Hurricane Katrina
Kitiara:
Quote from: ZephyrZodiac on 2005 August 29, 20:51:58
They need to get some dutchmen over to teach them how to put their fingers into the holes in dykes!
That is no longer a good and decent phrase to speak in public.
::) Political Correctness annoys me.
Back to topic: Reg, I hope you are safe. Get back in touch when you can.
ZephyrZodiac:
Apologies, it really never occurred to me! Maybe it's because I would never dream of using that term for a lesbian in the first place!
Kitiara:
Not a problem to me, but some may have had one. I wouldn't use it either. I have had friends who referred to themselves that way (which always seemed weird). It is just one of many perfectly fine words I have had to expunge from my vocabulary because new definitions make the old ones impossible to use. Never know when people will be offended accidentally. For the record, I took no offense at your statement, and knew how it was meant, but noticed the double entendre and thought you might like to be informed of a possible miscommunication.
ZephyrZodiac:
Oh well, poor Peter the little Dutch boy will have to save his village some other way!
(And if you happened to live in or near the Fens, I'm afraid you have no choice but to use the word in its intended sense! There is no other that will fit the bill. I do wish people would stop hijacking words for their own particular use - if you want a new word, what's wrong with inventing one?)
gali:
When I was a little girl, I read a book named "The Heart" from D'Amichis, and there was a little boy who puts his fingers in the hole of the leaking wall, and saves the town from flood. It was heroic scene, although far from being real. But I liked the scene, and remember it till today...:). I didn't know that there is a Duch boy too...:).
Kitiara, I don't think ZZ meant to offend somebody, or to laugh at the suffer of others. But when somebody mention "flood" - this is the first conotation you make...:), if you have read the book.
We all are concerned about the hurican and the many people who suddenly became homeless. It's terrible that the human race didn't overcome the Nature, in spite of all the inventions of the 21th century.
May be indeed we need a little boy to put his finger in the wall's hole...:).
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