A Nit Picking Topic ( Archived) (61)

oslojente: "Nitpicking is the act of removing nits (the eggs of lice, generally head lice) from the host's hair. As the nits are cemented to individual hairs with louse saliva, they cannot be removed with lice combs and, before modern chemical methods were invented, the only options were to shave all the host's hair or to pick them free one by one.

This is a slow and laborious process, as the root of each individual hair must be examined for infestation. It was largely abandoned as modern chemical methods became available; however, as lice populations can and do develop resistance, manual nitpicking is still often necessary.

As nitpicking inherently requires fastidious, meticulous attention to detail, the term has become appropriated to describe the practice of meticulously searching for minor, even trivial errors in detail (often referred to as "nits" as well), and then criticising them. "Nitpicker" in this sense was often used after 1951, predominantly in the United States." says wikipedia

lusciousmile: I'm from the jungle, it's customary to walk around naked, so i think i'm doing pretty well. Shouldn't we respect other people's cultures?

Aries01: Oh bloody hell... I am over the hill then

lusciousmile: I'm from the jungle, it's customary to walk around naked, so i think i'm doing pretty well. Shouldn't we respect other people's cultures?

diogenes: I can't make up my mind on this issue......
I guess I'll have to see the pictures.

Konigsberg: Hmmm .... you mean like they were raised by a pack of wild animals, in a woods? ... Don't they have own self-esteem that normally Nature grants to all human beings.
Awesome thread Dio ..... DIO would be proud of you

FlowerOfTheSnow: Oh!YEah!! Nature grants many humans many valuable assets and insights ... However, from my observations of "human nature", mostly in the UK as an adult working in education, I have watched "the results" of what "a human can do to another" ... Unfortunately, it made no difference what "Nature had granted" some of the kids in the school I worked at, because they had also been granted with parents (or lack of them) who seem to make it their mission to "erode" all of it ...

rusty_knight: sorry if I am 'off topic', but 'hello there' FoTS..... I got back from my holiday in Spain all in one piece and didn't meet one horrible English lager lout - just very nice Spanish people and some gross (old but courteous and filthy rich) Teutonic types!

FlowerOfTheSnow: Hi Rusty!! Sounds like you enjoyed it!!! Good for you!! I am rather pleased to say the little village I am at near Malaga doesn't seem to appeal to the "lager lout" type of person and all the Brits who are around are rather great people like artists, painters, mediums, shamans, writers, musicians etc... All pretty well integrated in the village ... It's great to live amongst them as well as the Spanish folk who have welcome me with open arms (they are rather impressed that I speak fluent Spanish although never lived here AND with similar accent to theirs as my parents are from the south and I was born just round the corner!!!) PS:
Hope you are now feeling wayyyyyyyyyyyy better in your own skin