Comments on: zip, zero, stingy with dinero https://thisfish.com/zip-zero-stingy-with-dinero/ Found the bike. Not changing the title. Mon, 06 Apr 2026 05:54:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: JH https://thisfish.com/zip-zero-stingy-with-dinero/#comment-15007 JH Fri, 31 Mar 2006 02:31:48 +0000 http://thisfish.com/?p=1175#comment-15007 <p>Fish,<br /><br />I did not take offense to one word you wrote. You simply wrote what you heard and made a personal comment about being amused by what you heard!</p> Fish,

I did not take offense to one word you wrote. You simply wrote what you heard and made a personal comment about being amused by what you heard!

]]> By: KnowsItAll https://thisfish.com/zip-zero-stingy-with-dinero/#comment-15006 KnowsItAll Tue, 31 Jan 2006 19:54:18 +0000 http://thisfish.com/?p=1175#comment-15006 <p>Fish, I love your writing and how you share your life's adventures with all of us. I don't think you meant any cultural insensitivity, but these kinds of stories are told all the time, all over the country, and it is meant for humor. "Poor people. Aren't they funny?" I'm guilty of this. I read this too and was left a little tender. But since I have been reading you for more than a year, I gave you the benefit of the doubt that you had no bad intentions. A lot of people earn their right to find humor in other's groups' standards by living near it or having some "Acquaintances" of that group. This was a good post. And I, for one, am glad it sparked some reaction. Food for thought I suppose. </p><br /><br /><p>I judge you not Fish. Thanks for sharing.</p> Fish, I love your writing and how you share your life’s adventures with all of us. I don’t think you meant any cultural insensitivity, but these kinds of stories are told all the time, all over the country, and it is meant for humor. “Poor people. Aren’t they funny?” I’m guilty of this. I read this too and was left a little tender. But since I have been reading you for more than a year, I gave you the benefit of the doubt that you had no bad intentions. A lot of people earn their right to find humor in other’s groups’ standards by living near it or having some “Acquaintances” of that group. This was a good post. And I, for one, am glad it sparked some reaction. Food for thought I suppose.

I judge you not Fish. Thanks for sharing.

]]> By: Arctic Teacher https://thisfish.com/zip-zero-stingy-with-dinero/#comment-15005 Arctic Teacher Tue, 31 Jan 2006 12:20:40 +0000 http://thisfish.com/?p=1175#comment-15005 <p>Your wonderings about your post's relevance to your job were my exact thoughts when I was sitting in my Assistant Principal's office defending myself because of an innocent blog post that, much like this one, was intended to humor my readers. The grandchild of another teacher who lives in Arizona found my blog- which was anonymous, but had enough information for grandma to deduce who the author was- and it took one weekend to turn a girl who couldn't be a racist if she wanted to into Hitler (and an adultress, too). People's comments, my post, my blog, my personal life significantly impacted my professional life and I'm not the well-known, adored, respected, Fish. That's what it has to do with your job!</p><br /><br /><p>I think you're a fabulous writer. And you seem to be a great person, too. That's why I'm passing on lessons learned. I wouldn't want anyone to go through what I've endured because they didn't know.</p><br /><br /><p>Sorry to have incited such heavy dialogue on your usually carefree comment page. :)</p> Your wonderings about your post’s relevance to your job were my exact thoughts when I was sitting in my Assistant Principal’s office defending myself because of an innocent blog post that, much like this one, was intended to humor my readers. The grandchild of another teacher who lives in Arizona found my blog- which was anonymous, but had enough information for grandma to deduce who the author was- and it took one weekend to turn a girl who couldn’t be a racist if she wanted to into Hitler (and an adultress, too). People’s comments, my post, my blog, my personal life significantly impacted my professional life and I’m not the well-known, adored, respected, Fish. That’s what it has to do with your job!

I think you’re a fabulous writer. And you seem to be a great person, too. That’s why I’m passing on lessons learned. I wouldn’t want anyone to go through what I’ve endured because they didn’t know.

Sorry to have incited such heavy dialogue on your usually carefree comment page. :)

]]> By: Arctic Teacher https://thisfish.com/zip-zero-stingy-with-dinero/#comment-15004 Arctic Teacher Tue, 31 Jan 2006 12:05:56 +0000 http://thisfish.com/?p=1175#comment-15004 <p>No offense taken now that there's clarity. I don't watch too much Jerry. But, in a way, that vindicates my point.</p><br /><br /><p>No, you're not responsible for how others perceive your words, but you better make sure they convey your intended message to the people whose lives you're trying to positively impact, especially if they are not like yourself. I am an African-American girl who was raised in the suburban South. In a school of 1200 people, there were eight who looked like me and none of them would have anything to do with me because I was "trying to be white." So, I befriended the whites who would have me and spent my high school career the victim of their unintended racism. </p><br /><br /><p>Now I teach Inupiaq Eskimos in a rural Alaskan village and have been catapulted into a role I couldn't have fathomed. Because I am a teacher, I bear the white man's burden. I am a racist! Every look, every word, every touch has the potential to be misconstrued. And they have!</p> No offense taken now that there’s clarity. I don’t watch too much Jerry. But, in a way, that vindicates my point.

No, you’re not responsible for how others perceive your words, but you better make sure they convey your intended message to the people whose lives you’re trying to positively impact, especially if they are not like yourself. I am an African-American girl who was raised in the suburban South. In a school of 1200 people, there were eight who looked like me and none of them would have anything to do with me because I was “trying to be white.” So, I befriended the whites who would have me and spent my high school career the victim of their unintended racism.

Now I teach Inupiaq Eskimos in a rural Alaskan village and have been catapulted into a role I couldn’t have fathomed. Because I am a teacher, I bear the white man’s burden. I am a racist! Every look, every word, every touch has the potential to be misconstrued. And they have!

]]> By: Mike https://thisfish.com/zip-zero-stingy-with-dinero/#comment-15003 Mike Tue, 31 Jan 2006 11:19:41 +0000 http://thisfish.com/?p=1175#comment-15003 <p>I'm sorry if I offended. I found it an amusing story, it reminded me of the Springer story. It had no relevance, to anyone by myself, but unless some of you have never been amused by any racial or cultural difference played out in the media, be careful who you pass judgement on.</p> I’m sorry if I offended. I found it an amusing story, it reminded me of the Springer story. It had no relevance, to anyone by myself, but unless some of you have never been amused by any racial or cultural difference played out in the media, be careful who you pass judgement on.

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