Ummm... what ? (Transformers)

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/weird-news/2010/11/12/uk-transformers-fans-fury-over-new-character-called-spastic-86908-22711513/

This can't be true?

almost as stupid as http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7222008.stm

reminds me of the time they had to withdraw that 'marcello carlin' model

Fury! Outrage! Let me guess what kind of newspaper The Daily Record is.

They did have Slag many years ago after all (now renamed to Snarl…while Snarl himself just seems to have disappeared)

Americans naming things after words they actually use in non-derogatory ways shocker

What's next, a transformer called Niggard?

i got my niece a nu bumblebee for her bday, the kind that's like spring loaded to transform itself back to robot when u push the button, and that fucking thing just would not stay together as a car

so wait, spastic is treated as an offensive term with you people?

means 'tard'

or rather 'tarded'

On June 29, 2007, Ubisoft of France pulled one of their games called Mind Quiz: Your Brain Coach, for referring to players who did not perform well at the game as "Super Spastic" which can be construed in the UK as being offensive.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spastic

so wait, spastic is treated as an offensive term with you people?

― forksclovetofu, Saturday, 13 November 2010 20:29 (10 minutes ago) Bookmark

how is spaz/spastic & retard not completely objectionable? wtf?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6isXNVdguI8&feature=related

calling somebody "spastic" in the states is like calling them jittery; spaz is interchangeable with dweeb or geek
it's not considered an offensive term over here.
i gather the US equivalent would be "cripple" after reading that wiki

yeah yeah when I was young in the USA, "spaz" basically meant "hyperactive" or "unruly" and "retarded" meant "stupid" or "silly"

now colloquially in the US, "Having OCDs" means being neurotically careful and "ADHD" means being too busy to watch a movie or read a book, etc.