I’m actually complaining more about other boards I’m on, but I noticed it starting to pop up on here and freaked… I may be irony-challenged when it comes to that phrase, since it certainly is NOT being used ironically on other boards…
And yeah, I definitely know this is a very Gay-positive board.
Wolf - Nice to see someone use “teh” with something other than “gay”…
and Larry - Holland? I don’t know if they have irony there… Went there once for a week once, but they spoke Dutch, so it went past me…
[QUOTE=Daffyd]
I’m actually complaining more about other boards I’m on, but I noticed it starting to pop up on here and freaked… I may be irony-challenged when it comes to that phrase, since it certainly is NOT being used ironically on other boards…
And yeah, I definitely know this is a very Gay-positive board.
Wolf - Nice to see someone use “teh” with something other than “gay”…
and Larry - Holland? I don’t know if they have irony there… Went there once for a week once, but they spoke Dutch, so it went past me…
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Jesus H. Christ! You wrote “Neanderthals” and I read “Netherlands.” :smack: :smack: Which is an even stupider mistake since Holland is one of the most gay-friendly countries out there, IIRC. I thought they might have passed some new anti-gay law or something.
I’m obviously up way too late. Must go to bed before I make an even stupider mistake.
[QUOTE=Larry Borgia]
Jesus H. Christ! You wrote “Neanderthals” and I read “Netherlands.” :smack: :smack: Which is an even stupider mistake since Holland is one of the most gay-friendly countries out there, IIRC. I thought they might have passed some new anti-gay law or something.
I’m obviously up way too late. Must go to bed before I make an even stupider mistake.
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And then I followed your lead! I thought Yonge Street might be some famous location in Holland.
You’re probably not going to infect anybody, but you will probably want to go away.
Just to be safe.
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Awwww. don’t be mean Finn. It’s already metamorphosed into something nice and fun and people taking the piss out of each other. Daffyd doesn’t need to ‘go away’, he just needs to join in the silliness.
[QUOTE=Snooooopy]
And then I followed your lead! I thought Yonge Street might be some famous location in Holland.
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And I read this as “some fabulous location in Holland.”
Yeah, I’m going to bed now, too.
For the record, I think we should just change the spelling of “the” to “teh” and be done with it, so I can quit backspacing every damned time I try to type it.
Hmm, thinking about it, “catch teh gay” sounds like it could be a fun party game.
(Hey, guys, lay off calling him stupid - he’s already explained further and backed off his initial position.)
[QUOTE=Lissa]
I always thought that they were using it as a way to make fun of homophobes.
I always thought this was a very inclusive community. Am I just being oblivious?
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Yeah. But don’t stop, we like that about you!
I too always assumed the concept of “catching homosexuality” around here was only ever used in mockery of someone whose argument rested on such shakey prior assumptions that it merited only scorn.
But, hell, I hang around with “The Gay” all the time. Maybe I am infected!
Umm… maybe I’m just missing the pertinent posts, but nearly all of the times I’ve seen the “teh gay” and/or “caught teh gay” phrases used on SDMB (and a lot of other sites), it’s being used in (what I understood to be) a clearly ironic sense. As in, the poster using it is making fun of how bigots talking about and percieve homosexuality.
But as I said, I probably just missed the posts where it was being used in the fashion the OP feels it is; people wouldn’t use it in an ironic fashion if others wheren’t previously using it while being serious.
[QUOTE=Daffyd]
See, if everyone put those smilies in, I’d be able to understand irony!
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I thought only Yanks were supposed to fail to understand irony. Maybe it’s a North America thing?
