NotLemming

Yes crucial, the ritual blowing of powerful blasts of cool (not wet) air, to get the dust out, and then firmly push it in, to show it that you meant business (and complete the spell). You might be getting mixed up with the secret cheats for games. Up up left right down down wasn't it?

They would. Apparently trump graduated college/uni and his IQ is 80 IIRC. Money smooths anything out.

Excuse me. Everyone knows the blowing was crucial.

I learned what we did in Scotland from braveheart and outlander :/

I can't believe I wasn't hearing it, but maybe that was because of where I grew up, where we might say someone was slow or backwards (not meaning to offend) rather than use intellectual disability, which is quite a formal term. I thought the R one was a recent Americanism (like so much today, bah humbug).

I only quite recently learned that the word cripple is considered offensive. A lot of these words seem respectable to me somehow, but I suppose many of them started out that way and only became offensive due to how they were used as insults. Like moron, idiot etc were originally medical categories. I'll have a look at the list, thanks. I'm sure there will some surprises for me.

So... We already know that meta (for example) is tracking the hell out of everybody who has their crappy apps etc. We're now going to see mandatory social media usage so that meta can become the thought police on behalf of trump. Really??!

Next the social security recipients, anyone who wants a tax break... Health insurance applicants and recipients and basically anyone who ever needs anything from the government.

Not a single mention of how pink and sparkly

I'm not saying I haven't heard any offensive terms for the disabled, just not that one. A lot of them are dialect or slang words, probably spaz (spastic) is the most common but there are lots.

That's good! I wonder how long that's been part of the curriculum (I'm getting on now lol) and if I could have forgotten. I remember a lot from when I was young.

I wouldn't have a reason to use it here but if I travelled to another place I'd certainly be respectful of their language and customs and make sure not to accidentally offend anyone. He doesn't seem to care since he's an arrogant prick.

I don't think I've ever heard it used by an English person. It reminds me of 'en retard' which means late in French.

Retard. To be fair, I don't feel it's very offensive as I've never heard it used as a slur in my part of the world. Elon probably feels the same - as he's not american either.