The Beer Bar

We have a forum upgrade that will happen tomorrow and the site will be down about 2-3 hours. My apologies in advance of this.

The President died last night. May he RIP. I do wonder if this will open up doors for better relations with USA or have the past many years really made America the evil devils in the minds of the people there? I was friends with many from this country back in the 1980's and they love America. I hope we can once again have a better relationship.

I don't know if this kid is gay, or will be, but he certainly deserves mention here regardless. He's a very sweet and modest young man who does not give up. He solicited 200 researchers with proposals to work in their labs, but got rejected. Now that he's won top prize at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, he's turning some heads. This story is incredibly interesting. Here is a video describing his project: http://www.bradaronson.com/jack-andraka/

Who knew? Today is, apparently, National Grammar Day. How Do We Love Thee, Grammar? Count the Ways on Grammar Day Jen Doll Grammar. It's a beautiful thing, or a thing that is beautiful. In its honor there is National Grammar Day, a day that grammarians have been celebrating since 2008, as instituted by Martha Brockenbrough, founder of the Society for the Promotion of Good Grammar. She picked that particular date because it's a sentence: March forth. That day, Grammar Day, is today. So, you like words! You care about punctuation! Perhaps you're wondering, What in heaven's name should I do to honor such a day? It might be tempting to grab the nearest red pen and sta…

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http://youtu.be/QPKKQnijnsM Shocking Video if you watch it all the way.

A nurse at a Bakersfield nursing home just stood by and let a patient die as the home has a policy of not administrating CPR. The desperation in the 911 operators voice is painful to hear ... http://news.msn.com/us/police-investigate-after-nurse-refuses-to-do-cpr-woman-dies

Hired in a year? Lifetime to date? At one time? These questions may have been asked before, but I am curious if there is a "average number" that applies. For example, a typical year would 5 or 10 be a average? Did your number of hires go down when street hustling and/or rentboy bars like Stella's and Numbers went out of business?

Justice prevails. The appeals court of the supreme court of Vietnam ruled on Friday that two young men who conspired to rob and murder a gay man in April should not have their sentences reduced. Luu Phuong Dong, 20, and Nguyen Quoc Thai, 22, both natives of Long An Province murdered Trieu Chi Tam, 30, of Tien Giang province, in order to steal his motor scooter and other valuables to solve their money problems. Dong had befriended Tam online earlier that year and a few months later decided to murder Tam to rob him of his assets and then enlisted Thai to help him carry out the crime. On April 27 Dong asked Tam to meet him in a deserted area near an industr…

We have so many gay marriage threads now, I couldn't decide which one this belonged in, so I started yet another one. Do we really threaten straight families? This spoof humorously dramatizes what some mom and dads may be thinking. Funny and kind of pathetic. NOTE: Look carefully at the little girl's eyes as she is being hugged near the end.

This show is a fun show to watch, but totally unrealistic. All of her male clients are extremely hot guys. That would never happen. . .but it makes for great eye candy to watch on TV.

I've never heard of Adam Hill or The Last Leg, but he took issue with Joan Rivers for making fat jokes about Adele on Twitter and with David Letterman. I'm right there with Hill on this subject, because I've long thought that Joan lost the ability to be funny and had gone straight for crude and cruel over the last several years. Warning: NSFW language. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0S1NafWijNc

Every once in a while, a commercial really hits my emotions. This one gets me every time I see it. The fact that is a Subaru commercial doesn't even matter. This little girl is so cute. I think we all can identify with her reticence about going to school for the first time. . . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UO6ztkW4ulw

Funny video from the drag queens that did the Chic Fil A one...

Yesterday I learned the pretty spectacular news that actress Kathy Bates has signed on to star in the upcoming third season of American Horror Story. Today we learn from AHS creator/writer Ryan Murphy himself that Bates‘s character on the show will be bad … really, really bad … like the baddest ever. These new comments were made by Ryan in an interview with TVLine and it sounds like he went out of his way to let us know that Kathy‘s character will be, like, seriously bad. HMMM.

Yes, it is time for me to start a topic on the Golden Oldies, songs from the 50s all the way up to the 90s. Songs that I grew up with, songs that I sung in school concerts, songs that were played on the radio during my/our formative years. Most of the forum readers would have known, by now, that I am your typical (another stereotyping here) gay.. likes Broadway, show tunes, big band.. all that song and dance routine. In this topic, I am inviting my fellow forum users to enjoy non-English music Yes, there are scores of wonderful singers out there, the Chinese, the Japanese and the Taiwanese (not to mention Thai singers too..). 2 of the more outstanding one…

I had to share this from another site. . .

Worcestershire sauce A bottle as bought on a street corner. Most addicts take it intravenously, but the entire bottle can be used as a rectal suppository Worcestershire sauce (symbol W, number 74) is a rare transition metal first isolated by the British chemists J. Lea and W. Perrins in 1837. It is most commonly found as an oxide ore in the highest peaks of the mountain ranges of Norfolk. Renowned for its extreme toxicity and acidity, it is twice as corrosive as sulphuric acid and significantly more poisonous than your typical plutonium/cyanide mixture. Because of this, it has found high popularity amongst many Englishmen as an invaluable addition to cookery. His…

About 30 percent of heart attacks, strokes and deaths from heart disease can be prevented in people at high risk if they switch to a Mediterranean diet rich in olive oil, nuts, beans, fish, fruits and vegetables, and even drink wine with meals, a large and rigorous new study has found. The findings, published on The New England Journal of Medicine’s Web site on Monday, were based on the first major clinical trial to measure the diet’s effect on heart risks. The magnitude of the diet’s benefits startled experts. The study ended early, after almost five years, because the results were so clear it was considered unethical to continue. The diet helped those followin…