Tacky, Tacky, Tacky
Turns out Liam is acquainted with the guy who wanders around War in a leather loincloth and wreath of leaves--this is not the same as Freaky Tattooed Guy, I might add, who is kinda scary on top of being tacky. I'm not particularly surprised that Liam knows Loincloth Guy; Liam knows everyone.
Anyway, there he was in his "Hi, I'm a Pagan" getup, pretending to be Cernunnos or some damn thing, and he decided to show us a piece of jewelry he'd bought. It was a silver casting of a Neolithic petroglyph showing two men apparantly engaged in intercourse. At least, that's what it looked like--two stick-figure guys, both with erect phalli, one in back of the other with his phallus rather shorter where it disappears into (or possibly behind, but it's easy to interpret it as into) the other man.
Now, I've got no problem with Loincloth Guy being gay. It affects my life only insofar as that's one fewer man who's going to be talking to my chest. But damn, boy, that's so tacky I'm not sure I can deal with it. Putting aside for a moment the concept of "an attempt at pre-17th-century clothing", which is seemingly foreign to him, has it occurred to him that, cave painting or not, wandering about in public with jewelry showing intercourse is likely to be frowned on in most venues? It's like the little penis pendants that become erect when you pull on their chains: I can think of times when they're appropriate, but "running the register in a retail establishment" (the Cooper's store, if you're interested) isn't one of those times.