Baht Simpson

Well. he was a business planning leader at EGAT and his son works in the stock exchange. Also he's 81 so plenty of time to squirrel away some money. He might have other assets too, rental, land sales etc. It is possible.

You're demonstrably wrong. You do not speak for the majority. And Pride is not about castrating people. Grow up! https://glaad.org/publications/accelerating-acceptance-2023/

I imagine this will be quietly dropped from the 2024 manifesto.

Yes, but they were elected. 🙂

Who knows why these people do what they do. They seem to get a kick out of it. I'm not so worried about the haters, they're easily dismissed. It's the ones that promulgate inaccuracies that push my buttons. But again they seem to have old fashioned, entrenched views that won't be shaken: the comfort of feeling superior. Oh, and the ones with "gay friends" who agree with every word that leaves their mouths. 🙂 As if that matters. It's usually the same names. Happy Pride to the lovers and a big raspberry to the haters.

You're pretty much proving my point.

All good then.

I'm sorry but I'm not going to live my life trying to justify what I am to other people. I'm not going to try to prove that animals do the same as me. I'm not going to try to prove there's a "gay gene" so that I can show that it's a natural phenomenon. I'm not going to try to prove whether or not God loves gays when it says something derogatory in the Bible. I couldn't care less about arguing the toss about my sexuality with those that oppose it. As you say, it never ends, so why engage with bigots on these issues. You just go round in circles. Let's stick to the real issues of representation, acceptance, diversity, visibility and most of all, equality, especially this month. As I said previously I agree that the counter-argument to the 'not natural' crowd is welcome but my personal opinion is that validating anyone's sexual orientation isn't necessary and we shouldn't entertain anyone that wants to.

I think it's entirely irrelevant. If it was subsequently found that animals didn't actually have same-sex attractions would that invalidate homosexuality in humans? Of course not. That's my point. We shouldn't have to justify what we are with animal behaviour. It justs arms the anti crowd.

Well, some animals eat and/or kill their young. Just because that's occurs in nature it's not a good argument for humans to do it. Do you see my point? Not sure what your second sentence means.

I actually have mixed feelings about this. It's true that showing that same sex attraction is seen in the wild is a good counter-argument to those that say it isn't. However, we are not wild animals. David Hume, the moral philosopher, whom I very much admire in other respects, opined that men who were attracted to each other were no better than beasts in the field and applauded two men stoned in the stocks, one who died. Clearly this is absurd and he was criticised for his views, probably driven by his religion. I have no doubt that homosexuality is purely natural, but the fact that wild animals have same-sex attraction is to my mind irrelevant.

It depends on what form that non-acceptance takes. Too often it leads to inequality, discrimination and worse. And for the nth time homosexuality is not a lifestyle, it's a sexual orientation like heterosexuality. I think there's little doubt that the right-wing are predominately the main users of anti-LGBT rhetoric,.

I dunno. 1500 women, 20 seconds a time. That's only 8 hours and twenty minutes. 🙂

A chap in our firm collapsed and died on a train on the way to his retirement do. It was never an issue for me after that. Quit work at 50 and came here after two years planning. I didn't know how long it would last but it's 18 years and counting. No plans to go home. Being in a relationship helps. “The dead are on their way to work, grey limbs rubbing together in an open grave, stack on stack in the metal containers of car, tube and train. The grisly carriages are painted bright colors, guillotine colors of tumbril and blade, execution-bright. Each man and woman goes to their particular scaffold, kneels, and is killed day after day. Each collects their severed head and catches the train home. Some say that they enjoy their work.” ― Jeanette Winterson, Art and Lies

Yeah, it's been immense fun. I shall be sad when it's all over. 🙂

I agree. It's not going to change.

I was 4 nights in hospital on a drip. As you say, I'll for months afterwards. Worst illness I've ever had.

Incorrect. I'm a UK. tax payer and contribute to the U.K. economy in other ways too. As I'm not availing myself of any of the benefits of that tax I'm effectively subsidizing the U.K. resident taxpayers. All I'm asking for in return is fairness in the uprating of the State Pension.

That's your only response to all the points I made is it? Lame.

I had it too. It's not known as breakbone fever for nothing.

I wouldn't worry too much about this. Clacton was the only seat the UKIP party won 9 years ago. That's why they put him in there. If he wins it he'll just cause trouble in Parliament and claim expenses like he did when he was an MEP.

Well, let me respond to you Startmeup. Firstly, you'll see that I was responding to the comment that Robinson is just a "little rough round the edges." I aimed to show that he was much more than that, as his record shows. Secondly, I'm fully aware of what Wikipedia is, it's not mainstream media and isn't political, it's an online encyclopedia driven by volunteers which aims to present facts as they are known. Links are provided to allow people to assess the veracity of those presented facts and not just take them on face value. Those links are sometimes to mainstream media and sometimes not. Moreover they cover both ends of the political spectrum as you will see if you scroll down. For instance you'll see The Times and Telegraph in there. Therefore, even if only one of those things I highlighted were true (and I could havelighted several more) it would prove my point. I'm not so much suspicious of what he says but his motives, as I alluded to in a previous post. Ironically you post a Youtube video and ask me to believe what is said. I don't believe everything on there either, although I'm sure there are some that do. Also, your contention that people who take a different view to you are "daft","clowns" and "brainwashed" does you little credit.

I agree with everything I said. 😀

Another convicted felon who loves his country so much. 😆

I agree. We gotta watch that Putin.