Seems like a perfect opportunity to better know the site constituency you represent as a moderator. Then again, why wonder if it's offensive now since you've already brushed off the guy that took offense to it.
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Seems like a perfect opportunity to better know the site constituency you represent as a moderator. Then again, why wonder if it's offensive now since you've already brushed off the guy that took offense to it.
Ahhhh I know I shouldn't. ....Grab them right by the pussy! Every last guy in the world has said this or something soooo similar to a friend at a bar, or in the locker room, or drinking in the garage. It doesn't even matter the language...Navaho, Spanish, German, Zulu...all the same! Don't matter we have all said this when we are all comfortable with the people we talk to. When it becomes a problem is when we take that liberty onto the air waves for everyone to view.......let's remember we got an indoor voice and our outdoor voice. I know my wife wouldn't like some of the stuff I say out in the shop with the guys, so I don't say it when she might hear! Let's type the same way!
How would he do that since most on here hide behind a screen name and nobody is required to post their ethnicity?
That's the point.
Shop talk is left in the shop. We are forced by the media and social justice warriors in their mom's basement to be politically correct or suffer the wrath of the internet.
Personally, I've given up being offended by anyone. I was shamed in high school because I hunted and fished which wasn't popular at that time. Those same shamers are hunter and fish now.
I'm not offended by anyone that disagrees with me as long as it's a legit discussion.
We all have our opinions, it's just how well you can defend them.
Didn't brush anyone off, I didn't even see the pic, I had to ask what he was referring to, then I asked about it. He never answered, you did though.
I am 100% behind that Denis. Kinda what I was pointing out in very round about way is I wouldn't type Dindu on the open air waves even if I did or didn't use it in my shop as respect for other folks who may or may not like that name, any more than I would use the word ***** in front of my wife.
Fair enough. I may have misjudged your response in the heat of a battle against something between ignorance and bad taste. That would then be my own fault. Funny how things tend to spiral when a simple, if even empty "my bad" from the offending troglodyte could have suppressed the conversation entirely. But as someone else pointed out, egos are easier to upkeep when cowering behind a keyboard.
My wife is very anti political. Rarely wants to hear me rant about the blah blah.
She is concerned now with the riots growing nationwide because she is on the media outlets that are promoting and condoning them like false book and the tweeter which I am not.
She is now focusing on them and asking questions because she has some relatives in the area of the riots. When there are media reports on the tv, I kind of quietly say "that's a lie"
Now she wants to know why that's a lie.
One baby step at a time.
It's the little wins my friend, I married a "socialist" 
but she is getting better! Matter of fact I even got her to carry pistol into a place that had a no firearms sign, rater than leave it in the car for a wayward "undocumented shopper" to find. it's all little steps!
but she is getting better! Matter of fact I even got her to carry pistol into a place that had a no firearms sign, rater than leave it in the car for a wayward "undocumented shopper" to find. it's all little steps!- Status
