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Sunday, August 24, 2008 12:25 PM

PIRATENEWS

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Quote:

Study Says 'Gaydar' Is Real

By WILLIAM WEIR
Courant.com
August 21, 2008

Not only does "gaydar" exist, suggests a study out of Tufts University, but it can work pretty fast.

Some people say they can tell the sexual orientation of folks with little information, and now a study gives them data to back up their claims.

Published in July's Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, the study claims that people could guess fairly accurately ("better than chance") whether men were gay or straight by looking at photos of their faces.

For the study, 15 undergraduate students, both male and female, were shown photos of faces of 90 men, evenly divided between gay and straight. The photos were taken from Internet personal ads and from Facebook. The study's lead author, graduate student Nicholas Rule, says men were used in this study for convenience, because they have a greater presence on the Internet than women.

The researchers found that subjects could accurately determine in 50 milliseconds — one-twentieth of a second — whether the men were gay or straight about 60 percent of the time. Rule says all the subjects were accurate 55 percent to 70 percent of the time.

www.courant.com/features/lifestyle/hc-gaydar.artaug21,0,1062750.story




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Sunday, August 24, 2008 1:11 PM

WHOZIT


I'm more interested in Tanya Tuckers Boob job disaster.

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Sunday, August 24, 2008 3:18 PM

ECGORDON

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I'd make some crack about PirateNews being gay, but that would be an insult to the gay community.



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Sunday, August 24, 2008 11:41 PM

AURAPTOR

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Quote:

Originally posted by whozit:
I'm more interested in Tanya Tuckers Boob job disaster.



ttiwwop

(this thread is worthless with out pics )



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Monday, August 25, 2008 3:13 AM

HERO


Quote:

Originally posted by ecgordon:
I'd make some crack about PirateNews being gay, but that would be an insult to the gay community.


Please, he couldn't get laid no matter which team he was on.

PirateNews Pickup lines:

1. "Hey, is that a Nazi-Jew in your pants or are you just happy to see me?"
2. "...and then the Tennessee Highway Death Squads came and...hey, where you going, come back!"
3. "Yes, I got the no-contact order...but I refuse to recognize the authority of the Court!"
4. "Hey Baby, can I bash your Bush?"
5. "What I lack in size I make up for by stalking."
6. "Did they change the alphabet, cause they put U and I together...damn Nazi-Jews."
7. "You look like the type of Girl whose heard every line in the book...how bout one more: are you an alien Jew sent by Queen Elizabeth to kill me? Cause if so...I don't wanna live...or is it die? Whatever, just please stop laughing at me. I'm so pathetic."
8. "So...I love the way your eyes sparkle in the light of this burning cross, how bout later you show me what's under your hood?"
9. "I'd like a number 2 with a large diet coke."
10. "Are you gonna come home with me? I need to know so I can take my pill..."

H

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Monday, August 25, 2008 12:50 PM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)


BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAH!

Hero, that is pure gold!

When you're on, you're ON, baby.

Mike

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Monday, August 25, 2008 1:58 PM

WULFENSTAR

http://youtu.be/VUnGTXRxGHg


This thread is really.....gay.

=)P

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Monday, August 25, 2008 2:16 PM

CHRISISALL


Quote:

Originally posted by Hero:

5. "What I lack in size I make up for by stalking."



ROTF.....

isall

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Monday, August 25, 2008 2:37 PM

ANTHONYT

Freedom is Important because People are Important


"The researchers found that subjects could accurately determine in 50 milliseconds — one-twentieth of a second — whether the men were gay or straight about 60 percent of the time."

Hello,

This seems like the most rediculous study of the year. I'm surprised it got funded, since it has no actual scientific import. And I'm not sure how it relates to the claptrap posted near Piratenews' signature.

Can someone enlighten me? Someone who reasons in a linear fashion?

--Anthony



"Liberty must not be purchased at the cost of Humanity." --Captain Robert Henner

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Monday, August 25, 2008 3:08 PM

KIRKULES


The problem with using Gaydar is that it works on the same brain frequency as your standard government mind control device. If you wear your standard tin foil beanie under the hat to prevent mind control it totally shuts down your Gaydar. You could accidentally walk into a gay bar and dance with three or four guys before you even realize they're gay.

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Monday, August 25, 2008 4:17 PM

PIRATENEWS

John Lee, conspiracy therapist at Hollywood award-winner History Channel-mocked SNL-spoofed PirateNew.org wooHOO!!!!!!


Every hetero knows gaydar is real, most of the time. It's a survival instinct.

Only the mos deny its existance, for some reason.

Or at least that's what they claim on FFF.

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Monday, August 25, 2008 5:48 PM

ANTHONYT

Freedom is Important because People are Important


Hello,

But Piratenews, even if 'Gaydar' is real, you've failed to answer the underlying question that would make it important to the scientific community.

Which is: So the fuck what?

--Anthony

Edited to add:

P.S. Did you say 'mos deny its existence? The only people I ever heard the term 'Gaydar' from were homosexual men, commenting on their ability to detect other homosexual men. You're the first straight guy I've ever heard talk about this phenomenon with any excitement.

"Liberty must not be purchased at the cost of Humanity." --Captain Robert Henner

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Monday, August 25, 2008 6:50 PM

FREMDFIRMA


I'll second that "So the fuck what?" as I don't see how it matters.

Being unburdened with most of the hangups and fears of most folk toward sexuality, apparently I ping back gender-neutral to "Gaydar" according to my friends of that bent, who consider me just a little cruel since I'll flirt with anything that moves, although Dan, sweet talking the sheep was a joke, yanno...

I do tend to get the odd pass thrown at me by men, latest of which was a very subtle fellow also shopping in the dairy section, he was pretty sauve but dudes just don't ring my bell, so I let him down easy and moved on - such things don't scare or offend me, and I think that is the key.

I think there really is such a thing as "Gaydar", and it's based on a whole lot of conscious and subconsious behavior cues, like how one reacts to a member of a certain sex brushing the edges of their personal space, initial reaction, eye movement and position, all the same things used in other behavioral studies, so it's not without precedent either.

Since I do not react to other people unless I've pegged them as a threat, a lot of folk take that lack of reaction for potential interest, and if a polite dismissal doesn't do for it, boring them to death* most certainly will.

So yeah, there's such a thing, but I don't see how it really *matters* to anyone, should it ?

-Frem
*(I have six cats, mind you, and can do the male version of crazy old cat lady extraordinarly well, and could prolly bore a tree stump into suicidal feelings if I wanted to)

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Monday, August 25, 2008 7:27 PM

OUT2THEBLACK


Quote:

Originally posted by Fremdfirma:


I think there really is such a thing as "Gaydar", and it's based on a whole lot of conscious and subconsious behavior cues, like how one reacts to a member of a certain sex brushing the edges of their personal space, initial reaction, eye movement and position, all the same things used in other behavioral studies, so it's not without precedent either...

So yeah, there's such a thing, but I don't see how it really *matters* to anyone, should it ?

-Frem
*(I have six cats, mind you, and can do the male version of crazy old cat lady extraordinarly well, and could prolly bore a tree stump into suicidal feelings if I wanted to)



Okay , but what I really want to know are your feelings about 'Catdar'...

That seems to work...What sort of mechanisms are at work , and why are they so danged smart ?

That would've been the more interesting study...

Limp-wristedness and loafer-lightness , with the thumbs turned wrong-way on the hips...

Not a lot of mystery there...

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Monday, August 25, 2008 8:22 PM

PIRATENEWS

John Lee, conspiracy therapist at Hollywood award-winner History Channel-mocked SNL-spoofed PirateNew.org wooHOO!!!!!!


Quote:

Originally posted by AnthonyT:

P.S. Did you say 'mos deny its existence? The only people I ever heard the term 'Gaydar' from were homosexual men, commenting on their ability to detect other homosexual men. You're the first straight guy I've ever heard talk about this phenomenon with any excitement.



Gays deny it's existance to heteros.

Gays rely on it's existance to find more mos.

Sort of like remote viewing by the Pentagon, except with ass grabbing. And credit cards.


www.johnnygosch.com

PS: Looks like I'm moving up in the world - somebody posted my site at Conspiracy Planet, run by Professor Texe Marrs USAF Intel:

NSFW - George W 'Lips' Bush: First Gay US President?
www.conspiracyplanet.com/channel.cfm?channelid=39&contentid=2158&page=
2


Actually no, he's not the FIRST gay president.

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Tuesday, August 26, 2008 3:20 AM

HERO


Quote:

Originally posted by piratenews:
Every hetero knows gaydar is real, most of the time. It's a survival instinct.

Only the mos deny its existance, for some reason.

Or at least that's what they claim on FFF.


It does exist. You, for example, have excellent gaydar. Every time you ask a woman out...she turns out to be gay.

H

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Tuesday, August 26, 2008 3:27 AM

WULFENSTAR

http://youtu.be/VUnGTXRxGHg


Jeeze, gaydar....Didnt Al Bundy coin this phrase?

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Tuesday, August 26, 2008 6:40 AM

FREMDFIRMA


Catdar, eh ?

Well, as for ability to detect cat owners, just look for the cat hair on the pants cuffs, hehehe.

I swear, Ghoster can practically explode fur across the room, and sheds even worse when nervous - after weighing her, and batting away the cloud, the vet asked me "Is that NORMAL for this cat ?!"

As for smart, I couldn't tellya, but damn me sometimes mine are a little TOO smart for their own good, Kallista had a habit of getting into rooms even though the door was closed, and we couldn't figure out how, originally.

She didn't see me watching that one time - see, we have french lever doors inside, and she would jump, grab the handle in her paws and hang from it, then kick off the doorframe with her back paws to push it open, and once inside would headbutt it closed behind her.

I swear, if they had opposable thumbs, we'd be in real trouble.

-Frem

It cannot be said enough, those who do not learn from history, are doomed to endlessly repeat it

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Tuesday, August 26, 2008 7:03 AM

CHRISISALL


Early on in my romantic affairs, my bitchdar was malfunctioning...I had to write an artificially implanted sub-routine.

Dataisall

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Tuesday, August 26, 2008 7:20 AM

DEADLOCKVICTIM



....not sure about gaydar, but i think i'm picking up something on the Moron-o-meter....

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Tuesday, August 26, 2008 8:00 AM

WULFENSTAR

http://youtu.be/VUnGTXRxGHg


Again...this post may be a little gay.....

However, people know if someone is gay by the way they act.

Some tips if you are trying to hide being gay:

- Women, combat boots, short hair, 200 extra lbs and a sneer...not a good look. Especially if you are NOT in the military...

- Guys, swishing about, mincing about, and/or fruitifying your speech....equally not a good look.


Heheh, Im just being a dick. Which is apropo for this thread I guess.

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Tuesday, August 26, 2008 12:40 PM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)


Quote:

Some tips if you are trying to hide being gay:



Avoid the men's room at the Minneapolis airport... Try not to have a "wide stance"...




Mike

"I supported Bush in 2000 and 2004 and intellegence[sic] had very little to do with that decision." - Hero, Real World Event Discussions

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Tuesday, August 26, 2008 12:49 PM

CHRISISALL


This thread has become sophomoric.



Beneathmeisall

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Tuesday, August 26, 2008 12:55 PM

WHOZIT


Quote:

Originally posted by Wulfenstar:
Jeeze, gaydar....Didnt Al Bundy coin this phrase?

I think it was Bender on "Futurama"

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Tuesday, August 26, 2008 2:55 PM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)


Quote:

Beneathmeisall



Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't that make you... ahem... a "pitcher" or a "power top"?





Mike

"I supported Bush in 2000 and 2004 and intellegence[sic] had very little to do with that decision." - Hero, Real World Event Discussions

I can't help the sinking feeling that my country is now being run by people who read "1984" not as a cautionary tale, but rather as an instruction manual. - Michael Mock

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Wednesday, August 27, 2008 6:37 AM

CHRISISALL


I'm nobody's bitchisall



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Wednesday, August 27, 2008 7:25 AM

SINGATE


Last time I checked 60% is only slightly better than 50%, which is only a marginally better than flipping a coin or randomly guessing. Hardly conclusive proof of anything. That being said, some people do seem to have a knack for knowing when a person is gay even without the more obvious cues, but it is by no means a universal human ability.

As for the term "gaydar" I think it's been around a little longer than 10 years. I seriously doubt it was coined by a TV show but if it was I'd place a bet on Seinfeld. That kind of term is right up their alley.

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