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Amusing Song from Remy On Fake News
A guy at Reason spoofs the media's criticism of fake news while pumping boatloads of the stuff. Video below.
One thing he alludes to quickly -- it has to be quick, it's a song after all -- is the lazy media's ultra-lazy method of "news" concoction, whereby they take a couple of tweets by some nobody and turn it into... I don't want to call it a "story." Or even a micro-story. Let's call it a datafart. It's insane. It's so transparently a case of just making up alleged "news" from random crap you saw reading twitter, turning time-wasting into work-product. Anyway, a guy at the Free Beacon named Matthew Walther put together a bunch of these contrived concoctions of clickbait to prove that when the press isn't being dishonest, it's just being lazy to the point of mental impairment. "Twitter" is not a person, and certainly not a person of consequence, so the media has to stop running headlines like "There's a Giraffe Having a Baby, and Twitter Couldn't be Prouder" or whatever. I guess that shut-ins who consider themselves part of the Twitter Nation are flattered by this and will click on this braindead horseshit, because the fact that you're on Twitter, and some other asshole mentioned Twitter, means you finally are somebody. But while this might generate clicks for very little money-- how much do you have to pay the kind of bottom-feeding imbeciles who churn out this kind of crap? Do you even have to pay them? Or do you just give them some circus peanuts and some lubricant to masturbate with? -- it is certainly not real news, and any media relying so hard on such obviously fake news for its revenue is itself fake news. I've begged them to follow up and document the "Real News Media's" other obsessive clickbait beat -- blogging about what Stephen Colbert or Seth Meyers or John Oliver said that last night, and which persons were SHREDDED during these momentous news events of rich white guys talking to a television camera. I'm tellin' ya, this now seems to be 80% of their net output -- clips of tv clowns telling jokes. Certainly it's their most heavily promoted "news work product." The Hill-- an alleged newspaper allegedly covering Congress as its niche beat -- will literally pump out the same Seth Meyers clip 10 times in a day, just to make sure that its very informed audience didn't miss Seth Meyers' latest ejaculations. I barely ever see them promoting a story about, you know, Congress. You know, there was a time, say 20 or 30 years ago, when someone belonging to the media class might have been flattered to be insulted as "one of those pointy-headed intellectuals who always has his nose stuck firmly in a book." Well -- I'd say there's very little chance of our current media class being slurred like that any longer. I literally never hear these guys talking about a book. What's the one book you saw them talking about this last year? Yes, they did talk about one. Hillbilly Elegy. They talked about it for two weeks, and it was all pretty clear they just read the same excerpt from a blog. Then it was right back to nonstop Stephen Colbert. Even our alleged intellctual genius of a former president never, and I mean never, talked about books. What he talked about was ESPN's Sports Center, his brackets, Homeland and Game of Thrones. Muh shows! Muh shows! MUH SHOWS!!! Muh beautiful shows where rich white college-educated people born to the upper middle class reaffirm my views as a poor member of the white college-educated cohort born to the middle class, who one day hopes to be rich or at least upper middle class! So I better be able to repeat Seth Meyers' lecturejokes about the proposed Obamacare repeal from last night! Otherwise, I might be blackballed from the fancy social club catering to witty intellectuals that doesn't exist except in the imaginations of idiots on Twitter and FaceBook. Why read a book about a subject, or even an actual newspaper article, when I can just listen to John Oliver repeat the headline and then make a sillyface? We seem to be separating in so many ways, but one noticeable way is the separation of the Tribe Who Watches TV Incessantly and Then Talks About Nothing But, and the Tribe Who Watches Less TV and Kind of Feels a Little Ashamed of the Indulgence of It and So Doesn't Talk About It All Day Long, and Also, You Know, Tries to Fit Some Other Things In Between Watchin' TV All Day Long. I'm happy to identify as part of the latter tribe, and many progs are prouder and prouder to be counted among the former. Good night, and open thread.Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Diogenes at March 10, 2017 07:49 PM (0tfLf)
Say it ain't so, Joe.
Posted by: Diogenes at March 10, 2017 07:49 PM (0tfLf)
Then I'll read the content over dinner.
Posted by: Diogenes at March 10, 2017 07:50 PM (0tfLf)
Posted by: Uncle Si at March 10, 2017 07:51 PM (ZLmoR)
Posted by: Diogenes at March 10, 2017 07:51 PM (0tfLf)
Posted by: @DangerGirl (gab.ai) and her 1.21 Gigawatt SanityProd (tm) at March 10, 2017 07:51 PM (+eR2D)
Posted by: Diogenes at March 10, 2017 07:51 PM (0tfLf)
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-03-10/real-obamacare-replacement-worry
Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at March 10, 2017 07:52 PM (b7fwp)
Posted by: logprof at March 10, 2017 07:53 PM (GsAUU)
and Keith Olbermann is a twat. But that's not really news.
Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at March 10, 2017 07:54 PM (b7fwp)
Posted by: cornbred at March 10, 2017 07:55 PM (awhwy)
Posted by: logprof at March 10, 2017 07:56 PM (GsAUU)
Posted by: logprof at March 10, 2017 07:57 PM (GsAUU)
If you're curious, it's Homo Deus, A Brief History of Romorrow, by Yuval Harari. I'd read somewhere that it was about how man would deal with the incipient overthrow of work and it's ability to lend meaning to life, but so far, it's just a bunch of liberal platitudes.
Posted by: pep at March 10, 2017 07:57 PM (LAe3v)
Posted by: garrett at March 10, 2017 07:58 PM (+VANB)
Posted by: logprof
With ominous 2-note music?
Posted by: pep at March 10, 2017 07:58 PM (LAe3v)
Posted by: ShainS at March 10, 2017 07:59 PM (mt8X9)
Posted by: Mary Clogginstien from Brattleboror, VT at March 10, 2017 07:59 PM (WmgTn)
Posted by: logprof
With ominous 2-note music?
Posted by: pep at March 10, 2017 07:58 PM (LAe3v)
--If only.
And Chandra Levy is unavailable for comment.
Posted by: logprof at March 10, 2017 08:00 PM (GsAUU)
Ollie (Nov 8 2016, before results started coming it): It's going to be an early night, isn't it Stanley...
Stan: It certainty is... (grins like Rachel Maddow)
Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at March 10, 2017 08:00 PM (b7fwp)
Posted by: pep at March 10, 2017 08:00 PM (LAe3v)
Posted by: Splunge at March 10, 2017 08:01 PM (iMxBJ)
Posted by: AltonJackson at March 10, 2017 08:02 PM (KCxzN)
Mantras mean much more than any sort of, you know, facts...
Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at March 10, 2017 08:02 PM (b7fwp)
Posted by: pep at March 10, 2017 07:57 PM (LAe3v)
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We'll become a nation of poets freed from job-lock!
Posted by: Nancy Pelosi at March 10, 2017 08:02 PM (mt8X9)
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
And, no, not "curious."
Posted by: Splunge at March 10, 2017 08:04 PM (iMxBJ)
Posted by: pep at March 10, 2017 08:00 PM (LAe3v)
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In my best Carson: funny stuff ...
Posted by: ShainS at March 10, 2017 08:04 PM (mt8X9)
Posted by: Splunge at March 10, 2017 08:01 PM (iMxBJ)
--On writing books, at least Trump was honest about having a co-author and not hiding behind Bill Ayers' ghost writing.
Posted by: logprof at March 10, 2017 08:04 PM (GsAUU)
Posted by: booknlass at March 10, 2017 08:05 PM (8mO0Q)
Posted by: Splunge at March 10, 2017 08:05 PM (iMxBJ)
Posted by: Jack Sock at March 10, 2017 08:05 PM (IDPbH)
Posted by: hogmartin at March 10, 2017 08:06 PM (8nWyX)
Posted by: Nancy Pelosi
****
Jaw-B-Lock?
I guess Nancy hates giving beejers.
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at March 10, 2017 08:07 PM (hVdx9)
Posted by: Ashley Judds Puffy Scamper, formerly the man called MrCaniac at March 10, 2017 08:07 PM (1JnAL)
Posted by: colfax mingo at March 10, 2017 08:08 PM (Sr589)
Posted by: Jim at March 10, 2017 08:08 PM (v5iqM)
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 10, 2017 08:09 PM (5VlCp)
Depends on the lubricant I guess. Maybe the boss has something in mind.
Posted by: Country Boy at March 10, 2017 08:09 PM (Jcg9Q)
Muh shows! Muh shows!
==========
What am I, chopped barbecue ribs?
Posted by: President Underwood from House Of Cards at March 10, 2017 08:09 PM (mt8X9)
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at March 10, 2017 08:09 PM (jK8Z7)
The one I'm reading is one I downloaded ages ago but never read. It's a collection of the Dumarest stories by pulp sci-fi writer EC Tubbs. It's a far-future thing where humanity has migrated to thousands of stars and has been in space so long they've forgotten they came from earth. Earth is now a mythical thing, which most don't believe in.
It's kinda good, with sci-fi stuff tossed in breezily with little attempt at explanation.
For RPG geeks, the stories are interesting because they are the most important (among several important) sources for the Traveler Role Playing Game's background/setting. a lot of stuff here was ported directly, and I mean directly, into traveler.
Tone-wise, the books are kinda like John Carter or even just Conan, but in space. Or at least on alien worlds.
Light, pulpy fun. Disposable, but not in a bad way.
The other books I'm gonna read are the Power of Habit, that old book I keep seeing people reference, and Taubes' book on sugar.
Posted by: ace at March 10, 2017 08:09 PM (8rNrN)
Depends on the lubricant I guess. Maybe the boss has something in mind.
Fur oil.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 10, 2017 08:09 PM (kPMrr)
Posted by: ace at March 10, 2017 08:10 PM (8rNrN)
Posted by: Jack Sock
*****
And that was just on election night!
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at March 10, 2017 08:10 PM (hVdx9)
Posted by: colfax mingo at March 10, 2017 08:10 PM (Sr589)
Barak's edition of "My Pet Goat", is X-Rated.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at March 10, 2017 08:08 PM (v5iqM)
Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa that if you "spoil" your neighbor's sheep, you have to pay him for it.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at March 10, 2017 08:10 PM (jK8Z7)
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at March 10, 2017 08:09 PM (jK8Z7)
Yes. They are still chatting with Willow.
Posted by: Flyboy at March 10, 2017 08:11 PM (N7iyg)
Posted by: Ben Had at March 10, 2017 08:12 PM (Wdysy)
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at March 10, 2017 08:12 PM (hVdx9)
Posted by: Splunge at March 10, 2017 08:12 PM (iMxBJ)
There are some seriously horrible people out there.
Posted by: dagny at March 10, 2017 08:12 PM (Mc+44)
Posted by: Minuteman at March 10, 2017 08:13 PM (0i9eW)
Posted by: Cate Blanchett at March 10, 2017 08:13 PM (0i9eW)
Posted by: @DangerGirl (gab.ai) and her 1.21 Gigawatt SanityProd (tm) at March 10, 2017 08:14 PM (+eR2D)
Posted by: MSM at March 10, 2017 08:14 PM (vRcUp)
Posted by: Minuteman at March 10, 2017 08:13 PM (0i9eW)
Iowahawk, PBUH
*pours one out*
Posted by: hogmartin at March 10, 2017 08:14 PM (8nWyX)
I fell into a horrible viperous den of nasty feminazis earlier on
twitter and waited too long to block them. They finally descended into
calling me a fascist because I said everyone's life had value. They went
nuts.
There are some seriously horrible people out there.
Posted by: dagny
****
Some very mentally ill people out there being given power over others. Nothing good will come of it.
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at March 10, 2017 08:15 PM (hVdx9)
good calories, bad calories was pretty damn good and pretty detailed (for a general-interest book about science, or at least the history of science).
I really like that one.
Posted by: ace at March 10, 2017 08:15 PM (8rNrN)
Posted by: Ben Had at March 10, 2017 08:15 PM (Wdysy)
Posted by: booknlass at March 10, 2017 08:15 PM (8mO0Q)
Posted by: Splunge at March 10, 2017 08:15 PM (iMxBJ)
Posted by: dagny at March 10, 2017 08:16 PM (Mc+44)
Then there's me, part of the Tribe Who Watches No TV At All But Lives On The Internet 24/7.
You can tell us because our houses are rather unkempt.
Posted by: rickl at March 10, 2017 08:16 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: The fake news media at March 10, 2017 08:17 PM (aZq03)
calling me a fascist because I said everyone's life had value.
Tell them, "if everyone's life doesn't, sweet! You just made my terminal illness list!"
Posted by: rickb223 at March 10, 2017 08:18 PM (kPMrr)
I fell into a horrible viperous den of nasty feminazis earlier on
twitter and waited too long to block them. They finally descended into
calling me a fascist because I said everyone's life had value. They went
nuts.
There are some seriously horrible people out there.
Posted by: dagny
****
Some very mentally ill people out there being given power over others. Nothing good will come of it.
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at March 10, 2017 08:15 PM (hVdx9)
DON'T PANIC. Give them full rein. They are the source of their own destruction.
Posted by: Ladylibertarian at March 10, 2017 08:18 PM (TdMsT)
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at March 10, 2017 08:15 PM (hVdx9)
"I think your life has value" >>>>>"Fascist!!!"
But I abandoned them to the block when they insisted that I couldn't be female because I used "male language."
Posted by: dagny at March 10, 2017 08:18 PM (Mc+44)
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at March 10, 2017 08:18 PM (vRcUp)
They finally descended into calling me a fascist because I said everyone's life had value.
Posted by: dagny at March 10, 2017 08:12 PM (Mc+44)
You know who would be surprised to learn of that definition of fascist? Hitler, that's who.
Posted by: rickl at March 10, 2017 08:18 PM (sdi6R)
Which reminds me: who decided we needed to put an "m" in unkept? I suppose it goes back to old German or something, but still.
Posted by: pep at March 10, 2017 08:19 PM (LAe3v)
Posted by: Jim at March 10, 2017 08:19 PM (v5iqM)
Posted by: dagny at March 10, 2017 08:16 PM (Mc+44)
Um, I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but...
Posted by: Splunge at March 10, 2017 08:19 PM (iMxBJ)
Posted by: @DangerGirl (gab.ai) and her 1.21 Gigawatt SanityProd (tm) at March 10, 2017 08:14 PM (+eR2D)
======================
Lucky you, Danger Girl - wish I could join you! Cheers
Posted by: grammie winger at March 10, 2017 08:19 PM (dFi94)
Posted by: Ben Had at March 10, 2017 08:12 PM (Wdysy)
Mr D tried Central Market. They didn't have them. Bastards.
Posted by: @DangerGirl (gab.ai) and her 1.21 Gigawatt SanityProd (tm) at March 10, 2017 08:19 PM (+eR2D)
Posted by: Diogenes at March 10, 2017 08:20 PM (0tfLf)
Posted by: dagny at March 10, 2017 08:21 PM (Mc+44)
Posted by: Ben Had at March 10, 2017 08:21 PM (Wdysy)
I really like that one.
Posted by: ace at March 10, 2017 08:15 PM (8rNrN)
Agreed. The sugar one has a much higher history-to-science ratio, and even history-to-history-of-science ratio. He sets out saying he's going to make the case like a lawyer, and kind of does, including the insinuation part of that.
Posted by: Splunge at March 10, 2017 08:21 PM (iMxBJ)
You can tell us because our houses are rather unkempt.
Posted by: rickl at March 10, 2017 08:16 PM (sdi6R)
========================
I got a cleaning lady for Christmas for just that reason. Try one, you'll like it.
Posted by: grammie winger at March 10, 2017 08:22 PM (dFi94)
Posted by: Diogenes at March 10, 2017 08:22 PM (0tfLf)
Posted by: rickb223 at March 10, 2017 08:22 PM (kPMrr)
Posted by: Jmel at March 10, 2017 08:22 PM (OeWgo)
That's what I thought, but murdering lunatic lefties who think that killing people = good didn't seem to get that.
Posted by: dagny at March 10, 2017 08:22 PM (Mc+44)
Posted by: grammie winger at March 10, 2017 08:19 PM (dFi94)
Oh grammie, it has been a (couple of) week of hell at work (seems my company is in violation of several OSHA things having to do with asbestos, not to mention all of the other hell going on there) and I am hormonal. I am disappointed, disgusted, annoyed and angry all at once. I hardly know what to do with myself, so bourbon it is.
Posted by: @DangerGirl (gab.ai) and her 1.21 Gigawatt SanityProd (tm) at March 10, 2017 08:22 PM (+eR2D)
Posted by: grammie winger at March 10, 2017 08:23 PM (dFi94)
Of course, I would also refuse to watch it even if it didn't show a clip by that asshole Colbert.
Posted by: Kodos the Executioner at March 10, 2017 08:23 PM (aa1K7)
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at March 10, 2017 08:15 PM (hVdx9)
"I think your life has value" >>>>>"Fascist!!!"
But I abandoned them to the block when they insisted that I couldn't be female because I used "male language."
Posted by: dagny
****
That and your mental telepathy waves totally sexually abused them and only men can be sexual abusers.
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at March 10, 2017 08:23 PM (hVdx9)
I just had an epiphany. All these reporters are ghey. I guessing that no straight woman is as obsessed with men's butts as gay men are.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at March 10, 2017 08:24 PM (vRcUp)
Posted by: @DangerGirl (gab.ai) and her 1.21 Gigawatt SanityProd (tm) at March 10, 2017 08:22 PM (+eR2D)
==================
Eeeks. Your work situation definitely calls for bourbon.
Posted by: grammie winger at March 10, 2017 08:24 PM (dFi94)
Posted by: dagny at March 10, 2017 08:21 PM (Mc+44)
He could be funny on Twitter. But it was his pre-Twitter long-form pieces that put him in Master territory for me. The Chaucer piece. The satire on the old Adventure game. And The Idiossey:
And though he be clever, Obamacles did not understand his task,
set before him by the Oracle; perhaps it was a riddle?
"Community organizer?" he wondered, "What the fuck is that?"
Posted by: Splunge at March 10, 2017 08:24 PM (iMxBJ)
Posted by: grammie winger at March 10, 2017 08:19 PM (dFi94)
Oh
grammie, it has been a (couple of) week of hell at work (seems my
company is in violation of several OSHA things having to do with
asbestos, not to mention all of the other hell going on there) and I am
hormonal. I am disappointed, disgusted, annoyed and angry all at once. I
hardly know what to do with myself, so bourbon it is.
Posted by: @DangerGirl
*****
Meatball pitch....
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at March 10, 2017 08:24 PM (hVdx9)
Must pack more socks.
Posted by: Diogenes at March 10, 2017 08:24 PM (0tfLf)
Posted by: grammie winger at March 10, 2017 08:23 PM (dFi94)
======
I understand he also has a blog....
Posted by: Flyboy at March 10, 2017 08:24 PM (f4XP+)
I am forced to agree. The logic is airtight.
Posted by: pep at March 10, 2017 08:25 PM (LAe3v)
I hope Taubes doesn't do that, but based on what I've heard from Instapundit, I think he might do a weak form of it.
I have no trouble with getting rid of the endless subsidies for sugar, obviously. Or getting rid of the industry-friendly propaganda for sugar (you can eat lots of sugary things, just cut out the healthy, nutritious calories to offset it!)
but i don't want the government outlawing it, imposing special taxes, or doing any of the "Nudge" bullshit the liberals promote.
Posted by: ace at March 10, 2017 08:25 PM (8rNrN)
Posted by: grammie winger at March 10, 2017 08:23 PM (dFi94)
He stopped posting to Twitter around the beginning of February because it wasn't fun anymore, that's all. I'm sure he's fine.
Posted by: hogmartin at March 10, 2017 08:26 PM (8nWyX)
Posted by: dagny at March 10, 2017 08:18 PM (Mc+44)
Did you tell them to make you a sammich?
Posted by: Minuteman at March 10, 2017 08:26 PM (0i9eW)
Posted by: grammie winger at March 10, 2017 08:23 PM (dFi94)
No, the opposite. He left Twitter for real life.
Posted by: Splunge at March 10, 2017 08:26 PM (iMxBJ)
****
You are in the right place for suggestions. That is all I will say on the matter.
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at March 10, 2017 08:26 PM (hVdx9)
Posted by: Flyboy at March 10, 2017 08:24 PM (f4XP+)
=======================
Blog? I suppose I could google it. Meh. It's Friday night.
Posted by: grammie winger at March 10, 2017 08:26 PM (dFi94)
Posted by: Splunge at March 10, 2017 08:26 PM (iMxBJ)
========================
Don't they fine you for that?
Posted by: grammie winger at March 10, 2017 08:27 PM (dFi94)
Iowahawk, PBUH
*pours one out*
Posted by: hogmartin at March 10, 2017 08:14 PM (8nWyX)
Damn right.
Posted by: Hawkpilot at March 10, 2017 08:27 PM (Pm9lF)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 10, 2017 08:27 PM (ODxAs)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 10, 2017 08:27 PM (bQMzs)
Remember those old May Day parades in Moscow during the old Soviet Union? All of it was fakery, fake "parade" tanks, fake happy people all marching in lockstep celebrating "Socialism" with pictures of dead and gone Marx and Lenin on placards, all faked for the news media. They still do it in places like Havana and Pyongyang and Berkeley.
I always wondered if those people, after the parades, felt stupid for participating in a sham when they got home at night.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 10, 2017 08:27 PM (5VlCp)
Posted by: Data at March 10, 2017 08:27 PM (BO/km)
You are in the right place for suggestions. That is all I will say on the matter.
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale
Pants required status:
[X] Known
[] Unknown
Posted by: pep at March 10, 2017 08:28 PM (LAe3v)
Yeah, I need an attitude adjustment. I told that to my work BFF this week. He didn't disagree with me, but he did agree that he needed one as well, so I didn't feel as bad. That's a good friend.
Posted by: @DangerGirl (gab.ai) and her 1.21 Gigawatt SanityProd (tm) at March 10, 2017 08:28 PM (+eR2D)
Posted by: Jmel at March 10, 2017 08:22 PM (OeWgo)
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Kate Jackson? My favorite angel ...
Posted by: ShainS at March 10, 2017 08:28 PM (mt8X9)
Posted by: Caliban at March 10, 2017 08:28 PM (3GFMN)
I just had an epiphany. All these reporters are ghey. I guessing that no straight woman is as obsessed with men's butts as gay men are.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at March 10, 2017 08:24 PM (vRcUp)
Straight women aren't obsessed with men's butts? Are you KIDDING?????
Posted by: Ladylibertarian at March 10, 2017 08:28 PM (TdMsT)
Posted by: Splunge at March 10, 2017 08:26 PM (iMxBJ)
========================
Don't they fine you for that?
Posted by: grammie winger at March 10, 2017 08:27 PM (dFi94)
Stop that, ma'am. Men should not giggle.
Posted by: Splunge at March 10, 2017 08:28 PM (iMxBJ)
Posted by: grammie winger at March 10, 2017 08:28 PM (dFi94)
I am fully functional.
Posted by: Data at March 10, 2017 08:27 PM (BO/km)
=========
Hehe ...
Posted by: ShainS at March 10, 2017 08:29 PM (mt8X9)
Posted by: Ben Had at March 10, 2017 08:29 PM (Wdysy)
But no joy on the pork rinds. However, I found that they have a wine and beer section, which is highly unusual for a supermarket in Pennsylvania.
I looked for Trump wine, but didn't see it. I ended up buying a sixpack of Victory Hop Devil IPA, which is effing awesome.
Posted by: rickl at March 10, 2017 08:29 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: grammie winger at March 10, 2017 08:26 PM (dFi94)
iowahawk.typepad.com
Hasn't been touched in three years though. If he's still posting pithy wit anywhere, I don't know where it is.
Posted by: hogmartin at March 10, 2017 08:30 PM (8nWyX)
Posted by: Ladylibertarian at March 10, 2017 08:28 PM (TdMsT)
==================
There was this guy in college. Long blonde hair half-way down his back. Hair like corn silk, He had a fine fine butt. I vaguely remember his face, kinda pretty. But oh my, what a nice little butt he had.
Posted by: grammie winger at March 10, 2017 08:31 PM (dFi94)
Posted by: grandmalcaesar at March 10, 2017 08:31 PM (8CjMe)
Posted by: Splunge
==========
I barely made it through the first reading of that owing to convulsive laughter and watery eyes ... what a classic.
Posted by: ShainS at March 10, 2017 08:31 PM (mt8X9)
Posted by: Flyboy at March 10, 2017 08:31 PM (f4XP+)
Mine is a house divided. Husband on tv 24/7, me on internet every waking moment.
I should just shut it all off.
Posted by: April at March 10, 2017 08:31 PM (e8PP1)
Posted by: grandmalcaesar at March 10, 2017 08:33 PM (8CjMe)
And though he be clever, Obamacles did not understand his task,
set before him by the Oracle; perhaps it was a riddle?
"Community organizer?" he wondered, "What the fuck is that?"
Posted by: Splunge
I agree. The Chaucer parody is "Heere Begynneth the Tale of the Asse Hatte", done in response to then Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams opining that England should have two systems of law courts operating simultaneously: English law, and Sharia law.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at March 10, 2017 08:33 PM (vRcUp)
Posted by: Flyboy at March 10, 2017 08:31 PM (f4XP+)
============================
He might be down at the Brat Stop. I could go look, I suppose.
Posted by: grammie winger at March 10, 2017 08:33 PM (dFi94)
......
Oh, I think that horse left the barn some time ago.
We've graduated to People Who Talk About That Totally Epic Thing That I Juat Saw on Twitter/ Facebook That Was Sent to Me Personally by a Bot Because I Am So Special and Informed
Posted by: Damiano at March 10, 2017 08:34 PM (71OEY)
Posted by: Eromero at March 10, 2017 08:35 PM (zLDYs)
Having my baby
What a lovely way of saying
How much you love me.
Having my baby
What a lovely way of saying
What you're thinking of me.
Posted by: Mr. Giraffe at March 10, 2017 08:35 PM (IqV8l)
((DG))
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 10, 2017 08:27 PM (bQMzs)
Thank you, my friend. Things are just...really weird...at work right now. OSHA has showed up twice. They're doing an investigation. A supervisor is on "temporary leave" because he told the factory workers that there was a serious risk to their health.
Basically, they did renovations, there was asbestos found, they didn't inform anyone until after the fact, when they put up discreet signs on certain doorways. People saw them and freaked out. They held an emergency meeting, the VP told everyone, "our bad, we underestimated the reaction."
They could have avoided all of this by having a meeting talking about what was going on before the fact, but "higher ups" told the Safety Manager not to disclose information is what I was directly told. Now things are all crazypants. No one knows if we are at risk or not. Multiple renovations have happened in the past five years with possible exposure and no information given to employees.
People are freaking the fuck out. Personally, I'm more pissed that they didn't tell us than anything else. Makes it hard to go into work every day without not giving a fuck.
Posted by: @DangerGirl (gab.ai) and her 1.21 Gigawatt SanityProd (tm) at March 10, 2017 08:36 PM (+eR2D)
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at March 10, 2017 08:36 PM (hVdx9)
Posted by: grammie winger at March 10, 2017 08:33 PM (dFi94)
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Spent many a night there and at Rock It North during my arguably misspent youth. A product of the drinking age of 18 when IL was 21.
Posted by: Flyboy at March 10, 2017 08:36 PM (f4XP+)
Posted by: grandmalcaesar at March 10, 2017 08:36 PM (8CjMe)
Some very mentally ill people out there being given power over others
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Not just to be contrarian, but I refute their " mentally ill " claim.
Somewhere in America, parents decided that it was okay to raise their kids to be self-serving, self-absorbed, self-aggrandizing, self-centered, self-obsessed little shits.
And they are.
They are far too 'special' to have their opinions even challenged, let alone disregarded. They are people who have made shit behavior a way of life.
Mentally ill people do not have choices. Generation SJW does. And they choose not to be decent or even to conform to the basic fundamentals of society.
Fuck em.
Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at March 10, 2017 08:37 PM (KgpWR)
Posted by: Eromero
The problem with it is that it tastes like you bit into a medicine pill by accident. And not one of those Flintstone vitamins for kids. The yucky, bitter kind.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at March 10, 2017 08:37 PM (vRcUp)
Posted by: grandmalcaesar at March 10, 2017 08:36 PM (8CjMe)
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This is one of the benefits of having no friends, no family, and being self-employed ...
[/partially true]
Posted by: ShainS at March 10, 2017 08:38 PM (mt8X9)
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at March 10, 2017 08:33 PM (vRcUp)
The "Heart of Redness" story of the university expedition into the darkest depths of uncharted middle America was killer.
Epstein was the legendary University of Iowa sociologist who knew the west Red Country better than any man in civilization. He knew their language, their mores, their favorite NASCAR drivers. It was rumored that he had even lived among them for a time, but my editors at the Post warned me not to speak to him of it.
...
"There's a faculty panel symposium on Cuban health care over at Schaffer Auditorium," he said. "I suggest we attend, because there won't be any more where we're headed."
Posted by: hogmartin at March 10, 2017 08:38 PM (8nWyX)
Posted by: grammie winger at March 10, 2017 08:31 PM (dFi94)
Okay. Okay. I must share this. My roofer was here a couple of days ago. Probably young enough to be my son. Male Perfection and is an Adonis in jeans. My best friend and I call him Smokin' Hot. The icing on the cake? Funny, charming and a huuuge Trump supporter. I can't wait to have my roof replaced.
Posted by: Ladylibertarian at March 10, 2017 08:38 PM (TdMsT)
A one day sabbatical from internet and tv can really clear your head. Because you don't have easy distraction at hand, you'll look for ways to fill your time, and you'll wind up doing things that are kind of... useful. Cleaning, organizing, reading. Going out.
In my case: Bathing.
Posted by: ace at March 10, 2017 08:39 PM (8rNrN)
Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at March 10, 2017 08:37 PM (KgpWR)
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Paging Dr. Benjamin Spock, please pick up the white courtesy phone ...
Posted by: ShainS at March 10, 2017 08:39 PM (mt8X9)
Posted by: Flyboy at March 10, 2017 08:36 PM (f4XP+)
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Yep. Familiar with that scenario.
Posted by: grammie winger at March 10, 2017 08:39 PM (dFi94)
Posted by: @DangerGirl (gab.ai) and her 1.21 Gigawatt SanityProd (tm) at March 10, 2017 08:40 PM (+eR2D)
He says (with some confirmation) the guy called him a Nazi & white supremacist. He also claims that another reporter stepped on his foot & called him a pussy.
What a bunch of mean girls they are.
Posted by: OldDominionMom at March 10, 2017 08:40 PM (GzDYP)
A one day sabbatical from internet and tv can really clear your
head. Because you don't have easy distraction at hand, you'll look for
ways to fill your time, and you'll wind up doing things that are kind
of... useful. Cleaning, organizing, reading. Going out.
In my case: Bathing.
Posted by: ace
*****
And then oiling your fur...
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at March 10, 2017 08:40 PM (hVdx9)
pre-Twitter long-form pieces that put him in Master territory for me.
The Chaucer piece. The satire on the old Adventure game. And The
Idiossey:
And though he be clever, Obamacles did not understand his task,
set before him by the Oracle; perhaps it was a riddle?
"Community organizer?" he wondered, "What the fuck is that?"
Posted by: Splunge at March 10, 2017 08:24 PM (iMxBJ)
The bits on the Lutherans fomenting terrorism are priceless.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at March 10, 2017 08:40 PM (jK8Z7)
Posted by: Ladylibertarian at March 10, 2017 08:38 PM (TdMsT)
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After he replaces it, poke some big holes in it so he has to come back.
Posted by: grammie winger at March 10, 2017 08:40 PM (dFi94)
Posted by: Phone of Widespread Pepe at March 10, 2017 08:41 PM (zTvDU)
Hi ace! Rub taleggio in your fur. It will give you beautiful, gleaming shine but make you smell like old socks.
Posted by: @DangerGirl (gab.ai) and her 1.21 Gigawatt SanityProd (tm) at March 10, 2017 08:42 PM (+eR2D)
Posted by: Ladylibertarian at March 10, 2017 08:38 PM (TdMsT)
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That all sounds until you get a look at the guy in charge of doing the actual job, a 400 lb. Mexican guy that needs 2 ladders side by side to get on your roof and sits in your yard drinking beer all day.
Posted by: Flyboy at March 10, 2017 08:42 PM (f4XP+)
I think I'm being shadowbanned on twitter anyway, and it seems pretty stupid to give them good jokes I should just put on my site.
even for news-gathering, twitter is really shit. You see one fucking worthy news story for every 40 or 50 tweets about nothing.
eh maybe i'll do it for a half hour each time, once in morning, once in afternoon.
Posted by: ace at March 10, 2017 08:42 PM (8rNrN)
Posted by: Ladylibertarian at March 10, 2017 08:38 PM (TdMsT)
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After he replaces it, poke some big holes in it so he has to come back.
Posted by: grammie winger
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Wait a minute.
Your talking about the sex, aren't you.
Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at March 10, 2017 08:42 PM (KgpWR)
Posted by: Ladylibertarian
You kids and your crazy euphemisms.
Posted by: pep at March 10, 2017 08:43 PM (LAe3v)
I have taleggio all the time now, thanks to you. as I mentioned, it's a much cheaper substitute for the expensive epoisses cheese. Good stuff, and I don't feel like an asshole buying it.
Posted by: ace at March 10, 2017 08:43 PM (8rNrN)
Posted by: Ben Had at March 10, 2017 08:43 PM (Wdysy)
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Which reminds me: who decided we needed to put an "m" in unkept? I suppose it goes back to old German or something, but still.
Posted by: pep at March 10, 2017 08:19 PM (LAe3v)
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"Kempt" comes from an Old English word that evolved into "comb." Thus "unkempt" = uncombed, sloppy.
"Kept," of course, is just the past and past participle of the word "keep." No relation to the word "unkempt."
Posted by: Margarita who actually finds this interesting at March 10, 2017 08:43 PM (Nox3c)
Posted by: Eromero at March 10, 2017 08:35 PM (zLDYs)
Um, not exactly. It was invented in 1922.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegemite
You might be thinking of the British Marmite, which was issued to troops in WWI.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marmite
Then there was Spam, which was invented in 1937 and really did end up feeding both soldiers and civilians during WWII, although that was not the original intention.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_(food)
Posted by: rickl at March 10, 2017 08:45 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: grammie winger at March 10, 2017 08:31 PM (dFi94)
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grammie, you sure you haven't been drinking?
Posted by: bluebell at March 10, 2017 08:45 PM (sBOL1)
Posted by: Ladylibertarian at March 10, 2017 08:38 PM (TdMsT)
There's a construction guy in my area that's smoking hot. Girls about drive off the road staring at him.
Sad thing his wife cheated on him with her high school age daughter's boyfriend. The wife was prosecuted and only got probation. I think the wife has mental problems. They got a divorce.
I know the wife's parents and they are nice people. The parents moved to a different town they were so ashamed and embarrassed.
Posted by: CaliGirl at March 10, 2017 08:45 PM (u8Ywb)
Having my baby
What a lovely way of saying
How much you love me.
Having my baby
What a lovely way of saying
What you're thinking of me.
Posted by: Mr. Giraffe at March 10, 2017 08:35 PM (IqV8l)
There are more people now, than in any time in human history, who are experts on the behavior of a pregnant giraffe cooped up in a stall.
Posted by: Ladylibertarian at March 10, 2017 08:45 PM (TdMsT)
Posted by: Data at March 10, 2017 08:45 PM (BO/km)
Posted by: Ladylibertarian at March 10, 2017 08:38 PM (TdMsT)
Dear Penthouse Forum,
I never thought this would happen to me but...
Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 10, 2017 08:45 PM (auHtY)
I have taleggio all the time now, thanks to you. as I mentioned,
it's a much cheaper substitute for the expensive epoisses cheese. Good
stuff, and I don't feel like an asshole buying it.
Posted by: ace at March 10, 2017 08:43 PM (8rNrN)
*curtsies* I'm glad you enjoy it. I have to make a 30 minute trip from home to get my hands on some of it but it is so worth it. I still have never had epoisses, but damn if taleggio isn't a delicious treat on occasion for me.
Posted by: @DangerGirl (gab.ai) and her 1.21 Gigawatt SanityProd (tm) at March 10, 2017 08:45 PM (+eR2D)
Posted by: @DangerGirl (gab.ai) and her 1.21 Gigawatt SanityProd (tm)
Nope you're not. He moved there and was good friends with Judge Don Willett, one of the people on the SCOTUS short list.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at March 10, 2017 08:45 PM (vRcUp)
Posted by: grammie winger at March 10, 2017 08:45 PM (dFi94)
Well, if it's old English, then it's likely old German, as predicted.
Posted by: pep, who also actually finds this interesting at March 10, 2017 08:45 PM (LAe3v)
Posted by: ace at March 10, 2017 08:42 PM (8rNrN)
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Didn't somebody try to create an alternative to twitter that was non-censorious?
If so, have they had any success in competing?
Posted by: ShainS at March 10, 2017 08:47 PM (mt8X9)
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at March 10, 2017 08:36 PM (hVdx9)
And yet, their company valuation is based on number of users and user growth. I suppose they had to come up with some bullshit since they have always and for the foreseeable future operated at substantial losses.
Don't worry though! We have Snapchat which is totally different- minus any asset or tech that can't be replicated in an hour by a reasonably competent teenager and is already being done by far larger and profitable competitors. $500M in losses, zero unique or valuable assets, $450M in revenue, and the CEO states, "we have incurred consistent losses, expect continued losses, may never be a path to profitability "... Yeah, that's a company worth $28 billion. Quick! Get all the public pension funds invested in that winner!
Posted by: Damiano at March 10, 2017 08:47 PM (71OEY)
And the diagrams could be better too. Some of us are mechanically illiterate. Took me half a damn hour or more to figure out how to install a bolt on a .308. Sheesh.
Posted by: Country Boy at March 10, 2017 08:47 PM (Jcg9Q)
Posted by: ace at March 10, 2017 08:47 PM (8rNrN)
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Gee whiz people are awful
Posted by: grammie winger at March 10, 2017 08:47 PM (dFi94)
besides the disappointing fact that I have to buy shoes, is we found a
vintage record shop. Oh my word I am going to go broke. I only made it
through the A's and B's today and walked out $75 poorer. Man O Man. So
delighted - Now we just have to get a new needle for the 1955 console
stereo.
Posted by: grammie winger at March 10, 2017 08:45 PM (dFi94)
ABBA? Average White Band?
Posted by: @DangerGirl (gab.ai) and her 1.21 Gigawatt SanityProd (tm) at March 10, 2017 08:47 PM (+eR2D)
Smokin'Hot is married (at least he was a couple years ago) and lives out in the country to the north of me. Such a great guy--I hope he and his wife are happy.
Posted by: Ladylibertarian at March 10, 2017 08:48 PM (TdMsT)
Posted by: he would shoot hashtags from his fingers or something at March 10, 2017 08:48 PM (wpC7C)
Posted by: ace at March 10, 2017 08:47 PM (8rNrN)
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ace, you should do another one of those "word" threads. Those were fun.
Posted by: bluebell at March 10, 2017 08:48 PM (sBOL1)
If so, have they had any success in competing?
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i don't know, but the thing is, I don't really want to be in a chat room just to be in a chat-room. We have a better version of twitter: it's called "not being on Twitter."
Posted by: ace at March 10, 2017 08:48 PM (8rNrN)
Posted by: Phone of Widespread Pepe at March 10, 2017 08:48 PM (zTvDU)
Posted by: random lurker commenter at March 10, 2017 08:48 PM (+tRIN)
Posted by: grammie winger
So how did the hair coloring sessions resolve? Zoo animal still, or somewhat better?
Posted by: hambone at March 10, 2017 08:49 PM (iLoHX)
i can't think of any more. I tried.
Posted by: ace at March 10, 2017 08:49 PM (8rNrN)
Posted by: ace at March 10, 2017 08:47 PM (8rNrN)
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ace, you should do another one of those "word" threads. Those were fun.
Posted by: bluebell at March 10, 2017 08:48 PM (sBOL1)
My best friend and I used to argue about these terms: jury-rigged and Jerry-built, per the sources we consulted.
Posted by: Ladylibertarian at March 10, 2017 08:50 PM (TdMsT)
I've been listening to a Great Courses series on espionage. I've learned about the origin of a few words from that, such as "secretary" and "guy."
Not enough to make a thread out of, though.
Posted by: bluebell at March 10, 2017 08:50 PM (sBOL1)
Posted by: grammie winger at March 10, 2017 08:47 PM (dFi94)
My friends and I couldn't believe it because her husband is the hottest guy. Smoking hot.
The wife surely messed her poor daughter up for life. Poor girl. The boys parents found texts and the mother was prosecuted. I couldn't believe how sick she is to do something like that.
Posted by: CaliGirl at March 10, 2017 08:50 PM (u8Ywb)
Posted by: random lurker commenter at March 10, 2017 08:51 PM (+tRIN)
There's a lot of crap certainly but I also think TV can be informative if you use it wisely. Just like any tool.
I think it's very important to keep up with what the other side is thinking, and TV is great for that. We've had the Sunday Times for 30 years, and I haven't cracked it open in at least 5 years. That is a bridge too far.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 10, 2017 08:51 PM (EZebt)
Posted by: Weasel at March 10, 2017 08:51 PM (Sfs6o)
People are freaking the fuck out. Personally, I'm more pissed that they didn't tell us than anything else. Makes it hard to go into work every day without not giving a fuck.
Posted by: @DangerGirl (gab.ai) and her 1.21 Gigawatt SanityProd (tm) at March 10, 2017 08:36 PM (+eR2D)
Is asbestos exposure at that level really a risk, or just one of those contrived hysterias, like secondhand smoke from vaping?
Posted by: Splunge at March 10, 2017 08:51 PM (iMxBJ)
Posted by: @DangerGirl (gab.ai) and her 1.21 Gigawatt SanityProd (tm) at March 10, 2017 08:47 PM (+eR2D)
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No ABBA, which was quite the blow to Rev. They did have 3 or 4 Average White Band albums, but I got "America Live Concert", Beach Boys - don't remember which one, Beatles Abbey Road and Beatles Please Please Me. The owner through in Santana's Abraxis because we got to talking about how much I liked the album cover.
Next week, on to the C's. Rev has his eye on a Chicago collection. And maybe I'll find a Carpenters.
Posted by: grammie winger at March 10, 2017 08:51 PM (dFi94)
Posted by: ace at March 10, 2017 08:48 PM (8rNrN)
Posted by: hogmartin at March 10, 2017 08:51 PM (8nWyX)
Posted by: @DangerGirl (gab.ai) and her 1.21 Gigawatt SanityProd (tm) at March 10, 2017 08:51 PM (+eR2D)
The wife surely messed her poor daughter up for life. Poor girl. The
boys parents found texts and the mother was prosecuted. I couldn't
believe how sick she is to do something like that.
Posted by: CaliGirl
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Very common recurring porn theme. Would not be surprised if she got her idea from porn sites.
Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at March 10, 2017 08:53 PM (KgpWR)
Posted by: hambone at March 10, 2017 08:49 PM (iLoHX)
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Salon lady pulled about three rabbits out of her hat and now I look amazing.
Posted by: grammie winger at March 10, 2017 08:53 PM (dFi94)
but if you have one, let me know.
Posted by: ace at March 10, 2017 08:53 PM (8rNrN)
Posted by: grammie winger at March 10, 2017 08:53 PM (dFi94)
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Does she make house calls? To Virginia?
Posted by: bluebell at March 10, 2017 08:53 PM (sBOL1)
Dear Penthouse Forum,
I never thought this would happen to me but...
Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 10, 2017 08:45 PM (auHtY)
LMAO!!!!!!!
Posted by: Ladylibertarian at March 10, 2017 08:53 PM (TdMsT)
Posted by: Eromero at March 10, 2017 08:54 PM (zLDYs)
Posted by: ace at March 10, 2017 08:47 PM (8rNrN)
I always thought it was jerry-rigged.
I use macgyverized.
Posted by: CaliGirl at March 10, 2017 08:54 PM (u8Ywb)
Posted by: Data at March 10, 2017 08:54 PM (BO/km)
Posted by: bluebell at March 10, 2017 08:53 PM (sBOL1)
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I could ask, but she's pregnant and might want to stay close to home. Like the giraffe.
Posted by: grammie winger at March 10, 2017 08:55 PM (dFi94)
If you do espionage, I can contribute two words. Maybe more after I finish the last three CDs.
Other than that, I got nothing.
Posted by: bluebell at March 10, 2017 08:55 PM (sBOL1)
There's a lot of crap certainly but I also think TV can be informative if you use it wisely. Just like any tool.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 10, 2017 08:51 PM (EZebt)
It's a cost thing, basically. Sling TV + Internet is a whole lot cheaper than piles of channels I wouldn't watch, most with people telling me how awful I am.
Posted by: Splunge at March 10, 2017 08:55 PM (iMxBJ)
Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at March 10, 2017 08:55 PM (KgpWR)
Maybe the exposure acts as a draw for new people to come to this site. I'm not sure how you could measure that, though.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at March 10, 2017 08:55 PM (vRcUp)
Posted by: ace at March 10, 2017 08:48 PM (8rNrN)
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"He shoots ... he scores!"
Posted by: ShainS at March 10, 2017 08:55 PM (mt8X9)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 10, 2017 08:56 PM (bQMzs)
370 98
I think I mentioned the other night that less than 5 years ago, a man deciding that he was now a lesbian alien and wanted to adopt kids (or whatever that insanity was, I've lost track. life moves fast in the Crazy Times) would have horrified me. Now? Meh, of course he does. Why the hell not. Its all madness and I worry I'm getting numb to it.
Posted by: Puddleglum
This?
Transgender Man Identifies as Alien, Plans to Remove Genitals, Adopt Kids
http://bit.ly/2mpAaGG
Posted by: The Political Hat at March 09, 2017 11:06 PM
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr
That. Ugh.
{Just got back from a sibling birthday feast (sister and me). Our birthdays are 5 years and 4 days apart.}
Posted by: Puddleglum at March 10, 2017 08:56 PM (7sC3L)
Posted by: Phone of Widespread Pepe at March 10, 2017 08:48 PM (zTvDU)
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They're going to have to rename that giraffe May ...
Posted by: ShainS at March 10, 2017 08:56 PM (mt8X9)
Basically, they did renovations, there was asbestos found, they didn't inform anyone until after the fact, when they put up discreet signs on certain doorways. People saw them and freaked out. They held an emergency meeting, the VP told everyone, "our bad, we underestimated the reaction."
Posted by: @DangerGirl (gab.ai) and her 1.21 Gigawatt SanityProd (tm) at March 10, 2017 08:36 PM (+eR2D)
Clearly, the solution is for us to fumigate the premises with thick clouds of asbestos dust and declare it a Superfund site.
Posted by: EPA at March 10, 2017 08:56 PM (V4Qfo)
Posted by: H at March 10, 2017 08:56 PM (b4rXB)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 10, 2017 08:56 PM (VdICR)
Posted by: Insomniac - sin valor at March 10, 2017 08:57 PM (0mRoj)
deciding that he was now a lesbian alien and wanted to adopt kids
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HAH
no.
Posted by: every adoption agency EVER, pre-Millenium Meltdown at March 10, 2017 08:57 PM (KgpWR)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 10, 2017 08:56 PM (VdICR)
This. It's depressing to consider the possibility that most people are already performing pretty close to their capacities.
Posted by: Splunge at March 10, 2017 08:57 PM (iMxBJ)
Posted by: Splunge at March 10, 2017 08:51 PM (iMxBJ)
Personally, I find "asbestos" to be a scare word.
However, companies (who are already millions of dollars in the hole due to asbestos related lawsuits) should realize that it is a scare word. Therefore, if they are doing renovations on their buildings where they used to manufacture asbestos-containing products and were built in the years where asbestos-containing materials were generally used, they should inform the employees ahead of time of what will be done, what are the risks and where the asbestos has been found and how it will be contained.
Instead, they chose to conceal the information until after the fact. Which is the part that pisses me off. And is pretty much the reason the majority of people I work with are pissed as well.
If they would have been up front, I'm pretty sure the reaction would have been minimal. Instead, they look like they're trying to hide information (whether fact or not) and that makes employees lose a LOT of faith in them.
Posted by: @DangerGirl (gab.ai) and her 1.21 Gigawatt SanityProd (tm) at March 10, 2017 08:58 PM (+eR2D)
Posted by: logprof at March 10, 2017 08:58 PM (GsAUU)
Posted by: Insomniac - sin valor at March 10, 2017 08:57 PM (0mRoj)
Buy more popcorn, settle back, and watch. It's like having free circus tickets.
Posted by: Splunge at March 10, 2017 08:58 PM (iMxBJ)
Posted by: grammie winger
Yay for the professionals. Otherwise, you might just get what you pay for.
I learned this in a similar but different way, being a guy.
As in: Don't cut your hair when drunk.
Posted by: hambone at March 10, 2017 08:58 PM (iLoHX)
and John Donne's poetry and such...
Posted by: booknlass at March 10, 2017 08:59 PM (8mO0Q)
Posted by: random lurker commenter at March 10, 2017 08:48 PM (+tRIN)
Thanks! I'll check them out.
Posted by: rickl at March 10, 2017 08:59 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Gerry at March 10, 2017 08:59 PM (Tyii7)
http://bit.ly/2mpAaGG
Posted by: The Political Hat at March 09, 2017 11:06 PM
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr
Yet another reason why I hate this stupid world and want off.
Posted by: Insomniac - sin valor at March 10, 2017 08:59 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: Splunge at March 10, 2017 09:00 PM (iMxBJ)
Posted by: Puddleglum at March 10, 2017 09:00 PM (7sC3L)
[/partially true]
Posted by: ShainS at March 10, 2017 08:38 PM
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LOL.
My situation as well.
People cause huge amounts of stress. Eff 'em.
Posted by: shibumi at March 10, 2017 09:00 PM (J5mC3)
Posted by: Phone of Widespread Pepe at March 10, 2017 08:48 PM (zTvDU)
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They're going to have to rename that giraffe May ...
Posted by: ShainS at March 10, 2017 08:56 PM (mt8X9)
We went on a back stage tour of the Santa Barbara zoo a few years ago and were able to see a new born giraffe.
The zoo just acquired the giraffe and no one knew she was pregnant until she gave birth.
Are they sure the giraffe is pregnant?
Posted by: CaliGirl at March 10, 2017 09:00 PM (u8Ywb)
Posted by: CaliGirl at March 10, 2017 09:00 PM (u8Ywb)
It's just a clump of giraffe cells.
Posted by: Planned Parenthood at March 10, 2017 09:01 PM (iMxBJ)
Or need 90 bottles of something or other sitting on the bathtub?
Or paint their face? Every day!
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I'm in trouble again , ain't I.
Posted by: every adoption agency EVER, pre-Millenium Meltdown at March 10, 2017 09:01 PM (KgpWR)
Posted by: Insomniac - sin valor at March 10, 2017 08:57 PM (0mRoj)
Buy more popcorn, settle back, and watch. It's like having free circus tickets.
Posted by: Splunge at March 10, 2017 08:58 PM (iMxBJ)
Except WE'RE the freaks now for calling out the fucked up bullshit.
Posted by: Insomniac - sin valor at March 10, 2017 09:01 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: Insomniac - sin valor at March 10, 2017 08:57 PM (0mRoj)
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I feel pretty much the same way. We weren't meant to live like this. It wasn't supposed to be this way. Soon it won't. Can't wait for that day.
Posted by: grammie winger at March 10, 2017 09:01 PM (dFi94)
Posted by: Splunge at March 10, 2017 09:00 PM (iMxBJ)
They're called chicharones.
Posted by: CaliGirl at March 10, 2017 09:01 PM (u8Ywb)
Posted by: logprof at March 10, 2017 09:02 PM (GsAUU)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 10, 2017 09:02 PM (4YGWz)
Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at March 10, 2017 09:02 PM (KgpWR)
Posted by: runner at March 10, 2017 09:03 PM (c6/9Q)
There's a lot of crap certainly but I also think TV can be informative if you use it wisely. Just like any tool.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 10, 2017 08:51 PM (EZebt)
I haven't "killed it" since it comes with the rent, but I just don't watch it.
On my nights off I scroll around and literally see nothing that remotely interests me other than an occasional Star Trek or Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives. Last night was unusual in that I flipped back and forth between Forrest Gump and Iron Man 2, then watched The Dark Knight.
It just all looks like crap, and a huge majority of it is, so it's not worth it to me to scroll through 500 channels looking for an occasional scrap.
Posted by: Country Boy at March 10, 2017 09:04 PM (Jcg9Q)
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at March 10, 2017 09:04 PM (vRcUp)
Posted by: Insomniac - sin valor at March 10, 2017 09:01 PM (0mRoj)
Well, if we're the freaks, then Trump is the Head Freak. We live in enjoyable times, because payback is delightful. Hark! Is that the sound of the lamentations of their women? I do believe it is! And many of the lamenting women are men, supposedly.
Posted by: Splunge at March 10, 2017 09:04 PM (iMxBJ)
Not jury-rigged.
Well. I'm an idiot.
Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at March 10, 2017 08:55 PM (KgpWR)
Jury-rigged.
Jerry-built.
Posted by: Ladylibertarian at March 10, 2017 09:04 PM (TdMsT)
http://bit.ly/2mpAaGG
Posted by: The Political Hat at March 09, 2017 11:06 PM
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr
Adopt kids. Oh yeah sure. That would be in the best interests of any kids
Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 10, 2017 09:05 PM (auHtY)
Now, hold on there grammie. This morning you said you were hoping to have to buy new shoes.
So are the new shoes disappointing, or the fact you had to buy them?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 10, 2017 09:05 PM (EZebt)
Posted by: Weasel at March 10, 2017 09:05 PM (Sfs6o)
Posted by: freaked at March 10, 2017 09:05 PM (BO/km)
Posted by: runner at March 10, 2017 09:06 PM (c6/9Q)
I'm late to the party, Happy Birthday Puddlegum!
(I've been gone for a couple of weeks, Vacation, my husband had surgery, and my son and I both had a stomach virus since last Saturday)
Posted by: CaliGirl at March 10, 2017 09:06 PM (u8Ywb)
Well, if we're the freaks, then Trump is the Head Freak. We live in enjoyable times, because payback is delightful. Hark! Is that the sound of the lamentations of their women? I do believe it is! And many of the lamenting women are men, supposedly.
Posted by: Splunge at March 10, 2017 09:04 PM (iMxBJ)
Unbearably delicious, and new servings EVERY DAY.
Posted by: Ladylibertarian at March 10, 2017 09:06 PM (TdMsT)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 10, 2017 09:05 PM (EZebt)
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Rev is disappointed that he has to open his wallet again. I have to fake being disappointed too. But when he goes to the bathroom, I do a little twirl.
Posted by: grammie winger at March 10, 2017 09:07 PM (dFi94)
Posted by: logprof at March 10, 2017 09:07 PM (GsAUU)
Posted by: Admiral Snackbar at March 10, 2017 09:07 PM (Tyii7)
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at March 10, 2017 09:07 PM (hVdx9)
Posted by: Kim Jong Il at March 10, 2017 09:08 PM (0OG8D)
Posted by: runner at March 10, 2017 09:03 PM (c6/9Q)
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Yeah.
For example, I have always wondered why in English to kid someone = to pull someone's leg.
In Spanish it's to grab someone's hair, which makes more sense to me.
No. Actually, neither one makes sense.
Posted by: Margarita who actually finds this interesting at March 10, 2017 09:08 PM (Nox3c)
Posted by: grammie winger at March 10, 2017 09:08 PM (dFi94)
can also throw in folk etymologies -- false etymologies proposed by people who actually don't know the etymology, like the old saw that "fuck" is from an English ban on copulation between unmarried couples called "Fornication Under the Crown of the King."
Which is just so silly. It comes from the German ficken, as anyone who watches German porn can tell you.
Posted by: ace at March 10, 2017 09:08 PM (8rNrN)
I get a rare night at home with the Wife alone tonight (not her Mother), so I asked her to cut to the chase and tell me how much she needed. Her response "Jeez Dad, this is when I get to spout my bullshit to you!".
I then told her to send me a PPT with multicolored bar charts and pie charts. She just sent it to me, and it is funny as hell.
It came with a cipher chart which says things like "books=shoes, other=spring break money and miscellanous=I want to go out and party a couple nights this week".
Posted by: Flyboy at March 10, 2017 09:09 PM (f4XP+)
Holy crap.
Posted by: Moron Robbie at March 10, 2017 09:09 PM (/f1mm)
Posted by: atomicplaygirl (Gab: atomicplaygirl) at March 10, 2017 09:09 PM (Gim9y)
Posted by: Splunge at March 10, 2017 09:04 PM (iMxBJ)
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Here's my greatest fear: NOBODY in the Republican ruling class seems to have -- or will -- learn the great lesson of Trump. I'm not even sure Pence would be a worthy successor vis-a-vis fighting political correctness and the media (but I repeat myself).
Hope, for the sake of our country and liberty in general, that I'm wrong ...
Posted by: ShainS at March 10, 2017 09:10 PM (mt8X9)
Posted by: concrete girl at March 10, 2017 09:10 PM (k5KW0)
From a surname, which was derived from York, the name of a city in northern England. The city name was originally Eburacon, meaning "yew" in Brythonic, but it was altered by association with Old English Eoforwic, meaning "pig farm"
Posted by: freaked at March 10, 2017 09:10 PM (BO/km)
A york is what the ancient British called a giraffe that appeared to be pregnant but yet never gave birth. Kinda like a freemartin.
Posted by: Eromero at March 10, 2017 09:10 PM (zLDYs)
Posted by: freaked
I suppose all languages started out when one caveman blurted out some random sound, pointed to an object, and tried to get the others to agree to his sound. That would have been interesting to watch.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at March 10, 2017 09:10 PM (vRcUp)
iiiinteresting
Posted by: runner at March 10, 2017 09:11 PM (c6/9Q)
Not jury-rigged.
...
no, jury rigged and jerry rigged are both in the dictionary and acceptable. I'm saying, the reason people can't decide which is officially right is that neither is "officially" right. Both jerry rigged and jury rigged are swapping in existing words to replace the word "jory" which has passed out of the language entirely.
Posted by: ace at March 10, 2017 09:11 PM (8rNrN)
Posted by: Phone of Widespread Pepe at March 10, 2017 08:48 PM (zTvDU)
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They're going to have to rename that giraffe May ...
Posted by: ShainS at March 10, 2017 08:56 PM (mt8X9)
We went on a back stage tour of the Santa Barbara zoo a few years ago and were able to see a new born giraffe.
The zoo just acquired the giraffe and no one knew she was pregnant until she gave birth.
Are they sure the giraffe is pregnant?
Posted by: CaliGirl at March 10, 2017 09:00 PM (u8Ywb
No they aren't. But I'm sure that giraffe is Jill Stein.
Posted by: Phone of Widespread Pepe at March 10, 2017 09:11 PM (zTvDU)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 10, 2017 09:11 PM (EZebt)
Most of these talk shows mail it in on Friday (often the host takes a long weekend), but Tucker is bringing his A Game.
Posted by: logprof at March 10, 2017 09:11 PM (GsAUU)
She's an anti-comidienne.
Posted by: logprof
Still can't figure out how she got a show. She must give an amazing BJ.
Posted by: Puddleglum at March 10, 2017 09:11 PM (7sC3L)
Posted by: Flyboy at March 10, 2017 09:09 PM (f4XP+)
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I think she deserves an extra twenty for that.
Posted by: bluebell at March 10, 2017 09:11 PM (sBOL1)
Jury-rigged.
Jerry-built.
Posted by: Ladylibertarian at March 10, 2017 09:04 PM (TdMsT)
I had a friend who used to say "ni**er-rigged", which is really a backhanded compliment, since it implies resourcefulness.
Posted by: rickl at March 10, 2017 09:12 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler. Welcome to Trumpdome, bitch! at March 10, 2017 09:13 PM (0OG8D)
Applauding an idea you like: "Here, here"
Slowing down a process: "We have to reign that in"
Discouraging an approach: "Let's not take that tact"
Posted by: Splunge at March 10, 2017 09:13 PM (iMxBJ)
"THE VET (Veteran's Stadium) Pride, Pretzels, Prison."
My boss says, "I don't get the prison thing, what does that mean?"
So I have to explain to him that The Vet had a jail underneath the stadium, because our fans were so retarded that they needed to go to prison right away."
Today I wore my work appropriate shirt that said,
"ALLERGIC TO STUPID PEOPLE"
I thought it was appropriate in many ways
Posted by: @DangerGirl (gab.ai) and her 1.21 Gigawatt SanityProd (tm) at March 10, 2017 09:13 PM (+eR2D)
Posted by: hambone at March 10, 2017 09:13 PM (iLoHX)
She's an anti-comidienne.
Posted by: logprof
Still can't figure out how she got a show. She must give an amazing BJ.
Posted by: Puddlegm
****
She does butt stuff.
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at March 10, 2017 09:14 PM (hVdx9)
Posted by: ace at March 10, 2017 08:39
A clean Ewok is a good Ewok. At least once a month.
Posted by: Farmer at March 10, 2017 09:14 PM (o/90i)
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler. Welcome to Trumpdome, bitch! at March 10, 2017 09:14 PM (0OG8D)
Posted by: Orenthal James at March 10, 2017 09:14 PM (Tyii7)
Posted by: Puddleglum at March 10, 2017 09:14 PM (7sC3L)
Applauding an idea you like: "Here, here"
Slowing down a process: "We have to reign that in"
Discouraging an approach: "Let's not take that tact"
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"We have a little levity between this requirement and that one.
Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at March 10, 2017 09:14 PM (KgpWR)
can also throw in folk etymologies -- false etymologies proposed by people who actually don't know the etymology, like the old saw that "fuck" is from an English ban on copulation between unmarried couples called "Fornication Under the Crown of the King."
Which is just so silly. It comes from the German ficken, as anyone who watches German porn can tell you.
Posted by: ace at March 10, 2017 09:08 PM (8rNrN)
Here's something interesting I just learned. In Mexico they say cats have 7 lives instead of 9. The guy that works for me says it's because in America people take their cats to the Vet. In Mexico if the cat is hurt they shoot it.
Posted by: CaliGirl at March 10, 2017 09:14 PM (u8Ywb)
Posted by: runner at March 10, 2017 09:14 PM (c6/9Q)
http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/132868/jury-rigged-or-jerry-rigged
I gotta tell you, though, many etymologies dispute each other.
a lot of this is guesswork.
Posted by: ace at March 10, 2017 09:14 PM (8rNrN)
Posted by: bluebell at March 10, 2017 09:11 PM (sBOL1)
I agree, and for most of the same reasons I'll often give a bum a dollar if he's honest about what he's going to buy with it.
Posted by: Moron Robbie at March 10, 2017 09:14 PM (/f1mm)
Jerry-built.
Posted by: Ladylibertarian at March 10, 2017 09:04 PM (TdMsT)
I had a friend who used to say "ni**er-rigged", which is really a backhanded compliment, since it implies resourcefulness.
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I watch Jeopardy tonight and learned that the new dictionary-approved term is "McGyvered".
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks. Now worse than Hitler! at March 10, 2017 09:15 PM (Nwg0u)
From a surname, which was derived from York, the name of a city in northern England. The city name was originally Eburacon, meaning "yew" in Brythonic, but it was altered by association with Old English Eoforwic, meaning "pig farm"
Posted by: freaked at March 10, 2017 09:10 PM (BO/km)
--Seriously, a Moron did not know about York, England?
A city that rose under the Vikings, and has one of the most famous and lovely cathedrals in Christendom?
Read some books and up your game, young Morons!
P.S. Don't forget York County, Virginia, and its county seat Yorktown. You may not have heard, but it's kind of an important place.
Posted by: logprof at March 10, 2017 09:15 PM (GsAUU)
That would be interesting.
Posted by: Phone of Widespread Pepe at March 10, 2017 09:15 PM (zTvDU)
Posted by: rickl at March 10, 2017 09:12 PM (sdi6R)
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Had told my wife about the jury vs. jerry vs. jory, and she also mentioned that her parents (during the '60's in Texas) also used that term ...
Posted by: ShainS at March 10, 2017 09:16 PM (mt8X9)
Applauding an idea you like: "Here, here"
Slowing down a process: "We have to reign that in"
Discouraging an approach: "Let's not take that tact"
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"We have a little levity between this requirement and that one.
Posted by: Mortimer,
*****
This person is a complete f*ckwit. = They have yet to demonstrate they are able to meet minimum standards of performance
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at March 10, 2017 09:16 PM (hVdx9)
Posted by: Speedy Gonzales at March 10, 2017 09:16 PM (BO/km)
Posted by: freaked at March 10, 2017 09:10 PM (BO/km)
If I remember it right, Eboracum was the Roman name of the town they founded. York comes from the Scandi pronunciation of the name which morphed into York.
Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 10, 2017 09:16 PM (auHtY)
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler. Welcome to Trumpdome, bitch! at March 10, 2017 09:16 PM (0OG8D)
Posted by: Ben Had at March 10, 2017 09:17 PM (Wdysy)
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at March 10, 2017 09:17 PM (vRcUp)
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Howsyourmomynym
Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at March 10, 2017 09:17 PM (KgpWR)
Posted by: bluebell at March 10, 2017 09:11 PM (sBOL1)
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I do believe you are right. Maybe even $50. Best belly laugh I've had this whole week.
Posted by: Flyboy at March 10, 2017 09:17 PM (f4XP+)
It always comes back to the yews.
Posted by: Moron Robbie at March 10, 2017 09:18 PM (/f1mm)
Posted by: Phone of Widespread Pepe at March 10, 2017 09:18 PM (zTvDU)
A lot of etymologies turn out to be folk etymologies -- something someone just said one time and then it passed into folk "fact."
Posted by: ace at March 10, 2017 09:18 PM (8rNrN)
Posted by: hogmartin at March 10, 2017 09:18 PM (8nWyX)
Posted by: Flyboy at March 10, 2017 09:17 PM (f4XP+)
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When our daughter called from college a couple months ago to tell us she had a new boyfriend, I told her we needed photographic proof and a spreadsheet with his projected earnings for the next five years before we could give our approval.
We got the photo. Still waiting on the spreadsheet.
Posted by: bluebell at March 10, 2017 09:19 PM (sBOL1)
Posted by: freaked at March 10, 2017 09:19 PM (BO/km)
Posted by: Splunge at March 10, 2017 09:19 PM (iMxBJ)
so Margarita, what's it like in spanish ? tirando de mi pelo ? (googly thing gave me that)
Posted by: runner at March 10, 2017 09:14 PM (c6/9Q)
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tomando el pelo
tomar el pelo
(Oddly enough, Spanish never uses the possessive with body parts.)
Posted by: Margarita who actually finds this interesting at March 10, 2017 09:19 PM (Nox3c)
Applauding an idea you like: "Here, here"
Slowing down a process: "We have to reign that in"
Discouraging an approach: "Let's not take that tact"
Posted by: Splunge at March 10, 2017 09:13 PM (iMxBJ)
--Heh, we have some un-PC-ness at my workplace. I'm just a scrub, but a sup was relating how bad grammar gets on her nerves, and she mentioned "meetings between management," and I immediately interrupted ("*among* management"), and she laughed at it in a "my bad" way.
Posted by: logprof at March 10, 2017 09:19 PM (GsAUU)
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One that Spicer has been mangling, that I never heard anybody mangle before, is "asked and answered."
He keeps saying stuff like, "I asked-and-answered that yesterday."
Posted by: Geronimo Stilton at March 10, 2017 09:19 PM (PXbkt)
That would be interesting.
Posted by: Phone of Widespread Pepe at March 10, 2017 09:15 PM (zTvDU)
like..."Bless your heart" ?
Posted by: runner at March 10, 2017 09:20 PM (c6/9Q)
Posted by: Ladylibertarian at March 10, 2017 09:20 PM (TdMsT)
Posted by: Ben Had at March 10, 2017 09:20 PM (Wdysy)
Jury-rigged.
Jerry-built.
Posted by: Ladylibertarian at March 10, 2017 09:04 PM (TdMsT)
I had a friend who used to say "ni**er-rigged", which is really a backhanded compliment, since it implies resourcefulness.
Posted by: rickl at March 10, 2017 09:12 PM (sdi6R)
This is a compliment where I'm from as well.
Posted by: Phone of Widespread Pepe at March 10, 2017 09:20 PM (zTvDU)
That would be interesting.
Posted by: Phone of Widespread Pepe at March 10, 2017 09:15 PM (zTvDU)
like..."Bless your heart" ?
Posted by: runner at March 10, 2017 09:20 PM (c6/9Q)
That would be really fun!
Posted by: Ladylibertarian at March 10, 2017 09:21 PM (TdMsT)
Posted by: ace at March 10, 2017 08:47 PM (8rNrN)
I thought it was jerry rigged but probably got it confused with Jerrycan because the English swiped the design of the German container by piecing it together to figure out how it was made
Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 10, 2017 09:21 PM (auHtY)
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Fired some dude = "Made some resource changes"
And what is a "kit and kaboodle"?
Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at March 10, 2017 09:21 PM (KgpWR)
Posted by: freaked at March 10, 2017 09:21 PM (BO/km)
Posted by: logprof at March 10, 2017 09:22 PM (GsAUU)
It's my understanding that the academic way of dealing with that sort of thing is to reference your own previous work because the patriarchy doesn't give accurate information. Or something.
Posted by: Moron Robbie at March 10, 2017 09:22 PM (/f1mm)
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at March 10, 2017 09:22 PM (hVdx9)
Posted by: freaked at March 10, 2017 09:21 PM (BO/km)
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Sounds about right.
Posted by: bluebell at March 10, 2017 09:22 PM (sBOL1)
good idea. I saw one, a while back, where I saw someone here describe a color as "haint blue" or "haint green."
I had never heard that before so I looked it up.
Apparently it's a Southern variation of "haunt," and I guess the idea is that it's a pale, ghostly version of the color?
I think a commenter said that in the south will-o-wisps are called "haint lights" or "marsh haints" or something.
Posted by: ace at March 10, 2017 09:22 PM (8rNrN)
Posted by: grammie winger at March 10, 2017 09:07 PM (dFi94)
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Well, good for you then. But I'm with the Rev.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 10, 2017 09:22 PM (EZebt)
Posted by: Eromero at March 10, 2017 09:23 PM (zLDYs)
Posted by: Ben Had at March 10, 2017 09:17 PM (Wdysy)
Yes, I have the same one! I knew we were internet soulmates, Ben.
Posted by: @DangerGirl (gab.ai) and her 1.21 Gigawatt SanityProd (tm) at March 10, 2017 09:23 PM (+eR2D)
Posted by: Kim Kardashian at March 10, 2017 09:23 PM (Tyii7)
i assume it means your mess kit and your sleeping bag/pack.
Posted by: ace at March 10, 2017 09:23 PM (8rNrN)
Posted by: hogmartin at March 10, 2017 09:23 PM (8nWyX)
Posted by: concrete girl at March 10, 2017 09:10 PM (k5KW0)
The only thing I bought was coffee. We took a tour of a coffee farm.
Oh, I bought a bottle of oil($50). I had a neck and shoulder massage and the lady put some oil in my hair. My hair was so soft. I have long hair.
We were able to see the lava fire hose. We took a 4 hour helicopter tour. It was amazing. He landed on a cliff by a waterfall and we had a champagne lunch.
It was a bucket list type of tour.
Posted by: CaliGirl at March 10, 2017 09:23 PM (u8Ywb)
That would be interesting.
Posted by: Phone of Widespread Pepe at March 10, 2017 09:15 PM (zTvDU)
like..."Bless your heart" ?
Posted by: runner at March 10, 2017 09:20 PM (c6/9Q)
Which used to be a legit saying in the South. With older folks it still is. The younger crowd, not so much.
Posted by: Widespread Pepe at March 10, 2017 09:23 PM (zTvDU)
From Yahoo News:
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A boyish 30-year-old who looks like Justin Trudeau and sounds like Barack Obama has emerged as a potential kingmaker in Dutch politics, riding a rare message of tolerance ahead of an election dominated by anti-immigrant rhetoric.
Jesse Klaver, son of a Moroccan father and part Indonesian mother, is expected to turn his tiny Green Left party into one of the main groups in the Dutch parliament in a vote next week that has mostly made headlines because of a far right surge.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 10, 2017 09:23 PM (IqV8l)
Posted by: Ladylibertarian at March 10, 2017 09:20 PM (TdMsT)
--I don't like her.
I love her. She stuck her neck out (and she has a very long neck) for Trump from the get-go. And her columns are appointment reading for me each week.
Posted by: logprof at March 10, 2017 09:24 PM (GsAUU)
Posted by: logprof at March 10, 2017 09:22 PM (GsAUU)
"Hillary had Huma make her concession call, because she was three sheets to the wind at the time."
Posted by: Splunge at March 10, 2017 09:24 PM (iMxBJ)
Posted by: ace at March 10, 2017 09:24 PM (8rNrN)
Usually from the previous generation.
The old talk is dyin though. Not that common to hear actual Southern anymore.
Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at March 10, 2017 09:24 PM (KgpWR)
he said he gave it to me 'just because'
good on you, Flyboy
Posted by: concrete girl at March 10, 2017 09:24 PM (k5KW0)
but if you have one, let me know.
Posted by: ace at March 10, 2017 08:53 PM (8rNrN)
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How about just a thread of words that need to be brought back into common parlance, like:
Tatterdemalion - ragged or disreputable in appearance.
Codswallop - Nonsense, tommyrot, tosh
Fustian - hifalutin empty bluster
We can vow to use these words in everyday conversations. Maybe even slip them into status reports and PowerPoint demos!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 10, 2017 09:25 PM (EnKk6)
Posted by: Splunge at March 10, 2017 09:25 PM (iMxBJ)
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A boyish 30-year-old who looks like Justin
Trudeau and sounds like Barack Obama has emerged as a potential
kingmaker in Dutch politics, riding a rare message of tolerance ahead of
an election dominated by anti-immigrant rhetoric.
Jesse Klaver, son of a Moroccan father and part Indonesian mother,
is expected to turn his tiny Green Left party into one of the main
groups in the Dutch parliament in a vote next week that has mostly made
headlines because of a far right surge.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot
******
I would give a sad chuckle if some Islamic fascist whacked him...
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at March 10, 2017 09:25 PM (hVdx9)
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at March 10, 2017 09:25 PM (vRcUp)
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at March 10, 2017 09:25 PM (hVdx9)
We took a 4 hour helicopter tour. It was amazing. He landed on a cliff by a waterfall and we had a champagne lunch.
It was a bucket list type of tour.
Posted by: CaliGirl
It's good that you avoided the 3 hour tour.
They sometimes turn out bad.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 10, 2017 09:25 PM (IqV8l)
Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 10, 2017 09:26 PM (auHtY)
And what is a "kit and kaboodle"?
Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at March 10, 2017 09:21 PM (KgpWR)
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I believe that the "kit" is the thingy in which you transport spoon, bowl, and a thermos of milk.
The "kaboodle" is for the kaboom.
Posted by: Margarita who actually finds this interesting at March 10, 2017 09:26 PM (Nox3c)
Posted by: logprof at March 10, 2017 09:22 PM (GsAUU)
"Hillary had Huma make her concession call, because she was three sheets to the wind at the time."
Posted by: Splunge at March 10, 2017 09:24 PM (iMxBJ)
Do you think it WAS Huma who made the call?
Posted by: Ladylibertarian at March 10, 2017 09:26 PM (TdMsT)
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at March 10, 2017 09:22 PM (hVdx9)
Word.
Posted by: Joseph Ducreux at March 10, 2017 09:26 PM (GsAUU)
Hay wired
as in parts falling off and wired back into place temporarily.
hay wired, as in something broke and the thing no longer works correctly
hay wired, as in work done poorly, shoddy, sub standard.
old timer's equivalent of duck tape before duck tape was invented.
I had a muffler that was haywired to the frame because the mounting brackets rusted through.
Posted by: Skandia Recluse at March 10, 2017 09:27 PM (RfODM)
apparently from the dutch kit, which is some kind of barrel like container or maybe a barrel-shaped wagon, and caboodle, which is your moveable property (or chattles, as they'd say in old-time English).
so it means everything you own and the means of moving it out, or "the whole lot."
Posted by: ace at March 10, 2017 09:27 PM (8rNrN)
Posted by: bluebell at March 10, 2017 09:19 PM (sBOL1)
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My 20 year old daughter has a boyfriend who is 27. When I asked her about the why of all that, she said "Dad, have you seen the man bunned pussies that are my age?!". Well played Darlin', well played.
They are talking marriage. He is at Cummins Deisel school on his way to becoming a Master Mechanic. She is going into Pediatric Nursing with an MBA.
They should be able to support me in grand style in my old age.
Posted by: Flyboy at March 10, 2017 09:27 PM (f4XP+)
Posted by: freaked at March 10, 2017 09:27 PM (BO/km)
Posted by: ace at March 10, 2017 09:24 PM (8rNrN)
I've heard Carolinians use "a grip of X" for "a large amount of X".
Posted by: hogmartin at March 10, 2017 09:27 PM (8nWyX)
It was a bucket list type of tour.
Posted by: CaliGirl at March 10, 2017 09:23 PM (u8Ywb)
Nice. Although the only time I ever hurled on an aircraft was on a helicopter tour of lava. It wasn't the motion, it was those lungfuls of sulfur I inhaled as we swooped over the volcano. Got to the bag in time, fortunately.
Posted by: Splunge at March 10, 2017 09:27 PM (iMxBJ)
Posted by: ace at March 10, 2017 09:28 PM (8rNrN)
I had a boss who did that in his peer-reviewed papers. I remember he was so tickled when he got "touted" into one paper. He was English.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 10, 2017 09:28 PM (u82oZ)
I cannot tell you how many new phrases I've learned since moving from Philly to Dallas. And vice-versa.
Language is a very regional thing here in the US.
Posted by: @DangerGirl (gab.ai) and her 1.21 Gigawatt SanityProd (tm) at March 10, 2017 09:28 PM (+eR2D)
327 312 When in doubt, I assume that a idiomatic phrase has a nautical origin.
Posted by: logprof at March 10, 2017 09:22 PM (GsAUU)
"Hillary had Huma make her concession call, because she was three sheets to the wind at the time."
Posted by: Splunge at March 10, 2017 09:24 PM (iMxBJ)
Do you think it WAS Huma who made the call?
Posted by: Ladylibertarian
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Ask one of Trump's people. If the call didn't start off, " You lousy c*cksucker" I would say no.
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at March 10, 2017 09:28 PM (hVdx9)
Posted by: Ladylibertarian at March 10, 2017 09:26 PM (TdMsT)
Kellyanne Conway said so recently.
Posted by: Splunge at March 10, 2017 09:29 PM (iMxBJ)
Posted by: bluebell at March 10, 2017 09:29 PM (sBOL1)
Posted by: Splunge at March 10, 2017 09:24 PM (iMxBJ)
--Heh, I know that one is nautical.
Also, three square meals and of course walk the plank.
Posted by: logprof at March 10, 2017 09:29 PM (GsAUU)
Dude, you oughta hear me talk. Even here in ETEX, I get doubletakes from people when I say stuff like 'Y'all go on toward yonder corner'.
Posted by: Eromero at March 10, 2017 09:29 PM (zLDYs)
Posted by: rickl at March 10, 2017 09:12 PM (sdi6R)
I heard that quite often growing up, which I took as "half assed, but it works."
Posted by: Country Boy at March 10, 2017 09:29 PM (Jcg9Q)
Posted by: Ben Had at March 10, 2017 09:30 PM (Wdysy)
Language is a very regional thing here in the US.
Posted by: @DangerGirl (gab.ai) and her 1.21 Gigawatt SanityProd (tm)
I wonder if the same is true across other large countries such as Russia and China?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 10, 2017 09:30 PM (IqV8l)
Posted by: grammie winger at March 10, 2017 09:01 PM (dFi94)
Yeah. I'm tired of, among so many other things, the foul, stinking sludge of moral and cultural decay oozing into everything. You can't get away from it, you can't even keep your kids from it, and it sometimes feels like just about everyone else is working overtime trying to pump it out at the greatest volume possible.
Posted by: Insomniac - sin valor at March 10, 2017 09:30 PM (0mRoj)
good idea. I saw one, a while back, where I saw someone here describe a color as "haint blue" or "haint green."
I had never heard that before so I looked it up.
Apparently it's a Southern variation of "haunt," and I guess the idea is that it's a pale, ghostly version of the color?
I think a commenter said that in the south will-o-wisps are called "haint lights" or "marsh haints" or something.
Posted by: ace at March 10, 2017 09:22 PM (8rNrN
That's interesting. I did not know that. I've used haint to call something "not quite but close" when describing something of the 5 senses.
Even the variations in the different regions are interesting.
That's one of the things that I love about travelling the country is hearing and learning about the different words, phrases, and slangs used.
Posted by: Phone of Widespread Pepe at March 10, 2017 09:30 PM (zTvDU)
I love how the Brits use the word "sorted" for "figured out" or "organized."
"I'll get the kitchen sorted."
Posted by: Ladylibertarian at March 10, 2017 09:30 PM (TdMsT)
And yeah, I grew up on the Natchez Trace in Alabama and heard my grandparents use "haints."
Posted by: Moron Robbie at March 10, 2017 09:30 PM (/f1mm)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 10, 2017 09:28 PM (u82oZ)
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I was able to sneak in "South China Sea argy-bargy".
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 10, 2017 09:30 PM (EnKk6)
U.S. "Let's table that" = "Let's postpone that"
U.K. "Tabled the motion" = "Presented the motion for immediate consideration"
Posted by: Splunge at March 10, 2017 09:31 PM (iMxBJ)
Posted by: Eromero at March 10, 2017 09:29 PM (zLDYs)
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I hope all that doesn't go away soon. I've lived in Virginia most of my life and you learn to tell the difference between a Richmond accent, a Tidewater accent, a Roanoke accent, etc. But they're disappearing, sadly. Not altogether, but still.
Posted by: bluebell at March 10, 2017 09:32 PM (sBOL1)
And yeah, I grew up on the Natchez Trace in Alabama and heard my grandparents use "haints."
Posted by: Moron Robbie at March 10, 2017 09:30 PM (/f1mm)
One of the characters in a southern author's book used to exclaim, "do Jesus!"
Posted by: Ladylibertarian at March 10, 2017 09:32 PM (TdMsT)
the EC tubbs book I was reading used "touts" as a noun meaning "shills." Like "The touts outside their tents cried out about the quality of their spices."
Posted by: ace at March 10, 2017 09:32 PM (8rNrN)
--Liberal.
Posted by: logprof at March 10, 2017 09:33 PM (GsAUU)
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at March 10, 2017 09:33 PM (vRcUp)
Posted by: Splunge at March 10, 2017 09:24 PM (iMxBJ)
Do you think it WAS Huma who made the call?
Posted by: Ladylibertarian at March 10, 2017 09:26 PM (TdMsT)
KAC said so. The one thing I am convinced of is that Podesta went out to tell everyone at the Javits Center to go home because Hillary was so drunk at that point that they were all very concerned what she might say in front of millions of people, or that she might fall on her ass.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at March 10, 2017 09:33 PM (jK8Z7)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 10, 2017 09:30 PM (IqV8l)
Doesn't even have to be a big country. Speaking Frisian in Berlin or Breton in Paris won't get you very far.
Posted by: hogmartin at March 10, 2017 09:33 PM (8nWyX)
Posted by: Splunge at March 10, 2017 09:34 PM (iMxBJ)
Posted by: rickl at March 10, 2017 09:12 PM (sdi6R)
I heard that quite often growing up, which I took as "half assed, but it works."
Posted by: Country Boy at March 10, 2017 09:29 PM (Jcg9Q)
When I was a kid, it was used to mean, 'half assed, and doesn't work all that well, if it works at all.'
Posted by: Skandia Recluse at March 10, 2017 09:34 PM (RfODM)
Posted by: @DangerGirl (gab.ai) and her 1.21 Gigawatt SanityProd (tm) at March 10, 2017 09:28 PM (+eR2D)
There's a guy that is a produce salesman for a competitor. The girls in the office and I don't like him, he's rude and gruff.
My husband always sticks up for him and says he's from Philly.
Posted by: CaliGirl at March 10, 2017 09:34 PM (u8Ywb)
get doubletakes from people when I say stuff like 'Y'all go on toward
yonder corner'.
Posted by: Eromero
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Mama was from South Cackalackey and Daddy was from the Tennessee hills.
I didn't have much choice.
Every once in a while I will slip and say 'ova heah' for 'over here' like a plantation owner. The New Yorkers in my boot camp company would pay me a buck apiece just for me to talk for 20 minutes.
Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at March 10, 2017 09:35 PM (KgpWR)
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"Pander" is another one like that. (Where "a pander" used to be a pimp or procurer.)
Posted by: Geronimo Stilton at March 10, 2017 09:35 PM (PXbkt)
oh for farks sake
They made yet another Three Old Guys Plan A Heist movie.
I watched a youtube vid of 30 movies coming out in 2017 that will "blow me away." All of them looked like Shit.
Yeah, the 8th reiteration of fast and furious is exactly what I want to see.
Posted by: Soothsayer Pro LX at March 10, 2017 09:35 PM (CjsTU)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 10, 2017 09:30 PM (IqV8l)
absolutely, like in china - cantonese, mandarin - different languages even
Posted by: runner at March 10, 2017 09:36 PM (c6/9Q)
BTW, I knew you threw this book against the wall:
Beyond Earth : our path to a new home in the planets.
Once you remove the sanctimonious and stupid Leftist cant, like climate change, you have a much shorter book of good information. The information on the current space program and aspects of it's history was very interesting. One of their claims is that sex in space has already occurred.
Their main theme, that Titan is a doable target of colonization, is pure codswallop. They contradicted themselves every other page. Basically, we cannot grow food there, because we can't get enough soil to that moon. They seem unaware of hydroponics.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 10, 2017 09:36 PM (u82oZ)
Language is a very regional thing here in the US.
Posted by: @DangerGirl (gab.ai) and her 1.21 Gigawatt SanityProd (tm)
I wonder if the same is true across other large countries such as Russia and China?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 10, 2017 09:30 PM (IqV8l)
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There's a lot of regional variety even in smallish places like England.
China? They have a whole lot of different languages, which is not quite what we're talking about. But you'd have to think there were regional variations within Mandarin itself.
I know that my Taiwanese SIL says that mainland Mandarin sounds different to her.
Posted by: Margarita who actually finds this interesting at March 10, 2017 09:36 PM (Nox3c)
right on.
my mom just returned from a hawaiian cruise.
she used to own land on hilo that had all kinds of lava tubes on it.
i asked for coffee. no deal.
but she did get me a box of those macadamia nut chocolates and a wildlife painting.
Posted by: concrete girl at March 10, 2017 09:36 PM (k5KW0)
Posted by: Mathers at March 10, 2017 09:37 PM (mDmux)
i thought that was panderER
Posted by: ace at March 10, 2017 09:37 PM (8rNrN)
Posted by: Eromero at March 10, 2017 09:37 PM (zLDYs)
--Liberal.
Posted by: logprof at March 10, 2017 09:33 PM (GsAUU)
Oh, right! But I'm not sure that difference is staying in place. A quote from the British Liberal Democrat party page:
"That is why the Liberal Democrats have gone further than any other party in pushing for an ambitious new target for reducing our carbon emissions. "
Posted by: Splunge at March 10, 2017 09:37 PM (iMxBJ)
Posted by: bluebell at March 10, 2017 09:29 PM (sBOL1)
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Thank you. It really is fun to be able to talk to her on a fully adult level this last few years and going forward.
Posted by: Flyboy at March 10, 2017 09:37 PM (f4XP+)
And that Weasel-Man movie. Wolverine has to be the least likable superhero ever.
In fact, there is not a single likable Marvel superhero.
Posted by: Soothsayer Pro LX at March 10, 2017 09:37 PM (CjsTU)
I'm tellin' ya, this now seems to be 80% of their net output -- clips of tv clowns telling jokes.
I do kind of sympathise with them on this. not their choice of exact content in which some conservative is "destroyed!!!" but rather the lightweight stupid crap and twitter posting.
They're desperate for clicks, advertising, and notice. So they puke out low end junk to get notice. Its like doing crap movies so you can do the stuff you like, your art films that get no box office but great reviews and awards.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 10, 2017 09:37 PM (39g3+)
(did that make sense?)
Cleave is one. Dust is another.
Posted by: Moron Robbie at March 10, 2017 09:38 PM (/f1mm)
Posted by: rickl at March 10, 2017 09:38 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: runner at March 10, 2017 09:36 PM (c6/9Q)
And yet, with the same written language. Kind of blows the mind.
Posted by: Splunge at March 10, 2017 09:38 PM (iMxBJ)
THE SECOND COMING
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: a waste of desert sand;
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Wind shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
Posted by: Ladylibertarian at March 10, 2017 09:38 PM (TdMsT)
Posted by: ace at March 10, 2017 09:38 PM (8rNrN)
Posted by: Splunge at March 10, 2017 09:34 PM (iMxBJ)
--A bog is not a swamp.
A bog is an ecosystem whose dominant vegetation is moss.
For marsh, grass.
For swamp, trees.
Posted by: logprof at March 10, 2017 09:39 PM (GsAUU)
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Yeah, "panderer" sounds more normal/modern. And I could be misremembering... but I think of "pander" as a kind of Shakespearean-insult noun.
Posted by: Geronimo Stilton at March 10, 2017 09:39 PM (PXbkt)
Posted by: Soothsayer Pro LX at March 10, 2017 09:39 PM (CjsTU)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 10, 2017 09:40 PM (IqV8l)
--
Have you ever seen a chimpanzee go 'apeshit'? Self explanatory.
One of the world renowned chimpanzee experts had a video. They lured the chimps in with bananas. The bananas came in a five gallon cubical 'tin can', and when the empty can was slapped it made a loud booming sound, and when empty it was easy to roll.
One of the dominate chimps went 'apeshit' and started slapping that tin can around like it was a soccer ball, screaming, and chasing after the thing. That behavior terrified the other chimps, thus proving his dominance over the tribe.
Funny as hell.
Posted by: Skandia Recluse at March 10, 2017 09:40 PM (RfODM)
Posted by: logprof at March 10, 2017 09:41 PM (GsAUU)
can we stop with the various meanings of ****** rigged please
Posted by: ace
****
Where I grew up saying that would get you f'd up.
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at March 10, 2017 09:41 PM (hVdx9)
Hilo is beautiful.
I may do the coffee tomorrow in the French press. I haven't tried it yet. I've been really sick.
I bought the peaberry coffee and some dark roasts.
Posted by: CaliGirl at March 10, 2017 09:41 PM (u8Ywb)
A bog is an ecosystem whose dominant vegetation is moss.
For marsh, grass.
For swamp, trees.
Posted by: logprof at March 10, 2017 09:39 PM (GsAUU)
Oh, awesome. Now I'm going to find an excuse to lord my newfound knowledge over someone.
Posted by: Splunge at March 10, 2017 09:41 PM (iMxBJ)
"Bumfuck to Egypt" (meaning way out in the boonies)
Posted by: Geronimo Stilton at March 10, 2017 09:41 PM (PXbkt)
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at March 10, 2017 09:42 PM (hVdx9)
"That is why the Liberal Democrats have gone further than any other party in pushing for an ambitious new target for reducing our carbon emissions. "
Posted by: Splunge at March 10, 2017 09:37 PM (iMxBJ)
--Yes, but I had Australia in mind. Liberals there are conservative.
Posted by: logprof at March 10, 2017 09:42 PM (GsAUU)
http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/132868/jury-rigged-or-jerry-rigged
I gotta tell you, though, many etymologies dispute each other.
a lot of this is guesswork.
Posted by: ace at March 10, 2017 09:14
And a lot are just regional. When I started farming in 1980 I first learned the term "farmered up". Anyone else heard that term? I think it's limited to NW IL.
Posted by: Farmer at March 10, 2017 09:42 PM (o/90i)
Every body in my boot camp company was from South of the Mason-Dixon line except one guy who was from Maryland. And we could converse with him, but not with our CC who was a GMG1 from NYC, was 5 feet tall, and hated everybody taller than him or anybody with a Southern accent.
Posted by: Eromero at March 10, 2017 09:42 PM (zLDYs)
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Salty, there were a lot of really interesting ideas in that book, like selecting for excellence in the group of pioneers to Titan and how it would play out generations hence.
I just didn't like the AGW doomsday cult stuff at every turn.
And the only book I've every thrown against a wall is Angels and Demons, and it had it coming.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 10, 2017 09:43 PM (EnKk6)
Funny as hell.
Posted by: Skandia Recluse at March 10, 2017 09:40 PM (RfODM)
I used to think of "shitfit" as just a funny word. Then we had a Bouvier dog with Kennel Dog Syndrome who didn't like people, but hated to be left alone. We closed her in a room and went to dinner one night, and when we came back...
We cleaned the walls together. I still don't know how she got some of it so high up.
Posted by: Splunge at March 10, 2017 09:44 PM (iMxBJ)
Posted by: logprof at March 10, 2017 09:44 PM (GsAUU)
Posted by: Soothsayer Pro LX at March 10, 2017 09:44 PM (CjsTU)
"Bumfuck to Egypt" (meaning way out in the boonies)
Posted by: Geronimo Stilton at March 10, 2017 09:41 PM (PXbkt)
--"Boonies" = boondocks, from the Tagalog word bundok.
Posted by: logprof at March 10, 2017 09:44 PM (GsAUU)
Posted by: Ben Had at March 10, 2017 09:30 PM (Wdysy)
I knew I loved you from the moment I met you.
Do not tell Dick. (even though he is probably reading this)
Posted by: @DangerGirl (gab.ai) and her 1.21 Gigawatt SanityProd (tm) at March 10, 2017 09:44 PM (+eR2D)
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That poem never fails to chill me to the bone.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at March 10, 2017 09:45 PM (Nox3c)
Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at March 10, 2017 09:45 PM (KgpWR)
Are full of passionate intensity.
So Yeats was a visionary. If that doesn't describe our current situation, I don't know what does.
Posted by: rickl at March 10, 2017 09:45 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Soothsayer Pro LX at March 10, 2017 09:37 PM (CjsTU)
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Unbeatable Squirrel Girl.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 10, 2017 09:45 PM (EnKk6)
413 391---Posted by: Ladylibertarian at March 10, 2017 09:38 PM (TdMsT)
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That poem never fails to chill me to the bone.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at March 10, 2017 09:45 PM (Nox3c)
Yes. Prescient.
Posted by: Ladylibertarian at March 10, 2017 09:45 PM (TdMsT)
Posted by: Farmer at March 10, 2017 09:42 PM (o/90i)
I've never heard that term and we're in ag.
Posted by: CaliGirl at March 10, 2017 09:46 PM (u8Ywb)
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at March 10, 2017 09:46 PM (vRcUp)
Have heard the word jackleg used as an adjective in front of a person's business or work.
It's not complimentary.
Posted by: Mathers at March 10, 2017 09:46 PM (mDmux)
Posted by: Eromero at March 10, 2017 09:42 PM (zLDYs)
--Mryland *is* south of the Mason-Dixon Line (which is the MD-PA line).
Just being Paul Anka here.
Posted by: logprof at March 10, 2017 09:46 PM (GsAUU)
Limn apparently means to illuminate, or to conjure the vision of something with words or paint.
subliminal is therefore beneath that threshold of illumination, and therefore hidden, or only seen in outline. And in thought: unconscious.
superliminal is the opposite, in the light, and so: something you're conscious of.
Because the word seems to be derived from the same root as light ("lum"), the words subluminal and superluminal wind up looking pretty similar, but they have to do with being below or above lightspeed.
Posted by: ace at March 10, 2017 09:46 PM (8rNrN)
Dear god that would have been something sweet.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 10, 2017 09:46 PM (VdICR)
Are full of passionate intensity.
So Yeats was a visionary. If that doesn't describe our current situation, I don't know what does.
Posted by: rickl at March 10, 2017 09:45 PM (sdi6R)
A very apt description for America today.
Posted by: Ladylibertarian at March 10, 2017 09:47 PM (TdMsT)
Posted by: Mathers at March 10, 2017 09:47 PM (mDmux)
"Bumfuck to Egypt" (meaning way out in the boonies)
Posted by: Geronimo Stilton at March 10, 2017 09:41 PM (PXbkt)
In Chicago we said being in the middle of nowhere it was out in Bufu Egypt
Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 10, 2017 09:48 PM (auHtY)
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
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Love that one. How many years to write something like that? And now ?
We Tweet.
Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at March 10, 2017 09:48 PM (KgpWR)
423 The one thing I am convinced of is that Podesta went out to tell everyone at the Javits Center to go home because Hillary was so drunk at that point that they were all very concerned what she might say in front of millions of people, or that she might fall on her ass.
Dear god that would have been something sweet.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 10, 2017 09:46 PM (VdICR)
I keep hoping the events in her headquarters on election night will come out.
Posted by: Ladylibertarian at March 10, 2017 09:48 PM (TdMsT)
"Bumfuck to Egypt" (meaning way out in the boonies)
Posted by: Geronimo Stilton at March 10, 2017 09:41 PM (PXbkt)
We said bumfuck Egypt.
Posted by: CaliGirl at March 10, 2017 09:48 PM (u8Ywb)
Archie Goodwin: "Formerly an expression, now listed under common carriers."
Posted by: Splunge at March 10, 2017 09:49 PM (iMxBJ)
Posted by: @DangerGirl (gab.ai) and her 1.21 Gigawatt SanityProd (tm) at March 10, 2017 09:49 PM (+eR2D)
Posted by: Moron Robbie at March 10, 2017 09:49 PM (/f1mm)
Did "a wing and a prayer" refer to birds or planes?
I always saw it used for war birds, uh. planes. coming back from a mission shot up all to hell and the crew praying it would hold together long enough to land.
The was a guy who had a wing torn off in a collision and he flew it (F-16 I think) back to base on one wing and engine thrust.
Posted by: Skandia Recluse at March 10, 2017 09:49 PM (RfODM)
A very apt description for America today.
Posted by: Ladylibertarian at March 10, 2017 09:47 PM (TdMsT)
It is, sadly.
Posted by: CaliGirl at March 10, 2017 09:49 PM (u8Ywb)
Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at March 10, 2017 09:49 PM (KgpWR)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 10, 2017 09:49 PM (EnKk6)
Posted by: logprof at March 10, 2017 09:50 PM (GsAUU)
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
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Love that one. How many years to write something like that? And now ?
We Tweet.
Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at March 10, 2017 09:48 PM (KgpWR)
Incredible. The power of the word.
Posted by: Ladylibertarian at March 10, 2017 09:50 PM (TdMsT)
somebody once told me that if you know latin you can probably figure out meaning of any English word
Posted by: runner at March 10, 2017 09:51 PM (c6/9Q)
ie vs eg ?
Teach me professor. I have no illusions about my level of ignorance! :-)
Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at March 10, 2017 09:51 PM (KgpWR)
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Maybe that's what we said, too, actually. (Been a while.)
Sometimes we'd also say "East Bumfuck".
Posted by: Geronimo Stilton at March 10, 2017 09:52 PM (PXbkt)
I've seen "I must fly" in agatha christie, meaning 'I'm late, gotta run" (think it's in the movie Evil Under the Sun).
I'm gonna guess that flee and fly share the same root and are often used where the other one could also be used.
Posted by: ace at March 10, 2017 09:52 PM (8rNrN)
Posted by: hogmartin at March 10, 2017 09:52 PM (8nWyX)
an incompetent, unskillful, or dishonest person:
"a jackleg carpenter"
Posted by: Mathers at March 10, 2017 09:47 PM (mDmux)
I've never heard that one.
Posted by: CaliGirl at March 10, 2017 09:53 PM (u8Ywb)
Posted by: logprof at March 10, 2017 09:50 PM (GsAUU)
Never understood that phenomenon, people reaching for excessive words they don't actually have on hand.
The In Living Color satire of this tendency is a legend.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAguP-zY2AA
Posted by: Splunge at March 10, 2017 09:53 PM (iMxBJ)
Posted by: rickl at March 10, 2017 09:53 PM (sdi6R)
"run away," Old English fleon, flion "fly from, avoid, escape;" essentially a variant spelling of flee (q.v.). In Old English, this verb and fleogan "soar through the air with wings" (modern fly (v.1)) differed only in their present tense forms and often were confused, then as now. In some Middle English dialects they seem to have merged completely. Distinguished from one another since 14c. in the past tense: flew for fly (v.1), fled for fly (v.2).
Posted by: ace at March 10, 2017 09:53 PM (8rNrN)
ie vs eg ?
Teach me professor. I have no illusions about my level of ignorance! :-)
Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at March 10, 2017 09:51 PM (KgpWR)
--e.g. abbreviates exempla gratia, by which we mean "for example"
i.e. is id est, which means "that is," so it is used for paraphrasing or stating with different words.
Posted by: logprof at March 10, 2017 09:54 PM (GsAUU)
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at March 10, 2017 09:54 PM (hVdx9)
Guess they thought the Philipino mountain folk were sorta backwards.
Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at March 10, 2017 09:55 PM (KgpWR)
i've seen that in books in kind of elevated prose and am curious about it myself.
I've seen "needs be" in judicial decisions. Like maybe in Marbury v. Madison they say something like "That which would rule upon a matter needs be superior in power to that matter."
Posted by: ace at March 10, 2017 09:55 PM (8rNrN)
Posted by: Eromero at March 10, 2017 09:55 PM (zLDYs)
Posted by: logprof at March 10, 2017 09:56 PM (GsAUU)
Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at March 10, 2017 09:57 PM (KgpWR)
Hence, "That's totally BOGUS dude!" (That is a vicious calumny sir!)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 10, 2017 09:57 PM (EnKk6)
ie vs eg ?
Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at March 10, 2017 09:51 PM (KgpWR)
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i.e. = id est = that is
e.g. = exempli gratia = for example
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at March 10, 2017 09:57 PM (Nox3c)
Posted by: Ladylibertarian at March 10, 2017 09:57 PM (TdMsT)
Posted by: runner at March 10, 2017 09:57 PM (c6/9Q)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 10, 2017 09:58 PM (EnKk6)
Posted by: navybrat at March 10, 2017 09:58 PM (w7KSn)
The In Living Color satire of this tendency is a legend.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAguP-zY2AA
Posted by: Splunge at March 10, 2017 09:53 PM (iMxBJ)
I was watching my stupid chick show, Vanderpump Rules and one of the girls said "don't blow a casket".
I rewound to make sure that's what she said.
Posted by: CaliGirl at March 10, 2017 09:58 PM (u8Ywb)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAguP-zY2AA
Posted by: Splunge at March 10, 2017 09:53 PM (iMxBJ)
The Silence of the Lambs spoof they did is my favorite Oswald Bates sketch.
Posted by: Insomniac - sin valor at March 10, 2017 09:59 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: ace at March 10, 2017 10:00 PM (8rNrN)
Posted by: logprof at March 10, 2017 09:50 PM (GsAUU)
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My ex Sister in law used to do this. She said her Son was being "obstreperous". I honestly had to ask her what that meant. "Stubborn". I asked her if that's what she meant, why not just use the word stubborn?
She looked at me and said "words have distinct meaning".
Yes, yes they do. Turns out that your word means noisy and out of control. But, have at it crazy old cat lady.
Posted by: Flyboy at March 10, 2017 10:01 PM (QLAcq)
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Leading from behind.
Posted by: free tibet, with purchase of equal or greater value tibet at March 10, 2017 10:01 PM (CL76w)
Guess they thought the Philipino mountain folk were sorta backwards.
Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at March 10, 2017 09:55 PM (KgpWR)
--Maybe. It may have originally meant to be more descriptive of a place than its inhabitants. Come to think of it, we have a lot of words to describe places like the boondocks: bush, Outback, backwoods, sticks . . .
Which brings to mind another etymology:
The word in Corsica for such places is maquis. We associate the word vendetta with Italians, especially Sicilians, but it actually arose in Corsica. Do *not* fuck with Corsicans.
Posted by: logprof at March 10, 2017 10:01 PM (GsAUU)
(Even though that's a good mnemonic for remembering it -- it does convey the correct meaning, more or less)
Posted by: ace at March 10, 2017 10:01 PM (8rNrN)
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/screw_the_pooch
Posted by: ace at March 10, 2017 10:00 PM (8rNrN)
I was prepared for an erudite explanation of how this modern expression was corrupted from something stately and Latin.
But no, it was just "fuck the dog."
Posted by: Splunge at March 10, 2017 10:01 PM (iMxBJ)
Posted by: Eromero at March 10, 2017 09:55 PM (zLDYs)
--Oh, I know.
I'm a proud native Virginian, and I beleive the real Virginia only begins south of the Rappahannock.
Posted by: logprof at March 10, 2017 10:02 PM (GsAUU)
Posted by: Farmer at March 10, 2017 09:42
I've never heard that term and we're in ag.
Posted by: CaliGirl at March 10, 2017 09:46
I think it might be a very regional term. Made laugh whenever It heard it. It's improvisation w/ a depression mentality.
Posted by: Farmer at March 10, 2017 10:03 PM (o/90i)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZo7TsFIQdw
Posted by: rickl at March 10, 2017 10:04 PM (sdi6R)
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nitwit
i had figured the latter explanation, though that seems to be a less-commonly-claimed one.
Posted by: ace at March 10, 2017 10:04 PM (8rNrN)
The song the commenter linked sure suggests this.
Posted by: ace at March 10, 2017 10:05 PM (8rNrN)
Posted by: navybrat at March 10, 2017 09:58 PM (w7KSn)
You kind of need German along with Latin, probably because something something Norman Conquest. If you render a German phrase into word-for-word English, without moving the words around, you get something that sounds unsurprisingly like very archaic English syntax. The nursery rhyme with the odd-sounding "four-and-twenty blackbirds" makes sense when you know that German uses that order to represent numbers greater than 20.
Then there's the whole thing about how the food names for meats - poultry, beef, pork - derive from the Norman nobility while the on-the-hoof names - chicken, cow, swine - derive from the Anglo schmucks who had to tend them.
Posted by: hogmartin at March 10, 2017 10:06 PM (8nWyX)
Posted by: ace at March 10, 2017 10:08 PM (8rNrN)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 10, 2017 10:09 PM (EnKk6)
Posted by: runner at March 10, 2017 10:09 PM (c6/9Q)
Posted by: ace at March 10, 2017 10:09 PM (8rNrN)
and french --
Aidez-moi, monsieur!
Posted by: ace at March 10, 2017 10:10 PM (8rNrN)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9Tfbeqyu2U
Be careful with that axe, Sven.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 10, 2017 10:12 PM (EnKk6)
Posted by: ace at March 10, 2017 10:10 PM (8rNrN)
...and now you know where the MAYDAY call comes from.
Posted by: hogmartin at March 10, 2017 10:12 PM (8nWyX)
Posted by: ace at March 10, 2017 10:08 PM (8rNrN)
That means it's about a bomber rather than a fighter, which usually only had one engine.
"Yes we really hit our target for tonight"
Posted by: rickl at March 10, 2017 10:14 PM (sdi6R)
It's what you say after an accident: "au secours!"
Ah, looked it up (for first time). Secours means rescue. So Au Secours means to the rescue.
Posted by: ace at March 10, 2017 10:14 PM (8rNrN)
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=succor
Posted by: ace at March 10, 2017 10:15 PM (8rNrN)
"Yes we really hit our target for tonight"
...
right. Also explains the WE'RE comin' in -- bomber has a crew, fighter just usually has the one pilot.
Posted by: ace at March 10, 2017 10:16 PM (8rNrN)
Now you just check what is trending on Twitter, then copy paste what some random people said and call it a day.
Twitter is roasting Sean Spicer for wearing his flag pin upside down
Twitter goes berserk after Barcelona's unbelievable comeback
Twitter goes wild over Ryan Gosling's stunning sister Mandi Gosling as he takes her to Oscars
Twitter Is Roasting Demi Lovato Over Her Outfit Choice At iHeartRadio Awards
Twitter Turns Paul Ryan's PowerPoint On Health Care Into A Sick Meme
Twitter probes deep into WikiLeaks' CIA hacking dump
Twitter has a message for April: 'This needs to end'
Twitter goes crazy over Ciara's unclad Pregnancy Photoshoot
Twitter explodes after Cowboys make major free agent moves
Twitter Melts Down After Trump Tweets About "EASY D"
Posted by: Nathan R. Jessup at March 10, 2017 10:16 PM (TixTl)
i thought you were joking but the internet does say it comes from venez m'aider, come help me.
Posted by: ace at March 10, 2017 10:17 PM (8rNrN)
Posted by: free tibet, with purchase of equal or greater value tibet at March 10, 2017 10:19 PM (CL76w)
Posted by: ace at March 10, 2017 10:17 PM (8rNrN)
I would never. A false MAYDAY is a class D federal felony punishable by up to 6 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
Posted by: hogmartin at March 10, 2017 10:22 PM (8nWyX)
i thought you were joking but the internet does say it comes from venez m'aider, come help me.
Posted by: ace at March 10, 2017 10:17 PM (8rNrN)
It may have originated in WWI, when American pilots were fighting in France in French-built planes, although they didn't have radio at that time.
Posted by: rickl at March 10, 2017 10:22 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Southerner at March 10, 2017 10:22 PM (e1D+X)
The song the commenter linked sure suggests this.
Posted by: ace at March 10, 2017 10:05 PM (8rNrN)
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This is theoretically doable, but it takes mad pilot skillz to pull it off. You have to fly in at a knife edge setup, which is 90 degrees to starboard or port. You use the rudder as your elevator, and the aileron as your rudder. You are basically flying sideways.
Posted by: Flyboy at March 10, 2017 10:25 PM (QLAcq)
Posted by: Flyboy at March 10, 2017 10:25 PM (QLAcq)
Doesn't hurt to be an Israeli pilot in an F-15 either.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M359poNjvVA
Posted by: hogmartin at March 10, 2017 10:28 PM (8nWyX)
that's where the prayer part comes in.
Posted by: ace at March 10, 2017 10:29 PM (8rNrN)
oh right, now it comes back to me. thank you.
Posted by: ace at March 10, 2017 10:29 PM (8rNrN)
so you have no lift at all? I mean, no lift from the wing, because it's vertical?
How is this different from "Falling"?
Posted by: ace at March 10, 2017 10:31 PM (8rNrN)
Posted by: ace at March 10, 2017 10:29 PM (8rNrN)
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Absolutely. I have seen it done one time successfully in a video. You have to throw away all of your training and experience and go with "now this equals this". Totally counterintuitive, and also done while quite probably hitting disaster pants territory.
Posted by: Flyboy at March 10, 2017 10:33 PM (QLAcq)
Posted by: ace at March 10, 2017 10:36 PM (8rNrN)
How is this different from "Falling"?
Posted by: ace at March 10, 2017 10:31 PM (8rNrN)
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The only lift you have comes ffom your rudder. It requires a great deal of speed to keep air moving over the surface because your wing just got a helluva lot smaller.
Posted by: Flyboy at March 10, 2017 10:37 PM (QLAcq)
well, it could also be that the song is taking a little license and they mean that most of the wing is gone. maybe they can still come in with normal orientation. Is there a way to angle the plane to "lean" on one wing more if the other is shot up or broken?
Posted by: ace at March 10, 2017 10:43 PM (8rNrN)
Jeez.
Posted by: rickl at March 10, 2017 10:45 PM (sdi6R)
My earlier posts were focused on the landing thing, not so much the flight thing. I tend to regard the landing as the goal of a pilot.
Posted by: Flyboy at March 10, 2017 10:45 PM (QLAcq)
Posted by: ace at March 10, 2017 10:43 PM (8rNrN)
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They built tough planes back then. A shot up wing will lose lift, moreso the more shot up. See Bernoulli prprincipl of aerodynamics.
When the top surface is so shot up it can not hold the air coming against it from the swirl created by the wing surface, bad things happen in aeroland.
Posted by: Flyboy at March 10, 2017 10:54 PM (QLAcq)
Posted by: Artemis at March 10, 2017 11:34 PM (QFY2e)
Posted by: Artemis at March 10, 2017 11:36 PM (QFY2e)
One of the local Philly AM talk show hosts felt compelled to run a brain fart from the previous evening's "Colbert Show" back when he was on Comedy Central.
Suffice it to say that I didn't listen to that guy's show much then and not at all nowadays because I no longer rise early enough in the AM to crank up the radio to listen to him.
No loss whatsoever.
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