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LifeisaGarden

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Their vests no longer say "Helping Retarded Children" they now say "Helping Children". But they didn't buy new vests, they just put yellow duct tape over the retarded part.

My kid wouldn't take the tootsie roll from the dude. She told him, "I'm not supposed to take candy from people I don't know." I don't know why she said that because she's taken candy from them before. In her defense he was sort of a creepy little old man. He tried to give her more candy on the way out of the store too, she still wouldn't take it from him.

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"Retarded" is no longer a "PC" word. (They really need to get new vests.) It's been replaced by "Challenged" Children. (Mentally Challenged or Physically Challegned.) Ah, the wonders of the "PC" era.

(I say that, but I like the work Physically Challenged rather than Paraplegic which what I am.)

It's all about labels. What's that 60's song, "Signs".

It's good that your Daughter won't take candy from a stranger. (My Parents always told me the same thing, and yet every year I would go Trick or Treating.)

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"Retarded" is no longer a "PC" word. (They really need to get new vests.) It's been replaced by "Challenged" Children. (Mentally Challenged or Physically Challegned.) Ah, the wonders of the "PC" era.

(I say that, but I like the work Physically Challenged rather than Paraplegic which what I am.)

So is Vertically Challenged wrong?

What about Gravity Challenged?

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George Carlin communicated what's wrong with the English language better than any of us. Miss ya George. RIP.

Progression of euphemisms:

WW1 - Shell Shock

WW2 - Battle Fatigue

Korea - Operational Exhaustion

Vietnam - Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

"The language that takes the life out of life."

"The poor used to live in slums, now the economically disadvantaged occupy substandard housing in the inner cities."

On the OP's point about retardation: (<-see, everybody does it, "retards" would have worked better for pure communication there)

"These poor suckers have been bullpooted by the system into beleiving that if you change the name of the condition, somehow you'll change the condition. Well, it doesn't work that way."

Have a listen, this is a studio version, so it's easier to see how serious he was about the subject.

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