Off-Topic

Babybuff

on a completely unrelated topic, I'd like to find some friends who are just down the line straight. When did being gay become so popular. Is everybody bisexual these days? I don't believe it's a case of having a super extraordinary powerful gaydar emitting laser beam but it seems to me that as soon as I out myself to someone they feel the need to confide in me that they are also in the habit of not being straight on occasion. Which is great and everything, unless you're just looking for someone to befriend for the sake of friendship and whatnot. I don't think I'm being unreasonable in that request.

Killer_banana

Babybuff wrote: »

on a completely unrelated topic, I'd like to find some friends who are just down the line straight. When did being gay become so popular. Is everybody bisexual these days?

A lot more people seem or be identifying as bisexual these days. I sometimes wonder if my friend group is a decent representation of most people my age or if I just attract bisexual people, both open and closeted. :P I think bisexuality is becoming more accepted these days and it's just a reflection of that, I could be wrong though.

That said though I do know plenty of straight people. I'm guessing by 'down the line' straight you mean people who are not bicurious nor have they experimented. I do think experimentation, at least among women, is common enough but I do know people who are as straight as can be and even if they have kissed people of the same sex have never doubted their sexuality or questioned who they are attracted to for a second.

Babybuff

Killer_banana wrote: »

A lot more people seem or be identifying as bisexual these days. I sometimes wonder if my friend group is a decent representation of most people my age or if I just attract bisexual people, both open and closeted. :P I think bisexuality is becoming more accepted these days and it's just a reflection of that, I could be wrong though.

That said though I do know plenty of straight people. I'm guessing by 'down the line' straight you mean people who are not bicurious nor have they experimented. I do think experimentation, at least among women, is common enough but I do know people who are as straight as can be and even if they have kissed people of the same sex have never doubted their sexuality or questioned who they are attracted to for a second.

yep, me too. I don't think I know any girls who identify as down the line straight anymore. I used to, in fact pretty much all my friends at one time or another (15-20 years ago) would have fallen under the straight as a die category so I do find it weird that most girls I know now have sexually experimented with girls at some stage and are definitely open to the idea. (tried and tested) I'm finding myself having to manoeuvre around a lot more obstacles to get to the friendship part and I'm really just missing it.

Babybuff

can we just be friends please

EmmaAstra

Add the Q.

Gwan

wonderfulname

Most of my friends are straight... I don't know if what you're looking for is straight friends, just friends that don't care about sexuality.

Babybuff

that would be nice.

baby and crumble

Most of my friends are straight, tbh I don't have many lesbian friends. Everyone is cool about it, obviously. I like girls, they like boys. Simples.

Off topic once more, my gf and I are currently making an ikea study desk into a custom hamster cage for my little Isabella, it's all very exciting. Since I'm not really allowed use power tools I'm in charge of the screwdriver and sanding. I even have a blister!

BanzaiBk

Life is repeatedly slapping me with wet fish at the moment. Being a grown up is so overrated

EmmaAstra

baby and crumble wrote: »

Most of my friends are straight, tbh I don't have many lesbian friends. Everyone is cool about it, obviously. I like girls, they like boys. Simples.

Off topic once more, my gf and I are currently making an ikea study desk into a custom hamster cage for my little Isabella, it's all very exciting. Since I'm not really allowed use power tools I'm in charge of the screwdriver and sanding. I even have a blister!

Friggin' love Ikea stuff. It's like Lego. For big people.

Isabella's one lucky hamster

Killer_banana

I do feel I'm blessed in having friends who don't care about my sexuality, I try not to take it for granted. I've never understood people who make a big deal out of sexuality, especially those who let it define them. It's part of who I am but it is not all I am.

Babybuff

maybe I need better friends.

baby and crumble

This is it, nearly done. We have to attach the doors still, but she loves it already!!



And yes I am turning into crazy hamster lady but i so don't care!!!

Ah feck it, here's a random cute picture of her in her little house to cheer everyone up!



:D:D

Babybuff

I'd live in that

EmmaAstra

Babybuff wrote: »

I'd live in that

Room for one more?!

baby and crumble

I have to say it does look pretty slick, hopefully once we get her digging pit and little house and everything in it she'll like it. It's pretty crazy though, here am I on the dole buying 'value' everything and I go spending money on a custom cage. I must be mad.

wonderfulname

D'awh!

Killer_banana

I miss having a pet. Well we have a load of stray cats who live in our shed but unless you have food and are happy to look and not touch they aren't coming anywhere near you. I've tried taming them in the past but unless you keep them inside, at least temporarily, it's pretty impossible.

baby and crumble

I'd really love a cat. I grew up with loads of pets, but we had the space for them then, down the country. Now I live in a little flat in the city, no way I could keep anything bigger than a hamster! I have to say it's lovely having her in the house, she keeps me company and pops up at the oddest times to say hello! It's been great since I started my break from my PhD, she's helped my mental health out no end.

Babybuff

I'm in two minds whether to get my dog a friend. She gives me no peace at all these days and I'm lucky if she's not sitting on my face when I wake in the morning.

Babybuff

EmmaAstra wrote: »

Room for one more?!

grab a bale of straw.

BanzaiBk

Do you leave her run free bandc? Ever since our buns were litter tray trained we've let them run around loose in the evenings when we're home. They're like extra fluffy/thumpy dogs

baby and crumble

Babybuff wrote: »

I'm in two minds whether to get my dog a friend. She gives me no peace at all these days and I'm lucky if she's not sitting on my face when I wake in the morning.

I completely missed the first sentence of that post and thought you were talking about something else ENTIRELY. :eek::eek::eek::eek:

Babybuff

yeah, it's sad but thats the only thing sitting on my face in the mornings

baby and crumble

BanzaiBk wrote: »

Do you leave her run free bandc? Ever since our buns were litter tray trained we've let them run around loose in the evenings when we're home. They're like extra fluffy/thumpy dogs

Not really, because she's pretty small and eats everything. Like, my laptop charger was up on the couch one evening (I let her out on the couch for a run and to sit and chill with me watching tv) and I turned around for like a second and she had some of the plastic coating off. So I don't think I could trust her to just wander around and not electrocute herself or something!!! She gets a long run in her ball where she can go wherever she likes, and then lots of couch and playtime. She fell asleep on me the other night when I was watching family guy, too cute!!!

Aurongroove

pets can be great company, they have a particular 'normalizing' effect on the psyche.
My little Caitche (a cat) is growing old now back home; you can see her come up or down the stairs more carefully like she's hopping each step to so's not to worry her aging joints.
but she's still as funny as ever. She's such a funny cat, and she behaves like a person.

Babybuff

Daughter thought it would be hilarious to put a load of dubstep on my phone

stephen_n

Babybuff wrote: »

Daughter thought it would be hilarious to put a load of dubstep on my phone

I don't really get Dubstep it's like dance music for people who are ashamed to like dance music!

Babybuff

stephen_n wrote: »

I don't really get Dubstep it's like dance music for people who are ashamed to like dance music!

I like it, suppose I grew up on dance music so it's a comforting and familiar sound. Like other stuff too, its just when it comes on when your least expecting it as you're walking peacefully through the park is another story.

BanzaiBk

So who I've worked with for about 3 months realised today I was gay. It was one of those slow, drawn out, dawning of realisation on their face scenarios. She then spent the rest of the evening dropping 'subtle' remarks about how gay people should be allowed to marry and adopt children and save the world etc. Bless!