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Post by bluepride on May 17, 2006 19:52:04 GMT -5
Wow, that's the first complaint I've received about my avatar! If and when I find something better, I'll consider changing it! Maybe....
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Post by burner on May 18, 2006 3:17:53 GMT -5
If u find one of Piazza kissing Jeter... I WANT IT!
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Post by 1dbigjim563 on May 18, 2006 14:16:26 GMT -5
I kind of like Bluepride's little scene. It reminds of an openning scene from a soft corps porn tape that runs in a certain bar here in DC.
And Burner, try driving here in your nation's capital. Between the tourists and the VA drivers (with apologies to any VA members -- but it does seem most of the accidents I've attended down here involved Virginia drivers) it will get to yu quickly.
If you think it's getting frustrating driving around NYC, try it here. I lived in NYC for a quarter century and drove there with impunity (and no tickets, accidents or other mishaps). I swear some of the people down here are the sort of people we'd "run off the road" back in New york, for their safety and ours!
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Post by burner on May 26, 2006 0:42:09 GMT -5
Big Jim, I have gotten so screwed up when trying to drive in D.C. that whenever I travel down there now I just park the car and take public transit (or walk) where ever I want to go. But I think I know what you mean.....I've encounted some visitors with D.C. plates up here. They make taxi drivers look like saints!
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Post by 1dbigjim563 on May 30, 2006 11:54:14 GMT -5
Yeah,
It's our own brand of domestic terrorism! ;D
Turn DC area drivers lose on the unsuspecting beyond the beltway and watch them leave havoc in their wake, where ever they drive.
For those of you out there who have not had the experience of dealing with drivers from our part of the couontry, my advice is to remember what they taught you in vehicle skills and leave plenty of manuevering room when ever you come upon one of our hapless locals behind the wheel.
There's just no telling what they might do.
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Post by bluepride on Jul 29, 2006 12:06:38 GMT -5
A blitzed Mel Gibson launched into an obscenity-laced tirade when he was busted on suspicion of drunken driving early yesterday, threatening an officer and making anti-Semitic and sexually abusive remarks, according to a police report. What goes around, comes around! I'm glad this homophobe, anti-semite, anti-everything that's not the way he wants it to be, got arrested!! He portrays himself as a holier-than-thou type but he's just another two-bit actor who got lucky. Well, his luck ran out the other day! Let's see how this plays out in the courts in California. I never liked him or his movies!! www.nydailynews.com/front/story/439046p-369834c.html
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Post by 1dbigjim563 on Jul 29, 2006 17:18:20 GMT -5
Hey T,
Tell us what you really think! lol
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Post by burner on Jul 30, 2006 22:52:58 GMT -5
Bluepride, thank you. I couldn't have said it better myself. That self-serving sanctimonius pompous ass deserves whatever he gets. Of course, those who simply love "his holiness, Pope Mel" will continue to turn a blind eye and ask "What's all the fuss about?" HRRMMMMFFF!!! Couldn't happen to a "nicer" guy.
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Post by admin on Aug 17, 2007 9:43:43 GMT -5
It's been over a year since there's been any replies to this thread but I have to add one now! Actually I have a lot of pet peeves (don't we all??!!) But the one that's been getting me riled up lately is those freakin' dazzling ultrabright headlights on peoples' cars! They make it almost impossible to see while driving on a highway or parkway. And they make driving extremely dangerous! Also while I'm at it, those groups of about 5 or 6 motorcycle riders who zoom all over the road, swerving in and out of lanes of traffic as if it's a joke! Not to wish bad on anyone, but some sort of poetic justice needs to happen to these drivers!!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2007 10:08:28 GMT -5
I only have one pet peeve, "discreet" gay men who do nothing but talk about what gay activists shoud do, while they hide in their closets like frightened mice.
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Post by burner on Aug 20, 2007 23:02:34 GMT -5
It's been over a year since there's been any replies to this thread but I have to add one now! Actually I have a lot of pet peeves (don't we all??!!) But the one that's been getting me riled up lately is those freakin' dazzling ultrabright headlights on peoples' cars! Man oh man, have you struck a nerve with me! I would like nothing better than to take a baseball bat to every one of those blinding headlights....AND TO THE DRIVERS OF THE CARS THAT HAVE THEM! [Gee, I hope the GOAL mafia doesn't see what I wrote without clearing it with them first.] But I digress, as usual.
Those Xenon Halogen bulbs are totally unnecessary, as are the raised headlights on SUVs that shine into the rear windshield of normal cars, as are those models with so damned many lights in front one would think an airplane is coming in for a landing behind them. And oh, did I mention the numb-nuts who drive with their high-beams on at all times, day or night? I don't know what the idiots in Congress were thinking back in 1986 when they did away with certain regulations that kept car headlights at a certain height above the road...enough to see a necessary distance ahead, yet low enough not to blind the car in front of you. Nowadays I'd rather have an 18 wheeler behind me than an SUV. Now all you SUV owners, don't take it personally. You didn't design those things. But can anyone tell me why SUV headlights have to be set higher up than those of a tractor-trailer? It certainly isn't because they're bigger.
Wow! That felt good. Thanks for resurrecting the Pet Peeves. We've been getting too mellow lately.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 5, 2007 16:31:21 GMT -5
I was going to have a Pet Peeve and say, why have you guys stopped posting? The site has really been quiet for a few days, that is until today, then all hell broke loose!!! Please guys, keep up the postings. We have to make sure that Bluepride stays alive and kicking. Where else can we have such mutual fun and talk about serious things at the same time. So let's keep the conversation going. My mouth is always going a mile a second. I can't stop talking. Does anybody have any suggestions as to how I can quitet this disorder?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 7, 2007 11:11:39 GMT -5
Too many gay people believe that all they have to do to succede is to be the very best at their jobs and everything will work out. nothing could be further from the truth. I know several gay cops that have had stellar careers while in the closet. Everyone respects them, looks up to them and admires them. That is, everyone who thinks they are heterosexual. No matter how good they are, if people know they are gay, they are still called homos behind their backs. There is an old saying, "a fag is a homosexual gentleman who has just left the room," That's why we need to be active in promoting the needs of the gay communituy. We have to be open and protect each other. We have to understand that our efforts are not about the individual, it is about us as a group. No gay person can stand alone, no matter who they are. We need the support of the group in order to survive. When you are standing alone, no matter how good you are, you can't be watching your back. So many good LGBT military, and police people, have been put out of the service because they each made the same mistake, THEY TRIED TO STAND ALONE. There are many gay organzations that exist to help those who have fallen on their faces by trying to stand alone. When the doors have been slammed in their faces, they come to these organizations for help and support. The same organizations that they avoided in the past because they were too out or radical. These are the organizations that come to court to defend them, that have pickets in the street marching for their benefit, and they create publicity to tell thier story of discrimiation. Our organizations help those who have tried to stand alone to get the pieces of their lives back together. More often than not, once their jobs are saved and their lives are back together, they go back to standing alone. Laurel Hester spent twenty years going it alone, and in the end when the doors were slammed in her face, it was the LGBT criminal justice organizaitons that were there, standing up for her. Margarette Cammermeyer tried to stand alone, and in the end, we all came out and stood for her. When Mr "Down Low" Jim Magreevey fell on his face, he knocked on the door of the gay community and started calling himself a gay American. I will always be ready and willing to help those who have tried to stand alone, but in reallity I often resent them. Where were they when we stood up at Stonewall? Where were they when we, as a people faced the Russian police? Where were they when we marched and yelled for equal protection under the law? Where were they when we faced down Congress to get then to listen to us? Where were they when gay teenagers cry out for help and nobody is there for them? Where were they when they stoned us to death in the Middle East? where were they when we were beaten and killed in the street? Where were they when we were tied to a post in Colorado only to slowley die? Where were they when we went to the United Nations in an effort to get internationial protections? All of their stories may be different. I may not know where they were, but I know where I was. The bottom line is, no matter how good you think you are, in the end we are all a part of this community. No matter where you run, you fill find yourself when you get there. And those of us who really respect each other and our community, will be standing there with a net, waiting to catch you. It's a shame that, more often than not, we have more people jumping into the net than people holding it.
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Post by ScottNbama on Nov 7, 2007 17:08:25 GMT -5
I wouldn't mind helping some people out in as much as I can, but I have found that most people here don't want the help and are afraid to step forward with their problems/issues.
When I was told to turn in my badge at a police department as a reserve officer because I was gay, I didn't know a whole lot of gay people to come rallying to my defense. I did go over the police chief's head to the Mayor. That was like going to the sales manager at a car lot to complain that the salesman was making the dealership too much money. He gave me a "my friend is gay" song and dance and got me out of his office in time for afternoon coffee. I didn't know what I should do, really. I talked to reporter from our largest newspaper and she said she'd do me a story....but cautioned against it because of the impact on my family. We never did the story. I guess that was my fault.
I decided to help Jason form AL LEGAL to help anyone else with a similar problem in the future. I've found that not many people come forward to join, let alone with issues. We try to get the word out, but our numbers are still in the 20 something.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 8, 2007 12:54:00 GMT -5
You know, now that I think about it, perhaps I am being just a little bit smug. After all, I grew up in the largest city in America, New York with nine million people. Even before the Stonewall Riot, there were always plenty of places to meet other gay people. So even before we became political, we always had ways to find each other. The only time I felt really alone was when I was in Jamaica. My parents sent me there every year for a terror filled summer!!! But at least I knew that when the summer was over, I was coming home to the comfort of my friends. So those of us who live in small towns had it a lot harder than those of us in the big cities. At least we had the safety of numbers. Still, even though we banded together to create change, we still had the ones who stayed in the closet. the ones who let us do the work while they stayed on the sidelines acting "discreet". The were the ones on the "down Low". The ones who walk up to you in private and begin a sentence with"my sex life is nobody's business" They are the ones who would never be seen at a GOAL meeting, but would call me in the middle of the night when they got into trouble. They were the ones who stood alone, thinking they could be happy passing for straight. I know the desperation of being alone. But I also know the great feeling of relief when you go out and find your brothers and sisters no matter where they are, to build a community.
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