Inflated Self-ImportanceAmorous Badger asks: Tell us tales of people who have a high opinion of themselves. Jumped-up officials, the mad old bloke who runs the Neighbourhood Watch like it's a military operation, Colonel Blimps, pompous bastards and people stuck up their own arse.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 24 Jan 2013, 12:22)
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Hence why Johnny Depp (and Krtisten Stuart) had to apologise for using the term 'raped' in that context. It rarely ends well.
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Wicca'd Witch needs ideas for a new sig on..., Mon 28 Jan 2013, 19:59,
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No-one should feel obliged to apologise for other people's ignorance; if they used the word correctly - ie, in a manner which is supported by decent, heavyweight dictionaries, as the entirely nonsexual plunder/despoil definition is - they really did nothing wrong.
Look, I'm not suggesting people go around actively forcing 'rape' into sentences purely to seem offensive whilst technically not being offensive - see 'niggardly' and 'the boy president' in relation to Obama - but people who use its secondary/tertiary/whatever meaning aren't necessarily doing it just to be assholes.
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Happy Phantom has been to Hastings, Brighton, and Eastbourne too, Mon 28 Jan 2013, 22:04,
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