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Skriven 2014-04-29 12:43:27 av Nancy Backus (1:261/1381.0)
  Kommentar till text 12636 av MICHAEL LOO (1:123/140)
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-=> Quoting MICHAEL LOO to NANCY BACKUS on 27 Apr 14  01:33:00 <=-

 ML>> The person apparently did not reflect that the term is
 ML>> "fat pig," not "skinny pig."
 NB>> That either..  ;)    (and I saw your addendum that the person was
 NB>> female... I'd almost used the s/he in my message...)
 ML> One might not have suspected that a woman was so
 ML> wholly ignorant of culinary facts but might suffer
 ML> the accusation of stereotyping, too, if so.

Male or female could have only rudimentary knowledge of cooking...
associating particular cuts with their original placement on the animal
could be as foreign as the idea that food comes from farms... ;)  As
basic and fundamental as those concepts are, even...  :)

 NB> Still sounds quite intriguing to me... whether or not it is still "all
 NB> the rage" or not by the time I get to try it...  ;)
 ML> 
 ML> It's just bacon. If you like it, pork belly is better
 ML> than intriguing.

Bacon's good...  :)  

 NB>> I'm not at all in favor of laughing at other people's calamities
 NB>> (although some can indeed have their humorous elements)... And perhaps
 NB>> it's better stated as things can have their silver linings... a quiet
 NB>> humor, perhaps, is the best one can get from some unhappy situations.
 ML> The hand-in-hand nature of humor and cruelty has always
 ML> distressed me, though I recognize the frequent truth of
 ML> your statement. 

Laughing at others is usually cruel... laughing with others usually not
so...  Poking fun at others, making them the butt of jokes, I find just
wrong, and mean...  That has also always distressed me...  Looking for
something in one's own situation that can redeem it, even as a bit of
humor and/or lightness, that's a different story... often the only thing
that keeps one from going totally insane...  :)  And I don't find
anything amiss with helping someone else gain that sort of equanimity in
a situation, although that is rarely the first thing to be done... ;)

 ML> Practical so-called jokes I pretty much
 ML> abhor and cannot find any justification for.

Totally agreed, and likewise abhorred... not humorous, usually cruel
and uncalled for...

 ML>> Hard to tell - I thought not, as he boarded at the
 ML>> last moment on a fairly empty plane (if he'd been a
 ML>> frequent flyer, he would most likely have staked out
 ML>> his territory earlier, as this row is one of the most
 ML>> frequently poached), but then he might have been an
 ML>> uber-frequent flyer who just decided at the last
 ML>> moment to get on an earlier flight.
 NB>> Yeah... I can see that as a possibility...  Reason I wondered, partly,
 NB>> was his really flip attitude... kinda the bad sort of frequent
 NB>> flyerishness... know-it-all-why-bother-me attitude...  ;0
 ML> Frequent flyers tend to be blase', though, so initial
 ML> inspection led me to think he was not perhaps so expert a
 ML> flyer as he thought he was. A true novice, though, would
 ML> likely not have been able to wangle the exit row, and if
 ML> he did, not apt to jeopardize this position by mouthing
 ML> off at the flight attendant, whose instructions it is
 ML> said must be obeyed under all circumstances.

mmm.   When I have had occasion to fly, I do watch the other
passengers... sometimes I have a clue who might be at least somewhat
frequent flyers, others are harder to tell... but then, I haven't the
wealth of experience you have... :)

 ML>> The Wiki gave some enlightenment on the subject, which was
 ML>> similar but not identical to yours. For this kind of
 ML>> noncontroversial factual knowledge, I don't distrust it.
 NB>> Depends on whether any Social Work grads added to the wiki...  there
 NB>> was a lot of disgruntlement when the program was cancelled... it's one
 NB>> of my peeves with the school... ;0

 ML> Too sad. Now who does the social work training in your city?

Not sure.  Closest might be at Geneseo, or at one of the community
colleges, maybe..  Buffalo and Syracuse have MSW programs.  One of the
really special things about the RIT program had been that a BSW from
there was practically equivalent to an MSW from most places... and
recognised as such.  

ttyl         neb

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