Things Eldergays Find Edgy

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Adding capers to recipes that don't call for them

[quote]What’s else?

Spelling and grammar

Haha, R3, oops!

They often don't really care for (or about) black people, but gravitate towards large, loud, animated black women without filters (you, go, girl!) and imagine some sort of kinship with them.

Which means, of course, that they're not at all racist. And yet outrageous.

Tom of Finland's work.

Many younger men find it historically fascinating and/or fun and campy, but impossible to take seriously.

Equally true of a lot of 20th century homoerotic art.

Elder gays always have a statue or naked picture of a man up on the wall.Ground breaking and edgy

Veganism is “a mental illness” to Eldergays.

Boomers are hilarious.

Feeding that Catholic-brainwashed, self-bashing, gay, troll carpetbagger from Britain and a mafia family who got famous by taking Russian mafia money laundered through the Mercers in exchange for spamming pro-Trump propaganda before he celebrated raping children too much and got canned, then banned from social media so DL is the only place he can spew his verbal sewage anymore.

I'm not even in the eldergay zone quite yet but I will say that you morons have quite the imagination when it comes to, ya know, reality. What stereotypical world are you living in? Are stereotypes what baby gays find edgy?

Cardi B

I’m such an elder gay that I find nothing “edgy,” and think that the concept of “edgy” suggests OP has babytaste.

Thinking nothing is edgy is thinking that one’s self is edgy.

This could have been a funny thread.

[quote] Are stereotypes what baby gays find edgy?

Stereotypes are how they define themselves. They think they're "bi" or "pansexual" (retarded) because they aren't flaming even though all they want to do is suck dick. It's pathetic.

R13. Speak for yourself, OP. I don’t think I’m edgy. (R12 here)

In other words, poorly made schlock that is only shocking to an audience who would never actually watch it.

The lesbian episode of The Golden Girls .

Eldergays love antiques and decorating. They also love talking about how their summer salad is simply the best!

Leather bars and scene

Virtual reality.

Enlighten us OP - what do you find edgy? (Other than spelling and grammar)

A whip surrounded by Venetian carnival masks on an eggplant accent wall

The collection of International Male panties he’s been saving since 1989, waiting to fit into them again

Mapplethorpe books stacked on a lobster-trap coffee table with assorted butt plugs and Christopher Radco ornaments decorating the net

Mini caftans in leopard and zebra

The end table pictured below filled with empty popper bottles

R23 Since sex was so groundbreaking back in the olden days

Yeah, you were certainly the talk of ancient Mesopotamia.

Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence should be on this list.

Here’s an edgy eldergay.

References to THE WIZARD OF OZ, particularly the whole "Friends of Dorothy" code.

References to THE GOLDEN GIRLS, DESIGNING WOMEN, and other 1980s pop culture.

Early Bette Midler, Joan Rivers, and their legacy of "outrageous" female comics with large gay followings: Sandra Bernhard, Margaret Cho, Kathy Griffin. Fun at the time, but nothing dates more poorly than "edgy" standup, IMHO.

Selling all the old stuff and restyling with Ikea, H&M, Zara, etc. Just like the young. Selling immense record collections to the young hipsters, now that you can get some money, again. Turning their backs on everything that speaks of old gay culture. Blending in and disappearing. Being "post-gay", just like the 20 year olds.

After Dark Magazine

The mystery surrounding Natalie Wood's death.

Trans women of color who are literally being MURDERED AS I SPEAK!!!

Manhunt

Butter knives

Spring Byington

Zeb Atlas and all roided-out pr0n hoes.

lemon party

NYT thinks it's SO PROGRESSIVE when it shows two FAGGOTS in their new apartment in Brooklyn. Those are the only regular articles about gay men.

Brooklyn? Don't you mean Kingston NY, or the newly hip New Haven CT?

UHF antennas

Atlantis cruises

Sneering use of terms like BIPOC, woke, non-binary, and intersectional, with no awareness of 1) what the terms actually mean or 2) how those terms are potentially relevant to them, as members of another oppressed minority in America.

But keep at it. Those jokes about "snowflakes" and their student loan debt are really improving the quality of your lives.

Whatever dances Black people were doing last year.

Political assassination. Now that's edgy.

Using the word "cunt"

Using phrases they learned from RuPaul like "shade" or "tea"

Eating in non-chain restaurants

Going to Europe on their own (not taking a Perrillo tour)

Not wearing socks

Putting a drink down on their coffee table without a doily or coaster underneath it

Not wearing cologne

Listening to Drake on purpose

Knowing what "WAP" refers to

Leaving their murse at home and carrying their wallet in their pocket

Eating a sandwich on a paper towel instead of an actual plate.

Wearing a dark red hanky in their right back pockets to the supermarket.

Living through the 80's as a gay man is in itself edgy.

Poppers!

[quote]They often don't really care for (or about) black people, but gravitate towards large, loud, animated black women without filters (you, go, girl!) and imagine some sort of kinship with them. Which means, of course, that they're not at all racist. And yet outrageous.

You seem to think all eldergays are white.

Stemless wine glasses.

OP is so clever!

I'm sure we'll have some thought from this thread that wasn't obvious in the prior 954,782,367,387,163,198 versions of the same fucking thread.

Open relationships between recently-coupled, indiscriminate 20-something's with no chance of a future together. Edgy.

Frances Faye

Fuck U OP

OP is VERY clever!

Making catty comments at people who start threads mocking Eldergays

Black Lives Matter

[quote] Making catty comments at people who start threads mocking Eldergays

And thinking to themselves "Oooh, I'm being such a cunt now."

R23 , THANKS for making my day .

The Wheel

I’m old enough to know that nothing is new, it’s just re-packaged for new generations.

Sushi

Driving a PRIUS

Lucille Ball taking on a role like Mame was the very [italic]height [/height]of edgy ... considering she wasn’t known for musicals!

^^ second only to my surprising formatting, of course.

The weird way that paid sex workers (almost always described as "rentboys" or "escorts," as if) are fetishisized by elders, just as performers in porn are. But also marginalized, as if they are some exotic species altogether.

It's just a job, gramps. A not very good or fulfilling one, and hopefully, a temporary one.

fetishized (spellling!)

The Cardi B shit does need to stop.

[quote]Selling all the old stuff and restyling with Ikea, H&M, Zara, etc.

This looks very bad, like mutton dressed as lamb. If for any reason you lose all your home furnishings, patiently replace them with items purchased from consignment stores. After a certain age, trendy doesn't look good and makes you look older.

The rentboy comment is so true. That is very 90s and the movie Trick.

Watching Andrew Haigh's "Greek Pete" reality/doc is a good remedy for a rentboy infatuation.

No regrets! No apologies! Sex positive!

Madonna actually was edgy 40 years ago; no one EVER thought Will & Grace was edgy.

R73 more like 30 years ago the early 90s

A PET ROCK

Sliced bread.

Lady Gaga

Pop art by Michael Turchin.

Studio 54

John Waters movies

"South Park"

ME!

The Horseless Carriage.

Bette Midler

Van Halen

Discotheques

Hisssssssing

Women voting.

Have you ever seen Pink Flamingos, R80? Or are you too jaded by all of the other gaping anus interludes in movies today? Yawn, such tired stuff.

Indoor plumbing.

Oh please OP

I'm as old as the hills ( I use to babysit Faye Dunaway) and I NEVER found Madonna or Will and Grace edgy.

THIS is EDGY

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whoops

Switchblades, little girl.

Protestantism.

It takes great courage to murder the first time. That's when you can no longer claim your soul as your own. After that, it becomes remarkably simple. You'd never be quite sure what lay around the corner, would you, dear?

A second bran muffin.

Sometimes I answer the door in my shirtsleeves.

Madonna was never edgy. Has and remains nothing more than an intention seeking whore.

Looks like posting videos in one’s reply is also edgy.

[quote]Things Eldergays Find Edgy

Shouldn't that be "Found" edgy?

Oldsmobiles

Caftans without sequins or feathers.

Barnaby Jones

8 track tape players

Staying up past 9pm.

Dex Dexter

Fax machines

“Intention seeking whore” !! That’s Madonna in a nutshell.

Gentleman Callers

I doubt old people know what edgy means and if they do, they don't care.

Using paper plates for a holiday meal

Oven bags

Young people

Interracial sex - so edgy in 1950.

Large private eyes like Cannon

Jonathan Adler

Look at me, I’m an artist.

These new fangled phones

Gay Uncles

Ah yes- you younger gays missed it all- the late 60s and 70s were wild with the arts breaking ground- gay men (baby boom) swarming the cities, clubs of all kinds round the clock. Edgy? Everything you do now youngsters is at best derivative and vanilla versions at that. You youngsters could not be more boring- get married and have kids, oh boy!

Oh yes, we're SO jealous we didn't have a chance to get fisted in a piss-filled bathtub at the Mineshaft!

The bathtub guy was for pissing on only.

It's not even clever, OP. Edgy? I'm 56, and I think I know what edgy is. Madonna? Yes, in 1990. Get over your young self. And relish it. It goes muuuuuuch faster than you think.

My eldergay uncle "Don" thinks using olive oil spray in edgy.

R122-Madonna was EDGY in 1984. By 1990 she was ORDINARY.

Madonna was ON FIRE in 1990 you dumbass.

Typing "cunt" on DL and thinking it several times a day.

It just wouldn't be ladylike to say it out loud.

Adding jalapenos to their "famous" potato salad recipe

The Fonz

I guess I’m n the category (53). Since some of you turned this from things found edgy to just negative things I can say about elder gays, I will freely admit that I have no idea what Edgy is. I do agree that wrapping yourself in the culture of youth usually ends up looking sad after a certain point. I am sure that there are people who see me riding my skateboard And think I look ridiculous. I don’t care. I’ve been doing it all my life.

Really, with the ubiquity of the internet, what is really edgy anymore? Edgy to me was something you had to seek out that was not known to the public at large. A music festival that you found out about only through word of mouth or a subscription to an obscure magazine. People today, and not just young people, are regurgitations of whatever ideal persona they have picked out of a catalog. Edgy disappeared about twenty years ago.

Reebie Jackson from Centipede!

r119 I came of age in the 90's. I guess that makes me a "middle gay" (44). The 90's surpass them all.

Maude

Nobody ever found Will & Grace "edgy".

Anything boneless or skinless.

"And Charles Nelson Reilly!"

***dead silence***

Mid-Century Modern decor. It's fucking everywhere in elder gay homes. That or the other theme which is even worse... The Antique Mall !

[quote] Nobody ever found Will & Grace "edgy".

The only thing edgy about that show is the cliff they should’ve been pushed off of at the end of the last episode.

Talking about what they put in mothers meatloaf… And what they whip up in the kitchen

SpongeBob

Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds (LSD)

Prints of these ugly things on the wall.

We eldergays (questionable moniker) invented edge. You have no idea, right guys?

Spent Patrick Nagel’s last night visiting in my Brentwood gallery. As always teased Pat about his running addiction. The next am he dropped dead running San Vicente. Great talent trapped by early success that stereotyped his work Also burdened with a highly unscrupulous dealer.

Saying "Millennios"

Um, Robrt Maplthrorp (Sorry, that missing lttr dosn't work on my kybord. You know which on.)

CBD oil for arthritis

I don't know, A Clockwork Orange?

I can tell you what I don't find edgy. Insisting on "work / life" balance and then bitching about not getting ahead. If you have peers that are willing to make sacrifices, then they get the cake. You can just keep taking pictures of yours.

Haight-Asbury

Marc Almond

Hula hoops

Roller Disco

The movies Caddyshack and Airplane.

Oat milk

Untuckit shirts

Color TV. I see everything I need to see with my black and white Philco.

You all are just throwing your money away on every new thing to come down the pike.

Almost all of these posts are meant to be HUMOROUS but this is REAL. In November 2000 when the Republicans were trying to STEAL the election from Al Gore ( and they succeeded ) I went to The Wiz and bought a SONY WEGA flat screen - flat for 2000-20inch tv for $349. I'm still using it!

This look, alive and kickin’ in Palm Springs.

Oh god. I thought only the straight boys were doing the "untucked" thing in 2020, R157.

It doesn't make you look thinner, BTW. Not even a little.

Spago.

Most eldergays’ ideas about what constitutes edginess comes from the 1970s and 1980s when that actually mattered. And that was also the last time most of them got fucked.

Noooooo, R160.

I got fucked this weekend!

Eldergays should be quarantining, and NOT getting fucked. They’re in a high risk category, and exposure to COVID-19 during sex could be fatal!

r161 - Good for you! We still fuck every day.

R162, I did not say I was dragging in tricks off the street with a Grindr app.

I only stated that I got fucked. Then we flipped and I fucked him right back.

Not being dead.

Jussie Smollett

Starke ghost chairs, or anything designed by him.

Fucking someone right back

Unseasonable weather.

Photos like this

Throwing hot coffee on a flight attendant.

The 1973 Dutch film Turkish Delight. Lots of Rutger Hauer nudity.

Touch-on lamps

Jo Ann Castle. She's a sassy young woman.

And, golly! She can sure play that piano.

I have ALWAYS liked Patrick Nagel. He really had it. It wasn't edgy though.

Susan Powter

r157 That's hot.

The photographic stylings of DL fave Tom Bianchi and her numerous forever soulmates.

Woody Allen movies

"I Want Your Sex"