# Aging Vietnam Veteran Transexuals are Impossible to Please **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 16, 2007, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aging-vietnam-veteran-transexuals-are-impossible-to-please/422952 "2007-10-16T21:21:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2007, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aging-vietnam-veteran-transexuals-are-impossible-to-please/422952/61 "2007-10-19T13:16:10Z")
**LM** –can you draw me? I don’t wear glasses or bows, have shoulder length blonde curly-ish hair, and blue eyes. I’m a nurse studying to be a librarian. Does that help? True artists draw commissions (don’t hurt me for the pun). You are on your way to FAME! ---
**Author:** ![lobstermobster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobstermobster/32/10033_2.png) [@lobstermobster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobstermobster)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2007, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aging-vietnam-veteran-transexuals-are-impossible-to-please/422952/62 "2007-10-19T14:02:28Z")
[QUOTE=eleanorigby] **LM** –can you draw me? I don’t wear glasses or bows, have shoulder length blonde curly-ish hair, and blue eyes. I’m a nurse studying to be a librarian. Does that help? True artists draw commissions (don’t hurt me for the pun). You are on your way to FAME! [/QUOTE] I have it all worked out in my mind grapes. I’ll do this at work while avoiding my pocket-sized British boss. [hate] ---
**Author:** ![bbs2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2007, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aging-vietnam-veteran-transexuals-are-impossible-to-please/422952/63 "2007-10-19T14:12:34Z")
As corny as it is, I would choose to be immortalized as an [lolcat](http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2267/1634762459_1d723ecddf.jpg) . ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2007, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aging-vietnam-veteran-transexuals-are-impossible-to-please/422952/64 "2007-10-19T15:57:24Z")
[QUOTE=lobstermobster] _I am Charlotte Simmons_ [/QUOTE] and you’re not. Are you sure the vet wasn’t a Tranh-sexual? It’s hard to be sure, especially with Vietnam vets. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2007, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aging-vietnam-veteran-transexuals-are-impossible-to-please/422952/65 "2007-10-19T19:26:23Z")
[QUOTE=lobstermobster] I have it all worked out in my mind grapes. I’ll do this at work while avoiding my pocket-sized British boss. [hate] [/QUOTE] I’m gonna look like grapes?!? :eek: (and the pocket-sized British boss sounds vaguely dirty to me–like a pocket Venus with a sweater–I mean, jumper–on). Heh. ---
**Author:** ![lobstermobster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobstermobster/32/10033_2.png) [@lobstermobster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobstermobster)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2007, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aging-vietnam-veteran-transexuals-are-impossible-to-please/422952/66 "2007-10-19T19:58:32Z")
[QUOTE=eleanorigby] I’m gonna look like grapes?!? :eek: (and the pocket-sized British boss sounds vaguely dirty to me–like a pocket Venus with a sweater–I mean, jumper–on). Heh. [/QUOTE] Here you go, bitch! [![](https://farm3.static.flickr.com/2130/1640023016_4e67e91ed0_o.jpg) ](https://farm3.static.flickr.com/2130/1640023016_4e67e91ed0_o.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Waverly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/57b2e6/32.png) [@Waverly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waverly)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2007, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aging-vietnam-veteran-transexuals-are-impossible-to-please/422952/67 "2007-10-19T20:26:27Z")
[QUOTE=lobstermobster] Here you go, bitch! [![](https://farm3.static.flickr.com/2130/1640023016_4e67e91ed0_o.jpg) ](https://farm3.static.flickr.com/2130/1640023016_4e67e91ed0_o.jpg) [/QUOTE] Why is there a severed head in the wastebasket? Does this library have really strict late return policies? ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2007, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aging-vietnam-veteran-transexuals-are-impossible-to-please/422952/68 "2007-10-19T22:07:12Z")
I think the trash can _is_ a severed head. ---
**Author:** ![lobstermobster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobstermobster/32/10033_2.png) [@lobstermobster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobstermobster)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2007, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aging-vietnam-veteran-transexuals-are-impossible-to-please/422952/69 "2007-10-19T22:07:53Z")
[QUOTE=fetus] I think the trash can _is_ a severed head. [/QUOTE] fools! ---
**Author:** ![Southern\_Yankee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/southern_yankee/32/2800_2.png) [@Southern\_Yankee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Southern_Yankee)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2007, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aging-vietnam-veteran-transexuals-are-impossible-to-please/422952/70 "2007-10-19T22:13:19Z")
I think the better question is why the lonely people?? ---
**Author:** ![Southern\_Yankee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/southern_yankee/32/2800_2.png) [@Southern\_Yankee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Southern_Yankee)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2007, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aging-vietnam-veteran-transexuals-are-impossible-to-please/422952/71 "2007-10-19T22:15:56Z")
Where do they all belong? ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2007, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aging-vietnam-veteran-transexuals-are-impossible-to-please/422952/72 "2007-10-19T22:23:29Z")
[QUOTE=fetus] I think the trash can _is_ a severed head. [/QUOTE] Did you not see the distorted perspective on the cylinder or note the fact that the smiley face does not curve around with the can but is instead superposed on top? Clearly, **lobstermobster** is toying with our preconceived notions of space and opacity which still making a commentary on the decreasing level of intellectualism in our generation’s public libraries. Also at play is the integration of the cross with the door, a statement against the increasing role of religion in public life. Perhaps most striking, though, is the fact that the protagonist _appears_ happy, but is counterpointed with legions of lonely people, who undoubtably represent the overall hostility and isolation that such volatile influences like religion and politics have on us as a society, ultimately alienating from each other and indeed ourselves. Also, she misspelled “library”. ---
**Author:** ![lobstermobster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobstermobster/32/10033_2.png) [@lobstermobster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobstermobster)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2007, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aging-vietnam-veteran-transexuals-are-impossible-to-please/422952/73 "2007-10-19T22:25:00Z")
[QUOTE=Giraffe] Did you not see the distorted perspective on the cylinder or note the fact that the smiley face does not curve around with the can but is instead superposed on top? Clearly, **lobstermobster** is toying with our preconceived notions of space and opacity which still making a commentary on the decreasing level of intellectualism in our generation’s public libraries. Also at play is the integration of the cross with the door, a statement against the increasing role of religion in public life. Perhaps most striking, though, is the fact that the protagonist _appears_ happy, but is counterpointed with legions of lonely people, who undoubtably represent the overall hostility and isolation that such volatile influences like religion and politics have on us as a society, ultimately alienating from each other and indeed ourselves. Also, she misspelled “library”. [/QUOTE] no I didn’t. Its liberry ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2007, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aging-vietnam-veteran-transexuals-are-impossible-to-please/422952/74 "2007-10-19T22:26:16Z")
[QUOTE=Giraffe] Also, she misspelled “library”. [/QUOTE] I bet nobody ever asked Grandma Moses if _she_ could spell “library”. Elitist. ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2007, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aging-vietnam-veteran-transexuals-are-impossible-to-please/422952/75 "2007-10-19T22:28:54Z")
[QUOTE=lobstermobster] no I didn’t. Its liberry [/QUOTE] And now a wry commentary on the malleability of language in a post-Internet world! It’s a rare artist who can move so fluidly between media. I salute you. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2007, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aging-vietnam-veteran-transexuals-are-impossible-to-please/422952/76 "2007-10-19T22:40:56Z")
The OP reminds me of any one of a hundred nights I spent in Joe’s Bar on Back Street in St. Thomas back in the 70s: Hairspray Tom, Gar, Jackie the Bunny, Nicki, BJ the dynamiter, Moira, Margie Creque (aka Psycho Bitch), LD and Francis to name a few. What a collection of misfits, and what weird and wonderful nights. I wrote about it with the idea of submitting it somewhere, then realized it sounded almost exactly like a book I had read, but can’t remember the author or the name of the book; except mine was from actual experience and the book was fiction. ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2007, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aging-vietnam-veteran-transexuals-are-impossible-to-please/422952/77 "2007-10-19T22:49:28Z")
Fucking Yelpers. What the hell is Margtown? ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2007, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aging-vietnam-veteran-transexuals-are-impossible-to-please/422952/78 "2007-10-19T23:18:18Z")
This whole thread is a whoosh, right? Or a big troll post? Why is it in the pit? Because if not whoosh or troll, I can safely say I hate the OP and her stupid attempt at art. There, now you can say you’ve been two places where people feel free to say they hate you. ---
**Author:** ![lobstermobster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobstermobster/32/10033_2.png) [@lobstermobster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobstermobster)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2007, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aging-vietnam-veteran-transexuals-are-impossible-to-please/422952/79 "2007-10-20T00:23:57Z")
[QUOTE=levdrakon] This whole thread is a whoosh, right? Or a big troll post? Why is it in the pit? Because if not whoosh or troll, I can safely say I hate the OP and her stupid attempt at art. There, now you can say you’ve been two places where people feel free to say they hate you. [/QUOTE] yayyyy! I feel like this is a SDMB rite of passage! p.s. where is Eleanor Riggles? I need her thoughts ---
**Author:** ![Omegaman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e480ec/32.png) [@Omegaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omegaman)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2007, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aging-vietnam-veteran-transexuals-are-impossible-to-please/422952/80 "2007-10-20T00:30:23Z")
[QUOTE=levdrakon] I can safely say I hate the OP and her stupid attempt at art. [/QUOTE] That’s just what they said about VanGogh. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aging-vietnam-veteran-transexuals-are-impossible-to-please/422952.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aging-vietnam-veteran-transexuals-are-impossible-to-please/422952.md?page=5)