Sorry Australia, This Is The Real Facebook Story

[rowanwitch]

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/14078422/facebook-censor-online-faggots-peas-black-country/www

The Americans must think the black country have very strange eating habits

[1ozzy]

That's just offal.

[barry1010]

I love faggots and peas, have them often but the Brains faggots are awful

[rowanwitch]

It just amused me, have to say I like a nice faggot with peas, Sometimes we forget what our cousins across the water have done with our language.

[jno]

rowan, nobody quite knows where the usage came from but it seems that in England back in the 1500s faggot was used as a term of abuse for women, so I can see how it might have developed from that.

[Jackdaw33]

In the 50s my grandmother would frequently refer to a woman she didn't like
as 'that owld faggot!'

[fender62]

funny old, when in the states in th 70's i asked where the fag machine
err funny looks, fella said your in the worng bar...then itwas explained.. i was like erm..ok, guess thye never heard of faggots n peas let alone spotted dick with custard..