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Oh it's a whole rabbithole. Americans in Michigan built up this entire cryptid mythology, and it was because they'd seen some disabled kids with hydrocephalus in the woods next to a sanitorium. 🫤

Plum is a good fruit-based insult.

Spoonhead is an insult in Star Trek towards Cardassians, but that might just be reaching.

Melonhead has ableist AND xenophobic origins.

Seriously we need to ditch the English language and start over again.

I'd just post in Gaeilge or French but then only about 6 of my followers would understand me.

My gran is in a home with Alzheimers. I did pause before using the word, but as I said, I couldn't at that moment think of anything better that conveys the same idea.

The language inherently is prejudiced, in ways not always apparent. Your suggesting outlandish isn't offensive demonstrates that.

The levels of whataboutery from bad faith arseholes on this app have now reached 2015 Twitter levels.

I don't like it.

You'd be surprised. I run into it all the time. This particular occasion was only relevant because they threatened me, amongst other things, for being trans, whilst claiming to be allies.

Sorry to hear about your mum. 🫂

Anyway, since you've prompted me to think about it, I should have said asinine. Will bear in mind in future.

I'm not sure outlandish is a grand choice when calling out someone else for racism, given its roots in "behaviour associated with someone from another land."

The entire English language is a fucking minefield, the bigotry is baked in.

He uses his as a drinking vessel.

Just everything about me that makes me a minority got hurled back in my face for daring to speak up.

It was more they were asserting that by being Irish I was inherently bigoted against the English.

Bearing in mind these were mutuals who'd happily chatted on here with me for six months, right up until I pointed out the joke was racist.

You're not being rude. It's a fair point. It's a poor defence, but, it is extremely difficult to think of any alternative word that isn't problematic. Demented seemed marginally better than deranged or crazy or insane or unhinged. I'd be grateful if you have a better word!

Oh they went off on some massive rant about the Irish, and blamed Cornwall for Brexit, and a whole bunch of nonsense. And yet I was branded the unreasonable one.

I phrased it really tamely too, like do you realise that's racist maybe you should reconsider, which I'm ashamed of in retrospect. I should have put them on blast. They certainly did me. Lost a lot of shared mutuals over it, too, not just them. Completely demented from supposedly progressive allies.

Or even gently corrected.

I once had an "ally" tell me trans women should keep their mouths shut if we want to keep our allies on here. This was because I pointed out - correctly - that a joke their partner had posted was mildly racist.

Anyway, apparently I was racist against English cis people. 🙃

The Han Solo minifig in my Lego set looks more like Harrison Ford than that drawing does, lmao

Chewie is yelling because Han's been replaced with some strange imposter whose neck is exactly as wide as his head.

Personally I doubt she'll hear back from either of them unless she makes a fuss.

There's money in writing bigoted lies in the Telegraph.

We scientists have a term for this. "Confirmation bias." It's a known thing. Good researchers look to ameliorate it, not lean into it.

"Marvel, these movies, they have women and other freaks playing superhero, you know, really woke nonsense like that. Avengers Assemble they say, and all these DEI woke weirdos show up. I don't know how they expect people to believe this stuff. So I said disassemble the Avengers to the joint chiefs."

I did that to my gran once. She didn't recognise it was me somehow and I was feeling silly. Anyway, she went and actually looked to see.

When I delivered the "you better chase it then!" punchline she shouted expletives for 30 seconds and hung up 🤣

That's really weird, cos we're not allowed to be here in real life. Wow.

Well someone has to make the tea for the main characters.

Same thing abusive parents say as they're beating a child nearly to death with their belt.

The new PIP mistake making the DWP more suspicious of claimants than ever

If you know or encounter any disabled people who might be considering using AI to fill out their PIP claim paperwork, please do them a favour and pass on that this is NOT a good idea

Also to be fair, the dialogue in the original trilogy was appalling too - Harrison Ford once told Lucas "you can write this shit but actors can't say it."

Those films though made up for it by being fun and exciting.