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Old 9th May 2011, 03:36 AM   #1
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Psycho tranny beats up unsuspecting date

The sad thing is that there's people out there looking for trannies like him but he pretends to be a natural woman and then gets violent if his dates find out he's not what they bargained for.

http://www.japantoday.com/smartphone...ng-up-his-date

What is his major malfunction?
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Old 9th May 2011, 05:18 AM   #2
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Wow, is the OP serious? I mean, "psycho tranny", really?
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Old 9th May 2011, 05:40 AM   #3
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Originally Posted by Tsukasa Buddha View Post
Wow, is the OP serious? I mean, "psycho tranny", really?
I'm always very serious on the subject of psycho trannies.

What? Did I say something wrong?
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We suspect more may have been going on than is being told. Nominally "straight" men who seek out transexuals or M-F impersonators for sex are a fairly common phenomenon. I believe Eddie Murphy got caught with such an individual recently.
Although it's possible the "John" was an unwitting straight fellow who was merely surprised to learn he had a female impersonator..... It's more likely this was a "failure to pay" situation. This would have provoked the violent reaction on the part of the "lady".

Note that the use of the word "tranny" (for either transexual or transvestite) is commonly employed... But incorrect in either case. Transvestites are universally straight, and transexuals (m-f transexuals, that is) really want to be women and to "pass"; they don't want to be cross-dressing prostitutes.
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Old 9th May 2011, 06:08 AM   #5
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Although it's possible the "John" was an unwitting straight fellow who was merely surprised to learn he had a female impersonator..... It's more likely this was a "failure to pay" situation. This would have provoked the violent reaction on the part of the "lady".
Huh? I just re-read the article, and nothing in it says that he was a "John" or that this was a prostitution situation.
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Old 9th May 2011, 06:43 AM   #6
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Trannys are unpredictable. I know and speak to a tranny and old though I am he wants me. He can't have me but he wants me. I'm 64 years old, fat and my hair is white but he wants me.
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People (gay, transexual, straight) get into fights (sometimes very ugly). Though I would suspect that a transexual who intentionally hid their identity from potential partners is inviting some problems.

My ex-wife's boyfriend is a transvestite (as are some of her previous ones... she seems to like that world).
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Psycho tranny, quesque se, na na na na na na na ....
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Trannys are unpredictable.
Humans are unpredictable.
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Trannys are unpredictable. I know and speak to a tranny and old though I am he wants me. He can't have me but he wants me. I'm 64 years old, fat and my hair is white but he wants me.
Sweeping generalisation from a sample of two?
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I think "Psycho Tranny" would be an awesome superhero.
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I think "Psycho Tranny" would be an awesome superhero.
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If I were evil (I said if), I'd much rather fight Superman than that. Superman has limits to what he'll do to you.
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Trannys are unpredictable. I know and speak to a tranny and old though I am he wants me. He can't have me but he wants me. I'm 64 years old, fat and my hair is white but he wants me.
So, your avatar's a self-portrait, then?
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Note that the use of the word "tranny" (for either transexual or transvestite) is commonly employed... But incorrect in either case. Transvestites are universally straight, and transexuals (m-f transexuals, that is) really want to be women and to "pass"; they don't want to be cross-dressing prostitutes.
Sorry to say that you've got your definitions mixed up. Transexuals are people who have done or are doing gender reassignment. Transvestites are people who dress, or even live, as someone of the opposite sex. Since transvestites are usually assumed by the wider population to be homosexuals, straight transvestite men some decades ago started referring to themselves as cross-dressers, to set themselves apart from the gay transvestites.
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Puppycow, why are you trolling? The FSM disapproves of suicide-by-mod.

I am disappoint.
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He's not psyco! He's sweet.
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I think "Psycho Tranny" would be an awesome superhero.
I think "The Psycho Trannies" would be an amazing name for a punk rock band.
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So, your avatar's a self-portrait, then?
No
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He's not psyco! He's sweet.
false dichotomy
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Psycho tranny, quesque se, na na na na na na na ....
I've got to run, run, run, run away
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I think "Psycho Tranny" would be an awesome superhero.
Is it a bird? Is it gay? No it's Psycho-Tranny!
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Psycho tranny, quesque se, na na na na na na na ....
Beat me to it.
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Reported ya there puppy cow. I really loathe the way people use this kind of demeaning slang to push for gender hate speech and then think it's funny.

It reminds me of this disgusting show they made years ago called "There's Something About Miriam" where the whole point of the show was to mock that Miriam was transgender.

I look at shows like Ace Ventura where he makes Sean Young rip off her skirt to reveal she's tucked her penis and all sorts of "Hey it's funny, they have gender issues let's point and make a joke out of it."

Seriously.
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Nothing about the trans-gendered is funny. Ever.
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Damn. It would have been sort of cool to have an online conversation with a zombie santa...
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Reported ya there puppy cow. I really loathe the way people use this kind of demeaning slang to push for gender hate speech and then think it's funny.
- How many trannies does it take to change a lightbulb?
- THAT'S NOT FUNNY!

P.S.

I've once seen a funny facebook message from a truck driver. He had a hell of a day. Two transmissions in two different trucks went kaput. So, his facebook message said: "what a day. I blew two trannies."

Hilarity ensued.
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Nothing about the trans-gendered is funny. Ever.
I suspect the result of this attempt at being the "thought police" would be the same as the result when some idiot in a local council in Britain declared that telling Irish jokes is a "hate crime" within the district.

Needless to say the result was that every failed stand-up comic in the nation rushed there to tell Irish jokes and get some free publicity by getting arrested while the going was good.

The "thought police" folks went nuts. Who didn't care? The Irish, of course.

I'll start.
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We suspect more may have been going on than is being told. Nominally "straight" men who seek out transexuals or M-F impersonators for sex are a fairly common phenomenon. I believe Eddie Murphy got caught with such an individual recently.
Although it's possible the "John" was an unwitting straight fellow who was merely surprised to learn he had a female impersonator..... It's more likely this was a "failure to pay" situation. This would have provoked the violent reaction on the part of the "lady".
It happens more than than you would think it does.

ETA PS: google around some of the transgendered people photo. My sisters (all 100% female) look worst than the rare few transgendered I ever met. I can't generalize to all transgendered, but many do really look like a good looking female.
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Nothing about the trans-gendered is funny. Ever.
Oh so you're saying transgendered people can't be comedians? You disgusting bigot.

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My sisters (all 100% female) look worst than the rare few transgendered I ever met. I can't generalize to all transgendered, but many do really look like a good looking female.
Why are you surprised? Anyone who goes to a lot of trouble to become X is likely to be better at it than someone who became X through some random circumstances.
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Why are you surprised? Anyone who goes to a lot of trouble to become X is likely to be better at it than someone who became X through some random circumstances.
Good point. But that certainly does not warrant what was said above (that men caught with transgendered mainly seek transgendered, as opposed to them mistaking a transgendered for a born-female, and getting upset afterward).
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Huh? I just re-read the article, and nothing in it says that he was a "John" or that this was a prostitution situation.
It's certainly possible that neither party would tell the police if it was, in fact, a prostitution transaction. However, I see nothing in the linked article to support that interpretation.
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It happens more than than you would think it does.

ETA PS: google around some of the transgendered people photo. My sisters (all 100% female) look worst than the rare few transgendered I ever met. I can't generalize to all transgendered, but many do really look like a good looking female.
You know i have always found something ironic.

At my last job, for some reason or another there was a lot of transexuals. As someone who is happy with males or females, i would have always assumed the straight guys would have a better detector for this than i did.

This, was in no way, shape or form the case.

Funniest day was getting a ride home from a friend who was going on about how hot one of them was ( not surprisingly the person in question had a gender neutral name. ). I didn't think anything of it, but did comment " Oh i didn't know you were playing on my team." ( as i had known he had a girlfriend recently, and assumed he knew what the person in question was 'packin' downstairs.). A very confused look came over his face, and he asked me what i meant. Upon being informed that the person in question was a dude, he had a very " For **** sakes." reaction.

He felt a bit better the next day when he found out that none of the other people on our team figured it out either.

IMHO, this tranny scored a 4/10 at best at passing off as a women. I found him attractive enough ( though trannies are about the farthest thing from what i like, he was a well built human specimen. Though terribly annoying.) , but the thought that a straight man, let alone most straight men ( at the very least in my sample group.) couldn't see through it, astounded me.
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You know i have always found something ironic.

At my last job, for some reason or another there was a lot of transexuals. As someone who is happy with males or females, i would have always assumed the straight guys would have a better detector for this than i did.
Why would you assume that? Most straight guys don't meet many transexuals or transvestites. One doesn't develop a detector for deception if one isn't exposed to that deception, regardless of the interest one might have in discovering it. It's simply a matter of exposure. Sort of like how CGI special effects in Jurassic Park looked really realistic at the time, but are much more obvious now, since we're used to seeing them and can spot the flaws more easily.

Edit: oh, and the reverse can be easily missed too.
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Why would you assume that? Most straight guys don't meet many transexuals or transvestites. One doesn't develop a detector for deception if one isn't exposed to that deception, regardless of the interest one might have in discovering it. It's simply a matter of exposure. Sort of like how CGI special effects in Jurassic Park looked really realistic at the time, but are much more obvious now, since we're used to seeing them and can spot the flaws more easily.
My logic being similar to the following.

I know jack about cars, but i can tell a pinto or a gremlin when i see one. And avoid them accordingly.

As a point of interest, despite being in situations in which one would think i would have had a lot of tranny exposure ( use your imagination. ) , working at a call center was the only time i was consistently in contact with any transexuals.
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Originally Posted by sadhatter View Post
My logic being similar to the following.

I know jack about cars, but i can tell a pinto or a gremlin when i see one. And avoid them accordingly.
But you DO know jack about cars. Maybe not their inner workings, but you know about what they LOOK like, at least on the outside. You know a gremlin from a pinto because of exposure.

But call you tell a gremlin body bolted to a pinto frame from an actual gremlin? Or a stock gremlin from a gremlin with custom suspension? Maybe not.
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Originally Posted by Ziggurat View Post
But you DO know jack about cars. Maybe not their inner workings, but you know about what they LOOK like, at least on the outside. You know a gremlin from a pinto because of exposure.

But call you tell a gremlin body bolted to a pinto frame from an actual gremlin? Or a stock gremlin from a gremlin with custom suspension? Maybe not.
Because no straight man has ever seen a tranny on a talk show or anything.

It just seems like enjoying eating mushrooms, but not going through the trouble of find out which ones are poisonous.
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