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Balthasar999 In reply to RANDOMNUMBERS8192 [2012-07-24 19:26:21 +0000 UTC]

I don't have any proof, but I'm certain it's supposed to represent the kind of nonsense stutter you might involuntarily make if you were thoroughly cheated in the brains department.
Like "duh" was back in the early '90s - Now it just means "obviously" but people used to say it in this really exaggerated, cross-eyed way at first that made it clear it meant "only a literally drooling helmet-wearer would think this isn't obvious." I remember people getting in trouble for being un-PC for saying it when I was really little, but now it's lost all of its sting and it's inevitable that the same happens to "derp." I think you could argue it just means "brainfart" now - People saying "I derped" and such.
But mainly I like it because "derp" is a cuter-sounding coinage of this century with just a bit of an edge to it, while "ditz" just feels too '80s and passe, and I don't like the hard "tz." Plus it's just interesting how the meaning of slang changes over time as it gets divorced from its origin. I think it's "the cat's pajamas", which must have been a reference to something specific really cool people were all about back in the 1920s, but now no one cares what it is and any sane person would only use it ironically.

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Balthasar999 In reply to BorisCalija93 [2012-03-07 00:37:45 +0000 UTC]

I gave the Derpy salute, which is just letting your eyes de-focus and whanging your shin on something.

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Balthasar999 In reply to pyrotigre [2012-03-07 00:32:37 +0000 UTC]

Well it was a Thursday, dude! Just for some reason I got it into my head to go on DA after coming home from a night out. At least it kept me off Facebook...

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pyrotigre In reply to Balthasar999 [2012-03-07 04:35:48 +0000 UTC]

so what? you can enjoy the alchohol and stave off the drunkeness. it is actually one of the worst insult to a host where I am from.

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Balthasar999 In reply to JaySG2010 [2012-03-07 00:36:11 +0000 UTC]

Me too. It's a little too long for "is magic," so I'm guessing "is magic, bitches."

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JaySG2010 In reply to Balthasar999 [2012-03-07 02:19:35 +0000 UTC]

Heh, nice.

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Balthasar999 In reply to YeaImABrony-GotAProb [2012-03-07 00:35:21 +0000 UTC]

They make writing with a pen in your mouth look so easy too, wtf?

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YeaImABrony-GotAProb In reply to Balthasar999 [2012-03-07 00:45:12 +0000 UTC]

Ugh, I found a chatroom, and MOLESTIA is there. Completely random, but she is freakin nasty.

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Balthasar999 In reply to Matva-The-Ysalamiri [2012-03-07 00:34:04 +0000 UTC]

You need the Large D'Aww Bag, which you get from the Frog Pope on disc 3.

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Balthasar999 In reply to QuanticChaos1000 [2012-03-03 14:26:39 +0000 UTC]

I had to google Boseman's Simplex, and now I have to watch "On the Air".

Yeah, I figured she was one of those characters who would be a genius in another universe, but in this one her thoughts don't make any sense, or who is completely out to lunch but has all sorts of arcane, esoteric knowledge or insight into things everyone else misses.

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Balthasar999 In reply to Maddog3060 [2012-03-03 03:16:38 +0000 UTC]

Ponies aren't real!? *cancels all-Europe castle tour* (The shameful truth is that I don't know how to do vector art)

Yeah, I sat on the words in that panel for a little bit trying to come up with a good phrasing. I think I'm *just* old enough to remember when people started saying "duh" (or at least when little kids started saying it) and it really *was* an explicit parody of the developmentally disabled, so you'd of course get in trouble for saying it (which I never did because I was much more mature when I was 7). But now its become completely decoupled from that origin and you see people use it on, like, social justice blogs, where they're even especially attuned to that sort of thing. But then I remembered all these other words that now just mean "stupid" were, in like the 1910s or something, coined as medical terms for low IQ people (and were replaced by the softer and more progressive "retarded"!) . So I googled the origin of "ditzy" and yeah, it apparently was coined in the early '70s as an explicitly sexist insult. I mean, I guess it's still an insult, but the anti-feminist angle faded away as people became used to broads takin a break from making em sandwiches am i rite fellas.
The problem with coining any disparaging word about intelligence is that it's going to be politically fraught as long as intelligence is how our species defines itself (and individuals are bestowed with tragically unequal amounts of it), i.e. as long as we're capable of defining anything at all.

And anyway I just prefer "Derpy" because it's a little fresher (I don't want to say anything as unhip as "it's more hip," but you know what I mean) as an onomatopoeia, and the "p" sound is much cuter than the hard "tz" sound.

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Maddog3060 In reply to Balthasar999 [2012-03-03 12:32:46 +0000 UTC]

Ya pretty much hit the nail on the head, there. I can't really say much more than that, than "eeyup."

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Balthasar999 In reply to Dragnmastralex [2012-03-03 03:21:40 +0000 UTC]

The terribly ironic thing is that the woman who wrote that episode is herself the mother of a disabled son (I hear). I don't want to imagine the icy hand that must have closed around her organs when people accused her of being "ableist".

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9Summers In reply to Dragnmastralex [2012-03-02 23:57:07 +0000 UTC]

Actually, I have a feeling that the lesbian community will end up adopting Rainbow Dash as a mascot. After all, she's strong, fast, fearless, loyal, and AWESOME!!

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Dragnmastralex In reply to 9Summers [2012-03-03 03:18:33 +0000 UTC]

its not how awesome she is, it's the fact that they portray a rainbow sporting pony girl as a tom boy... which means, they may take offense that its stereotyping the lesbian community as all boyish types that are all into nothing but fitting in.
they will take offense to her... no matter HOW awesome she is and how everyone loves her, just like DERPY!

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Balthasar999 In reply to Dragnmastralex [2012-03-03 04:43:26 +0000 UTC]

Oh shit! I never even made the connection with the rainbow before. That's pretty much a lock, isn't it?
I mean, if I had my druthers pretty much all girls would act like RD, so I was all like, "now *that's* setting a good example" but I think people will leave her alone since it looks more like they're saying "massive tomboy is *also* a legitimate way for a girl to be, and here are 5 other examples," she's has enough screen time to come off as more than a single characteristic, and butchness is "officially" enfolded into lesbianism by the same kind of touchy, humorless authorities who would pitch a fit in the first place. And unlike the mentally handicapped, LGBT people don't tend to trigger people's "How dare you pick on them!" righteous protective instincts to nearly the same degree if handled with anything but the utmost seriousness and delicacy. Especially since while there's nothing inherently funny in being gay, "people acting stupid" is a fundamental "atom" of humor, so mental disability advocates have to be on this constant treadmill to be taken seriously.

Of course I could be completely wrong and six months from now DA will be flooded with appeals to Save Rainbow.

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9Summers In reply to Dragnmastralex [2012-03-03 03:57:32 +0000 UTC]

I can't tell you how many of my lesbian friends are offended by Rainbow Dash...

...because they aren't.

Basically, lesbians have pretty much adopted Peppermint Patty and Velma from Scooby Doo as their own, so I don't see how Rainbow Dash will end up being any different.

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Slaven-Harkin In reply to 9Summers [2012-03-03 08:01:41 +0000 UTC]

I've seen a picture of a girl holding a Rainbow Dash sign that says "There's more than one way to be a girl" at a Lesbian support protest.

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lulubellct In reply to Dragnmastralex [2012-03-02 22:38:05 +0000 UTC]

Wow. Really? Some "retards" mom?

PS: Adventure Time is far from politically correct.

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Balthasar999 In reply to lulubellct [2012-03-03 04:30:38 +0000 UTC]

And far from stupid - Adventure Time is amazing.

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Dragnmastralex In reply to lulubellct [2012-03-02 23:41:24 +0000 UTC]

yes a retards mom, mothers of the retarded kids are more protective and offended by Derpy than the retarded kids that watch the show themselves. I've only met one handicapped person that was offended himself and he wasn't retarded just had muscular issues which made him confined to a wheelchair. Most the people that were offended didn't even watch or know anything about the show, they just attacked because of the 1 scene in the episode when Derpy talked... if they had known the character was in the background of MANY of the episodes all throughout the show they would have been demanding they changed all of them. Thankfully it was the actual writer herself that changed Derpy and not some editor from a 3rd party hired by Hasbro. All tho my original statement still holds true, you will never hear the name Derpy again, see a full wall eyed stare, nor will you see her speak or have anything in the foreground to do.

it may be far from politically correct but they don't have everyone else normal and 1 retard they are ALL retards so you can't single out 1 character to attack. Most parents today don't care about the drugs their kids do, the crowd they hang out with, or the activity they do outside the house but soon as they watch a pony show with a wall eyed character then they become super parent and demand that everything good be censored because hey its offensive to show anything on tv that may be bad in real life... complete and utter BS.

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Balthasar999 In reply to CrowleysPyramid [2012-03-03 03:22:19 +0000 UTC]

Haha I almost did one of these.

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