Dick Cheney dies at 84

[Bucky Cornstarch]

I think it was his polite way of saying "the aerospace men are talking. So, until you have parts more than 15 feet off the ground - shut your smartass, truck-fixing mouth when you're speaking to me, boy"

That's what I read anyways.

Since you have zero idea what I do or what I actually manufacture, this statement is fantastic 🥰

[Newbeeee™]

Newb, we know you feel a need to puff out your boobs and stick up for your boy, but chill out. Anyone who takes this shit seriously needs to have their head examined.

And anyone who still thinks hurling homophobic, bigoted insults is cool needs to join the rest of us in this century.

G almost died a few weeks ago.
So your words were unfunny, cruel, and bang out of order.

"Us"....

[CNCAppsJames]

For the illiterate ones in the room.



Phobia: Noun - An irrational, unrealistic, persistent and excessive FEAR of an object or situation.

[jstell]

For the illiterate ones in the room.



Phobia: Noun - An irrational, unrealistic, persistent and excessive FEAR of an object or situation.

Can you explain it to me out loud?  I can't read, even in 24-pt font bold italics underlined.  Sometimes I get scared of what people might write about me.

[Bucky Cornstarch]

For the illiterate ones in the room.



Phobia: Noun - An irrational, unrealistic, persistent and excessive FEAR of an object or situation.

For the bigots who would rather play a game of semantics than acknowledge what is really going on:

Homophobia is the FEAR, hatred, or mistrust of homosexuality or people who are lesbian, gay, or bisexual. It can manifest as insults, harassment, discrimination, and violence, rooted in prejudice and ignorance. Homophobia can also affect people who are bisexual (biphobia) and is distinct from, but often intersects with, transphobia, which is the aversion to transgender and nonbinary people.

[gcode]

G almost died a few weeks ago.

Actually it was a couple of months ago 08/31/25 to be precise.
It's nothing to get excited about, nobody gets out alive.
I'm not sure what to make of Bucky, but life's too short to spend time scraping his nasty shit off my shoes.

[Newbeeee™]

Actually it was a couple of months ago 08/31/25 to be precise.
It's nothing to get excited about, nobody gets out alive.
I'm not sure what to make of Bucky, but life's too short to spend time scraping his nasty shit off my shoes.

It just goes to show time moves on fast....life is too short!
And yeh....

[Jeff]

Homophobia is the FEAR, hatred, or mistrust of homosexuality or people who are lesbian, gay, or bisexual. It can manifest as insults, harassment, discrimination, and violence, rooted in prejudice and ignorance. Homophobia can also affect people who are bisexual (biphobia) and is distinct from, but often intersects with, transphobia, which is the aversion to transgender and nonbinary people.

No, that's your liberal, lefty definition.
James gave the real definition.

[SuperHoneyBadger]

No, that's your liberal, lefty definition.
James gave the real definition.

For the bigots who would rather play a game of semantics than acknowledge what is really going on:

I'd like to point out that my homophobia is not rooted in misunderstanding, fear of the unknown, prejudice or ignorance:

Rather, it is firmly based in the actions of homosexuals I know/have known personally, and that's why I distrust them innately. They've proven to be catty, adulterous, gender studiers who purposefully engage in high-risk sexual promiscuity for clout, and desire to see straight white families destroyed at all costs unironically, by their own admission.

That, in addition to public health concerns (Gay males are leaderboard toppers worldwide for STIs), dangerous sexual proclivities, debasing/grooming children for sexual gratification (CBC Drag Kids, anyone?), and calling for mutilation + irreversible pharmacological/surgical interventions for a fucking trend.

TLDR
Don't lump me in with the ignorant.

[neurosis]

TLDR
Don't lump me in with the ignorant.

It's going to be hard not to after that. 

[SuperHoneyBadger]

It's going to be hard not to after that. 

While I respect your opinion. I resent the connotation that I am lacking experience, awareness or education in this realm.

I pride myself on engaging in evidence based derision

[neurosis]

I'll give a little anecdote of my own for some contrast.

This may come across as one of those 'yea, I have a black friend so I'm not a racist' stories.

When I was about 24, I dated a girl whose father had a family, raised three kids in to their adulthood, and came out of the closet after the kids were raised. I was with her for around six years and this was back in the mid 90's when being gay wasn't "cool". 

Because of that relationship, and because of his having to keep his identity hidden, when his daughter wanted to go hang out with dad, we would go hang out with his crowd.

I've never met one person from that community who was more likely to be anymore  " proven to be catty, adulterous, gender studiers who purposefully engage in high-risk sexual promiscuity for clout, and desire to see straight white families destroyed at all costs unironically, by their own admission."  than anyone else.  That sounds crazy to me.

[neurosis]

While I respect your opinion. I resent the connotation that I am lacking experience, awareness or education in this realm.

I pride myself on engaging in evidence based derision

Sorry, I didn't mean that to be "catty". 

Anecdotes don't always = evidence based. Maybe you had some unfortunate experiences?

[SuperHoneyBadger]

Sorry, I didn't mean that to be "catty". 

Anecdotes don't always = evidence based. Maybe you had some unfortunate experiences?

In my teens and 20's I hung out with what would have been called a woke crowd, if the term really had legs then. The lefties, of which I was a member at the time TBH, the punks, political activists, etc. I think my sample size was decent, but I'll agree that it was ideologically homogeneous. And that sameness was one factor that led me to ask the types of questions that forced me to divest from the spoon-fed leftism of the day.

Honestly navigating the waters of politics in between left and right has, since then, felt like trying to concoct a unifying theory of political relativity. And oh boy do the variables keep changing!

[neurosis]

And that sameness was one factor that led me to ask the types of questions that forced me to divest from the spoon-fed leftism of the day.

Honestly navigating the waters of politics in between left and right has, since then, felt like trying to concoct a unifying theory of political relativity. And oh boy do the variables keep changing!

Maybe that's the difference in my experience.  I didn't feel like their lives were ideologically driven, so I didn't ask those questions.

Not everything revolves around politics. Sometimes people just want to be able to live their lives without being publicy percecuted.

Don't get me wrong, I was a bigot in the 90's. It took me a while to turn it around.

As far as the STD's go, notice how that's limited to men?  Why in the hell aren't we as critical of gay women? 

Honestly navigating the waters of politics in between left and right has, since then, felt like trying to concoct a unifying theory of political relativity. And oh boy do the variables keep changing!

I take it you're not a libertarian? 

BTW, I didn't mean any disrespect. I was just ball busting.