"The word 'gay' is used all the time to describe something that is shit or weird or wrong.

'That's so gay' describing a shit film or something, you get my drift.

This gets my goat, especially when if I am around, it will normally be followed up by "just like you Dave!" That's not funny, nor witty or clever."

I was going to say that I thought that the use of the word gay in the manner you describe had become so commonplace (e.g. being used by children to whom it's primary/only meaning is as a synonym for rubbish) that it had lost it's power to insult. Which, if it were true, would make your complaint an odd distorted echo of those of the retired Major types who used to write to the press complaining that you couldn't use the word gay to mean bright and happy anymore. However the last of your sentences quoted here show that it is still being aimed to offend. Perhaps you should fight back by giving new meaning to a another word. "It wasn't just good, it was queer." or summat like that.
(Cave Duck, Mon 5 Apr 2010, 2:05, Reply)