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Started by hooplala, December 15, 2009, 05:07:20 PM

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hooplala

Yes, that was something I had not considered.  It is duly noted now.
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Sir Squid Diddimus

Quote from: Doctor Rat Bastard on December 15, 2009, 09:52:11 PM
Quote from: Rip City Hustle on December 15, 2009, 09:50:07 PM
Quote from: BabylonHoruv on December 15, 2009, 09:12:41 PM
I don't think viewing homosexuality as a genetic mistake makes you a homophobe,  you neither fear nor dislike gay people.  On the other hand it is awfully rude.  

As an example, I view blue eyes as a genetic mistake.

I thought it was green.

Igor

#77
There's a thorough round-up of most of the ideas on gay genes in this big article: http://discovermagazine.com/2007/jun/born-gay

Here's one bit:
QuotePossible explanations abound, but an ingenious one was recently put to the test. Perhaps, the theory goes, some genes, when found in men, make them more likely to be gay and when found in women make them more likely to have children. ("Fecund" is the word the researchers use.) The increased number of grandchildren that a parent might have through such a superfertile daughter would offset whatever loss of genetic posterity comes from having a gay son.

Oh and speaking as a rampant homosexual, I have no problem with being called a genetic mistake. Most humans are. Hell, if I understand evolution, most organisms are.
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Quote from: Rip City Hustle on December 15, 2009, 09:50:07 PM
Quote from: BabylonHoruv on December 15, 2009, 09:12:41 PM
I don't think viewing homosexuality as a genetic mistake makes you a homophobe,  you neither fear nor dislike gay people.  On the other hand it is awfully rude.  

As an example, I view blue eyes as a genetic mistake.

I'm not the least bit offended, I'm just curious as to what brought you to such an idiotic-seeming conclusion.

What rat said about the missing gene, also according to tests people with blue eyes are not able to perceive as many different shades of color as people with brown eyes.  (allowing for individual variance in visual acuity for other reasons)
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BabylonHoruv

Quote from: Da6s on December 15, 2009, 10:12:06 PM
Quote from: BabylonHoruv on December 15, 2009, 09:12:41 PM
I don't think viewing homosexuality as a genetic mistake makes you a homophobe,  you neither fear nor dislike gay people.  On the other hand it is awfully rude.  

As an example, I view blue eyes as a genetic mistake.


What draws the line between what's rude and what's not on the subject of genetic mistakes?

Is a tranny a genetic mistake? A midget? Downsyndrome? Left handers? It's very broad.

I'd say calling anyone a genetic mistake is pretty rude.  There's shades to it obviously, but I'd also say that homosexuality is pretty clearly something that you are going to get some heated reactions from calling a mistake. 
You're a special case, Babylon.  You are offensive even when you don't post.

Merely by being alive, you make everyone just a little more miserable

-Dok Howl

Brotep

Quote from: BabylonHoruv on December 16, 2009, 12:59:14 AM
Quote from: Da6s on December 15, 2009, 10:12:06 PM
Quote from: BabylonHoruv on December 15, 2009, 09:12:41 PM
I don't think viewing homosexuality as a genetic mistake makes you a homophobe,  you neither fear nor dislike gay people.  On the other hand it is awfully rude.  

As an example, I view blue eyes as a genetic mistake.


What draws the line between what's rude and what's not on the subject of genetic mistakes?

Is a tranny a genetic mistake? A midget? Downsyndrome? Left handers? It's very broad.

I'd say calling anyone a genetic mistake is pretty rude.  There's shades to it obviously, but I'd also say that homosexuality is pretty clearly something that you are going to get some heated reactions from calling a mistake. 

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Triple Zero

Quote from: Slanket the Destroyer on December 15, 2009, 10:20:43 PMDo gay people scare you or otherwise make you uncomfortable?

Only if they sound gay.

- triple zero,
homophonophobe.
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Quote from: Triple Zero on December 16, 2009, 01:10:58 PM
Quote from: Slanket the Destroyer on December 15, 2009, 10:20:43 PMDo gay people scare you or otherwise make you uncomfortable?

Only if they sound gay.

- triple zero,
homophonophobe.
That's not cool man.   :argh!:

Is it possible that you are really just afraid that you sound gay?

hooplala

Quote from: Vaudeville Vigilante on December 16, 2009, 02:47:21 PM
Quote from: Triple Zero on December 16, 2009, 01:10:58 PM
Quote from: Slanket the Destroyer on December 15, 2009, 10:20:43 PMDo gay people scare you or otherwise make you uncomfortable?

Only if they sound gay.

- triple zero,
homophonophobe.
That's not cool man.   :argh!:

Is it possible that you are really just afraid that you sound gay?

That was clearly a joke, did you not notice he typed "homophonophobe", and not 'homophobe'?
"Soon all of us will have special names" — Professor Brian O'Blivion

"Now's not the time to get silly, so wear your big boots and jump on the garbage clowns." — Bob Dylan?

"Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)"
— Walt Whitman

Jenne

It was actually a pretty damned clever play on words.  And very tongue in cheek.

Richter

Quote from: Jenne on December 16, 2009, 03:12:22 PM
It was actually a pretty damned clever play on words.  And very tongue in cheek.

:lmnuendo:
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Quote from: Hoopla on December 16, 2009, 03:09:19 PM
Quote from: Vaudeville Vigilante on December 16, 2009, 02:47:21 PM
Quote from: Triple Zero on December 16, 2009, 01:10:58 PM
Quote from: Slanket the Destroyer on December 15, 2009, 10:20:43 PMDo gay people scare you or otherwise make you uncomfortable?

Only if they sound gay.

- triple zero,
homophonophobe.
That's not cool man.   :argh!:

Is it possible that you are really just afraid that you sound gay?

That was clearly a joke, did you not notice he typed "homophonophobe", and not 'homophobe'?

Re-read VV's reply - pretty clear he got the joke from where I'm sitting

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hooplala

Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on December 16, 2009, 03:24:59 PM
Quote from: Hoopla on December 16, 2009, 03:09:19 PM
Quote from: Vaudeville Vigilante on December 16, 2009, 02:47:21 PM
Quote from: Triple Zero on December 16, 2009, 01:10:58 PM
Quote from: Slanket the Destroyer on December 15, 2009, 10:20:43 PMDo gay people scare you or otherwise make you uncomfortable?

Only if they sound gay.

- triple zero,
homophonophobe.
That's not cool man.   :argh!:

Is it possible that you are really just afraid that you sound gay?

That was clearly a joke, did you not notice he typed "homophonophobe", and not 'homophobe'?

Re-read VV's reply - pretty clear he got the joke from where I'm sitting

Re-read several times before I posted.  I felt it was clear he didn't.  Meh, I'm not too worried about it.
"Soon all of us will have special names" — Professor Brian O'Blivion

"Now's not the time to get silly, so wear your big boots and jump on the garbage clowns." — Bob Dylan?

"Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)"
— Walt Whitman

Vaudeville Vigilante

Humor + Humor.  I was joking too.   :wink:

P3nT4gR4m

Lemme spell it out for the slow readers and in the interests of totally murdering the funnay

homophonophobe - someone who's afraid of the delicate sound of gay, right?

VV - you're just afraid you sound gay

Ah, fuck it, I give up - flame on!

I'm up to my arse in Brexit Numpties, but I want more.  Target-rich environments are the new sexy.
Not actually a meat product.
Ass-Kicking & Foot-Stomping Ancient Master of SHIT FUCK FUCK FUCK
Awful and Bent Behemothic Results of Last Night's Painful Squat.
High Altitude Haggis-Filled Sex Bucket From Beyond Time and Space.
Internet Monkey Person of Filthy and Immoral Pygmy-Porn Wart Contagion
Octomom Auxillary Heat Exchanger Repairman
walking the fine line line between genius and batshit fucking crazy

"computation is a pattern in the spacetime arrangement of particles, and it's not the particles but the pattern that really matters! Matter doesn't matter." -- Max Tegmark