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  1. #15
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    Aug 2008
    Ouiinslano
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    I too became a Katie Price fan. As someone who works in he disability sector I see first hand how hurtful terms like 'mental' and 'spastic' can be to some people.
    Retard.

    (ETA - not calling you one, just adding it as an example!)

    I get sucked in by what people around me are saying, and I end up using it too, even when I disagree with it.

    I have a guttermouth, but I find it pretty easy to switch on and off.

    Tourette's I will never joke about, or schizophrenia, and I will shoot down in flames anyone who does - they're both so misunderstood.

    Animal cruelty and eating meat. I'm normally pretty placid about what other people do, but if they try to accuse someone else of animal cruelty, I will get offended and turn the mirror. And it's not funny to offer me the tray of meat or the cheese platter. It's actually pretty upsetting.

    And safety - I got really upset when Magda Szubanski "joked" about using her car door to take out a cyclist. It only takes one perspn to not realise she's joking, and my baby girl is left without a dadda. So that sort of stuff, although I am fully guilty of joking about baby shaking.

    Double standards - don't joke about them. I have so many I'll surely get offended!
    Last edited by luna moth; February 15th, 2012 at 12:34 PM. : Because I'm a silly toe-rag