Oh, yeah, it’s OK, I wasn’t thanking you, anyway. 
Oddly enough, I was thanking Coldfire.
Devil’s advocate, part II:
Although in this particular case I don’t think it would help at all, in many cases, violence is in fact the best way to answer violence.
Also, lighten the hell up. Don’t act like a dick just because you don’t like what somebody has to say. I for one thought it was pretty funny, and even if he was serious, so fucking what? There’s no law against having bad ideas, or even expressing them.
True enough. With you around, that’s going to be a hell of a task.
Farris, if you’re going to post homophobic jokes, for gods’ sake just make sure they’re funny homophobic jokes, would you please?
It wasn’t during the Rodney King riots, and it wasn’t when Gandhi marched to the sea for salt.
Listen, Joe, I didn’t act like a dick. My original reply was very polite. I expressed an understanding of what the OP was trying to say. And I gave him the benefit of the doubt, not thinking he was serious. Then I offered my opinion (I refer you to your own quote - I have a right). He comes back with this condescending, inflammatory response. Very dick-like behavior, in my opinion. If he would have said, “No, I’m not serious, lighten up,” or something of that nature I would have left it alone.
While I may have gone off the deep end calling him a pin-head and a “dum asshole”, I reserve the right for knee-jerk reactions as much as the next guy. And I apologize for including profanity in MPSIMS, I like to reserve that sort of language for the Pit.
As for your second citation of my post, either you didn’t get it, or you did get it and your complimenting me. Either way, I don’t really care.
Back to the argument …
If you’re talking about self-defense, I’m with you. If your talking about retribution, I ain’t. What the OP seemed to have said was, “mess with us, and we’ll mess with you.” Which if that is his philosophy, I just as soon not be included in the “us”, which he was implicitly doing, as I am heterosexual.
nahhh… The truly funny ones are far too offensive.
Joe_Cool: I appreciate what you said. It’s what I would have said if Jack Batty hadn’t have been in such a foul mood.
Jack Batty: I gave you the middle finger thing because it was in sort of a reference to a post in Zeeshan’s insult thread. When you put the two together, I thought they’d be a bit funny. I dunno. I have no ill feelings for you. Actually I have no feelings for you at all, pos or neg. If you have something good to say, I appreciate it. If not, I don’t. Whatever. It’s cool. I posted in your ‘new car’ thread, and didn’t hear anything, so I assumed (however wrong that may have been) that you were/are currently ignoring anything that leaves my keyboard. That’s your right. You can do that. But when you shut a door, you shut more than that. But, like I said, I don’t judge, not my job. And will I think of you whenever I pop off? Nope. Not at all…
To everyone: I was only partially serious. I guess it was a half hearted attempt to make light of our injustices in life. Is she ever referred to as white girl if she’s white? If no one knew you were gay, would you be treated the same? I tend to not judge people by their looks (just the smells.) I have a lot of opinions on a lot of things. Some of them are worthy of others attention, most of them not worthy of the space in my mind.
So… I still think it would be funny (not strictly in comedic sense) if gay men began hate crimes against straight men. Yes, it would probably spark a new war, worse than any racial war anywhere. Like a modern day witch hunt. But if you heard that in the news, you’d probably snarf your milk. At least turn your head and listen…
from my demented, yet tame, mind.
Brood,
I don’t harbor any ill-will either. If you look at my reaction to JoeCool’s semi-flame of me I admitted my retort to you was knee-jerk. What can I say, I get that way sometime.
And no, I wasn’t ignoring you in my car thread. Actually I considered your post there pretty helpful. I just didn’t have anything else to add in that particular thread.
The way I figure it, if you and I are having words in thread A, I’m not going to carry it over to thread B. I don’t know if you were expecting me to reply to your car comments with a hardy “screw you”, but, well, I just don’t work that way.
Like I said before, I understand your OP. IMHO I just thought it was a little over the top. No, its not the stupidest (oops, I mean most stupid) thing I ever heard, but what’s wrong with a little hyperbole (still got my thesaurus).
So, think of me, don’t think of me. Whatever. I’m not looking for a blood-brother either. Just trying to keep up my end of the argument.