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well....I don't know what kind of canadian you were talking to...
But most here would assume you were talking about cigaretters....since it is common slang for that in britain ..."fags" that is...
So I don't understand his horror...
For the most part ...Canadians hear so many different slang terms from people here from different parts of the world.. ....he shouldn't have batted an eye...and assumed it was just yet another term for something else...
Not necessarily a statement on sexuality.
In fact ...here...we have strict laws on harassment, physical or verbal abuses, etc...whether it be based on ethnicity, race, skin colour, language, or sexuality.
We do have a small minority of rude people who try to flaunt said laws ...and be abusive, but you would find that in a public setting, folks would be real quick to straighten that individual out, ever before the authorities arrived to complete the job.

That is something we have zero tolerance for here...
Zero tolerance for the intolerant.

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I'm not just saying this either...

here is a good example of what Canadians really are like...
This was a university social experiment that was done with hidden cameras...
on groups of people...
One person played the victim who is muslim....
One played an intolerant human being.
and this was done RIGHT after we had a terrorist shooting in Ottawa...in our Parliament building..
The full film is worth the watch

https://www.washingtonpost.com/video...dfd_video.html

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If your Canadian friend was horrified at what you said...
I don't know what to say...
Hmmm...
How about ....
"What I have to say on his behaviour is ...nothing good..."
...that is for sure.

Look at it this way Maemish...
Canadians see things this way...
everyone has the right to be themselves ..as long as it doesn't infringe on others rights.
Sexuality being a choice...
a fair example is...
just because I don't like oysters, doesn't mean that I expect everyone around me to dislike them too...
and those that do like oysters do not deserve any negative view or expression of it from me...
It is called being a considerate, polite human being.
And that seems in short supply in the world at present.

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Well yes here one seems to assume that the musical instrument known as Fagotti in Finnish would translitterate as Fagot in english... not so! :eek:
It's known as Bassoon in those englishy-speaking corners of da globe :)

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And the Bassoon as I understand it..
Is a great instrument...
(love its sound)

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Which is a rather odd choice. "Bassoon" has "bass" in it and this instrument is far from "bass".
In fact it is called a "fagot", "fagott" or a variation on the theme in pretty much every language except English.

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Eh... the things one finds when one seeks: https://www.thefreedictionary.com/faggot

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For endsormeans:

My story was not against anything. It was just a story where someone got by a misunderstanding an image where he saw in his mind me and my wife watching a sexual act and me telling it sounded great. That was the thing we laughed at after we got common understanding of what I was telling. Just for the record.

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Ah....well...that is a different kettle of bazookas ...
I would imagine anyone would be thrown by imagery of any couple of any orientation ..sitting down and casually watching a sexual act and talking about how great it was to watch...
in that illuminating light...my apologies Maemish...