[WikiEN-l] What happens when you're unhappy with the Wikipedia article on your town

[Carcharoth]

On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 8:35 AM, Steve Bennett<stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Keith Old<keithold at gmail.com> wrote:
>>...Youngborg recommends that
>> people use a “jaundiced eye” when surfing the Web. *
>>
>> *“I think people are going to have to get a little more calloused at the
>> Internet,” Youngborg said.*
>
> Jandiced eyes and callouses? Sounds like he should see a doctor. His
> point is perfectly valid though: People write stupid stuff on the net.
> Be careful what you believe.

Jaundiced in that context is fine.

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/jaundiced

Sense 2: "Prejudiced; envious; as, a jaundiced judgment."

Asking people to get "more calloused" is a bit more creative. It's not
quite the same as saying someone is callous (unfeeling), but saying
they need to become "Emotionally hardened" - or to use the more usual
expression, to become thick-skinned:

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/thick-skinned

I guess you knew that all already, actually, but I wasn't sure if you
were joking when you made the 'doctor' comment above. Medical
analogies, eh? :-)

Carcharoth