An Apology!

[Rusha]

What was your understanding of the words "snow flakes"?

Fluffy, cold specks of white rain that fall from the sky.

Made me think of a line from Fight Club: "You are not a beautiful and unique snow flake." Quetzal's usage was pretty easy to understand: Delicate self-centered prigs who think the world revolves around them. Which made bybee's retort so uncalled for and bizarre and distasteful.

Since I have never seen the movie "Fightclub", that meaning wouldn't have ever occurred to me. Then again, there is a rather large age gap .... meaning some of we older folks aren't aware of the current slang.

 

[Rusha]

I'd never heard "soot bunny" before you introduced it, either.

SEE ... that's what I am speaking of. I would have thought AB just cleaned out his chimney.

 

[Tambora]

Really?

Yes, I really did.

Are you so jaded you took it as a racial attack because of the word snowflake?

Pardon me, but just because someone didn't take your expression as exactly what you meant it to be, does not prove they are a jaded person; now does it?

I better not tell you what my favorite soup topping is, then. (It's a saltine cracker, by the way.)

Ummm, having a cracker with your soup is not the same as calling a group of people "crackers".
You do recognize the difference, don't you?

 

[Rusha]

The opposite of "white flake" was my intent.
I am apologizing for the whole thread. It was constructed in anger and I should know better. I am apologizing for my sophomoric behavior.

I must have missed the whole thing, however, it's over. You apologized.

Apologies are apparently less rare than forgiveness.

 

[bybee]

My guess is that it will happen again, and that you are already forgiven.

Thank you my dear. I have created an intervention for my temper. I believe it will work!

 

[Tambora]

My guess is that it will happen again,

More than likely by all of us. Again and again.

 

[Tambora]

Then again, there is a rather large age gap .... meaning some of we older folks aren't aware of the current slang.

Those darn whippersnappers!

 

[quip]

Since I have never seen the movie "Fightclub", that meaning wouldn't have ever occurred to me. Then again, there is a rather large age gap .... meaning some of we older folks aren't aware of the current slang.

The first rule...........:shut:

 

[bybee]

The first rule...........:shut:

...is a good rule!

 

[PureX]

More than likely by all of us. Again and again.

Not ME! I just keep gettin' better an better! :banana:

 

[bybee]

Not ME! I just keep gettin' better an better! :banana:

You'll do!:thumb:

 

[Tambora]

Not ME! I just keep gettin' better an better! :banana:

Go PureX! Go PureX! Go PureX!
:the_wave:

 

[Angel4Truth]

Yes, I really did.

Pardon me, but just because someone didn't take your expression as exactly what you meant it to be, does not prove they are a jaded person; now does it?


Ummm, having a cracker with your soup is not the same as calling a group of people "crackers".
You do recognize the difference, don't you?

I think its funny to be called a cracker myself.

 

[Angel4Truth]

Well, let's not be ignorant to the fact that it can also mean ....

snowflake
A derogatory term for a white person.

It can, but it didn't with the context of the rest of the sentence. Don't be purposefully dense for the sake of creating another argument.

Thats how i took what you said also especially since many lib writers these days are using the term exactly how tambora showed it. Seems to be a flavor of the month.

 

[Tambora]

I think its funny to be called a cracker myself.

I'm partial to "white devil".

 

[Angel4Truth]

I'm partial to "white devil".

Weird isnt it, how we arent flipping out and killing people over names and just laughing them off.

 

[Tambora]

Weird isnt it, how we arent flipping out and killing people over names and just laughing them off.

Well, ya know, a daisy by any other name is still a daisy.

 

[glorydaz]

Weird isnt it, how we arent flipping out and killing people over names and just laughing them off.

Most of us learn to do that in grammar school.

 

[glorydaz]

So you misunderstood what someone said and used what appears to be racially charged language in response.

Snow flake!

 

[Angel4Truth]

Most of us learn to do that in grammar school.

Self control doesnt seem to be taught these days. People want 'respect' without earning any too.