flea, you have my sympathies.
What Tom said about special needs. Isn't it always going to be a moving target? We used learning disabled/LD as a slur when I was young, and that was the new PC term.
I'm going to see to Wesley, see if he's still whimpering.
Giles ,'Chosen'
Natter 59: Dominate Your Face!
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
bon bon - Jun 09, 2008 8:33:40 am PDT #1997 of 10003
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Beverly - Jun 09, 2008 8:35:41 am PDT #1998 of 10003
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Oh flea. I do so sympathize. And offer my personal cluebat.
msbelle - Jun 09, 2008 8:43:30 am PDT #1999 of 10003
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Special has always been the polite slur between the kids in my family growing up, because it was Special Ed and there was the Special Ed bus. Here's CLUE to the sensitive types that keep wanting terms changed. KIDS WILL STILL MAKE FUN! We made up nonsense words to tease each other with in my family and one of my cousins made up curse words. My aunt punished the perceived intent of the said word rather than actual language at that point.
Sophia Brooks - Jun 09, 2008 8:45:34 am PDT #2000 of 10003
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Oh dear, flea. I would be angry if I were you!
We used learning disabled/LD as a slur when I was young, and that was the new PC term.
I think people will just use whatever term- "special needs" (and people who were going to be mechanics or hairdressers) kids in upstate NY were bused to a place called BOCES, which stood for something. We used "BO-tard" as a slur, or called people "BOCIES".
amych - Jun 09, 2008 8:48:52 am PDT #2001 of 10003
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Man, that's so totally Bocie.
(And, yeah, the first time that slipped out after I left high school was a completely weird mashup of "I really shouldn't have said that" and "these people have no idea what I'm even talking about.)
Frankenbuddha - Jun 09, 2008 8:49:33 am PDT #2002 of 10003
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Special has always been the polite slur between the kids in my family growing up, because it was Special Ed and there was the Special Ed bus. Here's CLUE to the sensitive types that keep wanting terms changed. KIDS WILL STILL MAKE FUN!
In my hometown, the special ed kids used to go to a separate school called The Ricker School, so you used to call kids "Rickers" as an insult. Later, they had their own room at the junior high - Room 111. So the term "111-ers" got thrown around. It's always going to be that way.
Jesse - Jun 09, 2008 8:51:50 am PDT #2003 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
"Oh yeah, you're special -- special needs!!"
JZ - Jun 09, 2008 8:51:53 am PDT #2004 of 10003
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Ugh, flea, I'm seething for you. That's fist-through-the-wall enraging.
Steph L. - Jun 09, 2008 8:53:57 am PDT #2005 of 10003
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Oh god, flea. I feel you. You can't force them to do the only goddamned thing they need to get done, and yet when they don't do it, it affects SO MUCH MORE than just them.
Dear [loved one]:
If the consequences affect only you, then go fuck around as long as you like. When it affects me, then I eat your liver.
Lovens,
Teppy
Frankenbuddha - Jun 09, 2008 8:54:23 am PDT #2006 of 10003
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
"Oh yeah, you're special -- special needs!!"
This conversation can't help but bring to mind that Onion piece about sending "very special forces" to Iraq (including a photo of the short plane).