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[Averin]

When did mod Boyd get a promotion to Hunky Hunk? Why wasn't there advance notice?

[Lori S.]

Wrong, just wrong: http://www.addictinginfo.org/2014/09/...

[Boyd, Hunk of hunky burning passion]

Averin wrote: "When did mod Boyd get a promotion to Hunky Hunk? Why wasn't there advance notice?"

Oh that's always been one of my many titles like my other favorite Official Gay Eye Candy :-)

[Roger]

Life is unfair, my former friend and a student with me at Hornsey College of Art, Lynsey de Paul died yesterday at 64. She may not have been a dedicated graphical artist but she did have a great singing voice, a ways with lyrics, and many hits. RIP Lynsey.

[Ije the Devourer of Books]

Sorry to hear that Roger xxx

[Rick]

My condolences on the loss of your friend.

[Averin]

My condolences, Roger. I know you've written about her before.

[Lori S.]

I am sorry to hear that Roger. Hugs.

[Preston, Moderator]

People living outside of the UK may not know Roger's friend and classmate in art school Lynsey de Paul was a chart topping singer in the 1970s and an award winning songwriter. In more recent times she appeared on television including the Stephen Fry series Kingdom. Although never married, at various times de Paul was romantically linked with Ringo Starr, Roy Wood, James Coburn, Sean Connery and Dudley Moore among others. She was a very close friend of Spike Mulligan and was known for her sense of humor.

See Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynsey_...

See BBC Obituary at: http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment...

[Roger]

Thank you for your thoughts. There is a Hornsey College of Art Facebook page, though most who pay attention to it are from well after my student time there (it became consumed by the vast and unsavory Middlesex University). Nevertheless, enough who were on the foundation course that year or the one after, remember Lynsey well and the thread ran to several posts. I felt it lost traction and direction after the student rebellion was squashed, so I left and took to movies instead.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hornsey_...

[Preston, Moderator]

I felt it lost traction and direction after the student rebellion was squashed, so I left and took to movies instead...."

A good decision considering a gorgeous young Swiss student was also going to the same film school as you. He is a member of the Complaint Department as Zack but I'm fairly certain your Civil Union papers have his name as Oliver Frey. And the rest is history ♡

[Roger]

♡♡

[Roger]

It's not fair that I have to fly to Milan for the coming weekend, all expenses paid to appear as a guest at Video Games Week–Milan.

[Lori S.]

Roger wrote: "It's not fair that I have to fly to Milan for the coming weekend, all expenses paid to appear as a guest at Video Games Week–Milan."

You could always refuse to go. ;)

[Averin]

Lori wrote: "Roger wrote: "It's not fair that I have to fly to Milan for the coming weekend, all expenses paid to appear as a guest at Video Games Week–Milan."

You could always refuse to go. ;)"

Yeah, isn't there flood damage you still need to clean up?

[Roger]

Hahaha… flood damage all done! No, it's a tough job flying to Milan for the weekend, but there it is. I suppose someone's got to do it.

[Roger]

How grungy does it have to get to prove that the skies over Birmingham International Airport are grey and windy after a balmy sunny Milano?

[Lori S.]

Punishment? ;}

[Roger]

Gee, thanks Lori! :-)

[Averin]

Msgs 5478 & 5479 http://www.businessweek.com/articles/...

[Lori S.]

[Roger]

Some might say "about time," but not everyone is given to riding on a charger into the fray; so if I were being moderately generous I might say "better late than never"; but I really think this is very brave of the man.

[Eric]

Roger,

If your comments are about the Apple CEO coming out publicly, I agree about his bravery.

Frankly, I am more than fed up with those in the gay community who for all practical purposes insist that men and women who are prominent in any field...arts, scientific, business, whatever...somehow have a "duty" to come out, and a "duty" to be a role model.

BS

There is a significant difference between being privately "out" and publicly so. So what if you don't hide your queerosity? So what if your co-workers and friends and loved ones know? So what if it's an "open secret" in your industry? Utterly irrelevant.

Privately out, in my mind, occurs naturally from simply being who you are, from not changing pronouns when making a casual comment about who you're dating (as an old-fashioned example). Or other things that just occur in the normal ebb and flow of your life.

Publicly out is obviously a conscious choice. It's a decision that recognizes the truth that if you are a prominent person, making that fact known may well help others in a variety of ways...from starting to break down barriers (first openly gay football player, first openly gay basketball player), to helping someone young and perplexed/frightened to be less perplexed and less frightened, encouraged to believe, on a somewhat "personal" level that it is indeed possible for queers to achieve the highest levels of their aspirations.

But whether you, the public figure, make the announcement for ego purposes, or for altruistic purposes, should be considered solely a personal and private decision, and the arsewipes...to borrow a phrase...who believe/scream/rant otherwise, should be very politely told, in the most upper-class British tones possible (because put-downs are always best when spoken so) to "off". Preceded, of course, by the ever-popular f-word.

Or if you are particularly good with words, some alternative expression of your own devising.

Thus-sayeth-the-Eric (who is late starting to earn a living today and must begin that endeavor lest he have no money to buy books).

[Lori S.]

Lovely Eric.

[Averin]

Eric wrote: "Roger,

If your comments are about the Apple CEO coming out publicly, I agree about his bravery.

Frankly, I am more than fed up with those in the gay community who for all practical purposes insis..."

Hear, hear.

[Roger]

Eric wrote: "Roger,

If your comments are about the Apple CEO coming out publicly, I agree about his bravery.

Frankly, I am more than fed up with those in the gay community who for all practical purposes insis..."

In complete agreement, and I did mean about his public statement; after all many in the gay global community who know anything about Apple knew that Tim was and is gay.

If you turn the argument slightly on its head, what about philanthropists who prefer to donate anonymously because they simply don't see it as being a matter for public scrutiny — and probably correctly fear that if they did shout out about their generosity they'd only be categorized as "show-offs."

[Roger]

I hate harpoons that don't work properly and leave the little European space craft that landed on a comet 330 million miles away in limbo.

[Lori S.]

I love hate that the lander actually made it to the comet and has been transmitting cool pictures back to Earth. Oddly enough, the pictures look like they could have come from a mountain top ...

[Roger]

A-hah!, that's what they said of the Moon landings… all done in a studio with reeeeaally bad CGI :-)

[Averin]

This morning's news has shots of bulldozers removing tons of snow in Buffalo (why is it always Buffalo?), while the local weather forecast gives us only a forty percent chance of rain tomorrow. But today's high will be almost 70ºF, we are in for a few days of 80s and the surf is up. Of course, we have water rationing so that cute surfer boy, riding the waves with his knobby feet etc., probably smells more than usual for lack (more than usual) of a shower.

[Lori S.]

All of your water went to the northeast.
Cold and clear here in Nuevo Mexico, all that snow avoiding us as usual.

[Averin]

Oh, and another thing, a genuine complaint. It took me, like all morning to watch the six episode web series, Montreal Boy: Some Strings Attached because Logo kept crapping out on me. Then, they left me hanging. Then I found out I could have watched it in one go, here.

[Preston, Moderator]

Thank you all for being the best part of the Complaint Department. Best wishes, hopes and prayers for a happy and healthy holiday season. I am so grateful for all our members but especially for those who participate in any way and those who are our wonderful lurkers.

[Monika]

Happy Holidays everyone!

[Ije the Devourer of Books]

Merry Christmas everyone and a happy new year too. xxx

[Preston, Moderator]

And on this final day of Hanukkah we hope you got lots of gelt.

[Roger]

Zack-Oli and Roger wish everyone a…

[Lori S.]

I meant to put this up on Sunday. So here it is, a little late:

[Eric]

I hereby whine, whimper and complain that y'all are either clever, or fancy, or erotic or all of the above. ('n not just in holiday postings)

Then there's little >ahem???< old me just saying Merry Christmas, Happy (Hannukkah-spelling-of-your-choice), and other holiday greetings.

Eric

[Preston, Moderator]

Roger wrote: "Zack-Oli and Roger wish everyone a…
"
Oh my! Christmas wishes with Sexy Art by Complaint Department member Zack (Oli Frey). Roger and Oli are in a civil union but have been together since the 1970s. Having Oli's art of these two young men in love as your Christmas greeting is fun, appreciated and perfect for this group. To see more art by Zack check out http://www.zack-art.com

Off course Zack's books and books by Roger Kean can be checked out on Goodreads.

This is paid advertising promotion We are grateful to Roger and Oli for their longstanding membership and active participation in the Complaint Department. We love you guys!

[Preston, Moderator]

Lori S. wrote: "I meant to put this up on Sunday. So here it is, a little late:… "

Thanks Lori for your posting on the Winter Solstice. I'm very thankful that the days have now started to get longer with more daylight everyday.

I'd like to thank the sun, the earth, astrophysics and of course our very active and very fondly respected voice of mirth and reason, Lori.

[Preston, Moderator]

Eric wrote: "I hereby whine, whimper and complain that y'all are either clever, or fancy, or erotic or all of the above. ('n not just in holiday postings)…"

Thanks Eric for the simple and delightful greeting from little old maturely wise you.

[Preston, Moderator]

Ije the Devourer of Books wrote: "Merry Christmas everyone and a happy new year too. xxx"

Merry Christmas Ijeoma our favorite Anglican priest who blesses us with her presence here especially as a super-duper Complaint Department game player.

Thank you dear friend for your support of gay men everywhere but especially for your gifts and blessings for our gay Nigerian brothers safe in England and in other enlightened countries. I pray for all still in Nigeria during this reign of terror against women and sexual minorities including asexuals.

[Preston, Moderator]

Monika wrote: "Happy Holidays everyone!"

Thanks for your vintage Christmas scene and greeting. You are the heart of the Complaint Department and we love you for that.

[Preston, Moderator]

Preston wrote: "Thank you all for being the best part of the Complaint Department. Best wishes, hopes and prayers for a happy and healthy holiday season. I am so grateful for all our members but especially for tho..."

Thank you Preston. You are doing a terrific job here and by that I mean what you do is terrifying but nevertheless you're a magnificently handsome super-stud, a genius, and have a heart of gold. The world could not exist without you.

[Lori S.]

Thank you Preston and Boyd for making The Complaint Department an enjoyable and great fun place to visit, with a fantastic bunch of folks with whom to interact and all the great ridiculous threads in which to post.

Mele Kalikimaka me ka Hau'oli Makahiki Hou

[Boyd, Hunk of hunky burning passion]

Preston wrote: "Preston wrote: "Thank you all for being the best part of the Complaint Department. Best wishes, hopes and prayers for a happy and healthy holiday season. I am so grateful for all our members but es..."

Oh poor delusional Preston. Like you do anything but play games.

@Lori Thank you Lori for humoring the deranged lunatic who pretends to run this place. While I do all the work, he just plays games. The boy needs serious mental health care.

[Lori S.]

=°D

[Averin]

Best wishes for whatever holiday floats your boat. If you see Santa, please tell him I need a new iPad or ask that an attack of conscious hits the person(s) who stole mine, I've got things to read.

[Monika]

Monika wrote: "Thank you Preston. You are doing a terrific job here and by that I mean what you do is terrifying but nevertheless you're a magnificently handsome super-stud, a genius, and have a heart of gold. The world could not exist without you."

Oh my, look Preston we think exactly alike! *hugs & kisses*