I appreciate your comment, but please rest assured.... (Reply #43)

In the discussion thread: "If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set." Great screed from FB [View all]

Response to BannonsLiver (Reply #35)

Tue Feb 12, 2019, 04:23 PM

A HERETIC I AM (22,730 posts)

43. I appreciate your comment, but please rest assured....

I know EXACTLY the connotation, the reference, the applicability and frankly, the tone with which that term is used in British vernacular.

Yassee...I've been over there and have British friends, dontchaknow!

Entirely too many people on this board have for years now, taken every single opportunity they can find to be offended.

And after 15 and a half years as a member of DU, I have finally arrived at the point where I just don't give a fuck anymore.

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108 replies	Author	Time	Post
"If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set." Great screed from FB [View all]	A HERETIC I AM	Feb 2019	OP
Great find.	dalton99a	Feb 2019	#1
"He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart."	Dennis Donovan	Feb 2019	#2
God help us, it's true.	Paladin	Feb 2019	#32
I LOVE how the British phrase their thoughts.....	ProudMNDemocrat	Feb 2019	#3
I do, as well!	BobTheSubgenius	Feb 2019	#64
The author is one Terry Casey	Haggis for Breakfast	Feb 2019	#71
Love it ...	CatMor	Feb 2019	#4
Hear Hear	Midnightwalk	Feb 2019	#5
"except when he's among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a sneivling sidekick instead".	SammyWinstonJack	Feb 2019	#6
"sniveling sidekick" jumped out at me, too	Hermit-The-Prog	Feb 2019	#47
K&R	Docreed2003	Feb 2019	#7
Isn't that exactly what his own mother said?	Texin	Feb 2019	#8
Succicntly stated friend	pecosbob	Feb 2019	#9
This is magnificent	cp	Feb 2019	#10
What a superb commentary!	calimary	Feb 2019	#11
Wow, it's hard to pick just a couple lines for a meme.	MH1	Feb 2019	#12
A Shakespeare of shit	PJMcK	Feb 2019	#13
That's the line that got me.	kag	Feb 2019	#104
If "twat" wasn't degrading slang for women's genitalia, I might agree	whathehell	Feb 2019	#14
Sorry you are offended...but no.	A HERETIC I AM	Feb 2019	#18
So the n-word would be acceptable just as long as it's in quotation marks. Got it.	catbyte	Feb 2019	#21
This message was self-deleted by its author	3Hotdogs	Feb 2019	#22
If it is pertinent to the story....	A HERETIC I AM	Feb 2019	#23
Sure you would, lol.. Sorry but I doubt that very much,	whathehell	Feb 2019	#36
...	A HERETIC I AM	Feb 2019	#41
So original..	whathehell	Feb 2019	#61
THANK you for asking that highly pertinent question..	whathehell	Feb 2019	#34
Excuse me, but I did answer the question.	A HERETIC I AM	Feb 2019	#42
Yes, and I answered it.	whathehell	Feb 2019	#48
How incredibly kind and fortuitous	A HERETIC I AM	Feb 2019	#49
Lol..So glad you noticed.	whathehell	Feb 2019	#52
Hell no.	Haggis for Breakfast	Feb 2019	#73
+1	BannonsLiver	Feb 2019	#35
I appreciate your comment, but please rest assured....	A HERETIC I AM	Feb 2019	#43
Oh I know you know	BannonsLiver	Feb 2019	#45
Lol.. I'm well aware of other cultures..	whathehell	Feb 2019	#50
All evidence to the contrary.	BannonsLiver	Feb 2019	#56
Lol.. You have a jerking knee, and "evidence" of nothing	whathehell	Feb 2019	#59
Then, you're little more than a snob.	Haggis for Breakfast	Feb 2019	#78
Congratulations!..Yours is the truly the most clueless response	whathehell	Feb 2019	#85
Look up.	Haggis for Breakfast	Feb 2019	#88
I am a woman and a feminist and did not take offense at the use of the world.	smirkymonkey	Feb 2019	#82
Then I'd say you are an exception.. The terms "cunt" and "twat" are.	whathehell	Feb 2019	#86
Lol..Your concern is duly noted.	whathehell	Feb 2019	#100
Get all that out of your system now, did ya?	A HERETIC I AM	Feb 2019	#107
Here, here	Haggis for Breakfast	Feb 2019	#72
Alternate descriptive terms	SMoss	Feb 2019	#24
Yeah, why not use them?	whathehell	Feb 2019	#27
Because they are offensive to some Jewish people.	Haggis for Breakfast	Feb 2019	#79
For the record, I don't find schmuck or putz offensive either and I know many	smirkymonkey	Feb 2019	#83
Congratulations.	Haggis for Breakfast	Feb 2019	#87
Talk about self-righteous boors.	smirkymonkey	Feb 2019	#89
You are missing the point.	Haggis for Breakfast	Feb 2019	#92
Yes, I know. I assumed your response was a way of telling me that I was	smirkymonkey	Feb 2019	#95
Now, I find "wops" offensive.	Haggis for Breakfast	Feb 2019	#97
You too, Haggis!	smirkymonkey	Feb 2019	#99
So "some Jewish people" are more important than all women?	whathehell	Feb 2019	#90
Not ALL women are offended by it.	Haggis for Breakfast	Feb 2019	#93
Most American women ARE offended by it.	whathehell	Feb 2019	#96
Did you take a poll ?	Haggis for Breakfast	Feb 2019	#98
Navigating the hidden shoals and unexpected landmines	summer_in_TX	Feb 2019	#101
Because the writer is a Brit, and those words ...	MicaelS	Feb 2019	#33
This message was self-deleted by its author	BannonsLiver	Feb 2019	#37
Twat is seen as a general insult rather than a pejorative in the UK	Soph0571	Feb 2019	#30
This isn't the UK..	whathehell	Feb 2019	#31
'Murica!11	BannonsLiver	Feb 2019	#40
Thanks.	A HERETIC I AM	Feb 2019	#44
Lol.. Knee jerk much?	whathehell	Feb 2019	#55
Well, two things	Cuthbert Allgood	Feb 2019	#51
Lol..Nice try, but you need to re-read my posts	whathehell	Feb 2019	#53
It is germane to the discuss. Perhaps not the discussion you want to have, but...	Cuthbert Allgood	Feb 2019	#58
No, you missed it	whathehell	Feb 2019	#60
Oh, aren't you cute with your passive-aggressive response.	Cuthbert Allgood	Feb 2019	#63
This isn't the UK..	Soph0571	Feb 2019	#54
Correct..	whathehell	Feb 2019	#57
No harm no foul	Soph0571	Feb 2019	#65
I agree..	whathehell	Feb 2019	#67
BUT the author, Terry Casey, IS British.	Haggis for Breakfast	Feb 2019	#80
Trump doesn't have the warmth or the depth...	backscatter712	Feb 2019	#46
I look at it as the British equivalent of Dick.	BlancheSplanchnik	Feb 2019	#106
If women's power and status in society was equal to that of men,	whathehell	Mar 2019	#108
Well Said!	dlk	Feb 2019	#15
"That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick	Cha	Feb 2019	#16
Nobody deconstructs characters like British writers	sandensea	Feb 2019	#17
Spot-On and Priceless!!!	Martin Eden	Feb 2019	#19
Bookmarking!	Dem2theMax	Feb 2019	#20
Spot on!! Fabulous!	Alliepoo	Feb 2019	#25
Hard to beat the Brits when it comes to witty barbs...	Wounded Bear	Feb 2019	#26
Yeah, sexist slurs used as insults are just so "witty"	whathehell	Feb 2019	#38
Geeze, get over yourself. nt	scarletwoman	Feb 2019	#76
Amen, Sister Scarlet, Amen	Haggis for Breakfast	Feb 2019	#81
Geez, you get over yourself..	whathehell	Feb 2019	#91
Bar none, this is the most perfect description of Trump I've ever read.	denverbill	Feb 2019	#28
This is terrific.	AJT	Feb 2019	#29
Terrific post	BannonsLiver	Feb 2019	#39
Outstanding. And embarrassing, too, for sane Americans.	VOX	Feb 2019	#62
The British have always had a way with words. Ask Shakespeare.	world wide wally	Feb 2019	#66
Jabba the Hut of Priviledge	SallyHemmings	Feb 2019	#68
I just copied that to post!	AwakeAtLast	Feb 2019	#69
I found it in the essay	SallyHemmings	Feb 2019	#70
That was great!	Control-Z	Feb 2019	#74
Formidable! Most excellent post!	scarletwoman	Feb 2019	#75
Perfect!	Rocky888	Feb 2019	#77
Beyond Fabulous, multi-leveled	zentrum	Feb 2019	#84
+1 n/t	ariadne0614	Feb 2019	#105
the moron is an elderly richy rich, but mean.	pansypoo53219	Feb 2019	#94
Bookmarked. A great find HIA. n/t	Whiskeytide	Feb 2019	#102
Just Perfect	LittleGirl	Feb 2019	#103

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