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Started by The Good Reverend Roger, April 16, 2013, 07:44:59 PM

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The Good Reverend Roger

#15
April 16, 2013, 08:32:13 PM
If anyone else feels the need to use my post as an excuse to get a cheap shot in, would you please just go ahead and do it now?  If the thread is going to be killed, we may as well not drag it out.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

The Good Reverend Roger

#16
April 16, 2013, 08:34:03 PM
Quote from: Pergamos on April 16, 2013, 08:17:05 PM
I try to call people what they would prefer to be called.  I do get pissy about one piece of PC speech and that is African-American. 

You are perfectly free to get pissy about it.

But your pissiness ends with you.  You don't get to dictate whether or not other people use the term.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

The Good Reverend Roger

#17
April 16, 2013, 08:35:17 PM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on April 16, 2013, 08:15:52 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 16, 2013, 08:05:28 PM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on April 16, 2013, 07:49:59 PM

FTR: I'll continue to use the word "cunt" whenever I fucking well feel like it, on account of it's a part of my day to day vocabulary. If you can't deal with that and it makes you curl up into a little ball and try to chew your own ears off ... cool!

I don't care if you say "cunt" all day long.  I won't say it.  I cannot and would not (if I could) control what you say.

That was kind of my point.  I have decided that the word is offensive to me.  I won't use it.

You have to make your own decisions as to what is or is not offensive.

ETA:  I COULD do it for you, but I'll be sending an invoice.

Yup! And I respect you for it. Ask me nicely to stop and I won't even ask your reasons. Launch into some tirade about how I'm what's wrong the the world with a side order of suppressed female lecture and I'll just call you a cunt and walk away.

And that's the whole point.  I cannot and do not wish to control your speech.  If it bothers me, I may ask you to stop.  If you don't, I will stop listening, which is an entirely different thing than trying to shut you up.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Nephew Twiddleton

#18
April 16, 2013, 08:35:56 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 16, 2013, 08:31:25 PM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on April 16, 2013, 08:21:27 PM
Quote from: Pergamos on April 16, 2013, 08:17:05 PMIs calling a guy a dick as bad? Cause I do that a lot.

Negative - men aren't a suppressed minority.

Why would that even matter?  Of course it's just as bad.

"Asshole" is nice and neutral, don't you think?

Indeed, and an asshole is full of shit.
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The Good Reverend Roger

#19
April 16, 2013, 08:36:01 PM
Quote from: Waffles, Viking Princess of Northern Belgium on April 16, 2013, 08:23:26 PM
Bloody great writing, Roger.


QuoteAnd if a mere word drives you berserk, then you ought to examine your filters, because you are allowing other people to dictate your behavior.

This need to be hammered into great big slabs of concrete in major cities.

Someone would just tag it.   :lulz:
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

EK WAFFLR

#20
April 16, 2013, 08:45:23 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 16, 2013, 08:36:01 PM
Quote from: Waffles, Viking Princess of Northern Belgium on April 16, 2013, 08:23:26 PM
Bloody great writing, Roger.


QuoteAnd if a mere word drives you berserk, then you ought to examine your filters, because you are allowing other people to dictate your behavior.

This need to be hammered into great big slabs of concrete in major cities.

Someone would just tag it.   :lulz:

I'll probably do that at some point.
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Pergamos

#21
April 16, 2013, 08:48:13 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 16, 2013, 08:34:03 PM
Quote from: Pergamos on April 16, 2013, 08:17:05 PM
I try to call people what they would prefer to be called.  I do get pissy about one piece of PC speech and that is African-American. 

You are perfectly free to get pissy about it.

But your pissiness ends with you.  You don't get to dictate whether or not other people use the term.

Right.  If I were black myself I might feel some entitlement to have a say in what I was being called, but I'm not, so it's purely my own choice of words.  it's just when another White person looks at me and goes "They prefer being called African-American" that I'll go off on my little rant about that being exclusionary and suggesting that they are less American than me and the person who made the comment and the whole bit about continually changing the term and whatnot.

The Good Reverend Roger

#22
April 16, 2013, 08:50:31 PM
Quote from: Pergamos on April 16, 2013, 08:48:13 PM
it's just when another White person looks at me and goes "They prefer being called African-American"

Oh, yeah, that's priceless.   :lulz:

At that point, you are morally free to squat over their heads and tell them your thoughts on the matter in "terms" they'll understand.

ETA:  Because in that context, "They" sounds just like "Those People".
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

insideout

#23
April 16, 2013, 09:14:18 PM

The Good Reverend Roger

#24
April 16, 2013, 09:20:32 PM
Quote from: insideout on April 16, 2013, 09:14:18 PM
this reminds me of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbZhpf3sQxQ

Yeah.  Everything I say is actually just a reflection of something George Carlin or someone else said.  You can save time just by watching or listening to him, because the ideas are the same.

Or words to that effect, which have probably been said by someone famous at one point or another.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

The Good Reverend Roger

#25
April 16, 2013, 09:23:41 PM
Note that the above was tongue in cheek.

Specifically, someone else's tongue in a cheek once described to me as resembling another cheek entirely.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

LMNO

#26
April 16, 2013, 09:27:04 PM
That sounds unwieldy, overly complex, and quite erotic.

The Good Reverend Roger

#27
April 16, 2013, 09:28:09 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on April 16, 2013, 09:27:04 PM
That sounds unwieldy, overly complex, and quite erotic.

I know *I* was oddly aroused.

:lulz:

TGRR,
Turbine-powered asshole today.  Unlike other days.  Maybe.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

LMNO

#28
April 16, 2013, 09:33:55 PM
No surprise.  Your arousal is always odd.

The Good Reverend Roger

#29
April 16, 2013, 09:35:20 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on April 16, 2013, 09:33:55 PM
No surprise.  Your arousal is always odd.

Balls.  EVERYONE likes sex in a moving pickup truck.  Even if there's someone else in the truck with you.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.
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