Random Rants 23: Christ, you know it ain't easy!

[Eran of Arcadia]

Sarah Palin inadvertantly provided a golden opportunity to rally liberal support for the WTC-area mosque, but instead all they are doing is focusing on the words she used.

 

[madviking]

Only seventy minutes?

It usually takes on 15 if you do it once a week, cuz it'll know to skip all of my Civ4 stuff.

 

[Tee Kay]

I tripped on a pile of books I had on the floor. Luckily I regain my footing before my face land on some hooks on the wall.

All things considered, today was a crap day. A crap end to a crap day. Brilliant.

 

[Ekolite]

I was asked if I was a ruler or a roundabout at a party a few days ago

 

[Yared]

Well, hey. At least you got to see Isaiah Mustafa's muscular chest before sleeping.

I was asked if I was a ruler or a roundabout at a party a few days ago

Gay terminology?

 

[Mango Elephant]

Ok, I just looked up what a roundabout was on urbandictionary, what's a ruler?

 

[Tee Kay]

I was asked if I was a ruler or a roundabout at a party a few days ago

Um... what?

Or maybe I shouldn't ask.

Well, hey. At least you got to see Isaiah Mustafa's muscular chest before sleeping.

Sadly, he isn't me...

 

[Ekolite]

No it's a supposedly tactful way to ask if you're gay or straight. Sadly there is no third option

Ruler means straight.

Roundabout means gay.

 

[Mango Elephant]

OH, I get it. Shouldn't that be a rave? You're hair is too pretty to be straight. That's what I would take it as.

 

[Ekolite]

I'm only out to my closest friends, and definitely not to my family. It was one of my brother's friends who asked (straight) and if he asked then it means I'm obviously not playing straight well enough

 

[Mango Elephant]

With all the rainbow avatar and profile picture, I was pretty sure you were going through some kind of gay-phase or something. That's when you want people to think your gay so it's not a suprise for them when you do come out, right?

 

[madviking]

Sadly, he isn't me...

If you stopped using lady-scented body washes, you can smell like you're me.

 

[Ekolite]

With all the rainbow avatar and profile picture, I was pretty sure you were going through some kind of gay-phase or something. That's when you want people to think your gay so it's not a suprise for them when you do come out, right?

Um. No I just like to flaunt it to people who I am out to and that includes the internet . The rainbow flag was mainly in celebration of Argentina.

Can't come out fully. I have younger brothers, a conservative mother, and homophobic grandparents. My grandparents would prbabably disown me. Plus my best friend was telling me the other day how much she likes to have a male friend that she can relate to but who isn't gay. So I don't want to tell her that actually I basically am.

 

[Tee Kay]

Only three people have commented on my plans in the IOT Developmental Thread so far...

If you stopped using lady-scented body washes, you can smell like you're me.

I'm on a boat, with two tickets... to what I have no idea, and I don't have anyone to share it with.

 

[Huayna Capac357]

if he asked then it means I'm obviously not playing straight well enough

Not necessarily. People call me gay all the time. And I'm obviously playing straight because I am straight.

 

[Arakhor]

Well, Ekolite, you probably should tell your best friend that you are gay, especially if she references it in conversation.

 

[Ekolite]

Not necessarily. People call me gay all the time. And I'm obviously playing straight because I am straight.

Um.

If people mistake you for being gay then there must be something in your behaviour that suggests that. Plenty of straight guys have a lot of female friends, or are a little bit feminine sometimes or look at guys sometimes or whatever. If you are purposely trying to avoid suspicion you try to tone it down a little.

The two situations aren't really comparable.

And to Arakhor, yep I probably should.

 

[Ulyaoth]

Sarah Palin inadvertantly provided a golden opportunity to rally liberal support for the WTC-area mosque, but instead all they are doing is focusing on the words she used.

Why, what'd she say?

Also, damn these dreams, more and more insane dreams every night, it's driving me crazy. That and I way overslept, I hate waking up at 11 it's just so enraging to waste the good early hours of the day.

 

[Lord of Elves]

If you stopped using lady-scented body washes, you can smell like you're me.

That is to say, that if you stopped using lady-scented body washes, you could smell like you're him, who smell's like he's him. But sadly, he's not him.

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

Why, what'd she say?

She called upon "peaceful Muslims" to "refudiate" the building of a mosque near Ground Zero. People seized on the fact that "refudiate" isn't a word, and when she defended herself by saying people make up words all the time (she mentioned Shakespeare) people made fun of her for comparing herself to Shakespeare.

This bugs me because I feel (I am just saying is all, don't want to start a debate) that building the mosque is an important affirmation of the 1st Amendment; and that as far as I can tell, liberals are more concerned with what Palin says than many conservatives; thus, though I am not really a liberal, if Sarah Palin opposes something I support, I would hope that would mobilize liberals to support it. But instead they just get hung up on her word use.