Describe your friends

[tommy]

My best friend is a good old boy from the south who loves to joke about not being gay

gross

I thought you were an ally?

[dad]

i bet he wants to paint tommy's ass red.

with spankings...

[tommy]

i bet he wants to paint tommy's ass red.

with spankings...

Not interested. His weird accent would drive me nuts.

[tommy]

Also, unlike him I'm straight as an arrow

[dad]

i bet he wants to paint tommy's ass red.

with spankings...

Not interested. His weird accent would drive me nuts.

why does he joke about not being gay?

maybe try calling his bluff.

[dad]

Also, unlike him I'm straight as an arrow

i bet he's uncomfortable pretending to be straight.

be a pal and comfort him.

[BurtReynolds]

Also, unlike him I'm straight as an arrow

Your friend doesn't exist. It's just other guys taking turns pretending to be that friend.

[tree_]

I hope you’re not talking about me

[tree_]

Oh wait, it’s lenny

[dad]

lenny wants to paint tommy's ass?

[tommy]

You guys are making some big leaps here

[doug rr]

what color?

[dad]

how does your southern friend dress, and how do you feel about being his beard?

[doug rr]

is it nick saban?

[tragabigzanda]

There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.

There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.

There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.

There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.

O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.

[dad]

i reckon he's waiting for tommy to compliment him or tell him how handsome he looks. then he can get angry, push tommy, and reiterate he's not gay, and hope tommy will go in for a kiss.

[BurtReynolds]

Roll tide

[doug rr]

[lennytheweedwhacker]

wtf...delete this thread

[wease]

He would’ve been much better off if they’d never adopted him

This is a pretty big assumption isn't it?

I don’t think so. He’s obviously a second class member of their family. Is there an advantage to being adopted by a family who doesn’t and never will love you and will treat you differently (in a bad way)from every other member of the family? You can feel the disdain and resentment they hold towards this kid anytime they’re around. Which isn’t often because they virtually never bring him to any family gatherings.