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[slemslempike]

Internet has already kept me up longer than I wanted and got me into an argument on Facebook with a friend (who I am really surprised at) calling annoying people "spastics". Apparently it's fine because it's not the term used to describe people with cerebral palsy anymore. The rancid little over-entitled shitbag.

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[jekesta]

I really like croissants.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

I haven't had a good one for a while. I did have a lovely big one stuffed with ham and cheese a bit ago.

[cakesy.livejournal.com]

I ate too many chocolate buttons and now I feel sick.

[spiralsheep.livejournal.com]

ur feeling sick for chocolate > mi feeling sick for NO REASON AT ALL

[hfnuala.livejournal.com]

Can I just pause for a moment to admire your invective? I'm sure it's wasted on the shitbag, but I think it's a thing of beauty.

[glitterboy1.livejournal.com]

I thought that 'rancid' was a particularly nice touch.

[sollersuk.livejournal.com]

So did I.

The fact that it's no longer used officially is not the point. Firstly, a major push for it being replaced was precisely because it was being used as an opprobrious epithet (I remember it happening) and secondly, there are still a lot of people around for whom it was the official designation.

[slightlyfoxed.livejournal.com]

Yes! And I believe when the Spastics Society changed their name to 'Scope' to avoid the word, children started calling each other 'Scopers'. Because people are often not pleasant.

Most identity-based insults aren't official terminology. I've no idea why that would mean one was free to use them.

[sollersuk.livejournal.com]

That's always been the problem.

And I have a deep dislike of identity-based insults in general, which unfortunately many people seem not to share.

[ankaret.livejournal.com]

I also admire your invective.

I have two acid tests for people I am getting to know. If they are rude to people in service jobs, or if they get argumentative and post-modern when asked not to say things like 'spastic', I throw acid at them.

Well, I don't. But I do file them under 'person I'm not going to make any effort to know better, ever'.

[irrtum.livejournal.com]

Did I tell you that on my job description, it said preference would be given to 'women and handicapped people'? I'm still waiting for the courage to bring it up SO YOU SHOULD!

[howlin-wolf-66.livejournal.com]

It's definitely politically incorrect, but as a person with CP, I can't say that it offends me.