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And I suppose in SA they just legislate them out of existence (or filter them).

Have you noticed, Cole, that 'away' is rather too vague when the silly things flit all over the place, from this direction to that?

The trouble is, which way do you run?

I think it speaks more to the state of literacy in America.

Nice. They'd get further with a dandruff zapper though. Looks is everything.

I must admit that a stalled date is horrible. Like a bad Groundhog Day. Praise be to Camy. I didn't really know Emus can also get their heads into holes in the ground, but obviously so. All hail Camy.

Wonderfully done.

On a vaguely similar topic (not really, but it's the best segue I can manage), you might find THIS ARTICLE interesting.

We ARE playing nice. Des is my best buddy online. Scary, isn't it?

Don't get you started? I think the plea should be, "Someone, please stop me."

So you are advocating keeping in the closet. I think the point is that there should be a school AVAILABLE to those who want to attend, not to force anyone to attend it. If they find the regular school system simply too much, they have an alternative other than either quitting school or suicide.

The gay kids ARE dealing with it as best they can. They hide their sexual orientation as much as possible, and in some cases they bully others who are 'out' in order to protect themselves. What you are proposing is a continuation of the current situation. Defend themselves? The moment you do ANYTHING to defend yourself you are a victim of the official policy of no violence of any kind. It's simply a matter of goading the minority till they snap, then blame them for the violence. Education is the obvious answer, but expecting proper education in this with the current climate is just stupid. There is more interference with good teaching now than ever before. And if you think this is just a discussion about GLBT, think again. This same issue applies to having kids with Down's in classes, mainstreaming deaf and blind, autistics, illiterate, immigrants, and on and on. I know what it SHOULD be, but expecting that to happen is simply foolishness. There is no willingness to be accommodating at any level of administration, and without that, as well as without parental and societal support, there is not going to be any change in behaviour.

I don't agree with all of you but not because of the principle, but because of the reality. Let's just look at it as if it were a black white issues as was so sadly prevalent in the USA only a few decades ago, and still a issue in some locations today. If you had 10% blacks going to 90% white schools, or 10% whites going to 90% black schools, would that have provided proper 'integration'? No way. It required a concerted effort to make the numbers close to 50/50 to make a real difference. Would forcing 10% minorities into the 90% majority school have helped them. No way. The individual students were better off with their own separate but equal schools. Your ideas are worthy ones, but won't work with the reality of GLBT being only about 10% of the population. In the meantime, separation might be a better alternative than the current one which is proving to be a serious problem.

Unfortunately, we fell victim to the same problem that other attempts to 'round robin' have, namely, nobody goes in quite the same direction and eventually the lack to direction paints everyone into a corner with no way out. When you get to the 'work zone' it would be wonderful if you could offer another chapter to us all, so that ends are tied up, preferably without intervention by 'angels', 'demons', or mystical & mythical beings, or waking up to find out it was all a dream.

A test of the system to see if a date magically appears.

I couldn't help but laugh at the signage behind them. "No Entry", "This equipment starts and stops automatically", and of course the red octagon with the arrow. Very suggestive, but funny.

Very nice. Didn't even see that coming.

Very interesting. Thanks for the link.

Sadly, I can only contemplate my navel in a mirror.

Makes you think alright, and wonder which direction we are going in. Probably some are going one way, some the other. We just need a median strip to keep us from crashing into opposing ideologies. (Sometimes I hate the way I over-think things.)

This is INCREDIBLE. Wonderful, poignant; just lovely. If Des doesn't give you his award for excellence for this then I think I'll have to have a talk with him.

All of these things piss me off at least 110%, maybe even 200%. :lol:

Waked up by? OH MY GOD. :lol:

My particular hate in current usage, or lack thereof, is "I'll go with." This is of course meant to convey "I'll go with you."

Those needle stick prevention gloves the police use are quite sufficient; gauntlets would be overkill, in my view.