They ARE cancel culture! They take coffee away from Italians, French, and Dutch. They take tea away from the English, Scots, Welsh, and Irish. Et cetera. In the end, they may either take away a culture, or appropriating a culture for their own ends.
cludgie Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > They take tea > away from the English, Scots, Welsh, and Irish.
Yeah. That takes some doing.
Excruciating sacrifice.
Pretty much the first thing I did after I left that (damn) church was to make myself a cup of Yorkshire Gold tea. In a big huge mug. And I had two cups. Bliss.
I should have known it wasn't the church for me the instant the mishies said no more tea. Say what? Yow. A sacrifice too far.
So yes. I left so I could "sin". Or so it comforts them to think.
If the biggest sin a person ever commits is enjoying all of decent, useful and beautiful creation (by God or Humankind) I can live with that.
Lot's Wife Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > "Paddy Bear!" That's how my daughter pronounced it > when I brought her the plush toy from Harrods long > ago.
Another British term I like is "char" as a term for tea. Tea in India is called "chai" (note: "chai tea" is redundant) and the Japanese word ちゃ (Pronounced "chya" with a soft "y") comes from the Chinese word. Turns out "char" is closer to what the drink and leaves are called than tea. There's a whole argument over whether tea drinking originated in India or China that I don't want to get into.
I sometimes wonder whether I should have tried to study nutritional anthropology. The history of food and drink is quite fascinating!
Char comes from the regional Chinese for tea whuich is cha. It's a British thing, adding an r where they are not not, and not rolling them when they are.
I have trouble with tonal languages, hence why I don't know Mandarin that well or Cantonese at all. But I do like that char is closer to what it's called by the folks who grow and export it.
Note: I worked as a cleaner for apartments before and I work as a janitor now, so I'd prefer being compared to a charlady over a charwoman. I think charlady sounds more professional and I have my pride.
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ookami Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Note: I worked as a cleaner for apartments before > and I work as a janitor now, so I'd prefer being > compared to a charlady over a charwoman. I think > charlady sounds more professional and I have my > pride.
I was in the middle of writing charlady but then thought it was perhaps a mite too upscale, in case people got mixed up between a "maid" (which I put in brackets to make the meaning clear to all) and a Lady, who in the UK is a cut above, according to their social hierarchy.
So it's kind of mixing opposites if char is a maid and Lady is a, well, Lady.
But no offence intended (LOL).
Cleaning is an essential and thoroughly respectable occupation. I would give pretty much anything to have a cleaner here with me today. The sun's just come out after a massive rainstorm and I can see thick dust all over the damn place. (The 'damn' is for Lot's Wife). :P
I know it's mixing opposites, that's one of the reasons I like charlady.
Cleaning isn't the most glamorous field to work in, but someone's got to do it. And I try to do a good job even though I'm not always fond of it. So I don't take offense.
A maid was a woman who lived in to take care of the home of the wealthy. A charlady worked by the hour for specific cleaning tasks. Likely the term evolved from chore lady.
Lot's Wife Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > "Damn?" "Bloody?" > > "Fuck?" > > What on earth is happening? > > "When summer and Nightingale start exhibiting > linguistic excesses, the Apocalypse is nigh." > > --Jesus, prophet pro temp, address unknown
They've cancelled the word Mormon in most contexts. Now every time someone calls them Mormon, they can deny it in passive-aggressive style... even though they ran the "I'm a Mormon" campaign less than ten years ago.
Censorship is not constant; it ebbs and flows. Goebbels was not Wilhelm II. Napoleon's press bureau was not the same as Macron's. Stasi was not today's Germany. Mao's Cultural Revolution was not the same as the same as Deng Xiaoping's 1980s. Pol Pot was not Norodom Sihanouk.
You make sweeping generalizations that serve not as thought but as excuses not to think. Rubicon, you have enough intelligence and experience to do better.
There is also more to cancel culture than just censorship. It’s not just dictorial governments that practice it. All of us have been a victim of cancel culture simply because one group or person did not like us for whatever reason.
Okay. So "cancel culture" is, in your words, when "one group or person did not like us for whatever reason."
Little Sally in third grade refuses to hold your hand and you've been "canceled?" Someone takes offense at your BLM hat and you've been "canceled?" Someone flips you off on the highway and you've been "canceled?" I disagree with one of your sweeping generalizations and you have been "canceled?"
You've just robbed the term of any meaning and empowered snowflakes anywhere to denounce people who disagree with them.
”It’s either your doubts or your family. You choose,” TBM wife
“I understand your concerns, but if you say a word about your doubts to our kids, we’re over!” TBM Wife
“It’s fine for you to have these doubts, but if you share them with other Mormons, I’ll be forced to discipline you.” Bishop
“Even my wife and kids?” Me
“Especially your wife and kids!” Bishop
“Who are you to deny me my freedom of speech guaranteed by the Constitution?” Me
“I’m your Bishop!” Bishop
“Not anymore! I quit!” Me
Me to TBM wife, ”If you expect me to lie to our kids about the truth, there’s the door. Don’t let it hit you where the good Lord split you on the way out!”
She didn’t and life’s been waaaaay better ever since!
Most Mormons (in the US anyway, which lets be honest is most mormons) consider themselves Republicans first and Mormons second so it would be whatever Fox news tells them to think about it