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As teenagers we used 'straight' to mean 'likes bad music and probably doesn't take drugs'. Callow bastard that I was.
Bastard, now, there you go. Its own shift in meaning means it retains an echo of when 'we' used to think that people born out of wedlock were bad people, but it didn't manage to control or sustain that association past its cultural/societal sell-by date, and is a useful marker of it in some ways.
Auberon Waugh was a total shit.