Hugs galore, Preston
Averin wrote: "Preston wrote: "I am very disturbed by the the number of straight men who are pairing up and reducing the number of men available for gay men because the percent of men available to us for happily-..."Egads Averin! You are right it is distressing. How sad we will have to wait 30+ years to find out of it's a HEA. That's just too long to wait so I'll continue to read M/M romance and gay fiction love stories where I find out by the end of the book if they live happily ever after.
I love Complaint Department members Roger Kean and Zack's books because they not only write happily ever after books but they live a HEA still in love today as they were back somewhere in the 1970s.
Preston wrote: "Tj wrote: "Save me the in-laws are arriving in less than 3 hours!!!!! Darn them...they aren't suppose to be here until tomorrow. Not ready and online stuff will be curbed :( Frickin' homophobes!..."Well, they are suppose to be here until the 20th! They just were not suppose to get here until tomorrow.
Baby is growing fast. He'll be 2 on the 19th:( Time flies by.
I am furious at the outright lies Alex Salmond is selling to the people of Scotland.
Roger wrote: "I am furious at the outright lies Alex Salmond is selling to the people of Scotland."Which,in particular, garnered your ire? http://www.theguardian.com/politics/a...
So, Scotland separating from England is a bad thing? I'm just curious.
Can I jump in with my two pennies worth? I think Scotland going independent is a selfish move and would be an incredible mistake. IMO, it's just as bad as when the Government wanted to move us from GBP to Euro. What a mistake that would have been!Oh and my complaint today, is that I missed a parcel delivery whilst I was out shopping, so am bartering over text as to when I can get it re-delivered.
Averin wrote: "Roger wrote: "I am furious at the outright lies Alex Salmond is selling to the people of Scotland."Which,in particular, garnered your ire? http://www.theguardian.com/politics/a..."
In general, Averin, listening for months now to the man, who is using an emotional whirlwind to create a smoke and mirrors effect. As one of a large Scottish family, most of whom live in England, I don't like the use of such tactics to sweep under the carpet the hard questions that need to be answered before Scotland separates from a 300+ year union.
Many hundreds of vital questions needing sane answers have been voided under a flurry of half truths and downright lies.No doubt some things will "come out in the wash" but most, I suspect, will come home to roost very badly for everyone on either side of the border.
And @ Lori, yes, I think it is a bad thing. At a time when unity in such a small island is crucial to many matters, fiscal and emotional, breaking up the United Kingdom is tantamount to a country committing suicide, just to please the fantasies of—in reality—a handful of, well, fantasists. IMHO
I'd like to complain about my new progressive glasses because they're making my life easier by making the computer screen clearer and distances sharper. Hmph. The most problem I'm having with them is the reading part. That's gonna take some practice and gettin' used to.
Hate glasses.As a lifelong (forced to) hard contact lens wearer, why because I'm growing older should I have to resort to reading glasses on top of the contacts!
Perhaps our moderators should start a Heavenly Complaint Department? That might draw the attention of Her, Him, It, Whoever, Whatever On High. We could all look upwards (or for any who don't quite believe, perhaps sideways) as we click Send on our complaints.Unfortunately, your complaint...about which I deeply sympathize...but having been a lifelong glasses wearer (scratched cornea from contact lens, never again), is just about a function of age. >a teasing duh!< And since they haven't managed bifocal/trifocal contacts yet, not much any of us can do.
I actually have two sets of glasses. I'm basically near-sighted, but with the onset of age and the necessity for working on a computer to earn a living and/or to write, some years ago I figured out that if I sat up properly in my chair, and stretched my arm out, palm up and out, my palm would just touch the screen.
So I asked the ophthalmologist (sp?), in addition to my bifocal glasses for ordinary wear, to give me a "middle distance" prescription for the computer. I buy the cheapest plastic lenses and cheapest frames, and keep the current version by the computer.
Works for me.
Anyway...here's a >cyber-hug< for your sorrows.
Eric
Eric wrote: "having been a lifelong glasses wearer (scratched cornea from contact lens, never again) ..."I have to complain that I've had no alternative to hard contacts (gas permeable) because they are the remedial correction for keracotonus.
In recent years the labs developed a soft lens finally, but they were not for me, oddly more uncomfortable and sightless than the hard ones…
Eric wrote: "Perhaps our moderators should start a Heavenly Complaint Department? That might draw the attention of Her, Him, It, Whoever, Whatever On High. We could all look upwards (or for any who don't quite ..."Sounds like a job for someone more inspired than we are so I think you would be perfect to lead that group :-)
I am filing a complaint that I didn't have to stay up late to see that Scotland voted to stay in the UK. The vote was over with before my bedtime.
Of course the Complaint Department avoids politics since it can cause ill will thus I assure everyone that I was 100 percent impartial on this issue. Roger can tell you just how impartial I was because I kept bombarding him with long diatribes on just how impartial I was in great detail with historical references. He will tell you I was passionate about my unbiased, equitable neutrality.
Congratulations United Kingdom!
Our local PBS station carries BBC news but today it was all politics, with panels of experts and a man squatting about in what looked like a PowerPoint presentation on steroids.
Preston wrote: "Roger can tell you just how impartial I was because I kept bombarding him with long diatribes on just how impartial I was in great detail with historical references. He will tell you I was passionate about my unbiased, equitable neutrality. ..."Your excessive unbiasedness has been entirely admirable, Preston, particularly in the face of Liverpudlian provocation that, as an American, you know nothing about anything :-))
It's nice to feel that so many Americans have expressed, if not outright sympathy for having to hold such a referendum, at least bewilderment. Now it looks as though the future of the United Kingdom might more resemble that of the US, or perhaps more accurately a cantonal system like the Swiss enjoy. (I'll have to ask Oliver about that).
Roger wrote: "Preston wrote: "Roger can tell you just how impartial I was because I kept bombarding him with long diatribes on just how impartial I was in great detail with historical references. He will tell yo..."Considering the press I've seen explaining the referendum, like Michael Strahan, American bewilderment is perfectly logical.
Admittedly, on the emotional level, I am somewhat disappointed, but the more logical, down-to-earth side of me thinks this is for the best and wishes the whole of the UK the best. Does this mean there'll be more freedoms between all the countries? And I agree with Averin. The reporting and attempts to explain just what it all meant or how it works was a bit convoluted.
Also, because it's Talk Like Pirate Day "Arrgh, me mateys, yer've done well."
Okay, so I'm not even going to pretend to complain that The Rake, the Rogue and the Roue is now available at:http://www.mmromancegroup.com/the-rak...
Feel free to assess four, five or six stars at your most immediate convenience. >g<
Eric
Lori wrote: "Admittedly, on the emotional level, I am somewhat disappointed, but the more logical, down-to-earth side of me thinks this is for the best and wishes the whole of the UK the best. Does this mean th..."I'll complain on behalf of those (like me) not near a Krispy Kreme, where in honor of Talk Like a Pirate Day, avasting yer mateys will get you a free doughnut http://www.krispykreme.com/pirate.
Lori wrote: "Does this mean there'll be more freedoms between all the countries?"The short answer to your question is yes but much has to be negotiated for that to happen.
Scotland and Ireland have their own individual parliaments and Wales has a National Assembly. These lawmaking bodies can make laws on devolved matters. The UK Parliament (sometimes referred to as Westminster) can make laws on devolved matters but generally they don't. For an better explantation of how this works the Scottish Parliament's website has a good overview at: http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/vis...
During the campaigns to determine Scottish independence, UK Prime Minister David Cameron promised more devolved powers to Scotland's Parliament. In a speech Friday morning after the vote results were in Cameron promised “...powers over tax, spending and welfare...” would be agreed by November and legislation published by January. Those powers will come through more devolution from the central British government in Westminster to the Scottish Parliament.
It is generally thought that more centralized power in Britain's Parliament being turned over to the Scottish Parliament will eventually lead to demands for Ireland's Parliament and Wales' National Assembly to also have more devolved powers.
Some in England are asking the question why should Scotland's representatives in the House of Commons (MPs) be voting on matters pertaining only to England. People asking this question are suggesting that Scottish MPs should not be able to vote on matters that are "England only".
This is a bit of an oversimplification but probably more than you ever wanted to know.
If I am wrong on any of this I'm sure Roger or someone else in the UK will correct me.
I haven't figured out how the US federal government and States' Rights works yet so what do I know?
That's pretty spot on, Preston! Other than in the sentence "Some in England are asking the question why should Scotland's representatives in the House of Commons (MPs) be voting on matters pertaining only to England." I would now say it is a majority of people living in England (including those hundreds of thousands of Scots).The problem comes for the Labour Party, as indeed it would had the Scots voted for independence, because Labour holds 41 parliamentary seats in Scotland. Come independence, Labour would have been wiped out in Westminster, along with the Conservatives' current coalition partners, the Liberal Democrats, who have 11 seats in Scotland. In the case of independence, those 52 members of parliament (MPs) would cease to exist, leaving prime minister David Cameron's Conservative Party with an unbeatable majority.
Now a similar thing will happen when it comes to the House of Commons voting on matter relating to England — the Scottish Labour and Lib. Dem MPs won't be able to vote; the Conservatives will always carry the vote. This is why the leader of the Labour Party, Ed Milliband, is trying to put a spanner in the works. He faces an unenviable task: delay the promises made to Scotland because the majority of opinion is that what's fair for Scotland must also be fair for England, and the Scots will have been "lied to" by the Unionist parties that made those promises Preston mentions. All he can do is try to argue that "Let's get Scotland sorted first and then see how people feel.
Fortunately (my opinion!), Ed is not a popular leader of his party, who assassinated his brother David (politically) when they went head to head to become Labour leader following the retirement of former prime minister Gordon Brown. Moderate David wanted Labour to continue along similar lines to the party/government of Blair and Brown; Ed enlisted the support of the most rabid unions to snatch the vote. Now he faces the possibility of an almost total wipeout.
And I'm sure that's much more than anyone wanted to know — apart from one item of possible interest raised as we waited for David Cameron to come out and address the nation from the front door of the seat of British administrative government, Britain's White House or Kremlin. What other developed nation has for its most important governmental building a relatively small Georgian house, in a small, nondescript street and it isn't even Number One Downing Street, but No. 10?
Thank you both Preston and Roger. You
There's a bit in Country Mouse where the Brit tells the Yank that Parliament is located next to the river because MPs know bloodthirsty citizens are always willing to burn the place down and the MPs want to be able to escape.
Grrr, I can't find the computer Complaint page. A pox on the knucklehead who hung up my Safari with "Windows Detected Security Error, Due to Suspicious Activity Found On Your Computer. Contact Windows Certified Live Technicians" on my Mac. Lost over an hour figuring out how to clear while having an important phone call from one of my sons' schools.
I'm annoyed that after two weeks of looking forward to my husband being at a port where he can call and text, instead of just sending emails that take 24-48 hours to get sent, eight hours before he was supposed to get there I get an email saying he has duty the first day and probably won't get to talk until the next day??? Really??? He couldn't have mentioned that sooner....ugh...
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