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I decide not to lurk anymore and everybody runs away.
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They're not running away in response to you. In fact, people don't run away from here. They just don't necessarily always post, especially if they are busy with other things.
If you pose a question I'm sure people will answer. But you haven't posed one yet! Why not say something about yourself (whatever you're comfortable with), or, better still, start a discussion (about something that interests you)?
David
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hehe, I know they didnt leave because of me. I hope Jason post some more poems.
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Yeah, busy like with school. I wish I had the time to write replies to all the interesting stuff that get's posted here.
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So Deeej, where in London do you hang out? I've been to London and the West Country to Wiltshire and also to Cirencester, Cheltenham, and a totally cool hotel right by the train tracks in Burbage which is near the Savernake Forest. I have also been north to Peterborough, Cambridge and Ely. I can't wait to get back. My parents go to Europe a lot especially to France. You ever hear the song...
In the Land of France,
Where the ladies wear no pants,
and the men walk around
with their thingies
hanging down
there's a dance that they do
it'll really make you spew.
And my 'rents think I was studying making campfires and pitching tents when I was in Cub Scouts. Hah! Male anatomy and erotic poetry more like it.
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Hi Whitewaterkid,
Nice of you to ask -- I was about to get into bed, but now I'll have to stay up and answer your questions!
I'm not actually in London that often, because of the hassle and expense of getting there from Surrey (25 miles or so out from the centre). But when I am there, I tend to be in one of two areas. West London (Barnes, Richmond, Chiswick), which is not really that exciting, but it's accessible by car and I've got family there. Also I've done a lot of location scouting for films in the area, and that's where I'm looking for work. And then there's Central London (and surrounding Tube areas), which is where most of the Exciting Things in London happen -- well, Exciting Things as far as I'm concerned! Shops, museums, galleries, restaurants, cinemas, theatres. I'm not really familiar with London night-life, despite knowing Soho quite well (it's the London hub of the British film industry), but something tells me I should be (Old Compton Street is full of gay venues).
It's excellent that you've been to the West Country -- my parents were brought up and now live there (Somerset). Have you been as far west as Taunton? (That's where I theoretically live at the moment -- though I'm spending more time in Surrey, near London, because I'm heavily involved with making a short film.) It's beautiful but so far from London and expensive to drive to, so I don't get there as much as I would like.
I'd not heard that song before -- as for whether it's correct or not, I wouldn't know. I haven't asked any French ladies whether they wear pants or not ... gosh, the thought frightens me. What dance is it that the French do?
You are lucky for being so well-travelled in another country. I've only ever been to America once, and that was when I was 6 or 7, so I can't really remember it. But I do intend to return one day when I can afford it. Or when a film director sends me first class tickets so I can travel over and meet him. (Well, that might not be for a year or two...)
Best wishes,
David
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You get to travel with your rents? My dad travels a lot but he never takes me with him and now sinse he disowned me I guess if I go anywhere it will be on my own dime.
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Disowned?? :'-( Was it because you came out to him? :-/
If that's the case then *HUGS YOU TIGHT! 
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When I told my dad I was gay, his last words to me were "No son of mine is queer". He hasnt come to see me or spoken to me in 8 months. When he talks to my mom he calls me IT. My dad is an ex marine and a real jerk.
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Yeah, actually I have traveled with my 'rents. We used to go to the Maritime Provences of Canada as a family, for July and August, but then my sisters got old enough to stay by themselves and "mind" me, so Mom and Dad travel alone now. But with them I have been to The United Kingdom, which is massively excellent, and to northern Germany, the Netherlands, and just a little bit of Belgium. I like Europe but we have good stuff here too to see and do. Not as old but still interesting.
Sorry about you getting disowned. It's rough. I guess I'm lucky because my Dad has hinted that he knows something's up with my two best friends and me, and "if there's anything you ever need to talk to me about, you know I won't judge you." I'm still not sure what I am, or I might take him up on his offer. But he's a physician, Episcopalian, and liberal and so's my Mom so I did luck out in the 'rent department.
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Okay. I'm not gonna tell you your Dad isn't a real jerk, because in my book he really is. Ex-Marine or not. Someplace in his heart he still has affection for you, even if it's not showing now. Try to remember that parents were raised in less liberal times and they are the product of their upbringing and the society they grew up in. If there really is a "gay gene" like they're beginning to suspect, then maybe your Dad has been fighting the same demon in himself for his whole life, and the Marines were his was of saying to himself, "okay, I'm not queer, because I'm a Marine." This is just thinking out loud on my part Curtis, sitting here in first period and on the net because I'm bored.
My Dad said one time when I did something totally stupid that "parents assume they did something wrong" when their kids don't turn out the way they planned, or hoped, or did something stupid like get drunk with their friends and total a car. Maybe your Dad sees that life as a gy man is gonna be hard for you, and he's wondering if it was something he did to cause you to "turn queer." More thinking out loud. I mean, who can figure parents out man, they're all so weird.
I'm 17, and a senior in HS. Dude, you can get through this, and like those other guys said, your family are the ones who care about you. Or like I read someplace, you get stuck with your family but thankfully you can choose your friends.
Jonny
xoxo
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Thanks Jonny, I would like to think that what you say is true, but I have been a disappointment to my dad as long as I can remeber. Im everything he didnt want in a son. Im a foot shorter than other boys my age, so IM not 6 foot tall. My mom says IM just skin stretched over some bones. I wear glasses and yep Im a nurd. I dont like sports and even tho my dad never said anything I know that upset him.
Your right rents are kinda weird, but my mom isnt as weird as some. She loves me no mater what and that is so cool.
Im 17 and a jr in HS. Ive read a lot of your post when I was lurking (Im really not supposed to be in here). You always seemed like a good dude along with Jay and Jason. I love the poems.
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Is your name really Jonny with out the H? Everybody calls me Curt, except my mom when she is aggravated with me, she calls me Curtis, like when I blew up the garage.
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timmy
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Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
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You know, you sound a lot like I was as a 17 year old.
Don't give up. We get away from them
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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Well actually my name is Jonathan. People call me Jon or Jonny. Sometimes worse things, like when I used dishwashing liquid in the dishwasher because I couldn't find the new box of dishwasher powder. That was pretty spectacular. And my dog Tipper licked up some of the bubbles that were flowing all out of the machine, and hurled all over the hall carpet with torqued off the 'rents even more. Some days, it just doens't pay, ya know?
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Thats even more funny than blowing up the garage. Jonathan is a cool name lots better than Curtis. By the way, who freaked the most, your momn or dad? My mom is a champion at freaking. When my mom calls Curtis, I know its time to hide.
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Oh dude! Tell me about it! When I get the double barrels of Jonathan Edward I usualy head for the hills too.
It's usually my Dad who freaks first, but calms down first too. his temper is a lot like mine. It goes off but then there's this immediate fizzle factor and most of the time he starts laughing. Mom tends to "get disappointed" when I "don't behave like a gentleman."
My Mom hates it when I walk around the house in just boxers. Like it's family, so who cares, right? But God, you should hear the chatter about it. Then she gets mad if I eat Cherrios right out of the box, and drink milk right out of the carton. Do all that in nothing but boxers and you get "The Lecture." About manners making the man and all the rest of the shit about "when I was a girl..."
Dad usually goes pretty light on me, because my Grandad tell me stuff that my Dad used to do when he was my age, and he was way wicked more a hell-raiser than I am. Dad had a '65 Chevelle that him and his friend reworked, and they used to outdrag State Troopers up on Rt. 17.
Don't knock your name Curt, I think it's pretty cool. People used to call me jonny when i was little but then i sort of grew out of that and started wanting to be just Jon. Then this girl I'm going with now started calling me Jonny and now everybody is calling me that.
Don't knock being a nerd either. I'm kind of nerdish too but I do some athletics.
Jonny
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Jonny, I know about the double barrel thing. If my mom yells Curtis Alexander, I know the death squad is coming.
Curtis isnt too bad, Ive heard worse. My best friend is a girl, shes kind of a female nurd. She has this thing about my hair tho, always playing with it.
I dont mind being a nurd except for the bullies. I seem to be a prime target.
I got to ask. Was that pic on your avatar you?
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Curtis, you sound like Timmy now that he's 87!  )
[Updated on: Mon, 17 September 2007 23:10]
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Wow, Timmy is that old and I just thought he would be in his 50s.
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