Is This Video Offensive?

[Criswell]

As long as its just having fun and not hate speech I don't find it offensive 

[AndyC]

Is not the word "fag" in the UK mean cigarette? Someone told me that along time ago...

Yes

A few years back, a friend of mine had some family visiting from Liverpool. We're sitting on the patio drinking beer when one of them turns to me and says "do you fancy a fag?"

I knew what she meant, but it took a second to register. Just enough time for a big double take.

[Mr. DS]

Is not the word "fag" in the UK mean cigarette? Someone told me that along time ago...

Yes

A few years back, a friend of mine had some family visiting from Liverpool. We're sitting on the patio drinking beer when one of them turns to me and says "do you fancy a fag?"

I knew what she meant, but it took a second to register. Just enough time for a big double take.

Another addition to that story I've heard about.  Someone told me that at one point only men smoked cigars and women smoked "fags".  Hence it being "girly" to smoke a cig.  I've always doubted it but does anyone know of any validity to that rumor?

Btw Ash, if you're serious about making this sport more popular  I'd avoid putting out the video into too many sources.  Although it is entertaining, the world has been on a "political correctness" rampage lately.

[dean]

Agree with Ed, video's not that bad, but the concept's offensive, so why go through the trouble?

Easy solution though: capture the HAG.  Nobody gets upset [no point in getting negative publicity] and it's probably funnier to have someone running around with a walking frame and in old lady outfits.  Same pun but won't get you any thumbs down from any group.

[Raffine]

I liked the way everybody had to explain they weren't a homosexual.

[AndyC]

Agree with Ed, video's not that bad, but the concept's offensive, so why go through the trouble?

Easy solution though: capture the HAG.  Nobody gets upset [no point in getting negative publicity] and it's probably funnier to have someone running around with a walking frame and in old lady outfits.  Same pun but won't get you any thumbs down from any group.

And the AARP is outraged.

[dean]

I have no idea who the AARP is but I'm assuming it's pensioners, and as such they shouldn't be on that magic internet thingy anyways.

[dean]

Ah just looked them up.  They have a website and everything!  Who said old dogs can't learn new tricks?   

[Raffine]

Ah just looked them up.  They have a website and everything!  Who said old dogs can't learn new tricks?   

Don't anger them.

I understand they eat young whippersnappers' souls.

[Ed, Ego and Superego]

Dress in gore and blood and call it Capture the FRAG.

[AndyC]

If they wanted somebody to dress flamboyantly and act all fruity, they could play a game of "Capture the Drag."

[Umaril The Unfeathered]

I'm suprised that none of the Gay Rights groups have gotten upset over the use of the phrase "homogenized milk" over the years.   

[venomx]

I'm suprised that none of the Gay Rights groups have gotten upset over the use of the phrase "homogenized milk" over the years.   

"Hello"

[Umaril The Unfeathered]

I'm suprised that none of the Gay Rights groups have gotten upset over the use of the phrase "homogenized milk" over the years.   

"Hello"

Uh-ohhh  looks like I better "moo-ve" it on out of here before I'm forced to cow-er at the feet of this bovine entity who seems to have a beef with me.

My reputations at "steak" here 

[AndyC]

I'm suprised that none of the Gay Rights groups have gotten upset over the use of the phrase "homogenized milk" over the years.   

I have noticed that in recent years "homogenized" has been spelled out in full on packaging here. I remember it being simply "homo milk" in the 80s. Used to be a source of giggling and "you are what you eat" type jokes among us kids. I'm pretty sure that's the reason for the change, that "homo" on its own had a completely different meaning (and a potentially problematic one) for more and more people. No coincidence either, since "homogenized" and "homosexual" do come from the same root - a Greek word meaning "the same."