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I work with kids. And saying "that's gay" sounds very innocent to me and relatively meaningless. But the word "faggot" to me is an ugly hate word. I'm straight, but I just find that word very ugly. And usually when I hear it, it is an expression of hate or sounds very much that way to me.

Maybe its because one of the only times I ever was called that name, it was as a kid, my photography class went on a field trip to another high school to see an exhibit. I had very long hair, was kind of thin, not effeminate, but maybe a little bit of a pretty boy, definitely not the most burly super macho looking guy. This moron from the other school looked me in the eyes, from about twenty feet away, with a very mean attitude and says "faggot !" This guy did not know me, and this was meant as far as I could tell as fighting words.

No I didn't fight him, he clearly would have kicked my ass.

I would say that it's very much like the N word in that regard, if used with friends it might be almost amusing in some contexts, but it can be used as one of the most ugly hate words.

I just take it as a marker that the interlocutor has been drinking.

Bap33 says

@ellie,
Please understand that I am not defending Mr.Fantastic with my comments. I just had something to add. In my world, around my friends, we used “faggot” as a common putdown, on the same level as buttwipe, assbreath, dickhead, prick, stupid, idiot, queer, ect ect.

You said that you "used" the term, so I'm assuming that you did this during your sophomoric younger years. That's cool. It's even cool if you were to use the term "faggot" with your friends in private now. There's a common use of the word "gay:" people often say, "that's so gay..." I don't care, nor am I judging people who use such terms.

I believe - and correct me if I'm wrong - that the use of the word faggot on a public forum in conjunction with more than one reference to two posters performing a sexual act on another man, and the obvious disdain which the self-branded Mr. Fantastic holds toward these posters, to whom he has stated he feels intellectually superior; well he was purposefully trying to be offensive.

So no award for him. Or soup, for that matter.

elliemae says

Boy - Wanna go to lunch?

So, did you go to lunch with him ?

The only thing I remember is laughing my ass off. We're still good friends (30 some years later).

@marcus .... I may have been that burly looking fellow in your past ... we all did and said things as kids that look kinda mean now. I have classic man looks, and even a blind person would know I'm extra-straight, from 30 yards away, in poor lighting.... I simply emit "MAN" .... me and Chuck Norris share this trait. lol

@ellie ..... I have to be honest, in the right group of buddies, it is still sophmoric names for all ... even at 42 and chubby and gray. None of my buddies are queer(openly), but we are all perverted sinners, and fathers, and husbands, and we still do silly things that are embarassing when they are accidently done in mixed company.

I was called an ethnic slur on Friday at the coffee shop at 5am by a life long friend ... he was expressing his displeasure with how close I parked to his driver's door as we pulled in at the same time, forcing him to move his truck before exiting ... yes .. it was funny, and sophmoric, and his choice of words fit the moment pretty well in our world. He also used the F word as the only adjective for a few senrtences. Who starts their day better than that?

Mr.Fantastic says

Ellie is obviously a faggot.

I guess that's one thing that we have in common - I like sex with men too. Since you're fixated on the term, I'm thinking that you're protesting a bit too much. Btw, I was almost successful in my endeavor to not to call you Mr. Fucktastic.

Bap33 says

@ellie ….. I have to be honest, in the right group of buddies, it is still sophmoric names for all … even at 42 and chubby and gray. None of my buddies are queer(openly), but we are all perverted sinners, and fathers, and husbands, and we still do silly things that are embarassing when they are accidently done in mixed company....Who starts their day better than that?

Bap, you mentioned that you say these things to your friends. Who doesn't? I say inappropriate things all of the time - Just read some of my posts. It's just that I don't use offensive slurs to be hurtful to a stranger when I'm on the losing end of an interwebs conversation.

So, when you press "ignore," it asks "really ignore Mr. Fantastic?" There was no "really, really - I mean this guy is an offensive pos with whom I wish to never speak again" button.

I wonder if Patrick can add that?

I have never used the Ignore function yet, but one poster on this is really tempting me. (BTW it's not Elliemae, ch_tah or Troy)

Let's get back to some stupidly funny posts...

cheers.

elliemae says

Mr. Fucktastic.

I have been called that ... well, not called, more like purrrred ....

sometimes, life ROCKS!!

not right now .... but sometimes!! lol

Bap33 says

elliemae says

Mr. Fucktastic.

I have been called that … well, not called, more like purrrred ….
sometimes, life ROCKS!!
not right now …. but sometimes!! lol

so.....many.....jokes...........must.....remain............strong.........THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID!

Damn, that was hard...That's what she said!
Sometimes I can't resist....That's what she said!
I can't stop! That's what she said!

Hey, I was just trying not to blow it...

This is by far the most annoying line ever. God damn it pisses me off, its like shes (Elliemae, she says it ALL THE TIME) saying 'i won the argument though I presented no argument'
Mr.Fantastic says

Thanks for playing though.

Sure, lets ignore fundamentals because its different this time...
vain says

How is a $600k home not affordable at $100k/year salary? Forget about the 3x income rule.

ROFL. But possibly true that you're all fucking with me.
Bap33 says

Heck, all of you could be the same person, put here just to mess with my mind!

Mr.Fantastic says

Done!
That just shows national listings as a whole. I was talking about a specific city!

I go by a whole diffrerent criteria, mostly whether you are fucking mens asses with your penis or not. Which I do not do.
Mr.Fantastic says

The #1 reason why you’re a dumb faggot is because you simply don’t care to examine the source of information you post

?

I'll see your ? and raise you a WTF?

With a big fat "Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa?" I'm all-in.

hmmm ... that post fits in, just like the rainbow afro wig guy at ball games ....

I’m going to add one. Someone said that we should drill for oil in the national parks, ANWAR, erc. because this will lower the costs of gasoline for Americans… since the oil companies will sell petroleum to Americans more cheaply.
Let me look at some more...

The NAR threatening to sue Patrick over his logo and the use of the term Realtor (R).

ECBB wins, hands down.

More coming up!

Bap33 says

I have classic man looks, and even a blind person would know I’m extra-straight, from 30 yards away, in poor lighting…. I simply emit “MAN” ….

Hah.

I forgot all about this thread, but this made me laugh, again.

Bap, I think you're a reasonable fellow, if I remember your posts correctly, in aggregate.

But, well...you wouldn't know gay if it asked you for a light. And it probably has, girlfriend.

Maybe you were being ironic. There's lots of gay at NASCAR too, ya know.

That's funny, because I thought I was way nicer to him in the first comment. :)

Without irony or trying to be clever, then: Bap I recall that most of your other posts are fairly reasonable, but you're deeply uninformed if you believe you can determine "gay" by appearance.

For what it's worth, I wouldn't call myself liberal either. But if "liberal" is the opposite of some of the folks on here who think they're conservative, then I wouldn't mind being called the L word.

@simchaland

Thanks for the laughs. You have condensed this list though!

@simchaland

Thanks for the laughs. You had to really condense that list!

American in Japan says

@simchaland
Thanks for the laughs. You have condensed this list though!

Mayumi1 says

@simchaland
Thanks for the laughs. You had to really condense that list!

Yeah, I really had to condense. It wasn't difficult at all to find quotes such as those. I picked out what I thought were the best nominees from his most recent posts.

Hate to break it guys, but it's very hard to top this in terms of either stupid or trolling:

http://patrick.net/?p=699438

ChrisLA says

Hate to break it guys, but it’s very hard to top this in terms of either stupid or trolling:

http://patrick.net/?p=699438

Myth #4 : There was a huge home price bubble in the USA

Has to be a troll. No human being could believe such a thing.

Perhaps ... or an astroturfer.

American,

I know first hand that living there for a (very) short while (though not short enough) for work certainly sucks.

I had long suspected that living in Japan also sucks.

Now I know that it does.

American in Japan says

??
I would like to hear your story.

Not here.

state says

I nominate ten ounce trout

Only later in the afternoon. His morning thoughts are often coherent.

This is NICE thread you got going here Patrick.

No no far be it from me, to pitch a bitch that someone posted something I take offense to and I would expect you to censor them. Though this thread is a Who's Who of all of the Ass Holes that have invoked the "FLAG" link.

They must be Democrats!

But I thought Calling someone a Liar IS attacking their ideas?

Libs DO as they SAY not as THEY do.

Hey you know those guys too?

Bap33 says

The education system is absurd and is only a goldenchild of the left becasue it gave them direct access to the youth to force upon them their leftist anti-God/American/Freedom queer way of thinking.

Wow that last one ranks in the top 10!

marcus you may disagree, but Bap is right that our education system is crap. And your union is part of the problem, huge part of it.

Bap33 says

The education system is absurd and is only a goldenchild of the left becasue it gave them direct access to the youth to force upon them their leftist anti-God/American/Freedom queer way of thinking.

The education system - at least the English composition part of it - seems to have failed Bap.

guilty as charged