On Tuesday, October 07, 2003 8:00 PM, Lee Bell wrote:

(snip)
> > > You tell me, which is more likely to be offensive when used relative
to
> > > describe somebody else, a word that refers to the portion of the world
> > > somebody comes from, i.e. the Orient, or a term that refers to a
Septic
> > > Tank, a device designed as a receptical for shit.  Do the terms Pot
and
> > > Kettle have meaning in your part of the world?

> > Your lack of knowledge of rhyming slang is showing through - and
> Australia.
> > But that comes as little surprise.

> I'm aware of the source.  You're the one that told me.  Are you aware that
> the term is offensive?  Are you going to answer the question or is this
your
> way of sliming out of responsibility?

Responsibility for what?

But to save you - or anyone else who might be interested - having to do your
own research, I've attached the numbers and dates of the relevant posts from
the archives:

001436 00/07/11 11:15 61  Re: Oztek 2000!
001446 00/07/12 09:41 42  Re: Oztek 2000!
005431 01/04/07 16:18 99  Re: NEW thread?: Paddy, Mick, Spic, Frog, ... <G>
(was : A NEW Re: ... <NOT>)
005530 01/04/11 06:57 34  Re: Derogatory ethnic terms
014636 03/02/16 12:59 61  Re: Pom? was Re: [SCUBA-SE] "Wembley" was a bit
off today! (Was: Re: [SCUBA-SE] Hello, I'm a newbie


> > As for using the term on you.  I recall doing so once, when you were
> trying
> > to make a star of yourself and ingratiate yourself with the WKPP - (that
> > group that you claimed to be a diver with!!!!).  In your case - and at
> that
> > time - it was used in an offensive way.

> Now you've become dilusional:
> 1. I have never ingratiated myself with WKPP.

I believe you.  (I did say "trying"!)

>George and I are bitter
> enemies and have been from the first exchange.  You have previously used
his
> words from some of those exchanges in your own posts, making it hard for
you
> to now claim you did not know.

> 2. I have never claimed to be a diver with WKPP.

You did say - on the 15th September:    >Still, the first
> time I was a good diver, a WKPP diver in fact, <

> I've never dove with the
> group and have never claimed that I did.  I do dive with some people who
are
> members.  There's a world of difference that seems to be lost on you.
I'll
> be diving with some of them the day after tomorrow.

> It seems your intended offense was based entirely on things dredged from
the
> pits of your own mind.  Don't let that bother you.

It doesn't bother me as much as it seems to bother you.  But, then again, I
apparently lack your highly developed sense of moral outrage.  The one that
you only seem to reserve for this list!

>  Your offense of others
> seems to be perfectly acceptable to you while mine, when clearly
> unintentional, seems to be quite unacceptable.  Interesting ethics you
have.

Beautifully fielded.

Strike