RE: Friends and quotations from said 'friends'

[Guest guest]

Fred -

I agree wholeheartedly. People also need to learn the difference when

someone is teasing and when someone is being malicious.

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From: Fred Short [mailto:Fred.Short@...]

Now I am aware that the 'younger' members of the list, would probably be up

in arms at such seemingly 'politically incorrect' behaviour. But I think

the reason is, we (oldies) were brought up, neigh, DRAGGED up, before all

this political awareness came about. People spoke their minds, voiced their

thoughts (ignorant ones as they may have been) and because we were not

raised in a world of enlightenment, we learned pretty dam fast to roll with

it to survive.

Where-as these days, the younger ones seem to be cushioned against even the

slightest of 'sleights'! As we have seen on here, pity help any 'average'

person, who even LOOKS at them. Let alone makes ANY comment about them.

As a result, they have no come back. They have no repertoire of replies,

they have not learned the street level skill of a disarming retort. They

end up hurt, demoralised, at even the slightest incident.

They know the law is on their side. They know there are now laws forbidding

certain actions and reactions from Jo public. What they DON'T realise, is

that they have absolutely NO control over Jo public's gut reaction to

situations, or visual encounters, for which poor Jo just doesn't understand,

and for whom his only reaction is action.

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