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    FyndirFyndir Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Every time I go out in the city, I get scared.

    Not because I'm particularly afraid of being attacked, I am reliably informed by a number of people that I am fairly intimidating, even if I don't feel it myself.

    My fear is that I would be one of those jackasses who walks past someone else in trouble, that I would quietly and internally declare it not my business and try to pretend I'd never seen it.

    In other news, I hope this doesn't linger with you in a bad way, Pooro, you seem like a chap I could buy a beer for and have a quiet word with.

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    WeaverWeaver Who are you? What do you want?Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Down the hall I have neighbors that are a colorfully mohawked, overly pierced gay couple. One of them got locked out on his way home from work while the other was at the bar, and I helped him out by letting him stash his bags in my place while he went to scrounge the bars for his other.

    The other finally showed up, only because all bars closed half an hour ago, and damn he gave me the dirtiest look when I was handing the bags back over.

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    CaptainNemoCaptainNemo Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    It's stories like this that make the Boondock Saints and Rorschach so popular. You just want to find people like those hick bastards and just hurt them. Just hurt them.

    Oh god I sound so sick when I read that back to myself.

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    WeaverWeaver Who are you? What do you want?Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    I'm 6'1" or 2" and fairly stocky, 200lbs ish, dress like a cross between office worker and indigent vagabond, so walking around at night in the city is never fearful for me. There's been a couple of times where some drugged up person has tried to turn around and follow me for a block or two but I just turn around and let them pass me by and nothing happens.

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    WeaverWeaver Who are you? What do you want?Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Sometimes on Friday or Saturday nights, I'll carry a knife in my pocket, for "just in case", but my real plan is always "run like crazy right into the 24 hour grocery store with the security guards and on-site police crew"

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    TossrockTossrock too weird to live too rare to dieRegistered User regular
    edited March 2011
    I really can't believe you get that much shit in LA

    aren't we supposed to be all progressive and shit in California?

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    WeaverWeaver Who are you? What do you want?Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Tossrock wrote: »
    I really can't believe you get that much shit in LA

    aren't we supposed to be all progressive and shit in California?

    prop 8

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    CaptainNemoCaptainNemo Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    All the progress in the world can't solve hate.

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    TossrockTossrock too weird to live too rare to dieRegistered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Weaver wrote: »
    Tossrock wrote: »
    I really can't believe you get that much shit in LA

    aren't we supposed to be all progressive and shit in California?

    prop 8

    yeah, but that was rural areas vs cities and LA is a huge-ass city

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    CaptainNemoCaptainNemo Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    So? Crazies, bigots, and just plain pieces of shit are everywhere.

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    WeaverWeaver Who are you? What do you want?Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Tossrock wrote: »
    Weaver wrote: »
    Tossrock wrote: »
    I really can't believe you get that much shit in LA

    aren't we supposed to be all progressive and shit in California?

    prop 8

    yeah, but that was rural areas vs cities and LA is a huge-ass city

    It's ok, I'm only half joking

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    doublehawk00doublehawk00 Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Ain't nowhere in the country to write for a living but L.A., and ain't nowhere in L.A. I can afford to live but here.

    So it comes down to dreams or safety, and I'll pick dreams every time. Bruises heal quicker than what-ifs.

    All this terrible shit and you're still able to keep that attitude.

    I'm completely serious when I say that you're an inspiration, Pooro. As someone who is now thinking very hard about what they want to do with the next ten years of their life, I'd love to be doing what you are.

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    ASimPersonASimPerson Cold... and hard.Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Tossrock wrote: »
    Weaver wrote: »
    Tossrock wrote: »
    I really can't believe you get that much shit in LA

    aren't we supposed to be all progressive and shit in California?

    prop 8

    yeah, but that was rural areas vs cities and LA is a huge-ass city

    It passed in LA:
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    LA county: 50.1% for
    Orange County: 57.7% for
    Riverside County: 64.7 for
    San Bernadino County: 66.8% for
    Ventura County: 52.9% for

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    TossrockTossrock too weird to live too rare to dieRegistered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Central Valley: shithole

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    ASimPersonASimPerson Cold... and hard.Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Yeah, someday I'll figure out something that's appealing about this state, other than the agreeable climate. Well, and my industry is mostly here I guess.

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    TossrockTossrock too weird to live too rare to dieRegistered User regular
    edited March 2011
    the last 3 posters are all in PST

    whats up w/ that

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    BeastehBeasteh THAT WOULD NOT KILL DRACULARegistered User regular
    edited March 2011
    dst just happened whoah

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    Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Bruises heal quicker than what-ifs.

    Whoa

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    DruhimDruhim Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited March 2011
    BusterK wrote: »
    Just trying to make you feel better even though it seems like your actions have no consequence now
    You just never know

    Eh, considering my mugging, this recent gay bashing, the time I got called a faggot and thrown into the trunk of a palm tree, the time a guy in a pick-up shouted "faggot" at me from a pick-up and threw a tennis ball at my head, the time two rednecks tackled me and tried to steal my wallet.

    Given I didn't do shit to instigate any of it, and considering nothing I did after the fact had any effect, I'm pretty sure my actions have no consequences.

    I can only deny facts so long.


    I'm sorry for all of the horrendous shit that happened to you, but why haven't you left that godawful shitstain of a place? I mean, one is an incident, two is a coincidence, but five is a definite pattern of abuse that, judging by the number of incidences and your location, which judging by the reference to palm trees, is in the South, suggests a community that really, really, hates gay people and people who look like gay people.

    Seriously, get out of there.

    Ain't nowhere in the country to write for a living but L.A., and ain't nowhere in L.A. I can afford to live but here.

    So it comes down to dreams or safety, and I'll pick dreams every time. Bruises heal quicker than what-ifs.

    :^:

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    CrossBusterCrossBuster Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Koshian wrote: »
    actually the only good thing about california is sutter brown

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    I'm a fucking dog and you're asking me my opinion on redevelopment agencies?

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    WeaverWeaver Who are you? What do you want?Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    that phone

    oh god which line was I on

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    Metzger MeisterMetzger Meister It Gets Worse before it gets any better.Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Fuck. Major. Cities.

    Errday.

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    DruhimDruhim Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited March 2011
    Nah, there's a lot of really rad shit that goes along with living in big cities also.

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    mensch-o-maticmensch-o-matic Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Thank you for reporting to the police Pooro! Now buy the shit out of some pepperspray

    I'm not joking

    Or a taser

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    Metzger MeisterMetzger Meister It Gets Worse before it gets any better.Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Pooro, you called the fuzz right?

    edit: oh yep he did.


    POORO BUY AN IMPACT BATON OR PEPPER SPRAY OR A TASER. APPARENTLY YOU LOOK GAY AND YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD IS SCARY.

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    FyndirFyndir Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Solution: Buy all of the above, use duct tape to form super-weapon.

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    mensch-o-maticmensch-o-matic Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    If you're hard up on cash and not on for the look of a giant stick at your back it's only 9 months till Secret Satan's arrives

    Ask for something nice

    and violent looking

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    DoobhDoobh She/Her, Ace Pan/Bisexual 8-) What's up, bootlickers?Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    The only thing that really sucks in California are the politics and, even then, we're not Texas or Florida.

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    Muse Among MenMuse Among Men Suburban Bunny Princess? Its time for a new shtick Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Also, holy moly Muse, that is some make-me-feel-guilty levels of nice. I ain't deserving of sympathy on that level. I'm frequently a dick.

    I highly doubt you are dick enough to deserve that. You'd have to be tossing kittens off highway overpasses or something else equally horrendous before it can even be considered. And even so, it is still disturbing due to the homophobia that instigated it.

    Also move to a gayer part of LA.

    Also, you're in LA? I'm in LA. Crummy LA (the Valley . . .).

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    PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Dubh wrote: »
    The only thing that really sucks in California are the politics and, even then, we're not Texas or Florida.

    rick scott was pretty good actually....

    now we have a fucking fascist in office but still

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    DoobhDoobh She/Her, Ace Pan/Bisexual 8-) What's up, bootlickers?Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    Dubh wrote: »
    The only thing that really sucks in California are the politics and, even then, we're not Texas or Florida.

    rick scott was pretty good actually....

    now we have a fucking fascist in office but still

    I'd probably be better off just shooting my mouth off on the entire midwest, but a lot of people really like those states, so maybe not?

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    PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    the midwest is pretty terrible so it's cool

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    CampionCampion Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Use the pepper spray stun baton and become a vigilante with the superhero name Hot Shaft

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    FandyienFandyien But Otto, what about us? Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    i'm actually sorta stunned that this kind of random violence is a thing

    i mean it's happened to me but only because i am white and people want my things

    the idea of a hate-motivated attack is simply baffling to me. why

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    MereHappenstanceMereHappenstance Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    I really liked Northern California when I went there to see some relatives. Southern California not so much.

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    MereHappenstanceMereHappenstance Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Campion wrote: »
    Use the pepper spray stun baton and become a vigilante with the superhero name Hot Shaft

    Yet another thing to go down on my bucket list.

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    BusterKBusterK Negativity is Boring Cynicism is Cowardice Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    But what if Pooro goes to the police station
    And none of the mugshots look right
    And then he starts wandering around the station and it turns out they were policemen!
    And then Pooro has to go hide out in Amish country

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    Virgil_Leads_YouVirgil_Leads_You Proud Father House GardenerRegistered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Fandyien wrote: »
    i'm actually sorta stunned that this kind of random violence is a thing

    i mean it's happened to me but only because i am white and people want my things

    the idea of a hate-motivated attack is simply baffling to me. why

    Ugh Dog. I'm so ___ right now, but I love you dudes
    I know you fuckers got my back. Did I tell you how that ___ is now my superviser?
    It's terrible, that punk isn't even ____

    Oh shit - look at this ____,
    Let's teach that cocky _____ a goddamn lesson.

    Or some stupid dialog of that nature.

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    CrossBusterCrossBuster Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    I really liked Northern California when I went there to see some relatives. Southern California not so much.

    Some parts of Northern California are really pretty.
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    For example

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    TankHammerTankHammer Atlanta Ghostbuster Atlanta, GARegistered User regular
    edited March 2011
    12 suspected gays are being roughed-up in that photo if you look closely.

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