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spreadsheet 20-05-2013 17:27
The word "GAY" getting hijacked
 
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

murfitUK 20-05-2013 17:32
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I think the forum's server has resurrected messages from 1983.

Stephen 20-05-2013 17:41
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Who exactly has hijacked the word?

Back to the 70's with you

spreadsheet 20-05-2013 17:42
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Originally Posted by Stephen (Post 35573860)
Who exactly has hijacked the word?

Back to the 70's with you
Homosexual lobby groups have hijacked it and altered the meaning of lots of old poems and verse

tizmeinnit 20-05-2013 17:52
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Originally Posted by spreadsheet (Post 35573861)
Homosexual lobby groups have hijacked it and altered the meaning of lots of old poems and verse
words can have more than one meaning. I love ******s as long as they are in onion gravy ( well I say I can not say I like the popular food often served with peas in a batch/cob guess I see your point now)

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spreadsheet 20-05-2013 18:07
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Originally Posted by tizmeinnit (Post 35573863)
words can have more than one meaning. I love ******s as long as they are in onion gravy ( well I say I can not say I like the popular food often served with peas in a batch/cob guess I see your point now)

http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/thumbla...3687X37IjL.jpgmmmmmmmm


lol - classic. I thought they were going to alter that. Same thing happened to me in the what are you eating now thread a little while back :)

tizmeinnit 20-05-2013 18:10
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this site has a very gay swear filter lol
(Gay as in something stupid or unfortunate urban dictionary)

idi banashapan 20-05-2013 18:23
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what the hell is going on it this room? has someone been making friends with Emmett Brown?

danielf 20-05-2013 18:25
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https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2013/05/27.jpg

spreadsheet 20-05-2013 18:26
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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?
Room? Are you implying that we are in some sort of closet?

tizmeinnit 20-05-2013 18:31
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I want to jump out the closet " I AM A LESBICON"

danielf 20-05-2013 18:33
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Personally, I'm a retrosexual. I've not decided what it is yet, but I like the sound of it.

Hugh 20-05-2013 18:35
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Originally Posted by tizmeinnit (Post 35573874)
I want to jump out the closet " I AM A LESBICON"
You are a convention of gay and bi women? :erm:

tizmeinnit 20-05-2013 18:39
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No I like Keith Lemon( not in a gay way ;))

Hom3r 20-05-2013 18:55
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GAY used to mean happy or something like that.

colin25 20-05-2013 19:00
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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".

spreadsheet 20-05-2013 19:02
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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!

colin25 20-05-2013 19:05
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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

Sirius 20-05-2013 19:14
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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:

Damien 20-05-2013 19:44
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Language changes...

Hugh 20-05-2013 20:30
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Unlike some attitudes....

spreadsheet 20-05-2013 20:48
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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

Henkesghost 20-05-2013 21:03
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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.

Chad 20-05-2013 21:05
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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!"

danielf 20-05-2013 21:07
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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.

spreadsheet 20-05-2013 21:17
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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

Jimmy-J 20-05-2013 21:23
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"To think that only yesterday, I was cheerful, bright and gay..."

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

Damien 20-05-2013 21:30
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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.

martyh 20-05-2013 21:54
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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

idi banashapan 20-05-2013 21:57
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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.

tizmeinnit 20-05-2013 21:58
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Originally Posted by martyh (Post 35573950)
You may want to learn a bit of history surrounding the word Gay

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
Wiki quote lmao worse than the mail lol

martyh 20-05-2013 22:03
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Originally Posted by tizmeinnit (Post 35573952)
Wiki quote lmao worse than the mail lol

and if you had bothered to read the source links you will see that they are from the Oxford English Dictionary

tizmeinnit 20-05-2013 22:04
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Originally Posted by martyh (Post 35573956)
and if you had bothered to read the source links you will see that they are from the Oxford English Dictionary
sorry saw wiki and ignored normal practice

spreadsheet 20-05-2013 22:30
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Originally Posted by martyh (Post 35573956)
and if you had bothered to read the source links you will see that they are from the Oxford English Dictionary
would that be the same Oxford that championed the fagging system?

Hugh 20-05-2013 22:31
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Originally Posted by spreadsheet (Post 35573979)
would that be the same Oxford that championed the fagging system?
No, because Oxford is a University, not a Public School.

Nice try, though....

spreadsheet 20-05-2013 22:36
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Originally Posted by Hugh (Post 35573982)
No, because Oxford is a University, not a Public School.

Nice try, though....
touche


but all the toffs end up there from eton et al do they not?


Clegg holds a particular repugnance in my mind - complete sell out - flying under any flag of political convenience - Château in France and no real financial worries


I'd like to tell him where to shove his gay policies but he might enjoy it

martyh 20-05-2013 22:38
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Originally Posted by spreadsheet (Post 35573987)
touche


but all the toffs end up there from eton et al do they not?


Clegg holds a particular repugnance in my mind - complete sell out - flying under any flag of political convenience - Château in France and no real financial worries


I'd like to tell him where to shove his gay policies but he might enjoy it
Blimey ,you want some salt with those chips on your shoulder

Hugh 20-05-2013 22:40
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Originally Posted by spreadsheet (Post 35573987)
touche

but all the toffs end up there from eton et al do they not?

Clegg holds a particular repugnance in my mind - complete sell out - flying under any flag of political convenience - Château in France and no real financial worries

I'd like to tell him where to shove his gay policies but he might enjoy it
My son's best friend is at Oxford (was on the reserve crew for the Boat Race), and he went to a state school, so, no, you sweeping generalisation in this, and so many other matters, doesn't hold water...

btw, methinks you do protesteth too much....

spreadsheet 20-05-2013 22:48
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yes all very well but you can't get away from the "cap in hand" courtseying to Lord Prescott (for Christ sakes) mentality that exists in this so called enlightened day and age

"If you prick them, do they not bleed?" etc but are they pricks in the first place

tizmeinnit 20-05-2013 23:00
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Originally Posted by Hugh (Post 35573982)
No, because Oxford is a University, not a Public School.

Nice try, though....
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/68714377

well a little google search finds that it could well have happened there also

spreadsheet 20-05-2013 23:11
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Originally Posted by tizmeinnit (Post 35574003)
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/68714377

well a little google search finds that it could well have happened there also
knew it! (slaps thigh instead of someone elses arse)

Damien 21-05-2013 08:40
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Anyway can we at least agree that the word hasn't been hijacked? It's been known under it's current definition for a long time already and there isn't really a concept of 'hijacking' a word in such a way, rather words and language change and evolve over time. Been conservative over the evolution of language is a mug's game, you'll be fighting a losing battle.

Gary L 21-05-2013 10:00
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My nephew calls everything gay. me included.

and the cheeky git likes Justin Bieber! ?

Jimmy-J 21-05-2013 10:41
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Originally Posted by Gary L (Post 35574052)
My nephew calls everything gay. me included.

and the cheeky git likes Justin Bieber! ?
Now that really is gay! ;-)

Gary L 21-05-2013 10:46
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Originally Posted by Jimmy-J (Post 35574068)
Now that really is gay! ;-)
I know.
he hits me with his sisters handbag when I question it.

Itshim 21-05-2013 20:25
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Went to school with a girl named Gay wonder what she is known as these days ?

Hugh 21-05-2013 20:31
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Gay, probably, or G if she is 'street'.....

danielf 21-05-2013 20:37
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Originally Posted by Hugh (Post 35574303)
Gay, probably, or G if she is 'street'.....
According to his profile, Itshim is 62. I think his former classmate is relatively unlikely to be 'street'...


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