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We taught our son to be a gentleman, and he keeps it up. He does open the door for a lady, for the elderly, or his elders in general, etc. I am very proud of the young man he has become.... He just finished his first college semester with 3 A's and 2 B's. He is used to holding a 4.0 or very close to it, so the B's are a change for him.
At any rate, chivalry is still around, but barely, I agree.
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Originally Posted by ATG5
Didn't realize this thread was about GPA and chivalry. Let's not go down that road, please.
Anyways, I don't say, 'I'd hit that'. I usually say,
Shawty could get it. Or,
Damn, girl, you pretty. (the way Chris Brown says it in the 'Cake' song with Rihanna.)
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Originally Posted by ATG5
I'm still waiting for the connection between GPA and topic at hand.
I am not ever required to appease you but here ya go. Chowhound and I were in a discussion with one another about chivalry and young men came into his post. I then spoke of my son in a quoted post to Chowhound.
When I spoke of my son in the post, I was speaking of a young man who is chivalrous, a gentleman. Furthermore, I mentioned his GPA and how he is doing in college his first semester.
Posts on C-D go down all kinds of roads. For this one to ask why people speak that way can easy go in the way of chivalry, and from there, I am quite sure that examples of any given young man could have been made.
I gave the example of my son who has manners, is a gentleman, is chivalrous, maintains a high if not perfect GPA and would not ever behave in such a way as to use that phrase.
He is just the type of person who would not do this, and the way I raised him has much to do with it.
He was raised to value people, and to value education. Of course he has other values.
Why do you care so much as to have come here twice worrying about it? What is/was your GPA? Are you offended because you are one of the people who behave this way?
I am not saying you can't have a high GPA and act this way, anyone can act any way. A lot of circumstance comes to play.
Who gives a shyt if shawty could get that? I don't, but it is your right to post it.
Last edited by Pikantari; 12-23-2012 at 04:07 PM..
I am not ever required to appease you but here ya go. Chowhound and I were in a discussion with one another about chivalry and young men came into his post. I then spoke of my son in a quoted post to Chowhound.
When I spoke of my son in the post, I was speaking of a young man who is chivalrous, a gentleman. Furthermore, I mentioned his GPA and how he is doing in college his first semester.
Posts on C-D go down all kinds of roads. For this one to ask why people speak that way can easy go in the way of chivalry, and from there, I am quite sure that examples of any given young man could have been made.
I gave the example of my son who has manners, is a gentleman, is chivalrous, maintains a high if not perfect GPA and would not ever behave in such a way as to use that phrase.
He is just the type of person who would not do this, and the way I raised him has much to do with it.
He was raised to value people, and to value education. Of course he has other values.
Why do you care so much as to have come here twice worrying about it? What is/was your GPA? Are you offended because you are one of the people who behave this way?
I am not saying you can't have a high GPA and act this way, anyone can act any way. A lot of circumstance comes to play.
Who gives a shyt if shawty could get that? I don't, but it is your right to post it.
I was going to type out a response including my GPA, school I graduated from and what kind of family I came from, but then I realized 'why bother'.
That's fine if you're going to be so uptight and continue to fail to understand it's mostly said in jest among friends and rarely to the person they're talking about. It's another way to say, "She's hot" or "He's sexy". That doesn't necessarily mean they don't value people or education. It doesn't make them any less of a gentleman or person. That's just ridiculous. I'm sure such filthy words would never come out of your son's mouth, though.
And since I sure as hades wasn't saying that to you, so I wouldn't expect you to give a 'shyt'.
Lol. It's amazing how a lot of kids, who have 'morals and values' and good grades, have their parents fooled.
Also funny how your buddy Chowhound talks about how he would 'sop a fat girl up with a biscuit', but gon' on head and have that talk about chilvary and GPA or whatever.
I was going to type out a response including my GPA, school I graduated from and what kind of family I came from, but then I realized 'why bother'.
That's fine if you're going to be so uptight and continue to fail to understand it's mostly said in jest among friends and rarely to the person they're talking about. It's another way to say, "She's hot" or "He's sexy". That doesn't necessarily mean they don't value people or education. It doesn't make them any less of a gentleman or person. That's just ridiculous. I'm sure such filthy words would never come out of your son's mouth, though.
And since I sure as hades wasn't saying that to you, so I wouldn't expect you to give a 'shyt'.
Lol. It's amazing how a lot of kids, who have 'morals and values' and good grades, have their parents fooled.
Also funny how your buddy Chowhound talks about how he would 'sop a fat girl up with a biscuit', but gon' on head and have that talk about chilvary and GPA or whatever.
I didn't say you were saying that about me. Another poster mentioned it as being a replacement word for f*ck, and that is what it is. People say phrases like this flippantly without thinking of what it truly means. "She is hot" means she is hot. Hot, pretty, attractive, etc. None of those mean hit, tap, screw, bang, f*uck, etc. No matter how you put it, it does not mean the same thing and for the people who think it does....I have no idea.
Whether or not you are saying it in passing to the person it is designated for, to friends, or whatever the circumstance, it is disrespectful and ungentlemanly like.
You are obviously not a person who can wrap his mind around it so you are right. Whatever.
You went to college, so you know about this word, right?
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a word having the same or nearly the same meaning as another in the language, as happy, joyful, elated. A dictionary of synonyms and antonyms (or opposites), such as Thesaurus.com, is called a thesaurus.
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I agree, some kids have their parents fooled. I don't think mine fall under that category. They hear someone cuss and you see their eyebrows raise and their eyes get a little bigger. It just is not their everyday language or language they use, and you can tell by their reactions.
When I get my connection between chivalry and male and female differences that makes sense. That won't be happening anytime soon so I would not hold my breath.
Well, if you look at any thread, after about the first 5 or 6 posts, EVERY THREAD morphs... it used to irk the hell out of me at first, but such is life.........
I didn't say you were saying that about me. Another poster mentioned it as being a replacement word for f*ck, and that is what it is. People say phrases like this flippantly without thinking of what it truly means. "She is hot" means she is hot. Hot, pretty, attractive, etc. None of those mean hit, tap, screw, bang, f*uck, etc. No matter how you put it, it does not mean the same thing and for the people who think it does....I have no idea.
Whether or not you are saying it in passing to the person it is designated for, to friends, or whatever the circumstance, it is disrespectful and ungentlemanly like.
You are obviously not a person who can wrap his mind around it so you are right. Whatever.
You went to college, so you know about this word, right?
syn·o·nym
[sin-uh-nim] Show IPA
noun
1.
a word having the same or nearly the same meaning as another in the language, as happy, joyful, elated. A dictionary of synonyms and antonyms (or opposites), such as Thesaurus.com, is called a thesaurus.
2.
a word or expression accepted as another name for something, as Arcadia for pastoral simplicity or Wall Street for U.S. financial markets; metonym.
3.
Biology . one of two or more scientific names applied to a single taxon.
I agree, some kids have their parents fooled. I don't think mine fall under that category. They hear someone cuss and you see their eyebrows raise and their eyes get a little bigger. It just is not their everyday language or language they use, and you can tell by their reactions.
I was going to type out a response including my GPA, school I graduated from and what kind of family I came from, but then I realized 'why bother'.
That's fine if you're going to be so uptight and continue to fail to understand it's mostly said in jest among friends and rarely to the person they're talking about. It's another way to say, "She's hot" or "He's sexy". That doesn't necessarily mean they don't value people or education. It doesn't make them any less of a gentleman or person. That's just ridiculous. I'm sure such filthy words would never come out of your son's mouth, though.
And since I sure as hades wasn't saying that to you, so I wouldn't expect you to give a 'shyt'.
Lol. It's amazing how a lot of kids, who have 'morals and values' and good grades, have their parents fooled.
Also funny how your buddy Chowhound talks about how he would 'sop a fat girl up with a biscuit', but gon' on head and have that talk about chilvary and GPA or whatever.
I've acknowledge that I say things that are off color at times (see link), for comedy purposes, or at least in attempts to make jokes.
Me making reference about biscuits and "fat girls" as you say doesn't negate how I treat someone..... it's called making a joke....... most of my "jokes" aren't mean spirited and that is the real key.... I see people post some vile nasty stuff here... and the scary part is that they actually mean it....
This, too, is a very good post. People do have a disregard for one another. I have never been this way, nor did I raise my children to be this way.
It all comes from the very beginnings, the very basics. What we are taught at home. How we are allowed to behave. How we are taught to behave.
Children learn what they live, and that is normally represented in their outward behaviors.
I am always very happy when a young man opens a door for me. It gives me a little hope....
What stinks about these tragedies also is that the shooter usually takes their own life, which shows me that they valued their victims even less. I'm pro suicide. If you want to kill yourself, because life is too hard for you, then 100% be my guess. I slept good before you killed yourself and I'll sleep good after your death. Suicide is one thing I have 100% tolerance for; however, I don't like it when you take innocent bystanders with you. It leaves so many answers unanswered.
If the CT guy would have just came to the school and shot himself only, it would have been on the 5 o'clock news, but would have easily been forgotten. So yes, I agree, the disregard for human life is appauling.
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