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NewTime
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05 May 2024, 1:34 pm

"The company was gay. We'd turn night into day."

Why the gay part?



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05 May 2024, 1:35 pm

Because it rhymes with day.

Also, the company was happy, we partied all night is essentially what that line is saying. They were happy because they stayed up all night having fun.


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05 May 2024, 2:08 pm

"The company" (as in "the folks we were hangin with) were "gay" (as in "joyful/happy/carefree").

Not "the corporation was homosexual" (well...the GOP thinks that "corporations are people" so why couldnt a private company have a particular sexual orientation?) if thats what you thought that it meant.



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Yesterday, 6:46 pm

Do the younglings really not know that "gay" used to just mean "happy", but it ended up being used as slang for "homosexual" for some reason?

It's kind of like when "dumb" used to just mean "mute" and "lame" used to just mean "unable to walk".

And yet people still say, "Don we now our gay apparel" when they sing "Deck the Halls" at Christmastime without really thinking about it. It basically means, "Let us put on our fancy clothes"



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