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That I know of, no weapon capable of vaporizing an entire city has yet been used in Afghanistan. So, what would lead you to believe weapons of that nature would be used on our own soil against our own citizens, and who exactly would you think would follow orders to use them on their fellow citizens?
David, this morning I added my two cents to today's poll question over on the NRO website. The question of the day was---> Does Obama play too much golf?
I checked (No) My own reasoning being, that, the more time he spends with his fingers wrapped around the handle of a 9 iron, means less time he'll spend thumbing through launch codes.
Apparently 20% (if you can read such things into polls) of respondents think the same as I do, and 80% do not.
I don't think anyone is proposing to overthrow the government. And if so, I can't imagine an armed charge on D.C.
The 2nd Amendment was a reasonable response -- written by people who had just fought a war to free themselves from an overbearing, tax-hungry government (British).
As 'straight-faced' as it gets ----- Those who don't own any firearms have made that choice, and I respect their decision. But that respect needs to travel both ways. I can guarantee my home is made safer (to me) with the presence of firearms, and the ability to use them. So I'll be keeping mine, thanks!
Golf may not be the safe-haven either.
Today's Oregonian editorial page had a cartoon showing Obama and Tiger on the golf course. Obama asking a perplexed Tiger, 'Have I told you of my views on redistribution of strokes?'
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Please don't put words in my mouth. Never have I implied or advocated for any overthrow of our government at any level. Those are your own words, not mine. There have been acts of civil disobedience in our country, some have been much more grander in scale than some others.
Typically, your more raucous un-lawful acts and/or grand gestures such as full-blown rioting in the streets, rage against the machine anarchy crowd, tend to think more like you do, and not such like a conservative thinker such as myself, would tend to.
I am not putting words in your mouth. I am referring to an argument that I have heard and seen made repeatedly in the weeks since Newtown -- in print, online, in the blogosphere, on Twitter, etc. I've seen it here at the Newsregister online forum. Those that I'm thinking of were not made by you.
And as long as we're on the subject of putting words in others' mouths, please do not presume that the "rage against the machine anarchy crowd"(a description so vague as to be meaningless) thinks like I do, or that I think like they do, whoever "they" are.
Then I owe you a sincere apology for having placed my own thoughts into your mind. Never been good any at mind reading, I'll make a point to refrain from doing so from here on out.
I am going to take at least a month, possibly longer, hiatus from commenting.
Good night.
When you stated, "You shouldn't have any difficulty imagining it.", I presume you were referring to my not 'imagining' an armed charge on D.C. I still don't!
The citizens of this country may be mad as hell at the government from time to time, but most would rather live here than any other country.
As for 'pressing a button to murder millions', that's a dictatorial style of enforcement, and never witnessed in the U.S., to my recollection. Sensationalism, at best.
Lastly, those who don't own or haven't used guns will always have difficulty understanding the mindset of a gun owner and his/her rights. And there is no substitute for the experience.
You are basically, making my own point: To listen to the rhetoric of the gun rights constituency (which, I realize, comprises a range of opinion) you would think that they think that an "armed march" on Washington D.C. (an insurrection, in other words, regardless of where it occurs) at some point in the future, under certain conditions, might be necessary. And so long as that's a possibility, the logic goes, we all need to have our guns so we're prepared for battle ... with, obviously, the most powerful military machine on the planet.
This is a ridiculous argument, and to say that you literally can't imagine it bodes well, I think. I can't imagine it either. It's laugh-out-loud absurd.
As for my point about obliterating a city, I wasn't necessarily suggesting that the government would resort to such measures. I was only alluding to the exponentially vast military superiority (to lay down an 'armed march,' for example) of the U.S. government by referring to its most powerful weaponry.
Even so: It isn't necessary to have a "dictatorial" form of government to "press the button." I refer to Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Protecting one's property is only one issue of gun ownership.
When my friends and I cut firewood, weapons are present (cougar). Yes, a chainsaw is quite a formidable form of protection, but not all duties with our work require the saws to be running. And being in the woods when a nearby cougar lets out a scream, the adrenaline stream is quite impressive and immediate. Hairs you never knew existed raise and tingle on the back of your neck. So being armed is not only comforting, but somewhat necessary.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki -- not domestic unrest, but foreign war -- and no 'button'. A bomber(s) with mission instructions was the delivery system.
But your are correct on gun ownership. The reasons vary by individual, and cover a large range.
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Location: Interdisciplinary Science Building (ISB) 219
Hours: Tue & Thur noon to 1 PM
My current research interests include application of biophysical and bioinorganic methods to studies of enzyme catalysis. The results of these studies could be applicable to medicinal chemistry (IDO project), catalytic oxygenation (HO project), biological electron transfer processes (SOR project), atmospheric chemistry (NOR project), and clean energy production (HydA project). Individual research projects in my research group involve enzyme expression, organic and inorganic synthesis, and a variety of instrumentation measurements. I joined the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry as an Assistant Professor in 2009. I moved to Missoula from Baltimore where I was a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Chemistry at the Johns Hopkins University. While in Baltimore, I was studying mechanisms of electron transfer in synthetic and biological systems, including redox chemistry of copper complexes and application of oxygen isotope effects to inorganic and enzymatic reactions. I finished my undergraduate training and received a Diploma of Higher Education at the Higher Chemical College of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia. My graduate work in physical organic chemistry was performed at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. I am a member of the Center for Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics (CBSD) and the interdepartmental Biochemistry Program.
Post-Doctoral Fellow – Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
Ph.D. (2004) – University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Diploma of Higher Education/M.S. (1998) – Higher Chemical College, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
Teaching Experience
CHMY 104 – Introduction to Chemistry (Fall 2009, Fall 2010, Fall 2011)
BCH 111 – Biochemistry of Life laboratory (Spring 2010, Spring 2011)
CHMY 630 – Departmental Seminars (Spring 2010)
Research Interests
Approaching the Mechanism of Indoleamine Dioxygenase (IDO) Dioxygenases catalyze incorporation of both oxygen atoms from O2 into their substrates. In humans, there are two dioxygenases that initiate L-tryptophan (L-Trp) catabolism via the kynurenine pathway. One is tryptophan 2,3-dioxygenase (TDO), another is indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase (IDO). Since L-Trp depletion has a profound effect on T cell proliferation, differentiation, effector function and viability, uncontrolled dioxygenase activity leads to pathogenesis. High dioxygenase activity is a marker for poor cancer prognosis. As a result, these enzymes are attractive drug targets for cancer immunotherapy. Despite great effort in elucidating dioxygenase mechanism, there are gaps in our understanding of catalysis by these enzymes. The main goal of this research project is to determine the mechanism of oxygen-dependent steps in catalysis by IDO. The sturcture of the enzyme is shown on the right (drawn from 2D0T PDB coordinates using DS Visualizer). The specific aims are: 1) to identify the rate-limiting step in catalysis by IDO, 2) to establish the nature of reactive intermediate and 3) to determine the timing and energetics of electron transfer/proton transfer during catalysis and whether the protein-based amino acid radicals mediate electron transfer from L-Trp to O2. Measurements of oxygen kinetic isotope effects (18O KIE) by competitive fractionation of O2 isotopologues form the core of these studies. For sequential kinetics, the order of substrate addition is being probed by measurement of 18O KIE. To identify the rate limiting step of the catalytic cycle, effects of viscosity, pH, temperature and D2O on steady-state parameters and on 18O KIE are being determined.
Directed evolution of heme oxygenase (hHO-1) Heme oxygenase (HO), a membrane-bound enzyme which catalyzes catabolism of heme with release of Fe(II), formation of carbon monoxide (CO) and biliverdin, utilizes protonated Fe(III)OOH species as an active catalyst for heme hydroxylation. The enzymatic reaction is very regioselective – only the α-meso position in heme is oxygenated by native mammalian HO. Comparison of HO to cytochrome P450 highlights the importance of heme microenvironment during catalysis. Both enzymes generate reactive intermediates upon protonation of a transiently-formed iron hydroperoxide species; however, in cytochrome P450 this leads to formation of Compound I (which performs the oxygenation of a substrate), and in heme oxygenase heme is oxygenated without formation of Compound I. It was proposed that catalytic pathways in these enzymes are very sensitive to geometry of hydrogen-bonding networks within the distal amino acid pockets. We probe this sensitivity by creating HO mutants that demonstrate P450-like activity. Directed evolution is used to engineer these mutants. Fluorogenic substrates based on 7-ethoxycoumarin are used for the whole-cell enzymatic assays.
Electron transfer during catalysis by superoxide reductase (SOR) The superoxide reductases (SOR) are the non-heme iron enzymes that convert superoxide anion into hydrogen peroxide. Unlike superoxide dismutases (SOD), which catalyze disproportionation of superoxide into dioxygen and hydrogen peroxide: 2O2•– + 2H+ = O2 + H2O2, SORs catalyze only the reduction of O2•– resulting in formation of H2O2 without any O2 production: O2•– + 2H+ + e– = H2O2. The active site of SOR contains a non-heme iron coordinated by four equatorial histidine residues and one axial cysteine. In the catalytically-active ferrous form of the enzyme, the high-spin (S = 2) iron is square pyramidal with an empty solvent-exposed sixth coordination site. In its oxidized form, the active-site iron is high spin (S = 5/2) with a glutamate coordinated to its sixth position. The specific aims of this projects are: 1) to determine the mode of electron transfer from reduced superoxide reductase to the superoxide anion (O2•–) and the timing of the proton transfer event, 2) to establish the reactivity pattern of reduced superoxide reductase with hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), 3) to elucidate the influence of the protein metal environment on the reactivity with O2•– and H2O2. Of particular interest are the factors that determine cleavage of the Fe-O bond vs. the O-O bond.
Instrumentation in the lab My laboratory is equipped for synthetic chemistry and biochemical research. In addition to commercial equipment we utilize several custom-built devices designed for studying reactions of dioxygen and reactive oxygen species.
Selected Publications
Ayodele O. Kolawole, Brian P. Hixon, Laura S. Dameron, Ian M. Chrisman, Valeriy V. Smirnov "Catalysis of L-Tryptophan Dioxygenation by Human Indoleamine 2,3-Dioxygenase 1 (hIDO1) Proceeds via Random Binding of Substrates" In preparation
Valeriy V. Smirnov and Justine P. Roth "Tyrosine Oxidation in Heme Oxygenase: Examination of Long-Range Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer" Submitted to JBIC
Valeriy V. Smirnov and Justine P. Roth "Why Metabolic Processes Fractionate Oxygen Isotopes" in Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta (Supplement 1, Goldschmidt 2009 Abstracts) 2009, 73, A1239, http://goldschmidt.info/2009/abstracts/finalPDFs/A1239.pdf
Valeriy V. Smirnov, Michael P. Lanci, Justine P. Roth "Computational Modeling of Oxygen Isotope Effects on Metal-Mediated O2 Activation at Varying Temperatures" in J. Phys. Chem. A (Max Wolfsberg Festschrift) 2009,113, 1934, http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jp807796c
For a full list of publications, please view Smirnov Publications
Field of Study
Mechanistic studies of enzymatic oxygenation and oxidation reactions using biophysical and bioinorganic approaches, interactions of transition metals with small molecules, oxidation of simple carbohydrates
International Experience
In June of 2009 I participated in a geochemical conference – Goldschmidt™2009 – "Challenges to Our Volatile Planet." The week-long event was held in Davos, Switzerland, a small town/mountain resort in the eastern Alps. Davos sits at 1 mile above the sea level and is best known for hosting every January a World Economic Forum annual meeting.
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Materials: Patrull air cleaner, switch
Description: For some bizarre reason, the Patrull air cleaner doesn't have an off switch. It's annoying to always have to pull and insert the plug, hence this hack.
I cut the cable and added a generic cable switch. Problem solved
Note: I'm sure this hack voids your warranty. I don't explain the details because you shouldn't attempt something like this if you're not knowledgeable enough about electronics that you'd need an explanation…
~ Eli, Belgium
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For such things I just use a switchable power outlet adaptor, like this:
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Another way to solve this problem is to put a wireless power switch in the power-outlet and then connecting the Patrull to that.
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Last week, I changed a light bulb in my Ikea lamp. Should I write it up, since obviously anything qualifies as "hack" now?
since the device is a Class II-appliance which is secure for use without "earth", modification using any cheap switch like this potetially makes the device dangerous.
The tip should be removed or marked as not recommended, -
goran, imagine how dangerous it would be if it were switched on 100% of the time!
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Hi there. How long have these been available where you are? I see them on the IKEA sites of other countries but none in the US yet.
this is how it is done without stupid modifications:
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Wow… yeah, it's not that impressive just adding a switch to a cord… but is there really any reason for you commenters to be jerks to the poster?
Yes, it's easy and kind of a pointless post without any instructions, but being mean is even LESS useful.
The air filter is meant to run 24 hours a day for maximum benefit – it is designed to do this and at an extremely low power wattage (£8 / year).


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These pencils are covered with a piece of plastic. When you sharpen the end, the plastic breaks making it hard to sharpen correctly. My daughter peeled the damaged plastic off and the personalization came off with it! Disappointing!
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THE PROS: [...] It was nice to have the personalization feature, since I was using these for a church girls' group Christmas gift. THE USAGE: I actually wanted pencils half this size to fit into some glitter coin purses (from another company) with small post-it notepads (from yet another source), so I broke the unsharpened pencils in half and sharpened the broken ends for golf pencils (one with, one without eraser for each girl). ONE PROBLEM: My plan worked out great, except that when I sharpened the pencils, the lead points kept breaking off. They just wouldn't get sharp! I don't think it was the sharpener I was using because one of the 48 pencils I ordered sharpened just fine. ANOTHER PROBLEM: Also, the glitter is contained underneath a plastic casing, which makes for a glittery mess when you're sharpening them. OVERALL, I was dissatisfied with my order and I hope I don't hear too many complaints from the girls about the presents they received.


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those pics are not sexy.
Its only sexy when the guy doesnt know his balls or dick is showing.
LAst week i was talking to this dude for 15 minutes and the whole time he never knew i was checking out his dick head, so hot
those pics are not sexy.
Its only sexy when the guy doesnt know his balls or dick is showing.
LAst week i was talking to this dude for 15 minutes and the whole time he never knew i was checking out his dick head, so hot
With str8 men, all you need is time.
This thread needs more pics!!!
I remember in High School, when we were getting changed for PE, one of my mates used to sit on a bench with one leg bent upwards. He had extremely loose boxers and PE shorts, which meant I saw all. Sadly he wasn't gifted in the size department, but I still watched every week.
Another time, again during PE, one of the guys who'd slept around and all the girls commented on how big his dick was had an accident. He fell and his shorts road up showing everyone around his dick and balls. Anyone that was there would tell you that it was like looking at a tic tac, with two peas next to it. He eventually left the school for boarding school, which sadly didn't work out for him.
My first experience was when I was 13 in Florida, I was swimming at a public pool and a guy sitting at the pool side was giving me a show on purpose....it drove me nuts! Another time was a couple years later when my neighbor friend was over swimming, we were wrestling in the pool and he fell out of his shorts. I grabbed for it playing around and it leaded to lots of messing around after that, Lots of hot stories...
thats a whole new thread! It did lead to many firsts like oral and anal pretty much everyday we had a chance. Even did it in the pool a couple times but the hottest time was in the middle of the day when my parents were home, we took off our shorts and wrestled a while and he ended up fucking me from behind. Didn't take us too long to finish...lol. It all ended very quick though, never really knew why. He was extremely hot and had a beautiful cock and a perfect set of balls.
I was at an apartment complex pool in Maryland, outside Annapolis a couple years back. Family place, lots of kids and moms.
I was on the opposite side of the pool, lounging, and happened to look up at the life guard sitting in his raised chair. Younger kid (19-20) with pretty pale skin given his line of work. He wore a shorter shorts and a visor.
Something looked out of place, and as I paid more attention to him during the afternoon, I realized he had a RAGING red hardon sticking out of the leg of his shorts. Every once in a while he would casually drop his hand to his lap and stroke it.
He caught me watching him, and spread his legs even wider - shifted in his chair so he was more or less facing me directly.
This game went on for the best part of the afternoon, until his shift ended. I wanted so badly to follow him into the lockerroom, but had my young kids there and had to watch after them.
I had many sweaty j/o sessions in the weeks to come thanks to that little show!
Excellent report, notimeforgames; don't you love it when a supposedly straight guy is unexpectedly open-minded and cooperative!
I was sitting in a diner for some lunch and this guy walked in with an absolutely beautiful bulge in cargo shorts. He sat it at a table close enough to me so that I could look up his leg opening. As he ocassionaly moved his leg back and forth i could see way up his shorts but never far enough to even see if he had undies on. Till once he moved in a position where i got a good look way up under. I still didn't see anything, but it was obvious that he didnt have undies on, and if he did, he had a bikini at the most. I just couldnt help staring at his leg opening. I waited as long as I could hoping to see something, but he finished his lunch then stood up. Again, this absolutely gorgeous bulge just hung in his shorts. Fuck I wish I could have seen more!!!
I LOVE looking up shorts, especially if I can make out in the darkness gthe head of a circumcised cock as in
http://thecircumcisionexperience.blogspot.com/ which is free and has down and dirty pics and text with great cocks showing outta shorts
that is an great site. thanks for posting it.
this forum reminds me of the time i went to the beach. there was a guy wearing light tan shorts, well he had just gotten out of the water and you can see everything clear ,it was as he wasn't wearing anything at all. and the best part is he didn't notice it at all.
hahaha i masturbated so much to that
another story was when i was back in high school and i had a hot gym teacher, well one day he wore these shorts that gave us a good outline of his cock, he was hung like a horse. i went from hating gym to liking it in the first week
We def need more pix in here
I had a roommate in college who looked a lot like this guy. He'd lay around the apartment in running shorts and his hairy crotch and balls were always half exposed like the guy in this picture - ahh, what memories. He'd walk around in his shorts, no shirt and with his package flopping around - he was an athlete with a tight bod. In the mornings, he'd stagger out of his bedroom half asleep with a hardon leading the way... Unfortunately, he was straight and, to my knowledge, totally unaware of the HOT show he constantly putting on. Believe me, I'd have been down on him in a second if there'd been any interest....!!!
I"m bringing back this thread, cause we need more pics!!
One time during summer camp, we all had to wear these short shorts and WOW the cocks that i've seen through boxers.. mmm
I saw a guys cock go from soft to hard it was soooo hot.
Real turn on of mine, the thrill of thinking I can see something / actually seeing something!
Posted this yesterday, somewhat relevant...
"My design tech. teacher...in the workshop today, he was leaning back slightly sitting on the work surface talking to my friend, and his muscly legs (in suit trousers) rode up, revealing a huge bulge in the crotch area. Not a vbl, just this bulge I wanted to run over and release.
He is so fucking hot...not done Rugby in a couple of years, but once our changing areas were being rebuilt, so me and a few other guys who finished late had to shower with him (he's a rugby teacher too), and he has thick dick and the biggest balls I've ever seen. (in real life...little experience with guys here!)
Not only was this like a fantasy come true at the time, but as finished, I put the shower gel back on the stand, and ghrabbed my towel to wrap around myself (quicky..scared id get a boner, and he leapt over to grab the shower gel from across me, and his floppy dick flopped against my thigh...I bolted, but have been infatuated since. "
I posted that a while ago (recently), and unbelievably had my second hot experience with him just yesterday (sorta).
He was in rugby uniform in the workshop, as he was taking his group on a trip ot a game mid-lesson, an while he was chatting to the other teacher, his legs were spread totally apart, and his muscly thighs pulled his shorts so taut that it was pretty obvious he had hi thick cock to the left, DOWN THE LEG of the shorts! If he'd leaned foward, i'm sure the head would have fucking poked out!
He's so hot... *about to cum*
crap.... I wish I had pics of my favorite memory.
One of my best friends growing up and in adulthood had the nickname "dognuts" He was tall lean blonde with the hairyest legs you could imagine. His waterpolo teammates called him dognuts because he had the biggest droopiest and harriest balls you could imagine. Not to mention a pretty nice tool too.
When he had a few drinks or was stoned, you say "hey dognuts" and he would drop trow show off how low they would hang. Holy crap it was hot.
One day (after the swim team had shaved their body hair) his normally fuzzy legs were shaved clean. Since he was so hairy, someone asked just how far up he had shaved. "Did you shave your nuts too?" So he hikes up the legs of his shorts so high that one of his hairy nuts flopped out. He then showed off and explained how he had put on his tightest speedo and shaved up to the line.
Later on in college I go to his house one day. He's weaing only boxers. His cock is casually hanging out the fly. A buddy tells him to put it away, he casually looks down laughs and wiggles it back into his fly. Five minutes later it was hanging out again..... Too bad it was kind of chilly or I'm sure his nuts would have be hanging out the leg.
Finally a few years ago, we were working at a house under consturction. I'm sitting directly opposite of him at lunch, I can see straigt up the leg of his shorts (he's earing a bathing suit with a mesh liner) Low and behold, there's his right nut. Still looked fantastic after all these years. I go a good look at it for like 5 minutes. I had my sunglasses on so no one could tell. Later that day I got a really good look as that same nut was dangling out of his shorts while he was up on a ladder reaching for a wire a few feet away.
Man did I love his crotch! Of course all I got was look here and there, never got to know them personally.
really hot thread love to hear more!
I had a fraternity brother who liked to do the same thing. He was hung like a horse and was so proud of it that he was always showing it off. He came into our room one night when I was helping a new pledge with his math. He was wearing boxers and a T-shirt. He walked up to the pledge with his twanger hanging out of the fly and said, "Gary, want some of this?" I almost flipped out. If he had walked up to me and said that, I don't think I would have been able to control myself. It wasn't long before I got my opportunity with him.
Hot thread. I've had a couple of experiences. Once when I was younger I went to the local beach. And I was lying there just relaxing when this young man walked up. His family was right next to us, literally within a couple of feet. He was wearing a pair of very thin green swimming trunks. And from the angle I was lying, the sun was shining right through his trunks and you could see everything he had! Literally you could see his penis, it was semi erect, his pubes, balls and all. It was nice.
Then a couple of years ago at work, our office manager's son came by to say hello to his Mom. He was in his 30's probably. He was wearing a pair of cut offs and apparently no underwear; because when he sat down, his goods were in plain view. I just hope for his sake that his Mom didn't see them :P
And finally I will tell one on me. When I was a freshman in High School we were in P.E. class. We had to wear those short polyester shorts and a matching t-shirt. Well, we were all sitting on the gym floor doing our exercises. One of my best friends was sitting across from me. And unknown to me, my goods had come out of my underwear and were lying on the gym floor..LOL. Finally my friend told me about it. I was embarrassed to death!
Love seeing guys displaying their wares by accident or maybe not by accident. Like some of you I like to look up guys shorts whenever I get the chance. The unintentional ones are the best
At one time I sold kirby vacs. Doing the demos I sat on the floor, infront of my potential customer. In the summer months there was a few times the men were wearing cut offs, and gave a good view of the package. I really took my time with the demo. enjoying the view. With this in mind, I've had a few demos given to me. If I like the guys looks, I will spread my legs purposely and let it all fall out. One guy did enjoy it. He came over the next night to demo what he does even better.
Having become bored with the lack of freeballing photos on the web, a buddy of mine decided to create some of his own, using software to "enhance" photos...
Pick your favorite!
I have been enjoying this thread. I am excited to hear how many guys enjoy looking at guys whose junk is exposed, because I am one of the ones who loves to show it off. As I read over the stories, it seems like almost all of them feature a guy who knows perfectly well that is stuff is visible! I know I am not the only one who feels tingles of pleasure whenever anyone can see my stuff! I also hear that it is most erotic when the exposure is "accidental." That is why most of us pretend that we have no idea when our stuff is visible. But, just in case you didn't know, whenever you can see a guy's stuff, it is almost always totally intentional! I never wear underwear, and I often wear short, soft, cotton shorts, and I offer plenty of opportunities for guys to see my hard stuff under my shorts, or even the naked flesh whenever I can offer a view without being too obvious about it.
The best way I have found is to sit behind some hot guys at the beach. Then when they turn over onto their "stomachs" their line of vision goes right up my shorts, and it looks totally accidental, because my stuff is hidden away, only because of their angle, they can see right up. But as soon as they look up my shorts, I start to get hard, and eventually I am sticking totally out and they know that I am enjoying it. Sometimes I come that way, without even touching myself.
So the moral of this story is if you ever see a guy whose stuff is visible, go ahead and take a real good look -- you will both enjoy the show!
The more a guy enjoys looking at my hard dick, the more excited I get to show it off. You want a better view? Just ask. You want to bring your friends? You want to play with it? No problem at all.
I remeber one time at school sitting on a bench next to my mate Jamie in our PE kit waiting for the lesson to begin. The teacher yelled from the other side of the Busy quad "jamie why aren't you wearing your jock? I can see your balls from here!"
His Balls are purposely hanging out but the Pic is still Hot...
Who doesn't enjoy a free show? Especially if the guy has NO idea that his goodies are out there for the watching.
Gym class was fun
I remember on a journey from London to Edinburgh a guy sitting opposite me in the train with his girlfriend/wife. He was wearing a pair of skimpy adidas shorts with nothing on underneath. I could see the outline of his cock and balls but that was about it. An hour or so into the journey this guy started to kiss and talk dirty with his girlriend/wife and the bulge in his shorts grew bigger. As this was a long journey I laid down across the two seats on my side and fell asleep. I woke up some time later and saw,under the table, that this guys cock was rock hard and it wasn't only out his shorts but halfway down his leg. I pretended to still be asleep and gazed at this gift from the gods under the table for what seemed like forever. I thought that I had been discreet, but when the girl went to the toilet, the guy pulled me under the table and stuck his cock in my mouth. "Suck on that you filthy queer" he shouted. The whole carriage turned to look, but, me being under the table, all they saw was him. He allowed me to give him a quick blow job and just before his girlfriend/wife came back he made me lick his white puma trainers. For the rest of the journey this guys trainers were constantly in my face. I also had the most magnificent view of the most magnificent cock.
Once in the locker room we were changing and I saw it, a nice fat Dick with some pretty big balls swinging in the loosely fitted boxer of one of the cutest guys in my class. I don't think he knew I was watching buy ever sense then he wore basketball shorts over his boxers. Got dammit!!!
this is a great thread!
Bump...Come guys, this is a cool thread...
Has anyone else looked up their Dads shorts when he is sleeping?
I love looking up guys shorts. I remember a few years ago I went to visit a good friend of mine at his apartment and he was walking around in some thin bball shorts and no underwear. His meat was bouncing all over the place and I didn't miss a bounce. After eating he fell asleep on the couch with his legs wide open. I turned the lights on to get a good view and got a great shot down his shorts legs to see his big balls, dick, ass crack, and pubes. It was so hot because he had some big saggy, hairy nuts!
What a hot ass story man! Oh man, i would have been looking too. My roommate used to check me out in college too and I'd flash him on purpose just for the hell of it. I'd have on a pair of loose soccer shorts and would spread my legs from time to time knowing he would see my nuts hanging.
A few more for everyone's enjoyment -- if duplicates of previous postings, my apologies...
Catching a glimpse of some dude's dick/balls through his loose shorts is the sexiest mistake a guy can make. It's EXTREMELY exciting .
I remember last Halloween a few friends and I had gone to party at this dude's house for the festivities. QUICKLY the party turned into an all dudes toga party, complete with nudity underneath.. I was liking where this party was going. Towards the end of the night, the host of the party passed out drunk on the couch right next to mine, the bottoms of his feet comfortably touching eachother for an extreme up-toga view. It was too hot for words.
I found these a while back in some french porn blog and I saved them because I remembered this post.
Thought you guys would like them.
They seem like real non posed for pics but I can't believe he has no idea his balls are hanging out. Can't he feel the breeze?
This thread has the potential. We just need some more accidental nudity, not the poses.
I got to see a guys dick and balls at our local mall's food court one time...he wasnt hot, but the situation was
Though it doesn't quite qualify as "freeballing" per se, I saw a nice set of balls up a dude's shorts at a golf tournament while he was sitting in the bleachers: hot summer heat + shorts + really loose boxers underneath + subject sitting back with feet up on the lower set of bleachers + you sitting a couple of rows down in the bleachers + jumbotron behind giving you an excuse to look behind regularly = nice view of balls hanging conveniently to the side you're on.
More more more!!!!
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Illinois Rep. Elaine Nekritz, D-Des Plaines, speaks to reporters after a House committee hearing at the Illinois State Capitol Sunday, Jan. 6, 2013 in Springfield Ill. Nekritz says since the Senate didnt vote on assault weapons legislation, the House probably wont either during the lame duck session.(AP Photo/Seth Perlman)
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SPRINGFIELD — Cost-of-living increases for state retirees and Downstate and suburban teachers would freeze for six years, and no one would be eligible for that perk until turning 67 under a pension-reform package expected to surface Monday in the Illinois House.
While the House was poised to advance its own solution to Illinois' $95 billion pension crisis, no signs emerged Sunday to suggest the Democratic-led House or Senate were any closer toward reconciling major differences in their approaches to state government's biggest financial conundrum.
House Democrats have scheduled a committee hearing at noon Monday on a pension plan they hope to position for a floor vote by the full House possibly later in the day as a Tuesday adjournment clock ticks down on the lame-duck legislative session.
The plan largely resembles the framework laid out in December by state Rep. Elaine Nekritz (D-Northbrook) and Rep. Daniel Biss (D-Evanston) and, for the moment, does not include provisions sought by Mayor Rahm Emanuel to reel in pension benefits for retired city workers. That issue, sources said, could still be tacked on to the bill Monday because the mayor's forces in Springfield were continuing to push for that.
The Nekritz bill does not contain language that would pass $20 billion in costs that the state now shoulders for suburban and Downstate educators' pensions onto the school systems that employ them, a key sticking point for Republicans.
Under the House legislation, known as Senate Bill 1673, cost-of-living increases would be based on only the first $25,000 of a retiree's pension; pensions would be capped at the Social Security wage base or an employee's current salary, whichever is higher; employee pension contributions would jump by 1 percent of their wages for two years, according to an analysis of the bill distributed Sunday by Nekritz's staff.
The House plan, which would fully fund the pension systems in 30 years, would apply to four of the state's five pension systems and, most significantly, would not give existing workers or retirees a choice of accepting reduced pension benefits. That latter point is a constitutional linchpin of pension legislation Senate President John Cullerton (D-Chicago) favors.
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Phelon said the Senate is prepared to return to Springfield "a few hours earlier" than its scheduled 3 p.m. Tuesday session if the House sends over a pension bill, but she stopped short of offering any assurance her chamber would vote on a House plan.
House Republicans met into the early evening Sunday to digest details of the House plan, but House Minority Leader Tom Cross (R-Oswego) appeared flummoxed when asked to decipher the seeming power struggle unfolding over pensions between Cullerton and Madigan.
"That's kind of above my pay grade, so to speak," Cross told reporters.


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