That's Gay.

[DuplicateValue]

Eh, I do. And why not? Nobody cares, it's pretty much the norm here.
I have friends that are gay, and they say it.

Really, if you get offended, it's time to man up.

 

[Lt. Vinciti]

This is a sorta

Sonofa...
or
FFS

not....That's Gay

Tho seeing this....maybe we can use it for future generations to slow the annoying bigots of today...

 

[GodofDisaster]

I just use the classic shit or fuck.

Or if I don't feel like cursing I'll say "That's just evil"

I've called the vending machine in my University's main foyer evil many times, I swear that thing has a personal grudge against me, it just never works as in the item I want always gets stuck.

Yet I've seen it work plenty of times for other people when walking past.

 

[Risingblade]

I just say God damn it or god fucking dammit for when I'm a little more annoyed

 

[CarlMin]

I just say God damn it or god fucking dammit for when I'm a little more annoyed

It's just not the same!

 

[Deadlock Radium]

I tend to use the phrases "Fuck off." (Sometimes with an "Aawww" in front of it, thanks to [USER]lewism247[/USER]), and "Fuckin' hell." when something unexpected happens, or I die in a game, though I never say it in a chat or voicechat, just saying it to myself.

 

[Yureina]

"Bugger" or "Bollocks" is what I use for such moments. They sound better anyway. :3

 

[deserteagleeye]

I usually just say "FUCKIN A!". Thank you Warriors. This reminds me of something. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4K-VZkBls8&feature=related I know it's in spanish.

 

[ChocoFace]

I thought gay meant happy.

Anyway i don't swear in english and neither do i use the equivalent of "that's gay" in estonian.
A simple "Fuck" is what i'd go for, though.

 

[DRSH1989]

"that's gay" could mean "that's happy" if you check the meanings of "gay" in a dictionary or something... I find it odd...

 

[Adrian Madhog]

Typing the last letter of a text, phone battery runs out.

Go look for keys to shed in house for half an hour, in pocket the whole time.

Buy something from vending machine, it doesn't come out.


When stuff like this happens, I (and many others) are only too quick to use the slang "that's gay". I don't like it. I wish that I didn't.

Nobody means gay 'gay', we mean irritating 'gay' - but it still gets to me that I should use this expression on instinct.

So, escapist, what sort of substitutes do you have, and more importantly, how would you go about integrating them into your reflex vocabulary?

Wow, seriously? I didn't know you Americans had it THAT bad with that particular expression... I mean, I knew you'd use it often to describe irritating things... but definetely NOT vending machines stealing your money.... I learned something today XD

 

[Winthrop]

I don't want to come of as a jerk, but a lot of things have potentially offensive roots. Idiot and Moron were both terms for the mentally retarded. Dumb is a term for people who can't speak and lame is for people who can't walk. Gypped is generally considered to have been derived from Gypsy. Hocus Pocus is believed to have originated as a mockery of the blessing of the Eucharist performed by Catholics. I don't think of gay as any different then any of those words, so I have no problem saying it, especially because I personally know a number of gays who say it. That said I have heard people use it in a homophobic way and that bothers me.

 

[Bassman_2]

When you say "That's gay" slow down and extend it to a decent sentence:
"That's gehhhh-tting on my nerves."

 

[RA92]

I go with TARTAR SAUCE!

 

[TiloXofXTanto]

I just yell medical Jargon or specifically scientific terms. in order to confuse all involved parties.

That or I yell "CURSES!!" to the world (literally, the word "Curses")

bless you, sir! *moonwalks out, top hat perched jauntily atop my head, twirling my cane as I go.*

How rude! "nothing (I'm totally atheist, agnostic at times but mostly committed, being a schizoid causes slight changes in that belief sometimes) bless you, sir!"

And then you just leave?
METACARPAL SIR!!
METACARPAL!!

(just kidding, but still, bless me for what?)

 

[blankedboy]

I'm gay and use gay as an insult/curse.
DIER TIME PARADOX

 

[commodore96]

People who are offended by the word gay are gay (I don't mean homosexual) because all my actual gay friends are cool with us using that word

 

[DSK-]

Yeah, I use that too. Not too sure why, but then again there is a lot of slang used where I am "You're having a giraffe!" etc etc

I like to use a good old fashioned 'Bollocks!!!' every now and again to switch it up a bit.

 

[JMeganSnow]

What was it, 15 years ago people used to say "that's lame". And didn't George Takei say that he was volunteering to let them use his name to refer to "gay" behavior? Since "that's gay" now means "that's lame" and apparently "that's lame" means you're a fogey old person or some such.

Of course, if you want to be retro, you could always say "bah, humbug!" or some such.

 

[OldNewNewOld]

I say "Great", "just great" or "I feel lucky today" with an extremely sarcastic tone followed with a roll eye.
I don't think I've ever used "that's gay" for stuff like that.