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Speaking of Australia, you guys are sick for making Fosters. SICK. :evil:

One of which is severely flawed. Like I said, the word abstinent fits just fine and doesn't muddle with the other categories of sexual orientation. Does it really matter what your incentive for not acting on it is? Depending on what a person does or doesn't do isn't a good way of dictating what a person's sexual orientation is in the first place. This type of asexual "orientation" is the only one inconsistent with all the others (including the other version of asexuality) - which rely on the emotions, feelings, and thoughts of the individual rather than behavior. Sexual orientation is different from sexual behavior because it refers to feelings and self-concept. Individuals may or may not express their sexual orientation in their behaviors."[10] Sexual identity and sexual behavior are closely related to sexual orientation, but they are distinguished, with identity referring to an individual's conception of themselves, behavior referring to actual sexual acts performed by the individual, and orientation referring to "fantasies, attachments and longings."[11] Accepted definition? What are you talking about? I've literally never heard anyone believe that until this very page of this thread.

"The desire for sex, but to not act on it." "The lack of desire for sex." Yeah, seems to be contradictory definitions with this term. I don't get why they would base a sexual orientation on the actions the person chooses to execute (or lack of actions) rather than what's going on in their minds. When I think of sexual orientation, desire is definitely the main thing to look at. There are so many gay people who suppress their feelings. I wouldn't say that this makes them non-gay though. The word for choosing not to act on sexual desires should just remain abstinent. Oops sorry then. Well, at least that's more reading material for TIF. I'll re-reply since I love semantics. I think if there is a hint of liking both genders whatsoever (Even the tiniest bit!), then you've crossed onto the threshold of bisexuality. The word "heterosexual" loses purpose if that can also be used to describe men who sometimes have thoughts about other men. You could argue that one bisexual man is more straight than another, but neither of them are straight. Just like you could say one wavy line is more straight than another, but neither of them are actually straight. Yeah, coincidentally that was the best analogy I could come up with, heh. Yes, quite like religion. I'm not going to call an androgene immoral or anything, I just don't agree with some of the points they're trying to make.

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TORTATPAM is that he plays Jak and Daxter on the maximum volume to hear Daxter's witty comments as loudly as he can. Lol, pretty good. PS: Tortatpam. What a word.

Lol I didn't know it was so common to pretend you're using your phone to avoid awkwardness. I take awkward situations head on as a sort of hobby. It's something to look back on and smile about, a couple weeks after the damage has subsided.

Then it sounds to me like they are wrongly labeled an asexual. I think your orientation is dependent on your feelings rather than your actions. A straight man could have gay sex - he just wouldn't enjoy it. Also, by that line of reasoning it makes it sound like nobody has an orientation until they first act on it. My last paragraph, if that's what you were replying to, was directed towards the logic pansexuals and polysexuals use to try to dissociate themselves from bisexuality. It just comes down to them fighting the fact that we live in a gender binary realm. Only two legitimate genders exist in objective reality. An androgene is either a biological male or female who consciously decided to alter their anatomy to try to achieve a "genderless" result. If a man got into an accident and lost his manly parts, does this strip him of his gender? Should we all of a sudden call him an it? Of course not - how silly. The only difference between the man in the accident and the androgene is the fact that the androgene consciously chose to alter their appearance. The androgene without any parts would claim he's genderless. The man in the accident without any parts would probably claim that he's still a man. That's where the subjectivity comes in. If being a man or being a woman is a subjective matter, then triangles having three sides could be too. Woo, excuse me for getting carried away. That wasn't really directed towards you either - I just haven't made posts like these in a while and I'm having too much fun with it. It's hard to stop my thoughts from coming out of my fingertips. :-)

I was trying to watch this one scene from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (I hate that show) because it disturbed me for some reason and I wanted to see if it would again. I typed this in the Youtube search: Racist Raisins Singing. I didn't find what I was looking for. Instead, a Tip It video pops up as the second result. Small world. =D>

Dude, you look just like one of my friends - same exact facial expression he uses too. You can go really far with a face like that. Only a handful of humans can pull that off. :shades:

I highly recommend pouring some parmesan cheese on pizza. Give it a try - you WILL like. I swear on my Runescape account.

Contrived eccentricity. Also, Firefox has really been letting me down lately. :(

Anyone ever stare at themselves in the mirror, and trip the [bleep] out while sober? I was making a bunch of faces to see which ones would scare people successfully but then it looked like I turned into a different person (a couple people actually) and so I ended up scaring myself. It kind of felt like I was an alien observing a human being for the first time. The proportions of my head seemed much much different than they usually do.

So a man could be sexually attracted to another man, and still be straight? What's the point of the words heterosexual and bisexual then? We might as well just flush the whole English dictionary down the toilet if anyone can interpret whatever word they want however they want, regardless of what the pragmatics imply. By definition, a man who loves women but also has sexual fantasies about other men (rare or not) has jumped over the fence from heterosexual territory and crossed onto the bisexual side. He is sexually attracted to both (two) genders, ergo his sexuality is bi. I've still yet to see any indication that there are more orientations relevant to human gender out there that don't fall under the categories of being turned on by the opposite sex (hetero), being turned on by the same sex (homo), being turned on by both (bi), or being turned on by none (non). Actually, the only thing this article seemed to be implying was that they've proven the existence of bisexuality - the "grey" orientation. This is is obvious to us now in 2010. I wasn't arguing over this though. I'm arguing about how people think there are sexualities beyond the four I mentioned above. And about those polysexual and pansexual articles, all I saw a bunch of pretentious "I transcend typical sex" idealism. I loved how they embellished their baseless arguments with philosophy talk. Yeah, just conveniently pick and choose which words do or don't have meaning. If you're going to argue that "man" and "woman" are subjective entities then there's really no point in using language and communication at all. It might have been a human being who created the word "objective", but their idea was for us to collectively communicate thoughts and information via relatable references. To talk and there be meaning to it. There's just no grounds for communication if we're all wandering off in our own little worlds.... A man is a man, a woman is a woman. A man might want to be a woman (or it?), and so edit his body or attitude to give himself the feeling that he is, but sorry, you can't exceed the two genders the universe gave us or whatever the hell pansexuals are trying to achieve. "Who are you to say my notebook is filled with paper?"

It seems when a school becomes harsher it also becomes more of a pathetic joke where education isn't even possible anymore. Coincidence? When teachers handed out referrals and detentions over the most ridiculous reasons (ridiculous as in laughing at a joke the teacher made and getting in trouble for disrupting the class, "texting in class" when you don't even own a cellphone, literally doing nothing but STANDING IN A LINE QUIETLY and getting chastised ["What did I do??" "You know what you did!"]), it gave students more of an incentive to piss them off in return. The American educational system. Great idea, awful execution. EDIT: Well, I can't really say that about America in general. However, I can say that the state of Florida has discovered the most counterproductive method of educating teenagers to possibly be conceived. Some of the teachers they hired made McDonalds employees look professional. Oh and don't even get me started on the curriculum.

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Didn't know we had so many Pinhead Larry wannabes around here. :-#

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I don't see how getting turned on by both genders doesn't count as bisexuality. Or how one can be "partially" bi. I've read those pansexual and polysexual articles and what it really comes down to is they simply don't want to be labeled a bisexual, even if that's what the signs point to. As for being bi-curious, I wouldn't even call that an orientation. It's just the process of finding out what orientation you're comfortable with for the people who are confused.

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What? It started happening to me loooooong after puberty. Like a good 5-6 years after.

I really admire the kitten on the bottom left. There's just something about him/her that speaks to me. OT: I'm very jealous of all you pipsqueaks out there who get to complain about going back to school. God do I miss the days of getting persecuted by half the school. No sarcasm here. I really do.

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Tastes great too. It's the only hard drink I can drink without flinching.

It was just a joke to Saruman saying, "Somebody post something controversial." Haha, I know what you mean. I always find it funny when people talk about the "golden age" of TIF. I look back at those posts and they're just horrible. Really don't know where you're going here. Bisexuality is the greyness. There could be different degrees of bisexuality though - like if someone liked both genders but favored females. Don't they go hand in hand? Your brain is part of your biology, after all.