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I'm 59 years old, and this is what I heard throughout junior high and high school. I lost some spectacular fist fights over this kind of stuff.
And then it kind of went away. Slowly, but it went away as comments like this became socially unacceptable.
Well, we are now going backwards 40 or 50 years.
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(52,661 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(116,280 posts)But I think the last time I heard any of them was at least 30 years ago, maybe more. They did become socially unacceptable, at least in most places; but the underlying racism and bigotry never went away altogether, and now people who still think that way have been given permission by the Trumpistas to say those things in public again.
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)MineralMan
(146,375 posts)Shows how much I know.
PJMcK
(22,136 posts)According the online Oxford Dictionary, "fap" refers to a man masturbating:
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/fap
Or perhaps you meant the medical condition (from Wikipedia):
Then there's an obsolete Old English adjective meaning to be drunk.
I think I have too much free time today.
MineralMan
(146,375 posts)Sometimes I get lost in Google, looking things up and following links. The Urban Dictionary is another excellent source for odd words.
gibraltar72
(7,527 posts)my truck.
BoneyardDem
(1,202 posts)I and many of my era, were grateful to see hurtful racist name calling and joking become a parriah. Many vowed not only to do better themselves, but to raise kids their better. Not so much for the Trumps.
Ohiogal
(32,339 posts)My father was a educated man with two advanced university degrees, yet his political views were like Archie Bunker's. I must have heard every racial epithet and joke there was, growing up.
One I got out from under my parents' rule, and saw the world for myself, my attitudes became the polar opposite of his. I sometimes wonder if he's spinning in his grave knowing that his daughter is a Liberal.
Codeine
(25,586 posts)(remember Waldenbooks and B Dalton?) and find several books like Worlds Best Polish Jokes and 500 Italian Jokes. My friends and I would read them and think it was hysterical. Now I cringe! Im glad things improve over time.