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    Image of SpicyMeatball SpicyMeatball
    03/31/09

    In reply to Anti-'Retard' Campaign Kicks Off Tuesday
    This is not going to work for me. It's the only adjective I know.
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    Image of BxgrlJeri BxgrlJeri
    03/31/09

    In reply to Anti-'Retard' Campaign Kicks Off Tuesday
    When I went to school in California the r-words were very non PC. When I came back to NYC, every other person called every other person a retard (ah, home sweet home!). I think it would have a hard time dying in NY and Boston. Those are like the state mottos of those two places. Except one says it with an r in the middle and one does not.
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    Image of CodePink CodePink
    03/31/09

    In reply to Anti-'Retard' Campaign Kicks Off Tuesday
    Can I still say "fahkin retahded", though? If I drop my r's, it's not my fault.
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    03/31/09

    @CodePink: You shouldn't be saying "fahkin retahded" anyway.


    The correct term is "wicked retahded".


    Usage: "Sully's inbred cousin from Cranston is wicked retahded. I sweah, Janey ain't got taste in men. I give her two weeks before she shows up cryin' with her ahm in a sling."

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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    03/31/09

    In reply to Anti-'Retard' Campaign Kicks Off Tuesday
    I'd believe them more if they hadn't endorsed that Johnny Knoxville movie, The Ringer.
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    Image of mickinthemorning mickinthemorning
    03/31/09

    In reply to Anti-'Retard' Campaign Kicks Off Tuesday
    good luck with this in Massachusetts.
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    Image of Sarcastro Sarcastro
    03/31/09

    @mickinthemorning: You're wicked developmentally challenged.
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    Image of BxgrlJeri BxgrlJeri
    03/31/09

    @mickinthemorning: @SteverMan: wicked retahded is the default thing to say in MA when nothing else will quite do.


    I find it disturbingly charming.

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    Image of Rumpelstilskin Rumpelstilskin
    03/31/09

    In reply to Anti-'Retard' Campaign Kicks Off Tuesday
    Can inaminate objects and situations be retarded? Pleaaaaase?
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    Image of DevilsAvocado DevilsAvocado
    03/31/09

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    Well, that's done it. What on earth am I supposed to say when I'm running late in France now?
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    Image of DahlELama DahlELama
    03/31/09

    @DevilsAvocado: I once took one of those really sketchy RyanAir flights from the creepy "Paris" airport, and shortly after our arrival, they announced that our flight "has been retarded." To this day, it might be my favorite travel memory.
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    Image of ragold ragold
    03/31/09

    @DevilsAvocado: La merd!
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    Image of DevilsAvocado DevilsAvocado
    03/31/09

    @DahlELama:


    They weren't simply passing judgement on the passengers' collective level of maturity?

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    Image of DevilsAvocado DevilsAvocado
    03/31/09

    @ragold:


    Le purrrr.... le miaow.

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    Image of Botswana Meat Commission FC Botswana Meat Commission FC
    03/31/09

    In reply to Anti-'Retard' Campaign Kicks Off Tuesday
    Can we bring back "mongoloid"? How about cretin?
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    Image of Sarcastro Sarcastro
    03/31/09

    In reply to Anti-'Retard' Campaign Kicks Off Tuesday
    Retardo Montelban?
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    Image of lobstr lobstr
    03/31/09

    In reply to Anti-'Retard' Campaign Kicks Off Tuesday
    ryan, sir, it was bowling, not basketball...


    just sayin...

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    Image of saintjim saintjim
    03/31/09

    In reply to Anti-'Retard' Campaign Kicks Off Tuesday
    You know, it was not that long ago that the words "idiot," "imbecile," and "moron" were precise medical terms indicating differing degrees of disability. (Morons were the smartest of the stupid.)


    But the general public was using the designations as epithets, and it became increasingly uncomfortable for medical professionals to do a battery of tests and then announce to the parents that their son was officially an imbecile.


    Thus leading to the popularizing of the once-esoteric term "mental retardation." But nowadays even kindergarteners know the meaning of that phrase, so it's time for a new euphemism: "developmentally disabled."


    It is, if you'll forgive me, something of a fool's errand. How long do you think it will take before schoolyards are ringing with kids screaming "you dis-abe!"

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    Image of Shelwood Shelwood
    03/31/09

    @saintjim: Too late. Disabled, along with special and mentally challenged, is already being slung about as a slur. Developmentally disabled does seem to be above the syllable threshold for slurs, but it's easily confused with the broader, existing developmental disorder categorization that already exists. We need a really long, hard to pronounce word that isn't too similar to something in use.
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    Image of skahammer skahammer
    03/31/09

    @Shelwood: "Huckabee"?
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    Image of Shelwood Shelwood
    03/31/09

    @skahammer: Perfect.
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    Image of belltolls belltolls
    03/31/09

    In reply to Anti-'Retard' Campaign Kicks Off Tuesday
    No, it was his picks for the NCAA Final Four that were retarded.
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    Image of Monkeyrash Monkeyrash
    03/31/09

    In reply to Anti-'Retard' Campaign Kicks Off Tuesday
    (pssst, Ryan, it was bowling)
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    Image of contradicto contradicto
    03/31/09

    In reply to Anti-'Retard' Campaign Kicks Off Tuesday
    So what is the correct word? Or am I too retarded to know?
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    Image of Monkeyrash Monkeyrash
    03/31/09

    @contradicto: Retart. Then you're only insulting small pies.
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    Image of jasonelias jasonelias
    03/31/09

    @contradicto: It's developmentally disabled. All the kids are saying it!
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    Image of Botswana Meat Commission FC Botswana Meat Commission FC
    03/31/09

    @contradicto:

    Extremely Specially Gifted Blessings from Baby Jesus.
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    Image of contradicto contradicto
    03/31/09

    @Monkeyrash: @jasonelias: @Arceus: @Botswana Meat Commission FC: Those are all retarded.
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