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I stand by the wording I used because I think they are acting with contempt.

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I can't stand them either. Near where I am in another part of the world they are acting like cunts

"Cunts"?????

I stand by the wording I used because I think they are acting with contempt.

Here all my life thought cunt a a pejoritive for a woman. Are you saying that women are contemptable?

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by preventing the well known Eyre Square Christmas market of the city of Galway from taking place which brings in a lot of very much needed money to the local economy by attracting hundreds of thousands of shoppers. Why do they refuse to move? Apparently because "private interests" will gain from the market. No concern then for the large number of jobs that struggling retailers provide which the market would help preserve...

We have to ask ourselves why it is that suddenly the interest of the small bussinessman is alligned with wall street and bond street? The word disingenuous comes to mind.

I don't quite get your point why small and medium sized businesses should be implicated but the point is that retailers who have taken a devastating hit for the last few years are just surviving by a thread and could very easily go under with a poor yield at Christmas. It would result in very real hardship for many that loose their jobs in what is mainly a retail district anyway.

My point was and is that your concern for the little guy strikes me as disengenuous. Your point is that by trying to protest against the big guy the little guy gets hurt so lets not protest against the big guy. The little guy is getting hurt and you want it to continue. That sort of rhetoric may work with children and the uneducated. Not everyone is a child or uneducated.

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I stand by the wording I used because I think they are acting with contempt.

So a "cunt" is someone who acts with contempt?

I would think someone if your intelligence could use a far better word.

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I can't stand them either. Near where I am in another part of the world they are acting like cunts

"Cunts"?????

I stand by the wording I used because I think they are acting with contempt.

Here all my life thought cunt a a pejoritive for a woman. Are you saying that women are contemptable?

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by preventing the well known Eyre Square Christmas market of the city of Galway from taking place which brings in a lot of very much needed money to the local economy by attracting hundreds of thousands of shoppers. Why do they refuse to move? Apparently because "private interests" will gain from the market. No concern then for the large number of jobs that struggling retailers provide which the market would help preserve...

We have to ask ourselves why it is that suddenly the interest of the small bussinessman is alligned with wall street and bond street? The word disingenuous comes to mind.

I don't quite get your point why small and medium sized businesses should be implicated but the point is that retailers who have taken a devastating hit for the last few years are just surviving by a thread and could very easily go under with a poor yield at Christmas. It would result in very real hardship for many that loose their jobs in what is mainly a retail district anyway.

My point was and is that your concern for the little guy strikes me as disengenuous. Your point is that by trying to protest against the big guy the little guy gets hurt so lets not protest against the big guy. The little guy is getting hurt and you want it to continue. That sort of rhetoric may work with children and the uneducated. Not everyone is a child or uneducated.

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Yet you dont care that others here make take offence.

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Not in the slightest. The word can just as easily apply to men when used abusively. Perhaps the way yanks use the word is different though...

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Not in the slightest. The word can just as easily apply to men when used abusively. Perhaps the way yanks use the word is different though...

When a "yank" calls a man a cut he means that that man is a woman of the lowest sort. So It would appear that there is not much difference between the brit and the yank use of the word.

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Yet you dont care that others here make take offence.

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Why would my concern be disingenuous? I'm not saying there shouldn't be a protest against the big guy but it should be done appropriately especially by those that profess to care about the little guy don't you think?

Where would you sugest it be done?

I actually advocate greater fiscal control to avoid the kind of financial recklessness that got the world into the mess that its in but the priority has to be to solve the present problems before getting into protracted blame games.

How would you do that?

So many people act as if the mess is someone else's problem when collectively it is a problem for us all whether we like it or not.

It does not seem to be much of a problem for the 1%. They eat regularly,sleep in a warm bed,and have plenty.

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Yet you dont care that others here make take offence.

I knew it might annoy a few pro-OWS peops but I didn't think it would cause great offence as it wasn't aimed at anyone in particular. I remember when some people were using the word as an actual slur against a woman who I didn't particularly like either but which I objected to on principle.

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Not in the slightest. The word can just as easily apply to men when used abusively. Perhaps the way yanks use the word is different though...

When a "yank" calls a man a cut he means that that man is a woman of the lowest sort. So It would appear that there is not much difference between the brit and the yank use of the word.

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Why would my concern be disingenuous? I'm not saying there shouldn't be a protest against the big guy but it should be done appropriately especially by those that profess to care about the little guy don't you think?

Where would you sugest it be done?

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I actually advocate greater fiscal control to avoid the kind of financial recklessness that got the world into the mess that its in but the priority has to be to solve the present problems before getting into protracted blame games.

How would you do that?

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So many people act as if the mess is someone else's problem when collectively it is a problem for us all whether we like it or not.

It does not seem to be much of a problem for the 1%. They eat regularly,sleep in a warm bed,and have plenty.

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Yet you dont care that others here make take offence.

I knew it might annoy a few pro-OWS peops but I didn't think it would cause great offence as it wasn't aimed at anyone in particular. I remember when some people were using the word as an actual slur against a woman who I didn't particularly like either but which I objected to on principle.

I can only speak for myself. It isnt used in this case against women...so we can leave that out.

I just find the word offensive in any context. In an angry moment, maybe it can be excused. Again, just my own opinion, it, and words like it, have no place in an intellectual exchange.

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You have no solutions to contribute but you don't like ows and just want the ows to go away.
The tsar felt the same in 1917...we all know how that turned out.

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Well I have to admit being pretty pissed at malcontents doing this in the particular case I mentioned. I have plenty of relatives there and most are struggling. The retail sector has taken a far worse hit then even in the US so to seriously hamper sales at Christmas could be a death blow for numerous small businesses, and affect many families as a result.

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Well I have to admit being pretty pissed at malcontents doing this in the particular case I mentioned. I have plenty of relatives there and most are struggling. The retail sector has taken a far worse hit then even in the US so to seriously hamper sales at Christmas could be a death blow for numerous small businesses, and affect many families as a result.

So your anger is because its affecting family. Understandable. But, as previously shown, not all small businesses are suffering. And as in the case of the barricades, its not always the fault of Occupiers.