November 17, 2004

• You know what I'm tired of, I'm tired of ignorance. I'm tired of ignorant people like the woman that complained because she was afraid that crossdressing for one day could cause a kid to suddenly be homosexual. I'm tired of ignorant people like the school administrators that don't have the guts to take a stand in the face of other ignorant people. I'm tired of ignorant students that don't realize that if they cave to this kind of crap they will grow up with no backbones and be bending over kissing somebody's a$$ for the rest of their lives. here...someone else can have the soapbox for a while!
• Nuremberg Laws...
• Anytime I see "news from" and "Texas" too close together, I get vaguely tired and disturbed. Of course, "news from" and "Alabama" makes me tired, disturbed, and faintly amused.
• W. T. F.
• "It's like experimenting with drugs," Davies said. "You just keep playing with it and it becomes customary. ... If it's OK to dress like a girl today, then why is it not OK in the future?" I, for one, applaud these forward-thinking parents for protecting their children -- and the children of the district's other, obviously negligent, residents -- from the irresistible lure of faggotry. As we all know, there is nothing the homosexual male likes more than dressing as a woman, and even one instance of such activity is sure to lead even a robust, virile young man down the slippery slope of queerdom, a slope made all the more frictionless by grape-flavored lubricant.
• actually, uncleozzy, the flavors are passionfruit, kiwi strawberry and wild blueberry. Doesn't seem to come in grape flavor... darn... love those grapes.... and, kiwi's are just weird... perhaps even, dare I say it????? GAY.... no kiwi's allowed in Texas (Saxet, if you spell it backwards)
• I guess Rudy won't play in Texas.
• Isn't cross-dressing day a bit unfair on the boys, though? I mean, they presumably have to get a dress from somewhere. All the girls have to do in order to dress like boys is let their trousers get a bit dirtier than usual...
• (But I linked directly *to* the "wine grape" flavor!)
• Ha ha, Texans are stupid. Why can't we have public officials that tell the public that they can't always have what they want? I mean, why didn't the principle stand up and say: "Y'know what? Y'all homophobes are just a little too jumpy. Just 'cuz you wanna get boned in the ass every time you think about wearin' a dress doesn't mean these kids will. Now shut the fuck up and keep your own bullshit outta spirit week, cocks." I mean, probably without the swearing, but why can't we have people like that?
• damn there goes my Divine costume idea ... *sigh*
• Texas is a shit hole.
• For once I agree with Nostril.
• Perhaps school districts should consider replacing "dress up" days with "education" days.
• Me thinks these parents doth protest too much.
• In other words, they are a bunch of red neck, self hating closet homos.
• Some years ago (mid 90s?) in Baltimore there was a flap about this at a day care center - a father got angry because his 3 year old son put on a girls dress out of the dress-up box. I thought it was insane then (my son had gone to the same daycare a year or so before this) and I think it's insane now. But apparently that charming "if he dresses up like a girl he's gonna be a faggot" mindset isn't limited to Texas. . .
• can we not dump hate on all of texas just because one ignorate fucknob had a problem with something? please?
• Well my SISTER dressed like a girl throughout childhood and now she's having a sexual relationship with a MAN. Whaddaya say about THAT, you goddam perverted wacko liberal nutjobs?
• As a Texan, I would like to point out that we are rather diverse, and do not, in general, deserve to be painted with Nostril's broad, shitty brush. On the other hand, we sure do seem to need a slap from time to time.
• On the other hand, we sure do seem to need a slap from time to time. 'Ooo doesn't? 'Ooo doesn't, eh? Nudge-nudge, wink-wink, say no mooah!
• Isn't there something we could slip in the water, or beer over there to make all the guys crave the mancock for a few days? I'm sure if they just tried it, they'd see it wasn't so bad and stop making such a big deal out of it. Well, maybe not, but hopefully we'd at least get some pictures of it all up on the internet.
• Were I a Texan public official, I would now switch to cross dressing, to show my solidarity with the homo... eh... I'd do it anyway. Who wants to work in Texas?
• can we not dump hate on all of texas just because one ignorate fucknob had a problem with something? please? Agreed absolutely. However, technically it wasn't just the one ignorant fucknob. It was the whole cowardly school district that caved in to her fucknobulous demands. If just one person had stood up to her fucknobbishness, this story wouldn't exist and we'd be talking about something else right now. Ignorance and fear are a worldwide scourge. They breed like horny rabbits and shit up the garden of common sense. (Phew, what a stinky metaphor.) Why can't we have public officials that tell the public that they can't always have what they want? Exactofuckinglutely.
• There are a lot of great Texan folks. There are some great places in Texas, too. Just a lot of assholes there.
• OMG you guys won't believe this. I called Hiram Sasser, and he picked up! lol...I kind froze for like 2 seconds and then I said, "you ignorant hick" and hung up... I feel like a kid! ha ha ha... I actually had a nice message for him, but I froze up! LOL...idiot.
• Y'know, just as a moment of solidarity... For a long time, I lived with a guy from Texas, and when we were on a road trip, we visited his family in the hill country just north of San Antonio. Fucking fantastic. Texas really is a great place. On their plus side is a dedication to independence and fiestiness that a lot of the rest of the country could use. On the other hand, it sure has a lot of fucktards living there. (My hypothesis: Religion gets added to ignorance and aggression, and becomes dangerous...)
• So RevCo was right.
• Can't we just saw Texas loose and let it float out to sea? Oh, wait, Mexico's in the way. Damn.
• Isn't there something we could slip in the water, or beer over there to make all the guys crave the mancock for a few days? I say we put the entire male population of Texas on estrogen therapy and dress them in smoking jackets tout suite.
• Isn't there something we could slip in the water, or beer over there to make all the guys crave the mancock for a few days? I say we put the entire male population of Texas on estrogen therapy and dress them in smoking jackets tout suite.
• Oh, and more crank calls. We need to saturate their phone system with crank calls.
• The stupidity of my fellow Texans never fails to amaze me. On the other hand, perhaps they are perfect candidates for the Highway 69 controversy.
• TenaciousPettle wins.
• Guys, guys...this is clearly a hoax. Look around the rest of the site - it's obvious that 'USA Today' isn't a real newspaper.
• On the other hand, it sure has a lot of fucktards living there. (My hypothesis: Religion gets added to ignorance and aggression, and becomes dangerous...) I lived outside the Dallas-Fort Worth area for a couple years when I was a kid. We took a trip down to San Antonio and got accosted by some born-agains who wanted us to pray with them. On another occasion, being a transplant from Canada I didn't know the Pledge of Allegiance when I got to their elementary schools, which apparently gets implanted into children's heads at an early age in Texas, along with football and mental retardation. I got a lot of funny looks for not being able to mouth the party line the first couple weeks. I don't know if this is representative of Texas as a whole, but the place is always hot, there are fire ants everywhere, and the people are mostly backwards, ignorant, and intolerant. Fuck 'em.
• I confess I have not yet had time to read the article, but why in the world would a school have a cross-dressing day in the first place? That is a bit nutty.
• yentruoc wins. /wipes tea spittle off monitor
• Bernokcle, it's actually pretty common during Homecoming Week. Each day has a different theme and corresponding way to dress and one day is Dress Like the Opposite Sex day. We had it at my junior high school in NC, and the guys mostly dressed like cheerleaders. The whole week was supposed to help foster school spirit for the big game that weekend.
• Bernokcle = Bernockle, of course.
• Isn't cross-dressing day a bit unfair on the boys, though? I mean, they presumably have to get a dress from somewhere. Yeah, cause everyone knows that girls only wear dresses....
• Except when you have those pajama parties. You know, the ones where you dress up in baby-doll nighties and have pillow fights. Right before kissing practice. Right?
• MCT, you promised never to speak of that again! Bad monkey!
• I can just imagine the fat pig woman who said that. She herself hasn't had sex in at least two years, makes jello molds to take to the wednesday night church suppers and sleeps with her hair in curlers most of the time. God sometimes I'm just ashamed to be from Texas.
• If they went nekkid, there wouldn't be this uproar. Or cammo dresses?
• I may be imagining this, but I think I actually saw cammo bikinis in a local retailer's inventory this summer. If not there, at least on the internets. We could explain that most homosexuals are not crossdressers (they don't like girls, remember?), or that many crossdressers are hetero, but what's the point? I was once invited to a church "fall festival" where the theme was "Dress as Your Favorite Bible Character!" I was THIS close to renting a red-jumpsuit and devil hood, but in the end decided to stay home and watch Re-Animator instead. I stand by my decision.
• Here is the thing that bothers me. I personally don't like these articles pointing out other places and saying "Ooh! those people over there are weird". However, for some reason, it is ok for a major element of the national political discourse to continually decry the northeast. Imagine this senario, Howard Dean has an ad that says that george bush should go back to his redneck, pickup truck drivin, tobacco chewin, nascar loving texas. And it is seen as being a particularly effective indictment of his inability to run for political office on the national level. That never happens. Ever. But Taxachussetts, Massachussets Liberal, go back you your sushi eating, volvo driving vermont. WHY? I'm pissed off about this. Look everybody everywhere is kinda nuts. I'm sure we could find some article about a school in new jersey that won't allow something stupid or other, or some school in vermont chastizing a republican or something equally asinine. I'm sure. But why is it that the presedent can make fun of an entire state, use it as derogatory claim to insinuate that someone happens to be from the northeast? WOuld that fly about Kansas? No. Never. Whoever said something about Kansas being backwards, or out of the mainstream, or Maybe bringing up the fact that alabama has segregationalist laws still on the books, well, they'd get the book thrown at them on the national political scene. Look, People are weird. Granted, and this is weird behavior, that i personally think is asinine, but dammit, why can't anyone call a spade a spade, why is it that the northeast and san fransisco can get shat on, but this is the mainstream? Because frankly these loonies in texas aren't the mainstream, it's only about a quarter of the stream. We've got at least another quarter overhere in new england people. Fuck I don't think there is a mainstream. It's a fricken myth to attempt to cajol us into easilly distinguished marketing groups of monocultured homogeny.
• That never happens. Ever. But Taxachussetts, Massachussets Liberal, go back you your sushi eating, volvo driving vermont. WHY? I'm pissed off about this. It's a simple double-standard. More hypocrisy from the Right. Apparently its useful for reelecting B-actors and failed businessmen.
• What Freen said.
• See, Homosexuality is an addictive drug. also, according to the 2000 texas republican party platform: No homosexual or any individual convicted of child abuse or molestation should have the right to custody or adoption of a minor child, and that visitation with minor children by such persons should be limited to supervised periods. And: The party opposes the decriminalization of sodomy....We publicly rebuke judges Chief Justice Murphy and John Anderson, who ruled that the 100 year-old Texas sodomy law is unconstitutional, and ask that all members of the Republican Party of Texas oppose their re-election. As well as the old scopes monkey issue! The Party believes that scientific topics, such as the question of universe and life origins and environmental theories, should not be constrained to one opinion or viewpoint. We support the teaching equally of scientific strengths and weaknesses of all scientific theories--as Texas now requires (but has yet to enforce) in public school science course standards. We urge revising all environmental education standards to require this also. We support individual teachers’ right to teach creation science in Texas public schools. But Don't forget the return to the gold standard or the abolishment of the federal reserve bank!!! Why can't people bring up the fact that this stuff is completely asinine? For more fun, Visit: http://www.rlctx.org/RLCTX/Texas%20Republican%20Party%20Platform%202000.htm The direct link sometimes doesn't work because of the spaces.... sorry...
• Freen, its impolite to point out how these people are yahoos.
• "Creation science?" Bring it on! Would love to see it!
• "On the other hand, perhaps they are perfect candidates for the Highway 69 controversy." huh, that was a hoax/joke. Plus bet my city, Dallas has almost or more gays than yours.
• Thomcatspike: I will see your Dallas gays, and raise you my Houston gays. Also, highway 59 thru Houston is marked as the future I69 corridor.
• Gay index: 196 Dallas, Tx. Gay male index: 254 Lesbian index: 136 National norm: 100. Type your zip code in; then on the right side clink the link, under Local Guides
• Houston, TX Gay index: 150 Gay male index: 169 Lesbian index: 131 National norm: 100 Think they moving north towards the blue states:P highway 59 thru Houston is marked as the future I69 corridor thanks, as when reading the joke cite containing the i69 controversy, was confused by Texas being mentioned.
• "It's like experimenting with drugs," Davies said. he's against drugs too? how are the kids going to have any fun?
• Guys, guys...this is clearly a hoax. Look around the rest of the site - it's obvious that 'USA Today' isn't a real newspaper. That explains it!! whew...
• Because I'm doing everything I can to avoid jumping off the nearest cliff in despair, I choose to focus on this hysterical comment from me & my monkey.
• I knew this thread would be hilarous. Here's my opinion -- girls have been borrowing from men's fashion for ages: pants, boy shorts, pixie haircuts, pantsuits, I could go on. Other than Axel Rose in a skirt that one time, we men are being left out. It's time that all change -- I'm going to work tommorrow in stillettos and a miniskirt.
• Utilikilts!
• calimehtar - trust me, you need to practice walking in those stilettos before you go public. And, what are you wearing under that mini? Panty hose can help keep the drafts from getting too bad, but they also take a little practice to put on. Or, if winter has set in where you are, tights or leggings are better. You might want to start out with a maxi-skirt to keep your knees toasty. And, tall boots will work for the ankles and calves.
• can we not dump hate on all of texas just because one ignorate fucknob had a problem with something? please? Nothin' wrong with Texas--except for fireants, Christians, and Bush. What scares me is that Texas opinion determines what's in textbooks all across the US. So much for critical thinking skills.
• Yeah, cause everyone knows that girls only wear dresses. No, indeed, but if I'm having a cross-dresser, I do like the chaps to make the effort. Call me old-fashioned if you will, dear, but if everyone turns up in capri pants and flip-flops, it's so anti-climactic - don't you think?
• [relevant article in which public servant shows backbone]
• WTF! I live 15 minutes from San Franfuckingcisco. How can Dallas and Houston beat my gay index? Damn RC breeders!
• [relevant article in which public servant shows backbone] posted by smallish bear at 02:41PM UTC on November 18 smallish bear, but that's in the UK, where common sense drifts freely in the drinking water supply, along with prozac, valium and single-malt scotch. It would never happen in the US. ;)
• Well they also had Thatcher who said that black people should thank white people for enslaving them and thus civilizing them...do you guys still have Oliver Cromwell's worts? Can I see them?
• My advisor knows someone who is/was master of Sydney Sussex College in Cambridge, and she saw Oliver Cromwell's head. It still had a bit of hair, but no warts. No one is allowed to see the head but the master and maybe other senior people at the college. I like Oliver Cromwell, curmudgeonly regicide that he was.
• (he was an honest, devout man, who really didn't want absolute power, but felt that was the only way to bring in what he really cared about - religious toleration)