Posts you had second thought about and decided not to post - put them here

I'm not going to interfere with someone else being offended, I don't think that ever works. Not posting this:

"Much like today's widely socially acceptable terms idiot and moron, which are also defined as some sort of mental disability, when the term retard is being used in its pejorative form, it is usually not being directed at people with mental disabilities. Instead, people use the term when teasing their friends or as a general insult when in an argument." ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retard_(pejorative) )

I did once see someone shame a thinkpiece writer for using "idiot" and the writer apologized for being ableist.

Is it still okay to say lowbrow, barbarian or philistine?

"Philistine" is offensive to Palestinians.

I'll continue to broadly use CHUD until the CHUD lobby strongarms people into using a more politically correct term.

Do many people ask to stop using philistine as an insult?

Barbarian is only an insult if used against somebody who is Ancient Greek. Pretty sure lowbrow didn't originate as a dis on Neanderthals

Cannibal-Americans are a much-maligned group, OL.

the idea that idiot retains ableist connotations seems pretty idiotic, like the kind of thing a soi-disant grammar pedant would be wrong about

actually a shambles is a slaughterhouse *pushes glasses up nose*

I thought lowbrow was anti-black?

general phrenology-type nonsense I think which had a racist component but wasn't exclusive in this case

like I was sort of joking above because I think the physiognomical belief was that a low brow suggested caveman-like tendencies and therefore low intelligence etc and this was definitely applied racially but also across the class spectrum etc

highbrow the concept as cultural praise originates in maybe the 1800s, from gall's phrenology (word is probably later): neanderthals were identified in the 1840s, and their qualities back-inferred from there (viz they must have been bad not good bcz brows low not high: thus the feelin-yr-bumps science, anyway)

in other words lowbrow did more or less originate as a diss on neanderthals, as did the adjective neanderthal :(

in fact it is we who are the monsters here (since we obviously entirely absorbed the entire strain, probably mostly by eating them)

it's their own fault for being so darned tasty

idiot actually means 'someone who does their own thing' it's actually a celebration of individuality kthx

"Philistine" is offensive to Palestinians.

lol no it's not

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ok i thought it might be but i wasn't sure. there are people who sincerely believe that palestinians are philistines and so concluding that "philistine" as a pejorative is offensive is not so far-fetched.

deluxe editions are so not punk rock

idiot means apolitical, imo

Its worse yere getting

why the fuck would you post this on facebook why why why why why

i wonder if any of those priests have died

marc loilx

You got your problems
I got my ass wide
You got your [performative online wokeness]
I got your [chat histories that demonstrate countless examples of your abusive behaviour to myself and others and your subsequent lies]

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I must know nv

eh, just standard ILM daftness

it'd be one thing if baseball was the only thing you are massively ignorant about...

much better than the handy tbrr

i think the phrase yr all searching for is " make America great again"

what's with all the male/female bs all of a sudd-oh, it's you again.

take it easy

'All that is excessive is insignificant.'

Don't Crackout

how polished are the Polish anyway?

I love you all

What is Chaki's current name? I haven't been able to figure out who.

who's your dada?

10 years ago that could have been posted in rolling teenpop and nobody would have batted an eye

^^ new ILM board description

love it when people seriously headscratch on these threads

Next papal conclave, I gotta pope urban joke to drop that i'm quietly pleased with

I was trying to weld the "spirit of the staircase" idiom with the feeling of stacking tungsten carbide bricks around a plutonium core

Golly this thread is even worse than everything about it would have led you to believe

You can't see more than one inch past your own nose and your advice is useless.

Goodparents, shitparents
Break down the door
Stand up and face your children
This is 1984

my takeaway is you are thisclose to being that character from Shock Corridor

No results found for "acanthamoeba keratitis" + "operation yewtree".

it's getting hard to tell liberals from James Woods, at least rhetorically