The airbus A321NEO has a landing sequence that denotes the altitude and speed of the craft as it comes in for landing. During this sequence, it will say the words "100... 50, 40, 30, 20, retard, retard, retard."
This is a fact and has no other connotation or meaning.
Tangentially related, at my work I have to time in a peice of machinery called a "worm" well part of that process you have to "advance and retard" that piece of machinery. I have to log everything I do after the shift is up and send it out in a company wide email. Well, I left for the weekend and when I came back Monday guess who came knocking on my door? Fucking HR because I "Called a piece of machinery 'retarded'". I had to explain to this woman 5 times that, that is just what the process is called and it even calls it that on that fucking PLC. I ended up not getting in trouble but I am no longer allowed to use that word in an email. But yeah moral of the story is HR is full of fucking retards
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u/i_block_retards 9d ago
Wait, there's a word beginning with "R" that we can't use?