Happy Pride Month! Bangkok named second best LGBT city in Asia

[Get Real]

1 hour ago, Jingthing said:

Not everyone is into Asians ... 

No, it´s all free to be like people want. It was mostly a joke. Not anything to mean that something was wrong or bad.

[Bassosa]

Something that Thais can well and truly be proud of.

 

Well done Thailand!

[Ridler]

6 hours ago, AhFarangJa said:

I remember when being gay meant you were happy........Not knocking the community, each to their own, just an observation on how language changes....

When, gay has been used to describe homosexuals for decades, so you are either talking rubbish or you've recently celebrated your 100th birthday 

[Jingthing]

52 minutes ago, Ridler said:

When, gay has been used to describe homosexuals for decades, so you are either talking rubbish or you've recently celebrated your 100th birthday 

Yeah, I'm not young and when I was a boy gay with the old meaning was ALREADY totally dated and not generally used (except in old movies) and the sexual meaning wasn't in widespread use (outside the gay subculture) yet either.

 

So the "loss" had already largely happened at least in the U.S.

 

That said, there are many words with multiple meanings, and primary and secondary meanings. Determined by CONTEXT. But in the case of gay, the original meaning really is pretty much all gone because most people wanting to use the archaic meaning would know that it would be taken for the modern meaning at least in a jokey way in pretty much any context.

Edited June 29, 2017 by Jingthing

[Jingthing]

1 hour ago, Bassosa said:

Something that Thais can well and truly be proud of.

 

Well done Thailand!

Objectively speaking based  on the global numbers, Thailand didn't do all that well. 

[AhFarangJa]

14 hours ago, Jingthing said:

Such an original observation; we've only heard it like a billion times ...

1,000,000,000,001 then.........

Sorry Jingthing, no offence meant, just my sense of humour....

[observer90210]

hard to say nowadays what or who is gay, bi, straight, or both, with all those macho muscle toned chaps secretly getting serviced by ladyboys when their pin up girlies are away by the beach!!

[toofarnorth]

The OP pic should of been from the front then we could see who is pointing. What a gay day !

[bizboi]

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Edited June 30, 2017 by bizboi

[bizboi]

8 hours ago, observer90210 said:

hard to say nowadays what or who is gay, bi, straight, or both, with all those macho muscle toned chaps secretly getting serviced by ladyboys when their pin up girlies are away by the beach!!

I thought your dictionary had cleared your misunderstanding up for you!!

[Scott]

Off-topic post removed.