"Poof" or "Poofter" is light a derogatory slur aimed at homosexuals. "Willie/Woolie woofer" is like a humorous/nonsense rhyming slang version. Hence "woofer". It doesn't really make sense, but it derives from poof, which is a British classic. Hence the shortened version
Yep, "wooly woofter," was quite common parlance, a few decades ago. Probably derived from the term "poofter," also used in Australia, I believe. Tate is a genius. She appears to be endorsing stereotypes, but is doing anything but. Much the same way that Sacha Baron Cohen and The Pub Landlord _appear_ to be sexist. The fact that some people take them literally, is _their_ issue!
Willy Woofter is rhyming slang for poofter, a slang word for a gay man. Today it may be deemed offensive to the snowflakes amongst us, but to most of us older gay guys, over 40, it's funny and harmless fun. I was never a fan of Catherine Tate, but I came across this on youtube, and it's brilliant. Glad you two liked it also.
Well, you may be sophisticated and urbane, but I'm 74 and I've travelled the long road of being gay from the time you could be imprisoned up till now, where you seem to think that anyone who objects to these terms is a snowflake. The fact is that they, woofter and poofter, are hate terms as pejorative as all the other terms that have accompanied being gay for years. Think of youngsters who may be called by their peers in such terms in today's world - 'funny and harmless fun', I don't think so. Shame on you.
People like you disgust me and doesn’t represent the general gay man/woman/non binary person. Jjst because you don’t fin dit offensive doesn’t mean it’s not or that orhers won’t. Completely lack of awareness, and empathy for others. Narc much? You also use gaslighting… well done. Sounds like the typical privileged entitled cis white man to me🤡🤡🤡 Can’t stand when people hide behind “comedy” or humor to justify or glorify hate speech and bullying as well as discrimination. Humour is also relative and decided by cultural bias as well as the audience. “can’t you take a joke?” is the most common way bullies, and toxic people like narcissists use to not having to be accountable for their words and actions when they have hurt others and they try and set boundaries and let them now that’s not okay.
is that another Canadian expression = rekoJ, eht Always fun to watch and great reactions as always the gay slang search rabbit hole at the end, omgosh :D
Catherine Tate also does another skit about a "posh wife" with kids - who is basically so upper class (or middle-upper class?) in her ways that she is literally scared of everything that should be normal . . . they are short sketches though - so you'd need to look out for where they have been merged into a single video for you to watch/react to them all . . . Cheers . . .
Loved your reaction. I would say being called a woofter is offensive these days. It was more acceptable in the 90's compared to a lot worse slang that gay men had to deal with back then. That being said, some LGBTQ+ have reclaimed it and are happy. You can't please everyone. The whole premise of the joke is that it is set on a very rough council estate in Northern Ireland. I won't speak on some of their views on homosexuality - another video.
@@Isleofskye it's their fault if the pansies are offended. People these days are offended by words rather than the intention. Luckily I think it's hyped up more by the media and virtue signalers than the majority of people who still have some sense left. I might be out of touch too tho as I only associate with common folks
Sometimes here in the UK, a gay man is also described as ," a player of the pink oboe." It comes from an old Peter Cook sketch about a biased judge, based on a doddery old judge who was trying the late Liberal leader, Jeremy Thorpe in a hugely scandalous trial in the sixties. Pure satire folks, and you should have a squint at it sometime, just for your own edification. BTW it is now classed as " offensive", whereas back then everyone took the piss out of everyone else, irrespective of class, colour, sex, or indeed sexual preferences. ( homosexuality wasn't legalised until 1968 in the UK ) Nowadays, most people seem to chase " victimhood " and get a large charge out of it, or rush around virtue signalling about how " right on " they are. Of course these same assholes are the ones who exclaim, " cool " about every utterance, or inanimate objects that their moollusc friends have acquired. When I was young, one was cool, or not cool, but the word was never spoken, but merely acknowledged by a knowing look, a nod, or possibly a grunt. : - ) It's lie those effete or wrinkly turds on tv who go around decorating rube's homes, or gardens, who point to a sudeboard or daffodill and call it " funky . " They wouldn't know " funk " if James Brown came around and beat them over the head with the steering wheel from the van of the band " Funkadaelic ", as he pretended to almost faint, being led away from the scene by one of his minions, wiping the sweat from his head as he went. ( great clip, look it up darlings ) Anyhow, I enjoyed you two being you two, as usual. I wish you rainbows.
No, they must have spent a lot of time finding a condemned place like this. Well, I'm speaking from experience of all the places I've lived, worked or visited, but I guess every country has a shit hole area.
That has got to be the dumbest question I ever heard in my life. Lmfao. Firstly it is meant to be Northern Ireland and secondly that's like watching a clip of the grimy backstreets of Detroit and saying, is that what America really looks like? Lol. I am an American living in the UK and it is beautiful here. I am guessing you are a not very smart kid.
You won't get in trouble for saying it, it's kind of like... idk. About on par with "queer" in North America. Far from the most hurtful word you can say, but can be hurtful if you say it with some bite? I have gay friends who consider it harmless, and some who would rather not be described with the term
It's the intent. I have known people who'd call me names and I'd laugh. Because I know and trust them. But I have also had people who said it with the intent to hurt. Especially when they repeat it over and over again with a grin on their face until you snap and then it's:"wow, you are such a snowflake! I was only joking". Especially when it's a group at the workplace.
There are a lot of homosexual slang terms in the UK but I won't mention them. Many probably go back to when being homosexual was actually a crime. Alan Turing was autistic but one of the greatest minds that Britain ever had and was homosexual at a time it was illegal. He suffered greatly and committed suicide due to it. Being homosexual doesn't mean you are weak, look at the 'The Sacred Band of Thebes' who were great fighters and gave the Spartans a good kicking. Anyway, other terms came about, gay originally meant happy but then was used to mean homosexual without saying it. Woofter without saying gay. Now, nobody gives a sod about people being homosexual; well, where I live in Merseyside England. So, the far left have to act like everybody is offended when nobody really cares one bit anymore.
@silverfoxeater Okay, thanks for the feedback as that is called discussion and I appreciate that. Yeah, sorry. I didn't mean to drag anything into it.
STOP trying to imitate a pseudo english accent that is unknown to 99% of the plebescite. I reckoned the pair of ya would know better. No brownie points there. It really is irritating, as loads of "non natives" do. Love ya, all the same. x
Nan on the TV show 'Deal or No Deal' (this version was done for charity but it's a MUST see). A genuine game show where people had to guess the value of the card inside thier chosen box.
I always had a problem with the authenticity of DOND. How come a contestant who never bothered, unduly, about their appearance suddenly looked much more attractive on the day they "just happened" to be picked which means the Production crew knew each show who it would be, and that lucky person was provided with their box which someone from the Production team allocated to them beforehand. It would be easy for me to choose the box with a specific amount depending on what I have seen of their personality over the last 20 shows when they were not chosen. IF the person who had been chosen for the day walked over to the 22 Boxes and chose one THEMSELVES then that would prove it was fair and, also, if it was "random" how comes in the 2,000 shows "Newbies" never got randomly picked on their first day when that should occur, on average nearly 100 times over the years but it never happened:)
I’m “a British Gay”! Woofter is mostly a harmless expression amongst friends, my straight mates alway call me the Woofter. God knows where it’s from. Some of the younger 2000s Woofters may find it outrageously offensive. 🙄 That said I wouldn’t use the term at work unless it’s within my small team who thankfully still understand a joke.
As with all British slang, it's the intent behind the word. A friend calling you a woofter would be very different to a complete stranger in a pub calling you it.
Good on u Anthony. I only called out a co worker after a year of sly comments, one day I held the elevator for him, he said “thanks faggot”. HR was on him the next day. Some jokes are ok, some are abuse. I slept with the loser a year later, haha, most homophobic dudes are gay
@@KernowWarrior yep I call my mates knob jockies all the time. to be fair they are homosexuals but I say it with such panache that it defiantly an insult
Another great video guys, yes going back about 30 maybe 40 years ago a woofter, woolly woofter was a slang word for a puff, ie guy man. don’t really hear that these day , please no offence to anyone just explaining to are Canadian friends, 👍🇬🇧🇨🇦.
@@danielgardecki1046 hello there when I was at school woolly was used, but like I said it’s going back along time, or maybe it depends on witch part of the country you are from.
*"Woofter"* a 1970s variation of *"Poofter"* which means *A man who is seen as unmasculine, timid, or affected.*
Woofter is a kind of gentle pejorative for a gay man in Britain. You wouldn't use it in polite conversation, but maybe as a wry reference to a friend
We first saw Catherine Tate in our hotel room in London. She’s a national treasure. 🇨🇦
The Northern Irish accent makes it so much funnier!
Derek is another great character
You two are fun. 😂😂
"Poof" or "Poofter" is light a derogatory slur aimed at homosexuals.
"Willie/Woolie woofer" is like a humorous/nonsense rhyming slang version. Hence "woofer".
It doesn't really make sense, but it derives from poof, which is a British classic.
Hence the shortened version
Yep, "wooly woofter," was quite common parlance, a few decades ago. Probably derived from the term "poofter," also used in Australia, I believe. Tate is a genius. She appears to be endorsing stereotypes, but is doing anything but. Much the same way that Sacha Baron Cohen and The Pub Landlord _appear_ to be sexist. The fact that some people take them literally, is _their_ issue!
I have to say, Catherine Tate's Northern Irish accent is pretty good.
I love you guys! And your reactions, of course. I subscribed yesterday. This is one of my favourite Catherine Tate clips too. ❤️
Awesome! Thank you David 😊🍻
She is hilarious this was a great sketch thanks guys .
*GhostOfNoMeme* who added *"Woolly"* to *Wiktionary* is incorrect, as that's not the word.
The actual word has no *"O's"* but has an *"I"* instead.
Now the drunk bride, as everyone else suggests m and Lauren!!!
If you have a gay mate and you called them a woofter they wouldn't take offence, it's just the British way
So don't say it to a gay man who isn't your friend. 'My best friend is gay so it's okay when I say it. I saw it on Catherine Tate".
@@roddo1955 no you couldn't say that to gay man/woman who wasn't your mate they don't know you it would be offensive
@@tinaosborne6837 that was my point😄
Maybe 10 years ago 😂 probably be offended now cus the internet tells everyone to be scared of eachother
I love the accent attempts. please do them more often 😂
Thx for doing this one! 🇨🇦❤️🤓ottawagay
U've got to do her nan taylor character....sooo funny!
Canadians get humour no matter what country it comes from.
Americans find humour from any other place other than the USA hard to understand.
What seems to be the biggest obstacle between the U.K. and American comedy? Accents? Culture? etc?
@@bradlucy The biggest obstacle between Brritsh/Canadian humour and the Yanks is that we can spell the word
@@bradlucy definitely culture. I could go on, but I won't. enjoy your show by the way.
I'm gay and you can call me a woofter because I love the bantz :D
Willy Woofter is rhyming slang for poofter, a slang word for a gay man. Today it may be deemed offensive to the snowflakes amongst us, but to most of us older gay guys, over 40, it's funny and harmless fun. I was never a fan of Catherine Tate, but I came across this on youtube, and it's brilliant. Glad you two liked it also.
Awesome, thank you 😁
It's about the intent. A complete stranger calling you a woofter out of nowhere is something different than a trusted friend or a fellow woofter.
Well, you may be sophisticated and urbane, but I'm 74 and I've travelled the long road of being gay from the time you could be imprisoned up till now, where you seem to think that anyone who objects to these terms is a snowflake. The fact is that they, woofter and poofter, are hate terms as pejorative as all the other terms that have accompanied being gay for years. Think of youngsters who may be called by their peers in such terms in today's world - 'funny and harmless fun', I don't think so. Shame on you.
People like you disgust me and doesn’t represent the general gay man/woman/non binary person. Jjst because you don’t fin dit offensive doesn’t mean it’s not or that orhers won’t. Completely lack of awareness, and empathy for others. Narc much? You also use gaslighting… well done. Sounds like the typical privileged entitled cis white man to me🤡🤡🤡 Can’t stand when people hide behind “comedy” or humor to justify or glorify hate speech and bullying as well as discrimination. Humour is also relative and decided by cultural bias as well as the audience. “can’t you take a joke?” is the most common way bullies, and toxic people like narcissists use to not having to be accountable for their words and actions when they have hurt others and they try and set boundaries and let them now that’s not okay.
@@2eleven48👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Hi, I recommend Tiny Tim Transport prank call it's so funny 😂
is that another Canadian expression = rekoJ, eht
Always fun to watch and great reactions as always
the gay slang search rabbit hole at the end, omgosh :D
😁
Have you seen her character 'Nan'? It's fantastic and how I want to grow old!
Catherine Tate also does another skit about a "posh wife" with kids - who is basically so upper class (or middle-upper class?) in her ways that she is literally scared of everything that should be normal . . . they are short sketches though - so you'd need to look out for where they have been merged into a single video for you to watch/react to them all . . . Cheers . . .
You explained the entire premises.
Y’all crack me up..
Check out her "How very dare you" gay character. It's hilarious.
The guy in the painting on the wall is singer will young who won pop idol which came out before x factor it was a Simon cowell show.will is gay.
Poofter basically refers to farts going poof because their butt hole is so stretched. So yeah it's definitely derogatory.
Loved your reaction. I would say being called a woofter is offensive these days. It was more acceptable in the 90's compared to a lot worse slang that gay men had to deal with back then. That being said, some LGBTQ+ have reclaimed it and are happy. You can't please everyone. The whole premise of the joke is that it is set on a very rough council estate in Northern Ireland. I won't speak on some of their views on homosexuality - another video.
Admittedly, I am out of the loop but do you mean you can't call someone a Wooly Woofter anymore?
The World has gone mad...
@@Isleofskye yes you can
Thank Heavens for that.
I just said to my boyfriend, "Sanity prevails"..
@@Isleofskye it's their fault if the pansies are offended. People these days are offended by words rather than the intention. Luckily I think it's hyped up more by the media and virtue signalers than the majority of people who still have some sense left. I might be out of touch too tho as I only associate with common folks
Couldn't agree more Matt:)
Or it could be raining & cold & you’d say say c’mon crack on we’ve got work to do, what are ya some sort of woofter. There’s lots of different ones 😂
you 2 crack me up and haven't even smoked anything. Woofter is just rhyming slang for poofter aka poof. Not Pc but thats the point
Ah but johnnnnnn
Check out Rodney Carrington Live at the Majestic
Poofter in England
Poof = derogatory term for a gay man, evolved into poofter and woofter. Popular in the 80's & 90's but rarely heard now.
Hi Guys, think you might like this Catherine Tate video. "Catherine Tate - Nan and her sister from Spain"
Rodney Carrington live at the majestic please!
I aspire to one day reach your relationship LVL
Are you from Fargo, North Dakota?
No, far-gone, Ontario Canada
Like the videos but now it's time to up your anty with "Fred Dibnah ~ Steeplejack 1979." this chap was a local hero
Omg fluckers.. is that appropriate? Cuz I'm a flucker.
React to omid djalili stand up and and his show aswell, he's hilarious
Old school sctz
Sometimes here in the UK, a gay man is also described as ," a player of the pink oboe."
It comes from an old Peter Cook sketch about a biased judge, based on a doddery old judge who was trying the late Liberal leader, Jeremy Thorpe in a hugely scandalous trial in the sixties.
Pure satire folks, and you should have a squint at it sometime, just for your own edification.
BTW it is now classed as " offensive", whereas back then everyone took the piss out of everyone else, irrespective of class, colour, sex, or indeed sexual preferences. ( homosexuality wasn't legalised until 1968 in the UK )
Nowadays, most people seem to chase " victimhood " and get a large charge out of it, or rush around virtue signalling about how " right on " they are.
Of course these same assholes are the ones who exclaim, " cool " about every utterance, or inanimate objects that their moollusc friends have acquired.
When I was young, one was cool, or not cool, but the word was never spoken, but merely acknowledged by a knowing look, a nod, or possibly a grunt. : - )
It's lie those effete or wrinkly turds on tv who go around decorating rube's homes, or gardens, who point to a sudeboard or daffodill and call it " funky .
" They wouldn't know " funk " if James Brown came around and beat them over the head with the steering wheel from the van of the band " Funkadaelic ", as he pretended to almost faint, being led away from the scene by one of his minions, wiping the sweat from his head as he went. ( great clip, look it up darlings )
Anyhow, I enjoyed you two being you two, as usual.
I wish you rainbows.
Is that how the UK really looks like? I hope it's a filter because I would slit my wrists in 3 hours if that's how sad the city looks lol.
No, they must have spent a lot of time finding a condemned place like this. Well, I'm speaking from experience of all the places I've lived, worked or visited, but I guess every country has a shit hole area.
Patiently waits for a clueless person to say it's Ireland not the UK...
That has got to be the dumbest question I ever heard in my life. Lmfao.
Firstly it is meant to be Northern Ireland and secondly that's like watching a clip of the grimy backstreets of Detroit and saying, is that what America really looks like? Lol. I am an American living in the UK and it is beautiful here.
I am guessing you are a not very smart kid.
@@danielgardecki1046 ROI isn't the uk NI is
@@Trudon And this is set in Northern Ireland.
Do you need your ears testing?
🤣🤣🤣
Always a reverb.
Every woman's dream having a hard man at least...
Harry (corrected) Enfield has some hilarious clips of getting used to his gay son and his partner 🙂: ua-cam.com/video/I_5ruKeZfro/v-deo.html
Harry.. it’s Harry!
@@cozicoops ...autocorrect 😕
You won't get in trouble for saying it, it's kind of like... idk. About on par with "queer" in North America. Far from the most hurtful word you can say, but can be hurtful if you say it with some bite? I have gay friends who consider it harmless, and some who would rather not be described with the term
It's the intent. I have known people who'd call me names and I'd laugh. Because I know and trust them. But I have also had people who said it with the intent to hurt. Especially when they repeat it over and over again with a grin on their face until you snap and then it's:"wow, you are such a snowflake! I was only joking". Especially when it's a group at the workplace.
SCTV
There are a lot of homosexual slang terms in the UK but I won't mention them. Many probably go back to when being homosexual was actually a crime. Alan Turing was autistic but one of the greatest minds that Britain ever had and was homosexual at a time it was illegal. He suffered greatly and committed suicide due to it. Being homosexual doesn't mean you are weak, look at the 'The Sacred Band of Thebes' who were great fighters and gave the Spartans a good kicking.
Anyway, other terms came about, gay originally meant happy but then was used to mean homosexual without saying it. Woofter without saying gay. Now, nobody gives a sod about people being homosexual; well, where I live in Merseyside England. So, the far left have to act like everybody is offended when nobody really cares one bit anymore.
@silverfoxeater Okay, thanks for the feedback as that is called discussion and I appreciate that.
Yeah, sorry. I didn't mean to drag anything into it.
I just don’t think this one was funny,at all.
STOP trying to imitate a pseudo english accent that is unknown to 99% of the plebescite. I reckoned the pair of ya would know better. No brownie points there. It really is irritating, as loads of "non natives" do. Love ya, all the same. x
lol
its rhyming slang,, woolly woofter = poofter
All the people in the comments justifying hate speech and discriminatory terms as humor or comedy… well done👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾🙄🫣🫠
lol
The REAL Character of Catherine that you want to watch is "Nan".
There are many clips of Nan on UA-cam:)
Nan on the TV show 'Deal or No Deal' (this version was done for charity but it's a MUST see). A genuine game show where people had to guess the value of the card inside thier chosen box.
I always had a problem with the authenticity of DOND. How come a contestant who never bothered, unduly, about their appearance suddenly looked much more attractive on the day they "just happened" to be picked which means the Production crew knew each show who it would be, and that lucky person was provided with their box which someone from the Production team allocated to them beforehand. It would be easy for me to choose the box with a specific amount depending on what I have seen of their personality over the last 20 shows when they were not chosen. IF the person who had been chosen for the day walked over to the 22 Boxes and chose one THEMSELVES then that would prove it was fair and, also, if it was "random" how comes in the 2,000 shows "Newbies" never got randomly picked on their first day when that should occur, on average nearly 100 times over the years but it never happened:)
Google finds it offensive the English doesn't
I’m “a British Gay”! Woofter is mostly a harmless expression amongst friends, my straight mates alway call me the Woofter. God knows where it’s from. Some of the younger 2000s Woofters may find it outrageously offensive. 🙄 That said I wouldn’t use the term at work unless it’s within my small team who thankfully still understand a joke.
Woolly woofter is Cockney rhyming slang for poofter (poof)
Aye it from Willy Woofter.....Pufter.......not that I can judge....mmmm
As with all British slang, it's the intent behind the word. A friend calling you a woofter would be very different to a complete stranger in a pub calling you it.
Good on u Anthony. I only called out a co worker after a year of sly comments, one day I held the elevator for him, he said “thanks faggot”. HR was on him the next day. Some jokes are ok, some are abuse. I slept with the loser a year later, haha, most homophobic dudes are gay
@@KernowWarrior yep I call my mates knob jockies all the time. to be fair they are homosexuals but I say it with such panache that it defiantly an insult
woofter is slang but not too bad
Part 2 of Gay Son is just as funny.
As you liked that i think you both will enjoy this Catherine Tate charachter Derek...ua-cam.com/video/_4keg7cuHb0/v-deo.html
The drunk bride speech is funny.
You should check out her posh mum and two posh kids very funny
REKOJ EHT is an actual place in ADANAC I suppose? X¬D
No, it is how I pronounce "wreck a jet" when I'm drunk 😁
Need to react to her nan sketches
XD
Whatch more.
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Another great video guys, yes going back about 30 maybe 40 years ago a woofter, woolly woofter was a slang word for a puff, ie guy man. don’t really hear that these day , please no offence to anyone just explaining to are Canadian friends, 👍🇬🇧🇨🇦.
*Woolly Woofter* has never been a term.
It's always been *Willy Woofter.*
@@danielgardecki1046 hello there when I was at school woolly was used, but like I said it’s going back along time, or maybe it depends on witch part of the country you are from.