I have a strange feeling (C) played more into it than (A) or (B).

BDSM is a character aspect now?

Bizaaaaaaaaarre.

Seriously, though. BDSM cult? What the fark?

/that sucks
//wouldn't get license on all three accounts

Don't you really need to be a little of any two of the first three to be part of the third group?

Fabric_Man: I have a strange feeling (C) played more into it than (A) or (B).

This.

I mean, unless you're an annyoing pagan, or an annoying BDSMer.

Oh. Gorean. Then yeah, discriminate away, Vancouver.

/never met a Gorean who wasn't a complete, utter dickhead or a vapid mouthbreather with zero sense of self worth

Must be mostly (C). They'd give Charles Manson a chauffeur's license in Vancouver.

ttc2301: Don't you really need to be a little of any two of the first three to be part of the third group?

Being pagan or interested in BDSM is a prereq for being annoying?

O_o

There's something that the article isn't telling us...

I seriously doubt the Vancouver police department cares what you do in your personal time, even if it does go something like "I put on my robe and wizard hat..."

Discrimination in Canada?! I don't know how to feel about anything now.

iantri: There's something that the article isn't telling us...

I seriously doubt the Vancouver police department cares what you do in your personal time, even if it does go something like "I put on my robe and wizard hat..."

Oooh, I like to play dress-up!

Falcc: Discrimination in Canada?! I don't know how to feel about anything now.

Act funny at the Vancouver Airport and they'll taze your ass, too.

I could see how this could make driving difficult... maybe even unsafe.

I read A) as pidgeon..

Thats why I clicked the link..

/is disapointed

Goreans are farking scary.

funsized: ttc2301: Don't you really need to be a little of any two of the first three to be part of the third group?

Being pagan or interested in BDSM is a prereq for being annoying?

O_o

There's this guy at my work that's always "Could you stick your ass here" or "Stick your hands here" or "Would you wear this and zip it up."
What a pain in the ass.

In other news, the Vancouver Police Department issues chauffeur's licenses.

Way to get your agencies to multi-task!

farkinsinism: I could see how this could make driving difficult... maybe even unsafe.

At least he wouldn't bite his tongue.

But in Japan, BDSM training is mandatory for a license...

A chaffeur's license is a little different than a plain-jane driver's license, subby.

In any case, welcome to Vancouver Limo. Please, let me take your bags and, while I'm loading them into the truck, please affix this ball gag to your lovely wife, and put this rubber headpiece on. Don't worry, the zipper is lined, and the rubber penis on your forehead will not interfere with your visibility. Have a pleasant ride with Vancouver Limo.

Illidan: Goreans are farking scary insane.

Fixed that for you

Drivers in Vancouver are licensed?

johnny_vegas what's that picture from? I'm trying to backtrack a book I read once with that picture in it.

dahmers love zombie: /never met a Gorean who wasn't a complete, utter dickhead or a vapid mouthbreather with zero sense of self worth

Or worse, the nerdish guys who think they're fencing experts and get into the Gor thing because they honestly think if a big guy (read: jock who always used to beat him up) can't wear armor, he'll instantly fall prey to some swashbuckler (read: nerd in question) because "ZOMG NO STRENGTH ADVANTAGE!!11!!" and suddenly all the hot submissive women (read: a warped doormat fantasy version of the cheerleader girlfriend of said jock) will suddenly fall at his feet. And damn if they aren't almost always mouthbreathing dickheads too.

Well, since one of the Vancouver PD's Detective Constables is the openly Pagan author Kerr Cuhulain, I'd suspect it was more C than anything else.

Illidan: Goreans are farking scary. pathetic.

FTFY

buzzvert: A chaffeur's license is a little different than a plain-jane driver's license, subby.

In any case, welcome to Vancouver Limo. Please, let me take your bags and, while I'm loading them into the truck, please affix this ball gag to your lovely wife, and put this rubber headpiece on. Don't worry, the zipper is lined, and the rubber penis on your forehead will not interfere with your visibility. Have a pleasant ride with Vancouver Limo.

on the other hand, think of how safe the passengers would be... all so thoroughly restrained, in the event of a crash.

I don't know. A good gag-ball in a passenger's mouth could make my driving around a lot more enjoyable. In fact, make it two. Sometimes her mother tags along as well.

Hosebeatings: Goreans are farking scary. pathetic

This. And THAT. RIMS even. And every permutation that will follow. I like my share of kink (and your share, and her share...) as much as the next guy, but I've never met a Gorean that wasn't batsh][t crazy. And whoever mentioned the doormat fantasy- spot-freaking-on. Met one girl who wanted to live Gor(tm)... To be treated like absolute garbage- I just backed away slowly (and then turned and ran)

forgot:
\but hey- live and let live- dude shouldn't be banned from driving for it

FTFA:He was told he posed "an extreme risk of recruiting passengers/customers into my cult during my work hours if I were granted the chauffeur's permit."

Driver: Good Afternoon, Sir.
Passenger: Hey, there.
Driver: Where to?
Passenger: Dundas and Church, please.
Driver: So.... top or bottom?
Passenger: ... depends.
Driver: Ya know this thing has a rack in it.



I can't believe someone would be that homophobic that a dude who dresses in black and has a few embarrassing police complaints gets labeled as a cultist. I'm in the Dennis Leary camp on sexuality... I don't care who or what you screw... just pick up the gun and go! go! Go!

trapped-in-CH: johnny_vegas what's that picture from? I'm trying to backtrack a book I read once with that picture in it.

It's a GIS for "tarnsman gor"

/and a dirty hotlinked one to boot!

Hosebeatings: Illidan: Goreans are farking scary. pathetic.

FTFY

not as bad as the folks from the (no annihilated) digiclipse forums.

they thought digimon (the old pokemon knockoff) was real and if they tried hard enough they could meet/talk to/have sex with digimon monsters

Wow, this is the kind of behavior one expects out of the BC RCMP (amazed he didn't get tazed), but local PD?

Apples and trees I guess.

DPoem: I don't know. A good gag-ball in a passenger's mouth could make my driving around a lot more enjoyable. In fact, make it two. Sometimes her mother tags along as well.

It prevents that "back-seat driving" that can distract a driver. Safety first!

Lehk: Hosebeatings: Illidan: Goreans are farking scary. pathetic.

FTFY

not as bad as the folks from the (no annihilated) digiclipse forums.

they thought digimon (the old pokemon knockoff) was real and if they tried hard enough they could meet/talk to/have sex with digimon monsters

That's hot.

Lehk

Digimon is a pokemon knockoff in the same sense that Star Wars is a Star Trek knockoff or Macross/Robotech a Transformers knockoff.

(Not that my fandom doesn't attract more than its fair share of the crazies.)

birdboy2000: Lehk

Digimon is a pokemon knockoff in the same sense that Star Wars is a Star Trek knockoff or Macross/Robotech a Transformers knockoff.

(Not that my fandom doesn't attract more than its fair share of the crazies.)

Isn't it actually by the same people?

So my roommate just after college read Gor books...knew about the books...but from some comments it seems like there is a sub-culture/lifestyle/belief system that grew from the books? is that right?

So now the LARPers will have to carry their cardboard weapons on dogback.

BTW: johnny_vegas, love the van art.

Maybe that rule should be applied here in Virginia. There are more than enough annoying drivers in the DC Metropolitan area.

johnny_vegas: So my roommate just after college read Gor books...knew about the books...but from some comments it seems like there is a sub-culture/lifestyle/belief system that grew from the books? is that right?

Pretty much. More information here (LGT wiki).

I mean, I'm 150% in favor of BDSM--I loooove the pain and being told what to do--but taking it to a philosophical lifestyle ideal, not to mention how entirely single-role and heteronormative it is, just does not jive well with me.

funsized: johnny_vegas: So my roommate just after college read Gor books...knew about the books...but from some comments it seems like there is a sub-culture/lifestyle/belief system that grew from the books? is that right?

Pretty much. More information here (LGT wiki).

I mean, I'm 150% in favor of BDSM--I loooove the pain and being told what to do--but taking it to a philosophical lifestyle ideal, not to mention how entirely single-role and heteronormative it is, just does not jive well with me.

Thanks for the taking the time to do that, i should've thought of wiki/google.

johnny_vegas thanks.

06Wahoo: Maybe that rule should be applied here in Virginia. There are more than enough annoying drivers in the DC Metropolitan area.

and shiatty ones..especially when there is only a suspicion of snow, much less any real snow/ice/rain.

at least not as many people back into the goddamn parking spots like they do in Hawaii...it's a friggin state pasttime here and they suck at it as they go back and forth several farkin' times blocking the damn aisles as they try and maneuver backwards into a spot.

/sorry

dahmers love zombie: Oh. Gorean. Then yeah, discriminate away, Vancouver.

/never met a Gorean who wasn't a complete, utter dickhead or a vapid mouthbreather with zero sense of self worth

This

People Against Goodness And Niceness.

PAGAN.

Time to call in these guys:

Link

(Just the facts, ma'am.)

Y'know, it doesn't seem fair to pick on Goreans; I mean, if you're gonna hate on someone who's based thier lifestyle on the writings of a fiction writer then you'd end up hating everyone who does the same. Like Scientoligists. And Christians.

(and you all know that if Joss Whedon wrote a Firefly bible, you'd all be out there in your brown coats! :)

Lehk: not as bad as the folks from the (no annihilated) digiclipse forums.

Even more pathetic: furry losers who think they aren't furries because they masturbate to anime rather than Disney. "ZOMG I'M AN OTAKU NOT A FURRY!!!11! TOTALLY DIFFERENT!!111!!"

birdboy2000:

Shut up furry.