Retard.
*waits for the word police to put the smack down on him*
Not very PC mate. Also Mathew "
faggot"
?!!!! it's 2012 mate you can't say things like that!
Nothing to do with pc. And I'm very sure the gay community can take care of slurs against them. But the section of the community with severe or worse developmental delays have no one in their corner.
The more you use a word associated with a group of people, the easier it becomes to treat them as sub-human. I'm reminding you that these are all people who should be treated as humans.
You really can't see that? If you can, great! If not, then you're probably also in the group of people I would like to protect so come here and I'll give you a hug.
We'll agree to disagree, I think it's people like you jumping on a moral bandwagon that makes the light hearted use of such words dirty!! (as proven by history) retarded means slow or delay so mentally retarded means mentally slow. The term retarded was introduced to replace terms like idiot, moron, and imbecile because retarded was not a derogatory term.
Moral bandwagon? No, I just don't like people I care about suffering because people like you decide that the condition my patients suffer is one worth branding other people with.
Also I'd like to add that hugging strangers who suffer from medically diagnosed Mental Retardation which you seem keen to associate the figurative use of the word retard is patronizing and offensive. Maybe you are too intellectually disabled (another word for retard) to realize that.
"medically diagnosed Mental Retardation"? Holy crap are you in a 1970's time warp? No only do you not have the basic knowledge to understand what I'm talking about, but I don't think you have any understanding of what you yourself are writing about. If I'm wrong, then tell me about all the people you know with a developmental delay that enjoy being the but of your japes. Otherwise, if you're going to take the piss try and do it in a way that won't harm people that you don't even know.
They're not the butt of my japes Mathew was, you like to associate the word with your patients not me.
OK so we can't say idiot, moron, retard or any word that describes someone being mentally slow as some people in the world suffer from being mentally slow and all of these terrible words describe this!
If we use these words in the context of people making ________ (fuck know's what word I'm aloud to put here) decisions, people like you will create such a hoo haa about it people with learning disabilities will end up getting offended by believing whatever an over educated prick like you pours in their heads!!