There's alway one who takes offence at a topic.

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hi thea how about all those address labels we all get in the mail asking for donations to american diabetes or veterans of foreign wars or etc, etc. and what should we do with them? Any suggestions? Now how on earth could anyone be offended by that? I mean this is really innocuous, so wonder if this would upset'anyone? I understand you may not get these in some other countries but I bet others besides the US do get these things.even if one does donate we still have a ton more of them than anyone can use. so we need suggestions.

This is bound to happen because of wrong usage of words which some of us are still poor in the proper ways of presenting our views. We must understand that we are unpolished writers and doesn't have that journalistic talent in writing. Another factor that contributes to the misunderstanding is the readers misinterpretation of the writers views due to different ways of thinking as we all come from different backgrounds and cultures. What might be innocent to people from the west can be demeaning and offensive to people from the east. Common sense is in short supply here and every word read is taken according to ones understanding causing a lot frictions between the writer and the readers. The spirit of mylot should always guide everyone here so we can all march to form a united front in the world of mylot.

Yes I have seen that happen so many times. It usually comes from someone who reads it wrong or reads the first couple of lines and then responds. lets see. One time that stands out was when I said that I thought welfare needed to be reformed because there were so many people out there living a life of luxury off the system. I can't remember if this happened within a discussion or one that I started but I agree that it takes very little to ignite a spark here sometimes. I always get thrown when I am totally misunderstood or my words taken out of context.

Well there's not proof needed here. I know even I have gotten offended at topics, but I tend to just not respond to them... Though the list of topics that could be offensive are as follows, Topics about deadbeat dads, topics about abusive parents, topics about abortion.

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Wow! Is that ever true! I hope you find someone to give you a topic as right now the ones that are in my head you would have to borrow Dawnald's flak jacket! Much too controversal!

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U can't pay any attention to folks like that, thea. I think they are miserable & just want everybody to be in the same boat as them. Ignore them!!here is u a starter, MEAN MEN, LOL. tHAT SHOULD GET SOMETHING GOING ON.

Ya, kinda like what you are doing now. I see it alot on here. People aren't happy without their own rights of FREEDOM OF SPEECH. Let's get rid of that right too along with all our others. Slow but sure. That's the way of it. Full speed ahead. If I don't like or find interest in a given topic I delete it from my incoming and move on.

Hello, Thea. On the button as usual. Yesterday, one of the responses to my 'shoplifter in the family' said my two year old granddaughter was evil for stealing, and it was against their customs. I replied it was against our customs as well, and how can anyone say a two year old is evil, when the tot in question can't even string sentences together yet, so certainly can't understand that taking what she wants is wrong? Right, you want a topic to take offence at? How about, 'It's raining where I live today,' (In the interests of accuracy, it isn't, I just want to see how you can take offence at it or make an agenda out of it.)

...i don't think you will find any topic like that you wish for. it seems that for many, getting offended is a matter of choice. still if you wish you may start a blank discussion just to see what result you get...(i wonder if you can start a blank discussion..if not then use any one character like !...*...#...or whatever you wish)

After all, what do you try to prove with this ? Is not nice to point your finger to some of us who are just plain see things different way .. This is insulting and infamously .. I demand public excuses - you will have to go on top of your local town hall, on highest roof's point, sunday morning before 6 am, turn your face to west-south-west and ask appologies with loud voice.

any topic?hmm.. who keeps putting back the milk with just a whiff left in the fridge?

So, Thea.....whatever could you be offended at me for? -grinning like a Cheshire cat-

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Hi thea, I think differences are a way to sharpen brains. If v can come up with counter arguments, it can actually be fun! I thrive on controversies. Many a times I raise them just to see if anybody can give me that kind of exercise. I havent lost any friends here. Touch wood. :) And I love puzzles for the same reason, which u must have realized by now. :) I think we are here to have both light hearted as well as serious discussions. The light hearted ones like the ones u and wmraul started lighten up the environment. These are of course followed by some heavy stuff that we all need to put in our thinking powers into, and see if the existing measures are good enough, or is there something better that can be done. For example, the object of my discussion about Hitler would be to identify what can be done in the initial stages to stop such things happening. So initially, analyze when the process started going wrong. Hitler was not the only despot in history. We've had Polpot who has equally impressive figures, and the Nanking massacre, or Rwanda, and Serbian case. Wanted to analyze where we go wrong because except Nanking massacre, rest of the cases are quite recent, aren't they? We as individuals can think about it at grassroot levels, and decide how the collection of such factors should be prevented so that in future such things dont happen. U Greeks had ur large halls where all elders sat together and discussed the issues and came to some solutions which at that point of time seemed right. So why cant we have something like that going on here, come to a solution to such problems, which are genuinely there? Identify which are the essential factors that lead to build up of this, instead of pinning it only on one or two persons and leaving it in history books? Cant we improve our civilization? That is why I come here. I want fun, I want to understand other people's emotions, I want to think, and expresss even if it means crossing swords. But I will do it softly. As u can see, I mean no offense, do I?

Thea, how about gall bladder. Nothing offensive (it doesn't desolve in acid), not controversial (there isn't a waiting list for gall bladder transplants, at least not to my knowledge).