What’s Going Down?
It’s pretty hard to swallow when you consider yourself smart yet make the most retarded mistakes; take me moving to the Gulf as one!
I grew up in Amman, born and raised there, but at some point in my life, I came out of my shell and moved to the States and spent some decent time there going back and forth, back then, I also did some work in most of the countries around Jordan, well except for Saudi, and after getting kicked by crappy economies and lack of shots everywhere, I made a call and found myself getting toasted under the heat of the Gulf region.
I settled in Muscat; the biggest of Oman’s villages. A place where heat, humidity, and idiocy cooperate together to give you the ultimate experience, the place is rather quiet, too quiet you can comfortably replace the word quiet with dead! Nothing much goes on, and by nothing much I pretty much mean nothing at all.
Now, why would I find these stories worth sharing? Well, because it might make me feel better, so, bite me, I’m going to post up what I feel about this place, the impressions I get about the people, the color of my colleague’s underwear that he didn’t take off since the Brits left India, and many more. I will be offensive, you might think it’s racist when I am offensive to your people, but trust me, I am more offensive when it comes to mine.
I wouldn’t exaggerate if I say that this is absolutely not the reason why I’m starting this, but rather the first thing that came up to my mind as I’m starting the first post, so, if I actually managed to skip the heat strokes I’ll most likely be blabbering about different stuff, so, be my guests.
Cross-Posted on The Rhetorical Blabber
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really looking forward to reading about your impressions of Oman
If I were Omani like you, I wouldn’t be really looking forward for the blabber that will be coming from my mouth about this place, trust me on this
did you realize that using the word retarded is offensive and demeaning to people with special needs? they are also human beings and deserve our respect. it is not okay to take away the dignity of a person with a casual remark. retarded doesn’t mean stupid. get a dictionary and check out the word ignorance.
Mo,
I believe you are the one implying that the word “retarded” refers only to “people with special needs”, as if only they are deserving of derogatory words (okay, not really, but follow what I am trying to convey). If you escape from your prism that “retarded” only means people with special needs, you can view people as equals (and equally deserving of insulting words when they do something dumb, stupid, etc.). Now days, you can use the word “retarded” any way you want to imply something negative. For example, “President Bush is retarded”. Does this statement offend “people with special needs”? Perhaps, but at least it will put them in an equal footing with the former president of the US.
The same applies to the word “fag”. For example, not all gay people are fags. People who annoy you are fags. People who ride Harleys are fags because they ruin everybody’s day with their annoying motorcycles.
In conclusion, only retarded people and fags think that people are not equal, that they are somehow lower than the general population and therefore need protection from people offending them by calling other people who are not them, what they negatively view of themselves.
Mo,
Chill.
Michael,
Damn right!