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Dad Overhears Son’s Plans to Come Out

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  • #2
    Praetorian Saighdiuir
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,968 ✭✭✭✭Praetorian Saighdiuir


    Pretty cool alright.

    Should have got Oreo's and milk though.


  • #3
    Ilik Urgee
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    I had to google assuages, I thought you meant sausages:pac:


  • #4
    Prodigious
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    Nobody cares.


  • #5
    Praetorian Saighdiuir
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,968 ✭✭✭✭Praetorian Saighdiuir


    Methememb wrote: »
    Nobody cares.

    Plenty of people care.


  • #6
    My name is URL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,626 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    In a letter that was posted this morning to Facebook by the pro-gay clothing and accessory brand FCKH8, the unidentified father writes his ......

    The cynic in me is cynical.


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  • #7
    starlings
    Closed Accounts Posts: 683 ✭✭✭starlings


    Methememb wrote: »
    Nobody cares.

    I do. :)


  • #8
    Madam_X
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    tajd wrote: »
    a lump in my throat
    Must... resist... obvious fellatio reference on gay related thread. :(


  • #9
    steddyeddy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,565 ✭✭✭✭steddyeddy


    Madam_X wrote: »
    Must... resist... obvious fellatio reference on gay related thread. :(

    Choice of words is very important in AHs!


  • #10
    bucketybuck
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    Thats so fake it was probably bought from a fake store on fake street.


  • #11
    padd b1975
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    How did a clothing company get their hands on something so private and personal?

    And other thing, what the hell is pro gay clothing??


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  • #12
    Praetorian Saighdiuir
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,968 ✭✭✭✭Praetorian Saighdiuir


    padd b1975 wrote: »
    How did a clothing company get their hands on something so private and personal?

    And other thing, what the hell is pro gay clothing??

    Assless chaps?

    Dildo gimp masks?

    I dunno..next question/


  • #13
    monkeypants
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,385 ✭✭✭monkeypants


    padd b1975 wrote: »
    And other thing, what the hell is pro gay clothing??
    Assless chaps.


  • #14
    Lenin Skynard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,970 ✭✭✭Lenin Skynard


    What a heartwarming story this gay clothing company has just shown us. It puts me right in the mood to go and buy some gay clothes, from this particular company.


  • #15
    Chucky the tree
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,320 ✭✭✭✭Chucky the tree


    Wonder what the kid did at 6 for the dad to figure out he was gay. A wealth of possibilities.


  • #16
    padd b1975
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    monkeypants wrote: »
    Assless chaps.
    I was thinking trousers with a zip at the back as well as the front.:cool:


  • #17
    monkeypants
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,385 ✭✭✭monkeypants


    He's known since he was six and still hasn't beaten it out of him? D for effort.


  • #18
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    monkeypants wrote: »
    Assless chaps.

    Fellahs with no buttocks?

    :confused:


  • #19
    hightower1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,210 ✭✭✭hightower1


    padd b1975 wrote: »
    And other thing, what the hell is pro gay clothing??


    Skinny jeans.


  • #20
    Czarcasm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,076 ✭✭✭✭Czarcasm


    I'd imagine it was fairly anti-climatic for the guy when he read this part of his father's letter:

    I've known you were gay since you were six


    Totally stole his thunder with that one line!


  • #21
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    My parents always knew too. They were great too


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  • #22
    padd b1975
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    totally wrote: »
    I'd imagine it was fairly anti-climatic for the guy when he read this part of his father's letter:





    Totally stole his thunder with that one line!
    Oh yeah, totally nipped the usual coming out of the closet drama queen antics right in the bud.


  • #23
    Galwayguy35
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,186 ✭✭✭✭Galwayguy35


    How could he have known the kid was gay at 6?


  • #24
    1ZRed
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    Galwayguy35 wrote: »
    How could he have known the kid was gay at 6?

    You'd be surprised some parents have a fair idea in their heads from a young age.

    Tbh it'd be handy in a way, the shock factor I have to deal with is unreal


  • #25
    Galwayguy35
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,186 ✭✭✭✭Galwayguy35


    1ZRed wrote: »
    You'd be surprised some parents have a fair idea in their heads from a young age.

    Tbh it'd be handy in a way, the shock factor I have to deal with is unreal

    Did your father get a shock when you told him?


  • #26
    Logical_Bear
    Closed Accounts Posts: 799 ✭✭✭Logical_Bear


    padd b1975 wrote: »
    How did a clothing company get their hands on something so private and personal?

    did you read the link?has the answer


  • #27
    1ZRed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,293 ✭✭✭1ZRed


    Galwayguy35 wrote: »
    Did your father get a shock when you told him?

    I haven't told my parents yet but I have been telling my sisters over the last few months. They took it badly because they were shocked. Completely supportive and it was a non-issue for them, but they couldn't process it because the thought that I was gay never entered their heads.

    That's why a parent's intuition can often be a good thing in these cases. It cuts out A LOT of the stress involved.


  • #28
    COYVB
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    Chucky the tree wrote: »
    Wonder what the kid did at 6 for the dad to figure out he was gay. A wealth of possibilities.

    You never grew up knowing an incredibly effeminate male child that turned out to be gay when they grew up? I can think of a few off the top of my head from my childhood. I think it's pretty obvious for some kids really


  • #29
    1ZRed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,293 ✭✭✭1ZRed


    Czarcasm wrote: »
    I'd imagine it was fairly anti-climatic for the guy when he read this part of his father's letter:





    Totally stole his thunder with that one line!

    I'd hate that and would get very uncomfortable if I read that from one of my parents. I'd kind of get a bit self-conscious about my tell :p


  • #30
    Galwayguy35
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,186 ✭✭✭✭Galwayguy35


    1ZRed wrote: »
    I haven't told my parents yet but I have been telling my sisters over the last few months. They took it badly because they were shocked. Completely supportive and it was a non-issue for them, but they couldn't process it because the thought that I was gay never entered their heads.

    That's why a parent's intuition can often be a good thing in these cases. It cuts out A LOT of the stress involved.

    I would imagine most parents these days would be supportive.


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  • #31
    Annasopra
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    Galwayguy35 wrote: »
    I would imagine most parents these days would be supportive.

    Yes but there are still cases of being thrown out of home etc. Only last month an lgbt resource centre employee spoke at a conference in Dublin about young people becoming homeless as a result of coming out.

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



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