(01-24-2021, 03:36 PM)BIAD Wrote: There's a 'V'-shaped valley in Sussex called 'Devil's Dyke'... and we can't be having that, can we?!!!
It could be worse, I suppose. There could be a truck stop located in a peaceful vale named "The Diesel Dyke"...
Cultural misappropriation of mere words is getting out of hand. recently, some jackass in the US Congress (and I mean "jackass" in the most endearing way - the national symbol of the DNC is, after all, a "donkey") recently uttered "amen" after a prayer, and then appended "and a-women, too!" to it. He seemed to be utterly oblivious to the fact that "amen" is a carry over from Semitic languages. The original is "ameen", and simply means "truth" - has nothing to do with gender at all.
So, in his cultural misappropriation of a Christian word that he had no concept of the use of, he was actually belittling a Semitic word that, again, he had no concept of. His attempt to be gender-sympathetic-supportive actually caused him to be anti-Semitic...
Personally, I think he was just trying to humor the girlies and play up to their presumed insecurities because he probably ain't getting any at home. I think he was just fishing for brownie points, and it all went horribly wrong.
Have I managed to offend everyone yet? I'd hate to be accused of not being "inclusive" enough...
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’