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Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldbyirelephant@lemmy.world
6 months

If sexuality is a spectrum, does that mean one person is the gayest?

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    • Sanctus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6 months

      Yes, me

        • toomanypancakes@piefed.worldEnglish
          6 months

          I could beat you in a gay-off most any day of the week

            • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
              6 months

              Gay-off!

              …It’s a gay-off.

                • SendMePhotos@lemmy.world
                  6 months

                • crumbguzzler5000@feddit.org
                  6 months

                  Could you beat me off in a gay off?

                • the_riviera_kid@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  6 months

                  Bullshit, it’s me.

                    • neidu3@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                      6 months

                      Only one way to settle this: A GAY-OFF!

                        • the_riviera_kid@lemmy.worldEnglish
                          6 months

                          OK, go whats your favorite off broadway musical?

                            • neidu3@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                              6 months

                              I’m not gay, let alone gay enough to know which musicals are and aren’t Broadway. I’ve seen quite a few musicals elsewhere, though, so I can be on the panel.

                                • the_riviera_kid@lemmy.worldEnglish
                                  6 months

                                  Well damn, I was hoping to get some fun new suggestions. Anyway my favorite is Hedwig and the angry inch

                                    • SuperEars@lemmy.worldEnglish
                                      6 months

                                      It’s just one song, but in Only Murders in the Building, Steve Martin sings Which of the Pickwick Triplets Did It?

                            • obsidianfoxxy7870@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
                              6 months

                              Nope, it’s me and I bet you can’t prove me wrong.

                                • MyRobotShitsBolts@lemmy.world
                                  6 months

                                  You’re all wrong. Everyone is straight on the Freddy Mercury gay scale.

                                    • Bane_Killgrind@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
                                      6 months

                                      yall need log scaling

                                      • Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz
                                        6 months

                                        And he wasn’t even gay! Yas Queen! (he was bi)

                                  • yermaw@sh.itjust.works
                                    6 months

                                    If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them…maybe you can hire The Gay-Team.

                                      • ThePantser@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                                        6 months

                                        Does the big burly black man still need to be drugged to fly?

                                          • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world
                                            6 months

                                            No need. The Gay-Team takes the train. Choo chooooo!

                                              • boonhet@sopuli.xyz
                                                6 months

                                                I’m sure they take trains, but how do they get to places?

                                                • Dogs_cant_look_up@lemmy.world
                                                  6 months

                                                  They just don’t call it ‘Taking the Train’, they call it ‘Getting Railed’.

                                                • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip
                                                  6 months

                                                  Phrasing

                                              • atk007@lemmy.world
                                                6 months

                                                So entire human sexuality can be described as being between two people at each ends.

                                                  • Hadriscus@jlai.lu
                                                    6 months

                                                    a kind of worldwide spitroast

                                                  • Balinares@pawb.socialEnglish
                                                    6 months

                                                    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.

                                                      • AxExRx@lemmy.world
                                                        6 months

                                                        Whoever is gayest could change from moment to moment as individual scores fluctuate. Or maybe you have to look at it as an average of all those cumulative scores. Rich had a fleeting moment of straightness, in an otherwise 100% gay life, that puts him a hair behind Stephan, whose gayness has been unwavering since birth.

                                                        More likely though, I think whether you look at the cumulative, or second to second, its a many way tie.

                                                        • TimewornTraveler@lemmy.dbzer0.com
                                                          6 months

                                                          that’s a beautiful thing. so, what moment were you all at your gayest? have you ever been THE gayest?

                                                            • Balinares@pawb.social
                                                              6 months

                                                              God I sure hope so. This is the only life I’ve got.

                                                          • Perspectivist@feddit.uk
                                                            6 months

                                                            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.

                                                              • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
                                                                6 months

                                                                So…like, born with TWO penis’s, and both of them are super gay?

                                                                Most people never see your two penii, or your 37 nipples.

                                                                  • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world
                                                                    6 months

                                                                    Most people never see your two penii, or your 37 nipples.

                                                                    Not with that attitude.

                                                                    • Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world
                                                                      6 months

                                                                      That reminds me of the guy with two dicks who did an ama on Reddit many years ago. IIRC his dicks were mostly straight but could go either way.

                                                                  • iamdefinitelyoverthirteen@lemmy.world
                                                                    6 months

                                                                    Not necessarily, there could just be a hard limit that multiple people hit. They’re gayness is pegged, if you will. 😏

                                                                    • Steve@startrek.website
                                                                      6 months

                                                                      Once you get to the elite ranks there will always be disagreement on how to score the parameters of ultimate gayness

                                                                        • entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org
                                                                          6 months

                                                                          Much like IQ, once you’re more than 2 standard deviations from the mean, there’s no statistically meaningful way to measure additional queerness.

                                                                          • Lemminary@lemmy.world
                                                                            6 months

                                                                            And the competition is fierce!

                                                                          • andallthat@lemmy.world
                                                                            6 months

                                                                            It’s more that each person will have a moment in their life when they are at their gayest

                                                                              • dustycups@aussie.zone
                                                                                6 months

                                                                                And it goes up and down at a certain gaydence.

                                                                                  • lemmyknow@lemmy.today
                                                                                    6 months

                                                                                    gaydance

                                                                                    Gay, gay Rasputin, lover of the Russian king

                                                                                  • bountygiver [any]@lemmy.mlEnglish
                                                                                    6 months

                                                                                    But that doesn’t change the fact that every moment there’ll exist someone who is the gayest, it’s just the same person may not hold that status for a very long time.

                                                                                      • faythofdragons@slrpnk.netEnglish
                                                                                        6 months

                                                                                        Oh dang, so you’re saying I was the gayest person on earth once, but because it happened in my sleep, I never noticed? That explains those dreams.

                                                                                          • Derpgon@programming.dev
                                                                                            6 months

                                                                                            Not necessarily. You might never be the gayest person on Earth (at one given moment), but there was (or will be) the gayest moment you ever were.

                                                                                              • faythofdragons@slrpnk.netEnglish
                                                                                                6 months

                                                                                                My dreams, broken :sob:

                                                                                                  • Derpgon@programming.dev
                                                                                                    6 months

                                                                                                    I said not necessarily, not that its impossible. Strive for gayness and ye shall be the gayest, albeit for a fleeting moment.

                                                                                          • Jankatarch@lemmy.world
                                                                                            6 months

                                                                                            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?

                                                                                              • BlackRoseAmongThorns@slrpnk.net
                                                                                                6 months

                                                                                                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 😒

                                                                                                  • TomasEkeli@programming.dev
                                                                                                    6 months

                                                                                                    Surely you’d need a non-binary tree?

                                                                                                      • BlackRoseAmongThorns@slrpnk.net
                                                                                                        6 months

                                                                                                        Bruh i wish, 2-3 trees or anything of the sort probably won’t help us 😔

                                                                                                          • python@lemmy.world
                                                                                                            6 months

                                                                                                            ✨ The Forest of Gay ✨

                                                                                                        • mathemachristian [he/him]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
                                                                                                          6 months

                                                                                                          There is at least a time component to consider, as you might feel gayer some days than others. It likely also depends on your company, that is, if you are around a lot of hot men who are open to the idea of gay relations but not many hot women interested in you, you might feel gayer than if it were the other way around. So by sorting the population you would skew the amount of gay in a population by grouping gay people around gayer people and not as gay people with the even less gay.

                                                                                                            • BlackRoseAmongThorns@slrpnk.net
                                                                                                              6 months

                                                                                                              Yes, but also, how do we consider aro/ace people, or people who are one but not the other, or gender non-conforming people, or people, or people who are a mix, this is an N-dimensional problem

                                                                                                        • OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world
                                                                                                          6 months

                                                                                                          Yeah, and according to those mean kids on Xbox Live, it’s me.

                                                                                                            • ook@discuss.tchncs.dedeleted by creator
                                                                                                              6 months

                                                                                                              But aaalso somehow… your mama.

                                                                                                            • AreaSIX @lemmy.zip
                                                                                                              6 months

                                                                                                              • novibe@lemmy.mlEnglish
                                                                                                                6 months

                                                                                                                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.

                                                                                                                  • Bennyboybumberchums@lemmy.world
                                                                                                                    6 months

                                                                                                                    Yeah, but hes the gayest in the way that kids used to say it in the 00s…

                                                                                                                      • novibe@lemmy.mlEnglish
                                                                                                                        6 months

                                                                                                                        🤷‍♂️ gayest is gayest idk man

                                                                                                                    • Cevilia (they/she/…)@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
                                                                                                                      6 months

                                                                                                                      Yes, probably my wife.

                                                                                                                      • FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.websiteEnglish
                                                                                                                        6 months

                                                                                                                        It’s not a competition.

                                                                                                                          • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.socialEnglish
                                                                                                                            6 months

                                                                                                                            Casual Sex implies the existence of Ranked Competitive Sex.

                                                                                                                              • irelephant@lemmy.world
                                                                                                                                6 months

                                                                                                                                Turn based sex

                                                                                                                                  • Zozano@aussie.zoneEnglish
                                                                                                                                    6 months

                                                                                                                                    Tactical Espionage Action Sex

                                                                                                                                    • written by Hideo Kojima
                                                                                                                                    • directed by Hideo Kojima
                                                                                                                                    • produced by Hideo Kojima
                                                                                                                                    • starring Hideo Kojima
                                                                                                                                    • special thanks to…
                                                                                                                                    • Hideo Kojima

                                                                                                                                    (2025 all rights reserved Hideo Kojima Productions)

                                                                                                                                    • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.socialEnglish
                                                                                                                                      6 months

                                                                                                                                      “Hey, girl; how much do I gotta pay to open your loot box?”

                                                                                                                                        • betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world
                                                                                                                                          6 months

                                                                                                                                          There’s a minigame for that.

                                                                                                                                          • 𝔼𝕩𝕦𝕤𝕚𝕒@lemmy.world
                                                                                                                                            6 months

                                                                                                                                            Still somehow still costs less than pulling Ronald O in fifa boxes. (I hear he is hard to pull)

                                                                                                                                              • Zozano@aussie.zoneEnglish
                                                                                                                                                6 months

                                                                                                                                                He’s easy to pull. Use more lube.

                                                                                                                                              • thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org
                                                                                                                                                6 months

                                                                                                                                                oh dear…

                                                                                                                                            • AnarchoEngineer@lemmy.dbzer0.com
                                                                                                                                              6 months

                                                                                                                                              “Everybody loves Barbados Slim; he’s the only man to ever win Olympic gold medals in both limbo and sex”

                                                                                                                                              • Midnight Wolf@lemmy.worldEnglish
                                                                                                                                                6 months

                                                                                                                                                1v1 me

                                                                                                                                                • freeusething@lemmynsfw.com
                                                                                                                                                  6 months

                                                                                                                                                  My ELO is 6969

                                                                                                                                                  • Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz
                                                                                                                                                    6 months

                                                                                                                                                    On ESPN69 The OCHO

                                                                                                                                                  • Varying9125@lemmy.world
                                                                                                                                                    6 months

                                                                                                                                                    its about going out there and doing your best for the love of the game

                                                                                                                                                    • irelephant@lemmy.world
                                                                                                                                                      6 months

                                                                                                                                                      Not with that attitude

                                                                                                                                                    • beejboytyson@lemmy.world
                                                                                                                                                      6 months

                                                                                                                                                      Idk Harley owners seem to be right up there.

                                                                                                                                                        • iamdefinitelyoverthirteen@lemmy.world
                                                                                                                                                          6 months

                                                                                                                                                          I was bike curious, but later decided I’d rather have a Japanese bike.

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