What is hacking you off today?

[Member]

But "fighters" is a bit different to "people", don't you think? I'd be proud to have the title firefighter attached to my job, but a fishing person? Nah, not so much. I'd actually find it quite derogatory.

The only fishing person on here is @The General ?


(looks like the old emoji has gone which is a shame)

 

[londonblue]

But "fighters" is a bit different to "people", don't you think? I'd be proud to have the title firefighter attached to my job, but a fishing person? Nah, not so much. I'd actually find it quite derogatory.

That's a different argument. You were arguing that we haven't replaced the word fireman. I pointed out we did that ages ago.

 

[Mad Cyril]

The really aggressive man that asked me for money in Southend high street and when I said I only carried plastic wanted me to withdraw a tenner so he could get drunk.

When I told him to do one he then started to make some unpleasant jokes about female genitalia and homosexuals.

 

[OldBlueLady]

That's a different argument. You were arguing that we haven't replaced the word fireman. I pointed out we did that ages ago.

It's not a different argument - it's the same argument. I omitted from saying that they were now fire fighters and was saying that they hadn't changed to fire people.

 

[londonblue]

It's not a different argument - it's the same argument. I omitted from saying that they were now fire fighters and was saying that they hadn't changed to fire people.

Of course it is. See my previous post, I can't be arsed to repeat it.

 

[SARF]

Fish fighters. Problem solved

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

I love women. But it's been fisherman from the year dot. So does this mean the Bible has to be re-written to change fisherman to fisherperson?

The Bible obviously wasn't written in English, there are multiple different English translations in use and over history those translations have been continually updated to adjust to modern usage so the Bible can remain accessible. e.g. the Bible I was given at 13 was a different version to the one my grandparents grew up with.

ps The most famous Biblical phrase relating to fishing I can think of is "fishers of men", so maybe they should just be called fishers anyway?

 

[THE SEVENTIES NORTH BANK]

The Bible obviously wasn't written in English, there are multiple different English translations in use and over history those translations have been continually updated to adjust to modern usage so the Bible can remain accessible. e.g. the Bible I was given at 13 was a different version to the one my grandparents grew up with.

ps The most famous Biblical phrase relating to fishing I can think of is "fishers of men", so maybe they should just be called fishers anyway?

I thought he called the four fishermen and then told them he will make them fishers of men. I'm sure Peter is mentioned as a fisherman elsewhere besides being one of those four?

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

I thought he called the four fishermen and then told them he will make them fishers of men. I'm sure Peter is mentioned as a fisherman elsewhere besides being one of those four?

Different translations translate it differently.

https://www.biblehub.com/interlinear/matthew/4-18.htm

The King James Version and the Youngs Literal Version both say Simon (Peter) and Andrew were fishers.

I think they are the older translations and it's actually the 20th Century translations which say fisherman.

They all however seem to use the phrase "make you fishers of men"

The point is that the translations change over time. It's not fixed.

 

[C'mon you Shrimpers]

I wonder if the BBC asked the opinion of the National Federation of Fishermen's Organisations.

 

[Prawn]

Fisherfolk has a nice ring to it!

 

[THE SEVENTIES NORTH BANK]

Fisherfolk has a nice ring to it!

Fish face has a nice ring to it.

 

[londonblue]

Fish face has a nice ring to it.

Or better still: Fishy McFishface.

 

[Mad Cyril]

Large queue of mainly overweight twenty somethings in goodies queueing outside Game at 7:30am for their PlayStation 5.

Now I may have queued for a console in the past but is this really an essential purchase?

Surely they could wait another day for it to be delivered...

 

[THE SEVENTIES NORTH BANK]

Large queue of mainly overweight twenty somethings in goodies queueing outside Game at 7:30am for their PlayStation 5.

Now I may have queued for a console in the past but is this really an essential purchase?

Surely they could wait another day for it to be delivered...

See COVID-19 and Mental Health ...P.191...Post #3817

 

[Freedom for Tooting]

The really aggressive man that asked me for money in Southend high street and when I said I only carried plastic wanted me to withdraw a tenner so he could get drunk.

When I told him to do one he then started to make some unpleasant jokes about female genitalia and homosexuals.

Now those are jokes we really need to hear

 

[Freedom for Tooting]

Fish fighters. Problem solved

Fish fingers, or fingerers of fish? Where will this madness end?

 

[Freedom for Tooting]

What about LBTQ fish fingerers? Can we not just all be fish fingerers? It's the children I worry about.

 

[Freedom for Tooting]

I have written to the Daily Mail about the fireman/firefighter issue so it should be sorted soon.

 

[OldBlueLady]

Cambridge United and their supporters.