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dunno001 on 21 November 2009

Well, the English language is a funny thing. Some words do change meaning, others have seen attempted meaning changes. Whenever there is any sort of movement to change a word's meaning, there will always be some people who push back on the meaning. In my case, I push back on this this change because of the origins of this change. This stems to when it was more commonplace to be anti-gay, and calling someone gay was analogous to calling them homosexual, or attempting to insult that person. The word moved away from just people to concepts and ideas. I would rather not allow the change to go through peacefully, since that would embue the bias against homosexuals into a word's history. The English language has enough words that you can express your dislike of something without having to call it "gay".



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amp316 on 21 November 2009
angrypoolman said:
amp316 said:
I think that you keep making these threads so enough people respond in order for you to make enough VG $ to get you in the positive numbers.

lol, actually i really dont want to be in the positives. i like my negative vgdollars.

the way i see it, there is no point for me to try to get a bunch of vgdollars because people who sign up automatically get 1000. so i would need to do A LOT of catching up to even get that, so fuck it.

another thing is that i got my negative vgdollars the LEGIT way: getting banned. a lot of people who have negative vgdollars just remove photos and use other cheap tactics.

to be honest, i thought this thread would have a high chance in getting me banned. i havent gotten banned in a loooooong time. im surprised.

If you really want to get banned then post a link to this thread on the wall of all of the members on the gaymers list.



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angrypoolman on 21 November 2009
amp316 said:
angrypoolman said:
amp316 said:
I think that you keep making these threads so enough people respond in order for you to make enough VG $ to get you in the positive numbers.

lol, actually i really dont want to be in the positives. i like my negative vgdollars.

the way i see it, there is no point for me to try to get a bunch of vgdollars because people who sign up automatically get 1000. so i would need to do A LOT of catching up to even get that, so fuck it.

another thing is that i got my negative vgdollars the LEGIT way: getting banned. a lot of people who have negative vgdollars just remove photos and use other cheap tactics.

to be honest, i thought this thread would have a high chance in getting me banned. i havent gotten banned in a loooooong time. im surprised.

If you really want to get banned then post a link to this thread on the wall of all of the members on the gaymers list.

wow. that would be awful. lol. whats the criteria for being banned? just how many times you get reported?



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angrypoolman on 21 November 2009
dunno001 said:
Well, the English language is a funny thing. Some words do change meaning, others have seen attempted meaning changes. Whenever there is any sort of movement to change a word's meaning, there will always be some people who push back on the meaning. In my case, I push back on this this change because of the origins of this change. This stems to when it was more commonplace to be anti-gay, and calling someone gay was analogous to calling them homosexual, or attempting to insult that person. The word moved away from just people to concepts and ideas. I would rather not allow the change to go through peacefully, since that would embue the bias against homosexuals into a word's history. The English language has enough words that you can express your dislike of something without having to call it "gay".

you make a good point



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dunno001 on 21 November 2009
angrypoolman said:
amp316 said:
angrypoolman said:
amp316 said:
I think that you keep making these threads so enough people respond in order for you to make enough VG $ to get you in the positive numbers.

lol, actually i really dont want to be in the positives. i like my negative vgdollars.

the way i see it, there is no point for me to try to get a bunch of vgdollars because people who sign up automatically get 1000. so i would need to do A LOT of catching up to even get that, so fuck it.

another thing is that i got my negative vgdollars the LEGIT way: getting banned. a lot of people who have negative vgdollars just remove photos and use other cheap tactics.

to be honest, i thought this thread would have a high chance in getting me banned. i havent gotten banned in a loooooong time. im surprised.

If you really want to get banned then post a link to this thread on the wall of all of the members on the gaymers list.

wow. that would be awful. lol. whats the criteria for being banned? just how many times you get reported?



As I'm not a mod here, I can't answer that question for them, but I do know that where I do mod, I would issue a warning for spamming peoples' walls. If you tried spewing it into hate then the ban hammer would swing for actual rules violation.

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amp316 on 21 November 2009
angrypoolman said:
amp316 said:
angrypoolman said:
amp316 said:
I think that you keep making these threads so enough people respond in order for you to make enough VG $ to get you in the positive numbers.

lol, actually i really dont want to be in the positives. i like my negative vgdollars.

the way i see it, there is no point for me to try to get a bunch of vgdollars because people who sign up automatically get 1000. so i would need to do A LOT of catching up to even get that, so fuck it.

another thing is that i got my negative vgdollars the LEGIT way: getting banned. a lot of people who have negative vgdollars just remove photos and use other cheap tactics.

to be honest, i thought this thread would have a high chance in getting me banned. i havent gotten banned in a loooooong time. im surprised.

If you really want to get banned then post a link to this thread on the wall of all of the members on the gaymers list.

wow. that would be awful. lol. whats the criteria for being banned? just how many times you get reported?

I don't know.  I thought that you were more of an expert on this subject.



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Seece on 21 November 2009

It doesn't really hurt my feelings, and I agree people need thicker skins. Doesn't mean it's ok for the word gay to be associated in a negative way, gay people have a enough negativity aimed at them.

I'm totally 100% not surprised these are your thoughts though.



 

angrypoolman on 21 November 2009

well im not surprised those are your thoughts, seece. how about that?



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Khuutra on 21 November 2009
Nintendo Fan Girl said:
I don't say gay
I haven't said it as the word "stupid" in like a year...i replaced it with stupid or ghetto!

like....my friend says
"That was really GAY"
I say
"That's ghetto"

Uh

That's actually just as bad depending on the cultural background associations that "ghetto" has wherever you're from.

Regardless, getting OT:

Using "gay" to mean "uncool" attaches further negative stigmas to homosexuality, and regardless of whether or not it actually hurts anyone's feelings I thinkn that it's something we can do without.



Avinash_Tyagi on 21 November 2009
shio said:
Some people are just stupid and all PC.

The thing is, time is changing the meaning of the word GAY. Any term can change it's meaning throughout time.

The original meaning of GAY was "happy" and for centuries it remained so, until recently. It's only been a few decades that GAY has been related to homossexuality.

But now, GAY is changing it's meaning again, and this time it is becoming a synonim of LAME. All the people that are upset by this are idiots.

everyone complains about things being too PC until they are the target, then they scream and rant about how they are being insulted, like during the 2008 campaign the GOP was all complaining about dems being too PC, then when Obama said Typical white person, they screamed bloody murder.



 

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