That's Gay.

[RA92]

I go with TARTAR SAUCE!

 

[TiloXofXTanto]

I just yell medical Jargon or specifically scientific terms. in order to confuse all involved parties.

That or I yell "CURSES!!" to the world (literally, the word "Curses")

bless you, sir! *moonwalks out, top hat perched jauntily atop my head, twirling my cane as I go.*

How rude! "nothing (I'm totally atheist, agnostic at times but mostly committed, being a schizoid causes slight changes in that belief sometimes) bless you, sir!"

And then you just leave?
METACARPAL SIR!!
METACARPAL!!

(just kidding, but still, bless me for what?)

 

[blankedboy]

I'm gay and use gay as an insult/curse.
DIER TIME PARADOX

 

[commodore96]

People who are offended by the word gay are gay (I don't mean homosexual) because all my actual gay friends are cool with us using that word

 

[DSK-]

Yeah, I use that too. Not too sure why, but then again there is a lot of slang used where I am "You're having a giraffe!" etc etc

I like to use a good old fashioned 'Bollocks!!!' every now and again to switch it up a bit.

 

[JMeganSnow]

What was it, 15 years ago people used to say "that's lame". And didn't George Takei say that he was volunteering to let them use his name to refer to "gay" behavior? Since "that's gay" now means "that's lame" and apparently "that's lame" means you're a fogey old person or some such.

Of course, if you want to be retro, you could always say "bah, humbug!" or some such.

 

[OldNewNewOld]

I say "Great", "just great" or "I feel lucky today" with an extremely sarcastic tone followed with a roll eye.
I don't think I've ever used "that's gay" for stuff like that.

 

[Android2137]

Never liked "that's gay",so I never use it. It's as bad as "that's retarded."

Phone scenario: "...Rackem frackem."
Keys scenario: "...Now I feel really really stupid."
Vending Machine: "...D8< AARRRGHABIBLE! GIMME MY FREAKING GUMMI WORMS!!"

 

[ScoopMeister]

Do gay people use 'that's gay' in this context too?

 

[standokan]

I say brilliant, sarcasticly

 

[PatSilverFox]

*reads thread*
*sighs*

Society sucks v_v

 

[tehweave]

I for one, don't use 'thats gay' but I understand that people don't actually mean 'gay' as in 'homosexual.' Same way as when I say 'thats retarded' I'm not comparing whatever that is to a mentally challenged person. Plus, aren't homosexuals offended if you call them gay? Aren't people offended when you call a mentally challenged person a 'retard?' Same way if you call a black man the N word. (Just to clarify, I don't use that word. But stick with me, I have a point coming.) Since people don't want to be called these words, how about if we stop calling them that and use them to describe crazy, stupid, or unpleasant situations?

Remove the idea that we're oppressing an entire group of people and instead focus on the fact that it's just describing a rather small incident? Why is it okay to call someone 'stupid' and laugh about it but not 'retarded?' Why can we say 'this is dumb' and have people agree, but not 'this is gay?' And granted, using the N word is a really really bad idea because racism unfortunately still exists and it wasn't that long ago that black men and women were segregated from society, but I could see a future where people could use it to describe an ignorant "human" and not an ignorant "black man." Call me what you will, but it will be a great day when we can use any word to describe any person, and they don't care. That a white human, a black human, a gay human can all call themselves by offensive terms and shrug it off.

Let's try and work towards that day, shall we? We don't want to use those words to oppress everybody, we just want to use them in a meaningless conversation, and move on. It's okay. We're not here to oppress, and if you think we are, then you believe that word applies to you. Don't think that. Try thinking higher of yourself. There's a good chance I do too.

 

[zelda2fanboy]

I say "fudgsicles." Technically not a swear word, but to me sounds dirtier than ************ or cocksucker. And I can say it in front of anyone without fear of consequences. Hopefully my prolonged use will one day make it into a real dirty word. Maybe you should start saying "That's gaytarded." That won't offend anybody.

 

[Jonabob87]

I've been saying "That's gay", "You're a complete gayboy" and "Stop acting like such a gay" since I was 16.

I ain't stopping now!

Words don't matter, meaning and context do.
If you're not a homophobe then you're not a homophobe, so it doesn't matter.

+1. I'd say "That's fucking gay" but that doesn't mean I'd discriminate against someone based on their homosexuality.

 

[JMeganSnow]

Do gay people use 'that's gay' in this context too?

I know some that do. In general, the people I know who use these silly terms generally do so in a dismissive manner. It is valuable to have terms that don't just mean "I'M PISSED OFF!" but also, well, that was annoying. I dismiss you, annoying thing! Take that!"

I say "well fooey" a lot too. Or, when I'm typing, I'll do this: thpppbt

 

[Tulks]

In the extremely rare circumstances that I use the phrase, it's applied only to objects or situations that in some way evoke an aspect of the homosexual stereotype. Descriptive, not pejorative.

 

[JMeganSnow]

And granted, using the N word is a really really bad idea because racism unfortunately still exists and it wasn't that long ago that black men and women were segregated from society, but I could see a future where people could use it to describe an ignorant "human" and not an ignorant "black man."

This would actually be really amusing to me. I'd like to encourage any black folks out there to start adopting this terminology immediately, if only because it'd be really funny to see the look on the lily-white Starbucks operator's face when they mess up your order and you proceed to call them "you dumb n-word".

(Normally I'd just go ahead and use the word, assuming that the context would be clear to everyone, but since I've been getting warnings for posts I made WEEKS ago, BEFORE the rules change, I don't know what the heck is going through the mods heads these days. Oh well.)

 

[derelict]

Typing the last letter of a text, phone battery runs out.

Go look for keys to shed in house for half an hour, in pocket the whole time.

Buy something from vending machine, it doesn't come out.


When stuff like this happens, I (and many others) are only too quick to use the slang "that's gay". I don't like it. I wish that I didn't.

Nobody means gay 'gay', we mean irritating 'gay' - but it still gets to me that I should use this expression on instinct.

So, escapist, what sort of substitutes do you have, and more importantly, how would you go about integrating them into your reflex vocabulary?

Paradigm shift. Gay used to mean happy, and fags used to be cigarettes. Suppose it would be a sign of culture change, but I'm keen to vote it a sign of people's increasing lack of creativity. As for changing it, just have to sort of pound it into your head. Stopping a habit takes a lot of mental work, just ask a smoker

 

[Kingsman]

I think I'll keep using it, thank you very much.

P.C. bullshit is the reason the word "******" has mutated from just a common word to refer to a black person into a hateful slur against an oppressed minority, which has now made it impossibly derogatory if spoken by anyone but a black person.

This bullshit of allowing words to only be spoken by their minority groups isn't going to be taken up by me. I don't relish the thought that twenty years from now people will be obligated to say "homosexual" over "gay" because their group called it derogatory.

That would be extremely gay.