Template UnsignedIP 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 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 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 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 I m reverting to the