Musical Homophobia - or The Homophobia Histories

[amateur51]

Oh get real. You bang on about it at every opportunity.

LGBTI? What the heck does the "I" stand for? Although on second thoughts, I'm not sure I want to know..

Get real yourself - look it up you lazy hound

[amateur51]

Oh. So sorry, but as I said I am a busy chap these days and just haven't got around to changing my avatar. I will, when I feel like it.

Rosemary for Remembrance? Funny that. I have yet to see anybody wearing a sprig of Rosemary on Remembrance Sunday.

Don'tcha just love a self-proclaimed 'man of the theatre' who doesn't recognise a reference to Ophelia's flower speech in Shakespeare's Hamlet

[amateur51]

My question was clearly expressed and quite specific and you've dodged it.

I do bang on (your phrase) about lesbian & gay rights, largely because few others do, and because it needs doing inho. Howwever I didn't start this thread and many others have contributed positively so it's not just me.

I was interested to see that you also have not responded to the question about why you respond to this issue so much.

[Barbirollians]

I see that Mr and Mrs Bull's appeal to the Supreme Court has been dismissed - confirming that a religious belief does not allow a service provider to discriminate on the grounds of sexual orientation .

Baroness Hale made the striking point that no more would it be lawful for a gay couple to refuse a room to Christians.

[Mr Pee]

Don'tcha just love a self-proclaimed 'man of the theatre' who doesn't recognise a reference to Ophelia's flower speech in Shakespeare's Hamlet

I knew precisely what you were referring to, you patronising git, but it has nothing to do wth Remembrance Sunday, which was the point I was making.

[Mr Pee]

I was interested to see that you also have not responded to the question about why you respond to this issue so much.

Yes I have. Do please pay attention.

[amateur51]

I knew precisely what you were referring to, you patronising git, but it has nothing to do wth Remembrance Sunday, which was the point I was making.

Charming! If anyone had called you a patronising git, the toys would all have been thrown out of the pram.

[amateur51]

Yes I have. Do please pay attention.

I am paying attention and I still don't see an explanation.

[ahinton]

I am paying attention and I still don't see an explanation.

I'm struggling to do so as well but I can only deduce, rightly or wrongly, that the so-called "Festival of Remembrance" as it is currently constituted takes precedence over Shakespeare in the mind of our Mr Peem which apparent fact surely speaks eloquently, though equally sadly, for itself...

[ahinton]

Yes I have. Do please pay attention.

Where? What?

[Mr Pee]

I'm struggling to do so as well but I can only deduce, rightly or wrongly, that the so-called "Festival of Remembrance" as it is currently constituted takes precedence over Shakespeare in the mind of our Mr Peem which apparent fact surely speaks eloquently, though equally sadly, for itself...

Oh crikey, it really is like pushing water uphill sometimes......

Let me try and explain; if I could do it in words of one syllable, I would so so, but I will at least try and keep it simple for you:-

Amateur's predictable little dig was targeted at me because I am still showing a Poppy picture as my avatar; as he, and you, Al, very well know, I added said avatar in the run-up to Remembrance Sunday, as a result of Mr. GG's disrespectful and border-line offensive thread on that subject. At no point in said thread was there a mention of Ophelia, Shakespeare, or Hamlet. Am51 shoehorned in his reference to rosemary for reasons that escape me. I simply pointed out that rosemary is not the preferred symbol of remembrance. It is the poppy.

Got it now?

[ahinton]

Oh crikey, it really is like pushing water uphill sometimes

Judging by your efforts to "explain" you might be better off doing that instead...

Let me try and explain; if I could do it in words of one syllable, I would so so, but I will at least try and keep it simple for you

How could I stop you? I doubt that you're familiar with sufficient words of one syllable to do this, but there is in any case no need either for that or for undue simplicity - all that's needed is an answr.

Amateur's predictable little dig was targeted at me because I am still showing a Poppy picture as my avatar; as he, and you, Al, very well know, I added said avatar in the run-up to Remembrance Sunday, as a result of Mr. GG's disrespectful and border-line offensive thread on that subject. At no point in said thread was there a mention of Ophelia, Shakespeare, or Hamlet. Am51 shoehorned in his reference to rosemary for reasons that escape me. I simply pointed out that rosemary is not the preferred symbol of remembrance. It is the poppy.

Got it now?

No. The inappropriately called "Festival of Remembrance" is supposed to be on 11 November but for "reasons" best known to no one that I know is usually held on the nearest Sunday to that date (or is it the Sunday immediately before it? - I can't remember or be bothered to look it up); what does the holding of it on a Sunday say about "remembering" the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month? Whatever the answer to that - if any - may be, however, that's more than a fortnight ago, yet you're still using that avatar. Are you still trying to remember something?

I'm not going to comment on MrGG's contributions to that thread beyond stating that I see no reson for direct insults being hurled at other members.

The fact that, in that thread, there was no "mention of Ophelia, Shakespeare or Hamlet" is neither here nor there and makes no difference to the validity of that reference. Am51 typed it; he had no need of a "shoehorn" for that purpose and didn't use one. The fact that, by your own admission, the reasons for it (the reference, that is - not tthe shoehorn) escape you clarifies beyond doubt that you have no explanation to provide, so let us return to the subject - one in which you have identified that your interest is so lacking that you didn't even appear to know or care what LGBTI stands for and in which your alleged interest has accordingly been questioned more than once by more than one member - while you continue to push your water uphill.

[Beef Oven!]

Got it now?

Lol! Meanwhile, back on planet Earth!!!!

[Mr Pee]

No. The inappropriately called "Festival of Remembrance" is supposed to be on 11 November but for "reasons" best known to no one that I know is usually held on the nearest Sunday to that date (or is it the Sunday immediately before it? - I can't remember or be bothered to look it up); what does the holding of it on a Sunday say about "remembering" the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month?

Well, you are completely wrong there. The "Festival of Remembrance" is the event that takes place in the Royal Albert Hall on the Saturday, immediately before Remembrance Sunday. Which is indeed held on the Sunday immediately preceding 11/11, for reasons that I should have thought were bleedin' obvious- principally that it is much easier to pause for quiet reflection on a Sunday than it is on any other day, and that it is also the day when it will be easiest for many veterans and their families to attend. Which doesn't alter the fact that most shops and businesses still observe a two minute silence at 11am on the 11th.

Quite frankly, Al, if you don't even know the difference between the Festival of Remembrance and the Sunday event at the Cenotaph, you have no business commenting on the subject.

[Mr Pee]

I have little doubt that there is much knowledge that you are uncertain about wishing to have but, to give you the benefit of that doubt, I recommend that you read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT, from which you should be able to learn something.

"Intersex"?????

Good grief....how do I unlearn that?