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Drop dead you cunt

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 10:38 (eighteen years ago) link

Just running it up the flagpole

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 10:39 (eighteen years ago) link

lost is a TV prog

I bet dead you cunt isn't

now you look like the badman

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 10:44 (eighteen years ago) link

* weeps uncontrollably *

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 10:47 (eighteen years ago) link

what a pathetic badman you are

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 10:48 (eighteen years ago) link

Please don't hurt me

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 10:49 (eighteen years ago) link

; )

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 10:51 (eighteen years ago) link

[insert moran photoshop jpeg here]
"when I got on the greens, I was a moran."

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 11:17 (eighteen years ago) link

I applaud, in the golf-clap manner, the excellent title of this thread.
I like Tiger Woods more now that I know he said spaz. It's that it's a pretty funny word.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 14:14 (eighteen years ago) link

best use of "Spaz" is still the movie "Meatballs"
http://www.nostalgiacentral.com/images_movie/meatballs.JPG

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 14:21 (eighteen years ago) link

what does the title mean?

― ambrose (ambrose), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 14:25 (eighteen years ago) link

Putting = what you do on a Green, etc.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 14:28 (eighteen years ago) link

Drop Dead You Cunt starts on E4 next week!

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 14:29 (eighteen years ago) link

Best use of said word is a throwaway line in Buffy where the adults regress to kiddies after eating ENCHANTED CANDY. Buffy starts to drive off (somewhat erratically, some might say), and as the car drives away, we hear Principal Seymour comment:

"Hey Summers you drive like a SPAAAAAZ"!

which reduced me to HELPLESS LARFTER last night. Then I felt a bit bad. WHO IS THE REAL WINNER IN THIS SICK SOCIETY?

― Lucretia My Reflection (Lucretia My Reflection), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 14:30 (eighteen years ago) link

A term of abuse, e.g. you're such a spastic (also colloquially abbreviated to "spazz", "spack", "spacko", "spanner" and "spacker"), derived from a popular misconception that those with any physical disability resulting in spasticity would necessarily also have a mental or developmental disability. When a "spacker" has a fit, it is often referred to as a "spack attack."

i don't think i've ever heard the spack- variations! they are funneyz :(

― sleep (sleep), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 14:32 (eighteen years ago) link

Ha ha, RJG totally pwned me on this thread!

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 14:42 (eighteen years ago) link

4 uninitiated: Wehn u make Walt talk backward backwards on Lost he be saying DONT PUDDING SPAZ k, so thread title is a reference to that. i am the nice guy cos i helped out all you ppl what didn't get it. HOW TO MAKE ILE USERS TO LOVE ME

― teh_kit says 'dont fight u nubs just run in teh instance!' (g-kit), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 14:49 (eighteen years ago) link

i think computers have developed to the detriment of society in retrospect.

― ambrose (ambrose), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 14:53 (eighteen years ago) link

I think this might be the best thread ever.

― Dan (Roffle At Everyone, Esp. Tiger) Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 14:54 (eighteen years ago) link

Kit! You've spoilt Lost for all the Englishers who haven't seen pudding spaz yet!

― JimD (JimD), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 14:54 (eighteen years ago) link

The world No1's remarks were not helped by the exaggerated awkward stance he adopted for a short putt at the third hole.

I repeat, ROFFLE.

― Dan (Tiger! Don't Pudding Spaz!) Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 14:55 (eighteen years ago) link

i don't think i really spoiled it Jim. i doubt anyone really understood what i said.

― teh_kit says 'dont fight u nubs just run in teh instance!' (g-kit), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 14:57 (eighteen years ago) link

Golfers all be putting spaz

Joe Durant, 12th in Ryder Cup points, struck the ball well Saturday but putted terribly on the way to a 72. Durant is at 1-over 211 for the tournament and tied for 50th.

"I putted like a spaz today," said Durant, who hit 11 of 14 fairways but needed 31 putts.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 14:58 (eighteen years ago) link

esp. as he's not REALLY saying 'don't puddin' spaz'

also, wrestling is FAKE.

(xpost)

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 14:58 (eighteen years ago) link

''All the players are going to be saying, 'Oh, she shot sixty-niiiine,' '' Jones said in a voice commonly used by those of kindergarten age. ''That's where I'll get it from, so no. I shot a hell of a 69. I played great, but I just didn't hit it very good. ... I endured the whole day. I didn't panic. I didn't spaz out. I don't know if I'll hit it good or bad over the weekend, but I hope I keep playing well.''

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 14:59 (eighteen years ago) link

esp. as he's not REALLY saying 'don't puddin' spaz'

DON'T SAY THAT

― Dan (LALALALALALA CAN'T HEAR YOU) Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 14:59 (eighteen years ago) link

Publicly, not publically. Spaz.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 15:00 (eighteen years ago) link

I assume this is the image I couldn't open upthread?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/graphics/2006/04/11/sgaffe11.jpg

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 15:01 (eighteen years ago) link

http://static.flickr.com/2/2604774_8ee2e01787.jpg

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 15:02 (eighteen years ago) link

maybe they were all referring to the infamously rubbish golfer: Mr Alan Spass (aka A. Spass)

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 15:03 (eighteen years ago) link

BOOTAY TOTALLY SPAZ
http://www.mcfarland.co.uk/sarah/scans/spaz.jpg

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 15:04 (eighteen years ago) link

The world No1's remarks were not helped by the exaggerated awkward stance he adopted for a short putt at the third hole.

If they find that offensive what on earth do they make of Jim Furyk's swing??!!?!

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 15:05 (eighteen years ago) link

A. Spass? Fun guy.

(xpost: ROFFLE)

― Dan (LOL At German Jokes) Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 15:05 (eighteen years ago) link

One of the regular customers in the shop I used to work in was a Russian dude called Spas Spazov!

― JimD (JimD), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 15:48 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm so disappointed this isn't a LOST thread.

― Sparkle Motion's Rising Force, Tuesday, 11 April 2006 16:56 (eighteen years ago) link

i think computers have developed to the detriment of society in retrospect.

them's some long words lol

― teh_kit says 'FACES' (g-kit), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 18:00 (eighteen years ago) link

er sparkle it IS a Lost thread, in places

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 18:01 (eighteen years ago) link

Yet I still feel betrayed.

― Sparkle Motion's Rising Force, Tuesday, 11 April 2006 18:43 (eighteen years ago) link

I don't at heart have any problem with this shit, unless somebody thinks "Spaz" is somehow less offensive than "Nigger". Cos that bothers me.

― Dogfight Giggle (noodle vague), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 20:59 (eighteen years ago) link

Did you type that right?

― Tracey "I was such a nigger on the greens today" Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 21:03 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah I did. Hohohoh "Spaz".

― Dogfight Giggle (noodle vague), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 21:04 (eighteen years ago) link

So am I right in assuming the difference is that in the UK there's some actual history of referring to people with palsy as "spazz" or "spastic?" I might be ignorant on this one, but I don't know of any similar habit in the U.S. -- our use of "spazz" seems to connect strictly to "spastic" as, like, a general descriptive adjective. (I even feel like the article -- a spazz -- is a later modification, not descended from actually identifying anyone as a spastic.) I don't think you could use "spastic" to refer to a medical condition in the U.S. and expect to be understood.

We do all this stuff with "retard" instead.

― nabiscothingy, Tuesday, 11 April 2006 21:14 (eighteen years ago) link

OMG Tracery

― Dan (Awesome) Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 21:19 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah tru dat about "retard", and the N word mightn't be the fairest analogy. Perhaps it'd be fairer to compare "spazz" with "faggot", where of course "faggot" doesn't actually refer to gay men, it's a general descriptive adjective.

― Dogfight Giggle (noodle vague), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 21:20 (eighteen years ago) link

the N word mightn't be the fairest analogy

OH GEE, DO YA THINK?

― Dan (ROFFLE) Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 21:23 (eighteen years ago) link

Dan seriously, I don't want to get into a offensive war, but I am fucking offended that "spaz" can be dismissed so lightheartedly.

― Dogfight Giggle (noodle vague), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 21:25 (eighteen years ago) link

I never knew there was any such medical condition as "spasticity" until this thread!

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 11 April 2006 21:26 (eighteen years ago) link

get lost

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 21:26 (eighteen years ago) link

I dunno, maybe I'm a jerk but if calling disabled people spastic or retarded is no longer PC, surely those words are up for grabs for other uses? ie: insults :)

I mean the word spasticity has always had uses aside from describing a persons physical state and as far as I know to retard something simply means to stunt it in some way.

― This cunted circus never ends... (papa november), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 21:27 (eighteen years ago) link

just a suggestion

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 21:27 (eighteen years ago) link

Skipping 56 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

UK? Mad rush for "inclusion" which has led to a lot of cases of families having to fight for their child's right to go back into non-mainstream schools where they were happier and learning more. If I was cynical I might suggest that this zeal for inclusion has more to do with cutting spending on expensive specialist education than it has to do with the wellbeing of the children.

― Dogfight Giggle (noodle vague), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 19:12 (eighteen years ago) link

alba, you spaz, check your e-mailssss!

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 19:33 (eighteen years ago) link

http://ilx.wh3rd.net/searchresults.php?board=1&mode=threads&q=spaz&titlepart=&name=RJG&email=&username=&dateafter=&datebefore=&catid=all

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 19:35 (eighteen years ago) link

What if Tiger had said 'menk'?

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 13 April 2006 11:22 (eighteen years ago) link

this is pretty much what i was thinking. but tiger's display on the 3rd makes it pretty clear that he's aware of the british usage.

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Thursday, 13 April 2006 11:35 (eighteen years ago) link

It would have been quite cool if he'd said, "I putted like a total raspberry", in a Dick Van Dyke Cockney accent

― D.D. Disappointed Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 13 April 2006 11:38 (eighteen years ago) link

'a spanner'

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 13 April 2006 11:40 (eighteen years ago) link

a nus

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 13 April 2006 11:42 (eighteen years ago) link

A remmer.

― Mike W (caek), Thursday, 13 April 2006 11:44 (eighteen years ago) link

putted like a total fucktard

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Thursday, 13 April 2006 11:56 (eighteen years ago) link

"Disabled" is most generally used because it has connotations that the individual's impairment is not their biggest problem, but that they're disabled by society's inability to cope with their impairment.

Really? That comes across as a politically expedient reading in extremis. I'd have guessed if you surveyed the average man in the street, they'd say people were disabled because their legs (or whatever) didn't work.

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 13 April 2006 12:59 (eighteen years ago) link

Ha ha, that's political correctness gone errrrrrrrrrrrr psychiactrically errrrrrrrr challenged

― D.D. Disappointed Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 13 April 2006 13:08 (eighteen years ago) link

is it wrong to talk about spaz-rock then? but spaz-rock is a compliment...

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 13 April 2006 13:17 (eighteen years ago) link

Spatzel-rock.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 13 April 2006 13:19 (eighteen years ago) link

tard-rock?

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Thursday, 13 April 2006 13:20 (eighteen years ago) link

gay-rock

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 13 April 2006 13:24 (eighteen years ago) link

sham-rock

― D.D. Disappointed Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 13 April 2006 14:18 (eighteen years ago) link

six months pass...

(still ROFFLing at Tiger Woods)

― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Thursday, 2 November 2006 15:41 (seventeen years ago) link

oh noes I have the phrase BOOTAY TOTALLY SPAZ stuck in my head again

― ONIMO's losing the plot (GerryNemo), Thursday, 2 November 2006 15:43 (seventeen years ago) link

All is right with the world!

― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Thursday, 2 November 2006 15:50 (seventeen years ago) link

VAJAYJAY TOTALLY SPAZ

― rrrobyn, the situation (rrrobyn), Thursday, 2 November 2006 16:05 (seventeen years ago) link

All those months of not ilxing, so THIS is what I was missing.

― polar bear flashback episode (nickalicious), Thursday, 2 November 2006 16:18 (seventeen years ago) link

VAJAYJAY TOTALLY SPAZ

i am incapacitated with laughter

― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Thursday, 2 November 2006 21:53 (seventeen years ago) link

eight months pass...

Nintendo withdraws game that taunts 'spastics'

― Alba, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 09:46 (sixteen years ago) link

"Andrew Rickell, executive director of Scope, the disability charity, praised Nintendo for withdrawing the game"

That'll be Scope, formerly known as The National Spastics Society.

― onimo, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 09:53 (sixteen years ago) link

http://images.tradera.com/297/42225297_1.jpg

I bought mario party 8

― RJG, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 10:05 (sixteen years ago) link

"Nintendo has been forced to withdraw a computer game from sale in the UK because it contains the word 'spastic' in its script."

But we give knighthoods to writers who 'taunt' 1.5 Billion Muslims world wide? Amazing!

"Spastic' is an extremely offensive word."

So is 'Satanic Verses'

Mohammed, London, UK

― acrobat, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 10:12 (sixteen years ago) link

"Magikoopa Magic! Turn the train, spastic! Make this ticket tragic!"

― blueski, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 10:12 (sixteen years ago) link

RJG - can I come over tonight and play with your taunting game?

― Alba, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 10:29 (sixteen years ago) link

I have a headache

― RJG, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 10:33 (sixteen years ago) link

in real life I am not in town but will let you know

― RJG, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 10:34 (sixteen years ago) link

That's not the only game banned for use of "spastic" in the past couple of months!

http://kotaku.com/gaming/ubisoft.s-mind-quiz/another-offensive-game-gets-pulled-273614.php

I dunno, but where I'm from spaz/spastic are about as offensive as dumb or idiot. "Spaz" doesn't even mean "act disabled" here, it's more like "get really mad."

― Will M., Thursday, 19 July 2007 20:19 (sixteen years ago) link

I bought mario party 8 but am not getting it

― RJG, Thursday, 19 July 2007 20:32 (sixteen years ago) link

awesome I have a totally offensive game

― El Tomboto, Thursday, 19 July 2007 20:35 (sixteen years ago) link

wish I did : (

― RJG, Thursday, 19 July 2007 20:40 (sixteen years ago) link

I dunno, but where I'm from spaz/spastic are about as offensive as dumb or idiot. "Spaz" doesn't even mean "act disabled" here, it's more like "get really mad."

Yeah, it's like when I was a kid 'gay' used to mean lame, but then it meant homosexual and people got upset about me saying it.

― dowd, Thursday, 19 July 2007 21:11 (sixteen years ago) link

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