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polarbear Member
Joined: 16 Dec 2001 Posts: 3680 | TRs | Pics Location: Snow Lake hide-away |
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Sore Feet Member
Joined: 16 Dec 2001 Posts: 6307 | TRs | Pics Location: Out There, Somewhere |
Well, my day is ruined...
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Backpacker Joe Blind Hiker
Joined: 16 Dec 2001 Posts: 23956 | TRs | Pics Location: Cle Elum |
Hey, I use Canon and Mamiya!
TB
"If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide."
— Abraham Lincoln
"If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide."
— Abraham Lincoln
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Amos Canon Member
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Blue Dome Now with Retsyn
Joined: 12 Aug 2004 Posts: 3144 | TRs | Pics Location: Cleaning up the dogma. |
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Fri Feb 01, 2013 6:30 pm
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Continuing from the locked thread Mt. Si and the Vanishing People of No Particular Nationality.
Tom wrote: | I think Salish said it better than I could in that older thread. Please continue discussion there [this thread]. Thanks. |
Actually, the following is the best expression of the right way to think about it.
Tom wrote: | I'm just saying I'd rather be sensitive to other cultures than ignorant of what they might consider to be offensive or perpetuating stereotypes. |
It's no more complicated than that.
“I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell.”
— Harry S. Truman
“I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell.”
— Harry S. Truman
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The Angry Hiker SAR Blacklistee
Joined: 13 Jun 2008 Posts: 2890 | TRs | Pics Location: Kentwila |
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Blue Dome Now with Retsyn
Joined: 12 Aug 2004 Posts: 3144 | TRs | Pics Location: Cleaning up the dogma. |
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Fri Feb 01, 2013 6:48 pm
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The Angry Hiker wrote: | I'd rather risk ticking off a few people who can't take a joke than walk around on eggshells my whole life for fear of offending someone. |
I get your sentiment, which of course is shared by many folks, but I don't think "being sensitive to other cultures" in a common sense manner equates with "walking around on eggshells."
It's simply a matter of common sense. If someone doesn't have common sense, and those folks are out there, it can be learned.
“I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell.”
— Harry S. Truman
“I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell.”
— Harry S. Truman
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Toonces unleashed
Joined: 16 Dec 2005 Posts: 2401 | TRs | Pics Location: On the pavement, thinking about the government |
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Fri Feb 01, 2013 8:08 pm
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The Angry Hiker wrote: | I'd rather risk ticking off a few people who can't take a joke than walk around on eggshells my whole life for fear of offending someone. |
If you show fear, a monkey will bully you.
If you show fear, a monkey will bully you.
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The Angry Hiker SAR Blacklistee
Joined: 13 Jun 2008 Posts: 2890 | TRs | Pics Location: Kentwila |
My only regret is that because of a few over-sensitive sourpusses, we'll never find out what happened to those poor people of No Particular Nationality. I came here for answers to their disappearance, and got only a big pile of raspberries for my trouble.
If those folks fall prey to tragedy or misadventure, it'll be on YOUR heads, not mine.
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Spotly Member
Joined: 06 Jan 2004 Posts: 3723 | TRs | Pics Location: Spokane Valley |
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Fri Feb 01, 2013 8:30 pm
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So this is a thread about sensitivities to insensitivities about what should be other people's sensitivities? We hyphenate everything else, why not tourists?! American-tourist, Japanese-tourist, Scottish-tourist, stupid-tourist....the list goes on.
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forest gnome Forest nut...
Joined: 24 Apr 2003 Posts: 3520 | TRs | Pics Location: north cascades!! |
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touron Member
Joined: 15 Sep 2003 Posts: 10293 | TRs | Pics Location: Plymouth Rock |
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Fri Feb 01, 2013 10:03 pm
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I am glad the word tourists was used instead of tourons. People easily confuse and confabulate the wanderlost quizzical-eyed, hapless tourist with the present-minded, astute, sagacious touron. Both words are from France, of course, and both made their way across the Atlantic, but I'm sure the former had to ask for directions.
Touron is a nougat of Arabic origin made with almonds and honey or sugar, without which it would just not be Christmas in Spain.
Touron is a nougat of Arabic origin made with almonds and honey or sugar, without which it would just not be Christmas in Spain.
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Malachai Constant Member
Joined: 13 Jan 2002 Posts: 16092 | TRs | Pics Location: Back Again Like A Bad Penny |
How about dialing up the hate a bit, it is too cool in here
"You do not laugh when you look at the mountains, or when you look at the sea." Lafcadio Hearn
"You do not laugh when you look at the mountains, or when you look at the sea." Lafcadio Hearn
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Blue Dome Now with Retsyn
Joined: 12 Aug 2004 Posts: 3144 | TRs | Pics Location: Cleaning up the dogma. |
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Fri Feb 01, 2013 11:54 pm
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The Angry Hiker wrote: | I came here for answers to their disappearance, and got only a big pile of raspberries for my trouble. |
You didn't start that thread to get "answers to their disappearance." You started that thread to mock those people and their ancestry, in an attempt to be funny. And it wasn't funny. And you correctly got a big pile of raspberries for that.
“I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell.”
— Harry S. Truman
“I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell.”
— Harry S. Truman
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GeoHiker Rocky Walker
Joined: 26 Feb 2005 Posts: 6033 | TRs | Pics Location: Off the Deep End |
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Sat Feb 02, 2013 8:12 pm
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Don't worry TAH, most on here don't get all stick up the butt upset with your posts, so continue with your wit and humor.
All though I do find your hate and derogatory remarks towards poodles a bit disturbing, so if you could stop that I won't have to write the moderators and involve them. I don't have or ever wanted a poodle, but I'm sure there is someone out there that has one and could be upset. You don't want to upset them do you?....
You call some place paradise, kiss it goodbye......Eagles
You call some place paradise, kiss it goodbye......Eagles
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