Talk:Faggot (unit)

Move?

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The result of the move request was: Move. Jafeluv (talk) 08:20, 4 August 2010 (UTC)

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Faggot (volume) → Faggot (unit) — User:Lightmouse 18:59, 27 July 2010 (UTC)

• Comment why did you move it in 2008, in the first place? 76.66.193.119 (talk) 03:44, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
  • Titles for unit articles were, and still are, inconsistent with respect to words in parentheses. My main concern is to make them consistent. At that time, it seemed to me that it would help the reader to be specific and say that it is a volume unit. So I went through a lot of articles and used the most specific word. I've only just come back to the issue and I see now that the general view is now that the title should only provide enough information to disambiguate. This principle will be applied across many units. The word 'unit' seems to have been chosen as the standard term for disambiguation. I hope that helps. Lightmouse (talk) 11:06, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
• Support seems to be the default disambiguator. 76.66.193.119 (talk) 03:44, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
• Support as proposer. Lightmouse (talk) 11:06, 29 July 2010 (UTC)

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Connection to the slang term "faggot"

I hate to be the one, but... the connection is obvious and undeniably existent. There should be at least a link to the Wiki page for the slang term, if not even a paragraph explaining the connection. 31.16.189.247 (talk) 18:56, 24 September 2013 (UTC)

Please read the German version of this article. There the connection to the slam expression is explained very well. Miyska (talk) 21:48, 15 November 2019 (UTC)

Uh...

"It is the equivalent in rotational force (screwing) in inches (in.) per asymptote hole (a-hole) to being Tyson."

Blatant vandalism? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Swedra (talk • contribs) 16:53, 28 June 2015 (UTC)

EDIT/ADD: I mean "... (screwing) ... (in.) ... (a-hole) ..." Sounds to me that someone is just angry at some Tyson guy (Probably Mike Tyson?) Swedra (talk) 16:56, 28 June 2015 (UTC)

rm factoid from Cardarelli

I removed the claim referenced to Cardarelli's book that there was a US measure called a "faggot", equal to 3/pi cu. ft., because this is simply the same as the historical unit described higher up. If a bundle has length 3' and circumference 2' then its volume is 3/pi cu. ft. Note that Cardarelli does not make a textual claim that the US unit was defined this way, he simply produces 3/pi as the conversion factor in a table of "US units of firewood". (This includes "cu. ft.", and it can hardly be regarded as evidence for the separate existence of a US unit "cu. ft.") Imaginatorium (talk) 19:44, 1 December 2015 (UTC)

various spellings

So we really need all of the Middle English spellings of "faggot" and "kidd"? Any term that predates spelling standardization had multiple spellings. Meters (talk) 20:59, 1 December 2015 (UTC)

link to cord

can a link be put here: Cord_(unit) as it seems to be locked I cannot do it easily. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.95.7.47 (talk) 22:53, 11 March 2017 (UTC)