Is Mongo Such a Bad word ?

I'm familiar with Mondo from Fair City, are you sure this is not just a typo? Perhaps you mean Mango? I like a nice Chutney myself.

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Whatever about being a bad word, it is a terribly vulgar word.

I find vulgar is a pretty vulgar word. Very apt really.

Use 'mook' instead.

Thought it was just a generic Dublin slang for someone of utmost stupidity or annoyance ??

Much in the same way ' Fag got ' has transformed into an almost undefined meaning in 2013.

Given the fact that ****tards like to use the word to describe people with disabilities then it is in essence a bad word.

And given that there are growing numbers of people who are highly functional adults who have a condition which they were born with (which is a disability, and thus a target for bigots), it makes it an odious word.

And given that the people who are usually the targets of such words are oblivious to such treatment makes it frightfully obscene word.

But that's how people like to dress up stuff isn't it. The goal is "always make yourself seem blameless."

We all do it. Anyone who says they don't is a liar, or simply not living their lives. I found myself doing it myself the other day ( in an entirely more benign context of ******* *************;)), and I only caught myself hours later. "Catallus," I said, "that wasn't very proper of you, was it?" and the only answer I had for myself is "Well, that's how I feel. I genuinely can't escape the fact that I feel like that." And it occurred to me that the fault in me is something not easily resolvable (and typing this I don't think I have any reason to change my mind because it is my own mind, after all), but my conscience permits me to soften my opinions, because hey it takes all sorts to make a world.