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To engage in the usual homophobia in a variety of languages? 

It just translates to faggot or faggotry as far as I can tell. 

 

Maybe I'm missing why it's such a great insult.

 

Or maybe... I'm just not homophobic enough.

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19 minutes ago, peds said:

To engage in the usual homophobia in a variety of languages? 

It just translates to faggot or faggotry as far as I can tell. 

 

Maybe I'm missing why it's such a great insult.

 

Or maybe... I'm just not homophobic enough.

I'm genuinely interested, sometimes there's a good back story to insults or the wanting of them, none of my gay mates have thin skin. 

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The pope probably dislikes gays because statistically they're competition for the alter boys.

 

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Well the faggot thing (I believe, though I am happy to be corrected if I've been fed a lie) came about from the practice in a less-enlightened time of burning homosexuals at the stake, atop, obviously, a big pile of burning faggots. The gleeful crowd would shout things like "Throw another faggot on the fire!" and other such comments, and the name stuck.

 

I wonder if the Italian is a translation of a bundle of sticks or the gay slur. But I don't wonder enough to Google it.

 

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Do you know what, I just Googled it, and it turns out the burning thing is one of those urban legends. Fascinating, I wonder who started that. 

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Repeating an old line... didn't the bible say that the gays should be stoned. Not sure if that would stand up in court for drug driving "But God said I have to be"

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1 hour ago, peds said:

To engage in the usual homophobia in a variety of languages? 

It just translates to faggot or faggotry as far as I can tell. 

 

Maybe I'm missing why it's such a great insult.

 

Or maybe... I'm just not homophobic 

1 hour ago, peds said:

To engage in the usual homophobia in a variety of languages? 

It just translates to faggot or faggotry as far as I can tell. 

 

Maybe I'm missing why it's such a great insult.

 

Or maybe... I'm just not homophobic enough.

 

1 hour ago, peds said:

To engage in the usual homophobia in a variety of languages? 

It just translates to faggot or faggotry as far as I can tell. 

 

Maybe I'm missing why it's such a great insult.

 

Or maybe... I'm just not homophobic enough.

 

I’ll show this to a couple of openly gay guys I work with who can take a joke and hate the word homophobic with a passion, it’s not even worth getting into a discussion with you or the other 3 on this one. 

 

1 hour ago, Mark J said:

Why do you wish you'd known that a while back?

 

Nothing more than a bit of fun Mark, you work in Holland, Germany, Finland, Nigeria etc etc you learn bits and bobs of the language bud, often as not that includes swearing, if it’s good enough for the pope it’s good enough for me. Seems some of those who take an unhealthy interest in my posts have read a bit too much into it. 

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On 26/05/2024 at 10:20, sime42 said:

 

No idea Bud, I'm not that interested in the bloke tbh, he does seem to be rather a parasite though. I know he's got a voracious appetite for Moon Bat stuff, but why do you feel such an allegiance to him?

 

He used to be an "anti-capitalist" but moved over to "COVID skepticism", presumably because it's a more lucrative and gullible audience. But also perhaps he knew that the sex abuse allegations were going to come out, and suspected that the anti vaccine and COVID conspiracy types would still support him.

"These allegations are lies that are being used to bring him down for speaking the truth!"

He wouldn't be the first con man to try to rehabilitate his image by finding Jesus.

 

Russel on his recent conversion to Christianity...

 

https://x.com/rustyrockets/status/1795105034566287429?t=PtYm0Xd0SjYtRtLaHkRrjg&s=19

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