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[Wasteroo]

the whole It Gets Better idea is kind of in response to someone on the Stranger forums that called out Dan for glorifying a bullied gay kid's suicide, and how all the Slog coverage of his suicide might encourage other young LGBT kids to do the same just so the bullies get what's coming to them

[KvP]

First I've heard of that, though I guess if he's doing penance this is probably a bit of overkill.

Anyway, if GLBT kids actually read up on the Billy Lucas' suicide they'd know that the bullies didn't really "get" anything - they posted slurs and triumphant boasts on his Facebook memorial page.

[Wasteroo]

I thought that a couple of the primary bullies got in trouble, but maybe I just confused the facts with my wishful thinking. and I didn't mean to minimize Dan Savage's project by what I said, I still think it's a completely wonderful idea, regardless of its possible motivation

[KvP]

It's a legit complaint, to be sure. It's just that I've been following Dan for a long time and he strikes me as the type to own up to the effect his coverage might have on kids, and address it.

[KvP]

*edit, I suppose

[Lunchbox]

Fuck youuuuuuuu

What if everyone at school thought you were a lesbian and openly bullied you for it when really you weren't? Even when you went through a series of lousy boyfriends to try and prove it?

Honestly, and I say this as a cynic, you're pretty enough that you could probably get away with it.

Well yeah, ten years later I've learned how to wash my hair and brush my teeth, and my constant faceful of acne, hunchback, monobrow and buck teeth are gone after a lot of effort.

[LeeC]

is it a good thing or a bad thing that I never saw "Oliver and Company" as a kid considering the fact the start is very sad?

[Zingoleb]

Hey, hey, if you're gay (/lez/Bi/Trans) and you made it out of primary / high school, make a ding dang video for the kids.

(Don't do it if you're straight though, for serious, because that's irritating for everyone)

I guess this defines how you 'made it'. I was miserable enough that I dropped out in junior year (after my English teacher decided that we needed to go back to 'i before e except after c'), and got my GED, instead. Of course, at the time, I wasn't really out, either. People just assumed I was a 'faggot' and reacted so - sometimes violence, though usually I was just completely ignored.

Anyways if I can ever get my webcam to work (shooting death glares at it now), I'll probably do it.

[Lines]

What if everyone at school thought you were a lesbian and openly bullied you for it when really you weren't?

Yeah, this was me, too, minus the boyfriend bit. And the bully turned out to be gay. Oh well!

[Graphite]

Today is my 20th birthday. Because I attended the party for someone else's birthday, I was out when midnight ticked around. Thus, birthday events so far include being asked by a drunk girl I knew in primary school whether I'm receiving sufficient orgasms, spotting a restaurant named Curry Muncher, and being urinated on from above because someone decided that a bar window should be multipurpose. I was also informed that I have a "virginal face" by the lass who gave me a ride home.

Tomorrow later today, art gallery!

[Barmymoo]

Happy birthday! Your day sounds... interesting.

Guys, should I buy a copy of the Sims 3? Or even Sims 2?

[jhocking]

happy birthday!

also, dammit all I just found out Canadians have better peanut butter than we do.  Now I'm jealous.

[Zingoleb]

Happy birthday!

I had an invitation to see a friend's studio. He's very serious, but I figured I'd go check it out.

Dude is a wanker.

For one thing - he's showing me all his stuff, and it's some seriously nice stuff, even a Cujo guitar - he refused to let me so much as touch anything. It was pretty much sit perfectly still and let him do everything.

Then he's musically fucktarded. Like, none of the stuff he showed me was listenable, except for one song, and that was when he accidentally played Jason Mraz. I didn't want to be rude and be all "yeah it's interesting that you can play in 7/16 or 8/13 time, but it's insufferably boring to listen to" because that is a Dick Move and I didn't want him to be upset with me. By the end I mentioned I was exhausted (I was) and that I should probably go home - at which point he more or less pushed me out of his studio, and made me walk home after he had driven me out to his house. Erf.

At the same time, he's pretty much the only recording studio in this county, so I don't want to be on his bad side.

[Zingoleb]

I mean, I was really offended way back when when Jeph said to me that if I find music theory fascinating I will never write a good song. Now I see what he means. I still like music theory, and the guy is an amazing guitarist, but I wish I could play like him so I could restrain it, instead of being as ludicrous and over the top as I can possibly be all the time. I mean, fuck, he was trying to explain me me how to write music using fractals. I didn't really care, because it probably sounded like shit, too, but I pretended to be interested.

Fuck. Fucking wanker.

[Eris]

Today I am wearing shorts! Yesterday at work I got so ridiculously overheated that I decided shorts must be worn today. Spring is finally here

My legs are really pale, guys.  It's a bit embarrassing.

[Lunchbox]

Haha yeah, yesterday I put on a skirt and then looked at my legs and put some jeans on instead.

[jmrz]

My current solution to this is really thin skin coloured stockings. The only problem with this is that they are kind of shiny. However, at this point I don't really mind so much because I do not want to have to wear jeans in weather like this.

[Eris]

I have stopped caring and am wearing my pasty legs with pride. I might go sit in a park after work to help with this, though.

[est]

BLOG THREAD,

Your loathsome, rat-fucking Day Star pierced through my nigh-ineffectual eye coverings so ferociously yesterday that this morning I was set upon by the most vexing, malingering migraine I have had the misfortune to experience since my early twenties when I discovered that sunlight sets them off and began protecting my eyes with sunglasses.  The only reason I am able to write this is because I've taken three times the normal dosage of Nurofen plus to tone the thing down to a dull fucking roar inside my head.  I think that these new, needlessly expensive sunglasses are not cutting the mustard, so I'll probably have to shell out more money for another larger and hopefully less completely useless pair this week before Han & I go to the delicious all-day festival we have tickets for next weekend.

Also, that "It gets better" campaign sounds pretty cool.

[BeoPuppy]

Okay ... Hey, Est ... it gets better. I hope. For you. Because migraines are a bitch.

Nothing like doing the dishes from visit of 8 people when you were expecting maybe 4. Thank god I bakes muffins.

[Inlander]

My espresso machine is broken.

My problems are so middle-class.

[Barmymoo]

Today is my stepdad's birthday and his entire family came for lunch - three sisters, two spouses thereof (the third was at a football match) and their mother. Actually that is only about 1/5 of his family but it's certainly enough! We ate lots of food and now they are all wandering around the garden in a very middle-aged manner being nice to each other. They are all very nice and I can never remember their names in the right order and therefore I am hiding.

They liked the chocolate puddings I made though. Sort of like round brownies with a delicious gooey centre. Mm.

[Zingoleb]

I bought some bra inserts and, not sure where to put them, I jokingly smacked them against the wall.

I now have a pair of tits suction cupped to my living room wall.

[Zingoleb]

Make that "I have a tit," one just fell off.

[Dimmukane]

This weekend, I:

-had bacon flavored ice cream (not as bacon-y as I'd hoped, but still delicious)
-tried Sonic for the first time (pretty friggin awesome)
-discovered buffalo chicken cheese fries
-got one of the new iPod touches
-lost the v card


Life's been good.

[JD]

Where did you get the ice cream?

[Barmymoo]

Dentist was not as terrifying as I expected, and she was actually nicer today because I expressed my terror before we started (I'm guessing last time she just thought I was a moron). But now I can't feel the right side of my face and I can't eat until half past one but I'm hungry nooowwwww.

Also just looked at my lecture timetable. Three 9am lectures? And two of them are land law? Are you a sadist, timetabler?

[october1983]

I am back from Montreal! It was good times, but the hostel we stayed in was infested with bed bugs and I think, despite out best efforts to decontaminate everything we took with us, we might have managed to bring them back home. Fuuuuuu

[Liz]

Wash everything that is washable in hot water and run it through the dryer. The little bastards cannot survive the heat.

[Graphite]

Augh, Barrymoo, one of my law classes is also at 9am and it is fourteen kinds of hell when you need to commute an hour to get there, but oh well, at least it's not blasted property law.

[Lines]

Re bedbugs: If you can't wash it, put it in a ziplock bag. If it's too big for a ziplock, wrap it in plastic sheets and tape the shit out of it (like your bed). Otherwise, you're going to be throwing a lot of things away. Keep things in the plastic until you are absolutely positive the bugs are dead.

[ackblom12]

In all honesty, with bedbugs you might end up needing an exterminator. The little bastards are like roaches in the sense that if you miss one you're not rid of the infestation and it's practically impossible to do so on your own since they will hide anywhere and everywhere that is dark and out of the way.

[Lines]

Great. Due to 1) my loan check being a week late and 2) not being able to work because for whatever stupid reason my paperwork hasn't been processed through HR, I can't buy my textbooks. Also the one that I was planning on buying today because I really need it and it's only about $20 is out at the campus bookstore! Great! And I can't buy it off of Amazon, because people are trying to sell the damn thing for $150+. (One actually has it listed for $999. NICE.) And I can't check at the other bookstore until I'm done for the day, which is at 7. UGH.

The reason I'm not happy about this is because my class is meeting in half an hour and I can't read anything for class, because the reserves are also checked out. And one of them appears to not be on reserve at all.

[october1983]

Yeah, we tried washing/drying everything we could and kept everything else separate, away from carpets and soft furnishings, but we've both found a few new bites since returning. Hoping they're just old ones we hadn't noticed, but not convinced. Problem is, we came straight back to my girlfriend's parents place, which is huge, and after we washed our stuff her mum put it all in the airing cupboard. I really hope we haven't managed to infect all their stuff.

[negative creep]

Today I made out with the girl I mentioned in the Relationship advice thread. I'm a bad person, I guess.

[Scandanavian War Machine]

I'm a bad person, I guess.

welcome to the club!

you should get your "Official Human" badge in the mail in three to six weeks

[look out! Ninjas!]

May, you should do what I do and fuck up your timetabling from day one so you can only do two subjects at once. So bored. But I still have a class from four 'till eight tonight, and on odd weeks it is two 'till eight. And then a nine am class too.

[Dimmukane]

Where did you get the ice cream?

This place down on the Rehoboth boardwalk...I wanna say the name is Pepper's?  It was apparently on Food Network and the Today Show.

[Elizzybeth]

Today it hit 113˚ F (45˚ C) and hung out around 110˚F for a couple of hours.  I live in an area that supposedly has a mild mediterranean climate, so nowhere has air conditioning.  Classes were miserable.

#waytoohot

[Lunchbox]

It's still the first few weeks of Spring and it's 81F (27C). I love this country.

Downside is I am stuck at home with the windows all shut because I have a headache and noise hurts.

[jmrz]

I went outside for a five minute walk, I enjoyed it until I got back to my nice cool office and realised OH GOD IT'S SO HOT OUT THERE. It isn't even summer yet and it's already too warm for my liking.

[Christophe]

Things that suck:
-Having to be only friends with someone whom you thought you were going to spend the rest of your life with, welp

[Spluff]

It's still the first few weeks of Spring and it's 81F (27C). I love this country.

Please, send some of that weather down to Victoria. It hasn't gotten over 20C here for three or so months.

In related news, I got pelted with hail at work today, resulting in a few nice scratches in my safety glasses.


tldr: fuck you victoria

[Barmymoo]

May, you should do what I do and fuck up your timetabling from day one so you can only do two subjects at once.

I find it really odd that you guys organise your own timetabling. I have nothing to do with it - I guess in a way I could have, because I could have looked at last year's lecture timetable and made a guess at whether they'd be at the same time this year, but even then it wouldn't have moved the 9ams because the subjects in those slots are compulsory for my entire year.

I do get some wiggle room with the supervisions, because we set those when we arrive and pick the slots which are most convenient. Useful for me, since I'm stupid busy and cannot have a supervision after 4pm or it'll clash with something. ARGH.

[Jimmy the Squid]

Today was a good day. I went to the gym which was umm..fine I guess. I listened to Dimmu Borgir the entire time so I feel good about that. Then I went to band practice and we wrote our newest song from scratch in three hours, lyrics and all. I'm pretty proud of this because 1) this is like the third (out of 10) song I've actually written and 2) because it is fucking rad. It has references to Shakespeare, Brutal Legend, Marvel Comics and the name of it is hugely inspired by Dimmu Borgir.
I also got an email from Apple and they possibly want me to work at one of the Applestores here in Sydney.

Overall a good day.

[Lines]

It's been in the mid to high 60s the past few days. Last week it was in the mid 90s. I am sooo happy fall has finally decided to show up. Also I got my book problems solved. Woot.

[Christophe]

Blog Thread I am in need of immediate assistance.

My friends are planning on attending Hardly Strictly Bluegrass this weekend. I have this idea to come along with them.

However, this Saturday I've been offered a paying gig doing sound for $150. I'm planning on buying an amp soon that much.

What fuck I do?

[Christophe]

but dude elvis costello and bonnie prince billy and avett brothers and things

[Dazed]

Take the gig.

[Wasteroo]

I vote money