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| The H Man | 23 May 2019 6:05 p.m. PST |
Not quite sure where to post this. TMP link |
Oberlindes Sol LIC  | 23 May 2019 6:37 p.m. PST |
A professor of fine arts had an exhibition of various of his own abstract works on canvas. He was talking with me and my girlfriend about one of them, showing with a pencil how some shapes referred to real objects, and how he intended the eye to follow certain lines, and then suddenly his pencil flew up along a bright red object shaped much like the silver outline in the image linked. "And .. oops," he said, then continued with his exposition. I suppose the Earth Wars Saga artist had a similar oops moment. |
 Editor in Chief Bill   | 23 May 2019 6:46 p.m. PST |
Looks more like Full Thrust!  |
| Covert Walrus | 24 May 2019 12:59 a.m. PST |
. . . I'm not seeing anything wrong here. Is this like the "Speaking French is a vile insult" thing that you  have? |
| Stryderg | 24 May 2019 8:48 a.m. PST |
Ok, it looked fine, now it doesn't, probably because you led my mind into the gutter (a short trip to be sure). |
| Cerdic | 24 May 2019 12:53 p.m. PST |
I think that is a bit harsh on Covert Walrus. It doesn't sound like name calling to me. It's just rhyming slang. Short for "septic tank" = "yank". Now, yank has been a slang term for Americans in the rest of the English-speaking world for some considerable time. I don't believe it usually has any negative or insulting connotations. Merely a nickname! It's the same as me, as a Brit, being called a Limey. Not offensive in any way, as far as I can see. Indeed, I believe there is a ruleset called Limeys and Slimeys? The existence of which suggests that the word Limey is not offensive. By extension then, if the word Limey is equivalent to the word Yank, the word Yank is not offensive either. So Covert Walrus, in an obviously jokey, banterish post, in effect using the term Yanks for Americans, is hardly guilty of 'name calling'! |
| Oberlindes Sol LIC | 24 May 2019 1:17 p.m. PST |
Even unreconstructed Confederates don't consider Yank, Yankee, or Damn' Yankee to be insults. That's just what you call folks from the Sodom of the North. They have much more creative insults.
Disclaimer: I myself am a damn' Yankee.
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| Lion in the Stars | 24 May 2019 7:11 p.m. PST |
Even unreconstructed Confederates don't consider Yank, Yankee, or Damn' Yankee to be insults. That's just what you call folks from the Sodom of the North. Just wait until Johnny Foreigner calls them a Yank! Then it's an insult. |
| Covert Walrus | 29 May 2019 3:17 p.m. PST |
Apologies for the offense, people.I should have worded it better and am chastised. I still don't see the problem with the cover, though. |
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