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[rynnor]

So gay...

Hah Gaylord! (you don't hear that one very often these days)

It will change over time but its not really a term of abuse against homosexuals so much as an insult exchanged amongst heterosexual boys mostly. Its also a respectable term used by the gay community to label itself. And the old meaning still exists amongst very old people and literature.

 

[rynnor]

just saying that unlike racism, there may be a biological reason not to tolerate it which maybe harder to overcome than the bigotry with other isms that have been deemed socially unacceptable.

Nah - it's just a social programming thing - it really is still very recently that homosexuality was forbidden, illegal and taboo - some residual bits of the previous social convention are expected.

 

[Scouse]

Gaylord!

Been trying to bring that one back for the best part of 20 years. All my mates are back on it

@Moriath - rynnor's right tho. Most of the anti-gay is religiously inspired. Some older societies (notably Greek and Roman) dipping your wick in another man's bottom was positively celebrated.

AFAIK there wasn't an equivalent form of word as "gay" other than to describe the act without moral overtone. Like saying "leg" doesn't negatively reflect on your walking apparatus.

 

[old.Tohtori]

I'm pro-homo, anti-lesbian. It's just good for business.

 

[DaGaffer]

Been trying to bring that one back for the best part of 20 years. All my mates are back on it

@Moriath - rynnor's right tho. Most of the anti-gay is religiously inspired. Some older societies (notably Greek and Roman) dipping your wick in another man's bottom was positively celebrated.

AFAIK there wasn't an equivalent form of word as "gay" other than to describe the act without moral overtone. Like saying "leg" doesn't negatively reflect on your walking apparatus.

The Romans were not big fans of bumsecks, you've been watching too much Spartacus. In fact if you were in the army and caught in the act of man love you would be stoned by the whole legion. Some of the Greeks on the other hand considered sex with women to be a necessary evil but you couldn't actually love a woman.

 

[Scouse]

The Romans were not big fans of bumsecks

They were massive fans of bums3x. Almost as big as Wij. Not that I have first-hand knowledge but I was knocking the arse out of a Classics student for 4 years and most of my lifelong friends are top level archaeologists and, despite their boredom with all things Roman, have in the past confirmed the Roman bumfest in arguments.

And this

 

[DaGaffer]

They were massive fans of bums3x. Almost as big as Wij. Not that I have first-hand knowledge but I was knocking the arse out of a Classics student for 4 years and most of my lifelong friends are top level archaeologists and, despite their boredom with all things Roman, have in the past confirmed the Roman bumfest in arguments.

And this

I'll elaborate, Roman males may have been big fans of giving the bumsecks but receiving was a major no-no. Roman male citizens were expected to display Vir (virility) as a dominant virtue.

 

[Scouse]

I'll elaborate, Roman males may have been big fans of giving the bumsecks but receiving was a major no-no. Roman male citizens were expected to display Vir (virility) as a dominant virtue.

Yeah. The bumsecks was for the young. When you came of age you became a giver rather than a taker.

Didn't seem to do their society much harm eh?

 

[rynnor]

The Romans were not big fans of bumsecks, you've been watching too much Spartacus. In fact if you were in the army and caught in the act of man love you would be stoned by the whole legion. Some of the Greeks on the other hand considered sex with women to be a necessary evil but you couldn't actually love a woman.

That was more of a instilling discipline thing - you don't want them pairing off and then when one is killed the other goes to pieces.

 

[rynnor]

Yeah. The bumsecks was for the young. When you came of age you became a giver rather than a taker.

Didn't seem to do their society much harm eh?

Unless you believe in the literal truth of the Bible then no society in human history has been destroyed by what its citizens do in bed.

 

[georgie]

 

[TdC]

Oglaf > *

 

[Gwadien]

Most terrible Kebab last night, fuck sake, cost like £4.30 for a soggy bit of naan bread with about 7 strips of kebab meat, and 1 tomato, 1 piece of lettuce, 1 slice cucumber..

 

[Chilly]

Most terrible Kebab last night, fuck sake, cost like £4.30 for a soggy bit of naan bread with about 7 strips of kebab meat, and 1 tomato, 1 piece of lettuce, 1 slice cucumber..

Why did you pay?

 

[Billargh]

Why did you pay?

I generally don't eat my food from a dirty takeaway and then pay.

And on that note, I had a shocker on Saturday as well, kebab was freezing cold and tasted really strongly of frickin' limes. The pizza tasted cheap, nasty and too cheesy, I'd sooner have had a £1 frozen one from Asda (they're awesome!).

 

[Chilly]

You had a pizza AND a kebab on Saturday? Lol.

 

[Billargh]

It's rare I'll have either never mind both, but I was pissed so fat chance of me attempting to cook anything.

 

[leggy]

People who respond to a comment with 'aaanyway..', as if everything you have just said is irrelevant (no comments please).

 

[rynnor]

People who respond to a comment with 'aaanyway..', as if everything you have just said is irrelevant (no comments please).

It is a marginally politer way of saying fuck you basically.

 

[dysfunction]

Its a way of changing the subject because they have got bored with your ramblings

 

[CorNokZ]

Agreed with the boss how I should do a power point presentation, spent two days making it, looks super with all right stuff(no full sentences, subtle animations which are not over the top etc.) And now he bins it, saying it is too confusing. Back to 5th grade, white background, a book's worth of text on each slide and none of the content we agreed upon

 

[soze]

Its a way of changing the subject because they have got bored with your ramblings

I do it when I do not want to touch the subject. Like when a colleague expresses a view that was fine when your grandparents where young but now it verges on racism. An "anyway back to xyz topic" is the easiest way out.

 

[mooSe_]

I hate modelsim and I hate verilog

 

[DaGaffer]

Agreed with the boss how I should do a power point presentation, spent two days making it, looks super with all right stuff(no full sentences, subtle animations which are not over the top etc.) And now he bins it, saying it is too confusing. Back to 5th grade, white background, a book's worth of text on each slide and none of the content we agreed upon

TWO DAYS on a Powerpoint presentation?? What the fuck were you presenting, the Normandy Landings? Trust me, nobody cared about a Powerpoint presentation in the history of everything, ever, to make it worth spending two days on it.

 

[CorNokZ]

TWO DAYS on a Powerpoint presentation?? What the fuck were you presenting, the Normandy Landings? Trust me, nobody cared about a Powerpoint presentation in the history of everything, ever, to make it worth spending two days on it.

I agree. It is better to show customers 5-6 shit slides rather than something which seems just a bit professional

 

[Moriath]

Agreed with the boss how I should do a power point presentation, spent two days making it, looks super with all right stuff(no full sentences, subtle animations which are not over the top etc.) And now he bins it, saying it is too confusing. Back to 5th grade, white background, a book's worth of text on each slide and none of the content we agreed upon

Death by ppt is shit I hardly ever use it now even on training

 

[Moriath]

I agree. It is better to show customers 5-6 shit slides rather than something which seems just a bit professional

Better to show them you know what your talking about with chalk and talk than a ppt !!!!

 

[Jeros]

If I don't catch these mice soon I am going to have to take drastic measures.

Maybe I need to throw a spring onion at them and chase them with a hammer.

 

[dysfunction]

If I don't catch these mice soon I am going to have to take drastic measures.

Maybe I need to throw a spring onion at them and chase them with a hammer.

Buy some traps put peanut butter in them and the mice get all squished.

 

[caLLous]

I use the black plastic "perma-baited" traps, except I also add peanut butter because it makes them much more appealing to the mice than without.