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Hey, you're lucky he didn't call you a dick :-) nt

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Rick W

In Reply to: RE: Future-proof = bullshit posted by Doug Schneider on March 21, 2017 at 05:08:36

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You really have to earn that one (nt) - 13th Duke of Wymbourne 12:23:30 03/21/17 (0)
nt
I've never understood calling people names on the internet - DAP 09:46:12 03/21/17 (0)
In the school yard, if you called somebody a dick, it wasn't really about the name, but the implied threat that lay behind it. About whether the caller could beat the callee, or vice versa. If the caller was stronger and meaner, there wasn't much the callee could do other than recite the "sticks and stones" rhymes.
But on the internet, somebody calls somebody a dick, and then, what? What can anybody do? We're left with the abstraction, the name, instead of the sticks and stones. The name kind of hangs there, perhaps evocative of a more manly era, and then goes like the mist. Somebody shouts LOL!, and it's gone.
Daniel

Edits: 03/21/17

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