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Beefeater1980
Sep 12, 2008

My God, it's full of Horatios!







It probably is and it will unquestionably be monstered. It’s entirely possible that KS deserves it but still.

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smellmycheese
Feb 1, 2016

Skull Servant posted:

I can't comment on those in their early 20s but it's very much still used by people in their late 20s both in Ireland and the UK.

I can understand wanting to phase out the use and there is definitely an understanding that there is an unfortunate homonym. It is always funny when there's someone who I'm only kinda familiar with who asks me for a fag (I'm gay), then immediately apologies for using the word.

It doesn't bother me in the slightest. Different contexts and I haven't come across anyone who has attempted to use it as a dog whistle to insult me (to my knowledge). However, I can understand others might not have that opinion.

In Ireland it’s “feg”, so less problematic

Failed Imagineer
Sep 22, 2018

smellmycheese posted:

In Ireland it’s “feg”, so less problematic

No it's not.

Definitely some moments when I was just recently in Vegas, and people I'm with would be loudly commenting on how all the indoor spaces stank of fags, before doing an immediate :ohno:

Gonzo McFee
Jun 19, 2010

Ah don't be a cent about it.

feedmegin
Jul 30, 2008

Cookie Cutter posted:

I've only ever heard military people say "tabs", nowhere else. I don't know if it has any regional association

Tabs are the people from the Other Place In The Fens hth

ANYTHING YOU SOW
Nov 7, 2009

Beefeater1980 posted:

It probably is and it will unquestionably be monstered. It’s entirely possible that KS deserves it but still.

There are so many personal attack lines that can be used against starmer.

In the run up to the election every day there will be a new one in the tabloids. The CPS did/didn't prosecute/convict my brother/attacker/paedo teacher.

Most of them won't stick, but some will.

smellmycheese
Feb 1, 2016

Failed Imagineer posted:

No it's not.

Definitely some moments when I was just recently in Vegas, and people I'm with would be loudly commenting on how all the indoor spaces stank of fags, before doing an immediate :ohno:

Well I live in Northern Ireland and we call them fegs. I was also in Vegas last month and it’s actually hilarious that all the beautiful, crazy, ornate casinos stink like 1970s old man boozers.

Chubby Henparty
Aug 13, 2007


Whenever I hear tabs these days this is the only thing that comes to mind:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8nvBr9toug&t=54s

damnit they removed the punchline, so here's NORMAN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8RrhCXBomc

Bobby Deluxe
May 9, 2004

Guavanaut posted:

A couple more strong entries to round out the White Guy Centrists: Should They? triptych.

https://twitter.com/Rhammified/status/1638103172735553536
https://twitter.com/Ferrosol1/status/1638099866759966726?t=NDVpLR9PQVywGNrhQqwVzA&s=19

Liked this reply best.

Tesseraction
Apr 5, 2009

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

Reminds me of when people first started getting email accounts.

My brother & his late wife had a joint aol account so had a 'merger' of their names as an email address BroNameWifeName. Turns out that the pet name Chez we used for his wife (whose full name was Cherry) is apparently a male name in the US and suddenly he started getting inundated with homophobic emails where writers had assumed they were two blokes, but it was right at the start of public having emails so they weren't in any chat rooms or on any message boards so where people had picked up their email address from we did not know (and never found out)!

Okay that super sucks but it's also extremely funny how easy it is to rile up homophobes.

forkboy84
Jun 13, 2012

Corgis love bread. And Puro


Skull Servant posted:

I can't comment on those in their early 20s but it's very much still used by people in their late 20s both in Ireland and the UK.

I can understand wanting to phase out the use and there is definitely an understanding that there is an unfortunate homonym. It is always funny when there's someone who I'm only kinda familiar with who asks me for a fag (I'm gay), then immediately apologies for using the word.

It doesn't bother me in the slightest. Different contexts and I haven't come across anyone who has attempted to use it as a dog whistle to insult me (to my knowledge). However, I can understand others might not have that opinion.

Yeah, I didn't think an older generation would stop it (worked with someone who thought it was the height of wit when he was going for a smoke to let us know he was going out for a poof. Every loving time. Over a 13 hour shift), I just was curious if there had been a change or not, with everyone being online to some extent these days, which means interacting with Yanks who definitely don't go out for a fag.

I use y'all a lot for someone who has been to America once, for a fortnight, in 1998. You just pick phrases up from the people you talk to (well, I do, I assume others do. A friend started referring to people as "chief" when he was at uni, instead of pal, & for a while I picked that up by verbal osmosis), & we talk more to Americans than past generations. But I will never let them take oval office away. It's too glorious an insult.

smellmycheese
Feb 1, 2016

Lmao

Bobby Deluxe
May 9, 2004

Tesseraction posted:

Okay that super sucks but it's also extremely funny how easy it is to rile up homophobes.
My father in law removed me from his facebook and I'm 90% sure it's because I posted that meme of two dudes kissing captioned about how posting it is a great way to get homophobes to unfriend you.

(I had him muted anyway)

Sir Sidney Poitier
Aug 14, 2006

My favourite actor


Has everyone got their popcorn ready for the waffleathon?

Tijuana Bibliophile
Dec 30, 2008

Scratchmo

Sir Sidney Poitier posted:

Has everyone got their popcorn ready for the waffleathon?

That's just a nasty combination

Skull Servant
Oct 25, 2009

forkboy84 posted:

Yeah, I didn't think an older generation would stop it (worked with someone who thought it was the height of wit when he was going for a smoke to let us know he was going out for a poof. Every loving time. Over a 13 hour shift), I just was curious if there had been a change or not, with everyone being online to some extent these days, which means interacting with Yanks who definitely don't go out for a fag.

I use y'all a lot for someone who has been to America once, for a fortnight, in 1998. You just pick phrases up from the people you talk to (well, I do, I assume others do. A friend started referring to people as "chief" when he was at uni, instead of pal, & for a while I picked that up by verbal osmosis), & we talk more to Americans than past generations. But I will never let them take oval office away. It's too glorious an insult.

I know my dialect is a mess. I've lived in Canada for two years and Georgia, USA for a few months. Now I've been living in the UK for closer to two years now. Add on top that I adjusted my accent as a kid because of a lisp. Most people twig me as Irish but I this week in work I had two people ask if I was American.

I end up just using whatever terms come naturally and switch it up if the person I'm speaking to doesn't know what I mean.

fuctifino
Jun 11, 2001

Sir Sidney Poitier posted:

Has everyone got their popcorn ready for the waffleathon?

I have my :420: at the ready

Tesseraction
Apr 5, 2009

Bobby Deluxe posted:

My father in law removed me from his facebook and I'm 90% sure it's because I posted that meme of two dudes kissing captioned about how posting it is a great way to get homophobes to unfriend you.

(I had him muted anyway)

lol

I just remember some goon saying that in Eve you could just float through a sector and say in public chat "I, too, am gay" and be guaranteed a bunch of furious cunts ranting about how they're not gay and that's disgusting and raging at you until you floated out of range.

Small Strange Bird
Sep 22, 2006

Merci, chaton!

Lord of the Llamas posted:

Pack of tabs what is that nonsense I've literally never heard that term ever.
Never read Viz? Drink beer, smerk tabs.

(I've never heard anyone call them 'tabs' without doing a Geordie accent, FWIW.)

Just Another Lurker
May 1, 2009

Tesseraction posted:

lol

I just remember some goon saying that in Eve you could just float through a sector and say in public chat "I, too, am gay" and be guaranteed a bunch of furious cunts ranting about how they're not gay and that's disgusting and raging at you until you floated out of range.

Sounds about right tbh, some days i miss that game.

:hmmyes:

Failed Imagineer
Sep 22, 2018

Tesseraction posted:

lol

I just remember some goon saying that in Eve you could just float through a sector and say in public chat "I, too, am gay" and be guaranteed a bunch of furious cunts ranting about how they're not gay and that's disgusting and raging at you until you floated out of range.

If you gay in Eve you gay in real life

Pistol_Pete
Sep 15, 2007

Oven Wrangler

ANYTHING YOU SOW posted:

There are so many personal attack lines that can be used against starmer.

In the run up to the election every day there will be a new one in the tabloids. The CPS did/didn't prosecute/convict my brother/attacker/paedo teacher.

Most of them won't stick, but some will.

Yep same as with Corbyn: throw everything at him, work out the lines of attack that stick, then relentlessly repeat them and watch his poll ratings plummet.

Kill All Cops
Apr 11, 2007


Pacheco de Chocobo



Hell Gem
Sweden is great because everyone there does snus so if you smoke a cig you get a dozen people asking you for one

forkboy84
Jun 13, 2012

Corgis love bread. And Puro


That doesn''t sound very great imo

BougieBitch
Oct 2, 2013

Basic as hell

Tijuana Bibliophile posted:

saying the full Nicotiana tabacum every time you need a smoke wastes a lot of time. are boys have places to be

Coulda used the last syllable of the word instead of the first, SMH

fuctifino
Jun 11, 2001

Boris is becoming increasingly frustrated and impatient. I think he's going to have another 'Get Stuffed!' moment soon

https://twitter.com/coldwarsteve/status/1638552877667950594

Sir Sidney Poitier
Aug 14, 2006

My favourite actor


What this hearing needs is Nadine Dorries bursting in screaming at them to stop being so mean to Boris.

Bobby Deluxe
May 9, 2004

BougieBitch posted:

Coulda used the last syllable of the word instead of the first, SMH
Getting back from holiday and using my duty free allowance on big huge cums.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013


I really want to know what lino ham thinks being bi has to do with lesbians.

Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012

OwlFancier posted:

I really want to know what lino ham thinks being bi has to do with lesbians.

He's echoing the bigoted idea that bisexuals don't exist, and that they're just straight people appropriating gay people's spaces.

Mega Comrade
Apr 22, 2004

Listen buddy, we all got problems!

Bobby Deluxe posted:

My father in law removed me from his facebook and I'm 90% sure it's because I posted that meme of two dudes kissing captioned about how posting it is a great way to get homophobes to unfriend you.

(I had him muted anyway)

I'd assume the only people left posting on Facebook are old homophobes.

Darth Walrus posted:

He's echoing the bigoted idea that bisexuals don't exist, and that they're just straight people appropriating gay people's spaces.

only if you're a women. If you're a man you are just a gay person unwilling to admit it.

Mega Comrade fucked around with this message at 17:10 on Mar 22, 2023

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

Darth Walrus posted:

He's echoing the bigoted idea that bisexuals don't exist, and that they're just straight people appropriating gay people's spaces.

Even if that were true I fail to see what it has to do with lesbians. Whether I were gay or straight I still don't see why lesbians would want to sleep with me. Whether or not I have achieved the perfect sexuality does not mean other people will want to sleep with me.

Guavanaut
Nov 27, 2009

Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998



Toilet Rascal
Bi is when men are attracted to both straight women and lesbians.

It makes sense if you assume that only men are sexual actors and women are set dressing for whatever weird pseudofeminism he's got going on.

Not So Fast
Dec 27, 2007



This is assuming they think the Nazis are right-wing, which we know they don't

e: or in the case of Posie Parker, that they think Nazis are bad

Jakabite
Jul 31, 2010
I’m with JA here - we should keep fag, everyone knows you’re not using the Bad Slur, and it’s a good word to say. SCUSE ME MATE YOU GOT A SPARE FAG is one of my favourite things to shout at people when I’m drunk and I’ve run out, in fact.

Plus, as a bisexual I also enjoy the experience of straight people saying it then apologising. Mate I’ve been saying it this whole time don’t panic

ItohRespectArmy
Sep 11, 2019

Cutest In The World, Six Time DDT Ironheavymetalweight champion, Two Time International Princess champion, winner of two tournaments, a Princess Tag Team champion, And a pretty good singer too!
"When I was an idol, I felt nothing every day but now that I'm a pro wrestler I'm in pain constantly!"

OwlFancier posted:

I really want to know what lino ham thinks being bi has to do with lesbians.

it's just five layers of bigotry nonsense essentially

i believe the current gist of it is that if you're a terf you believe that trans women are pressuring lesbians to have sex with them (and their assumption is that trans women are men) so therefore promoting bisexuality is so on and so forth

bisexuality always gets the most awesome esoteric bigotry and you get to go both ways (bigotry from lgbt and straight people all the same)



re: fag chat.

they're called tabs here but I do also always lol at using fag for it.

fuctifino
Jun 11, 2001

https://twitter.com/MaximColch/status/1638581492791091221

e: Direct link here https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/prime-minister-rishi-sunaks-schedule-of-taxable-sources-of-income-and-gains

Sir Sidney Poitier
Aug 14, 2006

My favourite actor



If someone's a rich oval office like him I assume this tells us loving nothing, and that we'll eventually see the truth when there's the next tax haven/avoidance leak like Panama Papers or whatever.

Microplastics
Jul 6, 2007

:discourse:
It's what's for dinner.

Failed Imagineer posted:

If you gay in Eve you gay in real life

(me with my new placard)

It's called Eve Online not Steve Online!

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Guavanaut
Nov 27, 2009

Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998



Toilet Rascal

ItohRespectArmy posted:

it's just five layers of bigotry nonsense essentially
Gerry Linner and the Five Layers of Bigotry

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