The use of the word was provocative and highly inappropriate, especially as the context you chose for it was invalid in any case. If you really think that my illustration of its use in connection with working girls meant that I thought you were making a sexual reference, it's you who's having problems with English, old chap. However, we all know that when the word is used in a pejorative context, there will be at least a subliminal flash in many people's minds in that direction. Maybe that's what you intended, maybe it wasn't.

On this rather tedious matter of my timelines, let's just say that you had three choices:

1. You weren't sure of your facts so you wouldn't make the reference.
2. You checked your facts and made the reference (had you not wanted to be arsed to check threads, you could have asked. I'm a nIce bloke).
3. You could have failed to check your facts and made the reference anyway, thereby taking something of a risk.

It was your call and you got it arse about face. It happens.