Six-Legged Giant Finds Secret Hideaway, Hides for 80 Years (2012)

Re:Six-Legged Giant Finds Secret Hideaway, Hides for 80 Year... by vacri on Wednesday March 11, 2015 @02:41AM (#9182876)

there was no connotation of girls hating or loving insects. Just a sound.

There was, however, the connotation that girls are prissy and easily scared.

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Re:Six-Legged Giant Finds Secret Hideaway, Hides for 80 Year... by gambiting on Wednesday March 11, 2015 @07:30AM (#9183547)

Where? How? There is no such thing said anywhere - if you made such connection in your brain then well, it's your problem. It's a description of a sound, nothing more, nothing less.

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Re:Six-Legged Giant Finds Secret Hideaway, Hides for 80 Year... by vacri on Wednesday March 11, 2015 @06:32PM (#9187882)

You strike me as the kind of person who literally believes in everything a politician says, and is unaware of subtexts. If you think that all that people say is only the pure literal surface meaning of their words, than that is very much your problem, not mine.

Also, the trope is "run away, screaming like a little girl", not just "screaming like a little girl".

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Re:Six-Legged Giant Finds Secret Hideaway, Hides for 80 Year... by gambiting on Thursday March 12, 2015 @06:09AM (#9189892)

I think this is a general problem with us programmers - we read everything incredibly literally. If you want to read into subtext then please do, but I don't see it. Fortunately I am not interested in politics.

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Re:Six-Legged Giant Finds Secret Hideaway, Hides for 80 Year... by jusben1369 on Wednesday March 11, 2015 @09:11AM (#9183851)

See my additional comment above in this thread.

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Re:Six-Legged Giant Finds Secret Hideaway, Hides for 80 Year... by mania on Wednesday March 11, 2015 @09:43AM (#9183984)

so you say we can discriminate against children as long as they aren't girls?!

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