http://downwitdat.blogspot.com/2012/11/why-im-not-fan-of-tar...
> "Grumpy Cat's" owners chose to call her "Tard".
> Once this factoid became a little more well known, it was retracted and changed. The official story now, a few months later is that although they call her "Tard", her actual name is "Tardar" as in "Tardar Sauce".
HN: She was a victim of the patriarchy!
Normal people: How sad that Grandi has died.
HN: Usenet says he had legendary bad breath!
Normal people: How sad that a cat which brought millions of people joy has died.
HN: Some random blog once wrote that she formerly had a non-politically-correct name! Get the torches!
Just another day on the internet.
I’m old enough to remember when the Numa Numa video was only circulated as “gay Dutch kid” even though the person in the video wasn’t gay or Dutch and may have been an adult.
I like HN because it has diverse ideas and comments and opinions, not because it accurately eulogizes cats.
I think it’s pretty funny that Tard gets grouped with Mother Theresa and Ghandi.
Edit: thanx for the replies, retard does not sound very bad to me but if I understand correctly from all replies, it is similar to our Dutch cancer-sufferer (as in, one insults real cancer patients) in terms of social unaccepted-ness...
Might be an association learnt in school?
> "Grumpy Cat's" owners chose to call her "Tard".
> Once this factoid became a little more well known, it was retracted and changed. The official story now, a few months later is that although they call her "Tard", her actual name is "Tardar" as in "Tardar Sauce". The spelling error was explained as she was named by a small child, at least on the talk shows.
Don’t know how true it is.
Tard car is tard?