'Fort' is a symbol of colonialism and so is also disallowed trigger. Hmmm. If I was ignorant of etymology I might say that the 'trig' in 'trigger' is the same as for 'trigonometry' and hence is a touchstone, flint?, that can spark a fire against the patriarchal foundations of mathematics, perhaps the true symbol of evil.
Surely you mean a group of important humans who strongly request that those individuals without adequate financial means are gently persuaded into performing tasks inside a large, walled, and safely locked compound that is occasionally powered by green energy? If so, the community will have the pleasure of sampling the finest food that chemistry has to offer, along with access to cutting-edge pharmaceutical treatments based on the latest nano bot, gene modifying technology. Community members have access to fresh CO2-free air for 18 hours a day as they have fun capturing sources of protein as well as picking and packing the latest edibles to feed the masses of unfortunate, non-important humans existing outside of the compound.
If a community member experiences an unfortunate and totally unforeseen, non-fatal side effect from any of the advanced pharmaceuticals, community leaders, at no cost to the unwell human, will kindly administer a double dose of the product. The community leader will be gently asked to achieve the results marketed to the anonymous, important human beings who generously built the compound, create the food, and ensure that ordinary humans don’t become overly-aware of their environment by a producing a constant stream of soothing, fictitious media ...
"Indian summer (use late summer) - This term infers that Indigenous people are chronically late."
No...I believe the expression you are looking for is 'Indian Time'.
Last time I heard that expression used was by a Native man who was announcing to a bunch of Native competitors at a sports-meet what time the following day's events were going to start: "10AM...White man time! NOT Indian time!" Needless to say, everyone laughed.
This one is interesting. I find this to be a fairly benign infraction. So what if a people is known to be late? Just because they know how to enjoy life and not run around stressed out all the time with some made up urgency, is that really an offence?
In Bulgaria, that time of the year is referred as “gypsy summer” and those people can rightfully find it offensive because it’s a reference of that warm time being ‘stolen’ from the cooler autumn months. But even then, no one seems to mind calling it that, gypsies included. It’s the best time of the year! The smell of leaves being burned in barrels and villages filled with aroma of homemade ajvar cooking on the outdoor fires...Mmmmm.
In the United States, you aren’t allowed to call nomadic people gypsies, even though that’s their preferred term (Roma is a specific kind of nomadic people who prefer to be called Roma). Not being able to call residents of USA ‘Americans’ is silly. ‘America’ is literally in the name of the country. It’s like not being able to call folks from UAE ‘Arabs’.
Policing language this hard is going to cause so much confusion. Maybe that’s intentional though.
American Indian or any other grouping this country has been more welcoming to every group the world over longer and better than any country past or current and almost nobody returns from whence they came.
Well, wasn’t that what happened in 1984 though? The allowable words shrank and shrank which made communication difficult and limited. The limitation of language was the point.
Guys, I don’t know if Kanye West was blind, crazy or brave, but for him to just walk-in and insult the tribe, man… that sent the ADL on the warpath, and started a wholly American shitstorm that needed a fireman to put out. For a moment there it was like mankind united against him.
Even the Hispanics and Karen’s got in on the action. Shit heated up like an Indian summer. But I’m not concerned, Kanye is a survivor. Even if he is the black sheep of the industry, and sometimes comes off like a homeless person.
I do have to say though, he didn’t really give a trigger warning before making that “net and Yoo-hoo” joke on the Alex Jones show, which could be a black mark against him. I heard some ladies bitching about it, and one Karen, she said it was inappropriate, so if his intent was to offend, maybe he killed two birds with one stone.
But I’m not going to convict him for that.
But again, Kanye is the master of his own destiny, and it’s not like his views are tucked away in some black box somewhere, waiting for white hat hackers to uncover it. No, he just says whatever comes to mind whenever it does, I guess. He’s one of those people that just has to fill in the white space.
This is one of my favorite things about the English language. The 'experts' come up with a word for people who's brains run a little slower than normal, then the 'normies' start using that word as an insult, forcing the 'experts' to come up with another word, which the 'normies' start using as an insult........
idiot and imbicile were before my time, but I was around for handicapped (and handicapable!) and retarded, and now am seeing 'autistic' or 'on the spectrum' as a common insult as well.
Gen X, we got old and the times changed, we didn't.
Here is a perfect example--growing up in the 70s in the Bay Area and going to high school in the 80s, all the guys called each other "fags" when someone did something stupid or lame or weak. We were south of San Francisco about 40 miles and had heard about AIDS and homosexuality our entire lives, it was on the news every night, our entire lives, everyone knew a gay person, generally a family member, and no one cared what your sexual orientation was, if you didn't abuse people.
Get into the mid 90s, can't say fags, can't say gay, can't say retard, or the world ends and you will be fired.
Times change, people don't. When we all die, the language will die with us but I have no idea how anyone will communicate in 2075, probably just use emojis.
Faggots are meatballs made from minced off-cuts and offal, especially pork (traditionally pig's heart, liver, and fatty belly meat or bacon) together with herbs for flavouring and sometimes added bread crumbs.[1] It is a traditional dish in the United Kingdom,[2][3] especially South and Mid Wales and the English Midlands.[1][4][5]
In Australia before the 1990s the Spastic Bus took the spastics to the Spastic Centre. Which wasn’t far from the “School for Subnormal Children”. (This is not a joke -- if you can, find a Gregory’s Sydney street directory ca. 1987 or before wherein you will find both these wonderful places).
Those were the days before the wokeness metastasis.
It's a sad fact of life that parents of children with "developmental disabilities" of any kind are always trying to protect their children from stigma . . . and caring professionals who work with these kids go along or join in the effort. When I was a kid, "mentally retarded" was the new, "correct" term intended to replace stigma-laden terms like moron, idiot, or imbecile. But after some time, "mentally retarded" had to be replaced because "retard" had become a commonly used insult. Last I knew, "intellectually impaired" was the new, "correct" term for the kinds of children and adults who used to be (decades ago now) "mentally retarded" -- but I wouldn't be surprised to learn that "intellectually impaired" has become tainted with stigma and there's a new term now.
The latest, least-stigma-tainted term functions as a "password." If a person refers to your child by the latest, least-stigma-tainted term, you have greater trust that this person is up-to-date in their knowledge and methods, and that they will treat your child (and you, too) in a respectful and caring manner. You will speak to them less guardedly.
It's a tough world, when you're the parent of a child outside the normal range on the low end of the scale. You want to protect your child from deliberate and inadvertent hurtful behavior by people, but you also want people to get to know and care about your child (and by extension, other children with similar problems). Life becomes awfully like walking a tightrope.
I first realized all this when I was a professional working with children with brain-based developmental disabilities but since I adopted a baby who turned out to have metabolic issues that lead to disability, I've joined the parents who walk the tightrope, trying to help my child "live in the world" and develop good relationships with people while also trying to protect her from misunderstanding and stigma . . .
"The latest, least-stigma-tainted term functions as a "password." If a person refers to your child by the latest, least-stigma-tainted term, you have greater trust that this person is up-to-date in their knowledge and methods, and that they will treat your child (and you, too) in a respectful and caring manner. You will speak to them less guardedly."
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Your post is great, but I want to respond to this in particular. Words do not have power over us, unless we grant them that power. Retarded has no additional "power" over words that already went through this process (such as idiot and imbecile). A doctor using "the latest lingo" is only using the latest lingo -- that's all. He's no more likely to be kind or understanding as a 'retrograde' still using ancient terms from twenty years ago.
Let me have some fun and pick a nit and point out that it is perfectly normal that approximately half of the population has a brain that runs 'a little slower than' average, since 'normal' encompasses the full range of which 'average' is the arithmetic mean. (Of course, unless the population is 'normally' distributed, one might have to distinguish 'mean' and 'median'.)
When I was an undergrad, the year I graduated I think it was, the university put up a poster in the student union building with a list of what seemed like hundreds of racial slurs. Many students used that list to 1. learn new slurs, and 2. guess which race the slur was against. Turned into a game of sorts. My guess is these people never try to imagine what the world looks like through the eyes of a 19 year old…
This might sound funny, but a little over two years ago the wokesters at my then-workplace decided to take a similar list and implement censorship in our Slack workspace based on it. Anytime anyone used one of these words, they got an automated reply scolding them and suggesting a more "appropriate" alternative. But it paid no attention to context, for example it triggered when someone mentioned the actor Dan Savage (can't say savage, you know!) It was truly awful. I objected and the long and the short of it was they made it clear it wasn't going to change and that they needed to "educate" us ignorant yahoos on correct language use. I noped out of that job shortly thereafter.
Stop making assumptions is one of my faves. Don't say convict. Isn't that a description? So do I have to say person who teaches instead of teacher? Does this apply to every descriptive term we use for people? Oh I know! I need to wait until the other person tells what I can say so if everyone does this no one will say anything. I feel safer already thanks!!
I've noticed in a cricket playing country that batsman has been banned from the language. Cricket and batsman/batsmen have been in common use in the English language since the 16th century when the game of cricket was invented. Now we've gotta say 'batter' (apparently) haha. Batter...like something you cover your fish in before you fry it...
One of my favorite things ever listening to Test Match Special a few years ago. Agnew was interviewing some woke hell-beast from some inter-governmental craphole and Geoffery Boycott, bless him, totally misread the conversation and started talking about how the Black and White Minstrels would come and watch him play when they were on the road.
You could cut the atmosphere with a knife, yet Boycott was completely oblivious. It was hilarious.
Tim Pool talks about one screen and two movies - normal people see normal things and the Wokarati see something completely different. Perfect example.
Imagine how much different and better this world would/could be if these people spent their time working on things that could benefit mankind, instead of such inane and insane things. We've lost the bubble, and it doesn't look like we ever will get it back.
I have to say that I agree with Trigger Warning, it fucking sets me off that’s for sure, regardless of what woke BS comes after... I would like to kill all the Woke BS with one stone and I have a particular issue with Woke appropriation of my language, the English language. High time the English reclaimed their right to express themselves in their own language any way they see fit. Let’s remember that offences is taken, it is not given... But of course that doesn’t fit with the woke victimhood cult... it is really time for all these people to grow the fuck up!
I'm with them on the Karen thing. I have a number of perfectly lovely friends whose name has been somehow appropriated, which is quite unfair. But according to this, I'll have to start calling them Entitled White Woman instead - not sure how that'll go down 😂
If I were a teacher, my next class would start (and end) with a speech using every single word on that list.
My first class would consist of a screening of Blazing Saddles.
With remedial class being a screening of "Springtime for Hitler"?
I will continue using these phrases as I choose and they can come tell me to my face if they don't like it.
But they won't have the balls.
Balls is on the list
I think you mean they don’t have the “fortitude enabling genitalia”.
'Fort' is a symbol of colonialism and so is also disallowed trigger. Hmmm. If I was ignorant of etymology I might say that the 'trig' in 'trigger' is the same as for 'trigonometry' and hence is a touchstone, flint?, that can spark a fire against the patriarchal foundations of mathematics, perhaps the true symbol of evil.
Thank you guy. This has been very instructional. I well endeavour to be more sensitive in the future.
LoL. :-]
[snort]
Now, now. You mustn't attribute personality traits to anatomy.
Nope, all their balls will have fallen off the brass monkey due to the frozen state of thinking from which this kind of list was made manifest.
At least you said “they” 😉
Don’t have the ovaries!
Don't have the gonads!
Except the Stanford list says over and over that we mustn't attribute personality traits to anatomy!
As a white unvaccinated male living in a western democracy there are now so many trivial ways future me could end up in living in a gulag.
Actually I’m surprised gulag isn’t a weaponised word.
Give it a minute.
Surely you mean a group of important humans who strongly request that those individuals without adequate financial means are gently persuaded into performing tasks inside a large, walled, and safely locked compound that is occasionally powered by green energy? If so, the community will have the pleasure of sampling the finest food that chemistry has to offer, along with access to cutting-edge pharmaceutical treatments based on the latest nano bot, gene modifying technology. Community members have access to fresh CO2-free air for 18 hours a day as they have fun capturing sources of protein as well as picking and packing the latest edibles to feed the masses of unfortunate, non-important humans existing outside of the compound.
If a community member experiences an unfortunate and totally unforeseen, non-fatal side effect from any of the advanced pharmaceuticals, community leaders, at no cost to the unwell human, will kindly administer a double dose of the product. The community leader will be gently asked to achieve the results marketed to the anonymous, important human beings who generously built the compound, create the food, and ensure that ordinary humans don’t become overly-aware of their environment by a producing a constant stream of soothing, fictitious media ...
Did you get a master's degree in Bullshit (excuse me, I meant Bovine Manure) from Stanford? You're so good at it.
Oxford, my dear 😉😂
Wow, I'm impressed!
Western democracy? Sarcasm much?
"Indian summer (use late summer) - This term infers that Indigenous people are chronically late."
No...I believe the expression you are looking for is 'Indian Time'.
Last time I heard that expression used was by a Native man who was announcing to a bunch of Native competitors at a sports-meet what time the following day's events were going to start: "10AM...White man time! NOT Indian time!" Needless to say, everyone laughed.
They also used “infers” incorrectly. Which *implies* they are… check list for most offensive word to insert here…
This one is interesting. I find this to be a fairly benign infraction. So what if a people is known to be late? Just because they know how to enjoy life and not run around stressed out all the time with some made up urgency, is that really an offence?
In Bulgaria, that time of the year is referred as “gypsy summer” and those people can rightfully find it offensive because it’s a reference of that warm time being ‘stolen’ from the cooler autumn months. But even then, no one seems to mind calling it that, gypsies included. It’s the best time of the year! The smell of leaves being burned in barrels and villages filled with aroma of homemade ajvar cooking on the outdoor fires...Mmmmm.
In the United States, you aren’t allowed to call nomadic people gypsies, even though that’s their preferred term (Roma is a specific kind of nomadic people who prefer to be called Roma). Not being able to call residents of USA ‘Americans’ is silly. ‘America’ is literally in the name of the country. It’s like not being able to call folks from UAE ‘Arabs’.
Policing language this hard is going to cause so much confusion. Maybe that’s intentional though.
It is the intention. Our perception is in part driven by our language.
It is Indian Summer in California for the warm part of September and early October
American Indian or any other grouping this country has been more welcoming to every group the world over longer and better than any country past or current and almost nobody returns from whence they came.
Indians are being erased. I’d be pissed if I were an Indian!!!
LOL why is "wild" any less offensive than "crazy"?
Well, wasn’t that what happened in 1984 though? The allowable words shrank and shrank which made communication difficult and limited. The limitation of language was the point.
Guys, I don’t know if Kanye West was blind, crazy or brave, but for him to just walk-in and insult the tribe, man… that sent the ADL on the warpath, and started a wholly American shitstorm that needed a fireman to put out. For a moment there it was like mankind united against him.
Even the Hispanics and Karen’s got in on the action. Shit heated up like an Indian summer. But I’m not concerned, Kanye is a survivor. Even if he is the black sheep of the industry, and sometimes comes off like a homeless person.
I do have to say though, he didn’t really give a trigger warning before making that “net and Yoo-hoo” joke on the Alex Jones show, which could be a black mark against him. I heard some ladies bitching about it, and one Karen, she said it was inappropriate, so if his intent was to offend, maybe he killed two birds with one stone.
But I’m not going to convict him for that.
But again, Kanye is the master of his own destiny, and it’s not like his views are tucked away in some black box somewhere, waiting for white hat hackers to uncover it. No, he just says whatever comes to mind whenever it does, I guess. He’s one of those people that just has to fill in the white space.
Well, God bless him, and God bless America.
Bravo!
You just reminded me: I hate it when people say “folks”. And worse, when they spell it “folx”.
Those retards don't understand that quadriplegic is a medical term?
(Written by someone whose nephew was killed at Stanford Hospital and my spouse was born at Stanford Hospital.
They don't think so, but Stanford farts smell like everyone else's)
You want to really know stupid, research Stanford Indians.
This is one of my favorite things about the English language. The 'experts' come up with a word for people who's brains run a little slower than normal, then the 'normies' start using that word as an insult, forcing the 'experts' to come up with another word, which the 'normies' start using as an insult........
idiot and imbicile were before my time, but I was around for handicapped (and handicapable!) and retarded, and now am seeing 'autistic' or 'on the spectrum' as a common insult as well.
We used Tard, a lot.
Gen X, we got old and the times changed, we didn't.
Here is a perfect example--growing up in the 70s in the Bay Area and going to high school in the 80s, all the guys called each other "fags" when someone did something stupid or lame or weak. We were south of San Francisco about 40 miles and had heard about AIDS and homosexuality our entire lives, it was on the news every night, our entire lives, everyone knew a gay person, generally a family member, and no one cared what your sexual orientation was, if you didn't abuse people.
Get into the mid 90s, can't say fags, can't say gay, can't say retard, or the world ends and you will be fired.
Times change, people don't. When we all die, the language will die with us but I have no idea how anyone will communicate in 2075, probably just use emojis.
I'm from the UK. Calling someone a "faggot" is akin to calling them a "Cornish pasty". It has literally no meaning.
Retard was never an insult either.
I don't care, I just say whatever I want. The people I care about in general don't give a damn.
And as for "Kyev" or "Keev" or whatever Globohomo newspeak they are trying to push on us, it's Kiev. Always has been, always will be.
If you don't like it, Crimea river.
Thank F’ing funny
I probably should have clarified:
Faggots are meatballs made from minced off-cuts and offal, especially pork (traditionally pig's heart, liver, and fatty belly meat or bacon) together with herbs for flavouring and sometimes added bread crumbs.[1] It is a traditional dish in the United Kingdom,[2][3] especially South and Mid Wales and the English Midlands.[1][4][5]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faggot_(food)
😆 IMHO it will be Emojis and acronyms most likely. ROFL. 😏
Sometimes I like to wonder what future humans will judge us over. (I think it's eating meat!)
Not standing up to tyranny in all of its permutations.
"Grandma, why do we have to eat the bugs?"
"We had to save OUR grandma!"
That was Soylent Green wasn't it, or something?
As I posted on ZeroHedge the other day:
Klaus: Villiam, vhich dystopian science fiction movie future shall ve choose for ze peasants?
Bill: Hey, what about, erm, all of them!
Klaus: Harari, get to ze vork!
I know someone who will be eating zee bugs in prison one day, once he's been tried. That's if he's lucky enough to get a life sentence.
In Australia before the 1990s the Spastic Bus took the spastics to the Spastic Centre. Which wasn’t far from the “School for Subnormal Children”. (This is not a joke -- if you can, find a Gregory’s Sydney street directory ca. 1987 or before wherein you will find both these wonderful places).
Those were the days before the wokeness metastasis.
'Spastic' was a go-to insult back in the day, still makes me laugh, not because of disabled people, it's just a funny sounding word.
Ours in elementary school was M.R.S. mentally retarded spaz
It's a sad fact of life that parents of children with "developmental disabilities" of any kind are always trying to protect their children from stigma . . . and caring professionals who work with these kids go along or join in the effort. When I was a kid, "mentally retarded" was the new, "correct" term intended to replace stigma-laden terms like moron, idiot, or imbecile. But after some time, "mentally retarded" had to be replaced because "retard" had become a commonly used insult. Last I knew, "intellectually impaired" was the new, "correct" term for the kinds of children and adults who used to be (decades ago now) "mentally retarded" -- but I wouldn't be surprised to learn that "intellectually impaired" has become tainted with stigma and there's a new term now.
The latest, least-stigma-tainted term functions as a "password." If a person refers to your child by the latest, least-stigma-tainted term, you have greater trust that this person is up-to-date in their knowledge and methods, and that they will treat your child (and you, too) in a respectful and caring manner. You will speak to them less guardedly.
It's a tough world, when you're the parent of a child outside the normal range on the low end of the scale. You want to protect your child from deliberate and inadvertent hurtful behavior by people, but you also want people to get to know and care about your child (and by extension, other children with similar problems). Life becomes awfully like walking a tightrope.
I first realized all this when I was a professional working with children with brain-based developmental disabilities but since I adopted a baby who turned out to have metabolic issues that lead to disability, I've joined the parents who walk the tightrope, trying to help my child "live in the world" and develop good relationships with people while also trying to protect her from misunderstanding and stigma . . .
"The latest, least-stigma-tainted term functions as a "password." If a person refers to your child by the latest, least-stigma-tainted term, you have greater trust that this person is up-to-date in their knowledge and methods, and that they will treat your child (and you, too) in a respectful and caring manner. You will speak to them less guardedly."
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Your post is great, but I want to respond to this in particular. Words do not have power over us, unless we grant them that power. Retarded has no additional "power" over words that already went through this process (such as idiot and imbecile). A doctor using "the latest lingo" is only using the latest lingo -- that's all. He's no more likely to be kind or understanding as a 'retrograde' still using ancient terms from twenty years ago.
Let me have some fun and pick a nit and point out that it is perfectly normal that approximately half of the population has a brain that runs 'a little slower than' average, since 'normal' encompasses the full range of which 'average' is the arithmetic mean. (Of course, unless the population is 'normally' distributed, one might have to distinguish 'mean' and 'median'.)
Why else even have an internet?
But since the Bell curve is racist, the truy woke would just send you off to tolerance camp with the restof us anyway.
It's like that bit in Life of Brian, where anyone who says Jehova is to be stoned.
And the rabbi preceeding over the execution says Jehova, repeatedly...
You can’t say retard!
When I was an undergrad, the year I graduated I think it was, the university put up a poster in the student union building with a list of what seemed like hundreds of racial slurs. Many students used that list to 1. learn new slurs, and 2. guess which race the slur was against. Turned into a game of sorts. My guess is these people never try to imagine what the world looks like through the eyes of a 19 year old…
That would be the best game of Bingo ever!
This might sound funny, but a little over two years ago the wokesters at my then-workplace decided to take a similar list and implement censorship in our Slack workspace based on it. Anytime anyone used one of these words, they got an automated reply scolding them and suggesting a more "appropriate" alternative. But it paid no attention to context, for example it triggered when someone mentioned the actor Dan Savage (can't say savage, you know!) It was truly awful. I objected and the long and the short of it was they made it clear it wasn't going to change and that they needed to "educate" us ignorant yahoos on correct language use. I noped out of that job shortly thereafter.
Stop making assumptions is one of my faves. Don't say convict. Isn't that a description? So do I have to say person who teaches instead of teacher? Does this apply to every descriptive term we use for people? Oh I know! I need to wait until the other person tells what I can say so if everyone does this no one will say anything. I feel safer already thanks!!
I've noticed in a cricket playing country that batsman has been banned from the language. Cricket and batsman/batsmen have been in common use in the English language since the 16th century when the game of cricket was invented. Now we've gotta say 'batter' (apparently) haha. Batter...like something you cover your fish in before you fry it...
One of my favorite things ever listening to Test Match Special a few years ago. Agnew was interviewing some woke hell-beast from some inter-governmental craphole and Geoffery Boycott, bless him, totally misread the conversation and started talking about how the Black and White Minstrels would come and watch him play when they were on the road.
You could cut the atmosphere with a knife, yet Boycott was completely oblivious. It was hilarious.
Tim Pool talks about one screen and two movies - normal people see normal things and the Wokarati see something completely different. Perfect example.
🤣. Batter... like something you cover your fish in...
I.e. That Nicole Kidman, I bet she's got a right ginger pudding!
I can't talk, I also have the "mark of Cain" in photos, even though I'm blonde.
"like something you cover your fish in..."
cf. "faggot "in UK English (see my comment elsewhere here). You are a right haggis you are.
I bet you are a right mince pie, you Scotch Egg! If there's one thing I hate it's Dundee cakes like yourself!
I'm joking.
To be fair, spotted dick and ginger pudding could vaguely be offensive in the right context.
Imagine how much different and better this world would/could be if these people spent their time working on things that could benefit mankind, instead of such inane and insane things. We've lost the bubble, and it doesn't look like we ever will get it back.
No. I’d much rather people like that *don’t* try to do anything important. They could do real damage.
Mankind. 😱
I have to say that I agree with Trigger Warning, it fucking sets me off that’s for sure, regardless of what woke BS comes after... I would like to kill all the Woke BS with one stone and I have a particular issue with Woke appropriation of my language, the English language. High time the English reclaimed their right to express themselves in their own language any way they see fit. Let’s remember that offences is taken, it is not given... But of course that doesn’t fit with the woke victimhood cult... it is really time for all these people to grow the fuck up!
Some people should never get out of bed.
I'm with them on the Karen thing. I have a number of perfectly lovely friends whose name has been somehow appropriated, which is quite unfair. But according to this, I'll have to start calling them Entitled White Woman instead - not sure how that'll go down 😂
I need some clarification on this: Which is acceptable?
"Blackboards" or "Whiteboards"...
;)
It’s “smartboard”. Hang on, is that offensive??
Hah! Thx ;)