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9901
« on: November 27, 2014, 03:38:56 PM »
My life
My brother surviving everything
my family (except for one side)
To have found two great communities
To have meat the people I have on here, who have been incredible to me when I was down and have been there to tolerate my bullshit. I have met a good friend as well, many.
9902
« on: November 27, 2014, 04:31:22 AM »
H. G. Wells
I loved War of the Worlds
9903
« on: November 27, 2014, 04:13:12 AM »
Gotta go with H.P. Lovecraft on this,
9904
« on: November 27, 2014, 04:09:03 AM »
9905
« on: November 27, 2014, 03:57:06 AM »
TBlocks is 16, how old is Korra?
I don't think this would work.......hence the gif.
I'll be turning 19 tomorrow. Turkey Cake!!!
Happy early-ish birthday
9906
« on: November 27, 2014, 03:02:02 AM »
woo!
9907
« on: November 26, 2014, 12:56:31 PM »
k gay [gey] having or showing a merry, lively mood: gay spirits; gay music.
9908
« on: November 26, 2014, 12:07:10 PM »
wait till you see the third season... Spoiler 9th episode to be exact
9909
« on: November 26, 2014, 11:32:06 AM »
He's a black man.
Thanks for your input.
9910
« on: November 26, 2014, 04:34:50 AM »
1/10
9911
« on: November 26, 2014, 04:33:52 AM »

Everyone. Downvoted.
Even Ele. Enjoy getting Mythic.
: '(
9912
« on: November 26, 2014, 04:30:50 AM »
bernie

Bernie pls
9913
« on: November 26, 2014, 04:27:10 AM »
bernie
9914
« on: November 26, 2014, 04:24:52 AM »
Hell?
9915
« on: November 26, 2014, 04:22:45 AM »
none
9916
« on: November 26, 2014, 03:42:48 AM »
9917
« on: November 26, 2014, 03:12:59 AM »
byme
9918
« on: November 26, 2014, 03:09:35 AM »
GG everyone no re
I see what you're trying to do
No you don't, this is what I do every day when I get online.
Also...
gg
9919
« on: November 26, 2014, 03:06:45 AM »
#banflee #saveourshitposts
9920
« on: November 26, 2014, 03:06:09 AM »
GG everyone no re
I see what you're trying to do
9921
« on: November 26, 2014, 02:14:28 AM »

long necks are attractive
meh
not even me
u ain't seeing a pic of me fgt
bby pls. youre breking my heart ;___;
k go 'way
9922
« on: November 26, 2014, 02:08:32 AM »

long necks are attractive
meh not even me u ain't seeing a pic of me fgt
9923
« on: November 26, 2014, 02:06:41 AM »
9924
« on: November 26, 2014, 02:02:18 AM »
lolwut
9925
« on: November 26, 2014, 01:58:13 AM »
Not tonight, playing VoG on solo
good luck.
9926
« on: November 26, 2014, 01:54:27 AM »
Sorry endarspire, its 1:52 a.m
 anyway other people have taken it over so kek
9927
« on: November 26, 2014, 01:48:58 AM »
9928
« on: November 26, 2014, 01:08:34 AM »
Encyclopedia dramatica Timothy McVeigh What? This article needs moar pictures. You can help by adding moar pictures.
Seriously, McVeigh really was a true American Patriot against gun control. However despite the impressive damage and seductive display of power that he brought to a clusterfuck of federal agents and their children, Timothy still somehow died a hapless virgin. Seriously. Truly unfair. Timothy McVeigh (moar like Timothy McYAY!, amirite?), was an American responsible for the deadliest act of terrorism in the US prior to the 9/11 attacks. He didn't commit suicide after the American people were treated to the display of his well thought out redneck fuckery, possibly because he was too busy enjoying the response he found after doing it. He was instead captured and taken into federal custody and executed, causing the American public to ban fertilizer and cry for only a few months before going back to their usual daily shit. Another important fact is that he also quickly recognized his talents in explosives, rather than firearms, and claimed a much larger bounty for Satan by showing future terrorists how it should really be done. Thus proving that even delusional patriotic conservative white trash can be as dangerous as a garden variety towelhead given a life of unemployment, social rejection, and ultimately, sexual frustration.
Contents 1 Relevance 1.1 Theodore Kaczynski on McVeigh 2 Early Life 3 Professional Training 4 Post Army 4.1 Poverty 5 PHYS 101 -- How do I make Bomb? 6 Showing the Middle East how it's Done 6.1 The Bombing 7 See Also Relevance
What makes Tim unique is that he was somehow able to carry his rage into his adult years and intelligently decided to go apeshit in the real world rather than the insular worlds that most younger High Scores contestants usually live in. He currently holds the high score for "Bomberman" campaign mode and to this day, he's still a fine example of what happens when you patiently decide to let your rage build up to be released later in life, years or decades after you've graduated from school entirely. Learn from him as a brilliant example to go for much higher scores. Though the world is eagerly waiting to move forward, Timothy McVeigh's legacy is kept alive by countless amateur manifestos written by people looking for attention. Because of this, don't expect to see his name die anytime soon. The scandalous nature of his attack led to much controversy afterward with many people citing him in their whitepapers and details about his attack, parallels to his political beliefs, and all around tossing his name around to get people to notice their own shitty attacks so that they could ride on the still fleshy anal fistula that was and still is, to this day, the butthurt caused by Tiny Tim. Theodore Kaczynski on McVeigh “ On a personal level I like McVeigh and I imagine that most people would like him. He was easily the most outgoing of all the inmates on our range of cells and had excellent social skills. He was considerate of others and knew how to deal with people effectively. He communicated somehow even with the inmates on the range of cells above ours, and, because he talked with more people, he always knew more about what was going on than anyone else on our range. „ — He's actually a pretty cool guy Aldous Huxley's IRL "John Savage" Theodore Kaczynski and Timothy McVeigh met briefly in 1999, and letters piled in to Kaczynski from radical college students and journalists to ask him what the eligible bachelor was really like. Kaczynski responded in his typical manner of talking more about himself and his wildlife euphoria than of the person who everyone really cared about, and after sifting through Kaczynski's TL;DR about why prison has ruined his own superhuman mountain man spidey sense, one can see in this letter that McVeigh was actually revealed to be a pretty easy person to get along with.
Early Life
He was allegedly bullied in school. He became a tryhard hick despite technically being a Northerner, and he spent his youth raging at the government like most 15 year olds do. Over time, he developed an unhealthy obsession with guns. He later cited that in his teenage years, he repeatedly failed to get laid, which made him more upset than even his delusions against America's government.
Professional Training
Timothy McVeigh enlisted in the US Army after doing poorly in college. He decided to wave goodbye to his family and then traveled down to Fort Benning, Georgia to finally find a political climate that suited him. He performed well in basic training and was known to be highly knowledgeable in all things firearm, though he couldn't get over his shit-poor aim and couldn't do anything more than just brandish weapons that he was terrible at using. It was already clear that he wouldn't be able to skillfully use firearms to do anything useful, so the eager Timothy McVeigh began to fascinate himself in making explosives. Yet despite his apparent acceptance of a known Islamic tactic, Timothy McVeigh contrarily became an active member of the local White Power movement, which innocently began as a small movement to control and keep the Army's league of highly trained fighter chimps in their place, given the recent integration of them into society and updated status as subhuman instead of primate, and the rights that the filthy apes were now demanding. Though the movement was mainly charitable and benign in conception, it was later shut down by superiors on his base for not being part of the liberal agenda that purported the belief that all races are the same, a philosophy that was unacceptable to McVeigh's rural education. Timothy McVeigh was then reprimanded for this and that undoubtedly lead to even more seething anger against the government unjustly telling him what to do. He won a few achievements that hardly anyone would honestly give a shit about: decorating himself for killing sand-niggers overseas, such as accidentally decapitating a sand-nigger with a heavy weapon, then executing a line of camelfuckers with an M9. His achievements led him to desire further outlets in the military, but a psychological profile deemed him too unstable to join the Special Forces. Facing another failure, McVeigh claimed to have ordered a bottle of champagne and later drank to leaving the military on New Year's Eve. Also relevant, Timmy was believed to have still been a virgin.
Post Army
Poverty After leaving the subsidized tit of US taxpayer money, he then realized that he had to find work. This was problematic to Tim because it meant he had to ACTUALLY take responsibility for his abysmal life: something he calmly avoided by putting the blame on others. A couple of Army officers remembered him from the service and decided to pull a joke on the trailer trash, so after looking him up, they sent him a bill saying that he owed them $1,058.00 in cash to the US Army, payment due by the end of the month.
“ Go ahead, take everything I own; take my dignity. Feel good as you grow fat and rich at my expense; sucking my tax dollars and property. „ —LOL This was the final straw for the twenty-something year old Timothy and he decided to campaign across the country voicing his hatred at the government. But had he simply just quit being as much of a backwoods gun-toting asshole and actually catered to the opposite gender by learning the social skills toward women he so neglected in high school, he could have easily gotten laid, which would have finally put the fucker at peace. It was that fucking simple. He later admitted while in custody that the one thing that irritated him more than the USA's increasingly threatening government was his unsatisfied sex drive. After quitting the NRA because the rational-minded members there actually wanted him to STFU about his pointless shit and desire to cause a civil war against America, he accused them of supporting gun control and further decided to parade around the country constantly yelling at people at gun shows and events to take his mind off of the truth, then beginning to hit up Home Depot, Lowes, other hardware stores to make cheap explosives.
PHYS 101 -- How do I make Bomb?
Rent a rental truck and fill it with fertilizer. Do it fgt. McVeigh's favorite formula seemed to be copper/brass pipes with Ammonium Nitrate pellets from freezer packs or fertilizer, doused with motor oil to get ANFO, with the pipe surrounded by Copperhead BB's. At the very least, he was bright enough to realize that black powder is a fucking shit choice to use for home made explosives because it can actually lodge itself in the pipe threading and deflagrate an explosive train back into the pipe before you can even use it on its intended target, and that black/galvanized steel with a low explosive doesn't fragment as well as a high explosive in a less stiffened brass pipe due to the Young's moduli of brass being much smaller than that of steel, leading to sharper fragments and a more complete rupture. The addition of copperheads with the brass pipe's outer coating as shrapnel leads to some nice material homogeneity since copperheads and copper pipes are relatively similar, which prevents static buildup between the pipe, charge, and shrapnel and all-around creates a safer pipe bomb. (For those of you who want to try this at home).
Showing the Middle East how it's Done
The Bombing Mcvtimeline4.png It's believed that after getting more bomb training from Terry Nichols, who himself was actually a pretty cool guy with a wife and family and who also shared Timmy's learned love for inferior mud-races, the two hicks quickly grinded McVeigh's skillset in Bomb Making to it's upper limit using a Nitrogen based fertilizer in their shared EXP Farm. Within a few months McVeigh had obtained the godlike OP needed to devastate the jimmies of the American public in a single attack.
Maturely taking the death of thousands of people seriously, McVeigh drew his blueprints on the back of a napkin. Lulz. The two purchased unhuman amounts of AN fertilizer, which, surprisingly didn't set off a red flag to the authorities because it was generally believed that an American citizen wouldn't do dastardly deeds with such a fun supply of lulzfuel; and the fact that they were both hicks just led the authorities to think they were just farming with it. They packed a crude bomb within the back of a rental truck, remembering to Duct Tape the slapper detonator properly so that it didn't fuck up at compile-time, avoiding a mistake that Reb and Vodka would later make while making their shitty propane bombs. Leaving their trailer park behind, the two men set their sights on a federally funded building, packed to the brim with hundreds of evil children who supported our increasingly threatening government. Timmy initiated the slapper and lulz ensued. More than 300 buildings were damaged. More than 12,000 volunteers and rescue workers took part in the rescue, recovery and support operations following the bombing. McVeigh covered up the guilt of his buddy, Nichols, and tried to initially take credit for the entire thing himself. Investigators had doubts though, as a man as unstable as McVeigh couldn't have orchestrated something like this without having some assistance.
“ To these people in Oklahoma who have lost a loved one, I'm sorry but it happens every day. You're not the first mother to lose a kid, or the first grandparent to lose a grandson or a granddaughter. It happens every day, somewhere in the world. I'm not going to go into that courtroom, curl into a fetal ball and cry just because the victims want me to do that. „ — Timothy McVeigh, exhibiting Troll's Remorse When he was finally caught, it was because they noticed a bulge in his clothing, which was revealed to be an illegally owned firearm. Ultimately it was Tim's mouth foaming obsession with guns that put him away, coupled with the fact that he left his license plate on the rental truck he used to commit the bombing, so he had to drive back plateless much to the suspicion of the local law enforcement.
Your average bomber Some argue that his reason for using bombs was that he chose to inflict the most possible damage that he could on anything related to the government. Others argue that he was a fucking patriot who knew that if he used guns to do this, the liberals would just go after those and after all nobody could honestly give a shit about bans on fertilizer unless they were a fucking Saudi, Paki, Habib, or a farmer. But as stated above though, the main reason why he chose to use bombs was really just his goddamn terrible aim, which can be seen in his epileptic drawn map of the building. He knew what worked for him and successfully yielded massive butthurt in the act of doing so, the incident of which would later be referenced by copycat killers looking for attention and lulz.
9929
« on: November 26, 2014, 01:03:46 AM »
Music Genome Project From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Recommender systems Methods and challenges Cold start Collaborative filtering Dimensionality reduction Implicit data collection Preference elicitation Relevance (information retrieval) Similarity search Implementations Collaborative search engine Content Discovery Platform Decision support system Music Genome Project Product finder Research GroupLens Research Netflix Prize v t e The Music Genome Project was first conceived by Will Glaser and Tim Westergren in late 1999. In January 2000, they joined forces with Jon Kraft to found Savage Beast Technologies to bring their idea to market.[1] The Music Genome Project is an effort to "capture the essence of music at the most fundamental level" using over 450 attributes to describe songs and a complex mathematical algorithm to organize them. The Music Genome Project is currently made up of 5 sub-genomes: Pop/Rock, Hip-Hop/Electronica, Jazz, World Music, and Classical. Under the direction of Nolan Gasser and a team of musicological experts, the initial attributes were later refined and extended. A given song is represented by a vector containing values for approximately 450 "genes" (analogous to trait-determining genes for organisms in the field of genetics, although it has been argued that this methodology bears greater resemblance to phylogeny[2]). Each gene corresponds to a characteristic of the music, for example, gender of lead vocalist, prevalent use of groove, level of distortion on the electric guitar, type of background vocals, etc. Rock and pop songs have 150 genes, rap songs have 350, and jazz songs have approximately 400. Other genres of music, such as world and classical music, have 300–450[3] genes. The system depends on a sufficient number of genes to render useful results. Each gene is assigned a number between 0 and 5, in half-integer increments.[4] The Music Genome Project's database is built using a methodology that includes the use of precisely defined terminology, a consistent frame of reference, redundant analysis, and ongoing quality control to ensure that data integrity remains reliably high.[3] Given the vector of one or more songs, a list of other similar songs is constructed using what the company calls its "matching algorithm". Each song is analyzed by a musician in a process that takes 20 to 30 minutes per song.[5] Ten percent of songs are analyzed by more than one musician to ensure conformity with the in-house standards and statistical reliability. The Music Genome Project was developed in its entirety by Pandora Media and remains the core technology used to program its online radio stations in response to its users' desires. Although there was a time when the company licensed this technology for use by others, today they limit its use for just their own users. Because of licensing restrictions, Pandora is available only to users whose location is reported to be in the USA, Australia or New Zealand[6] by Pandora's geolocation software.[7] Contents [hide] 1 Intellectual property 2 See also 3 References 4 Further reading 5 External links Intellectual property[edit] "Music Genome Project" is a registered trademark in the United States. The mark is owned by Pandora Media, Inc.[8] The Music Genome Project is covered by United States Patent No. 7,003,515.[4] This patent shows William T. Glaser, Timothy B. Westergren, Jeffrey P. Stearns, and Jonathan M. Kraft as the inventors of this technology. The patent has been assigned by the holders to Pandora Media, Inc. The full list of attributes for individual songs is not publicly released, and ostensibly constitutes a trade secret. See also[edit] Moodbar MusicBrainz Pandora Radio WhoSampled References[edit] Jump up ^ Westergren, Tim (March 9, 2009). VV Show #54 - Tim Westergren of Pandora. Interview with Greg Galant. Venture Voice. Retrieved 2011-06-26. Jump up ^ http://phylonetworks.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-music-genome-project-is-no-such.html^ Jump up to: a b "About The Music Genome Project". http://www.pandora.com/. Retrieved 17 August 2014. ^ Jump up to: a b Music Genome Project US Patent: No. 7,003,515 Jump up ^ Ike, Elephant (February 2006). "Tiny Mix Tapes: Tim Westergren Interview". Retrieved 30 May 2013. Jump up ^ Notification email sent to Australian mailing list subscribers Jump up ^ Pandora FAQ #79[dead link] Jump up ^ "Music Genome Project" US Trademark: No. 2731047 United States Patent Office Further reading[edit] Castelluccio, Michael (December 2006), The Music Genome Project, Strategic Finance 88 (6): 57–58, ISSN 1524-833X Jennings, David (2007), Net, Blogs and Rock 'N' Roll: How Digital Discovery Works and What it Means for Consumers, Creators and Culture, London, UK; Boston, MA: Nicholas Brealey Pub., ISBN 978-1-85788-398-5, OCLC 145379643 John, Joyce (September 2006), Pandora and the Music Genome Project, Scientific Computing 23 (10): 14, 40–41, ISSN 1930-5753, retrieved 2008-08-03 Walker, Rob (October 14, 2009). "The Song Decoders at Pandora". New York Times. Retrieved November 23, 2012. External links[edit] "The Music Genome Project" — short historical statement by Tim Westergren Patent Number 7003515 — Consumer item matching method and system Inside the Net Interview with Tim Westergren of Pandora Media Interview with Tim Westergren March 23, 2007 Interview with Tim Westergren about the Music Genome Project and Pandora video The first music of genes by Jean-claude Perez 1994 SACEM GEN0694 Categories: Online music and lyrics databases
9930
« on: November 26, 2014, 01:02:04 AM »
Faggot (slang) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia For other uses, see Faggot and Fag. Page semi-protected
A Volkswagen Beetle ("Bug") owner in response to fag graffiti spray-painted on her car christened it "The Fagbug" and embarked on a trans-American road trip to raise awareness of homophobia and LGBT rights that was documented in a film of the same name.[1][2] Faggot, often shortened to fag, is a pejorative term used chiefly in North America primarily to refer to a gay man.[3][4][5] Alongside its use to refer to gay men in particular, it may also be used as a pejorative term for a "repellent male" or a homosexual person of either gender.[5][6][7] Its use has spread from the United States to varying extents elsewhere in the English-speaking world through mass culture, including film, music, and the Internet.
Contents [hide] 1 Etymology 2 Use in the United Kingdom 3 Early printed use 4 Pascoe's research on masculinity and high school 5 Use in popular culture 5.1 Theater 5.2 Books and magazines 5.3 Music 5.4 Television and news media 6 Bibliography 7 See also 8 References 9 External links Etymology The American slang term is first recorded in 1914, the shortened form fag shortly after, in 1921.[8] Its immediate origin is unclear, but it is based on the word for "bundle of sticks", ultimately derived, via Old French, Italian and Vulgar Latin, from Latin fascis.[8][9]
The word faggot has been used in English since the late 16th century as an abusive term for women, particularly old women,[9] and reference to homosexuality may derive from this,[8][10] as female terms are often used with reference to homosexual or effeminate men (cf. nancy, sissy, queen). The application of the term to old women is possibly a shortening of the term "faggot-gatherer", applied in the 19th century to people, especially older widows, who made a meagre living by gathering and selling firewood.[10] It may also derive from the sense of "something awkward to be carried" (compare the use of the word baggage as a pejorative term for old people in general).[8]
An alternative possibility is that the word is connected with the practice of fagging in British private schools, in which younger boys performed (potentially sexual) duties for older boys, although the word faggot was never used in this context, only fag. There is a reference to the word faggot being used in 17th century Britain to refer to a "man hired into military service simply to fill out the ranks at muster", but there is no known connection with the word's modern pejorative usage.[8]
The Yiddish word faygele, lit. "little bird", has been claimed by some to be related to the American usage. The similarity between the two words makes it possible that it might at least have had a reinforcing effect.[8][10]
There used to be an urban legend, called an "oft-reprinted assertion" by Douglas Harper, that the modern slang meaning developed from the standard meaning of faggot as "bundle of sticks for burning" with regard to burning at the stake. This is unsubstantiated; the emergence of the slang term in 20th-century American English is unrelated to historical death penalties for homosexuality.[8]
Use in the United Kingdom Originally confined to the United States,[8] the use of the words fag and faggot as epithets for gay men has spread elsewhere in the English-speaking world, but the extent to which they are used in this sense has varied outside the context of imported U.S. popular culture. The words queer, homo, and poof are all still in common use in the UK, and some other countries, as pejorative terms for gay men. The words fag and faggot, moreover, still have other meanings in the British Isles and other Commonwealth societies. In particular, faggot is still used to refer to a kind of meatball, and fag is common as a slang word for "cigarette".
The terms fag/fagging, have been widely used for a practice of younger pupils acting as personal servants to the most senior boys for well over a hundred years in England, in the public school system of education.
Use of fag and faggot as the term for an effeminate man has become understood as an Americanism in British English, primarily due to entertainment media use in films and television series imported from the United States. When Labour MP Bob Marshall-Andrews was overheard supposedly using the word in a bad-tempered informal exchange with a straight colleague in the House of Commons lobby in November 2005, it was considered to be homophobic abuse.[11][12]
Early printed use The word faggot with regard to homosexuality was used as early as 1914, in Jackson and Hellyer's A Vocabulary of Criminal Slang, with Some Examples of Common Usages which listed the following example under the word, drag:[13]
"All the fagots (sissies) will be dressed in drag at the ball tonight." The word was also used by a character in Claude McKay’s 1928 novel Home to Harlem, indicating that it was used during the Harlem Renaissance. Specifically, one character says that he cannot understand:
"a bulldyking woman and a faggoty man" Pascoe's research on masculinity and high school Through ethnographic research in a high school setting, CJ Pascoe examines how American high school boys use the term fag. Pascoe's work suggests that boys in high school use the fag epithet as a way to assert their own masculinity, by claiming that another boy is less masculine; this, in their eyes, makes him a fag, and its usage suggests that it is less about sexual orientation and more about gender. One-third of the boys in Pascoe's study claimed that they would not call a homosexual peer a fag; fag is used in this setting as a form of gender policing, in which boys ridicule others who fail at masculinity, heterosexual prowess, or strength. Because boys do not want to be labeled a fag, they hurl the insult at another person. The fag identity does not constitute a static identity attached to the boy receiving the insult. Rather, fag is a fluid identity that boys strive to avoid, often by naming another as the fag. As Pascoe asserts, "[the fag identity] is fluid enough that boys police their behaviors out of fear of having the fag identity permanently adhere and definitive enough so that boys recognize a fag behavior and strive to avoid it". Pascoe's study reports that gender policing is most common among white boys, while black boys are more concerned with "acting" appropriately black. The black youth in Pascoe's study often ridiculed one another for "acting white", and did not express gender policing to the same degree as white boys.[14]
Use in popular culture
Benjamin Phelps, Fred Phelps' grandson and creator of the first "GodHatesFags" webpage, is also from the Westboro Baptist Church which regularly employs picket signs such as these using fag as epithet.[15] There is a long history of using both fag and faggot in popular culture, usually to denigrate lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people. Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman's 1995 documentary The Celluloid Closet, based on Vito Russo's book of the same name notes the use of fag and faggot throughout Hollywood film history.[16] The Think Before You Speak (campaign) has sought to stop fag and gay being used as generic insults.[17]
Theater In 1973 a broadway musical called "The Faggot" was praised by critics but condemned by gay liberation proponents.[18]
Books and magazines Larry Kramer's 1978 novel Faggots discusses the gay community including the use of the word within and towards the community.[19] In its November 2002 issue, the New Oxford Review, a Catholic magazine, caused controversy by its use and defense of the word in an editorial. During the correspondence between the editors and a gay reader, the editors clarified that they would only use the word to describe a "practicing homosexual". They defended the use of the word, saying that it was important to preserve the social stigma of gays and lesbians.[20]
Music Arlo Guthrie uses the epithet in his 1967 signature song "Alice's Restaurant". noting it as a potential way to avoid military induction at the time.[21] The Dire Straits 1985 song "Money for Nothing" makes notable use of the epithet faggot,[22] although the lines containing it are often excised for radio play, and in live performances by singer/songwriter Mark Knopfler. The song was banned from airplay by the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council in 2011 but the ban was reversed later the same year.[23] In 1989, Sebastian Bach, lead singer of the band Skid Row, created a controversy when he wore a t-shirt with the parody slogan "Aids: Kills Fags Dead".[24] The 2001 song "American Triangle" by Elton John and Bernie Taupin uses the phrase God hates fags where we come from.. The song is about Matthew Shepard, a Wyoming man who was killed because he was gay.[25] The 2007 song The Bible Says, which includes the line "God Hates Fags" (sometimes used as an alternate title) caused considerable controversy when it was published on various websites. Apparently an anti-gay song written and performed by an ex-gay pastor "Donnie Davies", it was accompanied by the realistic Love God's Way website about his "ministry". Debate ensued about whether Donnie Davies and the outrageous song, which included a few double entendres, were for real, and whether the lyrics could ever be considered acceptable even in satire. Donnie Davies was revealed in 2007 to be a character played by actor and entertainer. Some gay rights advocates acknowledge that as a spoof it is humorous, but claim the message behind it is still as malicious as someone who seriously possessed the opinion.[26][27][28] In December 2007, BBC Radio 1 caused controversy by editing the word faggot from their broadcasts of the Kirsty MacColl & The Pogues song "Fairytale of New York", deeming it potentially homophobic; however, the edit did not extend to other BBC stations, such as BBC Radio 2. Following widespread criticism and pressure from listeners, the decision was reversed and the original unedited version of the song was reinstated, with clarification from Andy Parfitt, the station controller, that in the context of the song the lyrics had no "negative intent".[29][30] Patty Griffin uses the word faggot in her song "Tony" about a classmate of hers from high school who committed suicide.[31]
Television and news media In 1995, former House Majority Leader Dick Armey referred to openly gay congressman Barney Frank as "Barney Fag" in a press interview.[32] Armey apologized and said it was "a slip of the tongue". Frank did not accept Armey's explanation, saying "I turned to my own expert, my mother, who reports that in 59 years of marriage, no one ever introduced her as Elsie Fag".[33]
In July 2006 conservative pundit Ann Coulter, while being interviewed by MSNBC's Chris Matthews, said that the former U.S. Vice President Al Gore was a "total fag", and suggested that former U.S. President Bill Clinton may be a "latent homosexual".[34] Coulter caused a major controversy in the LGBT community; GLAAD and other gay rights organizations demanded to know the reason why such an offensive usage of the word was permitted by the network. In March 2007, Coulter again created controversy when she made an off-color joke: "I was going to have a few comments on the other Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, but it turns out you have to go into rehab if you use the word 'faggot', so I'm kind of at an impasse, can't really talk about Edwards".[35][36] Her comments triggered a campaign by a gay rights group and media watchdog to persuade mainstream media outlets to ban her shows and appearances.
In October 2006, Grey's Anatomy star Isaiah Washington called his co-star T. R. Knight a "faggot" on the set during an argument with Patrick Dempsey. According to Knight, the incident led to him publicly coming out of the closet.[37] Washington made another outburst using the epithet, this time backstage at the Golden Globe Awards. In January 2007, Washington issued a public apology for using the word faggot and went into rehab to help him with what the show's creator Shonda Rhimes referred to as "his behavioral issues".[38]
In November 2009, the South Park episode "The F Word" dealt with the overuse of the word fag. The boys use the word to insult a group of bikers, saying that their loud motorcycles ruin everyone else's nice time. Officials from the dictionary, including Emmanuel Lewis attend in the town and agree that the meaning of the word should no longer insult homosexuals but instead be used to describe loud motorcycle riders who ruin others' nice times. The episode is commentary on the overuse of certain terms like fag and gay. [39][40][41][42]
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