Il be the first to admit that I do swear, and have done on the forum a few times. I think its probably because I do in real life fairly often that sometimes when I post, some words slip in there and I don’t even notice.
I think that we should keep our language civilised on here though. I mean, if you swore all the time it’d get boring!
Edd
The pink elephant is that thing in the room that is very obvious but everyone tries to ignore and not talk about.
Oops: in France when you talk about a pink elephant it means that someone is drunk! (“pink elephant” is a delirium tremens favorite)
Forgive me for saying this, but that’s very Amerikan of you.
Wasn’t this fun? Sorry, but Bruce was a bit sloppy with this expression. The English usage “elephant in the room” refers to avoidance of an obvious truth. There are other common usages including the word “elephant” that mean same thing. The elephant can be said to be on the table, in the corner, or any other place where it really can’t hide. The idea is that an elephant is a rather large and active animal so it should be a challenge ignoring its presence. The term “pink elephants”, as was mentioned elsewhere, refers to the visual hallucinations of those experiencing delirium tremens due to abrupt withdrawal from alcohol. Bruce mixed his usage a little in his title. Miss Ayelery will certainly emerge soon to rap his knuckles with a ruler.
But why can’t my elephants be pink? It’s a nice color. Is that too non-conformist-like and bucking the trends? Then again, I am scared of Miss Ayelery. I really should be more careful.
Yes, I believe we’re discussing the 800lb Gorilla in the room. The Pink Elephant would mean there’s a drunk unicyclist in the room.
Hey, I resemble that remark!
Don’t feed the trolls and post-ho’s.
Use your ignore feature.
This is how you self-moderate.
People will eventually go away when they don’t get any more attention.
Let’s get our elephant metaphors right:
Elephant in the room, like the gorilla, is a big issue that is not being discussed.
A pink elephant refers to being drunk.
A white elephant is a gift you give someone that is a bigger PITA than it’s worth.
On the 19th May 2001, Nektarios Fintikakis and Georgios Mavroleon put Hania into the Guiness Book of World Records by making the world’s largest pita bread, and then stuffing it with the world’s largest ever souvlaki. The pita bread was 1.9 metres by 1.6 metres, and the souvlaki weighed in at a hefty 270kg.
Thanks. Your link shortened the length of this thread considerably. Now there is plenty of space for the “pink” elephant to uni around the room.
But to the blind man…
What’s this about a Pink Elephant?
Inappropriate for a FFF.
Edit: Did you mean to post that in this thread? Still inappropriate.
Co-inky-dinkly, the banner add at the bottom of this thread is this…
Quiet, it can hear you…
I was going to say I like the.mars.volta for being controversial, almost a borderline troll in many threads. But then I saw he had like a trillion posts in this thread. Now I think he’s just annoying.
hahahaha that hilarious.
