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Buckeye Native 001 · #**3961** Posted: **Jul 15, 2012, 5:29 AM**

New photo thread, this time of Albuquerque, New Mexico

Strange Meat · #**3962** Posted: **Jul 16, 2012, 1:51 AM**

Bullying is interesting.

Made of for being gay. If you are gay, it's looked down upon, if you aren't gay, toughen up and grow a pair. Seems to be how it is. Also, gays really seem to have cornered the bullying market. What about dorks, nerds, geeks, emo kids, or anyone else who gets bullied. Is it somehow less of a problem?

Where the fuck is my Indian food?

vid · #**3963** Posted: **Jul 16, 2012, 10:21 AM**

Dorks, nerds, geeks, emo kids, or almost anyone else who gets bullied have other dorks, nerds, geeks, emo kids, or almost anyone else who gets bullied to be friends with. But most gay teenagers (at least when I was in school) didn't start to learn that there were other gay teenagers at this school until they were almost done school. You feel much more isolated and much less understood.

Any kind of bullying is a problem. I think for the most part anti-gay bullying is a bigger issue because it leads to so many suicides. Gay, lesbian and transgender teens are more likely to attempt or commit suicide than any other demographic in their age group.

Dralcoffin · #**3964** Posted: **Jul 16, 2012, 11:55 PM**

I just stumbled across my first Flash photothread, and one of Chicago no less.

UpNorthMI · #**3965** Posted: **Jul 19, 2012, 2:27 AM**

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQFEY9RIRJA

Centropolis · #**3966** Posted: **Jul 19, 2012, 2:54 AM**

the summertime midwest coffee talk lull.

rockyi · #**3967** Posted: **Jul 19, 2012, 3:19 AM**

Looks like they've finally got a plasterer to finish up this two+ month long "project" in my building. My place has been fucked up since early May. I'm so ready to live like a human again.

Dralcoffin · #**3968** Posted: **Jul 19, 2012, 4:56 AM**

And I am staying up way too late, having typed out some long ten term equation trying to get units of per meter, and instead getting units of per second.

Maybe if I multiply everything by c.....

So how am I blowing off steam? By working on a lesbian romance novel storyline that's been bouncing around my head.

I'm working on a first date scenario right now, and trying to not make it so cheesy.

Centropolis · #**3969** Posted: **Jul 19, 2012, 11:07 PM**

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Originally Posted by vid

Dorks, nerds, geeks, emo kids, or almost anyone else who gets bullied have other dorks, nerds, geeks, emo kids, or almost anyone else who gets bullied to be friends with. But most gay teenagers (at least when I was in school) didn't start to learn that there were other gay teenagers at this school until they were almost done school. You feel much more isolated and much less understood.

Any kind of bullying is a problem. I think for the most part anti-gay bullying is a bigger issue because it leads to so many suicides. Gay, lesbian and transgender teens are more likely to attempt or commit suicide than any other demographic in their age group.

I remember a guy that I went to high school with was going to be my college roommate, but he dropped out of college before it even started because he thought I would be angry about him being gay and living with him in a dorm room (I wouldn't of been, even if I was immature in other ways). We were kind of nerd friends but he never told me he was gay until he left for California...Now he lives in NorCal and is probably very wealthy now with no college degree...he was self taught and had his own networking/internet company in the late 90s in highschool...

lesson: I should have been gay.

But it's pretty startling now to think about how afraid he was to come out to the point that he potentially trashed his future (he didn't though), especially since now I'm surrounded by so many gay people that are entirely out of the closest and live their lives. Not to mention mainstream acceptance is way different than it was in the early 2000s.

Strange Meat · #**3970** Posted: **Jul 19, 2012, 11:11 PM**

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Originally Posted by vid

Dorks, nerds, geeks, emo kids, or almost anyone else who gets bullied have other dorks, nerds, geeks, emo kids, or almost anyone else who gets bullied to be friends with. But most gay teenagers (at least when I was in school) didn't start to learn that there were other gay teenagers at this school until they were almost done school. You feel much more isolated and much less understood.

Any kind of bullying is a problem. I think for the most part anti-gay bullying is a bigger issue because it leads to so many suicides. Gay, lesbian and transgender teens are more likely to attempt or commit suicide than any other demographic in their age group.

Good point. But I dunno. My school, for example, didn't have cliques like that. You were basically either a jock or a prep or both. Hell, I was the only kid who skated, for example. I didn't know anyone else who listened to the kind of music I did, or anything. But granted I was going from CA to OH and a school that looked like a goddamn Abercrombie and Fitch catalog. Getting in trouble for fighting with the assholes who would throw rocks at me while walking to lunch, or kicking a kid in the face and breaking his jaw while on a church snowboard trip because he kept making fun of me. Then again, nobody really fucked with me after that, though it didn't make anyone any nicer. Except that I'd be made fun of for being gay since I didn't date any chicks from my school.

Fun stuff.

So I saw these guys last night:

• Video Link

Hadn't seen them since I was in AZ back in 2002. A decade later and they're still kickin ass. Sore as fuck with some nice big bruises from the pit, too. Also ended up smoking a joint outside with Chris from Lagwagon. Also turned out that these two chicks who just moved here from AZ that I was talking to at the bar knew Jason (the lead singer) and he came and sat down at our table with us for a while and had a beer and I didn't even fuckin recognize the guy. I need to go to more of those high energy hella fun shows like I used to. Such a damn good pick me up.

Why buy toilet paper when restaurants give out free napkins?

Ayreonaut · #**3971** Posted: **Jul 19, 2012, 11:26 PM**

That's actually not all that bad. I was expecting hardcore or something.

vid · #**3972** Posted: **Jul 20, 2012, 12:57 AM**

Pretty sure I posted something here last night and it got deleted somehow.

Who knows what it could have been.

Centropolis · #**3973** Posted: **Jul 20, 2012, 3:16 AM**

which city is friendlier, Towronto or Mown-treeall.

rockyi · #**3974** Posted: **Jul 20, 2012, 3:17 AM**

^^I happened to read it before it was deleted.........If I've said it before, I'll just say it again.....vid, you're a filthy, filthy little man.

ColDayMan · #**3975** Posted: **Jul 20, 2012, 3:32 AM**

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Originally Posted by Centropolis

which city is friendlier, Towronto or Mown-treeall.

From my experience, Toronto is far more sociable to English speakers. Montreal has some cool ass people though.

Acajack · #**3976** Posted: **Jul 20, 2012, 7:57 PM**

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Originally Posted by ColDayMan

From my experience, Toronto is far more sociable to English speakers. Montreal has some cool ass people though.

Ummm, well... English is the city's main language in Toronto, so...

Language is such a weird thing to base one's city preferences on anyway.

Is Gary, Indiana better than Quebec City simply because people speak English there?