Admins can see people who are in invisimode and they’re literally half the site so invisimode is basically useless. Don’t use invisimode. It’s stupid and makes no sense.
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Admins can see people who are in invisimode and they’re literally half the site so invisimode is basically useless. Don’t use invisimode. It’s stupid and makes no sense.
Hear hear. And if someone calls you out for lurking with invismode off, vote them and continue to lurk.
admins being able to see invisimode was disabled a long time ago
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My mom works with special education children. As such, I take offense to the usage of the word "retard" here. Next time, can you say
"Invisimode shouldn't be used. Here's why".
Thanks.
I take offense at the term ‘special education’. Retarded people have the same right to education as everyone else!
I once spent a day watching videos of a, according to him, retarded guy. I found him to be quite lovely.
It'd be cooler if the word unfriendly would be more insulting to people than words like retarded or dumb.
Also, I had a friend who took an online IQ test and got a result somewhere around the 60s. Made me think that IQ tests are either unreliable or overrated because he is quite the capable individual.
They do though. Special education students get more resources from the government to be educated. And some of them are delightful students.Quote:
Originally Posted by Oberon
It's sad to see that you don't care about common decency to all people and are instead making jokes.
How tall is this friend?Quote:
Originally Posted by OzyWho
Also IMO the word "loser" stings quite a bit more than "retard". If you get called a dork-ass loser shit cuts deep, man.
Damn, I didn’t know you had friends among the mentally handicapped!Quote:
Originally Posted by S-FM Magoroth
Unfriendly people can be very nice and simply not welcoming "by default", but I don't think you meant that was horrible, so yes.Quote:
Originally Posted by OzyWho
Also, retarded or dumb is something that can perfectly apply to ideas. If something is wrong and caused by something obviously wrong, it's dumb (or retarded, or stupid, or moronic, etc.), and it shouldn't be shameful to state it. You're not calling someone stupid, you're calling what they did stupid. That's like when you laugh about something ridiculous when it happens: you're not laughing at the person, but rather at the event. If you're laughing at the person, then that's where you're wrong.
Being retarded doesn't make you an inferior human being. It simply makes you less able to do things than other people, but it doesn't make you "a worse person". Dumb people can be very nice. And by the way, I'm not talking out of my ass, I have family that's very literally retarded, clinically speaking. That doesn't make them any less good people.
So if we could stop saying that calling something retarded is horrible and instead start advocating for not looking down upon dumb people as human beings, we'd be making a great step forward instead of stalling and rabbling about pointless things.
If an idea can be retarded then so too can people. Ideas don’t appear out of thin air. In any event regardless of how much people bitch about the word retarded it’s not going anywhere. 99% of the time when people say ‘retarded’ they don’t literally mean the person is mentally handicapped. In common parlance, it’s a synonym for idiot, moron, dumbass ect. The only reason people are attacking the word abd sayibg something as delusional as ‘when you call me retarded you’re actually disrespectinf retarded people’ is because they feel themselves to be dumb and hate you for reminding them of their own stupidity :weed:
Really? When you laugh at someone else doing something dumb you’re not laughiny at then? Why do people feel hurt when you do it then? :)
Also online IQ tests... are meaningless. I could literally make a website and create some quiz for it and call it an IQ test. They’re as reliable as those dumb tests you see online that tell you if you have some psychiatric disorder.
If your friend actually had an IQ of 60 he would be incapable of crossing the street on his own, and would likely not be able to wipe the drool off his chin either. Seeing as he can access the Internet and take an IQ test... yeah I don’t think his IQ is 60.
Truth hurts.
This thread convinced me to stop saying "retarded" once and for all.
My mum taught me the surest way of telling you won an argument is when ppl start using underhanded ways to attack you :)Quote:
Originally Posted by oops_ur_dead
For the foreign speakers, I'll say the word "retard" sounds quite strong to a native ear, or at least it does to me. It's not comparable to "idiot" or "dumbass" at all. And that's in spite of being rather desensitized to it by my school's culture. I imagine foreign speakers experience the word predominantly through the internet subculture where everything goes so it may not have the same ring.
Unlike the word dumbass or idiot, the word retard was very specifically a way of calling someone mentally handicapped. It'd often come with a mock imitation of someone who had down syndrome or something. In fact, I saw it specifically used against someone who'd taken brain damage from a car accident regularly. Noone would really call him an "idiot", because the word "idiot" sounds very weak and almost childish to natives. Idiot literally just means idiot.
Of course it sounds strong. But nobody uses the word to actually mean a retarded person LOL
I concur with what yzb said.
The word "retarded" has near 0 weight. Even the word "stupid" sounds stronger to me. Heck, I think even being called a "chair" would induce stronger emotions than being called "retarded".
When did this become an argument?Quote:
Originally Posted by Oberon
He’s saying the exact opposite lolQuote:
Originally Posted by OzyWho
read him again if you think so.Quote:
Originally Posted by Oberon
bear in mind this time that i'm a "foreigner" and not a "native speaker".
mag is right I was trying to say the word holds a lot of powerQuote:
Originally Posted by OzyWho
My impulse control has been kinda crappy as of late. I'll try not to post here again. I was just trying to provide some context into how strong the word is in case ppl didn't know. You can choose to communicate however you like obviously, I can't control that. Hell, I say it myself sometimes.
The overall message of your post, yes, but you still said:Quote:
Originally Posted by yzb25
"I imagine foreign speakers experience the word predominantly through the internet subculture where everything goes so it may not have the same ring."
which was what I replied to / was referring to.
Your mom specifically sat you down and taught you about winning arguments? Jeez that’s a lot to unwrapQuote:
Originally Posted by Oberon
What makes the word retarded different from any other insults people use?Quote:
Originally Posted by yzb25