Retarded anemone?

[sharkbait9]

Originally Posted by jessica47421
i work with ppl with mental disabilities every day and it really hurts that ppl just use the word retared so freely. you really need to extend ur vocabulary.
actually my vocabulary is quit extensive. I really believe in the old saying "calling an ace an ace and a spade a spade"
What’s the difference NOW? My feelings are hurt because you think my vocabulary is limited.
This will probably get mod-ed for me having an open opinion on something but here it goes.
While yes your feeling maybe hurt by another persons words but as an American we have those liberties to say mean and hurtful things, it called being protected by the first amendment.
You don’t have to like what a person says and that fine, that’s your opinion. You don’t how ever have the right to limit or block their speech or prohibit a person to say words that only you like or what you agree with.
I will say you have a talent and a very patient person to be able to work with the mentally disabled, that’s not a career choice everyone would or could do

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This is not a perfect world and never will be. Acceptance of others whether we agree or disagree with their opinions and ideas is just part of living in this world.

 

[hatessushi]

Originally Posted by jessica47421
i work with ppl with mental disabilities every day and it really hurts that ppl just use the word retared so freely. you really need to extend ur vocabulary.
So does it offend you if I say the timing on my engine in my car is to retarded or advanced? The same can be said for calling a anenome retarded in it's inability to find the perfrect environment. It's not said with malice. Or should I say my anenome has mental disabilities? That would indicate that it has a brain which it doesn't.

 

[tx reef]

Originally Posted by HatesSushi
So does it offend you if I say the timing on my engine in my car is to retarded or advanced? The same can be said for calling a anenome retarded in it's inability to find the perfrect environment. It's not said with malice. Or should I say my anenome has mental disabilities? That would indicate that it has a brain which it doesn't.

 

[tx reef]

***)

 

[saltn00b]

does fire get upset when firemen use fire-retardants? fire doesnt have a brain.
my sportbike got faster when i disabled the timing retarder, but i am not talking about a handycapped kid with a stopwatch.

 

[tx reef]

Originally Posted by saltn00b
my sportbike got faster when i disabled the timing retarder, but i am not talking about a handycapped kid with a stopwatch.
:hilarious

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[tx reef]

Does anyone have a lock picture?
I think that is what will happen to this retarded thread when the mods see it.....

 

[team2jndd]

Thats the whole point. The word retarded was never intended to be used as an adjective for people. Retarded literally means slow. To call somebody mentally slow is offensive. A fire retardant slows the fire. And yes it could be said that a mental disability slows a person. However, if the word is hurtful to a group of people who can in no way change their impairment, is that not reason enough to stop using it? Something tells me you wouldn't be so brazen with the N word. Being politically correct is not like picking up a turd on the clean end it is like showing somebody the courtesy and respect that you would want if you were in their shoes. It is bad enough that some people have to live with disability. Should they have to deal with others compromising their dignity as well? Oh and by the way, if you look up the word retarded in the thesaurus, there are 3 different ways it can be used. One of them is actually describing a human and the words that can be replaced with it are challenged, cretin, half wit, idiot, imbecile and moron. Any of those words used to describe somebody on this thread would be grounds for getting a thread closed.

 

[team2jndd]

If I also may add, condi anemones are one of the easiest anemones to keep. If you want to question intelligence.....

 

[jessica47421]

I think the point was lost someplace in this. It is just everyone uses that word so freely and if you was someone with a mental handicap im sure you would not want someone just throwing that word around, im sure it is very hurtful to them as well to hear it, I work with them on a very close basis daily and it is a word that society needs to get away from all together bc it is just degrading to them, in all the hospitals and things they are even getting away from using it too, and it seemed in the thread you was using it like there was something wrong with him bc he wouldnt do what you wanted him to do and go and stay where you wanted him to stay, and there must have been something (retarded) wrong with him. a lot of ppl use that word just as feely as any other word and that is probly bc you all dont know anyone with diabilities bc im sure if you did it would not be a word you use. kinda like saying the word fat in front of a over weight person yeah you have the right to say what ever you want when ever you want to it is just mean. and using the word in differnent sentences really dont prove a point bc that is not the way the word was used when i made a post about it, that is using it in a whole different sence then just saying something or someone is retarded. yeah way back when ppl went around calling ppl and things retards or retarded but this day and age we have all advanced in our thinking and it just is not right.

 

[reef diver]

Heres a good answer, first stop feeding it, anemones stress more when fed, if already stressed. Also, let it float around, and only move it, if it is unable to move at all.

 

[hatessushi]

This thread was not started having anything to do with retarded (oops, mentally challenged) people. It is regarding what the original thread starter call a retarded anenome. The person used that term referring to an anenome that wasn't doing what he thought it was suppose to. Forgive me for being so blunt but IMO (and in this country I am allowed to have one) the people that think we should not use the word retarded need to rethink their thinking and reasoning processes, no offense intended but this is rediculous.
Back to the original topic, Reefrunner, IMO I would let the anenome alone for a week and see what it does on it's own.

 

[jessica47421]

you have a right to say your opinion and so does everyone else including my self so if it wasnt started in that way then why when i stated my opinion on that WORD why is everyone getting so up tight? remember we all have a right to say what we think and i think they should think before saying a word with so much meaning like that .
everyone should know none of us are above something happening to any of us causing some major damage in our thinking process and labeling us as "retarted" if that is the word you prefer and im sure if you was that way or someone in ur family or you knew very well you would not want to come across that word on line talking about a anemone or anything else for that matter. here you go, that is MY OPINION

 

[hatessushi]

Originally Posted by jessica47421
yeah way back when ppl went around calling ppl and things retards or retarded but this day and age we have all advanced in our thinking and it just is not right.

That's a matter of opinion. IMO society has regressed due to political correctness.
By the way, my brother is mentally challenged and he doesn't mind the word retard because he understands it. IMO it is way more simple to say the word retard then mental disability. It sounds like your definition of what's right is just different then some. I also think that this is a simple word and because this society thinks it sounds mean does not make it so. Just as other words we don't use because a group of people don't like it. that is my point. Mankind at least in America (since that's all I know about) is regressing in that sense but progressing in technology. the media has everyone confused and they don't know it. sorry, but that's just my opinion.

 

[jessica47421]

i think you just proved my point for me when you spoke of ur brother you said mentally challenged, u sure didnt call him a retard. thank you

 

[hatessushi]

Reefrunner, good luck on the anenome..

have a nice day

 

[hatessushi]

Originally Posted by jessica47421
i think you just proved my point for me when you spoke of ur brother you said mentally challenged, u sure didnt call him a retard. thank you

Yes, I used the word mentally challenged to more or less define his disability. He is not seriously retarded and it's not physical. A person can be mentally retarded or physically retarded. That proves my point also. I never said you were wrong jessica7421, you just have a different opinion. By the way my brother is a retard and I call him that every time he beats me at video games. some say he is autistic because he is really good at some things, but the doctor says he is retarded, and he uses that word. My brother doesn't mind it because he is above seeing it as a mean thing. I guess maybe some retarded people have progressed beyond that also.

 

[jessica47421]

wow this is getting crazy. im sure your brother, that is mentally challenged dont mind being called a retard when he beats you at a video game?????

(that is just sad) im so sorry for stating my opinion in this thread like others did. will not do again!

 

[team2jndd]

Words are only words so if nobody takes offense than it doesn't matter. That's the case with your brother and I wish more people were like that. Words only have as much power as you give them. My parents are both social workers for mentally challenged/ mentally ill people and I know first hand the way that word can hurt people.

 

[murph]

My guess is the retarded anemone will eventually attach, but to the back of your rock work where you cant see it and its a hassle to feed.