"Gay" and "Retarded"
 

Just a question for those of you that live outside of Utah. Do people where you live use the words "gay" and "retarded" like they do here? Utahns don't seem to know the difference between lame, dumb, stupid, silly as opposed to gay and retarded. Personally, I think it's gay that people are so retarded.

I believe it a youngster thing around most of the country, including here in Utah.

But then, I'm neither gay or retarded.

Retarded yes, gay no. In fact those who use "gay" usually get criticized with something along the lines of, "what are we, in seventh grade?"

That's interesting that in San Diego they're enlightened enough not to use "gay" but still use "retarded." Hm. I wonder why.

Both terms are used all the time here in Oklahoma. By kids and adults alike. But we're not exactly the center of the politically-correct world.

My seventh grader does use both terms, sometimes in the same sentence toward the same person.

It usually goes like this,

Aaron, "Thor, stop being gay, you dumb retard."

Thor, "I am not retard and I like girls and you don't." (eight year old)

Usually, thereafter it degenerates from there into a fistfight.

I hear kids call someone gay all of the time here in San Diego. I don't hear adults do it too often.

Personally, I have developed the bad habit of saying that someone who looks ridiculous "looks like a homo.(which my macabre sense of humor finds hilarious)" I have tried to drop this except among select company, but it has slipped out a few times. Like the time I looked in the mirror and saw that I was having a bad hair day and I yelled "why didn't anyone tell me that my hair made me look like a homo?" with my cousin, who really is a homo standing right there. I turned red, but she thought it was hysterically funny, and she has called me "homo hair" ever since. She is cool like that.

Because we're all confessing:

I don't use the term "gay" any more as a synonym for "lame" but I did use that all the time in high school. I tend to use the word "moron", as in "you stupid moron!" rather than the term "retard" but not because I'm worried about offending anyone's sensitivities - "moron" just comes out more naturally than "retard".

At one place I worked, the term "fagged together" was used to describe something that was hastily thrown together - a duct tape and bailing wire type of solution. That eventually morphed into something having a "faggy" design or architecture. I try not to use these terms now; however, they occasionally slip out when heatedly debating the merits of some technical design with my colleagues.

I do use the term "riced out" to describe cars from Asian manufacturers that are, you know, riced out. I also use the term "weezer" to describe things that are sterotypically Chinese/Taiwanese ("weezer" is a derivation from the word "Taiwanese"). That was a popular underground term (outlawed by the Mission President) in the Taiwan missions back in my day.

Personally I think it's gay and retarded if someone CHOOSES to be offended when someone uses these words.

For example...I just got a 3 day suspension on Cooterboard by Jefe for using the word "gay" in a "derogatory" tone.

That's massively gay. :)

I just got 3 days for calling crimedog a douche bag, however i am rethinking now that gay and retard would have better fit his comments.

Gay, retarded, and douche, while once funny insults, are now passé. I like to call people turkeys. Although a little rough, it's an insult that cuts to the core.