Hamilton gun slips

[Skeet UK]

You 'ARE' joking......!!

Ah hahahaha

 

What a f***ing joke...

I felt a pain go through me when I edited your post mate...but, people (one person) complained (not about your post) and in fairness, was right to do so.

 

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That one person (pink or otherwise) should really get a life...just saying... :wink:

....honestly..always trying to be helpful...true story :wink:

 

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Ooooooooops :laugh: :laugh:

I am orf......to bed.....

Hope i am not troubled by nightmares like ....a large very gay pink rabbit buying me a tweed hat stand for my game days....only to find that when i zipped it open it had shelves full of shop bought sloe gin..!!

....true nightmare....just saying...!!

Better take the 34 incher to bed with me and some 16grm felts :wink: And hope for an 80 yard shot (single barrel of course)....

 

[EdSolomons]

That person is a w4nker then..!

 

[timps]

I know where you are coming from mate, it was a innocent enough comment...don't get me wrong.

However, public forums like this have a very diverse membership and readership and we have to remember that.  What you (innocently) wrote actually came across as "Are these gun slips any good/acceptable or are they Gay".  Which suggests that being Gay is "no good/unacceptable".

We can all see the funny side, even my Gay mates laugh at loads of things that could be construed as offensive, but I don't think we want to be the kind of people who say things that could really upset people.

So yeah, not getting at you..just trying to keep the peace....without going to extremes.  

The word gay originally means cheerful, cheery, merry, jolly, light-hearted, and also to describe  brightly coloured.

The word evolved in the 1960s as the term preferred by homosexual men and was not its original meaning, it has now evolved again to mean something else.

Most teenage kids, mine included use the term to refer to something unimpressive backed up by the OED “informal, often offensive foolish, stupid, or unimpressive: he thinks the obsession with celebrity is totally gay.”

It is not a slur or derogatory remark at homosexuality, the word has just evolved for a 4th  time.

 I used to call things ‘pants’ when they were rubbish but I actually like pants they stop me from getting arrested in public whilst going to work.

If the original post was to ask if the gunslip was homosexual the complainant might have a point, but to complain about the evolution of a word when they themselves  are also using an evolved meaning has no case.

You either accept all the evolved meanings of the word or just stick to its original meaning.

Cue some cheerful, cheery, merry, jolly, light-hearted person now getting offended. 

 

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Great answer Timps......and of course i mean that in the original use of the word and not the modern day version meaning a bit better than good :laugh:

 

[clayclouter]

great shame you  cant buy faggots anymore either!!!!!

 

[FloaterSi]

Being a Mod is a tough gig, you are damned if you do and damned if you don't.  Can we just all play nicely?

 

[Skeet UK]

The word gay originally means cheerful, cheery, merry, jolly, light-hearted, and also to describe  brightly coloured.

The word evolved in the 1960s as the term preferred by homosexual men and was not its original meaning, it has now evolved again to mean something else.

Most teenage kids, mine included use the term to refer to something unimpressive backed up by the OED “informal, often offensive foolish, stupid, or unimpressive: he thinks the obsession with celebrity is totally gay.”

It is not a slur or derogatory remark at homosexuality, the word has just evolved for a 4th  time.

 I used to call things ‘pants’ when they were rubbish but I actually like pants they stop me from getting arrested in public whilst going to work.

If the original post was to ask if the gunslip was homosexual the complainant might have a point, but to complain about the evolution of a word when they themselves  are also using an evolved meaning has no case.

You either accept all the evolved meanings of the word or just stick to its original meaning.

Cue some cheerful, cheery, merry, jolly, light-hearted person now getting offended. 

Yep great post and I agree to some extent.  

I don't give a f*ck, as I was not offended...neither were my two Lesbican mates who were in my front room at the time....nor was my wife (just to clarify!)

But I do not make the rules, I was only responding to a complaint.  Regardless of the varied meanings of a word, sadly some of them are offensive to some people.  

If we are going to get "modern" with it; it may well be that kids use the term as an Urban Dictionary describes, but that doesnt make it right, nor does it stop people from being offended as this, very current song, explains.  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcNOapwgw6I

There are several "terms" that we might use without thinking, and there will be someone out there to whom that term is very hurtful.

 When kids are walking 'round the hallway plagued by pain in their heart
A world so hateful some would rather die than be who they are

If I was gay, I would think hip-hop hates me
Have you read the YouTube comments lately?

"Man, that's gay" gets dropped on the daily

We become so numb to what we're saying

 

[Jaykaysea]

Well said everyone....now onto more important stuff...has everyone done my Quiz yet? I need about another 15 for my badge.... :gamer:

 

[K80 TCG]

yes i done it, but it has pointed out how stupid i am.

I am concerned that i may be labled as cheerful, cheery, merry, jolly, light-hearted, as i am a right mesirable c***!

 

[Dibs]

Done it too but I obviously didn't search the internet enough for the answers! - doh!

It made me quite cheery doing it so I'm off to buy a Hamilton.

 

[timps]

Yep great post and I agree to some extent.  

I don't give a f*ck, as I was not offended...neither were my two Lesbican mates who were in my front room at the time....nor was my wife (just to clarify!)

But I do not make the rules, I was only responding to a complaint.  Regardless of the varied meanings of a word, sadly some of them are offensive to some people.  

If we are going to get "modern" with it; it may well be that kids use the term as an Urban Dictionary describes, but that doesnt make it right, nor does it stop people from being offended as this, very current song, explains.  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcNOapwgw6I

There are several "terms" that we might use without thinking, and there will be someone out there to whom that term is very hurtful.

It was the Oxford English Dictionary definition I would not go off urban dictionary :biggrin:

 http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/gay

I don’t doubt they were offended or hurt, but someone somewhere will be offended to some extent by nearly everything. Just being offended doesn’t mean it has any substance or action should be taken. I know people who are offended by gun ownership, hunting, fishing etc. does their perceived offence give them the right to have anything about those subjects removed just because they are offended?  

I sometimes wish it did as I am greatly offended by Xfactor. :nea:

The way the word gay became to mean homosexual is the exact same way that gay now has become to mean ‘not very good’, by usage. So we are being “modern” by using the term gay for homosexuality in the first place.  You cannot deny one change while justifying the other.  

The original word is homosexual, it has no other meaning, he/she can and has a right to be offended by the use of this word to mean other things and I would not have an issue.

The word gay has now become accepted to mean not very good as well as homosexual, if someone is offended by this change, tough, you cannot change the meaning of a word and then stop others doing the same at a later date, the English language either evolves or it doesn’t.

We don’t know the entomology of this change, just like when I was younger the word pants was used to describe rubbish things, it might not have its origins anything to do with homosexuality.

I know you are just doing your job as mod but the complaint has to have some substance and in my book it clearly doesn’t.

If you are a homosexual that wants to call yourself gay that’s fine by me, if you are a homosexual that wants to say that you are the only ones allowed to change meanings of words then that’s not.

It’s about semantics and not oppressing someone because of their sexuality, hence why gay is ok to be changed but changing homosexual is not due to the original meaning of the words.

It's your forum, your rules, so dont mind me, just discussing stuff as thats what we do on chat forums :good:

 

[Les53]

great shame you  cant buy faggots anymore either!!!!!

You can down this way mate! I got em for tea tonight........we are not very politically correct down here anyway!!

 

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Well .....Judge Dread Timps has declared this case over...!

The one complaint from the Gay(ish) guy has no substance.

So.......I suppose our message to Gaylord is.....

 

[Nick Selby]

great shame you  cant buy faggots anymore either!!!!!

Can you still buy mince?.....

 

[K80 TCG]

Depends how you walk!

 

[iainspecialboy]

Better go and stock up on lemons !

 

[Hamster]

Wouldn't place one too close to a Dyke.

 

[Skeet UK]