Shorter Ace: I’m a bitter cuckold.

Feminists continue insisting that it’s empowering to fuck everything that moves

So I guess that means Ace is immobile? Poor guy.

Who are these feminists that talk about nothing but having sex with everyone around them? I damn sure can’t find ’em.

Y’see, that’s the problem with being early on the comment button – you miss the story right below this one that covers the new Surgeon General nominee’s opinions on teh ghey.

Why is it that uptight, repressed, right-wing closet cases can’t talk about anything except the sex they’re not getting? Can’t they just pop open a can of Busch, giggle like children at the name, get back to grooving on NASCAR, and leave the rest of us alone?

i often wonder “Why God”, too, but i guess that’s a different topic….

i’ve been looking for ’em too, legion. there’d at least be some good photo ops.

Yes, boys, it’s true: all women, upon entering Teh Secret Society Of Feminists, are issued with one book, containing all the instructions a Femm-nuhst will ever need.

Rule 1: Fuck everyone. Really. Even if they’re kinda unappetizing. It’s your duty as a free woman.

Rule 2: Women failing to comply with Rule 1 will be drummed out of the society, after a ritual humiliation involving an apron and feather duster.

Rule 3: Don’t fuck husbands, unless they’re someone else’s.

Rule 4: Childcare, contraception, abortion, equal pay for equal work, an end to sexual harrassment and turning a blind eye to rape – well, we just don’t give a fuck. As long as you’re bonking everything that moves, you’re doing the movement proud.

Has someone been putting depleted uranium dust over the cheetohs, do you know? Cause Ace sounds like his brain is melting.

Sooooo, Ace is a cuckold, is he? That would explain misogynist vitriol.

The little wingnut doth protest too much, I think.

Who are these feminists that talk about nothing but having sex with everyone around them? I damn sure can’t find ‘em.

Hey man- where all the feminist wymmen at?

“actual husband, who must be sexually punished”

Speaking as an actual husband, after you get a few drinks into me I really don’t mind the sexual punishment. Although Every other week-end is still a bit too infrequent for my tastes.

I bravely decided to step into the belly of the beast and poke it with a stick. Let’s see what happens. If he breaks down sobbing and finally admits that he hasn’t had sex in five years and is enraged about it, perhaps I will have performed a public service. Not that I’m holding my breath on that score.

To keep returning to the same subject in the same juvenile, obsessive, resentful way is really embarrassing. What a pathetic asswipe.

He’s been huffing too much Play Doh.

Man, I keep missing the memos. I thought we hated sex.

I’m sure Ace claims that he gets laid all the time.

But his wingnut welfare expense account is mostly devoted to purchases of bacon and Play-Doh.

Can someone send over a dose of self-awareness and shame to Ace? Now?

Poor Ace. The only feminists he has run into are the “Victim” sorts, perhaps? I know I have run into a few of the hardline screamers that “marriage is prostitution made legal” sorts who think only the illegal “free” love will work….so catting around is “liberation” embodied. But I think what really bothers Ace is more likely the power feminists who care less about who sleeps with whom, who marries what, and go after better pay, better rights, and things like reproductive control of one’s own body. But the straw woman “whore-of-feminist-Babylon” is a much better target for conservative screamers.

Why do I have the feeling that all of this is breaking news to real feminists?

Uh, cuckold much, Ace?

True, normally, I’m not much in favor of men speaking for women. But in this case, Brad… well, as long as you’re willing to get that close to the Acehole, I can only say “Go with Goddess”.

Or possibly, “Better you than me.”

They’re like… bags… of sand….

You know, if he makes money off of internet ads, you’re just enabling his really fucking depressing lifestyle choice by linking to him.

Why don’t you all just chill out, pop open a bottle of wine, and dig on the cool grooves of kd lang and leave the rest of us alone?

So Ace wants to be left alone by women that want to fuck anything that moves? Is there any other possible interpretation of this line than this? Hasn’t he just created a null set (if we are looking at the intersection of the set: women who will sleep with ace and women he wants to sleep with.)

We all have issues and, you know, it’s even okay to share them in a public forum. Own your kink is my motto. But parading them out, reveling in them and then making culture generalizations about them is a pathology I do not understand in the least. Seek help. Now. Before the play-doh hardens and the bacon spoils.

Make that money, Ace! Don’t let it make you.

I think the Ole Perfesser meant to type “ACE OFFERS IMPOTENT THOUGHTS on leering and feminism.”

Shorter Ace: Feminists are bitches. Where have all the sluts gone?

You know, when I was younger and even more uncool, I did hard time in the social purgatory known as “not being popular with women.” Never, in my most pathetic and bitter moments, did I ever employ any imagery or sentiments even approximate to Play Doh, bacon, sandbags, and men-hating feminazi hos (the latter which are exercises in self-contradiction, so you’d think wingnuts could find something admirable in them, analogous to their love-hate relationship with tyrannical left-wing societies like China, but I digress as I am oft wont to do). Not even prior to loss of virginity, and drunk off the $8 vodka I had to get someone to buy for me.

I’m sure it’s just another Ace attempt at “humor”, yet once again deeply revealing in a way he surely doesn’t intend (the subconscious cry for help?). These are the gaffes of those untrained in the humanities. His jokes on others are really larger jokes on himself.

His audience, having all skipped English Lit for Natural Lite, won’t notice. They think we don’t “get the funny”. We did, found it beyond a groaner and worthy of no further comment, and got FAR more bemusement from the bigger picture—a picture resembling a cross between Munch and Picasso’s blue period, but in finger paints.

We should start a collection to buy Ace a life. It’s the decent, bleeding-heart-liberal thing to do.

I just realized something…
Why don’t you all just chill out, pop open a bottle of wine, and dig on the cool grooves of kd lang and leave the rest of us alone?

Ace’s problem is that he’s been hitting on lesbians! Or is it that lesbians are hitting on him? Either way, there’s clearly some miscommunication here, but given his admitted lack of knowledge on the whole vagina subject, it’s understandable…

Oh, and since when does “important thoughts” mean “a collection of nifty, if tiresomely cliche, recycled flame-retardant straw (fe)men(azis)”?

Oh, it was the alleged professor, Glenn ReynoldsWrapHat. Never mind.

Why don’t you all just chill out, pop open a bottle of wine, and dig on the cool grooves of kd lang and leave the rest of us alone?

Poor, poor, pitiful Ace!

There’s not enough bacon-scented play-doh in the world to help that boy now.

I.B :

Poor, poor, pitiful Ace!

That was Zevon, not KD.

Next up, ace post the ancient Onion piece, “Why do all these homosexuals keep sucking my cock?”, with the header “An Important and Timely Question”.

Argh. I thought my hash induced dyslexia had finished. ……. “ace posts”

That was Zevon, not KD.

Of course, kenga.

My point–at the risk of spoiling a not-too-good joke by explaining it–was that Ace is presenting himself as a kind of wingnutty version of Zevon’s narrator:

Poor, poor pitiful me
Poor, poor pitiful me
These young girls won’t let me be
Lord have mercy on me
Woe is me

First Lady Keri Thompson’s “cause” will be stripper-pole safety.

Actually, in a kind of “you’ve got chocolate in my peanut butter” kind of way, kenga’s misunderstanding makes me think that kd really ought to cover “Poor, Poor Pitiful Me”…using the original (not regendered) lyrics. It’s been covered as a country song before (by Terri Clark), though I think KD would do a better job with it (though I’m sure I’d still prefer the Zevon original).

Ace in three easy steps:

1. A ho fucks everybody.
2. A bitch fucks everybody except me.
3. Therefore, all feminists are bitches, but I wouldn’t mind them if they were hoes.

Feminists continue insisting that it’s empowering to fuck everything that moves, except your actual husband, who must be sexually punished as a state-sanctioned enforcer of The Oppressive Patriarchy.

Safe protected, and guilt free sex = “Fuck everything that moves.”

Sorry Ace, but you’re going to have to be more than just ambulatory if you’re wanting the secksie…

What happened to “Feminists Are Ugly, Jealous, Frigid Lesbians Who Can’t Get A Man (TM)”?

Incontinentia Buttocks: Linda Ronstadt did a kick-ass version too.

What happened to “Feminists Are Ugly, Jealous, Frigid Lesbians Who Can’t Get A Man (TM)�?

The far right wing is not renowned for self-consistency.

“What happened to ‘Feminists Are Ugly, Jealous, Frigid Lesbians Who Can’t Get A Man (TM)’?”

It was not broad enough to encompass Jessica Valenti. The lines had to be redrawn.

I’m sending Ace my entire Holly Near collection, on vinyl.

Incontinentia Buttocks: Linda Ronstadt did a kick-ass version too.

Is this “let’s assume that IB doesn’t know squat about popular music day”?

Ok, sure, but here’s the most important question. Is there really an “e” in “hoes”? I thought the last thing we learned from Imus was that it’s spelled “hos”…

mikey

Where DO they get their crazed notions about feminism? Rush L I suppose. Someone tell them: Feminism means: Equal Pay for Equal Work!

Think about what you just said, mikey.

If you’re doing any learning from Imus, you need to elevate your sights a bit.

Mostly I notice not Ace, but the source material. Dr. Helen’s really not that smart. Funny that she’s railing on feminists, yet she didn’t change her last name, something that wouldn’t be considered acceptable if it weren’t for the movement.

So “hoes” is correct then, billy?

mikey

Is this “let’s assume that IB doesn’t know squat about popular music day�?

Yes. I can see a quiz is in order.

John and Paul are responsible for how many popes?

I.B. – I thought it clever – I guess I need to work on my Obviousman impression.
I’m grateful though, now I know there are some worthwhile covers out there, including a Ronstadt version.

Is this “let’s assume that IB doesn’t know squat about popular music day�?

Don’t forget Jackson Browne and Bonnie Raitt!

Funny that she’s railing on feminists, yet she didn’t change her last name, something that wouldn’t be considered acceptable if it weren’t for the movement.

Plus she, like, works and stuff.

I was sitting in a pew once, at my cousin’s wedding, many years ago.
The priest said “God Bless John Paul …” and my aunt and her roommate lost it for a few seconds. Found out at the reception that aunt said “George and Ringo” under her breath and I lost the better part of a soda.

Sort of like tomatoes and potatoes.

Hey! Paris is back in the pokey!

I think so. Otherwise you’re tending towards ‘hoss’ territory and we know how the GOP feels about bestiality.

Also, it’s “homoes”.

Hell, my old band covered “Poor, Poor Pitiful Me”. Goddamn lead singer would get so drunk that, about halfway through, I had to take over on vocals. Any cover song, like clockwork. I hate lead singers.

As for Ace…aw, hell. It’s just to pitiful, you almost feel bad for the boy. Almost. Reckon it really is because he hasn’t been laid in God knows how long? Hate to think that’s what happens when the back-up gets too fierce. I haven’t gotten horizontal since Christ was a cowboy, and you don’t see me being such a shit-ass about things. No tellin’ when or if I’ll be down that way again, way things are these days, but I do hope I’m not looking at my future in Ace’s post.

Y’all promise me if I ever start ranting about how it’s the fault of slutty feminist that I ain’t got no puddin’ in a while, y’all will hold me down and forcefeed me some of a different brad’s hash. I ain’t kiddin’, man, I’d hate to be that kind of asshole.

Conrad Kennard has a cover of “Poor, Poor Pitiful Me” as well. Never heard of him? Me neither, until I found him rocking the Ovation on YouTube.

I’d love to know where Nugget of Spades (haha. Boy. I am witty. yeah.) gets his information. I strongly suspect the letters section of Penthouse. Or that drunk, washed-up loser at the local bar, who blames all his problems on his bitch ex-wife. Or maybe Dr. Hobo. Who knows.

Man, I keep missing the memos. I thought we hated sex.

Check your junk mail box. Mine always get stuck there.

Heh heh. “Junk” mail.

He said Junk…

mikey

ACE OFFERS IMPORTANT THOUGHTS

I don’t need to read any further. Hilarious.

Feminists continue insisting that it’s empowering to fuck everything that moves, except your actual husband, who must be sexually punished as a state-sanctioned enforcer of The Oppressive Patriarchy.

I think I’m fairly sensitive to feminists, so if needed, I’m willing to help empower the shit out of you all…

Comments I just posted on the ACE website:

For my part, I couldn’t care less who Fred Thompson is married to. He divorced his first wife some time ago, and his new wife, while younger than his own daughter, is certainly an adult who can make her own decisions. I will give them both the presumption of good faith and assume they got married because they love each other.

However, Fred Thompson claims to be a Christian, a conservative traditional Christian at that. Christ contradicted himself on the subject of marriage, at one time saying it was forbidden altogether, and another time saying it was permitted only in case of adultery. Whichever you go with, though, he was agin it. In the latter case, remarriage is forbidden, and is, in fact, equivalent to adultery. Thompson got his first wife pregnant during high school. He “did the right thing” and married her, but Christians are not supposed to have sex before marriage. Moreover, Thompson has been quoted as saying that during his bachelor days he was chased by a lot of women, who “usually caught” him. By this I think we can assume he means he had sex at least occasionally while he was single. He is obliquely bragging about it, in fact. Conservative traditional Christians do not do this.

Actually, of course, they do, just like everyone else, but the difference between them and, say, Bill Clinton, is that James Dobson will forgive them for it as long as they are sufficiently worshipful of fetuses, hate gay people, and promise to lower taxes. As long as a Republican does this, he can completely ignore Christ’s actual words and teachings (especially all that pesky stuff about the poor), commit serial adultery, abandon his children, take illegal drugs, and lie through his teeth and still be regarded as a “good Christian.”

Just sayin’.

What happened to “Feminists Are Ugly, Jealous, Frigid Lesbians Who Can’t Get A Man (TM)�?

Difficult to sustain when the feminist you’re most obsessed with is Amanda Marcotte. Poor, poor Ace.

the cool “grooves” of kdlang? I think “stylings” was the cliche you were reaching for there, Ace. kdlang is a great musician and she does a lot of things but I don’t think “grooving” is one of them.

The priest said “God Bless John Paul …� and my aunt and her roommate lost it for a few seconds. Found out at the reception that aunt said “George and Ringo� under her breath and I lost the better part of a soda.

Back when the white smoke drifted and a New Pope was anointed John Paul I, I said to myself, and perhaps to some others within earshot, “John Paul? That has a Georgian Ringo to it.”

Y’all promise me if I ever start ranting about how it’s the fault of slutty feminist that I ain’t got no puddin’ in a while, y’all will hold me down and forcefeed me some of a different brad’s hash. I ain’t kiddin’, man, I’d hate to be that kind of asshole.

Ok, but it doesn’t sound like it’s going to be necessary. If I’m wrong and you do regress to Ace’s 13 year old’s view of sexual relations, raise a cry for help here before you get yourself a blog and inflict a permanent form of cock blockery on yourself. Who’d ever fuck you then? There’s plenty of folks here who’d talk you down. Better off getting “lousy lay” tattooed across your forehead.

Tbogg has already used all the best jokes.

Who said I’m sharing the retardo-hash?
It’s not easy to overcome my tolerance, sorry, but eees mine.

The sick thing is that, consciously or not, Ace appears to be attempting to sabotage himself from ever getting laid again. In advertising his disgust with sexually active women and with vagina in general, he seems to be trying to paint himself into a corner in which he will be forced to seek release as he as in the past, from embittered masturbation and voracious consumption of pornography, or perhaps from other unsanctioned avenues.

Ok, sure, but here’s the most important question. Is there really an “e� in “hoes�? I thought the last thing we learned from Imus was that it’s spelled “hos�…

No, Mikey, he’s talking about farm implements. He’s got this weird thing with farming, hence the hoes and the bacon. I’m buggered if I know where the Play-Doh comes from, though.

raise a cry for help here before you get yourself a blog and inflict a permanent form of cock blockery on yourself. Who’d ever fuck you then? There’s plenty of folks here who’d talk you down.

Lawnguylander, I’ve only just woken up (we here in Oz get the morning first, so we can put grubby fingermarks all over it before we pass it on to you). So my cognitive skills are a little sluggish.

But I swear I read that as “There’s plenty of folks here who’d take you down.” Now I’m sure that myself and all the SN sisterhood are ready to take one for the team, but hey, I’ll need a bit of notice. There’s an ocean to cross, and all that. Plus earning the cash to cross said ocean, which at the current rate will take a little over 3.2 geological ages.

I guess we can say that the spirit is willing, but the cash flow is weak. Sob, choke.

These anti-Feminist types really creep me out.

The sick thing is that, consciously or not, Ace appears to be attempting to sabotage himself from ever getting laid again. In advertising his disgust with sexually active women and with vagina in general, he seems to be trying to paint himself into a corner in which he will be forced to seek release as he as in the past, from embittered masturbation and voracious consumption of pornography, or perhaps from other unsanctioned avenues.

I was thinking the same thing. But then I wondered, maybe he’s making a play for Marie Jon’. They both hate vaginas, both are scared of teh sex, both are wingnuttier than any human should be. Scary really, Best of luck to them.

No offense, but I’m starting to think you’ve got the hots for Ace O’ Spades, Gavin (aka “The Hon. Dr. St. Rev. Bradley S. Rocket, Esq, PhD, MD”).

“Ace, you don’t have to worry about those awful feminists trying to have sex with you anytime soon.”

Yeah, he’s pretty sure they’re not into him too, Gavin. k.d. lang isn’t a singer that a girl who’s into guys would enjoy. Was the inuendo too subtle for you?

In the future, please quit hitting on Ace. 95% of the time, he won’t go for dudes. You need to quit dreaming of that particular harmonious relationship between the right and left.

Still boring, Kevin.

In the future, please quit hitting on Ace. 95% of the time, he won’t go for dudes.

What about the other 5% of the time?

Ace and Marie Jon might spawn, javaphil. Think of the children! Or rather, try not to…

The quality of wingnut trolls is for shit these days.

Or the Virgin Ben. After all, the Ben doesn’t have the problematic vagina.

Holy shit, I think I just stumbled across Ace’s porn stash.

Lesley strikes gold!

You know what they say, Patkin. If you’re bored your boring. Still, I agree with you.

“What about the other 5% of the time?”

We don’t talk about that on the right. Nah, just kidding. He’s heterosexual, but it ticks him off when we call him gay. So we do it. You should too! It’s fake anger no doubt. Slightly humorous though.

Great Statements in History
Veni, vidi, vici. – Julius Caesar
Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil. – Thomas Mann
Give me liberty, or give me death. – P. Henry
The quality of wingnut trolls is for shit these days. – tb

To be fair though, I’d hardly call them wingnut trolls, they’re just wingnut ‘activists’, or ‘hippies’. Give ’em a break though. They just don’t know any better. Oh wait… you were talking about me, weren’t you…

We’ll pool our money and frequent flier miles and form some kind of collective to help each other out when we’re experiencing droughts, Qetesh. We can’t let anyone here turn into an Ace or a K-Lo. I seem to remember a Sadly sister proposing a drunken orgy a month or so ago but I think the idea is stuck in committee. Someone with your stature around here and sharp claws could probably revive the initiative.

Ace of Spades = Ignatius O’Reilly.

Except with a computer instead of Big Chief notepads.

Yeah, he’s pretty sure they’re not into him too, Gavin. k.d. lang isn’t a singer that a girl who’s into guys would enjoy. Was the inuendo too subtle for you?

If feminist are big old dykes who don’t want no dick, why is he asking them to leave him alone? Shouldn’t they be leaving him alone already?

I’m guessing he really means ‘shut the heck up about it’ Ms. Woman. To each their own, but some things… keep it to yourself.

Are you suggesting feminists aren’t “big old dykes who don’t want no d[*]ck”?

If feminist are big old dykes who don’t want no dick, why is he asking them to leave him alone?

Depending on the wingnut rhetorical needs of the moment, feminists are also considered to be fuck-crazy nympho sluts. Obviously neither variety would seek Ace out for any reason, so he must be addressing the imaginary ones which beset him at every turn.

tb makes an excellent point. Feminists include both lesbians and women who just like to have sex with many guys just for fun. While the latter are often called skanks, sluts, or whores, I prefer ‘sex enthusiasts’, and hope they call me (be surreptitious though, in case the wife is home)! Unlike tb, I see no reason this particular type of feminist would not hit on Ace.

I see no reason this particular type of feminist would not hit on Ace.

You mean apart from his doughy physique, his mongoloid intellect, his unlovable nature, his rotten sense of humor, and his clear loathing of women in general and their vaginas in particular?

Well, no, but I was unaware of “his doughy physique, his mongoloid intellect, his unlovable nature, his rotten sense of humor, and his clear loathing of women in general and their vaginas in particular.”

Head’s up, tb. It’s probably ok to call your enemy weak, unlikeable, or inable to get women, but calling them ‘retarded’ is… hopefully… not acceptable. Or, did you not know what ‘mongoloid’ meant? Because that’s a fair (yet weak) ‘out’.

Kevin, I hate to break it to ya… but you’re, uhhhmm… what’s the word?
Oh, yeah: RETARDED.

Well yeah… I mean, who the hell would mix up Gavin and Brad?

Well, no, but I was unaware of “his doughy physique, his mongoloid intellect, his unlovable nature, his rotten sense of humor, and his clear loathing of women in general and their vaginas in particular.�

Welcome to the planet Earth. We’re happy you’ve finally tapped into our internet, and we hope to hear some stories from your home-world.

Warren, no one’s mixing up brad and gavin. I’m merely saying they are one person, kind of like God and Christ! Well, a little different, but still…

Phoenician, it’s ‘tubes’. Inter ‘tubes’. Welcome to the present! Which is ‘the future’ to you I guess. Your comment sadly leaves me STILL unware of “his doughy physique, his mongoloid intellect, his unlovable nature, his rotten sense of humor, and his clear loathing of women in general and their vaginas in particular.â€? Is this just another one of those things that the left proclaims yet doesn’t bother to prove?

P.S. If you would have said ‘fear of female rejection’ instead of ‘clear loathing of women in general and their vaginas in particular’ I might have bought it. That’s something most men have felt at one time or another, ‘cept Gavin.

P.P.S. I’ve got a photo of him that I’ve sadly been asked not to share (it’s from that evil place where Ann Coulter had the gall to utter the word ‘faggot’!), and ‘doughy’ doesn’t describe him. ‘Big’ or ‘muscular’ might. ‘Doughy’ is more of a left wing thing. Hippies are doughy. Democrat Congressmen? Doughy. Michael Moore, George Soros, Cindy Sheehan, Susan and Tim Sarandon, doughy. The right is more muscular, as shown by the military, most of whom are right leaning. That said, I’m kinda doughy. Time to exercise, lest I be considered a liberal!

3p’s and an s – Everyone here knows that Ace and his commenters are hilarious, just like every conservative knows that John[sic] Stewart and Steven Colbert are usually very funny. Deal with it. We do.

Could some one (I’m talking to you, Gavin) of the many people posting on this blog who is not Gavin please italicize ‘we’ in the very last line of my last post?

Thanks in advance, person who is not a pseudonym for Gavin!

Lawnguylander, that sounds like just the sort of plan I could get behind. Count me in.

Are you suggesting feminists aren’t “big old dykes who don’t want no d[*]ck�?

I normally don’t respond to trolls: they get stuck in my teeth. But this one I’ve just got to comment on.

This, ladies and gentleman, is evil. Someone who’s quite happy about slaughtering hundreds of thousands of innocent people, simply because he’s afraid of someone else, yet can’t bring himself to type (not say, just type) the word ‘dick’. Evil isn’t some caricature villain twirling his moustaches while he ties the heroine to a railway line. It’s this. This semblance of normal humanity that espouses the murder of innocents and congratulates himself on his morals because he refuses to use naughty words. This appalling conglomeration of puerile justifications for atrocities who finds murder more acceptable than rude language.

This, ladies and gentlemen, makes me so mad I could spit. Rasp, rasp, slurp, rasp. Bloody well rasp.

Qetesh-

As always, you show the remarkable insight your species is known for.

I just visited an hilarious thread over at Feministe where the trolls were spitting indignant over a slight, by-the-by joke about removing rightwing bumper stickers, but were never willing to answer why they were nonetheless willing to support widescale death and destruction in the Middle East.

Similarly, here, run of the mill naughty words are untouchable, but gleefully support of genocide and destruction of other countries is standard fare.

My guess: there’s a split in their brain, we’ll call it the Orwell Gap, that allows them to hold two contraditory or mutually eexclusive opinions at the same time.

And just between us mammals: I’m a feminist, too, and don’t seem to fit into the handy-dandy defnitions being floated by the pie-loving folk.

As I’m sure someone once said, in a sane world, fucking would be perfectly acceptable and warfare would qualify a movie for an X rating.

Of course, that link I mentioned should have been Pandagon.

Pandagon… isn’t that the girl who likes to have sex with monkeys? That’s too far out there for me. you’ll have to stick with your hippie friends with advice on that. There’s probably not a one conservative willing to do that, even for ‘life experience’.