My granddaughter said she would like some teddy bear buttons on one of her cardigans for her birthday when she was exploring one of my button tins yesterday.
I guess some girls want Barbie dolls, but I'll be damned if I'm going to buy her one of them.
Comments about bridges on forums usually imply accusations of trolling.
I've seen you use the word 'pun' a couple of times now and it obviously has a different meaning to you than it does to me. It's not a matter of analysing words all day, it's simply a matter of trying to communicate accurately and trying to understand the words you're using.
If you say something and it comes across as really rude and racially, ethnically, or nationally prejudiced then people are going to react. If you don't understand the meaning, or origins of a saying, I appreciate you didn't mean to be rude, but maybe it's worth analysing those sayings before you use them.
The virility context of the phrase 'red blooded American' implies status, or superiority, so by commenting to psygnar that he wouldn't understand, but any red blooded American would, you appeared to be implying American (white American) superiority over him.
It came across as prejudiced towards his ethnicity and nationality (or at least his place of residence) and given that psygnar is plainly an extremely intelligent young man, it lead to the appearance of you being too dull to understand him, rather than the other way round.
I get the impression psygnar's just a bright, playful fella looking for a bit of banter, SG. I can't see why you thought he was trolling here on your thread.
"The idiom is used to compel someone to speak, say something, or give a response when they are (unusually) quiet. It is often said by adults to children. When someone is speechless or without words (sometimes out of surprise) you will say “Cat got your tongue?” to prompt them to react."
Just like the boycotts of South Africa, the people who will be hurt the most are the ones with no power.
I had an Israeli lover many moons ago. He was conscripted into the army when he came of age and he said they knew they were being sent to target civilians, but had no voice to object. There is a strong social climate that the men (boys really) should be warriors and saviours whether they like it not. He was held together with metal and badly scarred: at the point he thought he was going to die, he had a freak out and shamed himself within the culture so badly, he was desperate to live in the UK. He was just a boy.
If a group of people have been subject to atrocities, is it surprising that they learn how to be atrocious? Boycotting Israeli goods will be seen as a hostility, as an attack - it won't break the cycle.
If you want to break the cycle, you need to do something else.
Also, a Muslim colleague of mine expressed her mortification that Muslims were fighting during Ramadan a few weeks back. Perhaps we all need to re-evaluate in a very different way, regardless of religion, or nationality.
No, when I was studying for my first holy communion, I asked if the souls that went to heaven came back down to make knew babies so heaven didn't run out of space.
My teacher had a hissy fit at me, banging on about me being taught bad things at home. I thought she'd gone a bit mad.
It was only when my mother mentioned some years back that the Catholic church wouldn't rent my mum and dad a flat because 'they were reserved for Catholics', that I realised we were viewed as Jewish.
The teacher thought I was secretly being taught reincarnation at home as part of the Jewish faith.
Of course we don't have to have a relationship with everyone we come into contact with, or with everyone whose profile we glance at. That goes without saying.
I'm exploring something very different. I'm exploring why we as individuals react to some people in certain ways and why we have so much difficulty in admitting we have prejudices.
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RE: Have you met a romantic interest from this site?
Lousy at your job, you are.