That's fair enough mate if it's something you and they never heard, and I can certainly understand why they wouldn't use the term themselves, but I grew up with a gay brother in Wythenshawe mostly, so I do know what I heard and faggot was one of the main ones.I disagree
i lived in Manchester from 1958 until 1991 and never heard the word used once to describe a homosexual. I had two friends at school who were homosexual and they never used the term.
Just to check for myself I looked up the term on Wiki where it states it’s been in use in North America since 1917 but only recently used in Britain due to media crossover. It goes on to list the usual terms used, which I certainly remembered, and also the meaning of the words fag (cigarettes/public school gofers) and faggot (food).
Growing up in Newton Heath during the 80's and 90's, faggot meant gay bloke.That is simply not true.
Its an American slang term and was not recognised in the UK as a term for a male homosexual.
So, let me get this straight:
Classic Christmas song, with a single word that 'may' be upsetting to certain homosexual men and professional offendees (AKA Snowflakes) = BAD?
Racists and sexist Gansgster Rap/Grime = GOOD?
Worlds gone mad.
Fairytale of New York uses historical language (Irish slang word for a lazy person or a waster) in context. A lot of grime and gangster rap uses deliberate derogatory language, for which radio stations just casually edit whilst still retaining the inference of the language.Not sure what this means.
Classic Christmas song gets edited just like gangster rap and grime = no need to get worked up.
Fairytale of New York uses a word (Irish slang word for a lazy person or a waster) in context. A lot of grime and gangster rap uses deliberate derogatory language, for which radio stations just casually edit whilst still retaining the inference of the language.
There's the difference.
The edited fairytale of New York retains the inference of the language as you defined it, whilst removing a homophobic slur that even the original artists were uncomfortable 30 years ago and now want removed.
That still doesn't defend the use of derogatory language in gangster rap and grime that radio stations casually edit whilst ignoring the inference.
The two things are not the same.
Lovely comments about the NHS today. What a nice normal lad lozza fox is.I don’t know him intimately. Just seen a couple of interviews and he seems a nice normal lad. A lot of what he is saying resonates with people. He must have been mad to think marrying Billy Piper was a wise move however.
You might want to revise your opinion after he Tweeted this yesterday:he is sound. A lot of people like him.