I knew I was a Datalounger when...

My first thought in conflict is “punch and delete.”

I asked for sizemeat verificata

...I hissed at a trick who didn’t understand my FOLLIES reference.

Why would that every come up on a sermon?

Follies has to be THE gayest thing on the planet. There may not be a gay gene, but if you are male and this is a must-see, anyone would bet money: GAY.

R4, it’s a very progressive congregation.

I was on the toilet and thought "this experience would make a good DL thread".

That doesn’t sound like progress to me, R6.

Because it's the day of atonement--who have we harmed? How will be better in the future?

The trans women of color are very vocal in the social media space about being "the most vulnerable."

When I got every double entendre in Auntie Mame - and had to explain them to the gaylings

My husband knew he was a DLer - if only in spirit and, what, about 30 years before it started? - when he snuck out of the house and saw his first movie by himself at the age of 12: "Gypsy."

Well, that and trying to get picked up by truck drivers around the same age.

R10 Further to that, I found Patrick Dennis’s “Little Me” in the library when I was about ten and got most of the jokes. It took a while to figure out that Belle Poitrine wasn’t a real person. She seemed so real.

...when in my head, I'm always telling people to die in a grease fire. It's hard to actually verbalize that sentiment in polite conversation, though.

...I realised that every time there is a news story about misfortune befalling a child, my first reaction is wanting to know what Mrs Patsy Ramsey has to say about it.

when I screamed "MARY!!!" for the first time.

I demanded a venti High Point at Starbucks.

...whenever I have to erase a wall of text because I’m pretty sure I soapboxed on the same shit in 2008.

I slapped my maid's face.

I slapped her face viciously.

Isn't being gay go against the Jewish religion?

[quote] I demanded a venti High Point at Starbucks.

Did it have flavah?

Homosexuality has been legal in Israel since 1988 and was only illegal because of the British Empire imposing their own laws on the region when they controlled it.