Dale Thorn wrote:

Huge Cajones Remailer wrote:

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:and I've had plenty of White friends, and an equal percentage of :Black friends given the number of Black people I've known, but I've :never had a friend who was gay or lesbian, as far as I know, and I :think I could tell.

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How, Dale, by the smell?

I worked for a gay man in Beverly Hills and Encino for 3 years. I learned a lot about "signals" during that time. Bigot? I don't think so. One of my favorite customers, a nice lady who is Jewish (and who grew up where I did) told me she could spot 'em every time.

This is a typical case of overconfidence on her part. If she thought about it for longer, she would realize that she cannot benchmark her gay-spotting performance very well. If you presented her with, say, 100 unknown men and 50 of them were gays and she'd identify everyone correctly, I would be impressed. A truly great and simple book that talks about this stuff is ``Decision Traps: the ten barriers to brilliant decision making''.

BTW, my browser has a problem with your lines that have no c/r after every 70 or so characters. Other people will undoubtedly confirm that.

Yes, we will. - Igor.