Pet Peeves

[Caomhaoin]

Obviously we can't see what's written on the back of the box, but the front doesn't look too conspicuous? It doesn't mention gay or trans etc... so what you be having to explain to your 7 year old anyway? The word pride?

Yeah, as in gay pride. We have to celebrate all sexual non conformists for a month as heroes and any disagreement is hateful, and children are not exempt.

Here's the side of the box https://images.app.goo.gl/nrznQ2DeZH35U32n8

Do yeah , an auld crossword rather than ones choice iof pronoun would be more appropriate.

I'd rather explain that in my own time when he's ready to hear about it, not have it on the breakfast cereal box.

I'm not sure which is worse though, the sneering professor (he aspires amateurishly to something else which is spontaneous and innate, called wit) or tranny corn flakes.

[Eoin McLove]

Ah yeah, it's all over the top bollocks at this point. I'm sick to the tits of seeing rainbow flags everywhere as if it means anything but it's just an over-correction and a trend that will fizzle out. Go and be gay, all the best, nobody cares and that is surely all the victory you need.

[Giggles]

Imagine 30 years ago if somebody told you that in the future, instead of getting a surprise toy in the cereal box, you'd be content with scribbling pronouns instead 

[Eoin McLove]

It's meaningless and annoying horseshite. The endless celebration of gayness on telly is so predictable and irritating and I can't help but wonder is it going to end up being counterproductive in the end. Everyone will be so fucking fed up of celebrating fabulousness that you'll end up with a kick back against gay culture. Dunno,  just a thought and a I mentioned above,  hopefully it's merely an overcorrection that will settle back to the middle before tv becomes completely unwatchable.

[astfgyl]

It's meaningless and annoying horseshite. The endless celebration of gayness on telly is so predictable and irritating and I can't help but wonder is it going to end up being counterproductive in the end. Everyone will be so fucking fed up of celebrating fabulousness that you'll end up with a kick back against gay culture. Dunno,  just a thought and a I mentioned above,  hopefully it's merely an overcorrection that will settle back to the middle before tv becomes completely unwatchable.

I wouldn't have believed it myself!

As McLove is saying there, it will simply run its' course like all other fads and it will just become normalised and nobody will give a fuck about the rainbows after a couple of rounds. It's a sign of the times like Gangnam Style and the like. Everything has to be bigger better and even more sensational all of the time.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

I'd rather explain that in my own time when he's ready to hear about it, not have it on the breakfast cereal box.

As a parallel, at what age do you think a child is ready to hear about, say, the myth of transubstantiation? And do you think, objectively now, the myth of transubstantiation - the idea that there is a divinity who also identifies as a man but also identifies as a wafer - is more or less complex than any element of LGBTQ+ ideology?

What age is first communion again? Around 7 is it? 

[Caomhaoin]

7 year olds don't need to hear about sex, endy fuckin' story, let alone gender bending propaganda.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

My point was that you don't need to talk about sex to give an explanation of that box of cereal, no more than you need to explain the finer points of the mythology of transubstantiation to a kid doing their first communion. You're just going over the top with your outrage, as usual.

[Emphyrio]

Mundy - what a peeve inspiring wanker. Fuck off with your July, you gimp.

[Blackout]

Had to Google Munday. I concur.

[Caomhaoin]

My point was that you don't need to talk about sex to give an explanation of that box of cereal, no more than you need to explain the finer points of the mythology of transubstantiation to a kid doing their first communion. You're just going over the top with your outrage, as usual.

Maybe, maybe not, you defend, to varying degrees of coherency, every woke cause celebre that is critiqued on this board, so me going 'too far with the outrage' is going to be your default setting.

I agree with you about religious indoctrination. I'm not religious, and although I think you could do worse than use Jefferson's 'the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth' (which you inaccurately described as a standard Protestant adaptation, so I doubt you've read it))as a moral compass, the hocus pocus is as absurd as saying men are women, women are men but women deserve special protections because they are women but any man can just say he's a woman SYSTEM OVERLOAD MURDER DEATH KILL.

They are coming for the children, have a look at this shite from Blues Clues, watched by millions of even younger kids than my own. This is demented.

https://youtu.be/d4vHegf3WPU

[Eoin McLove]

Mundy - what a peeve inspiring wanker. Fuck off with your July, you gimp.

I like that song but I seem to somehow get very unoffended by the pop songs people claim to hate while being utterly repulsed by the vast majority of modern pop music that is considered OK. I generally find no connection with electronic music,  it feels completely soulless to me,  and it's the whiney acoustic music that always gets the bad rep  (Mundy, James Blunt, Snow Patrol...) that is the more tolerable and easy on the ear stuff for me. I find the Day-Glo dancy pop stuff so alien that I actually cannot comprehend how anyone can enjoy it. It's on a par with the neutered country and Irish gack that octogenarians in overflowing nappies clap along to out of time while almost tipping sideways out of their big foamy safety chairs.

[Caomhaoin]

A couple of yokes and you'll see precisely why people enjoy trance:)

[Kurt Cocaine]

A couple of yokes and you'll see precisely why people enjoy trance:)

I'll second this. Mushies work just as well too.

[Blackout]

Some trance is brilliant.