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I got it! If the current word du jour for being retarded (truly--not just acting that way) is Intellectually Disabled, or id for short, well id is also short for idiot, in which case we've come full circle back to where we started. However, I can't see myself calling my favorite little retarded kids "idiots" b/c I save that word for the bad drivers who try to kill me daily. So I'll just call them special, b/c that's what they are to me--very, very special.
And please remember to celebrate the Administrative Assistant's Day. No, you can't call them secretaries any more.
I started my job as a stenographer. Two years later they changed my title to secretary. Stenographer just wasn't cutting it anymore. Secretary was a more desired term. This was in the early '80s. An administration assistant at that time was more of a lower management position.
I love to use words like retarded, or Black, or Indian. I prefer them to mentaly challenged, African American or native American. I hate political correctness, and I refuse to allow some nannystate liberal to tell me what words are offensive and what is not. I simply use these words in defiance of the easily offended of the world who feel they have the right to tell me how I am to talk, and even think. The word retarded is not an insult, but a description of a mental condition, and black is not an insult but a word commonly used to describe someones race as being of African decent. No matter what some liberal preaching from the ivory towers says, no one is gauranteed the right to not be offended.
To the OP: The words "Grown adults" in your thread title is a needless and awkward repetition. An adult is, by definition, someone who is grown.
Technically, that's correct. Unfortunately, sometimes you need the overkill, in order to make sure you're not confronted by an adult who, while grown with respect to age and physical development, behaves in a fashion that might be called immature...or, considering this thread, retarded.
I love to use words like retarded, or Black, or Indian. I prefer them to mentaly challenged, African American or native American. I hate political correctness, and I refuse to allow some nannystate liberal to tell me what words are offensive and what is not. I simply use these words in defiance of the easily offended of the world who feel they have the right to tell me how I am to talk, and even think. The word retarded is not an insult, but a description of a mental condition, and black is not an insult but a word commonly used to describe someones race as being of African decent. No matter what some liberal preaching from the ivory towers says, no one is gauranteed the right to not be offended.
I sometimes use the word Mongoloid as well,It's not as bad as Moron or Imbecile.
I sometimes use the word Mongoloid as well,It's not as bad as Moron or Imbecile.
I hear mongoloid and think of Ghengis Khan and a million bad-ass mounted warriors conquering the world.
Not someone you want to mess with, in other words. Kinda like calling someone you don't like a Navy Seal or an effin' Spetsnaz. It just feels awkward.
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