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OK, what is this? ;-)

https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTXLM_-I0Egovd3lui9ZUFrDj7mg0DgcV2A_upexYd6sG_XBU7-pg It's an astronomical clock! What else were you thinking???

"molested 5 girls OUT OF WHICH 4 WERE HIS SISTERS" :-O :-O Stellar family values!

My German is worse than I expected... Would you manage to find a transcript somewhere? I tried to Google but she has too many comments...

I agree! Vicious is great for a quick laugh and Frances de la Tour and "Ramsay Bolton" are just as awesome as the two main queens in it! BTW there are two more grey haired "Gay" ambassadors - Martin Sheen and Sam Waterston kiss and hug a lot in the Netflix's Grace and Frankie! Wholeheartedly recommended! ;-)

I hope the UK visit is a promise! Unless we are busy attending to a wedding in the family (end August), we would take it as a personal affront if you didn't let us know when you're around! ;-)

How come nobody is chatting here? I would have thought that the new season would elicit at least some reactions, speculations, debate! I mean WHO is that woman??? And what does she want? Or should we ask WHO does she want?

Yeah, it is. It's called 2001: Vampire Space Odyssey ;-)

Daleks are back in London!!! They are hiding in a house in Fitzrovia! Everybody on high alert! We need the Doctor!

I hope London will get more out of this. It's a city that is competing on an international scale yet it's completely bogged down by the Treasury and it only has 1 % of the tax income raised on its "soil". I know many of these taxes are based there only because of national and international HQs, as well as many employees working in London (generating profit for the enterprises in it) are actually living outside London. BUT those employees pay income tax outside London too - and the city needs to count with these extra people on top of the residents and tourists in designing its infrastructure, so it should get more money for that purpose. So yeah, great that the Scottish are getting more powers but I think we're getting a proper devolution across the whole of the country, creating in fact a federal United Kingdom.

I have to admit I have been appalled at the amount of violence that this campaign stirred. The Yes proponents are going too far - as far as threatening the lives of the No supporters, scaring them off, hackling their children (!!!), calling them traitors... whatever happens, the Scottish society/nation itself will come out of this deeply polarised and divided. Is that what Salmond and SNP wanted??? It's a disgrace of a democracy, and really shameful example of what to expect from the new country were it to happen.

Yeah, I understand that. But that should not mean that GA will pretend politics - and gay politics - doesn't exist and we don't talk about it.

QAF and GA were what made me feel better about being gay, accept myself and gradually come out of the closet. We watched this series together with Westie as well, twice now I think, and every time I saw something different. I really enjoyed it and I think a properly thought out film would be marvellous - it would certainly be fun to see how the stars of the show that are now in their 40s and 30s (Debbie and Carl well over 60 I'd guess), how these people contrast to today's gay icons, people 18-30 yo, Gleeks and Modern Family and all the wilderness that the you gay scene is. Maybe a 16 yo Gus who never had a problem with coming out (come on, genetics is there, a kid of two gay parents?), could show us the new gay scene? He will be 18 by the time the movie is shot and released.

As I understood it at the time, one drama queen (deeply vested with one of the US main political parties) threatened to leave the site if the soapbox doesn't close and since they are considered to be a great author (never read anything from them so I can't tell), obviously the choice was to keep the author generating traffic and close the soapbox that was giving the mods headache anyway. Like everyone said in here, the civility is the main problem here. The question arises though, what sort of person are you, if you can't keep your communication civil at all times? I can have heated debates on political causes close to my heart, I can shout, sigh with desperation that my opponent doesn't acknowledge my point, but I would never take that and use it against them in other parts of the website (do I understand correctly that somebody actually said something in the lines "Your story would have been good but since you are Democrat, it's sh*te"?). Also, if you are an author who is venerated throughout the website, published in the Premium section, etc., and you don't like the treatment you're getting in Soapbox, why are you going in there in first place??? Anyway, the fact is, we don't pay for anything in here unless we choose to go Premium and I don't imagine that generates much of revenue. The website is surely quite pricey to run, even if it's only volunteers who admin and mod here. So the main concern will be to generate money while providing place for stories a notch above Nifty. That it could be a main meeting hub for LGBT community where we could discuss issues of gay life as Adam mentions in his blog doesn't have to concern the owners of the website. After all, there is only that far they can go with their charity to the community. As a P.S. I'm adding my personal pet peevee: I still find it incredulous that you are not allowed to post erotic pictures in here, say a blog where they post cats and kittens in cute pictures on one side and men posing in similar positions like those cats in the other. There are no genitals (or I don't remember seeing any) but it was not allowed to be posted in here. Again, I point out, that the 12 and 13 year olds that come to this website can read all sorts of obscenities in the stories here (and let their imagination run wild) but got forbid they see a hot man in here.

Soooo...??? What do you think?

15 minutes!!! Like proper geeks, we have everything ready, a cheese-salami-fruit-vegetable platter, wine, fresh bread, all is ready for the first episode of the new season with a new Doctor. I just hope it's gonna be a better start than some of the episodes from season 7... *cough* rings of akhaten *cough* town called mercy *cough* well many others but I can't be bothered and by the time I type all that out, it's gone to 10 minutes!

Graphene will be new major everything - its use is so universal that it will thoroughly revolutionise technology as we know it. Personally, I can't wait! Typos edited.

When I moved to London, UK, my friends - my close circle - and all my acquaintances suddenly ended up over 900 miles away, 2 hours by plane. It costs money to see them and moreso, it costs time that suddenly became very precious. When I'm visiting family (divorced parents, therefore you have to plan an extra trip), it hardly leaves much time for meeting friends, either from "high school" or university (and since the high school ones are scattered all over the place, some in Prague, some elsewhere, it's really hard for all of us to get together at one place). So I moved away from what defined me for over 27 years. Westie is new in London as well, even if he didn't move as far as me, we both still are new in a city in which we haven't studied, so there are no friends from school. We've been living here for 2 years now and our circle of friends has only just started to form. You meet people at work only and if you are lucky and they are sociable (which is not given), then you might start building new connections. Of course, you can meet new people outside your workplace - but honestly, how many times you strike up a conversation with strangers in the subway, in the shop, gym, or wherever you spend your leisure time? We haven't cracked that one yet. We are not spending all of our time closed in our flat, but still even when we go out, there are not many possibilities how to form a group of friends. After all, at school, on a study stay abroad, there are always tens and hundreds of people who are in the same situation as you are, so the opportunities to socialise are abundant. Everybody wants to get to know other people, you see each other frequently and regularly, there might even be socialising events organised specifically for that purpose. When you leave school, everybody just wants to earn some money and get on with their life. Go home, get shopping, cook dinner, etc. There's suddenly no time for going out on a trip together, or just simply go out to some pub or a bar and have fun. So, to conclude this rambling, I understand your feeling. And I have similar experiences. I haven't made many new friends yet, but still, London has become my home. What I find as the defining moment is when you visit your old home town and realise that you're looking forward to coming back, Home = where you live your day-to-day life, where YOUR BED is, where you're comfortable on your own. I always say I am home everywhere, but truly, now I am at home only in London. :-)

Happy Birthday!!!

Rest in Peace, Trebs!

Happy Birthday, MikeL! :-D

oh oh oh we could go to the FUTUROSCOPE! :D

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/mozilla-ceo-resigns-calif-gay-marriage-ban-campaign/story?id=23181711 Mozzila's CEO had to step down after it was revealed that he supported Proposition 8 banning gay marriage in California. Not only had he face the opposition from employees, the last nail in his coffin most probably came from online dating site OKCupid that blocked access to their website via Firefox.

I am really glad it was a spoof, if it were real, it would be setting a dangerous precedent.

Damn, the spoof sites are getting better and better! The quotes looked too good... oh well. It's telling though what the image of the Southern state is if they can post an article like that and it spreads on the internets as true without anyone questioning it...