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JimB
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I found the following YouTube link on another forum and my first thought was, "Is this real?" Since it appears to be from the UK I thought I'd come here to find out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ItF0CcJBN4
Is this real???
JimB
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No worries - faggots form a perfectly good and respectable meal in the UK, if a little downmarket.
It's important to remember that over here the first meaning of faggot is a meatball, the first meaning of fag is cigarette.
These words meaning homosexual are an import from America and a lot of English people probably don't realise they have this meaning.
Hugs
Nigel
[Updated on: Sun, 21 March 2010 20:59]
I dream of boys with big bulges in their trousers,
Never of girls with big bulges in their blouses.
…and look forward to meeting you in Cóito.
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JimB
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I suspected that was the case though I had forgotten the fag - cigarette link. Thank you Nigel and you also Brody.
JimB
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Does the grand expression....ewwww mean anything?
Pork faggots by any other name would be just as disgusting. Hey, we here in the good old US of A have Spam thanks to Monty Python. I can see John Clease inventing it now just to poke fun at America ;-D
Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. (Sir Francis Bacon 1561-1626)
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I'm sure you must be joking. Despite the name being slightly unsettling, I wonder at the ingredients. As for my earlier comments about Spam, here's a follow up:
"Spam is said to contain: chopped pork shoulder meat with ham meat added, salt, water, modified potato starch as a binder, and sodium nitrite to help keep its color. Spam's gelatinous glaze, or aspic, forms from the cooling of meat stock."
And thus the name applied to it here is "mystery meat." Of course one look at the label saying the preservative is sodium nitrite is scary enough, that stuff kills people...except they seem to die looking well preserved. ;-D
Now having brought up this faggot business, I have yet to see any of our well heeled gentlemen of the UK admitting that they actually eat this stuff.
Well...anyone?
Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. (Sir Francis Bacon 1561-1626)
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I haven't eaten faggots for years, but that's because I'm a lazy cook. Perhaps I'll get some during next week's shop for a change. They used appear regularly for school dinners and they're tasty. Now spam is a different matter. I'd rather choose my cut of ham fom the deli counter.
Hugs
Nigel
I dream of boys with big bulges in their trousers,
Never of girls with big bulges in their blouses.
…and look forward to meeting you in Cóito.
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timmy
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It's a dish in The Midlands. I was a student there and enjoyed eating faggots. It has quite a limited geographic reach as the traditional comestible. Mr Brain makes a different version.
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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ray2x
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Interesting. Word meanings are wonderful. I wasn't aware of this meaning of faggot. Doesn't it also mean being tired, or exhausted?
Raymundo
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Aussie
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Hi Raymundo
The actual term for tired is fagged
As in "I'm just too fagged to be bothered"
Hope this clears it up for you.
It's interesting how the English language changes around the world.
The aussies have there own way of distorting it with slang but that's another story.
And then there are the Kiwi's, they have just swapped all the vowels around to make it difficult to understand them.
Who else around the world would have thought of that?
Aussie 
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timmy
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Ah, Aussie, all I can say about your post is that it is a moffler swerk of grey tumour.
Dear old Professor Lauder did such a good job with the English language.
It's a bit of a fag, sometimes, reading his treatise, though.
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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From that Wikipedia article:
Faggots were used as the subject of an infamous 2004 radio advert by the UK supermarket chain Somerfield. The commercial featured a husband challenging his wife's repetitive routine of a set meal for each day of the week. While he wanted lasagne, he was told that, as it was Friday, he was to have faggots. He responded: "I've nothing against faggots, I just don't fancy them." This advert was subsequently deemed to have breached the rules on Good Taste, Decency and Offence to Public Feeling of the Advertising and Sponsorship Code, and was banned from future re-broadcast by the industry regulator, Ofcom.
"Tu non altro che il canto avrai del figlio, o materna mia terra..."
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Everybody knows it should have been fish on a Friday anyway.
Hugs
N
I dream of boys with big bulges in their trousers,
Never of girls with big bulges in their blouses.
…and look forward to meeting you in Cóito.
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Aussie
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Registered: August 2006
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Well Timmy,
Saul-wright few butter monner doyt but umpziggen tardafit.
Aussie
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I didn't know you were a papist, Nigel.
Love,
Anthony
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You don't have to come from a papist family to have been brought up on fish on a Friday. I usually have lunch with my father on a Friday and it is always fish. This week it will be soft herring roe.
Hugs
Nigel
PS - I couldn't find the faggots in Sainsbugs today.
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I dream of boys with big bulges in their trousers,
Never of girls with big bulges in their blouses.
…and look forward to meeting you in Cóito.
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