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so if you could tim travel,
but you weren't allowed to gamble,
how would you make yourself rich?
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Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 0:13, 122 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

Provided I could timetravel on demand
I'd steal a lot of expensive stuff and take it back to the future with me, then sell it
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Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 0:14, Reply)

you could just buy like,
first editions of stuff the day they come out
then take them forward to the point when they are most valuable and auction them,
i suppose.
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Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 0:19, Reply)

true
but I imagine I wouldn't have much money, and thus first editions and stuff though within my price range wouldn't make that much. Whereas rare and special things would
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Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 0:23, Reply)

first editions are all going to be pretty cheap when they first come out though aren't they
on account of them, by very definition at the time, not being in any way famous or valuable.
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Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 0:24, Reply)

also a fiver now is going to add up to a lot more twenty years ago,
although you would have to bear in mind money changes, i don't know how much it would cost for me to buy 1940 currency right now.
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Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 0:25, Reply)

that's true
I think I was just planning on making more money. Perhaps go back and acquire an original Shakespeare folio
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Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 0:25, Reply)

well i asked about making yourself rich but yeh i mean,
i dunno how valuable shakespeare's stuff would be today if you stole his stuff and it didn't get seen at the exact time it originally did.
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Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 0:29, Reply)

I'd steal one of his manuscripts
after it had been shown. Make a copy of it and leave it behind
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Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 0:30, Reply)

but then the copy would be known as the original
and your original would be known as a copy!
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Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 0:32, Reply)

film it
imagine what the footage would be worth
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rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 0:35, Reply)

only if it the first ever evidence of time travel i suppose

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Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 0:57, Reply)

I'd pick a play
where the original hasn't survived (in the original form at least)
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Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 0:38, Reply)

Do a Dr Who and get given Van Gogh paintings.

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Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 0:25, Reply)

who's tim?

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rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 0:15, Reply)

the inventor of timetravel

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Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 0:19, Reply)

couldn't you just patent the device
and sell it for a fortune?

/lawyer
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rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 0:20, Reply)

i suppose,
but then everyone could gamble and go nuts and they'd all be rich and then you wouldn't be rich by comparison, and then nobody would be rich and there would be some kind of mad hyperinflation and golly it would be a right old mess.
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Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 0:22, Reply)

no no
you'd have a very tightly drafted sale and purchase agreement with overage provisions to protect you in the event that-

fuck it. i'd go back in time when the queen was hawt, take pictures of her in the shower, then come back and flog them to "playboy". is that better?
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rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 0:24, Reply)

i'm not sure how drafted sale and purchase agreements would go down
with people through literally every part of history.
what i am saying is that once you share your time travel machine,
whatever you get the person you shared it with to sign,
that shit is gonna go viral very fucking quickly and there ain't nothing you can do about it.
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Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 0:26, Reply)

Unless rather than selling it
you controlled the trips people took- sold them the trip and went back with them in order to regulate it
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Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 0:27, Reply)

now we're getting somewhere,
you would have to charge a huge amount though, the overheads would be HUGE what with the need for absolute secrecy and security and the possibility of your clients being eaten by dinosaurs.
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Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 0:29, Reply)

Plus the whole danger of timetravel
you could do a word of mouth thing. Choose the people you approach and swear them to absolute secrecy. Also sign an accepting the risk thing. You wouldn't need many people to make quite a lot of money on
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Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 0:33, Reply)

i don't think my word of mouth would reach
anyone with enough money to cover the overheads.
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Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 0:33, Reply)

You'd just introduce yourself to rich people
with artifacts you'd already acquired. I reckon Richard Branson would be well up for time travel
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Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 0:43, Reply)

maybe the trick is to let anybody travel there
but charge them a fortune to come home again.

my brother the physics guru tells me that forward time travel is theoretically possible but backwards time travel will never be.
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rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 0:30, Reply)

forwards time travel is obviously possible since we are all doing it already.

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Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 0:31, Reply)

feckin logic

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rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 0:35, Reply)

also, the theory of relativity would suggest that of course forward time travel is possible
again, feckin logic
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Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 0:38, Reply)

that theory may be what he was talking about
i tend to tune out when he raves about football or science.
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rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 0:40, Reply)

why tune out from science?
football fair enough, it is only a game, but science? reality? life? everything? that's a bit silly!
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Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 0:47, Reply)

when it's your younger brother
lecturing you, it's time to tune out. my brain goes shopping for high heels and pink stuff when he gets going.
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rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 1:02, Reply)

"Math is hard! Let's go shopping!"

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The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 7:21, Reply)

hey swipey
how are you?
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Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 0:23, Reply)

i am good thanks!
lovely dinner with my friend over in the east end, then walked all the way home in the cold, so a bit full and a bit shivery, but otherwise grand altogether. and ye?
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rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 0:25, Reply)

sounds good
scrabble boy came round. Things went strangely
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Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 0:26, Reply)

Oh aye?
Good or bad strange?

/popping in uninvited
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Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 0:26, Reply)

exactly what he did
started off good strange, then went to a strange I'm not sure how I feel about. Will gaz
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Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 0:28, Reply)

and me, gaz me too!!!!

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rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 0:29, Reply)

lolgossipping.

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Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 0:29, Reply)

oh god yes
I NEED TO KNOW!
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rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 0:31, Reply)

nobody ever invites me over
i mean its not like i am that yeasty
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Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 0:31, Reply)

well you invited yourself over to off-topic
and that worked out grand, so why wait for an invite?
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rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 0:32, Reply)

i did not realise that off-topic was invite only
:(
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Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 0:33, Reply)

You may get accused of being Bert/Edmund if you're an unknown.

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Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 0:34, Reply)

i thought this was all just b3ta
but i guess like football hooligans, people dislike those closest to them, like the talk/ot/board divides. it is b3ta. it is all b3ta.
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Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 0:36, Reply)

Well this bit right over here
is Sparta
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Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 0:37, Reply)

i just did a poo into a sock
where do i fit in?
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Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 0:38, Reply)

with us
I reckon Sparta was not unlike the SAS in some respects, and if they had to go a sock was probably their recourse
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Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 0:42, Reply)

I don't dislike /talk!
I just don't post so much over there anymore :/
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Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 0:38, Reply)

not since the whole
having sex with the guy everyone has sex with
thing
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Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 0:38, Reply)

That's my point :D
Actually, I prefer the structure of this place, though /talk seems to be open later. But it's wrong at the moment obviously.
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Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 0:40, Reply)

don't worry,
i still think you're alright like,
in as much as i can think of anyone off the internet.
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Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 0:46, Reply)

are you autistic or a virgin?
if not, you have to be invited to join, apparently.
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rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 0:36, Reply)

crikey,
i'm not a virgin in any sense other than the giving part of homosexualism,
and i'm not at all autistic,
i best go outside for a while.
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Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 0:37, Reply)

but the taking it part of homosexuality virginity
has been ripped untimely from your manly buttocks?

cor, that IS exciting gossip.
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rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 0:41, Reply)

well, yes, that is part of what i was saying obviously,
is that exciting gossip?
does someone having had gay sex count as exciting gossip still these days?
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Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 0:45, Reply)

This lot seem to make a big deal about someone having anal sex >_<

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Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 0:46, Reply)

you did anal with him having only known him for like five minutes?
blimey, go girl!
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Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 0:46, Reply)

I have a severe aversion to it.
It's one of the things I've sworn I'd never do.

This has been twisted into the fact I'm now an anal pornstar. My Brown Wings are proudly intact. Trufax. And I would rather lose my anal virginity to the itchy end of a marrow than to a weirdo off the internet.
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Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 0:48, Reply)

haha well, fair enough,
sadly there are few options when it comes to manly man on man action,
but it doesn't hurt as much as you'd think.
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Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 0:49, Reply)

It's not actually the pain that bothers me.
I just think it's a bit...icky. I've nothing against man on man sex though. Just don't think it's for me.
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Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 0:51, Reply)

Plus man-on-man
has the benefits of a prostate
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Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 0:53, Reply)

i'm not even sure how you would go about doing man on man!

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Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 0:53, Reply)

Well, erm...

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Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 0:54, Reply)

oh right, strap ons.

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Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 0:55, Reply)

I was implying I was a man.
Very poorly.
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Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 0:58, Reply)

oh come on now mungo,
no need to make fun of your own sexuality,
remember you are a BEAUTIFUL FEMALE LADY
etc
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Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 0:59, Reply)

Lololol
why are you being nice? This is quite unsettling.
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Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 1:03, Reply)

sorry, things you may not know about me,
i sway between very gay and almost straight,
at the moment i am more gay and that generally means me being more bitchy but nice to women and letchy at men, you know?
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Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 1:09, Reply)

Ah, I see.
You go, girlfriend. /some other stereotypical comment

I fear the day you go straighter again :D
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Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 1:11, Reply)

yeh well you know whatever like innit

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Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 1:21, Reply)

Gay sex isn't a big deal
but news of your new film always makes a splash sweetie
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Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 0:47, Reply)

in general, no
At 1am on a tue night/wed morning, it's as good as i am going to get, so yeah.

And why would you receive and not give, i find this a most unselfish attitude
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rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 0:52, Reply)

it is a long story
but i was the one in drag,
i believe that is enough info for you to work it out?
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Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 0:54, Reply)

well yeah
but it's still more fun if you tell me as much as you are happy to share. it sounds like a great story.
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rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 1:01, Reply)

i sometimes do a bit of drag,
whatofit?!
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Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 1:10, Reply)

nada mein lieb
nada
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rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 1:23, Reply)

i also look good in fishnets.
somehow.
i fail at looking good as a man though,
i don't know how that works.
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Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 1:27, Reply)

i heard on the grapevine
that your girlfriend was obscenely hot. so you must have been doing SOMETHING right.
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rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 1:39, Reply)

haha, my ex girlfriend now sadly, well not that sadly if i'm honest, but i don't like to be mean you know.
and yes, she was obscenely hot, i do not really know how that happened.
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Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 1:42, Reply)

gossip flies around on here!

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rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 1:51, Reply)

i don't know if me having had a very good looking partner in the past counts as good or bad gossip.
i have had some right ugly ones too, they tend to be nicer mind you.
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Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 2:04, Reply)

i'm going to start a new bit of thread here
in the hope that i don't have to keep scrolling sidways
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Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 1:10, Reply)

fair enough
and it's quite nice that other people switch between sexualities as well
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Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 1:18, Reply)

as well as what?
what is nice about this? i have had a lot of wine sorry i may be being stupid.
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Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 1:19, Reply)

oh i don't know that i switch between anything,
i am what i am
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Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 1:20, Reply)

as well as me
was what the end of the sentence should've been.

And from what you said above you change in different directions at times, if not switch
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Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 1:22, Reply)

just because there isn't a name for this sexuality doesn't mean that it has to be
anything more than one type of sexuality.
by which i mean, my way, as in, sometimes i fancy boys mmore, sometimes girls,
does not mean that i am switching between sexualities.
me sometimes fancying boys, sometimes fancying girls more, that IS my sexuality.
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Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 1:25, Reply)

just because there isn't a specific name for it,
that doesn't change a thing.
everyone is different.
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Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 1:26, Reply)

I dunno
it may be all part of one sexuality, but it does obviously manifest in different ways at different times, so I think I'm not completely wrong
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Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 1:26, Reply)

i don't know how my one sexuality can be described as more than one sexuality,
there is only one me.
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Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 1:28, Reply)

Sliding scale of sexuality, innit.
I think each extreme is completely rare, if not impossible. Everyone's a bit of both.
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Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 1:31, Reply)

this is mainly true
people seem quite scared of the idea though
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Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 1:32, Reply)

it is the least scary idea imaginable,
people are weird.
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Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 1:36, Reply)

I'm not disagreeing with that statement

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Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 1:37, Reply)

FUCK SOCIETY

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Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 1:39, Reply)

Best of all the societies?
We never had one when I was at University ...
(BrianHequator was stretching owls, on, or around, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 1:42, Reply)

I'm Chairperson of the Anal Division.
We have badges.
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Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 1:45, Reply)

i just realised
i have effectively been single for pretty much an entire year
that's a lot of money on batteries
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Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 1:46, Reply)

Depending on how you look at it
I've been single for either 4 and a half, 4, or two and a half.
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Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 1:48, Reply)

haha good point,
although i haven't had any sex in nearly a year, i'm drier than a dry thing in a dry spell.
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Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 2:01, Reply)

You're in a similar place to a lot of us then

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Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 2:06, Reply)

i should expect that if i go on the internet shouldnt i!

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Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 2:16, Reply)

I sincerely hope that the badges aren't (i) ferrous
(ii) six-pointed stars (with little circles at the points) and (iii) that have been left out in the rain ...
(BrianHequator was stretching owls, on, or around, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 1:51, Reply)

Hahahahahahah
no, you saw my badge at the BASH. They're a fetching yellow colour.

oh god that sounds a bit bad
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Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 1:54, Reply)

I don't remember the exact hue.
I blame the cheapo pub lights. That, or my alcoholically disadvantaged visual cortical areas.

And the horrific fact that if you obscure the right bit of the badge, it says 'I LIKE AL'.

I'll leave it to your conscience ...
(BrianHequator was stretching owls, on, or around, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 2:00, Reply)

I did walk up to him covering up the "AN" bit.
He laughed when I took my fingers away :/
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Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 2:08, Reply)

... and his chins stopped wobbling about fifteen minutes later.

(BrianHequator was stretching owls, on, or around, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 2:18, Reply)

Hahahah oh wow, well done

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Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 2:22, Reply)

if i had multiple personality disorder and one of my personalities was gay
and one not so gay,
then fair enough
but i don't
it is all the same me.
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Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 1:29, Reply)

but overall
if you had to pick either men or women forever in a forced and wholly unrealistic never going to happen scenario, which would it be?
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rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 1:38, Reply)

depends on the scenario.
what is the scenario?
a relationship? what sort of relationship?
i guess a straight one, even today, would still be easier, socially, but then going for easiest is just boring.
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Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 1:40, Reply)

argh i don't know
clearly i did not put enough thought into my questioning. see, i am v impulsive, so i would just have picked a lane at random and maybe regretted it later.
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rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 1:52, Reply)

well i guess it would be
that i would go with whoever i fancied at the time who reciprocated,
i am a simple man really.
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Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 2:03, Reply)

so....
just a man, then?

right, bedtime, catch you tomorrow innit.
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rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 2:04, Reply)

well i guess at the moment,
the chances are a man, but only the chances, it depends really.
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Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 2:05, Reply)

hoorah
well done old buddy old pal
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rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 1:23, Reply)

how is your night?
i am on more wine.
i don't know why.
i don't have anything much to do tomorrow.
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Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 1:29, Reply)

i should be in bed
but i am wide awake.

i had a good night thank you. massive vodka and gossip session!

you? what wine are you drinking?
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rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 1:37, Reply)

cheapo kumala stuff
i am a well classy bird
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Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 1:40, Reply)

false economy dude
you'll have a worse hangover!
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rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 1:50, Reply)

man, i'll be fine off this,
its the three for a fiver stuff to avoid cor
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Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 2:02, Reply)

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