Two self links in one post.

September 25, 2002 1:49 PM

Two self links in one post. And they're kind of creepy, to boot. Not a particularly auspicious beginning for the 16K club.
posted by pardonyou? to Etiquette/Policy at 1:49 PM (23 comments total)

The formatting of the post was/is ugly as sin, too.
posted by The God Complex at 1:53 PM on September 25, 2002

I don't understand what the post is about anyway. Maybe it's been Google-translated from Aramaic?
posted by mr_crash_davis at 2:01 PM on September 25, 2002

It is Deleted......

bye bye (clap clap)
posted by Steve_at_Linnwood at 2:06 PM on September 25, 2002

Maybe it's been Google-translated from Aramaic?

I don't think Google can translate Aramaic (sic) to Retard.
posted by Dark Messiah at 2:13 PM on September 25, 2002

haha
posted by Steve_at_Linnwood at 2:18 PM on September 25, 2002

Dark Messiah: Dude, you used the R-word
posted by signal at 2:29 PM on September 25, 2002

the 16K club

Ugh. Don't start. We're all MeFiers here, we don't need anymore artificial division into "clubs".
posted by Shadowkeeper at 2:31 PM on September 25, 2002

And why did you (sic) crash's use of the word Aramaic?
posted by gleuschk at 2:32 PM on September 25, 2002

signal: your powers of observation are unparalelled.

glueschk: I thought it was spelled "Arameic". Or is either of them perfectly cromulent?
posted by Dark Messiah at 2:36 PM on September 25, 2002

i thought the quotes in the post were interesting. it's too bad the post itself looked like it was typed by monkeys.
posted by donkeyschlong at 2:38 PM on September 25, 2002

DM: I've never seen it spelled with an "e", and Google asks me, "Did you mean: aramaic". It gives 278 hits for "arameic", vs. 136,000 for the one crash used.
posted by gleuschk at 2:58 PM on September 25, 2002

I would like to reclaim "retard" as an insult, the way that Dan Savage tried to claim "faggot," only the opposite. Whereas Dan tried to de-insult "faggot" by embracing it, I'd like to re-insult "retard" by re-appropriating it -- keeping the word taboo basically means continuing to consider it as an "appropriate" (i.e., denotatively correct) term for the mentally handicapped. (Put another way, "retard" is only considered offensive because people continue to associate the term with the mentally handicapped.)

I propose "retard" be used as an insult directed at people who retard the flow of x in some way. This usage would cleave very closely to the dictionary definition of the verb "retard," commonly used by scientists and engineers. The obvious usage would be on our nation's roads and highways -- rubberneckers slowing to observe an accident (as opposed to slowing to allow those at the scene to function properly) would, collectively, be retards. Someone who drives slowly would not necessarily be a retard, unless he or she is in the left lane. Or the person who holds up a checkout line looking for change. I'm not a go-go-go kind of guy, looking to disparage those who don't move at lightning pace, but in day-to-day life, everyone is slowed down to an unwelcome, inconvenient degree by the actions of certain others. I submit to you that those others are retards.
posted by blueshammer at 3:11 PM on September 25, 2002

gleuschk: from the front page of MeFi "The only issue? He wants to do it totally in Latin and Arameic without subtitles". I realize MeFi is not without it's typos, but it's not like Aramaic is a word I often write (read: never, until this point). I assumed, and made an ass out of me.

Next time, I'll try and avoid being funny when it comes to speling. ;)
posted by Dark Messiah at 3:18 PM on September 25, 2002

bye bye (clap clap)
I see Matt's installed the Clapper™ to help expedite the deletion of subpar FPPs. nice.
posted by whatnot at 3:54 PM on September 25, 2002

Considering that the English word "Aramaic" is a transliteration of the general name of an ancient language that was based on both a different alphabet and set of phonemes than is English, any English spelling probably misses the mark by a mile. Therefore, no penalty points for Dark Messsiah.

:-)
posted by evanizer at 3:59 PM on September 25, 2002

Therefore, no penalty points for Dark Messsiah.

And no penalty points for Dark Messiah either.

Geesh, this thread must have a strong anti-spelling field. Or perhaps an anti-spelling curse.

I'm getteing owt of hear!
posted by evanizer at 4:02 PM on September 25, 2002

You pre-10329 jerks are starting to show your age. Next comment: Hey, get off my lawn you punks - I went to high-school with your mom!
posted by Samsonov14 at 8:48 PM on September 25, 2002

Yet another worthwhile comment from the 10300-10399 peanut gallery, I see.
posted by Danelope at 9:18 PM on September 25, 2002

Are we gonna start saying *clap clap* when a post should be deleted now?
posted by Yelling At Nothing at 9:41 PM on September 25, 2002

No, no, you only *clap clap* if you believe in faeries!

I don't believe in faeries. I just believe in me.





Yoko and me.
posted by evanizer at 10:14 PM on September 25, 2002

Yet another worthwhile comment from the 10300-10399 peanut gallery, I see.

Sheesh, the comments coming from the 200+ clique these days just make me wish the baby jesus was here to cry.
posted by Neale at 4:44 AM on September 26, 2002

Um, for what its worth, my "16K" comment was an attempt to be funny. Should have used one of those crazy smiley things the kids are using these days:

; )
posted by pardonyou? at 7:36 AM on September 26, 2002

good call blueshammer, i can dig it.
now how do we reclaim all sexual swear words? i mean i still find myself using them, but they only work while our society regards sex as taboo. i mean, how retarded is that?
posted by asok at 2:56 PM on September 26, 2002