1y ago

Anon interviews for a job

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To be fair retarded means slowed or delayed so how many times was anon retarded in getting to work?
- That's it, calling in retarded to work tomorrow.
  
  I'm retarded at work every day!
- Really changes the theme to Black Eyed Peas - Let's Get Retarded
  
  they were just asking everyone to chill out and relax
  
  It would be funny if the song got slower and slower
  
  Wow. I really thought that was going to be a misheard lyric video or parody. Had no idea.
- retarded means tardy again. If you're late once, you're tardy. Do it again and you're retarded.
- I never actually understood why retarded was used by mechanics when a car wasn't running right "The timing on this is a bit retarded" but now I know. Thank you
  
  surprisingly the opposite is advanced timing, protarded isn't a word.
  There is retrograde <> prograde but only Kerbal players know what it means ;)
  
  There's also a thing called a retarder built into lorries and other heavy vehicles so they don't melt their brake pads, think engine breaking as the basic version, add special engineering sauce and you get something that is good at slowing stuff down without burning up, but not good at all at arresting it in place. The term is also used with railroads but those are actual breaks. Similar to the ones you see on roller-coasters.
- I was just on a trip to France with my brother who doesn't speak French. He was quite amused by all the signs that said retard, like when a train was running late. I speak French so it was utterly normal for me
- Was he slow?
Turns out anon was pretty tardy after all...
Uhh I think you mean tardish
- the dr. who thing?
  
  Anon is slower on the inside.
  
  If they'd ever cast Sean Connery as the Doctor.
Op IS tardy.
My regards.
- What about them?
  
  Give them to the chef.
- My retards.
What is tardy supposed to mean?
- Late.
- For normal people, to be late to something.
  For this guy, the R slur against those with learning disorders.
  
  you know this is the internet and you are allowed to type whatever you want, right? let me show you: "retarded"
  
  The word that airline computers hurl at their pilots just before landing
  Quite rude if you ask me
  
  Not everyone with learning disorders is retarded.
- Late.
  It comes from Latin tardus = slow
  
  or in french, plus tard
  
  You're thinking of TARDIS, the time machine.
I agree anon is not a super genius.
The comments are pretty interesting when you read them on lemmy.ml
That instance has server wide word filtering enabled that can't be removed.
- Mass censorship is very cool and definitely not a stepping stone to an authoritarian hellscape.
  
  Perhaps it's a sexual thing. You know like if you are hit a lot as a child.
  Perhaps Tankies learn to enjoy censorship and repression. That's the only justification I can think of for censoring themselves, it's pretty hilarious when you think about it.
  
  I'm actually OK with it.
  It's their instance, you can check the wordlist in the config. It's the slur_filter_regex. If it would bother me too much I'd change instance or spin up my own.
  I'm more enraged by shadow banning like on "other platforms".
  
  The idea that moderating slurs on an online forum is a stepping stone to an authoritarian hellscape really requires a special kind of brain worms
  
  Depends on what is being censored. Hate speech? Censor the shit out of it. Sexual stuff? Not needed.
- What's hilarious about that place is you can type removed and they can't tell the difference between that and a slur being blanked out by the system.
- Now that's rtarded
  
  tardy
I’m retarded to work almost every day
- That’s okay because we’re having a fire retardant door installed. Once it’s in, you’re outta there bud
anon is too smart for the quicktime event
OP lied in his interview. Always bad form to lie in an interview.
OP was clearly Tardy.
Everyone else in school was collecting good grades, while I was collecting tardigrades.
je suis en retard
- Working (in French) with lot of people that are native English speakers, this one never gets old. We usually answer with "We know, that's why your wage is subsidized".
  They usually come back at us when we say "Je suis fatigué"
I don't feel tardy.
Link to the source please?
Anon is a retard. Also why did that word go out of style? I know damn well it's because it was abused but by definition:
to delay or impede the development or progress of : to slow up especially by preventing or hindering advance or accomplishment
It's a fair critique. We need to stop this PC bullshit. I'm saying this as a father of two children in the spectrum and neither of them are retards.
- It's not about being PC, it's about how the word is used. There's nothing wrong with the word as it's defined, but when it becomes a common insult it becomes less acceptable. Just like any other swear word.
  
  If my name ever becomes a commonly used insult, what then?
  Any word can become an insult. It's time to take some words back. We have to actively correct misused words. It may make a difference.

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