Love my Nexus 5... Good specifications for not a lot of money and three years down the line it still has good battery life and is not covered in scratches... Better build quality than some and does not burst in flames like others...
And for how little I actually use it as a phone... I sure do pick it up often...
Basically, as my friends will know, I tend to tinker with things and the Nexus 5 is no different...
Left it pretty much stock with Lollipop... Just added and removed apps like you do...
Updating to Marshmallow was the start in basic fiddling... Hated the big white strip that was the "Google says Hi" bar you had no choice in having and could not even make it translucent to ease the blob that it was...
So ended up with KKLauncher which , amongst other tweaks, allowed my to hide it... Quite like KKLauncher and I know their are others out there but, for me, it covered all, well most off, the bases and was unobtrusive and did not seem to affect battery life much...
Playing about with rooting and exposed installer ended up with me bricking my Nexus 7 so I was not going to play, to much, with rooting the 5 until I read that it is no longer going to be supported by Google, as they are bringing out the new "Pixel" line of phones...
So... Searched about on the XDA Forums and realise that rooting and ROM options have come a very long way in the last couple of years... You can still brick things but you have far more chance of something happening that is recoverable these days...
Spent a few days reading up on a few options and read threw many a forum page... Really are a helpful bunch on here, for the most, and the main problems seem to be people that don't read the whole thread before posting a question that has already been answered...
Take the ROM I have ended up using, Nitrogen "N"... which is on it's third stable build and fourth beta/test... Back in the second stable build he clearly stated "Do not root With SuperSU as Superuser is now Included in the build"...
But there are people, almost daily, posting... Flashed your ROM and then rooted with SuperSU and it does not work... Help/Any Ideas/other comments.... Read, or search, the forum before flashing is a good idea but reading/searching the forum before posting is an even better one...
Pleased with my, for now, build of the NitrogenOS N ROM by Mr.Mex - Testing version 20/10/2016 with Pico Gapps... Love it's minimalism style build and having Superuser root built right into it sort of makes it a noobs dream of a one stop solution...
Also loaded up Viper4ARISE Deuteronomy 2.1 for it's superb, and very tweakable, sound...
The 5 only has one, underwhelming, little speaker and most will simply use headphones instead...
But I was blown away by the difference in sound by, simply, turning on the "speaker optimisation" toggle... Instantly so much richer and made Adele's "Hello", nigh on, stunning..
If you want a simple option for better sound then Arise will do that... But as there are a myriad of other options I'm sure everyone will be able to tune the sound to their ears... Save, and easily switch, settings for different genres of music...
It was really easy to download both items from said forums and a quick MD5 check to confirm all is good with the download before flashing to phone...
So - Why the "Old School Nexus 5" title...
The real fun started after everything was loaded and running well...
For being rooted allows you to play.... Having a modified ROM means there is less there to start with... So I downloaded Solid Explorer and had a "root" round...
Been using Boat Browser for a while now so the stock browser gets deleted and others followed...
Near field... Android Pay... Hate the idea so there gone... Google mail... now is no mail... Don't get enough to worry about that checking on my laptop daily can't cover... Maps are gone too... No Facebook app (don't need the separate messenger app if you go via browser) ... Usable battery life has doubled!!! and "ForceDoze" gives me a standby life of... well if I don't use the phone at all... weeks
Did keep the modified SMS messenger that came with the ROM...
QuickPic Gallery (my go to photo app) plays my videos (basic but smooth playback and the voice sync is good) and the Esira music player that comes with Viper4ARISE means my media needs are covered...
So my Nexus 5 is more an old school phone with no "must tell the world what my dinner looks like being eaten by a kitten/bunny" apps... (and, hopefully, not tell the world everything I do) but... with a touch screen and great sound...
Still working on a good camera/video recorder as they seem to work/not work with each update... but it is a common problem with Hammerhead/Nougat ROM's on the Nexus 5... So a couple of more "test" updates and that should be sorted... Open Camera, for a simple option, is the best I have found to date But the CameraFV range, and similar, do turn a humble phone into a bit of a half decent SLR...
Quite happy with that... you don't need a hundred different ways to talk to people while not talking to them... or kill yourself stepping off a pavement trying to capture an imaginary creature...
But all praise to the good side of more interaction as we need more people planting trees and yarn Bombing in this self destructive world for in the many ways the phone isolates people it also brings like minded communities together and good things happen... As a side note has the majority of our so called ruling elite been taking stupid pills lately???
Phones are great and they will probable evolve into something that, really, is your life... They will definitely evolve further into recording every second of it so others can profit... But remember...Fine by phone can only expand...
24/10/16
Well I am now running 7.1 Nougat... Amazed how quick developers have gotten this out... Who needs to spend ££££ on a pixel phone...
And to be honest the whole "must have round icons" thing strikes me of the old Hi-Fi days... all silver until someone brought out a black unit... and then only black until someone brought out a silver unit... and so on... and on... and I often wonder how much the cry of "red is the new black" has cost the ladies/"insert your PC appropriate term here" over the years
So it's now on test build 24/10/16 (Nitrogen_Hammerhead-7.1 NDE63P) with Arise Deuteronomy 2.1.5 and Pico Open Gapps (But I like the idea of the new Gapps with Android TV!)
Tuesday, 25 October 2016
Heathrow... Third Runway... Never gonna hap... Ahh... It is...
Well just heard on the news about the, initial, go ahead for the third Heathrow runway...
There has been no doubt in my mind that a third runway would be built... They have consistently lied to the local people, and will continue to do so...
Maybe the next one will be at Gatwick... in the interest of public concern you understand...
Terminal five... local promise... we will built the terminal but never a third runway... even the three wise monkeys have gone home in disgust on this one...
One problem, though, is that no one wants anything built on their doorstep...
Take the area around the old Bentwaters airbase... Everyone and their relative did not want an airport there... But I wonder how many of those same people travel to another airport for their holidays with barely a "poor locals" thought...
Bentwates had a very long runway as it was a, not so secret, emergency landing strip for the space shuttle... So why did the end of the runway get dug up?... Do a web search on this for the given reason then do another search on what was happening at the time... and make your own mind up...
Many many years ago there was a plan to build an access road from the A12 to Bentwaters with the aim of reducing the traffic through the local villages... The plans showed, pretty much, a straight line between the two...
But as the A12 (North of Ipswich... don't get me started on the A12 south "car park") is such a lovely wide and fast "no queue's" road... Sorry had a moment of rose coloured glasses there... But as the A12 is such a narrow winding "lets spend £1 on it when it needs £1,000,000" traffic jam that effectively shuts whenever there is an accident...
Be nice if that now Norwich is building a northern bypass that Ipswich are shamed into building one too...
So the powers to be want to keep anything money making near to its greedy heart and give more evidence to my take on devolution, that is....
As well as selling off the country the government wants to make itself immune to criticism by giving some of the governments powers to local areas so it can say... "not my fault - your local should have done X"... and walk away saying "suckers"...
Maybe the reason that Suffolk (OK ok... and Norfolk) is left out is that a lot of millionaires live here, for the quiet life...
Still watching the program and just heard someone say... "Site preferred as secures the benefits for whole of the UK" How the hell does having an extra runway in London secure, real, benefits for the whole of the UK...
Oh I get it... All the petrol to drive there... all the coach fares... train fares... pittance for the local area but massive profits for London, well greedy shareholders and massive non tax paying companies...
Shhhh... no one mention pollution, air or otherwise... It will be less in the future.... When the fuel runs out... Makes you wonder if there will ever be an electric jumbo, flying through a lightning storm to recharge?...
And then comes the comment of...
"More cost effective to build here as the infrastructure is already there"... But... But... But... Terminal five was "only" built on the promise that runway three would NOT be...
Nothing more to say really... is there?...
Well there was the comment of "Better connectivity to the whole of the country".... No.... Only more congestion... for which you will probable roll out charges for...
Me feels another Hinckley point coming on... lets pick the worst choice... and make a plan B... just like Brexit...
There has been no doubt in my mind that a third runway would be built... They have consistently lied to the local people, and will continue to do so...
Maybe the next one will be at Gatwick... in the interest of public concern you understand...
Terminal five... local promise... we will built the terminal but never a third runway... even the three wise monkeys have gone home in disgust on this one...
One problem, though, is that no one wants anything built on their doorstep...
Take the area around the old Bentwaters airbase... Everyone and their relative did not want an airport there... But I wonder how many of those same people travel to another airport for their holidays with barely a "poor locals" thought...
Bentwates had a very long runway as it was a, not so secret, emergency landing strip for the space shuttle... So why did the end of the runway get dug up?... Do a web search on this for the given reason then do another search on what was happening at the time... and make your own mind up...
Many many years ago there was a plan to build an access road from the A12 to Bentwaters with the aim of reducing the traffic through the local villages... The plans showed, pretty much, a straight line between the two...
But as the A12 (North of Ipswich... don't get me started on the A12 south "car park") is such a lovely wide and fast "no queue's" road... Sorry had a moment of rose coloured glasses there... But as the A12 is such a narrow winding "lets spend £1 on it when it needs £1,000,000" traffic jam that effectively shuts whenever there is an accident...
Be nice if that now Norwich is building a northern bypass that Ipswich are shamed into building one too...
So the powers to be want to keep anything money making near to its greedy heart and give more evidence to my take on devolution, that is....
As well as selling off the country the government wants to make itself immune to criticism by giving some of the governments powers to local areas so it can say... "not my fault - your local should have done X"... and walk away saying "suckers"...
Maybe the reason that Suffolk (OK ok... and Norfolk) is left out is that a lot of millionaires live here, for the quiet life...
Still watching the program and just heard someone say... "Site preferred as secures the benefits for whole of the UK" How the hell does having an extra runway in London secure, real, benefits for the whole of the UK...
Oh I get it... All the petrol to drive there... all the coach fares... train fares... pittance for the local area but massive profits for London, well greedy shareholders and massive non tax paying companies...
Shhhh... no one mention pollution, air or otherwise... It will be less in the future.... When the fuel runs out... Makes you wonder if there will ever be an electric jumbo, flying through a lightning storm to recharge?...
And then comes the comment of...
"More cost effective to build here as the infrastructure is already there"... But... But... But... Terminal five was "only" built on the promise that runway three would NOT be...
Nothing more to say really... is there?...
Well there was the comment of "Better connectivity to the whole of the country".... No.... Only more congestion... for which you will probable roll out charges for...
Me feels another Hinckley point coming on... lets pick the worst choice... and make a plan B... just like Brexit...
Sunday, 18 September 2016
Coming Home
I have to thank my friend Thijs for finding this camp site in France that....
well...
Inspired this...
Coming home is a wonderful feeling...
Coming home causes life to have meaning...
But, sometimes, the place you called home...
Is challenged by what you find when you roam...
To know your home by the familiar...
Is to live life by being similar...
For to walk into a place, you have not seen before...
And be totally at home, you truly need nothing more...
To see an old ladder, lovingly laid on a tree
Nearby are old pots and cans... not out of place, just where they should be...
Rustic and ruin, but perfectly sound...
Friends become family, when your true home is found...
I sit and listen to the music in their voice
Listen to family, not simply friends, who are there by choice...
They travel many miles to be here each year...
This family of friends, no matter how far away, are always near...
Miles from the madness, in its own time and space...
Cats roam freely in this wonderful place...
They tumble and play, for life they have no worry...
Much to be done.. but there is never a hurry...
For me, from the start, this place touched my heart...
I have lived many decades and thought I knew my part...
But the people and this place, are now simply "home"...
I now have a true place to come back to whenever I roam...
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We travel to find the real but when we come in the many, the real becomes lost...
To go to a place with empty beaches and then return to row upon row of hotels somewhat negates the point of going there...
So a place very relevant to now, but somehow lost in the past is a beautiful find.
To find a place that still runs on trust, not profit, makes you question modern life .
So no name will you find here, but, hopefully, many will find it all the same.
I wish my time was not running out faster than I would like
So to one and all... Goodnight, I'm off to ride my bike...
well...
Inspired this...
Coming home is a wonderful feeling...
Coming home causes life to have meaning...
But, sometimes, the place you called home...
Is challenged by what you find when you roam...
To know your home by the familiar...
Is to live life by being similar...
For to walk into a place, you have not seen before...
And be totally at home, you truly need nothing more...
To see an old ladder, lovingly laid on a tree
Nearby are old pots and cans... not out of place, just where they should be...
Rustic and ruin, but perfectly sound...
Friends become family, when your true home is found...
I sit and listen to the music in their voice
Listen to family, not simply friends, who are there by choice...
They travel many miles to be here each year...
This family of friends, no matter how far away, are always near...
Miles from the madness, in its own time and space...
Cats roam freely in this wonderful place...
They tumble and play, for life they have no worry...
Much to be done.. but there is never a hurry...
For me, from the start, this place touched my heart...
I have lived many decades and thought I knew my part...
But the people and this place, are now simply "home"...
I now have a true place to come back to whenever I roam...
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We travel to find the real but when we come in the many, the real becomes lost...
To go to a place with empty beaches and then return to row upon row of hotels somewhat negates the point of going there...
So a place very relevant to now, but somehow lost in the past is a beautiful find.
To find a place that still runs on trust, not profit, makes you question modern life .
So no name will you find here, but, hopefully, many will find it all the same.
I wish my time was not running out faster than I would like
So to one and all... Goodnight, I'm off to ride my bike...
What is going on with this small little world of ours…
Just another
collection of thoughts...
One half, wants/wants to sell you,
something new every five minutes and the other half wants to kill you
if you don’t blindly follow some maniac or other…
The British can’t
make their mind up on anything...
The Germans, effectively, wanted a fourth Reich...
The Germans, effectively, wanted a fourth Reich...
The Chinese wants
domination of “it’s” world and cares not what people
think...
The Russians…
Enjoy both the freedom of living under a likeable Lenin and watching
all the dash cam carnage online...
The Saudi elite
covet western items while condemning western values for its populous…
North Korea keeps
poking the US with it’s little nuclear stick…
The Americans are voting for a new “leader” between a very skilful, and rich by
some very dubious means, "non truth" teller and a man who may well be the living
incarnation of Zapp Brannigan but, strangely enough, may actually do
something other than line his own pockets.
America… Massive
country… Massive Ego… Massive prison service. Not so much “three
strikes and your out” as “three strikes and you have a job for
life”
Did you know as of
March 23 2016:-
The American prison system is massive. So massive that its estimated turnover of $74 billion eclipses the GDP of 133 nations. What is perhaps most unsettling about this fun fact is that it is the American taxpayer who foots the bill and is increasingly padding the pockets of publicly traded corporations like Corrections Corporation of America and GEO Group. (smartasset.com/Thierry Godard)
The American prison system is massive. So massive that its estimated turnover of $74 billion eclipses the GDP of 133 nations. What is perhaps most unsettling about this fun fact is that it is the American taxpayer who foots the bill and is increasingly padding the pockets of publicly traded corporations like Corrections Corporation of America and GEO Group. (smartasset.com/Thierry Godard)
The Bank of Mum and
Dad… A whole generation of people today who have to borrow money
from the very people who forced the house prices up in the first
place.
Shareholders... The
people who control a company they have no other interest in other
than how much money they can take... If
you had none would your products be cheaper???
Greed… Something
nearly everybody has… To some it’s their God... People want to sell something for
thousands that costs ten pounds to make... But to most it’s
something perfectly normal, without any conscious thought of it’s
effect… “I want this more than you” is the mantra of many a price
rise…
Consultants… The
people you pay lots of money to to get an answer, sometimes, that you
might have got for free by asking your staff..
Austerity…
“difficult economic conditions created by government measures to
reduce public expenditure”…
What a strange thing
to do in a consumer driven economy… everybody and its offspring
wants to sell you stuff whether you need it or not and the government
wants you to pay the tax but not buy the item… Go figure...
NHS becomes the
NFHS… leave you to work that one out…
Private
police/fire/ambulance services will be the norm soon but surely there
can be no conflict of interests with business panels replacing
councils
2106 Rio… my
favourite quote… “Cyber Crooks Expected to Take Gold at Brazil
Olympics”
Mind you… Bet the
populous were more nervous upon hearing that the “tour” bus would
not make it across the border…
Saturday, 10 September 2016
I Wonder What You Will Be Someday
Entry into this
world is, for most, painful…
To be squeezed and
ejected, from water to air…
From warmth and
protection, to cold and vulnerable…
From the gentle beat
of a heart to the symphonies of existence...
To be aware of life,
rather than wrapped in a thought…
To see more than the
womb that was your world…
To see, through a blur, your new life unfold…
Your journey just
beginning, but to what will it lead…
You grow and crawl,
then learn to walk…
You learn to talk
and fall over too…
You crate such
memories for those who see…
You can understand a
smile, but not a scowl…
But I oft wonder on
the way to guide…
You need to know
your boundaries, at least for a little while...
You need to know
what’s hot or not, to keep your limbs intact…
You need to know a
right from wrong, but who’s is the question…
I applaud those who
teach with a premise of control present…
I condemn those who
teach with control active...
I praise those who
teach with realisation of ability…
I repulse those who
teach a closed mind…
School approaches
all to soon…
And you leave your second womb…
People jostle all
about, some you know, some I doubt…
First day, first
play, first to say “Hi”
You learn and learn
the skills of life…
As life teaches
you skills of it’s own…
You see the bad, You
the good…
How will you choose
what’s understood…
Family should teach
you a way that’s safe…
But, sadly, this is
not always the case…
Some are open and
teach many views…
Some are closed and
you cannot choose…
This time of growing
should be free from care…
This time of
learning should show what’s out there…
You should not be
taught to fear…
You should never be
taught to hate…
School is over all
to soon…
Hormones kick in and
you sleep till noon…
You find your
partner, if lucky, your mate…
sometimes you know
from the first date…
You expand your
world through travel…
And learn new views
on life…
You dance and laugh
with someone..
And that someone is
now your wife…
Jobs have come and
gone…
One gels and life
gently slows…
Time now for
memories new…
But most of all,
your time to teach...
Another life comes
into this world…
You watch it being
born…
Amazed in every
single way
You look at your own
baby and say…
“I wonder what you
will be someday”
Sunday, 4 September 2016
Most nights, when I sleep I dream...
Most nights, when I
sleep I dream...
Most of these dreams
are weird and very multi tangent
Mostly I remember
snippets of these upon waking but they fade to quickly when I try
write them down
But some just keep
reoccurring… more fleshed out each time…
This is a synopsis of the latest…
Standing on an edge
above the universe yet seeing everything right in front of me... The
wars.. The lovers.. The stupidity of most races…
Trying not to look,
to hard, in one direction for as soon as I do I’m there and a
puzzle to solve before I am back standing on that edge again...
This time it’s
Anguilla a small green planet in the Kellion system a few million
human like people on a few trillion tons of rock
The water here is
thicker, than most, and little life exists in the shallows but in
it’s deepest depths there are the beginnings of another race. The
next to inhabit Anguilla… possibly…
The puzzle, maybe, is whether to help those already here or those who will be...
Anguilla is lucky in
that it only has three races.. The Klemmen, the Gueeds and the Angs,
who are the remains of the first race...
For longer than
recorded time the three have never all been in agreement, and
peace... There is always some small part of their world being argued
over…
For the Anguillians
do not fight wars… None of the races produce many offspring and each just wishes to survive…
But those emerging
from the waters will not be the same… they can spawn in thousands
when the food supply is good.. or less when it is not… so all they
will see is food…
For when a mind is
simple it just wants to survive. It has no thoughts of learning, no
thought of art, no concept of crime…
I look at Aelion the
leader of the Angs and marvel as his skills. Stand amazed at the sculptures he takes decades to make and the patience he has
to teach others...
I look at Gldes the
leader of the Gueeds and am impressed with his guidance of his people
to greater learning and the written arts...
I look at Kmlem the
leader of the Klemmen and find such wisdom within this single person
and how he imparts it to all his people, simply stunning...
In all this vast,
beyond comprehension, universe there are few places that in their
isolation evolve in, relative, peace… War is the norm… Greed is
the driver… Jealousy it’s mistress…
So why am I here…
This time there is
no puzzle… only to sit and watch and learn…
To learn the hard
fact of existence…
I have helped so
many end their war or started one to end their suffering but …
Did I really do
anything…
I sit and watch for
millennia…
Watch the waves of
creatures who have no name, climb out of the sea…
They crawl then walk
across the land and eat all they come across, all but those who hid
to deep…
Then the swarm
retreats back to the oceans, to where the food is now…
And the few
survivors that are left come out of hiding…
Their statues dust,
their scriptures rotted away but their knowledge of what was still
clear…
They build again... The three races appear again and Anguilla rises once more but all is
not peaceful and there is war...
For those who saw
the desolation passed down the memory of what was lost… some sort
to recreate it and others let loose the greed they had suppressed before and sort to own it all…
I have no concept of ownership, or greed, so cannot understand those who do
I have no concept of ownership, or greed, so cannot understand those who do
A lesson never
learnt is that in whatever a race thinks it is true… That truth
exists for only as long as that race exists…
I learnt…
To help
others, both in starting and ending wars... But to wish the need was not there
To understand the beauty of the moment perfection is
created… A statue carved, a great novel written, an understanding
reached or, simply, someone finding their soul mate...
I understand this beauty does not need war to exist but those who crave ownership and greed do not
I understand this beauty does not need war to exist but those who crave ownership and greed do not
Millennia of
destruction offset by moments of perfection, is their legacy…
But in the end
everything is lost in the timeless eternity...
I saw the worlds
before this creation and I will see the worlds in the next for
eternity is longer than even I can comprehend...
I am not a God...
I have no, and want
none, possessions...
I have no power
other than what you give me...
I am one of many...
I am a thought...
Tuesday, 14 June 2016
Respect for Orlando
The news of the deaths in Orlando was shocking, both in the number of dead and the stupidity of the shooter..
We all have our views on the "lifestyles" of others but a community that only enjoys life should not be treated like one that seeks to control or harm...
A recent Facebook quote, shared by a friend, got me thinking on this subject...
Also hate the word Homophobia... not because of the word; or its meaning, but because of the, apparent, need for it...
Don't, totally, agree about the "you're an asshole", but it is well used in it's context..., as disagreeing with someone's point of view is the reasoning behind many of mankind's advancements...
But if your disagreeing to degrade someone... Then you're an asshole...
Your not scared... Weeeellllll... yes, some, people are... often because of what is in the next paragraph...
I have always felt that Homophobia is a phobia... But it is a personnel one... Back in the 60/70's it was known as *****bashing... But the more I heard people bragging about it the more certain I was that they were not scared of Gay people... But the fact that they might be Gay themselves... And therefore beat up or degrade them at every opportunity was "necessary"to prove themselves not...
It was so surreal listening to idiots boasting how "manly" they were, watching how their eyes changed while talking... Going from an ego boosted glow at the start to a dim scared "I am not gay... I am not gay" look as they walked away...
You could say I lost a few friends back then... Gained a few to...
Being Gay holds no appeal for me but I respect those who genuinely are...
While individualism is allowed in the world... Groups, of all types, will both survive and have to survive tragedy... And I wish we could all have space and the freedom to, simply, BE
People from the top to the bottom of society still think.... "Why can't you live by my rules - There good rules" when, in fact, they are saying "If I cannot/will not do this then you cannot/will not either"..
Sure they live,love and carry on enjoying their own life... but any chance to boost their ego's by reducing it in others seems, to some people, as necessary as the two things you can do without concious thought... eating and reproducing...
Whether it's in the monetary sense of "socialise costs and privatise profit" to control and enjoy the riches while ensuring others don't
Or just in the good old fashioned "You WILL do as I say"... Because the fact that an individual CAN think for themselves really scares the elite... a fact taken to the extreme in some countries....
Control is what some people seem to think life is really all about...
I feel ashamed for all who died or were injured...
I feel angry that someone felt they had to do this...
But I also feel pride that the whole community came together in support... And that all LGBT communities WILL live, laugh, love and remember...
We all have our views on the "lifestyles" of others but a community that only enjoys life should not be treated like one that seeks to control or harm...
A recent Facebook quote, shared by a friend, got me thinking on this subject...
Don't, totally, agree about the "you're an asshole", but it is well used in it's context..., as disagreeing with someone's point of view is the reasoning behind many of mankind's advancements...
But if your disagreeing to degrade someone... Then you're an asshole...
Your not scared... Weeeellllll... yes, some, people are... often because of what is in the next paragraph...
I have always felt that Homophobia is a phobia... But it is a personnel one... Back in the 60/70's it was known as *****bashing... But the more I heard people bragging about it the more certain I was that they were not scared of Gay people... But the fact that they might be Gay themselves... And therefore beat up or degrade them at every opportunity was "necessary"to prove themselves not...
It was so surreal listening to idiots boasting how "manly" they were, watching how their eyes changed while talking... Going from an ego boosted glow at the start to a dim scared "I am not gay... I am not gay" look as they walked away...
You could say I lost a few friends back then... Gained a few to...
Being Gay holds no appeal for me but I respect those who genuinely are...
While individualism is allowed in the world... Groups, of all types, will both survive and have to survive tragedy... And I wish we could all have space and the freedom to, simply, BE
People from the top to the bottom of society still think.... "Why can't you live by my rules - There good rules" when, in fact, they are saying "If I cannot/will not do this then you cannot/will not either"..
Sure they live,love and carry on enjoying their own life... but any chance to boost their ego's by reducing it in others seems, to some people, as necessary as the two things you can do without concious thought... eating and reproducing...
Whether it's in the monetary sense of "socialise costs and privatise profit" to control and enjoy the riches while ensuring others don't
Or just in the good old fashioned "You WILL do as I say"... Because the fact that an individual CAN think for themselves really scares the elite... a fact taken to the extreme in some countries....
Control is what some people seem to think life is really all about...
I feel ashamed for all who died or were injured...
I feel angry that someone felt they had to do this...
But I also feel pride that the whole community came together in support... And that all LGBT communities WILL live, laugh, love and remember...
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