End Gender

Biff: 23rd Jun 2006 - 13:56 GMT

Tamara: 23rd Jun 2006 - 14:26 GMT

That's what the Pride parade in Toronto has become... very sad, but the corporate beast has taken over the whole affair! Have you all got your party hats on and water guns armed?

jack: 23rd Jun 2006 - 15:24 GMT

is that a 'pot' plant in the first pic? i have no comment on homosexuality. i definitely do not like the way drag queens and weirdos portray the gay community. i'm from a different time and space on this planet. a time when women were home tending to their families and men were out working. a time when there was a sence of propriety and decency. a different lifetime than today.

Tamara: 23rd Jun 2006 - 15:28 GMT

Jack: it's not a 'pot' plant, the leaves look very different.

Tamara: 23rd Jun 2006 - 19:08 GMT

If you have been smoking leaves like those above, you've been enjoying something else.. 'Pot' leaves look like this...

Peter: 23rd Jun 2006 - 19:29 GMT

those leaves in the original photo do look a bit like salvia divinorum, though, which some people also smoke recreationally: www.erowid.org/plants/salvia

jack: 23rd Jun 2006 - 20:31 GMT

back in the 70's a dude would stand on the corner of albany street and washington street and keep his nickel bags in the top of a broken johnnie pump 'fire hydrant'.

EvilGentleman: 23rd Jun 2006 - 20:45 GMT

Jack, are you telling me that there are Vietnam vets out there who do not know what cannabis plants look like? Even if you were totally straight arrow, then you should still recognize the stuff.

Cuz as far as I know, half the US military in those days were hippies that got drafted, and the other half hated hippies with a passion. So since you have made it clear you were never a hippy, then you must belong to the other half of military society. And what self-respecting hippy-hating grunt would go into town on a weekend pass and not play a few games of "thump the hippy" with his fellow soldiers? And do you recall the stuff that would come out of their pockets while they rolled around trying to preserve their teeth? That was pot.

Ok, ok. I know you are a respectable man, jack. I realize you probably never took part in any random acts of violence, but surely, you heard stories. And if I were you, I would not smoke the azaleas in the first pic, they probably cause migraines. Although I hear the Chinese can make wine from azalea blossoms.

jack: 24th Jun 2006 - 13:18 GMT

actually i was not the hippie type like way into the drug scene, rather i was what they would call cool, like between a rocker and a mod. my thing was manhattan in the village or on the piers listening to cool jazz till sunrise. in the army i was a soldier and i took it seriously. i joined the army because i was running away from two girls, one in greenpoint and the other in gravesend, but more from a lack of self respect. my life seemed empty so i quit college and ran away.

EvilGentleman: 24th Jun 2006 - 17:32 GMT

The more I hear of your story, the more interesting things become. I especially would like to hear about why you were running away from the two girls, and is one of them your wife now?

jack: 25th Jun 2006 - 04:41 GMT

no. i was going steady with these two dolls and one day they crossed each others paths at a party. my friend tries to keep them apart but they started talking about their boyfriend in the army. then it became, well my boyfriend is a ranger, and then so is mine, and then wow my boyfriends name is jack and then get out of here, so is mine and then my friend backs away and they turned to look at him and then they showed each other photo's. dam contraption those cameras, who the hell invented them anyway.

EvilGentleman: 25th Jun 2006 - 15:25 GMT

If only you could see me laughing right now, jack. I suppose the spurned girlfriends made the idea of active duty a lot less scary, by comparision. At least, at the time. And don't blame the cameras, I'm sure if you had done this in 1776, you would have made the error of giving both of them identical locket portraits of yourself. The pursuit of women has always had the ability to turn smart men into blathering idiots, and it has always been so throughout the ages.

Virginia Creeper: 1st Mar 2007 - 22:31 GMT

Pretty sure the stuff in the first photo is a vine called Virginia Creeper. My ex used to weave baskets using it.