MisterCairo
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I say variations like 'Jesus wept!' or 'Christ on a bike!' quite a lot. I'm not that bothered about whether it's PC or not.
PC is not the issue. Plain offensive is.
I say variations like 'Jesus wept!' or 'Christ on a bike!' quite a lot. I'm not that bothered about whether it's PC or not.
On a hot rod board, there was some discussion of the term short, as in '2 cool shorts standing side by side' in the old Beach Boys tune. It meant a car, to California hot rodders in the sixties.
I'm sure I recall a taxicab was called a short in New York in the twenties and thirties. Pretty sure I saw the term in a Damon Runyan story and elsewhere but don't recall exactly. Can anyone pin point an example of this usage? Has anyone tracked down the origin of the term?
What's offensive about it?
Well...the world isn't made convenient for touchy subcultures. Which is at it should be.
Not asking for convenience, but decency and politeness.Nicely put.
Whatever. ...