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You have to give this a spin. If you're on Twitter, you can use this engine supplied by Stockholm Pride (July 27-Aug 1) to calculate how heterosexual you are. It analyses your Twitter feed. Words on mine that appear to lower my heterosexuality include "karaoke", "fame" and "cottaging". Also, "Northampton", more bafflingly. Still, 34%, not a bad score. Do it. It's fun.
posted by Andrew Collins @ 11:38 AM
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I've tried this for a few Twitterers (some female where I've checked the 'boy' option, others gay men) and so far nobody has come out with a lower hetero score than 34%, so ... congratulations? It's certainly an achievement of sorts.
I came in at 76% hetero. (All my DMs are VERY camp, though).
I'd say it's not entirely scientific. But it does seem to be able to recognise key words. Hey, as long as you're not 100% heterosexual, you're a modern person!
Exactly. Even @GeneHunt only weighs in at 80% hetero.
For some reason the words/phrases: Big Brother, Good Work, Rent, Bone(!) and Bollocks make me 63% Hetero and aparrently that means that I "seem to be a bit semi-hetero ... you don' know really what you want to be". I need to rethink a few things...
I am 74% Hetero! And a boomerang Hetro. I wonder if that is as fun as it sounds!
I noticed you missed a word off your list Andrew, which conincidently happens to be on Rich's too. I suspect your score would be rather different if you didn't know Rich!
I got 18%, for the sake of comparison, I check what Alan Carr would get. He scored 69%.
I'm 93% hetero apparently. This is because it found the words 'amazon' and 'bike' in my Twitter feeds. It goes on to say "You're hetero down to your fingertips. Well, almost every one of them." How bizarre. Should I be reassured or offended? Despite my liberal leanings and drama school education, am I in fact a throwback to the 1970s? Is there an inner neanderthal lurking in my psyche somewhere? I'm a bit worried.
"dangerjohn doesn't use cliche words We like that. See you at Stockholm Pride"
I scored 69%. One of my words was 'Cheap', I'm baffled.
"Pirate" and "beard" turning up in my feed apparently makes me 45% hetero.
I'm 61% Hetero. My keywords were sport, body, brilliant, bent out, and cilla. I've no idea how that works.
I'm "35% hetero" and thus "a sneak hetero". My words were "brilliant", "motorbike", "joe average", "gay" and, er, "coming out".
43% here. Looks like we're the ones below the 50 Andrew.
22% hetero here. The found words are bob, bully and football.
The refrence to Bob was a political dig I made at Bob Crow.
The football reference was a comment on a football messageboard's links to the BNP.
Bully was mentioned twice in a political joke I made that fell flat.
It's quite frankly, bollocks.
My partner came out at 19% hetro. Apparently "feminist" makes you gay in the eyes of that one...
I somehow scored lower than you Collins! 33%, @BenDH.
'Milk', 'booth' and 'crotch' are all words that contributed to me beating you, apparently. Haha.
Only 46% Hetero with THIS beard?
Apparently words like brilliant, bless, broad and available have made me an adventurous hetero
65% - that's not too bad.
I have never tried it nor will I. It'll end up making me cry.
Stephen Fry is 1% more heterosexual than me!!!!!!!!
My score is presumably 0, which is probably about right. But then real men don't use Twitter, do they? Confusing.
36% Hetero! The words bugger, coming out and biscuit(?)have defined me!
A Retro Hetero.
My word today is FOCTIL. Make up your own jokes, although they will sound better if you do a Jimmy Nesbitt accent.
89% hetero. "Wow! You're double hetero. Most people might think that single hetero is enough. Not you. No, you must be both blind and deaf to doubt about you." Whatever. Possibly result of going on about great and blue tits for a while (to myself, for no reason).
30% here. And unashamed (though my missus may worry).
This is what a diet of reality TV does to a man.
I WIN.
71% hetero - I am a boomerang. Damn, Julie Walker beat me! (in the girls competition)
Up from 22% to 30% now; the word that's caused the 8% increase is hetero, oddly enough.
Andrew, wasn't sure where to put this and haven't grasped Twitter fully to be honest. I'm one of your stalkers, sorry, 'followers' but don't think I can put a reply to a tweet unless you're following me, can I? Oh I don't know, makes my head hurt...
Anyway, my point is you asked for recommendations of what to see at Edinburgh. You've probably been given a tonne already but I spent a happy couple of hours the other week digesting the programme and am seeing:
Alun Cochrane (loved him after seeing him do the warm up at recordings of Not Going Out, v funny chap)
Paul Merton's impro show
Frank Skinner's Credit Crunch Cabaret
Herring (of course)
Marcus Brigstocke
then sorry a bit of fluff in the form of Denise Van Outen's show Basildon Blonde
and two visits to the podcast, yey! Gutted couldn't get tickets to Mark Watson's free show on 23rd August.
I know I've gone for the known and predictable names like a sheep but hey ho, am very much looking forward to my jaunt anyway, may see if I can cram in some other stuff as well though will be pushing it as only going for 2 days.
I'm 69% hetero. Or is that a double-entendre?
I got 01% hetero because ed Top Model, Big Brother and Clarissa appear in my feed in my feed...... I am a straight girl.
Also, my boyfriend had the same score because he has bugger, gym and Big Brother in his. Makes me wonder what Stockholm pride think he gets up to in the gym.
Laura
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