White Horseradish
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I am inspired to write this by the recent "pet peeve" thread on cutesy names for guns. Somewhere in that thread someone mentioned various distortions of politicians' names. In the last two days I've come across a few of those and I have finally reached my limit and I have to say something.
This is to all the folks that like to say things like "Billary", "Shrillary", "Hitlery". Also to the fans of "Swinestein" and "Shrub". There are probably more, but have no desire to look them up. Please note this is not a partisan thing in any way shape or form. I speak to everyone who likes to use these types of insults.
What are you, 8 years old? I have not heard stuff like this since the 8th grade. Look, I will tell you a great secret. Are you ready? Here goes. Distorting people's names is neither original nor clever. Each one of these has been done about a zillion times on this board alone. As a joke, it's dead. It's passed on. It has ceased to be. It is not funny. On a relate note, all Clinton-related jokes have been beaten to death before the end of his first term. Give it up. Saturday Night Live wouldn't and I quit watching them. If you persist in this inanity, people will quit paying attention to you, too. I have no respect whatsoever for politicians and wouldn't mind them being insulted, but can we please have some class? Can we rise a bit above "you're a poopyhead"?
As a side note, I find "Swinestein" to be particularly annoying since to me "Feinstein" is a typically Jewish name and remaking it into something derisive using a synonym for pork is not, well, kosher.
One that I wanted to mention specially that jumped out at me was "Amerika". Oooh. That one was so clever... Just one tiny letter substitution, and all of a sudden there is a whole wealth of meaning, right? Wrong. All it means is that you are either a German or can't spell. It may have some private meaning for you and some people of your circle, whatever that may be, but to most of us it is a typo. And the whole "wink, wink, nod, nod" thing is silly. This isn't Monty Python. Come out and say it, whatever it is, and we can discuss it like rational people I think we are.
Thanks for listening.
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This is to all the folks that like to say things like "Billary", "Shrillary", "Hitlery". Also to the fans of "Swinestein" and "Shrub". There are probably more, but have no desire to look them up. Please note this is not a partisan thing in any way shape or form. I speak to everyone who likes to use these types of insults.
What are you, 8 years old? I have not heard stuff like this since the 8th grade. Look, I will tell you a great secret. Are you ready? Here goes. Distorting people's names is neither original nor clever. Each one of these has been done about a zillion times on this board alone. As a joke, it's dead. It's passed on. It has ceased to be. It is not funny. On a relate note, all Clinton-related jokes have been beaten to death before the end of his first term. Give it up. Saturday Night Live wouldn't and I quit watching them. If you persist in this inanity, people will quit paying attention to you, too. I have no respect whatsoever for politicians and wouldn't mind them being insulted, but can we please have some class? Can we rise a bit above "you're a poopyhead"?
As a side note, I find "Swinestein" to be particularly annoying since to me "Feinstein" is a typically Jewish name and remaking it into something derisive using a synonym for pork is not, well, kosher.
One that I wanted to mention specially that jumped out at me was "Amerika". Oooh. That one was so clever... Just one tiny letter substitution, and all of a sudden there is a whole wealth of meaning, right? Wrong. All it means is that you are either a German or can't spell. It may have some private meaning for you and some people of your circle, whatever that may be, but to most of us it is a typo. And the whole "wink, wink, nod, nod" thing is silly. This isn't Monty Python. Come out and say it, whatever it is, and we can discuss it like rational people I think we are.
Thanks for listening.
The preceding rant has been brought to you by Your Friendly Neighborhood Speleng Nutsy and the letter K