AIBU

[xoggoth]

Whilst googling the subject, I learned that kids now call each other 'scopey' - the spastics society having changed their name to Scope some years back because spastic and derivatives thereof was such a widely used insult.

Quite. Replace one word with another and sooner or later that word gets used as an insult too.

[Bean]

So we can still label sas, a CRETIN ?

Excellent for the rest of us, not so good for the Protector of Snowflakes

[northernladuk]

Whilst googling the subject, I learned that kids now call each other 'scopey' - the spastics society having changed their name to Scope some years back because spastic and derivatives thereof was such a widely used insult.

It was just Jooeeeyyy in my time. The names have changed, the insults never will.

[Mordac]

It was just Jooeeeyyy in my time. The names have changed, the insults never will.

Ah, a man of a similar vintage (I remember that from junior school, c.1980). One poor kid had the surname Deacon, I'm not sure if he ever got over it...

[Old Greg]

This thread fails to address the root cause, which is a surfeit of cretins on CUK.

[sasguru]

This thread fails to address the root cause, which is a surfeit of cretins on CUK.

That is indeed the issue.