CP3S said:

Here, try this on:

C3PX said:

If I could work my will, there would be no religion, no one would believe in a god or gods, and they would be better for it.   No one would want to be Christians and no one would want to be religious.  Things would be so much simpler that way.  No offense to Christians or religious folk intended.

I feel like had I said this during any of our religious discussions, you would have been rather hurt and offended.

To be completely honest, though I try not to bring it up, I totally feel like the world would be far better off, though perhaps a bit less interesting, if religion were to altogether die off and become a a thing of the past that everyone cringes or laughs about. Kind of like how we cringe or sometimes chuckle when we think about the fact that doctors used to slice open arteries to let their patients bleed their fevers out.

Why am I saying all of this here and now when it doesn't relate to the topic at hand whatsoever? Because I could never imagine Mrebo applauding my forthrightness for saying such a thing.

If our opinions are backwards, bigoted, hateful, and mean-spirited, perhaps applause is better deserved when you keep it to yourself. If someone here came out and admitted that if they could work their will there would be no black people, because, you know, it would be less complicated that way, I really hope nobody here would applaud their forthrightness for it.

By the way, religious people are okay by me, I've known a lot of awesome and very intelligent religious people.

If it were an atypical expression of your beliefs on the subject, I very well might applaud you for stepping outside that normal zone of your usual socially-approved beliefs. Warbler doesn't do that often. And spitting out anti-religious views isn't that risky or out of character. So I see no need to applaud that.

I see no need to bully someone into silence. I know Warbler strenuously believes there should be no legal discrimination of any sort, he doesn't personally see any reason gay relationships should be seen differently than straight ones (though his church teaches otherwise), but he makes a comment on how  - purely hypothetically - society could be simpler if there was a single form of sexuality and he's a terrible bigot.

I actually thought Gaffer gave a very good response. It was actually responsive!

I'm still embarrassed about that restaurant bathroom.

Society would be much simpler without sexuality altogether.

If a simple life is better than a complicated one try being an amoeba.

Warbler said:

yes this, exactly.  If I could work my will, there would be no homosexuals, everyone would be straight and be fine with it.   No one would want to be gay and no one would want to switch genders.  Things would be so much simpler that way.  No offense to homosexuals or transgenders intended.

O H  G O O D  G O D .

You know, Warb, Google Maps tells me Skokie is only a 12 hour drive from where you live. Not that long of a trip to meet some nice like minded people with green shirts.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTT1qUswYL0

Mmmh, too bad you're 30 years too late. Even that ship has sailed.

I don't think Warb is being deliberately fascistic.

He may be expressing views which accidentally chime with that sort of ideology and need to have a good hard think about what he is saying there.

Replace the word "homosexuals" with "Jews", "gay" with "Jewish", "straight" with "Christian","genders" with "religions", "transgenders" with" Mormons" and the sentence is just as worryingly wacky.

Bingowings said:

I don't think Warb is being deliberately fascistic.

He may be expressing views which accidentally chime with that sort of ideology and need to have a good hard think about what he is saying there.

Replace the word "homosexuals" with "Jews", "gay" with "Jewish", "straight" with "Christian","genders" with "religions", "transgenders" with" Mormons" and the sentence is just as worryingly wacky.

Yeah, but never the less, I was really offended by that statement. And hyperbole is my weapon against such pinnacles of ignorance.

I mean wow, I've heard some homophobic slurs in my time, but this ranks up there with this.

CP3S said:

greenpenguino said:

sometimes I like to wear dresses too :(

It's annoying that I can never find high heels in my size too.

Not sure if serious...

 

Yeah, I'm being serious :P

Leonardo said:

Bingowings said:

I don't think Warb is being deliberately fascistic.

He may be expressing views which accidentally chime with that sort of ideology and need to have a good hard think about what he is saying there.

Replace the word "homosexuals" with "Jews", "gay" with "Jewish", "straight" with "Christian","genders" with "religions", "transgenders" with" Mormons" and the sentence is just as worryingly wacky.

Yeah, but never the less, I was really offended by that statement. And hyperbole is my weapon against such pinnacles of ignorance.

I mean wow, I've heard some homophobic slurs in my time, but this ranks up there with this.

Yeah, that was a really horrible thing to say, even if weren't intentionally mean spirited.

Mrebo said:

Warbler said:

Gaffer Tape said: To constantly wedge people into a one-size-fits-all mentality, I feel, is to the ultimate detriment of humanity because it immediately and irrevocably limits us for the sake of maintaining an arbitrary classification that someone else created.  For the sake of simplicity.

but it is what he have to do in the case of public restrooms, unless you think each place should have billions of restrooms, 1 for each individual person.

Warbler is brilliantly hilarious at times. I'm not at all being sarcastic, Warbler. The matter-of-fact statement of absurdity is truly great.

Yeah, I admit that is pretty funny.  Still, though, I find it even more interesting that Warbler's immediate response, joking or not, is not a statement of inclusion but rather an assertion that "different people must be separated."

A man looking at his junk presumably.

Bingowings said:

A man looking at his junk presumably.

Bingowings said:

A man looking at his junk presumably.

Woo-hoo, I always wanted to be gay!

TV's Frink said:

Bingowings said:

A man looking at his junk presumably.

Woo-hoo, I always wanted to be gay!

I think he meant "his" as in "Warb's".

Or have I missed a FrinkFunny™?

I have man boobs.....discuss

Leonardo said:

TV's Frink said:

Bingowings said:

A man looking at his junk presumably.

Woo-hoo, I always wanted to be gay!

I think he meant "his" as in "Warb's".

Or have I missed a FrinkFunny™?

Oh, darn.  Well, at least I don't need to get a divorce now.

I'd imagine most women wouldn't use a urinal but then why would you have one in a unisex toilet?

If you are in a toilet cubicle and a willy watcher pops his head over or under the cubicle you would have as much right to complain as a woman would.