over in
thrifthorror (a spectacular comm, for the most part),
tricklethestars makes a funny post highlighting some truly marvelous crap she found on holiday in israel. unfortunately, she chooses to use the word "retarded" to refer to some of her finds.
sofarfrom78 takes offense. in a
big tl;dr way. and despite having it pointed out that they are overreacting by people who are themselves developmentally disabled, continues to belabor their point... on. and on. and ON. i gave up after the first several; it was giving me a headache and i thought "hay,
stupid_free might like this!"
i'm much more of a lurker than a contributor, so this is my first post. i take full responsibility for any fail UNLESS that fail involves html. there, i got nothin'.
ETA: YAY no fail! i feel like i've accomplished something here... aside from 'splodey brain ...
oh and i cleaned up my bad grammar and formatting, 'cos i'm like that. :p.