The Britney Spears meltdown thread - for her small, everyday missteps - Page 419

cynic · January 29th, 2008, 01:52 PM

.....I gotta start sending SVZ a tuition check for the things I learn here........

buttmunch · January 29th, 2008, 01:52 PM

Well color me red. I thought Crackho was a woman.

Bellatheball · January 29th, 2008, 01:53 PM

For just one tiny, tiny second, I was about to say there was too much testosterone going on around here. They ya'll started talking about your pedicures and purses and it all went to hell.

crackho · January 29th, 2008, 01:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Grimmlok

I love it when gay guys are bitching amongst themselves and when one of them flounces off they say "what's HER problem?"

My friends are terrible about this - using "she" for "he" and calling everyone "Mary" (it comes from "Muscle Mary", meaning effeminate gay men who live at the gym and develop big muscles)and such, and I've let it slip at work when talking to a coworker, saying "I don't know what her problem is today", referring to out male boss. I guess that's why many people are confused by us.

There was once even an entire language called Polari in Britain. OK, that's it for GayEd today.

Polari

Polari (also seen as 'Palare') is a gay slang language, which has now almost died out. It was more common in the 1960's when gays had more need of a private slang. When I started to research Polari, it was difficult to find any written material about Polari as what little used to exist was out of print. However, in the last few years, more and more people have been finding out about it, and several web sites and magazine articles have been written.
Polari featured heavily in the "Julian and Sandy" sketches on the BBC radio program "Round the Horne" in the late 60s, and this is how a lot of people first heard of Polari. A few words like 'bona' can still be seen in gay publications, used for camp effect. There are even hairdressers in London and Brighton called "Bona Riah".
Polari itself was never clearly defined: an ever-changing collection of slang from various sources including Italian, English (backwards slang, rhyming slang), circus slang, canal-speak, Yiddish and Gypsy languages. It is impossible to tell which slang words are real Polari.
In London, there was a West End dialect, based on theatre-speak, which was posher than the East End dialect, based on canal/boat-speak.
Here is a list of words I have put together from various sources. The core of the words are hopefully "authentic" Polari, but some will be just "any old" slang. Polari - British gay slang

cmmdee · January 29th, 2008, 01:55 PM

^^ Love it

effie2 · January 29th, 2008, 01:56 PM

Τhis is free on line education,we should give out diplomas..

Chilly Willy · January 29th, 2008, 01:58 PM

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Originally Posted by buttmunch

Well color me red. I thought Crackho was a woman.

Well that would have been one hell of a girl with all the drastic drug and sex stories!

crackho · January 29th, 2008, 01:59 PM

^^I've spent more time on this site than I ever did studying in college, lol.

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Originally Posted by buttmunch

Well color me red. I thought Crackho was a woman.

BUTT - are you serious? Lol. No wonder people think I'm stange.

We need to get an index of members and at least state age, gender, sex orientation, marital status and number of pairs of shoes.

Chilly Willy · January 29th, 2008, 02:05 PM

The avi made it pretty obvious.

Is that you, by the way?

crackho · January 29th, 2008, 02:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Chilly Willy

The avi made it pretty obvious.

Is that you, by the way?

^I wish! Its my future ex partner, but I haven't met him yet.

Its just a picuture I saw online and liked it.

Trixie · January 29th, 2008, 02:13 PM

^I never had the nerve to ask that question, but at least now, it's answered for me.

crackho · January 29th, 2008, 02:15 PM

^^ It's not my personality to put my picture up like that. Well, maybe if I looked that, I would be...lol

cynic · January 29th, 2008, 02:22 PM

....I assume everyone here is a gay male until proven otherwise....

...and I'm not putting up my picture until the internet mice need to be scared away....

HelpMeRhonda · January 29th, 2008, 02:23 PM

^ that pic has always reminded me of Chris Daughtry for some reason..?

Beeyotch · January 29th, 2008, 02:28 PM

Oh my god. I hope this isn't true, but according to Ted Casablanca of E! online, Dr. fucking Phil is going to be involved in the intervention Britney's family have planned for her. And it's Lynne's idea. Good God I hope he's wrong.

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Gosh, that intervention I told you all about that Lynne Spears was trying to get under way for wayward, wacky Britney did happen, how fab! Will it last? Who the ef knows? I predict a total ‘nother Amy Winehouse quickie job here, but something, you know, I also told you about is under way—so maybe the odds are a little better, a little worse for our Brit-Brit?

Yep. Everybody’s least fave TV doc, the Phil guy, is in on the latest Spears rehabilitation. Per Lynne’s instructions. Dunno here. Would feel a lot better about this entire let’s-get-Britster-beh-beh thang if the wrecked tart’s dad were more in charge of things. I mean, after all, Lynne’s the gal primarily responsible for getting her daughter in such dire straits to begin with, in my pissy opinion.