*lets sleepingbag lie*
― estela, Monday, 16 October 2017 01:44 (six years ago) link
<3
― Gary Synaesthesia (darraghmac), Monday, 16 October 2017 07:08 (six years ago) link
i want to believehttps://i.ytimg.com/vi/CjQKFoUdk4g/hqdefault.jpg
― brimstead, Wednesday, 18 October 2017 01:28 (six years ago) link
I'm not going to interfere with someone else being offended, I don't think that ever works. Not posting this:"Much like today's widely socially acceptable terms idiot and moron, which are also defined as some sort of mental disability, when the term retard is being used in its pejorative form, it is usually not being directed at people with mental disabilities. Instead, people use the term when teasing their friends or as a general insult when in an argument." ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retard_(pejorative) )
― StanM, Wednesday, 18 October 2017 12:15 (six years ago) link
I did once see someone shame a thinkpiece writer for using "idiot" and the writer apologized for being ableist.
Is it still okay to say lowbrow, barbarian or philistine?
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 18 October 2017 13:21 (six years ago) link
"Philistine" is offensive to Palestinians.
― Monster fatberg (Phil D.), Wednesday, 18 October 2017 13:28 (six years ago) link
I'll continue to broadly use CHUD until the CHUD lobby strongarms people into using a more politically correct term.
― I believe I will have another helping of your scrumptious casserole (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 18 October 2017 13:37 (six years ago) link
Do many people ask to stop using philistine as an insult?
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 18 October 2017 13:38 (six years ago) link
Barbarian is only an insult if used against somebody who is Ancient Greek. Pretty sure lowbrow didn't originate as a dis on Neanderthals
― pulled pork state of mind (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 18 October 2017 13:46 (six years ago) link
Cannibal-Americans are a much-maligned group, OL.
― looser than lucinda (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 18 October 2017 13:47 (six years ago) link
the idea that idiot retains ableist connotations seems pretty idiotic, like the kind of thing a soi-disant grammar pedant would be wrong about
― pulled pork state of mind (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 18 October 2017 13:48 (six years ago) link
actually a shambles is a slaughterhouse *pushes glasses up nose*
― pulled pork state of mind (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 18 October 2017 13:49 (six years ago) link
I thought lowbrow was anti-black?
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 18 October 2017 13:50 (six years ago) link
general phrenology-type nonsense I think which had a racist component but wasn't exclusive in this case
― pulled pork state of mind (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 18 October 2017 13:53 (six years ago) link
like I was sort of joking above because I think the physiognomical belief was that a low brow suggested caveman-like tendencies and therefore low intelligence etc and this was definitely applied racially but also across the class spectrum etc
― pulled pork state of mind (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 18 October 2017 13:54 (six years ago) link
highbrow the concept as cultural praise originates in maybe the 1800s, from gall's phrenology (word is probably later): neanderthals were identified in the 1840s, and their qualities back-inferred from there (viz they must have been bad not good bcz brows low not high: thus the feelin-yr-bumps science, anyway)
in other words lowbrow did more or less originate as a diss on neanderthals, as did the adjective neanderthal :(
in fact it is we who are the monsters here (since we obviously entirely absorbed the entire strain, probably mostly by eating them)
― mark s, Wednesday, 18 October 2017 14:01 (six years ago) link
it's their own fault for being so darned tasty
― pulled pork state of mind (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 18 October 2017 14:03 (six years ago) link
idiot actually means 'someone who does their own thing' it's actually a celebration of individuality kthx
― imago, Wednesday, 18 October 2017 14:24 (six years ago) link
lol no it's not
― Mordy, Wednesday, 18 October 2017 15:16 (six years ago) link
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/4d/67/67/4d67676f2478e5cdb64b3008e06f51da--foghorn-leghorn-quotes-humor-animal.jpg
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 18 October 2017 15:19 (six years ago) link
ok i thought it might be but i wasn't sure. there are people who sincerely believe that palestinians are philistines and so concluding that "philistine" as a pejorative is offensive is not so far-fetched.
― Mordy, Wednesday, 18 October 2017 15:37 (six years ago) link
deluxe editions are so not punk rock
― brimstead, Wednesday, 18 October 2017 15:45 (six years ago) link
idiot means apolitical, imo
― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, 18 October 2017 20:10 (six years ago) link
Its worse yere getting
― Gary Synaesthesia (darraghmac), Wednesday, 18 October 2017 20:39 (six years ago) link
why the fuck would you post this on facebook why why why why why
― brimstead, Thursday, 19 October 2017 01:03 (six years ago) link
i wonder if any of those priests have died
― sarahell, Thursday, 19 October 2017 02:04 (six years ago) link
marc loilx
― mookieproof, Thursday, 19 October 2017 02:37 (six years ago) link
You got your problemsI got my ass wideYou got your [performative online wokeness]I got your [chat histories that demonstrate countless examples of your abusive behaviour to myself and others and your subsequent lies]
― fgti, Thursday, 19 October 2017 14:46 (six years ago) link
https://media1.britannica.com/eb-media/91/77091-004-7485222B.jpg
― pulled pork state of mind (Noodle Vague), Monday, 23 October 2017 17:52 (six years ago) link
I must know nv
― Gary Synaesthesia (darraghmac), Monday, 23 October 2017 18:02 (six years ago) link
eh, just standard ILM daftness
― pulled pork state of mind (Noodle Vague), Monday, 23 October 2017 19:07 (six years ago) link
it'd be one thing if baseball was the only thing you are massively ignorant about...
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 25 October 2017 14:32 (six years ago) link
much better than the handy tbrr
― Marcus Hiles Remains Steadfast About Planting Trees.jpg (DJP), Wednesday, 25 October 2017 17:01 (six years ago) link
i think the phrase yr all searching for is " make America great again"
― sleepingbag, Thursday, 26 October 2017 21:07 (six years ago) link
what's with all the male/female bs all of a sudd-oh, it's you again.
― StanM, Friday, 27 October 2017 02:27 (six years ago) link
take it easy
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Friday, 27 October 2017 02:29 (six years ago) link
'All that is excessive is insignificant.'
― pomenitul, Friday, 27 October 2017 03:04 (six years ago) link
Don't Crackout
― Erotic Wolf (crüt), Friday, 27 October 2017 04:18 (six years ago) link
how polished are the Polish anyway?
― sarahell, Saturday, 28 October 2017 04:26 (six years ago) link
I love you all
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Saturday, 28 October 2017 08:05 (six years ago) link
What is Chaki's current name? I haven't been able to figure out who.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 28 October 2017 12:52 (six years ago) link
who's your dada?
― sarahell, Saturday, 28 October 2017 20:07 (six years ago) link
10 years ago that could have been posted in rolling teenpop and nobody would have batted an eye
― Erotic Wolf (crüt), Sunday, 29 October 2017 23:26 (six years ago) link
^^ new ILM board description
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 30 October 2017 00:18 (six years ago) link
love it when people seriously headscratch on these threads
― Pope Urban the Legend (Noodle Vague), Monday, 30 October 2017 06:41 (six years ago) link
Next papal conclave, I gotta pope urban joke to drop that i'm quietly pleased with
― But doctor, I am Camille Paglia (Bananaman Begins), Monday, 30 October 2017 08:20 (six years ago) link
I was trying to weld the "spirit of the staircase" idiom with the feeling of stacking tungsten carbide bricks around a plutonium core
― El Tomboto, Monday, 30 October 2017 16:41 (six years ago) link
Golly this thread is even worse than everything about it would have led you to believe
― Gary Synaesthesia (darraghmac), Monday, 30 October 2017 18:29 (six years ago) link
You can't see more than one inch past your own nose and your advice is useless.
― WilliamC, Wednesday, 1 November 2017 16:26 (six years ago) link
Goodparents, shitparentsBreak down the doorStand up and face your childrenThis is 1984
― Monster fatberg (Phil D.), Wednesday, 1 November 2017 18:28 (six years ago) link