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Friday, 24 August 2018

Austria really, really wants to make sure you're gay

After rejecting one asylum seeker on the grounds that they're not convincingly gay enough, so they can't really be gay, Austria is now rejecting another on the grounds that they're behaving with so much gayness that they can't really be gay.

Clearly Austria must absolutely love gay people if it's so important not to let in any phoneys...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-45290800
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3 comments:

  1. Michel Kangro24 August 2018 at 11:14

    You need to show just the right amount of gayness. Everyone knows that gays always show just as much stereotypical behaviour as necessary to make their gayness known to any observer, but not more, a feat that cannot be replicated by anyone not truly gay.

    Also, everyone knows that being gay is something binary: You are gay or not. There is no bi.

    m(

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  2. Andres Soolo24 August 2018 at 11:21

    Michel Kangro: Hey, are you by any chance related to Gunnar Kangro, who wrote textbooks on calculus for many years?

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  3. Michel Kangro24 August 2018 at 16:07

    Andres Soolo No. The name's quite unique here in Germany, but not so unique in the Baltic, I was told.

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