From the Mailbag
You know, I wasn’t really thinking of changing the name of the site to Retardsy. I was just being a smart ass because I thought people were overreacting. I mean, I would never –
Although now that I think about it . . .
Don’t forget to sign the guest book!
What a week! We offended fucktards, buddhists and believe it or not, poets. Yes, someone flounced the Facebook group Thursday night over an argument about Haiku. You’re not going to get this kind of action on Craftastrophe!
And as if that isn’t enough excitement, I’m in the hospital!
Well, I’m probably home by now. Unless something terrible has happened, in which case I don’t have to update the site next week. So there really is an upside to everything.
By the time you read this, I will be recovering from surgery. I’ll be in bed for a week, tripping balls on all manner of painkillers. So please sign the guestbook! I look forward to your dramatic messages of disappointment.
Namaste, bitches!
February 26, 2010 at 4:34 pm
That email was retardedly retarded. Only someone really retarded could have written that retarded email. What kind of retard gets offended over a retarded word like retard? I’m glad retards like that leave the FB group and the site because I don’t want retards like that around here retarding up the site and making all retarded.
Fuck.
February 26, 2010 at 4:36 pm
Feel better soon Helen, you crazy old broad.
February 26, 2010 at 4:36 pm
Namaste, Bitch!! Recover quickly.
February 26, 2010 at 4:37 pm
I hope you get well soon!
February 26, 2010 at 4:38 pm
well played….a site not for the fae of heart.
get better quickly!!!
February 26, 2010 at 4:41 pm
Take lots of pictures. Maybe humor us with a hospital issued skart. Hope you feel whimsicle real soon.
February 26, 2010 at 4:42 pm
I’m not retarded and I don’t play one on TV (or even on the Internet), but I take offense to the almost-obsessive need to refer to the word “retard” as “the R-word”. Get over yourselves just a little bit.
My husband is disabled. He walks with a limp. And we don’t get our panties up in a twist when people use the word “lame”.
Not saying that my husband wears panties…
Get well, Helen and enjoy your pain killers.
February 26, 2010 at 4:45 pm
I think there needs to be an explained difference between mentally challenged/hanicapped/handicapable and full blow retard. Down syndrome, autism, and other conditions, diseases and illness that affect the ability to function at what most would consider a normal level is far different from doing something that is the equivalent of huffing an entire can of gold Krylon spray paint. For instance, the guy who played Corky in “Life Goes On” is a testament of achievement for someone born with…
February 26, 2010 at 4:45 pm
On the other hand, saying you could be an expert in foreign policy because you can supposedly see Russia from your house on a good day is full blow retard.
February 26, 2010 at 4:46 pm
Get well soon!!
I hope the surgery doesn’t leave you retarded!!
No? not funny?
lol…
Namaste bitches
February 26, 2010 at 4:48 pm
I envy you for your painkillers. While you’re down, try not to sin and be bad.
February 26, 2010 at 4:53 pm
Enjoy those painkillers while you can and visit us here if you can! Take care of yourself (I know – not snarky – seriously take care of yourself. You are too damn funny to be gone for long)
February 26, 2010 at 4:56 pm
I’m sorry, but I was under the impression that the VAST MAJORITY of people using the term “retarded” (or fucking retard, or fucktard, or retardo, or retardatron-3000, or…) mean something like “a person who is stupid, obtuse, or ineffective in some way: a hopeless social retard.” People with Down’s Syndrome (and their boring, sanctimonious defenders) don’t own the term. On the other hand, if someone were to say, “god, you’re so Downs-Syndromey” that would be….well, retarded.
February 26, 2010 at 4:58 pm
….before the retard-army swoops down on me, no, I don’t think defenders of persons with Downs Syndrome are ALL boring and sanctimonious. Just the language police ones.
February 26, 2010 at 5:00 pm
Feel better soon!! Can’t wait to see what awesomeness you discover while under the influence of vicodin.
February 26, 2010 at 5:00 pm
Also HK please get well and know that we, your very own little retard army, are eager for your safe and painkiller-addled return to the intertubes.
February 26, 2010 at 5:01 pm
You’ll be missed Helen.Hope you’re up to your old tricks & fresh fuckery soon.
February 26, 2010 at 5:01 pm
Posting from the hospital? That’s fucking dedication!
Like others, I’m so fucking sick of the “watch what you say” culture we have spiraled into. Everyone needs to get over themselves. There is not a perfect person on the damned planet so stop bitching about everyone else and look in your own damn mirror.
As the incomparable Betty Rizzo once said, “Some people are so touchy.”
February 26, 2010 at 5:03 pm
As the parent of a child w/ special needs (yes, the precious boy that graces my avatar), I can say that people who use the word retard to refer to people w/ special needs are the ones for whom the word retard was created.
And, people need to get over themselves & take a freaking joke.
Blessings.
February 26, 2010 at 5:04 pm
I guess everyone needs something about which to be passionate. I have mine, too. You know what makes me absolutely mental? Sanctimonious assholes who try to shorten adult communication to inane jargon such as the “letter” word. That’s patently offensive.
I’m like to shiv a bitch who tries to slap the masking tape over my mouth.
February 26, 2010 at 5:05 pm
Also, this: get better soon, Helen. Sending love and devotion.
February 26, 2010 at 5:07 pm
That’s awesome, HK! Here’s to a swift recovery and tons of Oxycontin. Good times!
btw – Can we start a fund to give you $4.99/month for your new Retardsy site to NOT have the Go Daddy banner up top and down below? Just sayin’.
February 26, 2010 at 5:09 pm
I send whimsical good wishes and retarded fuckery your way.
February 26, 2010 at 5:11 pm
#19 Bootsy- I agree- a person who would refer to anyone with special needs as a retard is a fucking dickhead.
…come to think of it, it’s kind of weird that people who get upset about the use of the term “retard” are fighting so hard to associate the word WITH special needs persons.
It seems counter-productive.
Or, you could say, retarded.
February 26, 2010 at 5:14 pm
Heal quickly Helen! Although, I would love to see you in the lace hospital gown thing!
February 26, 2010 at 5:23 pm
that was THE best link ever…so much fuckery on my friday night! i hope you feel better soon. make sure bronc gets you a nice bunch of flowers ♥
on a serious UN-retarded note, i hope it’s nothing serious
February 26, 2010 at 5:31 pm
Aw, it suks to be in the hospital. It’s nothing at all like Scrubs, either! Totally retarded.
Hope you can put that all behind you with plenty of pain killers and bad 80′s teen movies, or whatever secret little addictions make you feel better when you’re recovering.
February 26, 2010 at 5:31 pm
Helen/April, sincerely hope you get well soon. Life before Regretsy was so mundane. You are incredibly witty for a retard
February 26, 2010 at 5:32 pm
Get better HK ♥
I’ll add something retarded later…
February 26, 2010 at 5:36 pm
We should totally make some whimsicle get well gifts.
February 26, 2010 at 5:40 pm
Hope you have a swift recovery, HK, Take care!
February 26, 2010 at 5:54 pm
Have a fast recovery and enjoy how much more whimsical life is on pain meds!!
February 26, 2010 at 5:55 pm
i’m so retarded… i spelled whimsicle properly.
February 26, 2010 at 5:59 pm
Say whak!*
You’re in the hospital?!?
Let the nice people take good care of you, and throw shit fits when they’re not nice. And if you’re in a hospital where residents come to practice on you, answer their questions differently every time. That’s what I do and it’s always good for a laugh. Get well soon! <3
* WHAK = Winchell Helen April Killer, which would be the title of my next Viking Death Metal song if I was a Viking Death Metal songwriter.
February 26, 2010 at 6:04 pm
Can I give you smile to speed your recovery, Helen/April?
Love this site but spend way too much time here.
Does that make me retarded?
Just checked a dictionary for definition -
“to be delayed” is one.
Is that like procrastination?
If so, I am.
Hindered.
GWS!
February 26, 2010 at 6:05 pm
right on, Unabee.
February 26, 2010 at 6:14 pm
some people are crazy retarded. I always wonder if the people who are so offended by certain words could, let’s say, define synecdoche or the non-punctuation form of apostrophe… but well, fuck the retarded fucking word police, because really, only a total asshole would refer to a mentally challenged kid as a retard (as Lewis Black intonated)
Get well soon, Helen!
February 26, 2010 at 6:22 pm
There’s a poster where I work, up here north of the 49th, that makes me smirk. It says “en retard?”
Pretty sure it means – late?
Ah oui, oui, toujours en retard, c’est moi.
February 26, 2010 at 6:27 pm
My only question (regarding the email): What the hell kind of word is “feckless”?
And, I’m sorry to hear you are in the hospital.
Get well soon.
February 26, 2010 at 6:32 pm
#39: What? It’s a perfectly cromulent word.
February 26, 2010 at 6:39 pm
Sorry to hear you’re in the hospital, Helen. Feel better soon.
February 26, 2010 at 7:12 pm
Bahaha holy crap this made my night. You’re my hero.
Get well soon! We’ll be thinkin of ya.
February 26, 2010 at 7:19 pm
Ignorant Readers?????? UMMMMMMMMMM… seems as though the majority of us were aware what the site change joke was all about.
The next bit is all for the retarded shit the ex-facebook fan had to say.
Making assumptions is the most selfish thing one can do as you make it all about you and spin it to reflect what you want it to. Making assumptions IS the mother of all fuck ups.
February 26, 2010 at 7:32 pm
Helen feel better, enjoy the drugs!
February 26, 2010 at 7:34 pm
goddamnit! you never let us down, HK! hope you’re up and running soon. (some people will do ANYTHING for pain pills)
February 26, 2010 at 7:39 pm
Short time lurker having recently and belatedly found your site and now I found you are causing your own fans to flounce off in a huff… excellent.
February 26, 2010 at 7:52 pm
Thanks #36. I love that this thread is an explosion of retarded fuckery.
February 26, 2010 at 7:56 pm
Retarded Fae’s with Whimsicles and Fuckery. Now that’s Awesomesauce!
Btw Helen, perhaps you should invest in one of those butt shield things if it’s to be an extended stay…
February 26, 2010 at 8:01 pm
Get well soon Helen.
We need your Killer (yet retarded) sense of humor.
February 26, 2010 at 8:04 pm
Keep your snark up and get well soon.
February 26, 2010 at 8:34 pm
Signed! Get well soon, Helen!
February 26, 2010 at 8:38 pm
actually, mental retardation does describe a (somewhat) specific syndrome. which does NOT include autism, down syndrome, cerebral palsy, etc. generally it means an iq below 70. my friend’s sister was mildly retarded; meaning she was below the 70 line but could still basically function/go to school okay.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_retardation
February 26, 2010 at 8:49 pm
Knock back those painkillers with a little absinthe and write some haikus. It will help pass the time. It will also make it really difficult to find the bathroom so watch out for that.
Hope you’re ok!
February 26, 2010 at 8:51 pm
This is all so retarded its gay!
*hugs*
February 26, 2010 at 9:04 pm
Helen, I hope your doctor prescribes you a pill that will sooth your pain and lower your IQ to below 70 so you can earn the right to talk about your people using the R word (cause your one too!)
February 26, 2010 at 9:15 pm
#52: you’re right, but there are a lot of official definitions that don’t necessarily apply to the widespread understanding, or debate, of a particular word. For instance: bitch, queer, fag, moron, cretin, dork.
February 26, 2010 at 9:21 pm
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February 26, 2010 at 9:21 pm
anyone want to talk about swastikas?
j/k
for the love of all that is holy please thumbs down me to death
February 26, 2010 at 9:25 pm
I have various medals, stamps and other stuff from WWII (no, not WW11) era, which have swastikas… It’s stuff from my grandparents who were involved with the partisans.
See it’s actually possible to talk about swasticas in a non negative way! ; )
February 26, 2010 at 9:28 pm
First, I hope you get to feeling better very soon & I hope they give you some awesome painkillers
Second, I think we should start an Etsy shop named Retardsy & we should all come up with some craptastic shit to sell on there to benefit the various charities.
February 26, 2010 at 9:41 pm
A get-well haiku:
Namaste, Helen
I pray for your recov’ry
We retards need you
(Sorry, had to shorten the second line to make it 7 beats. Or whatever the fuck they call it in haiku.)
February 26, 2010 at 10:39 pm
I’ve been around the mentally handicapped my whole life, many of which were my friends, and I also have a nephew with Asperger’s. Having said that, I have no problem with someone saying the word retard, unless it’s directed towards someone with a mental handicap, because there are many times that the word “retard” is the only, and best, word to use in a situation or label for a person. I just think people are WAAAAY too PC these days. I’d like to go back to the days before political…
February 26, 2010 at 10:39 pm
Sure #58 UnaBee – let’s kill two birds with one stone and talk about swastikas *and* Buddhism at the same time!
February 26, 2010 at 10:41 pm
cont’d-correctness became hip.
And Helen, I hope you get well soon! I’ve had a few surgeries, so I know what you’re going through (well, sort of. I don’t know what you had surgery for). I myself have been riding the opiate wave since 2002, so have fun while it lasts! HAHA!
February 26, 2010 at 11:07 pm
Late to post but first off, a speedy recuperation to you Helen, and remember that if you have any pain pills left over, you can chain them together and list them on Etsy at $20/pill.
What? Just say it’s vintage.
Thanks for going full retard with the new page, omw to sign that guestbook now!
February 26, 2010 at 11:12 pm
@#64 Is riding the opiate wave anything like hitting the etsy pipe?
February 26, 2010 at 11:40 pm
Good gawd, I go out for the day and you end up in the hospital! I’ll never leave again. I promise! Here’s to a speedy recovery!
February 27, 2010 at 12:01 am
Good Gawd!
February 27, 2010 at 12:11 am
#66 mtopia, it’s much better than hitting the Etsy pipe. I don’t have any of those unwanted side effects like the munchies, laughing hysterically at anything and everything, smelling like pot and patchouli, and temporary memory loss, haha.
February 27, 2010 at 12:32 am
#68 Snark-o-leptic Cesar: Good thing you capitalized the G in Gawd. Don’t want to offend anyone.
February 27, 2010 at 12:33 am
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February 27, 2010 at 12:34 am
Ballsack! Flounce on some Vicodin (I hope you get something better- thats all those bastards would give me) and get well soon. Don’t get fattish like I did due to ainkiller munchies and feel all regretsy later like I am now!
Enjoy the Who Framed Roger Rabbit references in the Wandering Eye threads!
February 27, 2010 at 12:35 am
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February 27, 2010 at 12:43 am
are you drunk? what just happened?
February 27, 2010 at 4:35 am
Take care of yourself!!! Make sure you ask for all the drugs you are entitled too!!
February 27, 2010 at 5:35 am
Feel better, Helen. And don’t abuse the drugs, because that would be retarded.
February 27, 2010 at 6:14 am
The thumbs-downer is up early this morning – what a retard.
February 27, 2010 at 7:24 am
speaking as an official parking permit holding disabled person, anybody getting mad about this is a retard.
February 27, 2010 at 8:14 am
Get better Helen (actually, stay on the drugs and update the site). I’m fanatically curious as to the outcome of such a thing.
February 27, 2010 at 8:26 am
Get better soon!
I look forward to drug-induced posts of whimsicle fuckery.
February 27, 2010 at 8:42 am
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February 27, 2010 at 8:58 am
Dictionary.com defines a joke as:
a matter that need not be taken very seriously; trifling matter
People who take JOKES seriously are RETARDED!
(Don’t be offended if this applied to you, I was only joking)
February 27, 2010 at 9:11 am
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February 27, 2010 at 9:17 am
Fuck ‘em if they can’t take a joke. Feel better, soon.
Enjoy better living through chemistry whenever you can!
February 27, 2010 at 9:21 am
#57 – Skully, that’s so frightening and funny!
February 27, 2010 at 9:22 am
#71 Said “I’m not going to stop reading the blog but it’s in really poor taste each time you do it,”
Poor taste? You expected classy mockery? Soon you’ll be looking for supportive ridicule!
P.S. Your avatar is very, very, tastefully done.
February 27, 2010 at 9:28 am
#84 Sorry I didn’t mean to “WHIP OUT MY DICK-tionary definition”
It was in poor taste.
February 27, 2010 at 9:43 am
Am I that stupid that I would never in a million years have thought that someone might be offended by the word “fucktard” because they associated it with making fun of the mentally-disabled? I guess I’m even more insensitive than I realized.
February 27, 2010 at 9:54 am
Oh yeah, and get well soon Helen! life isn’t nearly as much fun without Regretsy updates.
Enjoy those painkillers: in the words of the Black Eyed Peas, “Let’s get retarded in here!”
February 27, 2010 at 10:06 am
“You’re shit’s all retarded. It’s okay, there’s lots of tarded people out there that are living perfectly normal lives. My ex-wife is tarded and she’s a pilot now.” – Idiocracy
February 27, 2010 at 10:10 am
Brute, if you don’t like cheap laughs then why the hell are you on Regretsy?
February 27, 2010 at 10:11 am
Get well soon Helen!
February 27, 2010 at 10:23 am
I use the word “retard” all the time. And in many forms…retarded, fucktard, Tardy McTarderson to name a few. Yet I don’t use it to describe someone with a mental disability. In fact, I have rarely heard it used in such a way. If I didn’t use it how else would I be able to efficiently describe all the uber fucktards out there that I see every day? Like the woman who let her kid out in 15 degree weather in flip flops and capris and then yelled at her for crying that she was cold? Or the guy…
February 27, 2010 at 10:28 am
…that came to hook up our cable and instead got confused and tried to steal our cat?
It would be rude and offensive to call someone who has a metal disability retarded…they would NEVER do those things.
Stop being so retarded and pick up a cause that is important. Like world peace or teaching all the children of the world to read or something.
February 27, 2010 at 10:30 am
#73 Brute – You said “I love the fact that ppl here are so moronic they didn’t realize i was making fun of this post. “?
Are you making fun of morons?
Excuse me while I WHIP OUT MY DICK-tionary definition!
Ditionary.com defines Moron – a person of borderline intelligence in a former classification of mental retardation, having an intelligence quotient of 50 to 69.
You aren’t just a Moronic Retard, now you are a hypocrite!
Please explain why it is OK to say moron and not…
February 27, 2010 at 10:39 am
Get well soon, Helen! I hope you are well medicated and are enjoying a nice Morphine Martini right now.
I always live by the rule that actions speak louder than words. Words are just words, people. Please, back away from the dictionary.
I hope your surgery went well. I’m envisioning a new set of boobies, perhaps some wall-eyed ones with purple nipples?
February 27, 2010 at 11:26 am
#94 – now that’s a spicy meat-a-ball
February 27, 2010 at 11:38 am
Get well soon!!
February 27, 2010 at 12:16 pm
excuses à Renée Magritte
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2698/4392334703_5a35606c2a_o.jpg
February 27, 2010 at 2:28 pm
Apprendre le français s’il vous plaît – vous crétins!
February 27, 2010 at 2:57 pm
Lack of feck is my favorite thing about you, Helen Killer.
http://twitpic.com/15px39
Iscream, je t’aime.
February 27, 2010 at 3:22 pm
Who needs feck?
I don’t want to be one of those nother feckers!
February 27, 2010 at 3:32 pm
With your recent post about things that look like crap, I think you need to make a “Returdsy” page too.
I sure don’t speak for everyone, but it’s no secret to many that I have very mild AS- a spectrum of Autism, to keep things short and sweet- so my ability to understand social skills is not so great. But I use the word retard. Many people I know do. I’m only offended by it when it’s used towards me in a hostile manner, which it often was back in high school. I’ll also say retard…
February 27, 2010 at 3:34 pm
…is annoying when overused. Just like any “unkind” word is overused.
I say people need to stop being so sensitive. I’m not at all cruel to those who have special needs, and many who use the term retard aren’t. I see “retard” as insulting someone who really is a stupid moron and needs to know it, like “jackass” “idiot” “dumbfuck”..it’s all in the same context to me.
February 27, 2010 at 3:41 pm
PS- the happy thumbs-downers of today, by all means, thumbs down me! Bring it on! Whatever makes you feel like a tyrant for the day, my sweeties. Just as long as you also know how “retarded” you look, downvoting away anonymously, not having the balls to speak out loud.
February 27, 2010 at 4:20 pm
@#107
Seriously … someone thumbs-downed a comment that only said “Get well soon” (#100).
Really, guys? Really? Is acting our age too much of an effort for us this weekend?
February 27, 2010 at 5:01 pm
Ok,I have thought about how to write about this all day. My son has Down syndrome, and I am a former special ed teacher. If the group of people you are referring to find offense in a word to describe them, that should give pause. And most groups representing people with disabilities do find offense to the casual and derogatory use of retard. Just as in the past, African Americans found offense to the N word, and now we recognize it as a slur. I just ask that you all consider that. thumbs down..
February 27, 2010 at 5:05 pm
But I love Regretsy, and just got my Namaste bitches tee shirt!
Long live the fuckery!
February 27, 2010 at 5:22 pm
I guess I just don’t see what the fun is in going out of your way to hurt people who haven’t done anything to you. I have worked with developmentally disabled people for a long time, and the R word legitimately hurts many people. I don’t understand why anyone would keep using it, knowing that.
February 27, 2010 at 5:25 pm
Get well soon you fucking retard!
I love your site and your comments make me laugh until I shart!
February 27, 2010 at 6:31 pm
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February 27, 2010 at 7:50 pm
Get well Helen and come back soon…I can’t get my daily fix of Regretsy without you. What are you in the hospital for? I know I am nosy but also concerned. Know that you are missed by the multitudes.
February 27, 2010 at 7:55 pm
I had a good response for #82 about the weak comparison of racist jokes and racism v. use of the word “retarded.” But then I washed my hands, and now it’s gone…yeah, I’m out.
February 27, 2010 at 7:55 pm
Technically speaking, as has been pointed out, “retard” refers to someone with below average mental capacities, not disabled or handicapped people necessarily, and as a slang term it is a hyperbole, an exaggeration. Calling someone who does not suffer from actual mental retardation is an insult to the person it is said to, and not intentionally an insult to people with disabilities, or learning disorders, or what have you. I can’t claim to be an expert on this…
February 27, 2010 at 7:59 pm
I missed a word in there (silly me), but as I was saying: There has to be some bigger issue to worry about. Instead of getting mad at the mostly snarky and anonymous internet, why not focus on advocating for accessibility? Maybe the word is insulting, personally I try to avoid using it, but this can’t be the biggest issue.
February 27, 2010 at 8:25 pm
Jeeze, people are still talking about this? What happened to “Get well soon” “Speedy recovery” ”
It’s not like she went up to a mentally challenged person and said, “Hi, retard.” I hear this word 50-60 times a day as a teacher, and I hear several other offensive terms for minorities and other groups of people.
If it’s that big of a deal to you personally, then for the sake of humanity, spend the time you use lecturing anonymous people on-line volunteering for the gay/straight…
February 27, 2010 at 8:27 pm
.. autism awareness or African American rights … whatever floats your boat. If I wanted, I could get on people for using the word “gal” or “cunt” or “bitch” which get under my skin, but I choose to ignore them because it’s pointless to argue with people about it.
My dad always gives me the best advice … in this case, he would say “Pick and choose your battles.”
And wish her a goddamned Get well soon for frigging pete’s sake.
February 27, 2010 at 8:29 pm
LOL Gay/straight autism awareness. Should have had “alliance or” in between those …
Wow that’s an epic fail. If that group exists, for the record, I wanna join it.
February 27, 2010 at 9:05 pm
hope your recovery is speedy, helen.
my son recently called the neighbor girl a retard and i was asked what is a retard. i couldn’t explain it, and asked my son not to call his friends retards. i guess i use the word too often, like when i am driving. person in front of me is slowly driving. i say, “move it, retard.” the person may or may not be handicapped. i don’t really look at the license plate to see before using the word retard, because noone really calls retards retards…
February 27, 2010 at 9:16 pm
http://i985.photobucket.com/albums/ae338/grinreaper1965/Regretsy/tzgws.gif
February 27, 2010 at 9:16 pm
HK is back! Facebook said so! STOKED!!
February 27, 2010 at 9:28 pm
@Skully
I do remember that Outer Limits.
February 27, 2010 at 10:19 pm
# 124 Skully – That is a twilight zone?
February 27, 2010 at 10:41 pm
Guess what! The term “retard” is now officially a slur and no longer an official psychological term:
http://tinyurl.com/yzsr6ne
All hail political correctness.
February 28, 2010 at 12:41 am
I’m just sitting here with my bowl of popcorn, laughing at all these retarded posts about the word “retard.” Yeah, as though that’s the worst possible name anybody can be called in our language. I think you’re all retarded. How about that?
Oh, and I made this…
http://photos-d.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs504.snc3/26486_511246696755_139400909_30374623_6395810_n.jpg
February 28, 2010 at 12:56 am
Feel better soon!
And thanks for featuring my retarded Photoshoppery on Retardsy, I feel dirtalized and fuzzy like an elephant with a missing ear.
February 28, 2010 at 9:17 am
I mentioned that most of the groups representing people with intellectual disabilities disavow the use of the word retard.I say that because many of the people who are in these groups don’t have the capacity to defend themselves.My son can barely speak,and the kids I worked with used augmentative devices to communicate.I don’t understand so many people rallying to use a word that is hurtful to so many.And yes, my perspective changed greatly when it became my son you are insulting. I hope those
February 28, 2010 at 9:19 am
who are parents can at least empathize. I know, bring on the red thumbs, but I had to get that out.
February 28, 2010 at 9:25 am
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February 28, 2010 at 9:42 am
#129 lyon…: So that’s what she’s been doing in the hospital- making sure the death blankets are doing their jobs!
February 28, 2010 at 9:57 am
I’d like to know when becoming offended became such a horrific thing to be avoided at all costs. The world really does not spin off its axis if you get offended at something, I promise. I say this as a survivor of goatse.
February 28, 2010 at 10:14 am
#134 -Brute – AND GOD SAID “you shall know evil when a man speaketh a witticism and you don’t laugh. And furthermore if you lamely speak and all are not amused, then that is “kinda evil”. Lastly if your immaturity is evident and someone reads it and they sneer, you totally suck!
Why? Because everyone must be amused with your style of sarcasm else the world be doomed!”
February 28, 2010 at 10:24 am
This is boring. Can’t we talk about the Dalai Lama some more?
February 28, 2010 at 10:28 am
#133 Brute – You don’t understand IRONY. What is really ironic is that you use the word “moronic” to insult the people in this forum for use of the word retard.
#73 Brute – You said “I love the fact that ppl here are so moronic they didn’t realize i was making fun of this post.”
Since Retard and Moron are synonymous, it is ironic that you would criticize a person for using a term that you alluded to………..think about it. That is irony.
February 28, 2010 at 10:39 am
I’m with you, Bronc Drywall. I mean, my daughter’s a dwarf so we could get into the whole midget thing (as opposed to the gagworthy “vertically challenged”), but frankly, there’s nothing that hasn’t been said and it’s not like anybody’s going to change their opinion anyway. So it just ends up being a circle-jerk of people disagreeing with each other, disagreeably.
So do you think the cat keeps the Dalai Lama company when he’s (the cat) not busy shooting rockets out of his ass?
February 28, 2010 at 11:34 am
#130: One of mine was also featured. We’re so retardsy!
February 28, 2010 at 11:52 am
Sure way to kill the party–explain every joke.
I for one am not going to start hand-holding the comically crippled. If you want me to photoshop a wheelchair for you…I gladly take on the dare
February 28, 2010 at 12:16 pm
@ #111 AmyW:Ok I feel like now I need to clarify my earlier post. I totally admit to using the word retard in reference to rude/thoughtless people. However…its not like I would go into a room full of people with “intellectual disabilities” and shout out “hey retards”-that would be wrong. In fact, dare I say it, that would be retarded of me.
Knowing that some people are offended with the use of the word I tend to not use it around people I don’t know. Cause I try not to be a retard.
February 28, 2010 at 12:17 pm
Too many people enjoy the attention they get from being offended. Its epidemic! Anyway, get well soon and all that jazz.
February 28, 2010 at 12:20 pm
#140 – I agree. I won’t change anyone’s mind.
I’ll drop it. I just think the Politically Correct Police should chill with the “bad jokes are kinda evil” stuff.
I love bad jokes!
February 28, 2010 at 12:21 pm
I am reeling from the thought of #136 Mistletoe suffering from goatse! You are indeed a brave soul!
February 28, 2010 at 12:58 pm
#140 commented …
“So do you think the cat keeps the Dalai Lama company when he’s (the cat) not busy shooting rockets out of his ass? ”
Now my cat is offended … mortally. ( Joke joke!)
There you are, Bronc …. we got the Dalai Lama back for you ….
February 28, 2010 at 2:49 pm
#146: no, bad jokes are pure evil
February 28, 2010 at 3:15 pm
Wow, I go away for a day or so & come back here to see a fucking barrage of retarded petards!!!!!!
Get over it! Hope you had a load of yummy comfort foods Helen, makes the painkillers go down more smoothly & helps to avoid getting a mofo size hole in the tummy. Hope you feel like your old snarky self soon, only better, not that you had much room for improvement….
February 28, 2010 at 3:38 pm
I watched you suffer a dull aching pain.
Now you decided to show me the same.
No sweeping exits or offstage lines
Could make me feel bitter or treat you unkind.
High horses couldn’t drag me away.
High, high horses, couldn’t drag me away.
February 28, 2010 at 5:30 pm
Best wishes, Helen
March 1, 2010 at 1:49 am
#138 ftw
March 1, 2010 at 4:05 am
I have a severely disabled Aunt. She IS retarded…it is not an insult, it is what she is.
I do not know why so many people get upset by a simple word.
March 1, 2010 at 7:59 am
Just so I’m Super PC (it IS my goal in life, after all), may I no longer scream out “Whaddrya Blind?” at referees who make bad sporting calls? I honestly never actually thought they were Visually Impaired, but did think they were making poor use of usable senses. Just sayin’
March 1, 2010 at 9:53 am
#153 Raven, when I briefly worked for a school for developmentally delayed/disabled preschoolers in the mid ’90s, it was run by ARC, a national organization which was then actually called “Association for Retarded Citizens”. It had this spelled out on the vans that picked up the kids. Sometime since then they just started calling it “The Arc”. I just find it interesting that in that time frame it went from being included in the name of a national organization….
March 1, 2010 at 9:57 am
…to being so reviled it should (according to some) be banned from use. Anyway, even then, I would never have *called* these children “retarded”, it always sounded insulting to me (even though “mental retardation” was an acceptable term when I was a psych major).
I have no issues, however, calling someone or something “retarded” if they deserve it.
March 1, 2010 at 6:06 pm
#103 Debbie; LOL!
March 3, 2010 at 7:36 am
I’m hearing Arlo Guthrie’s voice: “Friends, they may think it’s a movement . . . “