A Very Queer Frosty Festival

dungfungus said :

Diggety said :

Queers/gays, whatever. They certainly know how to have fun, don’t they?

Thrillseeking is a more appropriate word than “fun” given the high ratio of HIV in their community despite the notions of safe sex.

Well, I was more commenting on their public social activities, not the bedroom ones.

Diggety said :

Queers/gays, whatever. They certainly know how to have fun, don’t they?

Thrillseeking is a more appropriate word than “fun” given the high ratio of HIV in their community despite the notions of safe sex.

Queers/gays, whatever. They certainly know how to have fun, don’t they?

troll-sniffer said :

dungfungus said :

troll-sniffer said :

Ben_Dover said :

Are we allowed to call poofs “queer” now? I never know what is acceptable or not. It seems to change every week.

queer [kweer] Show IPA adjective, queer·er, queer·est, verb, noun
adjective
1. strange or odd from a conventional viewpoint; unusually different; singular: a queer notion of justice.
2. of a questionable nature or character; suspicious; shady: Something queer about the language of the prospectus kept investors away.
3. not feeling physically right or well; giddy, faint, or qualmish: to feel queer.
4. mentally unbalanced or deranged.

Reckon if your subject fits one of the above definitions there shouldn’t be a problem.

What was your source for these definitions?

I typed in online dictionary into Mr Google’s helpful butler service and picked the first choice I was offered. I took not a glance at the credentials of the offered site, so it is possible my extracted info was actually a spoof site, but I doubt it!

My Heinemann Australian Dictionary generally lists all the definitions you got from Google but is also refers to queer (informal) as “a homosexual”.
Also says “in queer street” means “in debt” which is one I had never heard of.
Your Google choice may have been a “spoof” site but it certainly wasn’t a “poof’s” one.

dungfungus said :

troll-sniffer said :

Ben_Dover said :

Are we allowed to call poofs “queer” now? I never know what is acceptable or not. It seems to change every week.

queer [kweer] Show IPA adjective, queer·er, queer·est, verb, noun
adjective
1. strange or odd from a conventional viewpoint; unusually different; singular: a queer notion of justice.
2. of a questionable nature or character; suspicious; shady: Something queer about the language of the prospectus kept investors away.
3. not feeling physically right or well; giddy, faint, or qualmish: to feel queer.
4. mentally unbalanced or deranged.

Reckon if your subject fits one of the above definitions there shouldn’t be a problem.

What was your source for these definitions?

I typed in online dictionary into Mr Google’s helpful butler service and picked the first choice I was offered. I took not a glance at the credentials of the offered site, so it is possible my extracted info was actually a spoof site, but I doubt it!

troll-sniffer said :

Ben_Dover said :

Are we allowed to call poofs “queer” now? I never know what is acceptable or not. It seems to change every week.

queer [kweer] Show IPA adjective, queer·er, queer·est, verb, noun
adjective
1. strange or odd from a conventional viewpoint; unusually different; singular: a queer notion of justice.
2. of a questionable nature or character; suspicious; shady: Something queer about the language of the prospectus kept investors away.
3. not feeling physically right or well; giddy, faint, or qualmish: to feel queer.
4. mentally unbalanced or deranged.

Reckon if your subject fits one of the above definitions there shouldn’t be a problem.

What was your source for these definitions?

Ben_Dover said :

They can call themselves “queer”, but stright people should call them “gay,” iotherwise we’re “nobs”.

Got it. 😉

It’s a cultural thing, like how African-Americans can call each other nigger but no-one else can.

Ben_Dover said :

Are we allowed to call poofs “queer” now? I never know what is acceptable or not. It seems to change every week.

queer [kweer] Show IPA adjective, queer·er, queer·est, verb, noun
adjective
1. strange or odd from a conventional viewpoint; unusually different; singular: a queer notion of justice.
2. of a questionable nature or character; suspicious; shady: Something queer about the language of the prospectus kept investors away.
3. not feeling physically right or well; giddy, faint, or qualmish: to feel queer.
4. mentally unbalanced or deranged.

Reckon if your subject fits one of the above definitions there shouldn’t be a problem.

Ben_Dover said :

Are we allowed to call poofs “queer” now? I never know what is acceptable or not. It seems to change every week.

I think gay is the preferred neutral term.

They can call themselves “queer”, but stright people should call them “gay,” iotherwise we’re “nobs”.

Got it. 😉

Are we allowed to call poofs “queer” now? I never know what is acceptable or not. It seems to change every week.