Posted on 11/30/2009 9:56:50 PM PST by TheArizona
My wife has Christmas pictures sceheduled in about a week. I was told to take myself and my older boy to Great Clips and have our hair cut. (No $1200 haircuts for me.)
Anyways, it was near closing time and there were 2 people working, a female and a male. The man was a big dude in height and weight maybe 6'0 200+ lbs with a beard and Go-T. Sorry, I don't know how to spell it. His fingernails were painted black and had an obvious gay accent.
I seriously hate you.
OOOkay!
The Day Begins
Cold hearted orb that rules the night,
Removes the colours from our sight,
Red is gray and yellow white,
But we decide which is right.
And which is an illusion?
Pinprick holes in a colourless sky,
Let insipid figures of light pass by,
The mighty light of ten thousand suns,
Challenges infinity and is soon gone.
Night time, to some a brief interlude,
To others the fear of solitude.
Brave Helios wake up your steeds,
Bring the warmth the countryside needs.
Paleo-Goths... hmmmmmmmm...
I confess I know less about Goths than I do about Emos. We encounter groups of both when on Patrol, and both seem harmless enough. The Emos talk to us more.
So Paleo-Goths, would they include the likes of Elvira, Mistress of the Dark?
As you can see, I probably have much to learn.
There’s a poster on the road.
His brain is squirmin’ like a toad.....
“sperminator tunes”
You could make a good living thinking of titles for pornos.
The Nose knows not.
They include old broads like me who were “goth” before there was even a word for it.
We were just the weird, artistic, darkly brooding little high school shadows for whom life itself was simply too much to bear....LOL!
There’s already a porn flick called “The Sperminator”.
[and no, I have not seen it]
I’ll see if it’s in my NetFlix queue.
LOL!
She grew up playing with Sonny Barger’s kids next door.
>>>Yup. I think you’re looking for validation with this vanity post, for somebody to say “attaboy! Good for you, you’re not gay!” I can’t see any other reason for this Vanity.
How about getting a bunch of people to offer homophobic posts so this newbie can go back to whatever site with “OMG LOOK AT THE DUMB HATEFUL FREEPERS”. Just as a possibility you understand, not an accusation at all. No siree.
I’ve been noticing several newbies lately opening threads with a similar “feel”. However they always get lots of unfortunately undeniable posters in agreement.
TheArizona 2009-07-08
Immoral? No. Wrong? Yes.
Come now. Regardless of the rest of this issue, surely you understand what the poster meant by that?
I don't know what an "obvious gay accent" sounds like in Australia or Italy, but I sure know what one sounds like here in the USA.
My wife and I had a hilarious moment a few years back. We were vacationing on Cape Cod in Massachusetts and took a day trip to one of the most well known homosexual enclaves in the northeast US, Provincetown.
We were having breakfast in a cafe, and were looking at these two guys at a nearby table. Seeing two guys together in Provincetown is pretty much a dead giveaway, but...as they spoke with each other, they didn't "sound" homosexual due to the complete lack of the "obvious gay accent". As my wife and I played the "are they or aren't they" game, the door opened and a guy walked in and went over to their table.
As if someone had flipped a switch, the voice patterns, intonations and inflections of the two guys changed immediately to an "obvious gay accent".
We nearly fell out of our chairs. It was both illustrative and funny.
In any case, perhaps it isn't as obvious to Aussies, but the "obvious gay accent" is pretty much a well understood phenomenon here. Doesn't mean all men who have it are homosexuals, and it doesn't mean those who don't have it are straight, but it is there.
I meant it, too, even though I was laughing while I said it. I had to take my other nephew to task as well on another occasion (nephew on my side) He is 13 years old with a reading disability and can barely read. He is also (at 13 years) a raging liberal moonbat who has bought into the entire liberal outlook and Obama worship. This isn't surprising, considering that he gets most of his knowledge and understanding of current events from watching television. I bought him an iPod and filled it with historical biographies and such, but it is like a brick in the Grand Canyon when compared with the effects of limitless television indoctrination. When I visit, he wants to talk politics with me, which I was happy to do until I realized he was completely infected with liberalism, which saddened me to no end. One day, he started talking about how bad and stupid Republicans were, and used Dan Quayle as an example of stupidity, saying "He doesn't even know how to spell "potato". I had to stop him and say "How can you ridicule the way someone spells, when you can barely spell words yourself?
Believe me, I am sympathetic to his learning disability and to my other nephew's compete obliviousness, but it stops when they make a deliberate effort to go out of his way to ridicule others. I just don't have any truck with that.
It's called good parenting.
Don't second guess yourself here.
> Come now. Regardless of the rest of this issue, surely you understand what the poster meant by that?
Nope. There is no such thing as an “obvious gay accent”. Not even in America. It is a figment of television’s overheated imagination.
> Doesn’t mean all men who have it are homosexuals, and it doesn’t mean those who don’t have it are straight, but it is there.
There is an accent that occurs “in the wild” near Portland Oregon. People from that part of the world all talk in the manner you describe, complete with camp lisps and inflections: most of them are straight. When you hear it, it sounds funny and it is easy to draw conclusions, and it is even easier to be wrong in those conclusions.
So not only is there no such thing as an “obvious gay accent”, but what sounds like one is actually a regional accent that applies to both gays and straights — which makes accent an unreliable indicator at best.
I’m a little confused by how you knew he is gay and what a “gay accent” is. The problem in trying to avoid contacts with gays is that you don’t really know.
Maybe we should come up with a system to identify them. Maybe force them to wear arm bands with pink triangles will do it.
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