Here I am, trying to power my way through an epic headache, keeping to a rough work/break schedule, and then I go and read Alex's amusing entry here trying to come up with better insults than "retard."
There's also the uncomfortable reminder that, like "retard," "idiot", "imbecile", and "moron" all once had clinical definitions. And were connected to the eugenics movement. So, you know, there's a group you want to be part of.
Then I go even further down the list and I find out that one of my favorite, harmless but colorful insults -- calling someone a "maroon," which came to me courtesy Bugs Bunny, is actually horribly racist.
ARE YOU EFFING KIDDING ME?
I click two simple links and now I have to digest the news that Bugs Freaking Bunny was a racist?
Damn you to the Pit, Epstein. I blame you.
In related news, no I will not stop using the word "niggardly." Pick up a dictionary, you mouth-breathing jholes.
Damnit, that wasn't satisfying at all.
7 rumbles:
Isn't Jhole that show Dennis Heaton was on?
I give you this this
Honestly, Disney is worse.
On the positive?
We now have a resource in the event of having to script one of Captain Haddock's legendary name-calling rants in an episode of Adventures of Tintin.
You think that there won't be yet another remake of the cartoon someday?
Didn't think so. :-)
When in doubt, body parts and acts involving bodily fluids are usually safe bets.
I'm pretty sure Bugs' "Maroon!" was intended as a mispronunciation of "Moron!"
The reason "retard" or "retarded" will not go away is that NO other words convey the same meaning. You have to compromise if you substitute.
A big part of the appeal of the word is the political incorrectness of it.
I still laugh when I think of Matt Dillon in Something About Mary telling Cameron Diaz he works with retards.
Or of course this from The Hangover:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoendYt_ZJ0
Tim, is it really a "compromise" not to make fun of the handicapped?
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