STUCK?

[darkdiver211]

JahJah, is your computer retarded or is it mine?

Please don't use "retarded" it's offensive.

[SuPrBuGmAn]

Please don't use "retarded" it's offensive.

Taking a stand for the irrational-characters a computer(or smart phone?) are throwing out on the forum? Go you.

[Puttzer]

Please don't use "retarded" it's offensive.

There are other definitions for the word retarded.

re·tard   [ri-tahrd, for 1–3, 5; ree-tahrd for 4] Show IPA
verb (used with object)
1.
to make slow; delay the development or progress of (an action, process, etc.); hinder or impede.
verb (used without object)
2.
to be delayed.
noun
3.
a slowing down, diminution, or hindrance, as in a machine.
4.
Slang: Disparaging .
a.
a mentally retarded person.
b.
a person who is stupid, obtuse, or ineffective in some way: a hopeless social retard.
5.
Automotive, Machinery . an adjustment made in the setting of the distributor of an internal-combustion engine so that the spark for ignition in each cylinder is generated later in the cycle.
Compare advance.

Origin:
1480–90; < Latin retardāre to delay, protract, equivalent to re- re- + tardāre to loiter, be slow, derivative of tardus slow; see tardy

Related forms
re·tard·ing·ly, adverb

Synonyms
1. obstruct, check.

Antonyms
1. accelerate.

[Sludge]

That word hasn't been use in the psychology or special education fields in over thirty years. It's purely a slang term now. As are moron, imbecile, and idiot, which were used eighty years ago to describe specific levels of IQ, but are now just slang words.

I'm sorry if I offended you, but I don't think JahJah's computer cared.

[Spd 135]

I got stuck in a panhandle cave a few years ago. The flow, on the way out, turned me as I approached the restriction. It forced me against it and it took a minute to get a bottle off to get through. RN, on the other hand got Trapped. He was behind me. He is well prepared for this kind of a situation. When he pulled out his large knife and started towards me, I unstuck myself and pushed through the restriction. Now that's motivation!

[DA Aquamaster]

Please don't use "retarded" it's offensive.

No it's not, and you've badly missed the point.

"Retarded" was originally intended to be PC correct language to replace diagnostic terms used such as "moron" (IQ of 51-70), "imbecile" (IQ 26-50) and "idiot" (IQ 0-20).

Those terms were of course considered an improvement over the earlier generic term of "feeble-minded" used to reference people with signifcantly lower than average intellectual ability. When it entered common useage it came to be considered a prejorative term, but of course when moron, imecile and idiot came into common usage, they were themselves considered to be very negative terms associated with the "feeble-minded".

Not surprisingly, "Mentally Retarded" followed the same path from poltically correct to prejorative term when it was itself associated with a later generation of individuals with IQs less than 70.

Consequently, we've moved on as we call those individuals "Intellectually Disabled" rather than Mentally Retarded or just plain retarded. Unfortunately, language use being what it is, and insensitive asshats being what they are, in another 20 years, we'll be cashiering "intellectually disabled" as people will be associating it with people with IQs of less than 70, thus making it a prejorative term. Of course, the asshats out there will probably also be calling them "Ids" as it's a lot easier to say than "intellectually disabled".

So... in the current PC idiom, the proper terminology for the sentence in question would be "JahJah, is your computer intellectually disabled, or is mine?". But that would be really RETARDED as we are not talking about people with IQs less than 70, we are talking about a computer issue using a term in common use in the English language.

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The point being no one is offended when you say "that's really ______"

A) Moronic
B) Idiotic
C) Imbecillic

because everyone has come to accept the common usage of those terms and they no longer have their original clinical meaning. The same consideration now has to be given to "retarded" as it has 1) arrived in use as a common term and 2) is no longer a diagnostic term used for people with IQs less than 70 - which is why we've moved on to the new term "Intellectually Disabled".

So, from my psychologist/counselor perspective, I encourage you to feel free to use "retarded" and not be offended as it no longer refers to people with IQs less than 70. I for one am in no way offended by it - especially when it is used in the way Russell used it.

I am however ALWAYS greatly offended by people who make fun of, or make jokes about people with intellectual disabilities regardless of the terminology used, as it is the intent and usage not the terminology that matters.

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Back on topic - don't get stuck in a cave, it's really retarded.

[icestac]

Back on topic - don't get stuck in a cave, it's really retarded.

And it slows your exit

[SuPrBuGmAn]

Lulz... PC nazi fail

[JahJahwarrior]

Computer is fine but the software appears to be intellectually disabled. I printed out an IQ test and it left all the answers blank which technically means on the scale from feeble minded to Einstein, it's an idiot.

Sometimes it gets stuck and control alt delete has to be used.

[Skorpiov]

Computer is fine but the software appears to be intellectually disabled. I printed out an IQ test and it left all the answers blank

Second belly laugh from CDF today! Thank you!