I just got back from there so I have some opinions! I mostly did touristy stuff... but I was also staying with friends in the suburbs so I got a little taste of London Residential Life. Touristy things: The Natural History museum was great. The Science Museum was alright, but nothing amazing. The Na...

On this history-making day, as someone who's not really a part of this, I want to ask something of those who are: Where do you think the LGBT movement will be in the next, say, 5 to 10 years? I will leave you with I Corinthians 8 I am really rather miffed that you'd come into the gay thread and dro...

Merrymaker_Mortalis wrote:Do you need me to buy you some more toilet paper?
Or is it a towel rail I see?

That's a towel bar, and it's slightly above shoulder height. O_o Where is the toilet paper roll mounted in your bathroom? On the ceiling???

This shirt is new. I like it a lot. It was on sale!

One thing that I would like to note is that it's really important that when you go to make the final set of black/white cards that you edit them properly so that they work together. White cards should be nouns or noun phrases, which may include articles. Black cards need to be formatted appropriatel...

Dutch guy wrote:My personal favourite is Eyewitness Accounts though I'm not sure it's online somewhere.

It's on the LRR Youtube... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Kqi_dJLLag

I usually do Eyewitness Accounts too. It's got everyone, it's fast-paced, lots of different types of jokes.

What, pray-tell, prompted the '80s VHS titles overhaul? They had to redo the credits anyway, since Feed Dump is no longer under the Escapist, but I'm guessing they just felt like it was a good opportunity to try something new! Also it's not actually a guess because Graham tweeted this: Once I reali...

Hello all, finally being honest with myself and my likes and desires I find that I am bisexual (I'm a male btw) which is all well and good but I need a bit of help. How do I go about coming out to my best friend? I am in no way attracted to him so thats not an issue but I want him to take me seriou...

Ditto had a suggestion to be able to sort Feed Dump stories by the state or country they take place in. I think that's a terrific idea. He's going to write a python script to implement it, but I dunno how that's gonna work. I've said before that I thought it'd be cool to see the number of times cer...

I think I have been a jerk and a dummy in this thread. I don't know what my problem was. I'm sorry, Fayili. If ace people have challenges and feel oppressed by the current system and identify as queer, who am I to judge their queerness? Jeez, I should get over myself. Everybody get under the umbrell...

I also feel that one of the major reasons why asexuals might be looking to be included in LGBT spaces is that, to be quite honest, there aren't a whole lot of us out there. I can easily picture a college asexual group that would just be one or two people out for coffee once a week or something. Eve...

but to be honest I've always wondered what gay men and women had in common (they're different genders who like different genders. Not much overlap here) or what either had in common with a straight trans person. The focus is, I think, on shared experience: shared experience of not seeing yourself r...

(I think you missed a "not" in there.) I think when you get a lot of queer people together, they do talk about sex a lot, but not always? And it's a very annoying thing that this whole excluding ace people is reinforcing the idea that queerness is about sex. Are trans ace people, who neve...

I guess the more I think about it the more confident I am that ace people should NOT be kicked out of inclusive spaces just for being there, but I'm also not sure LGBT groups are going to be the best groups for addressing issues an asexual individual might face, and may in fact be somewhat alienatin...

Elomin Sha wrote:Delusions of grandeur?

Societally supported/encouraged delusions of grandeur, I guess. Though in many cases the advantages conferred aren't delusions, they're very real. Hm. IDK.

Not direclty, when I was writing something I was using it for something else and it felt like a cope out word/shut down conversation. It's not a cop-out word. It's an academic term. It has a meaning. The fact that people in some places have weaponized it on the internet sucks but I don't think ther...

Elomin Sha wrote:I wonder why I have a revulsion to anyone using the word privlege.

Is this directed at me? I can offer alternative words if you'd rather.

Ditto: Do you feel the same way about het aces? What originally pissed me off about it so much was thinking of a friend here from the forums (although he's not around so much anymore) who's just about the sweetest person you'll meet being told he's "not queer enough." He might not even wa...

"I am a person" works well for people who are privileged to be what people consider the default person. The vast majority of people will assume you're straight (and if they can't see you, male and white). Pretending otherwise is naive. Maybe some day this won't be the case, but right now, ...

Burgers, but mostly because as someone who is not a fan of onion, pickles, cheese or mustard i usually can't find a burger i like so i just make them at home where i can choose what i put in them The things you listed are literally my top favorite parts of a hamburger. You terrible, terrible person...

I cannot get over how amazing "The Talk 2" is. I laugh every time I watch it and I've watched it like three times. Kathleen's delivery is so great.

I've eaten an omelette for dinner almost every day for something like six years now, so I have a strong aversion to ordering them in restaurants, since I know how much they cost/how easy they are to make (answer: way less than what they charge/super easy).

I avoid pancakes too (easy/cheap to make).

The Game Show Night panel was not recorded for reasons of potential incrimination.

Also it was dirty as fuck. I didn't stay for long because of that. Graham and Kathleen were on point as usual, though.

Oh hai



PAX East was great. <3

EDIT: Also, this is what happens when we accidentally start videoing instead of the photo timer...

https://vid.me/RB3O

I mean, there's a difference between the actual, real-world colour of the dress and the colours of the image that the camera picked up. Yes, the dress is blue and black; but the camera picked up light blue and brown due to crappy exposure settings. Black is the absence of reflected light, exposure ...