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06-02-2010, 02:43 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: Somerset, England | | | One to make our North American friends chuckle :)
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This was on the wall in my local chip shop: 
Wouldn't raise a snigger here, but I thought some of you might find it funny.
Faggots, by the way, are kind of like meatballs that also contain pig's heart, liver and fatty belly meat or bacon minced together. They're actually quite tasty! |
06-02-2010, 02:47 PM
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06-02-2010, 02:47 PM
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EXAR pedals rep for North & Central America | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: PDX, OR | | | Actually it would have been a laugh 20 years ago, but currently if somebody posted that sign on a shop here they would be arrested and charged with a hate crime, which carries a stiff sentence. |
06-02-2010, 02:47 PM
|  | layin' it down like pavement | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: North Kingstown, Rhode Island | | | Yeah....I'm snickering alrighty... At the sign AND the make-up of those things. You'd have to pay me to take a bite of that thing.
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06-02-2010, 02:51 PM
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Originally Posted by doktorfeelgood  Yeah....I'm snickering alrighty... At the sign AND the make-up of those things. You'd have to pay me to take a bite of that thing.
)-( | They're actually very tasty... but I haven't had a faggot for years, since I found out what was in them. That put me off.
(Can you imagine someone saying "I haven't had a faggot in years, not since I found out what was in them" in the USA?  ) |
06-02-2010, 02:54 PM
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Originally Posted by bongomania Actually it would have been a laugh 20 years ago, but currently if somebody posted that sign on a shop here they would be arrested and charged with a hate crime, which carries a stiff sentence. | I laughed.
Then I cried when I realized that was truth...
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06-02-2010, 02:54 PM
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Originally Posted by Komakino (Can you imagine someone saying "I haven't had a faggot in years, not since I found out what was in them" in the USA? ) | As an Englishman, what is the worst possible name somebody could call you? Is there a word or name where if somebody called you that, you would go into a mad rage and punch them? |
06-02-2010, 02:54 PM
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Originally Posted by Komakino They're actually very tasty... but I haven't had a faggot for years, since I found out what was in them. That put me off.
(Can you imagine someone saying "I haven't had a faggot in years, not since I found out what was in them" in the USA? ) | it is basically a batter fried hotdog. id bet if i renamed them i could make a living selling them as a street vendor. 
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06-02-2010, 02:56 PM
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Originally Posted by bongomania As an Englishman, what is the worst possible name somebody could call you? Is there a word or name where if somebody called you that, you would go into a mad rage and punch them? | A 'scallywag'. Or maybe a 'bounder'.
No, wait.. an 'oik'.
That would make my blood boil. |
06-02-2010, 02:58 PM
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Originally Posted by bongomania As an Englishman, what is the worst possible name somebody could call you? Is there a word or name where if somebody called you that, you would go into a mad rage and punch them? | Hmm, I don't know. I honestly can't think of anything here that carries the same weight as calling someone a faggot in the US does. |
06-02-2010, 02:58 PM
|  | That's the way uh huh uh huh I like it.. | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Robbinsville, NJ | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Komakino They're actually very tasty... but I haven't had a faggot for years, since I found out what was in them. That put me off.
| OK, you got me, I'm cracking up on that one..
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06-02-2010, 02:58 PM
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Originally Posted by wateroftyne A 'scallywag'. Or maybe a 'bounder'.
No, wait.. an 'oik'.
That would make my blood boil. | Hush now, they might think you're serious! |
06-02-2010, 03:21 PM
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06-02-2010, 04:21 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Lake Charles, La. | | | I'm from South Louisiana and the ingredients in that thing scares me. For those of you not fortunate enough to have spent time here, we have not been known to turn down much of anything that may be edible.
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06-02-2010, 04:33 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Tennessee | | | Nice one... If it wasn't for intolerance, that would be pretty funny.
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06-02-2010, 04:55 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Edinburgh & Dundee, Scotland | | Let's be fair tho, that term is often used in the no-no way over here too.
And for a bunch of sticks
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06-02-2010, 04:56 PM
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Originally Posted by i_got_a_mohawk
And for a bunch of sticks | Or a pack of smokes.
Hmm, I wonder what my gf would say if i told her I was going to smoke a fag on my way home from work...?
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06-02-2010, 05:24 PM
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Originally Posted by shadowtippy I'm from South Louisiana and the ingredients in that thing scares me. For those of you not fortunate enough to have spent time here, we have not been known to turn down much of anything that may be edible. | C'mon, that's really no different from a piece of Boudin.
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06-02-2010, 05:31 PM
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Originally Posted by Komakino They're actually very tasty... but I haven't had a faggot for years, since I found out what was in them. | Out of context sig material? 
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06-02-2010, 05:31 PM
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