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In reply to the discussion: Sincere apologies for my ignorance. [View all]Bolo Boffin
(23,796 posts)69. It ain't Rain Man!
It doesn't blink from portraying Lenny Bruce as he was, which is the only way Lenny would have wanted it.
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Some of our members would have been placed in FDR's race camps during WWII. nt
ZombieHorde
May 2012
#11
lionessa, i know the "to do" was in GD. but, this is lounge. can you self delete and put in meta
seabeyond
May 2012
#2
Kraut is also a food. I don't like it because it stinks but my husband who was from Germany
southernyankeebelle
May 2012
#3
My kraut like kraut to. Me not at all. It stinks. I usually cook it with smoked
southernyankeebelle
May 2012
#45
Good god child not fried pomfritz and onions. I hate spinach. You must have a pretty
southernyankeebelle
May 2012
#59
I can't remember how the German's spell "pomfritz". I only know a few words here and
southernyankeebelle
May 2012
#76
On the east coast you can pretty much find all the good foods of europe. mmmmmmmmmmmmmgood.
southernyankeebelle
May 2012
#84
It's only offensive if somebody chooses to be offended. That's, unfortunately, how it works.
TalkingDog
May 2012
#36
If you are having a discussion in the South and in conversation somebody says "Bless your heart"
TalkingDog
May 2012
#54
"If one is neither intelligent enough nor mature enough to allow people to be themselves
EFerrari
May 2012
#61
I'll have to call bullshit on that. Please explain how I am wrong in that assement.
TalkingDog
May 2012
#65
It CAN mean that. It can also mean: bless your heart. Context is important here as with most of our
TalkingDog
May 2012
#56
Except during WWI and WWII, when US Germans (and their children) were put in US interment camps
REP
May 2012
#48
Not just detained Italians; all people of Italian descent have been called ugly slurs at times
REP
May 2012
#87
'being entirely ignorant that Kraut had ever been used as an ethnic slur..'
LeftishBrit
May 2012
#19
Not quite; during WWI and WWII, Germans were commonly called Krauts - not the regime
REP
May 2012
#49
I don't find it offensive. How is it a slur? My family is of German heritage and we eat kraut.
marble falls
May 2012
#71
"not in the same league" is not the same as "its not as bad as" .... equating
marble falls
May 2012
#85