The Effete - Down to Earth (Real) Axis/Scale ?

[Josquius]

Before coming to Japan I was working as an actual labourer. None of this namby pamby restaurant business. :p

[Octavian]

Before coming to Japan I was working as an actual labourer. None of this namby pamby restaurant business. :p

[dps]

Whereas garbo is, of course, rather effete.

Contrast to Martinus, he's just into feet.

Am I that ineffectual?

I just wanted to make a pun.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding the question.  I do manual labor, no one else here does (unless "shooting people" is manual labor, then I guess Infantry can have it; fine with me, it's a crown of fucking thorns).

Uh, you're not the only person here who does manual laborer.

BTW, in case I haven't mentioned it, North Carolina sucks.  I wish I was back in WV.

[DontSayBanana]

I just wanted to make a pun.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding the question.  I do manual labor, no one else here does (unless "shooting people" is manual labor, then I guess Infantry can have it; fine with me, it's a crown of fucking thorns).

Come to where I work, sort and stock 35 shipping boxes of 250 CDs each, then we'll talk.

[sbr]

Does an electrician do manual labor?

[DontSayBanana]

Does an electrician do manual labor?

Not according to Ide.  Climbing, ripping and patching walls to deal with run cable... that stuff's cushy.

[sbr]

Does an electrician do manual labor?

Not according to Ide.  Climbing, ripping and patching walls to deal with run cable... that stuff's cushy.

Yeah and dicing tomatoes is grueling. 

[garbon]

How they rush in for this dubious honor!

[sbr]

How they rush in for this dubious honor!

If I have to live it I want credit for it.

[dps]

I'm not ashamed of being poor, but then I'm poor because I lack ambition and am not really all that interested in material gain.  OTOH, Ide's poor because he has no work ethic, so I'm not going to let him grab the low ground.

[garbon]

You do seem to have your knives out for Ide, this evening.

[Siege]

I've never heard "effete" used this way.  I'm not sure exactly what we are measuring.



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I prefer to think of myself as "Lawful Bacon" with a side of good.

What's the meaning of bacon and necktie?

[garbon]

A chaotic necktie, never heard of it?

[Eddie Teach]

Is that like a Sicilian necktie?

[Camerus]

If you can equate having great common sense with being down to earth, then Richard Hakluyt is an excellent example of having that common sense which is part of the British genius.