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'The Message'


Natter 72: We Were Unprepared for This  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Cass - Dec 19, 2013 9:52:24 am PST #15001 of 30000
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

Brian Boitano came out as gay. So my question is, he hadn't come out before?

And New Mexico legalized gay marriage.

I will be happy if we ever live in a world when this isn't news because gay marriage is just referred to as marriage and people can live their lives openly.


Jesse - Dec 19, 2013 10:02:55 am PST #15002 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Brian Boitano came out as gay. So my question is, he hadn't come out before?

Really, that was a question?

Anyone ever use the escalator at Porter Square station in Cambridge, MA? You know the one I mean if you have. That things gives me panic attacks going up or down.

Oh, interesting. I really think it's interesting all the different ways people's brains work, and the different things that flash "danger" in our lizard brains (or whatever). DIFFERENT PEOPLE ARE DIFFERENT.

ION, it would have been hilarious if I were scanning porn, but no.


Sophia Brooks - Dec 19, 2013 10:04:15 am PST #15003 of 30000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

I really thought he had come out many years ago? Like around the 'What Would Brian Boitano do?" time?


sumi - Dec 19, 2013 10:08:22 am PST #15004 of 30000
Art Crawl!!!

I did too. It just was so not news.


-t - Dec 19, 2013 10:18:52 am PST #15005 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I've signed up for a tai chi class in January. Should I watch Avatar (I'm assuming Airbender, not Pandora) first?

Wouldn't hurt (and you assume correctly). Hooray tai chi!


shrift - Dec 19, 2013 10:20:06 am PST #15006 of 30000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

I think I just successfully bluffed my way through a presentation. My last meeting of the day was cancelled... by me. All I really want now is a nap.


Sophia Brooks - Dec 19, 2013 10:21:07 am PST #15007 of 30000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

Although I am sort of glad that maybe enough people have "come out" that it will cease being news? And thus requiring an actual "coming out". I did google a bit, and realized I also thought Scott Hamilton came out, and he is not gay.


Liese S. - Dec 19, 2013 10:25:35 am PST #15008 of 30000
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Fear of escalators is not an irrational fear! That are death machines! Also I'm pretty sure there's a monster that lives down in the green lights area. I watched a documentary about escalators getting built and they didn't show the installation of the monster but I'm still pretty sure.


bon bon - Dec 19, 2013 10:26:22 am PST #15009 of 30000
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

I kept thinking it was weird when they reported on the two gay women in the Sochi delegation...and Brian Boitano is also there. I assume this is why he did come out?


Trudy Booth - Dec 19, 2013 10:29:53 am PST #15010 of 30000
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

Boitano said for years that it was nobody's business and had nothing to do with skating. Now that it DOES have something to do with skating... Go Brian :)

Scott Hamilton, otoh, according to dish I have heard, was pretty much out (though unstated), found Jesus, crawled back in, and got married.

It's a big deal in the world of male figure skating and not in a very good way. It's political and ugly and sad.