As I recall, Madonna said that.
Please do! The more of us that use responses like that, the better. Plus, it has the helpful addition of aiding us fine charactered people identify each other!
New Orleans?
Well, hooray for you.
I’d say I’m currently 80/20 hetero/homo. That ratio has changed back & forth over my lifetime. It seems to depend on a lot of things, but mainly my current relationships/attractions. So for me, it’s a sliding scale, whether you like it or not.
I’ve had occasional brief periods of being fairly asexual, but I agree with WhyNot that that’s a different axis (and I’ve covered a fair amount of it).
What’s really depressing is realizing that gays are still giving bisexuals the same shit I got almost 30 years ago. “There is no such thing as bi, you’re just a closet case or looking for attention.” I’d thought it was better these days. 
I am mostly straight, if I had to assign percentages to it I would probably say 75-80% straight and 20-25% gay. I generally don’t mention it to anyone I am not dating though, so I don’t have this discussion with family or most of my friends and a descriptive word for the way I feel is generally unnecessary.
I just sign my name and put EOE at the end.
If someone asks, I just say that I am generally not very discriminatory, but that’s because my standards aren’t that high. 
I would point out that we’re not all doing it. I went out with a bi guy for a while and it became obvious after a while that he was expecting some kind of crap from me about it, to the point that I had to say to him “You do know that you being bi isn’t a problem for me, don’t you?”. To which he responded “Yes I do, but you’re the first person I’ve ever been out with for which it hasn’t been”.
I try, honestly I do to overcome my aversion (for lack of a better word) to bi guys. I believe a lot of it came from the first few guys I knew who were bi that said they liked sleeping with guys, but could never imagine having a relationship with one. That concept really pissed me off.
I’m working on getting over it, but I still have a bit of a negative reaction to being told a guy is bi.
Well, hooray for you too. Not everyone in the world is part bi, even if that does make you sleep better at night.
I’m sorry genuine bisexuals get so much shit, but there are just too many people using the bisexuality crutch to get them where they’re going to be.
Bolding mine.
Can you clarify/explain this? I honestly have no idea what you’re trying to say.
Please take this diversion elsewhere. Thank you.
No, I meant I keep reading the sentence over and over, and I can’t make sense (hah!) of it in terms of meaning. It wasn’t meant to sound snippy, I honestly have no idea what the point being made is.
I meant for the both of you to take it elsewhere.
If it comes up, I say bisexual. It’s pretty accurate for me in every sense in which it can be taken: I like both men and women sexually and emotionally. I don’t like them both equally at all times, but I don’t think that requires a special addendum or descriptor, at least not in casual conversation.
I guess I would feel more annoyed by the label if I were attracted to anyone outside the male/female binary, like transpeople or genderqueers, but as yet I have not been, so it works for me.
I usually just say bi, but I will admit to sometimes calling myself gay to certain drunk moronic guys who won’t stop hitting on me just to keep them from asking for a threesome. Usually when I had a girlfriend.
I’m guessing that bisexuals (especially female ones) still get that reaction because of the recent (for the past decade or so) vogue for videos of young, “hawt” gals grinding each other and jamming their tongues down each other’s throats in public, seemingly for the primary amusement of men, a la “Girls Gone Wild.”
I am bi by nature, nearly exclusively lesbian by experience (by which I mean that I voluntarily made out with a guy exactly once in my life), and usually just call myself a lesbian or dyke. At first I called myself that because at the time my girlfriend was alive I believed it was true, and because if I had done otherwise she would have felt very insecure; after she died, I kept it up as a tribute to her because she had always been a proud, out, beautifully butch Kinsey Six (I had a kind of “one falls down, another stands up” feeling). Also, since I had no expectation of having another relationship in my life, and still don’t (at first it was due to depression and a misplaced sense of loyalty, now it’s because of physical decay), it just seemed easier.
Of course, it isn’t easier, because I get very confused looks from some people at work when I mention how I have or used to have a crush on this or that celebrity or regular guy.
I like this answer, it fits me too. Having never had a sexual or romantic relationship with a woman, I can’t say if I would be satisfied with that relationship or not; however, I have felt attraction to women before, including a heart-wrenching crush that lasted for over a year, but I was too scared to share or do anything about. (She later identified as being straight anyway, so even if something had happened, I doubt it would’ve lasted long. shrugs)
i’m usually more attracted to men than to women, but certainly don’t discount women, so I figure saying “bisexual” simplifies things. If someone wants percentages, I might say “about 80% of the people I’m attracted to are male”. It usually tends to be somewhere around there.
I’ll second the admiration for the term. Though I’m solidly hetero (so far), I’m tempted to use it just to mess with some of the intolerant folks in our town.
And I believe Whynot’s analysis with the second axis is far more likely a match for reality. Excellent analysis.