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Steve@startrek.website to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 1 month ago

What if LGBT adopts a white and grey striped flag to replace the rainbow? Then Florida would have to abolish crosswalks entirely.

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What if LGBT adopts a white and grey striped flag to replace the rainbow? Then Florida would have to abolish crosswalks entirely.

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Steve@startrek.website to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 1 month ago
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  • ceenote@lemmy.world
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    So you’re the one who stole my bath towel.

    • Steve@startrek.websiteOP
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      Yes I collect gay bath towels

      • toynbee@lemmy.world
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        How can you tell the sexuality of a towel?

        edit: I think some people thought I was asking about identifying the gender of the towel. As much as I never thought I’d have to write anything like this sentence: I was asking how to identify the partnership preferred by a towel, rather than anything to do with its hypothetical undercarriage.

        • Steve@startrek.websiteOP
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          I know it when I see it

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            Wow, toweldar.

        • potoooooooo ☑️@lemmy.world
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          If you notice they get wet before you’ve used them to towel off, congrats, they’re into you. If they’re dry as a bone when you use them, they’re really not enjoying it, at all. It’s not rocket science.

          • toynbee@lemmy.world
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            This might help determine whether or not they enjoy the company of a particular gender, but you couldn’t use this method to identify, for example, bisexuality. Unless you take group showers, I guess.

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            Damn, I guess my gay bath towel just isn’t into me. Whatever, I’m still gonna make him rub my cheeks.

        • 𝕱𝖎𝖗𝖊𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖈𝖍@lemmy.world
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          In much of the world, they’re all female: la toalla/serviette

          I guess that doesn’t really help with sexuality though

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            Still, I appreciate the revelation!

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          Lift its skirt?

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            That does sound like something a toilet observer would suggest.

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        Well, there are worse hobbies…

      • Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub
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        Quiet you, I’m trying to buy in while they’re still under the radar.

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        So you’re saying my bi bath towels were taken by someone else?

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    Don’t tempt them. It’s hard enough to cross the street as it is.

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      lol … conservatives would be the first to happily just get rid of cross walks altogether … both to not acknowledge LGBTQ+ and also to give more freedom to vehicles and get rid of “pedestrians”

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        A good wholesome road needs to be safe for our traditional family SUVs and free of these dangerous ((pedestrians)).

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          Sounds a lot like pederasts… Coincidence? I THINK NOT!

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      “It’s for the children! No more crosswalks! Just frogger it, kids!” -Ron DeSantis

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    To be honest those twats would already be on board with that.

    “Crosswalks? The fuck, you ain’t driving your truck across the street to get there? It too damn far!”

    – Florida Man

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    Just adopt red and white stripes. See what they do then

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      Cat in the hat style

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    Now we just get the uniforms:

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    Yeah tbh. And it aligns better with the concept of sexuality/gender being more of a spectrum than rigidly designated buckets.

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      Isn’t the rainbow meant to represent the spectrum. Like how rainbows show the visible spectrum of light?

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        It would be a lot prettier that way

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          Are you trying to get the entire dcip3 banned??

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            I thought of this because of your comment.

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              God’s rainbow has 7 colors (ROY G BIV), the LGBT rainbow has 6. Guy doesn’t even know rainbows.

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          Sure it has every color but does it have our specific color?

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            Yeah, this flag only shows saturated hues. This is unsaturated erasure.

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              Might I tempt you with this alternative proposal?

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                I complain about saturation representation and you reply with a hue-lightness flag. Smh my head.

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        It… is kind of a giant mess.

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_flag_(LGBTQ) is a good summary but the modern rainbow color scheme is a somewhat recent iteration.

        But much as “LGBT” has become “LGBTQ” and “LGBTQIA” and “LGBTQIA+” and so forth, so too have the flag added and removed stripes. And… a lot of that is intentional animosity since a shocking number of LGBTQIA+ folk are actually REALLY bigoted (the old “jokes” about how bisexual people need to “choose a side” and so forth) and it becomes a whole thing.

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    Don’t give Florida ideas

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    Just adopt the Florida state flag?

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      That feels about as appropriate as the Nazi flag

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        I tell people that the back the blue flag is for pedophiles. It’s fun to fuck with their nonsense.

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    Florida always at the ready for ideas that can harm children.

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      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PTiMKsTo-o

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    Cute but this wouldn’t work for this obvious reason – conservatives would be like, “sure buddy. If you say so.”

    OTOH, we made the rainbow work so… I guess?

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      Dude have you seen the rainbow? ITS LITERALLY JUST VISIBLE LIGHT and its the greatest threat to the conservative world.

      You way underestimate how much they care.

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        And they are literally naturally occurring. Like… I wonder how mad conservatives get when it rains on a sunny day, and a rainbow comes popping up in the sky reminding them of their closeted homosexuality.

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      Just please stop screwing it up.

      progress pride flag

      Stop

      Progress Pride flag 2 intersex boogaloo

      I said, Stop!

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    Why is Red on the left and Blue on the right? Don’t tell the MAGA crowd or they will try to pass another law…

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      Don’t tell them that how the colours are for the left and right political parties in other countries

      • 𝕱𝖎𝖗𝖊𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖈𝖍@lemmy.world
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        Canada, for instance

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          Uk and Australia as well

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    beatles pride flag

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    Part of me is all for this, but part of me realizes this would only make things worse for pedestrians and bicyclists.

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    the united colors of benetton would approve of those flags

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