Saw this at a consignment shop a couple months ago, from about that same time period.Reminds me of the slow children signs around neighborhoods. Every time my brain thinks… Are the kids to slow to get out of the way, or are they to mentally slow to know to not play in traffic. Then I remember I’m to mentally slow to realize it’s me who is supposed to slow for the children but there is no punctuation so I just chuckle.
Actually I wonder if my neighbors would like it if I put this sign out front
How much was it? I’d buy that just to have a gumball machine.
Looking at the tag im gonna presume its either $20 dollars or $200.
I think a gumball only costs 1¢!
It was $250, pretty expensive for an old gum ball machine. It is unique though with that sticker on it.
Reminds me of a bumper sticker I saw a while ago…
“Join the one arm golfers and beat the world” (Accompanied with a depiction of an angry arm swinging a club at the ground.)
I had a similar first thought.
We are swinging for their benefit, not at them.
In 1882, this event would have been called Swing For Imbeciles
Dullards
the 80’s, when doing good was still more important than feelings being hurt
As I get older, I have more and more sympathy for people who can’t keep up with socially acceptable terminology. At the same time, I have less and less tolerance for people who deliberately use outdated, insulting language.
Insisting that people speak a certain way is like insisting that women wear dresses. It’s so fundamentalist
Spoken like a true neurodivergent.
No cap, fr fr!
Skibidy truth.
I have zero tolerance for people who think that their variety of a language is superior to all others, and that they get to impose it on others.
spoken like a true bigot mad about getting shamed
Spoken like a true linguistic supremacist.
Only the preferred word has changed
I mean thing swinging lifestyle is one thing but that might be a bridge too far.
I grew up in an area where vans labelled “Northwest Center for the Retarded” just driving around all the time, and they were the good guys.
They’re just “Northwest Center” these days though so, consensus has definitely moved away from that word.
Whenever medical science came up with a term to describe people with cognitive or intellectual impairments, it eventually became used as a derogatory insult. The R word was going out for a long time before Rosa’s Law put the mail in the coffin.
Bury your mail with your dead relatives. Good idea.
Under Rosa’s law, these would be described respectively as profound, severe, and moderate levels of intellectual disability.
Unfortunately, I don’t see the cycle breaking anytime soon. We got idiot and moron from the same medical textbooks as “retarded”.
Gen B squeakers will start calling people “profoundly/severely disabled” in COD 2k35 and the cycle will be born anew.
this game is fucking PROFOUNDLY DISABLED rage quits
Why is retarded considered so offensive that people self censor but idiot isn’t? Is it just that retarded reached its peak in the internet era of policing speech or is there something special about the word that makes it much more offensive than idiot or imbecile?
They both have the same meanings, intentions, and ability to be used as an insult.
A) Time changes culture and language. I have no way to measure, but “idiot” could certainly have been on par with “retard” in its time.
B) The coopting of “retard” came at a time with a more mature disability rights movement. With the ADA passed in 1990, disabled individuals had a much greater capacity to speak out against the theft of their language than was possible in previous iterations of this pattern. You mention this a bit with your “peak internet era” comment, though a more charitable reading of that sentence might be that internet is allowing disabled people to get together and voice their experiences of being harrassed and abused in conjunction with the word, really speaking out for themselves rather than taking it lying down.
The movie Tropic Thunder is what pushed it over the edge
Ah the Euphemism Treadmill. Live long enough and words we use today for intellectual disability will become inappropriate too.
I only really mind when it’s done by normies like myself about a minority group that we aren’t a part of. Like taking offense on behalf of someone else.
If a group wants to mix up their own terms just because, I’m 100 percent behind them.
Give it a few more years and then “mentally disabled” will be the new retarded. We’ll cringe at how people would say they’re “disabled”.
I work with the mentally disabled and have for a while now. I love my guys but it’s so annoying seeing how new terms will come and go throughout the years constantly.
The Euphemism Treadmill might stop when the term is so clinically dry as “mentally disabled”. It doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue of a schoolyard bully the way “retarded” does. I dunno, we’ll see.
It just gets shortened to disabled. I’ve seen it used countless times as an insult.
retarded doesn’t have any more negative meaning than disabled. it’s just about how we use it.
Well it’s all in the mind of the interpreter. So if you live in a society of self-indulgent solipsists, you gotta respect that.
Ha. That’s retarded.
I’m pretty sure that “mentally retarded” was the medical term for many decades, before it became cultural lingo. There was something similar for erectile dysfunction too, they used to call you impotent, not exactly a great thing to hear at the doctor’s office.
would say they’re “handi-capable”.
FTFY
Culture evolves. I will say, some of the new terms drive me nuts because they technically mean the same thing, but are grammatically awkward or are otherwise clunky when conveying the same message.
Like sure, I technically have a disability, please don’t try to frame it as a good thing or something to make it sound better. It just sounds condescending. I don’t need pity, I’m living my life to the fullest now :P
I mean, they are disabled! This whole “differently abled” is completely out of touch with reality.
Doug Stanhope has a bit about that
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dqsgxLyl5ESo accurate hahaha
The secret ninth rule of fight club
I don’t think you should swing for the committee member with a golf club no matter what you think about them
Wow the 80s were real different. You could advertise as a swinger and it’s just chill.
