Linus Van Pelt wrote:

Bradley R. Weissenberger wrote:Once again, we must defer to The Onion on all matters of social commentary.

Ugh. Thanks for the Free Republic link. Entertaining, in a train-wreck sense.

that article was funny...when it was in the onion

context isn't everything, but it's something

LA is quite gay... Silverlake and West Hollywood (OK, not LA proper, but close enough). And, of course, Evan Dando.

geiginni wrote:Minneapolis has a very large and prominant gay community. Moreso than Chicago.

In fact, I read that Minneapolis has the highest per-capita concentration of gay residents of any US city...even more than SF.

I dunnnnno. Chicago has always been able to out SF SF... Even with hippies. SF had it's flower power, but the threat of LSD in the water supply made Chicago the super-hippie-flower-power city.

Again, Chicago out-does SF with being a much gayer city. By "gayer", it's not so much the per-capita population. SF loses there everytime. It's how vocal this minority is... This year's location of the Gay Games clinches it.

While I'm not gay, I'm proud that my city welcomes such gayness. Now, if only Evan Dando would consider re-locating.

Gay segregation is because of descrimination and also the all to human need to hook up. I too find gay drum and bugle corps to be a bit odd, but they do play gay music... Like that "I'm comin' out" song. You know "I want the world to know... got to let it show". They also play a fair amount of the Cure. Like that song about waking up with a "man inside my mouth". Yeah, Robert... like we didn't already know. He married a nurse so he could save on visits to the emergency room to have lubricated foreign objects retrieved from his anus. But that's OK. He was born that way... more power to him.

The Kid wrote:That is a perfect window into the mind of your average freerepublic.com or townhall.com nitwit.

Linus Van Pelt wrote:Ugh. Thanks for the Free Republic link. Entertaining, in a train-wreck sense.

That satire piece was originally published in The Onion.

It was reprinted at freerepublic.com, but it was originally published in The Onion. That's why I said that it was from The Onion and not freerepublic.com.

Angus Jung wrote:I don't know what this means.

I think that you used at least three unironic exclamation points yesterday, which struck me as an explosion of good cheer from you. So my intent was to say that it's nice to see Angus Jung in a lighter mood from time to time.

See how I make jokes about mental illness? See how that's funny?

Bradley R. Weissenberger wrote:

The Kid wrote:That is a perfect window into the mind of your average freerepublic.com or townhall.com nitwit.

Linus Van Pelt wrote:Ugh. Thanks for the Free Republic link. Entertaining, in a train-wreck sense.

That satire piece was originally published in The Onion.

It was reprinted at freerepublic.com, but it was originally published in The Onion. That's why I said that it was from The Onion and not freerepublic.com.

I knew that the article was from The Onion. I expect The Kid knew it too. What I was referring to by "Ugh" and "train-wreck", and what I expect The Kid was referring to in his comment was not the article itself, but the feces-flinging contest that followed at the site you linked to.

Yes, it was a funny Onion article!

Linus Van Pelt wrote:What I was referring to by "Ugh" and "train-wreck", and what I expect The Kid was referring to in his comment was not the article itself, but the feces-flinging contest that followed at the site you linked to.

Okay. That wasn't clear to me.

Bradley R. Weissenberger wrote:

Linus Van Pelt wrote:What I was referring to by "Ugh" and "train-wreck", and what I expect The Kid was referring to in his comment was not the article itself, but the feces-flinging contest that followed at the site you linked to.

Okay. That wasn't clear to me.

No probs.

Hey, if Chicago is the new Gay Mecca, what's the new Gay Ka'aba? I mean, that would be pretty important information if you're gay and living in Chicago, right?

BadComrade wrote:Sorry I wasn't politically correct enough for you. Still, I'm in no way a "homophobe" as you implied.
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What I'm saying is why make yourself such an easy target for the negative, then bitch about it?

Good question.

Bradley R. Weissenberger wrote:It was reprinted at freerepublic.com, but it was originally published in The Onion. That's why I said that it was from The Onion and not freerepublic.com.

Yes, for the record, I understood this. My comment referred to the responses to the article.
When I rubberneck at those websites, I end up feeling like I want to puke.

The Kid wrote:Yes, for the record, I understood this. My comment referred to the responses to the article.
When I rubberneck at those websites, I end up feeling like I want to puke.

I appreciate this response.

I also appreciate the fact that our discussion and pursuit of clarification did not involve the phrase "no probs".