Worst or gayest pool things ever
- Thread starter bnall
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Is this bigot?
gay /geɪ/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[gey] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation adjective, -er, -est, noun, adverb
?adjective 1. having or showing a merry, lively mood: gay spirits; gay music.
2. bright or showy: gay colors; gay ornaments.
3. given to or abounding in social or other pleasures: a gay social season.
4. licentious; dissipated; wanton: The baron is a gay old rogue with an eye for the ladies.
5. homosexual.
6. of, indicating, or supporting homosexual interests or issues: a gay organization.
?noun 7. a homosexual person, esp. a male.
?adverb 8. in a gay manner.
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[Origin: 1275?1325; 1950?55 for def. 5; ME gai < OF < Gmc; cf. OHG gāhi fast, sudden]
?Related forms
gayness, noun
?Synonyms 1. gleeful, jovial, glad, joyous, happy, cheerful, sprightly, blithe, airy, light-hearted; vivacious, frolicsome, sportive, hilarious. Gay, jolly, joyful, merry describe a happy or light-hearted mood. Gay suggests a lightness of heart or liveliness of mood that is openly manifested: when hearts were young and gay. Jolly indicates a good-humored, natural, expansive gaiety of mood or disposition: a jolly crowd at a party. Joyful suggests gladness, happiness, rejoicing: joyful over the good news. Merry is often interchangeable with gay: a merry disposition; a merry party; it suggests, even more than the latter, convivial animated enjoyment. 2. brilliant.
?Antonyms 1. unhappy, mournful.
?Usage note In addition to its original and continuing senses of ?merry, lively? and ?bright or showy,? gay has had various senses dealing with sexual conduct since the 17th century. A gay woman was a prostitute, a gay man a womanizer, a gay house a brothel. This sexual world included homosexuals too, and gay as an adjective meaning ?homosexual? goes back at least to the early 1900s. After World War II, as social attitudes toward sexuality began to change, gay was applied openly by homosexuals to themselves, first as an adjective and later as a noun. Today, the noun often designates only a male homosexual: gays and lesbians. The word has ceased to be slang and is not used disparagingly. Homosexual as a noun is sometimes used only in reference to a male.
gay /geɪ/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[gey] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation adjective, -er, -est, noun, adverb
?adjective 1. having or showing a merry, lively mood: gay spirits; gay music.
2. bright or showy: gay colors; gay ornaments.
3. given to or abounding in social or other pleasures: a gay social season.
4. licentious; dissipated; wanton: The baron is a gay old rogue with an eye for the ladies.
5. homosexual.
6. of, indicating, or supporting homosexual interests or issues: a gay organization.
?noun 7. a homosexual person, esp. a male.
?adverb 8. in a gay manner.
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[Origin: 1275?1325; 1950?55 for def. 5; ME gai < OF < Gmc; cf. OHG gāhi fast, sudden]
?Related forms
gayness, noun
?Synonyms 1. gleeful, jovial, glad, joyous, happy, cheerful, sprightly, blithe, airy, light-hearted; vivacious, frolicsome, sportive, hilarious. Gay, jolly, joyful, merry describe a happy or light-hearted mood. Gay suggests a lightness of heart or liveliness of mood that is openly manifested: when hearts were young and gay. Jolly indicates a good-humored, natural, expansive gaiety of mood or disposition: a jolly crowd at a party. Joyful suggests gladness, happiness, rejoicing: joyful over the good news. Merry is often interchangeable with gay: a merry disposition; a merry party; it suggests, even more than the latter, convivial animated enjoyment. 2. brilliant.
?Antonyms 1. unhappy, mournful.
?Usage note In addition to its original and continuing senses of ?merry, lively? and ?bright or showy,? gay has had various senses dealing with sexual conduct since the 17th century. A gay woman was a prostitute, a gay man a womanizer, a gay house a brothel. This sexual world included homosexuals too, and gay as an adjective meaning ?homosexual? goes back at least to the early 1900s. After World War II, as social attitudes toward sexuality began to change, gay was applied openly by homosexuals to themselves, first as an adjective and later as a noun. Today, the noun often designates only a male homosexual: gays and lesbians. The word has ceased to be slang and is not used disparagingly. Homosexual as a noun is sometimes used only in reference to a male.
Do you mean "bad" as in "gay"?
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PROG8R said:
It's not about what you're describing, it's about what you're using the word to mean. Let's face it: today, the word gay does not mean "happy" or "festive" or "merry" anymore; today the word means "homosexual". This is really the only non-slang meaning it still has.
Now, if it's used in slang to mean "wrong", "stupid", or "inferior", then that is equating "homosexual" with "bad". The message is, "homosexuals are bad".
If you started using the word gay in slang to mean "magnanimous", I wouldn't object because it's positive. When you patted someone on the back for doing a good thing, and said "that's mighty gay of you, Bob", I would find your term unusual, but not offensive. You would be equating homosexuality with uprightness, which is a specious generalization and therefore inaccurate, but is not really an offense against gays. The offense occurs when you use the term for homosexual to mean something bad. I don't know how I can be more clear than that.
-Andrew
Andrew Manning said:
I am not homo, and just to be clear on this I do not study homos, but from what I have read they actually applied the word to themselves and that took it out of its original context. So if someone were to use it as it was orinally set, then I could see, I guess, how that could make a GAY person who is trying to be PC upset.
BNALL, Say you are sorry!!
Gay...you know, like ...Gay.......
Gawd.... i cant believe soome actually answered the rhetorical BS posed in the second post!!!
my vote goes for those "pool glasses".you know, those reverse bi focal thingers..they looked god awful...
Oh and hockeytape grips, ankle weights, elbow weights, and not one but two gloves................ sorry Earl!
Gawd.... i cant believe soome actually answered the rhetorical BS posed in the second post!!!
my vote goes for those "pool glasses".you know, those reverse bi focal thingers..they looked god awful...
Oh and hockeytape grips, ankle weights, elbow weights, and not one but two gloves................ sorry Earl!
i just want to go on the record and say that pool gloves are not gay.....or bad.......i mean festive.....ok pool gloves just arent.........well they just arent ok!!
smokeandapancak said:
You're killin' me Smalls, this is my break cue, Lil' Gretzky
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the I'm gonna transfer spin to this OB, then cut the video and
change the cut angle, put chalk on the contact point to
increase friction, etc, etc, etc...
as if there weren't enough myths in this sport already.
the last thing we need is some yahoo "proving" them.
(quack, quack)
the I'm gonna transfer spin to this OB, then cut the video and
change the cut angle, put chalk on the contact point to
increase friction, etc, etc, etc...
as if there weren't enough myths in this sport already.
the last thing we need is some yahoo "proving" them.
(quack, quack)
I don't see anyone...
...trying to be "PC" here. Andrew is just pointing out the obvious. Yes gays proudly call themselves gay. It's the perjorative meaning that the OP used that is offensive and it's MEANT to be offensive. It is equating gay (homosexual not merry) with BAD, STUPID, whatever. He said that in a later post.
I just had to sit my 11 year old son down and have a talk with him because he had reduced my 7 year old son to tears by calling him gay. I told him that we don't use words like that to hurt people in our family. He got it, why can't some of us adults?
Now to get this back on topic...the worst things to happen to pool are jump cues, the Sardo rack and the IPT. Not neccessarily in that order. IMO.
MM
PROG8R said:
...trying to be "PC" here. Andrew is just pointing out the obvious. Yes gays proudly call themselves gay. It's the perjorative meaning that the OP used that is offensive and it's MEANT to be offensive. It is equating gay (homosexual not merry) with BAD, STUPID, whatever. He said that in a later post.
I just had to sit my 11 year old son down and have a talk with him because he had reduced my 7 year old son to tears by calling him gay. I told him that we don't use words like that to hurt people in our family. He got it, why can't some of us adults?
Now to get this back on topic...the worst things to happen to pool are jump cues, the Sardo rack and the IPT. Not neccessarily in that order. IMO.
MM
Southpaw said:
Ouch. LOL.
I don't use "the" soft break, but I also don't break at 100%, because I'd lose the cue ball every time if I did. I don't think anyone would fault me for that, but where do you draw the line? I mean, how do you choose a specific percentage of max, or a specific MPH that is OK? I mentioned 1-p and 14.1 because, when you think about it, a soft break is used in those games because it gives the best chance at winning the game.Don't get me wrong, I can understand wanting a power break to be an important part of rotation games, but I just think the player who uses a soft break shouldn't be to blame. It just means that he is using what he thinks will work best for that particular rack of balls. It's just another reason, IMO, to let rotation pool move away from 9-ball and towards 10-ball.
Even im gay, and that's fookin' hilarious!HouseMan said:Do you mean something sorta like this?
