This is the problem with PC Culture. The meaning/usage of "offensive" words can change over time. They are the ones that made damn sure Faggot will ALWAYS be a derogatory term for gays, when it could mean something completely different.
hahaa I remember old days on IRC when someone was like "time for a fag" and everyone piled on him for not being nice and he was like "uhh, I'm going for a smoke?" cause fag is slang for cigarette in the UK
If you really want an inappropriate cartoon, watch "drawn together"
it boggles my mind how its not more referenced by lefties when it made fun of Trump. Maybe because everything else was so offensive. But even then, it just made him seem goofy, not malicious.
The british have tons of fun slang though, most of which I hope enters other "western" culture. Poof being a gay man, dogging being public indecency, hell they even have their own term for nancy pelosi in "minger".
Oh totally, I love the British slang. But don't get me started on chocolate biscuits. Which turns out to be a cookie. Cause I was picturing a Pillsbury Grand Biscuit but in chocolate. Yuck. ;>
You have to think if they ever wanted to sell that stuff to black people it'd be the perfect thing, just have the dough boy cover himself in chocolate then immediately loot a liquor store.
rite? usenet, dalnet... sometimes if we had a severe server split, we would go and try another smaller one like starnet or something. It was like being on another planet hahaa
I remember reading somewhere (can't remember where) that the faggot bundle of sticks thing was a term for a burden. Like having to carry a bundle of sticks is a burden. So, a faggot is a burden. Seems pretty apt to call some of these burdening people faggots.
That and it was used as the nickname for juniors in boarding school who would do things for the seniors. Often the seniors would be abusive and/or humiliate the juniors.
Ask Roald Dahl. Sadly, he went back to being a faggot.
At the end of the day, words are just sounds we make. If someone gets offended by a singular word, they need to grow up. Not everything should revolve around people’s feelings
You just said that language is basically unimportant.
You have a point, that words shouldn’t be “violence” (in left-speak), but at the same time the whole point of language is to communicate ideas and meaning, yet you’re saying words should be meaningless.
Then we literally would have no use for language. You can get enough of an idea across with grunts and gestures.
I still use it for anything or anyone I consider lame,stupid, or dumb. All of these in their derogatory usage ofcourse. But there's another example right there. 😅
This is the problem with PC Culture. The meaning/usage of "offensive" words can change over time. They are the ones that made damn sure Faggot will ALWAYS be a derogatory term for gays, when it could mean something completely different.
hahaa I remember old days on IRC when someone was like "time for a fag" and everyone piled on him for not being nice and he was like "uhh, I'm going for a smoke?" cause fag is slang for cigarette in the UK
https://youtu.be/0kdd1te9Vv4
Made me think of this retarded cartoon.
kek "speak Hindu!"
I actually like that retarded cartoon. Shame it got cancelled after a month and there were only 6 episodes.
If you really want an inappropriate cartoon, watch "drawn together" it boggles my mind how its not more referenced by lefties when it made fun of Trump. Maybe because everything else was so offensive. But even then, it just made him seem goofy, not malicious.
Same thing happened to Hong Kong Phooey, number one super guy.
Oh it's great. Have it up on my shelf for random laughs. But it's still retarded.... and queer.
The british have tons of fun slang though, most of which I hope enters other "western" culture. Poof being a gay man, dogging being public indecency, hell they even have their own term for nancy pelosi in "minger".
Oh totally, I love the British slang. But don't get me started on chocolate biscuits. Which turns out to be a cookie. Cause I was picturing a Pillsbury Grand Biscuit but in chocolate. Yuck. ;>
You have to think if they ever wanted to sell that stuff to black people it'd be the perfect thing, just have the dough boy cover himself in chocolate then immediately loot a liquor store.
I think that was an actual thing once...
poof, ponce, nancy boy, etc. they do have some oddball terminology across the pond.
There’s also pillock and bollocks.
Poof is not just a gay man, it's a soft man.
I'm a little cigarette, short and stout...
I'm getting nostalgia flashbacks lately, lots of IRC and ICQ mentions, love it.
I almost want to go see if usenet still exists.
rite? usenet, dalnet... sometimes if we had a severe server split, we would go and try another smaller one like starnet or something. It was like being on another planet hahaa
I just realized... they call cigs fags because cigs are a bundle of sticks that you burn. As are faggots, when the term is used in the original sense.
A 'faggot' is literally just a bundle of sticks. But I'm sure Merriam Webster already changed the definition by now.
Alone, we break like simple sticks, but together, we become the mighty faggot!
I remember reading somewhere (can't remember where) that the faggot bundle of sticks thing was a term for a burden. Like having to carry a bundle of sticks is a burden. So, a faggot is a burden. Seems pretty apt to call some of these burdening people faggots.
That and it was used as the nickname for juniors in boarding school who would do things for the seniors. Often the seniors would be abusive and/or humiliate the juniors.
Ask Roald Dahl. Sadly, he went back to being a faggot.
At the end of the day, words are just sounds we make. If someone gets offended by a singular word, they need to grow up. Not everything should revolve around people’s feelings
You just said that language is basically unimportant.
You have a point, that words shouldn’t be “violence” (in left-speak), but at the same time the whole point of language is to communicate ideas and meaning, yet you’re saying words should be meaningless.
Then we literally would have no use for language. You can get enough of an idea across with grunts and gestures.
I still use it for anything or anyone I consider lame,stupid, or dumb. All of these in their derogatory usage ofcourse. But there's another example right there. 😅