Dickson gets a gay bar

LOL JB. That was the exact song that came to mind when I read the short text OP decription. Great minds think alike.

Postalgeek said :

So I take it you frequent the public toilets at black mountain during the dark hours often in order to confirm this stereotype, given all the gay bars in close proximity.

Hyuk hyuk.
Didn’t see some genius trotting that one out at all.
It’s called common knowledge. Perverts have apparently gone there for anonymous bumming for years and years.

Grimm said :

johnboy said :

Grimm gives Mr Gillespie a go for being the worst human being in Canberra.

Yeah, and it doesn’t happen at all. I’m making it up and there’s no truth behind the stereotype….
The public toilets at black mountain peninsula during the dark hours are a testament to this.

So I take it you frequent the public toilets at black mountain during the dark hours often in order to confirm this stereotype, given all the gay bars in close proximity.

johnboy said :

Grimm gives Mr Gillespie a go for being the worst human being in Canberra.

Yeah, and it doesn’t happen at all. I’m making it up and there’s no truth behind the stereotype….
The public toilets at black mountain peninsula during the dark hours are a testament to this.

devils_advocate said :

poetix said :

Grimm said :

Fantastic…..Another place you won’t be able to use a public toilet for a 1KM radius because all you’ll find is perverts in them giving eachother AIDS.

What a truly awful comment. Love the way you ran ‘each’ and ‘other’ together. Very vivid imagination you have there.

Pfft. The AIDS isn’t even all that scary any more what with all the drugs and stuff.

The real risk is getting internetcanceraids from reading posts by ‘tards on the internet. What prophylactic can I wear to protect me from that?

Sadly the only protection is to unplug your interwebs.

Until we get a license to use the Internet it’s just going to keep filling with morons and biggots and pos moron bigots.

poetix said :

Grimm said :

Fantastic…..Another place you won’t be able to use a public toilet for a 1KM radius because all you’ll find is perverts in them giving eachother AIDS.

What a truly awful comment. Love the way you ran ‘each’ and ‘other’ together. Very vivid imagination you have there.

Pfft. The AIDS isn’t even all that scary any more what with all the drugs and stuff.

The real risk is getting internetcanceraids from reading posts by ‘tards on the internet. What prophylactic can I wear to protect me from that?

grunge_hippy said :

I’m glad you prefaced this story with one of the catchiest damn songs ever. Cos if you didn’t, I was going to.

I’ve got something to put in you,
I’ve got something to put in you,
I’ve got something to put in you,
At the gay bar, gay bar, gay bar.
Wow!

This rendition might be more to the liking of some Rioters:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2kD1YUtA5o

Grimm said :

Fantastic…..Another place you won’t be able to use a public toilet for a 1KM radius because all you’ll find is perverts in them giving eachother AIDS.

So the plan, then, is to try and get a gay bar within a kilometre of every public toilet so we can keep the homophobes pissing in their pants far into the future.

Well this is nice given that Cube really hasn’t been a gay bar for a few years, if indeed it ever was. Generally it’s just where people have in mind when they say, “let’s go to Civic!” or, “What is still open?”

I can just picture Mr G and Grimm walking hand in hand carrying matching plastic bags,how quaint 🙂

arescarti42 said :

Is it just the bar that is gay, or is it a gay bagel cafe as well?

You should see how they serve the bagels in the gay bar. Now I know why they have a hole in the centre.

Grimm said :

Fantastic…..Another place you won’t be able to use a public toilet for a 1KM radius because all you’ll find is perverts in them giving eachother AIDS.

What a truly awful comment. Love the way you ran ‘each’ and ‘other’ together. Very vivid imagination you have there.

I’m glad you prefaced this story with one of the catchiest damn songs ever. Cos if you didn’t, I was going to.

I’ve got something to put in you,
I’ve got something to put in you,
I’ve got something to put in you,
At the gay bar, gay bar, gay bar.
Wow!

Fantastic…..Another place you won’t be able to use a public toilet for a 1KM radius because all you’ll find is perverts in them giving eachother AIDS.

Another likely venue for a RiotACT out of the Eagle’s Nest day, given it operates as a cafe. (Sorry, I have forgotten what you are calling the reviews.)

Wasnt Heaven (?) a gay club in the 1990s?

Where is this new place – is this where Trinity is/was?

Aren’t all the bars in Dickson gay.

arescarti42 said :

Is it just the bar that is gay, or is it a gay bagel cafe as well?

Can I go there if i just want to get bagels and some schmear?

Because of course, “Men SSCCHHMMEEAARRR”

arescarti42 said :

Is it just the bar that is gay, or is it a gay bagel cafe as well?

Can I go there if i just want to get bagels and some schmear?

Should be alright. ‘Bagel’ + ‘Juice’ Bar – sounds legit enough to me!

Pro tip: bagel with smoked sausage goes down a treat. You should find out if it’s on their menu.

neanderthalsis said :

Is there some link between homosexuality and bagels that we haven’t been informed of?

Almost certainly not, although consuming something described on the menu as a bagel may help patrons to forget that they’re are in Dickson and to fantasise, even if only for a moment, or two, that they dwell in Chelsea or Manhattan, or even the more cosmopolitan bits of Sydney or Melbourne.

Is it just the bar that is gay, or is it a gay bagel cafe as well?

Can I go there if i just want to get bagels and some schmear?

“drag talent night”

To quote Lisa Simpson, “I recognize all three of those words but that statement doesn’t make any sense.”

Is there some link between homosexuality and bagels that we haven’t been informed of?

R. Slicker said :

A return to Dickson. After the Ainslie Hotel kicked out the gays and went straight in 1980 the old Dickson Pub (The Dikko) became Canberra’s gay bar. After that in 1983 it was The Manhattan in Civic Walk until 1989 then Roxus near Civic Bus Interchange which was driven out of business in early 1991 after homophobic vandals broke in, daubed the words “Fags” “AIDS” and “Die” on the walls and completely trashed and flooded the place.

Canberra hasn’t had a gay venue since Hush Lounge in Phillip closed in 2011.

What about Cube?

onDicks?

thefunmachine69 said :

SHOULD BE CALLED “DICKS-ON!”

“Scissors @ Dicks-on” would be more equitable.

What is with the censoring of “Nuclear War” in that video clip?

I thinks its the old owners of Hush lounge. The place looks good, appears they have invested some coin and colour into a location that has died many deaths. Anything to give hard punching Rao a run for his money.

SHOULD BE CALLED “DICKS-ON!”

A return to Dickson. After the Ainslie Hotel kicked out the gays and went straight in 1980 the old Dickson Pub (The Dikko) became Canberra’s gay bar. After that in 1983 it was The Manhattan in Civic Walk until 1989 then Roxus near Civic Bus Interchange which was driven out of business in early 1991 after homophobic vandals broke in, daubed the words “Fags” “AIDS” and “Die” on the walls and completely trashed and flooded the place.

Canberra hasn’t had a gay venue since Hush Lounge in Phillip closed in 2011.