I'm more bugged by things like "sanitation engineer" replacing "janitor". Granted, I think the attempt at replacing "janitor" kind of failed and no cares anymore, but the idea was bull****. A) It implies that there really is something wrong with being a janitor, B) it stupidly assumes that the "sting" of "janitor" can be removed just by making a fancier-sounding alternative, and C) it shows that the middle-class white people who proposed the change think janitors are so stupid that they would actually believe that said white people no longer looked down on them just because they had a new fancy word their job.

Cause it's fun. Go to hell.

Just jumping in to say that I'm on the team against throwing around the word "***got". I'm okay with swearing, but homophobic slurs are not okay.

JWB chose his words very poorly. You could say that he really screwed the pooch on that one (drumroll please, Batlord).

i'm going to beat up the next 5 people to post in this topic

Not even close.. The worst words are things like YOLO and hashtag.

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They are cringey and urgh, but obviously not anywhere near as vile as "faggot".

"Hella" may be up there though.

**** you, I use "hella" all the time. White people who say that anything is "dope" need to kill themselves though.

alright, ori. you're safe, pal. you're safe, and i l*ve you

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hmm, conan versus slater

my money's on slater

I want in on this! Let's go!

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Fuck you I say dope. Stupid gringo.

Using words loosely and humorously is one of the best ways to take away from their power. If you joke around with a word enough it's not offensive anymore. At least that's how I see it.
Though I have a friend who's lived both here and in the US. He hates the word but says that it mainly comes from his time in America, that word is not a big deal here. Or at least not where I am.

I respect that, but I don't think "dope" will ever be non-offensive to me.

Gonna flash my age thing here. Back in the late 60s early 70s there was nothing even close to being as bad as getting called a f*ggot. Nothing.

Nothing.

That word cut to the bone.

People back then must've been way homophobic if being called that hurt them so much.

They were. Big time.

Considering homosexuality back then was considered by a lot of people to be a disease of the mind and often associated with pedophiles and/or guys with mommy issues, being lumped into that category of people carried a lot of weight.

Or how the media still latches on to the very dead phase of saying epic/epic fail.

I think it's pretty illin

You mean hella illy.

scanning the past couple pages looks like the ***got thing caused a bit of a stir. i will likely respond to specific posts as i read them but as a preliminary i'd just like to propose the idea that i should get a pass to say ***got since i go both ways. you know, like black people and their special word.

Wait hol up....You're bi

it's not an excuse just a clarification. *** just seems a befitting way to demean pretentious hipster types. i don't even mind those types of people as individuals i just like to make fun of them. if my use still offends you then fine, just as long as you are offended at what i am actually saying and not jumping to the conclusion that i was trying to disparage gays or anything like that
nah, i also called that rap hater blanche a sonnet reading f@ggot when he bragged about liking shakespeare

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Gold. :laughing:

pretty sure i've mentioned this on multiple occasions

I don't think you hate gay people. I never did. I just think that your use of the word was ignorant and offensive. I thought your excuse of "It wasn't in a sexual way" was bullsh*t. It's not an excuse to use a word the vast majority of people, especially the LGBT community, find offensive. That fact that your bi-sexual yet use that word freely baffles me to be honest but this is America and you can use whatever word you want to describe whatever you want. I just may call you out on it.

You're one of the few people on this board that can be smart, funny, ignorant, and completely immature at the same time. I was addressing those last two qualities in this thread. Hopefully your other ones start to take over as you get older because you may end up turning into a sh*tty person.

I've said my peace.

I smoke my peace.

Oh right during one of our many conversations.

Roxy: Gettin all nosy n shit.

Tell her JWB!

Yeah, man. If she's gonna be asking all this personal **** she needs to set a rapport first. A ****ing rapport, dude.

;).

For ****s sake, is this argument still going on? No wonder people hate this thread.

it's only been 9 pages dawg

alright, i appreciate the honest critcism

@roxy if you weren't so quick to write off my thread about the trandgenders you would've seen that i was bi