Oilspill wrote:Bass X0 wrote:ausbot wrote:Spastic! WTF, I hope we don't get Retard Prime, again WTF! I work with disabled children and this is really offensive!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpasticRead "Evolution of the term in the United States" for a better understanding of Hasbro's intentions.
I think the wiki article confuses things, because it talks about spaz being a fairly harmless word in the US. But although spaz was originally a shortening of spastic, the word spaz has evolved to mean nerdy/uncool/clumsy whereas the word spastic still refers to the disability does it not?
Anyway, I don't understand why they can't use the name Slag, which is not derogatory in the US, only really in the UK (plus in the UK it still means "molten rock/metals" as well), but they can OK the name Spastic?
Keep the name Spastic if you must, just bring back Slag!
"Slag is a pejorative slang term, primarily used in United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, New Zealand and Australia, to describe women who often engage in casual sex and promiscuous behaviour. It originally derives from the same term for piles of impurities skimmed off during the smelting of metals.
Its meaning is broadly similar to the terms "slut" and "skank", and other words used in the same manner include "slapper", "ho" and "scrubber". In Australia, the word "slurry" is also used, in this case the meaning derives from the stone slurry discharged as waste from the mining of metals."
OK, now Spastic and Slag are in the same grouping. Either Hasbro can't use either of them, or - by using Spastic- they have no argumnet against NOT using Slag.
THe more I see Undertow, the more I want him. THat is a gorgeous alt-mode...I'd really like to see him in combiner mode though. Heavytread is sick also...this looks like an overall great wave of PCCs.
bad timing though for me to get it 
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