# 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:** 5
**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, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aging-vietnam-veteran-transexuals-are-impossible-to-please/422952/81 "2007-10-20T00:37:43Z")
[QUOTE=Troy McClure SF] Fucking Yelpers. What the hell is Margtown? [/QUOTE] margtown is just anywhere that sells margaritas. the bar was the Cinch. was in russian hill and just wandered in like i said. ---
**Author:** ![Waverly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/57b2e6/32.png) [@Waverly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waverly)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2007, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aging-vietnam-veteran-transexuals-are-impossible-to-please/422952/82 "2007-10-20T00:55:39Z")
[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? [/QUOTE] Ok, if your on such a freakin’ roll, Warhol, explain the hat that is a cross between a Navy Bellcap, nurse’s cap, and bishop’s mitre. ---
**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 20, 2007, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aging-vietnam-veteran-transexuals-are-impossible-to-please/422952/83 "2007-10-20T01:22:07Z")
[QUOTE=Waverly] Ok, if your on such a freakin’ roll, Warhol, explain the hat that is a cross between a Navy Bellcap, nurse’s cap, and bishop’s mitre. [/QUOTE] Don’t overanalyze things. I think it’s just a hat. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2007, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aging-vietnam-veteran-transexuals-are-impossible-to-please/422952/84 "2007-10-20T01:32:26Z")
I’m here! Sorry, I had Life to attend to for awhile. I like my portrait very much. But like all great art, it is open to interpretation. I can appreciate **Giraffe’s** take on it, but he neglected to mention that the face/wastebasket is really MY face, in a JAR, by the DOOR. I explain this to those holloi-polloi whose tiny minds cannot comprehend the Greatness before them. Philistines! The mis-spelling of library is key to understanding the rich subtext present in the schemata-it is a deliberate mechanism, used to help us identify with the lonely people in the background. The traditional nurse’s cap, symbol of male tyranny (and a vector for germs) is a master stroke-and for the subject to be moving from one female dominated field to another-what a social commentary THAT is. The lonely, sad peoples in the background–they are the simple folk to whom **eleanorigby** (that’s me) has been an angel of mercy, and now she will continue that role, guiding their simple minds to proper and righteous reading material. Such is her burden in life, but lo! her task is made lighter by the book she is reading. It’s a wonderful snapshot of life, love and libraries by our own **lobstermobster** –somebody call the Met. This one needs some wall space! (thanks,\*\* LM\*\*–I love my portrait!) ---
**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 20, 2007, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aging-vietnam-veteran-transexuals-are-impossible-to-please/422952/85 "2007-10-20T01:45:37Z")
> [@eleanorigby](#): > > MY face, in a JAR, by the DOOR :smack: If you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go bang my head against a wall for a few hours. And all the lonely people of indiscriminate origin! Agh! How did I not get it? :smack: :smack: :smack: ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2007, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aging-vietnam-veteran-transexuals-are-impossible-to-please/422952/86 "2007-10-20T01:54:47Z")
[QUOTE=fetus] :smack: If you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go bang my head against a wall for a few hours. And all the lonely people of indiscriminate origin! Agh! How did I not get it? :smack: :smack: :smack: [/QUOTE] Ignorance fought. You may rise now and stop self-flagellating(unless you’re enjoying it). ---
**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 20, 2007, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aging-vietnam-veteran-transexuals-are-impossible-to-please/422952/87 "2007-10-20T03:02:47Z")
[QUOTE=eleanorigby] Ignorance fought. You may rise now and stop self-flagellating(unless you’re enjoying it). [/QUOTE] Funny enough, my nickname in high school was Reverend Dimmesdale, or simply The Reverend. Not for any enjoyment I received from self-flagellation, mind you. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2007, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aging-vietnam-veteran-transexuals-are-impossible-to-please/422952/88 "2007-10-20T03:22:15Z")
[QUOTE=fetus] Funny enough, my nickname in high school was Reverend Dimmesdale, or simply The Reverend. Not for any enjoyment I received from self-flagellation, mind you. [/QUOTE] We could change it to Father MacKenzie… ---
**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, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aging-vietnam-veteran-transexuals-are-impossible-to-please/422952/89 "2007-10-20T03:28:48Z")
i want that guy to come back and tell me about why he thinks i’m a troll ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2007, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aging-vietnam-veteran-transexuals-are-impossible-to-please/422952/90 "2007-10-20T03:36:12Z")
[QUOTE=lobstermobster] i want that guy to come back and tell me about why he thinks i’m a troll [/QUOTE] Me? ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2007, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aging-vietnam-veteran-transexuals-are-impossible-to-please/422952/91 "2007-10-20T03:58:35Z")
No, I think he’s of the opinion that you lost your way going to MPSIMS. I wonder what the weather is like over there. I stopped going because people’s family members kept dying. Here in the Pit we just WISH they’d die. ---
**Author:** ![bbs2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2007, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aging-vietnam-veteran-transexuals-are-impossible-to-please/422952/92 "2007-10-20T04:09:02Z")
People just like to say the word troll in the Pit. (troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll) When really, they’ve just given up on humor. Oh, and\*\* lobstermobster\*\*, only a troll would have this capitalization quirk like you do. (troll troll troll) ---
**Author:** ![bbs2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2007, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aging-vietnam-veteran-transexuals-are-impossible-to-please/422952/93 "2007-10-20T04:10:34Z")
… (troll troll troll) ---
**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 20, 2007, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aging-vietnam-veteran-transexuals-are-impossible-to-please/422952/94 "2007-10-20T04:32:13Z")
[QUOTE=bbs2k] … (troll troll troll) [/QUOTE] Troll! ---
**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, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aging-vietnam-veteran-transexuals-are-impossible-to-please/422952/95 "2007-10-20T04:36:11Z")
You guys are rude! No its in the PIT because I was a victim of reverse snobbery. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2007, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aging-vietnam-veteran-transexuals-are-impossible-to-please/422952/96 "2007-10-20T04:37:16Z")
[QUOTE=bbs2k] When really, they’ve just given up on humor. [/QUOTE] Hate to poop on your pop-tart, but calling someone a “Trans-asaurus Rex” isn’t really all that funny. If you’re going for humor, know your audience. Is the BBQ Pit forum the ambiguously humorous forum now? Not to junior mod or anything, but two mods playing along with a humor thread in the Pit when it’s not April 1st confuses me. What’s next, cat picture threads in the Pit? I thought we were supposed to trash the hell out of each other here. Go ahead, trash me, you fucking trolls. ---
**Author:** ![bbs2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2007, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aging-vietnam-veteran-transexuals-are-impossible-to-please/422952/97 "2007-10-20T04:45:27Z")
Well I thought it was funny. And does that mean I now hold in my hand a poop-tart? ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2007, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aging-vietnam-veteran-transexuals-are-impossible-to-please/422952/98 "2007-10-20T05:12:27Z")
Troll, troll, troll your posts Venting down the thread Swearily swearily swearliy swearily Pit that sucker dead. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2007, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aging-vietnam-veteran-transexuals-are-impossible-to-please/422952/99 "2007-10-20T05:31:55Z")
[QUOTE=levdrakon] Hate to poop on your pop-tart, but calling someone a “Trans-asaurus Rex” isn’t really all that funny. [/QUOTE] I laughed. I can’t defend it, you know… politically, but I still laughed. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2007, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aging-vietnam-veteran-transexuals-are-impossible-to-please/422952/100 "2007-10-20T05:55:34Z")
[QUOTE=Miller] I laughed. I can’t defend it, you know… politically, but I still laughed. [/QUOTE] I could laugh in the right context and maybe I am being a bit humor impaired tonight but there’s some nuance here I’m not getting. Whoosh, trolling, don’t know. Am I supposed to take the OP seriously? Hook up with your buddies, hit a gay bar, get drunk, talk too loud, fall off chairs, get told by the natives you kinda suck then get indignant about it? Like being an obnoxious drunk is like, totally normal how dare you judge me 'cause that’s like totally reverse discrimination? Or something? I’m thinking maybe I forgot to take my “gets the joke” pill this morning, so maybe someone help me out here. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aging-vietnam-veteran-transexuals-are-impossible-to-please/422952.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aging-vietnam-veteran-transexuals-are-impossible-to-please/422952.md?page=6)