Whoa bro that’s extreme!
Yes the word extreme comes up more often than one would hope and is now printed on everything
of access that can be found in your local convenient store around the corner. Yes we have reached
a time and place to where we need to lay the word extreme to rest as we did for the word “radical”
and “tubular”. Since I can’t get on my mountain bike and jump a gap without the word extreme
escaping out of someone’s mouth I figure that it is well past its prime because I am no extreme sports
player I am just an average guy that likes to jump shit. To bury the word extreme I figure we use it
to point out the excess in our daily lives and have a little fun with it. Say someone is an obese fat ass
than they can be generalized as extreme eater and an insignificant calorie burner. How about the guy
in the cubicle next to you that checks in with his wife five times a day; he is an extreme pussy and
an insignificant husband. See this is fun and hurtful and I’m sure many of you will take this blog very
personal and leave comments to which I’m not going to read or care about.
An extreme sports athlete can sometimes be an extreme rider but an inefficient writer of the English
language. The fact is that the word “extreme” needs to be turned into hate speech in order to retire
it just like the word retarded was a simple term that meant lacking or slower than average and is still
used when working on something like an engines timing “Sometimes you need to retard the spark of the
distributor”. Since we now use the word as a derogatory term it is deemed to be politically incorrect,
which last time I checked I am not running for political office so I don’t care. Back to the point of burying
the word extreme means we have to use it harshly in order for sensitive people to get all bent out of
shape and deem “extreme” to be hate speech. This should take care of the word so use it proudly as you
camouflage your hate speech with it.