h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Gah! *Your problem. Stupid fingers.

I have, once*. Didn't enjoy it much cos the guy was an arse. Which wasn't cos he was gay thoough. Slept on my stomach and everything. It wouldn't/doesn't bother me at all.






*except the times when I stayed with my gay uncle. So would makes it dozens/hundreds.

*that* would etc.

Stating the obvious, but Do Not Feed The Troll. I mean...whoever gets off on ending a posting with 'Now you can all flame me.'?

Yeah, but there are no visible flames being thrown here. Wrong target, I'd have thought.

Dont feed the troll! You must be about the westend then...

>>Assuming you are straight, how would you feel about sharing a twin room with someone of the same sex who's gay?>>

Eh - I don't think I'd feel anything special. Not after sharing sleeping/living space with 24 complete strangers during 2½ months (OK, they didn't remain strangers for very long) onboard a bus travelling from Sweden to Egypt and then all around Egypt. The very first night I shared bed with a guy I had met for the first time the same afternoon, and I've no idea whether he was straight or gay.

The reason this worked was because everyone was hell-bent on being considerate. Without anyone saying anything, the back of the bus somehow became the space where the females changed clothes, and the males (regardless of sexual orientation) changed in the front part. The first few days we'd hang a sheet over a clothesline across the aisle but we stopped bothering because everyone turned their back anyway.

Maybe sexual orientation was never an issue because you have to be a very special kind of weirdo to make such a trip (no TV, no telephone, no toilet, no air conditioning), so at least we had that in common. The youngest was 18 years old and the oldest turned 75 during the trip. And I'd say there was an even mix of males and females. All in all (4 buses) we were 120 people. Made for some great parties along the way...

What an odd assumption! No, I'm not. Any other stereotypes you'd like to share?

>>Yeah, but there are no visible flames being thrown here

Oh, I think there were. Read the opening lines of his first post. Still - I'm bigger than he is.

>> I'm bigger than he is.

"and a broad thon to swing it from" eh?

Funnily enough I used to live in the West End, a spit and a puke from Clatty Patty's. It's closed since, hasn't it?

Well if he wants to be flamed he's probably some kind of S&M weirdo.

But I ain't playing.

What's that joke?

'Hit me says the masochist.'
'No says the sadist.'

That ain't no joke, Effers. It's a mind-f***

Stereotypes- Who? you? hmmmm, Why would you think that your the norm? I protest about the pretention and preciousness of people that hold their sexuality up like a banner-

All the people that I consider close friends and are are non- hetties to use your parlance do not differentiate between perversions- gay or straight and are offended at the affected sector of society where their sexuality define them and their role in society- particularly those that include their preference in the same conversation where someone would mention a CPN-Not from the West End of Glasgow- must be Edinburgh then. Did you come for the banter??

blue-eyedmarkyboy - I'll admit I'm a to the wind, but I couldn't make head nor tail of that. Any chance of a full stop or two?

Ach, what does it matter? We are who we are, and we shag who we shag.

>>I protest about the pretention and preciousness of people that hold their sexuality up like a banner<<

Have fun with that. We're just gonna ignore you.

Funny you talk about banners - I was painting banners for Bradford Pride the other day and it was surprisingly good fun.

Now do your mummy and daddy know you're on this website? Because children aren't usually allowed.

>>Why would you think that your the norm?

Heavens to betsy! I wouldn't pretend to be the norm in anything. But what does that matter? As St Derek of Dungeness said,
'Heterosexuality isn't normal - merely common.'

Now as it happens, I'm a commonplace heterosexual (from Glasgow - not the West End, but) - but typically abnormal in various other ways. Whomisn't?

There! I've just held my heterosexuality up like a banner.

What does it say on your banner? My guess is that it begins with tw and rhymes with bat. Sorry if that's too hasty a judgement - but, hey, you hardly made a good first impression. I still fail to see the remotest relevance in my having a CPN. Care to explain that bit?

When I have looked for rooms to rent, I have noticed that there are a lot of places advertised as women only houses. I find this quite strange, since women only houses seem to have a bit of a tendency to self-destruct in my experience.

>When I have looked for rooms to rent,<

I didn't know you were a rent boy, Bouncy.

And I wonder about your experiences.

>>When I have looked for rooms to rent, I have noticed that there are a lot of places advertised as women only houses. I find this quite strange, since women only houses seem to have a bit of a tendency to self-destruct in my experience.<<

I once lived in a house where I was the only guy - I couldn't move out quick enough. I was expected to referee every little squabble and one of the girls thought that, since I was 'safe', she could walk around in her birthday suit. It never quite occurred to her that if I wanted to see those parts, I'd be straight.

I don't quite see the connection with sexuality HI. Seeing those parts is a natural curiousity for any person, regardless of sexuality. They are fascinating because they are mostly hidden in our society.