What's the feeling? Should fag and faggot have different pages or should one redirect to the other? Also, anyone want to help out with this entry? --Dante Alighieri
Not just American teens - and fag can be used against non homosexuual people - i was apparently a "fag" for being disabled
Haven't people ever heard a cigarette called a fag? Perhaps that should be in here somewhere?
- It was, and is again. There was some vandalism and a bit got lost, but it's back now! --Dante Alighieri 12:20 Dec 5, 2002 (UTC)
Yes, I believe Europeans sometimes call cigarettes "fags".
No in Europe generally. It's a British and Irish term. Mintguy 12:47 Dec 5, 2002 (UTC)
- That is, of course, the basis for the joke about the two possible meanings of the phrase "I'm going to go smoke some fags." --Dante Alighieri 12:28 Dec 5, 2002 (UTC)
And I think "faggot" is some sort of a plant?
- I've heard "faggot" defined as a bundle of sticks, but I wasn't sure that it was appropriate for this entry. --Dante Alighieri 12:20 Dec 5, 2002 (UTC)
- "faggot" is actually an imperial measure for sticks.
- 1 short faggot of sticks = 2 ft. girth x 32 in. long bundle of short wood sticks/billets
- 1 long faggot of sticks = 2 ft. girth x 4 ft. long bundle of long wood sticks/billets
- 1 faggot of iron = 2 ft. girth x 1 ft. long bundle of iron/steel rods/bars for horseshoes & so forth
- But I guess that's for faggot and not fag. -- User:Nferrier
- In Britain you can buy a product called "Brain's faggots". Brain's (Brain's website) is the brand name, I don't know of any other manufacturer Faggots are basically meatballs.
Regarding the usage in British schools... a fag is one who fags? Verb and noun? --Dante Alighieri 01:06 Dec 6, 2002 (UTC)
- Yes, I could (if I was a senior boy in an English public school like Eton or Harrow) have a fag. He would be a junior boy (probably a first year) and he would fag for me. He would be doing fagging duties for (maybe) several hours a day or only a few minutes a week depending on how mean I was.
- So your fag could go fag for you by getting you some fags? You crazy Brits! ;) --Dante Alighieri 01:13 Dec 6, 2002 (UTC)
- You're getting it. And if you think that's strange wait until you hear about "dog" as in "I say you old dog, it's the dog on the dog." -- User:Nferrier
- OK, give me a sentence with as many fags and dogs as possible. --Dante Alighieri 01:18 Dec 6, 2002 (UTC)
- I say you old dog, get on the dog to my fag and get him to make his dog to bring me some fags.
- Trans: friend, telephone my menial assitant and ask him to make his girlfriend (note: presumably another boy given the public school system, but not necessarily) bring me some cigarettes.