Fashionable Words: Donnybrook

When you go shirtless, you know it's getting serious.

[Sometimes words die out of fashion. But sometimes those words are good words, words with a certain appeal that can't be denied forever. Those words should be brought back into fashion, used frequently and used often. These are those words.]


Word:

donnybrook


Definition:  noun

A free-for-all, a melee, a brawl.


Origin:

Ireland has gotten by during its existence largely based on a handful of stereotypes that--to a degree--its citizenry generally accepts:
a.)  potatoes
b.)  Guinness
c.)  whiskey
d.)  shamrocks
e.)  fighting

No one can deny a quality potato-based meal, and the debate on alcohol begins and ends immediately with a simple "yes, please." Fighting, though, seems like a silly stereotype until you realize that donnybrook--which is about WWE-style fighting--has its origins in Ireland as well.

First and foremost, donnybrook the word comes from Donnybrook, a modern-day district of Dublin, no different than Harlem is a part of New York City. The district gets its name from the Irish language Domhnach Broc, meaning "The Church of Saint Broc." Little is known about Saint Broc except that she founded a convent or church in the early eighth century, a church/convent long lost. By the tenth century, Vikings were raiding Ireland and most likely sacked Saint Broc's creation. Today, only a cemetery in use from that time period remains.

Am I saying the word donnybrook somehow is connected to a saint? Yes...yes, I am.

Nowhere does it say you need a mustache to be involved in a donnybrook

In 1204, King John of England (better known as the king in the Robin Hood stories and brother of Richard the Lionhearted) granted the corporation of Dublin to hold an 8-day fair in the Donnybrook district. Within fifty years, it was lengthened to 15-days, and for the next 660+ years a fair was held in Donnybrook annually.

King John: Lover of fairs and creator of donnybrooks.

What started out as a peaceful, boring get together slowly built up over the decades. Fair-goers started drinking heavily. Small fights begot moderate fights begot sizable fights begot what became known as donnybrooks. Stunningly, large amounts of alcohol and personal quarrels led to massive brawls. I'm as stunned by this revelation as you.

Ireland embraced its stereotype of drinking and fighting, so much so that in a 1778 newspaper article one writer complained, "How irksome it was to friends of the industry and well-being of Society to hear that upwards of 50,000 persons visited the fair on the previous Sunday, and returned to the city like intoxicated savages." Someone sounds like a Negative Nancy.

How most modern-day donnybrooks slowly start out, with John Wayne (right) throwing down.

Eventually, some in the community banded together to create a committee to end the fair. It took decades (the fair had a license, and whoever owned the license could end the annual get-together), but the committee eventually bought the license and ended the Donnybrook Fair in 1866.

The fair might have ended, but the association with chaos lived on, and so did the word.


Most obscure UrbanDictionary.com definition of 'donnybrook':

4.)  The word that gives the Irish and the college sports programs the Irish reputation for brawling [...] (and the) end of a donnybrook usually results in missing teeth, lacerations to the head, scars, scrapes, and bruises to the body. If you ever hear of a donnybrook starting at the place you're in, either run, or participate and be prepared for all of the above flesh wounds the next morning.


Used in a sentence:

After drinking two cases of beer while tailgating, Tommy and his friends started arguing with another group of fans, and everyone ended up in a donnybrook, throwing punches and kicks at each other in the parking lot.


Why you should use 'donnybrook' in your everyday life:

Using donnybrook is as close as your tender life will ever get to the world of MMA.


Word Awesomeness Scale (1-to5):

Three

It also sounds like it could be a name you randomly picked from a telephone book--like a guy named Donny Brook, who owns a butcher shop but does a little light illegal gambling on the side.

The first public school in America finally named its first minority headmaster.

Boston Latin High School was founded in 1635 as the first high school in the United States. In its nearly 400-years of existence, it has never had someone of any minority race actually be its headmaster. I assume they don't like to rush into things.

This past week, though, the school announced that Rachel Skerrit, a former graduate and African-American, would become the next headmaster. This is great news for a school that in recent years has shown faculty to have developed a culture and create issues with bias against non-white students.

A new headmaster is something. Baby steps to be sure, but a change in the right direction on a long road to walk.

White privileged people are uncomfortable talking about being white privileged people.

"That would upset me very much. I wouldn't go there."

So said one Westport, CT, resident to the Associated Press regarding an essay topic asking local students their thoughts on white privilege, a topic that is frustrating many residents.

The essay topic is one many Americans are troubled with acknowledging-- race and wealth. Americans are uncomfortable with the topic because, on some level, many judge one another based on easy qualifiers like wealth and race, too, yet they don't want to be judged in turn on such simplistic metrics.

Westport is beautiful, quaint, charming, and enveloped in money. For local populations between 20,000-60,000, Westport is noted as one of the United States' ten wealthiest communities. It's ranked fifth in the nation for median family income, with median home prices of $1,200,000. And the town is also 93% white.

These aren't flaws or problems. Repeat: These are not flaws. There is nothing wrong. These are simply facts.

Westport is wealthy and predominantly white--which led to a creation from the city of a diversity council a decade ago called TEAM Westport, which sought to increase the diversity and appeal of the community to a broader spectrum of people. Part of that involved asking local students this year what white privilege entailed in their lives.

That's all. The essay question simply asks for self-awareness.

It hasn't gone well.

"There's a lot more controversy around it than many of us expected," said Harold Bailey Jr., a retired IBM vice president who is black and chairs the diversity council. "Just the fact it says 'white' and 'privilege,' for some people that's all they need to see, and all of a sudden we're race-baiting or trying to get people to feel guilty. That's not at all what it's about."

Longtime resident Bari Reiner disagrees. "It's an open town," she said. "There are no barricades here. Nobody says if you're black or whatever, you can't move here."

Reiner--and others--seem to misunderstand nuance. The question asked what it simply meant to be white and wealthy, and the benefits inherent in that combination, which Reiner and 93% of her fellow residents are. It is, again, a matter of self-awareness.

Right now, reading comprehension awareness about what the essay question actually asks would be an huge advancement.

Famous Writers with Dogs: Patrick White

Writers need inspiration somewhere in life, and for many that inspiration comes from their pet dogs.

This is a running series where we post pictures of famous writers with their canine companions--the cute, the cuddly, the creepy. And that's just the writers.


Today: Patrick White

Well, so much for breaking the stereotype that dogs just end up looking like their owners in time.

I'm fairly certain that 85% of that pug is composed of Crisco.

As for Patrick White--you can never go wrong with a stylish shirt that channels everything fashionable about ringworm.

Philly.com might want to rethink that headline...

The Philadelphia Phillies baseball team is having a good year, with their pitching staff striking out seemingly everyone they face. Lest you don't know, "K" is the baseball scoring symbol for a strikeout.

This led Philly.com to post a story about their home team's strikeout dominance with the following headline, which this Twitter user caught:

Uhhh, hey @phillydotcom, you may want to reconsider this headline. pic.twitter.com/Fe59SV5dfq

— Tim Lemke (@TimLemkeTweets) May 1, 2016

Smooth.

Once alerted to their snafu, Philly.com swapped out the headline for the following, which has no double-meaning. No, none whatsoever. Not for a team that had a player just suspended for banned substances:

Sigh. Let's try this a third time...

Maine governor walks off stage mid-speech after students hold up sign criticizing him.

Come check out the comedic
stylings of Gov. LePage!

From the Thin Skin Department comes the state of Maine's governor, Paul LePage. Let's welcome him to the stage! Come up here, Gov. LePage!!

[[[crickets]]]
[[[no governor]]]

Gov. LePage! Welcome to the stage! Let's hear it!

[[[yawns]]]
[[[no governor]]]

Governor?






The sad part is that this was generally the case the other day as governor and all-around wannabe rejected comedian, Paul LePage, stormed off the stage at the dedication of the Theodora J. Kalikow Education Center and called two students "idiots" after the duo held signs up that said "LePage: Maine’s Shame." That's about as hot a take as you'll get in Maine, where the protests are as scorching as the weather.

Why were the students unhappy? Maybe because any time Gov. LePage gets in front of a microphone he has something offensive to say. Take this past weekend, when he decided to randomly alert people that he thinks speaking with Indians requires an interpreter and Bulgarians are hard to understand.

"It's hard to hear what they're saying," LePage said over the weekend. "Have you ever tried to say, 'What's the special today?' to somebody from Bulgaria?"

Rim-shot!! Try the veal!

Maybe the students were Bulgarian though? They might have just been answering what the special was.

Poll: 4 in 10 Brits don't like or understand Shakespeare.

60% approve. That's a passing grade, Bill!

18,000 people from 15 nations responded to a poll for the British Council to determine the Bard's economic impact in his homeland and abroad, and it found that English people, much like English weather, are sort of damp. Somehow, the world's most famous writer homegrown in their own land is disliked by 40% of the population.

A collected response from the 15 polled nations shows that 76% of respondents like Shakespeare's sonnets or plays overall.

Countries like India, China, Mexico, Turkey, Brazil, and South Africa have higher approval rates than England in the end.

What country is least favorable to Shakespeare though? That would be Germany, where only 44% replied they like his work and 42% said it was worthwhile.

Germany's hatred actually makes total sense in that Shakespeare often left at least one or two people alive at the end of his dramas, and no German wants that.

University of New Mexico students aren't too thrilled with their school's seal.

Davy and Ponce imitators hanging out.

Sad news for Ponce de León and Davy Crockett fans.

The University of New Mexico's school seal is being questioned by students for the awkward combination of a conquistador and frontiersman as representatives of the college. You know, the whole colonizer/killer/conqueror vibe sort of lost its luster a hundred years or so ago.

The startling angle to this whole issue is that all sides are approaching the conversation like, well, a conversation. No finger-pointing, no yelling, no arguing--just civil debate.

"This is a university," said Jozi de Leon, the university's vice president for equity and inclusion and no relation to Ponce. "This is the place where we should be having this kind of dialogue. We should be open to listening to the concerns of the students."

Okay, so de Leon is being all upstanding about it. But what does the president of the school have to say? He earned two degrees through the college after all, so it must be time to drop the hammer.

"It's a seal I have always known," President Bob Frank said. Cue the sledgehammer.

"I certainly understand that people may have different points of view," Frank continued. "If they want to talk about it, I am open to the conversation."

Wait-wait-wait a minute, this is not how American discourse works. Where is the verbal Molotov cocktail? The irrational vitriol toward one another? The Wolf Blitzer special report about America crumbling?

This sort of civility you expect from a knitting circle, preschool playdates, or Canada. Especially Canada, where they adorn everything with maple foliage, not conquerors.

Is New Mexico really New Canada?

This is what I'm suggesting.

Philosopher accused of plagiarizing white separatist journal. No, really.

Slavoj Žižek is one of the world's leading modern philosophers, a scholar and thinker with a tendency to call his students "boring idiots" who write "shitty papers." In other words, he's subtle.

Now Slavoj Žižek is being accused of plagiarism, and not for stealing from Noam Chomsky or Aristotle--but a white separatist magazine called American Renaissance, which I imagine is only the classiest of white separatist magazines.

A blogger found the nearly identical passages between the philosopher and American Renaissance in which Žižek allegedly plagiarizes heavily, a giant swath of copying largely unseen outside of a lazy 5th-grader's essay on the War of 1812.

NPR reached out to Žižek, who replied via email that a friend of his wrote the passages in question, and that he--Žižek--didn't plagiarize at all. "As any reader can quickly establish, the problematic passages are purely informative, a report on another's theory for which I have no affinity whatsoever; [...] In no way can I thus be accused of plagiarizing another's line of thought, of 'stealing ideas.' I nonetheless deeply regret the incident."

Deny, deny, deny--and then drop in a "thus" and a "deeply regret"--it's straight out of the elitist academic public relations plan. But Žižek continues with the charm, going full-on CAPS when he replies to NPR again, really driving home the point that he's entirely not to blame.

"I find it difficult to consider plagiarism using a brief resume of a book written by a friend FOR THE EXPRESS PURPOSE OF ME USING IT. If this is plagiarism, then quite a few academics I know are plagiarists," Žižek writes.

Throwing everyone under the bus is straight out of the Panic 101 handbook. Apparently the key to not writing "shitty papers" is to allegedly steal from the upper crust of white separatist journals--all while being a deadbeat and having your friend do all the work.





photo: The Guardian



Doesn't Žižek kind of look like a lower-level James Bond villain from the 1970s? Not the mastermind thwarting Bond, but some Eastern European strongman with a group of henchman that die way too easily at the sight of a British secret service agent?

Study: Black people almost never appear in children's books.

According to a study by the Cooperative Children's Book Center, out of a study of 3,200 children's books published in 2013, only 93 portrayed black people, while only 67 were written by a classification of "African/African American" individuals. This is the fewest number of portrayals of black people in children's books since 1994, when the study started its annual count,

Similarly, American Indians, Asians, and Latinos are all underrepresented as well.





The full breakdown for 2013:

Black/African Americans:
67 children's books written by African Americans
93 children's books about African Americans

Latinos:
48 children's books written by Latinos
57 children's books about Latinos

Asian Americans:
90 children's books written by Asian Americans
69 children's books about Asian Americans

American Indians:
18 children's books written by American Indians
34 children's books about American Indians.

This roughly computes to 3% of all children's books representing 13% of the American population which is African American, or roughly 2% of all children's books representing 15% of the American population which considers themselves Latino.

Added together, just shy of 8% of all children's books are about a race other than white.

In case you're wondering, when Latinos are taken out of the white demographic, whites make up only 63.7% of America.

That other 36.3%?

It sure isn't showing up in children's books.




No, that isn't the cover of a recent book. The Caldecott-winning 'The Snowy Day' was published in 1962 by Ezra Jack Keats, who famously said about his book, "None of the manuscripts I’d been illustrating featured any black kids—except for token blacks in the background. My book would have him there simply because he should have been there all along."

Something today's publishers and writers seem to forget.

The list about America's most and least literate cities has little to do with actual literacy rates.

Central Connecticut State University has come out with their annual list of most and least literate American cities, a collection of urban centers ranked according to...uhh...how often they use a Kindle? How often they rent books from a library? How many bookstores they have? Newspaper circulations? College degrees attained?

In essence, the focus is supposed to be on how a city reads, not if the city can actually read. If you're illiterate, yet borrowing books from the library, you're considered literate based on this study.

The lists:

Most:
1.  Washington, D.C.
2.  Seattle, WA
3.  Minneapolis, MN
4.  Atlanta, GA
5.  Pittsburgh, PA
6.  Denver, CO
7.  St. Paul MN
8.  Boston, MA
9.  St. Louis, MO
10.  San Francisco, CA


Least:
1.  Bakersfield, CA
2.  Corpus Christi, TX
3.  Stockton, CA
4.  El Paso, TX
5.  San Antonio, TX
6.  Anaheim, CA
7.  Chula Vista, CA
8.  Fresno, CA
9.  Aurora, CO
10.  Mesa, AZ


Clearly, Alabama needs to step up its game if the rest of America is going to keep mocking it.





Also, California being an illiterate mess? It might be because of state budgetary issues, where state funding has crippled local libraries, shuttering them recently. That hardly makes millions of Californians crippled readers.

'Mein Kampf' is a bestselling ebook on iTunes and Amazon.

As Vocativ.com states it:

"Or to put it another way: On Amazon, there are more than 100 versions of Mein Kampf for sale in every conceivable print and audio format, from antique hardbacks to brand-new paperbacks. Of those 100 iterations, just six are e-books—yet all six of them rank among the 10 best-selling versions overall. And those are just the ones people are paying for."

In other words, you're a cheap Fascist.

Jacksonville high school named after KKK grand wizard to be rebranded something less racist.

Voting unanimously, the Duval County (FL) School Board decided to rename the Nathan Bedford Forrest High School. The school was originally named after Forrest, a former Confederate general and Ku Klux Klan grand wizard, back in 1959 during the height of the civil rights era.

While Forrest renounced his affiliations with the KKK late in life, his connection to the hate group's early years sparked outrage among modern Jacksonville citizens.

New potential school names include Westside High and Firestone High.

Florida school board considers whether school should remain named after former KKK leader.

A proposal has been brought forth to the Duval County Public Schools (FL) board to change the name of Jacksonville's Nathan Bedford Forrest High School. The reason? Nathan Bedford Forrest--a former Confederate lieutenant general--was a member of the original Ku Klux Klan in 1866, and potentially its first Grand Wizard.

This isn't the first time the issue was brought up to the board. In 2007, a similar proposal was floated by local citizens, but was voted down 5-2 by board members, entirely on racial lines.

Now, a petition begun on Change.org by Omotayo Richmond, who has a daughter in the school system, is gaining traction. Over 160,000 people from across the country have signed Richmond's proposal voicing approval for a name change, although not everyone in Jacksonville is supportive.

"I believe it's outrageous that this could even be questioned by anybody…that anybody could even come to the defense of this man," Richmond told ABC News. The high school in question was named after Forrest in 1959 when the Daughters of the Confederacy--angered over 1954's Brown v. The Board of Education Supreme Court ruling--urged local leaders to do so.

The defense in keeping the name isn't purely by white southerners claiming tradition, but on Forrest's merits. While a general in the Civil War, Forrest was skilled, although ruthless, often killing surrendering Union soldiers, black and white alike. Later, in the early years of its creation, Forrest became a member of the KKK--and while the historical record is murky, some reports suggest he was the first Grand Wizard.

Where do things gain traction in Forrest's defense? Years later, Forrest renounced his Ku Klux Klax affiliation, and later gave speeches in favor of racial conciliation. In 1875, in a speech to black southerners which the New York Times said was "friendly," Forrest said, "We were born on the same soil, breathe the same air, and live in the same land. Why, then, can we not live as brothers?...We may differ in color, but not in sentiment."

And so we have a quagmire. An old, formerly racist, Confederate general who was part of the KKK--but later changed his belief system--has a school named after him. Do we honor the racist? Do we honor the reformed man? Or do we not honor the man at all?

That's for the Duval County School Board to decide.

Washington Redskins: Innocent team name or racial slur?

The NFL's Washington Redskins are amongst the most popular--and richest--sports franchises in America. Established in 1932, the team's name has spent the last few decades under scrutiny as people have grown more attuned to racially charged word choices that, heretofore, were generally accepted.

In recent months the debate has grown exponentially. National sportswriters have refused to use the word in their columns, organizations and schools have advocated for a change, magazines and newspapers believe it's a matter of when, not if, a different team moniker is chosen, and even President Obama has suggested a new name is in order.

The nationally televised Sunday Night Football game had the Washington Redskins and Dallas Cowboys matched up. At halftime, respected sportscaster Bob Costas offered his opinion on the word:

By the way, the Washington Redskins franchise is worth an estimated $1.6 billion, of which, according to Forbes, $131 million of that value comes solely from the brand--specifically, the word in question.

Money wins in America. That's why, right or wrong, the name will unlikely change any time soon.

Psychology Today: Learning cursive is better for your brain.

Boiled down:
Cursive requires more brain power and is more demanding than to print and type. As the author of the piece, Dr. William Klemm, suggests, penmanship "letters are less stereotypical, and the visual recognition requirements create a broader repertoire of letter representation." Children learning and using cursive also have more "adult-like" brain scans than children who just print and type.

Does this lead to smarter children? I don't know. But I do know that I love that someone referred to letters as "less stereotypical."

Even letters have to deal with the horrors of stereotyping.

If Natty Light was a university, it'd be these places.

Something called FiestaFrog.com released a list of the 100 Top Party Schools.

No such list would be complete unless Arizona State University topped it, being higher education's equivalent of a bad episode of COPS.

The top ten:

10. California State University, Chico

9. Syracuse University

8. University of Texas at Austin

7. Pennsylvania State University, Main Campus

6. Louisiana State University

5. University of Miami

4. West Virginia University

3. University of Wisconsin, Madison

2. Florida State University

1. Arizona State University

In a mild upset, Fitchburg State (my alma mater!) came in at #73, just going to prove that run down former mill towns with burnt out houses and crack fiends can inspire a party anytime!

Man pulls gun on elementary school kids because they made fun of his Confederate flag bumper sticker.

Joshua P. Dalton was driving his pickup truck in Virginia Beach, VA, when he had to stop behind a school bus unloading children.

Some children who got off of the bus immediately turned around and told the driver Dalton was aiming a gun at them.

The driver returned the children to the school and alerted authorities.

According to police, Dalton aimed the gun at the children after they made fun of a Confederate flag bumper sticker on his pickup.

He was arrested, charged with two misdemeanor counts of brandishing a firearm, and released on bond.

No word on what exactly the students said, but something along the lines of we're actually educating ourselves  or  you guys lost might have done the trick.




As a fun game, re-read the above story and count how many stereotypes about the south you can detect. If by the end of re-reading it you aren't humming the Dukes of Hazzard theme song, you're not trying hard enough.

Mix It Up at Lunch Day is really a mask fo----oh, for crying out loud.

Mix It Up at Lunch Day is celebrated on October 30th by an estimated 2,500 schools in an attempt to have children from different social cliques sit with one another during lunch, all in hopes of opening channels of communication and stop bullying.

Started 11 years ago by the Southern Poverty Law Center, the program hopes to see children break down differences and make a new friend.

Not so, says the American Family Association (AFA), a conservative evangelical group, which says Mix It Up at Lunch Day is a "nationwide push to promote the homosexual lifestyle in public schools" by creating acceptance of others--whether that acceptance is of the geeky kid who loves him some Star Wars a little too much or the disabled kid in a wheelchair who has had a string of bad luck in life--and is now encouraging parents to keep their children home from school on October 30th.

Because if there's anyone to keep an eye on, it's that kindergartner who has an affinity for the Teletubbies.

The AFA claims that Mix It Up at Lunch Day is actually an "entry-level 'diversity' program designed specifically...to establish the acceptance of homosexuality in public schools"--which is news to the nearly 2,500 schools who took part in Mix It Up at Lunch Day last year without any flotilla of a gay pride moving through the cafeteria.

Nonetheless, the New York Times reports upwards of 200 schools have canceled their own Mix It Up festivities this year, potentially because of frightened parents calling schools. Of the twenty schools the Times contacted, only one would go on record as to why they canceled. That school--Chattahoochee County Education Center in rural Cusseta, GA--claimed they canceled because teachers were too busy trying to meet the basic state teaching requirements to hold Mix It Up at Lunch Day. At lunch. When teaching isn't happening.

"The decision had nothing to do with taking a position on gay rights," Tabatha Walton, the school's principal, told the Times, presumably with a straight face.

The American Family Association's director of issue analysis, Bryan Fischer, claims the Southern Poverty Law Center is actually the hate group here, because the SPLC accepts gays and lesbians. "The reality is we're not a hate group," Fischer told the Times. "We are a truth group...We tell the truth about homosexual behavior."

Wait--it gets better from Fischer.

"Anti-bullying legislation is exactly the same," Fischer told the Times. "It's just another thinly veiled attempt to promote the homosexual agenda. No one is in favor of anyone getting bullied for any reason, but these anti-bullying policies become a mechanism for punishing Christian students who believe that homosexual behavior is not something that should be normalized.”

Take a minute to wrap your head around that statement. Really, break it down logically. I'll wait.

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Doesn't make a lick of sense, right?

In case you're wondering what kind of flag-waving, pro-homosexual activities the Southern Poverty Law Center promotes for Mix It Up at Lunch Day, they include such saucy gay behavior as...

...making friends...
...teamwork...
...addressing cliques...
...and empathy.

Empathy. It's a gateway behavior to undressing Ricky Martin with your eyes.

Malaysian Education Ministry is afraid of gays and lesbians, releases hilarious guidelines on how to detect "homosexual symptoms" in your own child.

Malaysia's Education Ministry recently endorsed an 8-point set of guidelines on how to detect homosexuality percolating in your child, and released the guidelines to 1,500 teachers and administrators at a recent seminar in order so teachers and parents can take early, corrective measures to stop it.

Let's cut to the highlights...

For detecting gays:
1.) Have a muscular body and like to show their body by wearing a v-neck and sleeveless clothes;
2.) Prefer tight and light-coloured clothes;
3.) Attracted to men;
4.) Like to bring big handbags, similar to those used by women, when hanging out.

For detecting lesbians:
1.) Attracted to women;
2.) Besides their female companions, they will distance themselves from other women;
3.) Like to hang out, have meals and sleep in the company of women; and
4.) Have no affection for men.

"Once the children have these symptoms, immediate attention should be given," advises the guidelines.

And, as the Education Minister is quoted as saying, "This can also spread among their friends. We are worried this happens during schooling time."

There's no information on how to detect bisexuals.

You know what the real headline here is? That lesbians are hanging out with women--and then trying to distance themselves from other women. Sneaky little vixens, those lesbians!

What can we learn here? That gay and lesbianism is possibly as contagious as West Nile. Who knows if mosquitoes are carrying it? Get some bug repellent with some extra-strength DEET just in case. Better safe than sorry.

And what's key to remember--and I always forget this myself--is that gay men apparently will always have affection for men. Same goes for lesbians; they only focus on fellow women. I jotted this note down in a steno pad and kept it readily available for safe keeping.




As a side note:
My aunt once bought me a sort of satchel as a gift. What's apparent now is that she was trying to infect me with the gay. Sure, I used the bag--but because I knew she was trying to make me gay, I was able to thwart her gay advances and make the bag heterosexual.



photo: Malaysiakini
Story:Gawker,Gaystar, Malaysiakini