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Belgium. And damn proud of it.  |
Where aboots in Belgium Force? I've been to Ypres, and towns in the area - not sure if its classed as Passchendale up there? Not entirely sure, but they served great beer in huge jugs as well! 
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It's not about text and it's shortfalls Orph, its about respect and combatting ignorance and offensiveness |
but, how would i have known in advance that anything as petty as the word pissant would, or could possibly be blown so out of proportion?
it definitely means small, i even asked 3 people here a few minutes ago, to see if the word changed meaning with the next generation, and the answer was, "small or tiny" and that by no means is offensive.
it could however be considered rude of me to insinuate that small might be significant or better, should NOT be significant when describing european countries, but how else would someone say "your countries land mass is relatively tiny"?
seriously people, chose your offensives wisely, cause eventually those who listen, will start to disregard you as the "boy who cried wolf" syndrome.. i get mad at people here, but seldom from something as simple as text shortfalls.
try to do what i do.. read it at least twice, ask yourself could it have more than one meaning, and if the answer is YES, chose the least inflammatory by default..
you, gwil, chose to be offended by "pissant" it has more than one meaning.. but i barely got upset at all when you chose to attack/comment on my lack of a decent highschool education.. there is a lesson here, learn from it.
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| but, how would i have known in advance that anything as petty as the word pissant would, or could possibly be blown so out of proportion |
/me rolls eyes repeatedly..
jeff, slow down, re-read everything, and only THEN get back to us.. your are being rude again.
andrew, you are right, it can mean exactly what you say, AND what i said.
gwil, my apologies, i never realized that europeans had there version of "penis envy" when it cam to the size of their countries, when compared to the rest of the world.
jeff again, when was the last time you heard me argue FOR the USA 
.. stop before you mess up again, i would suggest you learn what foot tastes like, cause you always end up with at least one in your mouth .
again, my apologies, i intended my comment to be entirely size/landmass based.
get a life guys, picking on my archaic and tack-less choice of wording should NOT be your life goals.
[addsig]We dont Orph, and im not bothered how big my country is - it's just common sense, respect and decency - as well as tolerance to realise that calling countries "pissant" is far from acceptable.
and no, i agree - picking on your wording isnt and shouldnt be mine and jeffs goal in life. All we are trying to highlight is using archaic phrases and "questionable" terms in discussions is the easiest way to start conflict Use the theasauras of non-confrontation and friendliness, and I expect a lot more threads on here will not turn into "Orph vs The World"
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Where aboots in Belgium Force? I've been to Ypres, and towns in the area - not sure if its classed as Passchendale up there? Not entirely sure, but they served great beer |
Ypres is in in the west ... I live more central ... in Mechelen, it's a city between Antwerps and Brussels. (the two major cities in Belgium ... Mechelen is something in between ^^ )
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| it can mean exactly what you say, AND what i said |
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| with a big magical 0 tacked onto my rating |
i have now looked up the word pissant in 3 different dictionary sites, and the general consensus is, its exactly what gwil said.. but dammit it used to mean exactly how i said it, i'll be damned if i am going to re-read the whole forking dictionary to see how the politically correctionist are altering the damned thing.
i seem to stand corrected.
but you may as well accept, that although i may no longer USE the word, i will still retain my definition of it, which was the original, meaning tiny or small.
chalk it up to *incert word here that means local definitions and customs* i hate it when i need a word, and cannot spell it even well enuff for the spell checker to fix it 
Make maps or something.
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Hu? What does that mean? |
ditto, or did you forget that my dick tracy decoder ring was broken??
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| Make maps or something. |
this from our least able to release a finshed product member 
i still wuv you dave
[addsig]1st off, most of that mass in russia is ice, so no bigg whoopee there 
2nd, what are those red things in the middle? "pissants mounds"?
Did you hear the famous one about the United States developing a pen Jeff? billions of dollars spent on a pen that wrote underwater, in space, under extreme pressure.. and so on.
the USSR, naturally, used a pencil. 
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1st off, most of that mass in russia is ice, so no bigg whoopee there 2nd, what are those red things in the middle? "pissants mounds"? |
thats iraq and afghanistan by the looks of it.. dunno wtf the red things are though 
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| Did you hear the famous one about the United States developing a pen Jeff? billions of dollars spent on a pen that wrote underwater, in space, under extreme pressure.. and so on.
the USSR, naturally, used a pencil.
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