h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

oh... and i love dogs very very much... but you know what? if push came to shove i wouldnt hesitate to take a dog out if it threatened me or someone else in my vicinity... and i would use any means at my disposal... and i wouldnt pussyfoot around being all concerned about its rights... id go for broke.. i wouldnt care if i killed it... you see... i am not really strong and dont carry weapons so my first shot will probly be my last so i have to make it count...

oh... and that goes the same for humans...

"we have never talked here on hootoo"

Actually yes we have. You think you can take the piss, then not have it taken out of you? Sorry, life's not like that.

And yes, I've been bitten by a dog. By more than one dog, more than once by some dogs and over a very large number of years.

If you take a predatory species into your life you've got to expect that if they're not treated correctly they're going to bite.

well, darlin' i didnt take this predatory species into my life.... or at least the chow that bit me... and i know what a dog is and i know what matters....

vicious dogs are like loaded guns left on the sidewalk in a neighborhood filled with small children... if the dogs' owners do not take responsibility for them then its vigilante time...

and WHAT are you talking about when you say "You think you can take the piss, then not have it taken out of you?" I dont even know what that means but it sounds like a false accusation.

all i can say is what brought you out of the woodwork?

its uncanny how similar... the attack by that chow and this attack by you ...are

You are completely barking mad.

BARK! BARK!




sorry... couldn't resist

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Perhaps I can be of some assistance. "To take the p1ss" can have a literal meaning (Doctor to nurse: "Could you take this urine sample down to the laboratory for testing please". Nurse thinks "Why is it always me who has to take the p1ss down there?")

It can also mean 'to make fun of'.
"It's very easy to take the p1ss out of George Bush."
A politer version would be 'to take the Micky'.
"It's very easy to take the Micky out of George Bush."

"It's rude and stupid to take the p1ss/Micky out of people because of their accent."

Perhaps you have made fun of or ridiculed Choleric Sanguine?

Hope that helps

thanks WG colorful language!

hmmm so... is it a negative kinda making fun of tho? like a bitter making fun of like when we diss G Bush? Or can it be playful and affectionate too?

and Choleric Sanguine... i don't remember talking to you....at least not recently... or perhaps you have changed your name? And are you just joshing me here... affectionately punching me like 12 year old boys do... or do you have a real beef? ...and if so how about telling me what it is... and, if it is not related to the subject matter of this thread, then how about telling me in a message to me in my personal space.

I didn't realise CS was just 12.

Hmm. I'd say it's probably more a negative kinda making fun.
But it could be a jolly matey kind of p1ss taking too, I guess.

ahhhha!

k k um so this was probably cs saying if i joke around in a negative way then i should be able to take it too...

well, but i havent been joking around in a negative way... i sincerely thot that those two guys said some very funny things in that brief interchange back there that i commented on just before cs sniped at me.



there are some not very happy people here i notice... and they seem to have been not very happy for a very long time...

now, i myself was not very happy for a long time but i got over it...

i had help, tho...

i found a nice counsellor... a female... which works for me cuz i am a female... i feel it helps to be on somewhat the same page...

Well I see you kids have been playing nicely while I was gone
Must say I'm amazed at WG's comments about "a literal meaning..." (Doctor to nurse: "Could you take this urine sample down to the laboratory for testing please". Nurse thinks "Why is it always me who has to take the p1ss down there?")
My experience in some of the religious threads is that WG is usually the first (and sometimes only) one who takes what is writ literally and without question.


But meanwhile, back at my 'book learnt' method for fending off dog attacks: It's from one of the classics like 'Tale of Two Cities' or the 'The Count of Monte Cristo' or 'Swallows and Amazons' , well maybe not that last one.

But it is a literary device. Let me demonstrate. Open up a clean page for your imagination. Now pretend you're reading a book or a newspaper and not this computer screen. See how your hands are holding the book or paper outward and spread open. This is the posture the original writer was describing, arms outstretched, spread apart, not to rip a dogs chest open but to read.

Now imagine you're sitting in your most comfy chair quietly reading your newspaper when suddenly a tiny head bursts thru the bottom and plops itself into your lap.

This is what the writer was really thinking about and proposing; that men should put down their reading and pet anything that wants to snuggle into their laps. I'm sure the Tail of 2 Cities might have ended differently had we taken his advice.

Watch out for 12 year olds, many haven't had all their shots yet.

~jwf~

i have to admit that if i was a man, having an animated living object complete with tiny but oh so sharp teeth plop suddenly in my lap would DEFINITELY startle me!!