That the lady in the Bank can't catch the Gay ?

[MrsGaryLightbody]

Well that was a fun trip to the Bank.
Lady in front of me was obviously complaining but I only caught second half when I had started to feel itchy that I'd miss my bus .
Apparently the bank teller had personally changed her phone app to the rainbow flag and she didn't like it as she didn't want to catch The Gay .. I listened and admired the teller explain patiently that she hadn't done that personally but it was to celebrate pride. Customer then says well I'm not gay so take it off NOW ... pushing her mobile through the gap ... I so want to know how that ended but they opened another booth.. aibu to call bank and ask lol 😂

Has anyone ever heard anyone in real life use the expression "catch the gay"?

Gay people have full human rights in this country at least and can get married now.

Just a reminder, not ALL of the country. Northern Ireland still doesn't have equal marriage rights.

@WorraLiberty no embellishments, in fact she said very loudly a lot more than I've put in OP as it was extremely homophobic!

My original point seems to have been lost . I was pointing out that the stupid woman thought the bank teller had put the change of app in her phone and wanted said teller to remove it!

I was only annoyed with the change because I couldn't bloody spot the thing for looking for the blue icon.

Hilarious that the woman went to get it removed.

@juells - yes, it's a commonplace mocking homophobia, isn't it?

@peachgreen It's called acting, the whole point is to pretend to be something you are not. Perhaps only secret agents should be allowed to play James Bond?

Just let the casting directors get on with the job, and may the best actors get the roles!

To be fair to the big corporates these decisions are made at a UK level.

The UK leadership team won't usually have any oversight or influence on the Saudi branch for example.

That being said, a lot of banks have their global head offices in the UK and their investment arms in the UK so they can't be excused.

Missing the point by a country mile there, aren't you, @pianothirty?

Not seen anyone suggesting poor oppressed secret agents are really struggling against stigma and need opportunities for employment/visibility. Though, I guess the visibility aspect would be interesting.

so, OP and everyone else - you're not bothered by Pride's misogyny and lesbophobic behaviour? Just me?

I just think it's pretty hypocritical being cross with this woman's homophobia when Pride aren't anything much to write home about either.

I am gay and love the fact rainbows are seemingly everywhere on Instagram etc - I live in Northern Ireland I have checked my local primark, Topshop, Asda and new look for their “pride range” and haven’t found any yet! I’ll probably just order off ASOS like last year.

I would be delighted to see it in the shops here - Primark in Belfast had a range last year, there was complaints from Christian groups and when primark went on fire a security guard, who was prev. a member of the UUP said it was an act of god for having a pride range.

Sorry for going off topic I would 100% want to know how the situation in the bank ended too lol

Well James Bond is a prime example of where people would lose their shit if anyone other than a straight white man got the job. Industrial vats of smelling salts will be required the day a black man, or a woman....or a black woman (!) gets the 007 gig. And as for what's known as 'cripping up...

Has anyone ever heard anyone in real life use the expression "catch the gay"?

Nope, certainly not in this way.

Only ever as someone mocking a homophobic person.

so, OP and everyone else - you're not bothered by Pride's misogyny and lesbophobic behaviour? Just me?

Oh, FFS. Not this again.

Barclays has changed my app to rainbow. Are they donating money to pride? If not I don’t understand why they have done it. Surely if you’re going to support one thing you have to support them all when it comes to massive companies.

I have no problem with them changing my app and I am not homophobic at all. But what about those whose religion doesn’t allow it?

My original point seems to have been lost . I was pointing out that the stupid woman thought the bank teller had put the change of app in her phone and wanted said teller to remove it!

And this is why I thought you may have misheard her.

Because if I came across someone in real life who actually thought they could seriously 'Catch the gay', that would have been the subject of my thread.

Pride's going to become like xmas, easter and halloween isn't it? Another bloody 'thing' to have shoved in our faces. Every day's a celebration eh?

I don't agree with the lesophobia either. My natwest app remains the same.

I'd far rather they stopped offering banking services to Saudi Arabia if they really give a shit about us. But no problem with that as long as they're compelling their 90% heterosexual staff to wear a rainbow lanyard right.

It's trying for the Pink and Woke pounds while simultaneously not giving a shit. It's the absolute least they can do, and they do it as if it's ground-breaking.

Are some of you legit dumb??

It changed on everyone's app! The bank teller didn't do it and didn't do it to just the lady's app on her phone. The lady thought this was the case and wanted the teller to get it off( the teller never personally did it)

Jesus, bland much.

It's very easy for businesses to shout about Pride because they don't have to actually do anything except sell things to gay people which they are obviously more than happy to do. They don't have to meet quotas for employment or change the way they operate to meet the needs of the group. The easiest form of virtue signalling.

Are some of you legit dumb??

Are you legit trying to sound like a 15 year old American teen?

How many openly-gay newsreaders can you name?

I honestly don’t think I know a single detail about the sexuality or private lives of any newsreaders. Does anyone? They tend to be fairly circumspect about their personal lives, don’t they? I don’t read magazines though, so maybe newsreaders are discussing this quite openly and I’m just not aware.

(I am very vaguely acquainted with two local and not remotely famous newsreaders via an after-school activity and I know they’re both in heterosexual marriages, but in terms of ‘national’ or well-known newsreaders, not a clue).

No problem with pride at all, my problem is with all these company's virtue signalling about this and other things whilst behind closed doors not giving a toss. It's all about advertising.

It's same as mental health company's have big campaigns about it, I've worked for one and in reality they didn't give a toss.

Only ever as someone mocking a homophobic person.

Yes, it’s s strange phrase for someone to use about themselves. Like you, I’ve only ever heard it used disparagingly about someone else: ‘don’t worry, you won’t catch the gay by talking to a gay person’ kind of thing.

I get the cynicism here about empty virtue-signalling and bandwagonism but surely it is better that this symbol of the LGBTQI community is visible and celebrated, given that this minority has been oppressed and discriminated against for centuries? I think it is marvellous that representation of "the love which dare not speaks it's name" is so mainstream now that some of you are actually bemoaning it's ubiquity.

By the way, your complaints smack of homophobia and intolerance: the emergence into acceptibility of this minority is not a threat or rebuke to the heterosexual majority.

I think there is something of the effect of the remembrance day poppy going on here. The wearing of one has become so widespread that to fail to display the symbol is now interpreted as a refusal to embrace and support.

I've never heard anyone over the age of 14 use the phrase 'legit dumb'.

Blimey.