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kevinfra

2013-06-29 08:38:53 PM

3 votes:

Jon iz teh kewl: where's the obesity pride parade??

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This is the obesity pride parade - they don't like to walk much.

Hickory-smoked

2013-06-29 08:31:27 PM

3 votes:

jso2897: Is it me, or is the quality of Fark trolling shiat-poor lately?

Well, it's Pride Weekend around these parts. They probably have a full schedule.

hardinparamedic

2013-06-29 06:30:02 PM

3 votes:

This thread has potential. Popcorn?

FreetardoRivera

2013-06-29 09:59:06 PM

2 votes:

MechaPyx: RKade....You asked what would drive someone to seek out that kind of surgery and I'm not sure how to explain it adequately. Why does anyone do the things they do? It's complicated and the reasons why can vary from person to person.

Somewhere they came to the decision that it was the right choice for them. Like I said, it's their life, their body, their choice. They have to weigh the pros and cons and decide if this will provide them an overall quality of life improvement or not. Personally? I want the surgery but I don't feel current medical technique is up to the task even with the best surgeon. I have a friend who had surgery and seems thrilled with the results. She went to one of the best surgeons though. Unfortunately, they aren't all equal. There are a number of different techniques in use, some better than others(some are jealously guarded secrets) and the skill level of the surgeons varies. Some just aren't up to the task, in my opinion.

What you're asking gets to the root of what it means to be trans and I just don't have the words to explain that. I'm honestly not trying to be mean here. A little sarcastic I'll admit but not mean. If I'm defensive it's because I'm frequently asked to justify my life choices by people who have no right to ask. Sorry if I took that out on you.

fusillade762

2013-06-29 07:14:09 PM

2 votes:

The event intended to increase the power of the transgender community and its allies

Now witness the power of this fully armed and operational transgender parade!

sheep snorter

2013-06-29 07:11:21 PM

2 votes:

LordOfThePings

2013-06-29 06:53:43 PM

2 votes:

Today's Trans Am Pride event

A Terrible Human

2013-06-29 06:45:21 PM

2 votes:

FreetardoRivera: Saborlas: In before transphobes being worthless haters.

I think you can be accepting of transformers and still point out that 99% of them look terrible.

How dare you not recognize the beauty of this I dunno what the fark this person is going for honestly.

Fano

2013-06-29 06:40:06 PM

2 votes:

atomicmask: Oh, I didn't know when groups of people play pretend that they needed to march, most of the time with a bunch of mentally ill lonely men play pretend and dress up its called a comic convention.

Atomicmask hates his own identity, you see, and he thinks that makes him a troll. But his pathology is a thousand times more savage and more terrifying.

NFA

2013-06-30 09:23:03 PM

1 vote:

drjekel_mrhyde: /Feel free to post more, my transformer folder is not complete

What a transformer might look like. : )

RKade

2013-06-30 06:29:31 PM

1 vote:

hardinparamedic: RKade: As a lifelong cripple, I find the word "handicapable" insulting and condescending. More to my original point though, being as disabled as I am is way worse then having gender identity issues and if you'd like to hash it out privately, I'd love to have a go because, as far as the "who got the worst lot in life" championship goes, me and mine are miles ahead of you and yours.

I don't support your sinful lifestyle choice. You did not have to join the crips, you chose to be that way.

Hey! Even I saw what you did there!

Repo Man

2013-06-30 10:32:24 AM

1 vote:

mike_the_engineer: hardinparamedic: So, what field of engineering are you in?

The one thing that every engineering discipline has in common is that it requires the rigorous application of facts and logic. There is no room for emotion because at the end of the day, you have to produce a result in the real world. By the way, if you ever want to get out of jury duty, just say you're an engineer. We never get picked because lawyers know we aren't swayed by their weak "appeal to emotion" arguments. So if Gender Dysphoria is classified as a mental disorder, it's a farking mental disorder. It doesn't matter that people are offended or that you FEEL like it's wrong. It is what it is.

Is that the explanation for why, relative to their level of education, there are a disproportionate number of creationists who have engineering degrees?

hardinparamedic

2013-06-30 08:10:01 AM

1 vote:

RKade: As a lifelong cripple, I find the word "handicapable" insulting and condescending. More to my original point though, being as disabled as I am is way worse then having gender identity issues and if you'd like to hash it out privately, I'd love to have a go because, as far as the "who got the worst lot in life" championship goes, me and mine are miles ahead of you and yours.

I don't support your sinful lifestyle choice. You did not have to join the crips, you chose to be that way.

Quantum Apostrophe

2013-06-30 05:39:12 AM

1 vote:

alienated: mike_the_engineer: Sure it is. Do you feel an overwhelming urge to chop off your penis?

For an engineer, you sure sound like an idiot.

I think he's a "sound engineer" which is an engineer like an interior decorator is an architect.

mike_the_engineer

2013-06-30 01:53:08 AM

1 vote:

hardinparamedic: diagnosing someone with a mental health disorder is NOT as cut and dry as you make it sound

Sure it is. Do you feel an overwhelming urge to chop off your penis?

No = Sane
Yes = Mental Disorder

Done.

BuckTurgidson

2013-06-30 01:30:32 AM

1 vote:

Gay-Pride Parade Sets Mainstream Acceptance Of Gays Back 50 Years

FirstNationalBastard

2013-06-29 11:30:45 PM

1 vote:

MrEricSir: There's a Trans March every year in San Francisco. It never seems well organized, but SFPD is usually pretty good about providing escorts.

How many roses do they cost the city?

alienated

2013-06-29 10:36:44 PM

1 vote:

FreetardoRivera: The result would involve them being in jail with a black eye and still being fat.

watchoutwegotabadassoverhere.jpg

Hickory-smoked

2013-06-29 10:33:46 PM

1 vote:

Great clown Pagliacci's pick-me-up: alienated: Trolling real hard for replies in this thread is what he has been doing.

Yes, but still this is federally mandated after Shedim's post:

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Those mandates have changed. This is the current image required under the Obama administration's guidelines;

spentshells: No man/lady lady whatever the fark ever you choose to be, that was not a troll it happened.

Maybe, but you did spend 4 or 5 posts trying to force an awkward Silence of the Lambs reference, so don't blame us if we treat your claims with suspicion.

ciberido

2013-06-29 10:29:12 PM

1 vote:

Shedim: spentshells: A transgender girl becoming a man sold my ex's house. He was about to get a hammer put on.

He was scared. I gave him some info on hammer management.

I appear to be missing something... you're not talking about the tool you use to drive nails, are you...?

STOP.

Great clown Pagliacci's pick-me-up

2013-06-29 10:19:08 PM

1 vote:

alienated: Shedim: spentshells: A transgender girl becoming a man sold my ex's house. He was about to get a hammer put on.

He was scared. I gave him some info on hammer management.

I appear to be missing something... you're not talking about the tool you use to drive nails, are you...?

Trolling real hard for replies in this thread is what he has been doing.

Yes, but still this is federally mandated after Shedim's post:

Lt. Cheese Weasel

2013-06-29 10:18:09 PM

1 vote:

Hooray! You're all Gay!

FreetardoRivera

2013-06-29 09:56:06 PM

1 vote:

spentshells

2013-06-29 09:24:31 PM

1 vote:

......

Would you fark me? I'd fark me.

I'd fark me hard. I'd fark me so hard.

///Thread?

God-is-a-Taco

2013-06-29 09:11:03 PM

1 vote:

ciberido:
Well, there are people who are specifically attracted to transgender folk. [wikipedia link]

I'm sorry, but that is farking hilarious.

ciberido

2013-06-29 09:01:07 PM

1 vote:

kukukupo: Gross. Leave your weird ass fetishes in the bedroom where they belong. Don't push this crap on normal people.

Gross. Leave your stupid-ass bigotry in your head where it belongs. Don't push this crap on normal people.

spentshells

2013-06-29 09:00:19 PM

1 vote:

It puts the lotion on the skin and does it whenever it's told

/Thread

serial_crusher

2013-06-29 08:45:35 PM

1 vote:

Shedim: Utter Genius: Meanwhile, back in reality, there is zero scientific evidence that sex reassignment surgery improves anyone's life or mental well-being.

[imgs.xkcd.com image 500x271]

Citations do not work that way.

I mean, I don't doubt that such evidence exists, but the proper move on your part is to post the evidence, thus proving him wrong.

/ Or, to paraphrase Dick Cheney: Absence of the evidence of the absence of evidence is not evidence of the absence of the absence of evidence

Astorix

2013-06-29 08:38:39 PM

1 vote:

what about a parade for fat trannies or trans fats

ciberido

2013-06-29 08:19:32 PM

1 vote:

snocone: Foxxinnia: God-is-a-Taco: As the gay marriage battle winds down, this will be the new fight for rights and tolerance.
And I don't mean that in a bad way or anything, this country and much of the world still has a burning hatred for the transgendered.

Fark especially is a good example. People have begrudgingly accepted gays, but these threads are full of shiatheads.

Well homosexuality and transsexuality are two wildly different things, so makes sense why there seems to be a bit of a disconnect between the support of them.

You gotta remember that 47% of people's brains slam shut over any word with that ""sexuality" thing in it. No cognition, just shut the fark down.

That's only true if it's legitimate sexuality.

WhippingBoy

2013-06-29 07:59:14 PM

1 vote:

A Terrible Human: FreetardoRivera: Saborlas: In before transphobes being worthless haters.

I think you can be accepting of transformers and still point out that 99% of them look terrible.

How dare you not recognize the beauty of this I dunno what the fark this person is going for honestly.
[i.imgur.com image 400x367]

It's German for 'The cis scum'. No one who speaks German could be a bad person.

invictus2

2013-06-29 07:54:24 PM

1 vote:

Jon iz teh kewl: where's the obesity pride parade??

[newsphilter.files.wordpress.com image 410x308]

They are in all around the Paula Deen restaurants, solidarity and butter forever

FloydA

2013-06-29 07:53:16 PM

1 vote:

big-southern: Ah yes, lets take our children and completely warp their minds by deceiving them into believing that this deviant behavior is normal. Good going liberal farking trash.

Brand new account, deliberately stereotypical name, straight from "never posted before" to "complete asshole" in a single post.

Seems legit. Buh-bye.

Great clown Pagliacci's pick-me-up

2013-06-29 07:52:25 PM

1 vote:

We are living in an exciting time where academic and societal ideas of sex, gender, and orientation are getting broken further apart and redefined leading to better chances of personal discovery and finding tools to be happy. Some people don't like exciting times of personal discovery and happiness. Those people are threadshiatters.That is my new theory about these Fark threads.

FloydA

2013-06-29 07:50:47 PM

1 vote:

atomicmask:

Posting people's profile pics in thread makes you look really, really creepy and stalkerish. If I was a mod, you'd have earned a time out for that.

Jon iz teh kewl

2013-06-29 07:50:25 PM

1 vote:

where's the obesity pride parade??

Bane of Broone

2013-06-29 07:49:06 PM

1 vote:

atomicmask: hardinparamedic: atomicmask: Oh, I didn't know when groups of people play pretend that they needed to march,

I was wondering when you'd show up. It's never a laugh riot without having to get your clever insight into topics which defies all logic, science, and common sense.

atomicmask: most of the time with a bunch of mentally ill lonely men play pretend and dress up its called a comic convention.

What mentally ill men look like:

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Actually. No. I can understand why you rage against things so much.

LOOK, I CAN FIND PICTURES TOO!
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PS, what you posted was attention whores.

And yet here you are slagging on people who do you no harm. Whining for it's own sake is attention whoring at it's finest.

Shedim

2013-06-29 07:48:43 PM

1 vote:

Utter Genius: Meanwhile, back in reality, there is zero scientific evidence that sex reassignment surgery improves anyone's life or mental well-being.

macadamnut

2013-06-29 07:06:55 PM

1 vote:

Angry Buddha

2013-06-29 06:58:20 PM

1 vote:

CSB. One of the bridesmaids at the wedding I recently attended was pre-op. Ex-Marine and quite a character. She caught the bouquet; I caught the garter.

I'll post my honeymoon pictures if that pans out.

quatchi

2013-06-29 06:50:16 PM

1 vote:

atomicmask: ...most of the time when a bunch of mentally ill lonely men play pretend and dress up its called a ~~comic~~ GOP National convention.

FTFY.

mutterfark

2013-06-29 06:44:18 PM

1 vote:

"You know, you're too stupid to even be a good bigot!"

haywatchthis

2013-06-29 06:41:58 PM

1 vote:

NFA: [seninf.files.wordpress.com image 850x566]

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A Google image search for transgender came up with these.
Hmmmm apparently not the same people at the march.

false advertising

robohobo

2013-06-29 06:40:38 PM

1 vote:

atomicmask

2013-06-29 06:38:45 PM

1 vote:

Oh, I didn't know when groups of people play pretend that they needed to march, most of the time with a bunch of mentally ill lonely men play pretend and dress up its called a comic convention.

FloydA

2013-06-29 06:22:25 PM

1 vote:

Paris1127: For some reason, I thought the headline said Seattle Transponder community...

Choose Life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a farking big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance. Choose fixed interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisurewear and matching luggage. Choose a three-piece suit on hire purchase in a range of farking fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who the fark you are on Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing farking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pissing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, farked up brats you spawned to replace yourselves. Choose your future. Choose life... But why would I want to do a thing like that? I chose not to choose life. I chose somethin' else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you've got heroin?

Oh, sorry. I thought you said Seattle Trainspotting community

quatchi

2013-06-29 06:06:31 PM

1 vote:

Voiceofreason01: FloydA: Voiceofreason01: And no frogs fell from the sky, no plague of locusts, society didn't collapse....it's almost as if tolerance and acceptance are a good thing, crazy I know.

In fact, it was quite a nice day.

isn't the weather always nice in Seattle?

The bluest skies I've ever seen are in Seattle.

Trans Pride parade, eh?

Wow, I know Seattlites were proud of their mass transit system what with their fancy monorail and all but I never thought they'd go so far as to throw a parade for it.

*reads article*

Ohhhh. That kind of trans. Well, yeah, that makes more sense actually.

Good on 'em.

/Can't believe I made it in before the haters.

NFA

2013-06-29 04:23:20 PM

1 vote:

A Google image search for transgender came up with these.
Hmmmm apparently not the same people at the march.

FloydA

2013-06-29 01:14:34 PM

1 vote:

For certain values of "nice."

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