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Reply #50 - Apr 21st, 2014 at 9:07am
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Daze wrote on Apr 21st, 2014 at 3:00am:
Long distance leap between 'It's in Nigeria' and being anything offensive.


Not that far, really.

  
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Reply #51 - Apr 21st, 2014 at 9:44am
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NaturalHazard wrote on Apr 20th, 2014 at 6:48pm:
So if there happens to be U.S people around and I need or want to talk about the Niger river or the country or whatever how do I find my way around that?


you pronounce it correctly, duh. nigger and Niger are pronounced differently... and it's not really a subtle difference.

and if someone *does* take offense, in this case you are perfectly within your rights to give them a 'are you just stupid' look and say "you know, Niger? the country? in Africa? dumbass."
  

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Reply #52 - Apr 21st, 2014 at 9:52am
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a Kitteh wrote on Apr 21st, 2014 at 9:44am:
you pronounce it correctly, duh. nigger and Niger are pronounced differently... and it's not really a subtle difference.

and if someone *does* take offense, in this case you are perfectly within your rights to give them a 'are you just stupid' look and say "you know, Niger? the country? in Africa? dumbass."


I'd suggest that this is also the case when someone is offended by the word "niggardly".
  
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Reply #53 - Apr 21st, 2014 at 10:06am
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I wrote my response to that in the third thread.  (Or is it the forth thread now?)
  

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Reply #54 - Apr 21st, 2014 at 10:51am
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AtomicMew wrote on Apr 21st, 2014 at 2:44am:
So even from just a practical point of view of communicating properly, it's better to use a word like "miserly" or "stingy" which everyone knows the meaning for. 

Can't use stingy, Jews get offended by that word. Better off saying nothing.
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Reply #55 - Apr 21st, 2014 at 11:12am
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What's offensive about that?  Take your delicate sensibilities elsewhere.  Roll Eyes
  
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Reply #56 - Apr 21st, 2014 at 1:36pm
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Not that far, really.

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You had to add the equivalent of a thousand words and it still isn't enough to get you booted off stage.

Personally I don't give a shit about the people who get offended and than go on to say 'I'm offended'. Who fucking cares? The problem comes in when people care enough to offend you back with varying degrees of success .... and when there's a big group of them the success rate doesn't have to be high to effect you.

The real question is why I care to fight in the mud with the retards? .... I saw a penny.
  

   
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Reply #57 - Apr 21st, 2014 at 7:49pm
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NaturalHazard wrote on Apr 20th, 2014 at 6:48pm:
So if there happens to be U.S people around and I need or want to talk about the niger river or the country or whatever how do I find my way around that?


Yeah.  you don't know how to pronounce Niger.  at first I thought you were trolling.  after reading some of your other posts I'm not so sure you aren't retarded.


Natural's educated response to a pic with a white guy wearing a swastika earring:

"So because hes pasty white and anglo-saxon he cannot be a buddhist or Hindu? I have met a few pasty white buddhists. The bad thing is a lot of them had shaven heads, jeez if they where wearing a symbol like that with shaven heads!! Good thing a lot of them where in orange and yellow robes as well. "


nothing wrong with being a troll.  nothing wrong with being a retard.  being a retarded troll on the other hand...
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Reply #58 - Apr 21st, 2014 at 8:47pm
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I wonder how many infractions were handed out to people because of their participation in that thread on the shithole DDO forums?

or to this thread? https://www.ddo.com/forums/showthread.php/440981-To-the-Niggardly-Apostles?highl...
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Reply #59 - Apr 21st, 2014 at 8:58pm
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more gems from Naziral Hazard:

"Maybe I can get away with saying the N word outright? Im dark enough that I might be able to pass off on some as having some african american ancestry, though some would argue I might look more latino, native america mix?"


you are way off base here.  most mongoloids don't look like Africans, Latinos, or Native Americans.  I don't think you'd get a pass on saying nigger just because you look like Corky with a tan.
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Reply #60 - Apr 21st, 2014 at 10:46pm
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It's hilarious the number of dime store language experts in those threads.  Where were all these budding language arts PHDs when I was writing papers on literary theory, Said, Derrida, and Foucalt?

And for the third thread where a number of them said they'd deploy the word without reservation.  There's not a single one of them that could dupe/farm enough balls to walk onto a open hardcourt on Chicago's south side and bitch to the guy playing point that's he's being niggardly with the ball.   Roll Eyes

To put it in crystal clear terms, they can go fuck themselves and the minature pony they rode in on. 
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Reply #61 - Apr 22nd, 2014 at 1:47am
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NaturalHazard wrote on Apr 20th, 2014 at 6:48pm:
So if there happens to be U.S people around and I need or want to talk about the niger river or the country or whatever how do I find my way around that?





I am surprised you didn't start talking about people in England named Nigel are racists.  Roll Eyes

  
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Reply #62 - Apr 22nd, 2014 at 2:47am
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Haha, attention seeking imbeciles.
Oh, my Ma told me I was special so let's show I am the smartest by using some obscure word on a video game forum.
  
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Reply #63 - Apr 22nd, 2014 at 3:32am
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Misfits wrote on Apr 21st, 2014 at 10:51am:
Can't use stingy, Jews get offended by that word. Better off saying nothing.


I am begining to think that you are stalking me, just to offend me.

My armenian ancestors were actually Ashkenazi jews.
  
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Reply #64 - Apr 22nd, 2014 at 4:57am
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iliveyourdream13 wrote on Apr 21st, 2014 at 10:46pm:
It's hilarious the number of dime store language experts in those threads.  Where were all these budding language arts PHDs when I was writing papers on literary theory, Said, Derrida, and Foucalt?

And for the third thread where a number of them said they'd deploy the word without reservation.  There's not a single one of them that could dupe/farm enough balls to walk onto a open hardcourt on Chicago's south side and bitch to the guy playing point that's he's being niggardly with the ball.   Roll Eyes

To put it in crystal clear terms, they can go fuck themselves and the minature pony they rode in on. 


How's the Turbine/DDO rights acquisition plans going?
  
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Reply #65 - Apr 22nd, 2014 at 10:13am
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DropBear wrote on Apr 22nd, 2014 at 4:57am:
How's the Turbine/DDO rights acquisition plans going?


I did speak with a gentleman that knows his stuff, not about Turdine, but about Asian firms.  He essentially confirmed the business plan isn't crazy, but now all waits on lords of finance to do what they do and decide what they want.  You can't really hurry along people whose net worth most can't fathom.  Such is life in an oligarchy...  Roll Eyes

I hate waiting on other people's money, but there's a reason one uses other people's money in the first place.  Wink
  
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Reply #66 - Apr 22nd, 2014 at 10:50am
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I am begining to think that you are stalking me, just to offend me.

My armenian ancestors were actually Ashkenazi jews.


Good for you. Not trying to offend you... it's just you know when you talk about the stupid people... there always seems to be a Polish person around that gets up set? Well, I think the same thing is happening here. Nothing against you personally, it's just... lots of things seem to fit
  

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Reply #67 - Apr 22nd, 2014 at 1:41pm
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Misfits wrote on Apr 22nd, 2014 at 10:50am:
Good for you. Not trying to offend you... it's just you know when you talk about the stupid people... there always seems to be a Polish person around that gets up set? Well, I think the same thing is happening here. Nothing against you personally, it's just... lots of things seem to fit


What are you trying to say? My husband is Polish...
  
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Reply #68 - Apr 22nd, 2014 at 2:53pm
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iliveyourdream13 wrote on Apr 21st, 2014 at 10:46pm:
And for the third thread where a number of them said they'd deploy the word without reservation.  There's not a single one of them that could dupe/farm enough balls to walk onto a open hardcourt on Chicago's south side and bitch to the guy playing point that's he's being niggardly with the ball.   Roll Eyes


no shit.  bunch of trollophails who'd pee their pantses just strolling through the Detroit airport.

even Memnir's bullshit story. 

"yah I totally told this black chick she was being niggardly, because that was, ya know, the totally appropriate word for that situation and not only was she not offended, she thought it was funny!  FUNNY that white people might think a black person was offended by that word!"


I'm hoping the next genius starts a thread on how blackface is a legitimate art form and why no right thinking person would ever be offended by it.


maybe Booger the Baby Boy Lover would 'snigger' at that joke too?  (OMG using 'snigger' in that thread was sooo CLEVER!)
  

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Reply #69 - Apr 22nd, 2014 at 2:55pm
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I am surprised you didn't start talking about people in England named Nigel are racists.  Roll Eyes



or how 'negrita' is a TOTALLY LEGIT TERM used by Latinas!
  

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Reply #70 - Apr 22nd, 2014 at 2:59pm
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Yobai wrote on Apr 22nd, 2014 at 2:53pm:
no shit.  bunch of trollophails who'd pee their pantses just strolling through the Detroit airport.

even Memnir's bullshit story. 

"yah I totally told this black chick she was being niggardly, because that was, ya know, the totally appropriate word for that situation and not only was she not offended, she thought it was funny!  FUNNY that white people might think a black person was offended by that word!"


I'm hoping the next genius starts a thread on how blackface is a legitimate art form and why no right thinking person would ever be offended by it.


maybe Booger the Baby Boy Lover would 'snigger' at that joke too?  (OMG using 'snigger' in that thread was sooo CLEVER!)


I would never use the word snigger.  But that's just because I was raised with a regional accent that used "snicker" instead of "snigger".  We also tend to say "creek" instead of "crick". 

So much stupidity on both sides here.
  
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Reply #71 - Apr 22nd, 2014 at 3:03pm
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NOTpopejubal wrote on Apr 22nd, 2014 at 2:59pm:
I would never use the word snigger.  But that's just because I was raised with a regional accent that used "snicker" instead of "snigger".  We also tend to say "creek" instead of "crick". 

So much stupidity on both sides here.



and I'm still not sure which is group is dumber:

A - the ones transparently trolling by pretending to argue that you should give the benefit of the doubt about why someone whiter than John Snow is sporting swastika earrings

or

B- the ones who actually believe the arguments they are making.

I discounted  C - the overly PC people who overreact to everything since they are already clearly stupid, but not as stupid as A or B.
  

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Reply #72 - Apr 23rd, 2014 at 2:22am
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What are you trying to say? My husband is Polish...


LOL. You are The United Nations.
I fear you will one day find out that you were adopted from Vulcan.

  
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Reply #73 - Apr 23rd, 2014 at 2:49am
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Yobai wrote on Apr 21st, 2014 at 7:49pm:
Yeah.  you don't know how to pronounce Niger.  at first I thought you were trolling.  after reading some of your other posts I'm not so sure you aren't retarded.


Natural's educated response to a pic with a white guy wearing a swastika earring:

"So because hes pasty white and anglo-saxon he cannot be a buddhist or Hindu? I have met a few pasty white buddhists. The bad thing is a lot of them had shaven heads, jeez if they where wearing a symbol like that with shaven heads!! Good thing a lot of them where in orange and yellow robes as well. "


nothing wrong with being a troll.  nothing wrong with being a retard.  being a retarded troll on the other hand...


you have no sense of humor or irony to say the least.

People where getting up in arms over the use of the word niggard as well, it seemed anything with Ni and G in there would make people to be overly sensitive. Niggle would that be a bad word too as its too similar? Snigger? that a no-no word too?

yes yes ni ger not niger, but this was also about the written word as well, this whole thing started from a written post.

The picture I saw when I clicked on the link was just of the studs themselves.

There are white buddhists why would that be misinformed to believe a white person cannot be buddhist? And the shaven head and yellow and orange robes reference was to buddhist monks, but I bet that flew right over your head? I was making light also of skinheads.

The only one being a retarded troll here is you dipshit.

And I did mean the proper pronunciation of the the country/river/province but with the reactions I saw about the niggard thing I thought even the proper pronunciation might get a bad reaction, hes trying to say the N word but cannot pronounce it properly!! Ditto with typing it up on boards.

Or was it also because of what niggard or being niggardly can also mean? Being stingy, something with negative connotations? So double whammy sounds like a racial slur and is something can can be negative?

Niggle can have negative connotations as well, so if someone says someone else is having a bit a niggle and that person is dark skinned would that garner some bad reactions.

Also throwing handbags, ok what could be offensive about that? Well what if it was said about a player who might be gay or likes to cross dress?

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Reply #74 - Apr 23rd, 2014 at 2:49am
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Sim-Sala-Bim wrote on Apr 23rd, 2014 at 2:22am:
LOL. You are The United Nations.
I fear you will one day find out that you were adopted from Vulcan.

http://laughingsquid.com/wp-content/uploads/spock-vulcan-salute-20090521-094535....


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