I cant actually feel any regret or apologize for calling out nonsense and hyperbole in this case and re-reading my earlier text, I dont see it as personally insulting to @doctorow either. Telling someone they are wrong and why isn’t insulting them.
@anon62122146 covered the agricultural point only, my greater concern is with the repeated and nonsensical claims of xenophobia & warmongering and here trying to tie these falsehoods to voter representation and agricultural subsidies.
Look further up-thread, then. Calling someone a bed-shitter is pretty insulting and personal. In my culture, and Cory’s.
It doesn’t matter that you were engaging in hyperbolic metaphor; when you state someone is shitting a bed, that’s a personal insult.
I don’t intend to undermine your point of view or start a new conversation; I’m more in your camp than Cory’s on this subject. I’m more morlock than eloi, so I appreciate the rural folk who make it possible for cities to exist.
It did not occur to me that my words would be read that way. I’ve always understood “to shit the bed” is an idiom meaning to make a grave error. Not to accuse someone of a personal lack of bowel control.
Maybe I used an idiom that is not widely known, in which case mea culpa. I wont use that idiom here again. Should probably avoid “screwed the pooch” as well.
Context. It’s important.
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