Originally posted by FloripaRawb *cough

Saúde....

Originally posted by hpeak13 Originally posted by Gringodude I was unfairly excluded into some predicament based on false assumptions. And through previous experience under which circumstantially is almost identical on her part in misjudging a situation, I will stand tall over my computer! lolYou on the other hand appear off base in thinking I will decide who is offended. The fact is I do not care, I'm just clarifying my part and highlighting the stupidity of the other party. Am I not entitled to that? Again, you have no place caring either, but I appreciate you joining in there's always room for one more..   1. what the f**k does "excluded into" mean? 2. you mentioned your intent or lack there of offending people as being relevant. my point is that intent plays no part. 3. I was agreeing with you dipsh*t. I use gay the same way..not even thinking how it refers to someone's sexuality. but if someone says that i should stop/have offended them, i stop and apologize. 4. and i waited posted bc your assessment of 3casas is off oh, speaking of super-gay* I waited 2.5 hrs at Banco do Brasil to sign some papers today. *no offense intended

You amaze, ME!

Few things make my otherwise tranquil blood boil is when minorities usurp a word from the English language and change its definition or meaning simply because they are unhappy with the correct appellation for their circumstance. And in the case of corrupting the word gay, it is my contention that a more inappropriate word couldn’t have served any less credibility to the cause.

Gay: to be brightly coloured, carefree, light-hearted and happy. Now what sort of imagery does this word conjure when it is assigned to a homosexual?  I see a wrist flapping effeminate idiot speaking with an affected lisp smelling of cheap eau de toilette and mincing its merry way in fishnet stockings during a gay pride parade. Not being of the persuasion myself, yet knowing a few homosexual men through the years – and possibly many more that ‘hadn’t come out’- I cannot think of a word more inappropriate for what might otherwise appear to be normal heterosexual men.

I can foresee a future time when we’ll go full circle and gay becomes exhausted, as did a long list of other less sensitive words. Meanwhile, what, might I ask, was wrong with the abbreviation of homosexual; homo?  And while heterosexual persons are happy to be described as straight, why would homosexuals object to the description, bent? I suppose the female homosexual, having their own legitimate word, lesbian, albeit deemed sexist by extremists, seems to be content and I would agree that it doesn’t impinge on anything or anybody.

This mild rant was provoked by the previous comments where others have usurped the word gay to serve new and entirely different meanings when, bizarrely, it was regarded to be politically incorrect to use the word gay in any other context not applicable to homosexuals; extraordinary! In my view the world has moved on, and whilst I would agree that homosexuals were murdered, persecuted, ridiculed, blackmailed and outlawed simply because of an accident of nature, society has changed, as has the law. So it is about time that this super sensitive chip was removed from the shoulder so that we can progress.            

Originally posted by Kitten Originally posted by Gringodude Saying gay in slang is entirely separate from being directly intended as an insinuated insult. Yet more evidence that this site can be a magnet for a lot of folks who are thick headed bigots.   Oh, in saying "thick headed bigots" in slang is entirely separate from being directly intended as an insinuated insult.   Like, if I describe someone as being dark skinned from the periphery, I wouldn't be seen as intending to put them down in their place a bit?

Wow, you are one ignorant bigot, or one subjectively defensive interventionist!

I don't care for your sexual preferences, that's the point!

Who are you the midnight hero?

I didn't call anyone gay.... Initially, I used an expression, which until you provided a compensation not worth tending, was understood. Stop crossing hairs and intercommunicating false pretext, rather separate from what's actually taken place....

I am insecure? I feel above people? WTF are you smoking, popping, dropping?....

I do not possess qualities? I am not male? I am not white? I am not wealthy? I am not heterosexual? I am not intelligent? I am not good looking? And, according to Brazilians only? What the hell is wrong with you?

Build your facts coherently... please...