Take Back The Language!

Our language is amazingly dense and infinitely useful. We have a larger vocabulary than any other language, and enough tenses and special constructions to explain the most complex ideas, without being burdened with much in the way of gendered or confusing multi-word nouns.

English is a glory of the Western world, which of course is why it is a target for the Woke left. As Orwell famously said:

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

So let's fight back.

Don't say "partner" when you can say "husband" or "wife." Don't say "parent" when you can say "father" or "mother." Don't say "child" when you can say "boy" or "girl," "son" or "daughter." Re-sex neutered language. Be salt and light.

-- Tim Bayly

Excellent points, and a fine place to start. And I would extend it to singular and plural! There is nothing wrong with using "he" to describe an unknown. Using "they" is astoundingly confusing. "They drove the car into the bridge abutment?" How many people were driving the car? What's wrong with the general "he," which can be corrected when the sex of the subject is known. But using "he" risks misgendering, and our woke masters can't have that!

They corrupt us with this diminution of our wonderful language, and it is a simple thing to push back.

And don't get me started on "Happy Holidays!" I am happily Jewish, and I see no need for a Christian country to bowdlerize a traditional and fine greeting to be more sensitive to me. It's Christmas for the vast majority of the country...there is nothing wrong and everything wonderful about saying "Merry Christmas!"

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Posted by: CBD at 12:00 PM

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1 I'll go fetch em

Posted by: Skip at December 14, 2025 12:01 PM (Ia/+0)

2 Fleece Navi-blab

Posted by: weft cut loop at December 14, 2025 12:02 PM (mlg/3)

3 The Left uses language to control the narrative

Posted by: Skip at December 14, 2025 12:03 PM (Ia/+0)

4 "Duolingo" replacing old hooters. Both have owl logos.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 14, 2025 12:05 PM (l7WvC)

5 Feliz Navidad!

Cha cha chacha!

Posted by: pookysgirl, in Taco John's Land at December 14, 2025 12:05 PM (Wt5PA)

6 A truly Confucian ideal - the Rectification of Language.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 14, 2025 12:06 PM (k5cxK)

7 Yo ho ho

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 14, 2025 12:06 PM (NwnyJ)

8 Fleece Navi-blab
Posted by: weft cut loop at December 14, 2025

***
To the same tune: "Po-lice stopped my car. . . ."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 14, 2025 12:07 PM (wzUl9)

9
HM and I refer to someone gay's partner as their "squeeze".

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 14, 2025 12:07 PM (tgvbd)

10 Absolutely fantastic CBD. Agree on all counts… my wife and I laughed yesterday because she bought Christmas cards that say “happy holidays” and I was poking fun at her for that. I told her she’ll have to manually write the following inside each one: Merry Christmas, you filthy animal!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 14, 2025 12:07 PM (WnEm5)

11 "The Left uses language to control the narrative"

And speaking traditional American English .. they call that another trait of "White Supremacy". Just shows what zealous maniacs they are.

Posted by: illiniwek at December 14, 2025 12:07 PM (vbXSk)

12 There is no such thing as "trans". I don't and won't use it.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 14, 2025 12:08 PM (sDNVV)

13 Feel his navel, Dad.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at December 14, 2025 12:09 PM (0aYVJ)

14
I actually (!) sent out cards this year and it was "Merry Christmas" in all of them.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 14, 2025 12:10 PM (tgvbd)

15 A truly Confucian ideal - the Rectification of Language.
Posted by: Tom Servo

Sounds proctological.

Posted by: weft cut loop at December 14, 2025 12:10 PM (mlg/3)

16 The [Brown University shooter] man had a unique characteristic on his firearm and that firearm was found when he was taken into custody.

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Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 14, 2025 12:10 PM (L/fGl)

17 Don't say "partner" when you can say "husband" or "wife." Don't say "parent" when you can say "father" or "mother." Don't say "child" when you can say "boy" or "girl," "son" or "daughter." Re-sex neutered language. Be salt and light.

Also, stop calling someone a "kid" when they are over 18 years old. Get back to calling people "young man" or "young woman/lady".

This is ridiculous especially in sports commentating, both college and pros. Ridiculous to hear people saying "that kid is amazing" when talking about someone 22-25 years old.

Equally ridiculous when leftists call 19-20 year-olds in the military "kids" (while at the same time saying that actual kids and tweens can make decisions about abortions and castrating themselves).

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 14, 2025 12:11 PM (P5BPp)

18 > "The Left uses language to control the narrative"
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While this is true, the left has managed to make certain words, such as "racist" devoid of any real meaning by its overuse. This is becoming more apparent to the unwashed masses everyday.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 14, 2025 12:11 PM (NwnyJ)

19 Merry Christmas, CBD!

Posted by: RI Red at December 14, 2025 12:11 PM (5EblX)

20 The [Brown University shooter] man had a unique characteristic on his firearm and that firearm was found when he was taken into custody.

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Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 14, 2025 12:10 PM (L/fGl)

A thing that goes up?? OH, NO!!

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 14, 2025 12:11 PM (5xuJ/)

21
I once got called out for saying "Orientals" instead of "Asians". Basically, piss on that noise.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 14, 2025 12:12 PM (tgvbd)

22 Yeah when I hear partner I want to throw something.

Did that start to accommodate gay “relationships”?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 14, 2025 12:13 PM (udlma)

23 I also avoid using the sibling. I have brothers and sisters. Far as I know, none of them sible.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at December 14, 2025 12:13 PM (0aYVJ)

24 The [Brown University shooter] man had a unique characteristic on his firearm and that firearm was found when he was taken into custody.

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Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 14, 2025 12:10 PM

Betting it was a “Glock Switch”.
Illegal, as it converts a pistol to automatic fire. Would go with the two 30-round magazines being reported. Likely Glock 32-rounders.

Posted by: RI Red at December 14, 2025 12:14 PM (5EblX)

25 Also, stop calling someone a "kid" when they are over 18 years old. Get back to calling people "young man" or "young woman/lady".

This is ridiculous especially in sports commentating, both college and pros. Ridiculous to hear people saying "that kid is amazing" when talking about someone 22-25 years old.

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Doesn’t help matters when a 26 year old is considered a “child” for the purposes of health insurance. Thanks Obamacare.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 14, 2025 12:14 PM (udlma)

26 I'll go bit further on reclaiming the English language, and it might seem a contradiction: Eliminate gendered job titles. If a woman rises to a particular job title, she earned that particular title. So, she is the chairman, the assemblyman, the helmsman, etc...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at December 14, 2025 12:15 PM (nbLIj)

27
"Partner" is stupid. Use accurate terms. Like "catamite".

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 14, 2025 12:15 PM (tgvbd)

28 It was always a leftist ideal to change thoughts by changing language, and it went way overboard once the tranny movement got going.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 14, 2025 12:16 PM (k5cxK)

29 Absolutely. Try reading paragraphs in which a person is designated “they”. The disconnect does more than jar.

Posted by: RebeccaH at December 14, 2025 12:16 PM (VFung)

30 Amy Swearer
@AmySwearer
Oh. The shooting occurred in the classroom of Professor Rachel Friedberg...who is Jewish, part of the Program in Judaic Studies, and whose research focuses on the intersection of economics and Jewish Studies?
That seems like it might be incredibly relevant.

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Probably just a coincidence.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 14, 2025 12:16 PM (L/fGl)

31 Portland:

Thousands gather in downtown Portland for beloved holiday tree tradition

"Holiday tree"

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 14, 2025 12:17 PM (xTIDn)

32 I loved "Person of the Opposite Sex Sharing Living Quarters", which I got from a census form years ago.

So I'd call my boyfriend my Pozzlecue, and wrote valentines with "Won't you be my pozzlecue? ❤️ "

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 14, 2025 12:17 PM (kpS4V)

33 Howdy partner.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 14, 2025 12:17 PM (nIW6f)

34
@AmySwearer
Oh. The shooting occurred in the classroom of Professor Rachel Friedberg...who is Jewish, part of the Program in Judaic Studies, and whose research focuses on the intersection of economics and Jewish Studies?
That seems like it might be incredibly relevant.

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Let me amend what I said in the last thread. This story will be forgotten tomorrow.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 14, 2025 12:18 PM (tgvbd)

35 Oh. The shooting occurred in the classroom of Professor Rachel Friedberg...who is Jewish, part of the Program in Judaic Studies, and whose research focuses on the intersection of economics and Jewish Studies?
That seems like it might be incredibly relevant.

The shooter also "shouted something" as he opened fire.

Can't imagine what it was.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 14, 2025 12:18 PM (xTIDn)

36 There is no such thing as transgender.
The word you're looking for is transexual.
Gender refers to possessive pronouns: his, hers or its.
Sex is either male or female.

Just like we all learned in fourth grade.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 14, 2025 12:19 PM (2Ez/1)

37 Alahu Ackbar?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 14, 2025 12:19 PM (nIW6f)

38
Can't imagine what it was.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 14, 2025 12:18 PM (xTIDn)

__________

"How 'bout them Cowboys!"

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 14, 2025 12:19 PM (tgvbd)

39 Howdy partner.
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Gay cowboys need affirmation too!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 14, 2025 12:19 PM (kpS4V)

40 Tried looking up information on Brown U shooter but it's a useless search due to Marxists Propaganda Ministry who will hide anything they can.
What class or group was target?
Name of shooter?

Posted by: Skip at December 14, 2025 12:19 PM (Ia/+0)

41 How about no “Gay” or “Lesbian”?
Use the medical scientific term, “Homosexual”.

As for the remaining LGBTQTrans, etc., “Bat Shit Crazy”.

Posted by: RI Red at December 14, 2025 12:19 PM (5EblX)

42 I had a professor in grad school who always - without exception - referred to his wife as his spouse, as if the word "wife" somehow defined her in a subservient way.

Posted by: Paco at December 14, 2025 12:20 PM (2L+MU)

43 I was a bit surprised, happily so, when our boss ended a Teams meeting with "Mery Christmas" and the slide showing on the screen was a Christmas card featuring a cross and the Nativity.

Wonder how that will fly with the new large company that just acquired us.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at December 14, 2025 12:20 PM (0aYVJ)

44 Don't get me started on Happy Hanukkah. Everyone knows it's a minor nothing and the whole oil story is very sus. Somehow the Jewish kids wrangled eight days of presents out of it. Crafty, those people.

Posted by: Bah To All Holidays! at December 14, 2025 12:20 PM (oftw2)

45 16 The [Brown University shooter] man had a unique characteristic on his firearm and that firearm was found when he was taken into custody.

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Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 14, 2025 12:10 PM (L/fGl)

'Hey, fascist! Catch ↑ → ↓↓↓'

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 14, 2025 12:20 PM (gbOdA)

46 We may never know the motive for the Australian shooting.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 14, 2025 12:20 PM (udlma)

47 Tried looking up information on Brown U shooter but it's a useless search due to Marxists Propaganda Ministry who will hide anything they can.
What class or group was target?
Name of shooter?

There are apparently more than 800 cameras on the Brown campus.

Weird that none of them got a clear picture of the shooter.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 14, 2025 12:21 PM (xTIDn)

48 A lack of midnight basketball.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 14, 2025 12:21 PM (nIW6f)

49 He had no further intercourse with Spirits, but lived upon the Total Abstinence Principle, ever afterwards; and it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us! And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God bless Us, Every One!

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 14, 2025 12:21 PM (gbOdA)

50 Tried looking up information on Brown U shooter but it's a useless search due to Marxists Propaganda Ministry who will hide anything they can.
What class or group was target?
Name of shooter?
Posted by: Skip at December 14, 2025 12:19 PM (Ia/+0)

You know the rule. If the shooter is not IDed within 10 minutes it’s a non-white male.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 14, 2025 12:22 PM (udlma)

51 800 cameras and no one looking at them?

Posted by: Ben Had at December 14, 2025 12:22 PM (sDNVV)

52 We may never know the motive for the Australian shooting.

The Australian prime minister released a statement on the shooting that failed to mention Jews, Judaism, or Hanukkah.

There were apparently four Aussie cops on scene who did nothing as the terrorists shot people for twenty minutes.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 14, 2025 12:23 PM (xTIDn)

53 They're not public schools.
They're government schools.
If they were public you could just wander in at will like a park.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 14, 2025 12:23 PM (2Ez/1)

54 Don't say gender when you mean sex.

Posted by: no one at December 14, 2025 12:23 PM (W7XSX)

55 27 "Partner" is stupid. Use accurate terms. Like "catamite".

Or paramour or courtesan or mistress.

Posted by: Paco at December 14, 2025 12:23 PM (2L+MU)

56 Byron York
@ByronYork
He entered the US illegally 7 times. Was 'convicted of raping and sodomizing a woman who has cerebral palsy.' Federal judge praises him, spares him more prison time. Prosecutors: 'The court spun his repeated illegal entries in his favor, commending his family devotion.'

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I guess the disabled need love too.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 14, 2025 12:24 PM (L/fGl)

57 Gun control doesn't seem to work.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 14, 2025 12:24 PM (nIW6f)

58 We now know that the Brown shooter and the Australian shooters are all white men.

Posted by: Jake Tapper, Pederast at December 14, 2025 12:24 PM (R/m4+)

59 NYT: the shooting was in a class called Principles of Economics. It was an exam review session and led by a student named Joseph Oduro.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 14, 2025 12:24 PM (udlma)

60 Don't say "gay" when you mean faggot.

Posted by: no one at December 14, 2025 12:25 PM (W7XSX)

61 We may never know the motive for the Australian shooting.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

Oh. The shooting occurred in the classroom of Professor Rachel Friedberg...who is Jewish, part of the Program in Judaic Studies, and whose research focuses on the intersection of economics and Jewish Studies?

That seems like it might be incredibly relevant.

https://is.gd/0hdpTM

Posted by: Archimedes at December 14, 2025 12:25 PM (Riz8t)

62 Nothing is ever federally funded.
Nothing is ever government funded.

It's all TAXPAYER funded.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 14, 2025 12:25 PM (2Ez/1)

63 Faggotts kindling. Faggs cigarettes.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 14, 2025 12:25 PM (nIW6f)

64 The quote in my #61 is for the shooter at Brown.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 14, 2025 12:25 PM (Riz8t)

65 My old boss had a "partner." They were lesbians.

Posted by: no one at December 14, 2025 12:26 PM (W7XSX)

66 One sight saw had
Here is the Brown U shooter
Picture was from.back and guy all dressed in dark clothing and head covered.

Posted by: Skip at December 14, 2025 12:26 PM (Ia/+0)

67 I love animals, and my wife and I have owned three dogs over the course of our 47 years together. But I absolutely hate the expression "fur babies". Also, you are not your dog's father, nor your cat's mother.

Posted by: Paco at December 14, 2025 12:26 PM (2L+MU)

68 You're not living together.
You're shacking up.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 14, 2025 12:26 PM (2Ez/1)

69 Been saying this for years. Thank you, thank you, thank you for saying it louder!

Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 14, 2025 12:27 PM (HCKPr)

70 There were apparently four Aussie cops on scene who did nothing as the terrorists shot people for twenty minutes.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 14, 2025 12:23 PM (xTIDn)

Always back the blue amirite?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 14, 2025 12:27 PM (udlma)

71 Why Jingle Bells is racist.

https://is.gd/9OLZE6

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 14, 2025 12:27 PM (L/fGl)

72 "Smoking a faggot" could mean different things nowadays. Smoking a cigarette or something much more evil and hideous.

Posted by: no one at December 14, 2025 12:27 PM (W7XSX)

73 Portland:

Thousands gather in downtown Portland for beloved holiday tree tradition

"Holiday tree"

I was unaware Portland has such a large and vibrant Druid community.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 14, 2025 12:28 PM (Riz8t)

74 I struggle with "partner." My son has nearly grown sons. That marriage broke up years ago, and he's with a woman he clearly wants to spend the rest of his life with, but she has no children, and I think they've decided, wisely, they're better off postponing anything formal. So what is she? I've tried "inamorata" but it sounds silly.

Posted by: Wenda at December 14, 2025 12:28 PM (A65Zh)

75 Maybe they were having a Foster's.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 14, 2025 12:28 PM (nIW6f)

76
Fleece Navi-blab
Posted by: weft cut loop
***
To the same tune: "Po-lice stopped my car. . . ."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

"Re-lease my peanuts..."

Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 14, 2025 12:28 PM (QVmho)

77 I love animals, and my wife and I have owned three dogs over the course of our 47 years together. But I absolutely hate the expression "fur babies". Also, you are not your dog's father, nor your cat's mother.
Posted by: Paco at December 14, 2025 12:26 PM (2L+MU)

Agree. Also, if I don't know the sex of a critter I will use the pronoun "it." it's correct and perfectly cromulent.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at December 14, 2025 12:29 PM (0aYVJ)

78 The police force has always been a haven of lazy shits that never want to put themselves in the line of fire.

Posted by: no one at December 14, 2025 12:29 PM (W7XSX)

79 There was also an acid attack in Savannah on Wednesday. A poor young woman's face has been burned nearly off. I only know of one, "culture", that attacks with acid.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 14, 2025 12:29 PM (3uBP9)

80 And if you don't want to do any adulting you can stop turning nouns into verbs!

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 14, 2025 12:29 PM (2Ez/1)

81 There is no such thing as transgender.
The word you're looking for is transexual.
Gender refers to possessive pronouns: his, hers or its.
Sex is either male or female.

Just like we all learned in fourth grade.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 14, 2025 12:19 PM

I would argue "transsexual" is also made up. As no one can be "across" or "beyond" sexes.

All these people who claim to be "transgender" are simply transvestites. They are dressing up like the opposite sex.

Granted, some of them are going beyond that by getting castrated and deforming their bodies. In that case, I think we say that those people have mental disorders.

So mentally disordered transvestites.

The word transvestite originates from German Transvestit, coined in 1910 by German sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld in his book Die Transvestiten (The Transvestites). It entered English around 1922.

Etymological Breakdown
It derives from Latin roots: trans- meaning "across" or "beyond" + vestire meaning "to dress" or "to clothe" (from Proto-Indo-European wes- "to clothe," related to English words like vest and wear).

Literally, it means "cross-dresser."

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 14, 2025 12:29 PM (P5BPp)

82 don't say "Islamophobia", say "Islamonazis" !

Posted by: runner at December 14, 2025 12:29 PM (g47mK)

83 Why Jingle Bells is racist.

https://is.gd/9OLZE6

It has become entertaining to try and figure out wth these lunatics are bitching about now.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 14, 2025 12:29 PM (Riz8t)

84 The Australian shooter was subdued by a bystander. Jesus, how shitty are the cops down under?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 14, 2025 12:30 PM (udlma)

85 Know who else liked to smoke faggots?

Posted by: They were hot at December 14, 2025 12:30 PM (2Ez/1)

86 An unarmed bystander.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 14, 2025 12:30 PM (nIW6f)

87 Let me amend what I said in the last thread. This story will be forgotten tomorrow.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 14, 2025 12:18 PM (tgvbd)

What story?

Posted by: Today at December 14, 2025 12:31 PM (uQesX)

88 There was also an acid attack in Savannah on Wednesday. A poor young woman's face has been burned nearly off. I only know of one, "culture", that attacks with acid.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 14, 2025 12:29 PM

Acid attacks are the norm in Muslim countries and in Europe. And now apparently becoming the norm in the USA.

National Conservative @NatCon2022

Savage, unprovoked #hatecrime acid attack at Forsyth Park in Savannah, GA.

Police say Ashley Wasielewski was left with severe, life-altering injuries after an unknown Black male snuck up behind her and dumped acid on her head.

X images: https://bit.ly/3MtNAl4

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 14, 2025 12:31 PM (P5BPp)

89 If Australian police were not armed but if they were.
The video I watched at Legalinsurrection.com the Jihadists were getting some return fire It seemed towards the end from two directions

Posted by: Skip at December 14, 2025 12:31 PM (Ia/+0)

90 84 The Australian shooter was subdued by a bystander. Jesus, how shitty are the cops down under?

86 An unarmed bystander.

With enormous nads.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 14, 2025 12:31 PM (Riz8t)

91 Boomerangs?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 14, 2025 12:32 PM (nIW6f)

92 So what is she? I've tried "inamorata" but it sounds silly.

Posted by: Wenda at December 14, 2025 12:28 PM (A65Zh)

POSSLQ

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 14, 2025 12:32 PM (n9ltV)

93
Also, you are not your dog's father, nor your cat's mother.
Posted by: Paco at December 14, 2025 12:26 PM (2L+MU)

_________

Undoubtedly true, yet to them we're Mama, because we do for them all the things that their mother would do. In essence, we keep them in a kind of arrested puppydom.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 14, 2025 12:32 PM (tgvbd)

94 "Literally, it means "cross-dresser."
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 14, 2025 12:29 PM"

Thanks for that.
Corporal Max Klinger and I applaud you.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 14, 2025 12:32 PM (2Ez/1)

95 My father in law, who was a teetotaling Baptist deacon , always referred to his wife as “his first wife” which was quite amusing.
They ended up being married for 67 years.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 14, 2025 12:33 PM (k5cxK)

96 I dislike the idea of neurolinguistic programming. Language and thought influence each other, and the better tools you have to work with means finer work, both in machining and in language, but the idea that by removing sections of language to prevent bad-think is as wise and effective a plan as curing psychiatric problems via lobotomies.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 14, 2025 12:33 PM (rbvCR)

97
The Australian shooter was subdued by a bystander. Jesus, how shitty are the cops down under?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 14, 2025 12:30 PM (udlma)

_________

Likely they were off arresting someone for a social media post.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 14, 2025 12:33 PM (tgvbd)

98 Too bad the one holding the camera (Bondi Beach) didn't have a rifle. Don't know the range, but sure looked like a good position from which to take those guys out.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 14, 2025 12:33 PM (HCKPr)

99 Bondi is the surfing one?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 14, 2025 12:34 PM (nIW6f)

100
g'early afternoon, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 14, 2025 12:34 PM (tljrc)

101 banana dream I saw that acid attack article, poor woman will be horribly scarred for life.

Posted by: Skip at December 14, 2025 12:34 PM (Ia/+0)

102
So what is she? I've tried "inamorata" but it sounds silly.
Posted by: Wenda at December 14, 2025 12:28 PM (A65Zh)

__________

Mistress
Side Piece
Bit of Fluff
Paramour

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 14, 2025 12:35 PM (tgvbd)

103

There were apparently four Aussie cops on scene who did nothing as the terrorists shot people for twenty minutes.
Posted by: The ARC of History!

Bet those Aussie cops would have been all over that shit if political posts in social media were used too.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 14, 2025 12:35 PM (QVmho)

104 banana dream I saw that acid attack article, poor woman will be horribly scarred for life.

I wonder how many times liberal judges let this animal walk free after earlier crimes.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 14, 2025 12:35 PM (Riz8t)

105 So what is she? I've tried "inamorata" but it sounds silly.
Posted by: Wenda at December 14, 2025 12:28 PM (A65Zh)

__________

Mistress
Side Piece
Bit of Fluff
Paramour

Naughty bit o' crumpet?

Posted by: Archimedes at December 14, 2025 12:36 PM (Riz8t)

106 I'm not transphobic.

I'm transdisgustic.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 14, 2025 12:36 PM (2Ez/1)

107 There were apparently four Aussie cops on scene who did nothing as the terrorists shot people for twenty minutes.

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It looked dangerous !

Posted by: Aussie cops at December 14, 2025 12:36 PM (g47mK)

108 CBD: POSSLQ? Sorry? Person Of Special something? Help!

Posted by: Wenda at December 14, 2025 12:36 PM (A65Zh)

109 CBD: POSSLQ? Sorry? Person Of Special something? Help!
Posted by: Wenda at December 14, 2025 12:36 PM (A65Zh)

It was discussed upthread.

Posted by: Today at December 14, 2025 12:38 PM (uQesX)

110 108 CBD: POSSLQ? Sorry? Person Of Special something? Help!
Posted by: Wenda at December 14, 2025 12:36 PM

See comment 32.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 14, 2025 12:38 PM (2Ez/1)

111 Make concubines great again!

Posted by: Zombie King Solomon at December 14, 2025 12:39 PM (oftw2)

112 Do Aussie cops carry guns?

Posted by: Reforger at December 14, 2025 12:39 PM (VF6cf)

113 We need a complete gun ban in Australia !!

Oh right.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 14, 2025 12:39 PM (udlma)

114 In an early Christmas present to the single 'Ron's, Amy Schumer is back on the market.

Posted by: AoSHQ Celebrity News Service at December 14, 2025 12:39 PM (9NIQw)

115 Some have already observed, bears repeating.

In the US in many places, this horrific incident would have been over in seconds, as some citizen carrying would have put down the creatures quickly, or at least forced them to move and take cover.

But "gun control" has solved all problems in sad, sad Australia. So we were told.

Another thing: the clear prolonged video of the one animal shows a rifle I don't recognize, appears to be some kind of bolt action (with a red dot). He cycles it each time he shoots, though the movement of the action looks weird to me.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 14, 2025 12:39 PM (U/Byj)

116 I was teaching some Chinese students as the woke bullsh*t was raging. They would laugh out loud at the idiots. The idiots would be offended, then confused, and then, some anyway, were embarrassed.
Fun to watch.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 14, 2025 12:39 PM (2WIwB)

117 Savannah's mayor is a NYC globalist. Also Savannah government, from mayor on down to the entire public school board is run by black fraternity, sorority members. Nothing is done unless it directly benefits the members of that specific group.

Crime is as bad as it ever has been. Murder is through the roof with poor black folk being the primary recipient of the killing. While the city government works to shovel more $$$ into their own pockets.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 14, 2025 12:40 PM (3uBP9)

118 Don't use "husband" and "wife" when the "marriage partners" are same-sex. I suggest "co-fag" and "co-dyke" as alternates. And when dealing with trannies, always use the pronouns appropriate to their sex at birth, and place scare quotes around their "transname".

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 14, 2025 12:40 PM (npFr7)

119 At least they weren't assault weapons.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 14, 2025 12:40 PM (nIW6f)

120 112 Do Aussie cops carry guns?
Posted by: Reforger

That's not a knife.
THIS is a knife!

Posted by: Obligatory movie reference at December 14, 2025 12:40 PM (2Ez/1)

121 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLcTEg4ybWQ

You tell these Ghosts of Christmas Past.

Posted by: DaveA at December 14, 2025 12:41 PM (FhXTo)

122 >>> banana dream I saw that acid attack article, poor woman will be horribly scarred for life.

I wonder how many times liberal judges let this animal walk free after earlier crimes.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 14, 2025 12:35 PM (Riz8t)

Last I read the person is still at large. Savannah is more dangerous than ATL. Do you have any idea how bad that is?

Posted by: banana Dream at December 14, 2025 12:41 PM (3uBP9)

123 I should have made clear that I am a bit in awe of my son's inamorata. She's a college professor both here and in Europe, sponsors two cat colonies there--takes them meds, fund raises. Has an impressive singing voice that can go from pure to grainy jazz. I'm not looking for a slur.

Posted by: Wenda at December 14, 2025 12:42 PM (A65Zh)

124 It looked dangerous !

There was a mass shooting at an Oregon community college ten years ago - six minutes after 911 was called, the first two cops arrived at the school, immediately charged the shooter and wounded him, after which he killed himself.

You know, that's what cops are supposed to do.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 14, 2025 12:42 PM (xTIDn)

125 CBD: POSSLQ? Sorry? Person Of Special something? Help!

Posted by: Wenda at December 14, 2025 12:36 PM (A65Zh)

Person of Opposite Sex Sharing Living Quarters!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 14, 2025 12:42 PM (n9ltV)

126 Person of the Opposite Sex Sharing Living Quarters - POSSLQ
We hates acronyms, doesn't we, Precious...

Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 14, 2025 12:42 PM (HCKPr)

127 The Australian shooter was subdued by a bystander. Jesus, how shitty are the cops down under?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 14, 2025 12:30 PM (udlma)

Shitty. They were probably afraid to act knowing the courts are against it, the muzzies will find them and their families later for some rape time and they were probably drunk and/or high too.

Posted by: A Clockwork Orange 2: Aussie Boogaloo at December 14, 2025 12:44 PM (R/m4+)

128 Non-political distortion/degradation of language, but the most striking example I can think of.

Use of "way" instead of "far" or "much".

Most of my life, "way" was how a 12-yr old would modify something. "Hey, wow, that homerun was way longer than the one that Smith hit yesterday". "Dad, gas is way more expensive here than that last place we stopped".

Adult versions would be "much longer" and "much more expensive". Still jarring every time I see it - which is dozens of times a day.

Today it's become universal. Seems like overnight. With digitization one could probably compare this childish use of "way" with its use 10, 20, 30 years ago. Positive it would show a curve resembling that of college tuition or health "insurance" costs.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 14, 2025 12:44 PM (U/Byj)

129 Thank you re: POSSLQ. It was spelled out in comment 32 and I was too stupid to make the connection. Thanks.

Posted by: Wenda at December 14, 2025 12:45 PM (A65Zh)

130 I'm not looking for a slur.
Posted by: Wenda at December 14, 2025 12:42 PM (A65Zh)

Use inamorata. It's classical. Or significant other, certainly not plus one.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 14, 2025 12:45 PM (uQesX)

131 “Justice System Involved Individual” just rolls off the tongue so much better than “Convicted Felon”, don’t it?

Posted by: Common Tater at December 14, 2025 12:45 PM (rum8d)

132 Tangentially related:

Lots of libs are very upset that David Ellison might take over CNN, aka the Communist Nonsense Network. Megan McCardle commented:

The CNN angle is getting so much play because media folks and political hobbyists who read a lot of news cannot imagine how little their hobby matters to the rest of the world. Also, like I said, they are old and to them 1995 is like yesterday. They can't quite believe it's over
https://is.gd/nKXYDh

I think that puts it perfectly.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 14, 2025 12:46 PM (Riz8t)

133 Take Back The Language!

They’re not “liberal.”
They’re “leftist,” or “statists,” or “commies,” or “misanthropic assewholes.”

Posted by: BuddyPC at December 14, 2025 12:46 PM (F7olS)

134 That's not a knife.
THIS is a knife!
Posted by: Obligatory movie reference at December 14, 2025 12:40 PM (2Ez/1)

I was just saying that to the wife. Where is Dundee when you need him?

Posted by: Reforger at December 14, 2025 12:46 PM (VF6cf)

135 We hates acronyms, doesn't we, Precious...
Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 14, 2025 12:42 PM

WLNSSEODQY.

Posted by: Winston Wolfe at December 14, 2025 12:46 PM (ve8qF)

136
There were apparently four Aussie cops on scene who did nothing as the terrorists shot people for twenty minutes.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 14, 2025 12:23 PM

just following procedure

can't do anything until the command post is set up & the hierarchy of authority is established

Posted by: Uvalde PD at December 14, 2025 12:47 PM (tljrc)

137 I was just saying that to the wife. Where is Dundee when you need him?
Posted by: Reforger at December 14, 2025 12:46 PM (VF6cf)

Too old now for wetwork.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 14, 2025 12:47 PM (uQesX)

138 "Use of "way" instead of "far" or "much".

Most of my life, "way" was how a 12-yr old would modify something. "Hey, wow, that homerun was way longer than the one that Smith hit yesterday". "Dad, gas is way more expensive here than that last place we stopped".

Adult versions would be "much longer" and "much more expensive". Still jarring every time I see it - which is dozens of times a day."

Posted by: rhomboid at December 14, 2025 12:44 PM

Similarly the phrase "for free" which sounds like the vernacular of a six year old.

What happened to the phrase "free of charge?"

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 14, 2025 12:48 PM (2Ez/1)

139
Megan McCardle commented

Megan McArdle? The same Megan McArdle who said just before the 2016 election that Trump was headed for a defeat so cataclysmic that the GOP would become extinct? That Megan McArdle?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 14, 2025 12:48 PM (tgvbd)

140 There were apparently four Aussie cops on scene who did nothing as the terrorists shot people for twenty minutes.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 14, 2025 12:23 PM

just following procedure

can't do anything until the command post is set up & the hierarchy of authority is established

Abbreviated decision tree:

A) Do you see a bad guy shooting innocent people? If yes, then go to B)

B) Do you have a weapon? If yes, then go to C)

C) Shoot him.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 14, 2025 12:49 PM (Riz8t)

141 A plausible theory from X:

They’re not telling you the identity of the Brown sh00ter because they want to wipe all his social media first.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 14, 2025 12:49 PM (xTIDn)

142 Well said, CBD. Thanks for the reminder that WORDS MEAN THINGS …

Posted by: Dr_No at December 14, 2025 12:50 PM (ayRl+)

143 BuddyPC, thanks for the reminder. "Liberal" is arguably the most distorted/inverted word in widespread use today.

There is nothing remotely "liberal" about the racist-totalitarian mindset afflicting America. The ideas/people thus labeled range from soft authoritarian to hardcore totalitarian. It's absurd.

And it's not academic. It reflects the ignorance and inability to think that forms the basis for most people's "politics".

Posted by: rhomboid at December 14, 2025 12:50 PM (U/Byj)

144 Megan McCardle commented

Megan McArdle? The same Megan McArdle who said just before the 2016 election that Trump was headed for a defeat so cataclysmic that the GOP would become extinct? That Megan McArdle?

The very same. When she's right, she's right.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 14, 2025 12:50 PM (Riz8t)

145 Furry?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 14, 2025 12:50 PM (nIW6f)

146 I’ll try to use clear language: 44 year old Phillip Rivers who will start at QB for the Colts today after retiring 5 years ago… he’s crazy and brave and he’ll be lucky to avoid getting hurt as their opponent today is the Seahawks who have a ferocious defense….

I hope he wins

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 14, 2025 12:51 PM (xT8gx)

147
What happened to the phrase "free of charge?"

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 14, 2025 12:48 PM

"Gratis"?

WTF is"gratis"?

Posted by: Al Swearengen at December 14, 2025 12:51 PM (tljrc)

148 They’re not telling you the identity of the Brown sh00ter because they want to wipe all his social media first.

Posted by: The ARC of History!

I'd like to say that's a paranoid conspiracy theory, but it's all too plausible.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 14, 2025 12:51 PM (Riz8t)

149 Megan McArdle? The same Megan McArdle who said just before the 2016 election that Trump was headed for a defeat so cataclysmic that the GOP would become extinct? That Megan McArdle?

The one who also said just before the 2016 election that Trump couldn't be trusted with nuclear weapons.

Just another one of the never-Trumpers who used to be influential, and are no longer.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 14, 2025 12:51 PM (xTIDn)

150 >>> "Use of "way" instead of "far" or "much".

Most of my life, "way" was how a 12-yr old would modify something. "Hey, wow, that homerun was way longer than the one that Smith hit yesterday". "Dad, gas is way more expensive here than that last place we stopped".

Adult versions would be "much longer" and "much more expensive". Still jarring every time I see it - which is dozens of times a day."

Posted by: rhomboid at December 14, 2025 12:44 PM

"Totally" is the superior means to express this sentiment, like totally.

Posted by: banana GenX, 80s Dream - fully licensed to use "totally" at December 14, 2025 12:52 PM (3uBP9)

151 "Gratis"?

WTF is"gratis"?

Thinly sliced potatos with cheese.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 14, 2025 12:52 PM (Riz8t)

152 potatoes

Posted by: Archimedes at December 14, 2025 12:52 PM (Riz8t)

153
When I was young I was gay.
But then they changed the meaning of that word.
So now I can't be gay anymore.
And that makes me sad.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 14, 2025 12:52 PM (2Ez/1)

154 Ladies farding in cars bring expodentially more death and injuries per year than Jihadist Hannukkah beach attacks by a wide margin.

Posted by: Institute For Highway Safety at December 14, 2025 12:52 PM (oftw2)

155 So what is she? I've tried "inamorata" but it sounds silly.

Posted by: Wenda at December 14, 2025 12:28 PM (A65Zh)

POSSLQ
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 14, 2025 12:32 PM (n9ltV)

Why not just "common-law spouse"?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 14, 2025 12:53 PM (npFr7)

156 Never too old for wetwork.

Posted by: Samuel Whittemore at December 14, 2025 12:53 PM (7Q0e+)

157 Just another one of the never-Trumpers who used to be influential, and are no longer.

Which is, ironically, her point about CNN.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 14, 2025 12:53 PM (Riz8t)

158 BuddyPC, thanks for the reminder. "Liberal" is arguably the most distorted/inverted word in widespread use today.

"Far right".

"Far right" in Europe simply means that you want to limit mass immigration.

That's it.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 14, 2025 12:53 PM (xTIDn)

159 Well yer tarded and ya talk like a fag so scro like it ain't nothin my sister is tarded and she flys a plane.

Posted by: Reforger at December 14, 2025 12:54 PM (VF6cf)

160 Dumbest distorted/meaningless term, of long standing: "activist judges."

Ridiculous. Describes/explains nothing. Might as well call them "carbon-based" or "non-vegetable" or "non-jump qualified".

Lawlessness and disregard even of their own institutions procedures and rules are not "activism". They're lawlessness and malfeasance and vandalism. Idiotic term from the start but now embedded part of the lazy lexicon of the semi-informed and expert alike.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 14, 2025 12:55 PM (U/Byj)

161 Dihydrogen sulfide for the win in the wind.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at December 14, 2025 12:55 PM (ve8qF)

162 A graphical depiction of the far right.

https://is.gd/Zug1mc

Posted by: Archimedes at December 14, 2025 12:55 PM (Riz8t)

163 What language term bugs me the most is that Left- Right definition. Europeans are the worst at it from the Soviets Right term are Nazis. But here as well one has to look where the person using the definition is coming from, Antifa being the Soviets best friends.

Posted by: Skip at December 14, 2025 12:56 PM (Ia/+0)

164 The Left uses language to control the narrative
——-

I think it’s more profound than that. If the goal by some is to demoralize and pervert human behavior (nod your head “yes”

then it follows words must first be perverted. Orwell thought the idea generally was to prevent people from even thinking “bad” (good) thoughts, because the words to describe such concepts no longer even existed. You can see these wordsmiths at work every single day if you know what to look for, it is insidious.

A bunch of queers running around wearing dresses, bull dyke police chiefs, mayorettes, screeching from the pulpit, et al, lunatics in high government circles is not …. a prescription for confidence going forward. Always and ever an indication of a society in a death spiral.

Historians will search in vain for a culture that has ever come back from that, is my understanding. It’s one of the classic hallmarks shit will get very, very bad.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 14, 2025 12:56 PM (rum8d)

165 I’ll try to use clear language: 44 year old Phillip Rivers who will start at QB for the Colts today after retiring 5 years ago… he’s crazy and brave and he’ll be lucky to avoid getting hurt as their opponent today is the Seahawks who have a ferocious defense….

Phillip couldn't carry our jockstraps.

Posted by: Zombie Earl Morrall and George Blanda at December 14, 2025 12:56 PM (R/m4+)

166 I hate the term "zero dollars" brought to us by the piranha "Healthcare" industry.

Posted by: Zero is Jap Fighter at December 14, 2025 12:58 PM (oftw2)

167 Fantastic Achimedes, we both posted a comment connected at same time

Posted by: Skip at December 14, 2025 12:58 PM (Ia/+0)

168 The neighborhood dog walking moms gather routinely for a gabfest in the cul de sac. They're all old enough to have teenage offspring. And yet if you were to take the word "like" out of their vocabulary and they couldn't articulate a single sentence.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 14, 2025 12:58 PM (2Ez/1)

169 I should have made clear that I am a bit in awe of my son's inamorata. She's a college professor both here and in Europe, sponsors two cat colonies there--takes them meds, fund raises. Has an impressive singing voice that can go from pure to grainy jazz. I'm not looking for a slur.
Posted by: Wenda at December 14, 2025 12:42 PM (A65Zh)

"Common-law spouse" is not a slur; it is a legal description of living status.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 14, 2025 12:58 PM (npFr7)

170 Rivers is suiting up again? Wow. He's tough, but come on.

Meanwhile, let's not forget the grandaddy of them all in current descent of language: "narrative". "The narrative".

Unlike with phrases like "beg the question", which refers to a real and important logical fallacy but has been reduced to the equivalent of "raise the question" by a contemporary society mostly unfamiliar with logic or critical thinking, the incredible substitution of "narrative" for many superior/more precise terms is just laziness.

I pointed this (to me) striking pattern a few years ago to a friend who gets published/interviewed a fair amount - at first he wasn't sure he knew what I was talking about. A few months later, sensitized to it, he laughed and agreed.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 14, 2025 01:02 PM (U/Byj)

171 “Registration” always kind of stuck in my craw.

How many times is that really necessary? Once! Of course. “Hey! That’s a nice Canoe you have there. You should give us fifty bucks. Here’s a cool sticker you can affix to the bow.”

So, it’s now registered. Yay! But wait! You gotta re-register every fucking year. Because reasons. I mean, they need revenue. But it’s silly to call it “registration”.

Iowa used to have personal property tax. A long time ago. Some state clown would walk through your house inspecting your furniture and things, and decide how large you were living, and demand a piece of the action, I guess.

Modern tech could make this feasible again, I’m sure.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 14, 2025 01:03 PM (rum8d)

172 People often distort the language because they are uncomfortable with the reality it describes.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 14, 2025 01:03 PM (HCKPr)

173 “Registration” always kind of stuck in my craw.

How many times is that really necessary? Once! Of course. “Hey! That’s a nice Canoe you have there. You should give us fifty bucks. Here’s a cool sticker you can affix to the bow.”

So, it’s now registered. Yay! But wait! You gotta re-register every fucking year. Because reasons. I mean, they need revenue. But it’s silly to call it “registration”.

"Registration" sounds better than "Extortion".

Posted by: Archimedes at December 14, 2025 01:06 PM (Riz8t)

174 172 People often distort the language because they are uncomfortable with the reality it describes.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 14, 2025 01:03 PM
---

I've been sitting right here the whole time.

Posted by: Euphemisms at December 14, 2025 01:06 PM (2Ez/1)

175 I sometimes use gay to mean in a great mood. That is a fun one.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at December 14, 2025 01:06 PM (R86kT)

176 I thought “it begs the question” is a recognition the argument being made is totally farcical on its face in the first place, so the distinction trying to be made is moot or meaningless.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 14, 2025 01:06 PM (rum8d)

177 Call them out for lies. Say "that's a lie" or "you are a liar". They are allowed to make stuff up and we shouldn't pretend that they don't know it is a
Iie.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 14, 2025 01:07 PM (+mUZM)

178 Registration is a right they took away from you and now lease back to you.

Posted by: Reforger at December 14, 2025 01:07 PM (VF6cf)

179 I take pride in being registered and certified down at the Institute.

Posted by: Fugitive From The Board of Mental Health at December 14, 2025 01:08 PM (oftw2)

180 So during this most wonderful time of year are we allowed to have

"gay happy meetings when friends come to call?"

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 14, 2025 01:09 PM (2Ez/1)

181 >>> I sometimes use gay to mean in a great mood. That is a fun one.
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at December 14, 2025 01:06 PM (R86kT)

Me too, preceded by pretty and witty.

Posted by: banana Dream - would also except: stunning and entrancing at December 14, 2025 01:09 PM (3uBP9)

182 Nope. "Begs the question" is a description of the logical fallacy of petitio principii, or assuming that which is to be demonstrated.

Basically assuming the proposition that is to be proven or validated in the discussion, instead of actually proving or validating it.

A feature of 90% of arguments if you look at them with any focus.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 14, 2025 01:09 PM (U/Byj)

183 175 I sometimes use gay to mean in a great mood. That is a fun one.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at December 14, 2025 01:06 PM (R86kT)

I certainly had a yabba-dabba-doo gay old time!

Posted by: Fred Flinstone at December 14, 2025 01:10 PM (ynpvh)

184 "They drove the car into the bridge abutment?"

What pronoun do we use for when AI steers a car into a bridge abutment?

With the tight integration of government within the control systems of so many connected systems, would "they" be appropriate when a NGO's wet operations targets an assassination via a "driver-less automobile" ?

† I've come to the conclusion that in the West NGOs include terror organizations that have a tax-exempt status and access to laundered government funds.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 14, 2025 01:10 PM (a4flb)

185 The Chinese language.

https://is.gd/jl47dh

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 14, 2025 01:10 PM (L/fGl)

186
Call them out for lies. Say "that's a lie" or "you are a liar". They are allowed to make stuff up and we shouldn't pretend that they don't know it is a
Iie.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 14, 2025 01:07 PM (+mUZM)

___________

"You're a liar, Earl!"

https://youtu.be/FrhmUGRaOwY

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 14, 2025 01:10 PM (tgvbd)

187 Nazi, fascist, authoritarian, despot, blah, blah, blah....

How does one objectively tell who the real 'Nazis" are?
Maybe, just maybe, if we could divide the masses into a neat two or three groups calling them the X, Y, and maybe N (for neither of the above)....

When X finds itself in political power, running the government, are they using that power of the government to round up Y?
When out of political power are they using street violence and assassinations of Y?

If yes, that is exactly what real commies, fascistd, and nazis did, and still do.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 14, 2025 01:10 PM (/lPRQ)

188 Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 14, 2025 01:09 PM (2Ez/1)

Yes! And you may don your gay apparel to enhance the Christmas spirit! I am rather gay right now. Off to do some Christmas shopping.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at December 14, 2025 01:11 PM (R86kT)

189 182 Nope. "Begs the question" is a description of the logical fallacy of petitio principii, or assuming that which is to be demonstrated.

Basically assuming the proposition that is to be proven or validated in the discussion, instead of actually proving or validating it.

A feature of 90% of arguments if you look at them with any focus.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 14, 2025 01:09 PM (U/Byj)

So the argument pulled itself up by its own bootstraps...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 14, 2025 01:11 PM (ynpvh)

190 Back in my day we used to have a gay old time.
It was right there in the song.

Posted by: Fred Flintstone at December 14, 2025 01:11 PM (2Ez/1)

191 187 Nazi, fascist, authoritarian, despot, blah, blah, blah....

How does one objectively tell who the real 'Nazis" are?
Maybe, just maybe, if we could divide the masses into a neat two or three groups calling them the X, Y, and maybe N (for neither of the above)....

When X finds itself in political power, running the government, are they using that power of the government to round up Y?
When out of political power are they using street violence and assassinations of Y?

If yes, that is exactly what real commies, fascistd, and nazis did, and still do.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 14, 2025 01:10 PM (/lPRQ)

Words have meaning, but actions speak louder...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 14, 2025 01:12 PM (ynpvh)

192 Stop calling the Democrat party democratic.

The party who doesn’t allow a primary when their leader is forced out is not democratic.

The party who calls the winner of the popular vote a dictator has no idea how the process works.

They are democrats. Not democratic.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 14, 2025 01:12 PM (mT+6a)

193 Gay or Ghey

Posted by: Skip at December 14, 2025 01:12 PM (Ia/+0)

194 Basically assuming the proposition that is to be proven or validated in the discussion, instead of actually proving or validating it.

A feature of 90% of arguments if you look at them with any focus.

I would say that 100% of the Left's rhetoric falls into this category. I can't recall any time where an accusation was attached to any receipts, examples or even a feeble attempt at logic.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 14, 2025 01:12 PM (a4flb)

195 I despise 'cute' use of language. It's merchandise, not 'merch'. I have a younger brother, that doesn't make a 'bro'. And don't try to correct me if I use oriental instead of Asian. It always meant the same thing and wasn't derogatory. (I don't say 'yellow peril' unless I'm discussing a Fu Manchu novel.) Changes to English because of some BS anti-western slant is not to be followed. Since I don't have to placate a corporation or some academic snowflake, I am free to ignore such bilge. Sometimes loudly.

I am also annoyed by sloppy usage. Presently means soon. At present means now. I recall Watergate testimony where they kept saying subsequent as happening before, not after, an event.

Posted by: JTB at December 14, 2025 01:12 PM (yTvNw)

196
I thought “it begs the question” is a recognition the argument being made is totally farcical on its face in the first place, so the distinction trying to be made is moot or meaningless.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 14, 2025 01:06 PM

irregardless, it's a mute point

they'll never tow the line

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 14, 2025 01:13 PM (tljrc)

197 I certainly had a yabba-dabba-doo gay old time!
Posted by: Fred Flinstone

That's why I fired you Flintstone! Too much gay old time, not enough nose to the grindstone in the quarry!

Posted by: Mr. Slate at December 14, 2025 01:13 PM (oftw2)

198 The Latin language.

https://is.gd/Z1BlfA

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 14, 2025 01:13 PM (L/fGl)

199 183 & 190 - horde mind!

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 14, 2025 01:13 PM (2Ez/1)

200 Stop calling the Democrat party democratic.

The correct spelling is the Demonic Party is demonic.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 14, 2025 01:13 PM (a4flb)

201 Wenda,

Call her his beloved.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 14, 2025 01:14 PM (+mUZM)

202 That's not a knife.
THIS is a knife!

Posted by: Obligatory movie reference at December 14, 2025 12:40 PM (2Ez/1)

That hash can't be random.

And I'm still sitting here wondering if it should be 'puppydom' or 'puppyhood'?

Posted by: [/n]SpeakingOf at December 14, 2025 01:14 PM (6ydKt)

203 Nick typo correction.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 14, 2025 01:15 PM (6ydKt)

204 Dude in the white pants appear to be using a pump shot gun as it loads from the bottom like an 870.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 14, 2025 01:15 PM (gbOdA)

205
I generally use "they" or "sibling" when online because I want to anonymize family and friends in general on the off-chance they might be recognized.

Otherwise, yeah, English is precise so use it precisely.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 14, 2025 01:15 PM (iJfKG)

206
And I'm still sitting here wondering if it should be 'puppydom' or 'puppyhood'?
Posted by: [/n]SpeakingOf at December 14, 2025 01:14 PM (6ydKt)

__________

Yes, it should be "puppyhood". Thank you.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 14, 2025 01:15 PM (tgvbd)

207 Today I can without ignorance wish CBD a happy Hanukkah. Although I still can't spell it

Posted by: gKWVE at December 14, 2025 01:15 PM (ueBEv)

208 White pants dude also has shell pouch like when I skeet shoot.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 14, 2025 01:16 PM (gbOdA)

209 196
I thought “it begs the question” is a recognition the argument being made is totally farcical on its face in the first place, so the distinction trying to be made is moot or meaningless.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 14, 2025 01:06 PM

irregardless, it's a mute point

they'll never tow the line

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 14, 2025 01:13 PM (tljrc)

Irregardless...that's a good one.
Regard -- real word
Regardless -- real word
Irregardless --not exactly real, would mean with regard based on prefix and suffix...
Hey, but I'm no grammar nazi, or gramma nazi like Nancy P.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 14, 2025 01:16 PM (ynpvh)

210 "Yellow Peril" can mean Commie Chinese, or Russians with jaundice.

Posted by: Staunch Foe at December 14, 2025 01:16 PM (oftw2)

211 I am also annoyed by sloppy usage. Presently means soon. At present means now.

I would love for you to explain for us the South African usage of "Now", "Right Now", "Just Now" and "Now Now".

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 14, 2025 01:16 PM (a4flb)

212 There were apparently four Aussie cops on scene who did nothing as the terrorists shot people for twenty minutes.
Posted by: The ARC of History!

Well, no. You can't interfere with a religious ceremony

Posted by: gKWVE at December 14, 2025 01:17 PM (ueBEv)

213 198 The Latin language.

https://is.gd/Z1BlfA

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 14, 2025 01:13 PM (L/fGl)

Julius! Sieze Her!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 14, 2025 01:17 PM (ynpvh)

214 How about no “Gay” or “Lesbian”?
Use the medical scientific term, “Homosexual”.
As for the remaining LGBTQTrans, etc., “Bat Shit Crazy”.
Posted by: RI Red
+++
That's a good idea. We could just refer to them as the BSC community and cover all the democrats at once.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at December 14, 2025 01:17 PM (Lo97M)

215 I sure hope there is no backlash against muslims.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 14, 2025 01:18 PM (nIW6f)

216 I’m white, that does not mean I dislike people who aren’t white. Deal with it.

Posted by: Eromero at December 14, 2025 01:18 PM (fHsz8)

217 All black pants dude has shell belt and it look like a shotgun shell.

https://x.com/MyLordBebo/status/
2000234172993187909

go to 45 seconds

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 14, 2025 01:18 PM (gbOdA)

218 MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Charlie Brown('s Dildo)

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 14, 2025 01:19 PM (fd80v)

219 185 The Chinese language.

https://is.gd/jl47dh

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 14, 2025 01:10 PM (L/fGl)

Well, in a certain context that would be friends with benefits...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 14, 2025 01:19 PM (ynpvh)

220 218 MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Charlie Brown('s Dildo)

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 14, 2025 01:19 PM (fd80v)

I'm not sure I'd want to see "A Charlie Brown('s Dildo) Christmas"...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 14, 2025 01:20 PM (ynpvh)

221 irregardless, it's a mute point
—-

For all intensive purposes, yes!

Posted by: Common Tater at December 14, 2025 01:20 PM (DwGFu)

222 Am I allowed to continue using "fun bags" when referring to boobs?

Posted by: Weasel at December 14, 2025 01:21 PM (vt7xw)

223 Some state clown would walk through your house inspecting your furniture and things, and decide how large you were living, and demand a piece of the action, I guess.

What a neutered culture we have become. We will actually pay someone a salary and life-time pension to periodically open the door and allow them to case our home for robbery.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 14, 2025 01:21 PM (a4flb)

224 221 irregardless, it's a mute point
—-

For all intensive purposes, yes!
Posted by: Common Tater at December 14, 2025 01:20 PM (DwGFu)

teach his own

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 14, 2025 01:21 PM (gbOdA)

225
Chappy Chanukah, CBD!!!

May all your Manhattans be stirred, and your steaks dry aged.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 14, 2025 01:23 PM (iJfKG)

226 Moot.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 14, 2025 01:23 PM (nIW6f)

227 English can be difficult to get right...

https://youtube.com/shorts/YLvBp-ZVwaE

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 14, 2025 01:23 PM (ynpvh)

228 210 "Yellow Peril" can mean Commie Chinese, or Russians with jaundice.

Posted by: Staunch Foe at December 14, 2025 01:16 PM (oftw2)

Urinary tract infection...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 14, 2025 01:24 PM (ynpvh)

229 Big Homo also queered the meaning of queer. It was a perfectly cromulent word in the before times.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 14, 2025 01:24 PM (6p0Jv)

230 Today I can without ignorance wish CBD a happy Hanukkah. Although I still can't spell it
Posted by: gKWVE at December 14, 2025 01:15 PM (ueBEv)

Maybe this will help:

http://tiny.cc/6wew001

Posted by: Joe Kidd at December 14, 2025 01:25 PM (nbLIj)

231 Posted by: Common Tater at December 14, 2025 01:06 PM

irregardless, it's a mute point

they'll never tow the line
Posted by: AltonJackson

Crap like that spreads like wildflower.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 14, 2025 01:25 PM (cYBz/)

232 I like to innocently ask event organizers if “pre-registration” differs from “registration”. I mean …
A lot of people plug words and phrases in without really understanding them. Never use a word if you can’t define it, or spell it, properly.

People who write “Per Say” should be flogged, in particular.

“Planned ahead of time” seems a little bit silly, too.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 14, 2025 01:25 PM (DwGFu)

233 Verbing weirds language.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 14, 2025 01:25 PM (HCKPr)

234 222 Am I allowed to continue using "fun bags" when referring to boobs?

Posted by: Weasel at December 14, 2025 01:21 PM (vt7xw)

That would be considered a euphemism, perhaps.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 14, 2025 01:26 PM (ynpvh)

235 irregardless, it's a mute point
—-

For all intensive purposes, yes!
Posted by: Common Tater
-----

It's as if Yogi Berra has entered the chat.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 14, 2025 01:26 PM (XeU6L)

236 Thx CBD.
My local area has been filled with nasty things lately. Just south of me three people were killed on the NYS Thruway in two separate accidents. Yesterday three people died in the county north of me in a murder suicide. And on Friday a local cop was driving off duty in the county south of me and a guy came after him in a road rage incident throwing a punch through the window then pulling a knife . The cop shot him twice. Still alive unfortunately.
Happy holidays

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 14, 2025 01:26 PM (D+mpw)

237 221 irregardless, it's a mute point
—-

For all intensive purposes, yes!

Posted by: Common Tater at December 14, 2025 01:20 PM (DwGFu)

...

Posted by: Marcel Marceau at December 14, 2025 01:26 PM (ynpvh)

238 I agree, the language anarchy has completely gotten out of hand.

To repair the damage, we're gonna need some marshal law.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 14, 2025 01:26 PM (6ydKt)

239 People of color < colored people

Posted by: M. Gaga at December 14, 2025 01:27 PM (KiBMU)

240 Big Homo also queered the meaning of queer. It was a perfectly cromulent word in the before times.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 14, 2025 01:24 PM (6p0Jv)
----

It's a good solid New England word. Queeeeahh.

Lovecraft used it a lot. As in, there's queer doin's up in the hills. T'ain't natural!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 14, 2025 01:28 PM (kpS4V)

241 Once you've furled your gainly umbrella take a look at this classic. It's always fun.

https://tinyurl.com/yuryyy44

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 14, 2025 01:28 PM (2Ez/1)

242 Happy holidays

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 14, 2025 01:26 PM (D+mpw)

Indeed...

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 14, 2025 01:28 PM (n9ltV)

243 The cop shot him twice. Still alive unfortunately.
Happy holidays
Posted by: Smell the Glove

MORE RANGE TIME FOR YOU!!
-- The training officer

Posted by: Tonypete at December 14, 2025 01:28 PM (cYBz/)

244 People without color.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 14, 2025 01:28 PM (nIW6f)

245 230 Today I can without ignorance wish CBD a happy Hanukkah. Although I still can't spell it
Posted by: gKWVE at December 14, 2025 01:15 PM (ueBEv)

Maybe this will help:

http://tiny.cc/6wew001

Posted by: Joe Kidd at December 14, 2025 01:25 PM (nbLIj)

The CH in Channukah is pronounced like the ch in loch, as pronounced by a Scotsman...

Posted by: Marcel Marceau at December 14, 2025 01:29 PM (ynpvh)

246 Verbing weirds language.
Posted by: Don
-----

The cartoon:
https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1993/01/25

Also, testing the margins

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 14, 2025 01:29 PM (XeU6L)

247 People often distort the language because they are uncomfortable with the reality it describes.
Posted by: Don in SoCo
+++
Apparently it's ok to call a woman a plus sized model.
But if you call them a fat ass, they don't like it.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at December 14, 2025 01:30 PM (Lo97M)

248 Big Homo also queered the meaning of queer. It was a perfectly cromulent word in the before times.
——

Oh, it still has retained meaning. You’re just not allowed to use it, not as defined, “Weird” is a synonym.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 14, 2025 01:30 PM (kEIJE)

249 calvinandhobbes/1993
-------

Jeebers! 32 years ago?!

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 14, 2025 01:30 PM (XeU6L)

250 244 People without color.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 14, 2025 01:28 PM (nIW6f)

There are also people with choler.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 14, 2025 01:30 PM (ynpvh)

251 ho lee fook

“Non-citizens Social Security numbers issued during the Biden Administration

2021: 270,425
2022: 590,193
2023: 964,163
2024: 2,095,247

That more people than live in Iowa.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 14, 2025 01:31 PM (gbOdA)

252 Today I can without ignorance wish CBD a happy Hanukkah. Although I still can't spell it

Posted by: gKWVE at December 14, 2025 01:15 PM (ueBEv)

I think there are several spellings, all of which make some sense, so yours works!

Thank you...and Merry Christmas!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 14, 2025 01:31 PM (n9ltV)

253 Am I allowed to continue using "fun bags" when referring to boobs?
Posted by: Weasel at December 14, 2025 01:21 PM (vt7xw)

Weasel, the judges accept that; however, “sweater puppies” has more adherents.

Posted by: RI Red at December 14, 2025 01:31 PM (bnOop)

254 Crap like that spreads like wildflower.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 14, 2025 01:25 PM (cYBz/)

She comes down from Yellow Marigold
through a bright, flat field she rides
on a peony she named

Posted by: Michael Martin at December 14, 2025 01:31 PM (3uBP9)

255 People without color."

Blanche?

Posted by: man at December 14, 2025 01:31 PM (XuXeR)

256 238 I agree, the language anarchy has completely gotten out of hand.

To repair the damage, we're gonna need some marshal law.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 14, 2025 01:26 PM (6ydKt)

Could we try Cole's Law first? Ya know, thinly sliced pieces of cabbage?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 14, 2025 01:31 PM (ynpvh)

257 I love President Trump. This Christmas he is flying thousands of foreigners home to be in their home countries for Christmas.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 14, 2025 01:32 PM (2WIwB)

258 hooters
sweater puppies

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 14, 2025 01:32 PM (gbOdA)

259 You had me at fun bags, Pardner!

Posted by: JSpicy at December 14, 2025 01:32 PM (pZoON)

260 Interesting post at Twitchy. Seems the Brown shooting occurred in a classroom that is for Jewish studies. Might be nothing, but given what happened on the same day it is a thing that makes you go hmmm.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 14, 2025 01:33 PM (D+mpw)

261 This year we seem to have failed to even recognize the traditional War on Christmas.
What has he fallen out once great nation?

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 14, 2025 01:33 PM (1iTdO)

262 I like the way Jon Lovitz pronounced Hanukkah-- ChhhhhhhHAHnukkkkhahhhhh.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 14, 2025 01:33 PM (kpS4V)

263 254 Crap like that spreads like wildflower.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 14, 2025 01:25 PM (cYBz/)

She comes down from Yellow Marigold
through a bright, flat field she rides
on a peony she named

Posted by: Michael Martin at December 14, 2025 01:31 PM (3uBP9)

Hah!
Very good, sir.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 14, 2025 01:34 PM (ynpvh)

264 Gotta go exercise the snow blower. See y’all later.

Posted by: RI Red at December 14, 2025 01:34 PM (bnOop)

265 What has he fallen out once great nation?

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 14, 2025 01:33 PM (1iTdO)

Speaking of linguistic homicide.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 14, 2025 01:34 PM (6ydKt)

266 Lovecraft used it a lot. As in, there's queer doin's up in the hills. T'ain't natural!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 14, 2025 01:28 PM (kpS4V)
---
Tolkien was also no stranger to the word.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 14, 2025 01:34 PM (ESVrU)

267 264 Gotta go exercise the snow blower. See y’all later.
Posted by: RI Red at December 14, 2025 01:34 PM (bnOop)

I live 22 miles south of I-10 and that is not souther enough for me.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 14, 2025 01:35 PM (gbOdA)

268 theres a bathroom on the right

Posted by: CCR at December 14, 2025 01:36 PM (gbOdA)

269 Thanks for the obligatory Tolkien ref, Perfessor!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 14, 2025 01:37 PM (kpS4V)

270 I live 22 miles south of I-10 "

About 30 miles N of I-10, and it's cold. 52 F right now, must find sweater...

Posted by: man at December 14, 2025 01:37 PM (XuXeR)

271 "There are strange things done in the midnight sun
By the men who moil for gold;
The Arctic trails have their secret tales
That would make your blood run cold;
The Northern Lights have seen queer sights,
But the queerest they ever did see
Was that night on the marge of Lake Lebarge
I cremated Sam McGee." - Robt. Service

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 14, 2025 01:38 PM (XeU6L)

272 About 30 miles N of I-10, and it's cold. 52 F right now, must find sweater...
Posted by: man at December 14, 2025 01:37 PM (XuXeR)

53.2 74% hum

Posted by: CCR at December 14, 2025 01:40 PM (gbOdA)

273 off sox

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 14, 2025 01:40 PM (gbOdA)

274 theres a bathroom on the right"

"Down on the corner, Audi in the street..."

Posted by: man at December 14, 2025 01:42 PM (XuXeR)

275
There seems to be confusion on Who Dis?

Some of you said Ann Sheridan. One said Judy Garland. Rita Hayworth was another guess.

And this: And the scene is from “The man who came to dinner”, a semi-Christmas movie that should be playing this month.
Posted by: Tom Servo

https://is.gd/gk4Mgd

Posted by: Soothsayer's Historical Facts at December 14, 2025 01:44 PM (kjnCv)

276 Drone view at Revolver News makes it look like #2 Gunman might have been hit in leg as he goes down an gets up a couple times before going down before getting up to surrender

Posted by: Skip at December 14, 2025 01:45 PM (Ia/+0)

277 I’d like to see orthographic reform in the English language. For starters:
1. Use “f” instead of “ph”
2. Use “k” instead of “c” when pronounced that way
3. Use “j” instead of “g” where appropriate
Et cetera- do any of you have similar pet peeves?

Posted by: Insensitive Clod at December 14, 2025 01:46 PM (0I5n7)

278
As I told you, I've been watching the loop-stream of Father Knows Best on Youtube.

They use "gay" a lot, in it's true meaning.

Also, they call Bud's boy friends his "boyfriends."

Posted by: Soothsayer's Historical Facts at December 14, 2025 01:46 PM (kjnCv)

279 The Brown person of interest is sure being hidden. Trans, Muslim or some other protected class.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 14, 2025 01:46 PM (D+mpw)

280 Take Back The Language!
______________________

Alrighty then.... Have a Gay (Happy) Christmas!!!! Hmmmm....that sounds rather queer (odd).

Posted by: Orson at December 14, 2025 01:47 PM (dIske)

281 She comes down from Yellow Marigold
through a bright, flat field she rides
on a peony she named
Posted by: Michael Martin at December 14, 2025 01:31 PM (3uBP9)

Wild Briar?

Posted by: Joe Kidd at December 14, 2025 01:48 PM (nbLIj)

282 Sure. don't say leftists, instead say " ignorant fascist tw@t waffle ", or where appropriate "waffles". So, singular and plural. As far a sex, when talking about leftists " tw@t" is accurate term for all of them.

Posted by: Edward at December 14, 2025 01:48 PM (9gg3L)

283 10 minute 42 second video:

Islam Invasion @IslamInvasion

X video: https://bit.ly/4iRLreQ
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 14, 2025 08:32 AM (P5BPp)

wow

Posted by: m at December 14, 2025 08:53 AM (RuTUS)

Six minutes of which video from an elevated position that appears to be a prime location from which to take two shots to take out the murderers. Honestly, it could have been ended within two minutes or less.

Shame that they took away Australians' rights to armed self-defense.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 14, 2025 01:48 PM (dK+Kv)

284
https://is.gd/kYuCD8

btw, what the hell is that Hair Style called??

The 1948 Buick Sedan Fender hair-do?

Posted by: Soothsayer's Historical Facts at December 14, 2025 01:48 PM (kjnCv)

285 Powerline- shooting was in classroom of Prof Rachel Freidberg and part of the program of Judaic Studies

Posted by: Skip at December 14, 2025 01:49 PM (Ia/+0)

286 But the queerest they ever did see
Was that night on the marge of Lake Lebarge
I cremated Sam McGee." - Robt. Service
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 14, 2025 01:38 PM (XeU6L)

Love that poem. First one I ever read in school.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 14, 2025 01:49 PM (2WIwB)

287 I’d like to see orthographic reform in the English language. For starters:
1. Use “f” instead of “ph”
2. Use “k” instead of “c” when pronounced that way
3. Use “j” instead of “g” where appropriate
Et cetera- do any of you have similar pet peeves?
Posted by: Insensitive Clod
--------
I've always been a bit perplexed by the the pronunciation of 'phone' vs. 'one'

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 14, 2025 01:49 PM (XeU6L)

288 It's a good solid New England word. Queeeeahh.

Lovecraft used it a lot. As in, there's queer doin's up in the hills. T'ain't natural!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 14, 2025 01:28 PM (kpS4V)

Pretty true for Rhode Island these days.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 14, 2025 01:50 PM (uWKK8)

289 Scubbing the Shooters social media before his name is announced

Posted by: Skip at December 14, 2025 01:50 PM (Ia/+0)

290 Love that poem. First one I ever read in school.
Posted by: Diogenes
----

There was a time when I could recite 'The Shooting of Dan McGrew'.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 14, 2025 01:51 PM (XeU6L)

291 Speaking of linguistic homicide.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 14, 2025 01:34 PM (6ydKt)

The correct response would be: what does Christmas have to do with you?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 14, 2025 01:52 PM (uQesX)

292 Hmmm. Black? Islamic? Immigrant? Tranny?

Maybe all four?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 14, 2025 01:52 PM (h4uy9)

293 285 Powerline- shooting was in classroom of Prof Rachel Freidberg and part of the program of Judaic Studies
Posted by: Skip at December 14, 2025 01:49 PM (Ia/+0)

____________________________

And, let us not forget. a "Gun Free" zone.

Posted by: Orson at December 14, 2025 01:52 PM (dIske)

294 There's no "correct" spelling of words from foreign languages that do not share a common/similar alphabet. In that case it's transliteration, in which the sounds/pronunciation of the original are reproduced, to the extent possible, in the transliterated form.

This applies to the Jewish festival of lights.

There are conventions, but not correct or incorrect.

Take the surname of the late Libyan dictator, for example. 10,000 years ago when SNL was funny and even intelligent at times, they had a great thing where they scrolled the dozens of transliterated versions of Brother Colonel's name on the screen behind the news reader during Weekend Update. Best illustration of the point I can think of.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 14, 2025 01:52 PM (U/Byj)

295 I am a person of color since white is a color.

At some point I'm sure some ass will tell me my 23 year old white SUV is Caucasian.

Posted by: JTB at December 14, 2025 01:53 PM (yTvNw)

296 278
As I told you, I've been watching the loop-stream of Father Knows Best on Youtube.

They use "gay" a lot, in it's true meaning.

Also, they call Bud's boy friends his "boyfriends."

Posted by: Soothsayer's Historical Facts

There are several good FKB Christmas episodes. Also the 1977 reunion movie is Christmas centered. Wyatt and Young were in their late 60s, but everyone did a nice job in it. You should watch it. And, it's in color!

Posted by: Rodney-Young Productions at December 14, 2025 01:53 PM (oftw2)

297 The CH in Channukah is pronounced like the ch in loch, as pronounced by a Scotsman...
Posted by: Marcel Marceau
-----
A friend of mine, not incidentally named Cohen, told me the correct way to pronounce the H/CH sound was to imagine gargling. Bring it partway up your throat then let it fall back down there.

Posted by: buddhaha at December 14, 2025 01:54 PM (jiDhR)

298
There are several good FKB Christmas episodes. Also the 1977 reunion movie is Christmas centered. Wyatt and Young were in their late 60s, but everyone did a nice job in it. You should watch it. And, it's in color!
Posted by: Rodney-Young Productions

I'm familiar, and I agree.

btw, the Latin motto Rodney-Young used, "Ars Pro Multis," got me down a rabbit hole.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Historical Facts at December 14, 2025 01:55 PM (kjnCv)

299 Six minutes of which video from an elevated position that appears to be a prime location from which to take two shots to take out the murderers. Honestly, it could have been ended within two minutes or less.

Shame that they took away Australians' rights to armed self-defense.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 14, 2025 01:48 PM (dK+Kv)

OK. For the sake of argument, assume the Aussies had concealed-carry laws comparable to Florida or Texas, and the guy with the camera was packing a pistol. Not knowing the range, would be possible for him to take out the gunmen without putting bystanders beyond them at risk?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 14, 2025 01:55 PM (npFr7)

300 Insensitive Clod, of course the classic was the spelling of fish, phonetically: ghoti. Forgot, Oscar Wilde? Or the other guy.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 14, 2025 01:56 PM (U/Byj)

301 Oh no we are going to have to hear about the Muslim hero in Australia over and over again who disarmed one of the shooters. First question that came to me was why was he at a Hanukkah celebration? He was shot twice though so likely nothing nefarious.

Posted by: the way I see it at December 14, 2025 01:56 PM (KDPiq)

302 AOP, I'd say absolutely yes. Harassing fire could disrupt the terrorist's operation completely, whether you hit him or not. And from that angle missed shots don't look like they'd endanger anyone.

Haven't looked at all the videos, but there's more from the front/side, across the street looks like, with a terrorist on the bridge. At one point he ducks, as if sheltering from return fire of some kind. Dunno what to make of that at this point.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 14, 2025 01:58 PM (U/Byj)

303 we have a long way to go : from Laura Loomer:

"A source told me students heard the shooter scream “ALLAHU AKBAR” before he opened fire, but the PC culture of Brown has them afraid of being called “Islamophobic”.

Source tells me Police and @FBI agents on the ground have also been instructed by Democrat officials on the ground in Rhode Island to not say the words “Muslim” or “Islamic terror”"

Posted by: runner at December 14, 2025 01:59 PM (g47mK)

304 Posted by: rhomboid at December 14, 2025 01:58 PM (U/Byj)

One of the shooters is dead and other in critical condition last I read.

Posted by: the way I see it at December 14, 2025 01:59 PM (KDPiq)

305 There's no "correct" spelling of words from foreign languages that do not share a common/similar alphabet.
Posted by: rhomboid
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Which is why we had Hunt's "Catsup", and Heinz "Ketchup", although I think Hunt's has waved the white flag and gone to the K version.
I always supposed that the transliteration difference was that one heard the word in Cantonese, and the other in Mandarin.

Posted by: buddhaha at December 14, 2025 02:00 PM (jiDhR)

306 303 we have a long way to go : from Laura Loomer:

"A source told me students heard the shooter scream “ALLAHU AKBAR” before he opened fire, but the PC culture of Brown has them afraid of being called “Islamophobic”.

Source tells me Police and @FBI agents on the ground have also been instructed by Democrat officials on the ground in Rhode Island to not say the words “Muslim” or “Islamic terror”"

Posted by: runner at December 14, 2025 01:59 PM (g47mK)

It's not a phobia if they're trying to kill you; it's a rational fear.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 14, 2025 02:00 PM (ynpvh)

307 There was a time when I could recite 'The Shooting of Dan McGrew'.
Posted by: Mike Hammer
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Is that the filthy parody?

Posted by: buddhaha at December 14, 2025 02:04 PM (jiDhR)

308 AOP, I'd say absolutely yes. Harassing fire could disrupt the terrorist's operation completely, whether you hit him or not. And from that angle missed shots don't look like they'd endanger anyone.

Haven't looked at all the videos, but there's more from the front/side, across the street looks like, with a terrorist on the bridge. At one point he ducks, as if sheltering from return fire of some kind. Dunno what to make of that at this point.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 14, 2025 01:58 PM (U/Byj)

Alright. Did not view the videos, so had no idea of the distances and sightlines involved.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 14, 2025 02:04 PM (npFr7)

309 Is that the filthy parody?
Posted by: buddhaha
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No, literal. My English teacher of the day also insisted that we learn by rote the first paragraph (?) of the prologue to The Canterbury Tales

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 14, 2025 02:15 PM (XeU6L)

310 Late, I guess, so I will offer one example: I saw some clip where some chick is pushing a particular cosmetic treatment or some such and she says “Ask your provider if this can work for you.”

Really? Of what?

That stupid word, AGAIN.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 14, 2025 02:15 PM (4786I)

311 Exactly. And there's nothing inherently 'gay' about homosexuality.

Posted by: SOTMHK at December 14, 2025 02:21 PM (GnY+e)

312 Notsothoreau at #201,
That's perfect! She shall be my son's beloved henceforward.

(I hope I said that correctly.)

Posted by: Wenda at December 14, 2025 02:34 PM (A65Zh)

313 Not knowing the range, would be possible for him to take out the gunmen without putting bystanders beyond them at risk?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 14, 2025 01:55 PM (npFr7)

Range is less than about 150, based on perspective, unless phone cam has really good artifact free zoom. Assuming a pistol shot, it would be a difficult shot. I might risk that shot, given the distance and decent cover and/or exit possibilities.

Assuming rifle, which is not beyond the range of reason for semi-rural, it should be cake. And that is putting aside the second guessing of murderers attacking an armed populace, which does happen here.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 14, 2025 02:49 PM (dK+Kv)

314 There's no "correct" spelling of words from foreign languages that do not share a common/similar alphabet. In that case it's transliteration, in which the sounds/pronunciation of the original are reproduced, to the extent possible, in the transliterated form.

This applies to the Jewish festival of lights.

There are conventions, but not correct or incorrect.

Take the surname of the late Libyan dictator, for example. 10,000 years ago when SNL was funny and even intelligent at times, they had a great thing where they scrolled the dozens of transliterated versions of Brother Colonel's name on the screen behind the news reader during Weekend Update. Best illustration of the point I can think of.
Posted by: rhomboid

When getting new tires I always go for the Korean brand just so I can loudly say "Gook".

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 14, 2025 04:06 PM (/lPRQ)

315 In her book "Heterophobia", Daphne Patai recalls the story of a female academic who frequently referred to her "partner", supposedly to suggest a lesbian relationship, but eventually she was outed. Turned out she was married to the same man for over twenty years and they had a couple of kids together.

Posted by: clams on the half shell and roller skates, roller skates at December 14, 2025 06:26 PM (kvDvI)

316 Also, don't say "sex assigned at birth." It is not assigned at birth, it is observed at birth.

Posted by: M J at December 14, 2025 10:11 PM (nyzPD)

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