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I find it all amazing, I am short and all my life I've been called titch, shorty, inchy, midget, dwarf and so on and nobody bats an eyelid at including me. Sometimes it is a term of endearment but many times it isn't (like I didn't realise I was short) its their problem not mine.
When someone makes a remark about race or sexuality it is the most heinous crime, it needs stamping out, yet prejudice about my height (which I can't do anything about) isn't. It is all just words and words only hurt if you let them. It wasn't that many years ago we all used to laugh at Chalky White and Jim Davidson's impressions. Now you can't laugh at anything or anyone. I went to a Private school that had a 3 way split, White British, Nigerians and Hong Kong Chinese with a few other races mixed in. Guess what the white boys were called snowy or snow flakes, the Nigerians were called wogs or velcro head and the Hong Kong Chinese were chinks or yellows. Were any of us scarred or put into therapy? No. Did we have a good school community? You bet we did, we were all different and we got to see life through other people's eyes because there was no malice.
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10th May 2019 1:09 pm
RRSTDV8
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My Spaniel is called Archie. Like the new royal baby, he's mostly white with a little bit of brown here and there...
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10th May 2019 1:10 pm
RRSTDV8
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Pelyma wrote:
I find it all amazing, I am short and all my life I've been called titch, shorty, inchy, midget, dwarf and so on and nobody bats an eyelid at including me. Sometimes it is a term of endearment but many times it isn't (like I didn't realise I was short) its their problem not mine.
Typical short bloke trying to start a fight...
Sorry couldn't resist... Visiting from rrsport.co.uk
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"When you fire that first shot, no matter how right you feel, you have no idea who's going to die! You don't know who's children are going to scream and burn. How many hearts will be broken. How many lives shattered. How much blood will spill, until everybody does what they were always going to have to do from the very beginning: SIT DOWN AND TALK!"
10th May 2019 1:12 pm
Pelyma
Member Since: 06 Jan 2005
Location: Patching, Sussex
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That's it a nutshell, do I take offence? Am I put into therapy over it? You bet I am, now off you Northern b d . DS3 TDV6 HSE - Silver with Alpaca (old one) Gone
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10th May 2019 1:19 pm
leeds
Member Since: 30 Aug 2010
Location: West Yorkshire
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Fight, FIGHT, FIGHT
Going back to school playground times.
Brendan
Thinking of school playtime are there less fights due to shorter play times??
10th May 2019 1:46 pm
RRSTDV8
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Visiting from rrsport.co.uk
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"When you fire that first shot, no matter how right you feel, you have no idea who's going to die! You don't know who's children are going to scream and burn. How many hearts will be broken. How many lives shattered. How much blood will spill, until everybody does what they were always going to have to do from the very beginning: SIT DOWN AND TALK!"
10th May 2019 1:46 pm
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Member Since: 12 Aug 2010
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Pelyma wrote:
That's it a nutshell, do I take offence? Am I put into therapy over it? You bet I am, now off you Northern b d .
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10th May 2019 1:53 pm
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RRSTDV8 wrote:
Pelyma wrote:
I find it all amazing, I am short and all my life I've been called titch, shorty, inchy, midget, dwarf and so on and nobody bats an eyelid at including me. Sometimes it is a term of endearment but many times it isn't (like I didn't realise I was short) its their problem not mine.
Typical short bloke trying to start a fight...
Sorry couldn't resist...
I’m not exactly tall at 5’3” but I’ve never given a about it , when I was in my youth if any one took the p-ss out of my hight I just decked them problem solved
I did grow up in Bodmin so it was survival of the fittest I’ve now matured like a fine wine -------------------------------------------------
if you cant hold on dont let go , it ill come in handy for something even if you never use it.
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10th May 2019 1:58 pm
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A far better attempt at an apology today after the train wreck yesterday.
10th May 2019 2:01 pm
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Pelyma wrote:
That's it a nutshell, do I take offence?
ISTR you and others were highly offended by the word 'Gammon'
The problem is people often say they don't take offence ....until they choose to take offence 21 year LR veteran > D2 GS 2003 > D3 S 2006 > D3 HSE 2009 > D4 HSE 2013 > D4 HSE 2015 > D5 HSE 2018 > DS HSE R-Dynamic P300e 2021
10th May 2019 2:03 pm
Pelyma
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And you when you're called a troll, you sheep shagger. DS3 TDV6 HSE - Silver with Alpaca (old one) Gone
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10th May 2019 2:16 pm
Someone-Gone
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Is that cos he’s Welsh? I think you’ll find that’s a compliment in any case.
Bit of foreplay going on here.
10th May 2019 2:20 pm
DG Site Moderator
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Not sure I've taken offence at the word troll ever
...the sheep references never grow old though do they 21 year LR veteran > D2 GS 2003 > D3 S 2006 > D3 HSE 2009 > D4 HSE 2013 > D4 HSE 2015 > D5 HSE 2018 > DS HSE R-Dynamic P300e 2021
10th May 2019 2:37 pm
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