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Is "straight" an offensive term?

  • 21-10-2010 11:30pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,789 ✭✭✭


    as it implies it's opposite ..."bent"?


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,464 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    i am deeply offended.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,806 ✭✭✭✭KeithM89_old


    I wouldnt be offended if someone told me "that shelf is straight" :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,239 ✭✭✭✭WindSock


    I don't find it offensive.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,815 ✭✭✭✭galwayrush


    Is it a normal term...:pac:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,582 ✭✭✭✭TheZohanS


    :confused:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,554 ✭✭✭✭alwaysadub


    God you must be bored OP!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 113 ✭✭Dr. No


    In a word no


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,342 ✭✭✭✭That_Guy


    Offended? I'm fcuking incensed!!! :mad::mad:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,239 ✭✭✭✭WindSock


    It may be offensive in the sense that it implies that gay people are not right or normal though. But I am not offended as a non gay person. Mybe I should be offended for the gays?


  • Registered Users Posts: 180 ✭✭dilapidating


    Maybe if you're from squiggleland.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 43,045 ✭✭✭✭Nevyn


    No, but breeder is.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,647 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    Dr. No wrote: »
    In a word no
    Well you would say that, wouldn't you?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,674 ✭✭✭Teutorix


    KeithM89 wrote: »
    I wouldnt be offended if someone told me "that shelf is straight" :)
    Your shelf is bent!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 149 ✭✭gabria


    Some people use it to imply someone is uptight and can't loosen up


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,464 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    Teutorix wrote: »
    Your shelf is bent!

    your ma is bent


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 113 ✭✭Dr. No


    El Weirdo wrote: »
    Well you would say that, wouldn't you?
    Yes


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,582 ✭✭✭✭TheZohanS


    Thaedydal wrote: »
    No, but breeder is.

    Will you explain that one please? Are you talking about someone that can have kids?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,815 ✭✭✭✭galwayrush


    Dr. No wrote: »
    In a word no

    El Weirdo wrote: »
    Well you would say that, wouldn't you?

    but do 2 no's make it right?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,815 ✭✭✭✭galwayrush


    Dr. No wrote: »
    Yes

    Make up your mind.....:pac::pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,647 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    Dr. No wrote: »
    Yes
    I see what you did there.


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,464 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    galwayrush wrote: »
    but do 2 no's make it right?

    no straight on to the traffic lights and a left bend at the top of the road


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,815 ✭✭✭✭galwayrush


    pmcmahon wrote: »
    no straight on to the traffic lights and a left bend at the top of the road

    Straight before the bend?:D


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,464 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    galwayrush wrote: »
    Straight before the bend?:D

    there's only one true road to follow son


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,563 ✭✭✭karlog


    I thought the opposite of straight was queer-o-sexual?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,089 ✭✭✭ascanbe


    Damn straight it is.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 113 ✭✭Dr. No


    keep on the straight and narrow


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,397 ✭✭✭✭FreudianSlippers


    This is the straightest thread in ages.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,674 ✭✭✭Teutorix


    OisinT wrote: »
    This is the straightest thread in ages.
    It only seems striaght cause you read bent.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 43,045 ✭✭✭✭Nevyn


    TheZohan wrote: »
    Will you explain that one please? Are you talking about someone that can have kids?

    It is used as a disparaging term by bigoted gay people aimed at people who have kids.


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,225 ✭✭✭Yitzhak Rabin


    By that logic, gay is offensive, as it means heterosexual people are unhappy.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,789 ✭✭✭grizzly


    alwaysadub wrote: »
    God you must be bored OP!

    Very!
    yekahs wrote: »
    By that logic, gay is offensive, as it means heterosexual people are unhappy.

    Wouldn't the opposite of gay be somber? :P


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,243 ✭✭✭✭Jesus Wept


    Breeder, good one, don't have to be gay to use it obviously.
    A few too many people are overly obsessed with the breeding.
    I don't share their enthusiasm for increasing the population with new versions of them.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,674 ✭✭✭Teutorix


    grizzly wrote: »
    Very!



    Wouldn't the opposite of gay be somber? :P
    Yore somber! wait, wat?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,838 ✭✭✭Nulty


    KeithM89 wrote: »
    I wouldnt be offended if someone told me "that shelf is straight" :)

    They're more likely to say

    "That shelf is level"


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,053 ✭✭✭PanchoVilla


    I'm planning a "Straight Pride" parade for next year sometime. We're gonna have lots of banners that say "We like sex the way nature intended". That should get a good reaction. :D


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,397 ✭✭✭✭FreudianSlippers


    I'm planning a "Straight Pride" parade for next year sometime. We're gonna have lots of banners that say "We like sex the way nature intended". That should get a good reaction. :D
    BDSM?

    Straight BDSM... no queer shít obviously :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,789 ✭✭✭grizzly


    I'm planning a "Straight Pride" parade for next year sometime. We're gonna have lots of banners that say "We like sex the way nature intended". That should get a good reaction. :D

    What music would play at a straight Pride parade? Coldplay?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,053 ✭✭✭PanchoVilla


    grizzly wrote: »
    What music would play at a straight Pride parade? Coldplay?

    David Lee Roth and Robert Palmer.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,397 ✭✭✭✭FreudianSlippers


    grizzly wrote: »
    What music would play at a straight Pride parade? Coldplay?
    Since when is Coldplay straight?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 113 ✭✭Dr. No


    grizzly wrote: »
    What music would play at a straight Pride parade? Coldplay?
    Scissor Sisters or Mika:p


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,751 ✭✭✭Saila


    if you're a pillow biter yeah


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,789 ✭✭✭grizzly


    David Lee Roth and Robert Palmer.

    Or Queens of the Stone Age & Van Halen according to this.


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