Amazing that spaz can be typed on here, yet the f word can't.
Re moron - I'm sure it'll end up offensive, as will idiot and nitwit.
The “-tard” bit is pretty non-PC.
Is someone who swears a lot a Custard?
What about bass players?
The “-tard” bit is pretty non-PC.
I was quite happy being self congratulatory about how tolerant I am but now you've gone and ruined it by suggesting that I may have to re-evaluate the things I say.
I shall now throw my toys out of the pram, declare you a bunch of 'PC gone mad' lefties, and go and rant about it on twitter and facebook where a bunch of slightly desperate sounding people will agree with me.
Good day, sirs!
I have Aspergers and reminded of it each and every day by my other half in the most unpleasant ways possible- apparently i am an uncaring, emotionless, zero empathy, heartless b*d
Thing is i have aspergers so i really dont give a * what i am called 🙂
I would rather be me than an emotional sponge
Aspie also, I'm probably 50% higher-functioning sociopath and 50% emo manbaby. I cry watching The Repair Shop FFS.
There's always [i]someone[/i] who'll be offended by any joke/humour/cartoon/etc etc
If it's not aimed at you, just turn it off and don't watch it again. For everyone who is offended, maybe there are 10 who find it funny... and hey! Isn't laughter damn important for mental health? It is for mine!
This is the same conversation as has been going on for ages
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Good day, sirs!
Sexist.
Sexist.
You are now violating my civil rights! I shall report you to the moderators and the police!!!
Cisgendered white males are the real oppressed minority!!!!!!!
I got chastised elsewhere on the Internet the other day for using the word ‘moron.’ I replied that I’d no idea that this was problematic, asked why and asked what they suggest I use instead, but didn’t get an answer. Is moron problematic / offensive? I’ve no idea any more.
Some people dislike any insult that has an origin based in disability. Idiot, cretin, moron, imbecile, and more recently flid, mong, spaz etc, were all originally medical terms to describe people with varying learning or physical disabilities (cretin is specifically congenital hypothyroidism, mong is Downs Syndrome, flid refers to thalidomide, etc).
It's sometimes hard to tell what's just an evolution in language, and what's a massive slur. For example, I'd never dream of using flid or mong, and I've tried to make sure that I don't use retarded, but I find it harder to drop idiot or moron, for example.
Cisgendered white males are the real oppressed minority!!!!!!!
Genetically speaking, pale skinned, green eyed redheads are the real oppressed minority but you don't hear Mick Hucknall whining on about it.
I got chastised elsewhere on the Internet the other day for using the word ‘moron.’
I don't know how better word this, but you'd have to be a moron to be offended by someone using the word moron.
[edit]maybe better wording would include the f word that rhymes with ducking between "a" and "moron" in the above sentence.
Only in the West where people play jokes on the afflicted.
We were brought up not to mock the unfortunate as karma will repay those who mock others many folds.
Yes, I like watching Family Guy, American Dad and Rick & Morty because they are funny but not all.
karma will repay those who mock others many folds.
That's me humped then
That’s me humped then
That severity of the karma retribution depends on the individual intention.
I think Jim Jefferies lays it out quite well in his latest comedy special where he talks about where the boundaries are for jokes and how they move. Some of his earlier career jokes just aren't acceptable for repeating now, but at the time were on the edge.
Comedy can be about pushing the boundaries, I find most of what Frankie Boyle, Jimmy Carr, Jim Jefferies does funny, but not everything.
There's a reason most of the sitcoms from the 70's and 80's aren't repeated ad nauseum, they just aren't acceptable by current accepted standards.
My own personal trigger points on comedy are suicide and parkinsons for very personal reasons. There's jokes that i would have laughed a few years ago about them that just make me feel glum about now
And anyone with half a soul cries at the repair shop.
Only in the West where people play jokes on the afflicted.
There's plenty of this all around the world, Japanese game shows as a starter for ten.
To me it's more of a human condition than a cultural one
And anyone with half a soul cries at the repair shop.
I’m tempted to google this, but fear I may start crying. What is it?
**** wit seems safe so I shall continue to use it.
What is the repair shop? It's a shop, where they repair stuff. Well, more of a studio really, cos (apparently - and I learnt this off here) they don't charge anyone.
I got chastised elsewhere on the Internet the other day for using the word ‘moron.’ I replied that I’d no idea that this was problematic, asked why and asked what they suggest I use instead, but didn’t get an answer. Is moron problematic / offensive? I’ve no idea any more.
Moron was one of the words used to describe people of low IQ along with cretin which is why its now considered by some offensive
Its not ( IMO) really that offensive but perhaps best avoided.
How about using dimwit instead?
Tsn't that kinda meta? "Referring to an idiot as a 'moron' is offensive because it's traditionally a word that's been used to describe idiots."
I mean, calling someone an idiot is inherently offensive whatever words you use, it's an insult. There is no politically correct alternative. Calling someone a dimwit is unlikely to illicit a response of "oh hey, thanks!" (unless you're extremely correct in your assessment, I suppose).
At best what you're positing here is saying "You're a bloody idiot! (No offence intended to any other idiots who may be reading.)"
I shout "thrombus" at idiots in cars - its medicalese for "bloody clot"
“bloody clot”
Clot is a corruption of clodhopper, so your stereotypical slow-witted country bumpkin. It's clearly very offensive to farmers, you insensitive monster.
Dickhead it is then. Safest insult going. If it offends you, well, you’re clearly a dickhead.
Clearly offensive to the cranially phallused.
Minefield, isn't it.
pusillanimous MUCK-SPOUT!
Dickhead it is then.
In that case I prefer Funkhead
I once had a middle aged guy come into the shop looking for a bike, he asked me to help him decide, so i asked him the usual what type of riding etc, and he told me he was a spastic, i was genuinely surprised that it (WAS) actually a condition, I’d only ever heard the word used as an insult before then (1992 ish).
When i asked what actual difference that would make, he explained that he had limited movement in his joints, so i recommended a ladies frame, and we ended up getting him shorter cranks as well.
He was over the moon with it, so much that he actually contacted my boss singing my praises.
Ignorance isn’t always bad, it depends on the person i suppose.
Re: casual insults, on the one hand, it’s probably not personal, but on the other I guess it would wear me down too.
🙂
I can't think of any inoffensive insults!
I would cry if i had to watch the Repair shop....
For those of you who have not seen it here is a short synopsis...
Episode eleventeen
We found Grandads wooden leg in the attic, lets take it to the Repair shop, Nice Hipster gives it a coat of Briwax they all have a good cry....
Now you see why my other half hates my Aspergers self..
a right one airhead arse ass berk birdbrain blithering idiot blockhead blunderer bogan bonehead boob booby bozo bright spark buffoon bungler burk charlie child chinless wonder chump clod clot clown crackpot crank cretin cutup deadhead dickhead dimwit dingbat dipstick div divvy dolt doofus dope dork duffer dullard dumb-ass dumbbell dummy dunce dunderhead eejit fathead figure of fun flake flibbertigibbet fool frat boy galah gimp goof goofball goon goose half-wit headbanger headcase horse's ass hoser idiot ignoramus imbecile jackass jerk joker klutz knucklehead laughing stock lemon loser lug lummox lump mopoke moron mouth-breather mug muggins mugwump muppet mutt need need your head examined nincompoop ninny nit nitwit numbskull numpty numskull nut nut job nutcase nutter oaf peabrain peasant pillock pinhead pipsqueak plonker pooh-bah prat putz retard right rocket scientist sap scatterbrain schlub schmo schmuck shithead silly silly billy simpleton stupid thicko tit tosser troglodyte turkey twerp twirp twit wally wasteman wazzock zombie
Ok, education time, what's the origin of window licker, ironically it's a phrase I picked up on here. Always thought it was related to the idea that licking windows is a stupid thing to do, bit like licking a frozen metal lamp post or electric fence, hence the person doing it is stupid. Is there more to it then?
Ok, education time, what’s the origin of window licker, ironically it’s a phrase I picked up on here
It's something only a moron would do.
Interesting etymology of moron on the wikipedia page.
In that case I prefer Funkhead
😂 That just sounds like somebody that is really in to Funk. So a pretty apt description.
Some people dislike any insult that has an origin based in disability. Idiot, cretin, moron, imbecile
Fair enough, but what words can I use to describe our current government and Prime Minister then?
Ok, education time, what’s the origin of window licker
It’s a reference to mentally disabled kids and minibuses eg. the Variety Club Sunshine Bus.
What is the repair shop? It’s a shop, where they repair stuff.
Bit like Bagpuss then!
Fair enough, but what words can I use to describe our current government and Prime Minister then?
Bunch of incompetent ****s
I must admit this has made me reevaluate some of the language I use, I only asked my wife the other day if she was having a stroke over some daft thing. As said, intent is probably 99% of the insult but when you have to live with it the 1% still makes a difference I guess.
Only time I remember Joey being used as an insult was an episode of Spaced, I never even noticed it at the time. Also never knew the origins of flid.
What does annoy me are the people who lambast someone for using a term that has fallen out of use for so long that only an exceptionally bored English language student with an axe to grind could be insulted. See idiot, moron etc. There is a marked difference between these words and those that still recognisably describe a disability.
I think that we are currently in a time in the western world of extreme liberal* censorship of the arts and comedy, despite what some comedians claim. The trouble is there is now a breed of mainly American comedians who seem to have learned their "art" on the bottom half of the internet, who seem to think that just being shocking and/or triggering groups with ill informed bullying rants is comedy, and have actually forgotten to be funny.
I listened to a 5-10 minute monologue by Bill Bur on youtube "reasons to hit a women" which in a discussion might have raised a couple of reasonable points, but it wasn't funny, maybe it was just intended to shock but it wasn't shocking either, it was just misplaced in a so called comedy show, and just seems to exist to bait incels into his audience.
However I find the likes of Jimmy Carr or family guy, rather different, and while they may use subjects that some find sensitive as a framework for their comedy, they are clearly defined as jokes, and not intended to victimise. They mock themselves as much as anyone else, and they don't just punch down.
*and by liberal I mean actually very little censorship, not politically "Liberal" in the American right wing narrative.
Apologies for the offence caused by the video I posted. The episode in which Peter has a stroke is caused by him gorging on 30 burgers - the episode wasn't poking fun at people who have had strokes but mocking Peters irresponsible behaviour. However, I can see that video lacked that context. I would draw the line at posting that video and wouldn't consider posting a video mocking someone with an inherited disability, although I do see value in making light of acquired health issues as gallows humour can help humans process their own mortality.
Family Guy is full of gallows humour. After 10+_seasons of it I would have thought people would know that and either watch it because they are not offended by it (me) or stop watching it because they are offended by it or don't find it funny..
As for insults, there are not really any nice insults are there as that is sort of the point of insults...
It’s a reference to mentally disabled kids and minibuses eg. the Variety Club Sunshine Bus.
Thankyou, I did not know that and thought it's origins were more akin to what Jim said. I won't be using that phrase in future.
I agree with the sentiment of this thread, but in all honesty I can’t recall strokes ever being much the subject of joking and ridicule over the years. And backing up the earlier comment, surely nobody watches Family Guy without expecting it to push the line of humour near to / over the edge on a regular basis?
That said there are very funny comedies these days that are inclusive and tactful without losing their edge. Brooklyn Nine Nine springs to mind.
‘Stroker’ means w a n * * * where I’m from.
