What started this craze for people using the word "r****m" (pronounced to rhyme with "tandem")? I hear it everywhere, I see it when I look on the Internet, and quite frankly, I find it offensive.

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• I never said anything about "God", did I? Things happen because they're meant to happen, otherwise they wouldn't happen. I know as much as the next person that there isn't a Great Man In The Sky looking down on us. Refer to the Red Dwarf episode "White Hole", probably the only time when the use of the r-word (as used by Kryten) was acceptable, because it proved the ridiculousness of such a concept in the first place.

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  by Andy B has left AB on January 13th, 2009

• kudos to you uncacal!!!!! okay. this is what i think. i think that the word is overused, although it hardly ever means anything negative. the same with 'um' 'like' etc. it is poor speech that you cannot come up with other words meaning 'random' but i have never found it to be offensive.

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  by WilAtHart is DONE on January 22nd, 2009

• Thank you. I guess I probably should brush up on my Krytenian philosophy, though.

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  by uncacal on January 22nd, 2009

• haha never heard of it...maybe random means something totally different in 'krytenian philosophy'

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  by WilAtHart is DONE on January 22nd, 2009

• Kryten is the most irrefutably logical character in Red Dwarf, so that means "Krytenian philosophy" is another name for pure, unalloyed LOGIC.

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  by Andy B has left AB on April 9th, 2009

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• No, I don't think it's over the top. Unless I'm very much mistaken, it implies that things happen in some way that's impersonal or unintentional. When something happens to me, however trivial, I won't let the matter rest until I've found out the personal intentions of it. And besides, my life has been replete with things (good and bad) that were anything but the r-word. Even if something horrendous happens to me, I find it easy to chillax (I like that word) when I know the reason for it happening.

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  by Andy B has left AB on January 13th, 2009

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• You heard.

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  by Andy B has left AB on January 13th, 2009

• lol @ "you heard"! :)
  
  (but i happen to agree with raylrodr, i dont get it either.

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  by Janie on January 22nd, 2009

• Thanks, Janie ... didn't think I was that whacked!

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  by raylrodr on January 23rd, 2009

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• It's a computer-induced thing, is it? I have noticed that the r-word does pop up infuriatingly often on the Internet, but surely that's because silly idiots post comments with that word in them for the expressly intentional purpose of winding people up and starting an argument. If people hadn't posted that word on the Internet to start off with, it wouldn't have become a computer-induced thing in the first place, would it? Is that logical enough for you?

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  by Andy B has left AB on January 13th, 2009

• Whoa, partner! Where is the venom coming from? Alls I'm saying is I'm on your side except I'm not offended. Is that plain enough?

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  by Gene H on January 13th, 2009

• I wasn't having a go at you personally, I was having a go at those who post comments with that word in on the Internet.

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  by Andy B has left AB on January 14th, 2009

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• I didn't write this post to get everyone riled up, in fact my intentions were exactly the opposite. I was hoping that people would realise how "riled up" one can get when constantly exposed to the usage of a word one hates to begin with. Then, I was hoping that people would stop using that confounded word after all. Then, there'd be no need to get "riled up" (you know, I quite like that expression), would there?

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  by Andy B has left AB on April 9th, 2009

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• Surely that's all the more reason for people NOT to wind me up and say things that get my feckles up. I assume that people do that because they think I'm an annoying git myself, and so they want to annoy me back. Those who think I'm a nice guy would usually rather not annoy me, because I've been nice to them, so they want to be nice to me in return. Correct me if I'm wrong, but that's what the word "personal" means, isn't it?

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  by Andy B has left AB on January 13th, 2009

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• That's obviously what I meant, but the question is, why do people keep using it? It's the most evil and Satanic word ever to creep into the English language (in fact it doesn't deserve the honour of being called an English word). If you don't know what I mean, think about the meaning of it. People deny that they intend to cause offense when they say it, and if they don't mean to cause offense, why do they say it?

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  by Andy B has left AB on January 12th, 2009

• In the phrase,"I stated a random fact" what is offensive about that?Please help me understand.

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  by mtndewman44 on January 12th, 2009

• In a phrase like that, it doesn't really have much of a meaning in itself, so that proves that it's just been inserted in there to annoy and wind people up. Surely that in itself is offensive, because people don't take kindly to being deliberately wound up.

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  by Andy B has left AB on January 13th, 2009

• I'm sorry you think the word is offensive,I truly don't see your point of view as to the offensive nature of a written word?
  
  Do you have other things like this that get you going?

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  by mtndewman44 on January 13th, 2009

• A few, but I'll mention those when they crop up. They'll be in other comments featured on answers to other questions. As for a written word, if it's been posted on the Internet, it's even worse because one cannot remove it from the text, and so one cannot save the rest of the webpage without having to put up with it. I think the reason why certain things get me going is because I think society is trying to alter peoples' ways of thinking in ways that are unacceptable.

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  by Andy B has left AB on January 13th, 2009

• Andy,,How many others see this word as problematic?
  
  Do you know how this makes you look?Like you might have a mental hangup on certain words.
  
  Have you ever considered seeing a therapist for their input to this word?
  
  I am not attacking your right to see something as offensive,far from it,I am only suggesting the possibility that it seems different than the rest of the peoples responding to answer this question,and more if others had responded.
  
  Hope you see what I(and others)see and seek other opinions to this word hangup.

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  by mtndewman44 on January 13th, 2009

• I don't think it's a mental hangup, I think it's a certain apathy on the part of others who don't realise the full implications of the things they're saying. I mean, some people regard the word "f**k" as offensive without even knowing why it is offensive (i.e. the origin and true meaning of it). Now, if you consider the origin and true meaning of the word "r****m", maybe you'll understand. It's been bugging me for years now, but I had to mention it on this site because someone unwittingly used it in an answer to one of my other questions.

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  by Andy B has left AB on January 14th, 2009

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• Think about the implications of it.

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  by Andy B has left AB on April 9th, 2009

• Sorry, I still don't get it...

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  by Stu B in his fleece-lined COAT on April 9th, 2009

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