This has nothing to do with my personal opinions or values or preferences. It’s human nature. Controversial subjects lead to arguments between others, and that’s what I’m trying to avoid here. It doesn’t matter if a controversial topic is thinly veiled as a “joke”, it is still in bad taste and causes problems for all of us here.
The freedom of speech addressed in the 1st amendment of the US Constitution states that government shall not infringe on free speech. If db wants to limit speech on something like this forum, we users have no choice but to comply if we wish to participate. Simple.
“Controversial.” So imagine if you joke about the Ayatollah on an Iranian forum. That’s not cool in your country. In kind there are some things which you might think “simple” but are not in the context of another culture. And, the user who called you out — he’s the head admin of this site, so… he can pretty much do anything.
'No, my cabbage moths have already started laying eggs in them! Send the trolley into the river!' 'No, the sailing wolf will steal the boat to rescue them!'
The last line in my previous post reminds me of something.
In any language there are typical expressions you just can’t translate into any other language. When life became less hard because of the introduction of modern household machinery people were at first a bit reluctant to buy them. Afraid operating those machines proved to be too difficult. As with the washing machine. But those early models were dead easy to operate.
So an expression emerged that also was used in other situations. “Een kind van drie kan de was doen” literally “a three year old child can do the laundry”. In later years those machines became more sophisticated, and a bit harder to operate. Which led to the expression that literally translates into “where is that three year old child if you need one”.
Needless to say that expression is quite obsolete now. A tar and feather treatment would be the least if you said those words in the wrong company. E.g. in the company of young parents. FYI modern education involves the use of electronic gizmo’s, not learning about expressions, and what they mean.
Rant over.