wethepeople

I chuckled.

FitRider 921

So the great mod of bikeforums is showing signs of disliking gay people... I thought you were supposed to be the peacemaker here Expat. What if someone here is gay and you just offended him?

FuzzyRyder

Yeah, how could you!

Brian

I don't recall saying I dislike gay people. I only expressed sarcastic disdain for the fact that he said he was gay and lazy.

FitRider 921

As in that being gay was a bad thing. It's like saying that you are mean and stupid... mean and stupid being the traits disliked by the other person.

wompwomp

Not neccesarily a 'negative' trait, but perhaps one being contrasted with an existing norm in order to highlight stereotypes about gays and lazy people?

It's an unwritten, but oft-spoken, construct that *****exuals are considered 'trendsetters' or 'bellwethers' in many different fields, fashion being the obvious example to point to.

It's easy to see how a lazy person would have trouble being *any* sort of trendsetter: being a trendsetter implies research and development: predictions and prescriptions for the future of an industry X or aesthetic Y.

Lazy people, by definition, don't work hard; *****exuals, by stereotype, are on the cutting edge of X and Y. I find it at least somewhat humorous to imply someone has managed to be 'complex' enough to balance both *****exuality and sloth (presuming it's not meant to be genuinely pejorative.)

But call me old fashioned. =0)

wethepeople

Ya, I didnt read your post. I glanced over the first sentence and realized it had some words with more then two syllables, and they looked complicated.

We're dumb, we dont read big stuff like that, for **** sakes, Mude was laughing about somebody going to Seymour Johnson airbase.

Brian

Was the base named after Major Johnson?

wethepeople

I dont know

premiumbmx2005

haha...seymor johnson

mude

nah, i think the dudes birth name was
Mike Oxbig he may have had a brother named York Oxbig but im not sure.

FitRider 921

Most of us are teenagers. Teenagers don't like to read, especially things with words above the level of "good, bad, happy, sad". Also, just a question, why would you waste all that time to come up with a great big explanation for something like this? The context (this is a big word for many people on here) of his sentence would make people assume he does not like gays.

wompwomp

How do you know I'm something other than a teenager?

Further, how can you know that I didn't just one-off that 'great big explanation' while I was gargling mouthwash before I went to bed?

=0)


I'm not a teenager, FTR, but when I was I loved to read. And if you [teenagers] don't like to read things above 'good, bad, happy, sad,' then that's your own fault. It sure as shootin' doesn't mean I'm going to stop writing them.

(Y'all should read more anyway. It'll do you well, promise.)

FitRider 921

You still had to write the "big explanation" which takes a bit of time. I used to read a lot, and that's probably why I used to be so smart- not saying that I'm not smart now. I used to be like the prodigy child, but now I'm just... smart. I hate reading now, and I normally fall asleep. Even you probably fell/would fall asleep if you read Tale of Two Cities.

premiumbmx2005

i think i read the first few words of all the posts in this thread...


good enough

wompwomp

You might say that the difference between you and I is that you were a metaphor for the prodigy, while I was truly prodigious (just joking!)

I read 'Tale' in one go in 9th grade (age 15), but to be fair, Dickens is so obtuse in the first place that any analysis of his works (esp. 'Tale') has to be broken up into its' component parts. After all, anyone can just plow through a book; reading is about comprehension, imho.
Now 'Pride and Prejudice,' there's a snoozer!
If you're really into bikes and want some literature, though, try 'The Third Policeman' by a Joyce contemp., Flann O'Brien. He's huge into bikes.

wethepeople

FitRider 921

Dickens sucks. Every book I've read of his has been horrible. Pretty much every book I've read of hers has been horrible... I don't enjoy reading books.

Brian

Uh, I think they were taling about Charles, not Emily. But I haven't been paying close attention.

FitRider 921

I meant 'his' which would be Charles. I just made a typo. I didn't even know there was an Emily.

wompwomp

The 'Emily' is 'Dickinson,' probably.
I'd take Charles over her anyday.

FitRider 921

Another gay one?

eightdip

haha

KinetikBiker

For lack of anything else to say, me too.