Pa-rum-pum-pum-pum, motherfuckers!
You know you’re doing something right when the Phelps make a sign just for you.
Why would it? That doesn’t make sense. Unless it’s the “come” part, in which case you’re at the stage where kids will laugh at anything.
Well, that’s an easy fix - just sing it in Latin: *Adeste Fideles…
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I was in high school before I learned the English lyrics - my elementary school ( a progressive private school) always sang it in Latin.
As to the OP… meh. The motivation it seems was not to censor a controversial word, but to avoid a word that cracks the little bastards up. According to Up The Down Staircase, teachers avoid the word “frigate” for similar reasons, so this is nothing new.
Or I can go on disbelieving you for free.
You can. Or you can put your money where your mouth is.
This makes no sense. Why do I need to pay you money to prove that you aren’t making stuff up? Why would I even consider giving you a hundred dollars? You, who I have made it plain I do not consider trustworthy?
Is this some sort of Christmas prank I’ve never heard of? I give you a hundred dollars and you show me a video of Rick Astley singing Silent Night, only with the words changed to Silent night, homely night?
This is getting too personal and too silly. Both of you need to stop it. You can continue your discussion via private messages or in the Pit, but not here.
Yes sir.
I am willing to post the video of the Maryland public elementary school’s “winter concert” for 2010 where 2nd graders’ choir stands on the stage and sings “We wish you a happy holiday”. If you asked nicely. But you didn’t. You implied I am a liar. So you don’t get it for free. And no, the sequence of events would be: you agree to the bet, I post the video, you recognize your mistake and pay up.
As you say, language changes. Other songs that need fixing:
*Have a yabba dabba doo time, we’ll have a bright old time
I feel pretty, Oh, so pretty, I feel pretty and witty and bright!
We’ll all feel bright when Johnny comes marching home.*
See my previous mod note. If you don’t drop this, you’re getting a warning.
The sniggering has prevented Bible translations from mentioning riding on an ass. NRSV mentioned only a wild ass, newer versions can’t even say that (or maybe its worse!) People can’t be stoned, they have to receive a stoning instead. Many changes of meaning in the KJV.
Whoa! Now I’m wondering what Dylan meant when he said “Everybody must get stoned.”
I had a girlfriend who sniggered at Joy To The World. “The Lord has come alright. Here’s his kid to prove it!” We were teenagers of the snarkiest kind.
We used to change the pronunciation of “faithful” just a bit, to give it a more sibilant center…
Actually, that WAS the lyric in the original play, rhymed with “night” in the next phrase.
When they made the movie, they moved the scene with this song to an earlier spot in the play, and rewrote the lyric to rhyme with “day”.
“I did not know that.” (Johnny Carson voice) 
While we’re at it, shouldn’t it be “Frosty, the Winterized-American”? And what about “Rudolph, the Rosacea-Challenged Ungulate”? Put your outrage where it belongs, people!
What are you talking about? What do I ‘hear every day?’
The bit you quoted said that ‘If you hear every day that a sexuality is lame, it can’t help but affect your perception of that sexuality. It would be completely impossible.’ Are you saying that every day someone says to me that being told your sexuality is lame doesn’t affect your perception of it?
I think I must be misunderstanding you, or you me, because that makes no sense.
I HATE the word queer. I really loathe that this word is supposed to apply to me now. It has a specific meaning, too, different to gay: you can be queer without being gay, because it includes transgendered people and pretty much any unusual but consensual sexuality.
(Snipping now, because I can’t be arsed responding line-by-line).
Lame means slightly broken, not fully functioning, so it works for things as well as people. That is different.
If someone refuses to change their language in front of me AFTER I’ve nicely asked them to, then they might just be an arsehole who thinks homophobia is completely irrelevant, but that’s not exactly someone I want to hang out with either. It’s not exactly asking much. If someone were to slip up and then say whoops, sorry, then that’d be fine too. This is not me standing over them and shouting at them, you know.
I know what evolving language looks like. I dislike that our language is supposedly evolving to a point where being gay means being pathetic and the word that has long been used as a nice, short way of saying ‘homosexual’ is being stolen off us. That’s really shitty. I’m always surprised when intelligent people act like it’s fine or even a good thing.
Of course, it’s not on the scale of beatings or homophobic laws or AIDS and so on, but it’s also much, much easier for someone to choose to omit one word from their personal vocabulary than it is for them to change all those big things.
Thankfully, I think the word is becoming less common even as slang rather than passing into the mainstream. I won’t need to have this argument again in a couple of years’ time.
“Gay” hasn’t always been a “nice” way of saying “homosexual.” When I was growing up it was the opposite of nice.
OK, that one completely confuses me. What could possibly be funny about frigate?