Random Thoughts — Page 462

imperialscum said:

Tyrphanax said:

imperialscum said:

Tyrphanax said:

“Gay” used to just mean “happy” in English. Now it doesn’t. Language is fluid.

Gay still means happy in addition to now more common informal use for homosexual person.

Moron was originally defined as a psychology term for “a person of mild mental retardation” in certain IQ range. While the new informal meaning doesn’t relate to the technical term in psychology, it still means stupid person nevertheless.

Does society at large use either of those words in that context anymore? Not really.

Nevertheless, unlike “gay”, “moron” in the new context has almost identical meaning as the original definition.

I’ve never seen it used in a psychological context in my life. I don’t think anyone does. I didn’t even know that’s where the word originated before today.

I guess you could probably trace all insults to the intelligence to a time that they were meant to refer to those with mental disabilities (in either a derogatory or psychological context), but, again, language is a fluid thing.

TV’s Frink said:

Jeebus said:

TV’s Frink said:

I wonder if “that Hebrew shit” might have been clearly offensive to certain people who are Jewish?

I see no way that it could’ve been offensive. yhwx is incredibly close to the Hebrew name for God, so I asked if his name was ‘Hebrew shit’.

Clearly I can’t explain it to you. As a Jew, I was offended.

Yeah, regardless of what you might have meant, Jeebus, I don’t think using the word “shit” in that context was the right choice. Kinda like saying “oh is that some black person shit?” Shit is generally used to refer to bad things.

I doubt it was intentional, but it was a poor choice.

Jeebus… Is that some sort atheist shit?

Is that some sort Jesus shit?

Tyrphanax said:

TV’s Frink said:

Jeebus said:

TV’s Frink said:

I wonder if “that Hebrew shit” might have been clearly offensive to certain people who are Jewish?

I see no way that it could’ve been offensive. yhwx is incredibly close to the Hebrew name for God, so I asked if his name was ‘Hebrew shit’.

Clearly I can’t explain it to you. As a Jew, I was offended.

Yeah, regardless of what you might have meant, Jeebus, I don’t think using the word “shit” in that context was the right choice. Kinda like saying “oh is that some black person shit?” Shit is generally used to refer to bad things.

Well your “black person” analogy was very bad. A proper analogy would be “oh is that some English (language) shit?”.

Jeebus said:

TV’s Frink said:

Jeebus…is that some Christian shit?

I would interpret that as asking if my name has something to do with Christianity, or is a reference to Chrstianity. And I would reply “no, it’s in part a Simpsons reference, and also an inside joke I had with my friends.”

Is the issue with the word shit? Because I could’ve used stuff, if you prefer.

If you just stepped in dog poo, you wouldn’t say:

I stepped in some dog facile matter.

You might say:

I stepped in some dog shit.

Some contexts are different than others. Saying ‘shit’ in front of a religion name is incredibly offensive. So, yes, I would prefer that you say ‘stuff.’

TV’s Frink said:

I tell you guys what, if “moron” is offensive, I apologize and will do my best to no longer use it. I’m assuming “idiot” is offensive as well, so I will try not to use that either.

I assume “of limited intelligence” is ok, right? I’m assuming so because that’s impscum’s favorite and he never says anything wrong.

Well the huge difference between you and me is that I am not offended when other people do what I do. You on the other hand are a hypocrite. You say/do things to people and at the same time you get offended (or even worse, you claim it is offensive to a specific group of people) when other people say/do the same things to you.

imperialscum said:

TV’s Frink said:

I tell you guys what, if “moron” is offensive, I apologize and will do my best to no longer use it. I’m assuming “idiot” is offensive as well, so I will try not to use that either.

I assume “of limited intelligence” is ok, right? I’m assuming so because that’s impscum’s favorite and he never says anything wrong.

Well the difference between you and me is that I am not offended when other people do what I do. You on the other hand are a hypocrite. You say/do things to people and at the same time you get offended (or even worse, you claim it is offensive to a specific group of people) when other people say/do the same things to you.

So I’m gonna ask for some examples. . . .

TV’s Frink said:

I tell you guys what, if “moron” is offensive, I apologize and will do my best to no longer use it. I’m assuming “idiot” is offensive as well, so I will try not to use that either.

Thank you for finally acknowledging that.

yhwx said:

imperialscum said:

TV’s Frink said:

I tell you guys what, if “moron” is offensive, I apologize and will do my best to no longer use it. I’m assuming “idiot” is offensive as well, so I will try not to use that either.

I assume “of limited intelligence” is ok, right? I’m assuming so because that’s impscum’s favorite and he never says anything wrong.

Well the difference between you and me is that I am not offended when other people do what I do. You on the other hand are a hypocrite. You say/do things to people and at the same time you get offended (or even worse, you claim it is offensive to a specific group of people) when other people say/do the same things to you.

So I’m gonna ask for some examples. . . .

http://originaltrilogy.com/user/TVs-Frink/id/6930

imperialscum said:

yhwx said:

imperialscum said:

TV’s Frink said:

I tell you guys what, if “moron” is offensive, I apologize and will do my best to no longer use it. I’m assuming “idiot” is offensive as well, so I will try not to use that either.

I assume “of limited intelligence” is ok, right? I’m assuming so because that’s impscum’s favorite and he never says anything wrong.

Well the difference between you and me is that I am not offended when other people do what I do. You on the other hand are a hypocrite. You say/do things to people and at the same time you get offended (or even worse, you claim it is offensive to a specific group of people) when other people say/do the same things to you.

So I’m gonna ask for some examples. . . .

http://originaltrilogy.com/user/TVs-Frink/id/6930

That doesn’t work.

Jeebus said:

yhwx said:

Jeebus said:

TV’s Frink said:

Jeebus…is that some Christian shit?

I would interpret that as asking if my name has something to do with Christianity, or is a reference to Chrstianity. And I would reply “no, it’s in part a Simpsons reference, and also an inside joke I had with my friends.”

Is the issue with the word shit? Because I could’ve used stuff, if you prefer.

If you just stepped in dog poo, you wouldn’t say:

I stepped in some dog facile matter.

You might say:

I stepped in some dog shit.

Some contexts are different than others. Saying ‘shit’ in front of a religion name is incredibly offensive. So, yes, I would prefer that you say ‘stuff.’

Okay, so the issue was with ‘shit’.

I didn’t mean it that way, I guess I’m just very loose with my swear words.

Yeah, this is what I assumed happened. Just a slip.

TV’s Frink said:

Dek Rollins said:

TV’s Frink said:

I tell you guys what, if “moron” is offensive, I apologize and will do my best to no longer use it. I’m assuming “idiot” is offensive as well, so I will try not to use that either.

Thank you for finally acknowledging that.

You’re welcome. Now can you answer my question?

Umm… what question?

I hope so.