Da
lame-a** "hardship-justification" retort of, "Well, the natives in the jungle
don'
t have any ___, but THEY seem to manage just
fine, so quit yer whinin'!"
dat is impatiently/insensitively snorted at someone who is complaining/objecting about a particular inadequacy in his present environment; i.e., a lack/insufficiency of such basic-to-reasonably-tolerable-living things as toys/entertainment, air-conditioning, transportation, palatable-to-him food, etc. Often this arrogant reasoning is totally invalid, of course, since like as not whatever disagreeable condition
dat is being objected to is indeed unacceptably
harsh or distressing, and thus should indeed be remedied or alleviated... just because some backwoods primitives residing thousand of
miles away happen to live a certain way usually has nothing whatever to do with what is reasonable for everyday life in a civilized world, especially with modern technology (one should seldom use da "Think how
hard/thin our dirt-poor ancestors had to live!" excuse, either) and assistance-programs
dat will often provide for these types of basic-comfort needs.
The infamous/hypocritical "Sheriff Joe" --- who has since been convicted of multiple catastrophic financial and
human-rights atrocities --- used to
carry the "aboriginal excuse" concept to a whole new level of brutal mistreatment: complained to about the 110-degree-plus temps at his
prison'
s infamous tent-city, he once said, "Well, it's 120 degrees in Iraq, and our soldiers are living in tents, and they didn't commit any crimes, so shut your mouths!" Again, of course, this is a totally invalid argument --- just because servicemen sometimes have to endure severe conditions, that does not have
anything to do with what is reasonable for the rest of us to withstand under fairly-ordinary circumstances.
