En garde, Longmont
A recent letter writer from Longmont described Boulder as a “city of wackos” (“What do you expect from ‘city of wackos’?” June 25). The fellow might be interested to learn that here in the City of Wackos we refer to Longmont as “Boulder’s Affordable Housing.”
Don Wrege, Boulder
Looks like the war of the cities is coming…
Posted by Uno on July 2, 2007 01:07 AMBoulder is a joke. Many of its residents are a joke. Some things never change.
Posted by truthy on July 2, 2007 06:32 AM06:13 AM:
I'll bet you've never even been to Boulder.
Lighten up. It was a joke.
"truthy":
Ya know what? Boulder is a beautiful city, full of interesting people and things to see and do, and, deep inside, I'll bet you secretly wish you could live there.
We're lucky to have a city like Boulder in this state.
I guess calling Boulder a city of wackos and a--holes isn't arrogance. I have relatives in both places. My grandparents live in Boulder (since 1945), and apparently it has been decent enough for them to stay (grandfather is retired military, not a "liberal wacko"). Steve Ritchie, an Air Force ace during the Vietnam War, also calls Boulder home (also not a "liberal wacko"). If you don't like Boulder, then don't go there and keep your mouth shut. I wonder where truthy and 6:13, the "gutless wonder", live.
Posted by BO on July 2, 2007 07:20 AMBoulder is nice, the freaks trying to run it need to be slapped around.
Posted by on July 2, 2007 07:21 AMThe wackos are in Colorado Springs
Posted by on July 2, 2007 08:23 AM"The wackos are in Colorado Springs"
Amen, brother!!
Posted by Tom on July 2, 2007 08:48 AMI wonder how fast Boulder would release it's open space for development (increase it's tax base) if the communities to the east seceded out of Boulder county like Broomfield.
Posted by on July 2, 2007 08:56 AM"Boulder is a beautiful city, full of interesting people and things to see and do"
Yeah, I remember in high school (late 70's) we used to go there for the entertainment value (watch the hippies and bums, walk up and down Pearl street, try to pick up drunk college chicks). Not much has changed since then, except that boulder has gotten less hospitible unless you have lots of money!
Posted by on July 2, 2007 09:06 AM"We're lucky to have a city like Boulder in this state."
Where would Colorado be without Boulder to biannually launch us into the national headlines due to yet another sex scandal, hack professor, or racial beating? You know what they say about any publicity.....
Posted by on July 2, 2007 09:09 AM"...try to pick up drunk college chicks"
Remarkable display of morals there, did you grow up and mature as you aged?
Many people are unaware that Boulder actually has a large number of low income and affordable housing options. In fact, the taxpayers in this much maligned city are willing to support a vast array of public and private (sometimes both) financed developments for their less-than-affluent residents.
That these developments are designed as unobtrusively as possible explains why even long time residents are unaware of their existence.
I am always startled by the negative reactions that this little town can generate. Its diverse population includes many notable Republicans as residents (Caldara, Greenlee, Kopel) who may complain about Boulder politics but obviously enjoy the community that has been created there.
Posted by Michael R. on July 2, 2007 09:52 AMBango. You had any luck yet with the chicks yet? You might try brushing your teeth and loosing the dreds. Try it and you might actually get a girl and maybe a job. It will help you grow up and mature too. Sixty's pretty hard on you?
Posted by R on July 2, 2007 09:55 AMMichael R.
That's great, but clearly the Boulder resident was attempting to insult or belittle Longmont due to his perception of the economic status of its residents. The tenor of his letter played right into the perception that Boulder might be dominated by effete snobs. It's a perception mind you, but it's there.
I don't find the politics of Boulder to be that dissimilar to Denver, to be perfectly honest. Boulder takes itself way too seriously at times, and I think that plays into the bad feelings towards it.
This isn't any different than attitudes about Madison, Wisonsin or Austin, Texas or even Carmel, Indiana.
Posted by Pete on July 2, 2007 10:14 AMWho is this R, the newest poster trying to out insult us?
En garde R. you are witty, but Bango is premier when some jerk gets his hackles up.
Posted by Sharon B. on July 2, 2007 10:15 AMBut Sharon, he's still a liberal, so when push comes to shove.....? I'll look for him hiding under his mama's skirt, hackles and all.
By the way, nobody can out insult you. You promote a government/economic system that is the definition of insult to reason and human instinct, so every time you speak, it's an insult.
Posted by R on July 2, 2007 10:23 AMHuman instinct is to cooperate in human society, and even let people like you in.
Check your definitions, your dictionary is self written and skewed.
Love you though, I really, really, do in my own liberal, bleeding heart way.
Posted by Sharon B. on July 2, 2007 11:34 AMWhat the people of Boulder refuse to acknowledge is that they are out of step with main stream America. It's not by coincidence that every little issue arising in that little town becomes a national story.
Boulder has many reputations that are not flattering.
The bottom line is Boulder has been hijacked by rich elitists that relocated here over the years. Most of them could not tell you what the city was like 30 years ago. Yes, it had the it's share of strange characters roaming the streets, which was not uncommon in many college towns back then. The problem is that they didn’ go home after college.
Boulder is out of touch with society (although they might think they're leading the change) and they have insulated themselves behind those mountain walls.
Go ahead Boulder, thumb you noses at the rest of Colorado, but your day will come and you may find the rest of the state inhospitable.
Nice.
Some affluent snob from a place where the median home price is like 500 grand, casts some snide remark down his nose from his dias.
Well, Mr. Wrege, here in Longmont we're not
afraid to hang the flag in the library because
it (whiney little voice) "might offend someone". Then, some monthe later, hang a string of dildoes in the library and not be at all concerned about offending someone, or
having small children seeing it, for that matter.
Yeah, you've got a lot to be proud of in Boulder, don't you?
Does it make you feel better about that place when you insult other
cities?
Go make out with a prarie dog, loser.
BTW
that's:
Richard Lee Landrum II
Longmont
Two property owner.
Posted by RickyLee on July 2, 2007 12:17 PMBoulder is not known as California East without good reason.
When it comes to highly educated insanity, few places can beat Boulder.
Does anyone remember their gas masks for cats idea? This made all the papers. The idea was to protect cats in case of a terrorist attack where poison gas was used. Top this Madison, Wis. !!
Sharon B. I'll cooperate. I'll even cheer you on while you create and self fund your Utopian, liberal policies. I won't cooperate, however, if you expect me to buy in, literally and/or figuratively, because I believe liberalism destroys individualism and free spirit.
Please point to any country in the world that is/was governed by a socialist government that has prospered and facilitated individual excellence like this system of ours. Every American has the opportunity to succeed, and innovation and hard work is rewarded. Individualism is squashed by the touch-freely nonsense that is socialism. You keep it. I don't want it, and I don't want to pay for it.
Posted by R on July 2, 2007 12:48 PMWell said R! In reality liberalism is restrictive and conformist, even if those who practice it are convinced it is the opposite.
Posted by truthy on July 2, 2007 12:58 PMR
Maybe you should do a bit of research before you open your mouth to insert foot.
Last I checked the countries of Scandinavia (Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland) had the highest standard of living on the globe - taking into account factors like education & literacy, medical care, public facilities, food security, teen pregnancy & STDs, etc. Funnily enough all achieved under the "touchy feely nonsense that is socialism."
Also not surprising is the fact that these countries don't have any type of attachment to religion & other progress-retarding nonsense.
In fact, the countries of western Europe that definitely lean a lot more strongly towards "socialism" than the US, leave us in their dust in many measures of affluence.
From the proof of your letter, if "socialism/liberalism destroys individualism and free spirit" then conservatism seems to destroy rationality and common sense. Or maybe you're just a product of our floundering education system - or as Bush would say: "Is our children learning?"
Posted by drew on July 2, 2007 01:42 PMDrew,
Check the income tax rates of those countries
you mentioned here;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_rates_around_the_world
Yep, the socialist/liberals sure like to tax a guy, don't they?
Drew. Read the post from Rickylee. There's a message for you to learn.
Also, you say - " In fact, the countries of western Europe that definitely lean a lot more strongly towards "socialism" than the US, leave us in their dust in many measures of affluence".
Have you checked out their teeth lately? Not very progressive there. And, if you haven't been to Europe and/or worked with Europeans, you just don't know what you are talking about.
Regarding the education system, me thinks you are the one suffering from the floundering education system. I remember classes in math, civics, world and American history, English, etc. How about you? Schools today are top heavy with great teacher/thinkers like Jay Bennish and Ward Churchill. I'll take my education experience delivered by American teachers for the good of America over the "world community" any day.
By the way, did Bill Clinton define the meaning of "is" for Bush, or maybe we should call on Churchill for the dishonor.
Posted by [R] "Drew" on July 2, 2007 02:40 PMSometimes I just like to yell "Boulder!" just to watch a bunch of gibbering right-wing tools start foaming at the mouth and snapping at everything around them in impotent rage.
Posted by UYRMN on July 2, 2007 02:43 PMNo one denies that they have high tax rates - I don't believe that's what was under discussion - it's your buddy R who opined : "Please point to any country in the world that is/was governed by a socialist government that has prospered.."
Case closed.
Posted by drew on July 2, 2007 02:44 PMSo you're Drew - funny, thought that was me?
"Have you checked out their teeth lately?" -- I see, so you take a stereotype of British with "bad teeth" and that's your comeback for how superior the US is to the whole of W. Europe? Wow, what a compelling arguer you are - guess that strike 2 against our education system, if you're the yardstick.
From your argument I doubt you've been out of Commerce City, never mind to Europe.
And "did Bill Clinton define the meaning of "is" for Bush"- I doubt that anyone defined anything for Bush - be like trying to define something to your retriever - an exercise in futility.
Posted by drew on July 2, 2007 02:55 PMI lived in Germany for eighteen months.
Learned the language, too, out of respect for the German people.
Have YOU been to Europe, drew?
I like B.J.'s Pizzaria on the Pearl St. Mall,
so Boulder isn't all bad.....(or whackos)
RickyLee
Yup,
Lived in UK & been to about all of W. Europe. What's your point? The old saying is that travel is about the best education you can get - maybe you're the one who disproves that theory.
Posted by drew on July 2, 2007 03:07 PMLongmont is far superior to Boulder. You too can live in a beige house on a treeless street. Then you can to to tgiuf for dinner.
Losers!
Posted by rick on July 2, 2007 03:19 PMDrew. Here we go again with the stereotype argument. It's not a stereotype if it's true. And you would know it's true if you had lived or worked in Europe as you claim.
And, you can't talk about the standard of living in socialist countries and ignore the taxes they pay. Liberalism is taxes. The government monster can't fund anything without the money grab from citizens. Go live there and see if you get away without paying your 40-60%.
I was out of Commerce City recently and stopped by your double wide to see if you had gotten a job yet. Didn't look like it, but you did mumble something about your welfare check just doesn't go as far as it used to.
Poor little liberal. So many problems to solve and so little time.
Posted by R on July 2, 2007 03:33 PMI see, R, so "bad teeth" negates my whole argument ...yawn. And you stated: "Please point to any country in the world that is/was governed by a socialist government that has prospered.." And I did. Not one - but several.
So now you start the "yes..but" argument.
And, incidentally, the WHO came out with their country-by-country rankings of health systems. The US comes in at #37 - right behind Costa Rica - narrowly beating Cuba & Slovenia - while those inept European socialists have 21 countries in the top 25 (i'll send you the link if you like). Guess they should chew on that with their rotten, socialist teeth.
I'll keep a look out for you in Commerce City, R - you'll be the one with the confused look & good teeth - probably reading a book on German literature.
Poor little wingnut - no problems to solve - but a good thing - since he doesn't have the mental capacity to do so.
Posted by drew on July 2, 2007 04:13 PMdrew:
"Lived in UK & been to about all of W. Europe."
So why did you come back drew? Was it because everything was so much better in Europe and you felt guilty having it so good?
Posted by KW on July 2, 2007 04:39 PMActually, KW, I like it here.
And I'm working on making the US even better - getting rid of the corrupt Republican congress was a good start - and things are going to be even better when the vacuous numbskull leaves DC permanently to cut brush in Texas - the only job where he's possibly made a difference for the better.
After then we can work on rehabilitating our country's good name.
Posted by drew on July 2, 2007 04:46 PMSo drew, your best idea for our great country is to change it? And if it needs so much changing, why do you "like it here?"
People with your ideology make me glad we have a Constitution already in place.
Posted by KW on July 2, 2007 05:07 PMKW
The thing that has to change is the people who are running it, not the country itself - don't think I ever said that.
And as for you being "glad we have a Constitution already in place" - I'm sure you are - since W Bush is using it as a piece of personal toilet paper. Last person to do that? Oh- another republican - Tricky Dick!
Posted by drew on July 2, 2007 05:14 PMDrew, quietly step away from the dog running around in circles.
If we remain and discuss ideas with the poor mutt, we will be barking mad too.
Posted by Sharon B. on July 2, 2007 05:19 PMYou're right, Sharon - maybe he's from Longmont & can't help himself.
Posted by drew on July 2, 2007 05:25 PMYeah, Europe is great, occasional massive riots in Germany and France, bombs going off in Spain and the UK, Ukrainian mafia rule in Poland and Hungary, just a few exples, yup, that place is just perfect.
Posted by Uno on July 2, 2007 05:46 PMActually Drew, bad teeth illustrate why your argument is faulty. The American health care system treats oral health care as an integral component of good health care. The Europeans boast about their government provided system, but they ignore basic health care needs, like their teeth. Good system if that's all you want from it. Expensive though.
Glad to know WHO ranks American Health care just after Costa Rica and the 21 Socialist countries in Europe. I guess that explains the rush on the passport office from people who are trying to get out of this country to be treated by a Cuban trained dr. in a grass hut in Costa Rica. I have read about those that are comeing here though when they really need something treated.
Nice reference to the Germans. What's a liberal smack down without a not so transparant reference to those darned Nazis? Problem is, before the Jay Bennish era of "progressive" geography and world economics in the public school system, you would have learned that the Nazis were, are you ready for this, the National Socialist Party. Darn inconvenient truth if you ask me.
Posted by R on July 2, 2007 07:56 PMThe fact hat many cities are trying to emulate Boulder's Open Space Program speaks for itself, and those "damn tree-hugging-hippies" are responsible,
Just one more thing that drives cons nuttier than they already are.
That and mentioning the Dixie Chicks.
By the way Drew, how many people in the world are digging tunnels under the border to get into Norway, Sweden,, Denmark or Finland? The locals may be happy, but they certainly don't contribute much beyond self-sustaining food and goods. Great societies are measured by the number of other societies that want to emulate them, not by their ability to keep the public feeding trough open. So I ask again, where is the prosperity and reward for individual excellence? These places are poor examples.
Posted by R on July 2, 2007 09:04 PMIn a way Europe is starting to get fed up with all the freeloader trash, and started to vote conservative (France, Germany expl). The Danish got pretty pissed off too when ol’ Teo Van Gogh got his throat cut and shot to death by a freedom-of-speech lovin radical muslim, because he thought Teo’s movie about violence against Islamic woman by their own men was a bad choice. May be the movie was really that bad, and he just wanted to get his money back, but it illustrates the point. Nasty s turn up everywhere.
Posted by Uno on July 2, 2007 09:36 PMdrew
I'm assuming you're from Boulder,
so hang a string of dildoes in your front yard,
emulating that oh-so-wise librarian over there. Don't disturb those precious prarie dogs, though! (what a joke!)
Don't fly the American flag, either, it might offend someone in the PRB, who wants
to turn the U.S. into the next socialist country.
R
If you used the great education you received (apparently geography not included) you'd probably figure out that Norway, Sweden & Denmark aren't in close proximity to any highly populated, poor third world countries, so maybe a reason why there are no people "digging tunnels under the border." They have vast waiting lists of immigrants waiting to get in, though. You obviously never thought of that. And people from the third world are flocking to get to Europe - legal and illegal - look at France, Spain & Italy (again, if you knew geography you'd know they are both fairly close to Africa).
And funny you should mention it - if you've been following the news lately you'd see that there is a large exodus of people heading out of this country to get good, cheap healthcare (usually surgery) in places like Thailand & India - google "medical tourism" - you may learn something.
And, finally, R, my reference to Germany had nothing to do with Nazism - just a reference to W. Europe, but way to be paranoid. And you said, with great fanfare: "you would have learned that the Nazis were, are you ready for this, the National Socialist Party."
Oops, looks like history isn't your strong suit, either. Here's a newsflash: the Nazis were the "nationalist socialist German workers party" in name only. If you can point out any similarities between Nazism & socialism I'm waiting to hear them - they are 2 systems diametrically opposed to each other - sounds like your superior education let you down again.
RickyLee, please keep your rabid wingnut rantings to yourself since you don't have anything constructive to add to the discussion. And then go back to your double wide in Globeville and carry on drinking bud lites & watching Montel Williams.
Posted by drew on July 3, 2007 10:24 AMKeep running your mouth, smart guy.
You're in the tiny minority here, face it.
With property prices the way they are in the PRB, almost anywhere in the state could be referred to as "Boulder's affordable housing."
Do you disagree?
How much did your house cost?
My two houses were recenly assessed at
$471,000 collectiveley. To arrogant snobs like
you, that is considered "affordable housing"?
Stay in Boulder, chump, you obviously belong there.
And did you hang your dildoes in your front yard yet? Sure is a lot to be proud of there in Boulder.
Richard Lee Landrum II
Longmont
P.S. Do you have the balls to sign your name to your condesending drivel?
I doubt it.
ha, ha - Longmont - I knew it!
Actually, numbnuts, I don't live anywhere near Boulder, but it's a great place, nonetheless. $471,000 - wow, you must own the whole trailer park! Guess that's the definition of a "tycoon" in Longmont.
And, no I haven't hung my dildoes in the front yard. I'm giving them to you with a six pack of Milwaukee's Best - should do you well for an afternoon's entertainment.
Now please go away & log on to the Longmont Redneck or whatever your local rag is.
Posted by drew on July 3, 2007 12:05 PMIn response to the whining pissant known as RickyLee, I can only say "BOULDER!!!!!!"
Posted by UYRMN on July 3, 2007 12:08 PMSign your names, cowards.
CHICKENS%*TS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Billy Joe-Bob Hummer III
Satisfied RickyLee? OOps what've ah dun! RickyLee gonna go git him a goldurn posse of all them tuff Longmont Rednecks from th' trailer park an his gonna cuhm an' huhnt me dahn! Better ruhn towards Boulder - an' hide
in th' dildo forest - that'll scahr them rednecks away!
RickyLee are you really such a mental midget or is this all an act!? And what kind of Dooks of Hazzard name is RickyLee, anyway?
Posted by drew on July 3, 2007 12:59 PMAwwwwwwwww, everyone, you've gone and made poor little arrogant RickyLee mad. Don't you know that he is RMN royalty? Now, let's all bend over and begin to kiss the a** of some moron Longmont redneck. He obviously is so wrapped up in his overblown sense of self-importance that if we don't placate him IMMEDIATELY, he'll just have to go and beat his wife again. Now can we start to be nice to RickyLee for no good reason and when he definitely not earned it, people?
Love,
Paolo da Silva
Posted by Paolo on July 3, 2007 01:03 PMGood heavens, I have been missing all these great insults!
R grizzled ” You had any luck yet with the chicks yet? “
Chicks? - Oh, you mean women!
I found that good humour, good conversational skills, a flashy European motorcycle, and being over 6ft was better than luck. I must admit that showing off my skills with an automatic rifle, starting a fire with a stick, and making stone tools was not as successful as one might think. For some strange reason they liked it more when I paid attention to them and understood what they were feeling. Go figure.
Then R had some hygiene and fashion advice”You might try brushing your teeth and loosing the dreds. “
‘zat what did it for you?
I can quite equate conservatism with smelly teeth, after all you guys have trouble in taking on new ideas. Where are you now, 1610? Stick with it mate, Descartes is just around the corner, Modernism was a hoot.
Dreds though? You little closet Liberal, betcha you did that to annoy your Mamma.
I found that losing the chicken bone in my beard worked, but the afro and leather head-band still worked for me. I used to wear a cutlass in my belt, was great as an ice breaker at parties. Good as a conversation piece too!
”Try it and you might actually get a girl and maybe a job.”
I am not sure that my wife of 25 years would like me “getting” any girls, and my employer might withhold that 6-figure income I get if I started getting other jobs.
They don’t mind me doing charity gigs or lecturing, but I doubt they would understand another job. Do you find that this works for you?
I heard Conservatives had a hard time staying safe and legal, but had always thought they were just trying to hide their sensitive little hearts by acting tough.
Do you just bring home girls (“chicks”), or do you do boys as well like that politician fellah?
” It will help you grow up and mature too.”
Sage advice, but no thanks, being 49 suits me fine and I have no intention of “growing up”, specially if that means becoming narrow minded and putting tradition over reality and creeping into bed with a smelly ideology.
Maturity is what maturity does.
Yeah, Boulder has a lot to be proud of.
Proud you chumps are the only ones defending it.
Speaks volumes, it does.
And Paolo, anytime you'd like to match wits and intellect with this "moron Longmont redneck", you just say so. Prehaps you'd get a little run for your money.
Kudos to you for having the balls to sign your name, though. I wonder if it's your real one?
You think I'm mad!?!
I'm laughing at you intellectual maggots.
"any time you'd like to match wits and intellect with this "moron Longmont redneck", you just say so. Prehaps you'd get a little run for your money."
Ricky, baby, from the evidence on this site, you, KW, R and fish combined have the intellectual firepower of a candle in a thunderstorm! No wonder you look up to george Bush.
Posted by drew on July 3, 2007 02:45 PMAnd what's this thing about "signing your name?" Good Lord, the man signs his name to something a middle schooler wouldn't be proud of and you'd think he'd just taken out a platoon of Al Qaeda terrorists! Geez, with posts like yours I'd think you'd want to stay anonymous.
Posted by drew on July 3, 2007 02:54 PMYet, we still have to look down on the folks like drew.
Hmmm. Interesting, isn't it?
Posted by KW on July 3, 2007 02:56 PMdrew
I think W's an idiot.
He just proved it again with the Scooter Libby BS.
And with posts like yours, no wonder you're afraid to say who you are.
I'd be.
Anytime you'd like to sit down for an intelligent discussion, I'm game.
I'll even buy you a PBR.
I'll be drinking O'Dell's 90 Shilling, though.
OK, RickyLee, if you drink O'Dell's & think Bush is an idiot, maybe i've been a little harsh. If so, I stand corrected.
Sure you're not a Boulderite? (that's a joke). Remember you started it by calling me a dildo-collecting Boulderite - when i'm actually a dildo-collecting Denverite.
Posted by drew on July 3, 2007 03:45 PMWell I've lived in Longmont before, and regularly drove to Boulder to visit friends and to go out to eat. I found Longmont to be a great improvement over Ft. Lupton and other towns in eastern Colorado, where I grew up.
I'm a fairly moderate, conservative person who currently makes my home in Boulder.
It's humorous how folks here are spouting venom over those who live in Boulder and/or Longmont. Lighten up folks!
Posted by shelly on July 3, 2007 04:08 PMWell I've lived in Longmont before, and regularly drove to Boulder to visit friends and to go out to eat. I found Longmont to be a great improvement over Ft. Lupton and other towns in eastern Colorado, where I grew up.
I'm a fairly moderate, conservative person who currently makes my home in Boulder.
It's humorous how folks here are spouting venom over those who live in Boulder and/or Longmont. Lighten up folks!
Posted by Grow where you're planted on July 3, 2007 04:09 PMOh no! look what I've gone and done. Sharon B told me that you can't make Bango Bongo mad, cause it will raise his hackles. Little did I know that I was ruffling the feathers of a tall, humorous, European motorcycle driving, life of the party kind of guy, who now has raised hackles. Whay am I gonna do?
Funny though, I pictured a 50 something academic type with a gray but thinning pony tail who is still struggling a bit with acne. And who would have made you for a big money earner, drawing that 6 figure salary and all. On the lecture circuit to boot. But be careful though Bango, when counting the numbers, you don't count the zeros to the right of the decimal point. Good conversationalist that you are, at some point you're going to want to steer the subject to money talk so everyone knows you are both a good talker and a damn good money maker. Could be embarrassing if you get that wrong.
Interesting why you mentioned the doing the boys thing though. If you were fishing around to find out if I was interested in a you and me thing, the answer's no. But I'm sure there are a few guys out here who would go for a motorcycle riding funny guy? Specially if you wear your leather.
But no more talk about you growing up from me. No sir. A mountain too high to climb and all.
Just one more thing Skanky, and this is just between you and me. You might want to tone down the look at me description of yourself. It's a little over done. You know what they say about over selling and under delivering.
Posted by R on July 3, 2007 06:41 PMAw, isn’t that so sweet, R sent me a love letter.
Or not.
Anyway, he said ” Good conversationalist that you are, at some point you're going to want to steer the subject to money talk so everyone knows you are both a good talker and a damn good money maker.”
Nope, I never discuss my salary with friends.
I don’t mind letting you know though, since Conservatives respect money so much, and let’s face it, we aren’t ever going to be friends or move in the same social circles.
” Interesting why you mentioned the doing the boys thing though.”
You find boys interesting?
I am sure it must be platonic being as you are a Conservative guy and they never ever … well that’s why I mentioned Foley. Seems Conservatives have had a bit of a rash of this, perhaps due to all the sexual repression and all? Not only Foley but then Haggart (sp?) as well.
Bit of a leap from banging the pulpit to banging the usher, but Satan is everywhere, right?
” Specially if you wear your leather.”
Not that kind of leather ducky, but then how were you to know.
The kind of leathers I wear are designed to keep skin and bones together in case of embracing the planet at speed, and not for embracing a parishioner’s boy whilst on speed.
” Just one more thing Skanky, and this is just between you and me. You might want to tone down the look at me description of yourself. It's a little over done. You know what they say about over selling and under delivering.”
How absolutely sweet of you ducky!
So here’s the thing, but don’t tell anyone, I am really a “chick” that got a sex change after I left the army, but then I realized that I fancied girls after all. I used to be a Conservative too, but they wouldn’t let me bring my bike into the church, and they felt uncomfortable using the same toilets. As for “selling”, that was never proven and the case was dismissed for lack of evidence anyway.
Love yah
Bango
You really are fixated on the gay religious guy thing Binky. Makes me wonder if you've been doused with something more than Haggards' "holy water" somewhere along the line. It's tough to picture you as both a European Motorcycle rider and his main squeeze at the same time, but you just never know.
But I do have to give you one thing. That "chick with the sex change" talk was brave man. It takes cajones to open up like that to a stranger. And now that it's out in the open, how relieved you must be. No more motorcycle riding, automatic rifle shooting, tough guy talk for you. No sir. You can be yourself. You go girl.
And you know, you can't blame the church for being uncomfortable with the bathroom arrangement. Gender confusion is confusing, but mostly for those who aren't confused about their gender. Next time, use the family rest room. It will solve you identity crisis, at least for the moment and there's plenty of room inside for you and the preacher to reach for the hold land.
And one more last thing. It really wasn't a love letter. Maybe you need to re-think that growing up thing. At 49, you should recognize the difference between love and contempt. But as I said, some mountains are just too tall and some jobs to hard. In fact, helping you grow up may just be one of those jobs that Americans just won't do.
Posted by R on July 3, 2007 08:52 PMAwwww, how cute!! Such strong words from RickyLee, and with that threatening tone! Big surprise from someone who needs to compensate for such a tiny, tiny penis. Why don't you go ahead and just move to Texas already. You will find yourself in great company, surrounded by redneck morons just like you!!
Love,
Paolo da Silva
Posted by Paolo on July 4, 2007 11:31 AMR, old bean you just aren’t doing this right. You can’t insult me with things that bug you. The way this game works is you have to come up with turns of phrase, double entendres, and novel linkages that embarrass me.
”You really are fixated on the gay religious guy thing Binky. Makes me wonder if you've been doused with something more than Haggards' "holy water" somewhere along the line. It's tough to picture you as both a European Motorcycle rider and his main squeeze at the same time, but you just never know.”
No, see we have already established that gay doesn’t bug me at all, whereas it eats at you.
So the whole Conservative Macho thing is embarrassed by both Haggard and Foley, hence the crack about them. If you harp on that you don’t bug me at all, but it makes you look like a whiner.
What you should have gone for was to pick up on the sex-change joke and linked that to old women and dragged Sharon b into it. Something along the lines of “yeah, I guessed you were an old woman, you and Sharon argue just like menopausal old liberals with identity problems.” See, now that might have got some traction and pulled Sharon back in.
”But I do have to give you one thing. That "chick with the sex change" talk was …”
See here you have it but you flub the catch – I played rugby rather than football but I assume you understand the concept. What you said had no punchline, no weight, no surprise. It’s flat and unrancorous. It also allows me to pull you back on where that started. You were the one telling me I was a 50-something academic with ponytail and pimples. I get to lord it up again and remind you that I actually exemplify the things you supposedly look up to in a man. I shoot, know my way around weapons, fast bikes, have combat experience, good with “chicks”, fat salary, blah, blah, blah. I get to blow that all off as a mere nothing, whereas this stuff is what you Conservatives worship as much as God Himself. So no dice R, not even a lollipop for effort - like you used to get in school.
”And you know, you can't blame the church for being uncomfortable …”
What sort of limp-wristed apology is this?
You and your brethren aren’t “uncomfortable” about LBGT, you are off your rocker berserk over it. You would sooner have a special restroom in the church for Satan himself than tolerate the idea of a transgendered person in the restroom with your women-folk – firstly because you think they are perverts, and secondly because you actually view women as your property. Ka-ching! As for gays maybe eyeing out your tushie in the john, well that just wakes up all kinds of Haggard issues.
”…you should recognize the difference between love and contempt”
Oh, just too precious for words.
Of course you have contempt for me sweetie, because you are a slave to a way of thinking that makes you do irrational things like have contempt for somebody that in most respects typifies what you claim to aspire to. Yes, I know it’s a grand bummer for you, but that’s what ideological insanity is all about.
You profess to love and worship Jesus, the archetype of all Liberals, and at the same time you also want to aspire to be the “rugged individualist” which is far more like me, a bloody socialist type, than most of your kind. Grand bummer of bummers for you, and a heap of cognitive dissonance.
I will whisper it again for your delicate shell-like ears, - you are a slave and you deliver insults like a little girl.
Posted by Bongo Skink on July 5, 2007 10:23 AM