Little man grinds axe, nothing to see here, move on.
30 Apr 2023
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No, I'm not upset in the slightest at you using whatever term you wish. As I have said many times, including on this thread yesterday, language is a method of communicating meaning. I am slightly ticked at being called a retard for failing to adhere to petty little Englander language orthodoxy.
I'm not the one getting upset about people using different terms, others are committing that particular sin. Including you.
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While we’re all getting a bit upset at words, can I throw my hat into the ring with being slightly shocked at the amount of times the R-word’s been used?
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What have you got against our hard working offshore platform guys?
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The Holdovers is a terrific film. Beautiful performances, great storyline that unfolds slowly and characters you actually care about. Not one hint of special effects. Loved it. I have lived in Yank land for 27 years and safely say with all English superiority that I still call them films.
Next up. killers of the flowers moon, Equalizer 3 and Joyride.
Chicago: Going full retard.
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I decided to ask the youth of today. RC JR MKII (13 next May) says she calls them movies, but if someone were to say ‘film’ then she knows what they mean.
I trust this settles the matter. At least as far as Gen-Z is concerned.
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Yes agreed. It's a pretty unacceptable word these days.
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Bit early to be talking about relegation, we should wait and see what this FFP charge brings about.
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You have clung onto your Little Englander status like a badge of honour. It's who you are.
Agreed on The Holdovers, it was lovely.
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Retard - to hold back, put off, delay.
I am slightly ticked at not being allowed to call people retard's for failing to move forward and look at the developing reality through facts, but instead being pressured to conform to a little Englander language orthodoxy. Language should be a method of communicating meaning. Not obfuscating to conform to peoples personal moires and insecurities.
As ever, a lot of this sort of stuff is in the eye of the beholder. The path to satisfaction lies within ourselves. If you are telling people that they can't do or say anything that is allowed under the law, it's because of a failure of self, and probably grounded in fear or insecurity. And an unwillingness to accept, change, or reconcile yourself to the law.
Which is by definition a bit retarded.
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I'm not quite sure why retard has become a taboo word. It doesn't, as far as I'm aware, have a connotation relating to a specific medical condition, like mong or spas, so it seems arbitrary that it's deemed worse than, say, moron or idiot.
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I don't think it has the same stigma in the UK as it does NA. The UK equivalent would be spastic.
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Good word.
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What about Joey?
Chic think Russ is a Joey for not saying film. But Russ knows that Chic had already gone full Joey, because Chic runs around butt ass naked when it’s freezing out.
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'Spastic' is a brilliant example of the Canute like war on words. A perfectly understood and useful word has been demonised and drummed out of use, because (essentially) of people being people. You can't just keep breaking words, and thus efficient communication, you have to fix people.
..."Aha" I hear you say. "But we are fixing people, by enforcing idiocy over what words they can and can't use."
...but you aren't, are you?
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None of this is untrue…
Chicago: Holding my hands in the air.
