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im offended at your offense.

offensive terms thrown around here

Crack pipe... Really? That really is a bridge too far going around being offended by the word crack pipe

Oh man. I gotta lay off the pipe..

If your goal in life is to traverse this planet and not offend anybody I say kudos to you. However, I don't need to be told how I should be taking my journey throughout the world. My choice of words, my choice of being offensive are all things I'd ask you to consider, these are my right as a free-minded individual.

I find it offensive that I can not just speak how I want, where I want with the actual tone and perspective taken into consideration. This is to say I have manners and education which allows me to know when something is overtly offensive. I will not however go through life considering all the nuances of all the terms or "figures of speech" I use regularly if they don't appear at first glance as offensive. Your posting deeply offends me and I'm not joking here or making light of you. Groups of people online and in the media are bullying people for being who they are and taking words used out of context and giving them a different perspective rather than just calling a spade a spade.

This is a subculture, we are endurance athletes, I use a "crack pipe" on my disc-wheel and here, in our subculture that is a very acceptable term. If Dan ran a poll of the user base it would be by far the proper accepted nomenclature used. If you don't like it then perhaps focus on political rallies and changing the world in other areas and leave us to our subculture and it's offensive bits.

I apologize ahead of time if you found any of this offensive.

Ok, that was a low blow and offensive. I spent much of my teenage years smoking pot and had big dreams, but now I just spend my days on a triathlon forum mulling over what could’ve been.

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Thanks for that link. I will now laugh whenever I see someone refer to themselves as FOP. There are a few that I will search when I am not on a work computer.

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Oui, mais pas de femme toute de suite (yes, but I am not ready for a woman straight away) -Stephen Roche's reply when asked whether he was okay after collapsing at the finish in the La Plagne stage of the 1987 Tour

It's joking about something that's associated with inner city poverty, especially among black people, the war on drugs, and addiction - very serious issues. Crack pipes are horrible things related to a lot of misery. If you've been touched by those things, and think the phrase is funny or neutral, ignore me and joke about them if you think it's appropriate. But if those are things that you would never think would affect you, then I suggest you should avoid them. Using words that are serious about "others" is something I try to avoid myself.


"Crack pipe" has always disturbed me here for the reasons above. I meant to post this kind of message the last time someone used it in the hope that people would think about it a bit more, but didn't want to be seeming to attack an individual. Then I saw the other phrase today, which is clearly vulgar in most uses, and thought to bring these up generally.