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Why the fucking ageism?
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LOON_ATTIC
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Why the fucking ageism?
Why do people always have to reference something that sucks to something a "X year old"?
"This sucks. It's like something a 12 year old would do. Meh."
"You write like an 8 year old."
It's everywhere, and it's pissing me off more and more, that I had to rant about it. It's just insulting everyone in an age group.
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10-31-2009 03:23 PM |
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Re: Why the fucking ageism?
Because people of those ages normally do things that would apear 'lame' to people of whatever age and blah blah blah.
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10-31-2009 03:26 PM |
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Re: Why the fucking ageism?
It's only funny if you say "retarded three year old" I don't know why, but everything else is just "meh"
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Re: Why the fucking ageism?
Yup it's annoying. They're this 17 year old girls i know who thinks she's so special because she's older.
She says things like this "It's too comlicated for your young mind to understand, kthxbai" (she said that to an 18 year old lmao) She often says i'm 7. I don't see why, a lot of people say i act a lot more mature than she does. :/ She also tries to believe she's smarter because she's older >.> Like anyone who hasn't been through highschool isn't really smart if they get good grades because "it doesn't matter in middleschool, only highschool matters" Another thing she often does is "I hate it when little middleschoolers think they can write well (or something like that)" Yes because highschoolers are multi-award winning authors. Gah i hate her...and her little crew of bitches and bastard, 'cept Amanda, she's nice to me.
It just disgusts me why someone thinks they're better than someone because of age, race, heritage etc. etc.
I'm a girl ffffeck
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Re: Why the fucking ageism?
Retarded three year olds are funny
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10-31-2009 04:48 PM |
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Re: Why the fucking ageism?
You write like a senile 120-year old.
... yeah. Doesn't really work as well.
Actually, I have crazy friends and they/we all consider ourselves to have the brains of retarded 3-year-olds, so to us it's actually a bit more like a compliment.
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Re: Why the fucking ageism?
Lunatic Wrote:Why do people always have to reference something that sucks to something a "X year old"?
"This sucks. It's like something a 12 year old would do. Meh."
"You write like an 8 year old."
It's everywhere, and it's pissing me off more and more, that I had to rant about it. It's just insulting everyone in an age group.
I totally agree with you, but sometimes it's so hard to avoid it. I mean, it's hard to find any other idiom which could describe it enough good as "infantile" and "childish" does, but without any discrimination or ageism. So, I don't think all people using such words are necessarily ageist, that is like a habit, it entered their vocabulary.
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Re: Why the fucking ageism?
Yes it's stupid and gross. I'm trying not to say that shit anymore.
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RE: Why the fucking ageism?
(10-31-2009 04:35 PM)CrayolaColours Wrote: It's only funny if you say "retarded three year old" I don't know why, but everything else is just "meh"
(02-07-2011 02:04 AM)Prince Rilian Wrote: Yes it's stupid and gross. I'm trying not to say that shit anymore.
their pee should hv been shot out like a ki blast breaking the rocks
oh and also No one has any rights. We're free, rights create invisible restrictions. But we live in a society where the majority accepts rights to be true.
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Why the fucking ageism?
kami's retarded three-year-old-like posts are making me more and more ageist.
god bless contrarianism
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