BS: Why you don't like gay marriage

Subject: RE: BS: Why you don't like gay marriage
From: GUEST,Esmeralda
Date: 16 Aug 04 - 12:16 AM

The old bugger can't run as fa-aaa-aaa-aaast as me, anyway. Tha-aaa-aaa-aaa-t's why he needs the pro-ooo-ooo-d for.

Subject: RE: BS: Why you don't like gay marriage
From: GUEST
Date: 16 Aug 04 - 12:36 AM

Gay is such a dated word. Happy, joyful, loving: these adjectives are so much more appropriate, don't you think?

Subject: RE: BS: Why you don't like gay marriage
From: Once Famous
Date: 16 Aug 04 - 05:40 PM

No, Guest. Let's go back to what it should be called, homosexual.

Don, did your gay friend become a priest. He's qualified, you know.

BTW, I am not a lawyer. At least not today. Maybe again, tomorrow. Who ever above said, I just don't care, is right.

I am straight. Married to a woman. I don't need to flaunt it. It's a fairly normal thing and legal everywhere. I am just tired of having the gay lifestyle flaunted in my face. Also, I don't like my posts deleted when I say something that is an honest opinion even if it comes on a bit strong.

Subject: RE: BS: Why you don't like gay marriage
From: Don Firth
Date: 16 Aug 04 - 05:51 PM

No, Marty, he's not a priest (wrong religion: Lutherans don't have priests, they have pastors, which is quite different), he's an attorney, and quite a good one from what I understand. Nor is he a pedophile. That, of course, was your implication: that gays are pedophiles. Not so. Another shining example of the abysmal ignorance of bigots.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Why you don't like gay marriage
From: Once Famous
Date: 16 Aug 04 - 06:01 PM

No, Don. Some gays are pediphiles, but not all, thankfully. But most gays are fudgepackers. That's a fact. And, like a few others here, all you do is accuse people of being bigots or Nazis if they don't agree with you or your pansy-ass far-left liberal way of thought. Gays can vote. They can elect gay officials. Where are they in Federal government?

Subject: RE: BS: Why you don't like gay marriage
From: Amos
Date: 16 Aug 04 - 06:06 PM

Martin:

I reckon they wouldn't tell you even if you asked them. As for their marrying or not, I submit it is not a single whisp of your goddamned business what they do, and you should butt out and tend to your own last.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Why you don't like gay marriage
From: pdq
Date: 16 Aug 04 - 06:13 PM

Today's San Francisco Two Man Beach Volleyball Tournament presents:

   The Hump Day Flamingos v. The Quasimodo Fudge Packers

Subject: RE: BS: Why you don't like gay marriage
From: GUEST,fred miller
Date: 16 Aug 04 - 09:38 PM

It's a lot like race, in fact, and like class--the poor having too many kids. It's not blacks, I'm not a racist, it's those uppity blacks who don't know their place, always trying to get attention. It certainly sounds a whole lot like that.

   Suppose the "agenda" of "gay culture" (you don't mean Greek philosophy and Socratic dialogues I take it) might be to promote acceptance for gays so that those children everyone is worried about don't suffer so much? How patronising is the whole poor-child rigamarole? When exactly are we going to get around to finding out more about this condition that's been around since the roots of western culture began? And as I already wondered, Will we be using the pathologies of hetero orientation as a control group? Anyhow, I'm sure gays will be waiting by the phone.

It seems unnatural, doesn't work right, the whole naturey pc bullshit thing, but then if we're going to be natural, can we get remorseless murder back, like the blessed critters? Wait, which direction are we going again? Lead us there o' spiritual nature people.

I'd rather anybody said they thought homosexuality was wrong and immoral, if that's where all their curlicues and spun lines lead. Talk about pc. You can think that. But you may also think that marrying for money, having a child in dubious other hetero circumstances are wrong--after all, gays can marry and have kids, as long as it's a big sham, nice. Law can't proscribe all these matters, if you think about it. And it shouldn't. The culture agenda may annoy you, but you'll be pleased to know, for the sake of the poor children, that it is working. Opinion splits largely along age.

Subject: RE: BS: Why you don't like gay marriage
From: Amos
Date: 16 Aug 04 - 09:49 PM

Wait, which direction are we going again? Lead us there o' spiritual nature people.


Fred, sometimes you just crack me up no end!! :>)

A

Subject: RE: BS: Why you don't like gay marriage
From: Once Famous
Date: 16 Aug 04 - 11:17 PM

Amos

No, you butt out. Or take one in the butt if you like it so much.

Subject: RE: BS: Why you don't like gay marriage
From: GUEST,Chongo Chimp
Date: 16 Aug 04 - 11:35 PM

You're such a diplomat, Martin! Hey, had any good hotdogs or burgers lately? (I'm talkin' about food, okay?)

Subject: RE: BS: Why you don't like gay marriage
From: HRH ted of hull
Date: 17 Aug 04 - 05:35 AM

None of you ladies have dared to address the FUNDAMENTAL question concerning "gay marriages" ie - Which bloke wears the white dress? Or do they both turn up in flowing crinolene creations?

Subject: RE: BS: Why you don't like gay marriage
From: *daylia*
Date: 17 Aug 04 - 07:00 AM

Hey Fred, who do you think it's "working" the best for?   Take your pick, and please feel free to add to the list if you like.

You

Me

Child XX

Child XY

Jilly/Jane or Billy/Bob or Jilly/Billy next door

Cable TV stations

Afternoon talk show babblers   

The corporate sponsors of those same afternoon talk show babblers

Doctors

Journalists

Flamingos

Gazebos

Ribbon manufacturers

Political lobby groups in need of causes

Lawyers in need of clients

Street people

Yuppies

Michael Jackson

Martin Gibson

Porn stars

Stilly River Sage

Nerd

The Children's Aid (not to be confused with AIDS) Society

All of the above

None of the above

Some of the above


Just curious.


You know, I feel a whole lot differently about this than when I first started posting on this thread. When I searched my heart and soul this morning, I found that where there used to be some real interest, a little caring and quite a bit of concern, now there's just this great big yawning, resigned ..... nothing.

Good.

I can even look my 20yr old friend in the eye now. I honestly don't seem to care a whit what he does anymore! I know, I attuned him to Mastery in two traditions of Reiki (Japanese form of energetic healing) yesterday afternoon, and then we spent a few hours in the park talking.   

This must mean I've really come to terms with all those troubling personal experiences, feelings and opinions. What a "healing" indeed! YIPPPEEEEE!!!!

We did it, folks! Thank you very much to the Mudcat!

Now I'll get back to minding my own business(es).

daylia

Subject: RE: BS: Why you don't like gay marriage
From: GUEST,Fred Miller
Date: 17 Aug 04 - 10:40 AM

Probably cable t.v. and journalists, for now.

   It works for me just because I like some of the jokes. Margaret Cho's line Any government that would deny a gay man bridal registry is a fascist regime. Bill Marr's about how he never had a problem with gays, didn't care at all, then he had a proctology exam and now he thinks these people are just SICK.

What I don't like about gay marriage is that such a big change in cultural norms will make a lot of good old-fashioned stories and culture seem dated, confused, yellowed and dim--there will be footnotes and explanations, weary business, a lot of academic people saying "ACTUALLY..." about everything. I should be in favor of a better reflection of the realities of human nature in art and law and everything but I get tired, the conventions I know seem less trouble. New stock characters, plein-air gay-folk plot devices, social-issues enterprises, tedious discussions. The sooner it happens the better, with the least trouble, it's all like having to go to your wife's work-related party, or to the DMV to re-new your license.

I want to apologise for my previous post, I was irritable about something or other. I think gay marriage should and will be legal, but I don't think everybody has to like it. People are entitled to embrace their own point of view--there was just this one bullying point that got under my skin. Thanks Amos, sadly I too think I'm funny, and more than you do.

Subject: RE: BS: Why you don't like gay marriage
From: Little Hawk
Date: 17 Aug 04 - 11:03 AM

I think it's working best for: talk shows, journalists, lawyers, doctors, lobbyists, and professional soreheads (on either side of the issue). The usual bottom-feeders and parasites, in other words.

It's what is called a "very sexy" issue by people in the media these days. It's a fantastic way to generate publicity, either positive or negative.

It may also be part of the "distract, divide, and conquer" routine presently being foisted on the public by the powers that be as they dismantle democracy, destroy the fabric of a once-free society, and build their New World Order upon its ruins. Any issue that is profoundly divisive helps them keep people spinning their wheels uselessly, and not noticing the larger picture.

Subject: RE: BS: Why you don't like gay marriage
From: Don Firth
Date: 17 Aug 04 - 12:28 PM

True, Marty, some gays are pedophiles. But some straights are pedophiles. So it cancels out. As to my accusing you of being a bigot (I never used the word "Nazi"; you did), it's less of an accusation and more of an observation derived from the tone of your own posts. Shall we take a vote?

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Why you don't like gay marriage
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 17 Aug 04 - 03:03 PM

Well, personally, I think gay marriage is a real threat to the institution of heterosexual marriage. There are millions of married "straight" guys out there who have never had any desire to suck a cock or get boned in the ass, but if they could get married to some guy, they'd turn queer in a heartbeat!

Okay, maybe it's not "millions" of guys. How about "thousands"? "Hundreds"? Would "one or two out of the entire population of the friggin' country" seem more reasonable?

Subject: RE: BS: Why you don't like gay marriage
From: Little Hawk
Date: 17 Aug 04 - 07:08 PM

What??????

Aw, fer Chrissake! :-)

What about us Quasi-sexuals? We don't get any funding or publicity or anything. Nobody comes forward to defend us. We are a discriminated-against minority, and I think it's an outrage!

Subject: RE: BS: Why you don't like gay marriage
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 17 Aug 04 - 08:16 PM

The vibrators are in aisle 10 at Walmart, LH. . .

Subject: RE: BS: Why you don't like gay marriage
From: pdq
Date: 17 Aug 04 - 09:03 PM

Anybody hear Shel Silverstein's song "The Man Who Turns the Damn Thing Off and On"?

Bob Gibson's version on "Making a Mess..." is absolutely great.

Oops, that was about music.

Sorry, continue on...

Subject: RE: BS: Why you don't like gay marriage
From: Little Hawk
Date: 17 Aug 04 - 09:34 PM

1. I don't shop at WalMart.

2. I think you misunderstand the term "quasi-sexual".

Subject: RE: BS: Why you don't like gay marriage
From: Once Famous
Date: 17 Aug 04 - 09:55 PM

Hi Chongo. No, I've just been eating a lot of decent salads lately and occasionally a decent steak.

Don, read before you post. I said in general one gets called a bigot or a nazi around here. They are the most thrown about terms in this place.

How about the tone of your posts? Pompous. Snobby. Futile attempts at humor. Out-dated. Liberally biased beyond common sense. Full of one's self. Way too politcally correct. Boring.

Subject: RE: BS: Why you don't like gay marriage
From: GUEST,joe
Date: 17 Aug 04 - 11:56 PM

ok, y'all,
this is gettin' weird. how 'bout we just find some friends, try t' be honest & Get Over Ourselves.
w/ love from CA,US
ps, wish you were here
great jam session but for the affected dissonance
more beer? & o, i'm sorry, sex

Subject: RE: BS: Why you don't like gay marriage
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 18 Aug 04 - 01:03 AM

Naw, LH--it was just a chance to introduce one more distraction into an otherwise overworked thread.

Subject: RE: BS: Why you don't like gay marriage
From: *daylia*
Date: 18 Aug 04 - 06:28 AM

I'm sitting here in my provocative little gazebo, just inside it's enticing little door waiting for my flamingos to wake up, and I just gotta know .... what color is your very favorite vibrator, Stilly?

Did you finance, lease or pay cash for it?

Did you find it at Walmart?

Did you scour and shower before you deflowered it?

How often do you bring it in for an oil change?

Do you use Armor-all for good looks and a longer life?

Does it have pretty little tootsies, like a flamingo?

I'm taking a poll. As a newly self-realized Quasi, I realize there's a broad spectrum of very common human behaviors and choices for which I have not the slightest inclination ... and therefore no experience. But I do want the most accurate understanding of my species as possible - so thanks in advance for the info.

LH you're absolutely right, we Quasis should have just as much publicity and air-time as anyone else. I've been working on plans for our first Quasi-Pride Day, but funny thing ... everytime I pick up the phone to call the local Cable TV station, I start feeling queasy.

I don't like this. I think I'm already losing my new-found identity. Just the thought of coming out of the Quaset turns me into a Queasi-sexual.

How can I do justice to all Quasis if I start going Queasi in front of the cameras, the whole nation????

LH I obviously need your help with this. We'll join, and conquer!! Don't get me wrong about the "joining" bit though .... I realize you're not quite a full-blown Quasi yet, so I hafta go easi on you. (That's not Queasi, but easi).

So lemme know when you can join me in my Gazebo and help me draft up these Quasi-plans, ok Little Hawk?

Just promise you'll never titillate my Flamingos. Keep yer talons off 'em. I'm deathly possessive.


daylia

Subject: RE: BS: Why you don't like gay marriage
From: *daylia*
Date: 18 Aug 04 - 08:22 AM

Never mind, Stilly. I know it's going out on quite the shakey limb for anybody to take your word for anything, anyhow.

So I just splurged and spent all my Canadian Tire money (I refuse to shop at Walmart) on a selection of new toys. I'm going to spend some quality time with them in my Gazebo right now. My flamingos are still sleeping anyway.

Hmmm. Do you think I got the wrong size, maybe?

Subject: RE: BS: Why you don't like gay marriage
From: GUEST,fred miller
Date: 18 Aug 04 - 09:42 AM

wrong size HANDS. Those are lobster claws. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

Subject: RE: BS: Why you don't like gay marriage
From: Amos
Date: 18 Aug 04 - 10:49 AM

Qulickety Qulack, duck...but don't take it Quliterally...


A

Subject: RE: BS: Why you don't like gay marriage
From: Little Hawk
Date: 18 Aug 04 - 10:51 AM

Where in God's name did you ever find that picture, daylia?

Vibrators. They come in every size and color and a great many shapes. You can get double-ended ones too, but I don't think there are any triple-ended ones on the market yet. (I may be wrong about that.) The important thing with vibrators, I should think, is to get the speed right and avoid over-accelerating when in the passing lane, as this can strip your gears! But I am only theorizing. A good vibrator goes from zero to eighty in .15 seconds. Also, one should be careful to avoid electrocution if the vibrator casing gets damaged. Putting a rubber condom over the vibrator can help prevent this highly disturbing event.

Subject: RE: BS: Why you don't like gay marriage
From: *daylia*
Date: 18 Aug 04 - 10:52 AM

It's probably from years of trying to keep a good grope on the situation.

Just fancy how facilitative these hands are for fondling fully-flowered, flighty, feisty, flirtatious, flamboyant Flamingos, Fred!

Apparently even Alice had a problem or two. See?

... The chief difficulty Alice found at first was in managing her flamingo: she succeeded in getting its body tucked away, comfortably enough, under her arm, with its legs hanging down, but generally, just as she had got its neck nicely straightened out, and was going to give the hedgehog a blow with its head, it would twist itself round and look up in her face, with such a puzzled expression that she could not help bursting out laughing: and when she had got its head down, and was going to begin again, it was very provoking to find that the ...

Bursting out laughing at inopportune moments has been quite the problem for me too, I must admit ...

But I think I'm going to return these new toys forthwith. I didn't even have a chance to try them out before my Flamingos woke up, flipped out and flocked off.

Fooey.    :-(

Subject: RE: BS: Why you don't like gay marriage
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 18 Aug 04 - 11:58 AM

By all means, avoid electrocution, Little Hawk! If you wear your old vibrator down to no tread, I think you should spring for a new one rather than try to fix it yourself, if the outcome can be that shocking. Or get one that is battery operated. (I suggested Walmart to show how readily available these things are--but I vaguely remember you offering corroborating remarks on an old "I hate Walmart" thread).

daylia, give it a rest.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Why you don't like gay marriage
From: *daylia*
Date: 18 Aug 04 - 01:01 PM

I'm sorry Stilly - I do make it a point never to take orders. Haven't you noticed?

Oh yeah, you probably haven't. You do seem to have quite a bit of trouble seeing past the end of your own snout.

Hey, maybe your posts would be more pleasant, more persuasive, more exciting, even receive a modicum of critical acclaim if you'd only use your Walmart Special -- or better yet, offered to pay someone (or something) a handsome sum --- to Qulick at your Qulitty as you Qulamour at me.

HINT: make sure you pick someone (or something) with a very loooooooooooong tongue and nice big taste-buds too. That Qulitty of yours is no doubt just as monstrous as that snout. And it's probably just as miserably lacking in taste and appeal as your typical post here.


daylia


PS Please don't take it too hard Stilly. I'm just having fun. I can make no valid judgments about your Qulitty. I haven't personally spent any Quality time with it (yet). And your snout doesn't appear to be all that long either, going by the Mudcat pics.

Maybe you're near-sighted?

Whatever you are, I just don't know how I'm ever gonna sleep tonight, after gazing so longingly and lovingly at your Mudcat pics!

If you see my long-lost flamingos, please don't let on though.

Subject: RE: BS: Why you don't like gay marriage
From: Little Hawk
Date: 18 Aug 04 - 01:11 PM

Now lookie here, daylia. It takes two to stop fighting uselessly over old grievances. I think Stilly is willing to, so how about you too? That's not an order, it's a suggestion. :-)

Yeah, Stilly, I really detest WalMart. I read an article about the 20 richest people in the World. Almost 1/3 of them were in the Walton family. WalMart is a disgusting octopus that devours decent businesses, exploits foreign workers, and ruins smaller communities, while practicing the most ruthless, shoddy, and irresponsible forms of capitalist excess. It's a giant mouth that devours.

Subject: RE: BS: Why you don't like gay marriage
From: GUEST,fred miller
Date: 18 Aug 04 - 01:22 PM

Alice. Speaking of straight pedophiles, but one who managed to behave himself, apparently.

re-reading this thread for funny bits what struck me instead is how often I pop on to say something that was already said. In my own self-amused manner, of course, but still, I thought I was paying attention. Between swatting porn-pop-ups and get-rid-of-porn-pop-ups-pop-ups, I thought I read what people said, more or less.

The only thing I seemed to add was the possibility that straight people will abuse same-sex marriage for the benefits, which is quite probable. Because straights don't seem to take marriage very seriously anyway, and fewer of them care about gay-associations. Canadians might not understand the hassle here of getting health insurance, and although my sexuality doesn't feel like a choice but more like an embarrassing boner-hazard (thanks for the hug in my time of grief, lady, but back up now, please, bitch) if I had a male room-mate with a spouse plan, a rent-splitting deal, and I don't need a full-time job or the UPS union, hm, that hay or meadow starts to look tasty. I could choose it, especially since I don't have to eat it. There's no legal standard of gay, you don't have to perform acts in chambers. That's why it's important to call it same-sex marriage. Or same gender. Marriage doesn't equal sex, at least not mine, lately. I think straight sham-gay marriage would far exceed the gay sham-straight marriages.
Anyway, it sounds pretty good, maybe no marital sex, but I get to screw the health insurance industry, which is pretty sexy to me, personally. I owe them a good humping. Plus I could pretend to be gay around straight women, which is a fun kind of voyeurism, and maybe I'd get to go to some of those book clubs and locker rooms and stuff.

The problem is in the new benefits and money tied to a self-declared state, with marriage as an institution ALREADY debased, and health insurance ALREADY a fesitival of crap.

Subject: RE: BS: Why you don't like gay marriage
From: GUEST,Fred Miller
Date: 18 Aug 04 - 01:28 PM

Daylia if you don't get around to posting a photo you'll be remembered as a girl with big hands and toys.

Subject: RE: BS: Why you don't like gay marriage
From: *daylia*
Date: 18 Aug 04 - 02:00 PM

"A giant mouth that devours" ... hey, that sounds just like Stilly!

Sorry Little Hawk, I just couldn't resist. I'll behave now, I promise.

You know I do always respect your opinions (even if I don't always agree with them) and give your suggestions very careful consideration (even if I don't always choose to follow them). Why?

Because like Stilly, you're intelligent, well-versed and witty.

But unlike Stilly, you also show yourself to be wise (there's a big difference between 'intelligent' and 'wise'). And unlike Stilly, you are also pleasant and accepting, friendly and open-minded.

Most importantly though, you do choose to express yourself in a socially appropriate, respectful, loving, humble and non-abusive manner. These traits and behaviors indicate that you have earned yourself quite a high level of spiritual understanding.

And of all human "character traits", that's the one I respect and value the most.

Aloha nui loa (I love you very much) my friend,

daylia

Subject: RE: BS: Why you don't like gay marriage
From: Ebbie
Date: 18 Aug 04 - 02:04 PM

And it's probably just as miserably lacking in taste and appeal as your typical post here.

Good lord. To think I used to enjoy your posts and respect your views.

Subject: RE: BS: Why you don't like gay marriage
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 18 Aug 04 - 02:11 PM

Walmart is in the dead-last position on any list when shopping. Only if all other options have failed do we go there, so I only see the inside of the place about once a year.

I can make no valid judgments about your Qulitty.

I, on the other hand, took your measure a long time ago. The idiotic insulting stuff you post doesn't hurt me, but it makes you look petty. You should listen to your friend Little Hawk. And if you're looking at the photos I posted, I would appreciate a little respect. By both personal and Mudcat standards there are some pretty important folks in those images, my likeness aside, and they don't need to be dragged into your squabbles.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Why you don't like gay marriage
From: *daylia*
Date: 18 Aug 04 - 02:17 PM

Oh well. Your choice, your loss Ebbie.


BTW, how's your little (or maybe not so little) Qulitty doing today?   

;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Why you don't like gay marriage
From: Ebbie
Date: 18 Aug 04 - 02:21 PM

Ah ha!! I've got it! daylia is Martin Gibson!!

Subject: RE: BS: Why you don't like gay marriage
From: Once Famous
Date: 18 Aug 04 - 02:34 PM

No, she isn't, but I like her anyway.

"By both personal and Mudcat standards there are some pretty important folks in those images, my likeness aside, and they don't need to be dragged into your squabbles."

oooooooooohhhh, aren't you the important one? You stink up a bathroom just like anyone else can.

Subject: RE: BS: Why you don't like gay marriage
From: wysiwyg
Date: 18 Aug 04 - 02:43 PM

This does not look, to me, at all like the same Mudcat that was so moved by Rick Fielding's passing that, just for a few days, bullshit fell silent.

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Why you don't like gay marriage
From: Once Famous
Date: 18 Aug 04 - 02:47 PM

Actually, I am sorry I did post what I did, without looking at the pictures.

I should have.

Subject: RE: BS: Why you don't like gay marriage
From: Don Firth
Date: 18 Aug 04 - 03:06 PM

Marty, I can see where you, in particular, would evaluate my posts the way you do.

Pompous

Per Merriam-Webster:—
1 : excessively elevated or ornate   [What can I do but blush modestly?]
2 : having or exhibiting self-importance : ARROGANT    [Often the perception of someone who has little to recommend him when encountering a person who exhibits knowledge and refinement.]
3 : relating to or suggestive of pomp : MAGNIFICENT    [Again, I blush modestly.]

Snobby

Again, per Merriam-Webster:—
Ref: snob
1 : one who tends to rebuff, avoid, or ignore those regarded as inferior [If you feel I am rebuffing you, Marty, it's because you are a bit dull—no shine—and are badly in need of buffing up; I can't really avoid you here on Mudcat even if I wanted to; I don't ignore you because you are kind enough not to ignore me (not matter how boring you find me, you always respond to my every post with one of your pithy comments); and I know you feel inferior, Marty, and perhaps with good cause, but that's not my doing.]
2 : one who has an offensive air of superiority in matters of knowledge or taste [It's obvious to all that I am superior to you in matters of knowledge and taste, but I'm truly sorry if you find that offensive; the solution is not to put me down, but to try to elevate yourself a bit.]

Futile attempts at humor

That, of course, is a matter of opinion. Once again, shall we take a vote?

Out-dated.

Your judgment of anything that happened in the world before you came along. Now who's pompous and full of one's self?

Liberally biased beyond common sense

That sounds like the opinion of someone a bit to the right of Attila the Hun when speaking of someone else who has occasionally expressed concern for the welfare of his fellow humans, rather than matters of power, profit, acquisition, and short-sighted pleasure.

Full of one's self

Well, who else am I supposed to be full of? It's a lot better to be full of one's self that to be, as you are, full of. . . .    Well—never mind.

Way too politically correct

Is that because I don't use ethnic or racial slurs or refer to gays as "fudgepackers"? Is that why, Marty?

Boring

Because I use words of more than two syllables from time to time and tend to write fairly long sentences? I'm sorry your attention span is so short, Marty. Or is it that I write about things beyond your comprehension and it tends to give you headaches? Well, yeah, I can see where you would find that boring. Sorry about that.

Have a nice day.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Why you don't like gay marriage
From: Once Famous
Date: 18 Aug 04 - 03:09 PM

Man, you sure know how to waste your life.

The next worst thing to bible spouters is dictionary spouters.

Now, pull your shorts out of your crack and attempt to walk.

Subject: RE: BS: Why you don't like gay marriage
From: *daylia*
Date: 18 Aug 04 - 03:23 PM

No Ebbie, don't blame Martin. I lived in an all-male household for 25 years (sorry if that sounds unfair, guys, and maybe it is .... but it felt like being imprisoned in some football locker room for a long, LOOOOOONG time). I think I eventually succumbed to "if you can't beat'em. join 'em". And I see I can still get pretty vulgar sometimes, when I'm feeling a lot of tension.

Especially on a thread like this one.

I do apologize if my "comic relief" offended you, Ebbie. Please be assured I don't really have any interest in your Qulitty - or anyone else's, for that matter. (Except, occasionally, my own).

I just liked using the word "Qulitty". I got the idea from Amos, above, so I can't even take full credit for it.

Stilly, I didn't intend any disrespect for anyone else in your picture. Just you. I just can't seem get over my latest interest in life --- no not "toys", but YOU!!!!

I think I found a picture of your River.

And your song, too. Am I right?

The one is just beautiful. What a gusher! And the other I'll have to wait to try out. My piano is at the shop for a good cleaning right now.

(Hey, maybe I should send my head there, too. *sigh*)

Sorry, folks. I can talk like a (rude) adolescent male sometimes, but rest assured I don't walk like one (or so I've been told). Not that any of you are really interested, anyway.

Unlike Stilly, I'm no more important or worthy of your interest than anybody else here. ;-)

daylia

Subject: RE: BS: Why you don't like gay marriage
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 18 Aug 04 - 03:39 PM

By both personal and Mudcat standards there are some pretty important folks in those images, my likeness aside, means everyone except me in the photo.

The song isn't related to the river, but is a reworking of an old Irish tune. Good song, but unrelated. My grandfather was the "Sage of the Stilly" in his newspaper column for many years. Thanks, Martin, for your remarks, both on the thread and PM. This has gone far enough--the goading must stop. And giving with one hand and taking back with the other--that's pointless.

Subject: RE: BS: Why you don't like gay marriage
From: Don Firth
Date: 18 Aug 04 - 03:42 PM

Trying to shape you up is merely a small part of my contribution to civilization, Marty.

Oft in the Stilly Night. A beautiful song, if a bit sad. But many of the best ones are.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Why you don't like gay marriage
From: Once Famous
Date: 18 Aug 04 - 04:11 PM

Give up, Don

Get your old ass in shape first.

Subject: RE: BS: Why you don't like gay marriage
From: *daylia*
Date: 18 Aug 04 - 04:58 PM

Stilly I know you're intelligent and well-read, and I appreciate your sense of humour too. But I don't care for the overbearing, pompous-sounding and often downright insulting tone of the majority of your posts here. I watch you so often make harsh, unwarranted assumptions and judgments about complete strangers, at the drop of a hat (meaning a word or two). I do not respect that type of behavior at all.

I never have.

I usually just skip your posts because of it. And I know I'm probably missing out on some valuable information (please don't confuse this with valuable 'opinions') by doing so. It's just not worth the effort of dealing with the aggravation, anger and annoyance your posts evoke, 99% of the time -- whether you are addressing me or someone else (usually a newcomer) on this site.

Sometimes it even brings out the worst in me ... have you noticed? That's why I ignore you most of the time.

Now, if this is called giving with one hand and taking with the other, so be it. It is the truth.

It's really not necessary to "talk down" to people to get a point across, Stilly, nor does it do you any favours. I am not your student, nor will I ever be. I don't know that anyone else here is either.

I am not paying big bucks to hear your opinions and/or "learn" about your points of view.   Nor am I employing you to "grade" my writing, my spelling, my feelings, my thoughts, my experiences, my friends, my community or my opinions.

You have never met me. You know next to nothing about me except for the posts you've read here on the 'Cat over the last year or so. And still, you seem to think you can "measure" me! With what?!?

Your Qulitty? (sorry, just kidding ;-)

You cannot "measure" me, now or ever Stilly! You don't have the proper "measuring stick". You never will. No one can see into the heart or mind of another. And even if they could, they still don't have the right to judge anything they might "perceive" about another's heart or mind.

The level of your current spiritual understanding reveals itself in the fact that you still appear to suffer greatly from the delusion that you somehow have the ability - even the right! - to measure or judge me. Or anybody else.

Guess what --- YOU DON'T! And neither does any other human being.

So if you'd like perfect strangers like myself to be more open to listening to anything you have to say, to respect your opinions, or even to feel a bit curious or kindly disposed toward the people in your pics (who are not, after all, Abraham Lincoln or Shania Twain - no disrespect intended), then perhaps a major change in your "bedside manner" here on the Cat is indicated.

daylia

PS   I thought Stephen Foster wrote a song about the "Stilly Night" too. Gonna look that one up right now.