JonasDarkmane

I'm basically in the same boat (snrk) as Pirate here. 

I don't come here as often, so I will come back to about 25 notifications or more. 

I chose my avatar pic because I like Inspector Javert from Les Miserablés since he was a man of principles. 

Who is your favorite Galician person? (Like a celebrity, politician, just someone)

The Dirty Sauce at Dirty Burger & Ribs in Iceland 

What is your favorite musical genre? 

I've been stuck with Lazy Town since 1999, considering I am an Icelander and Lazy Town was originally purely Icelandic. 

I think Lazy Town is alright, but it is not for me. At least not the show itself. I liked the plays though. 

I would rather be a human and marry..... preferably to another human thank you very much. 

Gender neutral parenting sounds very socially engineered, so no. I echo what others have said, let boys be boys and girls be girls. 

I'm all for expanding the toy market though, by not making every single toy to be marketed for a specific gender, even though I am not against the market doing that. I think kids can play with whatever toys they want. It does not require any kind of specific parenting to do that. 

Very little, my golden days here are spent. Have little time for it, have little interest in it. I mostly lurk nowadays. Though that only applies for the forums. I don't traverse anywhere else on Poniverse. 

Don't really care. I don't really care if people hate the show or hate the fans of the show. People's feelings over my hobbies are mostly inconsequential to me. 

Right now, I am feeling pretty alright. A bit forlorn, though that may have been from the stress from yesterday's work

16 minutes ago, Sunset Rose said:

I am feeling alright. I decided to dust the Gameboy Lite off and play Monopoly while the thunderstorm wreaks havoc on the electricity.

No way! I just recently started playing my Gameboy Advance again, playing Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King  

I think the ending of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas was a particularly sad scene. 

Otherwise, the beginning of UP takes it for me. 

I come from and live in the Nordic nation of Iceland. 

Hello there, I'm rather interested in making a commission. 

What would each individual pony in a drawing cost? I'm thinking about 6 ponies, wearing costumes (doing silly things), full color 2. 

I am feeling pretty good. Did a thing yesterday that I am kinda content with. 

You have taken upon a mantle of responsibility for here. Treat that mantle with great wisdom. 

I wish you the best of lucks with the tasks ahead of you. They won't be easy, but they won't be hard either. You got a whole team behind your back. Be sure to tap into that invaluable source. 

2 minutes ago, ShadOBabe said:

Oh you totally have a right to talk, but HOW you talk is going to net you different results. If you had just started off the conversation with "I dont think we should used the term 'uneducated' to describe people that do this. I dislike the modern bias against those with less formal education, because even the most educated of people could still be a jerkwad who uses "autism" as an insult. Because academic education does not bestow a person with common sense OR common courtesy."

If you had said something like that, then I would have IMMEDIATELY agreed with you, and none of the previous argument would have ever happened.

Oh definitely. In hindsight, that would definitely have been a better way to go about it. 

3 minutes ago, ShadOBabe said:

But instead you started off with "maybe YOU'RE uneducated" and then pulled out the Star Wars memes. Perhaps it's the aforementioned autism, but I much perfer the direct and sincere approach. Just get your point in an efficient manner instead of dancing around in circles.

My line started with shock and then came the explanation. 

It was followed by something like this, was it not? 

You just fell into the same trap as those who use the word "autistic" as an insult. Your own academic prowess doesn't necessarily mean anything to another person, especially not if you use it as a way to denigrate another person. 

 

As for the Star Wars meme, you presented too much of an absolutist approach that knocking some common sense with a commonly known and relatable movie quote did seem like a rather viable way of approaching things. 
If there is a philosophy I hold, it is that conversations lead to understanding. Misunderstandings will happen in the beginning, but understanding will be reached in the end. Sometimes "getting your point in an efficient manner" is exactly what you think you are doing. 

7 minutes ago, ShadOBabe said:

You have the right to speak however you want, but you don't get to act surprised when people don't respond well to your teasing.

Well, people can act surprised if they want. But it is up to you what you term as "teasing" and whatnot. I would suggest being more prepared to have your views/arguments challenged than try and look for any preconceived slights against your character. 

I'm not telling you that my own words did not come out as you yourself experienced them, but I don't think you have accurately portrayed my intentions or what I was truly saying with my posts. But this is getting off-topic. 

2 minutes ago, ShadOBabe said:

If you want ACTUAL conversation, you need to work coming off as more sincere and less smarmy. Because you don't look like you're interested in an actual conversation, you look like you're deliberately attempting to be needling towards someone who is obviously emotionally invested in a topic.

Ooooor, I might be trying to invest myself into this conversation a bit as well by voicing my honest opinions and also interjecting at what I don't think will actually help the situation, but only exasperate it. I mean, what are we doing now? Having a conversation, right? And I have to say, I am very interested in an actual conversation, especially since I have been responding to every point you have made. Whether someone is more emotionally invested in something or not does not really change a thing though. I don't have any less right to talk, do I? 

I am not taking any mental jabs at you Shado, I tell you that to try and diffuse whatever you may think I am trying to do. I am here for an honest conversation and it is that I think it is rather ridiculous to use "autism" as a word of insult, but I just simply disagree with putting those who use it into some kind of a box. 

6 minutes ago, ShadOBabe said:

I will agree with you on the elitism towards "uneducated" though. You are correct. One can indeed be the most educated person in the world, but it still wouldn't buy them sense or kindness.

So how about this... I will no longer say that people that use autism as an insult are uneducated. They MIGHT be, but it doesn't matter either way. What matters is that they're still insensitve and still a dolt for doing it and should really just not do it anymore.

I agree with you 100% 

Just now, ShadOBabe said:

"Illogical", "dumb", "uneducated". Every single one of those words is used to describe someone or something lacking in intelligence. If we're just playing a symantics game here, then I'm not interested. Every single one of those conversations leads around in time wasting circles. But yeah, if you want to use the strictest definitions of words, then sure: Someone using autism as an insult might not be strictly "uneducated", but I'd sure describe them as strictly "stupid".

The fact is, uneducated does not make you illogical or dumb or even any less intelligent. This is a very elitist point of view that I have been noticing creeping up more and more these days and I think it does more harm than good. 

But notice how I never strictly used the word "illogical" or "dumb" to ascribe it directly to someone's character but rather to their own wordplay? I don't necessarily think that much lower of them for using the word "autistic" as an insult, I just see them as socially programmed to do so without being much aware of it. 

But that is my case on the matter. 

You can view it as semantics if you want. I view it as a conversation. 

1 minute ago, ShadOBabe said:

6 minutes ago, JonasDarkmane said:

 

I am autistic. But I had someone who was trying to be nice to me call someone who was saying nasty things about me "autistic".

So to them the aggressor in that situation had to be the autistic one, because autism to them was a "bad" thing.

And you don't think they might have done so without giving much thought to what they were saying? That they were just doing it because it was such a generic insult that is often used? Did this person know you were autistic? Did they bear any ill will towards you because you were autistic? 

4 minutes ago, ShadOBabe said:

It is scummy, and if you keep trying to defend it Jonas, we're gonna have some problems.

I'm not defending it in any way shape or form. In fact, I think it is quite illogical and even dumb to use "autistic" as an insult. But I don't think you are bringing an actual argument to the table by calling it "uneducated" or to deal in such absolutes that people who use it must hate autistic people. If you have a problem with that, that is on you yourself :T 

19 minutes ago, ShadOBabe said:

Um... no it isn't. If you are calling someone "autistic" as an insult, you are very blatantly showing to the entire world that you don't know jack about it. In other words, you're uneducated about it.

Why does that have to be an absolute? 

I don't think that is the case at all. Being educated about something won't stop you from falling into any fallible pitfalls. 

19 minutes ago, ShadOBabe said:

The only alternative to that is you DO know what autism is, but you still think those people are inferior and thus worthy of your scorn. If that's the case, then you're not uneducated, you're simply dispicable.

Why do you have to think that people with actual autism are actually inferior to apply the use of the word "autistic" as an insult? Again, why the absolute? 

Have you ever been in a situation or seen a situation where someone uses the word "autistic" as an insult against someone who was an autistic person? I have. They did not know the person was autistic, but they fully knew what autism was (they were studying for psychology, that was their field and their future). They used it and the person only responded that "yeah, I am actually autistic. What about it?". 
There was only a flush of red on their face as they knew they could say nothing more and they just bowed out of the conversation. There really is nothing logical about using the word "autistic" as an insult, it is just an insult that people use without paying too much attention to it, even if they know full well what it is. 

4 minutes ago, Sylveon said:

i can understand, but theres billions of words you can use to describe something you dont like, and to see people having LeafyIsHere levels of volcabulary just irk me off.

although, i suppose thats why the block button exists. People suffer from autism, and to see it being degraded to a playground insult by some twats is just, ugh.

however, conaidering the internet grants people anonymity, people belive they have a free pass to say anything as an insult that they couldnt say in real life.

although that'a just my opinion.

Yep, people have thousands of way of insulting someone, which is why "autistic" happens to be one of those that sometimes gets chosen. 

I see where you are coming from though. I am pretty positive that the word "autistic" will stop being used as a way to insult someone in the future, just like the word "gay" has for the most part, at least here in Iceland. Though, there is always the possibility of alternatives, such as the word "fag" was and "retarded" probably won't be leaving us any time soon either. 

1 hour ago, ShadOBabe said:

It's a very uneducated thing to say.

It is also very uneducated to say that it is very uneducated to say, isn't it? 

You just fell into the same trap as those who use the word "autistic" as an insult. Your own academic prowess doesn't necessarily mean anything to another person, especially not if you use it as a way to denigrate another person. 

1 hour ago, Sylveon said:

people use stuff like "cancer" and "autism" as insults because theyre trying to score edgy points to look cool.

 

I don't think so. I just think they are using those words as insults and nothing more. 

1 hour ago, King of Canterlot said:

uneducated insult

What is an educated insult? 

1 hour ago, Soren Peregrine said:

I guess what I'm trying to ask is if it is really a logical thing to use as an insult, or whether it is an uneducated thing to say. What do you think?

There is nothing uneducated about it. By treating it like that you are doing the exact same as the ones using "autistic" as an insult. A lot of people who use it as an insult fully know what autism is and how it works. They still use it as an insult because it is just fully ingrained in their environment. In schools, in workplaces, at home, anywhere really. 
Basically, it is just an insult that has no logic bound behind it. I think it has to do with the fact that autism was looked as stupidity or just as something very negative back in the days and the word has stuck with people as something negative, thereby it is still used as an insult. Just like the word "gay" was more used as if it meant something bad back in the days, even though there was a full definition of it that everybody understood. 

So no, there is nothing precisely logical behind using "autistic" as an insult. But it is not necessarily "uneducated" either. Just a tired insult that makes less sense than it did before. 

30 minutes ago, Twiggy said:

No way.

I know, it is quite bamboozling. No one could have expected Jonas to be actually named Jónas. I had everyone fooled this entire time. 

These are my thoughts on McDonald's

Basically, McDonald's used to exist in Iceland, but following some deals and arguments, we decided to terminate their license to sell stuff here and we created our own burger restaurant called Metro and we used the old McDonalds buildings in Iceland for Metro. Metro is basically a copy of McDonald's in every single way, even the Happy Meal boxes look like McDonald's with that yellow smile. 

I think McDonald's is alright, it is really nothing special. I have had better burgers. But they are cheap. 

On 5/1/2018 at 12:55 PM, Lucky Bolt said:

Oh how I miss being a little kid and I didn't have such serious things to worry and think about.

22 minutes ago, SparklingSwirls said:

Yes... you and me both!

Make it us three

Gosh, when you were just young and did not feel like you had the weight of the world on your shoulders. When you were just ignorant and oblivious to the world. Man, those were the times 

Just saw Infinity Wars. So I am thinking a lot about that. I really like the concept that they introduced there