Maybe after APEC, Queen Mary 2 and passengers trapped in trains for hours on end, the Iemma government has developed a taste for seeing Sydneysiders suffer chronic major organisational and infrastructural breakdowns.

Most would argue that this is all social conditioning but I think the answer to the elusive gay gene could well lie in our taste buds.

By the way – was I out to lunch when the idiom “that’s so gay” became acceptable? And don’t even get me started on the ‘God squad’!