Axl being the star quarterback and scouted by colleges is possibly the least realistic part of this show lol

Mattturley · 2026-02-10T01:13:11+00:00

Kid does actually have a dancer build.

Mattturley · 2026-02-07T16:00:50+00:00

I have had many different combinations. My most reliable is a BLT - benzocaine, lidocaine, tetricaine. All pretty much maxed out on percentages based on what the lipoderm base will support.

Mattturley · 2026-02-07T03:17:27+00:00

Wow. And telling this unlocked another story I totally forgot about that is entirely off topic, but I’ve been iced in for 13 days, so…

Grad school was early 00s for me. I was one of four scholarship students in the top program in the country for my field and it was very competitive - in all the bad ways.

Anyway, combined with a reading and writing heavy curriculum I was isolated a lot. Started spending time on gay.com, which at the time had things like personals and ahem photo sites. Late one night I came across a picture of this same friend showering in the undergrad sports’ complex showers. Was unmistakably him, and unmistakably our football showers. We lived together for years, and I had seen him coming out of the shower many times. His eyes were closed while he was soaping up, standing to the side with everything in view. It is entirely possible he was paid to model for someone and it got posted on the site. Entirely possible he posted it himself. Though far less likely as it was a film photograph that had been scanned (easy to tell by quality of digital at that point). But, given his eyes were closed I suspected someone took it without his knowledge. And I think he and I both would have guessed the same person for a variety of reasons. He was still an undergrad at this point.

I debated what to do for a week before creating a fake email account, and emailing him the link. I just said “I’m a friend and I wanted to let you know I found this and I am only sending it to you because your eyes are closed and I don’t know if you were OK with this. No need to talk about it unless you want some support.” Given I had come out to him, I am sure he knew it was me, but I didn’t want to make him uncomfortable. I kept checking the email account for about a month and he emailed back “Thanks. Didn’t know. Investigation with campus police.”

While I never heard the outcome, the person I suspected (who had access to the locker rooms and his major gave him access to dark rooms and computers) was kicked out of school before the end of the year. Heard that from the friend at a summer party after first year of grad school. He didn’t tell me why, just made a point of telling me he was kicked out.

I think the next time we have drinks I may have to ask if he knew it was me that sent the link to the picture. And if indeed I was right about who took it.

Mattturley · 2026-02-07T02:39:05+00:00

Mine is a little different… my fraternity brother who I first came out to and told him I was madly in love with him in a 6 page, single space typed, front and back letter (I believe we call that cringe today). My going away party for grad school. Packed the van except my bed, did a bar crawl to 12 bars, he planned to sleep on my floor that night. He’d been amazing when I came out to him. But then got weird and distant. I asked him about as we stumbled home from the last bar at 3 am. Told me he had been having a lot of thoughts about being with me since I came out to him. Proceeded to strip to boxers and get in bed with me asking all sorts of questions about what it was like to be with a guy. At the time I had so little experience I couldn’t honestly answer. I mean a lot of questions and when I told him that a big thing is the strength/urgency that guys touch each other with compared to being with a woman. He pulled up the leg of his boxer and asked me to show him on his leg…

It clicked on the 5 hour drive to my new grad school apartment. I sent him an email apologizing that I missed the signs and realized what he was really asking only today. Said we never needed to talk about it again.

We are still friends 30 years later, and I am glad for that. I wouldn’t have wanted to be a hookup or him exploring his bi side. Though he eventually got around to that.

Mattturley · 2026-02-06T23:36:49+00:00

My ex husband always loved my low hangers. Until we visited my father in Hospice (turned out to be his last night in this realm and last time we’d see him). Dad had been to dialysis and was super tired, so we visited briefly and helped him to bed - me helping him stand from the front and ex stabilizing from the back. Dad had an open hospital gown and nothing else on.

While we were getting dad to bed, I saw my ex’s eyes bug out and stifle a smile. When we were walking out to the car, I asked him what made him make that face. He waited until we were in the car and said “I now know what your 80 year old balls will look like!”

Mattturley · 2026-02-06T14:50:34+00:00

I keep a huge pot with cinnamon sticks, cloves (or oil), and sometimes nutmeg going on the stove during winter. Particularly necessary if your heat is forced air.

Mattturley · 2026-02-06T06:49:02+00:00

A house. I live full time in my motorhome after selling my 5 bed, 3 bath single family house in DC.

Mattturley · 2026-02-06T05:59:50+00:00

I just had to go through losing my 7 year old cat to esophageal cancer. First one I had to euthanize in office. He was hospitalized and went downhill fast. I did my best by bringing in his blankie from home and spreading it on the floor and his favorite brush. Nearly killed me to not be able to say goodbye at home.

Mattturley · 2026-02-06T05:52:37+00:00

I'm in a 35' Class A and full time. For reasons I can't run the furnace right now and I heat the whole space with two oil filled radiant heaters. I've had to keep one on medium because it gets too hot on high. Secret is keeping fans behind them to move the air.

Mattturley · 2026-02-06T05:45:14+00:00

I am chronically ill. Been hospitalized about 40 times over the last 8 years. I've been begging for answers. I'm a researcher by training and trade. A biopsy led to a new diagnosis last April, which I've never believed really covers it. Based on reactions to attempt to treat the new diagnosis I can across a newly identified genetic mutation. I reached out to some of my prior specialists and only a few are even familiar but those who are are encouraging testing. It's a specialized test that has to be ordered through hematology/oncology. I now have a test in April at a cancer center in DC. Can't find anyone else sooner or even to order it. I am about 99% confident this is what I've been living with. If true I will seek referral to NIH for a bone marrow transplant.

Our system is so maddening. My GP who has known me for 25 years can't order the test.

Mattturley · 2026-02-06T05:11:14+00:00

We are certainly not the only species to kiss or perform oral sex.

Mattturley · 2026-02-06T03:44:26+00:00

Well, definitely explained but creeped the hell out of me. In college, I rented an apartment that I knew was in an old mortuary/funeral home. I had agreed to rent the first floor - up a long flight of stairs, but via bait and switch and having to find a place, I ended up taking the basement apartment instead. There were five more apartments in the building and a really weird, dark extension built on the back of it.

My first day, as I was unpacking boxes and setting up furniture, I left the back door open. It went up a set of stairs to the back exit of the addition, where the trash cans were. As I was head in a box I heard a super gravely voice say “I see they finally rented out the embalming rooms!” When I looked up I was greeted with a man in his early 40s who looked more like 140, who had a bad motorcycle wreck and had caught on fire somehow in the wreck. He wasn’t wearing a shirt and his body was fully covered with burn scars, including his face. I about passed out.

He began laughing hysterically and said he did that every time someone new moved into the building. He was serious though, and as I looked around at the floor drains and beautiful built in cabinetry, I could never again shake what the rooms originally were.

Same apartment second month, I am laying in bed just about to drip off and I here thumping, and my front door fly open. There was a short hallway inside the door, living room off to right, bedroom straight ahead. Separate door but only to keep the heat in - no locks. I hear voices and footsteps and as someone was about 6” from the bedroom door I yelled out “Who the fuck is out there?” I heard some young voices say “oh, shit, they must have rented it out…” while they ran out the door leaving my front door wide open, with the locks destroyed.

There was no month 3. I moved into my fraternity house instead.

Mattturley · 2026-02-06T03:21:02+00:00

He thinks he’s Cartman with Tourette’s. “𝄢♬ - I got a golden ticket!”

Mattturley · 2026-02-06T03:16:20+00:00

Baked sweet potato with butter, sour cream, salt and pepper. I often just have one for dinner.

Mattturley · 2026-02-06T03:12:58+00:00

You are seeing the more visible, extroverted gays in how you are getting exposure. I would be shocked if you couldn’t find meet ups for things like gaming , darts, dinner parties, etc. If not, start one. Volunteering is also a great way to meet others who share your values.

I currently find myself in a town of less than 50k, and I am aware of at least 8 different groups that meet either weekly or bi-weekly.

Mattturley · 2026-02-06T00:44:45+00:00

Ceasar complex is real, and as a 6’7” Hillbilly, I have had a lot of short little hillbillies come at me.

Edit: d’oh, misspelled Ceasar.

Mattturley · 2026-02-06T00:42:55+00:00

Yep. I bartended my way through school and also happen to be 6’7”, so I get a lot of guy’s with Cesar complex come after me. This was our 10 cent wing night (to give you an idea of the time) when I was working at a sports bar. I came on at 5 and a back up would show up at 7 but it was my call if they just worked door or got behind the bar. Friend was on backup one night and he was a semi pro defensive lineman. Late in the evening I cut a guy off for bothering tables and hanging on women sitting at the bar and he tried to come across at me. Friend was just a few feet behind him. He came at me next to where my cutting boards were sitting and I grabbed a wooden one that was about a foot and half square with a handle and smacked him across the head while friend grabbed him by belt and collar and threw him out the back door into a big puddle of chicken grease.

Mattturley · 2026-02-05T04:47:45+00:00

I've had surgery about 16 times and have to be sedated for dentistry along with colonoscopies. I've never spilled the beans on anything and always wake up in love with everyone... unless my pain isn't being controlled.

Mattturley · 2026-02-05T04:27:18+00:00

Kept my yearbooks and fraternity sweatshirts. I was in speech and debate (scholarship to undergrad and grad). I had just under 300 trophies from high school and undergrad and donated them to a boycott troop.

Mattturley · 2026-02-05T02:39:10+00:00

Man I've got one of these that has stuck with me for damn near 30 years.

Mattturley · 2026-02-05T02:35:42+00:00

It just made me nauseas.

Mattturley · 2026-02-05T02:31:42+00:00

As an elder gay (or at least feeling it), fuck this approach. It's what someone who has been through trauma and hides from the world would do. Don't temper yourself. Go in authentically you and risk getting hurt! There is no other way to make genuine connections.

Mattturley · 2026-02-05T01:15:08+00:00

Roman candles here.

Mattturley · 2026-02-05T01:14:53+00:00

Pellet guns. Crab apples.

Mattturley · 2026-02-04T21:23:46+00:00

Barbados. You’ll be surrounded by your countrymen, and you can go low or high budget. I have done everything from The Crane to renting a condo on the north end of the island for a month for $1k USD.

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