Insults You No Longer Hear

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LordSutch wrote: »

Well I remember well when 'Spa' was the usual insult thrown at anybody and everybody back in my school days!
(Spa being the abbreviation of Spastic) So I guess 'Spa' is outlawed in schools these days, along with cripple & retard?

Hopefully all those insults are long gone, and they were shocking when you think about them now . . . . .

theyre not long gone.
retard in particular is still used and widely accepted,not just on forums like boards but in mainstream programming to,even when there has been major complaints put in [am not one of them because hadnt watched the prog] and mencap intefered; channels have still ignored it.
it isnt about PCness.
its not only about the deep conotations and history that is attached to it,its also about the disablist attitudes atached to this word and us, that heavily creeped into europe in the mid nineties onwards due to its overuse on southpark.
re.'retard'.... those of us with intelectual disability are used as a wholly negative, drooling useless 'thick' example that people use for comparing non disabled people with, in almost all cases people use they will never find an intelectualy disabled person doing such behaviors or acts.

our disability is seen in a very negative way because of these labels,and the rampant disablism that is still moraly accepted and used by people,as well as the way society is attached to creating hierarchies of so called inteligence.
we are not the opposite to those assessed on the genious end of the scale, we have a disability in all forms of processing which has a knock on effect how we learn,percieve and function,however most of us have strengths in things, such as an interest.


as for crip,it refers to physicaly disabled people,many have actualy been taking back the word for years.
with spastic/spacker/spa/spaz,they are all slang/shortenings of spasticated muscles; which is asociated with CP,it is still a medical term for the muscle issue as not all people with the problem have CP,most do though.
calling non disabled people a slur or term from disability is disablist and derogatory and it shows more about the attitudes of the individual saying it; and the fact they are able to recognise the long term damage caused by homophobic slurs and racism but not with the most vulnerable group.

Ye plank

MuchoLoco wrote: »

Ya Boot 90's style.

I was genuinely confused by this back then.

Class mates saying "Ms. Whatever is a booh"

A what?

"A booh"

I can't spell out such a pronunciation, but you get me!

Horse features

You're about as much use as a chocolate fireguard

hes as tick as pigsh*t

Ya jamrag


another all-boys school one.....

Ride me sideways was another one....





- Sorry I couldn't resist!

tommyboy2222 wrote: »

People calling someone a d*ckhead and doing the hand signal demonstrating an imaginary d*ck protruding from the forehead.

This was done in DIT kevin street a lot a couple of years ago, as well as calling each other a spa.

So much so that a very old and posh lecturer ended up asking our class in the middle of a lab what the hand gesture meant, and what we meant by "f**k off you spa"..... when we told him the hand sign was for dickhead and spa was short for spastic he laughed for about 5 minutes solid before we could continue learning how to properly identify leukaemia cells on a blood film.

We are now mostly practising Medical Scientists :eek:

You'd really have to have been there, some of my former classmates still greet each other with the dickhead sign on the street, in the hospitals and at large conferences (especially if its in the middle of a lecture someone they know is trying to give)...


Ones I havent heard in ages (late 90's) are:

"Shut up buttmunch" -from beavis and butthead, big in my school.

or

"Bite the back end of me sack"

Gee eye!