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Another Lame Contest Nobody Will Enter
If you’re carving a pumpkin for Halloween anyway, you might as well use those skills to win a T-Shirt. Create a Fail Bird O’Lantern, email us the photo with your contact information, twitter username, and T-shirt size, and post it to twitpic with a link to this blog for a chance to win a Fail Bird T-shirt.
The Rules:
- Photo must be emailed to us and posted to twitpic, with a link to our blog, by 10PM ET on October 31, 2009 to qualify.
- Nothing even remotely pornographic. We’re serious about that.
- We’re the sole judge of which entry is the winner.
- When you send the image of your carved pumpkin, you give us the right to post it to our blog, with a link to your twitter account.
- You must be at least 18 years old to enter.
- Void where prohibited by law.
- We reserve the right, but not the obligation, to pick more than one winner, if we get a lot of awesome entries.
- If no one enters, no one will win.
- This is all in fun, so don’t take it seriously if you don’t win. Some people can be such sore losers. (Hi Marcia!)
We will only use your email address to acknowledge your entry and/or notify you that you’ve won, so get out the knives and start carving!
UPDATE November 2, 2009: No entries. Told ya.
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I did write BINGO in all caps, so I guess that was shouting. Everyone always shouts when they get a BINGO.
Twitter: stinginthetail
says:
Was i shouting? i thought i was just being Australian.
Otherwise, Tweet Fail said it all
I didn’t call you any names, and didn’t shout you down or insult you. It’s interesting how you reacted to two comments and grouped us together.
So we are “a device used to introduce a stream of water into the body for medical or hygienic reasons, or the stream of water itself.” Or is that one term that is not supposed to be taken literally, by its original definition? Either all words are literal, and used only in their original definition. or they are not.
I did read the entire page, and considered all the comments. There are too many people lashing out at others not like them; calling attention to differences instead of embracing commonalities. I’m not interested in being policed by PC Language cops whose main purpose is to exert control over the freedom of speech we hold dear in this country. What all this Political Correctness Movement does is create more separation. It brings people together into narrowly-defined groups, to argue and complain about the language and actions of people they won’t let in.
Anyone can be offended by anything, if they are looking for it. Expecting everyone to modify his/her speech patterns in order to offend no one will turn this into a country of mimes. Except that won’t work, because just about any gesture can be offensive in front of the right/wrong audience. And everyone hates mimes.
Twitter: knitmeapony
says:
Congratulations! Clearly neither of you have read nor considered the text of the article I linked. The answers to both of your (excruciatingly common) retorts are inside.
I’ll be glad to discuss this with you, but I’d appreciate the due consideration of reading the text first.
In addition, you asked on Twitter why I’m still following you. I don’t discount people for one small usage of sexist, ablest, or other offensive language. We’ve all done it. What I do consider important is how you react when called out on it. Reacting thoughtfully or at least politely is acceptable; shouting down like a douchebag is not.
Twitter: stinginthetail
says:
I’d say your use of “lame” is fine. As for people who are so hung up on words that they use crap like “ablest” when they mean “discriminatory” – and torture English past any meaning – honestly, the word ‘life’, and then the words ‘get one’ spring to mind.
I am crippled, i don’t have a problem with it – perhaps Laurie should try getting on with life instead of picking on one word in a blog which is nothing to do with putting down disabled people. OMG – i think disable is outlawed too. Tip to all the PC idiots – Outlawing words doesn’t change people’s minds. It just makes them think you’re a twat – and when you put the words ‘disabled’ and ‘feminist’ in your website – well, people think all disabled women who want equality are obsessed with bossing everyone around.
Don’t denigrate people – whether black, white, brindle or indifferent, crippled or not, male, female, or blended gender. But changing words that are not in ANY way offensive is stupid.
I am…
Ah, the PC Cops strike. I’ll quote from Merriam Webster and let you pick which definition of lame fits the title:
1 a : having a body part and especially a limb so disabled as to impair freedom of movement
b : marked by stiffness and soreness <a lame shoulder>
2 : lacking needful or desirable substance : weak, ineffectual <a lame excuse>
3 : slang : not being in the know : square
4 a : inferior <a lame school>
b : contemptible, nasty <lame racist jokes>
If you picked 4a, BINGO! You are correct. If you selected anything else, sorry, no cigar. Not that we’re giving away cigars, that’s just another one of those silly American sayings. We’re full of them.
Should you believe that the only correct definition of lame is #1, then Merriam Webster is a big jerk for posting the other ones. Blame them.
Twitter: knitmeapony
says:
Please don’t use ablest language: http://disabledfeminists.com/2009/10/12/ableist-word-profile-lame/