Why is Amazon delisting LGBT books for being too ‘adult’?
Why is Amazon delisting LGBT books for being too ‘adult’?
Yesterday, author Mark R. Probst noticed that Amazon has been pulling the sales rank numbers from many LGBT books. When Probst wrote to Amazon about the issue, he received this response:
In consideration of our entire customer base, we exclude “adult” material from appearing in some searches and best seller lists. Since these lists are generated using sales ranks, adult materials must also be excluded from that feature.
Jezebel has a long list of the books that have been delisted, which fall into a wide range of categories. However, the LGBT books excluded include Nathan Frank’s “well-reviewed empirical analysis of military policy,” “Unfriendly Fire,” and a biography of Ellen DeGeneres. Books remaining include the biography of straight porn star Ron Jeremy and “A Parent’s Guide To Preventing Homosexuality.” Jessica Valenti, whose book “Full Frontal Feminisism” has also been delisted, has more here.
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I just checked and Thank Goddess, “Sisters” by Lynne Cheney is still listed!
Collectible first edition for $295! WHAT a great country:)!
April 12th, 2009 at 10:04 pmWhy is Amazon delisting LGBT books for being too ‘adult’?
– - Yet Mein Kampf isn’t. RE: the Update – Amazon is stalling for time, kinda like Rick Warren’s “exhaustion no-show.”
April 12th, 2009 at 10:07 pmRachel Maddow is a threat to traditional marriage.
April 12th, 2009 at 10:07 pmAs if those hetero married men have a chance with Rachel
April 12th, 2009 at 10:12 pmThey are just trying to make them available to all the closet republican homosexuals b@ll suckers that are getting ready for the “teabagging” event this week,
After all, if you are going to keep testicles in your mouth ALL DAY, you need to practice and get those jaws loosened up. Otherwise, they get a variation of blowers cramps.
Amazon is just doing what they can to help prepare the masses for all the gay sex that the repugs have planned.
April 12th, 2009 at 10:14 pmSo THAT’s Daryll’s secret DOD program he’s been working on…
April 12th, 2009 at 10:14 pmI could see why it would be exhausting for a preacher like Warren to be juggling all those lies in the youtube era.
Who you gonna believe me, but I’m exhausted, or your lying eyes!
April 12th, 2009 at 10:15 pm“The spokesperson added that there was no new adult policy.”
He did mention, however, that the new childish policy was working well, thank you!
April 12th, 2009 at 10:15 pmRUCeriousDragonfly Says:
So THAT’s Daryll’s secret DODO program he’s been working on…
Fried Your Tomatoes =)
April 12th, 2009 at 10:16 pmYep. It’s just a glitch, nothing to see here. Just like the time Amazon “glitched” and removed all the negative reviews from Scientology’s Dianetics. And the “glitch” that removed all 1-star reviews of DRM-laden Spore. “Glitch” = “Oh crud everyone hates us now so we’ll blame it on technology”
April 12th, 2009 at 10:17 pmI trust the free market to sort this one out.
April 12th, 2009 at 10:17 pmAnother Joe, there’s a youtube clip mocking the whole Retardican event, and ending with some visuals.
April 12th, 2009 at 10:18 pmDON’t think or Rush Limballs sweaty little testicles down BillO’reillys throat,
or Michele Bachmann’s crazy lady balls in Hanrattys mouth!
translate to neoconish Says:
Rachel Maddow is a threat to traditional marriage.
She sure is. I’m a happily married heterosexual woman, but DAMN, intelligence is just so HOT!!!
April 12th, 2009 at 10:18 pmLeave Xenu A l o o o o o o o o n n e e!!!
April 12th, 2009 at 10:18 pmI find it odd that Daryll poked his head up in the Somali pirate thread right around the same time this article appeared.
Was TP summoning Daryll, or appeasing him?
April 12th, 2009 at 10:22 pmUse a neat accounting trick to keep the damage that divorce does to the value of marriage away from the shareholders (i.e. the gullible Californians) and our message will continue to profit.
April 12th, 2009 at 10:24 pmhttp://www.gametrailers.com/player/usermovies/274619.html
Tea bagging
April 12th, 2009 at 10:25 pmIm pretty sure Newt had a chart on that with all these arrows and graphs and stuff…
April 12th, 2009 at 10:28 pmI didn’t know Amazon was still around, I never shop there? Everything seems to be a “glitch” these days?
I LOVE YOU RACHEL MADDOW!!!!!
April 12th, 2009 at 10:31 pmAnyone here who hasn’t been on the previous thread, check out neoconish’s comments and the respective responses.
neconish at 71. 72 74 76 79 85 88 92 96 97 101 109.
my last responses were:
103 These threads aren’t just for your own personal amusement, matey. You are now being being a dick.
and
107 Okay, I’m calling it. translate to neoconish , time of virtual death, 9.48 pm. Cause: too stupid and self important to live.
I’m just reporting, the rest of you decide.
April 12th, 2009 at 10:32 pmfacism has many faces this is one of them.
religion has many benefits this is not one of them.
our forefathers knew the ills of religion well and tried very hard to design a system to prevent the religious to subject all to their dogma.
look at the muslim world for the ills of religion. ok look here also in the good old united states.
those that supported the war in iraq the most. the religious of all people and jesus preached what.
now everyone has a god the atheists god is their ego.
bet that went down well. :-)
April 12th, 2009 at 10:34 pmGuido the Loving OBGYN Says:
Mmmmm, pancakes, mmmmmmm…
April 12th, 2009 at 10:51 pmShow us in the Constitution where it states “Separation of Church & State?” The founding fathers never meant that you couldn’t worship in public…just that there would be no state religion.
..and I see that this story was updated so another lame azz conspiracy thread is laid to rest. Except for the mentality challenged.
April 12th, 2009 at 10:51 pmRealityCheck Says:
Except for the mentality challenged.
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Oh… the irony…
April 12th, 2009 at 10:57 pmThe Republic of Hymenoptera Stupidity Says:
RealityCheck Says:
Except for the mentality challenged.
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Oh… the irony…
You bet…Hymenoptera Stupidity…all about you
April 12th, 2009 at 10:59 pmDr. Moth Matt Says:
Who is trying to stop anyone from worshiping in public?
I don’t know, some “mentality challenged” guy seems real worried about it though….
April 12th, 2009 at 11:05 pmRealityCheck Says:
Oh gosh… what a witty reply.
Yer suchabanana…
BTW, what does your comment even have to dow/ the thread?
You can read, can’t you?
April 12th, 2009 at 11:06 pmI’d say someone just wants some attention…
April 12th, 2009 at 11:07 pmThe Constitution? that thing is just a goddamn piece of paper.
And RealityCheck helped me empty the shredder.
April 12th, 2009 at 11:17 pmThis is what happens when you start delisting things. It’s soft book burning in the first place, so you can hardly be suprised when the politicism spreads beyond sexual taboos.
It definitely looks like these Amazon listings are actively political in nature. Who’d have guessed?
April 12th, 2009 at 11:19 pmRealityCheck and I are a couple of ucking dumbasses. We’ll get our power back though, don’t despair partner.
April 12th, 2009 at 11:20 pmRealityCheck has a point though, the bible should be the federal government’s operating manual. It’s also great for medical students if they want to cut down on reading.
April 12th, 2009 at 11:22 pmToo “adult?” Ridiculous.
Amazon just lost my business.
April 12th, 2009 at 11:25 pmAnother Joe Says:
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They are just trying to make them available to all the closet republican homosexuals b@ll suckers that are getting ready for the “teabagging” event this week,
After all, if you are going to keep testicles in your mouth ALL DAY, you need to practice and get those jaws loosened up. Otherwise, they get a variation of blowers cramps.
Amazon is just doing what they can to help prepare the masses for all the gay sex that the repugs have planned.
What a tastelss homophobic post.
April 12th, 2009 at 11:26 pmhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apKN5GqGG5c
April 12th, 2009 at 11:31 pmJohnM
only if your a republican closet homosexual…
April 12th, 2009 at 11:32 pmRealityCheck Says: Show us in the Constitution where it states “Separation of Church & State?”
Show us in the Constitution where it states that slavery is acceptable ( or indeed not acceptable), abortion is a crime or a sin, where prostitution is a crime or a sin, or where it states that there isn’t a separation of Church and State?
NOW…
“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”
God and religion is specifically excluded from the preamble and all Articles concerning the conduct of national and state affairs, elections, the power to create laws and prosecute them, nor is any religious measure mentioned as a mark of authority in the government’s business on behalf of the people or int its judgment of the conduct of citizens in the courts of law.
If this is supposed to be a Christian nation, blessed and ruled according to your all powerful God, why doesn’t HE come to your aid, smite the godless like he did in the Old Testament, and reward your faith in HIM by establishing HIS law and HIS rule in the US, right NOW?
Are you not worthy of such reward? Well prattling your ignorance on Think progress isn’t going to earn you the brownies points you need to get raptured, is it?
You obviously can’t convert a wet paper bag! You are WAY behind on your quota. You are failing your GOD! You need to be barbecuing day and night to get back into his good graces–instead of wasting your time here.
And did you ever wonder, when you put in so much effort on your God’s behalf, HE gives NOTHING in return? WHy is GOD so f—ing lazy?
Having Jesus show up on a piece of toast every 5 years is not a publicity/conversion campaign that will get any ‘buzz’ let alone ‘go viral’.
But hey, it’s Easter! Jesus didn’t ask to be nailed to a cross but he accepted his fate (with a few complaints once he was hanging there, but who wouldn’t, eh?) But you , me old mucker, you insist in metaphorically pounding the nails through your own hands.
But just like your God, you really aren’t committed. Pounding your keyboard is not the same as whipping your own flesh with barbed chains for the greater glory of you God, is it?
You aren’t a true believer, you just think you are. Vanity is a sin, don’t you know?
April 12th, 2009 at 11:32 pmAnother Joe Says:
JohnM
only if your a republican closet homosexual…
April 12th, 2009 at 11:32 pm
I didn’t care for it much myself. Just sayin’…
April 12th, 2009 at 11:34 pmWhen you say “testicles in mouth”, what’s a good word for that?
April 12th, 2009 at 11:35 pmHey – wasn’t my idea to launch a group sex act as a protest against Obama…
Don’t blame me – take it up with the lying liars at faux.
April 12th, 2009 at 11:36 pmM’kay…
April 12th, 2009 at 11:43 pmresearcher Says: “religion has many benefits this is not one of them.”
From my perspective the benefits of religion are few, but such as they are they seem to me to be personal. Organized institutionalized religion is as corrupt as any form of secular government because an organized religion is government and acts like government–but without the accountability of democratic government, NOR EVEN the accidental accountability that secular totalitarian governments eventually face that the circumstances of reality and change ultimately demand.
The oldest continuous political organizations/governments in the world are the major religions, and their respective histories demonstrate clearly that they are no better than any secualar government, whilst always claiming to be so.
April 13th, 2009 at 12:07 amI’ve often pondered writing an illustrated book for the kiddies called “Jesus Had TWO Daddies”.
April 13th, 2009 at 12:13 am5th Estate @ 45:
April 13th, 2009 at 12:24 amThat’s the funniest thing I’ve read today.
OutstandingInAPlagueOfLocusts,
Glad to be of service. And may I say your moniker amuses me no-end, every time I see it. I thinks it’s brilliant!
April 13th, 2009 at 12:32 amOh! A *glitch*!!
Of course!!
/snark
April 13th, 2009 at 12:34 amJust a farmer who includes “The Good Earth” among her favorite books.
April 13th, 2009 at 12:35 amtranslate to neoconish Says:
When you say “testicles in mouth”, what’s a good word for that?
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Cheney
April 13th, 2009 at 1:03 amRealityCheck Says:
You are stupid Unreality. You NEVER know what you are talking about. The term seperation of church and state is what Jefferson, you know ONE OF THE FOUNDING FATHERS, used to explain the first amendment establishment clause. You are also a moron. IF all they wanted to do was stop a state religion it would say no establishment of “A” religion instead it says no establishment of religion. Another bit of bone ignorance from you is the whine about not worshiping in public. No one cares. Worship all you want in public. Put one of those hudred or so religious content shows on TV. NO ONE CARES. What we DO NOT want is government advocacy of religion. Every post you make shows how stupid you are.
April 13th, 2009 at 1:34 amSo this was all caused by a glitch huh? Cool. Who’d ‘a’ thunk?
April 13th, 2009 at 3:45 amRealityCheck Says:
Show us in the Constitution where it states “Separation of Church & State?” The founding fathers never meant that you couldn’t worship in public…just that there would be no state religion.
April 12th, 2009 at 10:51 pm
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It doesn’t. Nowhere in the Constitution does it state “Separation of Church & State.”
However, in an 1802 letter to the Danbury Baptist Association, Thomas Jefferson made the founding father’s views on the matter abundantly clear:
April 13th, 2009 at 7:10 am
Why is Amazon delisting LGBT books for being too ‘adult’?
I’ll take a stab; because they are a bunch of gutless pussies still catering to the frenzied, anal retentive, inbred mob culture of Christian Conservatives?
April 13th, 2009 at 7:28 amtranslate to neoconish Says:
The Constitution? that thing is just a goddamn piece of paper.
And RealityCheck helped me empty the shredder
Thus the LIBERAL interpretation of American values…I rest my case.
It doesn’t. Nowhere in the Constitution does it state “Separation of Church & State.”
I knew that…only LIBERALS claim that phrase as their rock solid proof that everything Christians do is against the Constitution. They love it both ways…like Bi-Sexual Homos I suppose.
April 13th, 2009 at 7:31 am“glitch”, eh? Well, for my own part, and I may be a littel crazy, but I have no intention of running my personal finance information through a computer system that is all “glitchy”.
What’s the next “glitch” going to do, send donations out of visitor’s accounts to various GOP PACS? (oh, maybe I shouldn’t give them any ideas….)
April 13th, 2009 at 7:37 amLooks like Jeff Bezos has stepped on his crank!
April 13th, 2009 at 7:41 am.
I can understand their concerns. They wouldn’t want to offend anyone who can’t read.
Wonder how they feel about pagan chants. Or Marilyn Manson? Same diff.
April 13th, 2009 at 7:42 am.
RealityCheck Says:
translate to neoconish Says:
The Constitution? that thing is just a goddamn piece of paper.
And RealityCheck helped me empty the shredder
Thus the LIBERAL interpretation of American values…I rest my case.
Well, I have been known to get intoxicated enough to argue with mineral samples, so I’ll add a few choice bits of obviousness….Thos are BUSH interpretations of American values (the constitution line is a direct BUSH QUOTE, and as to shredders… how about all those shredders Cheney had ordered in his last months in office?….)
It doesn’t. Nowhere in the Constitution does it state “Separation of Church & State.”
I knew that…only LIBERALS claim that phrase as their rock solid proof that everything Christians do is against the Constitution.
Nice strawman. Really, though, how does one get from the first claim to “LIBERALS claim that phrase as their rock solid proof that everything Christians do is against the Constitution” ?
To utilize our critical thinking skills (the logic of communication and language) we find a nice mixture of difficulties realitycheck is having with reality, or at least with presenting intelligent and supported arguements. The prominent errors here are: strawman, hyperbole, sweeping generalization, and dysphemism. Perhaps RC should look these up and understand why they are all flawed methods of argument. They prove nothing, and by their dishonestly imply disproof of the arguer’s position. In other words, you shoot yourself in the foot when you argue this dishonestly.
So, RC’s conclusion, “LIBERALS claim that phrase as their rock solid proof that everything Christians do is against the Constitution“, has NO supporting premises, which makes it not a conclusion, but an UNSUPPORTED OPINION, which, in rational discourse, has no value.
They love it both ways…like Bi-Sexual Homos I suppose.
Doubling-up on some “homo”, eh? Little education: “bi-sexual” means that the person will have intimate relations with EITHER sex. Homosexual will have relations with the same sex. The two are mutually exclusive: one is homosexual, heterosexual, or bisexual (I’ve heard some reference to “asexual” as a nomer, but I am not sure I agree with its use). RC’s need to note “homo” along with “bisexual” seems to indicate a high degree of fear and prejududice. IS it THAT important to reinforce that “bi-sexual people have homosexual as well as heterosexual preferences? It would be JUST AS FAIR to say “bi-sexual heteros”, and would mean just the same.
In short, and this is my opinion only and has no bearing on the thread or the argument, but RealityCheck is somewhere between pseudo-organic sludge and crusty mineral buildup in intellectual capacity. I’ve known poultry who could construct better arguments.
April 13th, 2009 at 7:55 amRealityCheck Says:
Unreality. You are an ignorant troll and a worthless piece of garbage. You are stupid and pathetic. I guess that makes Thomas Jefferson a liberal since he coined the phrase in a letter EXPLAINING the establishment cause. I gues only conservatives are so stupid that they spout idiocy like this. Rush isnt stupid enough to believe this but he KNOWS that you ARE stupid enough to believe and repeat anything he says so he plays you for the fool you are. You are a punk. That you are a bigot also surprises no one. You have no decency. You are a liar and a fool. Mostly you are a troll that thinks you are clever too stupid to know how utterly pathetic you are.
April 13th, 2009 at 8:09 amCageyCretin Says:
Thats because he isnt trying to construct an argument. He is far too stupid to even attempt that. He is telling us what Rush has instructed him to believe and spew in the general direction of liberals. He is trolling. Trying to be provacative. He is a stupid punk who is messing with us. He is too ignorant to discuss so he doesnt even try
April 13th, 2009 at 8:13 amI wish holy rollers would just roll into a hole and stay there
April 13th, 2009 at 8:19 amEugene atrax robustus Debs Says:
Yeah, I know, but it seems to me that trying to argue the facts with trolls begins the troll-a-thon action, but pointing out the errors of their arguments tends to have a more soothing effect, often driving them away completely (if the failed argument is dissected well enough).
This aligns with what I was taught: a person who engages in wholesale pseudo reasoning and illogic to “argue” a position tends to fall into one of two categories:
1) those who are willfully doing so, because they know that their position has no merit, but want to convince others to believe despite tha lack of proof;
2) those who fervently desire to believe their position, but have no evidence, proof, or logic to do so (often found in theological debate, as well as political).
Dishonesty or desire are the main motivating drives of poor dabate. Most trolls, I do belive, fall into the desire category — they WANT their ideology to be true, and willfully ignore any and all evidence to the contrary. Though I have seen some here who seem to actually be in the former category, and know that they have nothing but argue falsely anyway. However, both recoil from an examination of their arguments (for different reasons, of course). Even if they remain on the thread, they will ignore attacks on their arguments. Keeping up that pressure generally scares tham away (how can one defend the indefensible?).
And, i guess, it amuses me. ;>
April 13th, 2009 at 8:33 amI wonder if angry tranny annie coulter felt the pinch in this decision from amazon?
April 13th, 2009 at 8:43 amIs it hotter than “infrastructure”?
April 13th, 2009 at 9:29 amThe homosexuals (and other Democrats) seem quite peeved that they didn’t think of having a teabagging party (aside from their private ones) to protest the Chimp-in-Chief’s outrageous spending proposals. When he isn’t bowing down to Saudi royalty, showing subservience, that is.
This is one big reason why normal people find homosexuals and bisexuals immoral, perverted and completely disgusting: http://www.thestar.com/news/ontario/article/614215. Why wasn’t this person quaratined? He speaks for all of you.
April 13th, 2009 at 11:48 amCageyCretin Says: Most trolls, I do belive, fall into the desire category — they WANT their ideology to be true, and willfully ignore any and all evidence to the contrary.
Liberals: change your beliefs and enact new laws to reflect what you see
Conservatives: change what you see and enact new laws to enforce what you believe
April 13th, 2009 at 1:16 pm#66 – AIDS Vector Says:
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“… homosexuals (and other Democrats) seem quite peeved that they didn’t think of having a teabagging party (aside from their private ones) to protest the Chimp-in-Chief’s outrageous spending proposals.”
April 13th, 2009 at 11:48 am
Republicans only thought of tea-bagging as a form of protest only AFTER Fmr. Pres. Bush doubled the debt in 8 years of run-away spending. Not one single Republican cared a bit about the deficit spending because they refused to criticize their anointed failure in chief.
Republican’s make the fatal mistake of ignoring the last 8 years as they complain loudly and bitterly about spending. Why didn’t they raise their voices one single time as Fmr. Pres. Bush led America to the state we’re currently in?
Another interesting fact is that the AIDS Vector is “unprotected sex.” The vast majority of people in the world with HIV/AIDs are heterosexuals. For some reason, America’s “c”hristian leaders seem to forget that simple fact as they push abstinance with no knowledge about how to protect from STD’s.
April 13th, 2009 at 1:53 pmMr. President
To messers Nehemiah Dodge, Ephraim Robbins, & Stephen S. Nelson a committee of the Danbury Baptist association in the state of Connecticut.
Gentlemen
The affectionate sentiments of esteem & approbation which you are so good as to express towards me, on behalf of the Danbury Baptist association, give me the highest satisfaction. my duties dictate a faithful & zealous pursuit of the interests of my constituents, and in proportion as they are persuaded of my fidelity to those duties, the discharge of them becomes more & more pleasing.
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man & his god, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, thus building a wall of separation between church and state. [Congress thus inhibited from acts respecting religion, and the Executive authorised only to execute their acts, I have refrained from presenting even occasional performances of devotion presented indeed legally where an Executive is the legal head of a national church, but subject here, as religious exercises only to the voluntary regulations and discipline of each respective sect.] Adhering to this expression of the supreme will of the nation in behalf of the rights of conscience, I shall see with sincere satisfaction the progress of those sentiments which tend to restore to man all his natural rights, convinced he has no natural right in opposition to his social duties.
I reciprocate your kind prayers for the protection and blessing of the common Father and creator of man, and tender you for yourselves and your religious association, assurances of my high respect & esteem.
(signed) Thomas Jefferson
Jan.1.1802.
Let me repeat the words of Pres. Jefferson:
“…I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, thus building a wall of separation between church and state.”
Funny how our friends from the right seem to forget the spirit of the words of our Consitution from the mouth (or pen) of the man who wrote them.
I guess it’s true, you can fool some of the people all of the time! ;-)
April 13th, 2009 at 2:33 pmCageyCretin Says:
Well you do it very well my friend. Keep up the good work. I think he is just a troll. I think he only wants to annoy us. On the other hand I cant read minds and you might be completely right.
April 13th, 2009 at 5:35 pmAIDS Vector Says:
Actually most normal people think bigoted morons like YOU are immoral and astonishingly stupid. Keep showing your ignorance nothing helps our side more than marching morons like you making the opposing side look like such punkass weasels
April 13th, 2009 at 5:37 pmDemocratic Soldier,
April 13th, 2009 at 5:55 pmThat is odd. If the majority of AIDS vectors are hetero, then how did they get it? Why did it start in the gay bathhouses of New York, San Francisco, etc? Could it have been the degenerate sex practiced anonymously? Maybe the queers who met in (and thoroughly ruined) our public parks and national monuments by having more anonymous sex, leav ing used condoms, empty KY tubes and needles all around the children’s playground? Think the bisexuals could have contracted it (and, like the man in the article) spread it purposely throughout the Hetero population?
Let us not forget to thank our Homosexual population for their #1 contribution to American Society: The North American Man/Boy Love Association, founded in San Francisco, in the late 1970’s, by queers who hungered for very young boys.
Interesting that Amazon would delist homosexual books but continues to sell:
“The Dog Pit – Or, How To Select, Breed, Train And Manage Fighting Dogs”
April 13th, 2009 at 6:34 pmAIDS Vector Says:
Exactly who do you think you are reaching by showing just what an ignorant bigoted moron you are? You are stupid. You are a punk. If your closet is getting a bit crowded for you then it is YOUR burden to bear. Coming her doing the equivalent of vomiting ignorance on our board is just stupid and pathetic. Grow up and rent a few braincells
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