Retard
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To be clear, I won’t stop using any word for the sake of another, no matter how unPC it is. If my words are upsetting, what about my ideas? Mulley.net will continue to use the following nasty and insulting words in 2008. cunt, vagina, fag, bastard, shit, fuck, feck, eamon ryan, motherfucker, tits, spa, langer and many many more.
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December 31st, 2007 at 5:03 pm
Keep it up you horsefistingcuntbutler
December 31st, 2007 at 5:15 pm
Yay! Fuck that for a game of soldiers!! I was going to clean up my act a bit for the New Year but if any cunt doesn’t like it, they can fuck off!!
Thanks for the lead, you Mary Harney, you.
December 31st, 2007 at 5:57 pm
And all those cuntin’ bastardwankers can go fuck their mothers if they don’t like it.
December 31st, 2007 at 6:01 pm
I thought that you were going to use some real bad words like Comreg, Financial Regulator and IDA
December 31st, 2007 at 6:48 pm
Like the inclusion of that fuckwit Ryan in there. But now I’m hugely curious about who asked you to stop using the word. I get the same thing myself sometimes, decided long ago to take the same route as yourself.
adam
December 31st, 2007 at 7:05 pm
Fairy! I knew I forgot one word. You just reminded me. Cheers Adam.
December 31st, 2007 at 7:36 pm
Ah well, if you want to go down that route, so to speak, we’d be here for the night drawing up a list.
December 31st, 2007 at 7:39 pm
What better way to spend New Years Eve than turning mulley.net into a repository of swearwords.
It can become the new definitive reference for all obscenities.
Can I add “Bertie Ahern”?
December 31st, 2007 at 7:55 pm
Best sewarword I heard this year, ‘cow cunt’
Feel free to use it, but I want a penny each time someone reads this.
Hey, you, that’ll be a penny
December 31st, 2007 at 8:57 pm
Now, really, do you think that resorting to calling someone Eamon Ryan is necessary? I mean..come on. You’re intelligent. You can come up with something better than that.
/mother
December 31st, 2007 at 9:15 pm
It was me, it’s a fair cop and I’m a terrible person. I admit that I inquired if Damien could avoid using the word what is the title of this here post, note I said avoid not stop. That was all. And I admitted it sounded terribly nanny state of me when I said it.
By all means write what you want, Damien. Frankly, I reckon most people could think of a multitude of other words more apt for the PS. I Nonsense but there you go.
December 31st, 2007 at 10:14 pm
It wasn’t Dan, it was me.
January 1st, 2008 at 12:08 am
….pissflaps!
January 1st, 2008 at 5:34 am
Bum!
Gawd but I’m shocking altogether.
January 1st, 2008 at 11:40 am
Childish nonsense, lets hope you do better in 2008…, pity to see you stoop so low. Who cares about the language you use??
January 1st, 2008 at 2:28 pm
@Dan, as I said in the email, go fuck yourself.
@Barry Well done on another retarded comment from a Green Party Apologist.
January 1st, 2008 at 4:54 pm
Jesus, Damien, now look what you drew down on yourself. A bunch of condescending, holier-than-thou cunts.
January 1st, 2008 at 5:11 pm
It just goes to show though - Start fucking and blinding, and you get more comments than on any other post.
Are we about to see the birth of “Fluffy Fucking Links”?
January 1st, 2008 at 6:47 pm
I am shocked and appalled.
Not
January 1st, 2008 at 7:20 pm
Bollocks.
January 2nd, 2008 at 3:24 pm
what if you use the word “nigger” by mistake?
January 2nd, 2008 at 5:20 pm
Why is the word ‘vagina’ offensive?
January 2nd, 2008 at 5:59 pm
That’s exactly it Claire.
January 2nd, 2008 at 6:00 pm
Ronan, if I use a word by mistake then it’s a mistake, surely?
January 2nd, 2008 at 10:27 pm
My point was that that’s a word that most people would find offensive, for whatever reason “retard” isn’t, but it’s not really acceptable either.
I don’t for a second think you are in any way some sort of bigot or hate the handicapped and I’m sure I use words like “retard” constantly, but I guess if I used the word and somebody pointed out to me that I shouldn’t I would say “you’re right, I shouldn’t”.
I mean, it isn’t really that defensible is it? Even if it is a colloquialism. Why defend it?
I don’t know how it was put to you either, maybe rudely, I’ve no idea, but I don’t think in general that people should be ridiculed for saying that something is offensive.
It takes courage to do so, especially when this weird idea that saying something is offensive or unfair to a minority group makes you anything other than a liberal seems to be so engrained these days.
January 2nd, 2008 at 11:23 pm
Good for you Damien,
People should be free to use whatever language they like on their blogs and I hope you encourage that in your blogging seminars and courses to companies and individuals.
After all I can’t foresee that controversial use of language bad or otherwise could have unforeseen consequences on any person or companies private or professional reputation.
January 2nd, 2008 at 11:32 pm
Despite your bad and seemly language you’re selfcensoring yourself anyway. The only true way around your selfcensorship and to be totally honest with your opinion is to get a pseudonym. That way you can say what you really mean.
January 3rd, 2008 at 12:41 am
A majority of people seem to post pseudonymsly, at least if this thread is any indication. Its useful in separating personal and private lives. After all one never knows when a potential employer, paramour, mentor or sponsor is watching. Not to mention the poor kiddies.
At one level it makes it easier to tell people to go fuck themselves. On another its hard to feel offended if someone attacks a pseudonym.
Shame when real people are involved though.
January 3rd, 2008 at 1:00 am
I’m kinda with Ronan. I mean I use ‘gay’ in a perjorative sense out of habit quite often - but if someone reminded me that I really shouldn’t, I’d have to agree with them.
And like Claire, I’m kinda confused as to why ‘vagina’ is listed on a continuum with ‘fag’ and ‘retard’. And if you listed fag and retard, why not ‘nigger’?
January 3rd, 2008 at 1:23 am
@Ronan Everyone is entitled to be offended by whatever they choose to be offended by. If they tell me they were offended, fair enough. But I take exception when people tell me to watch what I say. That’s an attack on me and will be treated as such.
@Caitriona, I don’t find a use for the word “nigger” and never use or say that word. I’ve used the rest at some point.
As for vagina, someone previously took exception to the word when I used it. Yet funnily enough they only found my blog after they searched for it.
@Caitriona I’d can’t understand your logic about using the word “gay”. You say you should not use it because it offends, yet you do? Or is it you are waiting to be told it it offends and then you’ll agree but continue usage anyway?
January 3rd, 2008 at 1:30 am
@Anonymoose If I get a bad reputation because of words that I’ve used on my personal space then so be it. I’ve a little more to worry about than that. If the food on my table depended on me not using words that offend some, then I’d be pigheaded enough to starve.
@Anonymouse (not same person as above) Eh what?
January 3rd, 2008 at 4:19 am
I wouldn’t say there’s ‘logic’ to it. I know I shouldn’t use ‘gay’ (as in “that’s so gay” meaning stupid or pathetic) but I do, out of habit. I try to break the habit but a lot of the time I can’t be bothered.
I’m just kind of confused as to why you view words solely as they affect you - ie nigger is wrong because you have no “use” for it - to the point that other people’s reaction to those words is irrelevant? Sure why are you bothering to blog in that case?
(That probably sounds more adversarial than I mean it to! I guess what I’m trying to get at is, obviously you don’t think nigger is anything more than a slur, so why the difference with fag and retard? Why self-censor in that respect (nigger) and not others? Is retard just not as bad or are you using it in an ironic way or what?)
January 3rd, 2008 at 11:21 am
Or did you not include “nigger” because if you did people would immediately say “I really hope you never use the word ‘nigger” Damien”
“I’d can’t understand your logic about using the word “gayâ€. You say you should not use it because it offends, yet you do? Or is it you are waiting to be told it it offends and then you’ll agree but continue usage anyway?”
This is not that confusing really. People aren’t perfect and language slips into discourse, like “retard” or “gay” as pejoratives. If you burp you still say “excuse me” despite the fact you might do it again.
It is not possible to be a perfect human being and not screw up or whatever, I mean, surely one of the things everyone should strive to do (and I say this as a total asshole!) is to say “okay I was wrong there” and yes, also try not to do the same thing again.
But if you don’t even say “maybe I was wrong there” then how can that happen at all?
I don’t mean I am trying to argue you into an apology or whatever either, not at all, just explaining my point of view.
January 3rd, 2008 at 11:40 am
@Ronan Nope, that word never came into my thought processes for this post. It’s just a word I don’t use at all.
And I appreciate your viewpoint and your input and the fact that it can change my own views on things.
January 3rd, 2008 at 2:45 pm
Any potential sponsor looking at your Blog Awards must be well impressed with this thread…… keep up the good work.
January 3rd, 2008 at 4:35 pm
Ronan: the only one who mentioned the word nigger was you. Why are you arguing its use with Damien?
January 3rd, 2008 at 4:52 pm
Is it ok for a gay nigger to call another gay nigger a gay nigger?
January 3rd, 2008 at 4:56 pm
No. He’d say “queer”.
January 3rd, 2008 at 7:00 pm
I made my point, if you don’t understand it, you’re a queer.
January 3rd, 2008 at 7:13 pm
I wouldn’t call a real spa a retard, I’d call them something more PC.
January 3rd, 2008 at 9:12 pm
Yeah, my new name for them is ‘barryegan’.
January 4th, 2008 at 9:43 am
Just by clicking through, I see that you’ve pulled a Karlin Lillington* on Dan Sullivan and banned him from commenting.
Is this how the “self-proclaimed it guyâ€** of the Irish blogosphere defends freedom of participation on the web….
**(http://www.mulley.net/2007/09/05/open-letter-to-karlin-lillington-and-a-challenge/)
*(http://disillusionedlefty.blogspot.com/2006/01/interview-16-damien-mulley.html)
January 4th, 2008 at 10:02 am
Surprised you have time to perpetuate lies during work time in Analog Devices
January 4th, 2008 at 10:30 am
I like to fit a lot of things into the day. Busy busy and all that.
January 4th, 2008 at 4:12 pm
What’s that all about?
January 6th, 2008 at 4:34 am
The way I look at things like this, and have had similar problems with my use of the term “scumbag” there is a facility for people who don’t like what is on your blog. it is called the blogroll, where can be found links to other things to read.