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bridegam

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(Msg. 16) Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2003 1:02 am
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Henry wrote:

 > Martha Bridegam <mabjo DeleteThis @pacbell.net> wrote:
 >
  > > OK, much confusion on this end. Does Polari exist or are the Sisters yankin'
  > > our chains?
 >
 > There was just a story about it in the Grauniad a couple of weeks ago:
 >
<font color=purple> > <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,997545,00.html</font" target="_blank">http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,997545,00.html</font</a>>
 >
 > cheers,
 >
 > Henry

Thx. You've finally explained "Oo varda the ome" in the Python "language school"
episode.

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(Msg. 17) Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2003 7:10 am
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Martha Bridegam <bridegam.TakeThisOut@pacbell.net> wrote:

> Wot's particularly Gaelic about 'smithereen'?

Erm...its _etymology_?

cheers,

Henry

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(Msg. 18) Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2003 7:10 am
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Henry wrote:

> Martha Bridegam <bridegam.RemoveThis@pacbell.net> wrote:
>
> > Wot's particularly Gaelic about 'smithereen'?
>
> Erm...its _etymology_?
>
> cheers,
>
> Henry

erm, yes, but are you frexample saying -een is a characteristically
Gaelic suffix?

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(Msg. 19) Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2003 7:59 am
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Martha Bridegam <mabjo DeleteThis @pacbell.net> wrote:

> Henry wrote:
>
> > Martha Bridegam <bridegam DeleteThis @pacbell.net> wrote:
> >
> > > Wot's particularly Gaelic about 'smithereen'?
> >
> > Erm...its _etymology_?
>
> erm, yes, but are you frexample saying -een is a characteristically
> Gaelic suffix?

Yes.

cheers,

Henry
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(Msg. 20) Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2003 8:08 am
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Henry wrote:

> Martha Bridegam <mabjo RemoveThis @pacbell.net> wrote:
>
> > Henry wrote:
> >
> > > Martha Bridegam <bridegam RemoveThis @pacbell.net> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Wot's particularly Gaelic about 'smithereen'?
> > >
> > > Erm...its _etymology_?
> >
> > erm, yes, but are you frexample saying -een is a characteristically
> > Gaelic suffix?
>
> Yes.
>
> cheers,
>
> Henry

Awright awright, fergeddaboutit...

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(Msg. 21) Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2003 12:01 am
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"Martha Bridegam" <mabjo.RemoveThis@pacbell.net> wrote in message
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 >
 >
 > ROBBIE wrote:
 >
  > > ...And before you start, i've been
  > > through my bi curious stage so there, and if I was the biggest poof in
the
  > > world I wouldn't go on that march...
 >
 > ;--) and gotten over it entirely, I gather?
 >
 > /M
 >

Oh its all repressed denial/anger shit is it? Not on your nelly love- If
wanted a bit of that I could walk out this house now and go get it, with
pretty much anyone of my choice who fancied a bit of the same- unlike a lot
of fellas- and for free. You see the trouble with people like you, who see
facists, racists, homophobes under everyone's bed, is that if one slags a
homosexual jamboree off then you immediately play the homophobe/repressed
homo card; its so teenage, so hackneyed its beyond cliche. And to see you,
as a sworn opponent of stale reaction, doing it is kind of a laugh; its as
dead as the anti left satire of the eighties you hate so much. And over such
a fucking load of nothing as same sex relations.<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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littleboyschut

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(Msg. 22) Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2003 12:29 am
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"jmc" <jamesmartincharlton.TakeThisOut@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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 >
 > "ROBBIE" <littleboyschutz.TakeThisOut@tiscali.co.uk> wrote in message
 > news:bg0afd$j3mu9$1@ID-200782.news.uni-berlin.de...
  > >
  > >
  > > The Carnival of Sodomy. Wow! We're gonna stay up late and provoke boring
 > old
  > > straights- 'cept no one gives a shit.
 >
 > But, you see, YOU DO.

Jesus, of all the subjects to see you stoop to the thinnest of playground
debating skills over. Tsk

 >
 > Must be better things to celebrate
  > > than plain old arsefucking ain't there? Very sixth form...
  > >
 >
 > What makes you certain that they do it to "provoke straights"? I thought
 > they did it 'cos they enjoyed it! And seeing that in a number of countries
 > to this day homosexuality is punishable by death, surely the freedom to
 > practise as one's heart and soul desires is to be celebrated. I had
thought
 > that you were a great supporter of the West's freedoms and would have
 > thought that you would approve of the celebration of them... As to sixth
 > form, the thing I remember most about the sixth form at my school was the
 > incapability of boys to accept homosexuality - always making a big deal
out
 > of it and giggling/ranting when the subject came up.

Yes but Homosexuality is legal here James. Has been for the best part of 40
years. Pride won't change any laws abroad, that's just so the marchers can
feel holy for a bit... You see, you, like Martha, have assumed I've got a
beef against homosexuality because I asked a few pertinent questions about
the pride thing. Fankly you're both acting like some fat boring dyke at the
ICA in 1988, all dungarees and specious bollocks about faggots of the world
unite and all that.


 >
   > > >
   > > > second, why do they bother
   > > > > when they make themselves look like such cunts?
   > > >
   > > > Surely that's what seperates us from the Moslems - that people have
the
  > > time
   > > > and space to act as cuntish in as many diverse ways as they wish.
  > >
  > > Yes and cuntish is cuntish is cuntish.
  > >
 >
 > Plenty of things could be described as cuntish - your over-the-top
obsession

Obsession? Obsession? I asked a few questions. My respect for you as a
writer will go up imeasurably when you think about the words you use when
you write.

 > with local irritations like Pride for example. Chill out - it's not doing
 > you any harm, is it?

I asked a few questions and, rather like when you ask a few questions about
the black community, self righteous reactionary wrath explodes.


 >
  > > And I
   > > > think there is some truth in the adage that both the black and gay
   > > > communities have got men, in general, dressing a lot better than they
 > did
  > > a
   > > > few years ago. I'm all for both men and women looking sexy, slim and
 > cool.
  > >
  > > Yes, the use of certain perjoratives would no doubt offend you, but
'fat'
  > > wouldn't be one of them. Fat Black Poof would only be offensive to two
 > types
  > > of people in your book no doubt....LOL deary me... baseball cap has been
 > the
  > > crowning achievment of the black community- Jimmy Saville and Bob Marley
  > > pioneered the sportswear phenomenom. I guess a homosexual designed
Calvin
  > > Klein underwear for which I'm thankful though I don't understand why
 > sexual
  > > orientation has to be brought into cultural matters constantly.
  > >
   > > >
 >
 > For fuck's sake, who do you think you are talking to?! When have I ever
 > objected to any perjoratives?!!! It's me should be saying deary me - think
 > about who you are communicating with and treat each individual as such!
 > Instead of as one mass of "political correctness". Otherwise you're
nothing
 > more than "angry of Sutton" and extremely sixth form to boot!

How am I angry about it. As I said, the site of it, the mixture of 'aren't
we outrageous and naughty and don't forget we're ever so pious and concerned
about the world gay comunity' is a bloody big yawn. You see, I'm more
surprised to see one black bowler hat in London now that ten pink cowboy
hats. They've got what they wanted, now fucking get on with it.

 >
   > > > Third, Why can't they just
   > > > > get on with it?
   > > >
   > > > Surely they are doing - that's the point of having a big party -
"we're
   > > > here, we're not going away and we're gonna be cornholing and
cocksucking
   > > > whether you like it or not!"
  > >
  > > Well, I think at this remove straight society knows that, don't you, to
a
  > > yawn provoking level. the patron saint of Modern England is Graham
Norton
  > > you know. The march strikes me, to use one of your favourite
perjoratives,
  > > as infantilism or at least teenagerism writ large. Like the blacks and
the
  > > Irish, they've pretty much got what they've been moaning for but now the
  > > addiction to protesting/exhibitionism can not be shaken off. They should
 > get
  > > over themselves.
  > >
 >
 > 1. It is only in Urban areas that homosexuality is accepted. 2. There are
 > plenty of homosexuals who do not fit the Graham Norton stereotype. 3. As I
 > said, yesterday's festival has nothing to do with protesting but
everything
 > to do with having a good time. Why would you object to that - a festival
 > which is without public subsidy - but not to the Lord Mayor's show or the
 > Jubilee celebration? Or a Stones concert, for that matter. It is no
 > different. It's merely a matter of taste.

Its a march with a distinct, and well passed its sell by date air of protest
about it. I don't know anybody in a wide circle of friends who has anything
against homosexuals; yeah people will always say 'jeez ain't they bitchy'
but that's part of the package innit? Like blacks being good at running and
dancing. But apart from a lunatic fringe which no march will ever change,
homosexuality is part of society. The arguments over; but like with other
minorities and parts of Belfast, they don't ever want the argument, the
provocation and the posturing to end; possibly because they've got fuck all
but sodomy to define themselves by. Pace 'gay art' 'gay films' etc.


 >
  > > The thing about Pride or Mardi Gras or whatever
   > > > you call it - it is NOT publicly subsidised, people pay to go in and
   > > > business sponsors it. Which makes it very different to something like
   > > > Respect, which you and I are paying for in our rates.
   > > >
   > > > >Fourth, is homosexuality still a 'cause' that needs marches?
   > > >
   > > > I think that the march is more like a new orleans, big entertainment
 > thing
   > > > than a political statement - or could it be argued that in a world in
  > > which
   > > > sexual Puritanism still has a place
  > >
  > > Does it? News to me.
  > >
  > > , overt statements of "deviant" sexuality
   > > > are welcome.
  > >
  > > What do statements of sexuality achieve? I'm curious to know. The march
is
 > a
  > > big cruise and indulgence dressed up with some flimsy old protest
bollocks
  > > and 'helping 16 year olds'. Pfui!
  > >
 >
 > It seems that you don't know your history. Homosexuality has been accepted
 > sometimes but often punishable by extreme measures. Even today, young
people
 > are rejected by their families and friends merely for being gay. This, I
 > might add, is something that would never happen to a black or Irish
person,
 > whose blackness or Irishness is the same as their families. The
 > high-profile, media, urban, moneyed side of the gay community is a very
 > small part of the whole story. There are people who cannot buy themselves
a
 > nice flat in a liberal area and who have to live daily having to hide
their
 > relationships. Things have changed for the better however and, as I said,
I
 > was not aware that yesterday was a protest but a self-financed party. If
you
 > had any imagination at all

wooh

, you would see that a highly visible event like
 > yesterday's would be a beacon of light to a lonely child living in an
 > emotionally repressed family on a sink estate. It would offer a vision of
a
 > life in which his/her inner self might one day be able to be expressed.
 > Which I think is wonderful.
 >

Thanks Reverend for that utter sanctimonious bollocks. Freedom to be gay is
pushed at teenagers through leaflets and plays and tv and youth advisory
drop centres and all that.C'mon, its 2003 mate.





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(Msg. 23) Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2003 12:29 am
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ROBBIE wrote:

> ...You see, you, like Martha, have assumed I've got a
> beef against homosexuality because I asked a few pertinent questions about
> the pride thing.

Martha is merely amused by your perennial overheated fascination with the
subject.

> Fankly you're both acting like some fat boring dyke at the
> ICA in 1988, all dungarees and specious bollocks about faggots of the world
> unite and all that....

Surely you didn't expect her to have real ones?

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(Msg. 24) Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2003 8:24 pm
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"ROBBIE" <littleboyschutz RemoveThis @tiscali.co.uk> wrote in message
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 > What do statements of sexuality achieve? I'm curious to know. The march is
a
 > big cruise and indulgence dressed up with some flimsy old protest bollocks
 > and 'helping 16 year olds'. Pfui!
 >
  > >
 >
 > Oh its all repressed denial/anger shit is it? Not on your nelly love- If
 > wanted a bit of that I could walk out this house now and go get it, with
 > pretty much anyone of my choice who fancied a bit of the same- unlike a
lot
 > of fellas- and for free. You see the trouble with people like you, who see
 > facists, racists, homophobes under everyone's bed, is that if one slags a
 > homosexual jamboree off then you immediately play the homophobe/repressed
 > homo card; its so teenage, so hackneyed its beyond cliche. And to see you,
 > as a sworn opponent of stale reaction, doing it is kind of a laugh; its as
 > dead as the anti left satire of the eighties you hate so much. And over
such
 > a fucking load of nothing as same sex relations.
 >
 > I suppose the answer to this is Mazel Tov. Or if you are making a
contrast between your person and that of the 'unarrestable and unfit
Cinderella's stepsisters who march in the the pride parades', then Muscle
Tov. Or maybe the answer is shut your silly face bitch, you open your mouth
and garbage comes out. You seem here to be explaining the marchers as
having a chip on their shoulders for not being beautiful enough. Shades of
the old canard that feminists are all fat. This kind of simplistic
explanation puts you in a tricky corner because you don't want to be
reductive about gays, you only want to be reductive about marchers. Lemme
ask you this. What would you say to a 16 old male nephew who told you he
felt ugly and that he was sickened at how he could not stop thinking about
girls. Would you be testy? Would you say with him: "Get with it Trevor!
You bore me. That battle has been won! When is the penny going to drop? If
you're not enough on the ball to appreciate the green light that 21st
century culture gives to heterosexuals, you're no nephew of mine. You're
washing your white linen in public." I don't think you'd answer like that.
You'd be avuncular because you'd understand that individual ontogeny is
different from cultural evolution and that adolescents can't necessarily
figure out what the rules are. You'd remember that many adolescents whose
fiercest desires are totally congruent with the squarest views of society
don't realize that they can count on the the whole society to be their
cheering section. You'd remember that adolescents feel like ghosts, like
Caththese Earnshaw tapping on windows. But you are annoyed with these
umsophisticated copper-brothers who haven't rumbled to the new dispensation.

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