"Disgruntled postal workers" have been responsible for a disproportionately high number of workplace rampage killings over the years here in the US. It's where the term "going postal" comes from.
Yeah... it was a cliche for a while.. and for some reason nobody ever used the word disgruntled to describe anyone else except for angry postal workers that brought automatic weapons to work and started killing people.
Kalbahamut, that's just not true. Anyone can be disgruntled - you most certainly don't have to be a postal worker. I got 100% eventually but had to have several goes at that one and got it more or less by fluke.
Anyone can be disgruntled (and I doubt that the word has ever been used for something else in the period that is was associated with postal workers), and the origin of the have nothing to do with the above. But going postal does. The origins of going postal lies with US postal workers, and them killing people.
(I allready knew going postal had something to do with US postal workers, but kalbahamut sentence sounded a bit extreem, bringing automatic weapons to work and start killing people, but regular/mass murders are indeed the source for the term, not just being disgruntled.
In my country the mailmen were quite unhappy aswell, they werent allowed to wear shorts in summer (I looked it up, man 20 years ago allready) it was quite a big thing. But they didnt start to go around and kill everybody). It was just the talk of the day for what seemed like forever (probably why I seems so much less long ago). Eventually the union got so many complaints, legal actions were taken. And nowadays there are allowed to deliver the mail in shorts.
I could be wrong, but I think it is a reference to the City of Dis, found in Dante's Inferno, whose high walls were guarded by the Furies, also known as the Erinyes. That image looks like an image of the Erinyes from Greek pottery. The Erinyes eventually became the Eumenides in Aeschylus' play of that name. And please excuse the name dropping, but both the Inferno and the Eumenides are worth a read if you can find a good translation.
Well, it's *a* definition of discriminate, even if it's not the primary one. They can't make all the clues *too* easy all the time; that would be disfun!
And before people make angry comments that it is a serious thing. Even things that are serious can be treated with humour, as long as you dont mean to disrespect people or put them down.
(I allready knew going postal had something to do with US postal workers, but kalbahamut sentence sounded a bit extreem, bringing automatic weapons to work and start killing people, but regular/mass murders are indeed the source for the term, not just being disgruntled.