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Obama Declares War on Common English Words and Promises to "Degrade and Roll Back" Their Accepted Meanings
Marie Larf says this isn't a "war on terrorism," and also isn't a "preemptive war" against potential future terrorist attacks, because Shut Up That's Why.
On twitter -- and I'm going to package this for a post -- I'm riffing on this being America's perfect Gnostic Moment, in which it is clear that we are currently living in an unreality created for us by the Gods of Television. "Reality" is just another word for "what we see on TV." "Reality TV" has become a redundancy. America has been living in a state of almost complete unreality since 2007. We are entirely disconnected from the real world. "The World" is simply the images on Television, and the false realities conjured for us by Public Relations Sorcerers who appear there upon the Holy Screen. This should go well, is what I'm saying. The Gnostic Imperative: Um, that isn't really a good title for the piece I'm going to link, but you have to admit, it's a good title anyway, even if it doesn't fit. Sisu explores Shopenhauer's postulate that what we call our view of reality is in fact usually nothing more than an opinion formed by three people, who stated it with confidence, and then got other people to believe it, thinking the first three had rigorously tested it and proven it to be true, when in fact they just pulled it out of their asses.Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Soothsayer at September 11, 2014 05:11 PM (jldxi)
This is an unacceptable state of affairs.
Posted by: tsj017 at September 11, 2014 05:12 PM (4YUWF)
Posted by: wheatie at September 11, 2014 05:12 PM (LcQ0i)
Posted by: Brother Cavil at September 11, 2014 05:12 PM (m9V0o)
Posted by: shibumi at September 11, 2014 05:13 PM (25HWz)
Posted by: naturalfake at September 11, 2014 05:13 PM (0cMkb)
Howie Carr today played the clip of Bush in 2007. Bush's dire predictions about Iraq have all played out exactly.
Posted by: Soothsayer at September 11, 2014 05:13 PM (jldxi)
And those of us who still live in Reality are wondering what the fuck is going on with those idiots. How can anyone be so stupid?
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at September 11, 2014 05:13 PM (0HooB)
Jihadis: This is a war -- a holy war -- and victory is our only acceptable outcome.
Consider how these two messages are being received.
Posted by: torquewrench at September 11, 2014 05:14 PM (noWW6)
That's even funnier if you sing it to the tune of "Bobby McGee"
Joe Walsh is great.
Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Suntanning in Bizzaro World at September 11, 2014 05:15 PM (aSiy9)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at September 11, 2014 05:15 PM (0HooB)
I envy them, to be honest.
Posted by: HR at September 11, 2014 05:15 PM (/kI1Q)
Posted by: Joke Biden at September 11, 2014 05:15 PM (7uV13)
Posted by: Bandersnatch at September 11, 2014 05:16 PM (JtwS4)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 11, 2014 05:16 PM (glk59)
Posted by: The Media at September 11, 2014 05:16 PM (oFCZn)
Posted by: TECH SUPPORT? at September 11, 2014 05:16 PM (0Xv7Q)
Posted by: Mike at September 11, 2014 05:16 PM (XBYpf)
Posted by: the Overton Window - traveling leftward at 3.0 x 108 meters per second at September 11, 2014 05:17 PM (2L4e5)
I certainly see your point.
This reality stuff makes my headmeat all hurty too, but it sure beats being an idiot.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at September 11, 2014 05:17 PM (0HooB)
Posted by: wheatie at September 11, 2014 05:18 PM (LcQ0i)
Posted by: Merriam-Webster at September 11, 2014 05:18 PM (7uV13)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 11, 2014 05:18 PM (glk59)
Posted by: Seamus M. at September 11, 2014 05:18 PM (NeFrd)
Posted by: ejo at September 11, 2014 05:18 PM (GXvSO)
Posted by: Zombie Gil Scott-Heron at September 11, 2014 05:18 PM (TIIx5)
Posted by: When does Krusty walk in with the giant Q-Tip? at September 11, 2014 05:18 PM (IFKzP)
Posted by: pep at September 11, 2014 05:18 PM (4nR9/)
Posted by: steevy at September 11, 2014 05:18 PM (v5UtH)
http://is.gd/VjLa8D
Posted by: HR at September 11, 2014 05:18 PM (/kI1Q)
Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Suntanning in Bizzaro World at September 11, 2014 05:19 PM (aSiy9)
Even better, Shock and Awe rocked the place, too, but they weren't on the playbill. S (ampersand) A brought the fucking house down.
Degrade and Roll Back was invited, but they no-showed. Pussies.
Posted by: Sharkman at September 11, 2014 05:19 PM (TM1p8)
Posted by: tu3031 at September 11, 2014 05:19 PM (EDYaR)
Posted by: @imPOTUS at September 11, 2014 05:19 PM (2L4e5)
Posted by: HR at September 11, 2014 05:20 PM (/kI1Q)
Posted by: WKRP at September 11, 2014 05:20 PM (RJMhd)
Posted by: Soona at September 11, 2014 05:20 PM (3shY9)
Dire predictions, eh?
Bush himself made it damn near impossible for any other Republican to succeed him in 2008 and ensure continuity of Iraq policy.
Chief among the reasons for that are the Bush administration's own delusionally non-dire predictions and rosy scenarios for Iraq circa 2003, which all flamed out horribly when confronted by hard cold realities.
"We'll be greeted as liberators."
"Iraqis will welcome us with hugs and flowers."
"Islam is a religion of peace."
"This'll cost fifty billion, tops."
"Home by Christmas."
"Mission Accomplished!"
Posted by: torquewrench at September 11, 2014 05:20 PM (noWW6)
Jihadis: This is a war -- a holy war -- and victory is our only acceptable outcome.
Consider how these two messages are being received.
Posted by: torquewrench
Who is the stronger horse? (to quote an infamous Middle Eastern personality)
And who is the horse's ass?
Posted by: Bossy Conservative riding the comfy chair at September 11, 2014 05:20 PM (RFeQD)
Awesome.
The world may be going to hell in s hand basket but we morons will be rockin' out the whole way
I've been lovin all the music
Ty ace
Posted by: ginaswo at September 11, 2014 05:20 PM (+X1qa)
Next question.
Posted by: Marie "that's a" Larf at September 11, 2014 05:20 PM (bAGA/)
And we pay her.
Posted by: Golfman in NC at September 11, 2014 05:20 PM (/djtm)
Posted by: steevy at September 11, 2014 05:18 PM (v5UtH)
Nah. Just your impression.
Posted by: Beezelbub at September 11, 2014 05:21 PM (aSiy9)
Posted by: @imPOTUS at September 11, 2014 05:21 PM (2L4e5)
Posted by: Feh at September 11, 2014 05:21 PM (jqx4I)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, fighting the ban, and tired at September 11, 2014 05:21 PM (F2IAQ)
Marie, my advice to you is to return to the fuzzy sweaters, tout suite, because you aren't smart or glib enough to pull off the smarmy, smug ice queen thing without a distraction.
Posted by: pep at September 11, 2014 05:18 PM (4nR9/)
Yep. Teh Horde is always up for some sweater mischief.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 11, 2014 05:22 PM (TIIx5)
The President has little to fear since the electorate hates his opposition party as much as himself, and the R party has been shaking itself to pieces during his White House stay.
The reality of a truly anemic opposition party.
Posted by: Brandon Finnigan at September 11, 2014 05:22 PM (i/CIR)
Thats my fault.
Holysh*t
So now its not a war and wea are building the coalition of the unwilling?
Posted by: Gregmn at September 11, 2014 05:23 PM (to/4w)
Posted by: TECH SUPPORT? at September 11, 2014 05:16 PM (0Xv7Q)
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Don't worry about it. It's not real.
Posted by: Soona at September 11, 2014 05:23 PM (3shY9)
Posted by: fixerupper at September 11, 2014 05:23 PM (NaV4z)
Posted by: Barky Al Clusterfuck at September 11, 2014 05:23 PM (LcQ0i)
Harf that up, hairball with glasses.
Posted by: ChristyBlinky, Rotherham reporter #1400 girls raped at September 11, 2014 05:23 PM (dMEBN)
Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at September 11, 2014 05:23 PM (V70Uh)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, fighting the ban, and tired at September 11, 2014 05:24 PM (F2IAQ)
Fuckers....spineless, bag-less pricks...the lot of them.
Posted by: Portnoy at September 11, 2014 05:24 PM (SfOYM)
he flipped out over the Air Force using the word combat.
Guess what David?
Who has it now?
You enabled Obama.
Posted by: WKRP at September 11, 2014 05:24 PM (RJMhd)
AIDS and Ebola were developed in a US Government lab to kill brown people.
The CIA supplies crack cocaine to brown people's neighborhoods.
White privilege denies brown people what is rightfully theirs.
And you want me to bomb brown people. I'll drop a couple to get my oppressors off my back. Like Jesus on the cross I suffer.
Watch this drive.
Posted by: Rev. God Damn America Soetoro at September 11, 2014 05:24 PM (EkAmb)
Posted by: LASue at September 11, 2014 05:24 PM (pWeX5)
Posted by: Lincolntf at September 11, 2014 05:24 PM (2cS/G)
Posted by: maddogg at September 11, 2014 05:24 PM (xWW96)
That's a relief. I was getting tired of that show where Obama is president.
Posted by: rickl at September 11, 2014 05:24 PM (zoehZ)
Posted by: ace at September 11, 2014 05:25 PM (/FnUH)
Posted by: willow at September 11, 2014 05:25 PM (nqBYe)
Posted by: Breeding Farm at September 11, 2014 05:25 PM (IiIqD)
Posted by: WKRP at September 11, 2014 05:25 PM (RJMhd)
"All the worlds a stage and we are merely players, performers and portrayers.
Each anothers audience behind the guilded stage."
Geddy Fuckin Lee was a goddamned prophet.
Posted by: fixerupper at September 11, 2014 05:25 PM (NaV4z)
War on Wymyn - situation REAL
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1. Denail ain't only a river in Egypt
2. Coke/ Meth are hell
3. Has anyone checked on what Soros is doing?
Posted by: shibumi at September 11, 2014 05:25 PM (25HWz)
Posted by: Brandon Finnigan
Lord knows, the GOP hasn't missed an opportunity to suck recently, but I think you also have to credit an infantilized America. The voters seem to be incapable of connecting A to B anymore, because they get bored and wander off to check their cell phones.
Posted by: pep at September 11, 2014 05:25 PM (4nR9/)
Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at September 11, 2014 05:23 PM (nx02s)
*ahem*
Posted by: Idiocracy at September 11, 2014 05:25 PM (aSiy9)
From Reason:
Watch the Last 4 US Presidents Announce That We're Bombing Iraq http://bit.ly/1CXeXq8
Posted by: Costanza Defense at September 11, 2014 05:25 PM (ZPrif)
Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President for Life at September 11, 2014 05:25 PM (OWjjx)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 11, 2014 05:25 PM (glk59)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, fighting the ban, and tired at September 11, 2014 05:25 PM (F2IAQ)
JAPAN PLANS ROBOT REVOLUTION...
Market For Machines Moves Beyond Manufacturing...
Robot capable of handling unfamiliar objects unveiled...
Tentacles?
Posted by: Guy looking for Cheese Puns at September 11, 2014 05:26 PM (sDapq)
Posted by: WKRP at September 11, 2014 05:26 PM (RJMhd)
Hug a Muslim! Yeah, I said it!
*sings National Anthem*
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at September 11, 2014 05:26 PM (oFCZn)
Watch the Last 4 US Presidents Announce That We're Bombing Iraq http://bit.ly/1CXeXq8
Posted by: Costanza Defense at September 11, 2014 05:26 PM (ZPrif)
ahem.
(clears throat)
It's "tout de suite." yeah they run it together so it sounds like toot sweet but it is written, always, as tout de suite.
I've been fucking waiting six months to correct someone on that.
Thank you.
Posted by: ace at September 11, 2014 05:26 PM (/FnUH)
Posted by: SE Pa Moron at September 11, 2014 05:26 PM (Zq4s7)
/oh, right, they only oppose killing if it's done by someone who is not a Democrat.
Posted by: shibumi at September 11, 2014 05:26 PM (25HWz)
visit this website? 50some downloads and i am getting tired of it."
Don't worry. It's entirely harmless. Ordinary computer housekeeping. Go about your business, citizen.
Posted by: The NSA at September 11, 2014 05:27 PM (noWW6)
Posted by: Horatio Bologna at September 11, 2014 05:27 PM (RrCmC)
Geddy Fuckin Lee was a goddamned prophet.
Posted by: fixerupper at S
You don't get something for nothing you don't get freedom for free.........
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, fighting the ban, and tired at September 11, 2014 05:27 PM (F2IAQ)
The Left's entire world view is based on the incorrect concept that ' perception is reality'.
They think that by coloring our perceptions, by controlling the very language, that it CHANGES objective reality.
It does not. War if War... calling it a Kinetic Military action does not change its nature... nor its LEGAL requirements.
Obama is about to bomb a Sovereign UN Nation State... Syria, without UN Sanction.
If he does so (as he has in the Past in Libya), he will once again be breaking US Law... as the UN Charter was ratified by the Senate, and thus has the force and weight of US law.
He will be making an Illegal Order.
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 11, 2014 05:27 PM (f0pWu)
It's the little things in life, it really is.
Posted by: HR at September 11, 2014 05:27 PM (/kI1Q)
Posted by: PJ at September 11, 2014 05:27 PM (cHuNI)
Posted by: willow at September 11, 2014 05:27 PM (nqBYe)
Posted by: Lincolntf at September 11, 2014 05:27 PM (2cS/G)
Posted by: @Jen Psaki at September 11, 2014 05:27 PM (2L4e5)
Posted by: Feh at September 11, 2014 05:28 PM (g/zj9)
Posted by: tu3031 at September 11, 2014 05:28 PM (EDYaR)
Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Suntanning in Bizzaro World at September 11, 2014 05:28 PM (aSiy9)
(clears throat)
It means "all in a row," Tout meaning all, suite meaning row (thus, rooms that lead into each other are en suite), "de" meaning, like, whatever, prepositions are highly deformable.
Posted by: ace at September 11, 2014 05:28 PM (/FnUH)
Posted by: Plato at September 11, 2014 05:28 PM (RJMhd)
The Wizard of Oz Imperative: Pay No Attention to the World behind the Curtain.
Posted by: Bob Belcher at September 11, 2014 05:28 PM (/IwQZ)
Posted by: Rev. God Damn America Soetoro at September 11, 2014 05:28 PM (EkAmb)
Posted by: Feh at September 11, 2014 05:28 PM (g/zj9)
Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at September 11, 2014 05:24 PM (nx02s)
The as in the air while praying makes this a natural twofer.
Posted by: naturalfake at September 11, 2014 05:28 PM (0cMkb)
Posted by: ace at September 11, 2014 05:25 PM (/FnUH)
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So do you want us to read it?
Posted by: Soona at September 11, 2014 05:29 PM (3shY9)
I really hope our next version of reality doesn't include a President that celebrates Ramadan.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 11, 2014 05:29 PM (Lqy/e)
If Obama breaks the law and no one challenges him on it, does it matter?
It's not like the Republicans will hold him accountable.
No.
One.
Will.
Thanks to the media and the republican party, Obama is King.
Posted by: shibumi at September 11, 2014 05:29 PM (25HWz)
Thank you.
Posted by: ace at September 1
Got anything else on that Christmas wishlist Sport?
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, fighting the ban, and tired at September 11, 2014 05:29 PM (F2IAQ)
Posted by: Bob Belcher at September 11, 2014 05:29 PM (/IwQZ)
Posted by: Seamus M. at September 11, 2014 05:29 PM (NeFrd)
Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President for Life at September 11, 2014 05:30 PM (OWjjx)
Posted by: Feh at September 11, 2014 05:28 PM (g/zj9)
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....that's cooty grass to you buster....
Posted by: fixerupper at September 11, 2014 05:30 PM (NaV4z)
Watch the Last 4 US Presidents Announce That We're Bombing Iraq http://bit.ly/1CXeXq8
Posted by: Costanza Defense at September 11, 2014 05:30 PM (ZPrif)
"To begin withdrawing before our commanders tell us we are ready would be dangerous for Iraq, for the region and for the United States. It would mean surrendering the future of Iraq to Al Qaeda.
It would mean that we'd be risking mass killings on a horrific scale. It would mean we allow the terrorists to establish a safe haven in Iraq to replace the one they lost in Afghanistan.
It would mean we'd be increasing the probability that American troops would have to return at some later date to confront an enemy that is even more dangerous."
-- Dummy Bush
2007
Posted by: Soothsayer at September 11, 2014 05:30 PM (jldxi)
Posted by: Feh at September 11, 2014 05:30 PM (g/zj9)
Posted by: rickb223 at September 11, 2014 05:30 PM (lIiq2)
fgs, my brain is melting, melting!
so are they now saying these aren't terrorists?
are we actually going to Try to stop these non islamists ?
what are they if NOT terrorists and not islamists?
Lutherans?
Posted by: willow at September 11, 2014 05:30 PM (nqBYe)
Well, if you really make to make your day why don't you use some fake handles and make repetitive errors in French like "Tant Piss"? ;^)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 11, 2014 05:31 PM (glk59)
And deeper into the Babylonian captivity we go ......
Posted by: grammie winger at September 11, 2014 05:31 PM (3B+O8)
(clears throat)
It's "tout de suite." yeah they run it together so it sounds like toot sweet but it is written, always, as tout de suite.
I've been f***ing waiting six months to correct someone on that.
Thank you.
Posted by: ace
Admit it, you've been waiting months to get back at me for correcting your typos.
**Walks off to nonchalantly slit his wrists, aka hara kiri (see, I got that one right).**
Posted by: pep at September 11, 2014 05:31 PM (4nR9/)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 11, 2014 05:31 PM (l1zOH)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at September 11, 2014 05:31 PM (0HooB)
Posted by: Seamus M. at September 11, 2014 05:31 PM (NeFrd)
Posted by: maddogg at September 11, 2014 05:31 PM (xWW96)
Posted by: MSNBC at September 11, 2014 05:31 PM (aSiy9)
Given the way Japan's demographics look, by 2070 there isn't going to be anyone human left in Tokyo other than a handful of incredibly elderly people confined to nursing home beds.
Meanwhile, eerily lifelike kawaii android females with exaggeratedly oversized eyes and bouncy plastic tits will constantly be issuing cheery greetings to deserted store aisles and empty waiting rooms.
Dying culture.
Posted by: torquewrench at September 11, 2014 05:32 PM (noWW6)
By 2007, thanks to the treasonous Democrats, Bush had zero credibility and The People were sick of Iraq.
Bush and that shithead Cheney deserve some of the blame for that, too.
Posted by: Soothsayer at September 11, 2014 05:32 PM (jldxi)
Posted by: the Overton Window - traveling leftward at 3.0 x 108 meters per second at September 11, 2014 05:32 PM (2L4e5)
Posted by: Joey at September 11, 2014 05:32 PM (l1zOH)
*************
THEN WHAT WAS DE?
Posted by: Bob's House of Flannel Shirts and Wallet Chains at September 11, 2014 05:33 PM (vgIRn)
Posted by: Joe Mama at September 11, 2014 05:33 PM (SFLMG)
Posted by: fixerupper at September 11, 2014 05:33 PM (NaV4z)
Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President for Life at September 11, 2014 05:33 PM (OWjjx)
Posted by: Feh at September 11, 2014 05:34 PM (g/zj9)
Posted by: willow at September 11, 2014 05:34 PM (nqBYe)
(clears throat)
that's why it's a "suite" of rooms -- they're not connected by a hallway. they're arranged in a row.
Yeah you get it now
you're hip
i've demonstrated my mastery of simple foreign vocabulary
Posted by: ace at September 11, 2014 05:34 PM (/FnUH)
Posted by: rickb223 at September 11, 2014 05:34 PM (lIiq2)
The weird part is why the 2 guys before W were bombing Iraq, everybody knows W caused all the problems, there should have been no reason to bomb the Middle East before 2001.
Posted by: Progtard 2000 at September 11, 2014 05:34 PM (ZPrif)
Posted by: Soothsayer at September 11, 2014 05:32 PM (jldxi)
Hey there, Sailor...have we met?
Posted by: MarxistMedia at September 11, 2014 05:34 PM (aSiy9)
I didn't watch Barry so I don't really know when the epic fail is going to hit.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at September 11, 2014 05:34 PM (oFCZn)
Chillin with Matt Damon and the Lace Wigs spambot.
Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President for Life at September 11, 2014 05:34 PM (OWjjx)
Posted by: Horatio Bologna at September 11, 2014 05:35 PM (RrCmC)
Code Pinkos were all over the ME in the months before the Arab Spring ("Goatly? Yes, but I like it too."), something your MFM won't tell you.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at September 11, 2014 05:35 PM (0HooB)
Posted by: torquewrench
This is actually something I think about a lot. Since most cultures now have negative pop growth or will soon, what will turn it around? Are we simply going to cease to exist because we got too bored and filled with ennui to bother screwing?
Posted by: pep at September 11, 2014 05:35 PM (4nR9/)
nah, i was ready to pounce on anybody.
It's not enough to know something. To really make one's knowledge real, you really have to inflict it on someone else.
It's like a punch. It's not a punch until it hits someone right in his facec**t.
Until then it's just a ball of fingers.
Posted by: ace at September 11, 2014 05:35 PM (/FnUH)
Posted by: maddogg at September 11, 2014 05:35 PM (xWW96)
Posted by: Fritz at September 11, 2014 05:36 PM (C0dQz)
i've demonstrated my mastery of simple foreign vocabulary
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Ace has gone "dinky dow".... crazy
Bonus points for knowing THAT French origin....
Posted by: fixerupper at September 11, 2014 05:36 PM (NaV4z)
(clears throat)
It means "all in a row," Tout meaning all, suite meaning row (thus, rooms that lead into each other are en suite), "de" meaning, like, whatever, prepositions are highly deformable.
Posted by: ace at September 11, 2014 05:28 PM (/FnUH)
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Ace, my French teacher explained it to us, as..."all the rooms at once".
Which got shortened to mean "at once!"
Posted by: wheatie at September 11, 2014 05:36 PM (LcQ0i)
bombing
beheading
raping
blowing up houses of worship
historical sites
cars/trucks/planes
not terrorism
Posted by: willow at September 11, 2014 05:36 PM (nqBYe)
Posted by: fixerupper at September 11, 2014 05:33 PM (NaV4z)THEN WHAT WAS PHONEME.
Posted by: Guy Frantically Looking to Restore Cheese Puns Meme at September 11, 2014 05:36 PM (sDapq)
Posted by: maddogg at September 11, 2014 05:31 PM (xWW96)
************
Wait...... who said anything about muslims?
Posted by: Preznit Urkel X at September 11, 2014 05:36 PM (jucos)
non war
non issue
we should just forget about the whole deal.
I mean why are we there then?
Posted by: willow at September 11, 2014 05:37 PM (nqBYe)
************
coup de bibbet
Posted by: Plato at September 11, 2014 05:37 PM (RJMhd)
Posted by: Soothsayer at September 11, 2014 05:37 PM (jldxi)
Well.... at least they are not letting a bunch of Moslems in to take over their country...
Or Illegals like here...
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 11, 2014 05:37 PM (f0pWu)
Posted by: jakeman at September 11, 2014 05:37 PM (Wq40h)
Which got shortened to mean "at once!"
well basically except the "rooms" part is not inherent in the expression. The "Rooms" part is understood in certain contexts of the use of "suite," but when you say tout de suite you're not referencing rooms, you're saying all in a row, all on the snap, altogether, fast.
The "all" could mean anything.
Posted by: ace at September 11, 2014 05:37 PM (/FnUH)
bombing
beheading
raping
blowing up houses of worship
historical sites
cars/trucks/planes
not terrorism
Reagan said, " Don't be afraid to see what you see."
Posted by: grammie winger at September 11, 2014 05:37 PM (3B+O8)
The same can't be said for many European nations.
Posted by: Costanza Defense at September 11, 2014 05:38 PM (ZPrif)
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... with witnesses.
Posted by: Joey at September 11, 2014 05:38 PM (l1zOH)
Obama said that "coalition partners are flying missions with us over Iraq right now".
As near as I can figure, the _only_ such partner has been the UK. And the only such "mission" was a UK cargolifter airdropping humanitarian relief to the Yazidis. The reason why they were "flying with us" was because the RAF were unable to escort their own cargo plane with their own fighter jets, and had to beg for U.S. Navy armed escorts instead.
Meanwhile, Cameron and Hollande have explicitly ruled out any participation by their respective militaries in the whole air-strike against IS business.
Due in part, one suspects, to the fact that they have really very little capability to accomplish such expeditionary warfare any longer. France was barely able to manage air strikes on its own in Mali, for example.
Posted by: torquewrench at September 11, 2014 05:38 PM (noWW6)
Posted by: Matt Yglesias at September 11, 2014 05:38 PM (WGm5T)
Posted by: willow at September 11, 2014 05:38 PM (nqBYe)
obama's not waging a war on
Posted by: Soothsayer at September 11, 2014 05:38 PM (jldxi)
Posted by: Lincolntf at September 11, 2014 05:38 PM (2cS/G)
Posted by: rickb223 at September 11, 2014 05:34 PM (lIiq2)
Ploo sawshange.
Posted by: Bob's House of Flannel Shirts and Wallet Chains at September 11, 2014 05:38 PM (vgIRn)
have really very little capability to accomplish such expeditionary
warfare any longer. France was barely able to manage air strikes on its
own in Mali, for example.
Posted by: torquewrench[p/i]
Bingo. At least it shows they're still capable of embarrassment.
Posted by: pep at September 11, 2014 05:39 PM (4nR9/)
Bonus points for knowing THAT French origin....
...
i don't know.
What is it? I mean, I imagine it's Vietnamese pidgin, but I don't know the french that would get you to "dinky dow."
I know french for crazy is usually "fou" but I don't know where the "d" would come from.
Hmmm... something de fou?
That would work. But I don't know the dinky.
Posted by: ace at September 11, 2014 05:39 PM (/FnUH)
Posted by: pep at September 11, 2014 05:39 PM (4nR9/)
Bonus points for knowing THAT French origin....
That's bad juju.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 11, 2014 05:39 PM (lIiq2)
Posted by: Count de Monet at September 11, 2014 05:39 PM (JO9+V)
Posted by: Plato at September 11, 2014 05:39 PM (RJMhd)
Posted by: rickb223 at September 11, 2014 05:34 PM (lIiq2)
Ploo sawshange.
...
oh my goodness now you're making me tres triste
Posted by: ace at September 11, 2014 05:40 PM (/FnUH)
New and Improved Drone Strikes?
Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President for Life at September 11, 2014 05:40 PM (OWjjx)
bombing
beheading
raping
blowing up houses of worship
historical sites
cars/trucks/planes
not terrorism
Posted by: willow at September 11, 2014 05:36 PM (nqBYe)
The Obama administration has simply decided that no terrorism will ever occur on Obama's watch. Even if they have to redefine half of the dictionary to make it happen.
Posted by: Maetenloch at September 11, 2014 05:40 PM (pAlYe)
Posted by: Marie Larf at September 11, 2014 05:40 PM (glk59)
Posted by: @votermom at September 11, 2014 05:40 PM (GSIDW)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at September 11, 2014 05:40 PM (0HooB)
Posted by: Mirror
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Liberals, et al, regard their 'personal morality' as adequate to the task.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 11, 2014 05:41 PM (l1zOH)
Posted by: maddogg at September 11, 2014 05:41 PM (xWW96)
but thought i read earlier UK and germany are a no go
Posted by: willow at September 11, 2014 05:41 PM (nqBYe)
Posted by: Soothsayer at September 11, 2014 05:41 PM (jldxi)
I don't know, the only words for crazy I know are fou and another one, one like "desequilibrient," or something like that, unbalanced, nuts.
Posted by: ace at September 11, 2014 05:41 PM (/FnUH)
Bonus points for knowing THAT French origin....
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It was from Vietnam, wasn't it? ...French controlled Vietnam?
Posted by: wheatie at September 11, 2014 05:41 PM (LcQ0i)
a coo de grah would be sort of like a blow from a piece of fat (gras)
pepperoni also sounds like "big peppers" in italian
there ya go
Posted by: Feh at September 11, 2014 05:41 PM (g/zj9)
Posted by: Null at September 11, 2014 05:42 PM (xjpRj)
Posted by: california red at September 11, 2014 05:42 PM (UyEG4)
Posted by: rickb223 at September 11, 2014 05:42 PM (lIiq2)
Posted by: The Make Believe Media at September 11, 2014 05:42 PM (XUKZU)
Posted by: maddogg at September 11, 2014 05:43 PM (xWW96)
Bonus points for knowing THAT French origin....
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It was from Vietnam, wasn't it? ...French controlled Vietnam?
Posted by: wheatie at September 11, 2014 05:41 PM (LcQ0i)
I only know it from Viet Nam war movies. It's a click away at Urban Dictionary.
Posted by: flounder at September 11, 2014 05:43 PM (sDapq)
Posted by: the littl shyning man at September 11, 2014 05:43 PM (fAMNc)
Ebola is 'devouring everything in its path.' Could it lead to Liberia's collapse? http://wapo.st/1CWG18Y via @washingtonpost
Posted by: Tweets of Doom at September 11, 2014 05:44 PM (ZPrif)
operation breeding farm
Posted by: kj at September 11, 2014 05:44 PM (lKyWE)
Dinky could come from something like "[] qui "
i'm stumped, help a brother out
Posted by: ace at September 11, 2014 05:44 PM (/FnUH)
Posted by: rickb223 at September 11, 2014 05:44 PM (lIiq2)
rooms that lead into each other are en suite), "de" meaning, like,
whatever, prepositions are highly deformable.
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Sounds a lot more sophisticated than "chop chop".
Posted by: mrp at September 11, 2014 05:44 PM (JBggj)
Shit I expect to see a video of McCain blowing off heads in Syria any day now.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at September 11, 2014 05:44 PM (oFCZn)
Oh, and I really like how George Bush loves his county so much and respects the office of the president so damn much that he just can't say an F'n word.
He sucks.
Posted by: Soothsayer at September 11, 2014 05:44 PM (jldxi)
Also, Iraq and ISIS is going to be one of Obama's greatest achievements. Bank it!
Posted by: Joe Biden at September 11, 2014 05:45 PM (WGm5T)
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at September 11, 2014 05:45 PM (ucDmr)
Hey anyone familiar with the current School of the Americas?
Posted by: The Progs at September 11, 2014 05:45 PM (iQIUe)
Catherine Deneuve in Indochine
the cinematography.
Posted by: Home Slice at September 11, 2014 05:45 PM (RJMhd)
I mean you can seek a sense of balance and broad amalgamation of facts before issuing a judgment of the Bush Adminstration as a whole, but, regardless of what else went on:
1. Bush saw this chaos coming if we left early
2. He warned us.
Posted by: Chris Balsz at September 11, 2014 05:45 PM (HZLYB)
a coo de grah would be sort of like a blow from a piece of fat (gras)
yeah you're right, i didn't really think about it, but it should be coo duh grasz
Posted by: ace at September 11, 2014 05:45 PM (/FnUH)
Posted by: Feh at September 11, 2014 05:45 PM (g/zj9)
Posted by: rickb223 at September 11, 2014 05:44 PM (lIiq2)
I quit eating it after I heard, "It's the San Francisco Treat!!"
Yeah I ain't putting that in my mouth thanks.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at September 11, 2014 05:45 PM (oFCZn)
Posted by: Truck Monkey, as Voiced by Brian Dennehy at September 11, 2014 05:46 PM (jucos)
the most natural way to say this is "un petit peu fou," which is hell and gone from "dinky dow."
Posted by: ace at September 11, 2014 05:46 PM (/FnUH)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at September 11, 2014 05:47 PM (0HooB)
1. Bush saw this chaos coming if we left early
2. He warned us.
True, true.
But as I said earlier, Bush's credibility was worthless by 2007 thanks to the Democrats and his own incompetence.
Posted by: Soothsayer at September 11, 2014 05:47 PM (jldxi)
So, one gets in power loots the country's youth dry to pay for "shovel ready projects" and stuff for the geezers.
Then the other gets in power and loots the country dry.
The young adults can't afford kids cuz the gov't sucks up all their discretionary income. So, less taxes...
then bumped up the sales tax and output falls 7.1%
Over and over again. The elites aren't even trying to cover up the looting now.
Posted by: naturalfake at September 11, 2014 05:47 PM (0cMkb)
2. He warned us.
Posted by: Chris Balsz at September 11, 2014 05:45 PM (HZLYB)
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Get the fuck outta here........
Posted by: MFM at September 11, 2014 05:47 PM (jucos)
Posted by: Barack Obama at September 11, 2014 05:47 PM (ZPrif)
hmmmm...
ah yes.
un petit peu is SPOKEN as "ahnTEE." They don't say it the way it's written. It's "ahnTEE."
So "ahnTEE de fou" turns into dinky dow?
Posted by: ace at September 11, 2014 05:47 PM (/FnUH)
Posted by: Home Slice at September 11, 2014 05:47 PM (RJMhd)
Posted by: torquewrench at September 11, 2014 05:38 PM (noWW6)
Now that Turkey has ruled out using their Air Fields... the EU's are out...
Hell.... are we flying out of Bahrain or Kuwait? Are they allowing combat ops out of there? Will the House of Saud allow us to bomb other Moslems?
IF not? Its Carrier Action... which in the long term, becomes limited...
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 11, 2014 05:48 PM (f0pWu)
Posted by: Feh at September 11, 2014 05:48 PM (g/zj9)
Posted by: pep at September 11, 2014 05:48 PM (4nR9/)
is pho pronounced "foe"?
Posted by: Feh at September 11, 2014 05:45 PM (g/zj9)
I heard it is more along the lines of foo or fu (short "u" sound).
Incidentally we have a Pho King right up the road, complete with big signage, next to a gym for children. Those Vietnamese must be laughing their asses off at the dumb Americans.
Posted by: flounder at September 11, 2014 05:48 PM (sDapq)
Posted by: Soothsayer at September 11, 2014 05:48 PM (jldxi)
I'M NUMBER TOO!!! NUMBER TO.
Posted by: Jimmy Carter at September 11, 2014 05:49 PM (WGm5T)
Posted by: ace at September 11, 2014 05:49 PM (/FnUH)
Posted by: Django at September 11, 2014 05:49 PM (JtwS4)
Democrat Party competing for power over a bunch midget parties.
So, one gets in power loots the country's youth dry to pay for "shovel ready projects" and stuff for the geezers.
I have a solution.
Posted by: Biology at September 11, 2014 05:49 PM (4nR9/)
Posted by: The Progs at September 11, 2014 05:49 PM (iQIUe)
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There's nothing wrong with taking a word or phrase from another language and Anglicizing it.
We don't say Mehico. Or Pockystan. Or Jinghiss.
Posted by: Costanza Defense at September 11, 2014 05:49 PM (ZPrif)
dinky dow
American "grunt" corruption of Vietnamese "dien cai dau", Meaning batty, Squirrel bait, Whacko, Goofy, Etc.
Man, You is boocoo dinky dow!
Posted by: flounder at September 11, 2014 05:50 PM (sDapq)
Ace, remember, 18 yr old kids dying in 'Nam in '68 weren't there for French lessons.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 11, 2014 05:50 PM (lIiq2)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 11, 2014 05:50 PM (l1zOH)
Posted by: Feh at September 11, 2014 05:51 PM (g/zj9)
That would look good on a sampler.
Posted by: HR at September 11, 2014 05:51 PM (/kI1Q)
Posted by: Costanza
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I make that point all of the time. I pronounce 'Sri Lanka', as 'Ceylon'.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 11, 2014 05:51 PM (l1zOH)
Posted by: Charles DeGaulle at September 11, 2014 05:51 PM (jucos)
Posted by: ace at September 11, 2014 05:49 PM (/FnUH)
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It's a mash up.
boo coo dinky dow.
Posted by: Home Slice at September 11, 2014 05:52 PM (RJMhd)
Insisting on the foreign pronunciation of words is silly.
Every language in the world uses their own pronunciation for borrowed words. And that's ok. Shows cultural confidence.
Posted by: Costanza Defense at September 11, 2014 05:52 PM (ZPrif)
I speak two other languages near fluency, but I anglicize everything when speaking english
pisses off the snooty east coasters
Posted by: Feh at September 11, 2014 05:53 PM (g/zj9)
i've heard people say coo de grah for coup de grace
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There's nothing wrong with taking a word or phrase from another language and Anglicizing it.
We don't say Mehico. Or Pockystan. Or Jinghiss.
Posted by: Costanza Defense
This is a pet peeve. I cringe every time someone pronounces it angst, with a nasal short A. It's a relatively recent import, people, pronounce it correctly. It even sounds better when you do. I mean, do you really want to sound worse than German?
Posted by: pep at September 11, 2014 05:53 PM (4nR9/)
Posted by: joe-impeachin44 at September 11, 2014 05:53 PM (tk9x5)
Posted by: joe-impeachin44 at September 11, 2014 05:53 PM (tk9x5)
is pho pronounced "foe"?
Posted by: Feh at September 11, 2014 05:45 PM (g/zj9)
It is Pee-hoe. Like the the thing at the end of my penis. You know it is not as salty as people would make you think and it looks like weak o-jay.
Posted by: Joe Biden at September 11, 2014 05:53 PM (WGm5T)
Posted by: rick
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'Boocoo'.
Heard thousands of times from fellow vets.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 11, 2014 05:53 PM (l1zOH)
Posted by: rick
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'Boocoo'.
Heard thousands of times from fellow vets.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 11, 2014 05:53 PM (l1zOH)
But it seems to be Vietnamese -- a language I know nothing about.
Posted by: ace at September 11, 2014 05:53 PM (/FnUH)
Posted by: speedster1 at September 11, 2014 05:53 PM (C0wzD)
Posted by: Seamus M. at September 11, 2014 05:53 PM (NeFrd)
0whatever-time as we would not want to be presumptive: Opens squinty myopic eyes like a mole in sunshine. Reaches for Clark Kent glasses on end table in boudoir. Yawns with hideous halitosis which wakes her pitiful example of male-husband lying dormant and pale next to her. She harfs up her daily hairball like a cat. He then rises and rushes off to make her coffee and waffle (which all in this administration eat religiously: waffles. Reminding them to waffle on all decisions and act Mensa w/sneer).
Thirty minutes to the dot after Harf with Glasses has jacked up herself with a quick shower and caffine (with eco shower head, of course, and recycled toilet water as her fragrance of choice is "Shalimar" which is sewer eau de toilette) she dresses in her designer clothes and grabs her designer jewels (oh, wait, wrong spokes-Fräulein that is Wilma Flintsone Psaki I am thinking of). Harf has quick thinking decision to make: cozy mohair, preppy cashmere for boobs/sex appeal, or dark mourning black for 9/11/14 a day of non-terrorism). She chooses black and calls driver of eco-limo running on the fuel of old grease and/or mooch's armpit exhaust.
At Owhatever time of this administration, gets briefing. John O'Kerry calls and explains why he is in sunglasses on recent photo: conjunctivitis from recent kiteboarding effort and, maybe, parasites coming out of eyeballs. But all is well. Theresa is sober for now and not keeling over. His message: all is well. It is 9/11. What a safe day. Do not secure anything, especially consulates or embassies. They love us, these SIS guys as the 'I' is now missing. We will start calling them PCAM (Puffy Cloud Angels of Mecca). Do not EVER say the word, "terrorism." It is an old Bush/Cheney word. Eliminate this from vocabulary like your veggie fiber loaf you had for lunch.
At Owhatever sharp she meets with the Press Corpse assigned to her. She notches up her sneer by sucking on a lemon or two behind the scenes. Puts on her panty hose with extra tight crotch invader/pincher spandex, and sashays out to podium upon which she honors all in her divine presence to bestow her wisdom upon. Points nose at reporter. Sneers. Wordsmiths. Repeats question. Asks if this is a question. Denies. Obfuscates.Repeat. Rinse. Recycle for a few more reporters. Finally, and with utter (udder? the bovine with glasses!) disdain and disgust, she points her pointy nose at the FOX reporter. Scowls. Emits a high-pitched farht out of her strained glutes due to thong and lemon juice, and attempts a smack-down of epic proportions. These episodes usually fail but she tries.
Valjar calls her at lunch, in which Harf with Glasses is chugging cheap Chardonnay with a pint or two of Ben and Jerry's. Valjar is pleased and you can hear her rubbing her insect-like hands together, making a dry cicada noise on the phone which mesmerizes Harf and soothes her into a zen-like trance.
Her job done for the day, she emails ole Jen Pits and tells her she is on her way back home to her husfrau, who is cowering in the corner when she arrives. The cycle repeats. But there is no terrorism. None. She has never said that word.
Posted by: ChristyBlinky, Rotherham reporter #1400 girls raped at September 11, 2014 05:53 PM (dMEBN)
Posted by: joe-impeachin44 at September 11, 2014 05:54 PM (tk9x5)
Posted by: Feh at September 11, 2014 05:54 PM (g/zj9)
Posted by: Costanza Defense at September 11, 2014 05:54 PM (ZPrif)
Posted by: grammie winger at September 11, 2014 05:54 PM (3B+O8)
a coo de grah would be sort of like a blow from a piece of fat (gras)
yeah you're right, i didn't really think about it, but it should be coo duh grasz
Posted by: ace at September 11, 2014 05:45 PM (/FnUH)
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Grace--as in mercy.
With the French idioms and swear words go to Catholicism first.
Posted by: Home Slice at September 11, 2014 05:54 PM (RJMhd)
GW Bush = Tim the Enchanter
"I *warned* you, but did you listen to me? Oh, no, you *knew*, didn't you? Oh, it's just a harmless little *bunny* , isn't it? "
Posted by: Count de Monet at September 11, 2014 05:54 PM (JO9+V)
Posted by: wheatie at September 11, 2014 05:54 PM (LcQ0i)
Every language in the world uses their own pronunciation for borrowed words. And that's ok. Shows cultural confidence.
Posted by: Costanza Defense at September 11, 2014 05:52 PM (ZPrif)
Yep we're speaking English so it's perfectly fine to make foreign-derived words conform to English grammar and pronunciation usage. Maintaining the original foreign pronunciation is mostly a form of status signaling.
Posted by: Maetenloch at September 11, 2014 05:54 PM (pAlYe)
Posted by: AmishDude at September 11, 2014 05:54 PM (L2xDv)
I always liked the original Day of the Jackal:
No French soldier will raise his rifle against me!
[Next day, he is shot by a firing squad with a coup de grace for extra points.]
Posted by: The Progs at September 11, 2014 05:55 PM (iQIUe)
And yeah, I'm looking at you, TFG and the rest of the idiots your clown car of an administration.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at September 11, 2014 05:55 PM (0HooB)
What exactly is the GOP pitch?
Over the coarse of the last 5+ years they have repudiated every previous principle or position.
You can't buy what ain't being sold.
Posted by: Kreplach at September 11, 2014 05:55 PM (pK1sN)
yeah it's killing blow, as in "putting someone out of his misery."
Posted by: ace at September 11, 2014 05:55 PM (/FnUH)
you're making a point of showing your disdain, which is a form of snootiness all it's own. That's why the Brits used to pronounce words incorrectly - to show that they didn't need to worry about how those dirty little others pronounced it.
Posted by: pep at September 11, 2014 05:55 PM (4nR9/)
Posted by: Feh at September 11, 2014 05:55 PM (g/zj9)
THEN WHO WAS PHO?
Posted by: Old Memes Love New Languages at September 11, 2014 05:55 PM (/FnUH)
Posted by: Fee and Fie at September 11, 2014 05:55 PM (vgIRn)
Posted by: ace
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Want my issue phrase books?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 11, 2014 05:56 PM (l1zOH)
But it seems to be Vietnamese -- a language I know nothing about.
Posted by: ace at September 11, 2014 05:53 PM (/FnUH)
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Well they will get you--if you learn enough French.
I highly recommend Indochine--beautiful movie.
I think you might like it.
Although--cripes....
I'm a Chris Nolan fan-femme.
Posted by: Home Slice at September 11, 2014 05:56 PM (RJMhd)
Where's Nam Grunt when ya need him.
Miss you man.
Wasn't in Nam but served during the last couple years. Seems to me I remember it being said by guys who were there as beaucoup dinky dao.
As in very crazy or loony.
Posted by: teej at September 11, 2014 05:56 PM (H2/m3)
Posted by: Feh at September 11, 2014 05:56 PM (g/zj9)
Posted by: Charles DeGaulle at September 11, 2014 05:51 PM (jucos)]/i]
Well, I said Asia, but you're such a little piece of shit German playground anyways.....
Posted by: George C. Marshall at September 11, 2014 05:56 PM (aSiy9)
Heard thousands of times from fellow vets.
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well that's what i figured based on the question but dinky dow is of native Vietnamese origin.
Posted by: Old Memes Love New Languages at September 11, 2014 05:57 PM (/FnUH)
i've heard people say coo de grah for coup de grace
Yeah, but coup de gras (as some people render it) means "stroke of fat"*. So, ick.
* stroke, blow, hit. Languages don't map 1:1.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at September 11, 2014 05:57 PM (JtwS4)
Posted by: Barack Joplin at September 11, 2014 05:57 PM (4hzHG)
Didn't they already decide doing that was torture and possibly a warcrime?
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at September 11, 2014 05:57 PM (GDulk)
Posted by: puddleglum at September 11, 2014 05:57 PM (745ZW)
is mostly a form of status signaling.
So Ace gets to tuite de horn?
Posted by: rickb223 at September 11, 2014 05:57 PM (lIiq2)
Posted by: George C. Marshall at September 11, 2014 05:58 PM (aSiy9)
Posted by: Bandersnatch at September 11, 2014 05:58 PM (JtwS4)
Posted by: DHHS has the answers at September 11, 2014 05:58 PM (P8xuA)
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at September 11, 2014 05:58 PM (oFCZn)
Posted by: rickb223 at September 11, 2014 05:57 PM (lIiq2)
Bien sur!
Posted by: Maetenloch at September 11, 2014 05:59 PM (pAlYe)
Posted by: pep at September 11, 2014 05:59 PM (4nR9/)
But it seems to be Vietnamese -- a language I know nothing about.
Posted by: ace at September 11, 2014 05:53 PM (/FnUH)
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The Vietnamese language is full of a lot of pidginized French words.
So it's confusing.
Posted by: wheatie at September 11, 2014 05:59 PM (LcQ0i)
That's a good mind-bender.
If the Republicans sold a product, what would it be, and what would it do?
I know what the Democrats are selling: hope, change, fairness, a safety net, education, children, etc.
What are the Republicans selling?
Posted by: Soothsayer at September 11, 2014 05:59 PM (jldxi)
combat ops out of there? Will the House of Saud allow us to bomb other
Moslems? IF not? Its Carrier Action... which in the long term, becomes limited..."
As for USN carrier aviation, this timely reminder:
The near future for American naval aviation entails not having nearly enough carriers (down potentially to only two deployable big decks at any given time).
Then within the context of a shortage of carriers, there will be a further shortage of carrier-capable aircraft.
Where the limited number of air wings will consist of:
-- Solidly reliable, but nonstealthy F/A-18s, an ancient design whose progenitor prototype first flew when Richard freaking Nixon was the President.
-- Somewhat stealthy F-35s, which are short-legged, unmaneuverable, prone to fires, vulnerable to battle damage, and have extremely low dispatch reliability.
I tell you, the future's so bright, we gotta wear shades.
Posted by: torquewrench at September 11, 2014 05:59 PM (noWW6)
or the appearance thereof. like the lower class brits who say serviette for napkin.
Posted by: Feh at September 11, 2014 05:59 PM (g/zj9)
Well written. I visualized the entire piece
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, fighting the ban at September 11, 2014 05:59 PM (9kWyt)
So enjoy your freedom, plebes!
Posted by: Barack Joplin at September 11, 2014 05:57 PM (4hzHG)
Uh huh Barry. Believe me when I say if I feel I've got nothing left to lose, you and your followers are going to lose a lot.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at September 11, 2014 05:59 PM (oFCZn)
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You didn't mention the year that was made but back in the day she was smoking hot.
I still like Les Parapluie de Cherbourgh. Real men can too like pop jazz opera love story things.
Posted by: The Great White Snark at September 11, 2014 06:00 PM (XUKZU)
I say Mehico in Spanish and Mexico in English. I say Estados Unidos in Spanish and United States in English.
It's just so silly to hear NPR liberals pronounce Spanish words and names like they were born in Guadalajara instead of Newark, New Jersey.
Posted by: Costanza Defense at September 11, 2014 06:00 PM (ZPrif)
yeah it's killing blow, as in "putting someone out of his misery."
Posted by: ace at September 11, 2014 05:55 PM (/FnUH)
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I always had a lot of sympathy for that poor bastard that said macacca.
I would say things in French and someone would sit me down and say--do you really know what that means?
Holy hell.
IEven the Canadianism--frig---means
to jouer avec toi meme--or something.
Who knew?
I thought it was like saying--fudge/
Posted by: Home Slice at September 11, 2014 06:00 PM (RJMhd)
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at September 11, 2014 06:00 PM (ucDmr)
Posted by: maddogg at September 11, 2014 06:00 PM (xWW96)
Posted by: willow at September 11, 2014 06:01 PM (nqBYe)
Posted by: Feh
Only when the blood of an Englishman is at issue.
Posted by: Fee and Fie at September 11, 2014 05:55 PM (vgIRn)
___________
Fuick you guys!
Posted by: Fum at September 11, 2014 06:01 PM (jucos)
Posted by: Soothsayer at September 11, 2014 06:01 PM (jldxi)
When you poop liquid is it really poop?
Posted by: Joe Biden at September 11, 2014 06:01 PM (WGm5T)
One of the best bits from the old SNL was when Candace Bergen was on and mocked the old Chanel commercial that had Deneuve posed with her head on a bottle of Chanel. At the end, CB lifts up her head and the bottle stayed with it, because impaled.
Posted by: pep at September 11, 2014 06:02 PM (4nR9/)
Posted by: mrp at September 11, 2014 06:02 PM (JBggj)
If the Republicans sold a product, what would it be, and what would it do?
I know what the Democrats are selling: hope, change, fairness, a safety net, education, children, etc.
What are the Republicans selling?
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Thems thats gots gets and also them that know thems thats gots gets and if we need a little slave labor in the form of illegal immigration, we get that too.
Posted by: The Great White Snark at September 11, 2014 06:03 PM (XUKZU)
Posted by: willow at September 11, 2014 06:03 PM (nqBYe)
Posted by: Trotsky w/an ice-pick in his head at September 11, 2014 06:03 PM (jL8iL)
Posted by: Bandersnatch at September 11, 2014 06:03 PM (JtwS4)
Dammit, Chinese is a tonal language so we have to show our appreciation of that by pronouncing Chinese names and cities tonally from now on.
Posted by: Costanza Defense at September 11, 2014 06:03 PM (ZPrif)
He bombs people, but does so ironically.
Posted by: wooga at September 11, 2014 06:04 PM (4hzHG)
At one time they sold fiscal responsibility, low taxes,
strong defense, secure boarders, reasonable regulations, etc.
The GOP stands for nothing at least the democrats affirmatively stand for things, sure they're evil but evil has been effectively sold to at least 52% of the America public
Posted by: Kreplach at September 11, 2014 06:04 PM (pK1sN)
Posted by: willow at September 11, 2014 06:04 PM (nqBYe)
The Barry Administration presents to the world:
Marie Blorf
Jen Psasski
Lurch
That one white guy
A black radical with a bad overbite who looks like a ferret and is a dick
A cocoa colored metrosexual mannequin
Is this America?
Posted by: Rev. Dr. E Buzz Bunnies at September 11, 2014 06:04 PM (cNiT0)
Posted by: HR at September 11, 2014 06:04 PM (/kI1Q)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 11, 2014 06:04 PM (glk59)
Posted by: Soothsayer at September 11, 2014 06:05 PM (jldxi)
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Our troops. That's who.
Megyn Kelly, last night, brought up how "much more dangerous" this will be for our troops.
By the way that Zero pulled out, leaving so much of our military hardware...which is now in the hands of ISIS.
Our guys will be fighting a much-better-equipped enemy, that we faced before.
Posted by: wheatie at September 11, 2014 06:05 PM (LcQ0i)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at September 11, 2014 06:05 PM (W5DcG)
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Specifically, if you survive a firing squad, the squad leader puts one through your head rather than to let you linger.
Posted by: The Great White Snark at September 11, 2014 06:05 PM (XUKZU)
status signalling
or the appearance thereof. like the lower class brits who say serviette for napkin.
Posted by: Feh
It really comes down to how long the word has been around. I don't say May-hi-co, but most Americans couldn't have told you what angst meant 40 years ago. Since the correct pronunciation is so easily discoverable now, there's no reason to mispronounce it except a desire to signal your indifference to fashion, and thus more social positioning.
Posted by: pep at September 11, 2014 06:06 PM (4nR9/)
Posted by: Rev. Dr. E Buzz Bunnies at September 11, 2014 06:04 PM (cNiT0)
Chickens roosting?
Posted by: flounder at September 11, 2014 06:06 PM (sDapq)
"Our guys will be fighting a much-better-equipped enemy, that we faced before."
No they won't. Brian Williams never said that, so it's not true.
Posted by: Rev. Dr. E Buzz Bunnies at September 11, 2014 06:06 PM (cNiT0)
I just learned about a thing called the "Stranger." I'm looking for somebody to make their hand go to sleep and give me a tug.
Posted by: Joe Biden at September 11, 2014 06:06 PM (WGm5T)
Posted by: Some OTHER Guy at September 11, 2014 06:06 PM (WHOXn)
Posted by: wooga at September 11, 2014 06:07 PM (4hzHG)
Posted by: TECH SUPPORT? at September 11, 2014 05:16 PM (0Xv7Q)
I am, on mobile. Not sure about desktop.
...Be cool if it stopped.
Posted by: Hawkins1701 at September 11, 2014 06:07 PM (vWUk0)
Posted by: Lincolntf at September 11, 2014 06:07 PM (2cS/G)
mocked the old Chanel commercial that had Deneuve posed with her head
on a bottle of Chanel. At the end, CB lifts up her head and the bottle
stayed with it, because impaled.
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Yeah, but ... Catherine Deneuve in Belle de Jour .
Posted by: mrp at September 11, 2014 06:07 PM (JBggj)
Catherine Deneuve in Indochine
Or more recently, Jane March in The Lover.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at September 11, 2014 06:03 PM (JtwS4)
*************
thanks.
I'll check it out.
Posted by: Home Slice at September 11, 2014 06:07 PM (RJMhd)
Control the Language, Control the Debate
Control the Debate, Control the Country
Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 11, 2014 06:07 PM (M0mf2)
Sisu explores Shopenhauer's postulate that what we call our view of reality
Ahem.
"Sisu" is a Finnish word that means perserverance, endurance, the ability to tough something out like a long Finnish winter.
*preens*
Posted by: Bandersnatch at September 11, 2014 06:07 PM (JtwS4)
Posted by: Bob from table9 at September 11, 2014 06:07 PM (WNERA)
(That's pretty much what I remember from college French. Thought it might come in handy!)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 11, 2014 06:08 PM (Lqy/e)
Do we all have to learn to trill our R's to order a burrito now?
Posted by: Costanza Defense at September 11, 2014 06:08 PM (ZPrif)
Posted by: Truck Monkey, as Voiced by Brian Dennehy at September 11, 2014 06:08 PM (jucos)
Posted by: Blacksheep at September 11, 2014 06:09 PM (bS6uW)
Posted by: Blacksheep at September 11, 2014 06:09 PM (bS6uW)
Posted by: rickb223 at September 11, 2014 06:09 PM (lIiq2)
Posted by: pep at September 11, 2014 06:06 PM (4nR9/)
Eh. Forty years is long enough for it to become fairly well known and incorporated into English. So the 'correct' pronunciation is how English speakers pronounce it since it's no longer really a foreign word.
Posted by: Maetenloch at September 11, 2014 06:09 PM (pAlYe)
Posted by: Bob from table9 at September 11, 2014 06:07 PM (WNERA)
I thought illegals could vote, go to school and collect welfare beanies
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, fighting the ban at September 11, 2014 06:09 PM (9kWyt)
Posted by: Marie Larfs-a-lot at September 11, 2014 06:09 PM (wrvud)
Posted by: Blacksheep at September 11, 2014 06:09 PM (bS6uW)
Israeli firefighters and US marines mark 9/11 in Jerusalem Hills,
The emotional ceremony was attended by US Ambassador Dan Shapiro who said: 'Every year we come together to honor those who fell and those who served, the members of our larger American family whose destinies were touched by these acts of evil'.
Jerusalem district firefighters and rescue volunteers, alongside US Marines and families of 9/11 victims, marked the 13th anniversary to the September 11 terrorist attacks that left nearly 3,000 people dead in a special ceremony held in the Jerusalem Hills.
Somehow I don't think this happened in any Arab Countries?
Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 11, 2014 06:09 PM (M0mf2)
Well apparently no more horse carriage rides in SLC, therefore the terrorists have won. So goes NYC, so goes the rest, as they say. Downtown SLC is uber lib granola so no surprise. Feel bad for the owners. http://preview.tinyurl.com/l7fnfru
And ChristyBlinky, hah! Nice one.
Posted by: LizLem at September 11, 2014 06:09 PM (yRwC8)
Posted by: Costanza Defense
Ironic. The burrito is as Mexican as I am.
Posted by: pep at September 11, 2014 06:10 PM (4nR9/)
And he will devote more attention to his War-on-Words than to the actual war against ISIS.
The narrative must be protected! ...At all costs!
Posted by: wheatie at September 11, 2014 06:10 PM (LcQ0i)
Posted by: teej at September 11, 2014 06:10 PM (H2/m3)
Posted by: Lincolntf at September 11, 2014 06:10 PM (2cS/G)
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I saw something quietly moving today. I am the only DA in a small county with a small county seat. (Guns Be Bad Bloomberg was frustrated that Colorado recalled its gungrabbers and made a statement to the effect that he didn't know if Colorado Springs even had paved streets. Well, the county courthouse in this town is located on a dirt road.) Anyway, they had a fire ladder truck with ladder extended at about a forty-five degree angle with a large American flag hanging from it blocking most of the dirt road. At just about the time the first airplane struck the tower, a bagpipe played Amazing Grace.
Posted by: The Great White Snark at September 11, 2014 06:11 PM (XUKZU)
Posted by: Marcel Marceau at September 11, 2014 06:11 PM (jucos)
Posted by: mrp at September 11, 2014 06:11 PM (JBggj)
Posted by: Costanza Defense at September 11, 2014 06:11 PM (ZPrif)
Je peux jouir dans ta boche?
Posted by: The Progs at September 11, 2014 06:12 PM (iQIUe)
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BUT..., how do pronounce 'filet', and 'Montreal'
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 11, 2014 06:12 PM (l1zOH)
Posted by: George Tirebiter at September 11, 2014 06:12 PM (91kn2)
there's a minor brush fire over on Twitter saying that the Blade Runner was acquitted of first degree murder because of White Privilege.
Posted by: The Great White Snark at September 11, 2014 06:12 PM (XUKZU)
Posted by: Truck Monkey, as Voiced by Brian Dennehy at September 11, 2014 06:08 PM (jucos)
Do we remember & commemorate Pearl Harbor? We commemorate Memorial Day. I think it should be remembered. Commemorate? Depends on what you mean? Where I live, no parades, etc. Post Office didn't have the flag lowered to half mast
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, fighting the ban at September 11, 2014 06:13 PM (9kWyt)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 11, 2014 06:13 PM (l1zOH)
Posted by: flounder at September 11, 2014 06:13 PM (sDapq)
Posted by: Naes at September 11, 2014 06:14 PM (YhayY)
Posted by: Blacksheep at September 11, 2014 06:14 PM (bS6uW)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 11, 2014 06:15 PM (Lqy/e)
Posted by: Code Pink at September 11, 2014 06:15 PM (WGm5T)
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BUT..., how do pronounce 'filet', and 'Montreal'
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 11, 2014 06:12 PM (l1zOH)
Tasty. Dam tasty
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, fighting the ban at September 11, 2014 06:15 PM (9kWyt)
that the Blade Runner was acquitted of first degree murder because of
White Privilege. Posted by: The Great White Snark at September 11, 2014 06:12 PM (XUKZU)
OJ hardest hit. Though he did drive a white bronco...
Posted by: LizLem at September 11, 2014 06:15 PM (yRwC8)
There is a reason that knowing the True Name of a person or a place or an item has long held significance. It is impossible to truly comprehend a matter if one cannot express the matter via words. The limits of language are the limits of knowledge.
My fury with deconstruction and post-modern semantic and semiotic thought, and, oh, how I am tempted to use the scare quotes around thought, is that such works are a purposeful inversion of semantics. Rather than struggling mightily to express reality through the frailty of human language, deconstruction seeks to use language to transform reality.
What we are witnessing is the logical and necessary endpoint of such beliefs. If language is all that exists, then, yes, controlling language will control reality. To refuse to call war war will result in there being no war. Oh, people will still die and buildings will still be destroyed but since the term war itself was not used, then those deaths and that destruction do not fall under the ambit of war and thus need not be viewed through the legal and moral prism of war. By changing the terms, the nature of the event itself is transformed through some sub-atomic magic or some such. The theory gets a wee bit fuzzy at how, precisely, that works.
Or tl;dr, far too many people think that this is will work and is the proper way to handle military disputes:
http://youtu.be/PwMXFOIS6Yw
Posted by: alexthechick at September 11, 2014 06:15 PM (mf5HN)
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But...the judge who made the ruling is black.
I don't agree with the ruling. Butattributing it to 'white privilege' is stupid.
Posted by: wheatie at September 11, 2014 06:16 PM (LcQ0i)
Posted by: Blacksheep at September 11, 2014 06:14 PM (bS6uW)
Yeah smokin hot. But she got shot must have been a character flaw somewhere
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, fighting the ban at September 11, 2014 06:16 PM (9kWyt)
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at September 11, 2014 06:16 PM (ucDmr)
Posted by: doug the head at September 11, 2014 06:17 PM (8CdUx)
Well, apropos of the robot-revolution comment upthread, a couple of ED-209s would sure come in handy right about now.
Posted by: torquewrench at September 11, 2014 06:17 PM (noWW6)
2) I thought Gaga was skinny? This version is kinda chunky.
Al Arabiya English @AlArabiya_Eng
LadyGaga wows #Dubai with electrifying performance ara.tv/mxhcp pic.twitter.com/sfxg3Jc8p8
Posted by: Costanza Defense at September 11, 2014 06:17 PM (ZPrif)
The ole Coupe de Ville.
Posted by: Theodore Rex at September 11, 2014 06:18 PM (jElob)
No firing without prior approval from White House legal council.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 11, 2014 06:18 PM (Zu3d9)
Posted by: The Progs at September 11, 2014 06:19 PM (iQIUe)
It was actually just an enhanced anti-blandness operation.
Posted by: Hollowpoint at September 11, 2014 06:19 PM (ZGIFT)
Posted by: alexthechick at September 11, 2014 06:15 PM (mf5HN)
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Well, it's not even a 'new thing'...
They tried it with the Vietnam War.
They tried to call it the "Vietnam Conflict".
It didn't work then...and it won't work now.
The Leftists were apoplectic about it not being called a 'war', too.
It was one of the things they protested about...the dishonesty of it.
This is yet another example of how the Left has *become*, that which they used to rail against.
Posted by: wheatie at September 11, 2014 06:21 PM (LcQ0i)
Posted by: The Progs at September 11, 2014 06:23 PM (iQIUe)
2007. We are entirely disconnected from the real world. "The World" is
simply the images on Television, and the false realities conjured for us
by Public Relations Sorcerers who appear there upon the Holy Screen.
You misspelled 1960.
Posted by: Phinn at September 11, 2014 06:25 PM (i5GO4)
Probably the order of the day. Just not profit. Maybe that other thing, not prudent. But very needed, even after death.
Posted by: neal at September 11, 2014 06:26 PM (uiqkJ)
Posted by: bleck at September 11, 2014 06:28 PM (h9G8n)
Her name reminds me of this French I observed selling half and half tickets at a softball tournament I attended in Hull, Quebec many years ago. He pronounced it arf and arf.
Get your arf and arf tickets here.
Posted by: Northernlurker ( AKA TGinTV) at September 11, 2014 07:09 PM (Sf7oH)
Posted by: Northernlurker ( AKA TGinTV) at September 11, 2014 07:14 PM (Sf7oH)
Posted by: Corona at September 11, 2014 09:00 PM (fh2Y7)
There is a reason she advertises with those glasses and pearl necklaces IYKWIMAITYD
*Waves Hi Marie !
Posted by: Tom_Ohio at September 12, 2014 12:51 AM (Zz48T)
Posted by: Tom_Ohio at September 12, 2014 12:53 AM (Zz48T)
We conservatives have to get united and organized where we live and engage in party politics from the precinct level on "up." It's not hard to do and there's a huge power vacuum "inside" the Republican Party at the precinct level -- over half of these power-wielding slots are vacant.
Go here for more info:
http://bit.ly/1pnYRjy
It works. But only if enough conservatives make it work.
It's up to each of us.
Thank you.
CW
http://bit.ly/1ffIdcT
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