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Trump told crews working on his White House ballroom to ignore permitting, zoning or code requirements: report
(www.independent.co.uk)
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Yes! Disregard the code! Don’t even think about the building code!
And don’t worry, the ballroom certainly won’t fall down with you inside it, piggy!
I have never been horny before in my life, on account of being asexual, but the thought of this ballroom collapsing under shitty building practices while housing the top thousand richest bastards in society, is certainly making me feel something hormonal.
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Never in your life? I always assumed asexual meant very rarely horny, not literally never. Is that common?
It’s a spectrum, but there are people who are literally never horny. It’s not common though.
Forty years old, still a virgin. Sex-repulsed. Doesn’t cause a problem in my life. Immune to most advertising. Watching people make the same stupid mistakes about birth control time and time again, and never understanding why. My line ends with me and that’s fine.
Edit: why did people downvote my answer, and not the question asked of me? Does that mean I shouldn’t have answered, or that I should have answered in a sex-positive way, or do they straight-up think ace people aren’t real?
What about sexual pleasure like from touch and orgasm?
being sex-repulsed doesn't necessarily mean you don't enjoy self-pleasure. there's not one "kind" of asexuality, there's a spectrum
But also yeah, I can’t have self-pleasure. Doesn’t work. Grosses me out besides. People act like sexual pleasure is the most important thing ever. I’m doing just fine without it. I’m not a problem to be fixed.
You already know what the answer is.
And besides, I’m intersex. Loads of people take for granted that their genitals formed well-enough.
I’m not invested in sex or discussions about it. It actually skeeves me out.
We should be so lucky.
It'll probably collapse on a kindergarten tour group while piggy is in Europe meeting with Putin.
Along those same lines, they should have a Wizard of Oz ball using the original snow recipe from the movie.
Asbestos?
Yeah, and as an aside, that's another Russian product for which he's advocated.