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I'm going to miss your 100% gay female self JohhnyTruant. You reminded me of a slinky. Not really good for anything, but you would still bring a smile to my face if someone pushed you down a flight of stairs. You take care now.
 
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I for one think that vitriol like this man spews should be moderated but maybe manners aren't all that popular anymore in this day and age.
 

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What I want to know is, how on Earth did a derogatory nickname for gay men (mostly used in the U.S. ?) come about when it is also British slang for cigarettes or bundles of wood ?

And I didn't know it also meant kindling....thought the British slang was only for cigarettes.
 

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Lets also not forget its also a food most commonly found in chip shops and served with mushy peas

It's also a knitted stitch used on the edging of lace patterns, and a type of stitch used to join ribbons, folds, braids, etc. (Commonly seen both ways, with one "g" or two.)














I'm almost embarrassed to know that. What would the guys on the tractor repair forum say?
 

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I read once where smoking was the # 1 deal breaker among people seeking a relationship.

Another reason to just say no to fags!
 

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What I want to know is, how on Earth did a derogatory nickname for gay men (mostly used in the U.S. ?) come about when it is also British slang for cigarettes or bundles of wood ?

And I didn't know it also meant kindling....thought the British slang was only for cigarettes.

I believe that the word for the wood being used to burn people (in the Middle Ages or during the Inquisition) got transposed onto some of the people they were burning (for being homosexual). Similarly the resemblance of the cigarettes to the kindling got the name transposed there as well.

Not to grab a light hearted thread and get all serious or anything, but what DO those who believe homosexuality is a sin plan to do with those who simply refuse to miraculously become straight? Force them to leave the country? Lock them up? Go back to burning them?
 
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Whilst I've been anti-cigarettes fo' most of my youth, the connoisseur in me has become recently become quite fascinated by cigars... (Though it took a florally perfumed one to enlighten me to their complexity and detailed construction.)

And I've since been on the prowl,.. if only for the construction of an aesthetic concept. :p
 

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I dunno. I think FAQ's are very important. You can get your questions answered in a FAQ without having to ask it a billion times on a forum, for instance.

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I believe that the word for the wood being used to burn people (in the Middle Ages or during the Inquisition) got transposed onto some of the people they were burning (for being homosexual). Similarly the resemblance of the cigarettes to the kindling got the name transposed there as well.

1) fag (British for 'cigarette') is a shortened form of 'fag-end', meaning the 'last piece' of something. It was used originally to refer only to the unsmoked portion of the cigarette, but over time came to refer to the entire cigarette. It has no shared etymological ancestry with the term 'faggot'.

2) fag/faggot (American for 'homosexual') has often been claimed in recent years to derive from the burning of homosexuals on pires of faggots. However, this suggestion is almost certainly spurious, since this method of 'punishing' homosexuality was seldom employed, and died out (in Europe) centuries before the word 'faggot' came into usage to refer to homosexuals. It is more likely derived from 'faggot-gatherer', which was viewed in the nineteenth century as a women's profession that was common especially amongst older widows; from here, 'faggot' was indeed used in nineteenth-century British slang in a similar way to 'baggage', to refer to a shrewish woman. Early US literary references to 'faggots' from the 1910s and 1920s use the word in conjunction with other 'feminized' epithets for gay men, including 'sissies', 'fairies', 'queens', etc., lending further weight to the suggestion that this may be the etymological origin of the word.

Further online links which concur with the etymologies as per the above outline (which have been discussed at length in sexological articles also):
---> Straight Dope Staff Report: How did "faggot" get to mean "male homosexual"?
---> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faggot_(epithet)