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Tispower on 02 July 2007
sinha said:
this thread is totally lame.

thanks for sharing us your enlightening opinions *sigh*



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Masenko on 02 July 2007

Don't say 'lame', it's offensive to people with a bad limb.



Tispower on 02 July 2007
Masenko said:
Don't say 'lame', it's offensive to people with a bad limb.
good response

 



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mancandy on 02 July 2007

Spastic? Come on, they are complaining about that word. I am going to complain about Mcdonald's "Super Size" because it's insensitive to fat people.

Can I say fat?



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Tispower on 02 July 2007

this side of the alantic it's definately more of an insult than in the US, by the sounds of it anyway. I mean calling someone a spastic is pretty harsh here, but bu the counds of it, no one cares in the US.



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z64dan on 02 July 2007
mancandy said:
Spastic? Come on, they are complaining about that word. I am going to complain about Mcdonald's "Super Size" because it's insensitive to fat people.

Can I say fat?

mcdonalds got rid of their supersize! but you can still order a large!

the spastic thing is just a cultural difference. for instance, president bush went to england and called people from pakistan "pakies" when i guess thats a derogatory term there (the US doesn't have enough pakistanis to come up with a racist epithet for them, it seems).



Entroper on 02 July 2007

So this boils down to a localization issue. Kinda like the the Chevy Nova.



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sinha on 03 July 2007

Tispower said:

sinha said:
this thread is totally lame.

thanks for sharing us your enlightening opinions *sigh*


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lame = offensive to the handicapped. 

 thanks for having a sense of humor. *sigh*



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Shambolic on 03 July 2007

So what the news story is really saying is that the scoring system is actually pretty accurate.

Sorry, I'm a bad person.



misterd on 03 July 2007
kn said:
since I have a special needs child, I'll tell you what spastic is: It is short for spasticity and can either be low or high. It refers to muscle tone. People with high spasticity are very rigid and have serious difficulty moving their arms and legs. Low, conversely, leaves people with very flopply limbs. It has nothing to do with "mental" capability and such. Using the term spastic to describe or poke fun at a normal person would essentially be saying they have jerky, uncontrolled arm and leg movements rather than slow, fluid movements in a "normal" person.

There ya go. Now you know how to use the term.

And that's my problem. The term spastic has nothing whatsoever to do with mental ability. "Spaz" was a common jeer when I was in HS, but it was aimed at those who were uncoordinated (looking at my students, it is fair to say "Spaz" has since fallen out of use, along with pretty much any other derogatory term save "gay" or "fag").

I suppose if the DS game were keeping track of the movements of the stylus and detected poorly coordinated motion the term "spastic" would be more appropriate, but  in this instance it is completely out of place.