Shir, I'm grateful that Jess and bonny and brenda have tried to explain the disconnect on using the word "suspicious."

I really can't discuss this any more, because it's frustrating the ever-living shit out of me.

Anyone else reminded of Kelly Kapour saying "I don't talk *trash*, I talk *smack*...Smack talk is just like, right there. Your boyfriend's ugly, and that's a fact. Right now." Just me, then? Do not need to think of snakes big enough to eat goats. DO NOT!

In Hebrew, skeptical = suspicious. I don't know, maybe I need another word there, but nothing comes to mind that says in one word "yes, I'm sure that's how you see things, but I need to hear more about it - and from more people, actually".

In my world, suspicion isn't about someone being dishonest. It's about the opportunity to discover a new way to look at things. And that's kinda hot and cool, IMHO.

FYI, Shir, women can indeed be color-blind, it's just far less common among women than men

Nice to know. Maybe I am color blind after all. Don't know and I'm not in the rush of finding out. All I know is that sometimes I can't see the numbers on these tests, and sometimes I see different numbers.

I really can't discuss this any more, because it's frustrating the ever-living shit out of me.

Oh Steph. I'm really, really sorry for this. I didn't mean to cause you anymore frustration, especially with all of what you've been through lately. That's why I asked in the first place if I should reopen the subject. Sorry.

Bicycle Lock or Kinky Cuffs?. You decide.

No, it's cool if other people want to discuss it. When you asked if you should re-open it, I was hoping I would understand it better, but I'm clearly hearing something that (I think) you don't intend to be saying. So it's better if I just step away and chill out.

In my world, suspicion isn't about someone being dishonest. It's about the opportunity to discover a new way to look at things. And that's kinda hot and cool, IMHO.

In English suspicious is totally about somebody being dishonest. "I am suspicious of what you are saying" is an accusation of untruth.

Bicycle Lock or Kinky Cuffs?. You decide.

Gonna have to go with kink on that one because I can't see any way to safely lock up a bike with those things. One end on the bike and the other on the rack just means someone walks away with your front wheel, and trying to wrap them around and interlock the cuffs would need a longer chain.

Oh, yay. I hate learning these things the hard way. Don't get me wrong - it's good to know, but I always manage to piss someone as I learn it.

Language always has stuff like that. Not to mention cultural crap as well, ie. "cunt" being the epic, don't use ever, swear word in the US, and in the UK and Ireland, not really so much. "The Commitments" shocked me with that one when I first read it. And Irish English and mine are much closer than English and Hebrew.

We are about to kill this thread folks.