re: Anyone remember when Kramer got hit in the mouth?

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Actually I know it does.

Everybody assumes racism now. The term is used to describe a ghost,ghoul, gobblin,Halloween decorations are spooks as well

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It doesn't hold water. He said he was looking like a spook, in a thread about a guy who got hit in the mouth and has a huge fat lip as a result - while posting a pic of the fat lip.

It's pretty fricking clear what he meant.

And the fact that some of you LSU fans are trying to deflect is just as bad.

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It doesn't hold water. He said he was looking like a spook, in a thread about a guy who got hit in the mouth and has a huge fat lip as a result - while posting a pic of the fat lip.

It's pretty fricking clear what he meant.

And the fact that some of you LSU fans are trying to deflect is just as bad.

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As Early unintentionally pointed out, it is an extremely obscure slang racist term and regardless of what you may think, I honestly was not aware of any racial connotations associated with the word.

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So obscure you are apparently the only one here who hasn't heard of it

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I would assume I'm a bit younger than most of the folks here.

I was also homeschooled so I assume I was exposed to a lot less of this type of thing than most of the folks here.

But nevertheless, it is what it is, I won't edit it because my intentions weren't bad and my interpretation of the word is quite a bit more mainstream than the obscure slang meaning you immediately thought of.

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And yet your "interpretation" still makes zero sense in light on the context it was used in.

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How so?

With his face busted up like that, Kramer looked like some kind of crazy person escaped out of a haunted house out there playing baseball.

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And instead of calling him a crazy person or a monster or any of a hundred other terms, you specifically used that term.

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Yes, because that word is widely regarded to mean the same thing.

I saw a dude whose face was fricked up, with blood and snot running down, looking like a horror movie and used a mainstream term for what that could be considered.

You saw a fat lip and immediately jumped to an obscure, racial, slang meaning of that same word.

It's none of my business what meanings your mind jumps to the quickest, I've stated my honest intentions and am now calling it a night

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because that word is widely regarded to mean the same thing.

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Except, again, you're the only one here that sees it that way.

No one is arguing what the word can mean. It's obvious what you meant in context. Which is also a literal meaning of the word.

Go to bed little one and take a break from the deflecting for a while.

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You may have not known it was offensive by some weird deal, but you damn sure used it to mean a black person.

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Actually, no.

I gotta admit... I cringed hard when I read it the first time, and I’m as white as a ghost (see what I did there?). I had to read it a few times just to make sure I read it correctly. Very unfortunate choice of words, but I’m going to try to believe that you’re not actually insane enough to knowingly write something like that in a public forum on purpose. Just learn from this, and never use the word spook again to describe someone with a fat lip. Like, ever.

Honestly, man, I’d take this post down. Just apologize and take it down. People are going to keep reading it the exact same way that I did, and you’re going to keep trying to explain it away, and it’s just going to cause more friction. I can’t get in your head. Only you can. If you say you were trying to describe his ghoulish appearance, I will give you the benefit of the doubt. But most won’t. I’d just remove it if I were you.