Now that you bring it up, Steve, ‘patronizing’ in that meaning is a really difficult word to translate into foreign languages. You have to explain it, you can’t simply find a foreign word that expresses the same concept, especially with its negative connotations.

As for your question – ‘only if you’re a femnazi trying to rewrite English to suit your political views’ seems to be the standard answer one hears around here to such questions.

While, at least Ann’s horse didn’t reduce their tax write-off by winning anything in London.

Actually is sort of weird behavior, because eating ‘brunch’ after church is a common thing among the better off evangelicals.

Unless they had really superior milkshakes or french fries, I would never have eaten there. My source for that information wasn’t impressed with their offerings in either area, so I didn’t even try them.

Nice phrasing 😉

It’s rather amazing how the worst levels of social problems in the US seem to be concentrated in areas dominated by the Fundies. If government programs are cut significantly, the South is in a whole lot of trouble.

Whew! that’s a relief! I wouldn’t know what to think of a retired policeman who didn’t like doughnuts! 😛

I don’t know the ultimate impact on Chick Fil-A of their newly broadcast bigotry. The day after it was broadcast, but before I knew about it, at lunchtime, I happened to be in a parking lot which one of their outlets shares with a supermarket near us; there was a veritable horde of people in cars in line; cars were tying up traffic on one whole stretch of parking lot. I don’t know if that’s the usual lunch crowd or if the Bigots of Houston were holding a meeting. I don’t eat critters, anyway, though the chickens I remember from my granddad’s farm come awfully close to the line between animals and vegetables…

Hate is bad for business. During the ugly years of desegregation in the South I saw entire cities ruined economically by hate as hate motivated them to do self-destructive things like close all the city parks and pools so that blacks wouldn’t be able to use them after the court order came to desegregate them (hmm, that’s like shooting yourself in the foot to avoid having to buy new shoes?). I’m sure that in Fundistan this kinda thing goes over well, but Fundistan is a poor backward cousin of America. If you want to make money you gotta go where the money is, and that ain’t Fundistan.

– Badtux the Hate-observin’ Penguin