<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by ozstamps:
sunseeker ..... please let me hasten to add I am a third generation Australian and I suggested an edit a lonnnnnnng time ago.
Let me make this pertinent comment. If a member of Parliament in this country - State of Federal or Senate called another Member - or any other person - a 'Little Xxxxxx' (for whatever reason) in the house they would be IMO forced to withdraw the comment by the Speaker .... and also forced most likely to apologise. AND suffer a good deal of poor media as a result.
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Totally off the mark. Particularly when as recently as this year we had a member of Parliament call the Prime Minister an "Arse Licker". No demand for an apology from the speaker, no demand from the public, little more than a few giggles from the media.
No wonder the likes of Bin Laden think Westerners are weak and soft - they need only to look at this forum and see all of the blouses getting their knickers in a knot over NOTHING.
Sticks and stones, boys and girls, or have they stopped teaching that in the new age of victimhood, where everyone is offended by everything, and entitled to compensation as a result?
Really, why should any of you give a rat's arse about being labelled a "Little Hitler"? I'm as Jewish as Moshe Dyan (and as one-eyed, I might ad), but don't bat an eyelid when I get labled a Nazi. The irony doesn't escape me, but I won't clutch my teddy and weep in bed all night over it.
Get some bloody perspective, people. If the Captain of your flight tomorrow announced that all 4 engines were out and you were all about to die, would thadocta's post on flyertalk be the last thing you considered in your final moments?
Not likely. Build a bridge, get over it.
Offense should be freely given to those who are weak and foolish enough to take it.