When good ideas backfire

Error of Logic · Post by **Error of Logic** » Fri May 19, 2006 7:45 am

Check out the news. Was this subject already discussed here?

Aeridus · Post by **Aeridus** » Fri May 19, 2006 8:33 am

Badly phrased question. ;P Plus, that kind of survey only belongs in a sex ed class...

Still, it's not quite as bad as the one teacher who handed out an essay assignment called: "If you were to kill someone, who would you kill, how, and why?"

Sweet or Sour · Post by **Sweet or Sour** » Fri May 19, 2006 12:21 pm

It’s pretty much a top-ten list of questions asked of what could decently be defined as ‘newly out’ people, if you replace the segment ‘hetero’ with ‘homo’ in every instance, and maybe change some of the things about wedding rings. It’s an interesting conversation piece, even if the medium though which such a thing was distributed was a bit odd, and perhaps could have been done better. These questions are generally demeaning to those who are asked them, and the survey seems to be more intended to try the shoe on the other foot. But to call it ‘as bad as’ something is a bit peculiar. They are bad questions, but they are also questions that are quite consistently being asked of those who this specific survey isn’t aimed at, and this seems to just be asking those to justify their stances, who would otherwise be doing the asking, presenting just how stupid the questions sound when somebody asks them. Highly doubtful that they were actually looking for an answer to the question ‘when did you know you were heterosexual’, but instead to pose the question as something which sounds as degrading as it sounds to those who tend to get asked it.

Orwell · Post by **Orwell** » Fri May 19, 2006 12:31 pm

Where does one sign up for these news making classes? Preferably the how would you kill off your highschool one, but any will do.

The only thing interesting was that my teacher lost a bet and dressed in drag, though from his words and how easily he did it, I'm sure this is the least of what his wife does with him. The videography people made him into Hitler too.

Peaches · Post by **Peaches** » Sat May 20, 2006 1:18 pm

I completely agree with the outraged parents and students here. Since when have social conventions been fair targets for satire?

Now if you'll excuse me, my wife has not properly cooked my dinner and I have to beat her.

(The scarcasm is dripping from this post.)

Indigo Violent · Post by **Indigo Violent** » Sat May 20, 2006 2:23 pm

orwell wrote:The only thing interesting was that my teacher lost a bet and dressed in drag, though from his words and how easily he did it, I'm sure this is the least of what his wife does with him.

...Did you go to my high school?

Wilmo · Post by **Wilmo** » Sat May 20, 2006 2:48 pm

oh, that's funny

Kite-san · Post by **Kite-san** » Sat May 20, 2006 8:36 pm

all we had in my highschool was MUN and improvised explosives.... only very occasionally at the same time, though.

Error of Logic · Post by **Error of Logic** » Sat May 20, 2006 9:40 pm

What is MUN?

Frombork! · Post by **Frombork!** » Sat May 20, 2006 10:57 pm

<derp>

Peaches · Post by **Peaches** » Sun May 21, 2006 1:12 am

Frombork! wrote:6. Is it likely you just haven't met the right same gender partner yet?
A. Yes, and it's likely I never will, as I doubt many guys would answer a personal ad that read "Single straight male seeking other single straight male who hopefully looks like that guy from Guilty Gear".

Maybe we can go halfsies on that ad if we include both of our phone numbers?

Alter alias · Post by **Alter alias** » Tue May 23, 2006 1:17 am

Wow, if nothing else ever surprises me the ability parents have for being upset by utterly innocent events will always bring something new.
Am I alone in being rather tempted to devise new questions to add to the list?

Jackalope · Post by **Jackalope** » Wed May 24, 2006 6:10 am

Or as the morris dancers had happen at a renaissance faire this weekend:

They do a dance called "Maiden's Prayer." It's a willie whacking dance. The sticks are used in a highly suggestive manner and they play it up. It's still really not that big a deal unless you've already got a stick up your ass. Some idiot sitting on a flamable haybale next to their kid started complaining about "I thought this was supposed to be a family show." One of the dancers who wasn't on stage did a double take and then said, "You're setting a great parental example, smoking next to your minor child." Of course, he was holding his infant niece in his arms and stomped off to get her away from the cigarette smoke.

But hey, some mildly suggestive folk dances might pollute the kid's mind forever!

WangyJohn · Post by **WangyJohn** » Wed May 24, 2006 9:03 am

Peaches wrote:
Frombork! wrote:6. Is it likely you just haven't met the right same gender partner yet?
A. Yes, and it's likely I never will, as I doubt many guys would answer a personal ad that read "Single straight male seeking other single straight male who hopefully looks like that guy from Guilty Gear".
Maybe we can go halfsies on that ad if we include both of our phone numbers?

Room for a third?

Bridget will make you gay. Hard gay.

LindaH · Post by **LindaH** » Wed May 24, 2006 9:05 am

*shakes head and doesnt know if she shoudl cry or laugh*

Alter alias · Post by **Alter alias** » Wed May 24, 2006 11:34 am

jackalope wrote:Or as the morris dancers had happen at a renaissance faire this weekend:

They do a dance called "Maiden's Prayer." It's a willie whacking dance. The sticks are used in a highly suggestive manner and they play it up. It's still really not that big a deal unless you've already got a stick up your ass. Some idiot sitting on a flamable haybale next to their kid started complaining about "I thought this was supposed to be a family show." One of the dancers who wasn't on stage did a double take and then said, "You're setting a great parental example, smoking next to your minor child." Of course, he was holding his infant niece in his arms and stomped off to get her away from the cigarette smoke.

But hey, some mildly suggestive folk dances might pollute the kid's mind forever!

If someone is such a prude as to be offended by morris dancing how exactly did they manage to find it in them to even produce a kid in the first place? Some breeders shouldn't.

Swordsman3003 · Post by **Swordsman3003** » Wed May 24, 2006 1:36 pm

WangyJohn wrote:
Peaches wrote:
Frombork! wrote:6. Is it likely you just haven't met the right same gender partner yet?
A. Yes, and it's likely I never will, as I doubt many guys would answer a personal ad that read "Single straight male seeking other single straight male who hopefully looks like that guy from Guilty Gear".
Maybe we can go halfsies on that ad if we include both of our phone numbers?
Room for a third?

Bridget will make you gay. Hard gay.

It's true, everyone is gay for Bridget.