Advertisement
Help Keep Boards Alive. Support us by going ad free today. See here: https://subscriptions.boards.ie/.
https://www.boards.ie/group/1878-subscribers-forum

Private Group for paid up members of Boards.ie. Join the club.
Hi all, please see this major site announcement: https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058427594/boards-ie-2026

Were you ever surprised when somebody came out as gay?

Options
2

Comments

  • Options
    #32
    Wibbs
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,390 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    Turns out my fingers are straight, but my mickey is fabulous.

    Many worry about Artificial Intelligence. I worry far more about Organic Idiocy.



  • Options
    #33
    Burial.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,131 ✭✭✭Burial.


    One of my good friends came out a while ago. I was shocked. I actually thought he was having me on for ages. It didn't help when some of the aul dolls were like "did he tell you" which sounded so suss that they were in on it too. But nope, the man likes pipe. It's weird because we were wingmen to each other for ages and cleaned up too. He hid it exceptionally well...now I can see it a little and think "ah yeah" but I'd say that's more him being more comfortable and not having to hold back and hide things. Absolute shame, he could have knocked the slapped arse face off a good load of aul dolls.


  • Options
    #34
    xabi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,029 ✭✭✭xabi


    Francis Brennan


  • Options
    #35
    BlinkingLights
    Closed Accounts Posts: 892 ✭✭✭BlinkingLights


    xabi wrote: »
    Francis Brennan

    I'm just shocked he's from South County Dublin.
    Where did that accent come from ? He should sound like Ross O'Carroll-Kelly or BOD.


  • Options
    #36
    tedpan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,526 ✭✭✭tedpan


    mzungu wrote:
    Boy George. Didn't see that one coming.

    That's what he said..


  • Advertisement
  • Options
    #37
    Grady Boyd
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40 ✭Grady Boyd


    I have actually been more surprised about people who turned out not to be gay, for example, I thought that Pascal Donohue and the late Tony Fenton were gay


  • Options
    #38
    lazybones32
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,647 ✭✭✭lazybones32


    Fanny **** wrote: »
    Right hand says I'm straight, left says I'm gay

    Does that mean I'm a closet bisexual?

    Your hands don't say anything about you...your username does suggest some closeted tendencies that you overcompensate for.


  • Options
    #39
    lazybones32
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,647 ✭✭✭lazybones32


    BlinkingLights wrote: »
    I've got the macho man fingers and like nothing more than other macho men.
    I suspect this may be pseudoscience.

    No, the Journal of Phrenology tested the validity of this model. Mystic Meg confirmed the findings.


  • Options
    #40
    Water John
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,009 ✭✭✭✭Water John


    That depends where your hands are.


  • Options
    #41
    Gen.Zhukov
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,205 ✭✭✭Gen.Zhukov


    All this fingering aside (which from memory is due to a testosterone boost in the womb) the two I was a bit surprised at were 'Pat Carey' and 'Gerry Buttimer'. They weren't exactly vamping it up.


  • Advertisement
  • Options
    #42
    Johngoose
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,066 ✭✭✭Johngoose


    Leo Varadkar


  • Options
    #43
    razorblunt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,300 ✭✭✭✭razorblunt


    I tend to have good "Gaydar" so I can tell if someone is gay or not. Some get offended (especially in a work capacity, when they do tell you and you respond, "thanks for telling me, I had thought that". Never know why you'd be offended, I just pick up certain things that would indicate it.

    The lead actor in Prison Break, now granted he was playing a character so you wouldn't expect any clues.


  • Options
    #44
    pajo1981
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,159 ✭✭✭pajo1981


    razorblunt wrote: »
    Some get offended (especially in a work capacity, when they do tell you and you respond, "thanks for telling me, I had thought that". Never know why you'd be offended, I just pick up certain things that would indicate it..

    They get offended because its a tossery thing to say. Try to be less if a tosser and you'll offend less people.


  • Options
    #45
    enda1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,165 ✭✭✭enda1


    pajo1981 wrote: »
    They get offended because its a tossery thing to say. Try to be less if a tosser and you'll offend less people.

    What a strange point of view :confused:


  • Options
    #46
    MRnotlob606
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,642 ✭✭✭MRnotlob606


    I presume people are being sarcastic when they say boy george?


  • Options
    #47
    razorblunt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,300 ✭✭✭✭razorblunt


    pajo1981 wrote: »
    They get offended because its a tossery thing to say. Try to be less if a tosser and you'll offend less people.

    How apt.


  • Options
    #48
    valoren
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,715 ✭✭✭valoren


    Alec Guinness.

    He was bi-sexual I believe.


  • Options
    #49
    nullzero
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,166 ✭✭✭✭nullzero
    °°°°°


    tomwaterford wrote: »
    Phew....I'm not gay

    Can go about my day now

    Yeah, go have a gay ol' time.


  • Options
    #50
    Ciaran_B
    Users Awaiting Email Confirmation Posts: 1,518 ✭✭✭Ciaran_B


    The BaBaDook coming out shocked me.


  • Options
    #51
    team_actimel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 785 ✭✭✭team_actimel


    The actor Luke Evans.


  • Advertisement
  • Options
    #52
    gmisk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,883 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    Glenster wrote: »
    I use this handy guide

    Its not been wrong yet!

    1198.jpg

    Hmmm I am not sure thats foolproof......that says I am macho and straight....my boyfriend of 5 years would disagree on both...


  • Options
    #53
    Zebra3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,301 ✭✭✭✭Zebra3


    Arlene Foster.


  • Options
    #54
    Glenster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,626 ✭✭✭Glenster


    gmisk wrote: »
    Hmmm I am not sure thats foolproof......that says I am macho and straight....my boyfriend of 5 years would disagree on both...

    It doesn't say you're straight.

    it says you're a real MACHO MAN.


  • Options
    #55
    Creol1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 554 ✭✭✭Creol1


    I remember when Ursula Halligan acknowledged her lesbianism, I was not surprised and yet at the same time had never suspected it, which was kind of strange.


  • Options
    #56
    ToddyDoody
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,419 ✭✭✭ToddyDoody


    Donal Óg Cusack.


  • Options
    #57
    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,320 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    ToddyDoody wrote: »
    Donal Óg Cusack.

    It was very well known down in here in Cork from what I remember!


  • Options
    #58
    Captain Slow IRL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,651 ✭✭✭Captain Slow IRL


    2 guys from school, they didn't come across as gay at all. Also, a female colleague. To paraphrase Doug Stanhope, "if you can tell someones sexuality without them disclosing it, they're probably assholes" which I think is fitting in my experiences!


  • Options
    #59
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,236 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    Gen.Zhukov wrote: »
    All this fingering aside (which from memory is due to a testosterone boost in the womb) the two I was a bit surprised at were 'Pat Carey' and 'Gerry Buttimer'. They weren't exactly vamping it up.

    Ah Jerry Buttimer was obvious

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • Options
    #60
    RayM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,973 ✭✭✭RayM


    MRnotlob606 wrote: »
    I presume people are being sarcastic when they say boy george?

    Boy George is gay?


  • Advertisement
  • Options
    #61
    RobertKK
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,783 ✭✭✭✭RobertKK


    My maths teacher who left her husband and started a relationship with a female garda.
    She was a great teacher, I think she quit not long after, she also did sex education and we sometimes had sex education in maths class...but that was more fun than maths.


Advertisement
Advertisement