Qualities of the gay man v the straight man

[frequent]

I'm well aware of that - and it's the very point I was making, by comparing it to the PH scale.

Surprised you didn't get that.

Maybe you had a bet on England to win tonight and their result has put you in a cranky mood, so I'll be a little more generous that you were, by not insulting you (as you did to me).

But be assured it's in the bank for another occasion.

Surely you don’t wish to intrude on my grief over the Korean team’s ouster by taunting me about the perfidious English?

[frequent]

Trigger warning for lip-pursers everywhere (hullo francois)

Back to the theatre as bohemia and a safe haven for the "different". One of my favourite performers is the wonderful Barry Humphries who not only does not care if he offends, but actually intends to offend. An extensive interview with him has just been published in The Luvvies' in-house organ, The Guardian (or as Private Eye - another favourite - calls it The Grauniad) https://www.theguardian.com/culture/...-les-patterson

[arsenal]

As if by magic the unpleasant and the uncouth appear to prove my point.

[a447]

I also think that gays appear over-represented in the field of the Arts.

But that may simply be because society and the media are obsessed with their sexual orientation and like to highlight that fact.

[frequent]

Speaking of the arts, I'm reminded that Dame Nellie Melba once described the Great Caruso's as "the sweetest cum I ever tasted"; in later life she kept a strapping young man in the wings of the theatre and sucked him off before a performance to lubricate her vocal chords

[a447]

in later life she kept a strapping young man in the wings of the theatre and sucked him off before a performance to lubricate her vocal chords

I'll keep that in mind next time I go to karaoke!

[arsenal]

These days it seems that no one is allowed to be anything and no one is allowed to recognise any differences between men/women, black/Asian/white, gay/straight. Everyone has to be metrosexual and love everybody else the same. Fuck that. Fat Lesbos are scarily butch and I don't like em. So there. The same goes for the old, bitter and whiney like Wombles and Frequent.

[scottish-guy]

I'll keep that in mind next time I go to karaoke!

One can only speculate what your Karaoke "playlist" is - but based on the accounts of your sex life you post on this forum I'm assuming it's:

• Millie Small's "My Boy Lollipop"
• Olivia Neutron Bomb's "Let's Get Physical"
• Anita Ward's "Ring My Bell"
• Capt & Tenille's "Do That To Me One More Time" - and you finish up (literally) with
• Johnny Cash's "Ring of Fire"

[arsenal]

I can see the Thai boys playing Local Hero (Mark Knopfler) when a447 pitches up with his wad.

[Oliver2]

It was noticeable to me, when I first arrived in Pattaya in 1996, shy and only recently experienced as an actively- gay man, that the people whom I saw in gay bars (and even talked with very occasionally) behaved with decorum, unlike those many of those I saw (and didn't speak to) in straight beer bars. They dressed respectfully, were never, as far I could see, obnoxiously drunk and treated the guys with kindness and civility.