well is eh?
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Frumious_Bandersnatch_46 — 16 years ago(May 11, 2009 02:10 AM)
People are curious
People can be curious all they want. They still have no place asking personal questions like that.
I for one came to his page looking for this exact question.
Then perhaps you should have checked his bio page first. Look under the heading
Personal Quotes
. You'll find several quotes of his about coming out.
It would be good if you stopped trying to limit people's freedom of speech.
I'm not trying to limit anyone's "freedom of speech", I'm trying to tell you to grow up and learn some manners!
Now please go and find someone else to annoy. By the time you see this I'll have set my profile to ignore your postings.
Sic transit gloria mundi,
sometimes Tuesday is worse.
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ikke_for_let — 13 years ago(December 15, 2012 12:10 AM)
You treat it like it's a criminal thing to be gay. Why else would you talk about it like it's a big taboo. There is nothing strange, wrong or criminal about being gay. Asking someone if they are gay should be as normal and uneventful as eating an apple. Nathan Lane often behaves in an effeminate manner. Therefore the question is quite reasonable. I can see why a person could grow tired of being asked this question over and over again. But this is a message board. So no one is annoying him personally. There is no harm done whatsoever by asking about a trivial thing like someones sexual orientation.
I'm pretty sure most gay people don't want to have a big fuss abo16d0ut there sexual orientation. But they don't want it to be treated like a huge taboo either. It's just a normal thing. Nothing to get excited about one way or the other. -
Frumious_Bandersnatch_46 — 13 years ago(December 15, 2012 02:44 AM)
a)
Thanks for reopening a discussion I thought was done three years ago.
b)
How in the blithering blue blazes did you get that from what I said?
I never said there was anything wrong with being gay!
1)
I pointed out that Mr Lane had already addressed the issue he's gay.
2)
I pointed out that, sad to say, this is not the perfect world that you wish it were. A world where nobody uses issues of ethnic background, or religion, or sexual orientation to divide people into "they're-like-us" and "they're-
NOT
-like-us". I'm old. I've seen that attitude diminishing (in some areas) over the decades, but it's not gone yet.
3)
" no harm done "? Would that it were so! You might take a moment to note that
most
out performers are those who consider their
primary
work to be the stage. Apparently film and television aren't quite as accepting as we would wish even in the 21st century.
c)
I would agree that not many gay people feel a need for their entire world to revolve around the one point of their being gay.
So:
Explain to me once again why there are so many threads on so many performer's boards discussing whether he is gay
even after he's come out.
even after he's passed away.
even after his 3rd marriage and his 5th or 6th child.
even though it's such a "trivial" thing.
(On further thought, don't bother: I doubt I could understand your "reasoning".)
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
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Defenseman13 — 12 years ago(June 22, 2013 05:40 PM)
So what is your problem with the gays?
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Frumious_Bandersnatch_46 — 12 years ago(June 22, 2013 08:25 PM)
Okay. Let me try to put this as simply as I can:
I
DO NOT
have a problem with "the" gays (as you put it).
I
DO
have a problem with people asking rude, personal questions.
I
DO
have a problem with people who think that because they can see his image on TV and movie screens they have a right pry into his bedroom as well.
Are we clear enough now?
Before you become too entranced with gorgeous gadgets and mesmerizing video displays, let me remind you that information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, and wisdom is not foresight. Each grows out of the other, and we need them all.
Arthur C Clarke
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Frumious_Bandersnatch_46 — 16 years ago(May 18, 2009 01:47 AM)
Someone asks a question that is really none of his business!
But you appear to be upholding someone's right to do just that: to ask rude personal questions that are none of his business.
Vain glorius numb-nuts like "Desert Rat" suck the joy out of everything because they're scared of their own shadow.
"Vainglorious"?
So far, I've not seen anything in
DesertRat
's postings to indicate that he's excessively boastful. (Perhaps
your
dictionary shows a different definition.)
"Suck the joy out of everything"?
Only if the asking of rude personal questions counts as "everything" for someone.
"Afraid of his own shadow"?
Again, I don't think so. He appears to be more afraid of the continuing erosion of personal privacy and manners.
All in all, your post creates such a perception of shallowness that I must conclude with one of my favourite Gilbert & Sullivan lines:
On the subject, I pray you, be dumb! Your notions, 'though many, Are not worth a penny;The word for your guidance is "Mum!" -
MickBarr-1 — 16 years ago(May 11, 2009 06:22 PM)
Whoever had "9 posts until somebody says WHO CARES" wins the pool.
In fact, we got the WHO CARES/WHAT BUSINESS IS IT OF YOURS/GROW UP trifecta in a single post.
If Lane is out, then apparently it's not a secret and a valid question, so grow up.
