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Geeez guys.

Have you never had the pleasure of marital banter? It's some of that spice of life. The best kind.

And although I'm an old geezer way past my prime, I've seen plenty of ladies that looked very attractive as Copilot or Pilot of a good Ole American pickup truck.

Never been to a county fair? Or a rodeo? 😁
Um, why yes, I have in fact. People who subsist on a diet of Budweiser, corn dogs, deep fried Oreos, and Marlboro Reds are generally not the most attractive samples of their gender. 😀
 

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OMG. I had no idea there was even such a thing. :( You're not joking either:

https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/166081/deep-fried-oreos/

I'll not be passing on a review of this anytime soon. Check the basement for pods, though, if you do see a deep-fried Oreo recipe review from me.
Oh, you need to go to a proper country fair (I’m sure you don’t have them in HI 😀) These whackos will deep-fry ANYTHING! One thing about Pennsylvania is that it’s basically Kentucky, bookended by Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, so you go to anyplace somewhat central in the state and you’re going to feel like you’re in a very different place.

One good contribution to cuisine that came from Pennsylvania is Apple Butter (yum!)
 

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Oh, you need to go to a proper country fair (I’m sure you don’t have them in HI 😀) These whackos will deep-fry ANYTHING! One thing about Pennsylvania is that it’s basically Kentucky, bookended by Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, so you go to anyplace somewhat central in the state and you’re going to feel like you’re in a very different place.

One good contribution to cuisine that came from Pennsylvania is Apple Butter (yum!)
In NY we had county fairs and fireman's field days (plus the big state fair near Syracuse)
Loved Apple Butter (and appelstroop) as a kid. Grew up in the NY apple country...
Don't forget sweet and hard apple ciders! 😁
 


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Then go stand on your soap box and shout to every person to conform to every standard.
If you do something for one, then you must do for all. The standard is the standard!

This was supposed to be a forum for discussion not a rant about how you can virtual signal on the internet but on Call of Duty Online can say whatever you want!

Current Society Norms:
  • No one can use slurs unless they identify as that slur (Identifying as gay is not identifying as a slur. Only assholes use that word - or other immutable descriptors - as a slur.)
  • I can't mark African-American, born white in a African Cape Colony and moved to America (While it's technically correct to say that a white immigrant from South Africa is an "African American," people who actually say that are completely aware of the racial implications of the term and are simply trying to get a rise out of anti-racists. It's sad and pathetic.)
  • Calling people by their preferred pronouns (oppresses my free speech) (Please read the First Amendment again, and if you continue having trouble understanding it, seek out non-political reading material on the subject.)
  • It's acceptable for girls to only date tall guys but when a guy says not fatties it's fat shaming (It's perfectly acceptable to have whatever preferences you have in dating. It's also definitively fat shaming to specifically call out "no fatties." A person who isn't seeking to hurt others with their cultivated edginess simply responds to someone they're not attracted to with, "sorry, I'm not interested," and moves on.)
  • Yelling "No Homo" absolves you of any current homosexual activity (Again, this is sad and pathetic.)
I'm sorry you think it's this important to defend your and your wife's "right" to hurt others with your speech. Asking you not to use an immutable descriptor as a slur does not harm you in any way.

You're the one virtue signaling by bringing up preferred pronouns, and all of those other points - that wasn't part of this conversation. But since you did, I'll point out that asking you to call people what they tell you to call them doesn't oppress your free speech in any way. If you think it does, then you don't understand your constitutional rights, or how they work. Like, at all.

When you meet someone named James, and they tell you to call them Jim, do you refuse? Do you insist on calling them James because that was the name given to them at birth? What if they ask you to call them William? Or Mike? Do you reveal your ignorance by claiming - incorrectly - that asking you to call them anything other than James is oppression of your free speech? Did you find this whole paragraph impossible to understand because I used non-gendered pronouns to refer to Jim?

I don't play Call of Duty Online. But if I did I would say whatever I want and it wouldn't be a problem, because I wouldn't be saying bigoted things. I have no desire to say bigoted things. But I do call out others when they say bigoted things.
 
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I'm sorry you think it's this important to defend your and your wife's "right" to hurt others with your speech. Asking you not to use an immutable descriptor as a slur does not harm you in any way.

You're the one virtue signaling by bringing up preferred pronouns, and all of those other points - that wasn't part of this conversation. But since you did, I'll point out that asking you to call people what they tell you to call them doesn't oppress your free speech in any way. If you think it does, then you don't understand your constitutional rights, or how they work. Like, at all.

When you meet someone named James, and they tell you to call them Jim, do you refuse? Do you insist on calling them James because that was the name given to them at birth? What if they ask you to call them William? Do you reveal your ignorance by claiming - incorrectly - that asking you to call them anything other than James is oppression of your free speech? Did you find this whole paragraph impossible to understand because I used a non-gendered pronoun to refer to Jim?

I don't play Call of Duty Online. But if I did I would say whatever I want and it wouldn't be a problem, because I wouldn't be saying bigoted things. I have no desire to say bigoted things. But I do call out others when they say bigoted things.
And,, may I add, the implication that any one born in the U.S. is a Native American is absurd, at the very least...
 

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And,, may I add, the implication that any one born in the U.S. is a Native American is absurd, at the very least...
Agreed. I used to refer to myself as a native Californian because, despite being of primarily Northern European descent, I was born here. But when I learned that the term implied that I was of Indigenous North American descent, I stopped using it. Now I just say that I was born in California or I'm from California. It's really not hard to correct yourself when you find out you've been saying something harmful or appropriating a culture that is not yours.
 

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In my experience as a 1/2 ton truck owner, former diesel enthusiast, and Texas native ...


ain't no way that truck gettin' 24mpg - not around DFW
No, unless it's measured descending from atop Mauna Kea to the Cross Island Highway (11,000 ft of all descent). In my lengthy restatement of the obvious, I used Ford's SUV numbers because there are none available for a RAM EcoDiesel. That skews things towards lengthening the breakeven point to 23,000 on the mainland (The Contiguous 48 states) instead of a more realistic number, which would almost definitely be below 20,000 miles.

Incidentally, I chose Hawaii's electric numbers because Hawaii has a mostly fossil-fuel-powered grid with electric rates high enough to make folks in California wince. Peoria, Collierville, or Salem (Oregon) numbers are likely to be quite significantly lower.
 

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I'm sorry you think it's this important to defend your and your wife's "right" to hurt others with your speech. Asking you not to use an immutable descriptor as a slur does not harm you in any way.

You're the one virtue signaling by bringing up preferred pronouns, and all of those other points - that wasn't part of this conversation. But since you did, I'll point out that asking you to call people what they tell you to call them doesn't oppress your free speech in any way. If you think it does, then you don't understand your constitutional rights, or how they work. Like, at all.

When you meet someone named James, and they tell you to call them Jim, do you refuse? Do you insist on calling them James because that was the name given to them at birth? What if they ask you to call them William? Or Mike? Do you reveal your ignorance by claiming - incorrectly - that asking you to call them anything other than James is oppression of your free speech? Did you find this whole paragraph impossible to understand because I used non-gendered pronouns to refer to Jim?

I don't play Call of Duty Online. But if I did I would say whatever I want and it wouldn't be a problem, because I wouldn't be saying bigoted things. I have no desire to say bigoted things. But I do call out others when they say bigoted things.
@Aaron.Edwards is a pathetic troll. Not even a good one. Joined less than a week ago despite claiming to own a 23 MME. One thread, eight comments all on his own thread. Inflammatory language and judgmental AF.

Don’t feed the troll.
 
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@Aaron.Edwards is a pathetic troll. Not even a good one. Joined less than a week ago despite claiming to own a 23 MME. One thread, eight comments all on his own thread. Inflammatory language and judgmental AF.

Don’t feed the troll.
I did join a short time ago. I recently purchased my car last month and wanted to learn more about my car from the wisdom of everyone on here. I have read thru a bunch of other posts and have direct messaged a few people on here for advice. I am grateful for the information people have provided.

I a am not trolling, just new to the EV scene.

Thank you for calling me out on the slur, I just wish you would have directly told me, I could have easily edited my post.

But you stood on your soap box as a white knight for truth and justice and punched down on me embarrassing me in this forum.

You are the bully and troll.
 

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I tried to use logic and even showed her this: https://www.switch2zero.com/resources/blogs/diesel-vs-electric-cars

She laughed and said - "yeah, well I look awesome in this big truck and your space ship sounds g@y when you drive by"

I don't think I am winning anything today, might just go back to bed and see how tomorrow pans out.
The fact that you even spelled it "g@y" already shows you know using that word is a slur in modern-day parlance; otherwise, why try to mask it? It's the same thing as using the n-word: "Acceptable" (barely) back in the day, but definitely not now. Doesn't matter which generation you're from.
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