IdleRich
IdleRich
Bold but very passive aggressive... are real men passive aggressive? I suspect not.
Not Being Gay
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IdleRich
IdleRich
He's a guy I went to visit in Serbia. Basically he's my window into the Serbian world, if he tells me something about that country or probably the Balkans in general then as far as I'm concerned it's unassailable gospel truth.
Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
Thank you.
You ought to produce a glossary of all your friends for us, like Hilary Spurling's guide to A Dance to the Music of Time.
IdleRich
IdleRich
I did mention him in the thread where I talked about going to Serbia. But I will recap now...
Igor Milosevic; hard looking six foot two, ex-special forces military police, now working remotely in computing. When he arrived in Lisbon the first thing he saw was a poster advertising Liza DJ-ing with one of his all-time favourite artists - Sonic Boom from Spacemen 3 etc - so he decided to check that out.
When he arrived at Cosmos we were introduced almost straight away and I asked if he was familiar with the cult Yugo dark comedy Strangler Vs Strangler - it turned out he was very familiar and a friendship was born.
At the start of this year Igor was back in Novi Said for a few months and he asked if I would be free for his birthday in mid-April, I was and said so, and he replied to say that he had bought me flights there and back and that I would be staying at his place for ten days, DJ-ing on his birthday and in a cool bar another day.
While there he introduced me to the world of cult Yugoslavian films (made while the Balkan countries were still joined and so the films were nominally Yugoslavian, but in the ones he selected
to show me most of the actors, directors etc were Serbian) and he also told me about the so-called Black Wave of Serbian cinema, the main director of which is about 150 years old and whom Igor had worked with doing marketing on some of his films. I was blown away by the films he showed me and I showed one at my film night in Lisbon in July.
Now we are both back in Lisbon and Igor is joining my team for the film nights going forward. That means that as well as the leader (which is me) there will now be Igor and Taras providing technical support - and more.
Now Taras, I have also mentioned him previously but again I can provide a more thorough summary if required.
CorpseysEvilTwin
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this is the passive aggressive loner who invented an alternative persona malelesbian for himself in his ripe old 50s, lest we forget.
IdleRich
IdleRich
Yes
IdleRich
IdleRich
That's what I hoped... although I stole the central thesis (get me) from a Facebook group which has the arguably less subtly named - and filled with verbing Must Man Harder Or The Queer Will Unpenis Me
Clinamenic
Binary & Tweed
IdleRich
IdleRich
Textbook
How do these people get through. Making up all these bizarre rules that they not only have to follow, but which they have to enforce when they see them being broken - if only by tutting or spouting off about it on Facebook.
Cos these rules, pretty much invariably, rule out some sensible convenience or time saving etc Following them will simply make one's life harder - probably, if one were to strictly follow them all, significantly harder in fact.
How do these people get through. Making up all these bizarre rules that they not only have to follow, but which they have to enforce when they see them being broken - if only by tutting or spouting off about it on Facebook.
Cos these rules, pretty much invariably, rule out some sensible convenience or time saving etc Following them will simply make one's life harder - probably, if one were to strictly follow them all, significantly harder in fact.
IdleRich
IdleRich
The following are all rules I've read lately.
Don't drive a car that isn't a truck, don't let your wife drive, don't do the washing up, don't say good morning, don't use plasters*, if you "enjoy family time" on Christmas Eve instead of going to the pub to watch footie then you're a weak Marxist man, don't look in the mirror, and so on and so forth...
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Don't drive a car that isn't a truck, don't let your wife drive, don't do the washing up, don't say good morning, don't use plasters*, if you "enjoy family time" on Christmas Eve instead of going to the pub to watch footie then you're a weak Marxist man, don't look in the mirror, and so on and so forth...
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Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
Home of sexual what?
IdleRich
IdleRich
Someone on facebook claimed to have had this conversation with a customer. Apparently the people in that shop now annually celebrate Gay Bucket Day
Really weird conversation with a customer earlier…
"Do you have any different-coloured buckets?"
"No, just what we have there."
"I don't want any gay ones."
"Beg pardon?"
"Purple's a gay colour."
"How d'you figure that?"
"Gay people like purple."
"I think gay people like a lot of things."
"Well I don't."
"You don't like things?"
"I don't like gay things."
"It's a bucket."
"A gay bucket."
"It is literally not possible for a bucket to be gay or otherwise."
"You know what I mean."
"I really don't."
"You don't think purple is a gay colour?"
"Why would it be gay and why would that matter to me?"
"It's like pink."
"What's wrong with pink?"
"Pink is a girly colour."
"So I'm confused, are these colours bad because they're gay or bad because they're girly?"
"Girls like these colours, and when a guy uses them that's gay."
"I am just utterly bewildered by your thought processes right now."
"Are you gay?"
"Am I wearing pink or purple?"
"You could still be gay without wearing pink or purple."
"So why does the colour of your bucket matter so much to you?"
"People might think I'm gay."
"Because of your bucket?"
"Yes."
"But you're not gay?"
"Of course not!"
"Do all the gay people you know have purple buckets?"
"I don't know any gay people."
"Why not?"
"Because I'm not gay!"
"How do you know so much about gay people then?"
"I don't! It's just what everyone knows!"
"Well I didn't know, but I'm learning a lot now."
"Look it's just how things are."
"Do you think a person can be turned gay by the colour of their bucket?"
"No."
"So the colour of their bucket doesn't matter?"
"That's right."
"But the colour of *your* bucket *does* matter?"
"I… yes."
"Extraordinary."
IdleRich
IdleRich
I can credit that someone asked for a non-gay bucket but I doubt very highly that the conversation went exactly as described with him finding precisely the right answer every time, and if somehow that did happen I find it even more unlikely that he could remember it well enough to reproduce it verbatim like that.