Comments by reverendhornibastard (page 7)

I got a notice from my insurance company today. I’m getting a refund on my prepaid annual insurance bill. My premiums are lower than they were when I still had my 2013 Mercedes. My old and new Mercedes are very similar in size, weight, engine, body style and price. The biggest differences relate to the safety features. At this point I’m sure the safety features of the new model account for the lower insurance premiums.

@Mark94 I agree that it’ll be a long time before self driving cars or as good as a human driver at his or her best. However, most human drivers are often not at their best when they are behind the wheel. A self driving car will never get drunk, be distracted, sleepy, or angry. I don’t think we’re very far away from the day when self driving cars will have a better overall driving record than humans. I already received my adjusted insurance statement covering my new car. I’m getting a partial refund on my prepaid insurance premiums. Even though I have an impeccable driving record, my insurance company evidently thinks I will be even safer behind the wheel with this new car that kinda-sorta drives itself.

@minnow - I’m not sure how to respond to some of your questions. The whole thing is new to me. I was not expecting this level of driver assistance sophistication when I bought the car. The speed limit monitoring works on major roads as well as on backstreets and in my neighborhood. Based on the car’s behavior it seems to visually read the speed limit signs. The speed adjustments are perfectly coincident with.when we pass a speed limit sign. As I was exploring and fiddling with the settings this morning in my driveway one of the options was whether or not I wanted the car to read traffic lights. I don’t know yet if that really works much less if I would trust it.

Not gonna happen. 1) Mrs. Hornibastard #3 sharing days are over. She became much more traditional in that respect after she got the ring and even more so after our twins were born. 2) Amanda lives around the corner and down the street, not among the terraces rice paddies of East Java on the other side of the planet. I’m not (usually) THAT stupid.

@Twentyfive 😂😂😂 It’s a thought, but she comes across as very straight-laced (just like a banker should). I’d love to get her liquored up and check out what she’s got under the hood.

I realize I’m the one who brought up the subject of nosebleeds, but can we now get back to discussing gorgeous, naked young women whose real names we don’t even know performing emergency desploogination procedures for us in the dark corners of seedy bars?

@Papi, Wow! I’ve heard of nosebleeds like you describe and knew one person (one of my teachers when I was in junior high school) who suffered such nosebleeds. Mine are nothing at all like that. Mine are minor and very brief (more like just the release of bloody mucous from an infected sinus). I hope you never have another one like you describe.

@BabyDoc, I lived in the tropics for many years (about 16 years). I lived in tropical SE Asia and in tropical parts of Africa. I also lived pretty far north (in London). Whenever I was away from my native stomping grounds (Texas), I never had hay fever problems and my sinuses were fine, even though some of the places I lived or traveled to had horrendous air pollution. I could spend 3 weeks in Beijing breathing some of the filthiest air on the planet and be fine, but after landing in Houston after a nonstop flight from Beijing, my sinuses would start complaining before I had finished the 45-minute drive from Houston’s north airport to my home in Montgomery County.

@JerseyJack, Thanks for the suggestion. I’ll give it a try. Sounds gross but it can’t be any worse than what I go through every spring and fall.

@Meat72, Although I agree with your comment, something tells me that Mrs. Hornibastard will be far more receptive to listening to Amanda’s litany of woes than I was. Women love gossip and a good soap opera, especially one in which people with testicles are the featured villains.

Some people (women included) can be very sneaky. Most of the women I’ve been turned out to be more or less the sort of woman I had pegged them to be when I first got to know them. But a few turned out very differently, in both positive and negative directions. A few of them proved to be far more brilliant, tougher, independent and emotionally resilient than they seemed at first. I later wondered if they had initially hidden their strengths and talents out of a misguided sense that they might otherwise appear in feminine or scare me off. Other women successfully hid their insecurities, indecisiveness, treachery and/or their true gold-digging intent until they thought I was “on the hook.” Thankfully, it is rather difficult to conceal stupidity or ignorance. These traits are usually radiant and easily spotted. On the other side of the coin, I have become a master of feigning sincerity, a skill that is enormously important when you’re trying to talk a woman out of her panties.

CJKent - It’s really pretty simple. Like most guys. I am initially attracted to a woman by what I can see from across the room (pretty face, nice smile, attractive physique). The personality aspects take a little longer to detect (integrity, intelligence, humor, amiable or their opposites). Like most guys, I have been initially attracted to women who were awesome in every way as well as to some who turned out to be badly dented cans, heinous, manipulative bitches or pitiful basket cases. On the flip side, some of the women who have been attracted to me were brilliant, some were idiots, some were strong-willed, some were weak and insecure. If you know how to ensure that you are only attracted to, and that you only attract, the best the feminine world had to offer, please share that wisdom with the rest of us.

I already asked him. Icey said he’s always willing to take it up the tailpipe and have five guys run a train on him as long as he gets a dime bag worth of weed out of the encounter.

@Cashman1234 I don’t recall what I was wearing. Probably gym clothes. I often just ride my bicycle to the mailboxes to collect whatever is in there. Confession would be interesting. If she has been a bad girl I would be tempted to have her drop her knickers so I could spank her with my face and then beat her with my swollen vital statistic. Not a chance. I’m not that desperate or that stupid. Maybe if she lived in Montana but not since she lives around the corner and about a block down the street.

@CJKent - I agree. After listening her pour her heart out to a stranger and then hearing that her ex used to beat her and that he was fucking around with an iHop waitress while he and Amanda were trying to have a baby, it certainly occurred to me that Amanda was adding to her own misery by consistently trying to latch on to any guy who happens to be nearby when she is feeling glum. Somebody (not me) needs to talk some sense into this woman. It strikes me as peculiar that a woman so attractive, educated (MBA in finance) and accomplished (investment banking advisor) should be so emotionally fucked up. I bet she was raised in a dysfunctional home.

Good advice, BabyDoc, but sometimes they’re really NOT emotionally needy until AFTER you stop gluing them to the bedsheets, coffee table or the kitchen floor and start using your glue gun on someone else.

@Rick & @BabyDoc, Yes, Amanda is cute and she could be very tempting (and probably easy in her current state of emotional vulnerability). But even a dastardly, serial cheater like me is not THAT cruel. I’m definitely keeping my pants zipped up when Amanda is around. Even if she was not so emotionally needy, the mere fact that she lives I such close proximity to my home, my wife and kids makes her way, way off limits. I haven’t canoodled a neighbor since I was young, single and free to canoodle anyone I wanted. Even back then, canoodling a neighbor proved to be a terrible idea.

Thanks, BabyDoc. I’ve been a pervert ever my upper lip started getting fuzzy (and that was a LONG time ago). As long As I remain on the right side of the grass, I’ll be on TUSCL from time to time.

TFP,, Thanks for the kind words. As for Iced PeePee, I regard him as a very small piece of shit, barely even noticeable.

@Papi Chulo: I did still have the links to those posts from last year. I’ve been so busy, I’d forgotten what a magical time I had in East Java a little over a year ago. She didn’t exactly say she wanted to fuck https://tuscl.net/discussion/67085/ Yesterday I hiked the mountain ... https://tuscl.net/discussion/67135/ Is Yuni putting her ass on parade? https://tuscl.net/discussion/67144/ Yuni makes her intentions crystal clear! https://tuscl.net/discussion/67195/ Afternoon delight on the mountain with Yuni Bare https://tuscl.net/discussion/67228/ I feel like I dodged a bullet https://tuscl.net/discussion/67241/ Yuni Bare: an epilogue https://tuscl.net/discussion/67277/

@Papi Chulo - Yuni (not her real name) was a very close friend of Mrs. Hornibastard. They both grew up in the same village among the terraces rice paddies of East Java. I met Yuni when we visited my wife’s family in May & June of last year. I wrote a series of diary-like entries that I posted on this discussion board while I was still in the kampung in East Java. I think I have links to those posts. If I still have them, I will re-post them here later.