but is this now going to be the Next Big Controversy?

Dickey must have hacked into his Twitter account. That's the only explanation.

Look, this is a dumb thing to say. It's also how a lot of young men talk to one another. It's classless and particularly stupid for someone in the public eye like him to do,

Probably my favorite Kids in the Hall sketch. Running free...

I think Syndergaard deserves scorn for the comment but it doesn't make him a horrible person in my mind either. I think it's good that comments like this are roundly criticized, we shouldn't take jokes at the expense of any group lightly. I think criticizing the comment is a good thing.

An anti-gay slur was recently tweeted, and subsequently deleted, from a Twitter account belonging to one of the prospects the Mets acquired from Toronto for R.A. Dickey.

I think Syndergaard deserves scorn for the comment but it doesn't make him a horrible person in my mind either. I think it's good that comments like this are roundly criticized, we shouldn't take jokes at the expense of any group lightly. I think criticizing the comment is a good thing.

Mario Batali wears hazmat orange Crocs, and he could be gay, but I don't know.

He does have a woman's haircut.

31. Dale Sams Posted: December 18, 2012 at 03:52 PM (#4327882)
<----wearing crocs as we speak.


...with shoelaces no less.

Dustin Hoffman after the 5th Indian

<----wearing crocs as we speak.

I nominate "Peaches."

What happened to salt-of-the-earth All-American names, like "Howard Johnson" and "Mark Clark" and "Joe Orsulak".

And I'm not so crazy about "Chase d'Arnaud" either.

On behalf of those of us who couldn't care less, could we get a complete list of words that have magically become forbidden? I made sense to stop using the N word. However, since we succeeded in getting rid of that word (never mind its resurgence among idiot rappers and their idiot fans) other groups have jumped in saying "Hey, that word hurts my feelings. No one should ever say it again and if someone does all of society should act shocked. Where does it end? Just last a moron congressman was forced to apologize for using the word midget and a radio announcer referred to it as the "M" word out of fear of making same mistake as the congressman. At some point, we should just tell the next aggrieved group to "lighten up, Francis."

On behalf of those of us who couldn't care less, could we get a complete list of words that have magically become forbidden? I made sense to stop using the N word. However, since we succeeded in getting rid of that word (never mind its resurgence among idiot rappers and their idiot fans) other groups have jumped in saying "Hey, that word hurts my feelings. No one should ever say it again and if someone does all of society should act shocked. Where does it end? Just last a moron congressman was forced to apologize for using the word midget and a radio announcer referred to it as the "M" word out of fear of making same mistake as the congressman. At some point, we should just tell the next aggrieved group to "lighten up, Francis."

I used to have a Chinese White gander I named Retardo Montalban.

Well a pretty easy place to start would be with any terms that demonstrate hatred toward a group of people based on things like race, religion, or sexual orientation.

I'm happy to see that in response to reasoned, laidback lack of judgment in the thread there's been "OMG I why do I have to think about other people" and reverse racism cracks.

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Well a pretty easy place to start would be with any terms that demonstrate hatred toward a group of people based on things like race, religion, or sexual orientation.

Well, unless they're white, male, Christian, or heterosexual. I mean, let's not get carried away here.

Great, finally the media can give the Papists and their Jesus-freak brethren the open contempt they deserve.

Ray: A lot of midgets tend to kill themselves. A disproportionate amount, actually. Hervé Villechaize off of Fantasy Island. I think somebody from the Time Bandits did. I suppose they must get really sad about like... being really little and that... people looking at them, laughing at them, calling them names. You know, "short arse". There's another famous midget. I miss him but I can't remember. It's not the R2D2 man; no, he's still going. I hope your midget doesn't kill himself. Your dream sequence will be ######.

Chloë: He doesn't like being called a midget. He prefers dwarf.

Ray: This is exactly my point! People going around calling you a midget when you want to be called a dwarf. Of course you're going to blow your head off.

Dustin Hoffman after the 5th Indian

If you didn't know better, 'midget' sounds more technical and PC, while 'dwarf' sounds all lord-of-the-ringsish.

Noah Syndergaard sounds like one of those names that OOTP invents in a fictional league.

The fact that "little people" is an acceptable and/or preferred term really seems odd to me. I get that it doesn't apparently have the history of derogatory usage that "midget" does, but on its face, it just seems patronizing.

Can we get a ruling on 'Mexicans'?

And to be fair, the folks in my story that I labeled Mexicans could have been Guatemalan, I didn't check passports, I played the odds.

And to be fair, the folks in my story that I labeled Mexicans could have been Guatemalan, I didn't check passports, I played the odds.

And to be fair, the folks in my story that I labeled Mexicans could have been Guatemalan, I didn't check passports, I played the odds.

Dustin Hoffman after the 5th Indian

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The fact that "little people" is an acceptable and/or preferred term really seems odd to me. I get that it doesn't apparently have the history of derogatory usage that "midget" does, but on its face, it just seems patronizing. Not my call to make, though.

The Office already covered all this.

I told you guys nobody named "Noah Syndergaard" was going to be a good major leaguer. And I'm not so crazy about "Chase d'Arnaud" either. What happened to salt-of-the-earth All-American names, like "Howard Johnson" and "Mark Clark" and "Joe Orsulak"

I used to have a Chinese White gander I named Retardo Montalban. Does this make me a bad person?

In the future you could go with "people."

The word "midget" is considered insulting these days, I think, because it was formerly used as a reference to little people with so-called normal proportions. The word "dwarf" was generally used for those with relatively short or otherwise misshapen limbs, while "midget" was reserved for people who looked more like miniature versions of typical taller folk.