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Thanks Richard. Good call and I accept it, mostly (except the parts I'm still blind to). Sorry for the misrepesentation. Apologies too (to everyone) for *my* bullying behaviour.

That's big of you Ralph, I respect a sincere apology. Thank you.

Russell, if you would, please delete it all (the two posts and anything related), as far as I'm concerned now, it never happened.

Though, I'd still like to know "where" I shouldn't "tip my hat", …at least in the name of self-preservation.

Unless I am missing something unspoken here, I think perhaps you've misunderstood Richards remarks.

I think was simply stating that disregarding social norms, even the silly ones can have consequences, and people in some cultures are quicker to resort to violence. If you say went to Afghanistan whereing a t-shirt depicting the Prophet Muhammed, you would likely be killed. Not that you should be killed or anyone here is threatening to do it; but it would likely be the consequence.

However, Richard is perfectly capable of speaking for himself, so I'll shut up now.


Careful now, apparently some here perceive this as a threat.


…the chat room must be empty.

I think we have more to fear from grammar nazis. "whereing"? WTF was I thinking there?

Thanks Jason. That's a good illustration of cross-context issues, the place where I usually stumble. Appreciate you taking time to clarify.

One thing I've found to be important (context-wise) are these:

In the absence of a block quote (to denote context), it's always best to trace a dialog back to source. Anything else is a reply to the original post. I've had people launch attacks on me who didn't observe that I wasn't addressing them, …even when the comments are explicitly benign. 

That was an awesome bit by George Carlin. The hat customs always really bugged me which is why I entered a couple that I thought everyone would agree are passe - removing your hat in the presence of a lady and not tipping your hat to a man because that is an insult.  The custom that is not passe is removing your hat for a national anthem - it still evokes strong feeling from some people. I was hoping to convince those people I mean no harm to any institution.  I spent time and money coming to the reason rally to defend U.S  secular principals that are being attacked.  Please don't marginalize or think less of me because I don't want to remove my hat.  But Carlin says it way more eloquently than I ever could with humor.

That was a powerful hat slap by PowerfulHitchSlap

I like what George Carlin has to say, and the road-trip is slightly interesting, but what do they have to do with each other?

No I don't get bothered by it. Students wear their baseball hats in class all the time .. it's a fashion or something.



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