~ma for ita.
Shh! I kinda wanna hear me talking right now!
Glory ,'The Killer In Me'
Spike's Bitches 43: Who am I kidding? I love to brag.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Fred Pete - Dec 11, 2008 5:43:18 am PST #4081 of 10000
Ann, that's a ferret.
brenda m - Dec 11, 2008 5:48:05 am PST #4082 of 10000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
There's so many that hardly even ping as slurs until you think about them - welshing on a bet, paddy wagons, etc.
Trudy Booth - Dec 11, 2008 5:48:36 am PST #4083 of 10000
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
It wasn't until I was in college that someone told me that "Guido" was offensive. In high school, we used it all the time, and the people we were describing with it weren't always Italian.
We knew it meant Italian (well, Italian-American) and when we used it to describe someone NOT Italian we were saying they dressed/acted like Italian guys who dressed/acted like that.
It was certainly a sterotype but not necessarily a slur. It was akin to "preppie" or "jock". And it almost always described guys.
Hil R. - Dec 11, 2008 5:53:16 am PST #4084 of 10000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
It was certainly a sterotype but not necessarily a slur. It was akin to "preppie" or "jock".
Yeah. Though, when I was in high school, we used "Abercrombie" instead of "preppy."
Trudy Booth - Dec 11, 2008 6:00:34 am PST #4085 of 10000
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Abercrombie! Hee!
"Guinea T" and "wife beater" were used interchangeably (tough my school almost always said the former). Eventually somebody noticed they were pretty offensive. Now Torrid referrs to them as "beaters". Which? Still offensive. It's like saying "the N word". You're still USING the term, you know?
Barb - Dec 11, 2008 6:02:52 am PST #4086 of 10000
“Not dead yet!”
Oy, I just got cranky on my blog. Be interesting to see if there's any response.
Emily - Dec 11, 2008 6:12:46 am PST #4087 of 10000
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Even "Indian summer" came from a slur. It's amazing the way these things become fixtures.
Vortex - Dec 11, 2008 6:28:24 am PST #4088 of 10000
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
omg! One of the FSU football players is going to be on the Colbert Report. I don't know when, his name is Myron Rolle and he's awesome. Star football player, Rhodes Scholar, pre med. actually he's finished with bachelor's work.
I heard him on NPR, he sounded like such a sweetie!
Oh great. My boobs killed the thread.
Well, if by killing you meant “joyously overwhelmed with the thought of Suzi boobage”, then yes.
Trudy Booth - Dec 11, 2008 6:54:26 am PST #4089 of 10000
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Even "Indian summer" came from a slur. It's amazing the way these things become fixtures.
I once got into an argument with an Englishman about where that phrase was from and just what Indians were being referenced. We didn't even think to ponder its offensiveness or not.
Toddson - Dec 11, 2008 6:58:25 am PST #4090 of 10000
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
OK, you people have to cut back on posting links to yummy clothes ... or I'll be forced - FORCED, I tell you - to start posting stuff I've found on my own - like this. sigh ....