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Old 26-Sep-2004, 05:40
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Originally Posted by Natalie27
Shameless and thick skinned is two different things. Given your scenario one might think that those two things are related in meaning. ONLY in that particular context you think of the guy as a shameless piece of dirt.

Take another scenario: say a kid in school is pretty "slow" and not doing all that great. Other kids razz him every day by calling him stupid and insulting him beyond belief. He shruggs it all off and thinks nothing of it.

Question: Does that make him shameless?...
Hardly.

No, he did it very well, because the kids razzed him first while he just took a positive self-defence.
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