Mine (gaydar, that is) is highly tuned. Could I be wrong? Sure. It’s the, oh, 3 percent of the time I’m wrong (about whatever) that makes the 97 percent of the rest of the time when I’m right about everything really, really, glorious and impressive. Hey, God made me this way. Who am I to deny the miracle of getting the gift of gaydar (and other very important super presents) from God? It’s important sometimes, like when you want a date or when you might need to point out who might be gay. Or something. Whatever. (HT JammieWearingFool)
Gaydar really exists: Scientists prove gay people are more able to pick out fellow homosexuals
Gay people really do have an inbuilt radar that helps them seek out like-minded souls, scientists have shown.
This sixth sense, or ‘gaydar’, ensures they pay more attention to detail, allowing them to pluck potential partners out of a crowd…
Researcher Dr Lorenza Colzato, of Leiden University in the Netherlands, said: ‘This is the first time that scientific proof has been found for the existence of a gaydar mechanism amongst homosexuals.
‘This perceptual skill allows homosexuals to recognise other gay people faster and we think it’s because they are much more analytic than heterosexuals.’
Adopting such a perceptual style presumably increases the likelihood of detecting perceptual clues indicative of homosexual orientation, which facilitates finding like-minded social peers and potential friends and sex mates.
As an example, I suppose you could assess the following two pictures in very different ways. A simple test for you to test your own gaydar, or perhaps even develop it.
Test One: Esteemed Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan. One of two things is happening here, I’m guessing. 1) Brad Pitt entered the room or 2) Charlize Theron walked in. (Hey! I didn’t say the test would be easy!)
Test Two: Esteemed Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano. One of two things is happening here, I’m guessing. 1) She’s so excited at the prospect of Mexican President Calderon kissing her she’s taken aback with excitement or 2) She really, really, doesn’t want the dude to lay one on her and is taken aback with needing to cringe.
The last question is actually the most obvious one: Has anyone ever seen Kagan and Napolitano in the same room? I’m just askin’.
Napolitano looks like she’s getting ready to pull a pistol from her pocket and shoot Calderon. Must have been a very bad date.
If you answered Tammy’s two questions correctly, your gaydar development is well on its way. With a little practice, you will soon be able to discern that both Kagan and Napolitano are sporting “Lesbian Haircut #2″. (#1 would be the mullet.)
Your membership cards will be in the mail as well as the directions for the secret handshake.
What’s wrong with the mullet? It is actually a very versatile hair choice: it’s all business up front and all party in the back! Why not kill two birds with one stone? Just sayin’.
Oh, the humanity, Winegirly! Just say “no” to the mullet.
What’s wrong with the mullet? It is actually a very sensible and versatile hair choice: it’s all business up front and all party in the back! Why not get two birds with one stone? Just sayin’.
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Napolitano is still from AZ, still has issues with Calderone (and by extension, issues w/Mexicans and all that). He’s making sure to twist the unwelcome familiarity knife now that she’s in the admin. Both know this exactly. Could be he’s got anti-gaydar, or he’s a creep, or both.
ps, Just saw Bill OReily close out Bernie Goldberg’s segment with “you’re not a lesbian’, striking BG dumb and maybe bit ticked off. OReily did follow up with an explanation but BG was elsewhere by then.
Actually, Incompetano has the same look Lee Harvey Oswald had when he bought the farm.
Has anybody shared this article with Ryan Sorba? ;-)
hair by Flowbee!=lesbian haircut#2. damn, i though that dean of harvard law school got paid more…
although aside from some male hockey players i haven’t seen a mullet in forever. an associate of mine had the quasi 80s new wave mullet with the long stringy braided rat tail in the back- and they saved the tail when they cut it all off!
i still retain a great fondness for lesbian haircut number 3- the Skinhead O’Connor.
from the chat room i always find it interesting when we mention the ghey and someone always says’ but they’re married’. besides the prerequisite gaydar, i worked in gay bars for years. at one in particular nearly all the male patrons were married- and very very fond of men dressed as ladies or of likely tough looking street lads. i am not condoning it but i guess i am still a little shocked when people seem unaware that a lot of people who are gay or bisexual get married. people still use beards particularly in the movies and politics. oscar wilde was married, dudes- it doesn’t necessarily prove anything. my grandmother was a lesbian and here i am- but that could just be a french thing .
and i thought i was just bitchy, ill- natured and over critical- now i know i am just more ‘analytical’. in all seriousness there are drop dead gorgeous super models who are lesbians and dead butch men who are gay. stereotypes are a product of, sometimes a reaction to, oppression- even among males and females. i wish people could just be comfortable in their own skin instead of conforming to this or that out of fear of rejection.
The only thing that throws a wrench in it for me is if the guy is either:
a) British
b) Southern
What does Tammy’s Gaydar say about Janet Reno? That is a mystery that will haunt me until I get the answer. I have always wondered how gay men find partners when they live in small towns with no gay bars etc. There must be a high percentage of men whose gaydar does not work and they actually try to get into a relationship with a straight man leading to uncomfortable situations. At least the girls can get away with hugging or even kissing each other without making the other person uncomfortable. Listening to the podcasts it is clear that Tammy needs some technical info on this oil well business. Here is an awesome source. http://www.theoildrum.com/
Perhaps I’m too simple-minded, but here’s what I don’t get: outside of what was going on at the top w/r/t/ money and power and stuff, why wouldn’t “the workers” (the current term remanded to those of us with jobs) on that rig, do everything they could to ensure they were safe?
If you knew your job was a “new frontier job and uncharted territory” with many risks (such as drilling 5000 feet into the ocean) and you knew your boss was aware of certain safety measures that could save your life and those of your peers on that job and you also knew your boss was side-stepping those measures thereby risking everyone’s life everyday – - would you show up for work each day knowing “this could be the day”?
Yes, police officers and those in that line of work knowingly run that risk daily – but this is a different scenario.
Setting aside the cost of whatever inspections or safety measures that were necessary – it seems actuarily insane to NOT do those safety measures knowing what COULD occur. And if what COULD occur DID occur (which of course now is the case) – BP will surely go bankrupt – not to mention the loss of life. How is that good business?
Also – as an experiment, I tried shoving small stones and gum into my garden hose, which is what, like fifty psi. When I turned on my garden hose, all the stones and gum came out. MMM MMM MMMM
The men on the rig were having a party celebrating their safety record when the blowout occured. I have worked around drilling rigs for quite a few years but I am not an expert by any means. I just hauled drilling mud and water to rigs. I have also participated in numerous cement jobs. The thing a person needs to know is that drilling for oil is not an exact science and not every well is drilled using the exact same procedures. Most oil rig injuries occur from 1 person not thinking. I heard of one guy who was sleeping under a fork lift on a hot day in the shade and another guy go in it and ran right over him. One rig I went to was getting ready to pull the pipe out from the bottom of the hole and someone forgot to open the pipe ram on the bop and started pulliing the pipe with the draw works and the top of the derrick bent over. They pulled the rest of the pipe out with a bent derrick. The person who made the decision on that well may have drilled a hole previously using the saltwater method with no ill effects. Maybe their luck just ran out.
Or maybe Urkel had a sub smash the riser, cutting the controls to the BOP (Gee, here’s a cool way to get that damned Palin, and win one for wind power).
The rig workers did notice a pressure anomaly a couple hours before the well pushed the rest of the mud up and filled the deck with gas. Neither the plans nor boss could explain those pressure readings so they all kept on doing what they planned on doing. Like the Challenger, Deepwater will turn out to be nexus of missed signals and choices that pushed the envelope finally into failure.
Lately I’ve been thinking along two lines: One, incentivize cleaning up the oil by letting anyone (fishers, whoever) skim oil, separate it from water, and sell it to refineries for $5 a barrel more than spot market. Right now the oil industry is expecting tanker sized deliveries to the refineries. So they’ll need to create an industry that aggregates the rescued oil. And another to adequately “clean” vast quantites of water that inevitably will be skimmed up. Just using settling basins might be enough. (Hmm, let’s try to fill up the strategic oil reserves.) Raw oil often has lots of water, and much of that separation tech is profoundly simple and cheap. Eventually we’ll see BP or someone bring a couple tankers and start cleaning ocean in million barrel capacities. And if BP doesn’t, somebody else will, if the proper incentives are in place. Even that globby stuff can be made into something useful. Asphalt for instance. As long as we’re still driving around, we’ll need asphalt.
Palin would get that idea immediately. She might already be working on it. Urkel, on the other hand, would need to be taught about free markets and the invisible hand. Not likely.
Two, they’ve got a gushing well that has its reservoir about 2 miles down through mud, under another mile of water. There’s not a rock in sight. As I understand it, rocks in that part of the world are another 4 to 6 miles deeper. So we have a well pressured enough and big enough to make a diffence at the surface. The mud isn’t going to like to resealed, no matter how much crap is stuck into it. I think we’re going be sticking a stadium sized lid on it with pipes running up to waiting tankers. About like what they originally intended but without a valve that manages the flow. It’s been 40 days Urkel. Do you know where your tanker fleet is? And they’ll need some sort of management vessel over the well to handle it. What are BP’s plans? And what are you going to do if they decide that they can’t afford to do the job? Once you nationalize an English oil company, all sorts of wonderful things will happen. One can hardly wait. (Quick, get Hugo on the phone….)
Well…you know – he’s in charge and they’ve been on it since day one so….(man would I like to curse right now)
Who are these people?? My God the freaks are among us. Why oh why did I read the LeBron story that just is sooooooo creepy. He is I don’t know what he is any more but I do know we all are in big trouble with a capitol T. Where in the H are the republicans!!!!!! I bet his keepers are keeping him away from people as long as they can but it is crumbling to pieces. Tammy how did you find that story, YIKES!!!!
Jeanee it’s The Onion. The LeBron J story. The Onion. And very funny Onion tonight, at that.
Have to love the British tabloids, that is the weirdest article I have read today. It is so strange, I find myself in the odd situation of wanting to comment, but having nothing to say.
I could care less about Kagan, Neopalatno (Sp whatever) and their sexual preferences, except if they are closeted, and then they are hypocrites and liars without the forthrightness and strength of convictions to be honest. Other than that they are run of the mill extreme lefties, and I’m too bored about them to finish typing this sente
If a gay person chooses to stay closeted, that doesn’t make him or her a hypocrite any more than my position on homosexuality would make me a hypocrite because I am friends with many, and I will fight to the death to protect gays from harassment, violence and job discrimination in which their sexuality has absolutely no impact on their performance. If I know a gay person who chooses to be public about their sexuality, then all other things being equal, I will be a friend. If someone I know to be gay chooses to stay closeted, then I honor their choice, and again, all other things being equal, I will be their friend. However, should someone I know ‘out’ a gay person who wished to stay closeted, then that person will forever be on my Shit List! I have used the phrase ‘all other things being equal’ because I cannot befriend anyone who places a chip on his own shoulder and then dares me to knock it off. Such a person demands that I agree with their own set of moral values, and since I don’t make similar demands upon them, they have no right to expect friendship when they display such an attitude.
As to the charge that they would be “liars without the forthrightness and strength of convictions to be honest”, they are none of those things. Instead, their silence is indicative that it is none of your damn business, and they are right. So leave them the hell alone!
I apologize for the ‘sermon’, and I really don’t wish to be offensive, but I had to get that off my chest.
By the way, my [very personal] position on homosexuality is all of the above, but that I am opposed to what I refer to as ‘societal normalization of homosexuality’.
Was pretty sure you could buy one at Sharper Image. Too bad, they’ve gone out of business.
Luckily, they are have their on-line store! I love that place.
Larry Craig says he’s not gay and Kagan drinks Diet Pepsi for the taste.
It was Coke can.
? the picture at the top of this page sitting to the right of Kagan is a diet Pepsi.
In my case, I don’t have a highly attuned gaydar. In fact, people assume I’m straight. This gets on my nerves big time. Those damn stereotypes!!! I sure don’t want to look like Napolitano or Kagan. I find them to be unattractive because of their incompetency. Any person that Obama chooses is going to be disastrous, inept and plain stupid.
Don’t forget evil, Slimfemme.
Seriously! I’m straight, and I would never want that weasel Calderone to kiss me. Ewww. You need another example for Napalatano.
Very good point!
Tammy, the problem with ANY study concerning sexual orientation is if the researchers have a vested interest in the result. I see the same situation with your gaydar study.
Any respectable heterosexual woman would cringe if Calderon came near her, so the test is flawed. Here, Calderon’s disgusting effect is so profound, it looks like Napolitano wishes she could de-materialize herself, like on Star Trek, and be transported to the Castro district of S.F. or perhaps some small island.
I’m not so sure that is a gay look than a liberal democrat look. I don’t see gay or straight conservative women looking like that.
Here is a variation on the test. This is a game, if you will, that my friends and I play. When you walk past someone or a couple that gives the gaydar a “tingle”, you say, “Ding.” When you walk past someone or a couple and there is no doubt that they are gay, you say, “BONG!” Napalitano and Kagan would be a resounding, “BONG!!!!”
Kagan and Napolitano in the same room…….. LIBERAL TWINS.
Or maybe Calderone just ate a garlic sammish. One thing I know, Janet & Elena both possess that ‘queer gene’ that make them get those awful haircuts.
Things could be worse. Kagan might decide after her appointment to follow Cher’s daughter’s footsteps. (ah, Urkel’s true plan is revealed)
The mere idea of Kagen and Napo together just gave me a feeling of deep disturbia, YUCH!!
How much more out of shape can they be. That is what you call going out of your way to look as ugly as possible. I got that ‘queer gene’ and I sure don’t look nothing like those two! I have a feminine side and tend to stay in touch with it, long hair and all.
Pathman has a good point.
Has anyone ever seen Kagan in the same room with Kevin(King of Queens) James? Kagan should star in “Elena Blart, Mall Judge”.