Block members

[RaginCajun]

Ah hell!!!! So is Times really Roman!?!??

Nope, but I do know that he spotted Moses

[tigerspawn]

I didn't want to offend anyone by posting this just for the record or start a controversy for that matter

You stating that you wanted to block someone is okay. Your comments about your distaste for an individuals sexual preference should have never came up. I am sure there is some gay bashing site that you can join that will agree with you. These types of comments are not appreciated nor accepted here.

[Lunk1]

Anyone not willing to accept another members rights to religion, sexual preference or race should just go the fuk away. There are several homosexual members on this site and I consider a cpl of them good friends. Sholv to be one of them!

You have your right to your opinion..but you also have the right to remain fukn silent. Try exercising that right before making another thread bashing a group of ppl under the disguise that you are offended by a picture!

[Shol'va]

Nope, but I do know that he spotted Moses

He also set the burning bush on fire. Lucky for him it was just pubic hare.

[MuscleInk]

He also set the burning bush on fire. Lucky for him it was just pubic hare.

Times sent his bush on fire!?!

Who's Moses now? I know Admin is god but who the heck is Moses?

[basketballfan22]

Times sent his bush on fire!?!

Who's Moses now? I know Admin is god but who the heck is Moses?

System admin is God. I think *Admin* is Jesus; yet Jesus = God, so maybe you are correct.

[austinite]

This is what I would like to hear on this topic:

" "

Thanks.

[SexySweetheart]

He also set the burning bush on fire. Lucky for him it was just pubic hare.

" one of the few animals NOT hunted for its skin" baaahahahaha hahaha ahhh hahaha omg i laughed so hard!

[marcus300]

We live in a diverse world, everybody is different in some way. I'm sure your different in many ways!

[Iron-56]

It's the opposite, it's all the dudes kissing and shit, god made Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve

Very inappropriate comment dude...

[krugerr]

For the record, I look exactly like my AVI. I pray daily that Austinite will post a thread saying that 'he' is in fact DLB and it was all a big joke.

[GirlyGymRat]

Wow. This thread went south in a hurry.....

[austinite]

Wow. This thread went south in a hurry.....

That's how the lounge works. Here is the general chain of events...

1. Seemingly serious topic.
2. A few serious replies.
3. Arguments and hurt feelings.
4. Pictures of naked women.
5. Religion somehow is injected into the thread.
6. Thread is locked.

[bdos]

Can we go back to number4?

[AD]

Can we go back to number4?

sorry, Aus wasn't following this thread too closely. No.4 should read: "pictures of naked dudes making out."

[bdos]

sorry, Aus wasn't following this thread too closely. No.4 should read: "pictures of naked dudes making out."

Haha seems like you were following

[Lunk1]

that's how the lounge works. Here is the general chain of events...

1. Seemingly serious topic.
2. A few serious replies.
3. Lunk makes a bad joke.
4. Arguments and hurt feelings.
5. Pictures of naked women.
6. Religion somehow is injected into the thread.
7. Thread is locked.

fixed

[austinite]

fixed

well said.

[AnabolicDoc]

That's how the lounge works. Here is the general chain of events...

1. Seemingly serious topic.
2. A few serious replies.
3. Arguments and hurt feelings.
4. Pictures of naked women.
5. Religion somehow is injected into the thread.
6. Thread is locked.

That's hysterical! I've even been here long enough to know that's how it works.

[crazy mike]

I think this thread just started out as an FYI thread on how to handle what you see and hear on your end. A bit of frame of mind suggestions and then the actions you can take with your device to shut them out, or not see pics etc....

But then were did it go. If someone wants to reiterate the helpful hints cool, if not cool. For me I'll do my best to do what's best for myself as well as others and kinda check myself and my motives more closely in the future. ...crazy mike

[AnabolicDoc]

It's the opposite, it's all the dudes kissing and shit, god made Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve

It's one thing to think it to yourself. It's entirely different to post it or say it aloud. IMO it's ok to have feelings that you wish you didn't (such as two guys kissing bothering you), but it's not ok to voice it or be proud of it.

Growing up, as a young teen, we used to describe things we didn't like as "gay" and ppl we didn't like as "gay" or "fagg@ts". I didn't know until years later that this would have a huge impact on my little brother who was and is gay and was struggling with his own sexuality and differences at the young age of 10.

I realized my brother was gay by the time he was 12 although he wasn't sure until a few years later (as he was still stealing my hetero porn). Ever since I realized this, I was 17, I was sure never to use words like gay, homo, or fagg@t ever again and when anyone else did, I was sure to speak up. Since my bro was 12, I've been extremely supportive of his orientation (and that of others) but it was too late. Even when he was 15 and tried "coming out" to me I made sure he knew that I had always known and loved him no matter what. I say it was too late bc no matter how supportive I was about his orientation, gay rights, and so forth, he was still greatly affected by my actions - my actions up until he was 12 when I used to speak the way I did. He wrote his college entrance essay on how terrible it was to grow up sexually confused and have a homophobic brother.

I've never been able to forgive myself for increasing the hardships and difficulties my little brother had to face at such a young age. Many times, many years later, he had confided in me that he wished there was a pill he could take that would make him straight. I don't know if you understand how heart breaking that is, bc of course I couldn't provide him with that.

My point to Pitt here is that by and large gays have not had an easy road behind them, or ahead of them, no matter much their orientation is now being accepted and legally accepted. It will never be easy to be 12 years old and understand why all your friends like girls and boobies and you don't. And it will never be easy to handle.these emotions at that age. The road from there is not much easier as one must come into their sexuality and then gain the acceptance of their family (many ppl who support gay rights still have difficulty with their own child being gay) and friends and now their journey is just getting started.

So next time you decide to knock someone down for a lifestyle they did not choose, please consider their feelings and rights to happiness as all others are entitled to. The last thing they need or deserve is someone making their journey more difficult, especially once they, themselves, have accepted it and have become happy with it.

[Shol'va]

I think this thread just started out as an FYI thread on how to handle what you see and hear on your end. ...crazy mike

If that were true CM all this would have been a non issue but it started out in the first sentence by the OP with this.

Is there a way to make sure you can't see people's profiles or posts on the forum? Some people's AVI's are sickening

And then went to this

Quote Originally Posted by DEFYJOEBOO View Post
so you're trying to make it clear to some individuals whom you don't know, that you don't like them and that they should go elsewhere and you want people to agree with you. what will you do if you gather a following?

Pittsburgh412's
Pittsburgh412

I plead the 5th

And this
I didn't mention you actually at all, but I mentioned homosexuals about 10 minutes ago after last night

"At this point it doesn't matter. He can hate who he wants as this is America. But he has to follow the rules here like everyone else.

[Lunk1]

Shol'va...I love ya buddy

[Shol'va]

Shol'va...I love ya buddy

Right back at cha..

[Shol'va]

Now then lets get back to the lounge being the lounge. Seems like every 6 months to a year this stuff pops up. we need a been there done that thread for noobs to see when they sign up here. So we don't have to go down this road again. Sounds good anyhow...

[kelkel]

Hell of a story Doc. Hope all is well now for your brother!

[AnabolicDoc]

Thanks kel, means a lot. He's doing well. Unfortunately, him and I don't really have a relationship for unrelated reasons.

[austinite]

Thanks for sharing that, Doc.

[lstbred]

It's funny because the avi I use is:
A character from the anime/manga Black Butler. Grell Sutcliff is a Grim Reaper who is in love with the color red and turned out to be Jack the Ripper. He is also very gay, (a transvestite, really.) and appears to have a thing for men in suits. He also wields a chainsaw as a Death Scythe. ahahahahahahahh!!

[crazy mike]

Hi, I'm back. Ya know I think this thread has a lot to do with the ongoing ( now ceased) dialog between me and DSM on a different thread. Point was me asking his motive for his Av pic. Now he got all defensive and insinuated things and never less what he said I see the attitude being the same here as in Hay leave others alone. You post what you want (pic) and I will what I , because we can this USA and on and on...
Now knowing I don't like the pic and so many others I hear, the reason for such a display was not answered. The motive. I expressed that it was an IN YOUR FACE claim as look at me, like this or not I can do this and if you have a problem then YOU have a problem. Furthermore it you say anything, you are sh!t head. (all this I paraphrase) You are bad you hate gay's etc., and on. Then the denial. yes the DENIAL that pics displaying gay, behavior like it is the norm was NOT CONTROVERCIAL. WHAT !!!!

So in this case I will quote the Anabolic doc "
So next time you decide to knock someone down for a lifestyle they did not choose, please consider their feelings and rights to happiness as all others are entitled to. The last thing they need or deserve is someone making their journey more difficult, especially once they, themselves, have accepted it and have become happy with it

If someone didn't want to get some input on a CONTROVERCIAL subject then why put your face up there. Hell DSM admitted it isn't even him. SO WHY. Knowing, yes Fvcking KNOWING that there are probably more people then not will not like to see it.

Now a step further in my case and point, be gay, be whatever, but don't get in front of me and all my family of friends and stick it in my face. Even if fewer then most, there is a good chance it will turn people off, and it your gonna say well I hate cats, Bullsh!t on you, step outside, go anywhere, look at anything and you will see cats and dogs and horses and cows, do I make that point.

UNFORTUNATLEY at this juncture in our society it IS controversial. So is this the norm, did you pull a pic from somewhere to show off your life style and to be non instigative, really. So if the sh!t hits the fan, who put it up for display. So if someone is a jerk and make a not so nice comment, well why did you step out , not in the open, but UNDER the SPOTLIGHT. You don't have to hide, I don't mean that. But there is much to said if you post a pic like that.

So maybe this thought of what you post being offensive should be looked at, you get what YOU ASKED FOR. You post a not than not offensive Av pic. Still I remain anonymous on my attitude towards gays. You can think what you like but if you read carefully you will be able to read between the lines of both sides of that story in particular.

So I go back to I will need to be more patient in all I do and say, I can delete or not but it is up to me to be at peace with myself and know where my boundaries are and to live a life on non -condemnation and tolerance. The same, but I have no control show be with the OP. Learn to be more tolerant and accept what the reality is, what the majority is, what in some cases is the proper etiquette sometimes. So be-it that you flaunt it, you may get some deserved sh!t. Deserved by nature of whatever you are FLAUNTING that is a controversial subject. That's all.....crazy mike


PS: again,..... Hey doc now that must have been rough. Cool to come out with it and I think we all can learn from your story. Thanks

[tigerspawn]

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[Lunk1]

That’s for the post Doc. My nephew has been hiding who he is from my family for three years. A couple of months ago he told his mom. His dad exploded and since then my nephew has been living with me. He is a great kid. My brother had a problem with my nephew’s, "choosing to be gay". My nephew didn’t choose to be gay God made him that way.

I recall you mentioning this situation. I hope things are getting better. I couldn't imagine how the kid must feel.

[basketballfan22]

Okay, I will apologize a priori as I am about to get rid of some anger.

AnabolicDoc that is very personal information, and I feel bad for what your brother went and is likely still going through. I have never had a problem with homosexuality, nor has any of my immediate family. We are educated well enough to know there is absolutely nothing "wrong" with homosexuality. I try to avoid informing people that my older brother is gay because one, it is none of anyone's business, and two, some idiots tend to think my acceptance of homosexuality is due to bias. This is not a shot at all at you Doc, but I think it is unfortunate that so many people disapprove of homosexuality until it hits home in someway.

I remember when my older brother came out to me. He was already in college, and my younger brother and I were about to play football. Anyway, he tells us that he wants to talk and that it is very serious. The selfish part of me was afraid that I was in trouble because he found out about the porn I was watching, lol. Anyway, he starts crying and confesses that he is gay. He told us both that he is so sorry for it and that he wished he could change if he could. I remember dismissing it because I genuinely didn’t care. It didn’t change the way I talk to him or act around him one bit. I just laughed and told him, “It’s cool. Now can we go play football?” He was a little shocked about my nonchalance. Looking back on it, it makes me very sad. He should NEVER have to apologize for being something he can’t help, and idiots like you who don’t “approve” disgust me. Luckily for my own sake, I have never witnessed anyone's giving him a hard time because I am afraid of what I will do. I love him dearly; and although homosexuality has never been an issue for me, now that it hits so close to home, it makes me even angrier when I have to hear crap from bigots like you.

There are gay people all around you, and you probably don't know it. It amazes me how ****ing dumb some people can be. You are telling me that if somehow it came out that Mohandas Gandhi was gay, then all of the great things he was responsible for are meaningless?!? This is just one example why I tend to dislike religion so much (sorry austinite for bringing that up again). Because a freaking book may say that homosexuality is a "sin," people automatically follow like incapacitated robots.

You don't realize how difficult it is to be gay, and neither do I. Many people just don't understand the biological and environmental causes for homosexuality. Why would one "choose" to be gay? You realize how stupid that is? Let's see, I am going to elect to be gay that way the following things can happen:

1. I will be forever persecuted by society
2. I will live in fear because of scum on this planet wanting to physically hurt me because they don't "agree" with my "choice"
3. I will have many innate rights taken from me
4. I will be forced to live in secrecy so that I can live as normally as I possible can
5. Everywhere I go I will hear nonsense about how I am doomed to suffer eternal damnation in hell for something I have no control over
.
.
.

Yeah, sign me up for that! Moron!

Crazy mike, you are wrong about how this thread started. I refrained from calling him out immediately, but I was 95% confident it was an issue stemming from his "disapproval" with homosexuality. He has posted very insensitive and imbecilic things before on this topic. Had he merely posted the question, "How can I block members?" without the obvious insult of "sickening avatars," then this entire thread wouldn't be here. He chose to express his stupidity on an open forum, and thus he must feel the wrath from any educated member willing to express his/her voice.

I feel so bad for gay people for the bullshit they have to go through on a daily basis (e.g. hearing shit like this). No one cares you don't "agree" with homosexuality. Who the hell are you? You aren't God, so no one wants to hear what you think on this topic. You are insensitive and a bigot. I will never tolerate hatred of ANY group of people based on some ridiculous criteria. People should judge people on their actions and beliefs (e.g. hating gay people or Muslims). Is a gay person causing you any harm by loving another man? Unless he/she is raping another person (which is true for heterosexuals too), there is nothing wrong with consenting adults' loving one another. The only actions that are bad are the ones that hurt others, and homosexuality doesn't. You know what does though? Hating an entire group of people because you don't "agree" with their "choice." How ironic! Do us all a favor and grow up and educate yourself. Intelligence goes a long way in all facets of life.

[basketballfan22]

It's funny because the avi I use is:
A character from the anime/manga Black Butler. Grell Sutcliff is a Grim Reaper who is in love with the color red and turned out to be Jack the Ripper. He is also very gay, (a transvestite, really.) and appears to have a thing for men in suits. He also wields a chainsaw as a Death Scythe. ahahahahahahahh!!

SICKENING, not because of the fact that he is a freaking murderer, but because he is GAY!

[Lunk1]

Okay, I will apologize a priori as I am about to get rid of some anger.

AnabolicDoc that is very personal information, and I feel bad for what your brother went and is likely still going through. I have never had a problem with homosexuality, nor has any of my immediate family. We are educated well enough to know there is absolutely nothing "wrong" with homosexuality. I try to avoid informing people that my older brother is gay because one, it is none of anyone's business, and two, some idiots tend to think my acceptance of homosexuality is due to bias. This is not a shot at all at you Doc, but I think it is unfortunate that so many people disapprove of homosexuality until it hits home in someway.

I remember when my older brother came out to me. He was already in college, and my younger brother and I were about to play football. Anyway, he tells us that he wants to talk and that it is very serious. The selfish part of me was afraid that I was in trouble because he found out about the porn I was watching, lol. Anyway, he starts crying and confesses that he is gay. He told us both that he is so sorry for it and that he wished he could change if he could. I remember dismissing it because I generally didn’t care. It didn’t change the way I talk to him or act around him one bit. I just laughed and told him, “It’s cool. Now can we go play football?” He was a little shocked about my nonchalance. Looking back on it, it makes me very sad. He should NEVER have to apologize for being something he can’t help, and idiots like you who don’t “approve” disgust me. Luckily for my own sake, I have never witnessed anyone's giving him a hard time because I am afraid of what I will do. I love him dearly; and although homosexuality has never been an issue for me, now that it hits so close to home, it makes me even angrier when I have to hear crap from bigots like you.

There are gay people all around you, and you probably don't know it. It amazes me how ****ing dumb some people can be. You are telling me that if somehow it came out that Mohandas Gandhi was gay, then all of the great things he was responsible for are meaningless?!? This is just one example why I tend to dislike religion so much (sorry austinite for bringing that up again). Because a freaking book may say that homosexuality is a "sin," people automatically follow like incapacitated robots.

You don't realize how difficult it is to be gay, and neither do I. Many people just don't understand the biological and environmental causes for homosexuality. Why would one "choose" to be gay? You realize how stupid that is? Let's see, I am going to elect to be gay that way the following things can happen:

1. I will be forever persecuted by society
2. I will live in fear because of scum on this planet wanting to physically hurt me because they don't "agree" with my "choice"
3. I will have many innate rights taken from me
4. I will be forced to live in secrecy so that I can live as normally as I possible can
5. Everywhere I go I will hear nonsense about how I am doomed to suffer eternal damnation in hell for something I have no control over
.
.
.

Yeah, sign me up for that! Moron!

Crazy mike, you are wrong about how this thread started. I refrained from calling him out immediately, but I was 95% confident it was an issue stemming from his "disapproval" with homosexuality. He has posted very insensitive and imbecilic things before on this topic. Had he merely posted the question, "How can I block members?" without the obvious insult of "sickening avatars," then this entire thread wouldn't be here. He chose to express his stupidity on an open forum, and thus he must feel the wrath from any educated member willing to express his/her voice.

I feel so bad for gay people for the bullshit they have to go through on a daily basis (e.g. hearing shit like this). No one cares you don't "agree" with homosexuality. Who the hell are you? You aren't God, so no one wants to hear what you think on this topic. You are insensitive and a bigot. I will never tolerate hatred of ANY group of people based on some ridiculous criteria. People should judge people on their actions and beliefs (e.g. hating gay people or Muslims). Is a gay person causing you any harm by loving another man? Unless he/she is raping another person (which is true for heterosexuals too), there is nothing wrong with consenting adults' loving one another. The only actions that are bad are the ones that hurt others, and homosexuality doesn't. You know what does though? Hating an entire group of people because you don't "agree" with their "choice." How ironic! Do us all a favor and grow up and educate yourself. Intelligence goes a long way in all facets of life.

Not to mention, being gay leaves more hot chicks for the rest of us

[austinite]

Not to mention, being gay leaves more hot chicks for the rest of us

You know what the best thing about being gay is?

If you date someone your size, you double your wardrobe.

source: Seinfeld. (Blame him not me, dumb joke)

[basketballfan22]

You know what the best thing about being gay is?

If you date someone your size, you double your wardrobe.

source: Seinfeld. (Blame him not me, dumb joke)

LMAO! That's what I like to hear, and no it is not a dumb joke. Seinfeld is the shit!

[basketballfan22]

Not to mention, being gay leaves more hot chicks for the rest of us

I know! They are helping us heterosexuals out. We should thank them, lol.

[Pittsburgh412]

I know! They are helping us heterosexuals out. We should thank them, lol.

Gay guys are the best wingman at a bar...

[Flagg]

Drama.