Yeah, and according to those mean kids on Xbox Live, it’s me.
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But aaalso somehow... your mama.
Yes, me
I could beat you in a gay-off most any day of the week
Gay-off!
..It's a gay-off.
Could you beat me off in a gay off?
Nope, it's me and I bet you can't prove me wrong.
You're all wrong. Everyone is straight on the Freddy Mercury gay scale.
yall need log scaling
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More importantly does that mean people can be ordered by that and can we construct a binary search tree to find anyone with a specific value of gay within O(log_2(n)) time?
If and only if you can define "gay" on a one dimensional axis, otherwise it would be like plotting points on an N-dimensional graph, I'm pretty sure "gay" is a multiple dimensions thing.
So sadly we wont be getting a
tree: BinaryTree<Person> = BinaryTree::new_sorted_by(order_gayest);
anytime soon 😒
Surely you'd need a non-binary tree?
Bruh i wish, 2-3 trees or anything of the sort probably won't help us 😔
✨ The Forest of Gay ✨
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If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them....maybe you can hire The Gay-Team.
Yes. And it sadly isnt me
Yeah, and it's almost certainly some Baptist prosperity gospel preacher with nineteen children.
So entire human sexuality can be described as being between two people at each ends.
a kind of worldwide spitroast
Not necessarily, there could just be a hard limit that multiple people hit. They're gayness is pegged, if you will. 😏
Yes, probably my wife.
It's more that each person will have a moment in their life when they are at their gayest
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Sigh… yes. We’ve already been over this guys.
Frankie Grande is the gayest person. Freddie Mercury is the most bi person. Sabrina Carpenter is the straightest person.
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It does mean that, yeah.
Only if you think someone's position on the spectrum never changes over time. Which, judging from the microsecond moment of pause induced in "straights" by the proximity of shirtless Jason Momoa, is not how this works.
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Once you get to the elite ranks there will always be disagreement on how to score the parameters of ultimate gayness
Much like IQ, once you're more than 2 standard deviations from the mean, there's no statistically meaningful way to measure additional queerness.
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I'm the straightest person. I don't have a gender, and I'm attracted to all genders. 'all' and 'none' are by far more opposite each other *than any two specific sexes or genders could ever be.
Oh snap, you're me.
As an agendered pansexual, the wildest thing to me about the trans/cis divide is actually feeling that strongly about having a preferred gender. I simply can't fathom caring hard enough to put up a fight about it. I default to "female" because I was AFAB, but if someone calls me by a different pronoun, it's whatever to me.
Now let me be clear - just because I don't feel gender for myself, doesn't mean I can't respect and support those who do feel strongly about their genders.
Bonus mini-rant
I wish I didn't have to make an announcement pointing that out. Something changed in the past decade or so, whereby if someone simply states a non-standard experience or quality about themselves, people now assume that they must be "against" the standard experience/quality. It's frustrating and unconductive to conversation when people assume every comment must be a prelude to an argument. There used to be an assumption that people were conversing in good faith, but lately there's been a shift. To agree with those different from you is no longer treated as the default, and I find that very troubling.
And as a reference to this comment, this post was fueled by unmedicated ADHD, autism, and cannabis (and a bit of frustration, since I accidentally closed the window after the first time I wrote it, so I had to write it twice.)
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I think of it like beauty - there’s not much disagreement about whether someone is a 9, but a 10 is completely subjective. For someone to be breathtakingly stunning, there usually has to be something about them that most other people don’t see.
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Idk Harley owners seem to be right up there.
I was bike curious, but later decided I'd rather have a Japanese bike.
Whenever someone breaks a barrier as "The first gay..." remember that they're technically "the gayest...".
Someone sucked the most dicks, so yeah.
If they sucked 2 cocks a day (conservative, I know) over a gay career of fifty years, that would be 36,500 cocks. Which is a very respectable number imo. But is that gayer than a guy in a committed relationship sucking the same cock 36,500 times?
But(t) am I the gayest for sucking the most cocks or because I'm the best?
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Not necessarily, there probably exists multiple orderings on gayness , the question is if you can create a total ordering and if its multiple people are maximally gay, or at least if the gayest people are equally gay.
That's what Big Gay wants you to believe.
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