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UncertainSloth wrote:
it wasn't a pre-requisite, dont worry....i'm a little surprised, it was a relatively big disney film in the late 70s - i was very aware of it over here and i'm only a year or two older...round about the same time as pete's dragon and just before the black hole, iirc....
The_Piper wrote:Hmm, over here the term lady isn't mealy mouthed. If mealy mouthed means something negative that is, I'm off to look that up.
The_Piper wrote:UncertainSloth wrote:
it wasn't a pre-requisite, dont worry....i'm a little surprised, it was a relatively big disney film in the late 70s - i was very aware of it over here and i'm only a year or two older...round about the same time as pete's dragon and just before the black hole, iirc....
I've never heard of Black Hole either. I saw a dragon cartoon movie back then at some point. It had the Puff the Magic Dragon song. So I probably didn't see Pete's Dragon either. I guess I was deprived.
Fallible wrote:But yeah, what's the problem with 'bird'? It's perfectly fine.I think I'm going to stop using the word 'men' and just refer to them as gerbils, then just make sweeping statements about them. Bloody gerbils wouldn't know how to iron a shirt if you made a boring Saturday morning sport programme out of it.
UncertainSloth wrote:The_Piper wrote:UncertainSloth wrote:The_Piper wrote:I'd never heard of it or saw it.
it wasn't a pre-requisite, dont worry....i'm a little surprised, it was a relatively big disney film in the late 70s - i was very aware of it over here and i'm only a year or two older...round about the same time as pete's dragon and just before the black hole, iirc....
I've never heard of Black Hole either. I saw a dragon cartoon movie back then at some point. It had the Puff the Magic Dragon song. So I probably didn't see Pete's Dragon either. I guess I was deprived.
that would be 'puff the magic dragon'....
black hole, which was 1979 i've just discovered, is the first film i remember going to the cinema to see...as i was just too young for star wars in 77...had a soft spot for it ever since...
pete's dragon, iirc, is shit....as was the remake....not disney's heyday, to be sure...
Fallible wrote:You sure it doesn't just depend on who you ask?
UncertainSloth wrote:The_Piper wrote:Hmm, over here the term lady isn't mealy mouthed. If mealy mouthed means something negative that is, I'm off to look that up.
it;s basically to do with skirting round the issue and avoiding being straight - e.g. avoiding using the word in common usage, which in this case is woman/women...same as man/men, which i'd rather have than people tootling around here calling me gentleman/gentlemen...
it annoys the fuck out of me on another forum i frequent where men address their wives/partners as 'my lady'....why the fuck not just say 'my wife'...fucking cringeworthy nonsense - it's not out of respect, it's not out of deference...it's just...well....mealy-mouthed...
The_Piper wrote:Fallible wrote:You sure it doesn't just depend on who you ask?
Chick, I'm sure is annoying to some people, but lady isn't. It's a "gentler" word than woman in fact.
Fallible wrote:
I can't agree with you there. 'Lady' is extremely annoying to some people, often because of this idea of a 'gentler' word. Why is that necessary? Do we need to be gentle to 'ladies'? There's only one circumstance I would use either 'lady' or 'gentleman', and it's if I'm referring to an unknown person either to a child, for example 'little Johnny, move over and let the gentleman pass', or to another adult, eg. 'this lady was in line before me', within earshot of the person themselves.
Fallible wrote:Every time I see a shit woman driver I die a little bit inside. Been dying a lot lately, but maybe it's just confirmation bias.
Keep It Real wrote:Oh for fuck's sake I'm completely fucking tortured now - can't call 'em birds, ladies or women...how about XXs or Eves...
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