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 The word fag is continually being used in modern day society as a negative term. It is no longer associated with gay or titties homosexual faggot tendencies. Nowadays ""You are just a fag!"" has absolutely nothing to do with the sexual tendencies of the person being accused.  

 I suggest this is expanded upon in the article. My son has just accused me of being a fag for writing this. I do not believe I am homosexual.  

 :You're very wrong about that.  It has everything to do with sexuality, that's the whole point of the insult.  You're calling the person a homosexual.  It is not an insult otherwise.     

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 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?  

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 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 homo queer 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!  12:20 Dec 5, 2002 (UTC) 
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 Yes, I believe Europeans sometimes call cigarettes ""fags"". 

 No in Europe generally. It's a British and Irish term.  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.""  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.  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.     

 :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?  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! ;)  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.""    

 ::OK, give me a sentence with as many fags and dogs as possible.  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. 

 ::I don't know whether to be frightened or impressed. )  01:26 Dec 6, 2002 (UTC) 

  

 Right now, the article implies that ""fag"" and ""faggot"" are not used in British English as  pejorative terms for male homosexual. Is that correct?  21:11 Mar 16, 2003 (UTC) 

 ""Faggot"" certainly has this meaning in England (with meatballs and bundles of firewood as still current, but slightly old-fashioned senses).  ""Fag"" is understood as ""cigarette"" when spoken by a Brit, but is recognized in the US sense when spoken by an American.   

  
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