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2010-04-28 Britain
Most gay men have realised that the Oppressed Victimhood party is totally over
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Posted by tipper 2010-04-28 15:03|| || Front Page|| [1 views ]  Top

#1 Just once, it would be really nice to see the article quoted instead of a blank link.
Posted by gromky 2010-04-28 15:41||   2010-04-28 15:41|| Front Page Top

#2 Oh, you are so victimised, Grom! ;-)
Try harder and ye shall be brought to the link.
Posted by twobyfour 2010-04-28 16:45||   2010-04-28 16:45|| Front Page Top

#3 It's often done as a courtesy, especially when the content is either OT, slightly risque, full of essential graphics, etc.

Full text, on the other hand, can either be because the link is behind a subscription wall, anything less than full would be deceptive, or it is very transitory.

So that being said, I guess we're not intentionally trying to annoy--just the opposite.
Posted by  Anonymoose 2010-04-28 16:49||   2010-04-28 16:49|| Front Page Top

#4 I'm with gromky on this one. i like to see more on the inside of a click-thru than just the headline viewable without going any further. i can understand the occasional limited post, but several and often in series is a disappointment. Sometimes i just skip 'em.
Posted by Swanimote 2010-04-28 17:51||   2010-04-28 17:51|| Front Page Top

#5 Personally, I try to edit articles down to a few paragraphs, or if I just post the link (for any of the reasons cited by 'moose & others), I try to put a few sentence summary. But sometimes I don't have time - so it's whole article or just headline.
Posted by Glenmore 2010-04-28 19:14||   2010-04-28 19:14|| Front Page Top

#6 Note that the Associated Press instituted a policy a while ago of going after any site that quotes from their articles. That's one reason for the link only posts here.
Posted by lotp 2010-04-28 19:15||   2010-04-28 19:15|| Front Page Top

#7 I try always to check the articles. If it seems important enough, and I'm on my laptop, which had moderator capabilities (the desktop is supposed to, but in my end-use ignorance I can't figure out how to access it from there), I'll copy the key bits and paste them under the headline for y'all. I don't think this particular article rises to that level, though. Read the first three paragraphs from the article, which runs for four pages, and decide for yourselves.

ome of my best friends are gay — but now I can go one better than that: one of them is HIV positive. ‘But that’s brilliant news!’ I told my friend when he spilled the beans the other day. ‘Now I can go round claiming victim cred by association. And if anyone makes an Aids joke I can be, like, seriously offended and put on a solemn voice and say: “Actually, you know, if you had an HIV positive friend like I do...”.’ My friend agreed that being HIV positive was a very handy thing to be, in this respect. But on further consideration, we decided it would have carried more victim cred weight in the days before anti-retroviral drugs when a) it was a death sentence; and b) being gay won you many more oppressed-minority brownie points.

Personally I blame Ken Livingstone. Remember in his 1980s GLC days how shamelessly he courted the pink vote with his taxpayer-funded gay parades and lavish grants to any organisation run by crop-headed women with dungarees and CND badges? Well that all ended when he worked out there was more electoral mileage in shamelessly playing up to the prejudices of his Islamist constituents instead. And clearly, much as Ken might have liked it, you can’t court both minorities at the same time: not when one of them thinks the only suitable fate for the other one is to be thrown off a high rock, hanged from a crane or buried under a wall.

Maybe there’s some connection between these socio-political shifting tides and the fact that the majority of my most deeply sound right-wing friends (though not, I don’t think, my new mate Lord Tebbit) are gay. Probably not: as far as I know they were all born right-wing, not made. Then again, when I put my ‘Are gays turning more right-wing?’ hypothesis to one of them, he thought there was definitely something in it. ‘Because we have one less layer of skin, we’re more sensitive to the way the wind’s blowing,’ he said.

I think you made the right call when you posted this one, tipper.
Posted by trailing wife 2010-04-28 19:24||   2010-04-28 19:24|| Front Page Top

#8 ome of my best friends are gay

Sorry, missed the first letter of the first word, making it some.
Posted by trailing wife 2010-04-28 19:26||   2010-04-28 19:26|| Front Page Top

#9 AP instituted a policy to much fanfare, but have they implemented it? Has anyone heard of a move after the first week? I haven't read the amount of bitching I would expect if they were seriously implementing the announced policy.
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2010-04-28 19:27||   2010-04-28 19:27|| Front Page Top

#10 Sorry, missed the first letter of the first word, making it some.

Out to the woodshed, TW. :-0
Posted by gorb 2010-04-28 22:26||   2010-04-28 22:26|| Front Page Top

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