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e-mail the mods instead of starting a thread?

That’s pretty much where I started!

“arse against the wall”-type playground spite that gay people still, apparently, are expected to put up with in public discourse.

Really?

Perhaps I need to get out of my decadent liberal bubble. And I apologise for my ignorance if I’m wrong… but does that really still happen? And not on the Jamaican Ragga scene, but in 2017 Britain? I thought the whole world went gay some time in the early nineties..?

Yes, really. But mostly from middle aged men, The ‘Clarksonists’ as mentioned earlier

The ones who called for a nice hard brexit?

making continual references to “Jamie” because you know he won’t take it the wrong way

*snigger*

😆

Is it over now?

edlong – scotroutes was accused of being a homophobe as Charlie insisted he did it deliberatly not inadvertently. This is imnportant

Is it over now?

It was.

CaptainFlashheart – Member
Is it over now?
It was.

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Don’t you dare try to come across all coy, you naughty thing.

You love it. You just don’t like admitting it.

You love it. You just don’t like admitting it.

Ffs, this threads full of accusations.

tjagain – Member

edlong – scotroutes was accused of being a homophobe as Charlie insisted he did it deliberatly not inadvertently.

Has he said he’s a homophobe? I’m fairly sure he hasn’t. What I believe Charlie is saying, is that “poo pusher” is a gay slur and that Scotroutes was jokingly inferring that Jamie was gay (For example – if Jamie had said he was going to push a bag of slugs through the letter box, SR wouldn’t have come back with a comment about him being a “slug pusher”, as the phrase has no meaning).

I don’t think anyone is suggesting SR is a homophobe. I’m sure if you read back some of Charlie’s and some of the other comments it will all make sense (they’ve put it much better than me).

As a gay guy that works in the motor trade, I hear all this crap all day – it doesn’t really offend me much, it just a saddens me a bit.

slug pusher

*reported*

:o)

I agree that what was written wasn’t the most hateful and offensive thing ever said about homosexuals, but that it adds to the sum of “arse against the wall”-type playground spite that gay people still, apparently, are expected to put up with in public discourse.

But you still have to look at intent if you think I dont make “gay ” jokes to my mates anymore than I dont take the piss out the punks or the Muslims or the lesbian vegans then you are very much mistaken

I think to some degree it shows normalisation and context is all

Its not always homophobic or insidious to make the joke it all depends on how and why – it can just be funny or it can be part of the drip drip of homophobia that pervades life- as Hicksy experiences.

For example i hate it when folk say that is gay – I have never ever heard it said in a positive way or where gay meant anything other than shit, crap effeminate, poor , rubbish etc
I challenge it but accept almost no one who does it is actually homophobic

I doubt scots has ever used that phrase and did so only to be funny. IMHO it was.
YMMV

It’s a comfort that some folks get it.

And good for you JY for calling out folks who use ‘gay’ in that sense. ‘poo pusher’ is not often used in a positive sense either.

Oh shut up.

Take it easy, little fella

scotroutes was accused of being a homophobe

@TJ Apologies if I’ve missed it then, you might have to point me to it as I don’t even know which of several threads to start looking in. What I have read is Charlie calling out a (in his view) homophobic comment and you, in a couple of places I think, asserting that Charlie is accusing SR of being a homophobe. Which is not the same thing.

I think from memory (life really is too short to go back over it again to check) that either you or someone else stretched the logic yet further by asserting that, since SR is not homophobic, the comment in question couldn’t be tainted by homophobia either. As though only card-carrying bigots are capable of a misjudged joke.

Yeah, in fact, what I had said was that Scotroutes had used a homophobic term, not that he was homophobic, not even that he was using it homophobically just that the term was homphobic, and that it should not be used here.

I’m not sure why that is a problem, we have lots of words which can be used in humour, depending on your humour, which are banned from the forum in fact users face a ban when they look to subvert the filter and sneak the words in somehow.

I really don’t think that this protracted finger pointing is doing any of you any favours.

You say “protracted finger pointing”, I say “open and honest debate”

As for protracted, I reckon if you just left in the posts discussing the actual issue, and removed all the rest, we’d be under 2 pages. Obviously, this would be one of the posts culled in that scenario…

This thread is very much like trying to shove shite through a letterbox….

It’s getting messy, there are no winners and everybody is left with an unpleasant smell…..

edlong – charlie –

Charlie says scotroutes used a homophobic term deliberately – that is accusing him of being homophobic.

so if it is shown that he did use it deliberately, even in jest, them you would conclude that he was a homophobe?

reported 😉

Charlie says

Wait. SR is scotroutes NOT SaxonRider?

I is confused.

Yeah, but who is PP?

Yeah, but who is PP?

Peter Poopy?

Peter Poopy Posts a pongy poo in Pontypool?

Keep going CFH, one of them will get the laugh you need.

CaptainFlashheart – Member

Peter Poopy Posts a pongy poo in Pontypool?

I was in Pontypool last Turdsday, I shit you not*.

*I actually was in Pontypool last Thursday.

PP- Ploppy, son of Ploppy and Mrs Ploppy

Good grief….I just wandered in and found this thread, thinking wow seven pages, it must get good in a minute!

It didn’t! 🙁

It just gets worse. How is that even possible? Threads usually just sink when they get boring. This one’s like a floater that just won’t flush.

I think one of the reasons is that some folks just post irrelevant things, sometimes about the thread itself rather than the matter under discussion. As said above, I’m sure if you took all the distractors out, it would be a much shorter thread.

Perhaps if those who wanted to discuss how long this thread is, we’re to start their own thread, it might make this one more concise