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This is a place to share greentexts and witness the confounding life of Anon. If you're new to the Greentext community, think of it as a sort of zoo with Anon as the main attraction.

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If you find yourself getting angry (or god forbid, agreeing) with something Anon has said, you might be doing it wrong.

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[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 147 points 1 year ago (10 children)

To be fair retarded means slowed or delayed so how many times was anon retarded in getting to work?

[–] dephyre@lemmy.world 115 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's it, calling in retarded to work tomorrow.

[–] ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm retarded at work every day!

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[–] dumbass@leminal.space 30 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] lseif@sopuli.xyz 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

they were just asking everyone to chill out and relax

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[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It would be funny if the song got slower and slower

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retarded means tardy again. If you're late once, you're tardy. Do it again and you're retarded.

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[–] awwwyissss@lemm.ee 139 points 1 year ago

Turns out anon was pretty tardy after all...

[–] LaserTurboShark69@sh.itjust.works 67 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Uhh I think you mean tardish

[–] wagesj45@kbin.run 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] XTL@sopuli.xyz 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Anon is slower on the inside.

[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 7 points 1 year ago

Fucking LOL while scrolling next to sleeping wife. You bastard.

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[–] curiousaur@reddthat.com 56 points 1 year ago

Op IS tardy.

[–] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 47 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] Jerkface@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 39 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] Jerkface@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

~~I don't think you're allowed to cook them.~~

The chef says to keep your damn regards out of the kitchen, he's trying to cook.

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[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

My retards.

[–] MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 38 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] Rez@sh.itjust.works 36 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What is tardy supposed to mean?

[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 69 points 1 year ago
[–] Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 62 points 1 year ago (4 children)

For normal people, to be late to something.

For this guy, the R slur against those with learning disorders.

[–] kiagam@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

you know this is the internet and you are allowed to type whatever you want, right? let me show you: "retarded"

[–] wetnoodle@sopuli.xyz 48 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"whatever you want"... they wanted to be a respectful person.

[–] Aermis@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago (26 children)

Is saying the word retarded without calling some it disrespectful? Is it now a trigger word? I'm genuinely wondering. Because when we were growing up we used the word EVERYWHERE. It was as common as saying "fricken"

[–] Sotuanduso@lemm.ee 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's a slur, that's why. Some slurs are major slurs that are considered offensive even when it's not referring to someone, and I think this is one of them. They're often forbidden because of it, and a lot of people find it easier to follow universal rules than to check the rules of each place they post, because the universal rules will keep you in the clear 95% of the time. And even if not, it's still respectable to not want to use slurs.

And yeah, it did used to be a lot more common. And before that, it was a medical term. That's the way it goes, we have a word to insult people's intelligence, doctors deal with patients who have a disorder causing that, they don't want to use the mean word to refer to the patients, they come up with a new word for it, the word gets out, and then everyone makes it a new word to insult intelligence. Though this one seems to be taking a different track because it hit modern sensibilities, and at the same time I think doctors now know better than to come up with a new word for mental deficiencies.

[–] randy@lemmy.ca 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And yeah, it did used to be a lot more common. And before that, it was a medical term.

It's the euphemism treadmill in action.

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[–] VerticaGG@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 year ago

"IDGI, this person has the option to be the worst version of themselves. Why dont they choose to do that?!? Also why does noone want to be around me? Could it be that marinating my brains in a writhing compost of clapbacks and dunks is desensitizing me to my own dehumanizing? No. Clearly this is because woke."

[–] PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 11 points 1 year ago (4 children)
[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I found a training thing that included the phrase "retard power" in an aviation context. The best part was the way it was enunciated. Not "ri-tard" like you do when it's a verb, but long E ree-tard. I absolutely clipped it.

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[–] morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de 31 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Late.

It comes from Latin tardus = slow

[–] stebo02@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 32 points 1 year ago

I agree anon is not a super genius.

[–] joe_cool@lemmy.ml 30 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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.

[–] ArmokGoB@lemmy.dbzer0.com 37 points 1 year ago (28 children)

Mass censorship is very cool and definitely not a stepping stone to an authoritarian hellscape.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 10 points 1 year ago

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.

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[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

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.

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[–] thorbot@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I’m retarded to work almost every day

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anon is too smart for the quicktime event

[–] Shard@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

OP lied in his interview. Always bad form to lie in an interview.

OP was clearly Tardy.

[–] KISSmyOSFeddit@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Everyone else in school was collecting good grades, while I was collecting tardigrades.

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