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  • Gondwanaland
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    Originally posted by Hypatia_Alexandria View Post
    So why do you repeatedly use the slang term of someone getting spanked when you consider they have been shown to be wrong?

    There are other phrases or idioms that you could employ. It does suggest something of a fixation on your part with corporal punishment.

    Because it is a term that means someone or something has been soundly defeated.

    You are the only one here taking it as violence and having sexual connotations. I suggest a shrink.

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  • Gondwanaland
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    Originally posted by Hypatia_Alexandria View Post

    Why an idiom suggesting violence?
    You seem to be the only one taking it to mean violence let alone sexual connotations.

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  • Gondwanaland
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    Originally posted by Hypatia_Alexandria View Post

    It is an idiom for beating the opposition but it is an idiom Gondwanaland uses a great deal. I find it rather disconcerting to refer to applying corporal punishment to one's opponents. Perhaps le vice anglais should be renamed le vice américain!
    Again you are the only one making such associations and have made sexual connections to such terms in the past as well.

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  • Gondwanaland
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    Originally posted by Hypatia_Alexandria View Post

    Where did the pre Christian Graeco-Roman world institutionalise anti-Judaism?

    How many of these tropes - from the ADL- apply to the pre Christian Graeco-Roman world?
    • Jews have too much power.
    • Jews are disloyal
    • Jews are greedy
    • Jews killed Jesus
    • Jews use Christian blood for religious rituals
    • The Holocaust didn’t happen
    • Anti-Zionism or delegitmization of Israel]
    https://www.adl.org/news/press-relea...semitic-tropes
    There is no requirement institutionalization, you dimwitted doorknob. And this sort of quotemining is exactly why I don't entertain your hoops.

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  • Cow Poke
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    Originally posted by Hypatia_Alexandria View Post

    The verb to spank strike especially on the buttocks with the open hand as in punishment.

    The noun spank: a blow given in spanking; a smart or resounding slap.
    Your problem is that you run to woodenly literal dictionary definitions in an attempt to understand words as they're casually used here in the States.

    We don't plan on changing the way we speak to satisfy your inability to comprehend regional or national differences.

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  • Gondwanaland
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    Originally posted by Hypatia_Alexandria View Post


    Krafff-Ebing and Freud were two very important names in late nineteenth century psychiatry and psycho-analysis.

    As for losing an argument you are the one who has refused to provide any citations from those "actual historians" in support of your contention, not me.

    As I previously noted, you make an unsupported pronouncement and everyone is supposed to just accept it as fact.


    Freud is a joke. And again, as usual you attempt to go down a flowery path after being trounced.

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  • Hypatia_Alexandria
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    Originally posted by Cow Poke View Post

    Why jump to the conclusion it suggests violence?
    The verb to spank strike especially on the buttocks with the open hand as in punishment.

    The noun spank: a blow given in spanking; a smart or resounding slap.

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  • Sparko
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    Originally posted by Hypatia_Alexandria View Post

    It is an idiom for beating the opposition but it is an idiom Gondwanaland uses a great deal. I find it rather disconcerting to refer to applying corporal punishment to one's opponents. Perhaps le vice anglais should be renamed le vice américain!
    It is common vernacular, signifying a defeat, whether in sports or debates. "...got spanked" and "...beat you" etc.

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  • Cow Poke
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    Originally posted by Hypatia_Alexandria View Post

    Why an idiom suggesting violence?
    Why jump to the conclusion it suggests violence?

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  • Hypatia_Alexandria
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    Originally posted by Cow Poke View Post

    All of us appear to understand the context in which he is using it, and you are the one attaching your own connotation.
    Why an idiom suggesting violence?

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  • Cow Poke
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    Originally posted by Hypatia_Alexandria View Post

    It is an idiom for beating the opposition but it is an idiom Gondwanaland uses a great deal. I find it rather disconcerting to refer to applying corporal punishment to one's opponents. Perhaps le vice anglais should be renamed le vice américain!
    All of us appear to understand the context in which he is using it, and you are the one attaching your own connotation.

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  • Hypatia_Alexandria
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    Originally posted by rogue06 View Post
    Talking about the other team getting "spanked" when they lose badly is pretty common in sports.

    Not everyone has the same fixations that you do.
    It is an idiom for beating the opposition but it is an idiom Gondwanaland uses a great deal. I find it rather disconcerting to refer to applying corporal punishment to one's opponents. Perhaps le vice anglais should be renamed le vice américain!

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  • Cow Poke
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    Originally posted by rogue06 View Post
    Talking about the other team getting "spanked" when they lose badly is pretty common in sports.

    Not everyone has the same fixations that you do.
    Yeah, so there!

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  • CivilDiscourse
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    Originally posted by Hypatia_Alexandria View Post

    Where did the pre Christian Graeco-Roman world institutionalise anti-Judaism?

    How many of these tropes - from the ADL- apply to the pre Christian Graeco-Roman world?
    • Jews have too much power.
    • Jews are disloyal
    • Jews are greedy
    • Jews killed Jesus
    • Jews use Christian blood for religious rituals
    • The Holocaust didn’t happen
    • Anti-Zionism or delegitmization of Israel]
    https://www.adl.org/news/press-relea...semitic-tropes
    Why would the Greece/Roman world deny an event that your countrymen did in the 1940s?

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  • Sparko
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    Originally posted by rogue06 View Post
    Talking about the other team getting "spanked" when they lose badly is pretty common in sports.

    Not everyone has the same fixations that you do.
    She seems unfamiliar with American vernacular phrases.

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