On ghey (and regional variants), use thereof

[Davros]

Anyway, I'm only in this because as long as we're talking pejoratives, and I saw Beemer Dan (through a quotation) refer to "wetbax," I thought of a new one I learned on my North Dakota trip.

"Frostbacks," for Canadians.

-Rench

My friend Ian(Canadian) has been known as Reverend Snowback for years.
I don't even want to type the other name I've heard

[motorpsycho67]

Insted

Hopefully, you'll utilize correct spelling in the future.

[Flatline]

[Caliann]

Grammar Natzee-- my grammar is gooder

That's diction.

(I've waited for YEARS to be able to use that line. Thanks!)

[MoraleHazard]

Insted

Hopefully, you'll utilize correct spelling in the future.

Dude, did you take corporate buzzwords 101? Next you'll be saying "world-class" and "client focused".

Though the military is far worse than corporate america with "force multiplier" "warrior" and "tip of the spear" applied to every limp-dick clerk in uniform. In centcom there isn't just buzzwords but whole buzz sentences.

I hate buzzwords.

Though IMO the good rev CAN be a bit oversentitive at times, I think he's right. "Ghey", is gay. Would anyone around here seriously use the word "nigga" and use it to mean "low class" but think that no black person would get offended?

My philosophy is to refrain from insulting or denigrating people, their hobbies, likes, dislikes, etc. Then one doesn't have to worrry if the insult is politically correct or not.

[motorpsycho67]

Ghey

[Gauss]

Why should we take a word that has changed from descriptive, to disparaging, to back to descriptive...and make it disparaging again? We don't have enough disparaging words to communicate our negative feelings, and we need to add more?

Which goes to the whole point I was making in the first "I'm so offended by hate speach" thread...Words are not inherently good or bad...they are not inherently sexist racist or homophobic. The same words can be used in different ways with different intentions...because of this, banning these words as un-acceptable because certain people only want to apply their definition to them is an exercise in the fucking assinine...and automatically being offended without taking into consideration the intent of the speaker is childish reactionary bullshit.

As far as whether or not we need more or less derrogatory terms in the world...when people stop coming up with new and exciting ways to be cockholster twatwaffles, I'll start limiting my lexicon of derrogatory terms.

I still haven't come up with a good one for Belgians though

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[JustNate]

It is simply one of my pet peeves, proving to me once again that the world went to hell the day they stopped teaching penmanship in grade schools.




Now hand me my walker and get out of my gladiolas, you whipper-snapper.

Denise? Is that you?
Is this me?

[Jonny]

I still haven't come up with a good one for Belgians though

Xtian's going to be wearing your ball-sack as a string tie.

[Caliann]

Which goes to the whole point I was making in the first "I'm so offended by hate speach" thread...Words are not inherently good or bad...they are not inherently sexist racist or homophobic. The same words can be used in different ways with different intentions...because of this, banning these words as un-acceptable because certain people only want to apply their definition to them is an exercise in the fucking assinine...and automatically being offended without taking into consideration the intent of the speaker is childish reactionary bullshit.

I understand where you are coming from, and from a different angle, I even approve.

I loathe, despise, hate, etc., etc., the movement searching for the "gender neutral pronoun". People who want to use shi, hie, hir, syr, etc., etc., can kiss my snobbish, injun ass.

English HAS a gender-neutral pronoun; that pronoun is "he". In some languages, the gender-neutral pronoun is directly translated to "she". (Some American Indian languages follow that rule) At any rate, the language itself, having evolved over many millenniums, is not in and of itself sexist or non-sexist.

Okay, that rant aside, I still do not use the words "gay", "nigger", "cracker", "spic", "gook", etc., etc. to describe people, places, or things that I find less than ideal, simply BECAUSE of the common-use connotations associated with these words. Mainly because I do not wish to waste too much of my day-to-day time, which is in short supply, attempting to explain to people how I do not intend those words in a prejudiced way...and secondly because too many asshat twatwaffles DO use those words in a prejudiced way and I don't want to be associated with them.

( I *will* use "injun", "blanket-ass", "redskin", "savage", and "heathen" to describe myself because 1) I am. 2) I have earned the right, through prejudiced and bigotry, to call myself any damn thing I please.)

If we are going to go with the "common-usage" argument, such words have been used as personal, derogatory insults for far longer than they have been used to denote something was "lame", and therefore those of us not up on the latest groove in language and slang cannot be expected to understand that the speaker "only wants to apply their definition" to those words, and really doesn't mean anything bigoted.

Then again, such things may be lost upon a wasicu. Opps, I meant that term to mean "white"; not "greedy, selfish asshole who always steals the best for himself", even if it HAS meant the latter for the last 250 years.

[bullfrog]

i don't take many things very seriously.

one of my guilty musical pleasures is late 80s - early 90s gangsta rap.

when singing along in the privacy of my garage, i substitute nigga with ninja.

gives the track a whole new meaning....

when played in my garage, Dr Dre's "The Chronic" features unforgettable hits such as: "The Day the Ninjas Took Over," and "Ninja Witta Gun"

[motorpsycho67]

Ninja please.

[bndgkmf]

My buddy Rob is in a band called The Mad Mexicans. Now technically they are Americans of Mexican descent but whatever. Anyway, they were kicked of off a Jagermeister tour for being offensive to Mexicans and Mexican Americans.

The other day in Cycle World they had a cartoon in the back. A guy had wrote in about apehangers. The cartoon was off a bunch of Planet of the Apes style apes with giant handlebars on their Harleys and Charlton Heston on a beat up Ninja wearing the loin cloth and a torn shirt that says I Am The NRA (Sidi sandals as well). GG is a bogskimming Okie motherfucker. Eat shit and die you Welsh prick. The next month some guy wrote in saying no all gun owners are rednecks in torn clothes with ratty beards and to please keep the politics out of the motorcycle magazine.

There is a movement in England and other places to ban the use of words like blackballed, a black day, Gentlemen's Agreement, etc. Because they might offend someone.

Microsoft has come under for scrutiny for photoshopping a white guy in for a black guy in an ad for Poland. So know even marketing towards the demographic of an entire country is wrong.

My point is some people will invent offense where no offense is to be found. These are black, white, yellow, red, swarthy, gay, straight, bi, left, right, trans, handi you name it people. If they would stop and think what about what a person is saying before flying off the handle about it the world would be a much happier place. Unpopular speech is a consequence of living in a free society. Barring that remember what your mama said, "Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me."

[Caliann]

Barring that remember what your mama said, "If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all."

Fixed.

[guitargeek]

Well put, Mexwede breeder fucktard.

[bndgkmf]

Barring that remember what your mama said, "If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all."

Fixed.

My mom said, "If you can't say something nice at least wait until the sumbitch is out of the room."

[guitargeek]

If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all.

Ah yes, the road to pusillanimity.

[Pattio]

My point is some people will invent offense where no offense is to be found. These are black, white, yellow, red, swarthy, gay, straight, bi, left, right, trans, handi you name it people. If they would stop and think what about what a person is saying before flying off the handle about it the world would be a much happier place. Unpopular speech is a consequence of living in a free society. Barring that remember what your mama said, "Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me."

It's quite possible to agree with this point about 'some people' while still believing some other things are equally true. However many hippie provacatuers haunt the dreams of some of these posters and make them feel the need to polish their flintlocks, keep in mind that there are also people in this world who absolutely do use language to demean others and dig their nasty viewpoints into everyday conversation. It's fine to pretend that 'anything goes' is the high road, but consider the concept that there is a worthy challenge in communicating exactly what you want, without coloration, mistake, aggression, or bias. If a person can't communicate without the use of terms that they know to be loaded or disputed, it says something about their willingness to respect others. Anyone who says 'asking me to limit myself demeans me' is taking a stance every bit as childish and overindulged as the demands of a PC agitant can be unreasonable and hectoring. Both cranky extremes strain the social fabric.

[motorpsycho67]

If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all.

Ah yes, the road to pusillanimity.

No doubt from the book "The Road to Puerile Thinking and other such nonsense" by Pusillanimous T. Mugwump

[xtian]

a guy comes to one of his friend, embarrassed..

- john, I need to tell you something... I'm ... i'm gay
- oh.. you mean... do you have an appartment in san francisco?
- no
- so you have a convertible ferrari ?
- no
- maybe you have a yacht in monaco then ?
- no
- no permanent table at the casino
- nompe.
- dude, i've got news for you, you're not gay, you're just a fooking fag.

[tucko]

Ghey or motorpsycho67 has nothing to do with homosexuality. But you already know that.

I have queer friends. I call my friend John a fag, and he doesn't care cause he knows I'm just goofin on him and I'm not homophobic (another word I can't stand. I don't have a fear of homosexuality).


I'll still be using the word. If someone gets sand in their mangina over it, tough titties.

Oh Shit!!! John is gay?

[motorpsycho67]

Ghey or motorpsycho67 has nothing to do with homosexuality. But you already know that.

I have queer friends. I call my friend John a fag, and he doesn't care cause he knows I'm just goofin on him and I'm not homophobic (another word I can't stand. I don't have a fear of homosexuality).


I'll still be using the word. If someone gets sand in their mangina over it, tough titties.

Oh Shit!!! John is gay?

[urbanscum]

If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all.

Ah yes, the road to pusillanimity.

is that somewhere in Texas?

[Pancake]

If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all.

Ah yes, the road to pusillanimity.

is that somewhere in Texas?

Nah.. It's in Maryland.. where you have the right to flee from a home invader instead of stabbing him with a katana.

[WeAintFoundShit]

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