To be fair retarded means slowed or delayed so how many times was anon retarded in getting to work?
That’s it, calling in retarded to work tomorrow.
I’m retarded at work every day!
I’m retarded as I type this
Really changes the theme to Black Eyed Peas - Let’s Get Retarded
they were just asking everyone to chill out and relax
I’m gonna tell people who need to chill to get retarded .
It would be funny if the song got slower and slower
You’re asking too much from them
Wow. I really thought that was going to be a misheard lyric video or parody. Had no idea.
retarded means tardy again. If you’re late once, you’re tardy. Do it again and you’re retarded.
I never actually understood why retarded was used by mechanics when a car wasn’t running right “The timing on this is a bit retarded” but now I know. Thank you
surprisingly the opposite is advanced timing, protarded isn’t a word.
There is retrograde <> prograde but only Kerbal players know what it means ;)Not really surprising. That last part “tard” comes from the Latin tardus which basically means slow or late. The “re” particle originally just had a meaning of repetition, in this case. So being late (not for the first time? ) So changing the first part of the word wouldn’t change the meaning of it so easily. Maybe technically something like “intard” could make sense in that way (similarly as what you find in words like indomitable, impossible, ineffective etc), but it doesn’t really exist. Or if we want to make it more meme-like, tarden’t?
Protarded actually exists as a slang with completely different meaning, but that’s out of scope
Overall useless information for most, but anyway
Protarded actually exists as a slang
Interesting. Always new stuff to be learned.
There’s also a thing called a retarder built into lorries and other heavy vehicles so they don’t melt their brake pads, think engine breaking as the basic version, add special engineering sauce and you get something that is good at slowing stuff down without burning up, but not good at all at arresting it in place. The term is also used with railroads but those are actual breaks. Similar to the ones you see on roller-coasters.
I was just on a trip to France with my brother who doesn’t speak French. He was quite amused by all the signs that said retard, like when a train was running late. I speak French so it was utterly normal for me
Turns out anon was pretty tardy after all…
Uhh I think you mean tardish
the dr. who thing?
Anon is slower on the inside.
Fucking LOL while scrolling next to sleeping wife. You bastard.
If they’d ever cast Sean Connery as the Doctor.
Op IS tardy.
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What about them?
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I don’t think you’re allowed to cook them.The chef says to keep your damn regards out of the kitchen, he’s trying to cook.
Ding! Fries are done!
My retards.
What is tardy supposed to mean?
For normal people, to be late to something.
For this guy, the R slur against those with learning disorders.
you know this is the internet and you are allowed to type whatever you want, right? let me show you: “retarded”
“whatever you want”… they wanted to be a respectful person.
Is saying the word retarded without calling some it disrespectful? Is it now a trigger word? I’m genuinely wondering. Because when we were growing up we used the word EVERYWHERE. It was as common as saying “fricken”
It’s a slur, that’s why. Some slurs are major slurs that are considered offensive even when it’s not referring to someone, and I think this is one of them. They’re often forbidden because of it, and a lot of people find it easier to follow universal rules than to check the rules of each place they post, because the universal rules will keep you in the clear 95% of the time. And even if not, it’s still respectable to not want to use slurs.
And yeah, it did used to be a lot more common. And before that, it was a medical term. That’s the way it goes, we have a word to insult people’s intelligence, doctors deal with patients who have a disorder causing that, they don’t want to use the mean word to refer to the patients, they come up with a new word for it, the word gets out, and then everyone makes it a new word to insult intelligence. Though this one seems to be taking a different track because it hit modern sensibilities, and at the same time I think doctors now know better than to come up with a new word for mental deficiencies.
And yeah, it did used to be a lot more common. And before that, it was a medical term.
It’s the euphemism treadmill in action.
That’s what it’s called, okay. I didn’t remember the term.
We used LOTS of words then that are now not ok to use. Growing as individuals and groups is a good thing, being attentive to others is a good thing, understanding that you see no offence to a word where others do and changing that behaviour betters everyone.
Nah, speech police is just a disguised form of fascism.
Dude, I don’t think you understand what fascism is about. Telling someone something is wrong isn’t fascism or saying murder is wrong would be fascism.
People used to use the n-word all the time, so it must be perfectly OK to say!
This is the exact same argument. It doesn’t work, right? Why would it here? Sure, there may (I doubt it, but I’ll leave the possibility open) be other reasons why it’s OK to say, but throw that argument out.
The n-word did not have any other definitions. Something that is retarded is merely delayed or slowed down usually in the context of some task.
It did though? It was used for black things. The word literally means black.
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Were the insults necessary or did they add anything useful to your comment?
As for the actual question in your comment, though your quick follow-up to insults suggests you meant it as a rhetorical question and just wanted to assume they were doing the same thing as they were criticizing, “fricken” (or “friggen”) was used in many cases by kids who were scared of getting in trouble for using “real” swear words. Which was the whole point of that comment: kids who were afraid to really swear casually used “retard” and many adults who would lose their shit over “fucking” didn’t bat an eye at “retard”. And even when they did, it was because of the insult to the one called “retard”. If anyone brought up mentally disabled people, it was more about furthering the insult rather than actually caring how they felt.
The other said what needed to be said. Do you talk to anyone the way you do? You do realize you’re talking to real people with real life experiences. And if you used any critical thought you’d understand the innocence of using the word “fricken” or “friggen” in my comment was to illustrate that in our child community growing up, we used the retard word along with that. And it was almost never used to call someone that, it was used to call a situation that. Like “that’s retarded let’s not do that”.
And yeah I don’t use that word anymore as an adult.
Yeah you’re not supposed to even say “my son’s reading skills are somewhat retarded but we hope he can catch up to his peers”. Or “Progess on Trump’s border wall has been retarded for various reasons.”
No kidding
“IDGI, this person has the option to be the worst version of themselves. Why dont they choose to do that?!? Also why does noone want to be around me? Could it be that marinating my brains in a writhing compost of clapbacks and dunks is desensitizing me to my own dehumanizing? No. Clearly this is because woke.”
Not everyone with learning disorders is retarded.
Late.
Late.
It comes from Latin tardus = slow
or in french, plus tard
Je suis en retard
I still cackle like a twelve year old every time that comes up in Duolingo.
Slow, with cheese
You’re thinking of TARDIS, the time machine.
I’m glad the re-boot didnt call it the re-TARDIS.
Mass censorship is very cool and definitely not a stepping stone to an authoritarian hellscape.
The idea that moderating slurs on an online forum is a stepping stone to an authoritarian hellscape really requires a special kind of brain worms
I got an instance ban from ML for two weeks because they treat “tankie” like some sort of slur.
slur_filter_regex":"(fag(g|got|tard)?\\b|cock\\s?sucker(s|ing)?|ni((g{2,}|q)+|[gq]{2,})[e3r]+(s|z)?|mudslime?s?|kikes?|\\bspi(c|k)s?\\b|\\bchinks?|gooks?|bitch(es|ing|y)?|whor(es?|ing)|\\btr(a|@)nn?(y|ies?)|\\b(b|re|r)tard(ed)?s?)",Man, regex is really not the tool for the job here is it?
What? it looks fine to me, outside of the general difficulty of reading regex. I mean, it’s not meant to be readable, it’s meant to catch all the different spellings if what they want to filter and do so.
outside of the general difficulty of reading regex
That’s sorta my point, the complexity of regex isn’t really warranted where a simple blocklist would suffice
bbrertardeds?
Depends on what is being censored. Hate speech? Censor the shit out of it. Sexual stuff? Not needed.
Nope. Completely missed the point.
What is unspoken there is that censorship is always based on good intentions such as yours. People trying to censor sex are trying to do the same thing you’re trying to do with censoring hate speech.
“Only censoring the bad stuff” is not the solution here. It’s the source of the problem.
Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master.
Automated censorship is never a good thing.
Now that’s rtarded
tardy
What’s hilarious about that place is you can type removed and they can’t tell the difference between that and a slur being blanked out by the system.
I’m retarded to work almost every day
That’s okay because we’re having a fire retardant door installed. Once it’s in, you’re outta there bud
anon is too smart for the quicktime event
Anon is a retard. Also why did that word go out of style? I know damn well it’s because it was abused but by definition:
to delay or impede the development or progress of : to slow up especially by preventing or hindering advance or accomplishment
It’s a fair critique. We need to stop this PC bullshit. I’m saying this as a father of two children in the spectrum and neither of them are retards.
It’s not about being PC, it’s about how the word is used. There’s nothing wrong with the word as it’s defined, but when it becomes a common insult it becomes less acceptable. Just like any other swear word.
If my name ever becomes a commonly used insult, what then?
Any word can become an insult. It’s time to take some words back. We have to actively correct misused words. It may make a difference.
I don’t get the obsession with reintroducing negatively charged words into the common language. Isn’t english a rich enough language that there’s an abundance of substitutes for words?
You may invent words as long as you like, but those words can definitely become corrupted as well. It will be an endless cycle.
The only way to stop that is to put our feet down and correct the misuse.
Look at something written 500 years ago. 100 years ago. 50 years ago. Language changes all the time, and there is no stopping that. Yep, language is an endless cycle of switching out common words and adapting to social rules. I’d highly reccommend to follow that flow instead of trying to bring back the “good old days” when n-words and r-words were common and accepted.
The guy is talking about an accepted phenomenon called the euphemism treadmill. Look it up.
You know what? I bite my thumb at you, sir.
Well queer used to be an insult but the LBGTQ+ community reclaimed it. First though, some time needs to pass and afterwards the community that was targeted needs to decide to want to use the word.
Good luck with that. Let us all know when you’ve solved a problem intrinsic to human nature so we can let you cure greed next.
OP lied in his interview. Always bad form to lie in an interview.
OP was clearly Tardy.
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Everyone else in school was collecting good grades, while I was collecting tardigrades.
I don’t feel tardy.
