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This I don’t understand. Words change and gain new meanings over time. The word ill is a good example. It used to mean sickly, but then a white rapper used it to describe his style of communication and bam, the word started to take on a new meaning. I know you’re thinking, “But Stan, you’re retarded. That word went from a negative connotation to a positive connotation.” Point taken. What about the word dumb? It used to be a somewhat scientific term used to describe people who were mutes. Somewhere along the lines, kids started using it to describe other kids, then random objects. “This Nintendo game is dumb.” Why did no one make a huge fuss about the word dumb? Maybe they did, but no one heard them? Does the inappropriate use of that word get your panties in a bunch because it pokes fun at people who can’t talk? Not likely. The word dumb has been misused so long that it now has an additional definition in official dictionaries. Many other words did the same thing. Saying something is retarded/gay is the same in my eyes. The word now has a new meaning in addition to the original. Gay even went from meaning happy to homosexual. Words change meanings. Using the prior example, a video game can’t be homosexual or happy. It also cannot be mentally challenged. If you can’t use context clues to tell the meaning that’s being used at the time, then I don’t know what to tell you. Please note how I didn’t say that if you couldn’t tell, then you were retarded. That would be offensive.
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Ok, maybe the direct approach. Using 1st world and 3rd world even in jest offends me. And I know people who feel the same when some uses the word gay or the word retarded in a derogatory fashion. I know it's not exactly the same, but I don't care. I guess trying to explain that it was offensive was the wrong way to go. I should have just said it and been done.
Was just responding to someone dismissing what I said (IE hipster clause). Didn't flame anyone or get irrational or all fired up, just said how that saying annoyed me.
That said I've only ever been fired up once here, and it had nothing to do with what anyone said. I drop something long before I feel the need for attacks or namecalling, not just here but in life because when you get that far there's really no point. I enjoy an intelligent back and forth about a subject people disagree on, its fun and works your brain muscle.
TBH I am a little annoyed at the pandering and it kinda feels like you're attempting to devalue my opinion by saying I'm irrational. Especially when I have no vitriol for Thawmus, and kinda like the guy (When he's not saying 1st world problems of course). (Checks pulse) nope, still normal though so I must be over it.
I promise in the future to not talk ill about your favorite sayings and gouge my eyes out in silence.
I got off work 5 hours early today because I worked super late the last 2 days helping to finish renovating a trailer.
So how did I spend the last hour and a half?
Mining over 100 blocks of obsidian in minecraft.
I have never lost track of time doing something so repetative before getting minecraft on my 360, I think its my new favorite way to relax when I'm stressed.
I have to explain that word, even to normally intelligent people.
Do all of you wordmisers correct people in public like I do, or are you a little more respectful?
No, I just do this.
* SLAPS THE SH_T OUTTA zyxba. SLAAAAPPP!!!!*
There you are.
You now stand corrected.
"I have deprived your ship of power, and when I swing around, I mean to deprive you of your life. But I wanted you to know who it was who had beaten you."
KHAN NOONIAN SINGH
In memory of Ricardo Gonzalo Pedro Montalbán Merino
"I have deprived your ship of power, and when I swing around, I mean to deprive you of your life. But I wanted you to know who it was who had beaten you."
KHAN NOONIAN SINGH
In memory of Ricardo Gonzalo Pedro Montalbán Merino
Well, see people after the weekend. Maybe I can finish getting the revised HCUtils up and running, like I was supposed to have done last weekend...
I'll probably get the roles finished this week, and try to start around the 15th. My job situation is in crazy flux right now, so I HOPE to be ready by then... might be the next week, but the 15th seems pretty safe.
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Little known fact - the "M" in M. Bison actually stands for "malakim2099."