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Originally posted by Great King Rat
Is that with regards to this: [b]i bet you wouldn't be such a smart ass to me in person. if you were you would need to pull your pants down to brush your teeth every morning.?

Because I didn't get that. Is he saying he's going to.... erm... like, knock your teeth up your arse or something? If so, it seems like a rather convoluted way of saying "I'm going to hit you".[/b]

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Originally posted by Great King Rat
Oh yeah, I absolutely agree about the atheists. I don't think we'd be here if we didn't have some sort of chip on our shoulder concerning religion. As to has the biggest, I'd say it's a toss up between twhitehead, googlefudge and Sonhouse. Others like stellspalfie I think are mostly enjoying the ludericiousness (sp?) of religion.

Originally posted by googlefudge
I took it to mean he thought I was talking out of my posterior.

However you could also read it as a reverse of, "hit you in the nuts so hard
you choke on them".


I just thought it was amusing how little he knows me that he thought I wouldn't
say what I was saying to his face.

Originally posted by googlefudge
I have to disagree... at least with regards to myself.

I don't have a chip on my shoulder about religion.

I was never hurt by religion, or beaten out by religion, feel inadequate about
my lack of religion... ect.

I just think it's both wrong and dangerous, and an important topic to talk about...
Which few people want to do.


Now you can ...[text shortened]... rude
when presenting their position.

That doesn't mean they have a chip on their shoulder.

Originally posted by darvlay
What do you know of my faith or lack of faith?

Originally posted by Great King Rat
Maybe I'm using the phrase wrong. If so, I'd like to play the "English is not my first language" card. I thought it meant having a kind of "hatred" towards something.

EDIT: And I can't help but feel that you do hate religion and faith.

to seem angry all the time because you think you have been treated
unfairly or feel you are not as good as other people:
He's got a chip on his shoulder about not having been to university.

The phrase having a chip on one's shoulder refers to holding a grudge or
grievance that readily provokes disputation.

to blame other people for something bad which has happened to you and to
continue to be angry about it so that it affects the way you behave (often + about )
Even though he went to university, he's always had a chip on his shoulder about his
poor upbringing.

Originally posted by googlefudge
Not quite.

And I did have to go and look up some definitions after reading the op, to check I was
interpreting the phrase right.

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/have-a-chip-on-your-shoulder

[quote]to seem angry all the time because you think you have been treated
unfairly or feel you are not as good as other people:
[i]H ...[text shortened]... l had a chip on his shoulder because he
hated Hitler and the Nazi's... Which just doesn't fit.

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I thought I had a chip on my shoulder but it turned out to be an ordinary potato.