The use of "gay" as an all purpose insult to mean "pathetic" or "unfashionable" seems to have taken hold amongst British youth.
I was very disappointed to hear my daughter use it to explain how her Converse All Stars were laced in the wrong configuration.
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Overhead, the Albatross hangs motionless upon the air,
And deep beneath the rolling waves,
In labyrinths of Coral Caves,
The Echo of a distant time
Comes willowing across the sand;
And everthing is Green and Submarine
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