Have you ever thought that if new Zealand and Australia had been dominant world powers..

@pdockal It was a penal colony of England/UK, not Europe.

@justanothername

potatoe pottotoe .... like that matters ... you get the point ?

@pdockal The UK wasn’t part of Europe at the time that Australia was being used as a penal colony.
Learn your history

@pdockal well it does to us.
Its history.

Imagine if we said "meh, America was found by Greeks and Italians" 🤷‍♀️

Saying we are a colony of Europe isnt only disrespectful to us, its also disrespectful of all the European countries that had nothing to do with it.

Perhaps, "know your history"?

@OogieBoogie

England is part of Europe
Plus you had Ireland & India, Canada, The Cape of Good Hope, Bermuda, and Mauritius

But who's counting ?

@pdockalYour point?

You mentioned "know your history"- so use it.
Dont be insulting to others history .

Do i grade America by all of it?
Does that include South America?
Do i be that insultive ?

No.

Geez dude, have some respect

@pdockal Austraila was invaded and setteld by the Brittish - esp England.

This refers to specific countries and heredity.

And although we are a multicultural society, If you are going to refer to the penal colonies, get your facts right.

You insult my history, my heredity and my roots by generalizing that all of Europe is where i come from .

I dont .

And you have no right to dictate such mal information.

@OogieBoogie

Don't get your panties in a bunch
Sheesh
Wasn't meant i be offensive

@OogieBoogie

Do you think I'm that sensitive ?
You can say whatever you like as that's your choice and it wouldn't bother me
Words don't hurt but actions can
You can keep going on and on and whining all you want

@pdockal no, i wonder if you are deliberalty being obtuse, to deny acknowledging the fact that youve insulted my culture, other countries histories, and my countries history, and are so much on the defence of your ego for being factually and culturally wrong, that you have now used four methods of gaslighting to delfect from doing what any normal person would do .

1 - Accusation of the other party over reacting from your insult

2- denying it being insulting

3- flipping it, and pretending to be the victim .

4 - dropping more insults

--You couldn't be more textbook--

And yes, i have seen you get your panties is a bunch over your occupation, your country and what you belive .
Youre not as immune as you tell yourself you are.

You've just hidden any evidence of it from your profile in fear of anyone using your vulnerability or hypocrisy agaist you .

Name call all you want - im not the one who doesn't have the grace, courage and decency to say a simple apology of acknowledgement when they fuck up .

Geez, if you cant take yourself being wrong on a random forum, and suck it up..... i wonder how you are in real life ....🤔

If words have no power - why do you hide yours ?

I think you do care, i think you are vulnerable, i think you do have things that are important to you that you'd get annoyed about if someone insulted them.

But you hide them.

Its easy to pretend not to care, when you hide all your are so no one can touch you .

@OogieBoogie

OMG .... REALLY .... ARE YOU THAT SENSITIVE

🤦

@pdockal oh ...now you're shouting .

Look at all them caps.....and you say you don't care, and words have no impact...yet...
... you're textually yelling at me.


Did i hit a soft spot ?

Im sorry if i did. Its just you got me cheesed by being so generic about my history - it was inaccurate.

@OogieBoogie

I already apologized ... what more do you want ???????????

@pdockal im honestly not sure you fully understand what qualifes as an apology.

It has parts: like acknowledgment of wrong or offence, and a showing of regret about it

Im sorry, but i havent seen this represented here from you 🤷‍♀️

@OogieBoogie

Does it ?
Are you sure ?
I think it's more how agregous the offense committed is that changes what the apology is like and that's very subjective

Sticks & stones will break my bones but words can never hurt me

That's how i approach life and it keeps me from losing my shit over things that aren't as important as other things

@pdockal yes...it does .

Yes, definitely, absolutely sure .
Look it up if you dont believe me.


eh, your choice to claim 😭

But i dont believe it.


If words can make you love or cherish or see beauty in things.... they can also do the opposite.


Words have power.


To dany it is to be carelss with them .

@OogieBoogie

On the contrary
There is nothing you can say to hurt or insult me with your words and that's what it means
Your the one who's allowing words to hurt you

However
Getting physical can hurt
Ignoring (by family) is hurtful

@pdockal quit playing the victim, and down playing your insult.

You passed off my cultural history as
And if you can hurt someone by ignoring them, you csn hurt someone by being mean or insulting them ....or also by pretending that you didnt.

...Which is exactly what youre doing now...


Whatever man....be awful, hold onto your ego and play that card of denial.

Thank you for showing me who you are deep down.

🫤

I will tell you one last thing though:

Every person who has walked away from a dysfunctional abusive relationship will tell you - its not the physical hurt they inflicted, it was the damage they did with their words that hurt the most.
They are the wounds that never heal.

If words didn't hurt - people wouldn't end up screaming and yelling at wach other ....but they do .

So keep absolving yourself if you must.


But its a prick of a move .





But hey ....its your life 🤷‍♀️

@OogieBoogie

OMFG ..... are you really that over sensitive
Are you going to keep going on and on and on
Nothing you continue to complain about will change anything
Nothing you say will make you feel better
Don't you have more important things to worry about then to fret over some innocuous words
🤦

@OogieBoogie

Really thank God !