Headline of the month
Published:
April 25, 2012 at 11:45am
You won’t believe this headline today in The Times/on timesofmalta.com.
LESBIAN GIRL’S NOSE BROKEN
You don’t say.
A lesbian girl? My. That’s unusual. The ones I know are all boys. Somebody broke a lesbian’s nose? Tsk tsk. Imagine if the lesbian were a boy. The headline would be so much more complicated.
GAY BOY’S NOSE BROKEN
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Reminds me of the old joke:
Paddy walks up to a girl in a bar and asks if he can buy her a drink. The girl tells Paddy she’s a lesbian and he’s wasting his time. After asking which part of Lesbia she’s from, Paddy confirms he doesn’t understand what a lesbian is. The girl goes on to explain what she likes getting up to with other women. Paddy starts crying.
“Paddy, what on earth are you crying for?”, she asks.
Paddy sobs in reply, “Oi tink oi’m a lesbian too!”
…and that would be a lesbian boy.
For people of my age, it’s getting more complicated every day.
Would it be a good idea if we were all made to carry a tag saying I’m a boy or I’m a girl, boys keep off I’m a lesbian etc. It would make life so much easier.
I once read that the general public’s level of English has over the past 20 years has decreased. In no way am I implying that I have perfect English yet at least, I can hold a decent conversation in English, Maltese and Italian.
We are now already encountering a generation whereby a large percentage cannot speak or write properly in either of the three languages. Blame it on crap TV, mobile texting, cable TV replacing Italian channels…. a multitude of reasons. And to get to my point – such errors from The Times will only increase over time.
If the lesbian was a boy, then he’d be from the Greek Island Lesbos. The same holds for girls.
Actually, the word ‘gay ‘ is used to describe both girls and boys. Yes, you can have a gay boy and a gay girl. Just as you can have a homosexual man and a homosexual woman. Lesbian is also an adjective and a search of google would have revealed that the two words “lesbian” and “girl” can also be used together although this combination is not so common within the LGBTIQ community.
[Daphne – Yawn.]
Instead of yawning and studying archaeology, you should have studied INKLIXX!
[Daphne – I had no need of that.]
What does LGBTIQ mean? Does IQ stand for Intelligence Quotient or Idiots and Queers?
This reminds of the late George Bishop. He once lamented how in his youth, all men could be gay.
He also thought modern high performance engines had indecent pistons. What with their eighties bikini style rebate cuts exposing thigh bones.
Closing comment of the month – : ‘ “They were beautiful,” she said, squeezing her jelly-baby-like body with characteristic enthusiasm.” ‘
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20120425/local/Judy-s-girls-just-can-t-keep-up-appearances.416994
For crying out loud. It’s the injured party’s broken nose and that’s it. Her sexuality is of no consequence whatsover. LGBT please take note.
Really? I always thought lesbians have a nose extendible on demand, so it was appropriate to specify the kind of nose that was broken.
of “A Lesbian BOY’s Nose Broken”.
Sad.
My favourite chat-up line used to be ‘I am a lesbian trapped in a man’s body’.
Worked well.
Just have a look at Yana on Super One. Superb!
“Xoghol, gustizzja, ugwaljanzu u paci” … That’s what Yana Mintoff would have us believe she stands for. (She’s just said it on One TV right now, on a program with Miriam Dalli.)
Pity she wasn’t around when “xoghol, gustizzja, liberta'” was the PN slogan, thanks to the terrible effects (to put it mildly) of Mintoff’s being in power.
Lesbian in this instance is used as an adjective not as a noun.
I would have thought it is correct to say a ‘lesbian girl’, at least one would identify the age group.
[Daphne – If you’re old enough to be a lesbian, you’re a woman.]
It could have been a lesbian horse, I suppose.
I thought lesbian’s noses were unbreakable. You learn something new every day.
Lesbians have more than one nose?
Indeed, we DO learn something new every day.
My understanding of that headline is that the girl’s nose is lesbian, and it was broken.
On a lighter note on lesbians in court …
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2utLDpMgD-E
Watched the video – it’s great. Thank you for posting it.
Read and despair.
http://www.maltapark.com/item.asp?ItemID=1696003