I'm sorry that you feel that I'm aggressive :shrug:

I'm neither hateful nor homophobic, and you have no reason or excuse to call me either. It's more like ... I'm gay and indifferently dismissive :joker: The way I see it, I have two choices when I hear the word "faggot"
1) get really upset and get stressed out over it
2) not do this ^
Which one do you think is the best use of time?

Also, the N-word is completely different. It has a(n actual) history of being used to oppress people, and to still use it in this day and age is disgusting.

Oh okay, I misunderstood because you mentioned "queer", which is sometimes added to the end of LGBT, my apologies :)

Oliver if you want to convince us you don't care why don't you just. Not respond

I don't care about the use of the word, and I find it baffling that others do :shrug:

I wasn't offended :thumbs:

If you don't care about it why do you keep talking about it?

If you can't understand why people might find it offensive, can you at least respect that they do?

And on that note, why have you put the uncensored slur in your signature?

Unrelated to the debate, but speaking of the sig, are you aware that the lyrics are “Happy Christmas your arse, I *pray* God it’s our last?”

I watched the show this afternoon, thought it was great. Towels like a Ryvita :joker:

Oops, thanks for that!

Oliver you missed a space between pray and God

ffs :joker: and I just noticed I missed out half of McGowan's line :joker: that sig was failure all round!

Oh goodness lol! What was the rush? Why didn't you just copy and paste it direct from the lyrics?

Getting "upset and stressed" about something actually isn't a waste of time. If no one got upset about anything we would cease to live in a progressive society. It's good that we can discuss things like this because that's how we move forward.

Personally I am against the argument that it should be removed/censored from the song. I also wasn't opposed to it in the context of this episode. However, context is everything. You can't tell people when they can and can't take offense to a word - especially when it has a deeper meaning that is specific to a marginalised group. And you certainly cannot frame it within passive-aggressive sentiments such as "There are enough letters in LGBT, we don't need to add more".

Just trying to explain that although something might not matter to you, doesn't mean you can just shrug it off as a non-issue~

I can't even remember, it was probably on tablet or something. My screen on that is a bit crap so long-press doesn't always work :(

Oh lol

Thanks for censoring your signature by the way!

Imagine putting the song lyrics in your sig just to be edgy.

He missed a line too

hey oliver! not sure if you saw this but just bumping it!

Depends really. In cases like this, no progress needs to be made, there's nothing to fight against, no need to move forward. So getting upset that they sang the full lyrics is a waste of time.

People are free to do what they want - someone could call me a fag (never happened), before my physio took effect I got called a **** due to my walk... those were the choices of the people who said those things. The choices I had in return were:
- punch them in the face
- let it ruin my day
- not care.
"Deeper meanings" only have any meaning if you let them. I'd never tell someone not to take offence, I just think that maybe they should get a grip and not let the sounds an idiot makes with their mouth affect their day :shrug:

I wouldn't "keep talking about it" if people learned to not let words be lessons :shrug: Maybe a part of my brain is missing or something :joker: but I literally can't understand why people let themselves get offended by stuff like that...

Embarrassing

"at one point last night you said exonerate!"


:laugh2:

are they gonna do a series 4?

I feel like everyone would be up for it except Cordon, hes got plenty going on in america

I think it'll just be another Christmas special next year