The use of the word "gay"

[thedude110]

Ok, guys. I'm a teenager. I'll explain why we call things that are "lame" "gay."

*holds soda bottle to crotch* THIS (*holds straight up*) is straight. THIS (*bends tip*) is GAY!

Get it now? "That window is so gay" basically means "That window is so bent."

I have no idea how one bends the tip of a soda bottle.

I also have no idea why my students would be saying "A Midsummer Night's Dream is so bent."

And is placing a soda bottle near your crotch safe?

 

[xsedrinam]

Holy crap! I agree 100%! No other word really bothers me. But "******" is just awful.

Since the 13th century and on, it was quite innocently and well used to convey bundles or pines for burning. Where and when the bastardization of the word took root, I don't know.

What fool hath added water to the sea,
Or brought a ****** to bright-burning Troy?
—William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus, Act II, scene III

 

[iBlue]

I have no idea how one bends the tip of a soda bottle.

...

think of it like a spoon... "there is no bottle."

</matrix reference>

 

[kretzy]

Since the 13th century and on, it was quite innocently and well used to convey bundles or pines for burning. Where and when the bastardization of the word took root, I don't know.

Interesting question. I also recall that ****** was an early oboe like instrument and that some languages use it as the word for oboe or bassoon (well at least German).

 

[Queso]

In England a ****** is a type of meatball. Maybe it's use comes from "eating faggots', meaning putting meat in your mouth.

Or something

 

[MacsomJRR]

In England a ****** is a type of meatball. Maybe it's use comes from "eating faggots', meaning putting meat in your mouth.

Or something

i can still remember the first time i saw "two stewed faggots" on the side of a can in a supermarket in the UK... it made my day

 

[mpw]

In England a ****** is a type of meatball. Maybe it's use comes from "eating faggots', meaning putting meat in your mouth.

Or something

I'm not 100% sure, but in the UK public school system (fee paying 'toffs') older boys would have younger boys to carry out their chores, for example an older boy might not polish his own shoes of iron his own clothes, these younger boys are known as fags (no idea why) as a new boy you might be told that you were sleeping in such and such a dorm and that you'll be fagging for the head boy.

In the public schools of old (and in some still I'm sure) there were strict rules about fraternising with girls so it wasn't uncommon for boys to experiment sexually with each other, and it was 'accepted' that older boys would use the younger boys who fagged for them as sexual partners. While I'm sure it was unpleasant for many of the fags, they seemed to accept it as the done thing and many had fags and used them in the same way when they were the senior boys in school although neither they or the boys they fagged for continued with a homosexual sex life after leaving boarding school.

 

[obeygiant]

Only word that really bothers me, I mean really hits me in the chest is "******."

God, I hate that word.

Pole smoker, butt pirate, queen, queer, poof...don't bother me a bit for some reason.

one of the most popular columns in the san francisco "metro" paper is the column called "Hey ******!". Its hilarious and its read by straight and gay alike. Fag or ****** is just a word and some people have moved beyond it while others have not.