It is a derision of the mentally handicapped though.
Sareitha Sedai Send a noteboard - 27/10/2011 07:25:29 PM
Using the term "retarded" to refer to a stupid action isn't cool. Just like using the phrase "that's gay" to refer to something stupid isn't cool. If you are simply making sure we know that you are, in fact, not mentally handicapped, then my apologies for the above comment.
Retarded is a common turn of phrase and in no way a scathing comment or derision of the mentally handicapped. Also, "that's gay" is in the same neighborhood. Just like black people can use the N word amongst themselves. It's all about context.
Usage in this context makes it derisive of the mentally handicapped even if that's not the user's specific intent. And whether it's a common turn of phrase or not doesn't determine its correctness or appropriateness.
You're certainly free to use the word however you like, just as others are free to be offended by it. When I hear people use gay or retard(ed) in a derogatory manner it negatively affects my opinion of them.
If you are from Betelgeuse, please have one of your Earth friends read what I've written before you respond. Or try concentrating harder.
"The trophy problem has become extreme."
"The trophy problem has become extreme."
my iphone 4 deleted all my text messages
- 26/10/2011 10:35:51 PM
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Is there any particular reason those messages need to remain part of the record?
- 27/10/2011 12:16:24 AM
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my text messages are important
- 27/10/2011 02:09:24 AM
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If it's not stupid shit you should have transferred it. *NM*
- 27/10/2011 05:14:08 AM
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Transferred it how, where? *NM*
- 27/10/2011 11:54:05 AM
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There are at least five or six programs that do it.
- 27/10/2011 02:19:42 PM
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please suggest one that you have used and I will use it for the future. *NM*
- 27/10/2011 04:50:01 PM
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Check the app store - honestly there are a few that do different things. *NM*
- 27/10/2011 04:55:29 PM
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I haven't used any and I don't know what the client used, but a quick Google search should work.
- 28/10/2011 05:59:39 AM
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Couldn't you assume that there was, based on the fact that she wanted them? *NM*
- 27/10/2011 03:07:41 PM
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Ah, so thats why you didnt respond to the 187 texts I sent confessing my love last nigh. *NM*
- 27/10/2011 02:12:50 AM
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lol yeah except it just happened a few hours ago not last night 
*NM*
- 27/10/2011 02:36:55 AM
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*NM*
- 27/10/2011 02:36:55 AM
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Okay okay, you got me. It was just one text and it was a cock pic not a love letter. Same diff *NM*
- 27/10/2011 04:54:18 AM
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For the record
- 27/10/2011 04:54:46 PM
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Wow the PC bullshit meter just went through the roof on that one
- 27/10/2011 06:31:40 PM
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Agreed.
- 27/10/2011 06:43:44 PM
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not to mention it's how these words become so offensive in the first place.
- 27/10/2011 06:59:21 PM
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This isn't actually true.
- 27/10/2011 07:29:02 PM
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They probably shouldn't be using 'dumb' in their definition if they're making an argument against
- 28/10/2011 01:24:50 AM
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Why not? *NM*
- 28/10/2011 02:06:12 PM
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It is a derision of the mentally handicapped though.
- 27/10/2011 07:25:29 PM
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off topic question: how did "gay" come to be applied to homosexuals in the first place?
- 27/10/2011 07:52:53 PM
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Let me guess: straight white male? Mmm... privilege. *NM*
- 28/10/2011 04:09:44 AM
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First thing I thought off. Add "14 year old" to the list, though! *NM*
- 28/10/2011 06:38:01 AM
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