Peter wrote:There's a long-standing and honourable tradition of members of groups adopting pejoratives for their own exclusive use and thereby reversing their effects.
So gays call themselves "queer", Afro-Americans call themselves "niggaz" and I won't mind at all, dear Ultry, if you refer to yourself as a "crim".
OK?
It's "Ultra" if you don't mind.
As for your previous post about the DJ (I didn't actually notice it until now, because I'd had this page open for a few minutes before posting a reply to furbaby's, so I didn't see), note that it was created by the BBC, which happens to be on a totally different section of the planet to where I am, where the way the DJ used it has become so common that people just don't notice anymore. Just like I've said before, Will noticed the same thing.
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Darragh wrote:
Wow. I must be the only sraffie in existence still capable of vomprehending the literary device know as "sarcasm". Get a grip!
Get some sense! If you just apologised when I told you too your reputation wouldnt be completely ruined on this forum. Vomprehend that.
Vomprehended. Meanwhile, I think you failed to point that the part of the psot your reply is referring to was by someone whose post seemed to think I actually meant the carriage looked homosexual, which I do not, as you managed to work out after a few posts. You see, after I pointed out that my post was sarcastic, you reacted in a way that suggested that I seriously meant the carriage was homosexual, for whatever reason. This was followed by a string of insults and fallacies in an attempt to dodge the point that where I'm from, the word "gay" isn't actually a very offensive insult, so, not having travelled very widely, I probably wasn't aware that elsewhere on the planet it still is. You then go on to claim that I am somehow claiming that gay people are bad and that I am equivalent to racists and anti-semites. Remember, of course, that all of this is based on one word in a post on a random forum. I use your analogy:
"Hey that carriage looks dumb" "What, Jewish?" "Yeah that thing looks mega jewish....and also black."
The main issue I have here is that your "equivalent" uses insults that are quite obviously directly related to certain ethnic (afro-americans and jews) and the insult is primarily based on them being such (sort of like how "~*ninja*~" is an extremely offensive term for african-americans). The problem is that my usage of the word had
no homosexual connotations whatsoever. I apoplogise if you didn't realise, but where I am, that's how it woudl be interpreted. Apologies for forgetting that perhaps elsewhere this would not be the case, but I think you would probably understand if I don't analyse the international variations in definition of each word I type.
Before this goes on any further, if I did offend anyone with my choice of wording, I do apologise- it wasn't meant in the slightest. I seriously didn't think that used in this context it would mean anything more than "stupid". Bit of a case of misunderstanding, I think. As I mentioned before, Will pointed out that the word gay probably has different meanings and is used in different ways down here, so I really didn't think this would offend anyone. If you asked most people I know, I reckon you'd probably get the same reply. It just doesn't have that meaning anymore. Nobody I know woud feel strongly about it at all.
Now that I know certain members of this site do actually feel strongly about usage of this word, you have my guarantee that I won't use it again.
I think that sums it up: I honsetly didn't expect anyone to take it in this way. Will has put it quite nicely.