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#1: desirae carpenter (pinkrider) on Mar 2, 2010

wow this is soooo hard really this is hARD AND I MADE THIS AND I CANT SOVWE THIS

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dang that was hard... for my three year old cousin

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you r are stupid fin retard?

Shourn't it be you are a stupid f'n retard?

And by the way, retard isn't a nice word to use.

Lets just hope she's not referring to the Finn's!

LOL #5

Aside from the ridiculousness of the "puzzle"... that is an incredibly offensive description.

please clean up your language! and stop insulting people.

Spread the Word to End the Word

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PE_5_BbZlbI

a little sensitivity goes a long way.

I don't do these puzzles just so I can be abused by someone I don't even know. Please block this person from doing any more.

I think it would take much more incentive than this for me to try to block someone from entering puzzles.

Partly this is technological. It's almost impossible to really block someone from a website. Attempting to do so mostly just annoys them and makes them behave worse.

Partly this is economical. I don't have time to police this site closely, solving every puzzle and reading every comment and weighing everything on some mysterious scale of goodness and banning everything that doesn't make the cut. That doesn't sound fun to me, and I can't afford to spend that kind of time on a project that earns me nothing. This site is designed to run with a minimum of routine intervention from an administrator. That's the only way it could possibly fit into my life.

And partly this is philosophical. I love having wonderful puzzles and fun comments posted here, and I hope to foster a community that encourages and rewards that, but ultimately each puzzle is an expression of the designer's own cleverness, artistry, and pride. Some don't seem to show much of any of those, but, hey, can't everybody be brilliant.

Probably some day I will implement something to delete worthless puzzles from the database. But probably it would be a matter of deleting puzzles with a one-star rating when they are a year old, or something like that.

Don't mind too much what the puzzles are - although some are obviously better than others. I do mind when the puzzle creator writes abusive messages to those who are trying to solve their creations.

Try not to mind Christine, there are bad people outthere, ignore them, they don't deserve any attention.

Thank you, Babarann, for the video link.

Lending my support to Babarann and Christine.

I agree that while Desirae certainly has the freedom to "express her own artistry", her comments are abusive and offensive. This does NOT create the kind of "community" most of us are looking for out of a site like this. Her comments are not "fun" and certainly not "cleaver" or creative.

I'm sorry, Jan, but a little administration to delete inappropriate or offensive comments and puzzles is necessary with any public site.

your puzzle would have been ok except for your nasty remark. find something more productive to do with your time. Want to know why my brother became mentally retarded at the age of 27?? Three men robbed him and one of them hit him in the head with a pipe. His brain swelled and the doctors had to remove part of it. Now he can no longer take care of himself so he's in a nursing home for the rest of his life, plus he can't read or write anymore.

That's so sad and horrible Sarah.

And yet so real ... We feel for you Sarah!

This puzzle is so extremely easy that it is likely to be boring to solve. You might want to add more white space.

I came across this puzzle through the random search. How terribly offensive. I think it should be removed from the program.

Hey buddy, what's with your puzzle description? Think before you post.

I too think that R word should not be use.

This creator is probably of college age by now.

I always thought the spelling was "effin."

I did this puzzle a long time ago and am not sure why I decided not to comment then. I'll probably get some flack for this - words have the power we lend them or that imbue them with. There are some words that there is no question what is intended by their use. The infamous "N" word would fall into that category and is one I will not use. On the other hand, the "R" word used here, retarded, comes from a very specific meaning and the negative connotation associated with it is something that has been added over the years.

I grew up through the 60s with an older brother who was "mentally handicapped." During that time we used the term and he, as well as others in his group, identified themselves as "retarded." Quite simply it meant that his mental development did not progress at the same rate as us "normal" people.

In the 90s I shared a home with a partner who did adult foster care for "mentally handicapped" persons. One of our residents was the president of the local chapter of ARC. ARC meant then "Association of Retarded Children," though it included adults. I believe they have shortened their name to just the acronym "ARC" now, largely because of the hue and cry associated with the "R" word. (Kind of like the FFA, but for different reasons.)

As someone who has lived with and dealt with the word, I don't find it offensive as long as it is applied with the proper connotation and I would not support any movement for deletion or banning. There are far more important issues in the world to deal with than the ignorant use of a word and I've always had a fair amount of respect for Jan's policy of allowing these type of things to remain on the site, if not at least for the sake of the discussion they provoke.

That's it. I'm done and stepping off my soapbox. If it makes you feel better, sling arrows if you think that's appropriate. I will likely not respond.

Thank you for your well thought out comment, Byrdie. I went through the same thought process as you did over the years.

My two oldest children have what is now called "Intellectuall Disabilities" or "Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities." That's a real mouthful for someone who is mentally challenged. My kids have always self identified as "mentally retarded" or just "retarded." When it became PC to no longer use the word "retarded," I didn't think it was a big deal. My kids have not suffered from discrimination like so many other with IDD have. I had always proclaimed, it's not the words we use but the way we treat people with mental disabilities, similarly how we treat people with mental illness (and often, they have both issues to deal with).

Back in the 90's at some point, I remember using the word "retarded" in front of another mother of a child with IDD, and she became very irate and refused to speak to me after that. She considered my use of the word as very disrespectful to her daughter. At that time, I still believed it was more important to change our attitude toward people with IDD. But after some careful self reflection, I realized that both are important - the way we treat others and the words we use to describe them. Out of respect to those who have IDD, including my adult children, I no longer use the word "retarded" or the term "mentally retarded." To many people with IDD, the word is just as hurtful as the "N" word. What I think is not as important as how the other person feels. And heaven knows, people with IDD have been disrespected as much as, if not more than, other minority groups.

We as a society still think of people with mental disabilities, either developmental disabilities or mental illness, as "less than." Having raised my two "special" children (and still caregiving them in their 40's), I can tell you they are not "less than" at all. Not better than, but definitely awesome individuals with gifts they share, personalities that delight, and purposes in life that they pursue and consequently make this world a better place for others.

I just love bragging about my kids. I'm sorry. No I'm not. If you want to read a cool article about them, check this out:

http://come-over.to/FAS/news/citizen2008a.htm

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Great comment, Hannah.

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