Originally posted by Grampy BobbySwash needs buckled, evil pirates abound in an abundance, idiots are everywhere - even here at RHP 😉
... and premeditated evil as opposed to an open handed verbal slap.
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P.S. Just looked at your profile... methinks we attended different grade schools together.
There's a fine line between adoration and harassment... 😛 Did you wear a plastic pocket-protector, too?
Originally posted by widgetProbably would have if my home sewn/hand-me-down shirts had pockets.
Swash needs buckled, evil pirates abound in an abundance, idiots are everywhere - even here at RHP 😉
There's a fine line between adoration and harassment... 😛 Did you wear a plastic pocket-protector, too?
🙂
Originally posted by huckleberryhoundOK, Huck, now I get it.
More because she asked Rusty to change his name to something that sounded like "one of those awful chink jokes".
Sounds strange to like something because it sounds like a racist joke.
Perhaps I should point out that racism of the kind you're talking about simply didn't exist in my country childhood. Half the kids at my primary school had Chinese grandparents, courtesy of the gold rush influx of the late 1800s. We also had a "displaced persons camp" in the town, and about 20 nationalities made up our classes. My best friends were - one 3/4 Chinese, 1/4 Irish, the other had an Afghan cameldriver for a granddad, god knows what his other grandfather would have been.
If I'd said it sounded like something we used to say to annoy the teacher, would that have been OK? Because we had "velly solly" but also "pinkey" and "deady" (that was a reference to skin colour, since our aboriginals lose colour when they're ill and if you're almost white it means you're about dead), and "four-eyes" which the kids-with-glasses used on the kids-without-glasses, that's typical Aussie humour in the making, like "shorty" if you're very tall and "bluey" if you're redheaded.
As a 50+ yr practicing Buddhist it seems people make too much of racism. It only has significance if you pay attention to it. Simply ignor it and it goes away. Its kind of like a child trying to get attention. No attention and it cries itself to sleep. The same with racists. No attention good or bad and they cry themself to sleep. Thats what they want; attention. I can not tolerate certain types of people so the only answer is to ignor them. Don't give it attention. Its boring to any intelligent person. Being a Buddhist in this red neck country of mine is not always easy, but then I look at the person/persons and am grateful to be me.
Originally posted by CrowleyROFLMAO...You have about as much understanding of Canada as you do most of the threads you read 😛
Really, Very Trolly, nice to see you stay predictable as ever.
Don't you have snow to stack or something? I don't know what you guys do there in Canadia.
I guess you don't have to be a rocket scientist to be a forum mod "EH" 😛
