Rude presenter on The cafe on RTE "childrens programme" "eurospa"

I cant believe anyone on this site thinks it's acceptable to use the word spa, thinking that it's just a harmless word!

I think that people who use this word have forgotten, or are unaware that it comes from spastic. How can it not be offensive to call someone a spa, when in effect what you are saying, is that someone is like a spastic. How do you think any spastic people would feel on hearing this?

To me using the word spa is equally as bad a calling someone a mongol, schizo, moron, psycho etc. Thay are all belittling serious illnesses/conditions.
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I think the reasoning has been covered, but you left out, loon, mentalist and nutter and i would think spastic people would be utterly dismayed at our callousness
 
ragazza said:
To me using the word spa is equally as bad a calling someone a mongol, schizo, moron, psycho etc. Thay are all belittling serious illnesses/conditions.
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Confession time. I have used the word psycho to describe certain people so I apologise to all those psychos out there that I may have offended.
 
ClubMan said:
Nobody has been banned from AAM or asked to leave simply because they did not craft their posts perfectly in terms of grammar and spelling.
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No, but "someone" did strongly suggest he was less than welcome, and made it clear they had some "official" capacity.
I think Dodo made it quite clear he was not accusing the others of this.
 
Askaboutmoney is not intended to be elitist and should not become elitist in practice. I will draft a guideline on this.

The mods do a good job in quickly removing trolls, spam etc. It's not always obvious what is a troll and what is genuine. Sometimes we have tolerated trolls in case they were genuine and sometimes we have deleted genuine posts.

I too was suspicious of Dodo who produces well crafted English in some posts and, some not so well crafted English in other posts. I am glad he has explained this.

Brendan
 
I've removed a load of off-topic posts on spelling/grammar/moderation to facilitate reopening this thread.

Am I imagining things, or does the ad running on TV3 for the [broken link removed] lottery service include a line something like 'Ah you spa'?
 
I work with people with disability and the terms used in modern times are 'learning disability' and 'service user' (if availing of care).

Where is this thread going??? Shocked it was not deleted a dozen posts back. OP, make a complaint to RTE as that term is highly offensive to people with disability and their families.
 
REMFAN said:
I work with people with disability and the terms used in modern times are 'learning disability'
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What about people who have a disability which does not affect their abilities to learn - e.g. somebody with cerebral palsy whose cognitive functions are exactly the same as an able bodied person!? :confused:
 
ClubMan said:
What about people who have a disability which does not affect their abilities to learn - e.g. somebody with cerebral palsy whose cognitive functions are exactly the same as an able bodied person!? :confused:
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In that case clubman we would address that indivudual as having 'Special Needs'. The terms night not be perfect but they are must better that those menchioned above.

Skamkebite- This is the case for all families availing of a system of care, residential house,day servicers,respite etc
 
REMFAN said:
In that case clubman we would address that indivudual as having 'Special Needs'. The terms night not be perfect but they are must better that those menchioned above.
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Like calling a person who cannot hear "deaf", a person who cannot see "blind" etc.? :confused:
 
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