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  1. I don't really think someone in your professional circle merely finding out you browse a site like Curvage would be putting your job in jeopardy. It's not a crime to say you find bigger women attractive. But to the points already being made in reply, here are some other things to think about or consider: - Don't bring your personal life into your professional life by default. It's okay to befriend coworkers, but be mindful of what personal info you share with them. I've had precisely zero conversations with colleagues about what adult sites we visit, and I intend on keeping it that way. - Do not use anything of/from your work for personal pleasures. This includes work equipment (laptop, cell phone, office Internet, etc) as well as work time/location (on the clock, in the office, etc). The IT departments in most companies keep a very detailed history of office network and work device activity. Use your work devices as if someone is watching your screen over your shoulder at any given time. - Keep your main social media profiles "PG rated". More and more workplaces are encroaching on their employees personal social media, with policies that give them just cause for termination if they fear your online activities will hurt the company image/brand. - If you are still worried/concerned, use anonymity to your advantage. Be mindful of what personal info you share in blogs and forums. If you share photos/videos online, strip the EXIF data from the files before uploading them. I'm not trying to advocate living a double life or anything like that, but this is general info that applies to the broader topic of protecting yourself online. Keep your personal life on your personal devices, and be mindful of who you can trust with what levels of personal information in your career.
  2. When a forum member posts to an old thread, it gets pushed to the very top of the board. That's why there is the warning about posting in threads that have no new content in the last 30 days. We discourage "any new updates?" type replies in old threads. Please refer to the "don't demand" section of the rules for more information.
  3. I'm a car enthusiast. As my avatar shows, I own a 2021 Mustang GT - premium trim with the 6 speed manual. No modifications yet, it's a new car. Not that it needs much more power, 460hp and 420ft-lbs of torque has been plenty every time I take it out for a drive 😃 I do a lot of basic maintenance stuff on my vehicles, but not much beyond that. I've only installed things like cold-air intakes, nothing major for engine or performance. Modern engines have too many wires and computers, I'm erring towards paying someone else to do it anymore. I'm currently hating life after doing spark plugs on my F-150 - the 2.7L ecoboost has the flimsiest ignition coil connectors. The little plastic tabs love to break off, and the pin guide/connector just disappeared on the one after removing it from the ignition coil. I ended up bending the pins on the one coil, causing a misfire on cylinder 5. What should have been a 45 minute job has now turned into several hours of my cussing and swearing about one tiny piece of plastic rendering an entire truck worthless 😩. The new spark plug for cylinder 1 was bad too - first time I've seen a brand new plug be completely DOA. I got it back together and cleared the misfire, but I'm not about to redo all the wiring for the ignition coil harness. So off to the shop it goes, to end up costing 2-3x more than it should have, if I had just had the shop change the plugs in the first place 🤑. Anyways, I also enjoy watching professional racing and going to car shows. It's fun to see the classics restored to mint condition, or a modified classic that brings it into the 21st century.
  4. Here's a thread that has a lot of the history of Curvage and its predecessors, for anyone interested in that topic: I was a moderator since day one of Curvage, carried over from the FatCelebs website it replaced. I came to the community initially to validate my own preferences and feelings towards bigger women. I stick around because I want others to have that same opportunity, to find confidence and acceptance in who they are 🙂
  5. I can understand this viewpoint, just as I can understand the fundamental definition of "health at any size". As I touched on in my previous post, I think a lot of people live in denial after that no longer applies to them, and that's what bothers me. It's just like a functioning alcoholic convincing themselves that they are fine because they haven't hit XYZ wall yet (DUI, s**t-faced before noon, loss of job, etc). It's one thing to take the risks while knowing and understanding them, it's another to deny a downward slide into repercussions after taking too many risks. To touch on a different diet-related health problem, take kidney stones for example. I unfortunately suffer from them, I found out the hard way two years ago with a trip to the ER after immense pain in my back. Part of the plan laid out by my urologist to prevent further stones includes dietary changes - limiting my intake of nuts, cocoa, potatoes, certain vegetables like spinach, etc. Up until that point, I enjoyed all of those things in my diet. But after experiencing the most acute pain in my life, that wake up call made me realize "no kidney stones with any diet" wasn't true for me anymore, so I made the changes. I could sit here and convince myself about how the diet stuff is all a crock, that it's genetics, etc., but I won't. I've reduced those things in my diet, and drink a lot more water each day.
  6. I'm into that unawareness element as well, especially if it gets followed up by nonchalant acceptance. I had a good friend from high school and college that went from busty slim to chubby, and most of the weight went to her belly and thighs. She was on the short side, maybe 5'1", and gained about 30 pounds after high school. She never changed her wardrobe, so her deepening innie belly button and love handles were usually only covered by a too-small shirt riding up over her low rise jeans. She eventually acknowledged she put on weight, blamed it on all of the dinner dates with various guys and stress eating through college coursework. We had a platonic relationship, I'd give her back/shoulder massages after a few drinks. I think she knew I liked it, she had a teasing tone when she'd talk about it, lol.
  7. It's never been about the taboo for me personally, I don't really care what others think when it comes to what I find attractive. Most of the guys I know that try to fat shame women are no prizes themselves, I usually point that out and they shut up or change the conversation topic. In a good portion of the world, the average person is at least overweight. How can being in the majority be taboo? Forget Hollywood standards, they grow more and more disconnected when the average woman is 5'4" and 170 lbs. I was reading Bill Bryson's The Body a few months ago, and according to his research, the average female today weighs as much as the average male did in the 1960s, but is hardly any taller than the average female from the 1960s. That's an increase of almost 30 pounds on average.
  8. #2 is a red herring argument... Best not to combine the points of debate on accidental "point in time" health crises and avoidable "decline over time" health crises. Someone getting an STD has nothing to do with being fat, and vice versa. #4 ignores a cost to society, often measured in actual monetary cost. https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/obesity-prevention-source/obesity-consequences/economic/. There is a morality to it, when a mostly preventable medical condition puts a strain on the same medical system that has to also handle mostly coincidental medical conditions. Even the economic cost aside, decisions made to continue behavior that causes declining health often has a physical and emotional burden on family members (see below...). Opinions expressed here remind me of the "guns don't kill people, death kills people" argument, which I don't agree with either. Yes, thin people can end up with the same health complications as overweight people. Thin people can still have diabetes, high blood pressure, cardiovascular disease, etc. I am against calling those sorts of afflictions solely health problems of the overweight, I'm in agreement there. However, as someone who has watched a family member's poor diet nearly kill them over the past 5 years, to ignore a correlation is to stick one's head in the sand. Did that person's weight directly cause the continued type 2 diabetes complications, including complete kidney failure, heart failure, and ultimately amputation of both legs beneath the knees? No, I won't say that with any high level of conviction. But my father-in-law's poor diet, continued in defiance of the repeated medical advice given by doctors, expressed itself in both obesity and wildly out of control diabetes. Their life is forever altered by their "choice" to keep eating sugar and carbs like a teenager going through a growth spurt, and my wife, her siblings, and myself, are left with having to deal with the consequences. They can no longer live or get around on their own, and must now live in an assisted living facility. When their ride to dialysis falls through (has to go 3x a week), my wife, brother-in-law, or myself must take time out of our day to get them to and from the dialysis center. We have to help with all sorts of mobility concerns, like getting up a few steps to get into a house, or getting in and out of a car. So, to the point "if it doesn't hurt you personally it is really none of your business", I cannot possibly disagree any more with this beyond selfish point of view. You are always impacting someone close in your life in the decisions you make. Even if death by poor diet comes suddenly in the form of a massive heart attack or stroke, you cause grief to those who cared about you. When it comes to the point where one's health is in jeopardy, and a medical suggestion is to try to improve diet, which would most likely also reduce one's weight, I choose quality of life over all else. To me, that's no different than the common medical wake-up calls alcoholics and drug abusers often face in their own afflictions. To just say "yeah, but they're enjoying life, and it's their choice" to a loved one teetering on the edge of no return... That's not in me to say carry on to that individual. I've been living this hell of someone else's selfish destructive behaviors for years now, and it's taken a toll on me. Yes, I still like BBWs and SSBBWs, even after all that I have detailed above. I cannot change who I am in that regard. I still find my wife incredibly attractive. But if she gets a health scare and the medical advice is to improve diet and exercise more, you better believe I'm getting behind that effort.
  9. Are you looking for a long-term relationship, or a hook-up to satisfy sexual energy? If it's the former, get to know the person a bit before diving into intimate fantasies. Being so up front with what you like can be off-putting for people looking to be serious in their dating options. How would putting your love of chubby girls in your profile be any different than a guy putting "I love huge boobs" on his profile? Try to have a dating identity beyond what turns you on. Unless online dating has changed (I met my wife on match years ago), you could filter potential matches by their reported body type. I looked for women who were honest about their body type, and were either indifferent or accepting about being plus sized. That was more important to me in the long term, to find someone comfortable in their own skin. Being with someone seriously requires investing in their sense of self, not just their physical appearance.
  10. Where the road itself is the destination... West coast dream trip: Blue Ridge Mountains "Tail of the Dragon", Blue Ridge Parkway: Florida A1A all the way to Key West: All of those ideally driven by putting some miles on my avatar car. California is the "dreamiest" of the three, it'd be 2K+ miles before California Highway 1 comes into view, lol. Places I've driven / road-tripped, and were awesome to visit via car: I-70 west of Denver CO, through the mountains (driving experience, sightseeing) Dallas / Austin / San Antonio / Padre Island, TX (put 1200+ miles on a rental car in a week) I-77, Charleston WV to Fancy Gap VA, through the mountains (driving experience, sightseeing) Buffalo NY / Niagara Falls / Toronto (sightseeing, wine country) M-72 / US 31 in northern Michigan - Sleeping Bear Dunes / Traverse City / Elk Rapids / Charlevoix / Petoskey / Mackinac Island. I've seen 4 out of the 5 great lakes, and Lake Michigan is my favorite
  11. Just about everyone knows them for Africa, but as Rick Beato points out here with Rosanna, there's a lot of talent to be found in the band.
  12. Okay, then explain this one away for gorillas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorilla#Social_structure I'd argue human social interactions are more closely related to apes than canines, and I've never heard of a "lone gorilla" 🤷‍♂️
  13. This feature might not be 100% what you are looking for, but you can click on the area next to a thumbnail, where it shows the # of hits and photo size. When you do that, a carousel view opens up, and you can toggle through each photo in full size:
  14. I can't wait for modern tech to get to the point where I can have a Social Enhancer like Jensen in Deus Ex. It'll make things sooo much easier. "Yep, this is a Chad, attempt reverse psychology". So, pardon my ignorance, but is a sigma personality akin to alpha, but more introverted (i.e. does not need to rely on the "pack" to feed their feeling of superiority/dominance)?
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