The word that airline computers hurl at their pilots just before landing
Quite rude if you ask me
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Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months agoFor normal people, to be late to something.
For this guy, the R slur against those with learning disorders.
PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 6 months ago
SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I found a training thing that included the phrase “retard power” in an aviation context. The best part was the way it was enunciated. Not “ri-tard” like you do when it’s a verb, but long E ree-tard. I absolutely clipped it.
HackerJoe@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
You might be surprised that your sprinkler system has a retard chamber. Also you can still order it under that name.
arin@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Can’t say either on twitch or you’ll get banned
TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 6 months ago
chat is this real
Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 6 months ago
That’s hilarious. Is it still in use or say it differently now?
I’m thinking about master>slave in tech. Or rapeseed became Canola. Or how we say Uranus differently.
PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 6 months ago
afaik it is.
SpikesOtherDog@ani.social 6 months ago
Printers used to refer to the page separation rollers as retard rollers.
bitchkat@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Not everyone with learning disorders is retarded.
echodot@feddit.uk 6 months ago
But, anon is
kiagam@lemmy.world 6 months ago
you know this is the internet and you are allowed to type whatever you want, right? let me show you: “retarded”
wetnoodle@sopuli.xyz 6 months ago
“whatever you want”… they wanted to be a respectful person.
Aermis@lemmy.world 6 months ago
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”
Sotuanduso@lemm.ee 6 months ago
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.
lost_faith@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
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.
Gonkulator@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Cethin@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
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 be other reasons why it’s OK to say, but throw that argument out.
bitchkat@lemmy.world 6 months ago
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.”
VerticaGG@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
“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.”