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ishikabibble posted:It's actually kind of funny in a sad way, as 'development delay' literally is the same thing as 'developmentally retarded'. 'Retard', by actual definition, means 'delay', and you still hear it used that way in certain places. Like when dealing with older cars, the phrase 'advance or retard the ignition' frequently comes up. there was a thing briefly where some magic the gathering players tried to get the french version of the card "delay" banned because it of course was called "retard"
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Torquemada posted:Doug Stanhope has a bit about how moron, idiot and imbecile were terms for specific degrees of developmental delay a hundred years ago, and were happily co-opted as insults until the advent of retarded as a new term, swiftly appropriated etc. ad infinitium Ron Howard Voice: It was Arrested Development.
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This conversation reminds me of how 'spastic' and 'spaz out' are horrible slurs in the UK and it's deeply weird how casually they get thrown around in American English.
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HopperUK posted:This conversation reminds me of how 'spastic' and 'spaz out' are horrible slurs in the UK and it's deeply weird how casually they get thrown around in American English. did you think about that while smoking a fag
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HopperUK posted:This conversation reminds me of how 'spastic' and 'spaz out' are horrible slurs in the UK and it's deeply weird how casually they get thrown around in American English. TBF I don't think I've ever seen the words used in relation to muscle spasms or people with cerebral palsy. I think they're just thought of as another word for "weirdo" over here. I doubt most people even make the connection.
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Alaois posted:did you think about that while smoking a fag I thought about it, but that's arguably different since the non-slur meaning of "human being" long predates it and cigarettes are an extension of that usage, but "spaz" really only has origins as a disparaging term.
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Oh I know most people don't mean anything bad by it, it's just startling.
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The reason it's distinctly UK is that the organisation to help mentally and physically disabled people used to be called the "Spastic Society" in the UK - however, spastic of course started to be used as a slur like all those terms do, so they renamed it Scope. Now it's been called that ever since and spastic has gone completely out of fashion because of what it was turned into.
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HopperUK posted:This conversation reminds me of how 'spastic' and 'spaz out' are horrible slurs in the UK and it's deeply weird how casually they get thrown around in American English. never ever ever call a canadian a goof or goofy, because that means they are a pedophile
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Jun 23, 2021 22:10
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Arivia posted:never ever ever call a canadian a goof or goofy, because that means they are a pedophile This show is banned in Canada https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goof_Troop
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Is that where the "IT'S GOOFY TIME" meme comes from? Actually, I don't want to know. AceOfFlames has a new favorite as of 22:25 on Jun 23, 2021 |
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When I get life in prison for horrible crimes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUL5w91dzbo
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BioEnchanted posted:The reason it's distinctly UK is that the organisation to help mentally and physically disabled people used to be called the "Spastic Society" in the UK - however, spastic of course started to be used as a slur like all those terms do, so they renamed it Scope. Now it's been called that ever since and spastic has gone completely out of fashion because of what it was turned into. "Retarded" was ultimately on that track too but thanks to the dipshits running Rick and Morty literally stopping their show midstream to talk about how awful it is to label retardation a pejorative (and that it's the fault of "powerful people") basically an entire generation of edgy teens see it as loaded and live. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOBoKxEcVAA The real irony here is that Harmon is out as on the spectrum, if Roiland isn't then I'm a monkey's uncle, and they've even gone so far as to imply the character Rick is too. I know that later episodes of this cartoon have tried to gently backpedal empowering the absolute worst types of dudes, but this one in-particular has aged really really badly.
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:When I get life in prison for horrible crimes: With a rebel yell, he cried gawrsh gawrsh gawrsh
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Arivia posted:never ever ever call a canadian a goof or goofy, because that means they are a pedophile As a Canadian…huh?
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Phylodox posted:As a Canadian…huh? Yeah that's not really a true statement except... in prison! A couple of my friends work at the jail and one of them told me exactly that, that it means pedo among prisoners and presumably that trickles out into the real world as they get out. So I guess be careful who you call a "fuckin goof" up here.
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Diet Poison posted:Yeah that's not really a true statement except... in prison! A couple of my friends work at the jail and one of them told me exactly that, that it means pedo among prisoners and presumably that trickles out into the real world as they get out. So I guess be careful who you call a "fuckin goof" up here. Yeah, I was generalizing instead of telling the thread how to check for terminal hoser-dom.
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I feel like an apology would go pretty far in Canada relative to the rest of the anglophone world, though.
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Diet Poison posted:Yeah that's not really a true statement except... in prison! A couple of my friends work at the jail and one of them told me exactly that, that it means pedo among prisoners and presumably that trickles out into the real world as they get out. So I guess be careful who you call a "fuckin goof" up here. It's been west coast slang for one for, two decades at least? I can't be positive the first time I heard it used in that context, but it' has been for a while.
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Jun 23, 2021 23:11
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:I feel like an apology would go pretty far in Canada relative to the rest of the anglophone world, though. Calling someone a goof is basically instant grounds for being attacked among the kind of people who use it as slang/an accusation. It's a serious enough accusation you don't get the opportunity to apologize.
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What's the Canadian prison etiquette for if someone calls you late to dinner?
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Crowetron posted:What's the Canadian prison etiquette for if someone calls you late to dinner? Shanked with a sharpened poutine fry
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HopperUK posted:This conversation reminds me of how 'spastic' and 'spaz out' are horrible slurs in the UK and it's deeply weird how casually they get thrown around in American English. Oh, dear.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tfLWVqZ2I8
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HopperUK posted:This conversation reminds me of how 'spastic' and 'spaz out' are horrible slurs in the UK and it's deeply weird how casually they get thrown around in American English. 
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HopperUK posted:This conversation reminds me of how 'spastic' and 'spaz out' are horrible slurs in the UK and it's deeply weird how casually they get thrown around in American English. Of course there is a regional variation in the United States of the term package store, meaning a liquor store, that shortens it to "packy," which I feel would be received differently in the UK.
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Weird, I don't remember that scene from Reservoir Dogs....
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:Of course there is a regional variation in the United States of the term package store, meaning a liquor store, that shortens it to "packy," which I feel would be received differently in the UK. Consider it a tradeoff for what they call cigarettes.
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Canada calls electricity hydro. It’s a mad land with no rules
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kupachek posted:It's been west coast slang for one for, two decades at least? Aw gently caress, seriously? I use Goofus as a screen name basically everywhere but SA and I just moved to Vancouver last month...
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Gallant dutifully studies and respects the small but important cultural differences between the US and Canada before visiting. Goofus- GOOD LORD GOOFUS NO
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:Canada calls electricity hydro. It’s a mad land with no rules eeeeeeehhhhhhh that's only in parts of the country where the majority of the power grid is dependent on hydro, though upon reflection that does make up probably 80% of the population but we definitely don't call it "hydro" here in my backward-rear end province
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Ive heard goof used to mean pedo and im from Texas but its definitely not the same frequency and if you called someone a goof they would most likely not think of that.
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Hardcordion posted:Aw gently caress, seriously? I just moved to Vancouver last month... Yeah, unfortunately. You moved just in time for the heatwave, so stay hydrated and safe. Hope you have AC or at least some good fans.
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:Of course there is a regional variation in the United States of the term package store, meaning a liquor store, that shortens it to "packy," which I feel would be received differently in the UK. If you're ever in the UK, please never refer to any place of business, especially a convenience store, as a "packy shop" 😬
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bitterandtwisted posted:If you're ever in the UK, please never refer to any place of business, especially a convenience store, as a "packy shop" 😬 I don’t think that exact mixup would happen, since it’s not a “packy shop”, just a “packy”
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Ugly In The Morning posted:I don’t think that exact mixup would happen, since it’s not a “packy shop”, just a “packy” That's racist slang for a person of Pakistani origin in the UK (though since racists are dumb as gently caress it gets used on basically everyone Not From Round Ere)
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Ugly In The Morning posted:I don’t think that exact mixup would happen, since it’s not a “packy shop”, just a “packy” The shop thing does exist in colloquial UK English, although I don't think you'll hear many people use it, for the obvious reasons.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:I don’t think that exact mixup would happen, since it’s not a “packy shop”, just a “packy” I mean, what you'd say in the Greater Boston area is: I am going to the packie/packy.
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