you must come from the most homophobic area in the world if you consider it queer for a man to say its harsh to wish another chap dead because of an opinion on a football team...I often tell my brotherly mates I love them, as they do to me, and equally often when we are drunk, we kiss on the cheek...lots of hugs and kisses all round...to you, again, likely 'very queer'...yet they are the most masculine kinda men you could come across, many of them street fighters or ex soldiers. You know, kyle...some people are simply mature and have managed to remove their mindset from the locker room at primary school, as they enter their late 20s and beyond...i guess its more common for my closest italian brotherly mate to tell him he loves me. but that is more paternal I reckon...such relations to a spastic child are 'gay' or 'queer', but to an adult, are the sign of close creatures who are often affectionate...
anyway, as always, kyle, thats a brilliant post, brother!