Are you gay?

Terry · 16-02-2007 03:53AM

Apparently 1 in 5 americans claim Irish descent.
I want my beer and name back.
I'm getting Jackie Chiles to sue america for the name O'Dowd. That's my name, bitch.

16-02-2007 06:34AM

"Opposites attract" for me. Viva la difference!

Do have friends who are gay, les, or bi and that's their right. But that's not me.

Red Hand · 16-02-2007 09:04AM

Blue_Lagoon wrote:

"Opposites attract" for me. Viva la difference! Do have friends who are gay, les, or bi and that's their right. But that's not me.

What??? I thought you liked guys, Blue?

16-02-2007 09:11AM

Ruu wrote:

I'll leave here OP unless it becomes pointless (almost inevitable here I know but ya can always hope).:)

#20 and no "Yer ma is gay!" I am shocked, AH'ers, what is wrong with ye today!

My ma IS gay

Straight but bicurious...

singingstranger · 16-02-2007 12:21PM

The-Rigger wrote:

If 1 in 5 people are Chinese, then on average, one of my iimmediate family would be chinese, either John, Mary, Dave, Chang-Li, or Peter

...I think it might be Peter.

My little brother heard that stat before me and didn't get it. "Gav, are you Chinese?... Am I Chinese? Are Mum or Dad Chinese? Is Gran Chinese?... but one in five people are Chinese..."

Genuine confusion on his face!

Blush_01 · 16-02-2007 01:53PM

Wertz wrote:

I can't speak for women, but I don't think it works the same in the female brain/thought process in terms of understanding an attraction between two males(again I could be way wide of the mark here).

I can see where you're coming from, but I don't think you're necessarily right. I think rsynnott hit the nail on the head because we don't seem to think about it too much. We're hardly likely to dwell on it - not much point, is there?

Nobody gives bisexuals any credit. They're all either "confused", "in denial", "greedy" or "chancers/experimenting". I guess people are entitled to their own opinions, but nothing annoys me more than seeing a couple happy together, while behind their backs everyone nods knowingly - "Shure they were never bi, they were gay/straight and didn't want to come out/were just experimenting." None of anyone else's business, as far as I can see.

dr.bollocko · 16-02-2007 03:59PM

haha brilliant poll.
Love the explanations on all the choices.
Homosexual (People of your own gender)

oh THAT kind of homosexual. I thought you meant something to do with flower arranging.

unir1916 · 16-02-2007 04:38PM

im NOT gay....but the boyfriends a raging queer.....ooooohhhhh danial;)

Cactus Col · 16-02-2007 04:51PM

dr.bollocko wrote:

haha brilliant poll.
Love the explanations on all the choices.
Homosexual (People of your own gender)

oh THAT kind of homosexual. I thought you meant something to do with flower arranging.

I used to work for a govt agency that did a lot of testing. At the end of the tests we'd hand out "equality questionnaires", to make sure the tests were fair. One of the questions asked about the sexuality of person taking the test. You would be shocked by the amount of people, generally in late teens to mid twenties, who would ask "which is the right answer?" or what the terms (heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual) mean.

I've always believed that we are all by default bisexual, but along the way we generally lean one way or the other.

That said, I do think that a lot of girls will say they are bisexual because it's kinda trendy to be so these days.

(The ultimate test is to whether or not they would consider a same sex life mate, for those who can take a bit of monogomy)

Giblet · 16-02-2007 08:11PM

6th wrote:

For the record I once kissed a girl that had kissed a guy before .... so that makes me gay right?

You are not a moderator.

Catari Jaguar · 16-02-2007 08:12PM

Are the people answering as Bisexual actually bi, or just those girls who score their friends in night clubs when they're drunk cos it's sexy apparently and makes them look cool? :rolleyes:

What if you think members of opposite sex can be hot but don't want to sex them fully. What then?

SATC: "If you're not willing to eat pussy, then you're not a dyke"

16-02-2007 08:19PM

10%? I heard it was 4% of men and 3% of women were gay. Don't know about bi's but I know quite a few people who don't mind a threesome, but wouldn't consider themselves bi.

rsynnott · 16-02-2007 08:20PM

Cactus Col wrote:

I used to work for a govt agency that did a lot of testing. At the end of the tests we'd hand out "equality questionnaires", to make sure the tests were fair. One of the questions asked about the sexuality of person taking the test. You would be shocked by the amount of people, generally in late teens to mid twenties, who would ask "which is the right answer?" or what the terms (heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual) mean.

A surprising number of people think 'homosexual' is for men only. I suppose this may be because they think it's the Latin 'homo', rather than the Greek.

D wrote:

10%? I heard it was 4% of men and 3% of women were gay. Don't know about bi's but I know quite a few people who don't mind a threesome, but wouldn't consider themselves bi.

Well, this is the thing; there are no certain numbers available.

Terry · 16-02-2007 09:04PM

Lil Kitten wrote:

What if you think members of opposite sex can be hot but don't want to sex them fully. What then?

I thnk Johnny Depp is a handsome bastard, but I'd rather do his wife.
It's called being comfortable with your sexuality.

Talliesin · 16-02-2007 09:08PM

singingstranger wrote:

Er, no, it's honest-to-God genuine curiosity about the real portion of non-straight people in the world. Like, where did they ever get the stat from in the first place?

Let me get this straight (excuse the pun):

You're curious as to where the 10% figure first came from.

You've got access to the web.

You haven't gotten the answer yet.

Wow.

Pighead wrote:

If 1 in 10 are gay that means 1.2 of the 12 apostles were gay. Pigheads money is on Judas(he was definitely bent) and maybe Jesus' hair(he had it GHD'd by the look of some of the pictures I've seen)

John, definitely.

The-Rigger wrote:

err.. its gen pop

No, the Kinsey report had a lower percentage for female homosexuals.

Still the report was flawed (one of the flaws being much the same as the main one here, it was not even vaguely demographically balanced). There have been lots of surveys since, though far from anything conclusive.

Terry wrote:

this proves my theory that less than 5% are homosexual, going by the 3 guys from my class of 65 who were gay

Hopefully not a statistics class.

Besides, maybe one of those 3 was really straight but wouldn't admit it (could be afraid of his parents finding out maybe).

BlitzKrieg · 16-02-2007 09:15PM

sleep with anything on two legs....pulse is optional

Terry · 16-02-2007 09:16PM

Talliesin wrote:

Hopefully not a statistics class.

Besides, maybe one of those 3 was really straight but wouldn't admit it (could be afraid of his parents finding out maybe).

1 in 21.667 is less than 5%.
Nope, wasn't statistics class.

I meant out of my year in secondary school.

cournioni · 17-02-2007 01:31AM

I'm gay with yore ma!

Ruu_Old · 17-02-2007 01:35AM

You took your flamin' time!

cournioni · 17-02-2007 01:36AM

Ruu wrote:

You took your flamin' time!

Sorry, was out drinkin with yore ma!

Ghost Train · 17-02-2007 01:57AM

BlitzKrieg wrote:

sleep with anything on two legs....pulse is optional

not allergic to feathers then

BlitzKrieg · 17-02-2007 03:15AM

thankfully no...

Terry · 17-02-2007 03:19AM

That's the most votes i have seen in a poll here in a long time.
I'M STRAIGHT! HONESTLY!!!

Ghost Train · 17-02-2007 03:20AM

BlitzKrieg wrote:

thankfully no...

okay one more... tamiflu is your friend

InFront · 17-02-2007 03:27AM

Only 80% of people are straight? I have never heard of those figures, I would have put it at much less numbers of homosexuals. That's like one in five people in my class are gay or similarly inclined. Were people able to pick gay and bisexual in the poll?

rsynnott · 17-02-2007 03:16PM

InFront wrote:

Only 80% of people are straight? I have never heard of those figures, I would have put it at much less numbers of homosexuals. That's like one in five people in my class are gay or similarly inclined. Were people able to pick gay and bisexual in the poll?

Choosing gay and bisexual wouldn't make any sense; in any case, it was a radio button. 20 does seem SLIGHTLY high; from what I've seen anecodtal evidence supports a figure of 10-15.

Anyway, it doesn't mean that one in five people in your class are gay or bi. (Bi is as much like being straight as it is like being gay). That's not how statistics work. Certainly, they COULD be; everyone in your class except (presumably) you COULD be.

oleras · 17-02-2007 03:33PM

singingstranger wrote:

Are you Gay ?

Kiss me and i might tell you.....

nearly 90 replies before a clasic ? tut tut

johnnyrotten · 17-02-2007 03:35PM

No

Tar.Aldarion · 17-02-2007 03:37PM

Presumably, he IS.

I'm confused.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar · 17-02-2007 03:41PM

where's the bestiality option?

Are you gay?

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