On 8 November 2010 17:25, Daniel Brown <danbr...@php.net> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 06:47, Richard Quadling <rquadl...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> And probably all sane, rational people will agree with you (and me). >> >> It's the loonies I worry about! > > The person who submitted that is a "mongoid." The term they were > trying to be funny about is "mongoloid," which is a racial > classification that was a crude (but quasi-official) term referring to > folks with Down Syndrome.
As an internet-scored, higher functioning autistic, I don't have the common sense to resent that remark.. -- Richard Quadling Twitter : EE : Zend @RQuadling : e-e.com/M_248814.html : bit.ly/9O8vFY
