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The Picard Maneuver@piefed.world to People Twitter@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 1 month ago

It's not... a slur, is it?

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It's not... a slur, is it?

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The Picard Maneuver@piefed.world to People Twitter@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 1 month ago
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  • Zachariah@lemmy.world
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    Grinch was the scientist, but the character commonly called “The Grinch” is really Grinch’s monster, created by Grinch.

    • rockerface🇺🇦@lemmy.cafe
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      Not many realize that Grinch the scientist is the actual monster of the story

  • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
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    I mean I think it’s a slur

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      Holy Moses this is a racist song!
      “Uhhh…just change that term to Grinch.”
      Hey, this would make a great Christmas cartoon!

    • RaoulDuke25@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Damn Grinches ruining this country!

  • RodgeGrabTheCat 🇨🇦🏴‍☠️@sh.itjust.works
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    “You’re a mean one, Mr. Grinch” The clue is in the song.

    • sidelove@lemmy.world
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      I mean, “You’re a mean one, Mr. Assface” still works despite being more of an insult than a proper name

    • Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      ‘The grinch had a heart that was three sizes too small.’ It gets ambiguous very quickly

      • fascicle@leminal.space
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        Thats just his full name

        • Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          Mr The Grinch? I can see it. It would probably at least partly explain why he hated everyone too.

  • rockerface🇺🇦@lemmy.cafe
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    Slur? I think you’ll find I pronounce it quite clearly

  • jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works
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    Yes

  • CrackedLinuxISO@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    His full name is Theodore Grinch, but his friends (numbering 0) call him The.

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    He’s sort of like Cthulhu: the only one of his kind, who came into the world fully formed to represent the idea of Grinch and nothing else. He’s not the third child of Mr. and Mrs. Grinch, who works as a quantity surveyor, has a love of crosswords and Italian opera, once wanted to be a baseball player and happens to be miserly about Christmas.

    • samus12345@sh.itjust.works
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      He had a mother in this 1982 cartoon.

      • chaogomu@lemmy.world
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        Since Theodor Seuss Geisel was publishing new material until shortly before his death in 1991, that’s probably canon, if that term could apply here.

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      Cuthulu is offspring of Nub, who is offspring of Yog Sothoth and has other relatives.

      There must be an all knowing Grinch grandparent and parent that is absent and uncaring in his life.

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        Who is the offspring of the Nameless Mist. Who is the offspring of Azathoth, the blind idiot. If Azathoth wakes up we’re all fucking goners.

        It’s a hierarchy of horrors starting with Boo from Mario Bros, on through The Grinch and Cthulhu, and topped off by Azathoth.

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      IMO it seems like he’s been forced to live atop Mt Crumpet due to Who-gentrification or more disturbingly because of an ethnic Grinch cleansing

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      According to the Star Trek: The Next Generation tie-in comic book there’s a whole species of them.

  • rarbg@lemmy.zip
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    Calling him a green one is a slur.

  • ohellidk@sh.itjust.works
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    Yes

  • gmtom@lemmy.world
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    It’s his name. You can see in the school flash back, when he’s still part of civilised society, that his nameplate says Grinch.

    But interestingly the book of Who says the term “Grinchy” should apply when Christmas spirit is in short supply.

    And we’re given the impression the book of who is an old foundational text. So it would appear the old ladies named him after the term Grinchy. So they’re really just assholes.

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    Yes

  • KombatWombat@lemmy.world
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    • You see, the Grinch is a Who who always… Actually, not a Who, he’s more of a…
    • A what?
    • Exactly, honey. And he’s a What who doesn’t like Christmas.
  • djsoren19
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    It was a name the Whovians gave him right? sure sounds like a slur to me

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    Is his mother also a Grinch?

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    It’s his species

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