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marc
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Registered: March 2003
Messages: 4729
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For a long while, this place has been a very large part of what held me together. This place is the only board I frequent but I no longer feel welcome here. It seems I "bother people" by asking a question that I feel is relevant. It seems I would be better suited to just "lay off" and keep my comments to myself.
Ahh well, I guess so many people can't be wrong. I must be a rotten to the core terrible person and should be kept away from "right" society.
So I am leaving, this message board, as well as this place where I sit.
I should'nt be inflicting myself on anyone and therefore I won't.
Not any more.
Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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timmy
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Has no life at all |
Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
Messages: 13796
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You are only "alone again" if you choose it to be so. We have had this conversation so often. No-one has said you are unwelcome except you. No-one has suggested you leave, except you. You were just asked to hold back on something. And didn't.
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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blue
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Likes it here |
Registered: August 2004
Messages: 131
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Marc, is this because of my response to you? I'm sorry. I understand your concern. I'm a newbie here. I'm not usually so blunt, and when I am, I tend to be too blunt. I don't know your past replies on the board. More to the point, I don't know your personal history. For all I know, you may have a very good personal reason why you're concerned. I did say I wasn't trying to argue. It's alright to disagree, it's one of the ways we work out problems.
Look, if this is a safe place for you, stay. I also am here or on other boards because it helps to be around people who have some idea of what it's like.
Sincerely,
~Blue
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blue
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Likes it here |
Registered: August 2004
Messages: 131
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Uh, I did not know that "lay off" could mean "f*** off." That was *not* what I meant! In American English, it simply means to quit irritating someone, it's a variant of "leave off (someone)." So if I say to someone, "lay off me, alright, I've had a lousy day," I'm not saying anything awful to them, and they could even be my grandmother or my minister. Americans do say "to lay" of course, in the KJV Biblical sense, but "to lay off" is *not* related, to an American's mind. -- I had no idea, and I'm college (university) educated. -- Oh, and "laid up" means to be sick in bed or at home.
There are a couple of other words that differ hugely between American English and British or Australian English. Americans say "fanny" to mean the butt, and it's actually polite. Americans say something "bugs them," meaning it bothers them; even though they know the meaning of "bugger" in the British sense, which is rarely used in American English.
"Two great nations, divided by a common language," as Churchill said.
My apologies for the misunderstanding.
~Blue, whose face is now rather red;
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... "crap" like this eminating from you.
It's all piffle-paffle, and you know it.
What's with this place?
Not one thing I have read *posted* here at "A Place of Safety" within the past 6-months should have driven you to declare that you're again not wanted.
I've said it in the past, I'll say it one more time for the record:
'You are an integral element of what makes this Forum, and the community of it's denizens, a worthwhile venture and "Must Read", to all regardless of their sexuality or whether they suffer from any of the usual suspects related to sexual awakening, identity, or associated issues, or not.'
I seldom comment about anything here anymore; the reasons are mine alone, and have nothing to do with "our", yours and mine, past interactions here at A Place of Safety. I was heartened to see you return to the Forum earlier this year, and had hoped you would once again find your legs, and could ... no, make that stronger ... WOULD see your way clear to share the wealth of experience and knowledge, especially to those troubled amongst our following, in areas that (as I too have mentioned previously in other threads) I can't even begin to fathom, let alone understand.
If you have issues you're grappling with, and need a compassionate ear, you know how (and where) to find me; either send me an e-Mail asking that I contact you, or pick up the damn telephone and speak with me directly. Just as it has been all along, it's your call. The ball is in your court.
Warren C. E. Austin
The Gay Deceiver
Toronto, Canada
"... comme recherché qu'un délice callipygian"
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