The where are you from thread

[sleeplessdragn]

get this....

rancho cucamonga, CA

yes, it is that city is constantly being made fun of because of its ??? name.

[Tasuke]

Originally Posted by sleeplessdragn

get this....

rancho cucamonga, CA

yes, it is that city is constantly being made fun of because of its ???


name.

No way! What high school? (or middle skool?)
but yeah none of my freinds believe me when I tell them where I live now

[Snapps]

Originally Posted by Tasuke

No way! What high school? (or middle skool?)
but yeah none of my freinds believe me when I tell them where I live now

I have friends that live there that I see every week o.O.

[Mwerp]

Originally Posted by Unit000

In response to Mwerps first post...Well...the word "good" comes from a Anglo-Saxon word meaning lack of color...so going up to a colored person and saying "Good Morning" is like going up to them and saying "I'm gonna kill you this morning, bitch." (ok maybe not the bitch part...thats more for effect)

Yeah actually that analogy doesn't work at all sorry. =(

hookers and prostitutes etc. are doing something that most people consider morally wrong.

Nobody thought that about the concubines of historic Chinese days. In fact, concubines were treated with the same respect that the emperor was given. Also for today, what is "morally wrong" is an individual thing, not a common belief of what is right and what is wrong. I think it's wrong to lie. I never lie. Some people make a profession of it.
Now you want to know something really wrong?
A dick of one man up another man's ass.
Seriously.
Honestly though, it's even wrong in Christianity.

being gay is something that people can't help-- people are born gay...

I'd have to say that's wrong. It's totally subjective.

they don't chose to be gay (who would?).

As I said, subjective, but I broke this off to say that some people do choose it without confusing you.

pretty much you are offending gay people by using that word as an insult or derogatory adjective because they can't help being that way... it's who they are. whereas hookers typically have a choice. and it's not as if they're forced to be hookers. plenty of poor people manage to get to college and get themselves off the streets.

Hookers often times can't help being hookers. They don't have any better means of gaining revenue so they seek this profession.

then again if you hate gay people and want to purposefully hurt them then using that word in such ways makes perfect sense

What I hate is gay people who take offense to slang dealing with their sexual preference. People need to accept that slang is slang. I know gay people who say "that's gay" and plenty other things like that.

Besides, it doesn't matter if you actually had a choice to be a certain way or not; the point is you are that way and that's that.

[Porgy]

Originally Posted by Mwerp

Now this is interesting because you DID mean it.
Perhaps you're not quite sure what you meant exactly.
Let me enlighten you and everyone else who uses the word "gay" or "***" in this sense.
In the context, the term "gay" is not used as a description of sexual inclination; rather, it is used as an adjective with a negative attribute(such as "suck" in "that sucks").
Therefore, the deeper meaning of saying "that's gay" pertaining to the term "gay" itself is to say that being gay is not a positive attribute for a person to have.
Think about how this applies to insults such as "you ***"(in the context of someone not being homosexual yet you'd call them such anyway), and think about how that mentally/emotionally affects homosexual people.

Myself, I really don't care if ******s get pissed when I say "that's gay". They're just being overly pissy about the fact that they're the minority and they feel a need to take advantage in a way that demonstrates themselves as the more pure side of the issue. If any gay person EVER tries to tell you that it's an insult to them when you say "that's gay", tell them to shut their prissy little asses up, because by that logic, they're offending hookers and concubines of all sorts all across the globe when they say "that sucks".

oh and i'm in oregon lol

sweet jesus. I could maybe swallow the whole "gay" part of your argument although I'd even disagree with that since you are using it in a connotatively derogatory expression. But as for the word ******, it shows how completely ignorant and uneducated you are. The word ****** in a dictionary means a bundle of sticks. The reason it became associated with homosexuals is because in the days of the inquisition in europe they would gather ******s (the actual bundles of sticks) to burn the witches with. When they ran out of sticks they would then throw homosexuals onto the fire to keep it going. It was a term used to keep homosexuals in the closet for fear for their lives. You think thats a term to be used lightly? Put yourself in their shoes for a second and consider how you would feel if someone referred to you in a term designed to promote fear and insecurity? Or are you so short sighted you can't even consider that. Prissy? There are hate crimes committed by ignorant people like you every day because they can't accept the pride of somebody who has opinions different from their own.

[Porgy]

oh, and I live in Santa Monica, CA

[CypherToorima]

Mi Madre. It's an island off Mexico.

[Porgy]

Your mom is an island off mexico?

[sleeplessdragn]

to tasuke: heard of Osos?

to Snapps: thats scary and interesting at the same time. im tihnking of a "ducking hardcore mix" rite now.

[Mwerp]

sweet jesus. I could maybe swallow the whole "#$*" part of your argument although I'd even disagree with that since you are using it in a connotatively derogatory expression.

oh okay thanks for sharing

But as for the word (#*$*@, it shows how completely ignorant and uneducated you are. The word (#*$*@ in a dictionary means a bundle of sticks.

WELL I DEFINITELY DIDN'T KNOW THAT SIR
I MEAN IT CERTAINLY WAS NEVER THE MAIN TOPIC OF JUST ABOUT EVERY IMMATURE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CHILD'S DISCUSSION BACK IN THE DAY

The reason it became associated with homosexuals is because in the days of the inquisition in europe they would gather ******s (the actual bundles of sticks) to burn the witches with. When they ran out of sticks they would then throw homosexuals onto the fire to keep it going. It was a term used to keep homosexuals in the closet for fear for their lives.

Yeah that's great and all but I'm talking about today, not the past.

You think thats a term to be used lightly?

Yeah. Anyone who thinks otherwise blows.
oh wait i can't say that because glass blowers would consider it a slam at their profession/state of being because it pertains to a word associated with what they do gee wiz

Put yourself in their shoes for a second and consider how you would feel if someone referred to you in a term designed to promote fear and insecurity?

Okay first of all.
If the kid is gay he's most likely going to be either really fat or really skinny. There is no way my feet are going to be comfortable in either of those body type's shoe size okay.
Second.
I am NOT about to put my pure feet in some ***'s shoes sorry but I just don't play on that team okay
Third.
This is the year 2004. We are currently not living in the times of the inquistion you were talking about. Why should I care about how the word was used then as opposed to now? Gay also means benevolent, cheerful, happy. So what? This is slang and how it is used negatively TODAY, not how it was used negatively in the past.

Or are you so short sighted you can't even consider that.

Actually I've got 20/20 vision but thanks for your concern.
I find it odd that you would presume an abstract artist to be short-sighted. Very strange.

Prissy? There are hate crimes committed by ignorant people like you every day because they can't accept the pride of somebody who has opinions different from their own.

Yeah too bad I'm a total genius huh =(

[Porgy]

sadly, people like you are allowed to post here.

[Laharl]

Originally Posted by LEGO

hookers and prostitutes etc. are doing something that most people consider morally wrong. being gay is something that people can't help-- people are born gay... they don't chose to be gay (who would?). pretty much you are offending gay people by using that word as an insult or derogatory adjective because they can't help being that way... it's who they are. whereas hookers typically have a choice. and it's not as if they're forced to be hookers. plenty of poor people manage to get to college and get themselves off the streets.

then again if you hate gay people and want to purposefully hurt them then using that word in such ways makes perfect sense

My mom said she noticed something in a recent study that she read up on. It had to do with fish, and hormonal levels. Specifically, estrogen and testosterone. I'm going to assume you know what those are. Well, in a nutshell, both sexes contain both hormones, in differing levels. In an area where fish had been exposed to higher levels of estrogen due to some synthetic ones that had been released in the area somehow, male-male fish pairings occured quite often compared to how it was before hand. When Testosterone levels were very high in the area, female-female pairings occured quite naturally.

If this is the case, perhaps an excess in one of the two hormones inside a mother could pass on to her children, which would prove that yes, gay people are "born that way".

And if you're someone like me, you'll still say "Who gives a damn?"

I was born pre-dispositioned to sad. My brain lacks certain chemicals needed to process happiness (such as serotonin and magnesium). I have to take supplements to "correct" this but it's still something I have to overcome on my own. Gay people can very well choose to not be gay, just as I'm able to choose and be happy. It might be hard as hell, the single hardest thing that someone might ever do in their lives, but it's possible.

My point in all this is that whining over someone disliking "your people" is pretty pointless. Everything in life is a choice, and there will be people that dislike you for ones you make in yours.

I have people mock me for the religion I follow every day. *shrugs* It's life. Deal with it. Just because it's an internet site doesn't mean it has to be politically correct.

[Porgy]

there is a difference between the lines of political correctness and moral/ethical correctness. Some things just shouldn't be said, plain and simple.

[DarkOracle]

I am from Sunny California =^.^=

[esupin]

Originally Posted by aleco

People don't gay this up.

westford, MA
Originally fron China. Ni hao wuo de peng you

[Xaimus]

I live in Manhattan, KS.

Porgy: There is a difference between making an appeal and beating a dead horse.

[aleco]

Hehe I like how this is half on location and half on homos.

[Privateer]

Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

[Kefit]

Bellevue, Washington.

It's right across Lake Washington from Seattle.

[JurseyRider734]

New Jersey like WOAH.