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Macky
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My wife, my son and myself do lots of yardsales. This summer, there have been a few sales operated by gay guy couples. This seems to be incresaing. I think these couples do a really important work in making gay be as normal as it should be. I was just at one. One of the guys was chatting amicably with a neihgbor guy and his teenage son, while the other told us about some fine china. Nothing actually shows normalcy like 2 guys living together in a nice suburban house, with a well kept yard and friendly neihgbors.. We have certainly come a long way from public restrooms and back alleys.
Behold, how good and how pleasant it is
For brothers to dwell together in unity!
Ps 133:1 NASB
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ray2x
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I wish I could see more normalcy like yard sales on a gay couple's property. Maybe there is, but I haven't noticed any in my surrounding area. It is positive for such community events to encompass everyone. I don't believe anyone who attended the yard sale and who was straight suddenly had a sudden urge to be gay, did they?
Raymundo
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Less normalcy and more normality for me.
And while we're at it, why are American houses burglarized while ours are burgled?
Hugs
N
PS - who said I'm stealing the thread?;-D
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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Macky
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"I don't believe anyone who attended the yard sale and who was straight suddenly had a sudden urge to be gay, did they?"
I doubt if this happened, but my wife did ask if it made me jealous to see a happy gay couple in that situation. I replied that they do not have anything that our relationship doesn't. A relationship takes work, regardless of the sexual aspects of it. It's a labor of love though, so sometimes it doesn't seem like work.
There must be plenty of happy gay couples where you live; maybe they're just not into yard sales (or maybe its not your thing). I live in the suburbs of Pa.'s capitol. The city has had a gay mayor for about the past 30 years (he's retiring now). So the place has always been comparatively gay-friendly. In the years that I cruised the local gay meeting places, I was only picked up by the cops once. I was immediately released when they determined that my eye-color did not match that of the escaped felon that they were looking for. They were not abusive in any way, and this was like 25 years ago. I'm lucky to live here I guess. But I sorta think we have a larger than normal gay population around here because of the relaxed attitude. Anyway, seeing happy gay couples in a normal suburban setting is really nice.
Behold, how good and how pleasant it is
For brothers to dwell together in unity!
Ps 133:1 NASB
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Macky
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When I look them up in online dictionaries, Normalcy is defined as a word on it's own. Normality, however, is defined only as a noun form of the adjective normal. Additionally, normality seems to have a shade of meaning that normalcy does not. Chemistry, medicine and mathematics are often mentioned in the definitions of normality, while normalcy has none of that. However, normalcy has an attribution to US President Warren Harding. That guy said that we were going to return to normalcy after the commotion of the administration of Woodrow Wilson. But one dictionary dates the origin of the word to 1855. So it's not something Harding made up, but apparently some American made it up quite a while after ties with England were broken.
But while we're at it, I know that everyone has their own idea about who invented the automobile, but the standardized production of same, I think that all will agree, is due to Henry Ford. Now he had a standard rear storage compartment in his car that he called a trunk. Also, when he started making vehicles with a greater amount of storage space, he called them trucks. Now, by what ideology do the English call a trunk as described here, a "boot" and a truck, as described here, a lorry?
Behold, how good and how pleasant it is
For brothers to dwell together in unity!
Ps 133:1 NASB
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The difficulty with normalcy is that it was invented by one person and may well have been a slip of the tongue whereas normality probably evolved. How many Bushisms are going to become standard language?
With English cars a trunk is what you put into the boot, which of course is at the opposite end from the bonnet, but in the US it is a different kind of headgear - the hood.
I'm treading on unsure ground here, but I think what we call a truck is what you call a pick-up. Essentially a truck is open backed. We do indeed have lorries, but they seem to be turning into HGVs these days. Where do you stand on vans? Medium or small goods transporters which can be driven on a normal d r i v i n g l i c e n c e.
Some words simply can't swim across the Pond.
Hugs
Nigel
[Updated on: Sun, 27 September 2009 16:00]
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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ray2x
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Normalcy: I just love the word. I love the way it works in my mind to define the moment of a normal situation, or one which is supposed to be. I love the word 'ain't' too.
Gay couples: I know gays exist in my town (Santa Clarita) and gay couples too. Santa Clarita is a town growing away from a suburb and defining itself as a metropolitan town. It's having growing pains. Some folks want the town to retain the "Quaint, Charming" feel of the small town atmosphere while others want it to grow and become a metropolis community. As long as conservative politicans have control of the area, gay friendly attitudes may be difficult to achieve but not impossible.
Warren G. Harding: nice to mention him. He brought on the first great resession and followed that with the great depression. 
Raymundo
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