I think "spaz" disconnected in enough people's minds from an actual physical condition that it probably isn't meant offensively in most situations, but that doesn't mean it shouldn't be avoided.
Buffy: A Guide, but no water or food. So it leads me to the sacred place and then a week later it leads you to my bleached bones? Giles: Buffy, really. It takes more than a week to bleach bones.
'Dirty Girls'
Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork
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.
Theodosia - Apr 02, 2011 7:48:43 am PDT #1355 of 30001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Theodosia - Apr 02, 2011 7:49:49 am PDT #1356 of 30001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
In a way, it's equally as offensive as "'sode" which also isn't all that funny when you stop to think about it.
Sophia Brooks - Apr 02, 2011 7:51:03 am PDT #1357 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I only found out the "spaz" thing recently.
This Gray's Anatomy is Bananas! Like, insane!
SuziQ - Apr 02, 2011 7:51:31 am PDT #1358 of 30001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
I need to get that out of my vocabulary, at least in the way I used it above. I didn't mean it offensively.
flea - Apr 02, 2011 7:52:40 am PDT #1359 of 30001
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It was a THREE HOUR LINE. And we are in theory doing this again for a different camp next weekend. What the fuck.
Sophia Brooks - Apr 02, 2011 7:59:05 am PDT #1360 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I can't stop laughing at this Grey's Anatomy!
§ ita § - Apr 02, 2011 8:01:33 am PDT #1361 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
In London, when we said spastic, we meant CP. So there was no divorce there. When you said someone was acting spazzy, you meant they were acting like they had cerebral palsy, no distance at all. It's a hard jump to make.
brenda m - Apr 02, 2011 8:14:41 am PDT #1362 of 30001
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
Up until recently with all the fail discussion everywhere, I would never have associated those things.
bon bon - Apr 02, 2011 8:17:09 am PDT #1363 of 30001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
I think most people haven't encountered people with CP. I personally haven't met anyone with CP that has jerky/twitchy features, so I wouldn't even associate spastic with it.
Steph L. - Apr 02, 2011 8:45:54 am PDT #1364 of 30001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
IIRC, use of the word "spaz" was the source of one of the ugly kerfluffles in Bureaucracy. (Some dude who I disremember -- obv. not a current poster -- said that because this is a board about BTVS, and because the show used the word, that should be our touchstone, and therefore it was okay to use it. I posited that it was a damned good thing this wasn't a Huckleberry Finn board.)