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Not everyone in conservative states chooses to act like a bigot. Theres awesome people everywhere, I just wish we saw it more often on the internet.

This is the sort of video that restores my faith in humanity (except the high-fiving guy, what a douche!).
Thank you sincerely for posting this.

Simply putting their sexuality on Facebook isn't really going to irk me much. I don't really care much for it when people of any preference are in my face about their sexual orientation. Simply saying they are gay doesn't really strike me as "in my face" though.

Sexual preference is like religion. I dont care what yours is, just respect me enough not to try to force it down my throat and I will respect your decision in turn.

dogma wrote:

halonachos wrote:
@ Dogma, I don't tell women that they're pretty, hot, or anything really. I've always been kind of 'meh' towards the whole sex thing and I really don't care about it enough compared to school or work. I believe that one should keep their preferences and experiences to themselves. I don't think its cool if some guy boasts about banging a chick while doing a handstand and I loath people who think that they should tell everyone. If the government should have no say in what happens in the sack then I don't want to know either, especially when parents are concerned.

You must be a very angry guy if that's the case.

I tend to surround myself with people who feel the same way, my gay friends don't broadcast it to the world and my other friends don't talk about their choices of mate either. Now, if someone's having relationship issues then we talk about that, hell if my gay friend was having issues with his boyfriend and he wanted to talk about the issues then its all good.

I just don't care about what people do in the bedroom and would rather not hear about it. I don't feel the need to proclaim my choice either and I would prefer if a lot of things people do in the sack weren't brought up. Have you ever heard a blow-job described by a girl while you're still in middleschool, I have and I was veritably grossed out the entire day.

halonachos wrote:Have you ever heard a blow-job described by a girl while you're still in middleschool, I have and I was veritably grossed out the entire day.

I'd have been turned on.

Fafnir wrote:

halonachos wrote:Have you ever heard a blow-job described by a girl while you're still in middleschool, I have and I was veritably grossed out the entire day.

I'd have been turned on.

Let's just say it ruined the concept for me.

It's kind of hard to ruin the concept, it's a pretty simple process. Sure, there are plenty of things that you can do to spice things up, but the basic method itself is fairly rudimentary.

I mean... unless she was like... using her teeth or something. Had that happen to a friend once. He couldn't walk straight for a week.

AvatarForm wrote:Sexual preference is like religion. I dont care what yours is, just respect me enough not to try to force it down my throat and I will respect your decision in turn.

I dont care what yours is, just respect me enough not to try to force it down my throat and I will respect your decision in turn.

Respect me enough not to try to force it down my throat.

Force it down my throat.

Emperors Faithful wrote:

AvatarForm wrote:Sexual preference is like religion. I dont care what yours is, just respect me enough not to try to force it down my throat and I will respect your decision in turn.

I dont care what yours is, just respect me enough not to try to force it down my throat and I will respect your decision in turn.

Respect me enough not to try to force it down my throat.

Force it down my throat.

Some people are now going to sig that.

halonachos wrote:
I just don't care about what people do in the bedroom and would rather not hear about it. I don't feel the need to proclaim my choice either and I would prefer if a lot of things people do in the sack weren't brought up. Have you ever heard a blow-job described by a girl while you're still in middleschool, I have and I was veritably grossed out the entire day.

Yes, I had a similar experience and I didn't think much of it. Sex is something people do, it is no more disgusting than eating, sleeping, or breathing.

dogma wrote:

halonachos wrote:
I just don't care about what people do in the bedroom and would rather not hear about it. I don't feel the need to proclaim my choice either and I would prefer if a lot of things people do in the sack weren't brought up. Have you ever heard a blow-job described by a girl while you're still in middleschool, I have and I was veritably grossed out the entire day.

Yes, I had a similar experience and I didn't think much of it. Sex is something people do, it is no more disgusting than eating, sleeping, or breathing.

Taking a massive gak is also something people do, but I'd rather talk about blowjobs.

I'd rather get one.

dogma wrote:I'd rather get one.

Ah, you see I'm still picky enough to question who's going to be giving it.

Emperors Faithful wrote:

dogma wrote:I'd rather get one.

Ah, you see I'm still picky enough to question who's going to be giving it.

Depends how much he's paying, really.

Fafnir wrote:

Emperors Faithful wrote:

dogma wrote:I'd rather get one.

Ah, you see I'm still picky enough to question who's going to be giving it.

Depends how much he's paying, really.

How much do you think George Takei would cost?

dogma wrote:

halonachos wrote:
@ Dogma, I don't tell women that they're pretty, hot, or anything really. I've always been kind of 'meh' towards the whole sex thing and I really don't care about it enough compared to school or work. I believe that one should keep their preferences and experiences to themselves. I don't think its cool if some guy boasts about banging a chick while doing a handstand and I loath people who think that they should tell everyone. If the government should have no say in what happens in the sack then I don't want to know either, especially when parents are concerned.

You must be a very angry guy if that's the case.

I actually agreed with this fellow, but I'm rather a prude, and would much rather talk about other, more interesting things. How does the loathing of sexual bragging make someone in general angry?

And I'm pretty sure that starfleet offers a damn good pension, so no price can be put on that man.




Off topic, but I was gone for a little bit, and there appears to be a new meme about assault rams. Anyone mind explaining without just using this question as a launching point for the meme?

micahaphone wrote:Off topic, but I was gone for a little bit, and there appears to be a new meme about assault rams. Anyone mind explaining without just using this question as a launching point for the meme?

dogma wrote:How much do you think George Takei would cost?

Probably as much as his CRASSUS ARMOURED ASSAULT TRANSPORT.

micahaphone wrote:How does the loathing of sexual bragging make someone in general angry?

If you hate something which happens all the time and everywhere, then it stands to reason that you would be angry very often.

Fafnir wrote:

Lord-Loss wrote:
I feel the same way about people who put the fact that they're gay in their info bar on websites like Facebook, it's just stupid.

So I take it you dislike people on facebook as well?

Again fixed your typo.

Lord-Loss wrote:

(Found this on google images)

By 'info box' I meant bio, that sort of thing. It seems unnessicary to put it in your bio and it makes you look like a bit of a gakker, in my opinion.

But the option is there on facebook. how is it a big deal, Facebook just asks who you are interested in and she has filled it in to say men and women. It's a standard part of the face book page that most people fill in. Do you froth up about how unnecessary it is when a straight person fills it in? Probably not.

And then you say...

I'm not homophobic and I have no problem with gay people at all.

Of course you don't. That's why you seem to want them all to live under a rock and be almost invisible in a society overwhelmed with heterosexual imagery.

The reason why there are gay people that go on prides and draw attention to it isn't because they want to "force it down your throat" but because it raises awareness. They have to draw attention in order to make their voice heard and get things like equality, so that more people treat them like normal people instead of people that have something shameful or wrong about them. Awareness has to be raised because people like you under the claim of "not wanting to know about their bedroom activities" want them to seeming disappear from public visibility.

How many gay people actually demand you know what they get up to in the bedroom? Not many, no more than heterosexual people like to boast. And yet it is the gay people who are targeted with this idea that they are rubbing people's faces in it, while heterosexual people can proclaim their sexuality as loudly as they like because it is the norm. Someone wearing a t-shirt that says they are gay does not mean they are in any way sharing their bedroom activities any more than a straight person does if they wear a t-shirt that indicates they are heterosexual.

My wife works for Stonewall, the LGB charity in the UK and has been on a few prides, she has a t-shirt that reads "Some people are gay - get over it" and she has received abuse in the street when wearing it home afterwards. One bloke once hit her across the legs with his stick when she crossed the road.

When society has changed so that gay people are normalised and people don't think they can shout "You f-ing dyke" at a woman for wearing a t-shirt indicating they are gay then there might not be a need to raise awareness. But until then claiming that gay people should go out of sight and out of mind *is* prejudiced and homophobic.

Howard A Treesong wrote:

Lord-Loss wrote:

(Found this on google images)

By 'info box' I meant bio, that sort of thing. It seems unnessicary to put it in your bio and it makes you look like a bit of a gakker, in my opinion.

But the option is there on facebook. how is it a big deal, Facebook just asks who you are interested in and she has filled it in to say men and women. It's a standard part of the face book page that most people fill in. Do you froth up about how unnecessary it is when a straight person fills it in? Probably not.

And then you say...

I'm not homophobic and I have no problem with gay people at all.

Of course you don't. That's why you seem to want them all to live under a rock and be almost invisible in a society overwhelmed with heterosexual imagery.

The reason why there are gay people that go on prides and draw attention to it isn't because they want to "force it down your throat" but because it raises awareness. They have to draw attention in order to make their voice heard and get things like equality, so that more people treat them like normal people instead of people that have something shameful or wrong about them. Awareness has to be raised because people like you under the claim of "not wanting to know about their bedroom activities" want them to seeming disappear from public visibility.

How many gay people actually demand you know what they get up to in the bedroom? Not many, no more than heterosexual people like to boast. And yet it is the gay people who are targeted with this idea that they are rubbing people's faces in it, while heterosexual people can proclaim their sexuality as loudly as they like because it is the norm. Someone wearing a t-shirt that says they are gay does not mean they are in any way sharing their bedroom activities any more than a straight person does if they wear a t-shirt that indicates they are heterosexual.

My wife works for Stonewall, the LGB charity in the UK and has been on a few prides, she has a t-shirt that reads "Some people are gay - get over it" and she has received abuse in the street when wearing it home afterwards. One bloke once hit her across the legs with his stick when she crossed the road.

When society has changed so that gay people are normalised and people don't think they can shout "You f-ing dyke" at a woman for wearing a t-shirt indicating they are gay then there might not be a need to raise awareness. But until then claiming that gay people should go out of sight and out of mind *is* prejudiced and homophobic.

I have to ask, do you feel nice and superior now?

Frazzled wrote:I have to ask, do you feel nice and superior now?

Do you dispute the points made?

I have some difficulty having sympathy with someone complaining about going onto someone else's facebook page and then making a fuss because they've actually filled in the bit where Facebook ask whether you are interested in men or women. If that's objectionable they have problems IMO.

Howard A Treesong wrote:

Frazzled wrote:I have to ask, do you feel nice and superior now?

Do you dispute the points made?

I have some difficulty having sympathy with someone complaining about going onto someone else's facebook page and then making a fuss because they've actually filled in the bit where Facebook ask whether you are interested in men or women. If that's objectionable they have problems IMO.

Oh not at all (ok I kinda got bored and fazed out in the second paragraph-look shiny! I blame American Television). That just came off a bit chip on the shoulderish.

Howard A Treesong wrote:

Lord-Loss wrote:(Found this on google images)

By 'info box' I meant bio, that sort of thing. It seems unnessicary to put it in your bio and it makes you look like a bit of a gakker, in my opinion.

But the option is there on facebook. how is it a big deal, Facebook just asks who you are interested in and she has filled it in to say men and women. It's a standard part of the face book page that most people fill in. Do you froth up about how unnecessary it is when a straight person fills it in? Probably not.

And then you say...

I'm not homophobic and I have no problem with gay people at all.

Of course you don't. That's why you seem to want them all to live under a rock and be almost invisible in a society overwhelmed with heterosexual imagery.

The reason why there are gay people that go on prides and draw attention to it isn't because they want to "force it down your throat" but because it raises awareness. They have to draw attention in order to make their voice heard and get things like equality, so that more people treat them like normal people instead of people that have something shameful or wrong about them. Awareness has to be raised because people like you under the claim of "not wanting to know about their bedroom activities" want them to seeming disappear from public visibility.

How many gay people actually demand you know what they get up to in the bedroom? Not many, no more than heterosexual people like to boast. And yet it is the gay people who are targeted with this idea that they are rubbing people's faces in it, while heterosexual people can proclaim their sexuality as loudly as they like because it is the norm. Someone wearing a t-shirt that says they are gay does not mean they are in any way sharing their bedroom activities any more than a straight person does if they wear a t-shirt that indicates they are heterosexual.

My wife works for Stonewall, the LGB charity in the UK and has been on a few prides, she has a t-shirt that reads "Some people are gay - get over it" and she has received abuse in the street when wearing it home afterwards. One bloke once hit her across the legs with his stick when she crossed the road.

When society has changed so that gay people are normalised and people don't think they can shout "You f-ing dyke" at a woman for wearing a t-shirt indicating they are gay then there might not be a need to raise awareness. But until then claiming that gay people should go out of sight and out of mind *is* prejudiced and homophobic.

I could not agree more. I cannot say that emphatically enough.

This has begun to renew my faith in humanity.
Hell, that show has done a LOT to raise my faith in humanity.

Howard A Treesong wrote:

Lord-Loss wrote:

(Found this on google images)

By 'info box' I meant bio, that sort of thing. It seems unnessicary to put it in your bio and it makes you look like a bit of a gakker, in my opinion.

But the option is there on facebook. how is it a big deal, Facebook just asks who you are interested in and she has filled it in to say men and women. It's a standard part of the face book page that most people fill in. Do you froth up about how unnecessary it is when a straight person fills it in? Probably not.

And then you say...

Lord-Loss wrote:You can choose whether to display if you're "interested in women/men/both", there's absolutely no point in putting your sexuality in your info box/bar.

Lord-Loss wrote:By 'info box' I meant bio.

I didn't say I had a problem with people saying they're gay on facebook, it's just a bit stupid when someones profile clearly shows that they're gay and then they choose to put it in they bio. It's not something big but it irritates me a bit.

Why does it irritate you so much? and why call it stupid?
I'm not gay, but if i was and i choose to put it on facebook, then whats you problem where i write it? How does it affect you in any way whatsoever?

Revenent Reiko wrote:Why does it irritate you so much? and why call it stupid?
I'm not gay, but if i was and i choose to put it on facebook, then whats you problem where i write it? How does it affect you in any way whatsoever?

It doesn't irritate me much, I never said it did.

Lord-Loss wrote:
I didn't say I had a problem with people saying they're gay on facebook, it's just a bit stupid when someones profile clearly shows that they're gay and then they choose to put it in they bio. It's not something big but it irritates me a bit.

Lord-Loss wrote:
It doesn't irritate me much, I never said it did.

The text speaks for itself.

My question to you is how can you know someone is 'obviously' gay? WHat? Stereotypes? See if he walks around like a Sassy Gay Friend? Your comment here is, to me, more offensive than anything ele you've said. How can you tell someone is OBVIOUSLY gay? My friends who are bi and gay both look and act like they're totally normal people. I have female friends who are completely straight, but their profile pictures have them kissing a close friend on the cheek. I have male friends who are straight, and their profile pictures show them sitting in other guys laps.

You really can't say that someone is 'obviously' gay, and what I want to know is what the hell your basing your definition of 'obviously' gay on. I mean, look at my dakka profile. My avatar is a frigging yellow and pink pony prancing along, does that make me OBVIOUSLY gay? Would I be obviously straighter if it was some macho Space Marine killing gak?