Editing Fags of 4chan (section)

==Fag==
[[Image:Edible_faggotry.jpg|thumb|WARNING: Only suitable for Britfag consumption.]]
Homosexual. Sometimes used as a generic insult, though usually with little effect. Can be referred to as a [[Skaven|Fagfag]] or Gayfag.
Faggot is also an archaic term for a bundle of sticks, specifically the pile of sticks that witches were burned over for being homosexual, most likely where 'fag' as colloquial language for a cigarette or a bassoon came from. This is also were the term "Flaming" came from.
It is consequently hilarious to read [[The Lord of the Rings]] whenever they talk about "throwing faggots [the bundle of stick kind] onto the fire".
As well as for meatballs. Not so archaic, though.
As noted, amongst Britfags the word "fag" unqualified will usually mean "a cigarette" ... so neither burning a fag, nor bumming one, should be a cause of concern if discussed in a British accent, other than the fact that smoking is a form of faggotry on its own.

Fag is also the term given to younger boys at British boarding schools who act as a sort of batman for older students - batman as in “soldier servant” (British boarding schools historically being factories for sending young, upper class toffs to Sandhurst), rather than Batman the caped crusader. It’s worth mentioning that said boarding schools were also rife with (mostly non-consensual) buggery as well as all manner of traumatic sexual abuse - rich people are fucked up.

It's noteworthy that the Italian term for the archaic faggot is 'fascina', which share its origins with 'Fascism' (deriving from 'fascio' (meaning group/league) in Italian, which derives from latin 'fascis' (the bunch of sticks)), the common root being that one Aesop fable about first breaking individual twigs over your leg and then trying and failing the same with a bundle of 'em to demonstrate the power of banding together as a group. So, it could be 'Faggotism' in English...

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