# My graduate school is full of retards. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 27, 2012, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-graduate-school-is-full-of-retards/623256 "2012-05-27T16:55:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Chessic\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7c8e57/32.png) [@Chessic\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chessic_Sense)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-graduate-school-is-full-of-retards/623256/101 "2012-05-30T22:45:44Z")
> [@Truman\_Burbank](#): > > Am I the only one to see irony in this Very Elegant Rant, clearly demonstrating the poster’s superior ability to express himself via the written word, opening with a sentence calling people “Retards”? > Yeah, it’s probably just me… I just have one thing to say to that: _Cold War_. Directed by CNN. 2012. ---
**Author:** ![Truman\_Burbank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@Truman\_Burbank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Truman_Burbank)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-graduate-school-is-full-of-retards/623256/102 "2012-05-30T23:17:42Z")
I’m sorry, I googled “Cold War” on CNN, read the entry, and don’t get it. Probably \*still \*just me… ---
**Author:** ![Chessic\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7c8e57/32.png) [@Chessic\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chessic_Sense)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-graduate-school-is-full-of-retards/623256/103 "2012-05-30T23:34:38Z")
> [@Truman\_Burbank](#): > > I’m sorry, I googled “Cold War” on CNN, read the entry, and don’t get it. > Probably \*still \*just me… Allow me to be overly explanatory. You perhaps believe that I’ve ruined a good rant by using a politically charged term. However, 1. I don’t really care if people want to pretend that the word “retard” should be replaced with “the r-word” or some other, weak epithet because they’re stupid, too. 2. “Cold War. Directed by CNN. 2012.” is a quote from my OP which was a quote from a classmate’s submission. It’s re-quoted as an effort to demonstrate that my classmates are, in fact, retards. > [@](#): > > re·tard [ri-tahrd, for 1–3, 5; ree-tahrd for 4] > 4. > Slang: Disparaging > b. > a person who is stupid, obtuse, or ineffective in some way ---
**Author:** ![Truman\_Burbank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@Truman\_Burbank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Truman_Burbank)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-graduate-school-is-full-of-retards/623256/104 "2012-05-30T23:40:03Z")
I found the irony not in ‘politically charged’, rather it seemed so _middle school_ I do not doubt for a moment the veracity of your underlying thesis. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2012, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-graduate-school-is-full-of-retards/623256/105 "2012-05-31T01:42:18Z")
Meh. A good number of our derogatory terms for someone with low intelligence were once the same as “retard,” that is, a term for someone with a disability or disadvantage of some kind — imbecile, moron, idiot, stupid, dumb, half-wit, ignoramus, cretin, simpleton, … . I think it’s inevitable for a term like “retarded” to follow the same path. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2012, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-graduate-school-is-full-of-retards/623256/106 "2012-05-31T03:55:58Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Why “x 1004,” particularly? Because it’s the product of a square and a prime? > > No. That _can’t_ be it… > > Are you trying to induce a bout of over-analysis in those prone to the affliction? Oh, it’s probably [just another Gree reference](http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/CC-1004). Y’know, he was originally Clone CC–1004. “1004 was rewarded with a name and chose to be known as ‘Gree’, a reference to an obscure alien species”. According to [Wookiepedia](http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/41st_Elite_Corps) (I just had to type that… I love that name), he led the 41st Elite… _oh, I don’t really care. Who even had time to make all that up? But I had to come up with some rationale for Sampiro’s use of 1004, or I couldn’t get to sleep…_ ---
**Author:** ![Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hentor_the_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2012, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-graduate-school-is-full-of-retards/623256/107 "2012-05-31T20:34:34Z")
My online, for-profit, degree mill is full of apparently substandard students! I’m shocked! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-graduate-school-is-full-of-retards/623256.md?page=5)