# A fag by any other name...well is just a fag... **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 14, 2003, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fag-by-any-other-name-well-is-just-a-fag/161267 "2003-03-14T05:10:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Anonymous\_Coward](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/94ad74/32.png) [@Anonymous\_Coward](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anonymous_Coward)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fag-by-any-other-name-well-is-just-a-fag/161267/41 "2003-03-14T12:55:11Z")
Sometimes I would have 20 fags a day! I loved fags so much, I had to give them up all together. ☹ Is this getting old yet? ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fag-by-any-other-name-well-is-just-a-fag/161267/42 "2003-03-14T13:00:15Z")
To paraphase Freud: Sometimes a fag is just a good smoke. ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fag-by-any-other-name-well-is-just-a-fag/161267/43 "2003-03-14T13:01:28Z")
And then there’s “fag” meaning tired - “I’m all fagged out” or “That’s just too much of a fag”. ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fag-by-any-other-name-well-is-just-a-fag/161267/44 "2003-03-14T13:48:24Z")
So what does it say about someone who’s addicted to fags? ---
**Author:** ![moc.liamtoh\_rorrim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f17d59/32.png) [@moc.liamtoh\_rorrim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moc.liamtoh_rorrim)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fag-by-any-other-name-well-is-just-a-fag/161267/45 "2003-03-14T13:48:27Z")
At one point, i couldnt tell that a fag was actually a fag. It was so obvious i was looking at a fag… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fag-by-any-other-name-well-is-just-a-fag/161267/46 "2003-03-14T13:53:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lynn Bodoni \* > \*\*::sigh:: > > We don’t allow hate speech on this message board. This includes people calling THEMSELVES fags, niggers, whatever. > > Lynn > For the Straight Dope \*\* OK then, I am _not_ whatever. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fag-by-any-other-name-well-is-just-a-fag/161267/47 "2003-03-14T15:03:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Crusoe \* > \*\*And then there’s “fag” meaning tired - “I’m all fagged out” or “That’s just too much of a fag”. \*\* Synonym - **shagged** out. So if you shag a fag … **Convict and Aslan** , congrats! Just wanted to assure you that ass kissing like that will gain you fast-track entry into the vaunted SDMB clique. Make sure to check your e-mails for your assigned posts for today. Repeat with me - mods good, Bindrah fucking idiot! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fag-by-any-other-name-well-is-just-a-fag/161267/48 "2003-03-14T15:25:32Z")
**Bindrah** , I find it absolutely astonishing that your nuts have already dropped. ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fag-by-any-other-name-well-is-just-a-fag/161267/49 "2003-03-14T15:30:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Fairblue \* > \*\*What’s a sheeny? \*\* IIRC Sheeny is a derogatory term for Jews. It derives from the Hebrew letter shin ---
**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fag-by-any-other-name-well-is-just-a-fag/161267/50 "2003-03-14T15:32:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mangetout \* > \*\*_Victory_ Cigarettes, Winston. > > He who controls the past controls the present. \*\* Huh? He who controls the present controls the future. Winston gave up fags on 12/31/02, and hasn’t had one since! ---
**Author:** ![lno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@lno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lno)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fag-by-any-other-name-well-is-just-a-fag/161267/51 "2003-03-14T15:45:10Z")
I wonder if **bindrah** will post again to say that he’s taken another handful of prescription medication, like he did in the last thread. It’s been a few years since **FreakFreely** ’s classic self-destruction. This may be the new, upgrade lite version. And **Mangetout**? Bindrahnia has always been at war with Bodonia. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fag-by-any-other-name-well-is-just-a-fag/161267/52 "2003-03-14T16:03:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by lno \* > \*\*And **Mangetout**? Bindrahnia has always been at war with Bodonia. \*\* Bah! there you go with the group mentality thing again, next you’ll be telling me that being a complete fucking idiot is completely fucking idiotic and that there’s something incestuous about sex with close blood relatives. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fag-by-any-other-name-well-is-just-a-fag/161267/53 "2003-03-14T16:05:15Z")
I’m an independent thinker you see, whatever you believe, I always freely believe the opposite. ---
**Author:** ![Tony\_Montana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/278dde/32.png) [@Tony\_Montana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tony_Montana)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fag-by-any-other-name-well-is-just-a-fag/161267/54 "2003-03-14T16:06:10Z")
I’ll smoke a fag every now and then (that is to say I’ll wrap my lips around one and suck), but I’m not addicted… Oh BTW this upsets my GF who wants me to quit all together… ---
**Author:** ![Neurotik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/91b2a8/32.png) [@Neurotik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neurotik)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fag-by-any-other-name-well-is-just-a-fag/161267/55 "2003-03-14T16:33:12Z")
A friend got me hooked on fags, but I quit. I didn’t like the way they made my clothes smell all funny. And am I the only one who thinks that Sheeny would be funnier if it was a nickname for a John? ---
**Author:** ![greck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7ab992/32.png) [@greck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/greck)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fag-by-any-other-name-well-is-just-a-fag/161267/56 "2003-03-14T16:36:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Bindrah \* > \*\* > > 1. Its simply aother way of saying I’m not a bottom > > 2. I don’t believe its something to get bent out of shape about.Come on, It isn’t as if I tied matthew sheppard up and whispered that into his ear as he lay dying. Don’t compare it to something that heinous. > \*\* 1. It’s not simply aother anything, it’s saying it in a complex way. It’s expressing all the derogatory connotations that the term has carried, plus whatever you were trying to express. However, since no one else was in on it, it didn’t have as much of your desired connotation as the others. 2. You get in your car, point it east on route 66, should you be surprised if you end up in St Louis? You know where statements like this lead. But just in case you aren’t open to reason, quit being such a homo and admit you were wrong already. ---
**Author:** ![niko996](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e19b73/32.png) [@niko996](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/niko996)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fag-by-any-other-name-well-is-just-a-fag/161267/57 "2003-03-14T16:46:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Venoma \* > \*\*You are really a fucking moron. > > There’s nothing wrong with YOU using a word because it doesn’t offend YOU? Even though YOU are bisexual? Not homosexual? And of COURSE not one of those ‘faggoty fairies’. > > It’s not all about you, shithead. \*\* In my opinion, if you’ve had sex with your same sex your are gay. It doesn’t matter weither or not you are bi-sexual. ---
**Author:** ![3trew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/13edae/32.png) [@3trew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3trew)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fag-by-any-other-name-well-is-just-a-fag/161267/58 "2003-03-14T16:54:40Z")
In my opinion, if you’ve posted that you are an idiot. It doesn’t matter weither (sic) or not you are occasionally capable of rational thought. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fag-by-any-other-name-well-is-just-a-fag/161267/59 "2003-03-14T17:18:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Bindrah \* > \*\*simply aother way of saying I’m not a bottom I will punch you in the face. Or whatever. \*\* Such a big asshole for a top… ---
**Author:** ![Marathon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7cd45c/32.png) [@Marathon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marathon)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fag-by-any-other-name-well-is-just-a-fag/161267/60 "2003-03-14T17:18:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by lno \* > \*\*It’s been a few years since **FreakFreely** ’s classic self-destruction. This may be the new, upgrade lite version. > \*\* OK, wow. I just _had_ to research that, didn’t I? And now it’s 2 hours later. Interesting reading, though. :dubious: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fag-by-any-other-name-well-is-just-a-fag/161267.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fag-by-any-other-name-well-is-just-a-fag/161267.md?page=4)