What's a bigot.

[mangeorge]

All by Moonlight Drive;

Do I lock my doors?
Yes, I do. But I live in a “diverse” neighborhood.
When I was a kid, we lived in a non"diverse" neighborhood. We left the doors unlocked in the day and even overnight. No one ever broke in.

Funny. I lived in a non-diverse neighborhood in the “Happy Days” 50’s. All working class white folks, mostly southerners, in a small town (Bakersfield) where the minorities knew where they belonged and stayed there, except to clean up after the well-off (not us) white folks. It wasn’t at all unusual for somebody to burgle your home, and very common to have your bike stolen. Yeah, we locked up when not at home. Oh yeah, let’s not forget the big (white) kids beating up the little ones and taking their money.

Well, thats funny to all of us too, mangeorge. That was then, this is now. Since you are the first person on this thread to bring up race(blaming whites for locking their doors) I strongly urge you to abandon your bigotry.

Oh, by the way, mangeorge, I merely said that neighborhoods could be diverse or nondiverse. That doesn’t necessarily mean anything about race. After all, it was you who took it that way. Diversity means variety. It could mean diversity of homes, it could mean diversity of streets. It could mean diversity of the different color or style of homes in the neighborhood. It took a prejudiced person like you to pre-judge and think my post was about race.

You lock your doors because of different color houses?

And from your profile;

Occupation:
Civil Rights Activist

Indeed!
You’re not talking to some young, impressionable college freshman here M D.
I’ve been down that road, and I’m still on it. You ain’t fooling me for a second.
If you wish to learn about civil rights activism, I suggest you do a little research. And stop putting the word “diverse” in quotation marks, especially when coupled with “neighborhood”. Your usage implies “so called”.
Peace,
mangeorge

[jjimm]

I live in a completely “non-diverse” neighbourhood in an almost totally “non-diverse” city, in an almost totally “non-diverse” country.

I have three big locks on my front door, because I’ve been burgled five times.

Funny how some people imply house color issues, when they’re actually social and economic ones.

[lezlers]

I have nothing to add, except for it’s burglarized, not burgled.

Sorry, that was just really irritating me.

Please, carry on.

[lissener]

Burgled is a perfectly acceptable, if a bit archaic and anglophonic, word.

[jjimm]

@lissener

Burgled is a perfectly acceptable, if a bit archaic and anglophonic, word.

Certainly anglophonic (I’m English after all), but only archaic in a US context: it’s universal in Anglo and Hibernian English. Indeed, to my ears “burglarized” seems excessive; adding an extra syllable where none is needed and so on. Horses for courses, though.

[lissener]

I think it’s Bilbo’s word of choice too.

[jjimm]

@lissener

I think it’s Bilbo’s word of choice too.

Since Tolkein wrote The Hobbit 5 miles away from the village where I grew up, I think I’m seeing a link here. I don’t have hairy feet though.

[TellMeI_mNotCrazy]

@jjimm

Certainly anglophonic (I’m English after all), but only archaic in a US context: it’s universal in Anglo and Hibernian English. Indeed, to my ears “burglarized” seems excessive; adding an extra syllable where none is needed and so on. Horses for courses, though.

I’m American, and burglarized still sounds off to me. I dunno, for some reason it makes me think of “moidalize” (I’m gonna moidalize you, if’n you don’t watch your step!)

[lissener]

We’re all agreed then: check a dictionary before you offer a correction. That will be all.

[Queen_Tonya]

Yep, his making a point of “diverse” neighborhoods sounded oogy to me as well.

[mangeorge]

@lissener

We’re all agreed then: check a dictionary before you offer a correction. That will be all.

I’m for whichever takes fewest letters. Burgled, armrobbed (or holdupped), kilt, whatever.

[Dead_Badger]

@mangeorge

I’m for whichever takes fewest letters. Burgled, armrobbed (or holdupped), kilt, whatever.

Speak for yourself; I’m transportalizing myself to the pub where no doubt several pints will be ingesticated. Seriously though, I’ve never understood “burglarized”. The verb is “to burgle”, a person who burgles is a burglar, and if he burgles your house it has been burgled. It’s like saying I’m having a painter around to painterize my house, or that I’m driverizing my kids to school. I do realise it’s an accepted word in certain places, of course, it’s just that its provenance strikes me as truly bizarre, even in this day and age.

[lissener]

Not true; burglar was a word first, and burgle was “back formed” off of that.

[Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor]

@lissener

I think it’s Bilbo’s word of choice too.

Damn Hobbits!
Untrustworthy little buggers.
Sex perverts, too!
That’s why they all live in the neighborhood called Bug End.
Can’t trust one o’ them damn bugger Hobbits!
Mordor ain’t been the same, since they started sneakin’ across the border…

[lezlers]

@lissener

We’re all agreed then: check a dictionary before you offer a correction. That will be all.

I was going to offer my humble apologies, but since you’re being a dick about it: fuck off.

To everyone else: I apologize for the misguided correction. I did in fact just check a dictonary and lo and behold, burgle is an actual word. I just spent the last year taking criminal law, a good chunk of that time studying burglary. Throughout that time as well as my entire life up until now, I never heard the word “burgle”, it just sounds…playful. Like something the Hamburglar would do. But you learn a new thing every day! Thanks for fighting my ignorance.

[Mangetout]

but if your house is burglarized, then the burglarizator comes back and commits burlgarizatorism again, will the police get there in time to arrestify the burglarizatorizer? After his arrestification, what are the chances that he will be successfully convictionized? Or will it just descend into an endless cycle of burglarizatorization, arrestificationism, repeat burglarizatorizationization and re-arrestificationization?

[lissener]

You left out an “-ism,” George.

And don’t forget, lezslers’s context is that of a law class. “Law” is Latin for “obfuscatory sesquipedalianism.”

[danceswithcats]

Some of these words are straight from the mouth of Strong Bad. Trogdor!

[lezlers]

@lissener

You left out an “-ism,” George.

And don’t forget, lezslers’s context is that of a law class. “Law” is Latin for “obfuscatory sesquipedalianism.”

Fuck you too, lissener. I don’t know what your problem is today, or why you’re so bent on being an ass to me in this thread and the textbook one, in case you didn’t notice I retracted my last post.

Get over it.

[roger_thornhill]

In some other thread, we had someone working in an “incarcitorial” facility. Prison, to you or me.