#48

sorry, Plasticniki doesn’t watch the x-factor

#49

What’s he actually from?

#50

Oh, just looked him up. I assumed he was from Big Brother. Didn’t realise he was a singing sensation.

#51
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#52

I think you deserve much better looking men than John Stones/Leighton Baines to be honest.

Next time he does it just calmy and unenthusiastically say that it’s a boring joke and he should be able to think of better. Then don’t react anytime he does it again. Maybe that will help? If not, get his email and sign him up to a shitload of gay porn. Not sure that will help but you know.

#53

This reminds me of a fairly heated argument I had with my dad when I was a teenager, he denied it was even possible to notice another man’s attractiveness. Obviously in the closet.

#54

I’ve seen this before and completely forgotten it. Of course!

This just proves how easy it is to forget stuff you’re not interested in. In your face marckee!

#55

i find this a little bit shrugworthy tbh. it’s not the best term, not sure i’d use it that much myself but i reckon in some contexts it’s more explanatory than just saying “crush”.

like, i don’t think it’s as simple as ‘describing a crush in a way that also suggests you’re not gay and don’t usually have crushes on the same gender is definitely internalised homophobia’. i mean, sure, it OFTEN is, but not really exclusively? i don’t particularly care if anyone thinks i’m gay and i don’t go to any particular lengths to make sure everyone knows, but at the same time i can understand peoples wishes to avoid an incorrect assumption in the same way you want to avoid someone pronouncing your name wrongly until you have to correct them.

as much as lots of us get the whole ‘sexuality is a spectrum’ idea, i still don’t think MOST people do. i think people talking openly about their ‘man-crush’ or ‘girl-crush’ is a step in the right direction for people who might otherwise just internalise and repress, and i dunno it just seems pretty harmless to me* in the grand scheme of things?

*admittedly someone not really in a position to be oppressed idk.

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#57

ok, fine. good talk.

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#59

I didn’t know you and @chris-budget were such good mates, tbh

@xylo, post THAT gif, please.

#60

I think you could be more jazz by not dismissing contrasting opinions to your own as “utter, utter nonsense” and maybe listen to people every once in a while.

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#62

:frowning: :frowning:

#63

this sort of thing happens on here day in, day out man. not sure it’s something to be called out on, but there we go

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maybe listen to people every once in a while.
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this is terribly condescending, incorrect and frankly ludicrous my man. please don’t come back for any further correspondence please

goodbye

#64

Yes, you do it every day.

Similar to dismissing something as utter, utter nonsense. Glad we agree.

#65

not very jazz at all