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Re: The word "GAY" getting hijacked

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Originally Posted by Hom3r (Post 35573886)

GAY used to mean happy or something like that.

They are planning to use "happy" too, in same context. eg "Ahhh, aren't those to guys happy together"

"What a happy couple they make".

Re: The word "GAY" getting hijacked

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Originally Posted by colin25 (Post 35573888)

They are planning to use "happy" too, in same context. eg "Ahhh, aren't those to guys happy together"

"What a happy couple they make".

Surely you are not suggesting a happy marriage - there's a thought!

Re: The word "GAY" getting hijacked

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Originally Posted by spreadsheet (Post 35573889)

Surely you are not suggesting a happy marriage - there's a thought!

They can use it in that context....heterosexuals rarely have that :D

Re: The word "GAY" getting hijacked

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Originally Posted by idi banashapan (Post 35573868)

what the hell is going on it this room? has someone been making friends with Emmett Brown?

:clap:

Re: The word "GAY" getting hijacked

Unlike some attitudes....

Re: The word "GAY" getting hijacked

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Originally Posted by Hugh (Post 35573920)

Unlike some attitudes....

"“People change when they want to change; not when you want them
to change.” - Larry Winget

Re: The word "GAY" getting hijacked

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Originally Posted by spreadsheet (Post 35573929)

"“People change when they want to change; not when you want them
to change.” - Larry Winget

You're coming across just a touch homophobic. Live and let live mate.

Re: The word "GAY" getting hijacked

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Originally Posted by Hom3r (Post 35573886)

GAY used to mean happy or something like that.

The Flintstones theme song touted that when you’re with them you will have a "gay old time".

I used to think this meant harmless fun however the below picture seems to suggest Fred was being indecently assaulted by someone who may, or may not have had tendencies towards the same sex.

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2013/05/24.jpg

Fred is not happy about the whole situation. Fred has a look on his face that suggests, "Yabba Dabba Don't!"

Re: The word "GAY" getting hijacked

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Originally Posted by spreadsheet (Post 35573929)

"“People change when they want to change; not when you want them
to change.” - Larry Winget

"People are idiots and I can prove it" - Larry Winget.

Re: The word "GAY" getting hijacked

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Originally Posted by Henkesghost (Post 35573936)

You're coming across just a touch homophobic. Live and let live mate.

Its Godwin's Law starting to assert itself in the thread

Re: The word "GAY" getting hijacked

"To think that only yesterday, I was cheerful, bright and gay..."

From one of my favourite Gilbert O'Sullivan songs - Alone Again (Naturally)

Re: The word "GAY" getting hijacked

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Originally Posted by spreadsheet (Post 35573942)

Its Godwin's Law starting to assert itself in the thread

No it isn't. No comparisons to Nazi Germany here.

Re: The word "GAY" getting hijacked

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Originally Posted by spreadsheet (Post 35573853)

The word "GAY" getting hijacked - not so long ago it was a word used in poetry and language - then the likes of Larry Grayson et al helped hijack the word.

Regardless of what is going on in current affairs etc I object to the word itself being hijacked and find this manipulation of the English language repugnant

You may want to learn a bit of history surrounding the word Gay

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The word had started to acquire associations of immorality by 1637 and was used in the late 17th century with the meaning "addicted to pleasures and dissipations.

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The use of gay to mean "homosexual" was in origin merely an extension of the word's sexualised connotation of "carefree and uninhibited", which implied a willingness to disregard conventional or respectable sexual mores

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By the mid-20th century, gay was well established in reference to hedonistic and uninhibited lifestyles

so you see it is by no means a modern "hijacking" of a word
by homosexuals.If anything it is a misuse by straight people

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay

Re: The word "GAY" getting hijacked

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Originally Posted by Damien (Post 35573946)

No it isn't. No comparisons to Nazi Germany here.

just was i was thinking.

anyway, 'gay' in homosexual terms has been around since the 1920s i think. it's certainly nothing new.