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If you are homophobic, and/or feel the need to post rapid-fire anti-gay comments to justify your Confederate flag tattoo, please - don't hold back.

If you are gay, and want to point out that watching football isn't that far from gay, do that too.

The term gay was originally used to refer to feelings of being "carefree", "happy", or "bright and showy"; it had also come to acquire some connotations of "immorality" as early as 1637.[1]

The term's use as a reference to homosexuality may date as early as the late 19th century, but its use gradually increased in the 20th century.[1] In modern English, gay has come to be used as an adjective, and occasionally as a noun, referring to the people, practices, and culture associated with homosexuality. By the end of the 20th century, the word gay was recommended by major style guides to describe people attracted to members of the same sex.[2][3] At about the same time, a new, pejorative use became prevalent in some parts of the world. In the Anglosphere, this connotation, among younger speakers, has a derisive meaning equivalent to rubbish or stupid (as in "That's so gay."). In this use the word does not mean "homosexual", so it can be used, for example, to refer to an inanimate object or abstract concept of which one disapproves. When used in this way, the extent to which it still retains connotations of homosexuality has been debated.[

The word "gay" arrived in English during the 12th century from Old French gai, most likely deriving ultimately from a Germanic source.[1] For most of its life in English, the word's primary meaning was "joyful", "carefree", "bright and showy", and the word was very commonly used with this meaning in speech and literature. For example, the optimistic 1890s are still often referred to as the Gay Nineties. The title of the 1938 French ballet Gaîté Parisienne ("Parisian Gaiety"), which became the 1941 Warner Brothers movie, The Gay Parisian[6], also illustrates this connotation. It was apparently not until the 20th century that the word began to be used to mean specifically "homosexual", although it had earlier acquired sexual connotations.[1]

The derived abstract noun gaiety remains largely free of sexual connotations, although it has in the past been used in the names of places of entertainment; for example W.B. Yeats heard Oscar Wilde lecture at the Gaiety Theatre in Dublin.[7]

The word had started to acquire associations of immorality by 1637[1] and was used in the late 17th century with the meaning "addicted to pleasures and dissipations."[8] This was by extension from the primary meaning of "carefree": implying "uninhibited by moral constraints." A gay woman was a prostitute, a gay man a womanizer and a gay house a brothel.

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  • why is the top comment always the funniest line in the video, like for fuck sake every fucking video gets ruined by someone giving away the funniest part!!! i am very capable of watching the video without fuckwits telling me what happens!

  • Thumbs up if u think toby's the funniest guy on youtube :D

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  • @zackmoss1995 Lol, what the hell? Dan? Dafuq is Dan? haha

  • I love the fact that he has a Say Anything poster on his wall =D

  • Love u Toby tobyscys Joe turner

  • toby's eyes stared into my soul, and ate it

  • @Sh00pDaP00P he's straight man :)

  • @SparseS17 my bad dude,that was ment to go on another video.. But Toby is freaking awsome

  • @zackmoss1995 dan?

  • So... Is Toby straight or gay? o.O

  • There needs to be more people like you dan :) you seem like a nice person:)

  • @NoCostBoss yes.

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