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barbayat April 2 2011, 06:27:27 UTC
No, you are not in the wrong.

What is his problem again? If he really needed to have it in his app that his is has a huge dick then I am sure there would be another part where he could have added that with out being offending.

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gam8ligant April 2 2011, 09:31:34 UTC
I have the exact same issue! I'm on a few anonmemes that borrowed things away from 4chan, and one of the main problems they kept is that people are namefags/samefags/etc. I just try to not use it personally and completely avoid it off the meme. (And the meme in question is decidedly not homophobic, other than that one problem - I think the straight people are actually outnumbered.)

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chikkiboo April 2 2011, 09:36:53 UTC
admittedly the *fag issue does become rather amusingly (imo) recursive when you get to the point where you're describing yourself as a homosexual participant in the discussion

I have actually typed the words "gayfag here" and then suddenly realized how ridiculous a phrase that was

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gam8ligant April 2 2011, 09:38:35 UTC
It sounds like an insult a particularly unclever preteen would come up with. Pff.

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chikkiboo April 2 2011, 09:48:20 UTC
Back when I wrote Team Fortress 2 fic I actually had that word come out of the Scout's mouth for that very reason :V

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gam8ligant April 2 2011, 09:49:27 UTC
It seems to work for me, hahaha.

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cameoflage April 2 2011, 10:48:29 UTC
It sounds like something the BLU Scout from Cuanta Vida would say!

(And considering that he called the Spy a "homo gay"...)

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otana April 2 2011, 09:39:22 UTC
I'm definitely guilty of using "retard" and gendered insults. I'm trying to call myself on it each time by stopping the conversation and apologizing, then rephrasing. It's made me far more aware of what words I'm using.

I'm always amazed at people who fight for the "right" to use racist slurs or say "fag" around people. I guess I don't understand what's so difficult about using other words if you know those ones hurt people. :/

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chikkiboo April 2 2011, 09:44:58 UTC
*THE GREATEST SHAMEFACE* "Retard" is, like, my Problem Word. My father's brother has fetal alcohol syndrome and I've had a lot of foster siblings with disabilities and yet somehow I have spent the last 28 years completely unable to cure myself of popping off the word "retard" as an insult. It comes out of my mouth and five minutes later the "you should not have said that" kicks in. It's awful.

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otana April 2 2011, 09:52:25 UTC
Breaking problematic language habits can be tough. It's definitely worth the effort though.

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cameoflage April 2 2011, 11:31:23 UTC
My worst habit in the area of language is probably the way I throw around "crazy" and "insane" indiscriminately, and bandy the word "schizophrenic" about inappropriately as well. (As in, using it to mean "obnoxiously inconsistent".) I feel particularly bad about the last one because my uncle has schizophrenia, but it's so tempting because nothing else is as concisely evocative.

Also I use "dude" as if it were gender-neutral, but only in a third-person sense.

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otana April 2 2011, 11:35:36 UTC
Oh yeah, I'm bad at those too. Bipolar as well.

Dude is one I use a lot, though mostly as an exclamation. Like "whoa".

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cameoflage April 2 2011, 12:32:35 UTC
USERPIC WARFARE

I don't use "bipolar", but that's really only because it's an arbitrary pet peeve. And I use "dude" as an exclamation a lot too.

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otana April 2 2011, 12:41:54 UTC
One of my friends still has that song as her answering machine message.
B|

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cameoflage April 2 2011, 12:45:01 UTC
I feel sorry for you both. Just on principle.

(I actually sort of like the song, albeit in a guilty pleasure sort of way that means I really shouldn't admit to it. I have a weakness for terrible, terrible 80s hits.)

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otana April 2 2011, 12:46:52 UTC
Apparently her grandma used to call her phone just to hear the song all the time. Then she found out about the meme and called her.

"Angela, have you been Rickrolling me? B|"

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