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“scalper” has always been strongly associated with ticket sales to me – grew up walking past them on my way into baseball games, that’s just what everyone called them. Flippers seems better in context of other goods, especially vehicles. Seems like it should be a non-issue for this article (maybe even site)
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I never associated the 2 before reading this.
But here’s the big thing I took form this article, they changed the name of Fort Lee? Why? Because of Robert E Lee, if I had to guess it was Fort Lee before he was even born. I just drove thru it the other day getting back to NJ coming off the George Washington Bridge. Then I used the google ohh that was the name of Fort Gregg-Adams in Virginia.
Spinner Dolphins approve of the new article title
Nice thalidomide reference Torch.
Made me LOL then feel bad about myself
I’m offended by the word, “firefighter.” It’s got the word “fight” in it. Too violent. I much prefer the enlightened update, “fire-puter-outer.”
The ‘Fire Containment Specialists’ in my town would be offended by your terminology.
Interesting. I’d never once considered the origin of the term scalper. And while I have no problem with it, nor have I experienced anybody with the “right” to be offended by it, be so. I kinda respect the preemptive moving on from that term.
I used to use the line from the movie Clerks, “Buncha savages in this town,” all the time in class when I was giving a student or group of students a hard time about something they did wrong (usually not cleaning up after themselves.) A few years ago, it dawned on me what the origin of the term “savage” is. Now, nobody said shit to me about it. I know I intended no offense, and I’m fairly confident writer/director Kevin Smith didn’t either. BUT, I altered it to call the students monsters instead of savages. Well, usually, I caught myself using the line as written the other day, but I try really hard not to.
The etymology of “monster” is a 14th century term for a person or animal with a birth defect. So even that word could be construed as discriminatory if you try hard enough.
Gadamn it Skeeter!
Language is fraught with pitfalls. I went from using moron to saying ‘What a maroon’ decades back because it was funny when Bugs Bunny said it. Unfortunately, BB was drawn and written by guys who weren’t particularly culturally sensitive, as it turns out that maroons are a creole culture descended from African slaves mixing with indigenous peoples.
-using ‘arse’ pending further updates
Wow, I had no idea.
Did WB really know about Maroons, or were they really just shifting the common term? The same way that my friend and I took notes from The Good Place, and use the terms “Fork me!” and “Holy Shirt!”. It’s a natural form of shifting language (Darn! Jeeze! and Shoot! are common ones.)
You may be assuming too much.
There was the whole thing about reclaiming the term ‘Porch Monkey’ in Clerks II.
Yeah, making Randall look like the absolute dumbass his character is.
Sheriff Justice in Smokey and the Bandit is an extremely racist character. And constantly made to look like the stupid buffoon that he was.
Yeah, it’s like Blazing Saddles. You can fight racism by making racist characters as the butt of the joke.
Exactly!
Well excuse me,
(while I whip this out)
I’m not offended by anything, let alone scalpers. But I would first suggest greedy profiteers as more technically correct, the best kind of correct. But of the suggested I like greedy resellers. I mean when you are referring to people doing impolite actions you need to use a negative term. I mean saints who buy items to save them for you to buy at a wonderful mark up doesn’t quite create the correct atmosphere. With just 26 letters I defy you to find a adjective that sells the intention without having a negative connotation. In addition, if the aggrieved party isn’t complaining and it is just some internet troll don’t drink the Kool Aid. In finishing the attitude of the site to go the extra miles not to offend is what makes it great.