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[–] primemagnus@lemmy.ca 9 points 15 hours ago

The term is Freudian slip. And Carney’s reaction means he knows; they all know πŸ™ƒ

[–] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 9 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Gagged. Are you all really hearing gay or is this a big troll?

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 5 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Not a troll. I heard it when I watched live and didn't figure out he meant gagged until he said it a second time. Listening to it again I can hear it either way, his pronunciation at the end is just a little off.

[–] AChiTenshi@sh.itjust.works 8 points 15 hours ago

I heard gay on my first viewing. After playing it again I picked up on what he was actually trying to say. I think k it's something along the lines of mondegreen where you can hear the wrong words in songs.

[–] AGM@lemmy.ca 10 points 16 hours ago

This and referring to everyone on stage as "contestants" were both pretty funny.

[–] Daryl@lemmy.ca 8 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Wow. Just silliness. The only residual discussion after the debate is "Did he say 'gay' or 'gagged'?"

Says a lot about the importance of the debate in the overall election.

[–] el_muerte@lemm.ee 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Think I read some study several years back (probably following the Trump-Clinton one) that concluded almost everyone always perceives their "team's" candidate as having won the debate, and the number of voters swayed by a stellar performance from another candidate is negligible.

Yeah, they're pretty damn pointless...

[–] Daryl@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 hours ago

Except the news media thinks they are, so we will probably continue to have them, if not just for the entertainment value. They fill in some of the 'air time'.

[–] Lectral@lemmy.ca 3 points 14 hours ago

He just took a drink of water too. Imagine if Carney had done a spit take.

[–] BinzyBoi@lemmy.ca 67 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I think he was trying to say "gagged" but it does sound like "gay" lol

[–] Taniwha420@lemmy.world 28 points 1 day ago (4 children)

... You might be right. He has a weird accent, and if he pronounced the 'a' like an American and swallowed the 'gg' ...

Or maybe that's the secret do defeating the Conservatives? "We can totally make an LNG pipeline to the coast, but ... err ... that would make you all pretty gay."

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 10 points 1 day ago

gay and gagged dont sound alike?

[–] bricklove@midwest.social 7 points 1 day ago

It reminds me of my teacher from northern Wisconsin that would say words like "bag" and "flag" as "bayg" and "flayg". She would say "back" and "flack" like you'd expect but for some reason "-ag" words got the different vowel

[–] BinzyBoi@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 day ago

Re-watching it, and yeah, has to be gagged. If you listen closely, there's a small "click" after what at first sounds like "gay", which is likely an "ed" sound.

[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Um, can we make this happen? Like immediately?

[–] garbagebagel@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Oh man, I was for LNG but that's pretty gay tho. Gotta have to cancel.

[–] danielquinn@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago

He definitely says "gagged". This post is ridiculous.

[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 4 points 17 hours ago

Did PP's wife (who is present in way too high a percentage of his publicity material) know about this in advance? 🀣

[–] Redex68@lemmy.world 4 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

He obviously said gagged. It literally sounds more like gagged than gay even if he did mispronounce.

[–] RoquetteQueen@sh.itjust.works 9 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I agree it's obvious he meant to say "gagged", but it absolutely sounds like he said "gay".

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 5 points 17 hours ago

Yeah he said it like Gaygd

[–] rabber@lemmy.ca 21 points 1 day ago

He obviously misspoke but that's hilarious

[–] Quilotoa@lemmy.ca 4 points 21 hours ago

He needs the Forrest Gump "d" in there.

[–] loomy@lemy.lol 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

can someone explain this to me?

[–] KittyKalledKarma@slrpnk.net 29 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Canadian leadership debate tonight, guy on the right is carney, guy on the left is Pierre Polievere or PP.

Carney asked about PP's refusal to get a security clearance despite being leader of the opposition in parliament. PP was stumbling in his response.

[–] loomy@lemy.lol 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

ok but why would he be gay for getting a clearance?

[–] garbagebagel@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago (2 children)

As someone else mentioned, he was probably trying to say the word 'gagged' and he talks weird.

This guy is weird enough that he can't even have media around unless he is scripted, so it doesn't surprise me.

[–] rabber@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I hate the guy but I was actually surprised with his debate performance tonight

In the next 10 seconds he said 'gagged' so pretty mild fuckup I think

[–] loomy@lemy.lol 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

thats mildly entertaining tho

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 5 points 17 hours ago

I mean. That reaction by Carney is excellent clowning.

[–] AChiTenshi@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It's a slip up on PPs part. He's trying to say gagged but either due to getting the thought from his brain to his mouth getting mixed up, or just slipping up on the word It sounds much more like gay.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago

freudian slip.

[–] loomy@lemy.lol 3 points 1 day ago
[–] garbagebagel@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

PP is gay, make it known to his shitty conservative voters pls.

[–] Tiger666@lemmy.ca 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

They see him as a strongman. You won't have any luck with this.

[–] twopi@lemmy.ca 1 points 19 hours ago

I think that's why conaervatives like PP but not JT.

Conservatives want to be the bottom so they don't like leaders they can fuck but rather prefer leaders who can fuck them.

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Every accusation is a confession...

Seriously, probably meant to say gagged, and failed miserably. I still think it's a shit excuse.

[–] Nuxleio@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Holy shit guys. I need to get my security clearance!

[–] myersguy@lemmy.simpl.website 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)
[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's a 17 second video…

Weird, Voyager is just displaying it as an image. Opening it in Firefox linked me to the Imgur video.

My bad!