Fuck grocery shopping, buy a house.

Yes! Thank you for putting this into words, I had the same experience recently but couldn’t articulate what I was feeling…

I think you misunderstand a little… I am someone that grew up riding the short bus. I have been on the receiving end of this kind of ableism all my life, even before I knew it was a thing or what to call it. That’s why it pisses me off so much anytime some person or forum or whatever discourages use of specific words - it’s not helpful and often tends to backfire and hurt the people you’re so valiantly trying to defend.

I think you have it backwards - calling someone a slur doesn’t make the negative association, society as a whole has already decided those traits are negative, and as a result, we use them as slurs. Stopping people from using hurtful words does not fix the problem, I think it lets some people self-righteously think they’re helping, but it doesn’t really do anything.

We’ve seen that happen with using “gay” as an insult - society has shifted over the years, so that being gay is no longer seen as a bad thing (at least not so much so as it was in the 90s, we still have some room for improvement…) therefore it has lost its power as an insult. Somebody calls me gay today, I don’t really care - it’s inaccurate, but it doesn’t hurt me any. And because it doesn’t hurt me, they’re not going to use it as an insult, because that’s what they’re going for, and it’s not effective.

But certain classes of people will always be looked down on, so those traits will always be used as insults. If society makes it unacceptable to use those words, assholes will continue to use them when they think they can get away with it, or find new words. Think of how many words there are for “mentally deficient”. Many of those words were the clinical term for specific disabilities until they fell out of favor after being used as insults. Stupid is one, as is idiot, moron… The only real difference is recency.

But sometimes you want to convey the backwardness, or that something is a product of a past that should be let go… is it still a slur if you’re not using it as a slur? Kind of like cracker, if you’re using it to refer to a white person it’s a slur, but nobody is going to stop you from calling a saltine or a cheese-it a cracker because that’s what they are… Or do we have to call them mass produced unleavened bread products?

I had almost forgotten the horror that was chs<->lba translation…

Lolol stacks of boot floppies, what a casual. I had custom config.sys and autoexec.bat with a boot menu for various configurations.

Whenever mankind manages to make something idiot proof, mother nature builds a better idiot.

In early 2000s I had a power supply fail spectacularly, sudden arcing, lit up my whole apartment… To be fair, it was a case & power supply from the 80s…

I ran a pc for years with no thermal compound with no problems. Granted it was just a glorified NAS, so never had much load on it…

Yes windows can be installed easily, but it’ll require a Microsoft login to do it- this meme is made for people who don’t want that.

I do… Kids in school occasionally need stuff printed. I have a network attached laser printer, it was super easy, barely an inconvenience to set up in Linux. It was fairly easy to setup in windows too, but every so often it stops working randomly for a few minutes, then as soon as I start trying to figure out why, it randomly starts working again… No such trouble from Linux.

And my axe!

I know you have blocked me, but for the benefit/detriment of anyone else reading…

So if it becomes common to use “blow” (or any other allusion to fellatio) as a way to convey disdain, does it cease to be homophobic? How are we not there already?

Right. So is fucking someone a bad thing? A good thing? Or does it depend on whether the recipient wants to be fucked? If we’re using fuck as an insult, we’re implying that it’s bad, right? If not, then why is it different for sucking cock?

Yes, but does Plato have a YouTube presence? I think not.

Fabulously specific…

Or alternatively, she orgasms plenty, just not with him.

Yes.

Steve Hughes has a great bit on why it’s feminine to like women, while it takes a real man to want to fuck another man.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5VliEjyohM&t=101