Wow...this thread shows just how hungry we are for a good debate around here. We're left to argue whether "dude" is an insult. (it was not, in this context) and the American and British spelling of offence/offense. Now all we need is a hobo playing the harmonica singing "no body knows the trouble I've seen" to make the desperation complete. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
it's dumbass, get your spelling right. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! bottom line is, don't mess with the Holocaust here, sciforums got once so low as to ban a member based on a democratic poll of who wants him to be banned, simply because he was doing he right thing nobody wanted to hear or believe was correct or hear it might be correct or even open the possibility of it getting enough credibility as correct.
Unless you use the UK spelling of ass which is arse, unless it's a donkey. But then that begs the question is it an ass or an arse that puts the ass in dumbass... After all, if you're an idiot you're an ass, but if you're obnoxious you're an arse.
I agree Let's start a thread called DUDE Really, or something... I had hoped this thread would stay on topic..
Seems I arsed up. It's just Arse in the UK regardless of whether or not you're talking about a Donkey. Oh well.
Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Well fiddle sticks! What does that make me I was born up north in America, an I Now live in redneckia east... :shrug: “ Originally posted by Trippy You're all Yankees to us, so... ,an we are all Yanks!?? Uh there was a civil war. It helps us know weather or not we are Yanks. An there is a rebel flag for a reason..
Yup, I'm afraid so. Yankee on Wiki. Outside the US, the term Yankee or Yank is applied to Americans in general.
Interesting article trippy... Here is something I learned there as well The fictional character Thurston Howell, III, of Gilligan's Island, a graduate of Harvard, typifies the old Yankee elite in a comical way. By the opening of the 21st century, systematic Yankee ways had permeated the entire society through education. Although many observers from the 1880s onward predicted that Yankee politicians would be no match for new generations of ethnic politicians, the presence of Yankees at the top tier of modern American politics was typified by Presidents George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush, and by Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean (as well, to some observers, by 2004 Democratic presidential nominee Senator John Forbes Kerry, descendant through his mother, of the Scottish Forbes family, which emigrated to Massachusetts the 1750s). President Barack Obama is of Yankee descent on his mother's side; his high school was Punahou School, founded to serve the children of Yankee missionaries to Hawaii.[17]
Guess I'm not just a yank, or yankee. I'm a damnyankee! But I do have some manners...Yankees are loud, verbally aggressive, arrogant without reason, denigrating, ignorant, demanding, xenophobic and possess no class or character. I don't think I fit that category to well. :shrug: Damnyankee The damned Yankee usage dates from 1812.[4] During and after the American Civil War (1861–1865) Confederates popularized it as a derogatory term for their Northern enemies. In an old joke, a Southerner alleges, "I was twenty-one years old before I learned that 'damn' and 'Yankee' were separate words." In fact, the spelling "damnyankee" is not uncommon. It became a catch phrase, often used humorously for Yankees visiting the South, as in the mystery novel, Death of a Damn Yankee: A Laura Fleming Mystery (2001) by Toni Kelner. Another popular although facetious saying is that "a Yankee is someone from the North who comes to the South for a visit and then goes back. A damn Yankee is someone from the North who comes to the South and stays there." A stereotypical trope held by some Southerners[citation needed] is that that Yankees are loud, verbally aggressive, arrogant without reason, denigrating, ignorant, demanding, xenophobic and possess no class or character.
What I find humerous about that is that it pretty much seems to sum up the stereotypical American tourist abroad - which may have something to do with how the term Yankee came to be applied to Americans in general.
(Hey "Red") I spent 3 years in the U.S. Army an 2 solid straight years in Germany. I don't see myself as a typical U.S. Yankee tourist. I was even mistaken as a German by more than a few. An my spell checker showed HUMOROUS. Is that another word spelling from Great Britain that you made?
no trippy is a proud maori, and never shall you forget it. heads rolled for the discerning of his lineage you know.
hmm, i thought my usage of the tongue out smily made my intention clear Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! as much as god denial is, lots of emotions are stake, i understand that. if you don't like god denial, then compare it to ongoing westren atrocities denial. do i think hitler was exterminating jews, yes. do i believe the jewish version of it, which is pretty much the prevailing only existing version of it no. what do i believe then idk, but i'll do some serious research to separate the bs from the truth. besides hitler had scietific evidence for his extermination, which both jews and scientists were happy to never mention. indeed, but when you have holocaust wailers breaking the site rules by demanding a holocaust critic to be banned and that single member not doing anything but being a law abiding thorn in everybody's side, the weak thing to do is to ban that member. and he was banned. i wonder if james remembers it, he's our captain spock here.