when i turned 61 last week i gave myself the gift of not any longer parsing every word i wrote over the offense it might give to the person waiting in the tall weeds ready to pounce on the "offensive" term. i bent over backward and was not rewarded for the effort. whatever years i have left are not going to be spent worrying about the guy (or lady) who'll tweeze the offense out of the meaning.

somewhere in between "lighten up francis" and "don't be a dick" i hope there's a place for me.

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Dan Empfield
aka Slowman

Nope. This is 2018 America, has to be one of the other. Which is it?

At the risk of flogging a dead horse ....


George Carlin .... 7 dirty words


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbZhpf3sQxQ

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Cheers, Neal

+1 mph Faster

This has been a good start to the week! Glad I picked up some extra tide pods on the weekend

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Ask me how much I love my Kiwami LD Aero Trisuit

I think it was the Divine Miss Midler who said "fuckem if they can't take a joke" .

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RayGovett
Hughson CA
Be Prepared-- Strike Swiftly -- Who Dares Wins- Without warning-"it will be hard. I can do it"

The op will probably find that hurtful. Do You no what tide has done to so many community's?

Oh man. If only I wanted to be proficient in photoshop. The opportunities are endless.

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Citizen of the world, former drunkard. Resident Traumatic Brain Injury advocate.

Well, actually (puts on pedant hat) - the expression doesn't refer to Remagen, but to Operation Market Garden, the audacious (I always wanted to use that word) plan by Montgomery to conquer a path into Germany by capturing a series of bridges in the south of the Netherlands ending at the Rhine bridge in Arnhem. And that was "a bridge too far"; all the other ones got captured as planned, but the units tasked with capturing the Arnhem one ran into an unexpected German unit on leave and got massacred. Result of that was that the Netherlands south of the Rhine was liberated almost right then and there, but that the offensive basically stalled and that the rest of the country had to wait until after the winter of 44/45, which, unfortunately, turned out to be one of the fiercest winters of the era. The cold and the fact that the Germans impounded basically everything of any value (for use in Germany), including most food, caused mass starvation. People were reduced to eating flower bulbs.

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Citizen of the world, former drunkard. Resident Traumatic Brain Injury advocate.

Learned something new. Probably won't retain it because I have been smoking Crack all day.

Purge? There was a purge?

Oh, and thanks to Nealhe for the 7 Dirty Words reminder. I bought Class Clown sometime in 1973 - on vinyl - cuz I'm (a little) older than the Slowman.

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You honestly want and expect 87,536 registered users on a website to stop using a couple of terms that you don't like? Wowzers.

As someone who came here from another country and being an outcast throughout my life I find your use of "others" highly offensive. Why would use such a term, do you have a disregard for people who immigrated here?

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Just Triing
Triathlete since 9:56:39 AM EST Aug 20, 2006.
Be kind English is my 2nd language. My primary language is Dave it's a unique evolution of English.

Hey I could have lost relatives in Guyana and find that phrase highly insensitive.

Of course I find this whole thread re... oops can't use that word or I will get kicked off this forum. I find this Dumb.

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Just Triing
Triathlete since 9:56:39 AM EST Aug 20, 2006.
Be kind English is my 2nd language. My primary language is Dave it's a unique evolution of English.

I tried "cherry cracking pipe popper" but there is a 15 character limit.

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I miss YaHey

I hope to pop my cherry and stand on top of the podium this year, I hope my buddies pop their cherries also.

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Yellowfin Endurance Coaching and Bike Fits
USAT Level 1, USAC Level 3

My wife just asked me why I was laughing so hard.

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I miss YaHey

The name cherry cracker offends me... that’s way worse than cherry popper.

Have you guys ever been around a crack head?
Now that's a good laugh!

Hello Grant.Reuter and All,

No to be overly critical ...... but it is important to consider (perhaps reflecting on the excellent character of triathletes ... but showing some uncharacteristic timidness and lack of effort) that these word lists have only scratched the surface of pejorative words and epithets of racial, religious, personal cleanliness, character or lack thereof, social, and other classes of words that cause some human faces to turn red and twisted when they hear them.

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Cheers, Neal

+1 mph Faster

Apparently, H20Fun was purged about a month ago. It's almost a shame because we could point to the OP as an example of what a real 'snowflake' is. Oops, better add that to the list of offensive terms.

Jordon Peterson, is this you? Kudos, I just bought your book! I’m cleaning my room right now.

Have you contacted the army and demanded from them not to use the word "crack troops"?