# Gonzomax, you surprised and disappointed me. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 2, 2009, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gonzomax-you-surprised-and-disappointed-me/488028 "2009-03-02T17:09:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2009, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gonzomax-you-surprised-and-disappointed-me/488028/41 "2009-03-02T21:42:05Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > Poodles again? Can’t you guys leave Tony Blair alone? > > Yeah, better terms for fancy poodle cuts are “trite”, “embarassing”, “nausea-inducing” etc. How about **“prissy”?** That is racist. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2009, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gonzomax-you-surprised-and-disappointed-me/488028/42 "2009-03-02T21:44:53Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > Poodles again? Can’t you guys leave Tony Blair alone? > > Yeah, better terms for fancy poodle cuts are “trite”, “embarassing”, “nausea-inducing” etc. How about “prissy”? > > And what will **gonzo** say about [these poor tortured things](http://www.plantworld.net/en/products/index.php?parcat=&cat=86&prod=3129)? Is Tony Blair gay? He sort of looks poodle-gay. ---
**Author:** ![alexandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e68b1a/32.png) [@alexandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alexandra)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2009, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gonzomax-you-surprised-and-disappointed-me/488028/43 "2009-03-02T21:49:45Z")
He was George Bush’s poodle. God knows what Brown is to Obama. ---
**Author:** ![Helen\_s\_Eidolon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Helen\_s\_Eidolon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helen_s_Eidolon)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2009, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gonzomax-you-surprised-and-disappointed-me/488028/44 "2009-03-02T22:30:40Z")
I mean, if he had at least had the courtesy to spell it correctly, maybe I could have forgiven him. ‘Fagafied’ should clearly be ‘fagified’. **Sateryn76** , I do tend to find it offensive. I don’t assume the person’s a homophobe or anything, but I do find it offensive. And seriously. **jayjay** , thanks for starting the thread and saving me the trouble. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2009, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gonzomax-you-surprised-and-disappointed-me/488028/45 "2009-03-03T01:09:46Z")
I cant believe you got your panties knotted over such a thing. Dogs are dogs and are as feral as they can get away with. But I always thought the haircuts were an abomination. They are an insult to the breed and doggydom. I hate them. I have 2 dogs and I would never do things like that to them. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2009, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gonzomax-you-surprised-and-disappointed-me/488028/46 "2009-03-03T01:12:44Z")
> [@gonzomax](#): > > I cant believe you got your panties knotted over such a thing. Dogs are dogs and are as feral as they can get away with. But I always thought the haircuts were an abomination. They are an insult to the breed and doggydom. I hate them. > I have 2 dogs and I would never do things like that to them. I think it’s hilarious that you’re too stupid to realize that I’m not complaining about the fucking DOGS! I’m complaining about your choice of words. The dogs can have NFL team names shaved into their fur for all I care. They’re irrelevant. I’m not pitting you for the goddamn dogs. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Moto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de0a6/32.png) [@Mr.Moto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Moto)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2009, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gonzomax-you-surprised-and-disappointed-me/488028/47 "2009-03-03T01:19:27Z")
> [@Bricker](#): > > It’s a mistake, in my humble view, to feel that because a poster has “reliably left wing” views, he (or she) is a paragon of intelligence or consideration. I’ll go one better, and note that it is often a mistake to equate left-wing viewpoints and an absence of prejudice or bigotry. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2009, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gonzomax-you-surprised-and-disappointed-me/488028/48 "2009-03-03T01:19:52Z")
> [@alexandra](#): > > He was George Bush’s poodle. > > God knows what Brown is to Obama. The Deputy Premier in Australia (or it may have been NSW) recently got into trouble for calling her political opponent a poodle. Just FWIW. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2009, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gonzomax-you-surprised-and-disappointed-me/488028/49 "2009-03-03T01:25:51Z")
> [@Mr.Moto](#): > > I’ll go one better, and note that it is often a mistake to equate left-wing viewpoints and an absence of prejudice or bigotry. I’m willing to concede the same of right-wing viewpoints, but perhaps first we should define what we mean by “often.” ---
**Author:** ![Ichini\_Sanshigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/d9b06d/32.png) [@Ichini\_Sanshigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ichini_Sanshigo)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2009, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gonzomax-you-surprised-and-disappointed-me/488028/50 "2009-03-03T01:26:39Z")
> [@gonzomax](#): > > [http://www.funtim.com/crazy-funny-cool-poodle-haircuts.html](http://www.funtim.com/crazy-funny-cool-poodle-haircuts.html) Gee ,I must be wrong. Teenage Mutant Ninja Poodle is totally rad! ---
**Author:** ![HongKongFooey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c4cdca/32.png) [@HongKongFooey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HongKongFooey)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2009, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gonzomax-you-surprised-and-disappointed-me/488028/51 "2009-03-03T01:28:44Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > The dogs can have NFL team names shaved into their fur for all I care. They’re irrelevant. I’m not pitting you for the goddamn dogs. What do you have against dogs you heartless cur? ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2009, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gonzomax-you-surprised-and-disappointed-me/488028/52 "2009-03-03T03:15:35Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > That is racist. Um, what? ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2009, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gonzomax-you-surprised-and-disappointed-me/488028/53 "2009-03-03T03:39:16Z")
I have no problem with a persons sexuality. I never even pit Brickers love of livestock. I think a persons sexuality is their business. The dogs look like a flamboyance that is over the top to me. ---
**Author:** ![Helen\_s\_Eidolon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Helen\_s\_Eidolon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helen_s_Eidolon)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2009, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gonzomax-you-surprised-and-disappointed-me/488028/54 "2009-03-03T03:55:53Z")
They look like ‘a flamboyance’? Well, why didn’t you say so? Clearly, you have been horribly misunderstood. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2009, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gonzomax-you-surprised-and-disappointed-me/488028/55 "2009-03-03T04:32:37Z")
Liberace/Rip taylor flamboyance. , ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2009, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gonzomax-you-surprised-and-disappointed-me/488028/56 "2009-03-03T04:42:30Z")
> [@Helen\_s\_Eidolon](#): > > They look like ‘a flamboyance’? Well, why didn’t you say so? Clearly, you have been horribly misunderstood. That’s what they take drag queens to the hospital in, a flamboyance. ---
**Author:** ![Xan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/ac8455/32.png) [@Xan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xan)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2009, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gonzomax-you-surprised-and-disappointed-me/488028/57 "2009-03-03T04:44:40Z")
Gonzomax can barely string a coherent sentence together, are you really all that surprised? ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2009, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gonzomax-you-surprised-and-disappointed-me/488028/58 "2009-03-03T04:46:50Z")
> [@Xan](#): > > Gonzomax can barely string a coherent sentence together, are you really all that surprised? Okay, yes, he’s occasionally incoherent and doesn’t always manage to connect two sentences together to come up with an argument, but I’m just shocked that he somehow doesn’t recognize the offensiveness of the word “fag”, to the point where he bends it into a verb, even. How does one miss that? ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2009, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gonzomax-you-surprised-and-disappointed-me/488028/59 "2009-03-03T04:49:07Z")
Informally, among other gays, gays call each other faggots all the time with little if any opprobrium. Are they especially and proprietarily empowered to use the word “faggot” without social censure like blacks are “allowed” to use the word “nigger” amongst themselves? Gays call each other faggots = OK Blacks call each other nigger = OK …but no one else is allowed in the linguistic tree house. Straights and whites stay out! ---
**Author:** ![Xan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/ac8455/32.png) [@Xan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xan)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2009, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gonzomax-you-surprised-and-disappointed-me/488028/60 "2009-03-03T04:49:09Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > Okay, yes, he’s occasionally incoherent and doesn’t always manage to connect two sentences together to come up with an argument, but I’m just shocked that he somehow doesn’t recognize the offensiveness of the word “fag”, to the point where he bends it into a verb, even. How does one miss that? By being functionally retarded. That’s how he misses it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gonzomax-you-surprised-and-disappointed-me/488028.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gonzomax-you-surprised-and-disappointed-me/488028.md?page=4)