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Re: United States Men Beat Frogs For Gold!!!
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To my american buddies, there is a huge french canadian population on the East Coast of Canada and since a lot of NBers and former NBers post here, they are fighting your use of the word "frog", they also don't use the word Indian but Native. This is where you show your restraint, he he. To my Canadian buddies...After living in Canada for a while I have become used to the idea of showing respect to my french neighbors and KNOW of the racism that exists here and what the Christians try to avoid...but....you gotta know...Americans DESPISE all things French.
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So, is it unChristian or not?
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08-11-2008, 03:51 PM
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Re: United States Men Beat Frogs For Gold!!!
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I could ask anyone who supports this type of adolescent "name calling" at best, or racism at worst - if they are racists???????
Actually, no - I'm not French. I'm not black either but that doesn't mean I condone racist terms for black folks. I'm not Indian or Pakistani or Polish or Jewish - it doesn't mean I support calling them terms that are offensive or racist!
Again - especially in the context of being "Christ like" this is very disconcerting.
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Pardon my French! I used the term in a lighthearted derogatory way, not in any anger or hatred. I posted some research about the term and while it is indeed derogatory it is not in the same sense as the "n" word is to Blacks.
I do indeed like to poke fun at the French as the only folks in the world to exceed my own contry for a sense of ethnocentrism. Of course in the case of America we have reasons to be ethnocentric!
I do like the new French President but I am wondering just how long a conservative can last in a socialist atmosphere. I hope long enough to win the hearts and minds of enough of the public to continue his reforms to help France.
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"We did not wear uniforms. The lady workers dressed in the current fashions of the day, ...silks...satins...jewels or whatever they happened to possess. They were very smartly turned out, so that they made an impressive appearance on the streets where a large part of our work was conducted in the early years.
"It was not until long after, when former Holiness preachers had become part of us, that strict plainness of dress began to be taught.
"Although Entire Sanctification was preached at the beginning of the Movement, it was from a Wesleyan viewpoint, and had in it very little of the later Holiness Movement characteristics. Nothing was ever said about apparel, for everyone was so taken up with the Lord that mode of dress seemingly never occurred to any of us."
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08-11-2008, 03:51 PM
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Re: United States Men Beat Frogs For Gold!!!
Loved their victory yell! Whooo Hooooo!!!! It was like a primal war yell! WAY TO GO USA!!!
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08-11-2008, 03:52 PM
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Re: United States Men Beat Frogs For Gold!!!
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So, is it unChristian or not?
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If meat offends? *In my book, and of course in my mind I am always right, the word frog doesn't come anywhere near the N word*
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08-11-2008, 03:53 PM
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Re: United States Men Beat Frogs For Gold!!!
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If meat offends? *In my book, and of course in my mind I am always right, the word frog doesn't come anywhere near the N word*
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I have an engineer working for me who is from Newfoundland. I asked him about the term, and he said that it was an insult, but nowhere NEAR the "n" word. He likened it to calling Southern people "rednecks", but when he read the responses here by a couple of folks, he said, "They are flying off the handle. They're making way more of this than a French person would".
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08-11-2008, 03:54 PM
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Re: United States Men Beat Frogs For Gold!!!
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I have an engineer working for me who is from Newfoundland. I asked him about the term, and he said that it was an insult, but nowhere NEAR the "n" word. He likened it to calling Southern people "rednecks", but when he read the responses here by a couple of folks, he said, "They are flying off the handle. They're making way more of this than a French person would".
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I agree with the Newfie...oops!!!!  
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08-11-2008, 03:58 PM
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Re: United States Men Beat Frogs For Gold!!!
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I agree with the Newfie...oops!!!! |
He would laugh!
He just became an American citizen, and so our interns wrapped his car with red, white and blue plastic wrap, and planted a few American flags on it!
Took him a while to cut it away so he could get into his car, but he was smiling the whole time!
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08-11-2008, 04:01 PM
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Re: United States Men Beat Frogs For Gold!!!
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He would laugh!
He just became an American citizen, and so our interns wrapped his car with red, white and blue plastic wrap, and planted a few American flags on it!
Took him a while to cut it away so he could get into his car, but he was smiling the whole time!
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Ask him how a "newfie" fans himself....then hold your hand up sideways to your face then shake your head!!! Heeee
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08-11-2008, 04:01 PM
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Re: United States Men Beat Frogs For Gold!!!
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If meat offends? *In my book, and of course in my mind I am always right, the word frog doesn't come anywhere near the N word*
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That is what my research shows. As Michael Phelps said it is more akin to calling a Southerner a "redneck" or one of us Tennesseans a "hillbilly".
I am amazed at the over reaction on this site. I guess political correctness has invaded every aspect of society.
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"I think some people love spiritual bondage just the way some people love physical bondage. It makes them feel secure. In the end though it is not healthy for the one who is lost over it or the one who is lives under the oppression even if by their own choice"
Titus2woman on AFF
"We did not wear uniforms. The lady workers dressed in the current fashions of the day, ...silks...satins...jewels or whatever they happened to possess. They were very smartly turned out, so that they made an impressive appearance on the streets where a large part of our work was conducted in the early years.
"It was not until long after, when former Holiness preachers had become part of us, that strict plainness of dress began to be taught.
"Although Entire Sanctification was preached at the beginning of the Movement, it was from a Wesleyan viewpoint, and had in it very little of the later Holiness Movement characteristics. Nothing was ever said about apparel, for everyone was so taken up with the Lord that mode of dress seemingly never occurred to any of us."
Quote from Ethel Goss (widow of 1st UPC Gen Supt. Howard Goss) book "The Winds of God"
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08-11-2008, 04:04 PM
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Re: United States Men Beat Frogs For Gold!!!
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Originally Posted by CC1
That is what my research shows. As Michael Phelps said it is more akin to calling a Southerner a "redneck" or one of us Tennesseans a "hillbilly".
I am amazed at the over reaction on this site. I guess political correctness has invaded every aspect of society.
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No up HERE it means a bit more...but nowhere near the N word!!!! Speaking of Rednecks, shouldn't you be watching Hee Haw right now???? he he he
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