Aurora Complexus wrote on Oct 30
th, 2024 at 1:40am:
Marla wrote on Oct 30
th, 2024 at 1:09am:
Why are you so obsessed with the word "poofter" Blooby?
Kind of irrelevant, but I was put on a work program with a teenager who used the f-word and the c-word whenever possible. Sometimes twice in the same sentence. I taught him to say "mongrel" with emphasis on the "mong" and he pretty much stopped swearing. He never actually graduated to a job, but then, I didn't either.
I have seen this happen many times throughout the history of my life. People that use their teenaged years to discover who they are by rebelling against authority. Then there are those people that act like they have no responsibilities to their community, because they think they are owed a living.
Give some thought to this possibility: If you were nabbed, tied up, put into a car and taken 100km from your last known location, and let loose in the rural areas, what would you do?
Yelling out "help" would do little to ease your pain. Swearing might attract attention of some wild animals. And if you don't know how to build a fire or construct basic shelter, you are basically done. Anyone can walk 100km with nothing more than a mobile phone and the clothes and backpack as possession. They won't suffer anything more than some minor dehydration before they can get a mobile phone signal. But what of those people that lose their phones, their shoes and are given nothing more than a lighter to use, with their cigarettes, whilst they are dumped out in the bush?
We did this scenario back in the year 1990. It is amazing how valuable a $1 Bic lighter is to people stuck in the bush. Because some people don't know how to light fires without them. They rely on something that does things for them that they cannot easily do for themselves.
By the way, you might as well quit reading my WorkChat articles that I wrote for a few days, whilst my "ex-girlfriend" finished her thesis in Gladstone. Plagiarism is intellectual theft.