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I'm watching Mad Max and am wondering what the deal is with the gay bikers? Many are members of the Vigilanties a real gang but what's with the gay stuff?
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The total breakdown of society and moral values is represented in the gay bikers. Not only are they batcrap crazy but they make the straight male audience even more uncomfortable with them being batcrap crazy flamers.
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I've always heard that all biker gangs in Oz were gay.
Or was that Texas...?
Arizona...?
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I think in Australia it's physics or being in the southern hemisphere. Don't drains swirl in a different direction or something?  All kidding aside, Dog if you think there are no gay bikers check out some leather and boot shop sites in San Francisco. 
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No not at all , just wondering the reason for it in the movie.Just look at the lead singer for Judas Priest. He wore all the leather and rode a bike out onto stage. He was as gay as they come. He couldn't believe people didn't see it.
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Dogg, you got to remember when that movie was made, it was meant to shock. Besides at that time the MTV and the media hadn't started selling "gay chic" thing hard, now it's everywhere. 
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Dogg, you got to remember when that movie was made, it was meant to shock. Besides at that time the MTV and the media hadn't started selling "gay chic" thing hard, now it's everywhere.
Finally, a term that best describes what the media is pushing on us. Couldn't agree more.
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..."gay chic"...
OH MAN!!!
I LOVE gay chicks!!! 
Even if they won't let me play, I'll watch!
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I've always heard that all biker gangs in Oz were gay.
Or was that Texas...?
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I think it was all motorcycle riders in North Carolina.
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Not all, certainly some. This ain't Galveston.
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Not all, certainly some. This ain't Galveston.
Just most right.
You are right about one thing NC ain't Galveston.
I would trade all of North Carolina and its people for one Galvestonian.
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I'm watching Mad Max and am wondering what the deal is with the gay bikers? Many are members of the Vigilanties a real gang but what's with the gay stuff?
You should make it to ba.com rally. plenty of gay stuff going on all the time. check out the AR rally pics!
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..."gay chic"...
OH MAN!!!
I LOVE gay chicks!!!
Even if they won't let me play, I'll watch!
Couldn't agree more, erle! 
And now HERE'S the funny thing about what ya just said.
At our friend's New Year Eve party in Prescott the other night, one of the attendees was this VERY attractive woman who I've played tennis with and who teaches the sport on the courts where I used to play there and before Judie and I moved to Sedona.
I remember when I first started playing with the people there, I asked my friend Dave what was the story with that tall hot brunette over there givin' lessons. Dave told me that Allison over there was happily married, so just forget it...like I was gonna do anything anyway.
Well, at this party the other night Allison comes walkin' through the door lookin' as hot as ever. A little while later I walked up to her and made small talk after everyone had had a few under their belts. I eventually asked her where her husband was tonight, to which she responded that she has been divorced for about a year now. And so, I then asked her if there was a new guy in her life?
Well, I think you know where this is headed by now, don't ya. Allison told me that her "girlfriend" was in San Diego visiting her family. Now, even though I know of the old stereotype about "women athletes", I WAS kinda taken aback for a second when she told me this. And THEN I said somethin' to her like, "Well, it appears your new life is agreeing with you, as you look as hot and as happy as ever. however, I NOW have to ask you this following and admittedly low-class question here...Can I WATCH?"
Allison, always being the great sport that she always was, burst out in a big laugh and said, "I KNEW you were gonna say that, Dwight!"
(...and I got a big ol' hug from her at that time too as we laughed our butts off...nothin's ever bad about gettin' a big ol' hug from a tall hot brunette, now IS there, erle!) 
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Did she ever let you watch? More info please.
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Forget the "info". If he gets to watch this will be the best time to use the phrase "this post is useless without pix". 
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Not all, certainly some. This ain't Galveston.
Just most right.
You are right about one thing NC ain't Galveston.
I would trade all of North Carolina and its people for one Galvestonian.
Great place. I can see why you like it. I was just there last month. My wife and I were visiting a friend from college. I will say this, the gay community there makes San Francisco and Key West seem like Parris Island by comparison.
NC isn't up for trade anyway, so you'd be out of luck.
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In fairness, the city nearest my cabin also has a vibrant gay community. Asheville has benefited greatly from it. Those folks seem to be ahead of the curve in entrepreneurship as well as providing great contributions to the arts, philanthropy, etc., and, man can they run a restaurant.
Asheville has an absurd number of interesting little bistros.
While the economy here dipped a bit during the Great Recession, the diversity of the city kept us from ever feeling the brunt the rest of the country endured. I checked our unemployment rate as I write this and it's about 5.9%, which is quite a bit higher than its historical normal. It touched 8% for about a month in 2010 but has generally stayed well below that throughout the recession.
If you check across the country, the cities with the most diversity, including the gay community (FYI, you probably know Houston is considered to be VERY gay friendly and the mayor is openly gay), tend to be much better places to live with better economies, better schools, lower crime (not sure about Houston on that), more parks, restaurants, protected lands, etc.
Other than annoying homophobes, I've yet to see a downside to acceptance of the gay community.
You know 1957 has come and gone. We now know homosexuality is not a choice. That's just silly. In a few years homophobes will be treated with as much disdain as someone that would throw the "N word" around are now.
Life is too short to hate people you don't even know.
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Those who don't remember history are doomed to repeat it. (Rome)
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Homophobe,that's just the tag the immoral like to hang on those who know whats right. If that's the tag the gays and lesbian community wants to hang on the moral then so be it. The lifestyle they choose will always be under attack by the all too silent majority. There will also always be the pc and self pronounced proggressive minded that will hold the gays up as a model of a good society. The pc make far more noise then the rest of us which simply gives a false idea of acceptance and tolerance. Most people recoil from the openly gay for a reason,its disgusting
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To no one in particular: The AUP was developed over the years for the good of the ba.com order. When you stop and think it through, it makes sense and has served this vertical twin world well since 2002. Item 13. Topics of a political, religious, inflammatory/controversial, and/or of an intentionally disruptive or antagonistic nature are banned. All threads in any forum of this kind will be deleted. The removal of any topic/post is the decision of the moderator(s) and is not open to public discussion/debate. Cheers people jh
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WELL John! I gotta say that it's a pretty darn sad state of affairs around here when we can't even talk about movies anymore at BA.com!!!  (...OR hot lipstick lesbians TOO!!!)
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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The lifestyle they choose will always be under attack by the all too silent majority...most people recoil from the openly gay
Two things, people have known it isn't a 'choice' for a long time. That's just an old myth that a few cling to. You'd be hard put to find a person with any meaningful education in any life science that clings to that myth.
Also, the segment of society you are aligning yourself with has been in the minority for a long, long time. It is quickly fading to a few loud voices that garner less and less attention. Fortunately, as people become better informed and better educated petty prejudices tend to fall by the wayside. When I was a kid the same folks were screaming about how it was pointless to educate blacks. They are mostly silent but still not hard to find. They are simply shunned now. Far more so than someone who is openly gay and rightfully so.
I'd hate to have your fears. It must be a bitter pill.
That's all I'm going to say on the subject. You can't sway a darkened heart simply with education or information. It must come from within.
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Ok guys, really. Just because you find homosexuality disgusting dont make you a homophob. I find it disgusting along with many things like keeping dogs in the house, the NFL, and eating octopus. It dont mean I would impose my will on anyone. In fact I find imposing your will on others the most appalling thing a person can do.
Yes Houston has a large and active gay community. Its down in the Montrose area near all the museums and the really nice restaurants are. I wouldnt use the word vibrant. It seems like a strange way to describe a community........I guess they are colorful so maybe its a good word after all. So not the point though.
lets just be honest adults here and say that, yes the act of homosexual sex is disgusting to about everyone who is not gay. However that being the case, so what. What they do is not my business as what I do is not theirs. I'm sure that many of them would be disgusted by something I do.
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I'm sure that many of them would be disgusted by something I do.
Like putting a car tire on a motorcycle! 
Just kidding, how's that working out anyway?
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The way I see it, the more gay men there are, the less competition for the women 
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I'm sure that many of them would be disgusted by something I do.
Like putting a car tire on a motorcycle!
Just kidding, how's that working out anyway?
I try to practice what the nuns taught me, "Hate the tire, not the motorcycle". 
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The car tire has been good to me.
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I loved all the Mad max movies....
2007 Speedmaster and miss it!
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There was something very cool and unrefined about the first one. Same reason the first 'Terminator' movie was my favorite. Once they get a bunch of money and overproduce a flick it starts being all about the special effects.
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I just watched them with story notes and the first movie was made for $300,000 and is in 2nd place for the largest difference between the money the movie made and it's cost. The 2nd movie cost about 13,000,000 (Mel made like1.2m of that, he didn't make much for the first one but that movie made him a star) They said the 2nd movie was the movie they wanted to make the first time around.
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Thats all Hollywierd is about anymore anyways. There is no more creativity, originality, or craft, only special effects and gutter humor.
I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
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Agreed, they diminished as each sequel was made. The first two are worth watching, but the original was best. 
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Thats all Hollywierd is about anymore anyways. There is no more creativity, originality, or craft, only special effects and gutter humor.
You would be shock how many films have been remade and remakes of remakes. For example, "Shop Around the Corner" becomes "In The Good Old Summertime" becomes "You Got Mail". They are all the same story.
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I just watched them with story notes and the first movie was made for $300,000 and is in 2nd place for the largest difference between the money the movie made and it's cost. The 2nd movie cost about 13,000,000 (Mel made like1.2m of that, he didn't make much for the first one but that movie made him a star) They said the 2nd movie was the movie they wanted to make the first time around.
Money was so short for the movie, the producers (Kennedy & Miller) used their own vehicle (you cant call it a car) the little blue mazda (bongo) van, that gets hit near the caravan, money must have been very tight
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Some of the best "cult" and independent films are made on shoestring budgets or made to look like it.
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Thats all Hollywierd is about anymore anyways. There is no more creativity, originality, or craft, only special effects and gutter humor.
You would be shock how many films have been remade and remakes of remakes. For example, "Shop Around the Corner" becomes "In The Good Old Summertime" becomes "You Got Mail". They are all the same story.
Ya know Mac, with this response of yours here referencing two old films from the studio era, it once again reminded me that I'm surprised you're not a contributor over at the TCM.com forums.
Yep, you'd fit right in over there with us old movie fans.
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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Thanks Dwight, but I'd rather just watch them. Oh, I might add, of the three movies I mention in the earlier post "Shop Around The Corner" is the only one I can recommend, unless you're a huge Garland fan. Watch it with your woman.
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While I've always loved the Ernst Lubitsch-directed Jimmy Stewart/Margaret Sullavan version, I actually caught the Van Johnson/Judy Garland version for the first time a couple weeks ago, and I gotta say I actually enjoyed that version too.
I thought it was a pretty good musical version of it. Kind of like how "High Society" was a pretty good musical version of "The Philadelphia Story".
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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I just watched them with story notes and the first movie was made for $300,000 and is in 2nd place for the largest difference between the money the movie made and it's cost. The 2nd movie cost about 13,000,000 (Mel made like1.2m of that, he didn't make much for the first one but that movie made him a star) They said the 2nd movie was the movie they wanted to make the first time around.
Money was so short for the movie, the producers (Kennedy & Miller) used their own vehicle (you cant call it a car) the little blue mazda (bongo) van, that gets hit near the caravan, money must have been very tight
The truck driver with the heavy machine on the truck that the bikes pass and blocks Max was paid a case of beer. Another interesting tid bit was that most of the stunts were illegal and done quickly before the law could arrive.
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