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Posted: 6/21/2016 11:50:48 AM EST
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Don't be niggardly in your usage of idioms. 
My god, you used that word...nevermind that it is an actual word, the feelz must be fed, you sir, are a racist. I just have to call a spade a spade.... 
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Posted: 6/21/2016 12:04:20 PM EST
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My experience here in the south, any sort of short handle shovel = sharpshooter. Calling it a spade will likely get you a grumpy workforce, and if you are employing any sort of workforce that requires the use of digging implements, you need them to not be grumpy. This, we also called it a "heater". As in if you complained of being cold on the jobsite, you could go use the "heater" to clean up, or hand finish a trench or something. |
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Posted: 6/21/2016 12:10:20 PM EST
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how about" calling the kettle black"?
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Posted: 6/21/2016 12:15:03 PM EST
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Don't be niggardly in your usage of idioms.
I take deep offense at that. My cousin is an idiom. |
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Posted: 6/21/2016 12:18:13 PM EST
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I prefer the way my dad said it:
Sometimes you have to call a spade a fucking shovel. |
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Posted: 6/21/2016 12:51:04 PM EST
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Spade is an archaic racial slur when used in certain context. I don't usually think of the saying as racist when I hear it but know that many do so I avoid that expression. Sometimes when it used in a certain way by certain people you get the vibe that they are not talking about shovels. You're just whitewashing it. |
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Posted: 6/21/2016 4:32:14 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: So it dates back to 1900+ years in the original Greek and almost 500 years in English......... Why do black Americans get so butthurt over a phrase that isn't about them? Quote HistoryQuoted: So it dates back to 1900+ years in the original Greek and almost 500 years in English......... Why do black Americans get so butthurt over a phrase that isn't about them? |
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Posted: 6/21/2016 4:50:25 PM EST
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My experience here in the south, any sort of short handle shovel = sharpshooter. Calling it a spade will likely get you a grumpy workforce, and if you are employing any sort of workforce that requires the use of digging implements, you need them to not be grumpy. It offends Mexicans too? |
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Posted: 6/21/2016 4:57:38 PM EST
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Why would a shovel be racist? Because they require initiative to use. |
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Posted: 6/21/2016 5:09:29 PM EST
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I use it all the time, so I want to know if I am racist or not. Spade is derived from espada. You're calling a sword a sword. |
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Posted: 6/21/2016 8:28:28 PM EST
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And here I always thought it related to people calling spade cards bullshit like "Death Cards" and other such crap instead of calling them spades.
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Posted: 6/23/2016 1:06:46 PM EST
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Personally, I think it's racist to automatically connect words to people when they are being used in a different context. If I say "spade" in the phrase "call a spade, a spade" and you think "black person." *You're* the racist, not me. BINGO! |
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