Possibly unlike you I like to type it out each time to remind myself that I'm communicating with real human beings with opinions and egos and values of their own. Putting it in a sig would be like the plastic smiles and pre-recorded ersatz "have a nice day" of some establishments.
If you don't understand the virtue of remembering to treat humans as humans each time, then I suggest that you take your insult back and shove it somewhere.
This does seem counter-intuitive: when I lay out text I try to make it as easy to read as possible to avoid getting in the way of absorbing the content...
Thanks for demonstrating the sort of teenage myopic behaviour we can do without.
Just because you *can* get away with being flippantly offensive to bystanders doesn't mean you should.
I'm glad I don't live in your neighbourhood.
It's not the word: it's the implications. If you don't get that then you should just try putting your ego to one side for a day and considering what it might be to be the bullied kid at school, the new immigrant on the block, etc.
At the moment in another place I'm hearing all about my friend's child being isolated and bullied at school (and remembering my own experiences), and this sort of casual unpleasantness can part of the nightmare of isolation and whispering etc.
Not if someone is being persistently offensive without need. It's arguably hate language, and I'd like this person to have to argue it each time, since it's certainly hurtful to people on the wrong end of it or as affected bystanders. What if this person was pissing in doorways every night? That doesn't kill anyone either but it's thoroughly anti-social and corrosive in more ways than one. That's a perfectly reasonable thing to involve police/HR in if the person won't wise up by him/herself.
No: giving people a free pass on that sort of unnecessary and demeaning language excuses it. Would snide casual talk of a similar nature about women / blacks / etc be acceptable in the same place, PC or not? No. And for good reason.
If you use "retarded" like that then you *ARE* taking the piss out of people with low IQ as a cheap way of dissing something else. You *ARE* implying that "retarded" people are so much lower than you that using them as a reference for a bad shirt is reasonable and meaningful *AND* the person you are talking will share your viewpoint.
Just stop it.
Learn to express your dislikes without such stupid collateral damage. Why insult and demean an innocent third party because you're too damn idle to give up playground language? It's not big and it is not clever. In many jurisdictions it is clearly or borderline illegal.
You casually use a term clearly associated with a minority as a pejorative and claim "no foul"? Bollox.
Try that trick near me and I'll call the police (or HR if we're in a professional environment) and report a hate crime or similar. Just as if you used the n-word as a pejorative whether referring to a black person to their face or not.
Technically it is, and even if they don't prosecute I hope they'd end up causing you as much annoyance as you just quite unnecessarily caused me.
You didn't specify and some people really can't be bothered to turn lights off.
But don't you think that using even in/for that hour more than the a family of 4 is excessive?
If we were to turn *everything* in the house on except the 'wet' 'white' appliances we probably wouldn't hit 225W other than possible odd spikes from the the fridge/freezer.
My work light is a nice bright cool white "Tess" 7W LED, far nicer than any incandescent (or CFL) that I've had before.
(BTW, sorry for the multiple posts: somehow my some of first attempts came back from the dead.)
I don't know who this 'elite' is that you seem to claim to know, but it's nothing like the a few of the people I know who almost certainly count as elite, by title or money or visibility. Maybe not AAA list but at least B+.
A titled top lawyer I knew very well who had obits in all the national news media was fairly described as "having no ego" for example.
And there are jerks amongst all such people, but your assertion that somehow the "noble savage" is inherently superior to the rich or titled is pure inverted snobbery with a little "and they have such excellent rhythm" patronising... eh... I feel a little sick.
You may know nasty rich people and saintly poor people, but the correlation is not a necessary nor universal one.
I try to avoid jerks of whatever background, and I try to avoid being one myself. Please stop making wild and unsupportable extrapolations unless you have a revolution to stir up.
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Or grammar...
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Damon
Possibly unlike you I like to type it out each time to remind myself that I'm communicating with real human beings with opinions and egos and values of their own. Putting it in a sig would be like the plastic smiles and pre-recorded ersatz "have a nice day" of some establishments.
If you don't understand the virtue of remembering to treat humans as humans each time, then I suggest that you take your insult back and shove it somewhere.
Damon
Now there's a disturbing thought! B^>
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Damon
This does seem counter-intuitive: when I lay out text I try to make it as easy to read as possible to avoid getting in the way of absorbing the content...
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Damon
Yes, you hit the nail on the head. Thanks.
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Damon
Then you haven't been bullied continuously for years.
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Damon
Thanks for demonstrating the sort of teenage myopic behaviour we can do without.
Just because you *can* get away with being flippantly offensive to bystanders doesn't mean you should.
I'm glad I don't live in your neighbourhood.
It's not the word: it's the implications. If you don't get that then you should just try putting your ego to one side for a day and considering what it might be to be the bullied kid at school, the new immigrant on the block, etc.
Damon
Between *friends* all rules change.
That is context and I go with it myself.
But in a public space I stand by my point.
At the moment in another place I'm hearing all about my friend's child being isolated and bullied at school (and remembering my own experiences), and this sort of casual unpleasantness can part of the nightmare of isolation and whispering etc.
So, have your BS back.
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Damon
Not if someone is being persistently offensive without need. It's arguably hate language, and I'd like this person to have to argue it each time, since it's certainly hurtful to people on the wrong end of it or as affected bystanders. What if this person was pissing in doorways every night? That doesn't kill anyone either but it's thoroughly anti-social and corrosive in more ways than one. That's a perfectly reasonable thing to involve police/HR in if the person won't wise up by him/herself.
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Damon
I think we'd all be better served by less casual and completely unnecessary use of language that demeans innocent bystanders.
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Damon
No: giving people a free pass on that sort of unnecessary and demeaning language excuses it. Would snide casual talk of a similar nature about women / blacks / etc be acceptable in the same place, PC or not? No. And for good reason.
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Damon
Just stop it.
If you use "retarded" like that then you *ARE* taking the piss out of people with low IQ as a cheap way of dissing something else. You *ARE* implying that "retarded" people are so much lower than you that using them as a reference for a bad shirt is reasonable and meaningful *AND* the person you are talking will share your viewpoint.
Just stop it.
Learn to express your dislikes without such stupid collateral damage. Why insult and demean an innocent third party because you're too damn idle to give up playground language? It's not big and it is not clever. In many jurisdictions it is clearly or borderline illegal.
Damon
You casually use a term clearly associated with a minority as a pejorative and claim "no foul"? Bollox.
Try that trick near me and I'll call the police (or HR if we're in a professional environment) and report a hate crime or similar. Just as if you used the n-word as a pejorative whether referring to a black person to their face or not.
Technically it is, and even if they don't prosecute I hope they'd end up causing you as much annoyance as you just quite unnecessarily caused me.
Damon
Maybe I just wouldn't want to set up *yet another* account?
I'm strongly resistant to setting up new accounts that I don't really need and that require new credentials or the risk of leaking shared ones.
There's lots of sites where they'll never get my comments since they insist on registration.
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Damon
Never? Not ever in any possible universe? A pretty bold claim.
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Damon
You didn't specify and some people really can't be bothered to turn lights off.
But don't you think that using even in/for that hour more than the a family of 4 is excessive?
If we were to turn *everything* in the house on except the 'wet' 'white' appliances we probably wouldn't hit 225W other than possible odd spikes from the the fridge/freezer.
My work light is a nice bright cool white "Tess" 7W LED, far nicer than any incandescent (or CFL) that I've had before.
(BTW, sorry for the multiple posts: somehow my some of first attempts came back from the dead.)
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Damon
Other people's profligacy would not justify your own.
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Damon
My entire family of 4 uses only 5kWh/d *total* in London.
Your 225W exceeds our average consumption and is a waste of scarce global resources.
Please stop it.
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Damon
Your 225W is more than my entire household of 4 people uses (~5kWh/d).
We're in London, not the third world, and have all the mod cons.
Can you see a problem?
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Damon
PS. My reading/work lamp is a very bright 7W LED.
I don't know who this 'elite' is that you seem to claim to know, but it's nothing like the a few of the people I know who almost certainly count as elite, by title or money or visibility. Maybe not AAA list but at least B+.
A titled top lawyer I knew very well who had obits in all the national news media was fairly described as "having no ego" for example.
And there are jerks amongst all such people, but your assertion that somehow the "noble savage" is inherently superior to the rich or titled is pure inverted snobbery with a little "and they have such excellent rhythm" patronising ... eh ... I feel a little sick.
You may know nasty rich people and saintly poor people, but the correlation is not a necessary nor universal one.
I try to avoid jerks of whatever background, and I try to avoid being one myself. Please stop making wild and unsupportable extrapolations unless you have a revolution to stir up.
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Damon
Heard of HTTPS?
Unless legit encryption is banned, eg for online banking or ssh, 'the tech' cannot work.
This inattention to inconvenient facts is a large part of the problematic irrational mindset that would embrace theocracy in the first place.
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Damon
You are the one whining and being rude here.
Plus the world is not black and white as you seem to be suggesting.
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Damon
I'm afraid that I think it's you that needs the reality check.
Assuming conspiracy where there need be none just clouds your judgement.
Yes, the "white hat" folks have their hands tied because we don't want vigilante justice from morons who *think* they know what's right and wrong...
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Damon
We'll have to agree to disagree on that!
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Damon
Really?
There's a universal assumption of respect for (and illegality of reusing without permission) personal data for example in your US?
Must be a different US and EU than I know about then.
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Damon