World AIDS Day

LETHAL LADY · 02-12-2012 11:58PM

Sure ya hear nothing about AIDS these days, when I was a youngster there used to be Today Tonight specials on AIDS, nowadays tis all IMF this and ECB that. Considering my sex education classes was taught to me by a sixty something year old nun I only hope that things has improved for the youngsters nowadays otherwise I fear for the sexual health of the nation.:eek:

Madam_X · 03-12-2012 01:15AM

Get tested yeh, but vigilance re condoms is more important. What use is testing if the damage is already done.

Lingua Franca · 03-12-2012 02:45AM

No glove, no love!

dodderangler · 03-12-2012 02:47AM

I thought south park made aids officially funny
I laughed

Jimoslimos · 03-12-2012 03:18AM

efb wrote: »

Do you go after all topics on AH with such gusto?

As a poster since 1993 and a regular user of AH I find it wholly suitable for this forum. Having read the charter, you would have noticed the piece on Back seat modding.

Posting before Boards even existed...hipster boardsie!

On the topic of AIDS awareness, it is pretty shocking among the general non-gay population. One part ignorance, one part fear - which is the usual for most heath issues in Ireland.

Captain Graphite · 03-12-2012 03:41AM

Deleted User wrote: »

I think most hospitals have a clinic at which you can get yourself tested in for free. There is one in Dublin and I know there is one in Galway.

There's one in Cork too, in the Victoria hospital on Blackrock Road. (Link for those who don't know about it.)

I only found out after paying my GP a few hundred Euro for Hepatitis A and B vaccines (which my body subsequently rejected) that I could've been vaccinated there for free. :mad:

Czarcasm · 03-12-2012 03:48AM

Jimoslimos wrote: »

On the topic of AIDS awareness, it is pretty shocking among the general non-gay population. One part ignorance, one part fear - which is the usual for most heath issues in Ireland.

This is why I questioned the OP for their opinion at the start of the thread, because the OP was so widely open to interpretation and I had to wonder after the moderator of LGBT starting a thread on "Why straight people walk funny?", was this thread another attempt at shìt stirring or was it a genuine attempt to have a civil discussion about AIDS awareness, or the obvious lack thereof.

It has since descended into a farce of a thread so I was right in the first instance not to take the OP seriously.

The whole notion though of straight people being clueless about AIDS is ridiculous. Back in the late 80's AIDS scaremongering was rife, and whether you were gay or straight you practically shat yourself at the mere mention of the words AIDS or HIV. Half the reason was EVERYBODY was so clueless about it, the other half reason being that there were plenty of the "it won't happen to me!" mentality about.

Look at just this thread alone as an example of how seriously we take AIDS and HIV nowadays. Jokes and wisecracks about good aids and bad aids and bullshìt, when this thread COULD have been a serious attempt at discussing something that as the OP said- "isn't going away". More important to the OP apparently was to let their ego get in the way and try and be a smart àrse for a few thanks.

Want to know what AH thinks of AIDS awareness? Not a whole lot apparently judging by the amount of views and responses this thread has gotten.

Lingua Franca · 03-12-2012 09:15AM

It's a thread on a serious subject with a terrible OP in the casual, jokey area of a massive discussion board. Most people are ribbing the OP, not the issue.

Czarcasm wrote: »

Look at just this thread alone as an example of how seriously we take AIDS and HIV nowadays.

Really? I cracked a joke last night too but round about the same time provided information elsewhere on gay men can get free and rapid HiV testing. (The Rainbow Project in Belfast and Derry, if anyone needs it. Appointment only, they won't mind if you're from the the south.)

Want to know what AH thinks of AIDS awareness? Not a whole lot apparently judging by the amount of views and responses this thread has gotten.

It's down to a poorly worded OP in an inappropriate area of the boards. I wouldn't stress over it.

efb · 03-12-2012 09:29AM

Czarcasm wrote: »

This is why I questioned the OP for their opinion at the start of the thread, because the OP was so widely open to interpretation and I had to wonder after the moderator of LGBT starting a thread on "Why straight people walk funny?", was this thread another attempt at shìt stirring or was it a genuine attempt to have a civil discussion about AIDS awareness, or the obvious lack thereof.

It has since descended into a farce of a thread so I was right in the first instance not to take the OP seriously.

The whole notion though of straight people being clueless about AIDS is ridiculous. Back in the late 80's AIDS scaremongering was rife, and whether you were gay or straight you practically shat yourself at the mere mention of the words AIDS or HIV. Half the reason was EVERYBODY was so clueless about it, the other half reason being that there were plenty of the "it won't happen to me!" mentality about.

Look at just this thread alone as an example of how seriously we take AIDS and HIV nowadays. Jokes and wisecracks about good aids and bad aids and bullshìt, when this thread COULD have been a serious attempt at discussing something that as the OP said- "isn't going away". More important to the OP apparently was to let their ego get in the way and try and be a smart àrse for a few thanks.

Want to know what AH thinks of AIDS awareness? Not a whole lot apparently judging by the amount of views and responses this thread has gotten.

What's with the personal vitriol?

The 'Lighthearted' responses was in keeping with the tone of the forum. Thanks don't interest me, but feel free to peddle that one.

Anyway still wearing my red ribbon. And the Band played on very moving last night

randylonghorn · 03-12-2012 09:43AM

Czarcasm wrote: »

This is why I questioned the OP for their opinion at the start of the thread, because the OP was so widely open to interpretation and I had to wonder after the moderator of LGBT starting a thread on "Why straight people walk funny?", was this thread another attempt at shìt stirring or was it a genuine attempt to have a civil discussion about AIDS awareness, or the obvious lack thereof.

It has since descended into a farce of a thread so I was right in the first instance not to take the OP seriously.

Firstly, try as I might, I can detect no hint of shít-stirring in the OP. A lighter approach, perhaps, but that's a very different kettle of fish.

Secondly, I've seen threads here descend far further into the farcical. The forum tends to have a light-hearted tone. And sometimes people joke about things which scare us, it helps us deal with them. It's a concept called catharsis, and it's been around a while, since ancient Rome in fact, long before psychology was invented.

World AIDS Day

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