RE: Understanding the British.
June 16, 2010 at 10:42 am
(This post was last modified: June 16, 2010 at 11:14 am by Caecilian.)
(June 16, 2010 at 8:09 am)Tiberius Wrote: You've been to England before I take it Caecilian?
I've lived in England since I was 9. I was born in the US.
(June 16, 2010 at 8:28 am)padraic Wrote: Sounds like he attended an English public school.
Nah. I just have a strange sense of humour.
(June 15, 2010 at 10:07 pm)Dotard Wrote: I've also heard "I'm going to step out and smoke a fag." Is fag a slang word for cigarette or was he going to shoot a homosexual?
I thought I'd better clear up the meaning of this one for the benefit of the non-British forum members.
The phrase 'smoking a fag' originally meant 'giving fellatio to a gay man'. The derivation is easy to see- the penis is being seen as a metaphorical cigarette. Subsequently, however, the term moved out of the gay sub-culture and into common usage. Since at least the 80s, 'smoking a fag' has meant giving oral sex to anyone, male or female.
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Mikhail Bakunin
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything
Friedrich Nietzsche
