parsizzle@piefed.social to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 3 months agoWhat slang term did you learn as a kid that is no longer in use?message-squaremessage-square133linkfedilinkarrow-up178arrow-down12
arrow-up176arrow-down1message-squareWhat slang term did you learn as a kid that is no longer in use?parsizzle@piefed.social to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square133linkfedilink
minus-squarefizzle@quokk.aulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22arrow-down1·3 months agoI really try not to say this out loud. Im mostly successful. Its deeply imprinted.
minus-squareobvs@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up12·3 months agoI’ve been hearing this a lot more within the last ~14 months.
minus-squareMonkeMischief@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up5·3 months ago“Everyone’s always asking me: ‘What are you doing, retard?’, but nobody ever asks 'How are you doing, retard?'”
minus-squareExistingConsumingSpace@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up4·3 months agoThat was very common when I was growing up. Unfortunately, it has been replaced with variations of autistic, though “anti-woke” people will use both.
minus-squareFrowingFostek@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down16·3 months agoEh, I use it for very stupid people. Obviously devoid of ableist intent. I feel as though the context matters with this. For the genuinely evil and criminally unintelligent I would use the clinical “Mentally retarded”. “Retard” and music (low volume) on buses are the controversial hills I’m willing to die on.
minus-squarephdepressed@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up27arrow-down2·3 months agoPick better hills.
minus-squareFrowingFostek@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down6·3 months agoMaybe later, for now I have petty culturally unpopular positions that I will maintain. They are few but they are mine.
Retard.
I really try not to say this out loud. Im mostly successful. Its deeply imprinted.
I’ve been hearing this a lot more within the last ~14 months.
“Everyone’s always asking me: ‘What are you doing, retard?’, but nobody ever asks 'How are you doing, retard?'”
How are you doing retard?
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That was very common when I was growing up. Unfortunately, it has been replaced with variations of autistic, though “anti-woke” people will use both.
Eh, I use it for very stupid people. Obviously devoid of ableist intent.
I feel as though the context matters with this. For the genuinely evil and criminally unintelligent I would use the clinical “Mentally retarded”.
“Retard” and music (low volume) on buses are the controversial hills I’m willing to die on.
Pick better hills.
Maybe later, for now I have petty culturally unpopular positions that I will maintain. They are few but they are mine.