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  • Donkey KongDonkey Kong Putting Nintendo out of business with AI nips Registered User regular
    Skippy, it’s 100 feet have you really been in georgia that long

    Thousands of hot, local singles are waiting to play at bubbulon.com.
  • bowenbowen Sup? Registered User regular
    Organichu wrote: »
    The things I have seen people do in parking lots. Where and how they park, what they do with their carts, how they drive. Anyone who’s been a cart pusher at a big store

    Goddamned monsters

    I saw someone park next to the cart corral thingie, and then leave their cart on the other side of their car when they were done instead of putting it on the side that had the cart corral.

    not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
  • skippydumptruckskippydumptruck Registered User regular
    Dronus86 wrote: »
    you know the cart return situation before you parked
    or at least you should have
    you made that choice

    perhaps it is more moral to outright reject an unjust system, where labor is offloaded onto the customer

  • WinkyWinky rRegistered User regular
    “Stupid” is one of the few intelligence based insults that isn’t entrenched in mocking of the mentally handicapped, mocking the otherwise disabled, and by connotation doesn’t insult intrinsically a person’s ability.

    In modern usage it means “unintelligent” but historical usage and still valid connotation tie it to being stunned or dazzled, and unable to think because of some external force.

    Isn't idiot originally an insult for someone who didn't vote in Greek society? I'd think that was a worthy insult.

    Of course, it was later used as a label for mentally handicapped people, so, that one got ruined too.

  • OrganichuOrganichu poops peesRegistered User regular
    bowen wrote: »
    Organichu wrote: »
    The things I have seen people do in parking lots. Where and how they park, what they do with their carts, how they drive. Anyone who’s been a cart pusher at a big store

    Goddamned monsters

    I saw someone park next to the cart corral thingie, and then leave their cart on the other side of their car when they were done instead of putting it on the side that had the cart corral.

    I have seen many, many dozens of people park inside a cart corral

  • emnmnmeemnmnme Registered User regular
    That Elvis Presley was such a bad influence on the children.

  • BogartBogart Streetwise Hercules Registered User, Moderator Mod Emeritus
    Dronus86 wrote: »
    you know the cart return situation before you parked
    or at least you should have
    you made that choice

    perhaps it is more moral to outright reject an unjust system, where labor is offloaded onto the customer

    skippy this pleading is making it worse. You have been judged. Now take this bell and wander the wasteland, yelling "unclean".

  • Evil MultifariousEvil Multifarious Registered User regular
    “Stupid” is one of the few intelligence based insults that isn’t entrenched in mocking of the mentally handicapped, mocking the otherwise disabled, and by connotation doesn’t insult intrinsically a person’s ability.

    In modern usage it means “unintelligent” but historical usage and still valid connotation tie it to being stunned or dazzled, and unable to think because of some external force.

    I think this basically doesn't matter, though, in terms of words becoming taboo. The reaction and politicization is what shapes our behaviour.

    "Stupid" is very cutting when used earnestly, like "shut up" can be. I could see it falling into disfavor because it's the essential word we use for insulting intelligence.

    But the one that's probably going to become a battleground next is "crazy." It's already verboten in some progressive circles. I wonder how much traction that will get.

  • TuminTumin Registered User regular
    edited November 2018
    I've never had anyone I insult stop being terrible and I can't even throw my razor barbs because they're too mean.

    "Oh nice parking job, buddy. Did you have trouble seeing the lines or do you just have penguin flippers for hands?"

    No coming back from that, yknow? Might as well be kind.

    Tumin on
  • bowenbowen Sup? Registered User regular
    Organichu wrote: »
    bowen wrote: »
    Organichu wrote: »
    The things I have seen people do in parking lots. Where and how they park, what they do with their carts, how they drive. Anyone who’s been a cart pusher at a big store

    Goddamned monsters

    I saw someone park next to the cart corral thingie, and then leave their cart on the other side of their car when they were done instead of putting it on the side that had the cart corral.

    I have seen many, many dozens of people park inside a cart corral

    how in the..

    not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
  • skippydumptruckskippydumptruck Registered User regular
    the problem is, I want to be a good person but I'm also very lazy about some things

  • bowenbowen Sup? Registered User regular
    Easy solution:

    Call everyone Jabronis

    not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
  • Duke 2.0Duke 2.0 Time Trash Cat Registered User regular
    HEY YOU! Yeah, by the cart you just left in the middle of the parking lot! I hope you have a good day! Whatever’s causing grief in your life passes! You are a wonderful person and I hope you know that! Don’t let anybody take you down!

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  • bowenbowen Sup? Registered User regular
    Geth hurry up and just give the chat to Chanus already

    not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
  • WinkyWinky rRegistered User regular
    the problem is, I want to be a good person but I'm also very lazy about some things

    I feel like, more than any other struggle, this is the true tragedy of the human condition.

  • GethGeth Legion Perseus VeilRegistered User, Moderator, Penny Arcade Staff, Vanilla Staff vanilla
    This thread is no longer active, and will be recycled.
    On average, this thread was zooming by at warp 1.7

    @skippydumptruck will create the new thread
    @skippydumptruck is backup

  • BogartBogart Streetwise Hercules Registered User, Moderator Mod Emeritus
    Not doing the little tiny courtesies that are easy and expected of everyone is probably the quickest way to earn contempt. If you're wildly punching a postbox and screaming about something people might write it off as a bad day.

    But tossing an empty Coke can into the street without a thought? Everyone who saw you hates you now and has marked you as garbage.

  • BogartBogart Streetwise Hercules Registered User, Moderator Mod Emeritus
    Skippy do not take this as tacit approval from Geth.

  • EchoEcho ski-bap ba-dapModerator, Administrator admin
    “Stupid” is one of the few intelligence based insults that isn’t entrenched in mocking of the mentally handicapped, mocking the otherwise disabled, and by connotation doesn’t insult intrinsically a person’s ability.

    In modern usage it means “unintelligent” but historical usage and still valid connotation tie it to being stunned or dazzled, and unable to think because of some external force.

    Somewhere I have an early 1900s newspaper clip from my hometown advertising a "home for idiots" by a renowned "idiot doctor".

  • EchoEcho ski-bap ba-dapModerator, Administrator admin
    This is my thread now.

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