Matt,
As much as I want to be, I don’t think I’ll ever be normal. I mean… with my hair? 
I think I was oversimplifying things in that quote. I mean, consider what work I do. <grin> Do I want stability? Yes. Do I want to be the next suburban housewife? Nah.
With you, I think it’s a bit about your personality, too. I’m more reserved than you are.
Flame on, sweetie.
(Sigh) I know what you mean, Matt. Used to be that gay guys were the most fun people on Earth. They could talk about something other than sports, they were minimal competition at parties, and they made me laugh. Laughing with them, not at them. Okay, there was plenty of laughing at them, but it seemed like what they wanted.
So many died or became obsessive over getting their suburban gardens into Horticulture magazine that it sometimes seems that all the fun ones are gone. That’s why I appreciate having so many fun gay guys on this board.
Actually, matt, you’d seem sort of normal in my neighborhood (I live just down the street from cooldude).
horrified screech You take that back!
We’re everywhere, just like weird breeders. I love weird breeders, and the lot of us are an acquired taste. Screw those who won’t take a bite.
BTB, am I the only one who gets fan mail because of his posts? I just delurked recently with my special brand of vitriol, and I’m surprised at the positive and glowing e-mails.
I’ve gotten fan mail for posts. It makes me feel all sunny inside.
Hastur says:
Yay, someone loves me!!!
Yes Matt, I know a lot of “weird” gay males. Don’t worry you are not the only one.
Well, I thought in the original English (read: long time ago) it meant “kindling” or something of the like. Anyway, I figure “log” got the point across nicely.
One doesn’t need to be gay to do that… one could be like me, an asexual eunuch 
I rarely talk about sports, I never get a girl (never get a guy, either… tough shit for me, eh?) and chances are, I can find a way to make you laugh. Or I’ll wind up annoying you…
Seems to me like a few fellow members of the Republican party would be quite content to lump all gay people into the above category.
Matt, we’ve not really interacted before, but I have to say, I really like your style. Keep being just as weird as you want.
Hastur, welcome, by the way. Please, continue as you’ve begun.
Matt, Matt, Matt, my dear fellow faggot :), you dont know me very well. The exterior may look normal, but depending who you talk to the interior isn’t. Now, i’m not as weird as some people, but I do things like obsess over plants (you should see me when i find a plant that I can possibly grow at my house. My most current obsession is with the Quito Palm, Parajubaea coccoides), invent languages. Check out Maria Yaguello’s work on constructed languages. She basically said that those of us who construct languages are lunatics! Not to mention the comments I get sometimes when I tell people that I do it.
I look at gross things to make sure i can’t be grossed out. I learn as much as I can just so I can gross others out. Hell, in my family we routinely talk about bad traffic accidents and gross medical stuff at dinner in restaurants, since my father worked in that area for a while, and my bro’s fiancee is an EMT. Often, on a whim, i’ll build something. The last time i set about making the frame for a stilted hut I had drawn. A few weeks ago my mother called me an “odd child” (that amused me hehe).
Besides, as a gay man, i’m automatically considered abnormal by certain groups!
A former professional colleague of mine is gay. He’s also a Republican and had many good things to say about Ronald Reagan (especially for supporting the large increases in funding for the hard sciences).
One thing that always perturbed him (my colleague, not Reagan) was the ostentatious display by many in the homosexual community. You know, the parades, the flaming drag queens, weird trends in clothing and body styles, etc. He thought it did not speak well for homosexuals to have the visible minority seem to stand for the entire gay community. He likened it to the perception (even though it is certainly a mistaken one) that Al Sharpton speaks for the black community.
from cooldude:
This describes the fellow in question to a “T.” He collects antiques, and bought a house listed on the National Historic Register and has renovated it nicely. Even has had Hollywood film crews use his house for a setting.
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*Originally posted by Doobieous *
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You’re a conlanger? Dude!
Okay . . . check, check . . . only thing I haven’t done is the plants.
It makes me wonder. It really, truly makes me wonder.
Does one have to be gay to be weird?
I’m not gay, but my sense of humor is decidedly more warped than a bicycle left out in the rain for a week…
Hmmmm…(Not to say Gays are warped.)
BTW, the word FAG also means cigarette, in Britain. Which is why the one song, It’s a Long Way To Tipperary, has the line “As long as you have a Lucifer to light your fag.”
(A match for your smokes)
That’s not “It’s a long way to Tipperary.” That’s “Pack up your troubles in your old kit bag.”
Like totally dude, I am one of “those” people. I am so about creating languages!
FWIW, I’m definitely weird by this society’s standards. I like being weird.
I dunno if I’m gay. I doubt it. I also dunno if I’m completely straight. I doubt that, too. I just, in general, dunno.
But one definitely doesn’t have to be gay to be weird. Nor does one have to be weird to be gay.
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I like being called weird. I can’t stand the word “freak.” Cannot stand it. At all. There is nothing wrong with being weird, IMO. There is something wrong with the idea of being thought of as that there’s some intrinsic problem in one’s nature that makes one different, in a very bad way, from other people. I have a problem with that.
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I actually like the word “freak” and call myself that all the time. But then, I call myself a faggot all the time too.
I suppose I have a problem with the meaning/intent of the word. For someone to suggest to me that my nature is somehow intrinsically wrong just doesn’t fly with me. I’m human. Whatever I am is because of A. my genes and B. my environment. Not entirely one or the other.
No offense meant, FreakFreely, btw. I just have a problem with someone who thinks there’s something inherently evil about me. Go figure:)