That's Gay.

[Snake Plissken]

Meh. If none of my gay friends have a problem with it (and many use it themselves), I see no issue with it. I tend to not surround myself with people of such weak and pussified sensibilities. Nobody has the right to not be offended, so I don't much care if anyone actually is.

On top of all that, there are much better words to use.

And on top of ALL OF THAT, what business of yours is it what I say in the privacy of my own fucking home?

We've already got a word for something that is bland, boring, not groundbreaking, or otherwise just "meh"...we say "That's so vanilla." I vote we change it to "That's so lower-middle class white male,' just to see how pussified everyone has really gotten.

 

[Johnny Impact]

http://www.georgecarlin.com/dirty/2443.html
That ought to keep you busy. Mix and match as needed.

I only bust out "gay" as an insult for things I feel are really deserving, i.e. that remind me of bad homosexual stereotypes.

If I'm mildly upset I just let a swear word go under my breath. If I'm really upset I construct monolithic diatribes on the exact NATURE of the STAGGERING array of CATACLYSMIC errors that could POSSIBLY have allowed this WASTE OF SPACE/OXYGEN/SKIN/ETC to NOT ONLY be conceived in the first place, but to actually REACH CHRONOLOGICAL ADULTHOOD only to..........you get the idea.

 

[Super Toast]

Yeah, I say it. This reminds me of that South Park episode where the four main kids refer to Harley Riders as fags. The meaning has completely changed from generation to generation.

 

[SelectivelyEvil13]

I've actually trained myself not to use 'gay' like that anymore. I usually just say, "That's dumb," "Shit," or "BLUBLUGYUH."

Thank you! That actually means a lot ^^

I don't understand this. Curse words tend to rarely mean what they literally are. I go by Lenny Bruce's philosophy that overuse kills the offensiveness.

Cracker is no longer really offensive. Honky isn't offensive. Fuck, shit, dammit are all kosher nowadays and produce yawns. It seems like the only offensive words are the words that are repressed, such as '****' or '******'. I can't think of any other words that produce such a literal gut-punch. But then we take the word '****' and examine it in America in comparison to England and we see a staggering difference. Americans rarely use the word so = super offensive. The English use the word quite a bit so it's nothing at all to them.

So I'd assume that overusing the word 'gay' would actually be better. Kill it off and end the offensiveness, really.

I concur and, despite being American, use "****" more alone the English level of "eh" cursing.

Killing off the offensiveness of "gay" sounds like a good plan to me as well. It has already evolved to be a word with entirely different intentions/interpretations based on varying factors that fluctuate too rapidly by context alone. For example, the OP's use of the word really does not bring to mind something is "homosexual," but rather, it is a vague pejorative. Usually under standard contexts, it can be easily replaced by "stupid," "retarded," "dumb," or, if we want to get interesting, "nonsensical," "insipid," or "vacuous." I myself never associate any of those types of applicable scenarios (where it is not meant as a word regarding homosexuals) with anything positive or negative about gay people, let alone anything to do with them anymore. Part of me blames that on South Park, though, haha!

To answer the OP's intended query, however, I like to invent curses. Everyone probably is familiar(ish) with "Dicktits" from all of that news on this site about a certain Epic Games game, so use that as inspiration until you find a curse that is harsh to the ear, yet easy to say in a bind where it is needed. Also, I should mention that "Dicktits" was on an episode of South Park, and I think it may have pre-dated the video game's usage.

 

[LeafofStone]

See to me, the best option for cussing is just taking a note from Terry Pratchett and improvise some ridiculously long insult which basically translates into "bloody pillock"

 

[herts]

Two things... first, I've never understood, for lack of a better term, "reflexive vocabulary". I've never said anything out of habit of saying it. Just don't get it.

Second, more on topic, whenever I use the term "that's gay" I'm being deliberately douchy or ironic (usually both) and it's all just for a laugh. And I usually get at least a chuckle, even from my gay friends.

Which brings up a bit of a question to any gay people of the Escapist, do you mind if your friends use that terminology in the way I do? I've even called one of my gay friends "******" as a joke once or twice, and his answer was "Heh, yup."

That a norm or a rarity? Sorry if the question seems a bit insensitive.

Nope, I use gay in that context too. It's just how it was used as a was growing up in school with friends etc. I'm gay and I really don't find it offensive at all.

 

[Chemical Alia]

I use it often, for the early 90's nostalgia. Context is important, and I mind manners around people I think might be offended.

 

[Saelune]

Stupid, dumb, annoying, irritating, bothersome, trite, weird, wrong, bad, gross, disturbing, awful, terrible, corny, lame, odd......

No excuses.

 

[hailfire]

what is really so wrong about saying "that's gay"? do people really get offended that easily by things?

 

[cruzermac619]

I don't really use "gay" that much out of its context like I used to. Though, I need to work on not saying that something/someone is "retarded" so much.

 

[zehydra]

The problem with the use of "gay" as a swear word is that I've heard people use synonyms as a substitute for "gay" as a swear. Example, I've heard people say "That's homosexual" before, in a half joking manner. The point is, it's not that it's replacing "stupid" in meaning, it's that a large number of people thought that gay people were stupid, and it caught on.

That's largely why I don't use it myself.

 

[zehydra]

what is really so wrong about saying "that's gay"? do people really get offended that easily by things?

because the phrase comes from a hatred of gays.

 

[yamitami]

It doesn't matter if there's malice behind it or not, because people don't know what you mean. They know what you say, and if what you're saying is derogatory towards homosexuals then they'll think that's what you are. If you don't like that, then stop presenting yourself that way.

Being in a particular group doesn't make it okay to use slurs against that group. It's derogatory no matter what.

 

[thejackyl]

I find that a sarcastic, Hurray, or Huzzah works well. After it happens several times it escalates to dammit, than to shit, than to fuck, than to a large string of incoherent psychobabble.

If I still haven't stopped getting pissed at whatever was ticking me off in the first place, than I end up going: "great, now I need a new headset", since if I get pissed off too much I tend to throw things. usually my phone, or my headset, depending on what pissed me off.

 

[Feylynn]

I'm trying to phase it out, at the moment I'm fond of "God fuck!".

"Andraste's [insert anatomy here]" is nice and versatile as well, though I don't think I'll pick it up. I'd rather a Kingkiller reference in Tehlu than the Dragon Age one if I go down that road.

 

[KafkaOffTheBeach]