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- IRNlun60
I'm pretty quick to call my friends retarded but from true experience, if I see someone picking on or making fun of a handicap person to put down or exclude I'll be the first to be in their face.
There is nothing wrong with being handicapped or different but there is something very wrong with being intolerant and tactless.
Being that people are easily offended by words here I apologize for calling the article retarded and will refrain using derogatory comments...
- skt0
Either they are insecure, socially inept or just ignorant.
soda
(Apr 12 06, 07:21)I'm all three.
- dinky0
Those retarded spastical window-licking mong special brave crippled psychos that are handicapped and wheelchair-bound.
- Question0
IT'S AMERICAS FAULT!!
- krust0
mental just means relating to the mind
- paraselene0
my mom has taught special needs kids all my life and i spent a lot of time growing up with them and their families.
they'd tell me it's a nightmare to have people tiptoe around them.
but, then again, this was in america, where spaz is never really used. retard still makes me cringe, though.
not to the same level as the n word, but on the same frequency, so i can see where you're coming from, soda.
- determinedmoth0
It's hard to tell where the line is though. Look at the word "mental". That's got a whole new set of meanings now, and no one is gonna jump on you for using it.
- determinedmoth0
It's societies fault soda.
The individual is blameless today.
- soda0
I have a brother with special needs and I tell you there is nothing more entertaining than well educated, articulated people using the latest put down to describe people with physical or learning disabilities.
My normal response growing up was a punch in the mouth but I've mellowed a bit as I have got older and try to give people the benefit of the doubt. Either they are insecure, socially inept or just ignorant.
I then normally revert to type and threaten violence of one type or another.
- mg330
The put-down for the year is calling someone a "cockems."
As in "Can't you change the channel back to wrestling? Don't be such a cockems, man."
- krust0
my point is that if all these terms weren't considered so derrogatory in the first place, we wouldnt have a problem, calling someone a spaz wouldnt matter because there would be no negative connotations with it.
theres absolutely nothing wrong or weird or even different about being retarded. just a qwerk, like freckles or glasses (anyone else watch CSI last night! - i'm paraphrasing grissham!)but i guess that will never happen because most kids are fuckers when they get in the playground.
- mstrobert0
if he said, " When I got to the green, I played like that guy!" - points to spastic window licker ...
then there might be an issue
- chaztoo0
about 6 years ago, I was using the term "retard" all the time. Then a dear friend finally told me it really upset her because her younger brother had cerebral palsey and people used to call him that all the time.
I used to have a "Go die" attitude to all this PC stuff, then when I saw some piece of it was actually hurting a friend of mine, it made it pretty easy to give up saying.
There are a lot of words after all.
- Crouwel0
it's a sad world when we can't take the piss out of eachother freely, whether it be about skin colour, disability.. whatever.
yeah, there will always be low lifes who ARE racist, bullys etc.... but fuck them..
the world would be a better place without such political correctness.
krust
(Apr 12 06, 06:30)i don't think it is really a matter of political correctness, more like how far you go. i am all for irony/sarcasm etc. even spaz or anything else, as long as it is used in a context where the humor is satisfying both sides. bullying is something else and needs to be treated very seriously.
- skt0
special.
- determinedmoth0
So, you knew a real life spaz and you have been struck by lighning. The chances of that must be infintesimally small.
skt
(Apr 12 06, 06:30)I know Kuz too and he's quite rare.
- krust0
it's a sad world when we can't take the piss out of eachother freely, whether it be about skin colour, disability.. whatever.
yeah, there will always be low lifes who ARE racist, bullys etc.... but fuck them..
the world would be a better place without such political correctness.
- skt0
So, you knew a real life spaz and you have been struck by lighning. The chances of that must be infintesimally small.
- determinedmoth0
They'll never win.
Spastic was deemed derogatory, so the Spastics Society renamed themselves to "Scope". So yeah, you guessed it, within a day the whole of the UK starts calling each other "Scope" everytime they spit coffee down their chins.Oh I used to work in a pub with a real proper live-in spaz skt. He used to pull his dick out at the most inappropriate moments to wave at the punters. Never saw him lick windows though....
- krust0
spazmohezian