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Well that was disappointing, I was hoping to see a fascinating thread with punters trying to outcompete each other over who was the most working class.
It turns out that only Rustyspanner has any pride in his working class roots. Everyone else wanted to talk about the domestic cleaners they have employed past and present.
Except for Bridges who was waffling on about something but I'm not entirely sure what, I think he is was suggesting that being working class is shit. Which to be fair is quite self-evident.
I reckon a better stw thread would be one to see who is the poshest. Obviously I wouldn't be in anywhere near the same league as most on here, and I certainly haven't engaged in any interesting sexual deviations, but I have in my shameful past bought more copies of the Guardian than I care to remember, so I would definitely be the poshest person if I walked into the Rose and Crown in Ramsbottom.
Hanging and flogging is a Tory tradition.
What is wrong with some of you, a world where I can’t point and laugh would be like a broken pencil
Was your tautology intentional there? It's quite impressive if so.
If we're going to use words like deviant, freaky, perverse and such then it's probably helpful to explain which of several meanings we're implying. Otherwise in the words of the sheriff in Cool Hand Luke, "we get what we have here today" which is a totally avoidable STW squabble.
Are we saying that these things / people / acts are bad, or that they are simply a minority? A reader could interpret them to mean either as P7 ably demonstrated on the previous page and they are wildly different meanings. Is "deviant" intended to be pejorative? Are we talking about child molesters or have we not just grown up past laughing at people who are "different" yet? I know people who would refer to themselves using those terms, see also "queer".
Me, I'm just impressed that someone went for a strangle**** and had the forethought to bring a snack.
but I have in my shameful past bought more copies of the Guardian than I care to remember, so I would definitely be the poshest person if I walked into the Rose and Crown in Ramsbottom.
I bought the financial times to get the bus from paisley rd west to mansewood on my way to school ( Hillpark)
Dunno if thats posh or stupid when you are the english boy with a lisp
The controversy comes not so much from the deviant* acts themselves , but that they are carried out by the pillars of society who preach family values & claim moral superiority even vote on laws outlawing them (who remembers the last Tory leadership contest where the candidates all oneupped on their drug taking history)
*I say 'deviant' tongue in cheek- during the naughties I was a regular at some of London's more extreme clubs, In the words of Roy Batty ; I've seen things you people wouldn't believe
TG?
I know people who would refer to themselves using those terms, see also “queer”.
Which is the crux of the issue really. If I was to call someone queer that's going to be taken as a pejorative, similarly if they describe themselves that way that's up to them and has a different meaning anyway.
People using other folks kinks and fetishes for their own entertainment is just something that pisses me off. It's none of your business and you would probably be the first to cry foul if someone was ripping into you. No ****ing wonder people keep this stuff buried so deep.
TG?
We were supposed to go for my wife's birthday one year, ended up losing a lot of money because neither myself or her friends husband were comfortable dressing the part. It was shite because we would still have fitted in but the code was extreme proscriptive. But the strict dress code is there precisely to keep folk out that have no business being there, we saw Club Noir in Glasgow turn into a joke when it got too big and greedy and ended up full of fannies who were only there for a giggle at other folk.
If I was to call someone queer that’s going to be taken as a pejorative
Context is king. Film at 11.
"Oh yeah, my friend Jess, she's queer."
vs
"You ****ing queer."
Very different meanings. Potentially. What if I said the latter to Jess with nudge to her shoulder and a big smile on my face?
If someone is going to make post going "why are a lot of those people seemingly like this" then it is of course going to get reactions like "well, do you think that 'this' is bad? Why do you care?" and so forth.
It's almost like a Facebook meme, it's open to interpretation and people like a good argument.
TG
& others, TG is considered more of a posers club in some people's eyes
The dress code made TG, once you've taken the plunge you don't feel so self conscious, but queuing up in the middle of Brixton, opposite the Fridge was certainly an experience!
I saw a few celebs there but never any MPs, but gimp masks are great for that
Only awkward moment was bumping into the centre manager at the institute I was working at, but everyone's in the same boat !
I saw a few celebs there but never any MPs, but gimp masks are great for that
Jeezus there's some proper posh gits here.
TG?
Torture Garden?
Mogrim, p1: Been there too. Matches my experience.
Hillpark school
Posh ? Sorry no 😆
It's next to Newlands(where I'm from) but more council.
