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Originally Posted by knox
well, if you know their names you should use their names.
i personally only use "my friend" for patronizing purposes.
which would be completely ok if he was homeless.
i would kind of like it even.
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please, don't project your porkchop from yo plate onto mine
part-nah!
all people are my friends, because I genuinely seek to be kind and friendly with all folks, but especially those who have a disagreement with me, because we should be even friendlier to smooth things out..
I got no beef with you, and the 'my friend' was not condescending or patronizing in the least, it was honest and sincere.
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Originally Posted by davenotdead
i really don't think you've lived here in the south suchfriends, and i really don't think you should make sweeping generalizations based on a few people who tell you stories about their neighbors.
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what sweeping generalizations are those which I made? I did not in any place say ALL floridians are racist, nor all southerners. Why can't Florida be the South for 'positive' southern characteristics? Just because I chose to dwell on negative factors does not discredit the Southern status of Florida but regardless.. I am sorry, if cultural arguments won't stick with you, surely geography will, Florida is most definitely the southern most portion of the continental United States. Get over it, its the South! Further, as others have already pointed out, Florida was part of the confederacy. I am sorry brother, I did not write the history or geography books, I just read em
