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Originally Posted by foodyum
To be fair I only used the words stupid locals because the sheriff called out those who vote democratic in that way using those specific words. I almost never use that word because I have a better vocabulary from all that schooling. I was giving it back in the words and sentiment mirroring the video. But then you’d have to follow the whole narrative from beginning to end - including the video where the sheriff tells everyone how to vote. I realize that it’s a long thread but you do owe it to yourself to be fully informed before being so smug and self righteous.
But that was some story there with the coyotes. Not sure it was relevant but I am sorry that you lost your horse.
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Oh, so it's ME (I know, 'it is I' is proper grammar) projecting the smug and self righteousness. Got it. Should talk to my therapist about that. But hey, I live alone and only spend any time around two other people for any length of time. My social skills may have atrophied a bit.
Grumpy old man syndrome ya know. As to the term "stupid" that is a word I truly loathe, even unto hatred, due to it's use directed at me by a certain person now removed from my life. It is denigrating, demeaning, is beyond insensitive and displays self grandeur by the person using it at a level well beyond tripping the float switch to activate the bilge pump.
Returning it even in retaliation for it's use dos not speak well as to ones "schooling." But then there are different types of schooling as well. Colleges and universities may well see such terminology as proper these days. From what I've observed of the quality of the faculty in such institutions currently it doesn't shock me that the students under their tutelage are learning to be crass boors et' up with self grandeur. And so it is.
My schooling did not come from any classroom and the lessons I learned often came with severe physical and mental pain. The loss of the horse I related was one such lesson. I was young then. When my mount was injured in that trap the girl who was riding with me had to gallop 2 miles back to the house and get my Dad who then drove out in the truck and dispatched the animal. His fury at what had happened and why I can't put into words. The guy that bought the property and put those traps there lived in the Bay Area. He was tracked down via county assessor records. Yes, "educated sophisticated and monied" he was.
The coyote anecdote is relevant because it displays the level of ignorance those same "educated sophisticated and monied" transplants from the blue septic tank to our West display when they move here from their urban utopias in the land of fruits and nuts. It seems that they have no schooling whatsoever as to the behavior of wildlife, predators in particular, and don't grasp the fact that coyotes are extremely intelligent and are the ultimate survivalists. Instead of respecting the animals from a safe distance they draw them in with platitudes with no thought to the consequences of that. Coyotes are vicious, ruthless highly efficient predators.
Does "schooling" not teach common sense anymore? Or perhaps a type of common sense I in my rural local ignorance just don't understand? That's how my reference applies. While My local peers and I may be not be well versed in what wine pairs best with some exotic dish or as equally ignorant on the subject of proper etiquette whilst interacting with guests from some European country we do know that feeding coyotes, the canniest and arguably most intelligent predator ever to walk the Earth is something you just don't do. Unlike you, my command of vocabulary has been developed via reading. Just reading. Anything and everything I could get my hands on starting young.
We did not have TV until I was like maybe 10. And when we did get one we only pulled in two channels and my folks dictated what was watched and when. And the programming they watched was mostly new aside from my Mom tuning in to The Lawrence Welk show every Sunday night. So I read book. Lots of them. Probably the best vocabulary tutelage I received from them was via Edgar Rice Burroughs novels. The Tarzan series and John Carter stories. I was using words and constructing sentences my peers at school flat did not understand. And my Dad (who did have much higher level education) had an extensive library. I read Nyuen Giaps Peoples War Peoples Army when I was in the 6th grade. Also Tsun Tsu's Art of War Bulfinches Mythology James Clavells Shogun And to many Zane Grey and Louis L"Amour works to put a count to.
That is how a great many people out here in rural very non blue areas began their educations and many did go on to higher level university and college learning after graduation. You might just be amazed at how many such people there are out here with multiple Master degrees in a multitude of subjects. And even folks like me who did not pursue such higher schooling still are far from unlearned. Plus we have much knowledge about things that the greater percentage of people , particularly urban types, do not possess. Because we have lived these things.
People who truly know me, of which there are few, would not label me as smug and self righteous. I assure you my umbrage your first post that began this exchange is hardly rooted in those characteristics. Nor are the qualities I ascribed to you, those being pompousness and arrogance, tied in. I actually strive for a proper level of humility in my character and but rarely will engage outside of those constraints. But every once in a while something trips my trigger. This exchange twixt you and I is one such. I bid you good day sir.
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