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Pretzel_Warrior

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30. you are entitled to your opinion and they are entitled to theirs. I was merely

Reply to SomethingFishy (Reply #29)

Tue Jul 9, 2013, 03:24 PM

Jul 2013

commenting that DU is no more "off the rails" than they were 10 years ago. This kind of spirited debate and disagreement has been going on forever. It was most noticeable to me in primary season of 2004, but it is always here. It ebbs and flows.

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The discussion of poverty [View all] malokvale77 Jul 2013 OP

WTF nt LWolf Jul 2013 #1

I don't think it was deemed as off-topic because it related to poverty... OneGrassRoot Jul 2013 #2

There are lots of threads with little content that rise quickly to the top if it is a hot topic. liberal_at_heart Jul 2013 #32

Oh, I agree that it's not a hot topic...unfortunately... OneGrassRoot Jul 2013 #34

Poverty reflects badly on the administration magellan Jul 2013 #3

Nah, that's not it. HappyMe Jul 2013 #11

This message was self-deleted by its author magellan Jul 2013 #3

Two things: Orrex Jul 2013 #5

I think the term is "Hard Scrabble" cthulu2016 Jul 2013 #6

+1. I've always understood it to refer to poor land, and the sort of lifestyle winter is coming Jul 2013 #8

Yes that is the meaning of hard-scrabble... malokvale77 Jul 2013 #13

I've known it as Hard-scrapple all my life. malokvale77 Jul 2013 #9

Poverty is not considered off topic in GD. hrmjustin Jul 2013 #7

Start a thread about your world travels RandiFan1290 Jul 2013 #10

LOL malokvale77 Jul 2013 #14

hardscrabble FSogol Jul 2013 #12

Not in modern dictionaries, true. malokvale77 Jul 2013 #15

LOL, sorry, but your link is hardly a dictionary. n/t FSogol Jul 2013 #16

Didn't mean to imply it was... malokvale77 Jul 2013 #17

Yes, you are not the only one to make that mistake. FSogol Jul 2013 #18

One more link... malokvale77 Jul 2013 #19

I think the scrapple in that title is a joke. The character is named, "Ham." FSogol Jul 2013 #20

I suppose my parents and grandparents... malokvale77 Jul 2013 #21

Where did I mock poverty? FSogol Jul 2013 #23

Perhaps if you started a thread with a little more clarity it would have been different Marrah_G Jul 2013 #22

there was a lot you might have been thinking but didn't say. Pretzel_Warrior Jul 2013 #24

YOu see this thread?: SomethingFishy Jul 2013 #25

Pretty disgusting... malokvale77 Jul 2013 #26

no. this is still the same old DU. Look at all of the back and forth. plenty defending Pretzel_Warrior Jul 2013 #27

I said a nice portion of DU not half, not all, not 3/4's, I said a nice portion. SomethingFishy Jul 2013 #29

you are entitled to your opinion and they are entitled to theirs. I was merely Pretzel_Warrior Jul 2013 #30

I wouldn't have understood what you wanted to talk about, closeupready Jul 2013 #28

I used a term from my childhood... malokvale77 Jul 2013 #31

kick just to keep the topic of poverty near the top. liberal_at_heart Jul 2013 #33

Thanks for the kick... malokvale77 Jul 2013 #35