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Brian Bendis, on the news that his final issue of Uncanny X-Men would be delayed five months until October, told his readers. One Bleeding Cool reader, Nathan Adler, wrote Brian Michael Bendis addressed the issue on Tumblr as follows: "It is not shipping in October because I am a massive spastic f**k up," As someone living with disability,[...]

Just as "paki" has no negative connotations in the US, but in the UK it is a very derogative term for someone from Pakistan or neighbouring countries. One other different use, concerns the word "spastic" or its derivations "spaz" and "spazzy" In the US, these refer to someone being keen or geeky over something In the[...]

On November the 11th, Bleeding Cool reported the story that there is to be a new Transformer toy called Spastic In which we pointed out the different cultural contexts of the word in the USA and in the UK It got a lot of hits, a lot of retweets, a lot of attention Nice Job[...]