Current Events > Old timey songs are super gay.

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I've just been noticing this lately since all the old Christmas songs on the radio. But they're all super gay. Everything's gay. They're all having a gay time. The decorations are gay. Tree's gay. It's all gay.

I always thought when I was a kid that the 'alternative usages' of the word gay were overstated or that it was never a real thing, and just an obscure definition. But they really did use the shit out of this word.

Practically half these Christmas songs are gay, and you've got the Flintstones, and probably some other songs as well. Was this like the third most popular overall word from 1900-1960 or what?
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christmas is gay
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_Near_ posted...

christmas is gay

I mean yeah I think that's a huge part of it.

It's such a gay subject matter that the word fits in a lot to the songs.
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Yeah, it's funny how the meanings of words change. I know an old woman who's first name is "Gay." It was as normal as being named "Joy" or "Hope" in those days.

If you want creepy, try listening to Beatles songs that use the phrase "my little girl."
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Flintstones? Grand dad?
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This topic is gay and you should feel gay.
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SpiralDrift posted...

This topic is gay and you should feel gay.

Thanks, you too.
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r4X0r posted...

Yeah, it's funny how the meanings of words change. I know an old woman who's first name is "Gay." It was as normal as being named "Joy" or "Hope" in those days.

If you want creepy, try listening to Beatles songs that use the phrase "my little girl."

Not only that, but it's shifted even in the last decades, or even just the last one decade.

Ten years ago you weren't even allowed to say gay on these message boards(or it was heavily flagged, at least).

Now I just said it 27 times in one post and nobody cares.

This word really has some legs on it. I wonder what it'll mean in another 50 years. It's been a consistently prominent word for hundreds of years now, despite the meaning constantly evolving.
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That's because you were saying "gay" in the antiquated, unoffensive context.
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r4X0r posted...

Yeah, it's funny how the meanings of words change. I know an old woman who's first name is "Gay." It was as normal as being named "Joy" or "Hope" in those days.

i work with a guy named Gaylord lol
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They have moxie

Why did this make me laugh
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The word 'gay' never would've come into popularity with how it is used today if it wasn't popular back then as well.
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r4X0r posted...

Yeah, it's funny how the meanings of words change. I know an old woman who's first name is "Gay." It was as normal as being named "Joy" or "Hope" in those days.

If you want creepy, try listening to Beatles songs that use the phrase "my little girl."

That's nothing compared to Gaylord.
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I miss it when gay meant "Happy"
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I was just thinking of how "boner" used to mean "mistake", and that one Batman comic where the Joker was upset at everyone laughing at his boner
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green butter posted...

r4X0r posted...

Yeah, it's funny how the meanings of words change. I know an old woman who's first name is "Gay." It was as normal as being named "Joy" or "Hope" in those days.

i work with a guy named Gaylord lol

I know an older guy named Gayton, he goes by George

lol
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HylianFox posted...

I was just thinking of how "boner" used to mean "mistake", and that one Batman comic where the Joker was upset at everyone laughing at his boner

lol
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This whole topic is really gay.
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