Shitty and entirely unnecessary to use a slur that many folks find offensive, IMO.
BigT’s sock? 
The euphemism treadmill rolls on! I didn’t even know it had become a term of offense.
Is “Plus-sizeTard” OK?
That’ll probably piss andy off too.
Oh, please. “Shut up BigT(ard)” is practically a Pit meme. Sorry if I offended anyone, I guess, but I’m not seeing the issue.
Not a huge deal, I just think it’s shitty to use slurs that are commonly used against folks that already have it pretty tough. There are plenty of non-slur insults available. Not the end of the world, but neither is it the end of the world to say “hey, that’s shitty”.
I would never use “tard” towards a person that was genuinely developmentally delayed, someone with Down’s syndrome, etc. THAT sort of thing would be shitty and unnecessary. But I’ll use it towards someone able-minded who consistently says stupid things with a clear conscience.
Not a big deal, but I disagree. I don’t think you’d feel that way about other slurs (i.e. you wouldn’t call a non-black person “nigger”, or a non-Hispanic person “beaner”, or a non-Asian person “chink” or “slanty”, would you?). I just think it’s better to avoid such slurs for all people, not just their “usual” targets. Nothing lost by choosing non-slur insults, IMO.
ZOMG I think I know who this person is! :eek:
just kidding - but you gave enough details to potentially identify this person should someone who knows her sees this, on the assumption that she actually exists.
I guess I was wrong, this thread still has some life in it after all. 
I’m in favor of calling him BigTurd. Insults nobody else, except him.
It’s so funny how ragging BigT for his inanity is the one thing that unites us all.
Meh. I still don’t get why people take time out to roll BigT. Yeah he can be a bit pedantic and self righteous. But he’s harmless and at the end of the day he means well.
YMMV.
It’s the holier than thou attitude paired with his strong opinions on everything when he has no real world experience.
It’s because he constantly lectures the rest of the board on morality and how people should live their lives and interact with other people as well as plenty of other topics. And it’s comical because he has little to no experience with interacting with the world at large. He’s said on multiple occasions the board is his entire life and that he literally lives in his mom’s basement. I feel pity for him at times, but he’s so self righteous and convinced he has the answer to everything that it’s pretty annoying. Would a class of medical students listen to a series of lectures from me about the best way to succeed in medical school? No, because I don’t know fuck all about medicine and I’m not a doctor. BigT doesn’t have much of a life and knows fuck all about the world so he should probably quit telling people how it works.
So yeah, that’s why.
preview: or what Living Well said, more succinctly. :shakes fist:
I can see that he gets under people’s skin. Though I confess that I tend to skip over his more verbose sermons. I read the first line and the last line and skip the muddle.
I’ll say this for BT, I bet he has never sexually assaulted anybody.
Not a slur, and therefore I wouldn’t take issue with it.
So you didn’t talk about it and you didn’t say it was a relationship, huh?
Have you talked about the relationship rules for everyone that you have ever known in your life? Of course it is a “relationship”. I volunteered to take her to the doctor to get a medical treatment for her ankle after ten dates.
What we never talked about was whether we were exclusive or not. I never asked and she didn’t either. It doesn’t matter because we haven’t done much of anything except give her fun experiences that she wanted, lunches, dinners and a movie that she picked.
I paid for all of it with not much to show for it. I don’t do online dating to find female friends. I already have plenty of those. I don’t force anyone to do anything but this is getting ridiculous. I honestly don’t know if I will ever hear from her again. She is a bit of a basket case but interesting and her family is a train wreck according to her. They were the ones that were supposed to drive up from Long Island and take her to the doctor but, instead, they cancelled that because of a family fight and their Jewish version of Christmas and her mother threatened to buy a separate house in North Carolina and live there (with no divorce because that would cut off funds).
I actually like people like that but it probably isn’t good for me. I would go out with her again but she is going to have to contact me. I broke my promise and asked her if her ankle was improving and got back “Yes” and that was it.
I have no idea what that means in women terms. We were just sitting together less than 16 hours before in a nice movie theater and I did everything I could to make sure she was OK. We didn’t even hold hands because she was in pain. I drove her home safely and that was it.
That is why I say women are like cats. One too many belly rubs and they will try to bite your face off except, in this case, there has never been any belly rubs and I did everything possible to make things easier on her. It is like fishing, sometimes you will hook something you know not to reel in so you know you just have to cut the line but you are still curious what was on the end of it.
The good news is that I have a date tomorrow with my gorgeous Australian that lives not that far away and already calls me “Darling”. I will have to see how crazy she is.
For those of you that are older or inexperienced at online dating, it is a whole different world out there than it was even five years ago. Imagine Studio 54 the size of a metropolis and you will start to comprehend the magnitude but not completely. It is gigantic. It is like a male/female chess game. The object is not to not to lose or draw but to mate.