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He pointed out to me below that it's a word in the dictionary, and that may be fine for the academic world. However, out here on the streets, where real people use the word, it is without a doubt done in a dismissive and insulting manner. Not being in America I figured you weren't aware of that, which is why I mentioned it. You don't strike me as the racist sort, so I was sure you wouldn't want to be perceived that way. As for the other stuff, with each day that you train it becomes ever more important to learn tolerance and self control, in all aspects of your life. As your skill to harm or kill other humans grows, you have an ever increasing responsibility to make sure that you are the master of your reactions in every waking moment of your day. It is a matter of honor - not only for yourself, but for the brothers and sisters in your art that you represent with every action you take in life. For good or for ill, people will look at how you treat others and think to themselves, "Oh, so that's what those karate guys are all about." Anger is a response. How it is expressed is a separate issue. If you train yourself to accept anger as an appropriate response, then some days it'll just be text on a web site. Other days, however, it may be a broken or permanently damaged person, and after it's all over and you realize that you weren't in control, it'll be too late. That's why it's critical to monitor and condition your reactions in all areas of your life, even when the consequences seem trivial. Feel free to print this post out, hand it to your Sensei, and publicly chastise me if he tells you that I have no idea what I'm talking about. It wouldn't be the first time I was wrong. :) I hope you know that the only reason I'm giving you a hard time about the way you've been letting others get to you lately is due to the high regard I hold you in. I think you're pointing your life in a good direction, and wouldn't want to see you get side tracked. Your temper is far more dangerous to you than a guy on the street with a knife. Budo is a way of life, expressed in arts that have as their goal the refinement of the human spirit. In the process, you also do a little punching and kicking.
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Well, I wasn't angry in this particular instance. I was just making a joke. As for my replies to Kyle (and his various alter egos), it's not really anger either. It's more an expression of "You're annoying, go away.". If I'm annoyed, I'll bite back. If I'm angry, I'm quite silent... until someone pushes me just a little bit more (which hasn't happened for almost 18 years now), at which point I'll explode. I didn't know that I've been perceived as angry. Maybe I'll tone down a little. :)
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Joergen Sigvardsson wrote:
I wasn't aware I was making a racial insult.
Ebonics got its bad rap, er reputation, when some grad student of Black Studies wrote his disseratation expounding on how it should be taught in schools just like proper English.
The evolution of the human genome is too important to be left to chance.
Tim Craig wrote:
how it should be taught in schools just like proper English.
Not instead of proper English, right? Because that would be just stupid. At least if your future income more or less depends on how well you manage the English language. :)
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Well, I wasn't angry in this particular instance. I was just making a joke. As for my replies to Kyle (and his various alter egos), it's not really anger either. It's more an expression of "You're annoying, go away.". If I'm annoyed, I'll bite back. If I'm angry, I'm quite silent... until someone pushes me just a little bit more (which hasn't happened for almost 18 years now), at which point I'll explode. I didn't know that I've been perceived as angry. Maybe I'll tone down a little. :)
-- Please rise for the Futurama theme song
We have more in common than you might realize. There's a reason I speak with some authority about the consequences of anger. After a number of experiences in my youth that I'd much rather forget, I decided that's just not the man I wanted to be, and started finding ways to do something about it. There are still more miles in front of me than behind me, and I continue to grapple daily with the dragon, but I've at least found out what kind of milk and cookies he likes. :) Yeah, you seem a bit cranky of late. Not to say that it's without provocation, mind you. Nonetheles, annoyed leads to angry, and as the years go by you're going to have to give up your self proclaimed right to bite back, and replace it with patience. The stakes are just too high. There truly are things worth killing for and dying for, but it's a really short list. It's much easier to just step offline and let them run into the wall on their own. :-D
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Tim Craig wrote:
how it should be taught in schools just like proper English.
Not instead of proper English, right? Because that would be just stupid. At least if your future income more or less depends on how well you manage the English language. :)
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Joergen Sigvardsson wrote:
Not instead of proper English, right? Because that would be just stupid.
I forget exactly how he phrased it. I think the furor about it was somewhere around 15 years ago. I think he wanted teachers trained in Ebonics so they could conduct classes in it in predominantly black schools. His argument was that it was what the kids understood so they'd learn better in it. However, those kids had spent years with their noses glued to a TV screen so they certainly understand proper English. He just needed something for his disseratation and wanted to make some waves. Another minority wanting a piece of the ESL pie.
The evolution of the human genome is too important to be left to chance.
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Tim Craig wrote:
how it should be taught in schools just like proper English.
Not instead of proper English, right? Because that would be just stupid. At least if your future income more or less depends on how well you manage the English language. :)
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Joergen Sigvardsson wrote:
LOADING...
:beer: :beer: :beer: (hic!) LOADED.
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We have more in common than you might realize. There's a reason I speak with some authority about the consequences of anger. After a number of experiences in my youth that I'd much rather forget, I decided that's just not the man I wanted to be, and started finding ways to do something about it. There are still more miles in front of me than behind me, and I continue to grapple daily with the dragon, but I've at least found out what kind of milk and cookies he likes. :) Yeah, you seem a bit cranky of late. Not to say that it's without provocation, mind you. Nonetheles, annoyed leads to angry, and as the years go by you're going to have to give up your self proclaimed right to bite back, and replace it with patience. The stakes are just too high. There truly are things worth killing for and dying for, but it's a really short list. It's much easier to just step offline and let them run into the wall on their own. :-D
Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes www.PracticalStrategyConsulting.com
Christopher Duncan wrote:
There truly are things worth killing for and dying for, but it's a really short list.
- Summer vacation time 2) ... Yeah, it's a short list. :-D
Christopher Duncan wrote:
It's much easier to just step offline and let them run into the wall on their own.
That's what I've been doing lately. I've begun writing many responses lately, but most of the time I've just said to myself "f*** it" just prior to killing the browser window. I've got a bunch of books and a software project to toy with. :)
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Christopher Duncan wrote:
There truly are things worth killing for and dying for, but it's a really short list.
- Summer vacation time 2) ... Yeah, it's a short list. :-D
Christopher Duncan wrote:
It's much easier to just step offline and let them run into the wall on their own.
That's what I've been doing lately. I've begun writing many responses lately, but most of the time I've just said to myself "f*** it" just prior to killing the browser window. I've got a bunch of books and a software project to toy with. :)
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Although I didn't want to step into that particular pissing contest, I nearly blew beer out my nose (yes, Virginia, I still drink a beer on occasion) when I read your "only 25%" comment. :laugh: You owe me a carpet cleaning. :-D Gonna have to make my way to Sweden sooner or later. I suspect we could have some fun.
Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes www.PracticalStrategyConsulting.com
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Although I didn't want to step into that particular pissing contest, I nearly blew beer out my nose (yes, Virginia, I still drink a beer on occasion) when I read your "only 25%" comment. :laugh: You owe me a carpet cleaning. :-D Gonna have to make my way to Sweden sooner or later. I suspect we could have some fun.
Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes www.PracticalStrategyConsulting.com
Christopher Duncan wrote:
You owe me a carpet cleaning.
Oh no.. not another one! I still owe a girl a carpet cleaning from waaaaay back. The booze she served that night wasn't all that great, so it came up again. Along with the nachos. And it was her stupid carpet that made me trip during my attempt to reach the toilet in a timely fashion. :rolleyes:
Christopher Duncan wrote:
Gonna have to make my way to Sweden sooner or later. I suspect we could have some fun.
June to August is the best time to visit Sweden. Great weather (= lightly dressed women abound), and sun light until midnight! Woohoo! :)
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He pointed out to me below that it's a word in the dictionary, and that may be fine for the academic world. However, out here on the streets, where real people use the word, it is without a doubt done in a dismissive and insulting manner. Not being in America I figured you weren't aware of that, which is why I mentioned it. You don't strike me as the racist sort, so I was sure you wouldn't want to be perceived that way. As for the other stuff, with each day that you train it becomes ever more important to learn tolerance and self control, in all aspects of your life. As your skill to harm or kill other humans grows, you have an ever increasing responsibility to make sure that you are the master of your reactions in every waking moment of your day. It is a matter of honor - not only for yourself, but for the brothers and sisters in your art that you represent with every action you take in life. For good or for ill, people will look at how you treat others and think to themselves, "Oh, so that's what those karate guys are all about." Anger is a response. How it is expressed is a separate issue. If you train yourself to accept anger as an appropriate response, then some days it'll just be text on a web site. Other days, however, it may be a broken or permanently damaged person, and after it's all over and you realize that you weren't in control, it'll be too late. That's why it's critical to monitor and condition your reactions in all areas of your life, even when the consequences seem trivial. Feel free to print this post out, hand it to your Sensei, and publicly chastise me if he tells you that I have no idea what I'm talking about. It wouldn't be the first time I was wrong. :) I hope you know that the only reason I'm giving you a hard time about the way you've been letting others get to you lately is due to the high regard I hold you in. I think you're pointing your life in a good direction, and wouldn't want to see you get side tracked. Your temper is far more dangerous to you than a guy on the street with a knife. Budo is a way of life, expressed in arts that have as their goal the refinement of the human spirit. In the process, you also do a little punching and kicking.
Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes
Christopher Duncan wrote:
As for the other stuff, with each day that you train it becomes ever more important to learn tolerance and self control, in all aspects of your life. As your skill to harm or kill other humans grows, you have an ever increasing responsibility to make sure that you are the master of your reactions in every waking moment of your day. It is a matter of honor - not only for yourself, but for the brothers and sisters in your art that you represent with every action you take in life. For good or for ill, people will look at how you treat others and think to themselves, "Oh, so that's what those karate guys are all about." Anger is a response. How it is expressed is a separate issue. If you train yourself to accept anger as an appropriate response, then some days it'll just be text on a web site. Other days, however, it may be a broken or permanently damaged person, and after it's all over and you realize that you weren't in control, it'll be too late. That's why it's critical to monitor and condition your reactions in all areas of your life, even when the consequences seem trivial. Feel free to print this post out, hand it to your Sensei, and publicly chastise me if he tells you that I have no idea what I'm talking about. It wouldn't be the first time I was wrong. I hope you know that the only reason I'm giving you a hard time about the way you've been letting others get to you lately is due to the high regard I hold you in. I think you're pointing your life in a good direction, and wouldn't want to see you get side tracked. Your temper is far more dangerous to you than a guy on the street with a knife. Budo is a way of life, expressed in arts that have as their goal the refinement of the human spirit. In the process, you also do a little punching and kicking.
This is a very curious post; at least I think so. What is your relationship to Joergen that you can give him such serious and personal advice on a public forum such as this - and get away with it! :) Are you members of the same Budo - I don't know the right word - "group"? Are you his mentor or advisor? I can't imagine that you're just picking folks at random and offering unsolicited advice. So, what's the scoop?
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Christopher Duncan wrote:
You owe me a carpet cleaning.
Oh no.. not another one! I still owe a girl a carpet cleaning from waaaaay back. The booze she served that night wasn't all that great, so it came up again. Along with the nachos. And it was her stupid carpet that made me trip during my attempt to reach the toilet in a timely fashion. :rolleyes:
Christopher Duncan wrote:
Gonna have to make my way to Sweden sooner or later. I suspect we could have some fun.
June to August is the best time to visit Sweden. Great weather (= lightly dressed women abound), and sun light until midnight! Woohoo! :)
-- A Stern Warning of Things to Come
Awoooo!!! :-D
Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes www.PracticalStrategyConsulting.com
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Christopher Duncan wrote:
As for the other stuff, with each day that you train it becomes ever more important to learn tolerance and self control, in all aspects of your life. As your skill to harm or kill other humans grows, you have an ever increasing responsibility to make sure that you are the master of your reactions in every waking moment of your day. It is a matter of honor - not only for yourself, but for the brothers and sisters in your art that you represent with every action you take in life. For good or for ill, people will look at how you treat others and think to themselves, "Oh, so that's what those karate guys are all about." Anger is a response. How it is expressed is a separate issue. If you train yourself to accept anger as an appropriate response, then some days it'll just be text on a web site. Other days, however, it may be a broken or permanently damaged person, and after it's all over and you realize that you weren't in control, it'll be too late. That's why it's critical to monitor and condition your reactions in all areas of your life, even when the consequences seem trivial. Feel free to print this post out, hand it to your Sensei, and publicly chastise me if he tells you that I have no idea what I'm talking about. It wouldn't be the first time I was wrong. I hope you know that the only reason I'm giving you a hard time about the way you've been letting others get to you lately is due to the high regard I hold you in. I think you're pointing your life in a good direction, and wouldn't want to see you get side tracked. Your temper is far more dangerous to you than a guy on the street with a knife. Budo is a way of life, expressed in arts that have as their goal the refinement of the human spirit. In the process, you also do a little punching and kicking.
This is a very curious post; at least I think so. What is your relationship to Joergen that you can give him such serious and personal advice on a public forum such as this - and get away with it! :) Are you members of the same Budo - I don't know the right word - "group"? Are you his mentor or advisor? I can't imagine that you're just picking folks at random and offering unsolicited advice. So, what's the scoop?
I can get away with picking on my friends when they'd have to fly halfway around the world to kick my tail. :-D
Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes www.PracticalStrategyConsulting.com
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Christopher Duncan wrote:
I thought only Americans used that particular racial insult
Actually, the word "ebonics" is a common and acceptable term. I quote from the usage note under "Black English" at dictionary.com: "Linguists generally prefer the term African American Vernacular English, although some use the term Ebonics, which saw widespread use in the late 1990s."
Christopher Duncan wrote:
You shouldn't let people drag you down to their level, Joergen. You have more character than that. Or, as I once heard it put, never wrestle with a pig. You both get dirty, but the pig likes it.
At what level is one functioning when he likens another to a "pig"?
The Grand Negus wrote:
At what level is one functioning when he likens another to a "pig"?
:laugh::laugh::laugh: Good One!
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Since this is a privately owned and operating environment, that is their choice and privilege.
Wrong. This is a collectively owned and operated environment that the operators fund with backend advertising and donations. Without the members it is worth precisely zero dollars ;)