Crosshairs not really gunsights... umm.. sure

[Mac1337]

Ca Bob wrote:
Telescopic sights have crosshairs.

Do you see a crosshair here? As for you €, your constant rant over my English betrays the deep down racism of northeastern liberals loud and clear. My English is more than good enough to reply to your uninformed posts. Go sell your "compassion" on some other sites. You have been outed.

[OWC Jamie]

voodoopenguin wrote:
Having now ascertained that the symbols were not crosshairs from gunsights but map symbols can someone explain to me what "reload" means now? Thank you.

Paul

do you want the definition from a specific side of a rhetorical line in the sand or the one normal people use ?

[August West]

Your English may or may not be passable, but your intelligence certainly is not. Cherry picking Red Dot Scopes from a website that features more than 200 times the number of Cross-haired Scopes for sale is weak, very weak. Actually a FAIL.

[deckeda]

$tevie wrote:
...you should avoid arguing about technical semantics that nobody in the general public even needs to know.

That doesn't change anything anyhow, if someone sees crosshairs in the context being discussed they know what it is supposed to mean -- and so do you.

Dakota, context matters. Meaning, matters. Words without either, which is your only specialty, are irrelevant. The above quote is the example why. If you delight in winning semantic arguments, while broadly missing the main point, you have much to learn about not only how to exchange ideas convincingly, but of forming them at all.

[Mac1337]

Voodoo, guns are and will always be part of the American culture. Gun metaphors are intertwined with American English forever. Reload is no more sinister than saying I am out of ammunition, I bought some stain in gunstock or don't go out half-cocked. I too learned these expressions over time and I did not decide to come out and bemoan them and act as holier than thou. It is the culture and I accepted it. Europe actually makes some of the finest firearms. British doubles are world renowned. Instead of demonizing your heritage be proud of it.

[voodoopenguin]

Dakota wrote:
Voodoo, guns are and will always be part of the American culture. Gun metaphors are intertwined with American English forever. Reload is no more sinister than saying I am out of ammunition, I bought some stain in gunstock or don't go out half-cocked. I too learned these expressions over time and I did not decide to come out and bemoan them and act as holier than thou. It is the culture and I accepted it. Europe actually makes some of the finest firearms. British doubles are world renowned. Instead of demonizing your heritage be proud of it.

No need to get defensive Dakota, whether I feel it's a good thing or not I do understand that guns are a part of the American culture and I don't see where I was "demonizing" my heritage, maybe you added two and two and made more than four. Although of course I cannot know for sure, I do believe that Sarah Palin did not want for one second her gun metaphors to be taken seriously and used as an excuse to actually shoot people and I understand from her background that this gun culture is more in her than some other US citizens. I think I understand why she would use these metaphors as they are something she relates to but what I don't understand is why there is all this back pedalling as to what those symbols were especially as there are other instances where she has used even more obvious gun metaphors. Why cannot she and her aides just say that of course they were gunsight cross hairs but of course, like most sane people would assume, they were there as metaphors.

Paul

[$tevie]

voodoopenguin wrote: what I don't understand is why there is all this back pedalling as to what those symbols were especially as there are other instances where she has used even more obvious gun metaphors. Why cannot she and her aides just say that of course they were gunsight cross hairs but of course, like most sane people would assume, they were there as metaphors. Paul

Can we assume the people who work for Palin even know what a metaphor IS?

[Mac1337]

voodoopenguin wrote:
Why cannot she and her aides just say that of course they were gunsight cross hairs but of course, like most sane people would assume, they were there as metaphors.

Paul

I don't have a problem with what you are suggesting but in the interest of fairness ask the other side for mea culpa as well. Obama said not long ago that he will bring a gun to the fight. Did he mean that he will go to Congress packing? DLC had a map with bullseyes all over it. The word targeting is used so often that people don't think twice about it. People are apparently much more clever than the intelligentsia packed-forum here. They thought they had made the connection for sure.

"n a CBS News telephone poll, according to the network, "57 percent of respondents said the harsh political tone had nothing to do with the shooting, compared to 32 percent who did."

http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepolitic...235286.asp

[Jimmypoo]

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[Black]

Dakota wrote:
http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepolitic...235286.asp

Who are you? What have you done with Dakota?