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Also, there are adorable little bunnies and fawns frolicking around EVERYWHERE.

Nobody has sprinklers there because a gentle misting rain falls every night and in the morning the sun rises and golden light showers everything with goodness.

Really though, you new kids have no idea how good you have it. Prejudice, misunderstanding, and violence against gays and trannies (both -sexual and -vestite) was so much worse just 20 years ago, and fortunately enough people in the generation before yours was brave enough to come out and deal with a LOT of shit. I've put up with a startling amount of prejudice myself in the past (including from the gay community) but social acceptance has come to the point where most people I run into don't bat an eye. People are gradually getting better/more understanding about it, so that kids CAN come out and identify themselves as gay/bi/trans with a great deal LESS fear of being beaten, murdered, expelled, shunned, or disowned.

You experience prejudice but you have choices now that weren't available to a lot of older people when they were figuring themselves out. I have several dead friends and a couple of dead relatives whose blood I hope in some way contributed to tolerance and acceptance. Keep on fighting the good fight and maybe the next generation won't have to put up with this shit.

Also, don't forget to laugh at yourself. It's important.

I hope I can say the same thing 20 years from now.

Seriously, so do I. Hopefully minus the friends and relatives being beaten to death.

When I lived on a quaint little island in Washington we had tourists who just assumed the whole thing was a giant theme park of cuteness and bunnies designed for their enjoyment, and my favorite tourist story ever was when my mom's friend came from to find some people eating a picnic on her lawn. She said something like "Um, hey, this is my front yard" and they said something like "EXCUSE ME, we're trying to HAVE LUNCH here lady" and then she went inside and when she came out again they had gone away but left the bones from their fried chicken all over the lawn.

Really though, you new kids have no idea how good you have it. Prejudice, misunderstanding, and violence against gays and trannies (both -sexual and -vestite) was so much worse just 20 years ago, and fortunately enough people in the generation before yours was brave enough to come out and deal with a LOT of shit. I've put up with a startling amount of prejudice myself in the past (including from the gay community) but social acceptance has come to the point where most people I run into don't bat an eye. People are gradually getting better/more understanding about it, so that kids CAN come out and identify themselves as gay/bi/trans with a great deal LESS fear of being beaten, murdered, expelled, shunned, or disowned.

You experience prejudice but you have choices now that weren't available to a lot of older people when they were figuring themselves out. I have several dead friends and a couple of dead relatives whose blood I hope in some way contributed to tolerance and acceptance. Keep on fighting the good fight and maybe the next generation won't have to put up with this shit.

Also, don't forget to laugh at yourself. It's important.

I'm leaving chicken bones in your internets.

And I'm sorry for being a jerk.

I hope medicine does advance to the point where we can enjoy extended health for an extra 50 years or so; I have a lot of stuff I'd like to do and at this rate I'll never get it all in by the time I'm 90.

Also if they could figure a non-invasive way to remove tumors that would rule.

My guess is he's talking about all of the tourists flooding the coast this time of year.  Am I right? 

Tourists suck.

Transsexual until graduation?

C'mon baby, it's cool. Everybody's doing it.

It's those fucking bisexuals that are fucking things up for everyone. If only they weren't such fucking SPAGS.

Oh, and the Discordians. I hate those guys.

Being transgender is the new bi.

umm, I have no idea what you're talking about.

And I have no idea what YOU'RE talking about, so we're even.

That sounds fucking fantastic, I will try it!

*** Nigel: Flashy warning! ***

I looked at it anyway! I don't feel quite right, but that is probably because of teh pure unsurpassed EVIL.