AWKWARD ZOMBIE

The last time I cried was last Thursday.

On a related note, I feel kind of selfish sometimes because I really only cry when I get extremely stressed out. I've never really cried to the death of anyone I knew(but then again no one I'm really close to has died yet).

I used to be really anti gay when I was younger. I even used to say really stupid shit like "It's Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve."

I hate my younger self.

Same, I was a product of a small-town full of Bible-thumpers.

I remember my first year of college, I was talking to a very pro-LGBT friend (who actually years later came out as MtF transgender) and told her that being gay was "most likely" a form of mental disorder. I remember being confused as to why she was so completely shocked by me saying that.

I also had some friends from high school that hesitated to show me a joke on the internet that was vaguely sex-related because they thought I would be offended/not find it funny. I was so... prudish, for lack of a better word, back in high school. Heck, i even remember being bothered, almost offended, by my freshman classmates swearing so much, talking about sex, making offensive jokes, etc. Now I swear like a sailor. But they had no idea I had changed so much since they hadn't seen me in so long.

It's so crazy to think about, how I met so many different people with different backgrounds and viewpoints in college... and it made me realize that the beliefs I had taken for granted might not make as much sense as I thought they did. I just took it for granted since everyone assured me that they were the "good" and "right" things to believe. If I hadn't moved out of my hometown, I may have never changed at all and stayed the narrow-minded person I once was. It really helps me understand why so many people who have never left that small town still have a lot of backwards views - because they honestly have never met anyone that's told them otherwise, and if they did, they were such a minority that any differing ideas were just dismissed.

You know what they say, "Travel is fatal to prejudice."

You moved from a small town into a big town! I had a similarish opposite experience. I sort of knew gay people were a thing while I was growing up (herp I'm bi), but it didn't seem like that big of a deal. I was young, the world was harmless and full of good people, etc. etc. children delusions.

Then when I was 12 we moved to a small town in the south, and people were suddenly adamantly opposed to gay people being, like, alive. It's the stereotypical redneck southern town. The kind of place where people genuinely believe they have the RIGHT to own an AR-15 and gosh darnit they have the RIGHT to test it on them thur GAYS who, of course, are causing bad weather by pissing off God. Everyone knows that dick + dick = drought

So my perception shifted from "this isn't a big deal, really" to "jfc, there is some shit that LGBT people have to deal with". I've been pretty liberal for as long as I can remember, so I was totally for LGBT rights and support even before I knew I wasn't straight.

but lol I can never tell anyone until I move (fingers crossed for next year!) because these people would probably bring back the pitchfork-and-torches mobs for just the occasion.

Glad to hear I'm not the only one. I was pretty anti LGBT all throughout middle school and my Freshman year of high school. I'm not even sure what caused my views to change to being supportive. I was just against it one year and not the next. Probably from talking to people on the internet and stuff who are members of the LGBT community.

I live in an area where most of the people are anti gay and it's hard to handle because even some of my close friends are against it, and it makes me think a little less of them, but there's nothing I can do about it. I'm really looking forward to college so I can find more people with similar opinions as me.

Also, that quote reminds me of this comic.



Small southern town here as well.

I can handle the guns and whatnot, but hearing so much hate speech all the time gets tiring. One of my friends all the time talks about how if he has a gay son, he'll castrate him. It's fucking ridiculous. And it makes no sense to me because his girlfriend is bi.

Haha, when I worked at McDonalds I had a ~delightful~ co-worker who mentioned that if she ever had a gay son she would just abandon him somewhere.

woooooo, southern values
They make the best butter-fried string-bean butter mayo and grits casserole, but they'll abandon their own children by the side of the road if they dare to be themselves.

(I have lived here since 2006 and I still don't know what grits are)

Grits are basically like oatmeal, except made of cornmeal instead of oats.

But why would they name it after the word used to describe the texture of sand??

Eating grits makes me imagine eating sand or dirt. Gritty and unpleasant. They sound alright, though. Just get a different name. The south needs a new marketing team.

Grits are not good in any way, shape, or form.

You shut your whore mouth. You season them right, and they are delightful. Add a little cheese, and you'll be full for hours.

I like grits, but I prefer oatmeal.

I'd been cutting back on drinking and thought I couldn't handle the stuff as well as I used to anymore, but I still accidentally won a drinking competition this weekend.

That's probably not a good thing.

It just means you've trancended the other meager humans you surround yourself with.

Also I have here in my hand the ULTIMATE CONFESSION

So several years ago I was talking to Spoony and just shootin the shit as we were want to do. We were talkin about the forum at some point and about some of the ridiculously embarrassingly dumb comments certain people often made back in the day. I was lamenting the fact that there was no real way to capitalize on it at the time. I was just sayin like "Man...I wish there was a way to lure someof the shittier members of the forum into saying ridiculously awful/dumb/atrocious shit so we could ban them or laugh at them as the situation commanded." Spoony was all like "Bro we already have the TMI thread shit's cash" but I knew in my heart of hearts that something more needed to be done.

So basically Spoon was all "Hold on, I have the perfect idea" and from his molten Aussieforge, birthed upon the highest aboriginal plateau was born the Confession thread. I looked upon it's beauty and simplicity in pure awe.

When it began (and to this day) the vast, vast majority of posts have been constructive, introspective, respectful and by no means banable or laughable. I could see tears of disappointment forming on the perfectly molded Stone cheek of Spoony (which I licked off of his face and saved in a mason jar for later) for he wished to see some flies trapped in his web, but saw only beautiful butterflies. It was not until a bit after Spoony started to come around our blessed home less and less, however, that we actually struck gold. There was a person who came to the forum basically out of fucking no where and gifted unto me the most sincerely fucked up confession post we could have hoped for. It was just fucked up enough that I felt I could ban him instantly for it, but not fucked up enough that I had to struggle with the idea of calling in the police or some such shit. I don't even wanna really post what they said because it's creepy and gross, but keep some things in mind:

A. This was bodaciously their first and only post on the forum.
B. Due to the nature of their confession, I understood that they had been watching people on the forum for at least a year and a half.
C. He was in like his sophomore year of High School which just made it even more lewd as fuck

So long story short, I banned him uber hard and that was fuckin that. I feel bad that the origins of the Confession thread were essentially me and Spoon yuckin it up hard at the expense of some people who kinda just absentmindedly posted super dumb stuff on the internet, but it's nice to see that it evolved beyond that in the end.

Vax confirmed for superjerk 2011

We all knew Spoony was a manipulative little Australian, but we thought you were better than that, Vax. We're not mad, just disappointed.

Eh, it's not like you guys made anyone post anything stupid, so I don't see anything wrong with that.