Quote from Brandonf:
...Toni (who I have been with for 11 years but have not married).
Why not just make an honest woman out of her? 11 years is long enough.
Quote from Brandonf:
What I can tell from your posts is that you are a typical elitest[SIC] asshole who actually more bigoted and closed minded than those you claim to be superior too.
If you want to believe that, no problem. It will probably be easier than questioning your own beliefs, something I do all the time.
With regard to your flopping your penis out in public when challenged... you have to admit, it's kind of appropriate on this thread. It is a bit strange that you believe a statement on a message board like this would carry any weight. Having said that, your post has the ring of truth about it and if you have lived what, by your own evaluation, is a good life, then congratulations.
Tit for tat - I was brought up by two schoolteachers and knew early on that I would never have the big inheritance that all my buddies would have (grew up in one of the richest small towns in North America, oil money). I left home after high school, at 17, and went out on the road with a rock band and toured through my twenties. I played with a couple of bands you may have even heard of. Ended up in Toronto, got my degree late and became aware of trading during the early days of the first great tech bubble. I didn't have a trading stake so I got a real job to bank extra cash (first one since I went out on the road) and started with 10K a year later. I still play a lot but trading is my main source of income now. I still have to work very hard at it and I have a long way to go, especially in terms of my systems development. I trade for income and rake my account and invest the majority of it. I just bought my first house here in Toronto (not bad for an ex-muso who was touring for the first 10 years of his working life, banging every young prairie girl I could tip over and partying way too hard). It cost about 500K and I have about 100K on a mortgage.
OK? Nowhere near you, financially speaking. But I don't assess my life in strictly financial terms.
I will stick to my belief that if you ever gave any credence to the idea that allowing gay marriage could lead to the legalized rape of infants, you have something seriously wrong with you. People with big houses can be moral monsters too, you know.