# avatars **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 2, 2004, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatars/267242 "2004-10-02T22:47:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2004, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatars/267242/21 "2004-10-03T00:18:54Z")
> [@danceswithcats](#): > > . Warning-some images contain badgers. We don’t need no stinking badgers! Now, I’m going to step outside and light up a fag. ---
**Author:** ![Blalron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/35a633/32.png) [@Blalron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blalron)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2004, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatars/267242/22 "2004-10-03T00:21:50Z")
Avatars are intrusive, annoying, and distract from meaningful debate. A curse on Avatars and all who use them! ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2004, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatars/267242/23 "2004-10-03T00:26:54Z")
homo-phones are unnatural and against the law in Georgia. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2004, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatars/267242/24 "2004-10-03T00:30:51Z")
Homophone is a queer sounding word, ain’t it? ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2004, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatars/267242/25 "2004-10-03T00:39:05Z")
> [@Shirley Ujest](#): > > homo-phones are unnatural and against the law in Georgia. I thought that was just Dayton, Tennessee, and that law was repealed soon after it was passed. [/naive dutiful reader] ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2004, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatars/267242/26 "2004-10-03T00:42:02Z")
> [@NoClueBoy](#): > > Homophone is a queer sounding word, ain’t it? A homophone is a pink princess phone that only exhuberant young men with a penchant for theater have in their snazzily decorated lofts. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2004, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatars/267242/27 "2004-10-03T01:26:03Z")
> [@Ilsa\_Lund](#): > > (Is a homophobe someone who _sounds_ like a gay person, but is spelled differently?) Only in Harry Potter slashfic, where you wouldn’t believe what they spell! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2004, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatars/267242/28 "2004-10-03T01:27:38Z")
So what do you call someone who hates / fears / is prejudiced… against homophones? A homophonophobe? :eek: 😃 ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2004, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatars/267242/29 "2004-10-03T03:26:26Z")
Nah. That sounds more like someone who is afraid of a gay record player or turntable. Or perhaps someone who hates old Liberace and Barry Manilow LPs. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2004, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatars/267242/30 "2004-10-03T03:46:08Z")
'Ave a tar? Isn’t that what they do in the British Navy when they’re feeling randy (or perhaps Randy)? Sounds gay to me. ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2004, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatars/267242/31 "2004-10-03T03:49:08Z")
> [@lissener](#): > > Because avatars are gay. Duh!! :eek: 😃 ---
**Author:** ![moriah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b2d939/32.png) [@moriah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moriah)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2004, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatars/267242/32 "2004-10-03T03:59:48Z")
I once saw a video of ten men sucking each other off in an orgy, but seeing avatars in bulletin boards was the gayest thing I’ve ever seen. ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2004, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatars/267242/33 "2004-10-03T04:25:28Z")
I thought homophones were guys who _sound_ gay, but really aren’t. ---
**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 3, 2004, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatars/267242/34 "2004-10-03T04:27:06Z")
Is it Christmas yet? “Don we now our gay apparel…” ---
**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 3, 2004, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatars/267242/35 "2004-10-03T04:32:01Z")
> [@Kythereia](#): > > > [@lissener](#): > > > > It was an unequivocal statement of fact. > > That avatars are gay. > > OK, call me a moron, but I’m not seeing the logic behind this. _WHOOOOOOOOOOSH_ Ah, **Kythereia** , don your hazmat gear and wade into [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=277994). All will be revealed. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2004, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatars/267242/36 "2004-10-03T05:01:40Z")
> [@Jenaroph](#): > > I thought homophones were guys who _sound_ gay, but really aren’t. No, those are homophonies. ---
**Author:** ![Beaver\_Cleaver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@Beaver\_Cleaver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beaver_Cleaver)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2004, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatars/267242/37 "2004-10-03T07:39:32Z")
> [@tomndebb](#): > > For the same reason that you cannot place images directly into posts and that posters are asked to keep their sigs fewer than four lines: the board’s servers tend to operate in a constant state of overload and few things that will slow the loading of threads are permitted. Thats a bunch of reg bullshit. That lame explainantion might work on the other tards around here but not with me. I post on lots of boards larger than this one and this is the first one that won’t let you put up an avatar and puts line limits on sigs. If the board servers are operating in a constant state of overload then the admin should upgrade to a server than can handle the traffic DUH! Before I could even post this I was forced to read the following: > [@](#): > > Your guest membership on the Straight Dope Message Board expires on November 1, 2004. To become a subscriber and avoid seeing this screen again, click here. To continue without subscribing, click here. You’re telling me that you expect me to pay membership dues to a site that can’t even run from a reliable server? How many of your members are paying you? What are you using that money for? Not a good server I guess. If I was interested in paying you to be a member I’d expect a certain amount of basic privileges. I want to know exactly what the admin around here is using the paying members money for! I also want to know why so many gimps gheyed up my post. What kind of site is this anyway? ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2004, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatars/267242/38 "2004-10-03T07:52:58Z")
> [@Beaver Cleaver](#): > > Thats a bunch of reg bullshit. That lame explainantion might work on the other tards around here but not with me. I post on lots of boards larger than this one and this is the first one that won’t let you put up an avatar and puts line limits on sigs. If the board servers are operating in a constant state of overload then the admin should upgrade to a server than can handle the traffic DUH! Before I could even post this I was forced to read the following: > > You’re telling me that you expect me to pay membership dues to a site that can’t even run from a reliable server? How many of your members are paying you? What are you using that money for? Not a good server I guess. If I was interested in paying you to be a member I’d expect a certain amount of basic privileges. I want to know exactly what the admin around here is using the paying members money for! > > I also want to know why so many gimps gheyed up my post. What kind of site is this anyway? A site that surely won’t miss you when the door hits you in the ass. ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2004, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatars/267242/39 "2004-10-03T07:54:49Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > No it isn’t. Avatars are _TO_-tally gay. > Al-batross! Avatars aren’t gay. They’re really quite hetereosexual. See… they’re common and everyone wants to have one. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Roland\_Orzabal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c2a13f/32.png) [@Roland\_Orzabal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roland_Orzabal)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2004, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatars/267242/40 "2004-10-03T08:21:10Z")
> [@Mockingbird](#): > > Avatars aren’t gay. They’re really quite hetereosexual. See… they’re common and everyone wants to have one. > > 😃 I certainly don’t want one. An avatar, that is. So I guess that makes me gay. Unless _avatars_ are gay. Then that makes me heterosexual. Unless ‘gay’ is an insult rather than a sexuality. Then that makes me straight. Unless I’m gay anyway, since an avatar would then not affect my sexuality at all. But how can I _be_ an insult? And if avatars are an insult, then is everyone on other message boards insulting each other? Ah, I’m so CONFUSED! See, it’s threads like this that lead to a loss of sexual identity. Thanks a lot, **lissener** and **Mockingbird**. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatars/267242.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatars/267242.md?page=3)