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Man "Beats" World of Warcraft
Precision pointed out that a Taiwanese man has been named the first ever person to successfully beat World of Warcraft, getting all 986 achievements, completing 5906 quests and /hugging 11 players. Insert joke here. There are many.
All the anonymous cowards definitely need to get a life.
You know that's not such a bad idea! You mod something troll, the meta-mods agree you get those mod points back next time, A careful moderator would never run out of points!
That's just what I do to pass the time between working, playing with my kids, traveling, drinking, flying airplanes, hosting dinner parties, etc.
Posting occasionally on /. doesn't HAVE to be an indicator of no life. It just usually does.
Gay hasn't meant homosexual for at least a decade."
Wow, where do you live where this isn't true?
I've always heard the word gay used as a direct synonym for homosexual (usually male and lesbian for females).
Heck, you hear it all the time on the news and read about it in major publications...the "Gay Agenda" this...etc. Isn't there a group for homosexuals specifically with the words Gay and Lesbian in their name/acronym?
Heck, I'd say it is the MOST common term I've heard used for homo men.
Now, the one that got me...I found out a short while back, that the Brits refer to cigarettes as "fags". I'd always knows a fag to me a gay male. I always wondered if England had a higher percentage of gay people because I was always reading about them sucking or smoking 'fags'...which gave me an impression there was much more of this going on in the open over there than here in the US.
I remember reading about people complaining about too many people smoking fags in the pubs over there, and I thought "YIKES", you have to go to 'special' bars over here for that....then I found out about the cigarette meaning...whew.
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
You talk about this like it is a bad thing...?!?!
By the way, do you have this girls number? Is she legal age now?"
Wow, tough crowd here today.
Lots of chicks with moderator points today?
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
People use the word "gay" now to mean "stupid/dumb/lame/idiotic", on just about anything that happens that they don't like. It has morphed from the original meaning of happy, to the newer meaning of homosexual, to the pejorative term used generally on heterosexual males, to it's current form. All of those meanings still apply, context is everything. The word is going to eventually subsume all possible meanings and become the one word to rule all others.
What few homosexual men I know, refer to themselves as "gay", so I don't know why it's necessarily assumed that its always pejorative, although certainly it moved from it's first meaning to the second based upon a stereotype of homosexuals as being Richard Simmons-like. While our understanding of homosexuality has changed, the word stuck around and just doesn't seem very offensive in the proper environment.
I think you can turn any word into an insult if you use it in that context. "The filthy MARBLES are ruining our great nation, death to MARBLES !" "Dammit, MS released another broken operating system, that's so fucking MARBLE !"