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marc
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But, I check the board while at school and frankly its embarassing to upen a post or reply and discover a picture or icon which while is not specifically graphically nude.... it is obvious that the person in the picture (due to the pubic hair visible) is pretty much buckety ass naked.
Personally this doesnt bother me but i could be expelled if i inadvertanyly upened a post exhibiting the said image..... as well as any other student that opens it for that matter.
Universally, the rules regarding this type of imagery are found in about every student handbook in the USA.
Therefore, please use discression when choosing an avatar or picture to place into a post.
I hope everyone reads this as it was intended.....
I am doing nothing other than trying to protect those that could potentially be expelled or otherwise embarassed.
Thanks....
Marc
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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Location: UK, in Devon
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It was a very nice avatar. Normally I never get into this stuff, but I do see marc's point. Fortunately he never saw the avatar's point! But he was overlooked in school and not every overlooking pair of eyes is friendly.
I have edited the avatar out and the owner has a very nice email from me mentioning it.
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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marc
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Needs to get a life! |
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Be assured, I don't want to hurt anyones feelings and i personally wouldnt ming that picture in poster size for my office at home.
But here at school one has to be somewhat careful..... especially when one is as out as i am.....
Hell, I'm trying to date my maths professor..... if that aint out i dont know what is......
hahahahaha
[Updated on: Mon, 17 September 2007 16:56]
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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I found this very interesting. Course I have seen the avatar in question and was not disturbed by it. I checked the policy at the University here and that pic would have been perfectly acceptable. It wouldnt have been any different than a pic of a bare chested guy in swim trucks. the policy is anything goes as long as the genitals are not displayed. I guess it just depends on where you are.
If you stand for Freedom, but you wont stand for war, then you dont stand for anything worth fighting for.
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timmy
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I think the issue was the borderline, literally. Some places are full of prurient prudes. I know a few folk will say "Censorship", but it isn't "mine". Rather it is the imbeciles who find the human form to be objectionable.
I liked the picture. Ah well.
I most assuredly don't want the person whose avatar it was to be upset in any way
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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Rest assured y'all, the owner of the avitar wasn't upset. He's not angry, and he's not offended.
Yet, the owner of the avitar does have to make this observation; given that when displayed the avitars are smaller than postage stamps, and given that "another person other than the owner of the computer" is probably three or four feet from the screen of the computer where the picture is showing, he did wonder exactly how acute the eyesight might be of anyone viewing the avitar. But if it caused anyone any grief, he's happy to replace it with something totally non-male and non-sexual.
And now if the owner of the avitar doesn't soon get to physics and calculus homework and stop this playing on the Internet before supper he'll be up all night. And as he can attest, even at seventeen, being up all night with school work is much less, infinately less entertaining than being "up" all night because of other reasons.
Jonny
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marc
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Actually, it depends on who complains.
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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marc
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When one is already under the microscope and regularly uses, due to my job here, a place in the public flow of trafic, one has to be careful.
Once you or any other are in an institution where you are investing a boatload of $$$$ to attend you and/or they will become aware of the limits and levels of comfortable exposure.
My schooling means alot to me as i am sure it does to anyone else in school. I work very hard and long hours for the best grades i possibly can get.
I know the avatar was borderline at best, and in a better world no one would feel threatened for its exhibition.
But I am in a town with 20,000 people and 185 odd churches..... It might not be the bible belt, but it sure as hell is one of the loops hloding up the pants of the minister.
Jonny, thanks for being understanding. I half way expected to be crusified for being "over sensitive" to something that should in all common sensical reason go unnoticed.
Anyhoo..... where can i get the poster sized version for it? I already have a frame ready.
Marc
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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Location: UK, in Devon
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er, unless I'm seeing things, you put it back. I have unput it again
[Updated on: Mon, 17 September 2007 20:44]
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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Dude, I swear i am not putting that pic back up there. I just reloaded the sextant pic. If you're still getting a torso shot of me, then clear your browser history, and try again. I SWEAR I wouldn't do something like that.
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timmy
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Location: UK, in Devon
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Odd and persistent cache. I now see sextant!
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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Marc, look man i totally understand, and there's nothing more needs to be said. I like in a colonial town in coastal North Carolina, and know exactly when you're saying about the number of churches versus the population. Going to church in my town is the major social thing. That and wife-beating and child abuse. Physical and sexual.
There was a guy who had been beating up his wife pretty regular, and in front of his three little kids for a while, and she would never press charges. One time they brought her into the emergency room when my Dad was on rotation helping, and HE turned the dude in to the police and wouldn't release the woman until the dude was in jail. But guess what? Turns out this pillar of our community was hitting her with a ball bat, and the talk around town among the "good ol' boys" was....I swear... "Lord ha' mercy, what she go an' do t' deserve that, d'ya wonder?" Same guys who would cheerfull burn gay guys at the stake thinking they were "a doin' the Good Lord's work, purifyin' them hom'asex'shls."
Yet they all go to church every Sunday, and holler with the best of them.
I'm so glad I'm not a Christian.
Jonny
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Benji
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I shudder at stories like that!! Amen to that! I'm not a Christian, nor living where you do!
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Benji
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?? What was wrong with that torso pic?
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Marc wrote:
> But I am in a town with 20,000 people and 185 odd churches.....
They didn't look THAT odd.
there is a church down the street from me ( primitive baptist ), where they pass around snakes and speak in tounges.
now THAT'S odd
(\\__/) And if you don't believe The sun will rise
(='.'=) Stand alone and greet The coming night
(")_(") In the last remaining light. (C. Cornell)
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Whitewaterkid isn't guilty. I have found it the devil's own job to get rid of the old avatar when I want to put up a new one. I find the best thing is to go twenty-four hours with no avatar and then post the new one.
Hug
N
I dream of boys with big bulges in their trousers,
Never of girls with big bulges in their blouses.
…and look forward to meeting you in Cóito.
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timmy
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Has no life at all |
Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
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It is some sort of odd, persistent cache. But we can't find out where
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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timmy
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Has no life at all |
Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
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The strict answer is "Nothing whatsoever."
The answer where Marc is, is that stupid, prurient people take zealous interest in such things and ruin it for the rest of us.
I liked the pic.
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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