OT - Budd's rant - was (Re: Aspertame is totally safe)

On 28 Nov 2005 17:07:19 -0800, "Budd Cochran" <mr-d150@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

This thread has degenerated into a total waste of time. Consequently,
I will only respond to one or two things and those responses will be
very brief.

>(common language) if you went to another country and the custom to eat
>a food in the manner you were accustomed to was an insult to your
>hosts, would you eat it in that insulting manner? What is not insulting
>for you to say could be very insulting to another.

Your argument here is totally off subject. I do know that if you or I
were eating in many middle east countries we would be considered to be
"unclean" if we eat with both hands. They consider anyone "unclean"
who eats with the same hand they use to wipe after defecating.

>
>(name calling) The derogatory term, S.O.B., among others, has not lost
>it's meaning to me.

Then that is YOUR problem.

> Nor have most words of insult or profanity lost or
>changed their meaning to me. Now you see why I say the words of the
>English language and it's American derivatives are losing all
>traditional meanings and usage. People like yourself are not helping
>the matter. If the trend continues, a time will come when no one will
>understand anyone else because the meanings will have changed to what
>ever the speaker decides they mean. But without a dictionary, who's to
>know?

Are you aware that many of the words most people find offensive,
including the dreaded "F" word that causes mothers to nearly faint the
first time they hear a child say it, came from old English, especially
the Celts? According to the history I have read and heard that word
and words for men and women's genitals was considered to be proper
until the conquerors outlawed them. In those time one could actually
go to prison for using them.


>(quotes) I consider everything you place beneath the dividing bar in
>your sigline to be propaganda. For that reason, I will no longer quote
>your posts.

What a lame excuse that is. There is no need to quote my sigline. I
don't quote yours. I have a time or two, but normally I do not.

>As I've said, I don't trust you, worse, I can't trust you.

Your decision.

Have a wonderful Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, New Years season.
We are. You should see our new Christmas tree. We bought a three foot
quadruple Norfolk Island Pine. I doubt if we will be able to put our
angel on the top since the tree doesn't have a central leader. We will
probably put her in front of the tree, the santa to one side and the
Buddha on the other. :-)

--
Grandpa Chuck
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A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle, and twice the brightness can then be shared by all.
Love is giving all with no conditions. Love is expecting nothing in return.
A religious person is trying to avoid hell; a spiritual person has already been there.
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