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Now: 1. Mythbusters 2. Dirty Jobs 3. South Park There are many others, but those are the first three off the top of my head. Generally, I like Comedy Central, Cartoon Network/Adult Swim, and Discovery Channel programming. Forever: 1. QAF 2. Witchhunter Robin 3. The Simpsons Again, there are many others, but these were just rambled off in my head.

I confess that I took my eyes off of the road while driving home from work tonight just to watch the light show spiderweb its way across the sky. I love weather phenomena, such as multiple bouts of thunderless lightning streaking across the sky!

I almost never use the mirror. I use it only to inspect my acne and to shave. In those cases, I am never looking at my entire face and I'm turning my head at different angles for better perspectives... never really making a face other then pulling down my upper lip to get the mustache hairs that are almost inside my nose... I agree that Menzoberranzen's avatar is incredibly cute/hot.

Damnit, I almost slipped under the radar. Oh well, I suppose a little attention isn't always a bad thing :king: I wasn't going to make a big deal about it since so many others are up in this neck of the woods, some *cough*Kevin*cough*, *cough*CJ*cough*, etc. are continuing to map unexplored regions of the post-count world. Once? You have well over twice the amount of posts that I do... let's not talk about the quality of those posts, haha. Not only am I still out of reach, the gap is expanding! I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if half of my posts were from the games sub-forum. I started with only commenting on Dom's stories, and then I found the rest of GA, haha. At any rate, I value my time here at GA as without it, I'd have no ties whatsoever to the gay community, and who knows where I'd be without the invaluable advice that was bestowed upon me and many others. Thank you all for letting me into this strange world (who would have thought that some men enjoy fashion, and not engines?) and for allowing me to enjoy the fine artwork that gets posted here!

I think it's just the nature of this forum. A large portion of the people on it generally have high moral values and would like to think that wealth is not just a term in reference to material possessions. But yeah, the other 99.999% of the worlds population instantly thinks cash money. [/pimp] Well, that ties right into the first line from my first post in this thread. You're satisfied with where you are, which makes you feel rich even though you are not.

I agree... that whole scene does sound like it came right from the climax of your average chick flick, LOL! Anyways good for you! I, for one, will never tell either of my best friends about me... mostly because they are both homophobic. I think one might be more receptive to it than the other, but I am painfully aware that she loves me as more than a friend, so I'd rather not break her heart again (some military asshole already did once). That said, I am happy for you, and I hope that you can now use this newfound closeness with him to move on to another target (and I mean that in a good way, lol).

*hits the buzzer* Lol. Lines are for people who can't live without distinction. What we need is more than shades of gray (against black and white) and pink (against redneck and white)... but I dunno what you would call a mixture of the rainbow and whatever color is represented by homophobia... Anyone who can't take a simple tasteless joke should be taken around behind the chemical shed by a detail of six men and shot, execution style.... God I need to watch V for Vendetta again.

You are the second female this week who has told me this... is this a growing trend?

Maybe they like you because you're smart enough to be a little tipsy? My cousin is having a high school graduation party in June and my sister said to me, "There is no way in hell I'm gonna be sober for her and her girlfriends!" God I wish I was 21... BTW, what are the LSAT's, and should I be worried? I'm an engineer who isn't going grad school unless the firm that hires me pays for it...

"Who's line is it anyway?" Hehe, sorry.

The richest man is a pauper at times, when compared to the man with a satisfied mind. Honestly, I believe that someone is rich when they are simply satisfied with what they have done that day. That warm and fuzzy feeling that you get at the end of the day, no longer wanting to do anything and no worries about yesterday or tomorrow. You're up for anything and you can't wipe the smile from your face. You might even cap off the day with a nice cold drink as a small self-toasting/celebration. Anything you do at this point just feels graceful and you don't care what anybody thinks. Your inhibitions are out the window without being drunk or high! Whatever it is you do, it is something that makes you happy... regardless of what it is and who it benefits. When I feel accomplished or satisfied without worries for other things (my mind is clear and my stomach isn't twisting in knots from fear of something), I consider myself rich without having the material possessions that make oneself rich.

Catsup makes me think of cat soup... also reminds me of that one Simpson's episode where Mr. Burns lost his entire fortune and had to go grocery shopping for himself... he was stuck between Catsup and Ketchup and the store workers hauled him off to the nursing home lol. Same episode where he made a recycling plant that wiped the ocean floor clean to grind up the sea life and make some sludgy crap that everyone wanted... But I digress.... never heard of the Chiller Channel.

Raz and Adrian: More power to you!

Highlight of my holiday: A woman refusing to buy her entire order just because the girl who was covering my break wouldn't take 80% off of a pair of brand new pants. I hate stupid people...

TELETUBBIES ARE EV1L!!!!1!!!!111!!!one! That is all.

Your last comment is the most important thing to consider when coming out. After all, if you are not out to yourself then you have no business getting your friends and family worked up by coming out to them. I honestly am starting to think that I truly am not out to myself, despite knowing full well that I am not straight. When I got to the age where most boys start noticing girls (some notice other boys) I knew from the get go that I wasn't straight... known it since I was at least 8. I assumed that I was bi, because I could not possibly fathom spending the rest of my life with another man. I realized later in life that I drew that conclusion with my family's wants in mind, and not my own... which has led me to the new conclusion that I don't a damn thing about what I want. To be be truthful, I never wrestled with myself over my sexuality until I came to GA and talked about it, and got the idea in my head that I might be gay instead of bi. I suppose I just was comfortable with the idea of bi-sexuality since it left open the option of spending my life with a woman. I now have other fears that I won't bore you all with. Let's just say that coming out to oneself is not as "liberating" as you might think... That's one major reason why I have held off on cluing my sister in (who is a gay rights supporter and helped start the GSA at our high school). I don't want to be responsible for any amount of anguish when I can't even so much as explain myself. The second reason is purely financial since I do not know precisely how my parents feel about the subject. I've heard the word "fag" exit my dads mouth once in my lifetime, and that was in a joking manner. It was in reference to interior decorating or something like that... Worst case scenario is that I would be cut off from school funds, which would be disastrous since I would not be able to get financial aid due to his high income. If you've seen QAF, then it would be a lot like the scenario that the character Justin faced. Except I have no high income ad exec boyfriend. I think the only thing I can do to talk to someone is to maybe get into contact with my old high school counselor. I'm positive that she would have nothing negative to say since she had rainbow buttons and stickers and such. If she did, then all I have to do is never return to that school, which isn't hard lol.

I get to spend this glorious weekend behind a cash register. Except for tomorrow... tomorrow I'll be making myself comfortable on a piece of cardboard on cold, hard concrete and watching a stream of oil flow from my oil pan.

I was gonna say, "He looks like that guy from 3rd Rock from the Sun," but I otherwise don't know of him... Never even heard of any of the movies mentioned in this thread so far lol.

Like my best friend... he also likes to hold it in the blanket to incubate it, then release it on an unsuspecting visitor...

Are you kidding me? Mine smells like a bed of red roses with a fresh morning dew on them! Meanwhile my roommates have taken to lighting a match before entering the porcelain god's chamber...

You know that reminds me of a funny story. A woman I work with likes to call me Lurch (Adams Family, for the uneducated). She says that this is because when I first started working at the store, I scared the hell out of her. I would just stand at the register with no expression whatsoever and the most sunken eyes you ever saw. I laugh everytime she tells that story haha.

My store sells a lot graphic tees in the mens department. One such tee has the caption, "TO ERR IS HUMAN NATURE... TO BLAME SOMEONE ELSE SHOWS GOOD MANAGEMENT SKILLS." I find this to be quite true!

Most of the kids who I meet on a day to day basis (shoppers at Kohl's) are one brain cell away from mental retardation. On the other side of the coin, I have noticed that the kids of GA are highly intelligible and wise. I'll get into wisdom later... for now, let's examine the variables in the two examples I mentioned already. For starters, most of the shoppers at my store (inclusive to young people) are not of the highest caliber in terms of intelligence in today's society. I've seen people get excited over being approved for a charge card and immediately going to spend the $1000 that it lends to them, just because they view it as an extension of their bank account. Additionally, I've seen and heard of people who get themselves and their loved ones into financial trouble in this way. Most of the shoppers that I see day-to-day (again, inclusive of those under 30 years of age) are ditzy, dull, empty, void of conscience, dumb as a box of rocks, you name it -- mostly high-school girls equipped with the iPod, little convertible, and credit cards that daddy gave them. They are, to me, the lowest of the low in academia. If we were to include anyone who is not considered young, then my conclusions remain unfazed. One woman even looked at me while I was standing beside the register, waiting for customers who were ready to check out, and asked me if I worked there. The only reason I did not beat her senseless with the scanner was because she was outside the strike-radius of the scanner. If she was foolish enough to step ten feet closer, then she would have been fair game. Now then, let us turn our attention to the youngsters of GayAuthors.org. It is quite clear that most, if not all of us are quite intelligent. However, I believe we are no less intelligent than our over-the-hill crowd (said with love!). I have read comments from the younger crowd that are of the same quality as the comments from our more seasoned members of society (tryin' not to call ya'll old farts, so bear with me ). I believe there is a very real reason for this, which will be brought to light at the end of this post. I have come to the conclusion that these two far-ends of the spectrum are entirely the product of exposure, experience, and state-of-mind. The wonderful customers of Kohl's and like retailers are void of intelligence and are fascinated by shiny things. The members of GA are entirely open-minded in their beliefs and have plenty of experience which they lend to our less-experienced members in selfless attempts to give advice to common everyday problems (everyday for the gay community, anyway). GA is chock full of intelligent people because the vast majority of us are here because we want to be here, and because our life experiences and desires brought us here. Additionally, see above conclusions. While I agree with your comments here 100%, it should also be noted that your parents could just as easily say the same of your generation. Your grand-parents could say the same of theirs, and so on up the family tree. Personally I do feel that while intelligence and wisdom are in some ways connected, they are by no means dependent on one another. The old term "wizened old fool" comes to mind. Personally, I feel that this situation can be broken down into simple variables of "book smart" and "street smart". Everyone has certain levels of both, such that someone can have all of the knowledge that time has to offer, and they could never survive alone in the real world. Likewise, someone can have no education whatsoever and be dumb as a Paris Hilton, but also can know the ins and outs of everyday life and be best suited for natural selection (the film The Day After Tomorrow shows this, as academics were really going to be quite useless in the world following the destruction global storms). As my example I will introduce to you three friends of mine. They all share an apartment together (will be living across the hall from us next year, in fact). One is a business major, and the other two are science geeks. All these have excellent GPA's, yet not a single one of them knows what to do in the event the toilet overflows. Guess what happened when the toilet actually did overflow? Yeah, the boys got some frantic phone calls and some excellent footage (I made sure to grab my digital camera for that one LOL). To break it all down into simple terms, the geeks (intelligence) did not know what to do when something very ordinary happened. While picking up a plunger doesn't necessarily suggest vast wisdom, experience does. We had the experience to know what the big rubber thing with a stick in it does and how to use it, and IMHO, experience begets wisdom. BTW, my description of a plunger was in no way intended to be a sexual remark... I would say to get your minds out of the gutter, but I suppose I should be the point-man in that expedition LOL. ----------------------------------------------- Now then, for my own personal observations with respect to generational intelligence. This is all tied in with my previous comments on the open-mindedness of the fine members of GA. Look at a time line of American society, beginning with the year 1692 and running all the way to 2007. In 1692, the Salem witch hunts occurred and some innocent people were burned/hung or in some way humiliated and/or destroyed because they were accused of practicing witchcraft. Not long after these abominable trials, witch hunts and such trials were outlawed, suggesting a great shift in the minds of American society. Fast forward to 1776, several generations later we see yet another shift in society as the American people grow rebellious and overthrow British rule in colonial America. Fast forward again almost a century to 1864. Several generations later we see yet another monumental shift in society as the Civil War ensues and slavery comes to an end in America. Move now to a period between the roaring '20s, the depression, the war, and the '50s. Women gain prominence in society such that we have women's suffrage, the right to vote, and a hearty workforce. Moving another generation to the 1960's and '70s we see the human rights campaign gaining thunder as colored people get the right to vote and laws are passed to secure places for minorities and women in schools and the workforce. Now, let us return to present day, in the present generation, where gay rights have become a very real issue for nearly all of American society. Gathering this historical data, and noting that each event is marked with a new generation, it is easy to see that the largest difference between generations is the level open-mindedness and the desire to set forth the ideals that our founding fathers had wanted when crashing upon Plymouth Rock. These ideals are freedom from religious persecution and (probably later, near the drafting of the constitution) the idea that every man was created equal. Each generation has driven to further these ideals in their own unique way. It is from these conclusions that I have come to believe that the only generational differences that we can ever see lie within the achievements of each generation. Short answer to the original question: No, we youngsters are NOT smarter than our fore bearers. We simply have differences in achievement, coupled with their experience/wisdom passed unto us. The one notation is that, as has been pointed out, the youngsters of GA are of a higher educational and experience level than our peers, and therefore only maintain an appearance of intelligence that might have mistaken produced this thread as a result of meetings with our lesser-educated counterparts. I'll stfu now. I'm not even making sense to myself anymore :wacko:

Lol, when I wanted to figure out the multi-quoting function, guess who lent a helping hand? haha

Hmm there is something else I can confess to that I remembered as I was purchasing a 60 amp fuse in Radio Snatch today... I stole a package of ring terminals from the same store a few months back. I didn't even know that I had stolen it until I put my hands in my hoodie pocket and found them... oops! I actually had purchased a similar package of terminals that day, so now I have two, haha.