2021 Collective Bargaining Agreement Discussion Thread

[Deadpool]

Dumb and lame

 

Dumb is modernly used to describe lack of intelligence, but it was once used to describe someone who lacked the ability to speak. Similarly, lame is now used to describe someone or something that's boring or unexciting, but was also a term used against those who have limitations of movement in their limbs.

Both are highly offensive when describing people in the disability community, but also when used casually, says Cashman.

"People now are using lame as a slang, so they go around saying that's lame," she said. "I don't think they really understand what that means .. they just think it's a cool term, but for me, when I hear that, I definitely know what that term means ... it's something I wouldn't say."

 

 

Language evolves, Cashman. f***.

[Deadpool]

WTF is wrong with 'lame' now?

 

There's a radio ad I've heard several times with some young girl talking about how "lame" is offensive.

 

f*** that little girl.

 

Wait. That came out wrong...

[Krylian]

Language evolves, Cashman. f***.

 

One word can have multiple meanings. Context is what gives words meaning.

The outrage people are trying to do away with context.

[wilko]

There's a radio ad I've heard several times with some young girl talking about how "lame" is offensive.

 

f*** that little girl.

 

Wait. That came out wrong...

 

Can a mod self ban?

[Stangstag]

I remember when fag was a cigarette. Now it describes my 1st cousin who's in the closet.

 

Lol

[bendera3]

I don't think we care about words specifically as much as the context in which those words are used. I don't think it's a secret that I'm a pretty liberal dude, but I'm also 43 years old, so I don't have a problem with someone saying "that's gay" (for example), but homophobic attacks on other posters I will absolutely take issue with.

 

I'm not banning anyone for "spooky". Or apparently "lame" is a problem now too? Yeah, f*** that noise. It's lame. And gay. Not spooky though.

 

I'm gay and I approve this message.

[Olerud363]

There's a radio ad I've heard several times with some young girl talking about how "lame" is offensive.

 

f*** that little girl.

 

Wait. That came out wrong...

 

I think 'send down the river' is offensive because slaves used to be sent down the river to plantations.

 

However I first remember hearing a similar phrase in a Chris Farley skit where he was a motivational speaker high on crack, down on his luck and I think lived in a van by the river.

 

There is a neighborhood nearby, near the river and the river floods every few years and ruins the basements so houses are cheaper there and poorer people live there.

 

A lot of people think the next town down the river sucks ass and it would be hell on earth to be sent there.

 

Point is obvious phrases develop in multiple contexts. There is an infuriating type of intellectualism where they blindly focus on one path a phrase evolved along, a path which is racist, but fail to see that obvious sayings probably developed multiple times in multiple contexts many classist but not racist.

[Deadpool]

One word can have multiple meanings. Context is what gives words meaning.

The outrage people are trying to do away with context.

 

When was the last time you heard someone use the word "spooky" to mean anything other than "creepy"? If there was a racist origin for the word, and it wasn't always just a homonym, it's long since fallen out of use. Hell, I'm aware of the 'offensive' definition for the word "lame", but I can't recall ever having heard anyone use it in that context outside of maybe horses?

[BTS]

Discuss

[John_Havok]

That's lame.

[BlueRocky]

last year was a clown show negotiating the pandemic season, did we expect any different?

[Krylian]

This will get sorted out on February 17th 2022.

[Spanky99]

That's lame.

 

Kind of spooky, really.

[Ehjays]

I was thinking we could have all the old posts grandfathered in to the new thread

[John_Havok]

I was thinking we could have all the old posts grandfathered in to the new thread

 

Not a bad idea. Though that might retard the growth of this new thread

[G-Snarls]

Y'all are so bad...

 

I love it

[Stangstag]

Lol who locked the last thread

[Grant77]

Lol who locked the last thread

 

Presumably BTS because the forum would be ruined if we discussed a news article during a lockout when there is so much baseball to discuss.

[Krylian]

Presumably BTS because the forum would be ruined if we discussed a news article during a lockout when there is so much baseball to discuss.

 

That's gay

[connorp]

That's gay

 

I was going to post that but I thought that would be the trigger for Pt 3

[Pinkfloid]

BTS just had to put his finger in the dike

[Krylian]

I was going to post that but I thought that would be the trigger for Pt 3

 

So that's the one that breaks the camels back?

[connorp]

So that's the one that breaks the camels back?

 

TBD. Maybe they’ll just toss their hands up though

[Krylian]

TBD. Maybe they’ll just toss their hands up though

 

What do they expect. There's a lockout. We don't know what to do with ourselves.

[connorp]

What do they expect. There's a lockout. We don't know what to do with ourselves.

 

I guess we could talk about politics or something to pass the time

[BTS]

lol, you guys win

[Abomination]

lol, you guys win

 

It was never in doubt.

[Krylian]

lol, you guys win

 

[TwistedLogic]

lol, you guys win

 

At this point, can we just merge the two threads together and unlock the first one? This thread has nothing but garbage in it, at least the other one had some information on the CBA in the first few posts.

[wilko]

lol, you guys win