...... and ......ed (or retarted), when used in the popular contemporary derogatory context.
Used properly, such as to ...... the timing, or ...... spoilage, even the medical use of "mental ......ation", from which the popular usage was derived present no offense to me. People who use the words in place of "silly" or "dumb", as a pejorative should consider that there are real, live people who have below normal IQs ... people who are quite capable of understanding the insult. As a society, we have fairly much agreed to purge our vocabulary of a number of ethic slurs, at least in public. And yet, it is not at all uncommon for some people to
throw out "......ed" on a forum and nobody even blinks.
Is it really alright to use the mentally handicapped as a minority we can still publicly ridicule?