Study: There Is No Single "Gay Gene," But a Range of Genes Explain 8-25% of Homosexuality

There is no one gene that determines a person’s sexual orientation, but genetics -- along with environment -- play a part in shaping sexuality, a massive new study shows.
Researchers analyzed DNA from hundreds of thousands of people and found that there are a handful of genes clearly connected with same-sex sexual behavior. The researchers say that, although variations in these genes cannot predict whether a person is gay, these variants may partly influence sexual behavior.
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The researchers were able to find five genetic variants that were statistically associated with same-sex sexual behaviors, but none had a large effect and none could itself predict same-sex behaviors. One of the variants was found in a stretch of DNA that includes several genes related to the sense of smell. And another one of the genes is related to male pattern baldness, which the authors said could suggest that sex hormone regulation may somehow be involved.

Photo included to illustrate male pattern baldness
and nothing else

That joke out of the way: No way, bruv, you're telling me that sex hormone regulation may be involved in homosexuality?

Sex hormones? Estrogen and testosterone? The hormones that make women women and men men? You're saying that something going on with those might somehow be involved in homosexuality?

I think gayness, and a lot of things, are epigenetic in nature. It's not true that we are what our DNA codes say we are. That's incomplete. We are what the expressed codes in our DNA say, but not everything in our DNA is actually expressed, or switched on.

Some code is present, but silent, unactivated, dormant, and will only be activated in certain situations, like a strong hormonal signal or even a disease.

So here's one I wonder about: A lot of immigrants are short, but then their grandkids are tall.

Well, so: It's just that the kids are getting better nutrition, so they get taller as they mature.

But I seem to remember it's the second generation that gets tall. The first generation over hear should get tall, as they have the American nutrition, but I thought that the height increase doesn't usually come with full force until the second generation born in the US.

I used to be friends with an Italian family, specifically a Sicilian one. The grandad was short, the dad was average height, and then all his sons and his daughter were tall. The sons were all over six foot three.

Always having to crane my neck to look into the eyes of these Gargantuan Wops, these Lumbering Gnocchi Herders, these Towering Spaghetti Yetis, really set me to thinking.

So maybe it works like this: if the mother is underfed and/or pumpting a lot stress hormones like cortisol and adrenaline into an unborn baby (due to scarcity/precarious living), the epigentics of the unborn kid favor genetic expression for shortness, because short people need less food (all other things being equal).*

But when the mom (now the first generation born in America) doesn't experience such scarcity/fear, her hormonal signaling to the fetus switches on the tallness/bigness genes. In an environment where there's more food/less scarcity, the hormones in the neonatal bath trigger the "grow as big as you can" response.

I don't know if all that's right but you get what I'm getting at -- a lot of stuff, I think, is going to turn out to be determined by the neonatal hormonal bath a baby gestated in for nine months. Some genes get switched off, some get switched on.

* By the way, I think this because of seasonal dimorphism in bugs and plants -- where the bugs and plants produce a smaller, hardier version in cold weather and a bigger version in warm weather. They can often appear to be two different species.

Obviously, humans don't do this, but it seems like such a fundamental bit of coding -- grow big in conditions of warmth and plenty, grow small in conditions of cold and scarcity -- that it seems to me likely that this sort of switch must be lurking in our genetic code somewhere, even though it would work in a much diminished, much more subtle way.

And this is also connected to my theory that all people born under the sign of Aquarius are homos.

Water carriers, huh? You know what also carries water? My dick.

Posted by: Ace of Spades at 03:10 PM

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1 First!

Posted by: Flyguy at August 29, 2019 03:10 PM (3sOO0)

2 That picture - and caption!

Posted by: PAgirlinNC at August 29, 2019 03:11 PM (/5WQL)

3 The science is settled.

Posted by: Flyguy at August 29, 2019 03:12 PM (3sOO0)

4 Tater has gay germs.

Posted by: Roland THTG at August 29, 2019 03:12 PM (88+cf)

5 That's perfect.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 29, 2019 03:12 PM (LISuA)

6 So THAT's what a gay gene looks like!

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at August 29, 2019 03:13 PM (so+oy)

7 I've been saying for a while that this was likely the case, that there is no single 'gay gene' that turns homosexuality on or off.

My longstanding theory is that homosexuality is actually two separate things: the attraction to others of the same sex, and sexual impulse. They are not governed by all the same genes. Furthermore, they're probably tied into a lot of other behaviors as well, which means turning them on or off isn't easy to do without consequences.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at August 29, 2019 03:13 PM (wCmLp)

8 At least none of the metric sh*t-ton of hormones and medicines in our water supply can have anything to do with it.

BORN THAT WAY, H8RS!!!

Posted by: Moron Robbie is a Proud Black Woman at August 29, 2019 03:13 PM (kRCmK)

9 This isn't about busty lesbians, is it?

Can it be?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Relax, buy ammo and don't give one inch at August 29, 2019 03:14 PM (bcbK8)

10 It's sort of a shame Tater's name isn't Gene.

Posted by: Moron Robbie is a Proud Black Woman at August 29, 2019 03:14 PM (kRCmK)

11 Yummmmm

Posted by: Fredo Cuomo at August 29, 2019 03:14 PM (LISuA)

12 Water carriers, huh? You know what also carries water? My dick.

Posted by: Ace of Spades

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One of the many benefits of having your very own smart military blog is the ability to post stuff that would be certain to get you tossed from almost anywhere else.

I love being a Moron!

Posted by: Tonypete at August 29, 2019 03:14 PM (Y4EXg)

13 Skinny Jeans are a more accurate marker.

Posted by: garrett at August 29, 2019 03:14 PM (T42ki)

14 You know who else had gay jeans?

Posted by: ... at August 29, 2019 03:15 PM (atTrV)

15 But if you suck one dick, everyone calls you Tater

Posted by: RoyalOil, Vicroy Canadian Territories at August 29, 2019 03:15 PM (k81AA)

16 What gene determined that I would never be the Center Fielder for the NY Yankees? I want to sue

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 29, 2019 03:15 PM (p0A33)

17 Photo included to illustrate male pattern baldness
and nothing else

fkin lol

Posted by: eleven at August 29, 2019 03:15 PM (tH5fk)

18 What a fag

Posted by: Archer at August 29, 2019 03:15 PM (0E35O)

19 Otoh there are examples of homosexuality mostly being related to cultural changes. Compare America in 2019 vs 1969.

Mostly the same genetically and in regards to material wealth, very different in terms of views of homosexuality and number of homosexuals

Posted by: 18-1 at August 29, 2019 03:15 PM (3cfl2)

20 If a CNN host has sex on camera with another CNN host, would anyone see it?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 29, 2019 03:15 PM (LISuA)

21
Photo included to illustrate male pattern baldness
and nothing else

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lolol please do that again sometime, ace.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 29, 2019 03:15 PM (7OILk)

22 along with environment -- play a part in shaping sexuality, a massive new study shows.

...

This is about us isn't it?

Posted by: San Francisco at August 29, 2019 03:15 PM (MAstk)

23 Sides blown out.

Posted by: blue horseshoe at August 29, 2019 03:15 PM (QwmrN)

24 I saw The Spaghetti Yetis open for Helter Stelter at CBGB's back in '81.

Posted by: Wayne Frazer at August 29, 2019 03:15 PM (IDjUx)

25 Also, the fact that only 8-25% of homosexuality was accounted for by genetics would seem to suggest that there a large component of choice in the matter.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at August 29, 2019 03:15 PM (wCmLp)

26 could have been top 10, but stopped to read the content.

now that they've identified some of the genes, I can't wait for the testing and abortions to begin. I mean, it'll be just like every other test, right?

pass the popcorn...

Posted by: SturmToddler at August 29, 2019 03:15 PM (8D42x)

27 So THAT's what a gay gene looks like!
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry

Hammer. Nail.

Posted by: eleven at August 29, 2019 03:15 PM (tH5fk)

28 Is there a gene for piano teeth?

Posted by: Caliban at August 29, 2019 03:16 PM (qEujL)

29

I was born this way.

Posted by: Spaghetti Yeti at August 29, 2019 03:16 PM (aKsyK)

30 I'm more in the 'nurture' camp for a LOT of homosexuality, especially among those that lack the 'tells' you typically see among the legit wired wrong.

And by nurture I mean:
Sexualization young by someone of the same sex. In other words, grooming fucking underage kids.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Relax, buy ammo and don't give one inch at August 29, 2019 03:16 PM (bcbK8)

31 And this is also connected to my theory that all people born under the sign of Aquarius are homos.

Water carriers, huh? You know what also carries water? My dick.
Posted by Ace of Spades

/dumps vat of skunk squeezin's on Ace and stomps off

Posted by: Grand Inquisitor Cavil, an Aquarius, as it happens at August 29, 2019 03:16 PM (AM1GF)

32 Now to look up the lyrics to Blur's 'Boys and Girls' again.

So hard to keep track of these twinks...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Relax, buy ammo and don't give one inch at August 29, 2019 03:16 PM (bcbK8)

33 Speaking of genes and hormones.. I wonder if anyone else ever noticed a tie with facial complexion and gay men?

Many gay men I have seen over the years have had the same strange complexion.. almost a greasy skin that looks irritated.. it is hard to describe..

If, indeed, there is a genetic component to being a gay male, perhaps this is part of it.

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at August 29, 2019 03:17 PM (so+oy)

34 That photo is like something out of a nightmare. Evil I tells ya! EVIL!!!

Posted by: Augustine at August 29, 2019 03:17 PM (BDZWU)

35 "One of the variants was found in a stretch of DNA that includes several genes related to the sense of smell."

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Yeah, well, their favorite sex act involves the place where you poop out of so... not that surprising.

Posted by: Masturbatin' Pete at August 29, 2019 03:17 PM (xn9BD)

36 favor genetic expression for shortness, because short people need less food (all other things being equal).*

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Meanwhile Alex was getting cookies in the last thread. I'm not saying this is or is not related to the above statement.

Posted by: ... at August 29, 2019 03:17 PM (atTrV)

37 Good grief, is that photoshopped because he looks deranged.

Though he has great skin, wonder what moisturizer he uses..

Posted by: IC at August 29, 2019 03:18 PM (a0IVu)

38 because short people need less food (all other things being equal)

You. Shut. Your. Whore. Mouth.

As we all know, I am a fully qualified Internet neurobiologist. I agree that we are our DNA but we are not only our DNA.

For example, in the ludicrousness of my genetic lottery, I came up snake eyes on a functioning endocrine system. I rolled a natural d20 on looking a lot younger than I am. Ability to know my right from left? Snake eyes. Reading at around 800 wmp with 95+? retention? D20 baby.

Now, what I do with all of that is up to me. Clearly, I deem my best and highest use of such skills to be shit posting.

Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at August 29, 2019 03:18 PM (mf5HN)

39 >>>37 Good grief, is that photoshopped because he looks deranged.

no that's just his Fucking Face

Posted by: ace at August 29, 2019 03:18 PM (PbpT7)

40 I think the jump from nutrition to fear is a big one, so that specific hypothesis aside, placental size , protein and micronutrient abundance as well as maternal hormonal milieu probably all play a role.

That said this:"the epigentics of the unborn kid favor genetic expression for shortness" has me banging my head against the desk. I get what you mean, but...arrrrrgggg....
I think you mean "the maternal environment may lead to epigenetic changes in the fetus resulting in smaller body size".

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at August 29, 2019 03:18 PM (CPk08)

41 Ah, master, you have learned the arcane spells of the Media!

Headline + photo = no actual connection (snicker snicker)

Most impressive!

Posted by: DamnedYankee at August 29, 2019 03:18 PM (37IEG)

42 There's a lot of good stuff there, but it is known that animals grow larger at the extremes of their ranges - i.e., White-tailed Deer in Saskatchewan are the largest bodied deer, whereas Key Deer which are White-tailed Deer in the Florida Keys grow only to the size of a large dog.
The reason seems to be that extreme low temperatures require a larger body mass to regulate temperature.

Posted by: Alec Leamas at August 29, 2019 03:18 PM (ssz2a)

43 Monmouth Polling: Our poll showing Biden collapsing into a three way tie was clearly an outlier and should be disregarded

Translation: We've gotten word that Biden is supposed to be the choice this time from the DNC

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 29, 2019 03:18 PM (KZzsI)

44 And here's the solution from our friends on the Left!

Friendly reminder that abortion is 14 times safer than childbirth.

Every abortion is a "necessary" abortion.

https://twitter.com/DCampoamor/status/
1164556900085719041

Posted by: andycanuck at August 29, 2019 03:19 PM (Dh1wo)

45 Soy in everything and putting estrogen in the drinking water didn't help either

Posted by: brak at August 29, 2019 03:19 PM (mvZqC)

46 I just went blind due to that photo. Good lord. It's tooooo bright!

Posted by: turambar at August 29, 2019 03:19 PM (Gylu/)

47 The Old South thought that foreigners were short.

Posted by: Eve Skewedbanks at August 29, 2019 03:19 PM (DuZls)

48 Is it ghey if you do it in jail?

Posted by: Michael Cohen at August 29, 2019 03:19 PM (MAstk)

49

SO being racisty and facty and sciency and western logicy and shit is actually due to defective genes THAT CAN BE REMOVED FROM THE GENE POOL!

Generadication Camps! Forced Sterility of Identifiable Groups and Individuals! Roundups! Forbidden Marriages or Interbreeding! Abort All Undesirables!

Sig H... er... Forward, Comrades!

Posted by: Democratic Socialist Purity Party! at August 29, 2019 03:19 PM (UFLLM)

50 This is the dawning of the Age of Homo-ness....

Doesn't have the same ring to it.

Posted by: eleven at August 29, 2019 03:19 PM (tH5fk)

51 Nature vs. nurture doesn't seem all that important when you're on your knees at the glory hole.

Posted by: Roy at August 29, 2019 03:19 PM (0yxK0)

52 He always looks like he has stark white face powder on, like 18th Century aristocrat females.

Posted by: bicentennialguy at August 29, 2019 03:19 PM (vg8iE)

53 I've often wondered about the stereotypical lisping, singsong way some gay males speak. Is that entirely environmental, and if so, why? Are they trying to speak like women to attract other males, or is there a genetic component to it, and if so, what does it accomplish?

Posted by: pep at August 29, 2019 03:19 PM (T6t7i)

54 That's one gay looking potato.

Posted by: wth at August 29, 2019 03:19 PM (v0R5T)

55 25 Also, the fact that only 8-25% of homosexuality was accounted for by genetics would seem to suggest that there a large component of choice in the matter.
Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at August 29, 2019 03:15 PM (wCmLp)

Or a large component of upbringing and environment.

Posted by: Curmudgeon at August 29, 2019 03:19 PM (ujg0T)

56 >> I'm more in the 'nurture' camp for a LOT of homosexuality

Overbearing, Single Mothers get you Gay sons or Misogynists.

I've watched this pattern develop in my family for decades.

Posted by: garrett at August 29, 2019 03:19 PM (T42ki)

57 >>>42 There's a lot of good stuff there, but it is known that animals grow larger at the extremes of their ranges - i.e., White-tailed Deer in Saskatchewan are the largest bodied deer, whereas Key Deer which are White-tailed Deer in the Florida Keys grow only to the size of a large dog.

well I wrote it on the internet so it must be true

Posted by: ace at August 29, 2019 03:19 PM (PbpT7)

58 9 This isn't about busty lesbians, is it?

Can it be?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Relax, buy ammo and don't give one inch at August 29, 2019 03:14 PM (bcbK

Nope. Only a picture of Stelter. We just can't have nice things.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 29, 2019 03:20 PM (NWiLs)

59 Had a cousin w 6 kids and half were gay. Upper middle-class lifestyle, stay at home Mom. Two lesbians and one gay brother, with two straight brothers and one straight sister.

Posted by: Ever at August 29, 2019 03:20 PM (ZZDMQ)

60 Ace's dick is a homo.

Posted by: ... at August 29, 2019 03:20 PM (atTrV)

61 omg, I'm so going to get fired for destroying another monitor.

fuck you, Ace. that was beautiful

*cries*

Posted by: comrade nurse ratched at August 29, 2019 03:20 PM (d7Ww2)

62 I wonder if that study is geared towards gay males primarily? (NO - I didn't read it. Why do you ask). Because most of the lesbians I've known have sort of chosen to be lesbians because of sexually violent or predatory behavior by males when they were young.

Posted by: grammie winger at August 29, 2019 03:20 PM (lwiT4)

63
* By the way, I think this because of seasonal dimorphism in bugs and plants -- where the bugs and plants produce a smaller, hardier version in cold weather and a bigger version in warm weather. They can often appear to be two different species.

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I heard that one's been debunked. The dimorphism always exists, but the weak ones don't show up in winter because they can't survive.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 29, 2019 03:20 PM (7OILk)

64 >>That's one gay looking potato.

You can't hide
your faggot eyes
And your smile
is a thin disguise

Posted by: Don Henley at August 29, 2019 03:20 PM (T42ki)

65 BTW: birth order affects probability of homosexuality. I think the idea that genotype by environment interaction has a lot to do with homosexuality is pretty much inarguable at this point. Not just genes, and not just environment, but interaction. GxE seems to be the rule in complex traits.

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at August 29, 2019 03:21 PM (CPk08)

66 Now, what I do with all of that is up to me. Clearly, I deem my best and highest use of such skills to be shit posting.
Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at August 29, 2019 03:18 PM (mf5HN)

Endorsed

No more ego stroking from me, though.

Ok, one more: your twitter feed is one of the two I check regularly.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Relax, buy ammo and don't give one inch at August 29, 2019 03:21 PM (bcbK8)

67
Overbearing, Single Mothers get you Gay sons or Misogynists.

I've watched this pattern develop in my family for decades.
Posted by: garrett at August 29, 2019 03:19 PM (T42ki)

You're saying that when boys don't have a good male role model that they don't turn out so well?

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at August 29, 2019 03:21 PM (KUaJL)

68 Yellow in the front, Tater in the back

Posted by: REDACTED at August 29, 2019 03:21 PM (+8+gB)

69 37: Chanel. Trannies favor it.

Posted by: CN at August 29, 2019 03:22 PM (U7k5w)

70 As we all know, I am a fully qualified Internet neurobiologist. I agree that we are our DNA but we are not only our DNA.

I think of it like being in a car. The nature of the car determines how fast I can accelerate, turn, see ahead in darkness, whether it pulls to the right or left, etc. But I still have free will in my actions as long as I understand the constraints that I'm facing in driving that car.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at August 29, 2019 03:22 PM (wCmLp)

71 58 9 This isn't about busty lesbians, is it?

Can it be?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Relax, buy ammo and don't give one inch at August 29, 2019 03:14 PM (bcbK

Nope. Only a picture of Stelter. We just can't have nice things.
Posted by: Insomniac at August 29, 2019 03:20 PM (NWiLs)

Damn it!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Relax, buy ammo and don't give one inch at August 29, 2019 03:22 PM (bcbK8)

72 66 Now, what I do with all of that is up to me. Clearly, I deem my best and highest use of such skills to be shit posting.
Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at August 29, 2019 03:18 PM (mf5HN)

Endorsed

No more ego stroking from me, though.

Ok, one more: your twitter feed is one of the two I check regularly.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Relax, buy ammo and don't give one inch at August 29, 2019 03:21 PM (bcbK

Suckup.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 29, 2019 03:22 PM (NWiLs)

73
The classic case of environmental pressure affecting what phenotypes are expressed is those British moths.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 29, 2019 03:22 PM (AzW6q)

74
If you're not gay, you're a homophobe. And a white supremacist.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 29, 2019 03:22 PM (zHv5t)

75 Aquarians Ace? Really?

Posted by: Stop punching down at August 29, 2019 03:22 PM (Hc9h3)

76 65
BTW: birth order affects probability of homosexuality. I think the idea
that genotype by environment interaction has a lot to do with
homosexuality is pretty much inarguable at this point. Not just genes,
and not just environment, but interaction. GxE seems to be the rule in
complex traits.

That sounds about right.

Posted by: pep at August 29, 2019 03:22 PM (T6t7i)

77 I gotta say: Miley Cyrus new carpet muncher is damn hot.

Lipstick all the way.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Relax, buy ammo and don't give one inch at August 29, 2019 03:22 PM (bcbK8)

78 >>You're saying that when boys don't have a good male role model that they don't turn out so well?

When women take out their anger/disdain for their ex on their developing male children it fucks up their ability to have normal male-female relationships.

Posted by: garrett at August 29, 2019 03:22 PM (T42ki)

79 Overbearing, Single Mothers get you Gay sons or Misogynists.

--

Seems a bit redundant.

Posted by: Moron Robbie is a Proud Black Woman at August 29, 2019 03:23 PM (kRCmK)

80 67
Overbearing, Single Mothers get you Gay sons or Misogynists.

I've watched this pattern develop in my family for decades.
Posted by: garrett at August 29, 2019 03:19 PM (T42ki)

You're saying that when boys don't have a good male role model that they don't turn out so well?

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at August 29, 2019 03:21 PM (KUaJL)

Naw, no way, couldn't be.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 29, 2019 03:23 PM (NWiLs)

81 64,: His smile has pink lipstick

Posted by: CN at August 29, 2019 03:23 PM (U7k5w)

82 >>>45 Soy in everything and putting estrogen in the drinking water didn't help either

I've read that the soy and phytoestrogen stuff is bullshit. I'm always talking about soyboys, as a joke, but I've looked into it, and it seems like bullshit.

Few problems:

1, these are phytoestrogens, plant estrogens, not animal estrogens or human estrogen. There's great reason to doubt that what are essentially alien hormones would do ANYTHING in our bodies.

2, for this to work, the phytoestrogens would have to pass intact without being digested/broken up into component amino acids and stuff. Why would that happen?

3, i've seen the amounts we're talking about here and they're very small.

I read a paper about estrogen given to cows to bulk them up or make them produce more milk. That's at least an animal hormone. But the teeny tiny quantities you'd get in beef are really really small, really small, well under anything you'd call a dose.

Posted by: ace at August 29, 2019 03:23 PM (PbpT7)

83 The rush for a gendered selective abortion would pale in comparison to a sexual preference abortion.

thus, never a gay gene will be found

Posted by: REDACTED at August 29, 2019 03:23 PM (+8+gB)

84 Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at August 29, 2019 03:22 PM (wCmLp)

Are you driving a Subaru ?

Posted by: Pig to man dreaming of lions at August 29, 2019 03:23 PM (BoJzR)

85 What's scarier?

Tater's "Fucking Face"?

Or Wicket the Ewok's rape dungeon face?

Posted by: eleven at August 29, 2019 03:23 PM (tH5fk)

86 Well, this is all very interesting, but my vacation starts as soon as I get back from my checkup. But first, a nap I think.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 29, 2019 03:24 PM (axyOa)

87 that said, feel free to disagree and feel encouraged to attack soy-drinking low t omega "males" like Seth Mandel.

Posted by: ace at August 29, 2019 03:24 PM (PbpT7)

88 Have you seen my son's purse?

Posted by: Magic Johnson at August 29, 2019 03:24 PM (MAstk)

89 Or a large component of upbringing and environment.
Posted by: Curmudgeon at August 29, 2019 03:19 PM (ujg0T)

Yeah, I sort of lumped that in with "choice" meaning "not changeable by you."

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at August 29, 2019 03:24 PM (wCmLp)

90 For example, in the ludicrousness of my genetic lottery, I came up snake eyes on a functioning endocrine system. I rolled a natural d20 on looking a lot younger than I am. Ability to know my right from left? Snake eyes. Reading at around 800 wmp with 95+? retention? D20 baby.

Now, what I do with all of that is up to me. Clearly, I deem my best and highest use of such skills to be shit posting.

Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at August 29, 2019 03:18 PM (mf5HN)

don't forget the roll for the victory rack...

Posted by: SturmToddler at August 29, 2019 03:24 PM (8D42x)

91 Photo included to illustrate male pattern baldness
and nothing else
.......

Maybe he could borrow Don Lemoan's Toppik.

Posted by: wth at August 29, 2019 03:25 PM (v0R5T)

92 78 >>You're saying that when boys don't have a good male role model that they don't turn out so well?

When women take out their anger/disdain for their ex on their developing male children it fucks up their ability to have normal male-female relationships.
Posted by: garrett at August 29, 2019 03:22 PM (T42ki)

Or their anger/disdain for their husbands. Or their fathers. Or hell, for their sons directly. Fucks your head up pretty good.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 29, 2019 03:25 PM (NWiLs)

93 The Gay Mafia can scream they have to be accommodated because they were made that way. Yet they also demand access to youth groups for recruitment. They demand to have it both ways.
It is natural for people to be greedy and selfish but it is still disappointing to see it especially at such extremes. See also, Jeffrey Epstein.

Posted by: Meaningless Life at August 29, 2019 03:25 PM (fOqG5)

94 Soooo, it is cool to abort babies with all of those genes?

Or is it just cool to abort babies... PERIOD?

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at August 29, 2019 03:25 PM (pw+jk)

95 I think gayness, and a lot of things, are epigenetic in nature. It's not true that we are what our DNA codes say we are. That's incomplete. We are what the expressed codes in our DNA say, but not everything in our DNA is actually expressed, or switched on.

Some code is present, but silent, unactivated, dormant, and will only be activated in certain situations, like a strong hormonal signal or even a disease.

Well and... scientists have found out that at different times, genes will do different things. Which means that hard and fast 'this is what this gene does and means' attempts are ludicrous.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 29, 2019 03:25 PM (KZzsI)

96
Monmouth Polling: Our poll showing Biden collapsing into a three way tie was clearly an outlier and should be disregarded

The vote showing that Trump defeated Clinton in Florida, Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania was clearly an outlier and should be disregarded.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 29, 2019 03:25 PM (zHv5t)

97
I read a paper about estrogen given to cows to bulk them up or make them produce more milk. That's at least an animal hormone. But the teeny tiny quantities you'd get in beef are really really small, really small, well under anything you'd call a dose.

Posted by: ace at August 29, 2019 03:23 PM (PbpT7)

What about the estrogen from birth control in the water?

Posted by: Someguy at August 29, 2019 03:26 PM (4i8PS)

98 >>>76 65
BTW: birth order affects probability of homosexuality. I think the idea
that genotype by environment interaction has a lot to do with
homosexuality is pretty much inarguable at this point. Not just genes,
and not just environment, but interaction. GxE seems to be the rule in
complex traits.

well that ties into my Secret Without Evidence Theory that homosexuality is influenced by signals about population density. If you're the seventh kid born, maybe there's some feedback mechanism to say, "Well, we might be overbreeding here, might want to reduce the chances of calamity by making some of these kids non-breeders."

Posted by: ace at August 29, 2019 03:26 PM (PbpT7)

99 you know when you look at stelter you have to wonder if his sex changes with the weather.

Posted by: yankeefifith at August 29, 2019 03:26 PM (HALdu)

100 19 Otoh there are examples of homosexuality mostly being related to cultural changes. Compare America in 2019 vs 1969.

Mostly the same genetically and in regards to material wealth, very different in terms of views of homosexuality and number of homosexuals
Posted by: 18-1 at August 29, 2019 03:15 PM (3cfl2)

I would postulate that the numbers are not different, its just that they are out more.

Folks like Paul Lynde. Very Gay, yet never talked about it, so people were never sure.

I don't think the numbers are different, just now they celebrate it, where once it was mostly under the rug.

Posted by: Don Q at August 29, 2019 03:26 PM (NgKpN)

101 >>>What about the estrogen from birth control in the water?

i don't know what you mean. You're saying they're pumping birth control hormones into our drinking water?

Posted by: ace at August 29, 2019 03:26 PM (PbpT7)

102 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge at August 29, 2019 03:26 PM (Zz0t1)

103 NTTIAWWI but my poor friend had two sons and they both came out. I've not seen that in families very often . Actually that's the only instance I know or heard of.

Posted by: Pig to man dreaming of lions at August 29, 2019 03:27 PM (BoJzR)

104 99 you know when you look at stelter you have to wonder if his sex changes with the weather.
Posted by: yankeefifith at August 29, 2019 03:26 PM (HALdu)

Well when a cold wind blows, I'm betting he has an Innie.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Relax, buy ammo and don't give one inch at August 29, 2019 03:27 PM (bcbK8)

105 Puffy bottom Stelter and his clenched teeth phony smile should be charged with a hair crime.

Posted by: Tentotwo at August 29, 2019 03:27 PM (yhf6w)

106 I trace it back to Hermaphroditus and that Janus worship thing. Male AND Female. Nothing else 'fits'. Unless you force it.

Posted by: Eromero at August 29, 2019 03:27 PM (UUkQp)

107 Gaylord riding that bicycle in his Mom jeans wearing a dorky helmet is not genetic. But it is a booty call.

Posted by: torabora at August 29, 2019 03:27 PM (Y274z)

108 What about all of the hormones in our food, and the hormones in our water from a lot of women on BC?

Posted by: Lizzy at August 29, 2019 03:27 PM (bDqIh)

109 I read a paper about estrogen given to cows to bulk them up or make them produce more milk. That's at least an animal hormone. But the teeny tiny quantities you'd get in beef are really really small, really small, well under anything you'd call a dose.

Posted by: ace at August 29, 2019 03:23 PM (PbpT7)

What about the estrogen from birth control in the water?
Posted by: Someguy

You get more from soy.
Soy sauce, soy beans, tofu, etc.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 29, 2019 03:27 PM (bkkvA)

110 I am NOT gay!

Posted by: Gene Gene the Dancing Machine at August 29, 2019 03:27 PM (v0R5T)

111 i don't know what you mean. You're saying they're pumping birth control hormones into our drinking water?

Posted by: ace at August 29, 2019 03:26 PM (PbpT7)

Women on birth control pee it out and it enters the water supply that way.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at August 29, 2019 03:27 PM (wCmLp)

112 >> You're saying they're pumping birth control hormones into our drinking water?

Yep. Your Moobs atre not your fault, Ace!

Posted by: garrett at August 29, 2019 03:27 PM (T42ki)

113 You're saying they're pumping birth control hormones into our drinking water?

Posted by: ace at August 29, 2019 03:26 PM (PbpT7)

No, that women take hormones and then pee them out into the water supply.

Posted by: grammie winger at August 29, 2019 03:27 PM (lwiT4)

114 Gayness comes from being molested by an authority figure when you are a kid.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 29, 2019 03:27 PM (YA914)

115 that's definitely the grin that Klink made when he made Colonel.

Posted by: Mallfly The Georgia Peach at August 29, 2019 03:27 PM (ZqRa6)

116 Ok, one more: your twitter feed is one of the two I check regularly.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Relax, buy ammo and don't give one inch at August 29, 2019 03:21 PM (bcbK

Thank you! You may have a non-small poxed blanket and a pallet inside.

Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at August 29, 2019 03:27 PM (mf5HN)

117 What I get most annoyed with is the showboating parades that the gays have to put on, the more provocative and decadent, the better - the banners are always about "the love!". It is not love, it is sex.

Posted by: washrivergal at August 29, 2019 03:27 PM (9+jnX)

118 Birth control pills down the toilet and the hormones can't be filtered out.

Posted by: ... at August 29, 2019 03:27 PM (atTrV)

119 I trace it back to Hermaphroditus and that Janus worship thing. Male AND Female. Nothing else 'fits'. Unless you force it.
Posted by: Eromero

I'm sure some will pound it.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 29, 2019 03:28 PM (bkkvA)

120 So you're saying there are multiple "Crocs" genes?

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at August 29, 2019 03:28 PM (pw+jk)

121 Stetler really is 'so gross I look away' ugly.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 29, 2019 03:28 PM (bDqIh)

122 Overbearing, Single Mothers get you Gay sons or Misogynists.

I've watched this pattern develop in my family for decades.
Posted by: garrett at August 29, 2019 03:19 PM (T42ki)

You're saying that when boys don't have a good male role model that they don't turn out so well?

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at August 29, 2019 03:21 PM (KUaJL)

Naw, no way, couldn't be.
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Obviously not correct! It is decided by your genes and other things you have absolutely no control over, it couldn't possibly have anything to do with something you can control. Which is way gay conversion therapy must be outlawed!!!

Posted by: Dr. Von Pheel Goot at August 29, 2019 03:28 PM (FmxeB)

123 Native Indians are more susceptible to alcoholism which doesn't mean they are all alcoholics nor does it mean they have no choice.

I wouldn't be surprised if we are seeing the same thing here.

Posted by: Sharrukin2 at August 29, 2019 03:28 PM (ltuaO)

124 106 I trace it back to Hermaphroditus and that Janus worship thing. Male AND Female. Nothing else 'fits'. Unless you force it.
Posted by: Eromero at August 29, 2019 03:27 PM (UUkQp)

I blame futanri porn

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Relax, buy ammo and don't give one inch at August 29, 2019 03:29 PM (bcbK8)

125 the pic made me laugh...he's such a creepy clown.

Posted by: trapper's girl at August 29, 2019 03:29 PM (tU1YH)

126 NTTIAWWI but my poor friend had two sons and they both came out. I've not seen that in families very often . Actually that's the only instance I know or heard of.
=====

I know of a family like that too.

Posted by: Bicentennialguy at August 29, 2019 03:29 PM (rGAEX)

127 Is there a Tater gene?

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Get Your Fat Girl Throws Down Training Videos at The Outrage Outlet! at August 29, 2019 03:29 PM (hLRSq)

128 >>Birth control pills down the toilet and the hormones can't be filtered out.

Are you drinking directly from the Outflow of your local Treatment Plant?

Posted by: garrett at August 29, 2019 03:29 PM (T42ki)

129 Because, I would advise against that.

Posted by: garrett at August 29, 2019 03:29 PM (T42ki)

130 Water carriers, huh? You know what also carries water? My dick.

Well my eyes carry water. I weep for all of the meanies in the world who think I am not an upstanding and righteous saint.

Posted by: St. James Comey at August 29, 2019 03:29 PM (aS1PU)

131 I read a paper about estrogen given to cows to bulk them up or make them produce more milk. That's at least an animal hormone. But the teeny tiny quantities you'd get in beef are really really small, really small, well under anything you'd call a dose.

Posted by: ace at August 29, 2019 03:23 PM (PbpT7)

Except for the hot beef injection.

Posted by: Pig to man dreaming of lions at August 29, 2019 03:29 PM (BoJzR)

132 "These Gargantuan Wops, these Lumbering Gnocchi Herders, these Towering Spaghetti Yetis" for the win!

Posted by: Browncoat formerly known as Mike at August 29, 2019 03:29 PM (o38N1)

133 Sigh.

Back to work.

BBL, if I can.

Happy Friday Eve, everyone.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Relax, buy ammo and don't give one inch at August 29, 2019 03:29 PM (bcbK8)

134
A significant amount of homosexuality comes from adult male dick stuck in boys and girls.

To stop that we're going to take your boys and girls away from you and make sure they are mentored by loving professional adults who are already homosexual or trans to ensure the kids get the best start in life possible!

Isn't simple?

Also we'll need to cut the dicks off all non-homosexual males, to stop the abuse. Sorry.

Posted by: Democratic Socialist Purity Party! at August 29, 2019 03:29 PM (UFLLM)

135 Ilhan Omar thinks the U.N. should be called in to manage our southern border.

She needs to be removed, from office and then from the country. ASAP.

Posted by: IrishEi at August 29, 2019 03:29 PM (sGotD)

136 How does a fetus know what the population is?

Posted by: freaked at August 29, 2019 03:30 PM (t2Zxt)

137 I'm going to have to re-read Darwin's Radio tonight.

Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at August 29, 2019 03:30 PM (mf5HN)

138 BTW: birth order affects probability of homosexuality. I think the idea
that genotype by environment interaction has a lot to do with
homosexuality is pretty much inarguable at this point. Not just genes,
and not just environment, but interaction. GxE seems to be the rule in
complex traits.

without even knowing which commenter made the comment or what they were basing it upon, let me say, no kidding, everything after the second born is some this close to having their name over the door of a tent in a circus.

Posted by: yankeefifith at August 29, 2019 03:30 PM (HALdu)

139 I know there's a big deal with estrogen from birth control pills and urine getting into water and affecting the sexual health of fish. Not sure how mush is valid but we are definitely exposed to more hormones now than in the past.

I'm still using soyboy as an insult

Posted by: brak at August 29, 2019 03:30 PM (mvZqC)

140 Ok, one more: your twitter feed is one of the two I check regularly.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards

Duuuuude. Sucking up that much used to involve shame.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 29, 2019 03:30 PM (bkkvA)

141 Many years ago I worked at a college language school where all the directors and teachers were native speakers. My favorite of all of them was the Japanese school director who grew up in Japan during the war. Charming, funny, smart, etc. He was tiny. Just about my size -- 5'3" and 110 lbs. not unusual for a woman like myself, but very small for a man in the U.S.

One day a giant teenager boy came into my office and said his dad asked him to come in and say hello. He had Asian features, but I couldn't image who his dad was. It never occurred to me that this big kid was my friend the Japanese school's director's son. Later we laughed about it. The genes were there all along, but they need some nourishment to be able to reach their potential in growth. Apparently brains and temperament can survive starvation, but the body needs something tangible to grown on.

Posted by: erobot at August 29, 2019 03:30 PM (RVmAx)

142
Tater is one of the freakiest looking motherfuckers in the world.

Tell me that guy doesn't have the look of a crazed deviant in his weird little pig-eyes.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 29, 2019 03:30 PM (AzW6q)

143 Yep. Your Moobs atre not your fault, Ace!

Posted by: garrett at August 29, 2019 03:27 PM (T42ki)
..........

I hear smoking the Devil's Weed makes you grow tits.

Posted by: wth at August 29, 2019 03:30 PM (v0R5T)

144 Reading at around 800 wmp with 95+? retention? D20 baby.
Now, what I do with all of that is up to me. Clearly, I deem my best and highest use of such skills to be shit posting.

Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at August 29, 2019 03:18 PM (mf5HN)

Wait. Does this mean you remember anything anyone ever says to or about you? Asking for a friend.

Posted by: ... at August 29, 2019 03:30 PM (atTrV)

145 >>>136 How does a fetus know what the population is?

well it would not, but there might be some hormonal signal in the mom's body.

Posted by: ace at August 29, 2019 03:30 PM (PbpT7)

146 The more I look at that picture of Stelter, the more he looks like the Joker. A pudgy, soft, short Joker. Like, the Joker in middle age after eating thousands of donuts

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 29, 2019 03:30 PM (KZzsI)

147 Can you imagine if there was some hormone treatment that "cured" homosexuality? The pharamaceutical company would be burned to the ground by angry leftists. It would be a platform of the Democrat Party that the drug be made illegal.

Posted by: Blago at August 29, 2019 03:30 PM (zuvmW)

148 > You're saying they're pumping birth control hormones into our drinking water?

I've heard that one, too. Assumed it was supposed to be the result of all the womenfolk peeing while taking the pill.

I have no idea whether it's possible to get hormones into the water supply that way. But the story was that it's creating abnormal numbers of androgynous frogs in Europe, or something like that.

Posted by: Geronimo Stilton at August 29, 2019 03:30 PM (sGnvY)

149 I believe DNA is constantly changing.

I'm the first one in my family, that I'm aware of, that had asthmatic bronchitis / asthma. My mom never had it. My dad never had it. Uncles, aunts, grandparents never had it.

Once I was sick the first time, it became consistent. Every 6 months. Sick.

Now, my daughter has the same thing.

I believe it's ingrained in my DNA and I passed it to her.

My thoughts, anyway.

Posted by: Sponge at August 29, 2019 03:30 PM (Zz0t1)

150 Stetler really is 'so gross I look away' ugly.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 29, 2019 03:28 PM (bDqIh)

He has a high squeaky voice. I've seen him on the internet.

Posted by: DR.WTF at August 29, 2019 03:31 PM (aS1PU)

151 I hear smoking the Devil's Weed makes you grow tits.

"Oh give me another hit off that bong, now!!!"
--Taylor Swift

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 29, 2019 03:31 PM (KZzsI)

152 114 Gayness comes from being molested by an authority figure when you are a kid.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 29, 2019 03:27 PM (YA914)

i suspect that's absolutely true for most gay women.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 29, 2019 03:31 PM (Kpl3J)

153 I used to be friends with an Italian family, specifically a Sicilian one. The grandad was short, the dad was average height, and then all his sons and his daughter were tall. The sons were all over six foot three.
----

I know Italians who would knife you for suggesting that Sicilians are Italians...

Posted by: Santos L. Halper at August 29, 2019 03:31 PM (wAPT7)

154 Also cocaine.

Prolonged cocaine binges can result in the expression of fag genes.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 29, 2019 03:31 PM (YA914)

155 >> How does a fetus know what the population is?

Womb Graffiti

Posted by: garrett at August 29, 2019 03:32 PM (T42ki)

156 62 I wonder if that study is geared towards gay males primarily? (NO - I didn't read it. Why do you ask). Because most of the lesbians I've known have sort of chosen to be lesbians because of sexually violent or predatory behavior by males when they were young.
Posted by: grammie winger at August 29, 2019 03:20 PM (lwiT4)

It is telling that the gay men tend to go all out and insist they were born that way.

The Lesbians? Either bad experiences with men or some kind of curiosity, it seems. They tend NOT to insist they were "born that way". Indeed, they seem to insist that their experiences made them.

Posted by: Curmudgeon at August 29, 2019 03:32 PM (ujg0T)

157 Also, the fact that only 8-25% of homosexuality was accounted for by
genetics would seem to suggest that there a large component of choice in
the matter.
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Fashion statement. Lotus Blossom feet were considered very attractive, necks with stretching rings were considered attractive, and of course, varying amounts of avoirdupois were considered attractive.

Train a kid up 'the right way' and you get your attraction . . .

Posted by: mustbequantum at August 29, 2019 03:32 PM (MIKMs)

158 well it would not, but there might be some hormonal signal in the mom's body.

Posted by: ace at August 29, 2019 03:30 PM (PbpT7)

Except until very recent history, having multiple children was a necessity for survival.

Posted by: grammie winger at August 29, 2019 03:32 PM (lwiT4)

159 You're saying they're pumping birth control hormones into our drinking water?

Possibly, but its more likely in the food. Here's my crazy conspiracy theory of the day: The Chinese are putting chemicals in our food and materials we buy from them that is making us weaker, sicker, and stupider.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 29, 2019 03:32 PM (KZzsI)

160 Is there a Tater gene?

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Get Your Fat Girl Throws Down Training Videos at The Outrage Outlet! at August 29, 2019 03:29 PM (hLRSq)
.........

Yes, it's right next to the Thumb gene.

Posted by: wth at August 29, 2019 03:32 PM (v0R5T)

161 >> I hear smoking the Devil's Weed makes you grow tits.

You didn't hear it from me, but JackStraw has some pretty full 'C' Cups.

Posted by: garrett at August 29, 2019 03:33 PM (T42ki)

162 I've read that the soy and phytoestrogen stuff is
bullshit. I'm always talking about soyboys, as a joke, but I've looked
into it, and it seems like bullshit.

It mostly is, I think.

1, these are phytoestrogens, plant estrogens, not animal estrogens
or human estrogen. There's great reason to doubt that what are
essentially alien hormones would do ANYTHING in our bodies.

Well, some would. It just depends on the fit of the particular phytoestrogen to any of the various steroid hormone receptors. Steroid hormones all share a very similar carbon skeleton so there's no reason that just because it comes from a plant it won't have an effect. I mean, there are any number of plant derived stroid hormones that do have effects on humans (I think one ofthe frst estrogen analogues used in the pill was plant derived) so it's just a matter of whether or not any do fit.. It's an empirical question not a theoretical one.

2, for this to work, the phytoestrogens would have to pass intact
without being digested/broken up into component amino acids and stuff.
Why would that happen?

Steroid hormones are small molerules that are fat soluble, and can be absorbed directly. They aren't made of amino acids but are built around a cholesterol structure.

3, i've seen the amounts we're talking about here and they're very small.
I read a paper about estrogen given to cows to bulk them up or make
them produce more milk. That's at least an animal hormone. But the teeny
tiny quantities you'd get in beef are really really small, really
small, well under anything you'd call a dose.

Posted by: ace at August 29, 2019 03:23 PM (PbpT7)

This is true. Most soy related phytoestrogens are not particularly potent. You would have to ingest a ton of most of them to have any effect. But then again, you would really like to do a large scale randomized trial to test this.

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at August 29, 2019 03:33 PM (CPk08)

163 Gayness comes from being molested by an authority figure when you are a kid.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 29, 2019 03:27 PM (YA914)

That and sucking on door knobs.

Posted by: Roland THTG at August 29, 2019 03:33 PM (88+cf)

164 Tater is one of the freakiest looking motherfuckers in the world.

Tell me that guy doesn't have the look of a crazed deviant in his weird little pig-eyes.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

Red flag his ass.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 29, 2019 03:33 PM (bkkvA)

165 hey! what happened to your sicilian friends?

Posted by: trapper's girl at August 29, 2019 03:33 PM (tU1YH)

166 Oh, and what a fucking creepy child molester look that dude has......

Posted by: Sponge at August 29, 2019 03:33 PM (Zz0t1)

167 I hold to my opinion that there are traits (such as less testosterone) that might "encourage" a person toward a gay life. But the gay behavior is also encourage by the culture (the Afghan leaders with boys in their tents ... is cultural, no?).

Well raised kids not exposed to pedo parents/teachers/ministers ... not told that white and straight means evil .... may (most likely?) never turn "gay". Guys in prison ... not gay, just can't find a woman? To me ... nope, they just chose "gay" ... it is a choice, and an action, even in prison. (unless being raped in prison, that's just rape)

The shortness to taller after two generations, could also be partly nurture. The habits/diets carry on in the US for a generation, perhaps. Or they move over without means (poor), eat poorly, exposed to bad environment (lead paint, dirty work, dirty part of town) ... so takes time to adapt to the new country ways?

Posted by: illiniwek at August 29, 2019 03:33 PM (Cus5s)

168 >> How does a fetus know what the population is?

Womb Graffiti
Posted by: garrett

I like this theory.

Posted by: eleven at August 29, 2019 03:33 PM (tH5fk)

169 #82 I'm not saying it's alien hormones but it's alien hormones.

Posted by: Giorgio A Tsoukalos at August 29, 2019 03:33 PM (Dh1wo)

170 Ace, if you want to be tall you're gonna have to emmigrate somewhere new and gay and have expressed hormones.

Posted by: Puddin Head at August 29, 2019 03:33 PM (2LelM)

171 "A lot of immigrants are short, but then their grandkids are tall. Well, so: It's just that the kids are getting better nutrition, so they get taller as they mature.

"But I seem to remember it's the second generation that gets tall. The first generation over hear should get tall, as they have the American nutrition, but I thought that the height increase doesn't usually come with full force until the second generation born in the US."

What you may be forgetting is that the first generation "Born in the USA" are sons and daughters of frugal, hard-bitten emigrants from places where they had little and never knew what was coming next. These folk lived small-c conservative lives of modest expenditure and indulgence, much as experienced by many whose American parents were raised in the hardest years of the Great Depression.

It is the second generation that benefits from what their parents know (and their heroic grandparents did not) about this great land --- its incredible bounty --- and indulge their offspring accordingly.

Posted by: Fred Baumann at August 29, 2019 03:33 PM (AgXWi)

172 "Spaghetti Yetis" LMAO!

And now I'm hungry again.

Posted by: spongeworthy at August 29, 2019 03:33 PM (35Slc)

173 you know the stelter guy looks like that toothy fish

Posted by: yankeefifith at August 29, 2019 03:34 PM (HALdu)

174 The. Worst. Picture. I've. Ever. Seen. In. My. Life. My gawd!

Posted by: Lady in Black - Death to the Man Bun at August 29, 2019 03:34 PM (JoUsr)

175
Prolonged cocaine binges can result in the expression of fag genes.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 29, 2019 03:31 PM (YA914)

---------

Statement rate: Possibly true.

I had a buddy who never acted gay in any way, always chasing women, but after a good run on the yayo - gay AF.

He'd clean up for awhile, and it was back to chicks.

Then relapse, and gay AF again.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 29, 2019 03:34 PM (AzW6q)

176 Fashion statement. Lotus Blossom feet were considered very attractive, necks with stretching rings were considered attractive, and of course, varying amounts of avoirdupois were considered attractive.

Well peer pressure and culture have a lot to do with that as well.

*Laughs nervously* "yes, I too desire a woman with a gigantic ass and think schoolwork is only for whitey. Please don't hit me"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 29, 2019 03:34 PM (KZzsI)

177 You're saying they're pumping birth control hormones into our drinking water?

I've heard that one, too. Assumed it was supposed to be the result of all the womenfolk peeing while taking the pill.

I have no idea whether it's possible to get hormones into the water supply that way. But the story was that it's creating abnormal numbers of androgynous frogs in Europe, or something like that.
========
No this is legit. All of our drugs are being peed into the sewage system in micro amounts. Antibiotics, antidepressants etc etc. The amounts are very small, but then again, everyone has to drink the water every day, as long as they live.

Posted by: simplemind at August 29, 2019 03:34 PM (ENSYK)

178 My oldest son was diagnosed with a soy allergy when he was 18 months. He has 2 younger brothers. I kept soy and foods processed with soy out of my house. All of my boys are significantly more masculine than their peers and the second two are so much larger that they looked like they were baby sitting throughout elementary school.

The third, 15, has a nice full beard he'll have to shave off next week before school starts but after he plays starting center on the varsity football team like he did as a freshman. I know soy isn't supposed to matter, I have no science, only anecdote but, I think it does. Also, if someone could have two Y chromosomes it would be them. They come home from practice so over-testosteroned that I'd love to rent a viking to run broadsword training in the backyard until they wear it off.

Meanwhile, there is no JV team, not enough kids and their trip to an exhibition game in Buffalo is cancelled because not enough boys signed up for football there.

Posted by: dagny at August 29, 2019 03:34 PM (nRWPy)

179 Fashion statement. Lotus Blossom feet were considered very attractive, necks with stretching rings were considered attractive, and of course, varying amounts of avoirdupois were considered attractive.

Train a kid up 'the right way' and you get your attraction . . .
Posted by: mustbequantum at August 29, 2019 03:32 PM (MIKMs)

My theory is that the more militant and flamboyant gays are hiding untreated mental illness, and that their homosexuality may be a form of anti-social behavior.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at August 29, 2019 03:34 PM (wCmLp)

180 147 Can you imagine if there was some hormone treatment that "cured" homosexuality? The pharamaceutical company would be burned to the ground by angry leftists. It would be a platform of the Democrat Party that the drug be made illegal.

Posted by: Blago at August 29, 2019 03:30 PM (zuvmW)

This reminds me of Rush Limbaugh's argument that if homosexuality was truly genetic, then gays should be anti-abortion.

Posted by: Curmudgeon at August 29, 2019 03:34 PM (ujg0T)

181 If sex drive is about reproduction why do gay males have it in overdrive?

Why do they have seed?

Posted by: WUT at August 29, 2019 03:34 PM (MAstk)

182 Prolonged cocaine binges can result in the expression of fag genes.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 29, 2019 03:31 PM (YA914)

Suddenly my life makes sense.

Posted by: Former President Barry ODipshit at August 29, 2019 03:34 PM (atTrV)

183 The picture of Tater...it looks like he just took off the clown make-up after burying another body in the crawl space.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Get Your Fat Girl Throws Down Training Videos at The Outrage Outlet! at August 29, 2019 03:35 PM (hLRSq)

184 And this is also connected to my theory that all people born under the sign of Aquarius are homos.

HEY! HEY!

Fight me....in a pool.

Posted by: Tami at August 29, 2019 03:35 PM (cF8AT)

185 'well it would not, but there might be some hormonal signal in the mom's body'

How does mom know? Is it something she knows instinctively or did she just see it onCNN?

Posted by: freaked at August 29, 2019 03:35 PM (t2Zxt)

186 without even knowing which commenter made the comment or what they were basing it upon, let me say, no kidding, everything after the second born is some this close to having their name over the door of a tent in a circus.
Posted by: yankeefifith at August 29, 2019 03:30 PM (HALdu)

I'm a first born. In case you ever wondered, yeah, all of us first borns are genetic carriers of the gene that says "all the rest of you need to just shut the fuck up and do what we tell you to do."

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 29, 2019 03:35 PM (Kpl3J)

187
NTTIAWWI but my poor friend had two sons and they both came out. I've not seen that in families very often . Actually that's the only instance I know or heard of.
Posted by: Pig to man dreaming of lions

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I've seen/heard of it in families, none that I know personally however.

Vladimir Nabokov had a gay uncle and a gay brother. He believed genetics played a part.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 29, 2019 03:35 PM (7OILk)

188 So if Trump comes out of the closet all the Democrats would vote for him?

What about me?

Posted by: Mayor Butt Gig, Gig Economist at August 29, 2019 03:35 PM (Y274z)

189 Brian Stelter looks like a gay version of The Penguin. Or an even gayer version.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 29, 2019 03:35 PM (yHwQE)

190 You didn't hear it from me, but JackStraw has some pretty full 'C' Cups.

Pretty sure I did hear that from you, just now

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 29, 2019 03:35 PM (KZzsI)

191 Gayness comes from being molested by an authority figure when you are a kid.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 29, 2019 03:27 PM (YA914)

That's news to me.

Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at August 29, 2019 03:35 PM (mf5HN)

192 Not an Aquarius here. Scorpio all the way baby. And Cavil, no more making eyes at me.

Posted by: Muad'dib at August 29, 2019 03:36 PM (sjdRT)

193 bet that asshole in the photo drives a tesla. or, a rickshaw. you can hear the catcalls from here.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at August 29, 2019 03:36 PM (KP5rU)

194 I always thought that would make a good man on the street video.

Go to a liberal area, have a table set up to oppose GMO foods and to support organic foods. Ask the interviewees why organic meats are better than agri-farmed meats.

Let them respond that agri-business meats are pumped full of hormones. Ask them if pumping animals full of hormones is bad.

When they reply that it is, follow up with a question about whether pumping pre-pubescent children full of puberty-blocking hormones is bad too.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 29, 2019 03:36 PM (YA914)

195 To say people are born homosexual, is also to say that socialization has zero impact.

The "they are born that way" theory will certainly be tested in the next 10-20 years.

A simple test will be entail observing the large number of genetically unrelated children adopted by gay and lesbian couples.

Anyone want to bet whether this population of children will become homosexual at a higher rate than the general populace?

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at August 29, 2019 03:36 PM (tkyK5)

196 Looking over a study that reviewed all the extant literature till about 3 years ago, the biggest things gay people have in common was being sexually assaulted as children. This is correlation, not causation. Roughly 30% of gays self report childhood molestation. The other main theory with support is mistiming of hormone release during gestation, as much of the gender differentiation happens at specific developmental phases.

Posted by: IanDeal at August 29, 2019 03:36 PM (ArXEJ)

197 What gene makes you like spaghetti?

Posted by: RobM1981 at August 29, 2019 03:36 PM (XHBzQ)

198 Usually the pee goes in the sewer, not the drinking water. Some people will believe anything...

Posted by: Chris M at August 29, 2019 03:36 PM (eAZVt)

199 I am not kidding. That is a face that is residing in the bowels of the neighborhood street sewer system, enticing children with balloons through the grate.

Posted by: Lady in Black - Death to the Man Bun at August 29, 2019 03:36 PM (JoUsr)

200 No this is legit. All of our drugs are being peed into the sewage system in micro amounts. Antibiotics, antidepressants etc etc. The amounts are very small, but then again, everyone has to drink the water every day, as long as they live.
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It pays to live upstream Less surprises.

Posted by: Puddin Head at August 29, 2019 03:36 PM (2LelM)

201
If sex drive is about reproduction why do gay males have it in overdrive?

Why do they have seed?
Posted by: WUT

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Nature isn't rational, it just IS.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 29, 2019 03:36 PM (7OILk)

202 OK Stop this now.

You don't drink sewage or treated water.

The water you drink is filtered well beyond the treatment plant by the fucking earth and environment.

While we are at it - You can't waste water, either.

Posted by: garrett at August 29, 2019 03:37 PM (T42ki)

203 163 Gayness comes from being molested by an authority figure when you are a kid.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 29, 2019 03:27 PM (YA914)

That and sucking on door knobs.
Posted by: Roland THTG at August 29, 2019 03:33 PM (88+cf)

Growing up under power lines.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 29, 2019 03:37 PM (NWiLs)

204 "I know soy isn't supposed to matter, I have no science, only anecdote but, I think it does. "

But it does matter and there is science about it. Soy mimics estrogen.

Posted by: Tami at August 29, 2019 03:37 PM (cF8AT)

205 I don't think the numbers are different, just now they celebrate it, where once it was mostly under the rug.
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Tater needs a rug too.

Posted by: andycanuck at August 29, 2019 03:37 PM (Dh1wo)

206 This explains why "our elite betters" are horrified that the "climate" is "warming".

All the peasants will grow big and strong!

No to that! Our elites want their peasants small and helpless, the better to be dominated by the soft squishy hands of the elites. So we must live in bitter cold, not luxurious global warmth.

Posted by: Boots at August 29, 2019 03:37 PM (oGBso)

207 Gargantuan Wops, these Lumbering Gnocchi Herders, these Towering Spaghetti Yetis

At least he didn't go with Formidable Fredos.

Posted by: 1/2 of the Don Lemon Chris Cuomo Brain Trust at August 29, 2019 03:37 PM (pYQR/)

208 That's news to me.

Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at August 29, 2019 03:35 PM (mf5HN)
You just weren't paying attention.

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at August 29, 2019 03:37 PM (CPk08)

209 Train a kid up 'the right way' and you get your attraction . . .
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Do you eat snails?

Do you eat oysters?

Posted by: Spartacus was a super gay movie at August 29, 2019 03:37 PM (Hc9h3)

210 "Water carriers, huh? You know what also carries water? My dick."

Pure poetry there ace and I know better than to drink anything while reading..

*reaches around looking for a napkin to wipe the keyboard with*

Posted by: NALNAMSAM - not as lean, not as mean, still a Marine at August 29, 2019 03:37 PM (7BjFu)

211 -
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Stetler really is 'so gross I look away' ugly.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 29, 2019 03:28 PM (bDqIh)

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You're not joking. Have you seen this one?

https://tinyurl.com/yxb8j5yp

Posted by: irright at August 29, 2019 03:37 PM (pMGkg)

212 and then, regression to the mean.

Posted by: Grump928(C)
at August 29, 2019 03:37 PM (6OoFY)

213 My theory is that the more militant and flamboyant gays are hiding untreated mental illness, and that their homosexuality may be a form of anti-social behavior.

Sure, but I think that's true of heterosexuality, the really exaggerated "I banged three chicks at the same time in the bathroom at the 7-11 last night" super exaggerated masculinity guys I think are harboring some low end form of mental illness as well.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 29, 2019 03:38 PM (KZzsI)

214 >>>You don't drink sewage or treated water.

I only drink pregnant women's urine.

Hm, I wonder if that's having any kind of effect.

brb, gotta let down my milk

Posted by: ace at August 29, 2019 03:38 PM (PbpT7)

215 >>NTTIAWWI but my poor friend had two sons and they both came out. I've not seen that in families very often . Actually that's the only instance I know or heard of.

I knew a family where the dad was a twin, and his twin brother was gay. The dad had 4 kids - two boys, 2 girls: 3 are gay, 1 straight.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 29, 2019 03:38 PM (bDqIh)

216 181 If sex drive is about reproduction why do gay males have it in overdrive?

Why do they have seed?
Posted by: WUT at August 29, 2019 03:34 PM (MAstk)

Maybe nature figures that if they stick their dicks in enough holes, they're bound to hit the right one eventually according to the law of averages?

Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est at August 29, 2019 03:38 PM (J+mig)

217 Do I need to say it?

Posted by: Tulsi Gabbard - vote for me! at August 29, 2019 03:38 PM (v0R5T)

218 Do you eat snails?

Do you eat oysters?

Do you like Gladiator movies?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 29, 2019 03:39 PM (KZzsI)

219 We need to be understanding and tolerant towards gay people; they can't help it, it's in their genes.

Also, anyone who doesn't feel sexual attraction towards trans people just has to "get over it", use their mind power to switch their libido, because trans women are women and trans men are men. And anyone who doesn't do this is a Bad Person, a hater who hates with hatey hate.

One would think that the above two are kinda contradictory, but progressives believe in both at the same time.

P.S. I have read a theory that everybody is, to at least a small extent, bisexual... that even if you think you are exclusively het or exclusively gay, if you met the right person you might be willing to change. I think that's propaganda invented by bisexual people... but maybe there is a grain of truth in it; try a Google search for "situational sexual behavior".

Posted by: mr_jack at August 29, 2019 03:39 PM (57l0O)

220 sex hormone regulation may somehow be involved

As surmised here before.

A deficit/surfeit of intrauterine testosterone/ estrogen, and/or unusually high or low affinity fetal testosterone/ estrogen receptors, and voila!

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 29, 2019 03:39 PM (6b1dn)

221 You just weren't paying attention.
Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at August 29, 2019 03:37 PM (CPk0

I can be very unobservant but I think I would have noticed that.

Wait. Does this mean you remember anything anyone ever says to or about you? Asking for a friend.
Posted by: ... at August 29, 2019 03:30 PM (atTrV)

Perhaps.

May the odds be ever in your favor.

Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at August 29, 2019 03:39 PM (mf5HN)

222 Looks up sign

*Aquarius*

Thanks a lot ace. Gees.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at August 29, 2019 03:39 PM (Zv1X1)

223 My theory is that the more militant and flamboyant gays are hiding untreated mental illness, and that their homosexuality may be a form of anti-social behavior

Well the one's in the closet seem to make excellent serial killers.

Posted by: Pig to man dreaming of lions at August 29, 2019 03:40 PM (BoJzR)

224 So it's cocksucker Thursday?

Posted by: DaveA at August 29, 2019 03:40 PM (FhXTo)

225 boy george recoiled in horror when viewing that photo.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at August 29, 2019 03:40 PM (KP5rU)

226 I've seen/heard of it in families, none that I know personally however.

Vladimir Nabokov had a gay uncle and a gay brother. He believed genetics played a part.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 29, 2019 03:35 PM (7OILk)

My boss is one of 3 brothers. Both his brothers were gay and died from AIDS back in the 80's (just as they were testing out the drugs). He is the only straight one.

Posted by: IC at August 29, 2019 03:40 PM (a0IVu)

227 OK Stop this now.

You don't drink sewage or treated water.

The water you drink is filtered well beyond the treatment plant by the fucking earth and environment.

While we are at it - You can't waste water, either.
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Don't believe us, look it up. They have consistently very small amounts - micro levels of prescription drugs in rivers and lakes. Other chemicals as well. We don't have molecular level filtering and neither does nature.

Posted by: if you swim in the ocean you swim in a fish toilet at August 29, 2019 03:40 PM (d0qgC)

228 on the subject of hormones- when men become obese their estrogen levels go up and they develop feminine physical traits.
So, when Pavarotti cannot hit high C it means he needs to put a few pounds back on?

Posted by: Meaningless Life at August 29, 2019 03:41 PM (fOqG5)

229 25 Also, the fact that only 8-25% of homosexuality was accounted for by genetics would seem to suggest that there a large component of choice in the matter.
Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at August 29, 2019 03:15 PM (wCmLp)

Choice, and/or imprinting, especially for males. See, e.g., latex fetishes etc.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 29, 2019 03:41 PM (6b1dn)

230 Posted by: mr_jack at August 29, 2019 03:39 PM (57l0O)

Not a chance in a million hells.

Posted by: Pig to man dreaming of lions at August 29, 2019 03:41 PM (BoJzR)

231 The sky is lower in Italy so people have to be short.
They come here and grow like weeds.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at August 29, 2019 03:41 PM (Zv1X1)

232 No this is legit. All of our drugs are being peed
into the sewage system in micro amounts. Antibiotics, antidepressants
etc etc. The amounts are very small, but then again, everyone has to
drink the water every day, as long as they live.

Posted by: simplemind at August 29, 2019 03:34 PM (ENSYK)

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says you...

/me cracks open first beer of the day

Posted by: redc1c4 at August 29, 2019 03:41 PM (f3F1i)

233 >>>Don't believe us, look it up. They have consistently very small amounts - micro levels of prescription drugs in rivers and lakes. Other chemicals as well. We don't have molecular level filtering and neither does nature.

well if we're going to go down that road, my 15 year old self wishes to apologize for all the end product of masturbation that got flushed into y'alls drinking water. My bad.

by the way, my Current Year Self also should apologize...

Posted by: ace at August 29, 2019 03:41 PM (PbpT7)

234 I'm a first born. In case you ever wondered, yeah, all of us first borns are genetic carriers of the gene that says "all the rest of you need to just shut the fuck up and do what we tell you to do."
Posted by: Tom Servo at A

lol, first born here too, and you are right, however, there are some redeeming things about the seconds, but after that is is right into the freak show.

Posted by: yankeefifith at August 29, 2019 03:41 PM (HALdu)

235 P.S. I have read a theory that everybody is, to at least a small extent, bisexual... that even if you think you are exclusively het or exclusively gay, if you met the right person you might be willing to change. I think that's propaganda invented by bisexual people... but maybe there is a grain of truth in it; try a Google search for "situational sexual behavior".

Posted by: mr_jack at August 29, 2019 03:39 PM (57l0O)

It's okay, we'll still mock you no matter what.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Get Your Fat Girl Throws Down Training Videos at The Outrage Outlet! at August 29, 2019 03:41 PM (hLRSq)

236 Bunch of racists with your SANITY and REASON!!!

Posted by: Eve Skewedbanks at August 29, 2019 03:41 PM (DuZls)

237 Speaking of science, most celebrities just talk about global warming, Miley Cyrus does something about it.

Actress and musician Miley Cyrus - who is married to actor Liam Hemsworth - said that she's not interested in having children until global warming is taken care of.

In a recent interview with Elle, the former "Hannah Montana" actress said that she wants to wait to have children until said children could "live on an earth with fish in the water."

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Fish . . . in water! Now that she explains it, it makes so much sense!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at August 29, 2019 03:41 PM (+y/Ru)

238 What I've never understood is if I as a straight woman would rather rip off a limb than have homosexual sex, if I could stop vomiting, why can homosexuals have heterosexual sex for YEARS? Are they truly "homo" sexual or do they just prefer their own sex or are there homosexuals who also feel like I do about the opposite sex?

Posted by: dagny at August 29, 2019 03:41 PM (nRWPy)

239 P.S. I have read a theory that everybody is, to at least a small extent, bisexual... that even if you think you are exclusively het or exclusively gay, if you met the right person you might be willing to change. I think that's propaganda invented by bisexual people... but maybe there is a grain of truth in it; try a Google search for "situational sexual behavior".
Posted by: mr_jack at August 29, 2019 03:39 PM (57l0O)

Female bisexuality is environmentally expressed. The genes are activated after her third appletini.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at August 29, 2019 03:41 PM (wCmLp)

240 . . . grow big in conditions of warmth and plenty, grow small in conditions of cold and scarcity . . .

This, too, is the story of human penises.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 29, 2019 03:41 PM (5v5Zx)

241 I searched a few years back for the prevalence of transgenderism, and came up with a number of 1 in 35,000 from that UCLA gay-friendly institute.

Try to find that number today.

Posted by: motionview at August 29, 2019 03:41 PM (pYQR/)

242 So this explains all of the repressed homoseual closet queens that inhabit here. Referring to others what they fear most in themselves.

Posted by: raimondo at August 29, 2019 03:42 PM (8OfuX)

243 >>P.S. I have read a theory that everybody is, to at least a small extent, bisexual... that even if you think you are exclusively het or exclusively gay, if you met the right person you might be willing to change. I think that's propaganda invented by bisexual people... but maybe there is a grain of truth in it; try a Google search for "situational sexual behavior".

Ah, yes, that would be part of the sex education that says "gays are born that way, but really, you should experiment because you might like it."
Spoiler alert: They're recruiting.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 29, 2019 03:42 PM (bDqIh)

244 Scorpio all the way baby.

Posted by: Muad'dib

*fistbump

Posted by: rickb223 at August 29, 2019 03:42 PM (bkkvA)

245 Looks up sign

*Aquarius*

Thanks a lot ace. Gees.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob
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Not to worry. You are obviously successfully sublimating your desire to eat men, by cooking them first. Congrats!

Posted by: Dr. Von pheel Goot at August 29, 2019 03:42 PM (SsqQI)

246 boy george recoiled in horror when viewing that photo.
Posted by: chavez the hugo at August 29, 2019 03:40 PM (KP5rU)
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Y'know, ever find it amazing that he's one of the last standing from that era of music stars?

Posted by: jhawk90 at August 29, 2019 03:42 PM (Xvo1a)

247 I was born under the Nyarlathotep sign. It's the folks born under Azothoth that are the fags.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 29, 2019 03:42 PM (19g6/)

248 "play a part in shaping sexuality" or 'makes one vulnerable to gender dysphoria'? You say potato....

Posted by: mikey at August 29, 2019 03:42 PM (UZHBq)

249 >>Don't believe us, look it up. They have consistently very small amounts - micro levels of prescription drugs in rivers and lakes.

Do you drink from Rivers and Lakes?

No.

Water is filtered via gravity and transpiration then gravity before it reaches the aquifer.

This Science is a bunch of Biologists jerking off with Grant Funds.

Posted by: garrett at August 29, 2019 03:42 PM (T42ki)

250 I'd put my money on 'Another BS Study.'

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at August 29, 2019 03:42 PM (oVJmc)

251 but maybe there is a grain of truth in it;

Not in a million fucking years. I can't imagine anything more horrific.

Posted by: dagny at August 29, 2019 03:43 PM (nRWPy)

252 I have read a theory that everybody is, to at least a small extent, bisexual... that even if you think you are exclusively het or exclusively gay, if you met the right person you might be willing to change. I think that's propaganda invented by bisexual people... but maybe there is a grain of truth in it; try a Google search for "situational sexual behavior".
Posted by: mr_jack at August 29, 2019 03:39 PM (57l0O)

As someone who has a vested interest in this being true, yeah, it's complete and utter bullshit.

Dammit.

Gah, I really do need to do work at work so presume my rant about the sexualization of friendship, particularly male friendship, here. blah blah blah friends are important and it's bullshit to do the whole oh those guys are so close they must secretly want each other's dicks thingy

Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at August 29, 2019 03:43 PM (mf5HN)

253 Is there a gene that tater has that makes him shove donuts in his pie hole? Or is it just the smell gene?

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at August 29, 2019 03:43 PM (Zv1X1)

254 Its a reality that fag is just a trendy decision. Prior to sucking wieners, fags don't talk all fag.

After they decide to start sucking wieners though, miraculously their fag genes kick in and they start talking all fag-like and flitting around like a fag.

Same goes for butch haircuts and wearing male clothes for lesbos. Once their lesbo genes kick in, their hair stops growing long.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 29, 2019 03:43 PM (YA914)

255 I have read a theory that everybody is, to at least a small extent, bisexual... that even if you think you are exclusively het or exclusively gay, if you met the right person you might be willing to change. I think that's propaganda invented by bisexual people... but maybe there is a grain of truth in it; try a Google search for "situational sexual behavior".
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*Chin on hands*

Tell me MORE!

Posted by: Anne Heche at August 29, 2019 03:43 PM (kl96A)

256 181 If sex drive is about reproduction why do gay males have it in overdrive?

Opportunity.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 29, 2019 03:43 PM (6b1dn)

257 the former "Hannah Montana" actress said that she wants to wait to have
children until said children could "live on an earth with fish in the
water."

I don't get it. What's in there now? Sousaphones?

Posted by: grammie winger at August 29, 2019 03:43 PM (lwiT4)

258 >>Posted by: raimondo at August 29, 2019 03:42 PM (8OfuX)

You express contempt for conservatives and Trump - does that mean you are a closet GOP Trump superfan?

Posted by: Lizzy at August 29, 2019 03:43 PM (bDqIh)

259 It puts the lotion on it's skin.

Posted by: Tater Gumb at August 29, 2019 03:43 PM (BRpqW)

260 the tiny amount of artificial estrogen you'd get is, well, tiny.

and don't forget, men's bodies make a lot of estrogen a well. We're talking about adding, hypothetically, a grain of sand to a dune.

Also, don't forget, there are feedback mechanisms. For example, if men go on hormone (T) replacement therapy, they usually have to stay on for life, because their body will start producing very little testosterone when it detects the large amount of exogenous testosterone coming in.

this seems a bit loopy to me.

we need a sense of proportion here -- literally.

Posted by: ace at August 29, 2019 03:44 PM (PbpT7)

261 Stelter's teeth are fake. I'd bet they're all veneers.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at August 29, 2019 03:44 PM (oVJmc)

262 >>Vladimir Nabokov had a gay uncle and a gay brother. He believed genetics played a part.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 29, 2019 03:35 PM (7OILk)

Maybe genetics explains "Lolita."

Posted by: Caliban at August 29, 2019 03:44 PM (qEujL)

263
Curious, does the study take into account that we haven't completely mapped out the human genetic code? (We haven't, right?)

So, *what we know of it* doesn't contain a "gay" gene?

Although I'm inclined to believe the study. The gaymaker is unexpressed and gets switched on according to other factors.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 29, 2019 03:44 PM (7OILk)

264
I'm a first born. In case you ever wondered, yeah, all of us first borns
are genetic carriers of the gene that says "all the rest of you need to
just shut the fuck up and do what we tell you to do."

Posted by: Tom Servo at A

lol, first born here too, and you are right, however, there are some
redeeming things about the seconds, but after that is is right into the
freak show.

Posted by: yankeefifith at August 29, 2019 03:41 PM (HALdu)

There are exceptions, right Fredo? RIP Sonny.

Posted by: Michael Corleone at August 29, 2019 03:44 PM (5v5Zx)

265 When I lived in Las Vegas I had a gay couple right next door. No matter how any conversation started out, it always, without fail turned to their gayness. I felt that they were not real, always playing a part. It became tedious very quickly.

Posted by: washrivergal at August 29, 2019 03:44 PM (9+jnX)

266 heads- hairpiece, tails- balls across the nose!

Ohhhh!

Posted by: Diceman at August 29, 2019 03:44 PM (GAlHL)

267 Well, now we know raimondo is homosexual. Makes sense.

Posted by: dagny at August 29, 2019 03:44 PM (nRWPy)

268 I think raimondo has the suck dick after nasty anal sex gene.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 29, 2019 03:44 PM (W+RZ5)

269 Segues from news story into esoteric ruminations on genetics vs. environmental conditions, ends with dick joke.

God, I love AOSHQ.

Posted by: Dr. T at August 29, 2019 03:44 PM (2PXwn)

270 Referring to others what they fear most in themselves.
Posted by: raimondo at August 29, 2019 03:42 PM (8OfuX)

Turning into a liberal?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 29, 2019 03:45 PM (6b1dn)

271 I have a brother in law with 3 sons, the oldest and youngest are very straight. The middle boy is charming, smart, driven, and my wife and I knew he was gonna be gay by the time he was in 8th grade, which was a few years before he admitted he was gay. I mean it was all there. And all 3 raised pretty much the same.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 29, 2019 03:45 PM (Kpl3J)

272 Gayness comes from being molested by an authority figure when you are a kid.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 29, 2019 03:27 PM (YA914)

That and sucking on door knobs.

Posted by: Roland THTG at August 29, 2019 03:33 PM (88+cf)
........

Or from moving to Hollywood.

Posted by: wth at August 29, 2019 03:45 PM (v0R5T)

273 Anyone want to bet whether this population of children will become homosexual at a higher rate than the general populace?

Some of them will go straight as an act of rebellion.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Not scanning your email for ad targetting at August 29, 2019 03:45 PM (xkSJa)

274 Folks like Paul Lynde. Very Gay, yet never talked about it, so people were never sure.

You and I disagree.

Posted by: pep at August 29, 2019 03:45 PM (T6t7i)

275 I'd heard something on that drugs (estrogen or other) were strong enough in water that they influence those drinking the water ... but I assumed it was total BS. Unless a LOT was dumped directly into the treatment reservoir, can't imagine how much it would take ... but a LOT ... to have any effect. (I think we way backed discussed this with the difficulty of a terror attack on water supplies ... because of sheer volume) ... but I could be wrong.

Posted by: illiniwek at August 29, 2019 03:45 PM (Cus5s)

276 Perhaps.
May the odds be ever in your favor.

Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at August 29, 2019 03:39 PM (mf5HN)

Well it's like I always said, you're an amazing gal!!!

Posted by: ... at August 29, 2019 03:45 PM (atTrV)

277 Or from moving to Hollywood.
Posted by: wth at August 29, 2019 03:45 PM (v0R5T)
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Relax, Frankie went to Hollywood.

Posted by: Axeman at August 29, 2019 03:46 PM (DuZls)

278 There's a great book on evolutionary biology called "The Beak of the Finch". One key takeaway is that adaptation to environmental factors in an isolated population of finches happens at a very high rate of speed - often in one generation. Highly recommend the book....available on Amazon.

Posted by: Little Larry Sellers at August 29, 2019 03:46 PM (8sira)

279 You're saying they're pumping birth control hormones into our drinking water?

Posted by: ace at August 29, 2019 03:26 PM (PbpT7)

No, that women take hormones and then pee them out into the water supply.
Posted by: grammie winger
........

They found that most waste treatment methods destroyed these chemicals, so it does not make into our drinking water.

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at August 29, 2019 03:46 PM (so+oy)

280 Actress and musician Miley Cyrus - who is married to actor Liam Hemsworth - said that she's not interested in having children until global warming is taken care of.

In a recent interview with Elle, the former "Hannah Montana" actress said that she wants to wait to have children until said children could "live on an earth with fish in the water."

-
Fish . . . in water! Now that she explains it, it makes so much sense!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Whatta dumb cvnt.
There will always be fish in the water. Ocean is cold.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 29, 2019 03:46 PM (bkkvA)

281 196
Looking over a study that reviewed all the extant literature till about 3
years ago, the biggest things gay people have in common was being
sexually assaulted as children. This is correlation, not causation.
Roughly 30% of gays self report childhood molestation. The other main
theory with support is mistiming of hormone release during gestation, as
much of the gender differentiation happens at specific developmental
phases.

Posted by: IanDeal at August 29, 2019 03:36 PM (ArXEJ)
It's true that childhood sexual molestation increases the risk of adult homosexuality/bisexuality, but I think the 30% rate is pretty high. Probably true in some subpopulations, but in general? I'd peg it at half to a third that. I'd check it carefully....As to gender differentiation in gestation.....Hm, you might want to also check this out. early (embryonic) gender differentiation happens in an exclusively female hormonal milieu. Testosterone exposure in the fetal male only occurs after testes are formed.

There's a LOT of crappy literature and science outthere.

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at August 29, 2019 03:46 PM (CPk08)

282 197
What gene makes you like spaghetti?

Posted by: RobM1981 at August 29, 2019 03:36 PM (XHBzQ)

Gene Simmons?

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at August 29, 2019 03:46 PM (CQ3Qb)

283 No one is born homo. Sometime in a homosexual person's past they were converted to homosexuality. They might not even realize it.

It's why the progressives outlaw conversion therapy. It's also why homosexual groups want to push it as young as possible in schools.

Posted by: MAGA at August 29, 2019 03:46 PM (HR3ef)

284 why can homosexuals have heterosexual sex for YEARS?

I think a lot of people slapped with a homosexual label are actually bisexual with a preference for the same sex rather than exclusive interest in it. Even really famous ones like Freddy Mercury, etc.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 29, 2019 03:46 PM (KZzsI)

285 What's up with Tater's grimace, or smile, or whatever that thing on his face is?

Posted by: N.L. Urker. I will urk until I can't urk anymore. at August 29, 2019 03:46 PM (Uu+Jp)

286 Kids love attention. And these days, you either put on the dress or come out of the closet and...

BOOM!

Attention.

Posted by: garrett at August 29, 2019 03:46 PM (T42ki)

287
Posted by: raimondo at August 29, 2019 03:42 PM (8OfuX)

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Ooooh... we have an English speaking raimondo for once, guys!

The regular one must have taken some time off to get that nasty case of trich treated.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 29, 2019 03:46 PM (AzW6q)

288
Overbearing, Single Mothers get you Gay sons or Misogynists.

You're saying that when boys don't have a good male role model that they don't turn out so well?

What about the inner city yutes?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 29, 2019 03:46 PM (aKsyK)

289 For some people the situational sex thing probably is true. Take, for example, the special love a muslim sometimes has for a comely goat.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 29, 2019 03:47 PM (yHwQE)

290 The gay gene is right next to the interior design gene and below the fabulous gene.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Get Your Fat Girl Throws Down Training Videos at The Outrage Outlet! at August 29, 2019 03:47 PM (hLRSq)

291 BrokeBack Mountain and the water is turning the frogs ghey thread?

Posted by: blue horseshoe at August 29, 2019 03:47 PM (QwmrN)

292 256 181 If sex drive is about reproduction why do gay males have it in overdrive?

Opportunity.

..

But there's no chance of reproduction.

Why do ghey males even have seed?

Posted by: WUT at August 29, 2019 03:47 PM (MAstk)

293 When I lived in Las Vegas I had a gay couple right next door. No matter how any conversation started out, it always, without fail turned to their gayness. I felt that they were not real, always playing a part. It became tedious very quickly.
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We have an employee here like that. You can't sit in a meeting without hearing, "my husband," "our queen-sized bed," "I can't give blood because I've had sexual relations with men," ad fucking nauseum.

No matter what the discussion is about, it always comes back to his fucking homosexuality and the gory details thereof.

Posted by: bicentennialguy at August 29, 2019 03:47 PM (vg8iE)

294 No one is born homo. Sometime in a homosexual person's past they were converted to homosexuality. They might not even realize it.

I think its a mistake to say absolute things like this. There's a lot of odd and varied things in humans, even people who are born with parts missing or extra parts. I think some people are born a certain way, but definitely at least some are moved that way by others, or culture.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 29, 2019 03:47 PM (KZzsI)

295 I knew I was hetero in 3rd grade before I knew what hetero was. Had an insane crush on a 5th grade girl with positively luminous blonde hair.

Posted by: ... at August 29, 2019 03:47 PM (atTrV)

296 Also, don't forget, there are feedback mechanisms. For example, if men go on hormone (T) replacement therapy, they usually have to stay on for life, because their body will start producing very little testosterone when it detects the large amount of exogenous testosterone coming in.

this seems a bit loopy to me.

Posted by: ace at August 29, 2019 03:44 PM (PbpT7)

Why does it sound loopy? Homeostasis via feedback control is a central theme of physiology. Almost all physiological pathways are under feedback control.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 29, 2019 03:47 PM (6b1dn)

297 So it's cocksucker Thursday?

Posted by: DaveA at August 29, 2019 03:40 PM (FhXTo)

kbdabear's Ginger Thursday >>>> Cocksucker Thursday

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 29, 2019 03:48 PM (5v5Zx)

298 I didn't catch a single fish, yesterday, that wasn't in the water.

Anecdotal. I know.

But, suspicious if you are asking me.

Posted by: garrett at August 29, 2019 03:48 PM (T42ki)

299 First borns are bossy people.

Posted by: washrivergal at August 29, 2019 03:48 PM (9+jnX)

300 one cause of the increase in size of the progeny of immigrants is the generally higher level of public sanitation here in the US 9at least for now), as well as cleaner water and food supplies.

less sub-clinical sickness and fewer parasites means the body can spend its energy on growth.

balanced nutrition and getting the daily requirements of vitamins and minerals helps too.

Posted by: redc1c4 at August 29, 2019 03:48 PM (f3F1i)

301 raimondo is admitting the Left are all racists? Well, duh.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at August 29, 2019 03:48 PM (oVJmc)

302 First borns are bossy people.
Posted by: washrivergal at August 29, 2019 03:48 PM (9+jnX)
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Hey, whaddya mean "bossy?"

Posted by: bluebell at August 29, 2019 03:48 PM (aXucN)

303
Impossible type meats and all soy based vegan foods upregulate estrogen production and downregulate testosterone production.

For the Planet, For the Children!

Posted by: Democratic Socialist Purity Party! at August 29, 2019 03:48 PM (UFLLM)

304 299 First borns are bossy people.

__________________

You shut up, I am a first born.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 29, 2019 03:48 PM (1ISKN)

305 I knew I was hetero in 3rd grade before I knew what
hetero was. Had an insane crush on a 5th grade girl with positively
luminous blonde hair.

Posted by: ... at August 29, 2019 03:47 PM (atTrV)

What's her name and address?

Posted by: Joe Biden at August 29, 2019 03:49 PM (5v5Zx)

306 correlation is not causation.

These genes could be associated with populations which culturally are more tolerant of homosexuality. Or even genes which make them more creative, or have better fashion sense - and so they migrate toward a culture which encourages homosexuality (only partially joking.)

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at August 29, 2019 03:49 PM (LWu6U)

307 >>>Why does it sound loopy? Homeostasis via feedback control is a central theme of physiology. Almost all physiological pathways are under feedback control.

i'm saying the claim that trace amounts, parts per million or parts per billion, of estrogen you would drink (maybe) would be overwhelmed by your own natural estrogen production and furthermore your body would just self-regulate and decrease its own estrogen production if it got a little extra.

Posted by: ace at August 29, 2019 03:49 PM (PbpT7)

308
It's why the progressives outlaw conversion therapy. It's also why homosexual groups want to push it as young as possible in schools.
=====
Antonicus you must debase yourself before Rome, and I, Antonicus.

Hey, where did that boy go?

Posted by: Gladiator Movies are totes gay at August 29, 2019 03:49 PM (FmxeB)

309 Know a kid who was my son's friend. He was born as a triplet with two sisters. Everyone knew he was gay by the time he started walking. I suspect being cooped up with two chicks in a womb for 9 months can do that to you. His father was a submarine Captain. Its either excessive estrogen or contact with sailors.

Posted by: Puddin Head at August 29, 2019 03:49 PM (2LelM)

310 Hey, whaddya mean "bossy?"

Posted by: bluebell at August 29, 2019 03:48 PM (aXucN)

Yeah - what are you talking about?? Stop it. Stop it right now.

Posted by: grammie winger at August 29, 2019 03:49 PM (lwiT4)

311 There's a great book on evolutionary biology called "The Beak of the Finch". One key takeaway is that adaptation to environmental factors in an isolated population of finches happens at a very high rate of speed - often in one generation.

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This is much like the moths in Britain I mentioned. They went from being majority gray, to majority black, and back again in fewer than 100 years - due to the presence of soot on everything in British cities, and then the air clearing after modern industry developed.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 29, 2019 03:49 PM (AzW6q)

312 For some people the situational sex thing probably is true. Take, for example, the special love a muslim sometimes has for a comely goat.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls

Or a single middle aged woman who drinks a lot of wine has special love for a bear

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 29, 2019 03:50 PM (KZzsI)

313 " my wife and I knew he was gonna be gay by the time he was in 8th grade,
which was a few years before he admitted he was gay. I mean it was
all there. And all 3 raised pretty much the same."

as others mentioned ... an event with a teacher, baby sitter, priest ... could make all the difference, and parents may never even realize anything. A lot of trauma can happen to "imprint" (good or bad) on a child's psyche before age 5 or so.

Posted by: illiniwek at August 29, 2019 03:50 PM (Cus5s)

314 They're turning the frogs gay!

Posted by: Alex Jones at August 29, 2019 03:50 PM (PbpT7)

315 Mark Dice has a newish Stelter video (August 27th):

https://preview.tinyurl.com/yxgm9q3p

Posted by: m at August 29, 2019 03:50 PM (2VrwR)

316 Gah, I really do need to do work at work so presume my rant about the
sexualization of friendship, particularly male friendship, here. blah
blah blah friends are important and it's bullshit to do the whole oh
those guys are so close they must secretly want each other's dicks
thingy

Sexualization of friendship is necessary to breaking down society and ushering in the revolution or some stupid shit like that.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Not scanning your email for ad targetting at August 29, 2019 03:50 PM (xkSJa)

317 302 First borns are bossy people.
Posted by: washrivergal at August 29, 2019 03:48 PM (9+jnX)
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Hey, whaddya mean "bossy?"

Posted by: bluebell at August 29, 2019 03:48 PM (aXucN)

The technical term is "Little Miss Bossy-Pants".

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Get Your Fat Girl Throws Down Training Videos at The Outrage Outlet! at August 29, 2019 03:50 PM (hLRSq)

318 What gene makes you like spaghetti?

Posted by: RobM1981 at August 29, 2019 03:36 PM (XHBzQ)
........

The one that makes your bones all rubbery.

Posted by: wth at August 29, 2019 03:50 PM (v0R5T)

319 Bee doing Bee things:

https://bit.ly/2PliAFH

Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at August 29, 2019 03:50 PM (mf5HN)

320 256 181 If sex drive is about reproduction why do gay males have it in overdrive?

Opportunity.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 29, 2019 03:43 PM (6b1dn)

And motive. And means.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 29, 2019 03:51 PM (NWiLs)

321 >>They're turning the frogs gay!

They were always kinda curious if you ask us.

Posted by: The Toads at August 29, 2019 03:51 PM (T42ki)

322 we had a cabal of lesbians in our social orbit some years ago, we had to socialize with them for business reasons every so often. when they had more that enough to drink some of them would get very familiar and start disclosing way to much information. whether it was true or not ever one of them insists they were raped by a close male relative when they were young.

when one of the younger ones started crying about how something similar had happened to her very recently she was literally told to shut up because it had happened to everyone. not by me by the lesbians.

Posted by: yankeefifith at August 29, 2019 03:51 PM (HALdu)

323 Now we can abort gay children before they are even born!

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 29, 2019 03:51 PM (1ISKN)

324 Sorry, but I'm on the "born that way" bandwagon. After watching my boys grow up I can spot the gay boys in kindergarten. The girls not so much, that's more 7th grade.

Posted by: dagny at August 29, 2019 03:51 PM (nRWPy)

325 Posted by: Joe Biden at August 29, 2019 03:49 PM (5v5Zx)

Lmfao

Posted by: ... at August 29, 2019 03:51 PM (atTrV)

326
i'm saying the claim that trace amounts, parts per million or parts per billion, of estrogen you would drink (maybe) would be overwhelmed by your own natural estrogen production and furthermore your body would just self-regulate and decrease its own estrogen production if it got a little extra.

=======
Sure, like the pancreas puts out more insulin as needed if your diet has too much sugar, except, you know, if you have a problem with it . . .

So must people can probably adjust for exogenous hormone, but some of them probably have issues with the feedback loop.

Posted by: its probably sciency enough for a grant at August 29, 2019 03:51 PM (d0qgC)

327 >Hey, whaddya mean "bossy?"

Posted by: bluebell at August 29, 2019 03:48 PM (aXucN)

What she said.

Posted by: Muad'dib at August 29, 2019 03:51 PM (sjdRT)

328 I don't know if it's something in the water but shoe size seems to be increasing regardless of height.

Posted by: Pig to man dreaming of lions at August 29, 2019 03:51 PM (BoJzR)

329 No matter what the discussion is about, it always comes back to his fucking homosexuality and the gory details thereof.
Posted by: bicentennialguy at August 29, 2019 03:47 PM (vg8iE)

That's a psychological "tell", and it applies to about anything, not just gayness. If you're around someone and they constantly keep bringing the same issues up (maybe it's looks, maybe it's someone else) then it's something that they have a huge internal insecurity about, and they're desperate for external validation to drown out the negative voices inside them.

well that's enough psychologist playacting for today.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 29, 2019 03:52 PM (Kpl3J)

330 293 When I lived in Las Vegas I had a gay couple right next door. No matter how any conversation started out, it always, without fail turned to their gayness. I felt that they were not real, always playing a part. It became tedious very quickly.
==========

We have an employee here like that. You can't sit in a meeting without hearing, "my husband," "our queen-sized bed," "I can't give blood because I've had sexual relations with men," ad fucking nauseum.

No matter what the discussion is about, it always comes back to his fucking homosexuality and the gory details thereof.
Posted by: bicentennialguy at August 29, 2019 03:47 PM (vg8iE)

That's like the jock that is always talking about getting laid by hot chicks (I'll show her my O-face!). STFU already.

Posted by: Roy at August 29, 2019 03:52 PM (0yxK0)

331 Bee doing Bee things:

https://bit.ly/2PliAFH

Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at August 29, 2019 03:50 PM (mf5HN)

I love that whiteboard! Ha!

Posted by: grammie winger at August 29, 2019 03:52 PM (lwiT4)

332 I got the Gay Gene in prison. Wonder whatever happened to that guy.

Posted by: Big Bubba Brady at August 29, 2019 03:52 PM (r+sAi)

333
What's up with Tater's grimace, or smile, or whatever that thing on his face is?
Posted by: N.L. Urker. I will urk until I can't urk anymore

He's trying out for the lead in the remake of Mr. Sardonicus.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 29, 2019 03:52 PM (aKsyK)

334 but genetics -- along with environment -- play a part in shaping sexuality

behavioral science
those bastard mom's turning their small children into freaks

now there is proof of the child abuse

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at August 29, 2019 03:52 PM (vEIlU)

335 Colon Kapernick was banging a trap. Gotta find the link,

Posted by: blue horseshoe at August 29, 2019 03:52 PM (QwmrN)

336 First born WOMEN are bossy. First born men just excel at leadership.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 29, 2019 03:52 PM (W+RZ5)

337 These are just a few of the images we've recorded. And you can see, it wasn't what we thought. There's been no war here and no terraforming event. The environment is stable. It's the gay. The G-23 Gayxilon Hydrochlorate that we added to the air processors. It was supposed to calm the population, weed out aggression.

Posted by: Grump928(C)
at August 29, 2019 03:52 PM (6OoFY)

338 Also, the fact that only 8-25% of homosexuality was accounted for by genetics would seem to suggest that there a large component of choice in the matter.

HATE SPEECH!!!

Posted by: Big Red Feminist at August 29, 2019 03:52 PM (9t0Zz)

339 57 well I wrote it on the internet so it must be true
Posted by: ace at August 29, 2019 03:19 PM (PbpT7)

Oh, THIS is the theme of the post.
I was wondering.

Posted by: m at August 29, 2019 03:53 PM (2VrwR)

340 I'm the youngest of 4 by 12 years. I'm bossy. Fight me.

Posted by: dagny at August 29, 2019 03:53 PM (nRWPy)

341 i'm saying the claim that trace amounts, parts per million or parts per billion, of estrogen you would drink (maybe) would be overwhelmed by your own natural estrogen production and furthermore your body would just self-regulate and decrease its own estrogen production if it got a little extra.

Posted by: ace at August 29, 2019 03:49 PM (PbpT7)

Ah. OK. That makes sense.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 29, 2019 03:53 PM (6b1dn)

342 So pulled up a long list of famous people named Gene to make jokes but I don't recognize many of them. Not a lot of famous Genes.

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at August 29, 2019 03:53 PM (CQ3Qb)

343 The gay gene has electrolytes

Posted by: ... at August 29, 2019 03:53 PM (atTrV)

344 First borns are bossy people.
Posted by: washrivergal at A

lol, you know more accurate to say "first borns are burdened with the responsibility of telling all the others to quit eating paint and stomping on fire ant hills, every day."

Posted by: yankeefifith at August 29, 2019 03:53 PM (HALdu)

345
310 Hey, whaddya mean "bossy?"

Posted by: bluebell at August 29, 2019 03:48 PM (aXucN)

Yeah - what are you talking about?? Stop it. Stop it right now.

Posted by: grammie winger

on your knees......

Posted by: comrade nurse ratched at August 29, 2019 03:53 PM (d7Ww2)

346 337 These are just a few of the images we've recorded. And you can see, it wasn't what we thought. There's been no war here and no terraforming event. The environment is stable. It's the gay. The G-23 Gayxilon Hydrochlorate that we added to the air processors. It was supposed to calm the population, weed out aggression.
Posted by: Grump928(C)
at August 29, 2019 03:52 PM (6OoFY)

==========

*masturbating furiously at the idea of perfecting humanity by weeding out anything resembling aggression*
-Progressive, with plans for world domination through the sword

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, The Black Mamba at August 29, 2019 03:54 PM (iikV8)

347 Miley Cyrus saying no kids until global warming is right up there with Lena Dunham's ex fiance that they won't get married until SSM becomes legal. It did, Lena Dunham's ex started screwing a younger gal.

Miley Cyrus doesn't want kids, but she's attributing it to a popular SJW issue so that she doesn't have to own that decision. Considering what a mess she is, it's probably a good choice for her to make.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 29, 2019 03:54 PM (bDqIh)

348 First Born: Follow the Rules
Second Born: I don't follow the rules.
Third Born: I'm the reason they made the rules.

Posted by: grammie winger at August 29, 2019 03:54 PM (lwiT4)

349 https://politicalawakening.com/transgender- model-reveals-secret-relationship-with-colin-kaepernick/

Posted by: blue horseshoe at August 29, 2019 03:54 PM (QwmrN)

350 229
25 Also, the fact that only 8-25% of homosexuality was accounted for
by genetics would seem to suggest that there a large component of choice
in the matter.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at August 29, 2019 03:15 PM (wCmLp)
No, no, no, no.......This sounds reasonable but it actually isn't right.

Firstly, genotype by environment interactions can be important but difficult to detect, and they tend to be underestimated in human populations. It's a methodological problem. Secondly, maternal effects and epigenetic effects are non genetic. Thirdly, early sexual development is highly tuned to environment. In theory, sexual preference could be both completely non genetic and strictly deterministic. I personally doubt that that's universally true, but it is a possibility that should be kept in mind.

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at August 29, 2019 03:54 PM (CPk08)

351 thanks m!

Posted by: ace at August 29, 2019 03:54 PM (PbpT7)

352 Also, second, third, forth,......10th born women are bossy.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 29, 2019 03:54 PM (W+RZ5)

353 342 So pulled up a long list of famous people named Gene to make jokes but I don't recognize many of them. Not a lot of famous Genes.
Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at August 29, 2019 03:53 PM (CQ3Qb)

=========

Kelley?

Song and dance?

Come on!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, The Black Mamba at August 29, 2019 03:54 PM (iikV8)

354 I must say all that municipal estrogen is making my ass look ---- fabulous!!!!!

Posted by: Ass Chum at August 29, 2019 03:54 PM (QCkkg)

355 267/268 I see the closet queens need to smear others with their repressed homosexuallity.

Posted by: raimondo at August 29, 2019 03:54 PM (8OfuX)

356 I'm the youngest of 3 married to the oldest of 7.

I'm da boss.

*files nails*

Posted by: Tami at August 29, 2019 03:54 PM (cF8AT)

357 @281, I've seen a couple of studies (which .. take it for what it's worth) that 40% of gay men were sexually abused as children, and another 35% were physical abused. And the average age of first sexual encounter for gay men is 12, compared to 17 for straight men. That strongly implies that even for the gay men who didn't report being sexually abused, they are reporting sexual abuse as consensual encounters (and maybe even believing it).

There are way, way too many pathologies associated with homosexuality that ALSO correlate to pathologies associated with childhood sexual abuse -- hypersexuality, risk-taking behaviors, addictive behaviors, severe depression and anxiety disorders, difficulty regulating emotions, difficulty establishing stable relationships. Especially with a really low genetic correlation (that we've discovered so far), and I'm heavy on the nurture side.

Posted by: sunny-dee at August 29, 2019 03:55 PM (pID7O)

358 So pulled up a long list of famous people named Gene to make jokes but I don't recognize many of them. Not a lot of famous Genes.
Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at August 29, 2019 03:53 PM (CQ3Qb)

Gene Gene The Dancing Machine.

Posted by: DR.WTF at August 29, 2019 03:55 PM (aS1PU)

359 Piss off, racist foreign retard.

Posted by: Grump928(C)
at August 29, 2019 03:55 PM (6OoFY)

360 That's a psychological "tell", and it applies to about anything, not just gayness. If you're around someone and they constantly keep bringing the same issues up (maybe it's looks, maybe it's someone else) then it's something that they have a huge internal insecurity about, and they're desperate for external validation to drown out the negative voices inside them.

well that's enough psychologist playacting for today.
========

Yep. And I've always said, you don't seek validation for your actions, especially from strangers, if you don't think what you're doing is a little "off" or wrong.

Posted by: bicentennialguy at August 29, 2019 03:55 PM (vg8iE)

361 Not a lot of famous Genes.
Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at August 29, 2019 03:53 PM (CQ3Qb)

What about Gene Gene the Dancing Machine?

Posted by: Pug Mahon at August 29, 2019 03:55 PM (xPJvm)

362 Tuesday's child is Gay, says Ace.

Posted by: garrett at August 29, 2019 03:55 PM (T42ki)

363 >>So pulled up a long list of famous people named Gene to make jokes but I don't recognize many of them. Not a lot of famous Genes.

Gene Rayburn
Gene Rodenberry
Gene Siskel

Posted by: Lizzy at August 29, 2019 03:55 PM (bDqIh)

364 For some people the situational sex thing probably is true. Take, for example, the special love a muslim sometimes has for a comely goat.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls

Or a single middle aged woman who drinks a lot of wine has special love for ~~a bear~~ teen boys.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

Fixt

Posted by: rickb223 at August 29, 2019 03:55 PM (bkkvA)

365 299 First borns are bossy people.

Posted by: washrivergal at August 29, 2019 03:48 PM (9+jnX)

Shut up.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at August 29, 2019 03:55 PM (Zv1X1)

366 No one is born homo. Sometime in a homosexual person's past they were converted to homosexuality. They might not even realize it.

-
I was converted to heterosexuality by watching Raquel Welchc in her fur bikini coming out of the ocean in 1,000,000 Years B.C.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at August 29, 2019 03:55 PM (+y/Ru)

367 218
Do you eat snails?

Do you eat oysters?

Do you like Gladiator movies?
Ever seen a grown man naked?

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at August 29, 2019 03:55 PM (5l6gb)

368 Same goes for butch haircuts and wearing male clothes for lesbos. Once their lesbo genes kick in, their hair stops growing long.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger

What about the Subaru gene?

Posted by: Roland THTG at August 29, 2019 03:55 PM (88+cf)

369 I don't know if it's something in the water but shoe size seems to be increasing regardless of height.

As a species we're fatter than ever, so it's probably just to support the extra weight.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Not scanning your email for ad targetting at August 29, 2019 03:55 PM (xkSJa)

370 345
310 Hey, whaddya mean "bossy?"

Posted by: bluebell at August 29, 2019 03:48 PM (aXucN)

Yeah - what are you talking about?? Stop it. Stop it right now.

Posted by: grammie winger

on your knees......
Posted by: comrade nurse ratched at August 29, 2019 03:53 PM (d7Ww2)

This just got interesting.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 29, 2019 03:56 PM (NWiLs)

371 So this study finds a few things that are sorta-kind-of-maybe-but-probably-not-but-maybe-a-little.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at August 29, 2019 03:56 PM (oVJmc)

372
We have an employee here like that. You can't sit in a meeting without hearing, "my husband," "our queen-sized bed," "I can't give blood because I've had sexual relations with men," ad fucking nauseum.

No matter what the discussion is about, it always comes back to his fucking homosexuality and the gory details thereof.
Posted by: bicentennialguy

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Had a person like that in my workplace once. It was all about her being married (she was newly married). Every excuse she could possibly find to bring up the fact that she was married. She was ugly as sin and her husband was a jerk. We wanted to just proclaim at one of her innumerable off-topic, conversation-stopping hints, "Jane, you are married. MARRIED. **MARRIED.**"

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 29, 2019 03:56 PM (7OILk)

373 Mean Gene Okerlund

Posted by: garrett at August 29, 2019 03:56 PM (T42ki)

374 Kelley?

Song and dance?

Come on!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, The Black Mamba at August 29, 2019 03:54 PM (iikV

I'm waiting for the right moment to drop Gene Hackman, Gene Ockerlund and Gene Roddenberry. But that's all I got.

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at August 29, 2019 03:56 PM (CQ3Qb)

375 I'm the youngest of 4 by 12 years. I'm bossy. Fight me.

Posted by: dagny at August 29, 2019 03:53 PM (nRWPy)

Some psychologists say that after a seven year gap, the family starts counting again at One.

Posted by: grammie winger at August 29, 2019 03:56 PM (lwiT4)

376 >>Take, for example, the special love a muslim sometimes has for a comely goat.

What's the muslim version of beer goggles?

Askin for a friend.

Posted by: adobe juan baaaaaad man kenobe at August 29, 2019 03:56 PM (/kGUp)

377 Gene Siskel and Gene Shalit both had the movie reviewer Gene. And our own Gene Madison.

Posted by: ... at August 29, 2019 03:56 PM (atTrV)

378
lol, you know more accurate to say "first borns
are burdened with the responsibility of telling all the others to quit
eating paint and stomping on fire ant hills, every day."

Posted by: yankeefifith at August 29, 2019 03:53 PM (HALdu)

+++It is only natural. They know the ropes.

Posted by: washrivergal at August 29, 2019 03:56 PM (9+jnX)

379 340 I'm the youngest of 4 by 12 years. I'm bossy. Fight me.
Posted by: dagny at August 29, 2019 03:53 PM (nRWPy)

People who write about birth order hold that often that big a gap is like starting a whole new sequence. My wife's family was like that - there were 3 older kids, then a 9 year gap, then 2 younger kids. The 3 older kids always felt like one family, the 2 youngers ones a separate one. (although they all get along) My wife's oldest brother was 16 years old when she was born.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 29, 2019 03:57 PM (Kpl3J)

380 So pulled up a long list of famous people named Gene to make jokes but I don't recognize many of them. Not a lot of famous Genes.
Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at August 29, 2019 03:53 PM (CQ3Qb)

We should make a game show out of it.

Posted by: Gene Rayburn at August 29, 2019 03:57 PM (BoJzR)

381 Gene Shalit isn't even on the list

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at August 29, 2019 03:57 PM (CQ3Qb)

382 I'm the youngest of 4 by 12 years. I'm bossy. Fight me.

Doesn't that effectively make you a firstborn? By the time you were 5, weren't the other kids out of the house?

Posted by: Grump928(C)
at August 29, 2019 03:57 PM (6OoFY)

383 283
No one is born homo. Sometime in a homosexual person's past they were
converted to homosexuality. They might not even realize it.

It is impossible to rationally justify your statement. Full stop. Sorry.

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at August 29, 2019 03:57 PM (CPk08)

384 Gene Rayburn
Gene Rodenberry
Gene Siskel

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Gene Barry
Gene Gene the Dancing Machine

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at August 29, 2019 03:57 PM (+y/Ru)

385 348
First Born: Follow the Rules
Second Born: I don't follow the rules.
Third Born: I'm the reason they made the rules.

Posted by: grammie winger at August 29, 2019 03:54 PM (lwiT4)

Flip that upside down for my kids. 3rd one is a rule follower, 2nd on is like me and looks for ways to screw the system but without consequence, and the 1st had so many demerits that his high school changed their whole disciplinary system and his college closed his frat.

Posted by: dagny at August 29, 2019 03:57 PM (nRWPy)

386 Maybe I'll try the Eugene's

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at August 29, 2019 03:57 PM (CQ3Qb)

387 Raimondo
Go fuck yer self with a razor wire wrapped fire hydrant.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 29, 2019 03:57 PM (W+RZ5)

388 Gene Michael

Posted by: garrett at August 29, 2019 03:57 PM (T42ki)

389 on your knees......

Posted by: comrade nurse ratched at August 29, 2019 03:53 PM (d7Ww2)

This just got interesting.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 29, 2019 03:56 PM (NWiLs)

If I got down on my knees, they'd have to haul me up with a crane. It's why I don't do floors. Or housework. Or cooking.

Posted by: grammie winger at August 29, 2019 03:58 PM (lwiT4)

390 well I wrote it on the internet so it must be true
Posted by: ace at A

lol, years ago when the first internets were becoming a thing some 20/20 ish show was running an investigation into roofing scammers. some guy that was running away with money for roofing work he did not do told some lady that was going to hire him

"this is the address for our website. you should go see our site so you will know we are legitimate. you can see our address has the "WWW" which is better than the regular old internets everyone else uses."

Posted by: yankeefifith at August 29, 2019 03:58 PM (HALdu)

391 I'm the youngest in the family.
I think my first words were "you're not the boss of me."

Posted by: N.L. Urker. I will urk until I can't urk anymore. at August 29, 2019 03:58 PM (Uu+Jp)

392 >>>362 Tuesday's child is Gay, says Ace.

tbh I assume that almost all men are gay nowadays.

This is due to seeing a lot of NeverTrumpers on Twitter.

Posted by: ace at August 29, 2019 03:58 PM (PbpT7)

393 Did we ever get confirmation that Kurt got banned?

I don't think he ever talked about the stock market for the week.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, The Black Mamba at August 29, 2019 03:58 PM (iikV8)

394 First Born: Follow the Rules
Second Born: I don't follow the rules.
Third Born: I'm the reason they made the rules.

Fourth: There's rules?

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Not scanning your email for ad targetting at August 29, 2019 03:58 PM (xkSJa)

395 98 well that ties into my Secret Without Evidence Theory

Posted by: ace at August 29, 2019 03:26 PM (PbpT7)

If you admit that you're circulating Fake News, then is it Fake Fake News?

Posted by: m at August 29, 2019 03:58 PM (2VrwR)

396 I'm bossy. Milk me!

Posted by: Bossy at August 29, 2019 03:58 PM (5v5Zx)

397 I never had a sister, I always wondered what it would be like. You hear such stories about how they're so mean or so nice. I suspect its all exaggerated. All 4 of us brothers got along so well all the time, I can't imagine a sister would have totally ruined that dynamic or have been so different.

Problem is I'd probably have spent a lot of time in jail for attacking guys that treated her wrong.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 29, 2019 03:58 PM (KZzsI)

398
So here's one I wonder about: A lot of immigrants are short, but then their grandkids are tall.

Well, so: It's just that the kids are getting better nutrition, so they get taller as they mature.

But I seem to remember it's the second generation that gets tall. The first generation over hear should get tall, as they have the American nutrition, but I thought that the height increase doesn't usually come with full force until the second generation born in the US.

A few years back, I was reading some stuff on the Japanese officer class during WWII and it was noted that the average officer was quite a bit shorter, lighter and less robust than the average enlisted soldier.

Apparently the argument was that Japanese officers were almost all sent through military schools the moment they were able, so kindergarten or 1st grade. One of the ways that the military schools cultivated toughness in their students was to basically STARVE them. Similar to the classic Spartan agoge. The problem is that the kids were being starved at the time when they needed the most nutrition for robust physical development.

So the Japanese ended up with fanatical, tough, disciplined, dedicated, and well-trained shrimps for their officer corps.

I really need to track that down again so I can give a proper cite, but it always stuck in my mind.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 29, 2019 03:58 PM (veoSD)

399 I would hazard a guess that genetics, epigemetics, womb environment, imprinting, culture, peer pressure, opportunity, choice, and trauma all have a role to play.

It's probably not down to a single cause, but each of a number of successive factors each modifying the odds.

Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est at August 29, 2019 03:58 PM (J+mig)

400 Some psychologists say that after a seven year gap, the family starts counting again at One.

Posted by: grammie winger at August 29, 2019 03:56 PM (lwiT4)

+++I am the youngest of three girls. My oldest sister is 10 years older than me. She is bossy.

Posted by: washrivergal at August 29, 2019 03:58 PM (9+jnX)

401 348 First Born: Follow the Rules
Second Born: I don't follow the rules.
Third Born: I'm the reason they made the rules.

Posted by: grammie winger at August 29, 2019 03:54 PM (lwiT4)

As the last of three... frighteningly accurate!

Posted by: ... at August 29, 2019 03:59 PM (atTrV)

402 That picture is frightening. That is the look of a man who feeds on freshly aborted fetuses.

Posted by: Puddleglum, job huntin' at August 29, 2019 03:59 PM (iPcM4)

403 369
I don't know if it's something in the water but shoe size seems to be increasing regardless of height.

As a species we're fatter than ever, so it's probably just to support the extra weight.

cut, jib, newsletter

Posted by: Trofim Denisovich Lysenko at August 29, 2019 03:59 PM (sGtp+)

404
If you breed a Kliefelter's Syndrome to a Turner's Syndrome do you get a normal baby? Or, Big Mike?

(esoteric but indulge me)

Posted by: Democratic Socialist Purity Party Camp Commander at August 29, 2019 03:59 PM (UFLLM)

405 I'm the firstborn, which for some reason made me completely responsible for my younger brother's shitty behavior and my mother's constant unhappiness and emotional instability.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 29, 2019 03:59 PM (NWiLs)

406 Apropos of nothing, John Wick 3 sux. None of the plot made sense. Even the fight choreography was poor.

Posted by: Grump928(C)
at August 29, 2019 03:59 PM (6OoFY)

407 I'm the youngest of 4 by 12 years. I'm bossy. Fight me.

Posted by: dagny at August 29, 2019 03:53 PM (nRWPy)

Some psychologists say that after a seven year gap, the family starts counting again at One.
Posted by: grammie winger

9 year, 10 month gap between my sister and myself.

And it's true. When she is 7, I'm 17. Not a lot in common. I was out of the house and married before she was even driving.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 29, 2019 03:59 PM (bkkvA)

408 I'm the youngest of 4 by 12 years. I'm bossy. Fight me.
Posted by: dagny at August 29, 2019 03:53 PM (nRWPy)
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I know the answer to that one. With such a large gap, you were essentially a first-born, so therefore, bossy.

I prefer to use the term "delegator," myself.

Posted by: bluebell at August 29, 2019 03:59 PM (aXucN)

409 355
267/268 I see the closet queens need to smear others with their repressed homosexuallity.

Posted by: raimondo at August 29, 2019 03:54 PM (8OfuX)I see that you are a retard.

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at August 29, 2019 03:59 PM (CPk08)

410 378
lol, you know more accurate to say "first borns
are burdened with the responsibility of telling all the others to quit eating paint and stomping on fire ant hills, every day."

Posted by: yankeefifith at August 29, 2019 03:53 PM (HALdu)

+++It is only natural. They know the ropes.
Posted by: washrivergal at August 29, 2019 03:56 PM (9+jnX)

I remember getting whipped by my mother for telling my younger brother it would be funny if he stomped on the fire ant hill. The excuse "Well I didn't think he would really do it!!!" just didn't cut it with her.

and actually it was pretty funny. To me, at least.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 29, 2019 04:00 PM (Kpl3J)

411 What about Gene Tierney?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 29, 2019 04:00 PM (KZzsI)

412 Aha! My belly is the result of hormonal stress my mom suffered when dad got drafted to Korea. Beer is off the hook! Woohoo!

Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at August 29, 2019 04:00 PM (LGo6U)

413 Gene Wilder
Gene Simmons. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at August 29, 2019 04:00 PM (bDqIh)

414 I should've just said "fuck it" and rebelled like a mofo. If I was going to be treated like a villain, I might as well have been one.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 29, 2019 04:00 PM (NWiLs)

415 Doesn't that effectively make you a firstborn? By the time you were 5, weren't the other kids out of the house?

Posted by: Grump928(C)

Yeah. It gave me the sadz when the last bro went to college. But he failed out twice, so that was nice. Stayed away after the third shot at it. However, I never had anyone at home to boss around, which was also sad. I would have excelled at bossing siblings around.

Posted by: dagny at August 29, 2019 04:00 PM (nRWPy)

416 What about Maura Tierney?

Posted by: garrett at August 29, 2019 04:00 PM (T42ki)

417 Bee doing Bee things:
.......

Speaking of bees, last night I had a moral dilemma. A bee was on my patio pavers walking around in slow circles. Came back an hour later and there he was, walking around the same spot in slow circles.
Do I squash him and end his misery, or do I let him live in obvious distress?
I did not squash him. This morning he was gone so all is well, he must have got better and flew home!

Posted by: wth at August 29, 2019 04:00 PM (v0R5T)

418 413 Gene Wilder
Gene Simmons. . .
Posted by: Lizzy at August 29, 2019 04:00 PM (bDqIh)

==========

"Yes, more! More!"
-The evil blob that feeds on the procession of Gene names

What? I'm trying to write something to appeal to idiots.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, The Black Mamba at August 29, 2019 04:01 PM (iikV8)

419 First Born: Follow the Rules
Second Born: I don't follow the rules.
Third Born: I'm the reason they made the rules.

Fourth: There's rules?
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Not scanning your email for ad targetting at August 29, 2019 03:58 PM (xkSJa)
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FIfth: YOLO, baby!

Posted by: bluebell at August 29, 2019 04:01 PM (aXucN)

420 >>>355 267/268 I see the closet queens need to smear others with their repressed homosexuallity.
Posted by: raimondo

Premise 1: "Gays are wonderful and you're a Nazi for not saying gays are wonderful"

Premise 2: "Everyone I disagree with is a dirty faggot"

Choose one (1) premise, raimondo.

Posted by: ace at August 29, 2019 04:01 PM (PbpT7)

421 Did we ever get confirmation that Kurt got banned?

I don't think he ever talked about the stock market for the week.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, The Black Mamba at August 29, 2019 03:58 PM (iikV

He left a stock market turd in an earlier post today.

Posted by: DR.WTF at August 29, 2019 04:01 PM (aS1PU)

422 "Gene Simmons. . ."

In fairness, that is just his stage name.

Posted by: Curmudgeon at August 29, 2019 04:01 PM (ujg0T)

423 Apropos of nothing, John Wick 3 sux. None of the plot made sense. Even the fight choreography was poor.
Posted by: Grump928(C)
at August 29, 2019 03:59 PM (6OoFY)

Yep. It was embarrassing to watch. And yet, the ending...

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at August 29, 2019 04:01 PM (vEIlU)

424 That might explain why I love the smell of dick.

Posted by: President Emeritus B H Obama at August 29, 2019 04:01 PM (/Fmtj)

425 What about Kate Mara?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 29, 2019 04:01 PM (KZzsI)

426 Apropos of nothing, John Wick 3 sux. None of the plot made sense. Even the fight choreography was poor.
Posted by: Grump928(C)
at August 29, 2019 03:59 PM (6OoFY)

You don't watch John Wick 3 for the plot, you watch it for the action.

The producers were hoping you'd be too enthralled to notice the poor choreography.

Posted by: Surfperch at August 29, 2019 04:01 PM (24wi6)

427 Is this a Gene gathering? Yippi-Kai-Yay!

Posted by: Gene Autry, The Singing Cowboy at August 29, 2019 04:01 PM (5v5Zx)

428 This morning he was gone so all is well, he must have got better and flew home!
=====\
Nope. I ate him.

Posted by: Finch at August 29, 2019 04:01 PM (Hc9h3)

429 Sorry, but I'm on the "born that way" bandwagon. After watching my boys grow up I can spot the gay boys in kindergarten. The girls not so much, that's more 7th grade.

I work in Seattle with quite a few gay guys and I've become pretty good at identifying who is and who isn't. Despite that, I know two guys in my immediate work circle who give off a very gay vibe, but are straight.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 29, 2019 04:01 PM (9t0Zz)

430 And thus began orientation-selective abortions.

Posted by: 29Victor at August 29, 2019 04:01 PM (BJKQV)

431 I would have excelled at bossing siblings around.
Posted by: dagny at August 29, 2019 04:00 PM (nRWPy)
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That's why God gave you all those boys.

Posted by: bluebell at August 29, 2019 04:02 PM (aXucN)

432 380
So pulled up a long list of famous people named Gene to make jokes but I
don't recognize many of them. Not a lot of famous Genes.

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at August 29, 2019 03:53 PM (CQ3Qb)

We should make a game show out of it.

or a humorous science fiction series

Posted by: Gene/Jean the transmute at August 29, 2019 04:02 PM (sGtp+)

433 And yet, the ending...

John Wick 4 is guaranteed.

Posted by: Grump928(C)
at August 29, 2019 04:02 PM (6OoFY)

434 Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 29, 2019 03:58 PM (KZzsI)

I can tell you what having two younger sisters is like. They call up and bitch about the other and try to get me in the middle. And when I won't they both hate me. I pray every night that when i wake up I'll have brothers.

Oh yeah and if anyone tried o mess with them when they were growing up I'd kill them.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at August 29, 2019 04:02 PM (Zv1X1)

435 That picture is frightening. That is the look of a man who feeds on freshly aborted fetuses.

And whose wife has a terrible time cleaning his bibs.

Posted by: t-bird at August 29, 2019 04:02 PM (EYsyU)

436 Is Hogg boy paying his way through college by performing as Raimondo and Kurt?

Posted by: N.L. Urker. I will urk until I can't urk anymore. at August 29, 2019 04:02 PM (Uu+Jp)

437 I prefer to use the term "delegator," myself.

Posted by: bluebell at August 29, 2019 03:59 PM (aXucN)

I say I'm "supervising." Someone has to.

Posted by: dagny at August 29, 2019 04:02 PM (nRWPy)

438 430 And thus began orientation-selective abortions.
Posted by: 29Victor at August 29, 2019 04:01 PM (BJKQV)

=========

"Shit..."
-The Intersectional High Committee

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, The Black Mamba at August 29, 2019 04:02 PM (iikV8)

439 >> That picture is frightening. That is the look of a man who feeds on freshly aborted fetuses.

. . . and always finds an excuse to be touching little boys.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 29, 2019 04:02 PM (bDqIh)

440
Bees are YD's natural enemy. I've developed a sixth- seventh- and eighth-sense for when those little fuckers are incoming.

Also - with they're constant dancing, they are the EDM rave-party club kids of the insect world.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 29, 2019 04:02 PM (AzW6q)

441 15 But if you suck one dick, everyone calls you Tater

Posted by: RoyalOil, Vicroy Canadian Territories

It helps if you suck it over a hundred times.

Posted by: President Emeritus B H Obama at August 29, 2019 04:02 PM (/Fmtj)

442 You don't watch John Wick 3 for the plot, you watch it for the action.

The producers were hoping you'd be too enthralled to notice the poor choreography.
Posted by: Surfperch at August 29, 2019 04:01 PM (24wi6)

Keanu's too slow now. There was blood and gore, yes, but silliness in all else.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at August 29, 2019 04:02 PM (vEIlU)

443 I remember getting whipped by my mother for telling my younger brother it would be funny if he stomped on the fire ant hill. The excuse "Well I didn't think he would really do it!!!" just didn't cut it with her.

and actually it was pretty funny. To me, at least.
Posted by: Tom Servo at A

yeah, that's funny, your mom was wrong

Posted by: yankeefifith at August 29, 2019 04:02 PM (HALdu)

444 Gene HackmanGene SimmonsGene AutryGene KelleyGene WilderGene Cernan

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at August 29, 2019 04:02 PM (5l6gb)

445 Premise 1: "Gays are wonderful and you're a Nazi for not saying gays are wonderful"
Premise 2: "Everyone I disagree with is a dirty faggot"

Yeah the left is constantly doing this and its so surprising to behold I just stand back in wonder. Few times are people so openly, blatantly hypocritical. But the mentality that prompts this is 7th grade level, having never matured intellectually or emotionally.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 29, 2019 04:03 PM (KZzsI)

446
In fairness, that is just his stage name.

Chaim Weitz just doesn't have the same jay-nay-say-qua

Posted by: Guy Smiley at August 29, 2019 04:03 PM (O8WFE)

447
What about Gene Tierney?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 29, 2019 04:00 PM (KZzsI)

zombie JFK: No comment

Posted by: TheQuietMan at August 29, 2019 04:03 PM (EcJpP)

448 I'd agree that you can't really do all that much about who or what you are attracted to. But you do have complete control concerning what you do about those you are attracted to

Posted by: central jersey guy at August 29, 2019 04:03 PM (UPDS7)

449 234 I'm a first born. In case you ever wondered, yeah, all of us first borns are genetic carriers of the gene that says "all the rest of you need to just shut the fuck up and do what we tell you to do."
Posted by: Tom Servo at A

lol, first born here too, and you are right, however, there are some redeeming things about the seconds, but after that is is right into the freak show.
Posted by: yankeefifith

First borns are bossy people.
Posted by: washrivergal

-----

Oldest of eight. Shut up and get back in line loser.

Mom liked me best and you all knew it.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 29, 2019 04:03 PM (Y4EXg)

450 This morning he was gone so all is well, he must have got better and flew home!

Eaten by a night bird, you Capitalist Tools!

Save the Bee People!

Posted by: Democratic Socialist Purity Party Camp Commander at August 29, 2019 04:03 PM (UFLLM)

451 or a humorous science fiction series
Posted by: Gene/Jean the transmute at August 29, 2019 04:02 PM (sGtp+)

OMG, someone remembers "Quark". For a moment I thought that bit of 1970s was just a hallucination on my part. There was also "Ficus" the part plant human.

Posted by: Curmudgeon at August 29, 2019 04:03 PM (ujg0T)

452 TURN ON ALL TEH GAY GENEZ!

Posted by: Hollywood at August 29, 2019 04:03 PM (EYsyU)

453 Despite that, I know two guys in my immediate work circle who give off a very gay vibe, but are straight.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 29, 2019 04:01 PM (9t0Zz)

So far.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at August 29, 2019 04:03 PM (Zv1X1)

454 It is a lifestyle choice.
Fags and lesbos with kids.

Posted by: The Man from Athens at August 29, 2019 04:03 PM (QMwOT)

455 409 355
267/268 I see the closet queens need to smear others with their repressed homosexuallity.

That's pre-cum their smearing, amirite?

Posted by: adobe juan kenobe at August 29, 2019 04:03 PM (/kGUp)

456 Not joking, but I recall reading some years ago that homosexual men have--on average--larger penises than straight men.

So Stetler's probably straight after all.

Posted by: JoeF. at August 29, 2019 04:03 PM (NFEMn)

457 Gene Therapy

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at August 29, 2019 04:03 PM (+y/Ru)

458 349 TRANSGENDER MODEL REVEALS SECRET RELATIONSHIP WITH COLIN KAEPERNICK

https://tinyurl.com/yxpfpam4

Posted by: blue horseshoe at August 29, 2019 03:54 PM (QwmrN)

So yet another of his passes got intercepted.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 29, 2019 04:03 PM (6b1dn)

459 Raimondo seems to have a somewhat fitting hash.

Posted by: Surfperch at August 29, 2019 04:04 PM (24wi6)

460 417
This morning he was gone so all is well, he must have got better and flew home!

ah! an optimist!

Posted by: Anachronda at August 29, 2019 04:04 PM (sGtp+)

461 I was 17 when my sister was born. She's more like a niece to me.

Posted by: Chris M at August 29, 2019 04:04 PM (eAZVt)

462 GrammieWinger at #348 - ThreadWinner!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at August 29, 2019 04:04 PM (tkyK5)

463 357 @281, I've seen a couple of studies (which .. take it for what it's worth) that 40% of gay men were sexually abused as children, and another 35% were physical abused. And the average age of first sexual encounter for gay men is 12, compared to 17 for straight men. That strongly implies that even for the gay men who didn't report being sexually abused, they are reporting sexual abuse as consensual encounters (and maybe even believing it).

There are way, way too many pathologies associated with homosexuality that ALSO correlate to pathologies associated with childhood sexual abuse -- hypersexuality, risk-taking behaviors, addictive behaviors, severe depression and anxiety disorders, difficulty regulating emotions, difficulty establishing stable relationships. Especially with a really low genetic correlation (that we've discovered so far), and I'm heavy on the nurture side.
Posted by: sunny-dee at August 29, 2019 03:55 PM (pID7O)

Given that there are many identical twin studies which prove there is no gay gene, this just reinforces it. Homosexuals, by their very nature cannot reproduce naturally, so there is no way for a "gay" gene to be passed on.
That leaves homosexuality to be a function of environment and behavior. Choices in other words. Remember up until modern times, there was was no such thing as exclusive homosexuality, especially outside the west. What we would consider forms of Bi-sexuality were more common.
Which is why the homosexual movement has always tried to claim "born this way". Because if its inherent you can't legislate against it, but if its a behavior, you could.

Posted by: Iblis at August 29, 2019 04:04 PM (9221z)

464 tbh I assume that almost all men are gay nowadays.

This is due to seeing a lot of NeverTrumpers on Twitter.

Posted by: ace at August 29, 2019 03:58 PM (PbpT7)

It's a reasonable default position.

Posted by: IC at August 29, 2019 04:04 PM (a0IVu)

465 Not to sing abortion's praises, but orientation abortions make a certain cold sense. What's the point of having dead-end children, especially in a culture where one or two are the norm?

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 29, 2019 04:04 PM (yHwQE)

466 I've long had a theory that expression of the gay gene relates to overcrowding as well. When humans roamed the plains, it was a genetic disaster to have one who couldn't or wouldn't reproduce. But when there are too may humans, nonreproduction seems like a perfectly normal thing for a population to do. This would explain, at least in part, why you tend to see more gays in cities -- not because they're more visible and can find each other more easily, although those things are true, but because there actually are more of them proportionately. That and theater, but mostly theater.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at August 29, 2019 04:04 PM (jK8Z7)

467 Speaking of bees, last night I had a moral dilemma. A bee was on my patio pavers walking around in slow circles. Came back an hour later and there he was, walking around the same spot in slow circles.
Do I squash him and end his misery, or do I let him live in obvious distress?
I did not squash him. This morning he was gone so all is well, he must have got better and flew home!
Posted by: wth at A

we had something similar with a butterfly. put it in a jar overnight, gave it a little sugar water, let it go when got warm outside, flew off into the day happy as could be.

Posted by: yankeefifith at August 29, 2019 04:04 PM (HALdu)

468 First borns are bossy people.

No, that's what younger sisters are for.

Posted by: t-bird at August 29, 2019 04:04 PM (EYsyU)

469 My husband was 8 years old when his 6th and 7th siblings were born. The last 4 kids are 2 sets of twins.

Posted by: Tami at August 29, 2019 04:04 PM (cF8AT)

470 I've been following one sixty-something Republican on Twitter who went through a bitter divorce and now identifies as gay. He recently stated that during said bitter divorce, he discovered his wife had two abortions. I don't doubt he had temptations before which he may have acted on, but I'm also sure that when he found that out, he thought to himself, "I'm not putting myself through that ever again!" It reminded me of Meredith Baxter coming out as a lesbian, and, by curious coincidence, claiming husband David Birney beat her up for over a decade and a half.

Posted by: Pete in TX at August 29, 2019 04:05 PM (2RBkF)

471 So yet another of his passes got intercepted.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 29, 2019 04:03 PM (6b1dn)

Personal Foul, illegal use of the hands, 15 yards

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at August 29, 2019 04:05 PM (5l6gb)

472 Keanu's too slow now.

Maybe that's it. There were so may Rey fight moments when the stunt men had to inexplicably stop their blows, just because Reeves wasn't ready for them. So many start-stop-start-stops.

Posted by: Grump928(C)
at August 29, 2019 04:05 PM (6OoFY)

473 Oldest.

The younger ones were adopted.

At least that's what they still think.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at August 29, 2019 04:05 PM (Zv1X1)

474 I'm #1 of 2.

and yes, my younger brother was the Christ child whilst I was the spawn of satan.

whatever. he's a progressive libtard
and I'm a gun totin MAGA girl.

Posted by: comrade nurse ratched at August 29, 2019 04:05 PM (d7Ww2)

475 451
OMG, someone remembers "Quark". For a moment I thought that bit of 1970s was just a hallucination on my part.

it's available on dvd

Posted by: Anachronda at August 29, 2019 04:05 PM (sGtp+)

476 I'm not gay.

Posted by: John Travolta at August 29, 2019 04:05 PM (WrMOC)

477 419 First Born: Follow the Rules
Second Born: I don't follow the rules.
Third Born: I'm the reason they made the rules.

Fourth: There's rules?
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Not scanning your email for ad targetting at August 29, 2019 03:58 PM (xkSJa)
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FIfth: YOLO, baby!

Posted by: bluebell at August 29, 2019 04:01 PM (aXucN)

That's how it worked in my family - I was #1.
But, Mom was the final arbiter,and TKO ya TFO if you tried to step-off...

Posted by: Pinochet Air Tours Flt Attendant at August 29, 2019 04:05 PM (zL/eJ)

478 Gene, Gene, the Dancing Machine!

and no one has said Gene Roddenberry yet? Do I know you people?

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 29, 2019 04:05 PM (Kpl3J)

479 I'm not the gay one.

Posted by: Gene Krupa at August 29, 2019 04:05 PM (DuZls)

480 That's why God gave you all those boys.

Posted by: bluebell at August 29, 2019 04:02 PM (aXucN)

Correct. My mom says it's God's payback for my fussiness, alphabetical ordering everything, telling others to be quiet so I could read, and over cleanliness. Since I'm cured of all those things and no longer give a rat's ass about anything petty, I guess she's right.

Posted by: dagny at August 29, 2019 04:05 PM (nRWPy)

481 So I have this liberal buddy from college, marries his college sweetheart, always talked about and looked at chicks like guys do, they have some kids, I would stop in and see them on occasion over the years, got married and kids myself, life happens, you lose track, fast-forward 29 shutup years later and lo and behold I find out they are divorced and he now has a man-wife. I truly think in his case it was a choice.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at August 29, 2019 04:06 PM (r+sAi)

482 Mom liked me best and you all knew it.
Posted by: Tonypete at A

lol, I am the oldest and only male child in my family, all my sisters know they are spares and some more than others.

Posted by: yankeefifith at August 29, 2019 04:06 PM (HALdu)

483 Here's a question: why is it that some guys just look gay on first glance?

Look at Mayor Buttplug. Was anyone shocked that he turns out to be a shirtlifter? I think he blew up most people's gaydar at 100 yards range.

Is the softer, more feminine facial features, or what?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 29, 2019 04:06 PM (6b1dn)

484 Those 29 year olds of a certain age will remember Gene Pitney.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at August 29, 2019 04:06 PM (+y/Ru)

485 First Born: Follow the Rules
Second Born: I don't follow the rules.
Third Born: I'm the reason they made the rules.
Posted by: grammie winger at August 29, 2019 03:54 PM (lwiT4)

I saw a comedian do a bit about how he's the eighth of eight and, yes, we are Catholic, how did you guess. He said his older siblings hated him because his parents were super strict with them and they were so exhausted by the time they got to him it was "Stop using the good silver to shoot up with in the living room!"

Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at August 29, 2019 04:07 PM (mf5HN)

486 *backs away slowly, making no sudden movements*

See everyone on the next thread then !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 29, 2019 04:07 PM (XNDy+)

487 So I have this liberal buddy from college, marries his college sweetheart, always talked about and looked at chicks like guys do, they have some kids, I would stop in and see them on occasion over the years, got married and kids myself, life happens, you lose track, fast-forward 29 shutup years later and lo and behold I find out they are divorced and he now has a man-wife. I truly think in his case it was a choice.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at A

you know some people make bad choices all the time, that is why chevy is in business.

Posted by: yankeefifith at August 29, 2019 04:07 PM (HALdu)

488 Sicilian?

Oblig:

https://tinyurl.com/Yer-an-Eggplant

Posted by: Sharkman at August 29, 2019 04:07 PM (6qa8a)

489 485 First Born: Follow the Rules
Second Born: I don't follow the rules.
Third Born: I'm the reason they made the rules.
Posted by: grammie winger at August 29, 2019 03:54 PM (lwiT4)

I saw a comedian do a bit about how he's the eighth of eight and, yes, we are Catholic, how did you guess. He said his older siblings hated him because his parents were super strict with them and they were so exhausted by the time they got to him it was "Stop using the good silver to shoot up with in the living room!"
Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at August 29, 2019 04:07 PM (mf5HN)

==========

I'm 2nd of 5.

And yeah, my 14 year old brother gets whatever the fuck he wants.

Not fair.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, The Black Mamba at August 29, 2019 04:07 PM (iikV8)

490

Gene Tunney is the boxing Gene

Posted by: TheQuietMan at August 29, 2019 04:07 PM (EcJpP)

491 Is the softer, more feminine facial features, or what?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 29, 2019 04:06 PM (6b1dn)

I think so - screams 'I have low-T'.

Posted by: IC at August 29, 2019 04:07 PM (a0IVu)

492 I'm not a scientist but I don't believe it has anything to do with genetics. I think being gay is a choice. Acting upon the feelings certainly is. I'm not even saying there is anything wrong with that, but it's not science.

Homosexuality is taught and encouraged by our communist-controlled education system and our anti-American values media.

You would have to show me a lot more evidence than a study about genes to dissuade me of this idea.

Posted by: Ree at August 29, 2019 04:07 PM (N3yvc)

493 TRANSGENDER MODEL REVEALS SECRET RELATIONSHIP WITH COLIN KAEPERNICK

https://tinyurl.com/yxpfpam4

Posted by: blue horseshoe at August 29, 2019 03:54 PM (QwmrN)

She's not a model, she's a porn star who I'm told is known for her large cock.

Posted by: Surfperch at August 29, 2019 04:07 PM (24wi6)

494 Gene Stallings: Not Gay.

Posted by: Grump928(C)
at August 29, 2019 04:07 PM (6OoFY)

495

Nice picture of a gay, bald potato.

Posted by: irongrampa at August 29, 2019 04:08 PM (KATBx)

496 I'm sure there's been a lively discussion on this topic already, but I just got here, so...

What I know is that many maladaptive behaviors in humans are strongly correlated to childhood stressors, up to and including physical and sexual abuse. I've come to believe that a vast amount of what is "wrong" with people are directly traced back to that. Generally at a very early age.

So... I don't see any reason NOT to think homosexuality isn't also largely explained by childhood experiences, and whether you want to call that abuse or neglect or trauma or stress or whatever else, I'm not sure it matters all that much. Adults turn out the way they do, of course in part because of their genetics, but I'm convinced even moreso, because of what they're exposed to as kids.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 29, 2019 04:08 PM (cY3LT)

497 404

If you breed a Kliefelter's Syndrome to a Turner's Syndrome do you get a normal baby? Or, Big Mike?

(esoteric but indulge me)
Posted by: Democratic Socialist Purity Party Camp Commander at August 29, 2019 03:59 PM (UFLLM)
You mostly get an infertile cople (XO's are often sterile as are Klinefelter's). In theory you could get a normal offspring, as most Klinefelter offspring have a normal karyotype. The problem is that Turner offspring often are aneuploid.

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at August 29, 2019 04:08 PM (CPk08)

498 Working at CNN and CNBC seems to ........"Switch Something On"

Posted by: Doggfish at August 29, 2019 04:08 PM (lMn1U)

499 Sometimes that Stelter, he looks right into ya. Right into your eyes. Y'know the thing about Stelter, he's got... lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll's eyes. When he comes at ya, doesn't seem to be livin'... until he bites ya.

Posted by: Quint at August 29, 2019 04:08 PM (t41dG)

500 OMG, someone remembers "Quark". For a moment I thought that bit of 1970s was just a hallucination on my part.

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I wish Quark XPress was an hallucination... alas, it was not and I had to use it

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 29, 2019 04:08 PM (AzW6q)

501 Not an Aquarius here. Scorpio all the way baby. And Cavil, no more making eyes at me.

Posted by: Muad'dib

Yer kid humps sand trout.

Posted by: Grand Inquisitor Cavil, an Aquarius, as it happens at August 29, 2019 04:09 PM (AM1GF)

502 osted by: Pete in TX at August 29, 2019 04:05 PM (2RBkF)

That would make perfect sense if you looked at it as a social construct and not the actual ACTS that you have to indulge in.

Remember that Simpson episode when Homer moved in with the gay guys, got better taste, hygiene and dressed nicely but then found out what the next step was?

Posted by: dagny at August 29, 2019 04:09 PM (nRWPy)

503 Those 29 year olds of a certain age will remember Gene Pitney.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

----

It's a pity, I do.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 29, 2019 04:09 PM (Y4EXg)

504 This morning he was gone so all is well, he must have got better and flew home!
Well, no.

Posted by: That ants that ripped him limb to limb at August 29, 2019 04:09 PM (r+sAi)

505
26,362.25 +326.15 (+1.25%)
At close: 4:10PM EDT

Posted by: DJIA Deathwatch at August 29, 2019 04:10 PM (6OoFY)

506 so there is no way for a "gay" gene to be passed on.

WRONG! It's in our core genes that make us Human!

Everybody's gay Gay GAY!

Posted by: Democratic Socialist Purity Party Camp Commander at August 29, 2019 04:10 PM (UFLLM)

507 "I am not gay! I never have been gay! Conservatives answer when caught soliciting sex in public toilets.

Posted by: raimondo at August 29, 2019 04:10 PM (8OfuX)

508 I wish Quark XPress was an hallucination... alas, it was not and I had to use it

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 29, 2019 04:08 PM (AzW6q)

Early Indesign allowed you to shift to Quark keyboard short cuts. I hated Quark, not as much as Pagemaker, but hated it none the less.

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at August 29, 2019 04:10 PM (5l6gb)

509 Homosexuals, by their very nature cannot reproduce naturally, so there is no way for a "gay" gene to be passed on.

Sure there is. It could be recessive, like the gene for blue eyes, hemophilia, etc.

I never thought that homosexuality was likely to be strictly Mendelian anyway, but there's no reason it couldn't be.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 29, 2019 04:11 PM (6b1dn)

510

Gene Splicer

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 29, 2019 04:11 PM (aKsyK)

511 and yes, my younger brother was the Christ child whilst I was the spawn of satan.

whatever. he's a progressive libtard
and I'm a gun totin MAGA girl.
Posted by: comrade nurse ratched at August 29, 2019 04:05 PM (d7Ww2)

2 of 2 here. I got the blame for everything my older brother did, he could do no wrong.

He turned out the kind of do-whatever libertarian, and I'm the "don't tread on me" kind.

Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est at August 29, 2019 04:11 PM (J+mig)

512 Stetler got his nice gig because he's related to someone, I'm convinced. I mean, I thought TV was all about looks--and this guy looks creepy.

Posted by: JoeF. at August 29, 2019 04:11 PM (NFEMn)

513 I want WordPerfect 7 back.

Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at August 29, 2019 04:11 PM (mf5HN)

514 Gene Tierney is the hot gene.

Posted by: JoeF. at August 29, 2019 04:12 PM (NFEMn)

515 I'm the oldest of three and we are all conservative and if you people are to be believed it's because I bossed them into it.

I can accept that.

Posted by: bluebell at August 29, 2019 04:12 PM (aXucN)

516 He said his older siblings hated him because his
parents were super strict with them and they were so exhausted by the
time they got to him...

Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny.

I am last of five, so yeah it was like that.

Posted by: Roland THTG at August 29, 2019 04:12 PM (88+cf)

517 26,362.25 +326.15 (+1.25%)
At close: 4:10PM EDT

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Obama! Is there nothing he can't do?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at August 29, 2019 04:12 PM (+y/Ru)

518 I want WordPerfect 7 back.

Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at A

when you think you have seen everything on the internets, someone does this

Posted by: yankeefifith at August 29, 2019 04:12 PM (HALdu)

519 You mostly get an infertile cople (XO's are often
sterile as are Klinefelter's). In theory you could get a normal
offspring, as most Klinefelter offspring have a normal karyotype. The
problem is that Turner offspring often are aneuploid.

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut

So what you're saying is... Big Mike!!!!!

Posted by: Democratic Socialist Purity Party Camp Commander at August 29, 2019 04:12 PM (UFLLM)

520 513
I want WordPerfect 7 back.

still have my original wordstar 4.0 disks; 8" sssd for cp/m-80.

Posted by: Anachronda at August 29, 2019 04:13 PM (sGtp+)

521 Gene Simmons is the fire-breathing, blood-spitting, groupie-banging Zionist gene.

Posted by: JoeF. at August 29, 2019 04:13 PM (NFEMn)

522
26,362.25 +326.15 (+1.25%)

At close: 4:10PM EDT

Posted by: DJIA Deathwatch at August 29, 2019 04:10 PM (6OoFY)

Oh Kurt...

Posted by: TheQuietMan at August 29, 2019 04:13 PM (EcJpP)

523 "I am not gay! I never have been gay! Conservatives answer when caught soliciting sex in public toilets.

Posted by: raimondo at August 29, 2019 04:10 PM (8OfuX)

The conservative case for private vs public. Anything.
Private pool/public pool
Private school/public school
Private toilet/ public toilet

Posted by: grammie winger at August 29, 2019 04:13 PM (lwiT4)

524 I want WordPerfect 7 back.

Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at August 29, 2019 04:11 PM (mf5HN)
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I want my pre-five-babies figure back. I think you have the better chance.

Posted by: bluebell at August 29, 2019 04:13 PM (aXucN)

525 >>2 of 2 here. I got the blame for everything my older brother did, he could do no wrong.

Older sister who was the perfect child. I was somewhat less so.

I had way more fun.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 29, 2019 04:13 PM (ZLI7S)

526 And this is also connected to my theory that all people born under the sign of Aquarius are homos.

Well, that makes sense since the planetary ruler of Aquarius is Uranus.

Posted by: abbynormal at August 29, 2019 04:13 PM (I849g)

527 Yer kid humps sand trout.

Posted by: Grand Inquisitor Cavil, an Aquarius, as it happens at August 29, 2019 04:09 PM (AM1GF)

*dabs eyes* The sheer poetry of this place gets to me sometimes.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 29, 2019 04:14 PM (5v5Zx)

528 Wait, so the dawning of Aquarius is when they all figure out that there's a moon (probably belonging to Shep) waiting for them in the 7th house? So their love will guide the stars, especially Cable News Anchor stars?

Whoa...heavy.

Posted by: Boswell at August 29, 2019 04:14 PM (32YRo)

529 Let's posit Loos Bujold's uterine replicators that use IVF and allow *waves hand frantically* 'gene cleaning' before creating the gametes.
Let's futrher posit that the genes for homosexuality are identified and are amenable to elimination.

Just how hard would the Gheystapo fight to forbid that particular treatment? Then the followup; how hard would they fight to require a certain percentage of fetuses to be made homosexual?

Posted by: Vlad the implaer, whittling away like mad at August 29, 2019 04:14 PM (dmoiP)

530 Mark Levin loathes Helter Stelter

Posted by: JoeF. at August 29, 2019 04:14 PM (NFEMn)

531 Gene Splicer
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 29, 2019 04:11 PM (aKsyK)

The Italian biotech company, Gene Italia.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 29, 2019 04:14 PM (6b1dn)

532 No.5 of 5 here, I got to do all sorts of stuff my elders didn't. My parents were tired. But I also think were wiser.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at August 29, 2019 04:14 PM (r+sAi)

533 Cory Booker and Obama are proof positive that there sure enough are faggot genes.

Posted by: I am not corey Booker at August 29, 2019 04:15 PM (nRj4F)

534 Dang Ace,

That picture of tater made me recoil like the brothers when "flounder's" picture comes up on screen in Animal House.

Posted by: Actually inside the beltway at August 29, 2019 04:15 PM (ldXWf)

535 525 >>2 of 2 here. I got the blame for everything my older brother did, he could do no wrong.

Older sister who was the perfect child. I was somewhat less so.

I had way more fun.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 29, 2019 04:13 PM (ZLI7S)

It's weird. I was treated as the scapegoat even though I toed the line. My younger brother was kind of a shithead, but was treated as the golden child.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 29, 2019 04:15 PM (NWiLs)

536 TRANSGENDER MODEL REVEALS SECRET RELATIONSHIP WITH COLIN KAEPERNICK

https://tinyurl.com/yxpfpam4

Posted by: blue horseshoe at August 29, 2019 03:54 PM (QwmrN)

She's not a model, she's a porn star who I'm told is known for her large cock.
Posted by: Surfperch at August 29, 2019 04:07 PM (24wi6)

Just saw some decidedly SFW photos of him. Yeah, no, that ain't even close to looking like a chick. I don't think he's fooling anybody.

In fact, if you consider volleyball sized fake tats to be an indicator, then yeah, it's even less likely anyone is going to think you're a girl, dude.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 29, 2019 04:15 PM (cY3LT)

537 Remember up until modern times, there was was no such thing as exclusive homosexuality, especially outside the west. What we would consider forms of Bi-sexuality were more common.
Which is why the homosexual movement has always tried to claim "born this way". Because if its inherent you can't legislate against it, but if its a behavior, you could.

No, that's not why. They claimed "born this way" because religious people "hate the sin but love the sinner".

Many gay people have a HUGE chip on their shoulder about Christianity because Christianity tells them engaging in homosexual activities is a sin.

They came up with "born this way" to say, "No, this isn't behavior, this is intrinsic to who I am, so stop calling it a sin because if there's a God, He made me this way, and any homosexual activity is my God-given gender identity."

Posted by: bonhomme at August 29, 2019 04:15 PM (9t0Zz)

538 I want WordPerfect 7 back.

Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at August 29, 2019 04:11 PM (mf5HN)

*drops to knees* My life for you!

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 29, 2019 04:15 PM (5v5Zx)

539 294 No one is born homo. Sometime in a homosexual person's past they were converted to homosexuality. They might not even realize it.

I think its a mistake to say absolute things like this. There's a lot of odd and varied things in humans, even people who are born with parts missing or extra parts. I think some people are born a certain way, but definitely at least some are moved that way by others, or culture.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 29, 2019 03:47 PM (KZzsI)

I have a relative who was born with both sex organs. When he was a tiny baby they sewed up his vaginal opening. He turned flamboyantly gay in his teens (although he was showing a lot of tendencies, even as a child) and died of AIDS in his 30's.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at August 29, 2019 04:15 PM (jK8Z7)

540 507 "I am not gay! I never have been gay! Conservatives answer when caught soliciting sex in public toilets.
Posted by: raimondo at August 29, 2019 04:10 PM (8OfuX)

They aren't conservatives. they just shame you when youre sucking their dicks. Shame is part of the kink.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at August 29, 2019 04:16 PM (Zv1X1)

541 No.5 of 5 here, I got to do all sorts of stuff my elders didn't. My parents were tired. But I also think were wiser.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at A

"My parents were tired. But I also think were wiser."

4 spares

Posted by: yankeefifith at August 29, 2019 04:16 PM (HALdu)

542 That Stelter picture is really disturbing, yet I can't look away.

Posted by: Grump928(C)
at August 29, 2019 04:16 PM (6OoFY)

543 I'm the second of six. My older sister was bossy, my brother is only a year younger than me and we look somewhat alike, but he has a full head of thick black hair, and me? Not so much.

Posted by: JoeF. at August 29, 2019 04:16 PM (NFEMn)

544 I find this hole fag not fag thing to be very boring and gay.

Posted by: dananjcon at August 29, 2019 04:16 PM (u6xw0)

545 nood

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 29, 2019 04:16 PM (yHwQE)

546 Vaffanculo.

Posted by: Marcus T at August 29, 2019 04:16 PM (6r7Ke)

547 Not joking, but I recall reading some years ago that homosexual men have--on average--larger penises than straight men.
........

It's the manscaping, makes it appear larger than it really is.

Posted by: wth at August 29, 2019 04:16 PM (v0R5T)

548 WordPerfect was much better than anything else since. It even had the best Russian phonetic keyboard [max match-up between normal keyboard and Cyrillic cognate letters/letters with similar sound] - learned to type on it fairly quickly in a few hours.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 29, 2019 04:17 PM (QDnY+)

549 I]492
I'm not a scientist but I don't believe it has anything to do with
genetics. I think being gay is a choice.
OK.Kids often know they are gay very early. They have massive crushes on same gender people as young children (like 5-6 yearsold) , that turn into erotic crushes in early adolescents, just like heterosexual kids have opposite gender crushes. It's just like that. There's never a choice with most gay guys: guys make them horny, and always have, and that's just that.

This is really really simple.

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at August 29, 2019 04:17 PM (CPk08)

550 I'm the oldest of three and we are all conservative and if you people are to be believed it's because I bossed them into it.

I can accept that.

Posted by: bluebell at August 29, 2019 04:12 PM (aXucN)

Behold the power of this fully operational shiv!

My dad is the younger twin by about five minutes or so. They are 81 now. To this day my dad will still do anything his brother says.

I'm not saying I've weaponized this against him when I need to manipulate Dad into doing something he should or shouldn't KOFF DRIVING KOFF. I'm not saying I haven't either.

Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at August 29, 2019 04:17 PM (mf5HN)

551 They came up with "born this way" to say, "No, this isn't behavior, this is intrinsic to who I am, so stop calling it a sin because if there's a God, He made me this way, and any homosexual activity is my God-given gender identity."
Posted by: bonhomme at August 29, 2019 04:15 PM (9t0Zz)

Ah, the Ed Gein defense.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 29, 2019 04:17 PM (6b1dn)

552 Just how hard would the Gheystapo fight to forbid that particular treatment? Then the followup; how hard would they fight to require a certain percentage of fetuses to be made homosexual?
Posted by: Vlad the implaer, whittling away like mad at August 29, 2019 04:14 PM (dmoiP)

By a certain percentage, you mean "all"?

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at August 29, 2019 04:18 PM (jK8Z7)

553 Homosexuals, by their very nature cannot reproduce naturally, so there is no way for a "gay" gene to be passed on.
-----------------------------
Sure there is. It could be recessive, like the gene for blue eyes, hemophilia, etc.

I never thought that homosexuality was likely to be strictly Mendelian anyway, but there's no reason it couldn't be.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 29, 2019 04:11 PM (6b1dn)

A rather high percentage of the full blown gay men I've dealt with in my work have children. The natural way.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 29, 2019 04:18 PM (cY3LT)

554 >>Stetler got his nice gig because he's related to someone, I'm convinced. I mean, I thought TV was all about looks--and this guy looks creepy.

Good timing, mostly.
In J-school he created a popular media fanboy website, and NYT hired him despite little experience in their rush to establish an online presence based on Stetler's success with his own site. Then Fox hired away Howey whatever from CNN and they needed a replacement, and hired Stetler away from NYT. Right time, right place kind of meteoric rise within the industry. His performance at CNN indicates he could have used more experience before being promoted (if at all).

This happened a lot when the MSM moved from print to web -- young journalists such as Stetler and Ezra Klein got big jobs without the requisite experience.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 29, 2019 04:18 PM (bDqIh)

555 I like watching lesbians. Does that make me a bad person?

Posted by: Marcus T at August 29, 2019 04:19 PM (6r7Ke)

556 Gay guys have reproduced since the dawn of time.
They got married because of social constraints. I don't think it's really that much of a stretch for most of them to do a woman if they had to--especially if the woman is "skilled." There's probably a default gene in there for that.

If anything, the present trend of guys getting married may lead to there being less gays in the future.

Posted by: JoeF. at August 29, 2019 04:19 PM (NFEMn)

557
507 "I am not gay! I never have been gay! Conservatives answer when caught soliciting sex in public toilets.

Posted by: raimondo at August 29, 2019 04:10 PM (8OfuX)

I express my deepseated fear of dickless morons by calling you one.

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at August 29, 2019 04:20 PM (CPk08)

558 541 No.5 of 5 here, I got to do all sorts of stuff my elders didn't. My parents were tired. But I also think were wiser.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at A

"My parents were tired. But I also think were wiser."

4 spares
Posted by: yankeefifith at August 29, 2019 04:16 PM (HALdu)

As a father of 6, trust me on this. With the first, you're all careful and treating the baby like he's made of eggshells. By #3, you realize they won't break, and by #5, "it's "Mom, mom, Jeff's juggling knives in the kitchen!" -- "Clean up the blood when you cut yourself and don't make me come in there!"

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at August 29, 2019 04:21 PM (jK8Z7)

559 I'm not saying I've weaponized this against him when I need to manipulate Dad into doing something he should or shouldn't KOFF DRIVING KOFF. I'm not saying I haven't either.
Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at August 29, 2019 04:17 PM (mf5HN)
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I think asking for your father's twin's opinion on things such as this is perfectly acceptable and to be commended.

In all seriousness, especially with regard to his safety.

Posted by: bluebell at August 29, 2019 04:22 PM (aXucN)

560 117 What I get most annoyed with is the showboating parades that the gays have to put on, the more provocative and decadent, the better - the banners are always about "the love!". It is not love, it is sex.

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I wouldn't dignify that with the term sex, it's just 'rutting'.

Posted by: Vlad the implaer, whittling away like mad at August 29, 2019 04:22 PM (dmoiP)

561 It even had the best Russian phonetic keyboard [max match-up between normal keyboard and Cyrillic cognate letters/letters with similar sound] - learned to type on it fairly quickly in a few hours.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 29, 2019 04:17 PM (QDnY+)

I use the MS Word Cyrillic keyboard, and it always takes me a couple minutes to readjust to, e.g., the "a" and "f" keys being reversed, the English "k" being the Cyrillic "l," etc.

The lessons include Russian to English and English to Russian questions, so I have to keep switching keyboard layouts back and forth. Sometimes that's easy, and other times, it's much more difficult, for some reason.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 29, 2019 04:22 PM (6b1dn)

562 The Caucasian gene sucks regard to physical looks when procreating with another ethnicity .

Posted by: Pig to man dreaming of lions at August 29, 2019 04:22 PM (BoJzR)

563 Where you stick it and who you let stick you is your choice.

Posted by: The Man from Athens at August 29, 2019 04:22 PM (QMwOT)

564 If anything, the present trend of guys getting married may lead to there being less gays in the future.
Posted by: JoeF. at August 29, 2019 04:19 PM (NFEMn)

A friend of mine who is an evolutionary biologist tells me that any trait that takes more than about 3 percent of a population out of the reproductive pool will eliminate itself over several generations.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at August 29, 2019 04:23 PM (jK8Z7)

565 The Caucasian gene sucks regard to physical looks when procreating with another ethnicity .
Posted by: Pig to man dreaming of lions at August 29, 2019 04:22 PM (BoJzR)

I disagree. I've seen too many mixed raced people who are good looking.

Posted by: JoeF. at August 29, 2019 04:23 PM (NFEMn)

566 With the first, you're all careful and treating the baby like he's made of eggshells. By #3, you realize they won't break, and by #5, "it's "Mom, mom, Jeff's juggling knives in the kitchen!" -- "Clean up the blood when you cut yourself and don't make me come in there!"
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at A

lol

Posted by: yankeefifith at August 29, 2019 04:23 PM (HALdu)

567 Those 29 year olds of a certain age will remember Gene Pitney.

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Is he the one who had the long-term gay relationship with Wally Bowes?

Posted by: G at August 29, 2019 04:24 PM (5NMZN)

568 But you do have complete control concerning what you do about those you are attracted to

And I would further say that you have a moral requirement to control what you do about who you are attracted to. My friend's wife was this gorgeous blonde girl who was super smart and sweet as honey-dipped cinnamon rolls. She was everything I ever wanted in a girl. Somehow, despite this attraction at every level, I managed to treat her with respect and dignity, and not hit on her or try to sleep with her.

Just because you want a thin, does not mean that you must have a thing, or as REM put it: What we want, and what we need has been confused, been confused.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 29, 2019 04:24 PM (KZzsI)

569 Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at August 29, 2019 03:18 PM (mf5HN)

Wait. Does this mean you remember anything anyone ever says to or about you? Asking for a friend.

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And that's why the Ravage is so overworked.

Posted by: Vlad the implaer, whittling away like mad at August 29, 2019 04:26 PM (dmoiP)

570 Do gay genes get activated by being molested at camp? Asking for a star trek lieutenant.

Posted by: Mr Soylu at August 29, 2019 04:26 PM (IAGvD)

571 537 Remember up until modern times, there was was no such thing as exclusive homosexuality, especially outside the west. What we would consider forms of Bi-sexuality were more common.
Which is why the homosexual movement has always tried to claim "born this way". Because if its inherent you can't legislate against it, but if its a behavior, you could.

No, that's not why. They claimed "born this way" because religious people "hate the sin but love the sinner".

Many gay people have a HUGE chip on their shoulder about Christianity because Christianity tells them engaging in homosexual activities is a sin.

They came up with "born this way" to say, "No, this isn't behavior, this is intrinsic to who I am, so stop calling it a sin because if there's a God, He made me this way, and any homosexual activity is my God-given gender identity."
Posted by: bonhomme at August 29, 2019 04:15 PM (9t0Zz)

My church's take on this is somewhat controversial, even within the congregation, but it shouldn't be. It's that having homosexual sex is a sin, and so is adultery, and so is divorce, and so is theft, and so on, and so on. We are all sinners, and you're not a special type of simmer, you're just a plain old sinner like everyone else. No, we're not going to marry you, which would be approving (even encouraging) you to continue to sin, but all you straight people, get off your high horses, you're just as bad in your own ways. Fortunately, we have a loving God who sent His son to die for your sins, and you are forgiven.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at August 29, 2019 04:28 PM (jK8Z7)

572 TRANSGENDER MODEL REVEALS SECRET RELATIONSHIP WITH COLIN KAEPERNICK

https://tinyurl.com/yxpfpam4

Posted by: blue horseshoe at August 29, 2019 03:54 PM (QwmrN)

She's not a model, she's a porn star who I'm told is known for her large cock.
Posted by: Surfperch at August 29, 2019 04:07 PM (24wi6)

Just saw some decidedly SFW photos of him. Yeah, no, that ain't even close to looking like a chick. I don't think he's fooling anybody.

In fact, if you consider volleyball sized fake tats to be an indicator, then yeah, it's even less likely anyone is going to think you're a girl, dude.
Posted by: BurtTC at August 29, 2019 04:15 PM (cY3LT)

The Wikipedia article pretty much says that he's well-endowed gay man with breast implants.

Posted by: Surfperch at August 29, 2019 04:35 PM (tVQUs)

573 311...
I think he covers that in the book too. I know I heard that before, so it was probably in the book. There are a couple of other studies he covers as well. The finch one was pretty interesting because a team went to the same isolated island in Galapagos and measured the beak geometry of 100% of the population for like 20 years. Within one generation it would evolve to be able to crack the type of seeds that grew based upon weather changes. Interesting stuff for a complete novice (me).

Posted by: Little Larry Sellers at August 29, 2019 04:42 PM (sTRvb)

574 467 Speaking of bees, last night I had a moral dilemma. A bee was on my
patio pavers walking around in slow circles. Came back an hour later and
there he was, walking around the same spot in slow circles.

Do I squash him and end his misery, or do I let him live in obvious distress?

I did not squash him. This morning he was gone so all is well, he must have got better and flew home!

Posted by: wth at A

Ja, ja. Zu hause!

Posted by: Wolf Schpieder at August 29, 2019 04:45 PM (XuBZu)

575

Obviously, humans don't do this, but it seems like such a fundamental bit of coding -- grow big in conditions of warmth and plenty, grow small in conditions of cold and scarcity -- that it seems to me likely that this sort of switch must be lurking in our genetic code somewhere, even though it would work in a much diminished, much more subtle way.
And this is also connected to my theory that all people born under the sign of Aquarius are homos.
Water carriers, huh? You know what also carries water? My dick.

LOL, pure poetry indeed. We do know from observation that higher density populations produce gay children at a higher rate in the West. Perhaps that has something to do with the hormones triggered by close living conditions.

Too dense? Bugger your own sex, scrub.

fiercely Leo, here.

Posted by: imp at August 29, 2019 04:46 PM (uKiy5)

576 This is true. Most soy related phytoestrogens are not particularly potent. You would have to ingest a ton of most of them to have any effect. But then again, you would really like to do a large scale randomized trial to test this.

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at August 29, 2019 03:33 PM (CPk0

I'm thinking we've got such a study going on right now. It's called the blue checked twitter critters.

Posted by: Shani Dev at August 29, 2019 04:58 PM (BHRVF)

577 I have to disagree. If it is genetic, it should not be so prevalent. I continue to think the gene things the study talked about are connected but not causal. It has to happen in the womb. I hope someone finds that one out for sure before I die.

Posted by: Roger Fraley at August 29, 2019 05:02 PM (9ebxU)

578 You are the aces Ace.
You should never tell a man 'I love you '.
Instead say 'I'm glad you are alive '. Them deliver a solid punch above the belt.
You kill lies better than Charles Bronson.

Posted by: Throbbing Tonsil at August 29, 2019 05:07 PM (9PtLS)

579 Maybe these genes have some different effect. Maybe they make people weaker or easier to influence or less inhibited or more willing to try risky things or more psychotic, who knows.

Posted by: PG at August 29, 2019 05:09 PM (iqCkn)

580 Or maybe more tolerant toward disgusting smells, then by extension toward disgusting stuff (or at least stuff other people tell you is disgusting, but which you have no reason to believe is so).

Posted by: PG at August 29, 2019 05:13 PM (iqCkn)

581 There's a DC Elseworlds comic called "Speeding Bullets" where baby Kal El becomes Batman. In typical alternate universe fashion, Lex Luthor has a disfiguring accident and becomes the Joker.

Anyway, Lex LuthorJoker looks just like Brian Stelter. Look it up. It's terrifying.

Posted by: GalosGann at August 29, 2019 05:16 PM (e7aWh)

582 This post is the stuff I come here for. Brilliant.

Posted by: Killian at August 29, 2019 05:25 PM (F9qib)

583 I think prosperity is an epigenetic event that causes outbreaks of mental/emotional illness. Postmodernism is its expression.

The urge to publicly flay all works, to reveal the racist, anti-justice core of the individual is the heart of deconstructionism.

Posted by: K-Bob at August 29, 2019 05:25 PM (J/ULi)

584 159 You're saying they're pumping birth control hormones into our drinking water?

Possibly, but its more likely in the food. Here's my crazy conspiracy theory of the day: The Chinese are putting chemicals in our food and materials we buy from them that is making us weaker, sicker, and stupider.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

They are putting red kryptonite in toothpaste.

Posted by: President Emeritus B H Obama at August 29, 2019 05:39 PM (/Fmtj)

585 Off fruity sock.

Posted by: Dirks Strewn at August 29, 2019 05:40 PM (/Fmtj)

586 The gay gay gay took my baby away.

Posted by: @PeeteySDee at August 29, 2019 06:12 PM (3EVo8)

587 Human being are not just animals that are slaves to their urges. We are more than the sum of our genes. No matter what urges we are subject to, those urges can and should be ignored when they are bad for society and our own selves.

Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at August 29, 2019 06:20 PM (F/KeJ)

588 *Human beings. Spellcheck, red, spellcheck.

Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at August 29, 2019 06:26 PM (F/KeJ)

589 "I never had a sister, I always wondered what it would be like."
I'm the second of three daughters; we had no brothers.
We fought, and the biggest b!tch of all was our mother.

Posted by: Annalucia at August 29, 2019 06:35 PM (S6ArX)

590 Dollars to doughnuts there actually is a gay gene but those who know are too frightened of the blowback to do anything other than bendover for the gay mafia.

Posted by: Gerard vanderleun at August 29, 2019 06:53 PM (n9plY)

591 If it's a hormone imbalance then it's curable right? We could also test for homosexuality in the womb and abort them right?

Posted by: james at August 29, 2019 07:06 PM (MNBUP)

592 BORN TWEE

BORN TWEE

ASS FREE ASS

A BIRD CAGE AUDITION

Posted by: saf at August 29, 2019 07:24 PM (5IHGB)

593 This is most hilarious discussion on genetic that I've ever read.

I'm printing the bottom portion and framing it.

Posted by: bour3 at August 29, 2019 08:28 PM (KXQr+)

594 Queers are a choice, not an evolutionary development.

Posted by: I am not corey Booker at August 29, 2019 08:52 PM (nRj4F)

595 Can they test fetuses for that gene, and if so, how long before the Left suddenly becomes staunchly pro-life?

Posted by: Harrison Bergeron at August 29, 2019 10:15 PM (Yn6WC)

596 As a short Sicilian spaghetti yeti, the great grandson of a short Sicilian spaghetti yeti, the great nephew of short Sicilian spaghetti yetis i say, damn you Ace for these new insults i could have been using for years.

I always joke that i somehow got the real shitty end of the stick, lack of height from a Sicilian mother and the dead pork skintone of a Dutch father. Turn things around and i could have been a contender for the Mr. Hotpants 2008 competition.

Posted by: Rbastid at August 30, 2019 12:00 AM (RUunu)

597 When a Ghey gets their Cutie Mark, they know for sure if they're Ghey.

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