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06:45
Nov 29th 2010

tigerdom74

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a friend told me about this and i thought i should share it

07:28
Nov 29th 2010

Hugo Rune

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Is it shopped? If its not I'm behind any person who trade marks Spastic.

07:42
Nov 29th 2010

mixindave

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they dont use that word in america do they lol

10:47
Nov 29th 2010

Mesozoic Prinny

Face it, reality is still in beta.

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Post edited 10:56 – Nov 29th 2010 by Jurassic Prinny

Confirmed, and again.

"…spastic is used widely in the U.S. as a casual word for clumsiness or to describe someone who is overexcited"

"In American slang, the word spastic is often shortened to ‘spaz."

That's pretty much how we used it when I was a kid too. 'Spazzing out' was also popular, as was 'having a spaz attack'. Could it be the Americans just don't know where the expression comes from?

On the other hand, maybe we're in the wrong here. Maybe this is disability discrimination, and we should be welcoming this Spastic Transformer with open arms? Who are we to say a Spastic can't be a Transformer?

13:28
Nov 29th 2010

Azrial

Birmingham, UK.

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It's gonna get a name change in the UK to SCOPE apparently, which isn't much better seeing as that's the charity for spastics.

Master of speling mitakse

17:58
Nov 29th 2010

Vintage-Lofty

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I would call mine Christy Brown and he'd transform into a footballer who'd have tremendous left foot (I know it's not much of a transformation but he's disadvantaged).

18:40
Nov 29th 2010

antman

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It depends when the Transformer was produced I suppose. The public perception of words changes over the years, as Azrial pointed out that The Spastic Society changed it's name to Scope. I also fondly remember the mention of the Dundee Cripple Club from those crazy fellas at Inretrospect. I also have a mild form of Spastic Colon, or Irritable Bowel Syndrome as it is now called.

So if it was produced about 30 years ago, Spastic might've been a fine name for a Transformer, although it says it combines with another Power Core Transformer. What would it combine with, Flid?!

20:17
Nov 29th 2010

tigerdom74

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lol,it's come out this year

although for some reason they decided against releasing it in the UK so if you want one you'll need to get one from the States wink

01:13
Nov 30th 2010

antman

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I stand corrected, a spazzy Transformer it is.

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