If you’re having that kind of problem with the outlet, I’d make sure to have a heat detector nearby and an extinguisher rated for electrical fires at hand.
It’s a common part of most standard Yiddish slurs against Christians and other non-Jews. It is understood by virtually anyone with an education as such, and its use is offensive. You know this – you’re simply trying to deflect and play the innocent.
There’s this one simple trick I use to get a refill if the server comes by and my mouth is full: I point to the glass and, by the time they fill it, I’ve been able to swallow and say “thank you”. You’d be amazed by how your service improves when you do that. ;)
The lower IQ end of the “journalist” scale typically talking to the lower IQ end of the human scale. Anyone expecting more than cliched and trite doesn’t understand the players.
One of the worst things I was ever compelled to read. Fortunately, it was so overly simplistic in its writing that it didn’t even fill the space of the two hour flight after leaving the seminar I’d attended, leaving me time to get in a chapter or so of the Clancy series I was reading at the time. In all, the “Dick and Jane” books from first grade were more intellectually complex and the Dr. Seuss books of my youth were much more compelling reads.
If you’re having that kind of problem with the outlet, I’d make sure to have a heat detector nearby and an extinguisher rated for electrical fires at hand.