Funny picture thread

[apocrypha]

I rolled my eyes so hard when I saw that that I pulled a muscle.

[Rendakor]

Shirtless Putin riding the bear cavalry to maul the western pig dogs?  I want one. 

Me too; I found a site where you can order it but it's all in moonrunes.

[K9]

Four Chess Grandmasters playing football

Professional footballer plays chess

I'm not a massive chess buff, but watching Magnus Carlsen play is great fun. I watched another video a while back of him playing something like 10 games simultaneously, in his head, with his back turned to all the boards, and winning. The guy has some freakish gift.

[Yegolev]

He must be incredibly rich.

[rk47]

[KallDrexx]

[Tale]

[Nightblade]

[Evildrider]

[Sky]

Don't kill my buzz, bro.

[Tale]

[rk47]

[Sky]

From FB friend: "Should be a face-hugger, not a chest-burster."

[Maven]

That's one interpretation, but it has weight. I'm more amused by the idea that a Facehugger already impregnated the egg, and that's not creme. Also not as visually impactful as the burster.

[Lantyssa]

Who cares?  Give it a bunch of chocolate bunnies and you have an endless source of creme eggs.

[Maven]

Who cares?

Hah.  Nerds, obviously! Or is it geeks?

[Lantyssa]

I prefer 'geek' simply because 'nerd' was a pejorative from childhood I have difficulty accepting being called now.

[Typhon]

But geeks bite the heads off chickens. 

"Nerd" is looking pretty good now, eh?

[Samwise]

I prefer 'geek' simply because 'nerd' was a pejorative from childhood I have difficulty accepting being called now.

Oddly I prefer 'nerd' for the same reason.  I decided early on to take pride in not being one of the cool kids.

[Merusk]

*sigh*

http://www.nerdist.com/2010/03/geeknerddorkdweeb-venn-diagram/

 

[MahrinSkel]

The only one that gets my back up is "Spaz". Yes, childhood trauma, fortunately that one has pretty much fallen out of use. Anyway, much like the "N Word", I don't mind any of them from someone who is obviously a member of the tribe, while objecting to all of them if they're obviously intended as a slur.

--Dave

[Ironwood]

Spaz and the likes are actually not very good words at all over here because they're derived from Spastic.  Given that's a condition that actually afflicts my aunt, my mother went ballistic if she ever heard it and it got me in quite a few fights in school defending the honour of disabled people.

What ?  Don't look at me like that.  I didn't say I won.

[lamaros]

Hard to fight the same fight again 'retard', given how common it is, but that one pisses me off for similar reasons.

[Miasma]

Racial slurs convey hate at both the person and their entire race that, importantly, they actually belong to.  The only time calling someone a retard would rise to the same level as a racial slur is if the person was actually mentally disabled in some way.  And anyone ignorant and vile enough to call a mentally disabled person retarded is probably, well...  

It's obviously not a nice word but as far as internet based slapfights go it's not too bad, not something you should say in real life though, to anyone.  I'm pretty sure words like idiot and moron used to be actual 'medical' designations before they became synonyms for stupid, retard is changing into the same thing.

[Phildo]

How else are we going to baselessly insult other people unless we resort to making fun of them for implied disabilities?  Your Mom jokes only go so far.

[Ceryse]

Retard is an interesting one, though; at least around here in certain age groups. Of the mentally impaired that I know (all of whom are my age, 31, or older) they were raised with "retard" being the actual nomeclature for being mentally impaired and they refer to themselves with that word, rather than 'mentally impaired/handicapped', and prefer people use the word retard. It has led to some interesting moments here and there, however, especially in the last decade where the word became more and more of a slur. I use the word a decent amount when I want; sometimes as an insult, sometimes to describe someone who is, well, retarded. I see as a very minor insult; similar to 'moron' or 'idiot'. My mother and the younger people I work with, however, seem to put it fairly close to racial slurs in the 'wtf did you just say!?' category.

[Maven]

I would equate calling some thing or action retarded with calling some thing or action gay.

[Sky]

How about 'oversensitive cunts'?

[Mattemeo]

Synonym abuse leads to abused people.

[01101010]

How about 'oversensitive cunts'?

See also: Tumblr

[Signe]

Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah just don't call me late for dinner.

[Typhon]

What about "re-tah-ded" said in a crappy New England accent?  Or especially, 'wicked retahded'.  I think that's always an appropriate way to talk about something that the business came up with - as in, "oh yeah, that's wicked rethaded, where did they imagine that X would come from"?

Spaz derived from "spastic" everywhere and is defined by "Spaz" from Meatballs.

[Nevermore]

From what I remember visiting my cousins in Rhode Island, everything was 'wicked gay'.

[Paelos]

Pretty much everything about New England speech shouldn't be acceptable.

[Evildrider]

Pretty much everything about New England speech shouldn't be acceptable.

I dated a Boston girl for 3 years, and I mean complete stereotype.  Those were dark times.