Posted by wayne on 07/12/07 02:13

dorayme wrote:
> In article
> <Xns996A704A88BC9nanopandaneredbojias@198.186.190.161>,
> Neredbojias <neredbojias@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> One day I was walking home from school with a Jewish friend and I happened
>> to use the word schmuck. He told me then what it meant and he got pretty
>> serious. I hadn't called him it, I'd just used it in conversion but that
>> still affected him. He was usually a light-hearted, very easy-going guy.
>> Anyway, it was then that I started to realize slur words weren't funny to a
>> lot of people whether rendered comedically or not.
>
> What a load of hypocritical bullshit. You have felt no compulsion
> to make the most outrageous slurs, time and time again, to engage
> in language and aspersions that must be quite offensive to many
> people and here you confounding all sorts of issues and
> associations and personal experiences to get on some moral soap
> box.
>
> You have it wrong about schmuck. Simple as that.
>
> It is most common in American comedic talk as mentioned in
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schmuck
>
> Remember, it is 2007. Study the idea of the vernacular. I was not
> calling people here generally. I was calling you a schmuck.
>

Would that translate into "dick head"?

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Wayne
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"Faith means not wanting to know what is true." [Nietzsche]

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