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I liked Milo 5 years ago when he was a very public figure. I didn’t have any trouble with him as a pervert. Good for him forsaking buggery.
I liked Milo as well, as best I could anyway.
It’s hard not to judge, but my experience says that gays are generally manipulative and sneaky. But I’ll definitely admit that’s my own bias, I was just born this way.
” I didn’t have any trouble with him as a pervert.”
Don’t you think that’s a problem?
No it is recognition that Milo’s “perversion” was his business.
I can just hear it now…
Conversion Therapy! Reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!
Pathetic, this is just begging for spotlight anyway he can. I liked him five, four years ago thought he was more or less authentic. Then he got railroaded based on some off the cuff remarks many years earlier and got cancelled by never trumper prima donnas. So now he reinvents himself. Meh. Sad.
I don’t think so. From his public persona and the interviews he gave, Milo seems like a good example of the young boy who was molested by an older man and adopted the flaming gay lifestyle as a self-destructive coping mechanism. This happens a lot more than anyone wants to admit, and when 80% of gay men have been sexually abused as children or adolescents it would be foolish to pretend that in at least some cases there isn’t a causal link.
Milo was never authentic. He’s always been a professional provocateur presenting a persona (er, alliteration not intended). Everything about him screamed denial as a coping mechanism, and that’s exactly what it is.
Kind of why gay adoption should be taken more seriously than leaving it to the Liberal perverts to decide.
Whatever the reason for his past behavior might have been is not relevant here. Nor do I care to listen to the endlessly recycled “priest made me gay” story and the bullshit 80% statistic.
Milo is desperately hoping to return to the spotlight after the got cancelled. He should not have been canceled in the past. The nauseating, moralizing, never Trumpers, took a full revenge on him for his vocal support of Trump. They cynically destroyed his career, cancelled him in full concert with the left. Now the poor guy is trying to stage a comeback by rejecting everything he did in the past. Sad, pathetic, I feel truly sorry for him. This will only end with a spectacular meltdown.
I had a Globe and Mail route in Toronto in the 60’s and 70’s, and I used to go to my customers houses to collect the $0.60 a week. One guy was a Scoutmaster who lived alone. One night, he told me he had a new camera, and wanted to take some pictures. He invited me, and took a few snaps.
I thought that was OK, but then he came close to me and grabbed me through the front of my pants. “Get that hard it will show up better” he said. I pushed away, and backed out the front door. I told some of my friends, and they all laughed. “Oh ya,” they laughed “Mr. X – what a homo!”.
I’d been skipped in school as a young boy, and now I was in jr. high and all the girls were a year older than me, and they looked at me like I was a baby. Like any 14-year old boy, I was on high sexual alert all the time. This was the first time in my life anyone had ever shown any interest in me that way.
Luckily, the guy was fat and middle-aged and gross. But I admit – getting touched was a thrill when you have zero experience. If he’d been in his 20’s, slim, and good looking, who knows what might have happened? That’s why I believe many ‘gay’ men were actually like me – sexually eager, rejected by women at the time (that changed!), and excited and intrigued by sex in general. They get fondled or approached or whatever, and they like the act, and that’s it: they’re “gay” now.
The ratchet then gets set. Any attempt to tell a kid he’s not gay gets met with concentred and concerted opposition. I saw the same thing with my GF’s daughter. Six years ago, after a half-hour conversation with a therapist, the therapist came out and announced the daughter was actually my GF’s “son”, named “Dylan”. Turns out the girl – who does suffer from anxiety issues – fell in with the LGBTQ club at her school. They accepted her because they accept everybody, and then try to recruit them. Same thing with her – they told her all her anxiety was because she was trapped in the wrong sex. And when we tried to argue with the therapist, we could see the anger in her eyes that us ‘old people’ just weren’t ‘getting it’.
(the daughter’s fine now, except for the anxiety, but she’s as boy-crazy as any girl might be).
So two instances in my life where I can see how easily a person might be curious about such things, and once they fall in with the zealots, there’s no way out.
Misinterpret much, Colonialista?
No not really. Care to elaborate? Or not? Fine either way.
Years ago Nat Lampoon did an article on rescuing teenagers who had fallen into the gay life after a trip to NYC. Graduation consisted of piloting a beater Camaro down the NJ turnpike after 12 beers and some weed.
When milo does this he’ll be okay, I guess.
Guys who can’t drive stick are afraid of getting their skirts caught in the gear shift.
Moving up through the gears before the red line and coming back down with a double de-clutch and a blip of the throttle on a good, quiet mountain road with a few good bends is what driving a stick-shift is all about. Doesn’t have to be yer actual muscle car but a little bit of ‘poke’ stirs up the adrenalin. There’s nowt like it!
I learned to drive on vehicles where double clutching was necessary not optional. Used to hear the expression, “Grind me a pound” a lot.
If ya can’t find them, grind em .
See also:
“Gears? No worries!
Ya got a whole box full of them!”
They’re making the gears out of rubber next year.
I had one of the original Honda Civics. 1.1 litre engine, seriously underpowered. But with a 5-Speed, I called it my Honda “SR” – not ‘Street Racer’, but ‘Secret Racer’. Because everyone else on the road was driving normally, but I had to flog that little beast up to redline and back just to keep pace. Other people had calm and boring drives to work; I felt like Stirling Moss.
It is getting harder and harder to find a stick shift these days. Even Honda cancelled an Accord with a stick for this year. The new performance oriented version of Mazda 3 (they no longer call it MazdaSpeed 3) is automatic only. The list of cars with a stick is getting shorter and shorter. Sad.
My wife and my neighbors complain … “when are you gonna get rid of that car?”. That car is my 1991 BMW 325i in 9/10 mech. condition and about a 6.5/10 cosmetic condition. 5-speed getrag gearbox and a 3.5L engine powering a very lightweight, compact vehicle. I call it my poor man’s Porsche. I personally installed Bilstein Sport shocks and rebuilt the suspension. I can turn a sharp corner at 50mph with min. body roll.
Some might say I Sport a mullet … but it’s just my long hair flowing. It’s more … Party in the front, and party in the back. No business at all … unless you want to count my thinning at the top.
Yes … I identify as an American heteronormative … dude. My pronouns are he, him, dude, and WTF. My motto is: “gas, grass, or ass – nobody rides for free”. I’d offer to give Milo some lessons … in heteronormativity … but I’m too homophobic for that.
“when are you gonna get rid of that car?”
The answer should be: “never”.
Oh the E30 a beautiful, balanced, nimble quintessential BMW. A car that is pure fun without the need to compensate and to prove anything to anybody. Pure driving pleasure. I envy you.
Kenji, when the wife and I married we decided we need to abandon our toys. Her was a 1984 Z28 , 5 speed T-top. Mine a Honda 750 GS. 30 years later and we have managed to reacquire our toys. Her’s now is a 1983 Z28 5 speed T50 Borg Warner trans, mine a 05 BMW 1200GS ( best bike evah) She loves rolling up through and back down the gear box. We had long tube headers installed last fall, the most beautiful exhaust note now. Can’t wait for April.
I have a Mazda 3 with a manual transmission, but it’s a 2014 version. It was frustrating teaching my son to drive it, but he eventually got the hang of it. My other son is coming up on that age very soon.
Learned on an old beat up Austin Mini, drove like a go cart on the twisties.
Even the big old Ford iron couldn’t keep up.
Taught my girlfriend stick in another beater an old 3 speed in the tree with overdrive AMC Pacer.
She blew the clutch out and I made her help me replace it in the dead of winter outside.
Needless to say, she ain’t with me no more but she sure knows how to drive stick very well to this day.
“she blew the clutch” …. is that code for what I think it is??
No, you’re thinking of “she clutched and blew“
I thought that the best way to fix an AMC Pacer was with a hand grenade.
Robert of Ottawa: your very off-colour joke has me laughing, so much so my sides are splitting as I write this post. Priceless! And I am a church-going Baptist.
I learned to drive stick in a truly awful, soulless car, possibly a contender for the most awful car ever: a Plymouth Sundance. The clutch was heavy and very long, the stick moved like it was stuck in a bucket of semi solid feces, finding second gear was pure luck. I eventually started shifting from first to third. It leaked every fluid, was plagued with electrical problems and despite lackluster power handled like a lubed brick. On the positive side I have learned a lot about car maintenance and repair. The first and the last US made car I ever bought.
It is .
About the only good thing about that POS Pacer was the British Laycock overdrive .
I took it off and added it to my TR6.
BTW I still have my Plymouth Sundance and Dodge Shadow drop rag.
Guess I got lucky with mine , both were end of the line 1994 models.
They are autos with the 2.2 and Chrysler seemed to have gotten all the bugs out of them by end date.
Cheap to repair and that trunk lid hatch can swallow a whale.
“…that trunk lid hatch can swallow a whale.”
Unless it accidently tried to swallow you, by randomly closing on top of your head with a force and weight of a freight train. I needed stiches after that. Learned my lesson and carried a piece of two-by-four to secure it when open. But yes, with folded back seats we could pack for a week long camping trip with all the gear with ease… and then it would break down half way to the destination.
Mine was 88, 2.2 Turbo. By then they certainly did not have the bugs worked out. Quite the opposite in fact.
I’ve driven stick shifts all my life. I’m 68 (and a woman, which my name here doesn’t indicate). Learned from my dad on our family car at age 15, when the shift was in the steering column. Only for a brief few months when I had no money years ago did I ever own a car with an automatic transmission. I’m currently waiting for my new Mini Cooper (my second one) to arrive in the US (it’s crossing the Atlantic as we speak). The dealer bought my original Mini then gave me as loaner to use until the new one arrives. The loaner is a Cooper S 2-door automatic and I seriously dislike it. Can’t wait to get my own car, built with everything I want on it, inside and out. Mine is Cooper 4-door hardtop standard. Red & white, with white bonnet stripes.
Nice .
The new Minis are made by BMW.
I like the wagon version called the Club.
I always thought the New Cooper S was a seriously hotted up ride .
Too hot for me as in a speeding ticket magnet.
I was always liked these little cars especially when British Leyland built them.
I mean , the old Minis did win numerous races and car Rallies.
I think they won 4 or 5 Monte Carlos , even one or two outright.
But they were crude machines.
The Italian Mini Innocenti I had was a better version of the Austin Cooper I had.
It could do the Ton on those skinny 10 inch tires.
But those twin SU’s were a bitch to tune.
Sheesh I hate to say I did have a fondness for all the British Leyland cars.
POS all of them.
I’d like the Countryman with the biggest engine, stick and all wheel drive. It has such Dakar Rally flavor to it.
My daughter took her manual shift car out onto the hills. That way she could practise not rolling backwards before going forward.
I learned to drive a standard in 1974 from a coworker who had a brand new Mustang.
Today’s young drivers don’t have the mental coordination to drive a stick. They can barely control an automatic.
COLUMN SHIFTS!
Learned to drive on the family ’48 Mercury and a ’55 Customline, with a bit of time on smaller British iron, like a ’50 Ford Prefect 3-speed floor stick and a 3-speed column shift ’50 Vauxhall Wyvern, which became the “hand-me-down” student wheels
Major lesson? When you have a large V8 up front, you usually only need three gears and a column shift.
And then there were the social advantages of a front bench seat!
Heaven help me, but I am now driving a “stick-shift” Corolla; slick and economical to refuel, but you can’t get a lot of livestock or other cargo in the back.
They’ve got to put a chip in every part now, transmissions require their own computer system.
Can’t have a manual if you have a 9 speed computer controlled dealer-maintenance hog.
The sucking noise is your bank account being hoovered into the service call.
Kate.
Have you seen this?
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The Department of Defense has confirmed in recent memos that sex reassignment surgery could be provided free of cost as part of the military’s medical benefits package following President Joe Biden’s Jan. 25 executive order.
If you wanted to wreck the military and go broke at the same time. Here-ya go!
Does this mean Milo won’t be seducing any more Catholic priests? Or does it mean next time he finds young boys being used as sex toys at a party he will GET THEM HELP? I don’t believe this bullshitter, manipulator and all-around sleaze-ball in the slightest. He is a professional troll.
BTW, Milo used to brag openly about his skill in handling a stick… especially the black ones.
Nope. No whimsical gear shift for Milo … just a palm-sized black knob
See around the start of the third minute: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yWSyMQ_hL8&t=276s
Good for him.
Go Milo!
Good luck kid. I liked how he drove the left to lose their effin’ minds and I was more than happy to welcome him in the “the enemies of my enemies are my friends” club not to mention loving how he twisted Liberals into pretzels by forcing them to explain their unholy alliance with radical Islam each time a gay was hanged or thrown off a roof in the ME.
For years Liberals have been trotting out the ol’ conservatives want all gays dead or rotting in prisons twaddle and getting away with it…Yiannopoulos was the perfect response and they were thrilled when he was finally out of the way so they wouldn’t have to put up with his smash mouth wit.
I’m not saying we should erect a statue in his honor..but I’m not going to throw him under the bus either.
It’s how I roll. You take the W’s when you can. I didn’t much care for his lifestyle either but then again, he never asked.
think he lives for the Outrage,and his previous was wearing thin.
Wee to Me
Perhaps Milo has come to the (early) realization that the Gay lifestyle (yes, it is a lifestyle) is a young man’s (Twinks) game. The only place old, fat, gay men get any action is behind a wall at the local gloryhole. Another statistic that gets buried by our betters is the suicide rate among gays who can no longer find a supply of new partners. And the NFL (or Premiere League) is out of the question.
I’m reminded of Bob Dylan’s Christian conversion in the late 70’s … going from Jewish to Christian, back to Jewish … and perhaps … finally returning to Christianity. But Milo appears to have learned what Bobby Zimmerman sang … “You’re gonna have to serve somebody”. My new stanza for Milo
“You may have come a long way from England or France
You may adore designer shoes, you might like to dance
You may be the favorite bottom of the NFL
You may be headed to heaven or surely to Hell
But you’re gonna have to serve somebody, yes indeed.
You’re gonna have to serve somebody
Well it may be a black cornerback, or it may be the Lord
But you’re gonna have to serve somebody
Serving the pennis only … wears thin after a while. Unless you are someone like Jeffrey Toobin who needs to whip it out between takes. Ugggh … old fat men wanking it. Uggggh. Best done alone. Really, really, alone.
As I read that I was remembering that same thing about Bob Dylan. For his efforts he earned the most contempt and derision from Non Jewish liberals. No surprise there.
It’s not a ‘lifestyle’. That doesn’t even mean anything. There is no god.
” There is no God “.
Well that definitely confirms my suspicions about you.
“There is no god.”
Correct. If God existed your mother would have used a longer cloth hanger.
Sorry, I do believe some people are made a certain way.
In his case, super straight isn’t an option, or at least not an exclusive option.
Every human being is a mixture of nature and nurture. In addition, peer pressure and societal norms influence human behavior. Are some people “born that way”? Of course. However, I contend that does not explain 100% of the gay community.
I learned to drive on a 1959 Triumph TR3 with a 4-speed manual. I’ve never considered anyone who can’t drive a standard as really being able to drive.
Rumour has it the new 400Z will come with a 6 speed manual version.
It better does, otherwise it will fail like the new Supra.
A standard shift IS driving. Learned on an Army 3/4 ton, no synchro, no heater in winter. We had to put a torch to it, just to get it to turn it over.
The same thing happened with Oscar Wilde.
when you suckers can say you drove a twin stick, then you can drive a stick, other wise you are wanna be pussy’s
as to Milo, what a bunch of ignorant assholes posting in here, with NO concept as to what they are wanking off about
Enough, already.
Suess, Meghan, Milo, Speedy fooking Gonzales.
Myriad distractions from the deep evil shite.
Wake up, wokesters.
Wishing Milo his next 15 minutes, but without the sore part. Whatever. Phew!
Just trying to remember ” Let the Good Times Roll “.
i learned on a ’68 black VW beetle. Sometimes I got it in gear sometimes I coasted and stalled.
Then lurch, stall, lurch, stall, lurch, stall, lurch…oh I’m in gear…then was too afraid to get out of 1st after that!
My father was very patient…
This is merely a publicity stunt. If he has changed to being superstraight he wouldn’t have had to announce it. He would’ve gone back to not dying the top of his hair and he would’ve ditched the earring. Real men who prefer real women don’t bother with these gimmicks. They’ve no time for it.
Right, guys?
P.S. I learned to drive and stuck to a standard stick shift found it was better in snow, it never got in the way of the clothes I wore! Haha!
Publicity stunt? The only place I’ve seen this is This Life site News interview. They’re a Christian publication, pro-life and Catholic. I guess you don’t have much of a concept of the power of God to radically change people, do you. You and several others here.
Don’t presume what we can conceive, Mr. JSBachLover.
Not a good look.
Peace.
Well, I sure enough prefer women like you, dear Nancy. And I don’t have an earring!
Thank you for gracing this site, darlin’!
And I mean it in a respectful manner, and all, eh?
I know you do, Dearie! Thanks to you too for commenting here. You are a real gentleman.
JSB, if god didn’t make them that way, he wouldn’t have to fix them!
This is a very strange comments thread, God, gays, Gaga quotes, and stick shifts.
Milo was cancelled for failing to take issue with his abuser, and for heretically backing Trump, not to mention his reporting on gamer gate. He is clearly back to seeing relevance in the debate on the right and is seeking readmission through the back door.
A couple of facts from the article, he still keeps his beau arround by buying him trinkets and he has only ‘slipped’ once. (“I’m sorry M.Lord, I stumbled on a puddle whist naked and carrying a giant erection…” ).
He is gay, he just needs attention.
Milo was always an identity politics person. “Hey look at me, I’m gay so therefore, I can say what straight white males can’t say.” To hell with that. Sometimes trying to beat the leftists at their own game is self-defeating. It still says, straight white males don’t have a say…. I’d hear about Milo, people saying I have to pay attention, and I’d see him in interviews and he’d spend half the time talking about gay sex with black guys. Couldn’t see a reason to continue watching. ….”Oh but you should see what he says about feminists.” Frankly, I’d rather have a normal person talking to me about feminists.
Just to add to my point: I think the feeling out there when Milo was popular that the “joke” was on the left. He was beating them at their own game…. But perhaps the joke was on old conservatives like me, who have to listen to some gay guy go on about his sex life.
I imagine the conversation of the Woke brigade thusly: ‘What’s a gee-er (sic) Alexa ?’
Hilarious. You can’t parody this. Idiot provocateur turned has-been tries to change his sexual orientation. Too bad that’s impossible. This guy never had any insights and will get the obscurity he deserves. He did a good job of highlighting that most of the morons here are either homophobes or drawn to shallow performance BS.
Bragging about driving stick or double-clutching is also beyond parody. This could be on a checklist of things insecure middle aged white guys talk about because they’re uninteresting and untravelled. No one cares, it’s not an achievement. All the more so in the modern world which has automatic transmission that don’t suck. It’s not 1995 anymore, thank God.
You should be a shrink.
Actually I do care about the stick pusher.
If they didn’t learn we wouldn’t have 18 wheelers tooling the hwys delivering our JIT merchandise and food.
And forget about transports have autos now and little wimmin can drive em too.
There’s plenty still on the road that are not auto and need that stick twirled.
So ya I care, I care to get my milk and corn flakes in time for my morning breakie.
Without those untravelled and uninteresting white males who ply the width plus length of the Americas I wouldn’t be eating today.
What’s up with thanking God, I thought you said ” There is no God ” ?
You are the one beyond parody.
“we wouldn’t have 18 wheelers tooling the hwys delivering our JIT merchandise and food.”
I’ve noticed many driving the big rigs now are ‘new Canadians’ as opposed to those ‘insecure middle aged white guys’ Unme is forever banging on about and some of those drivers probably even harbor conservative notions. Probably caused from those long hours by yourself in the truck moving that stick back and forth.
Actually many care about driving the stick shift. You see, many here are passionate about cars and the driving experience. And having direct control over gears and working the magic of the three pedals is something many here enjoy. It is not an old fashion thing. Most of the world drives stick. Only in North America automatic has been the norm. And it has been a norm for decades. Nothing new about it. When you mother was doing tricks for food stamps most of her clients had cars with automatic transmissions.
A world gone by?
Nope.
Beyond the grasp of subhuman savages lime you?
Certainly.
Cars, guns, sex, family, are all topics foreign to you. You can’t relate. That is why you get confused about them.