I'm confused.
CRANKY OLD MAN
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Kooooo_Hai wrote:
I'm confused.
me two
DalaiLuke wrote:
Kooooo_Hai wrote:
I'm confused.
me two
I'm very confused..
I've lost my train of thought.
... what poem? who needs empathy? ... and isn't the future over next month, so say the Mayans? it's all so grand :)
... the Mayans are no longer around. 
Ok, my lunch time is over.
I need more lunch time :(
Is there a poem somewhere ?! Please, do tell me, too. 
Yeah!! About some cranky old man I think... but here is a 2.5 year old who knows the chess pieces...
The Mayan people still live in various parts of Mexico (ie: Yucatan Peninsula). They are a kind and gentle and funny culture, tremendously honest in my experience.
Right again Mikeyyyy!!!
I just checked on utube :)
They liked to sacrifice...
I vote we sacrifice LA to the Gods.
Caissa do not let. 
lol... ok...lets sacrifice the Queen!!!
I'm going to play that opening against suezy in my next game.
She is asleep so hopefully she does'nt read this.
*only thing is she very rarely plays d4*
K'hai ... how did you know my name? :)
DalaiLuke wrote:
K'hai ... how did you know my name? :)
Oh man!!! Its not that difficult...lol...its on your page.
ROFL, RUSH !!!
DalaiLuke
Mike Lucarelli
Phuket, Thailand
AND... how do u know my name LA?
Kooooo_Hai wrote:
AND... how do u know my name LA?
Oh man!!! Its not that difficult...lol...it was on your page.
What irks me about this one is the implicit permission for the man to be crabby or grumpy with staff because he is old. There's a nod to him being frustrated because he is infantalised - which is a reasonable thing to be grumpy about certainly - but that is quickly airbrushed away with lots of stuff which suggests that as, at the end of his life, things are no longer as good as they were when he was young and fit he is entitled to take his grief out on others as grumpiness and that everyone should be sympathetic.
Well, no actually. One's personal feelings do not give one the right to be offensive to others. Lashing out is certainly understandable but it is not excusable. The implicit plea that we give the old grinch a break 'cause he's sad is really about excusing inappropriate behaviour. He doesn't get the right to feel up the staff because he hasn't had sex in a while and is missing it does he?
I am all for respecting the feelings of anyone in pain and all for giving space to grieve but I reject completely any suggestion that we then give them greater latitude to be offensive.