i'll make this short:
i work at an elementary school. there was a christmas song show-thing this morning, with all the kids and the parents. i was standing in the back, when in between two of the classes a really cool teacher i'm friends with (all of them, really) came around to say hi to me. we were talking for a little bit when she pulled a few silver dollars out of her pocket and said, "look what i kiked." then, she immediately followed that by semi-repeating herself, saying "look what i confiscated." then she had to go to get her class ready to go on. she may have said something else, but i cannot think of anything else she would have said that would have sounded like "kiked," and still mean the same thing. i'm not going to bring it up with the principal, but i would like to talk to her about it, at least to clarify what she said. thoughts?
edit from the link Linflas posted, i now fully believe she said "kiped." i'm embarrassed to think she would have said "kiked," but now i know better and can laugh it off.
however, to all that accused me of being too "pc," i am *probably* safe in assuming that you are all white middle class males of christian descent (though whether or not you actually practice a religion now isn't relevant) therefore, you have been insulated for at least the past 50 years from being the target of any form of bigotry. you don't know what it's like, you cannot understand how it feels to be the subject. if she had actually said "kiked," the worst thing i could have done would be to let it go. words are not just words, they are opinions and feelings and in some cases, prejudices that if left unchecked can become worse, and passed down generation to generation. i'll grow a backbone when you grow a conscience.
edit 2 sorry linflas, adul posts everywhere and i've always associated the wildcat with adul
i work at an elementary school. there was a christmas song show-thing this morning, with all the kids and the parents. i was standing in the back, when in between two of the classes a really cool teacher i'm friends with (all of them, really) came around to say hi to me. we were talking for a little bit when she pulled a few silver dollars out of her pocket and said, "look what i kiked." then, she immediately followed that by semi-repeating herself, saying "look what i confiscated." then she had to go to get her class ready to go on. she may have said something else, but i cannot think of anything else she would have said that would have sounded like "kiked," and still mean the same thing. i'm not going to bring it up with the principal, but i would like to talk to her about it, at least to clarify what she said. thoughts?
edit from the link Linflas posted, i now fully believe she said "kiped." i'm embarrassed to think she would have said "kiked," but now i know better and can laugh it off.
however, to all that accused me of being too "pc," i am *probably* safe in assuming that you are all white middle class males of christian descent (though whether or not you actually practice a religion now isn't relevant) therefore, you have been insulated for at least the past 50 years from being the target of any form of bigotry. you don't know what it's like, you cannot understand how it feels to be the subject. if she had actually said "kiked," the worst thing i could have done would be to let it go. words are not just words, they are opinions and feelings and in some cases, prejudices that if left unchecked can become worse, and passed down generation to generation. i'll grow a backbone when you grow a conscience.
edit 2 sorry linflas, adul posts everywhere and i've always associated the wildcat with adul