A Common Language

I really like this piece Mr. Sefton linked to in the early morning thread. The author has a great observation as to why the left's 24/7 anti-Trump jihad is falling mostly on deaf ears. It's because

...most of their stuff is shouted out in language which doesn’t mean much to the natives of Brooklyn, Peoria or Biloxi. Not because they don’t know the definition of the words they’re hearing but because they rarely, very rarely, use them. I spent thirty years in manufacturing, I go to gun club meetings, American Legion meetings, I chat at the post office in the morning, I go to church and church affairs and have friends. But in all these years of mixing, I’ve only heard the word 'fascist' used by a man railing against his wife. Ditto for 'misogynist,' 'xenophobe,' 'Islamophobe' or 'homophobe'.

Contrast this with

The simple Anglo-Saxon terms Donald Trump used to describe Hillary – “liar,” “corrupt,” “crooked,” “nasty,” resonated with middle America where the East and West Coast Liberal inside-the-bubble-talk that Hillary and her advocates used to describe Trump drew a blank. And so went the election.

Exactly. If I want to insult some douche-y guy, I'll say 'you homo', not 'you homophobe'.

And he points out that the epithet 'nazi' pretty much gets used to describe a person who is extremely dogmatic about one thing or another.

For example, years ago when my children were young, Mrs. Muse and I ran across the La Leche League, a group that promotes breast-feeding of infants. And while that's great and and healthy and all, some of their members can get pretty strident about it, and after awhile I got tired of their constant harangues that implied that if a mother wasn't breast-feeding her babies, she must be a bad person. So I started referring to them as "nipple nazis".

But I never called them "literally Hitler."

Open Thread, heh, maybe I can set a record for most time stomped.

Posted by: OregonMuse at 04:15 PM

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1 Well
Said.

Posted by: Golfman at March 21, 2017 11:50 AM (R+PSz)

2 Hello

Posted by: Undocumented at March 21, 2017 11:50 AM (SsblQ)

3 Literally titerally

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 21, 2017 11:51 AM (IqV8l)

4 The ones screaming Fascist are the ones that want to make me buy insurance and bake a cake.

Posted by: Golfman at March 21, 2017 11:52 AM (R+PSz)

5 Still taking movie thread ideas.

Bring 'em.

I'm writing them all down.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at March 21, 2017 11:52 AM (mC1ZI)

6 What happened to "zealot"?

Posted by: BignJames at March 21, 2017 11:52 AM (x9c8r)

7 Hmmm, sort of a nipple nazi myself but in a good way.

Posted by: gNewt at March 21, 2017 11:52 AM (1pZw2)

8 Personally, I'm OK with the rubes not understanding Their Betters.

Of course, Obama pandered to them insofar as his use of "folks."

I think Trump actually talks the way he speaks, which is much more effective than the xe/xer cr@p.

Posted by: shibumi at March 21, 2017 11:52 AM (FkAXz)

9
*idly chews a bit of straw*

Posted by: A Literal Redneck at March 21, 2017 11:52 AM (eeTCA)

10 I saved 15% on my cake insurance.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 21, 2017 11:52 AM (IqV8l)

11 So, is this thread about the joys of rough Anglo-Saxon fricatives, or are we talking about the nipples?

Posted by: Bandersnatch, gentleman cad at March 21, 2017 11:52 AM (gIRsn)

12 It all comes down to plain speaking. Just say what you mean, warts and all, not some focus-grouped pablum that's been filtered through so many meaning matrices that it's lost all relevance.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit & Vaginassassin, aka Beth at March 21, 2017 11:53 AM (4df7R)

13 I was Hitler before it was cool. But now I get invited to all the cocktail parties.

The trick is to bend over backwards for the ones who hate you.

Posted by: John McStain at March 21, 2017 11:53 AM (72PAC)

14 11 So, is this thread about the joys of rough Anglo-Saxon fricatives, or are we talking about the nipples?
Posted by: Bandersnatch, gentleman cad at March 21, 2017 11:52 AM (gIRsn)

==============

It's the Horde.

What do you think?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at March 21, 2017 11:53 AM (mC1ZI)

15 So, use plain English to speak and you'll never be misunderstood?
My ex-wife was the champ at using a $100 word when a $1 one would do. I guess it was to make her seem "smarter"..

Posted by: IP at March 21, 2017 11:53 AM (hUtue)

16 I'm writing them all down.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at March 21, 2017 11:52 AM (mC1ZI)

Nice to see you hard at work.

Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at March 21, 2017 11:53 AM (raBhU)

17 So, is this thread about the joys of rough Anglo-Saxon fricatives, or are we talking about the nipples?

Posted by: Bandersnatch, gentleman cad at March 21, 2017 11:52 AM (gIRsn)

yes

Posted by: BignJames at March 21, 2017 11:53 AM (x9c8r)

18 If I want to insult some douche-y guy,
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Yeah. Like people discussing sex and Star Trek.

Posted by: Undocumented at March 21, 2017 11:53 AM (SsblQ)

19 16 Nice to see you hard at work.
Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at March 21, 2017 11:53 AM (raBhU)

==================

I'm 4 weeks ahead.

That's my comfort level.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at March 21, 2017 11:53 AM (mC1ZI)

20
Well, I'm just a rusted hulk in a junkyard. No one listens to me.

Posted by: Literally Brad at March 21, 2017 11:54 AM (eeTCA)

21 "Nipple NAZIs"
I think I have that magazine.

Posted by: MLCross at March 21, 2017 11:54 AM (sfFyT)

22 Nipples...that's a terrible word. Nipples...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at March 21, 2017 11:54 AM (xJa6I)

23 You stomped ace!

(Also, "nipple nazi" will henceforth enter my lexicon, although not necessarily with the original meaning.)

Posted by: joncelli, Gobsmacked Rage Monkey and Crossbowman at March 21, 2017 11:54 AM (RD7QR)

24 Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit & Vaginassassin, aka Beth at March 21, 2017 11:53 AM (4df7R)

Yep. Remember the HRC tweet during the campaign that went through something like 12 revisions, then was never tweeted?

Posted by: Golfman at March 21, 2017 11:55 AM (R+PSz)

25 "The simple Anglo-Saxon terms Donald Trump used"

It's part of his Mad Media Skillz.

NY Post compared to The New York Times.

Posted by: Ignoramus at March 21, 2017 11:55 AM (SIY7D)

26 I prefer to use the 100 dollar words. I find it very cromulent.

Posted by: Bruce at March 21, 2017 11:55 AM (8ikIW)

27 Still taking movie thread ideas.

Bring 'em.

I'm writing them all down.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at March 21, 2017 11:52 AM

If you want a foreign comedy, The Dinner Game (French, 1ate 90s or so) is good for a few chuckles.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 21, 2017 11:55 AM (p+Wdc)

28 So, is this thread about the joys of rough Anglo-Saxon fricatives, or are we talking about the nipples?
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Depends. Are you referring to bilabial frictives?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 21, 2017 11:55 AM (eeTCA)

29 Nipple Nazis?

There's got to be an Ilsa: She-Wolf of the SS joke in there somewhere.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 21, 2017 11:56 AM (X6fMO)

30 'fricatives', dammit.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 21, 2017 11:56 AM (ZO497)

31 Nipple is a joyous Anglo-Saxon word.

Speaking of Anglo-Saxon, that's the first time in a long while that has been referenced. Of late it's only penche Anglo.

Remember the Saxons!

Posted by: gNewt at March 21, 2017 11:56 AM (1pZw2)

32 Now... when I think of Nazis, I imagine their uniforms have little cutouts right over the nipples, for easy access, making them far more naughty.

Posted by: #Verklemmt at March 21, 2017 11:56 AM (ncuez)

33 11 So, is this thread about the joys of rough Anglo-Saxon fricatives, or are we talking about the nipples?
Posted by: Bandersnatch, gentleman cad at March 21, 2017 11:52 AM (gIRsn)

Not mutually exclusive pursuits. See also: making motorboat sounds,

Posted by: joncelli, Gobsmacked Rage Monkey and Crossbowman at March 21, 2017 11:57 AM (RD7QR)

34 I've only heard the word 'fascist' used by a man railing against his wife.

That conversation was meant to be private!

Posted by: Bill Clinton at March 21, 2017 11:57 AM (3OAG2)

35 5 Still taking movie thread ideas.

Bring 'em.

I'm writing them all down.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at March 21, 2017 11:52 AM (mC1ZI)

To add another, I'd be really curious about the future of movies/movie theaters.

I think the enitre tv spectrum has been changed forever by Netlfix and changing viewing habits, and I see movies going the same way as well.

I know many people are of the mindset 'why pay $15 for a movie when I can get it, at most, for $1 a few months later.'

Netflix is now going to push hard with their movies. I don't think big tent pole releases in homes is that far off.

Posted by: What's a Seawolf? at March 21, 2017 11:57 AM (72PAC)

36 Nipple Nazi... you know the rules.
Pics or, well, you know..

Posted by: IP at March 21, 2017 11:57 AM (hUtue)

37 While on the topic of nipple nazis and Hitler, has anybody else noticed that the more weight that Lena Dunham loses, the more she looks like Eva Braun?

Posted by: Fritz at March 21, 2017 11:57 AM (2Mnv1)

38 sounds.

Posted by: joncelli, Gobsmacked Rage Monkey and Crossbowman at March 21, 2017 11:58 AM (RD7QR)

39 My mom friends and I called them the Breastapo.

Posted by: not the mama at March 21, 2017 11:58 AM (EpAnP)

40 Part of it is intentional in-group language.

Also see this with college papers, which have become incomprehensible because of the students' reliance on these signalling words like "cis-normative". It signals to the reader that the writer is "knowledgeable/fully conversant in the intella-speak.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 21, 2017 11:58 AM (NOIQH)

41 Payback stompening is the best stompening.

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at March 21, 2017 11:59 AM (sF/De)

42 Still taking movie thread ideas.

Bring 'em.

I'm writing them all down.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at March 21, 2017 11:52 AM (mC1ZI)

I've got nothing except that I've enjoyed your posts. I'm looking forward to the next.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 21, 2017 11:59 AM (X6fMO)

43 So, use plain English to speak and you'll never be misunderstood?
My ex-wife was the champ at using a $100 word when a $1 one would do. I guess it was to make her seem "smarter"..
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Non-ficiton writers do it all the time. They use unnecessarily large words, and typically put them in long, complex sentences that are hard to understand.

People will slog through the book and proclaim how brilliant the author is when, in fact, they're actually bad writers. But because they use big words, people are superficially impressed and proud that they finished this buy buy this person who uses big words and long sentences.

But in the end, they are bad writers and life is short. So I don't read books written by people who don't have a grasp of the English language.

/omg, I am such a b*tch!

Posted by: shibumi at March 21, 2017 11:59 AM (FkAXz)

44 Oh, Mr. Muse! I have a link that you might like for the chess thread.

I put it in some random thread yesterday and asked any Morons with a direct line to you to pass it on. I'm betting no one did.

Because Morons are slackers and dim. Morons won't go out of their way to help a fellow 'ron. Morons will use your toothbrush and put it back wet. Morons bully cashiers into accepting coupons that have expired.

Except the good ones, of course.

So I figure no one sent you this: http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/bad-chess-scenes-movies-tv

Posted by: Bandersnatch, gentleman cad at March 21, 2017 11:59 AM (gIRsn)

45 Well I hear those words every day on the mean streets of Amherst.

Posted by: Phd. Candidate, Post-Colonial Transgender Studies at March 21, 2017 12:00 PM (qYCgM)

46 first

Posted by: Fox at March 21, 2017 12:00 PM (DVC2D)

47 They'll try to give you the hokey-doke, but don't let 'em bamboozle ya'. You'll get all wee-wee'd up.

Posted by: Barak Hussein Obama, just a regular ole feller at March 21, 2017 12:00 PM (LENs1)

48 37 While on the topic of nipple nazis and Hitler, has anybody else noticed that the more weight that Lena Dunham loses, the more she looks like Eva Braun?
___________________________

I noticed that the more weight she lose, the rise and fall of the tides seem to be much less dramatic.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at March 21, 2017 12:00 PM (4AVeu)

49 hi!

Posted by: haggis at March 21, 2017 12:00 PM (25+/B)

50 "Still taking movie thread ideas."

You might want to do a few by genre. Specific directors may be too narrow, although a few directors are certainly worthy (e.g., Ford, Kubrick, Kurosawa, Lean and Hitchcock).

Posted by: Ignoramus at March 21, 2017 12:00 PM (SIY7D)

51 >>Nipple Nazi... you know the rules.
Pics or, well, you know..

Uh, be careful! I know of these La Leche nipple nazis, and if the two very butch, Boomer lesbians who staffed my hospital's breast-feeding support team are any indication, the pics will not remind you of Hooters.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 21, 2017 12:01 PM (NOIQH)

52 Tried tuning into the gorsuch livestream but Lindsey Graham was yammering. nope.

Posted by: not the mama at March 21, 2017 12:01 PM (EpAnP)

53 St?

Posted by: MeMyselfandI at March 21, 2017 12:01 PM (J9wxX)

54 http://preview.tinyurl.com/mysxl52

Link is to story about woman who was unable to provide sufficient hydration/nutrition by breast feeding only.

Fed is Best.

NED

Posted by: NewEnglandDevil at March 21, 2017 12:01 PM (DfChV)

55 37
While on the topic of nipple nazis and Hitler, has anybody else noticed
that the more weight that Lena Dunham loses, the more she looks like Eva
Braun?

Posted by: Fritz at March 21, 2017 11:57 AM (2Mnv1)

Does this mean there is a Hitler spoof video in the offing?

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at March 21, 2017 12:01 PM (jxbfJ)

56 1St?

Posted by: MeMyselfandI at March 21, 2017 12:01 PM (J9wxX)

57 ... bonk, bonk...

this thing on?

Posted by: haggis at March 21, 2017 12:01 PM (25+/B)

58 My husband Gary is a gettingajobphobe.

Posted by: Samantha Snowflake at March 21, 2017 12:02 PM (qYCgM)

59 I was amused while watching TWD the other night that one of The Saints (bad guys) said to a girl who used the term 'veggies', "Vegetables. Use the whole word, we have plenty of time."

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 21, 2017 12:02 PM (ZO497)

60 First?

Posted by: Captain Oblivious at March 21, 2017 12:02 PM (Astxw)

61 Oooops. Hello....?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 21, 2017 12:03 PM (ZO497)

62 you really need to read Scott Adams of Dilbert and how he talks about how Trump uses the Art of Persuasion. He's spot on alot of his stuff.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at March 21, 2017 12:03 PM (dKiJG)

63 FOIST?!

Posted by: RedriverTed at March 21, 2017 12:03 PM (q/iZV)

64
I think Trump actually talks the way he speaks, which is much more effective than the xe/xer cr@p.

Posted by: shibumi at March 21, 2017 11:52 AM (FkAXz)

I think people are getting fed up with the dumbassery the left is promulgating. (SWIDT???!!!) When you could face legal action for calling an obvious man a male pronoun when he believes he is a female pony, normal people get pissed off.

Posted by: moki at March 21, 2017 12:03 PM (wuzmq)

65 Really? First

Posted by: Cheshirecat at March 21, 2017 12:05 PM (b4io8)

66 I guess not. Comments are not showing.

Posted by: Cheshirecat at March 21, 2017 12:06 PM (b4io8)

67 .Churchill used solid Anglo-Saxon English powerfully, think of the "we will fight on the beaches..." speech.

Posted by: Hal Dall at March 21, 2017 12:12 PM (dWy1K)

68 We'll hello

Posted by: Les Kinetic at March 21, 2017 12:15 PM (FOLru)

69 1332: Still waiting.

Posted by: gNewt at March 21, 2017 01:25 PM (1pZw2)

70 First

Posted by: Buzzsaw at March 21, 2017 03:05 PM (WYwks)

71 Hey, we should get some credit.

Posted by: The Jutes at March 21, 2017 03:05 PM (JZdsf)

72 It's baaaaaack!

Posted by: Lizzy at March 21, 2017 03:06 PM (NOIQH)

73 anybody here?

Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at March 21, 2017 03:06 PM (raBhU)

74 Yo, Muse!

I tried to be nice to you back at #44 but you went and got stomped like a little stomped thing that gets stomped.

Posted by: Bandersnatch, gentleman cad at March 21, 2017 03:07 PM (gIRsn)

75 All human endeavors develop specialty languages, obviously this includes the destruction of Civilization.

Posted by: DaveA at March 21, 2017 03:07 PM (FhXTo)

76 And we're back. (Is that an ewok paw I see descending?)

Posted by: joncelli, Longbow Afficianado and Phalangist at March 21, 2017 03:07 PM (RD7QR)

77 If they could speak French, they would.

Posted by: t-bird at March 21, 2017 03:07 PM (2z74n)

78 But I never called them "literally Hitler."

More like "literally Eva Braun"...

Posted by: Literally Hitlers lone testicle at March 21, 2017 03:08 PM (rUIbB)

79 The left needs to check their college privilege.

Posted by: Dang at March 21, 2017 03:08 PM (8b+oT)

80 Since I got willowed:

Posted by: Country Boy at March 21, 2017 02:54 PM (Jcg9Q)
I just like to hear what other people say that gets them kicked off the jury.
I was excused by the defense for being pro law enforcement and I said I was shocked to hear about the case being a gang case. The defense asked me why and I'm sure I visibly recoiled and said I have no experience with anyone in a gang.

I did not want to be on the jury for a gang attempted murder.

Posted by: CaliGirl at March 21, 2017 02:59 PM (u8Ywb)

Only "odd" thing I heard was Juror #1 saying she couldn't pass judgment on anyone because of her religious beliefs. Never did find out what "religion" that was though.

Defense lawyer #1 did something interesting. He asked, when we came in initially, if anyone saw the defendents and wondered what they "did."

A few hands went up, and he picked one and asked her if she realized that by "did" she was already prejudging the defendant in a way. He then thanked her for her honesty.

Other than that, pretty boring.

Posted by: Country Boy at March 21, 2017 03:07 PM (Jcg9Q)

Off to work, back later.

Posted by: Country Boy at March 21, 2017 03:08 PM (Jcg9Q)

81 Well its a concept, but also just Leftist jargon that they use.

Posted by: Skip at March 21, 2017 03:08 PM (GPaiX)

82 Apparently stompy isn't just for 'Ette footwear.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, keeper of the Deplorable Unicode Character at March 21, 2017 03:09 PM (9krrF)

83 god, they're trying to shoehorn him into LGBQT and he said "a person is a person."

Posted by: vivi at March 21, 2017 03:09 PM (11H2y)

84 Ditto for 'misogynist,' 'xenophobe,' 'Islamophobe' or 'homophobe'.

And 3 out of 4 of these are used with incorrect definitions by the lefties, anyway. I am not an islamophobe. I don't have an irrational fear of islam. I don't have any fear of islam. I have a rational hate of islam that I have built up with the more knowledge I acquired about islam, its bases, its goals and the characters of islamic cultures.

All this "phobe/phobia" crap is annoying. These are not phobias in any sense. The left is just hard at work destroying the language in service to their suicidal, nihilistic, anti-human drive.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 21, 2017 03:09 PM (zc3Db)

85 Well then you need a pair of Smart Glasses.

Posted by: Transgender Fonzie at March 21, 2017 03:10 PM (HgMAr)

86
Is this another Lazarus thread?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 21, 2017 03:10 PM (v1g1+)

87 Nipple Nazis?

There's got to be an Ilsa: She-Wolf of the SS joke in there somewhere.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing
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What does it sound like when a Nazi She-Wolf squirts milk from her nipples?

SS.

Posted by: Dang at March 21, 2017 03:11 PM (8b+oT)

88 I think Trump's decision to not use the Left's language not only made him understandable to a greater audience, but at least to me, it signaled that he did not buy into the left's BS at all.

He rejected their opinions, their values, and - gasp! - even their language (which naturally shapes the debate, such as "pro-life" vs. "anti-abortion).

I LOVE that he does not use progressive-speak.

I also think that this is one of the reasons the Left was so hysterical about Trump from the get-go. His rejection of their language indicated that he was not going to be easily cowed into negotiating/compromising with them.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 21, 2017 03:11 PM (NOIQH)

89 Just a quick aside here, the questioning by Democrats of Gorsuch taking place right now, is so staggeringly stupid, it is almost impossible to bear.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 21, 2017 03:11 PM (NBHj5)

90 Titty Hitlers

Posted by: josephistan at March 21, 2017 03:12 PM (7HtZB)

91
remember commenter "George Orwell"?

Posted by: iSoothsayer iPro iLX at March 21, 2017 03:12 PM (ZT5d4)

92 All this "phobe/phobia" crap is annoying. These are not phobias in any sense. The left is just hard at work destroying the language in service to their suicidal, nihilistic, anti-human drive.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 21, 2017 03:09 PM (zc3Db)

Well, that and the fact that they want to make any deviation from their orthodoxy into a mental illness. "Phobe" is from the language of psychiatry and it's a short trip from using it metaphorically to using it to medicate and reprogram.

Posted by: joncelli, Longbow Afficianado and Phalangist at March 21, 2017 03:12 PM (RD7QR)

93 Trump speaks in a simple, down-to-earth language that we rubes can understand but that confounds the elites.

Posted by: Insomniac - sin valor at March 21, 2017 03:12 PM (0mRoj)

94 90 Titty Hitlers
Posted by: josephistan at March 21, 2017 03:12 PM (7HtZB)

Or Hitty Titlers

Posted by: joncelli, Longbow Afficianado and Phalangist at March 21, 2017 03:12 PM (RD7QR)

95 They'll try to give you the hokey-doke, but don't let 'em bamboozle ya'. You'll get all wee-wee'd up.

Posted by: Barak Hussein Obama, just a regular ole feller at March 21, 2017 12:00 PM (LENs1)
.............

Do you have to use so many big words?

Posted by: Maxine Waters at March 21, 2017 03:13 PM (HgMAr)

96 Self employed > 18yo nipples > 18yo scotch

Posted by: IP at March 21, 2017 03:13 PM (hUtue)

97
Gonna be tough to herd the corgis over to here when the relative merits of adult beverages has become the de facto topic of the previous thread.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 21, 2017 03:13 PM (v1g1+)

98 The right nipple must be rotated clockwise and the left nipple counterclockwise!!! There is no other way!!!!

Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at March 21, 2017 03:13 PM (WuWke)

99 Is this another Lazarus thread?

If it is it has to come back slightly changed in an unpredictable way.

That's a shortcoming of where we now stand in Game of Thrones. Jon Snow got himself unkilled, but so far he is just back to being Jon Snow. You need some wrinkles in the fabric if you've been brought back to life.

There was a Lazarus Pit in Batman that could bring someone back from the dead, but they didn't come back exactly as they were. (I forget who went into it, it was some supergirl's dad).

That's how it's done. Jon Snow must pay a price.

Posted by: Bandersnatch, gentleman cad at March 21, 2017 03:13 PM (gIRsn)

100 1332: Still waiting.
Posted by: gNewt at March 21, 2017 01:25 PM (1pZw2)

70 First
Posted by: Buzzsaw at March 21, 2017 03:05 PM (WYwks)
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Ah, right there, the time rift occurred.
Time machine.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 21, 2017 03:13 PM (NBHj5)

101 I tried to be nice to you back at #44 but you went and got stomped like a little stomped thing that gets stomped.
Posted by: Bandersnatch, gentleman cad at March 21, 2017 03:07 PM (gIRsn)

Thank you, I noticed that, I will see if I can somehow work it into the chess thread.

Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at March 21, 2017 03:13 PM (raBhU)

102 And he points out that the epithet 'nazi' pretty much gets used to describe a person who is extremely dogmatic about one thing or another.

Like "Soup Nazi".

Posted by: Jen at March 21, 2017 03:14 PM (9z842)

103 I don't care what people call me, I care when they tell me what I am allowed to think.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at March 21, 2017 03:14 PM (7ZVPa)

104 >>Trump speaks in a simple, down-to-earth language that we rubes can understand but that confounds the elites.

Not only that, but you can get away with all sorts of shenanigans when you speak in parsed, lawerly phrasings and with intentional vagueness

Posted by: Bill Clinton at March 21, 2017 03:14 PM (NOIQH)

105 Aaannnd stomped.

NOOD.

Posted by: Rusty Nail at March 21, 2017 03:14 PM (S2VsH)

106 The right nipple must be rotated clockwise and the left nipple counterclockwise!!! There is no other way!!!!
Posted by: Banana Splits Guy
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Just don't cross the beams.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 21, 2017 03:14 PM (ZO497)

107 Well, that and the fact that they want to make any deviation from their orthodoxy into a mental illness. "Phobe" is from the language of psychiatry and it's a short trip from using it metaphorically to using it to medicate and reprogram.
Posted by: joncelli, Longbow Afficianado and Phalangist at March 21, 2017 03:12 PM (RD7QR)

It's very Stalinist. You disagree with the Party? You must be mentally ill!

Posted by: Insomniac - sin valor at March 21, 2017 03:14 PM (0mRoj)

108 Aw, holy hell..

Posted by: IP at March 21, 2017 03:15 PM (hUtue)

109 Just a quick aside here, the questioning by Democrats of Gorsuch taking place right now, is so staggeringly stupid, it is almost impossible to bear.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 21, 2017 03:11 PM (NBHj5)

They either don't know how completely stupid they sound, or they're counting on the LIVs not noticing.

Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at March 21, 2017 03:15 PM (raBhU)

110 Titties are very much against National Socialism, as I see it...

Posted by: Ernst Roehm at March 21, 2017 03:15 PM (rUIbB)

111 Nobody tell She.E.O. Agrawal about Nipple Nazis.

Posted by: ShainS at March 21, 2017 03:15 PM (h23E4)

112 Damn it. I give up.

Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at March 21, 2017 03:16 PM (raBhU)

113 Trump speaks in a simple, down-to-earth language that we rubes can understand but that confounds the elites.
Posted by: Insomniac - sin valor at March 21, 2017 03:12 PM (0mRoj)

But if the elite progressives try to speak American, they end up like John Kerry, asking if he could "buy me a huntin license".

Because America doesn't generally speak that way and it was so insincere that everyone immediately picked up on the insult.

Posted by: Jen at March 21, 2017 03:16 PM (9z842)

114 Dang, Willowed

Cruz is up next and then the clown car crackup happens with Franken.

Posted by: WisRich at March 21, 2017 03:17 PM (hdpay)

115 They either don't know how completely stupid they sound, or they're counting on the LIVs not noticing.
Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at March 21, 2017 03:15 PM (raBhU)

Who are they playing to...the LIV's aren't watching this, and it won't make for a good campaign ad after Gorsuch is confirmed.

Posted by: Jen at March 21, 2017 03:17 PM (9z842)

116 "Just a quick aside here, the questioning by Democrats of Gorsuch taking
place right now, is so staggeringly stupid, it is almost impossible to
bear."

There have been enormous technical and medical advancements in prosthetic limbs over the last decade and a half, and that'll come in handy for Neil Gorsuch when he has to go replace the foot he broke off in Dick Durbin's ass.

Posted by: torquewrench at March 21, 2017 03:17 PM (noWW6)

117
I got nothin.

At least, nothin I dare post.

Imagine what you will.

Posted by: Angus Blackheart at March 21, 2017 03:17 PM (Hg5Kb)

118 /omg, I am such a b*tch!
Posted by: shibumi at March 21, 2017 11:59 AM (FkAXz)

Well if you are, so am I. The great writers are those who can express profound concepts with ordinary words. My go-to example is CS Lewis.

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at March 21, 2017 03:18 PM (97XyN)

119 Dang, Willowed

Cruz is up next and then the clown car crackup happens with Franken.

Posted by: WisRich at March 21, 2017 03:17 PM (hdpay)

If anyone could make a bigger ass of himself than Sheldon Whitehouse, it's Al Franken...

Posted by: No One Likes You, Al at March 21, 2017 03:18 PM (rUIbB)

120 Damn it. I give up.

The stomp is strong with this one.

You should repost this any time a thread gets stale, it has more power than the willow.

Posted by: Bandersnatch, gentleman cad at March 21, 2017 03:18 PM (gIRsn)

121 My first semester of College, I was in Honors English.

The one thing I remember was the Professor saying my written homework was poorly written, because I used too many short, declarative sentences.

I guess I will forever remain an unwashed rube.

Posted by: rd at March 21, 2017 03:19 PM (iT57s)

122 Ezra Pound covered this - he had an essay on what he called 'basic' or somesuch

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 21, 2017 03:19 PM (SFZQ4)

123 You had me at nipples.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 21, 2017 03:20 PM (TfpUC)

124 So what will Franken ask? Russia? Voter Fraud?(lol),

Climate change? Free school lunches?

Posted by: Jen at March 21, 2017 03:21 PM (9z842)

125 84 Ditto for 'misogynist,' 'xenophobe,' 'Islamophobe' or 'homophobe'.

And 3 out of 4 of these are used with incorrect definitions by the lefties, anyway.....

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 21, 2017 03:09 PM (zc3Db)
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I'd say 4 out of 4 myself.
But to be fair, the Left doesn't really have definitions for these words. At the very least, their 'definitions' are so flexible and touchy-feely that they hardly matter.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at March 21, 2017 03:24 PM (hCoZK)

126 If anyone could make a bigger ass of himself than Sheldon Whitehouse, it's Al Franken...
Posted by: No One Likes You, Al at March 21, 2017 03:18 PM (rUIbB)
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Can't wait for him produce "irrefutable evidence" from the highly regarded legal publications Buzzfeed and TMZ.

Posted by: WisRich at March 21, 2017 03:24 PM (hdpay)

127 50 "Still taking movie thread ideas."

You might want to do a few by genre. Specific directors may be too narrow, although a few directors are certainly worthy (e.g., Ford, Kubrick, Kurosawa, Lean and Hitchcock).
*
*
Don't forget Billy Wilder: Lost Weekend, Sunset Boulevard, The Apartment, Witness for the Prosecution, Spirit of St. Louis, Double Indemnity.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 21, 2017 03:26 PM (IB8DY)

128 118
Well if you are, so am I. The great writers are those who can express profound concepts with ordinary words. My go-to example is CS Lewis.
Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at March 21, 2017 03:18 PM (97XyN)
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Another great writer who can pack a lot of complexity and depth into simple words is Thomas Sowell.
I marvel at his organized mind and clarity of expression.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at March 21, 2017 03:27 PM (hCoZK)

129 Geez, step out for lunch and come back to find the thread's been stepped on again.

Posted by: gNewt at March 21, 2017 03:31 PM (vyAun)

130 Just a quick aside here, the questioning by Democrats of Gorsuch taking place right now, is so staggeringly stupid, it is almost impossible to bear.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 21, 2017 03:11

Who was the female Senator questioning right before the last break? She wasn't too bright and came across as condescending.

Posted by: Farmer at March 21, 2017 03:47 PM (4bBUU)

131 My term was "lactation nazis," but yeah. Same thing. The Baby Boomers have produced a subset of shriveled crones who are taking over the pregnancy, child-bearing and child-rearing process with scare tactics, propaganda, and insane dogma.
If anybody tells you "breastfeeding should never hurt," they're lying to your face. That said, it *can* hurt *less*; but defending your program's lies by telling a woman who is in agony, and following your directions to the letter, that "it's all her fault" is, in fact, anti-woman.
Had to get that off my chest. Rant over.

Posted by: Cameo_Appearance at March 21, 2017 03:59 PM (nb404)

132 I don't think it's about "fancy words" - I think it's about made-up and misused words. I'm not opposed to being called "heterosexual" because I am, but don't expect me to listen to your ideas if you slap the terms "cisgendered" or "sex-normative" on me. Don't try to be sly (like the times candidate Obama rubbed his nose with his middle finger while talking about his opponent Hillary) or condescending about groups of regular people who are on the wrong side of the political divide.

BTW the first time I was impressed with Trump was when he came to Michigan and went into a venue of natural Clinton supporters: a church in Flint. I don't think even my preferred candidate would have gone into that venue and risk making himself a target of so much bile. When he the pastor chided him for criticizing Hillary Clinton, Trump said just said, "Okay" and dropped that subject. Even when he was heckled, he acted with a lot of class and listened to people.

And correct me if I'm wrong, but Trump criticized people in the ranks of political power - politicians and
journalists - but I don't recall him dumping on teachers, autoworkers, and other
folk more likely to vote Democrat.

Posted by: MissJean at March 21, 2017 04:02 PM (fxCK2)

133 O/T I got hit with Bell's Palsy on the 10th. It took me over a week to find the bright side of 3+ weeks of paralysis of the right side of my face, but I found it. My Spock eyebrow is the best it could ever possibly be. If you need a skeptical facial expression, I am your man.

Posted by: Directional School Grad at March 21, 2017 04:02 PM (zT3XJ)

134 Franken is one evil rude cock sucker

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 21, 2017 04:06 PM (KlI/a)

135 And correct me if I'm wrong, but Trump criticized people in the ranks of political power - politicians and journalists - but I don't recall him dumping on teachers, autoworkers, and other folk more likely to vote Democrat.

Posted by: MissJean at March 21, 2017 04:02 PM (fxCK2)

That's because Trump doesn't believe that Americans who don't vote for him are "deplorable" and "irredeemable".

Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at March 21, 2017 04:08 PM (raBhU)

136 This is the Rocky of threads, it keeps getting up off the mat.

Posted by: Bandersnatch, gentleman cad at March 21, 2017 04:09 PM (gIRsn)

137 130 Just a quick aside here, the questioning by Democrats of Gorsuch taking place right now, is so staggeringly stupid, it is almost impossible to bear.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 21, 2017 03:11

I stand by my earlier statement: I fear -- but would totally understand -- Gorsuch flipping off the Dems and getting the hell out of there.

Franken has bored on for so long that my DorecTV just crashed in response.

Posted by: Shopgirl at March 21, 2017 04:09 PM (1aukS)

138 DirecTV

Posted by: Shopgirl at March 21, 2017 04:09 PM (1aukS)

139 Clawed its way back to the top for more air, I see.

Posted by: Rusty Nail at March 21, 2017 04:09 PM (S2VsH)

140 The Hitler/Nazi stuff doesn't work and hasn't really worked in a long time.

But the GOP sure was scared shitless of the silly schoolyard insult, to the point it would get in bidding wars with Democrats over how many people to let in to show how "cool" we were

Posted by: Maritime at March 21, 2017 04:10 PM (9cYRJ)

141 How did Franken get elected with that voice?

And that face! Look at that face,

Posted by: Nigel West Dickens at March 21, 2017 04:12 PM (FqgrG)

142 Next thing you know, Dems will bring a lawsuit against Gorsuch for everything bad that happened, or will ever happen, to the truck driver.

Posted by: Shopgirl at March 21, 2017 04:12 PM (1aukS)

143 OM really wants this up.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at March 21, 2017 04:13 PM (mC1ZI)

144 How did Franken get elected with that voice?

And that face! Look at that face,
Posted by: Nigel West Dickens

Because he's shart enough, gud enough, and, doggonit, Leftits like him.

Posted by: Beel Kreestol at March 21, 2017 04:13 PM (4YGWz)

145 . That said, it *can* hurt *less*; but defending your program's lies by telling a woman who is in agony, and following your directions to the letter, that "it's all her fault" is, in fact, anti-woman.

Posted by: Cameo_Appearance at March 21, 2017 03:59 PM (nb404)

Right, and that's exactly what we got tired of, that whole "if you're not successful at breastfeeding, it's your fault" schtick.

Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at March 21, 2017 04:13 PM (raBhU)

146 When I lived in Anchorage, the La Leche League wanted to advertise for an event in one of the free coffee house newspapers.

Naturally, being Alaska, the paper ran it as Meet the Milkers, which drew an undesirable crowd to their gathering.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at March 21, 2017 04:13 PM (hqZPQ)

147 I saw Nipple Nazis open for The Babys at the Filmore East in '76.

(And i can't believe that joke hasn't been used yet.
What....what happened to you people???)

Posted by: naturalfake at March 21, 2017 04:14 PM (vZ9Fw)

148 84 Ditto for 'misogynist,' 'xenophobe,' 'Islamophobe' or 'homophobe'.

And 3 out of 4 of these are used with incorrect definitions by the lefties, anyway.....

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 21, 2017 03:09 PM (zc3Db)

THIS! Whenever I hear the accusation of "fascist" directed at nonDems, I remember a professor recalling his youth in Spain when there were real Fascists screaming down critics of the Falange.

Posted by: MissJean at March 21, 2017 04:14 PM (fxCK2)

149 Clawed its way back to the top for more air, I see.

--

some topics that appear on this award winning, smart military blog, are best avoided. I've avoided several since Trump started his run for president.

Posted by: Angus Blackheart at March 21, 2017 04:14 PM (Hg5Kb)

150 Will someone tell me the stock market will be better tomorrow? You can lie.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at March 21, 2017 04:14 PM (hqZPQ)

151 Franken: The Committee's equivalent of the loudmouth drunk at the end of the bar.

Posted by: WisRich at March 21, 2017 04:15 PM (hdpay)

152 143 OM really wants this up.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at March 21, 2017 04:13 PM (mC1ZI)

Heh. It was actually ace who put it up this time. So I'm reasonably certain it's not going to get stomped again.

Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at March 21, 2017 04:15 PM (raBhU)

153 152 Heh. It was actually ace who put it up this time. So I'm reasonably certain it's not going to get stomped again.
Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at March 21, 2017 04:15 PM (raBhU)

=====================

Helps him buy time for the next Ace written post, I suppose.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at March 21, 2017 04:16 PM (mC1ZI)

154 Movie thread ideas:

book vs. movie

best screenplays ever

most tolerable chick flicks

best action flicks for women

actors and actresses we hate and why

Posted by: shibumi at March 21, 2017 04:16 PM (FkAXz)

155 The simple Anglo-Saxon terms Donald Trump used to describe Hillary – “liar,” “corrupt,” “crooked,” “nasty,” resonated with middle America

This guy makes a valid point -- one that has been well-known for years, actually -- but be blunders big-time because most of the examples he cites aren't Anglo-Saxon:

corrupt -- from Latin
nasty -- from Greek
crooked -- from Old Norse (not Anglo-Saxon)

Even "Liar" is technically from German and is not really a true Anglo-Saxon word.

His essay would have been much better if he had simply said "blunt" or "direct" words, and/or cited actual Anglo-Saxon words.

The most famous Anslo-Saxon-vs.-Romance examples, famous among linguists, is that "copulate" has no emotional impact, but "fuck" does, and "defecate" elicits blank stares, but "shit" gets and emotional response.

Posted by: zombie at March 21, 2017 04:16 PM (DQ4Fv)

156 Heh. It was actually ace who put it up this time. So I'm reasonably certain it's not going to get stomped again.

Maybe he's just learned how much fun it is to stomp this thread.

When you knock over a Coke can with a BB gun do you just leave it lying there?

Posted by: Bandersnatch, gentleman cad at March 21, 2017 04:17 PM (gIRsn)

157 I'm unwilling to be lectured by people who think a Che t-shirt is a good idea.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 21, 2017 04:17 PM (B+qrE)

158 Franken: The Committee's equivalent of the loudmouth drunk at the end of the bar.

Posted by: WisRich at March 21, 2017 04:15 PM (hdpay)

He needs to fall off his barstool

Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 21, 2017 04:17 PM (493sH)

159 156 Maybe he's just learned how much fun it is to stomp this thread.

When you knock over a Coke can with a BB gun do you just leave it lying there?
Posted by: Bandersnatch, gentleman cad at March 21, 2017 04:17 PM (gIRsn)

=================

"Puny fools. They actually think that this one will be spared the stomp! Mwahahahaha!"
-Ace

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at March 21, 2017 04:17 PM (mC1ZI)

160 He really does sound like he's been drinking.

Posted by: Nigel West Dickens at March 21, 2017 04:18 PM (FqgrG)

161
I'm pretty sure visual aids are required in this thread.

Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at March 21, 2017 04:18 PM (ZFUt7)

162 "nipple nazis"...ah those lazy afternoons with 16mm pron. *sigh*

Posted by: ronsfi at March 21, 2017 04:18 PM (WC165)

163 I stand by my earlier statement: I fear -- but would totally understand -- Gorsuch flipping off the Dems and getting the hell out of there.

Posted by: Shopgirl at March 21, 2017 04:09 PM (1aukS)

It must gall Gorsuch to no end that he's got to just sit there and subject himself to a mental pygmy like Al Franken and not react with the scorn and derision he deserves.

Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at March 21, 2017 04:18 PM (raBhU)

164 I am glad Franken is finally running his mouth. He was a wasted opportunity for several years.

Posted by: Directional School Grad at March 21, 2017 04:18 PM (zT3XJ)

165 Franken got elected by 517 votes, if I recall.

And it was recently determined that more than that number were fraudulent.

So, the dumbass stole the election.

And, "Nipple Nazi" FTW!!

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at March 21, 2017 04:19 PM (8iiMU)

166 Can someone f'n hold the blog still? There are posts jumping all over the place.

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at March 21, 2017 04:19 PM (CPk08)

167
I'm waiting for the day when Al Franken does one of his incoherent rambles and then stops to look at the witness in front of the committee expecting a reply.

Whereupon the witness says, "Would you repeat the question?"

or "What was your question, again?"

Posted by: Angus Blackheart at March 21, 2017 04:19 PM (Hg5Kb)

168 Well, there was one multisyllabic word that came out of Hillary's fat sewer that middle America understood good and well. Need I repeat it?

Posted by: Slo-Pitch Whiffer at March 21, 2017 04:19 PM (5JlYa)

169 Not only is Franken and idiot, he's got no social graces.

Posted by: WisRich at March 21, 2017 04:20 PM (hdpay)

170 I'm waiting for the day when Al Franken does one of his incoherent rambles and then stops to look at the witness in front of the committee expecting a reply.

Whereupon the witness says, "Would you repeat the question?"

or "What was your question, again?"
Posted by: Angus Blackheart

Or, "Was there a question?"

Posted by: rickb223 at March 21, 2017 04:20 PM (Uohrc)

171 One dip in the market...THE WORST IN SIX MONTHS...OMG!!!! And here is what the rat bastards at CNBC have to day.

Trump honeymoon over: Markets are now scared his policy promises won't come true

Screw you guys with the still-a-planet Pluto.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 21, 2017 04:20 PM (B+qrE)

172 I couldn't sit there and not laugh and roll my eyes at this bullshit.
"Hey what about this guy who said something about you at this thing that you weren't at?"

Posted by: Nigel West Dickens at March 21, 2017 04:20 PM (FqgrG)

173 167
I'm waiting for the day when Al Franken does one of his incoherent rambles and then stops to look at the witness in front of the committee expecting a reply.

Whereupon the witness says, "Would you repeat the question?"

or "What was your question, again?"
Posted by: Angus Blackheart at March 21, 2017 04:19 PM (Hg5Kb)

=====================

*furiously edits*

*Franken asks straight forward question*

*witness replies "Would you repeat the question?"*

*The Daily Show host looks at the camera in a funny and unbelievable way*

*crowd claps like trained seals*

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at March 21, 2017 04:21 PM (mC1ZI)

174 I'm unwilling to be lectured by people who think a Che t-shirt is a good idea.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 21, 2017 04:17 PM (B+qrE)

If I could only hear Gorsuch say this in his opening statement, I would be content to die right then, a happy man.

Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at March 21, 2017 04:21 PM (raBhU)

175 and "defecate" elicits blank stares, but "shit" gets and emotional response.

Posted by: zombie at March 21, 2017 04:16 PM (DQ4Fv)

And how!

Posted by: German porn producers at March 21, 2017 04:21 PM (rUIbB)

176 You know who's Hitler? Tim Allen.

Posted by: Hillary at March 21, 2017 04:21 PM (vRcUp)

177 Sure I could have used a highfalutin' word like diarrhea in The Grapes of Wrath but I preferred 'skitter's. It's a combination of shitter & Skittles.

Posted by: Zombie John Steinbeck at March 21, 2017 04:21 PM (bc2Lc)

178 Will someone tell me the stock market will be better tomorrow? You can lie.
--
The High Frequency Trading Bots say yes.

Posted by: shibumi at March 21, 2017 04:21 PM (FkAXz)

179 Looks like things are a lot worse in Chicago since Trump got elected. Things were not this bad when we hads Presdent Obana. We needs Presdent Obama's leadership and mentality to help the good people of color in this city ruined by Trump.

Posted by: Mary Clogginstien from Brattleboro, VT at March 21, 2017 04:22 PM (WmgTn)

180 178 Will someone tell me the stock market will be better tomorrow? You can lie.
--
The High Frequency Trading Bots say yes.
Posted by: shibumi at March 21, 2017 04:21 PM (FkAXz)

================

"We're never going to recover!"
-Paul Krugman

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at March 21, 2017 04:22 PM (mC1ZI)

181 Achtung! Der nipple fuhrer angekommen!

Posted by: ronsfi at March 21, 2017 04:22 PM (WC165)

182
Third time is a charm?

Why is that?

What evidence is there that the 3rd time is a charm??

Posted by: iSoothsayer iPro iLX at March 21, 2017 04:22 PM (ZT5d4)

183 crooked -- from Old Norse (not Anglo-Saxon)

Even "Liar" is technically from German and is not really a true Anglo-Saxon word.

Old Norse, Old English (Anglo-Saxon), and Old German (the Angles and the Saxons were Krauts), all swam around in the same language soup.

Posted by: Bandersnatch, gentleman cad at March 21, 2017 04:23 PM (gIRsn)

184 even the word 'they' is Old Norse and not Anglosaxon

Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at March 21, 2017 04:25 PM (1qOto)

185 Orwell: The inflated style itself is a kind of euphemism. A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outline and covering up all the details.

http://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_polit/

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at March 21, 2017 04:25 PM (CPk08)

186 Orwells newspeak was genius - it meant that ingsoc was cut off at the party level from the proles and left the party talking only with itself. We see this now with the jargon of the SJW's - double plusgood duckspeakers.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 21, 2017 04:25 PM (JhduB)

187 Fucking uncertainty from These "Freedom Caucus" assholes on the Obamacare repeal and getting anything done in the near future tanked the market today.

I can't stand those idiots. All this time to get the presidency and they are going to blow it

Posted by: Marcus T at March 21, 2017 04:25 PM (OFxPz)

188 Will someone tell me the stock market will be better tomorrow?

--

hedge funds

Posted by: Angus Blackheart at March 21, 2017 04:26 PM (Hg5Kb)

189 "We're never going to recover!"
--Paul Krugman
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Unless we use Project Blue Beam to simulate an attack by space aliens. That will totally stimulate the market.

/I suggested this before, in 2011, but our technology is so much better now.

Posted by: Paul Krugman at March 21, 2017 04:26 PM (FkAXz)

190 This reminds me of the indecency trial for the Sex Pistol's "Never Mind the Bollocks" album.

They successfully argued that it was from an Old English term that meant "nonsense".

As Johhny Rotten said, "they were trying to deny us our Anglo-Saxon heritage!"

Posted by: Never Mind the Hat... at March 21, 2017 04:27 PM (rUIbB)

191 154 Movie thread ideas:

book vs. movie

best screenplays ever

most tolerable chick flicks

best action flicks for women

actors and actresses we hate and why

Posted by: shibumi

I ask the horde for help:

Recently I watched a B-movie chick flick from 1938 (!) called "Girls' School," about rich snooty girls at an elite private school bullying the one poor girl.

The lead character is played by the '30s actress Anne Shirley, who had really striking looks:

http://deskback___.com/anne-shirley/

But what drove me crazy throughout the film, and still does to this day, is that she really really resembles a modern-day contemporary actress, to the point of being her doppelganger, but I can't remember the name of the modern actress. I can see her face, but an't conjure her name.

So, I ask you all: What modern day actress does Anne Shirley look like?

http://deskback___.com/anne-shirley/

The closest I could come is the obscure Indian actress Sheetal Sheth, who does indeed look very much like Anne Shirley:

https://www.pinterest.com/isishernandez19/sheetal-sheth/

But that's not who I was thinking of.

The next closest is Emmy Rossum. Is this who I am thinking of?:

https://www.pinterest.com/charleycrute/emmy-rossum/

...or is it Olivia Thirlby? Driving me nuts.

Posted by: zombie at March 21, 2017 04:27 PM (DQ4Fv)

192 187 Fucking uncertainty from These "Freedom Caucus" assholes on the Obamacare repeal and getting anything done in the near future tanked the market today.

I can't stand those idiots. All this time to get the presidency and they are going to blow it
Posted by: Marcus T at March 21, 2017 04:25 PM (OFxPz)

Um, perhaps if PDT actually backed a bill with AN ACTUAL REPEAL IN IT. . . But no.

Look, I love what he's doing, but this bill is a giant fucking turd disguised as a promise kept.

Sorry. That's the way I see it.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 21, 2017 04:27 PM (mbhDw)

193
I'm a person who believes Trump is the right person for this country at this time in its history. But I believe the butthurt left will go to any means available to subvert his agenda, especially tanking the economy.

So I bailed out of the stock market Monday. I can't afford to be wrong. There's no room for error in my case.

Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at March 21, 2017 04:27 PM (ZFUt7)

194 most tolerable chick flicks

That's an interesting topic. Lots of different opinions there.

Posted by: naturalfake at March 21, 2017 04:28 PM (vZ9Fw)

195 Is this the cool down thread? Tempers getting understandably raised down stream.

Posted by: Max Power at March 21, 2017 04:28 PM (q177U)

196 Grrr, pixy erased the Anne Shirely URL.

Delete the space in this:

http://deskbackim g.com/anne-shirley/

Posted by: zombie at March 21, 2017 04:28 PM (DQ4Fv)

197 194 most tolerable chick flicks

That's an interesting topic. Lots of different opinions there.
Posted by: naturalfake at March 21, 2017 04:28 PM (vZ9Fw)

Not really into gay prono.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 21, 2017 04:29 PM (mbhDw)

198 Klown Kar left the circus.

Ben Sasse being friendly now.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at March 21, 2017 04:29 PM (8iiMU)

199 Poor Gorsuch. He comes across as a man with a keen intellect. And he has to to listen to the stupidity of the dem senators.

Posted by: IC at March 21, 2017 04:29 PM (a0IVu)

200 a better plan would be to tie Barky repeal with negotiations over the debt limit. imo.

Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at March 21, 2017 04:29 PM (1qOto)

201 most tolerable chick flicks

.....Myself, a length of rope, in a stairwell, with a chair......

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at March 21, 2017 04:30 PM (CPk08)

202 You know, that Steiner has some nice nipples.

Posted by: Hitler in the Bunker at March 21, 2017 04:30 PM (YAd2u)

203 200 a better plan would be to tie Barky repeal with negotiations over the debt limit. imo.
Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at March 21, 2017 04:29 PM (1qOto)

An even better plan is to have a political party that is in synch with the will of the majority of real Americans, and not a GO-Potemkin Party.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 21, 2017 04:31 PM (mbhDw)

204 198 Klown Kar left the circus.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at March 21, 2017 04:29 PM (8iiMU)
--

With red nose and floppy shoes.

Posted by: WisRich at March 21, 2017 04:32 PM (hdpay)

205 203 200 a better plan would be to tie Barky repeal with negotiations over the debt limit. imo.
Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at March 21, 2017 04:29 PM (1qOto)

. . . A GOP that is in constant attack and fight mode. That is, attack and fight the Democrats and not the people.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 21, 2017 04:32 PM (mbhDw)

206 Let's see if this works:

http://deskbackIMG.com/anne-shirley/

Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at March 21, 2017 04:32 PM (raBhU)

207 It all goes back to the Franco-Germanic divide in the English speaking peoples. 1066 forever!

Posted by: Jean at March 21, 2017 04:32 PM (zZb/S)

208 #206 works fine

Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at March 21, 2017 04:32 PM (raBhU)

209 well, we don't have that party, and that is the gap that Trump (and Cruz to an extent) were able to exploit.

Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at March 21, 2017 04:32 PM (1qOto)

210 "Third time is a charm?

Why is that?

What evidence is there that the 3rd time is a charm??

Posted by: iSoothsayer iPro iLX"

It is a myth that third time is a charm and cases where it occurs is a statistical anomaly. More spending on math and science education would help dispel these myths among the ignorant citizenry

Posted by: Neil deGrasse Tyson at March 21, 2017 04:32 PM (1BQGO)

211 166 Can someone f'n hold the blog still? There are posts jumping all over the place.

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at March 21, 2017 04:19 PM (CPk0

Try sitting on it until it stops moving.

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at March 21, 2017 04:34 PM (ZM2xo)

212
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Posted by: Angus Blackheart at March 21, 2017 04:34 PM (Hg5Kb)

213 "Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 21, 2017 04:27 PM (mbhDw)"

Read the actual bill in its current form? Reviewed the plan?

I have and I work with Congress quite a bit. There's a point at which when you get probably over 75% of what you want, you pass the fucking bill

Meadows and his clown show want 100%. That's not how it works even though they've been telling people that for 8 years

Now they have to actuallly govern and don't want to let it slip they were full of shit.

The market tanked because we are now pulling back based on what these guys are doing. Expect to see some more significant pullback if Meadows is responsible for the bill not passing.

Posted by: Marcus T at March 21, 2017 04:34 PM (OFxPz)

214 191 154 Movie thread ideas:

book vs. movie

There have been lots of adaptations of novels into movies. Have there ever been any movies that wound up better than the novels they were based on? Discuss.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 21, 2017 04:36 PM (IB8DY)

215 Not really into gay promo.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 21, 2017 04:29 PM (mbhDw)

Not even "Gone with the Wang" with Barack Obama as Scarlett O'Nutsack?*

*filmed in 8mm video tape at the White house

Posted by: naturalfake at March 21, 2017 04:36 PM (vZ9Fw)

216 Nipples are wasted on the young.

Posted by: Udderly Deplorable at March 21, 2017 04:36 PM (ZgIyy)

217 Was Hillary clutching a basket of deplorables when she came out of the woods? She speaks in fractured fairytale language.

Posted by: JuJuBee at March 21, 2017 04:37 PM (dargh)

218 http://bit.ly/2nye8ob
----
Gorsuch just destroyed Dick Turban

Posted by: EVLINC! at March 21, 2017 04:37 PM (y3aQB)

219
There have been lots of adaptations of novels into movies. Have
there ever been any movies that wound up better than the novels they
were based on? Discuss.
--

Duh.

The Shining

/ducks

Posted by: shibumi at March 21, 2017 04:39 PM (FkAXz)

220 Oregon Muse - you milquetoast! Don't be a blaggard. Let the language flow, lest your antiquated insults fall on the deaf ears of all those pompous, highfalutin, coastal mandarins!

Seriously though, Winston Churchill was the master of this "old word" style speaking and focused on shorter, older Anglo-Saxon origin words, as opposed to norman (read french derived) or other words. Now Trump is nowhere near that level of expertise, but the focus on non-egg-head sounding, older, and shorter, vocabulary words when he speaks is a bit of a gift for him and does work better in flyover country.

Posted by: Publius Redux at March 21, 2017 04:39 PM (UOr6C)

221 Try sitting on it until it stops moving.

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at March 21, 2017 04:34 PM (ZM2xo)

Sit on it!

Posted by: Joni Cunningham at March 21, 2017 04:40 PM (8iiMU)

222 Have there ever been any movies that wound up better than the novels they were based on? Discuss.

I haven't read the book, but I've been told that the movie Princess Bride is WAY better than the book. Same for Blade Runner.

Posted by: pep at March 21, 2017 04:40 PM (LAe3v)

223 I think all of Shakespeare's works have been better as movies because I'm just not that into Olde English prose.

Posted by: Jack Sock at March 21, 2017 04:40 PM (Exd63)

224 "sitting on it until it stops moving"

like how Trigglypuff's last date ended

Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at March 21, 2017 04:41 PM (fDmLV)

225 @133,

My late husband had Bells Palsy. They did electroshock to that side of his face to keep the muscles active. And he put drops in his eye to keep it lubricated. Said things he ate on that side tasted like cellophane. He recovered completely from it.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 21, 2017 04:42 PM (Lqy/e)

226

I just heard a chess term "skewer."

I like it.

Any more like this?

Posted by: iSoothsayer iPro iLX at March 21, 2017 04:42 PM (ZT5d4)

227 Never read The Godfather but it had to be a hell of a book to be better than the movie.

Posted by: Jack Sock at March 21, 2017 04:42 PM (Exd63)

228 I liked the movie Jaws better than the book.

Posted by: Jack Sock at March 21, 2017 04:43 PM (Exd63)

229 >>>There have been lots of adaptations of novels into movies. Have there ever been any movies that wound up better than the novels they were based on? Discuss.

Dracula with Winona > Dracula without Winona

Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at March 21, 2017 04:43 PM (WuWke)

230 14 11 So, is this thread about the joys of rough Anglo-Saxon fricatives, or are we talking about the nipples?
Posted by: Bandersnatch, gentleman cad at March 21, 2017 11:52 AM (gIRsn)

==============

It's the Horde.

What do you think?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at March 21, 2017 11:53 AM (mC1ZI)
------------
What is, "Embrace the power of 'and'."?

Posted by: Brunette the 'Ette at March 21, 2017 04:43 PM (adsVM)

231 Seriously though, Winston Churchill was the master of this "old word"
style speaking and focused on shorter, older Anglo-Saxon origin words,
as opposed to norman (read french derived) or other words.

As it happens, I'm reading a book by Churchill now (The World Crisis: The Aftermath) and have read several others of his in the History of the English Speaking People series. He has a way with words, but he also tends to use some rather odd syntax, apparently for effect. Sometimes you have to read the sentence twice just to line up all the grammatical parts.

Posted by: pep at March 21, 2017 04:43 PM (LAe3v)

232 I think all of Shakespeare's works have been better as movies because I'm just not that into Olde English prose.

Shakespeare is Modern English. Chaucer is Middle English, Beowulf is Old English.

Also, iambic pentameter is verse not prose.

/pedanticism

Now, Germans use "Nippel" for nipple these days because their actual word for nippel is awful. Brustwarze = breast wart.

Posted by: Bandersnatch, gentleman cad at March 21, 2017 04:44 PM (gIRsn)

233 I bet in game theory losing three times is one mathematically significant sign to redirect one's efforts. That's just intuition and it's built into game rules all over the place, and even good advice about persisting. (Maybe in the primordial oceans you had three tries before the megalomondodont swam up behind you. I just see signs of it being baked into the she persisted cake.)

Three strikes you are out.
Try Try Try again, after that, maybe you're throwing good after bad and ought to rethink your tries, unless Richard Gere is there to throw you over the top.
Third time is the charm because the third time you either succeed BING! which gets remembered, or you start to squint and approach from a different angle and let the old strategy go and don't remember it so much.

Beginning, middle, end. That's how the montage works.

Posted by: SarahW, at March 21, 2017 04:44 PM (Sp1NT)

234 Watch where you're stepping, Mr. Franken. I think I saw a Scribner there.

Posted by: gewa76 at March 21, 2017 04:44 PM (B6OKy)

235 Have there ever been any movies that wound up better than the novels they were based on? Discuss.

Twilight.

But I keed.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at March 21, 2017 04:44 PM (oVJmc)

236 Vote no on the bill!
Give the Freedom Caucus, the media, and the democrats their victory.
So what if it destroys Trump's presidency.
It is way more important to have 23 pure conservatives.

Posted by: Eskimo at March 21, 2017 04:44 PM (ucTcT)

237 205 203 200 a better plan would be to tie Barky repeal with negotiations over the debt limit. imo.
Posted by: Boulder terlit hob

No shit, one bill bitches.

Posted by: Jean at March 21, 2017 04:44 PM (zZb/S)

238 Posted by: rd at March 21, 2017 03:19 PM (iT57s)

And yet I will never forget your alternate-reality news piece about the Zimmerman/Martin affair if Zimmerman hadn't been carrying that day.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 21, 2017 04:45 PM (sEDyY)

239 Well, if we're going to get into the topic of book vs. movie now --

Better movie than book:
Jaws (movie did away with the soap opera stuff in which Hooper was nailing the chief's wife, etc., and boiled it down to Three Men Go Out in a Boat to Catch a Deadly Fish as Big as the Boat)

Wolfen, w/ Albert Finney (book: kind of dull)

Die Hard (yes, there was a novel, Nothing Lasts Forever, by Roderick Thorp. Good -- most of the big action pieces of the film are in there -- but the movie opened things up and gave us Alan Rickman's Hans)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 21, 2017 04:45 PM (IB8DY)

240 I think all of Shakespeare's works have been better as movies because I'm just not that into Olde English prose.

----

The Taming of the Shrew - Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton 1967

Posted by: Angus Blackheart at March 21, 2017 04:45 PM (Hg5Kb)

241 Have there ever been any movies that wound up better than the novels they were based on? Discuss.

Princess Bride?

Posted by: gewa76 at March 21, 2017 04:46 PM (B6OKy)

242 Posted by: Bandersnatch, gentleman cad at March 21, 2017 04:44 PM (gIRsn)

You wasted your time getting an English Literature degree didn't you?

Seriously thanks for the educating corrections.

Posted by: Jack Sock at March 21, 2017 04:46 PM (Exd63)

243 I just looked up the word "tool" in the dictionary, and there was a picture of Al Franken. It also gave synonyms, specifically douche and flaming asshole.

Posted by: pep at March 21, 2017 04:47 PM (LAe3v)

244 Honestly. I need a good bourbon and a pair of women's nipples to look at. This day has sucked.

And yes, I said "women's" because it's the moron horde and I don't want the links that will make me puke.

Posted by: Marcus T at March 21, 2017 04:47 PM (OFxPz)

245 Now, Germans use "Nippel" for nipple these days because their actual word for nippel is awful. Brustwarze = breast wart.
Posted by: Bandersnatch, gentleman cad at March 21, 2017 04:44 PM (gIRsn)

That's a terrible word for titgrommets.

Posted by: hogmartin at March 21, 2017 04:47 PM (8nWyX)

246 The Shining is better/different from the book

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at March 21, 2017 04:47 PM (xJa6I)

247 And yes, I said "women's" because it's the moron horde and I don't want the links that will make me puke.
Posted by: Marcus T at March 21, 2017 04:47 PM (OFxPz)

Lena Dunham is a woman.

Posted by: alexthechick - rrraaawwwrrr at March 21, 2017 04:47 PM (mf5HN)

248 You wasted your time getting an English Literature degree didn't you?

Nah. I got an even more useless degree!

Posted by: Bandersnatch, gentleman cad at March 21, 2017 04:48 PM (gIRsn)

249 Movie thread ideas:

Great special effects not done with CGI

Essential Silent Films

Best Guy Endeavor Movies- a category my girls and I created when they were teens. Movies of men (and only men) doing dangerous and manly things.
Things we liked to watch them do, but would no more do ourselves than fly to the moon.

Posted by: Sal at March 21, 2017 04:48 PM (hA4a+)

250 I'm going to go out on a limb and say Little Women with Winona was better than the book even though I never read the book. Call it instinct

Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at March 21, 2017 04:48 PM (WuWke)

251 "Posted by: alexthechick - rrraaawwwrrr at March 21, 2017 04:47 PM (mf5HN)"

Nobody likes you very much :-)

Posted by: Marcus T at March 21, 2017 04:49 PM (OFxPz)

252 Lena Dunham is a woman.
Posted by: alexthechick - rrraaawwwrrr at March 21, 2017 04:47 PM (mf5HN)

Now THAT'S misogyny.

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at March 21, 2017 04:49 PM (CPk08)

253 Third time is a charm?

Why is that?

What evidence is there that the 3rd time is a charm??

1st shot is for location.
2nd shot is for accuracy.
3rd shot is fire for effect!

Posted by: rickb223 at March 21, 2017 04:49 PM (Uohrc)

254 Lena Dunham is a woman.

Posted by: alexthechick - rrraaawwwrrr at March 21, 2017 04:47 PM (mf5HN)

Well....sure. If we're talking genetics.

Posted by: naturalfake at March 21, 2017 04:50 PM (vZ9Fw)

255 Gerderm nerple nootzis!

Posted by: Woll Smoth at March 21, 2017 04:50 PM (wGP5o)

256 Book vs Movie :

Sum Of All Fears.

Fucking chickenshit to change the bad guys from Muslamics to NeoNazis, ruined the whole story.

Of course casting Ben AFLAC as Jack Ryan was a fatal error to begin with.

Posted by: browndog at March 21, 2017 04:50 PM (bGMOs)

257 Lena Dunham is a woman.

--

No! Lena Dunham is female. It is claimed.

Posted by: Angus Blackheart at March 21, 2017 04:50 PM (Hg5Kb)

258
This calm, reasoned Supreme Court nominee seems to be the pathway to the democrats re-taking the Senate.

/ pure sarc

Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at March 21, 2017 04:50 PM (ZFUt7)

259 Planet of the Apes was a better movie than book.
The first time at least, not the Marky Mark atrocity.

Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at March 21, 2017 04:50 PM (WuWke)

260 >>>Three strikes you are out.

"Bad luck comes in threes"

I think humans are hardwired to strategize and plan in threes.

Posted by: Max Power at March 21, 2017 04:50 PM (q177U)

261 213 Posted by: Marcus T at March 21, 2017 04:34 PM (OFxPz)

The problem is the 25% we didn't "get" has the repeal and the open markets for insurance across state lines.

I'm sure that's gonna happen in the Senate. /S

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 21, 2017 04:50 PM (mbhDw)

262 Nah. I got an even more useless degree!
Posted by: Bandersnatch, gentleman cad at March 21, 2017 04:48 PM (gIRsn)

Ha! Mine is ever more uselesser!

Triple majored in history, political science and philosophy.

And this is where I get all super super super bitter that you got a grad degree that only required two years and you went to a better grad school than I did.

*seethes*

Posted by: alexthechick - rrraaawwwrrr at March 21, 2017 04:51 PM (mf5HN)

263 Book vs Movie :

Sum Of All Fears.

F***ing chicken***t to change the bad guys from Muslamics to NeoNazis, ruined the whole story.

Of course casting Ben AFLAC as Jack Ryan was a fatal error to begin with.

Posted by: browndog

You may have misunderstood the game.

Posted by: pep at March 21, 2017 04:51 PM (LAe3v)

264 To Have and Have Not

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at March 21, 2017 04:52 PM (xJa6I)

265 Film thread? Start at the beginning - the first 25 years of film.

Posted by: 13times at March 21, 2017 04:52 PM (WHVu+)

266 262 Nah. I got an even more useless degree!
Posted by: Bandersnatch, gentleman cad at March 21, 2017 04:48 PM (gIRsn)

Ha! Mine is ever more uselesser!

Triple majored in history, political science and philosophy.

And this is where I get all super super super bitter that you got a grad degree that only required two years and you went to a better grad school than I did.

*seethes*
Posted by: alexthechick - rrraaawwwrrr at March 21, 2017 04:51 PM (mf5HN)

I saw a stupid article at Linked In that implores HR people that people with humanities degrees are vital to corporate America!

I about puked.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 21, 2017 04:52 PM (mbhDw)

267 Also the Marvel movies are way better than the comic's they're based on. At least the comics from the last 10 years.

Oh and Mark Millar can eat a bullet.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at March 21, 2017 04:52 PM (xJa6I)

268 I'm going to go out on a limb and say Little Women with Winona was better than the book even though I never read the book. Call it instinct
Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at March 21, 2017 04:48 PM (WuWke)

Even allowing that it's BSG, Winona was, in my opinion, the best of the three movie Jo's.

Posted by: Sal at March 21, 2017 04:52 PM (hA4a+)

269 >>I'm sure that's gonna happen in the Senate. /S

Also: tort reform.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 21, 2017 04:52 PM (NOIQH)

270 No! Lena Dunham is female. It is claimed.
Posted by: Angus Blackheart at March 21, 2017 04:50 PM (Hg5Kb)

I think the fairest, most objective assessment is that Lena likely has ovaries. Everything else is ...geez, I don't even want to think.

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at March 21, 2017 04:53 PM (CPk08)

271 I saw a stupid article at Linked In that implores HR people that people with humanities degrees are vital to corporate America!

I about puked.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 21, 2017 04:52 PM (mbhDw)

Somebody has to make their lattes so it is true in a fashion.

Posted by: alexthechick - rrraaawwwrrr at March 21, 2017 04:53 PM (mf5HN)

272 Basically everything is split into a system comprising 3 or four parts. Four has the advantage that it can be divided, and hence be both a division of 2 and 4 at the same time.

Posted by: Max Power at March 21, 2017 04:53 PM (q177U)

273 269 >>I'm sure that's gonna happen in the Senate. /S

Also: tort reform.
Posted by: Lizzy at March 21, 2017 04:52 PM (NOIQH)

All I know is, if McConnell and Ryan are hot and horny to pass it while people such as Gohmert and Cotton are sounding the alarm, well, let's just say that I know who I'm going to listen to and trust.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 21, 2017 04:54 PM (mbhDw)

274 >>Book vs Movie :

Shawshank Redemption (OK, it was short-ish story).

Posted by: Lizzy at March 21, 2017 04:54 PM (NOIQH)

275 JJ. You know I love you in a manly way brother. But the state lines will be fixed in a later phase. It won't get through in the first pass.

You have to also realize that when the Dems did Obamacare they purposely included some things that were Republican ideas. It was dastardly but nonetheless they still have an affinity for it.

I hate the saying but it's often stated on the Hill that politics is the art of the possible. Unfortunately you do what you can. There is a full agenda they need to get working on.

Posted by: Marcus T at March 21, 2017 04:54 PM (OFxPz)

276 Triple majored in history, political science and philosophy.

Did not those degrees and doing well-which I assume you did-quite well-get you into law school? Would have some other degree(s) been more appropriate for going to law school?.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 21, 2017 04:54 PM (fDdVG)

277 I'm sure the judiciary hearing makes one pine for the days of Joe Biden.

To Jobiden (intransitive) means to be confronted with a set of logical irregularities by a man of no intellectual abilities in a position of power and authority for no reason whatsoever.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at March 21, 2017 04:55 PM (hqZPQ)

278 Film thread? Start at the beginning - the first 25 years of film.

I just watched a really cool documentary, "From Caligari to Hitler", which is a cinematic and social history of the Weimar era.

It's on Netflix.

Posted by: Bandersnatch, gentleman cad at March 21, 2017 04:55 PM (gIRsn)

279 271 I saw a stupid article at Linked In that implores HR people that people with humanities degrees are vital to corporate America!

I about puked.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 21, 2017 04:52 PM (mbhDw)

Somebody has to make their lattes so it is true in a fashion.
Posted by: alexthechick - rrraaawwwrrr at March 21, 2017 04:53 PM (mf5HN)

Just before I got laid off in the wake of the coming of SCOAMF, the boss of the company bought a $15,000 genuine Gaggia espresso maker for the office.

What timing.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 21, 2017 04:55 PM (mbhDw)

280 I an not sorry for majoring in what I did in college-Theatre with an English minor.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 21, 2017 04:55 PM (fDdVG)

281 Wow.
Gorsuch is describing the essence of our government in 4 minutes and 19 seconds.
Awesome.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at March 21, 2017 04:55 PM (8iiMU)

282 Mrs. Refugee was struggling to breastfeed Refugee-ette. We went to see Nurse Practicioner at Pediatrician office. She watched the process and nodded. "I see the problem." She then got a little nervous. She looked at the door - which was closed lest somebody walk in on undressed Mrs. Refugee. She then dug into a cupboard and rummaged around and pulled out a silicone gizmo that fit over a nipple. Refugee-ette enthusiastically started nursing. Much joy. Practicioner then gave us a dead serious look and said " If anyone from La Leche League contacts you, you MUST NOT TELL THEM YOU ARE USING THIS! "

Posted by: 2009Refugee at March 21, 2017 04:55 PM (Xl1Er)

283 The lactofascism can go both ways. You've got the pro breast feeding militant types, and then you've got the anti breast feeding in public or any mention of it types who are just as bad.

It didn't use to be that way. Infant formula wasn't invented until early in the 20th century. Before that, which means for nearly all human history, infants had to be breast fed or they would die.

It was no big deal. Either way. My grandmother mentioned how when she was a little girl, and this would been circa 1910, women regularly breast fed their babies in church. Nobody thought a damn thing about it. Baby would cry. Mama would, *discreetly*, feed it, right there in the sanctuary.

And nobody thought one thing about it.

Because of formula, it's become optional, and thus all the hang ups about it have developed.

Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at March 21, 2017 04:55 PM (aKqWT)

284 Ha! Mine is ever more uselesser!

Triple majored in history, political science and philosophy.

So you sit around and wonder why politicians do the stupid shit they do and if they will ever change?

Posted by: rickb223 at March 21, 2017 04:55 PM (Uohrc)

285 The Bible was a much peppier film.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at March 21, 2017 04:56 PM (oVJmc)

286 275 There is a full agenda they need to get working on.
Posted by: Marcus T at March 21, 2017 04:54 PM (OFxPz)

I appreciate the sentiment but I am not sanguine about this. I hope to G-d above that you prove me wrong and I will gladly eat a giant plate of crow.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 21, 2017 04:56 PM (mbhDw)

287 You can spend a whole day watching documentaries about 2001: a Space Odyssey special effects and still watch the movie and totally buy every magic trick 100%, except for the space baby.

Posted by: SarahW, at March 21, 2017 04:56 PM (Sp1NT)

288 The Thing was better than Who Goes There

Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at March 21, 2017 04:56 PM (WuWke)

289 Nobody thought a damn thing about it. Baby would cry. Mama would, *discreetly*, feed it, right there in the sanctuary.

Keyword is discreetly. Now days they just flop the tit out.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 21, 2017 04:56 PM (Uohrc)

290 241 Have there ever been any movies that wound up better than the novels they were based on? Discuss.

Princess Bride?
Posted by: gewa76 at March 21, 2017 04:46 PM (B6OKy)

I found a paperback copy of Pal Joey by John O'Hara and saw almost no resemblance to the movie with Frank Sinatra and Kim Novak. But I thought each work was good on its own merits.

Posted by: kallisto at March 21, 2017 04:57 PM (nNdYv)

291 And I got out of college and graduate school with no debt.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 21, 2017 04:57 PM (fDdVG)

292 The same as the current talk bandied about on college campuses and by trans-bi-questioning groups. The majority of Americans don't use that language so whatever message they spew gets lost. Good.

Posted by: Cheri at March 21, 2017 04:57 PM (oiNtH)

293 Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at March 21, 2017 04:55 PM (aKqWT)

I draw the line at breast pumping in public.

Posted by: Jack Sock at March 21, 2017 04:58 PM (Exd63)

294 First *

* on the next time this thread bubbles up unless someMoron already took that gag.

Posted by: DaveA at March 21, 2017 04:59 PM (FhXTo)

295 What they need to worry about is the senate and people like Collins whose states are giant suck holes for federal taxpayer money. Also those who expanded Medicaid. They will need to go to their taxpayers if they want to keep floating that. They will make up any excuse possible to vote against this bill to keep their residents sucking off the government teat

Posted by: Marcus T at March 21, 2017 04:59 PM (OFxPz)

296 Movie better than book.

The Emperor of the North.

The Road by Jack London.

Posted by: 13times at March 21, 2017 04:59 PM (WHVu+)

297 JIMMY! MOAR PANCAKES!!!!

Posted by: Barbra Streisand at March 21, 2017 05:00 PM (JZdsf)

298 First *

* on the next time this thread bubbles up unless someMoron already took that gag.

Posted by: DaveA

----
First *

* on the next time this thread bubbles up unless someMoron already took that gag.

Posted by: Amy Schumer

Posted by: rickb223 at March 21, 2017 05:00 PM (Uohrc)

299 If hitler was still alive and most likely still in prison I'm sure he could get them for free.

Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at March 21, 2017 05:00 PM (nQHw/)

300 My mom friends and I called them the Breastapo.

Posted by: not the mama

LOL. I had to bottle feed both of my kids and ran into this all of the time. From the hospital to the snoots in my neighborhood who were absolutely appalled!

Posted by: Cheri at March 21, 2017 05:00 PM (oiNtH)

301 Dunno if the movies Shawshank Redemption and Stand By Me (from Stephen King's novelettes, "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption" and "The Body," respectively) were better than their source material. Those are probably King's best work.

But they are two of the very best adaptations of his work ever done.

The Shining, Stanley Kubrick's attempt at a horror film? Puh-leeze. King himself once said, "I consider I handed Stanley Kubrick a live hand grenade . . . and he heroically threw his body on top of it."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 21, 2017 05:01 PM (IB8DY)

302 Breastapo. That is very funny. I have never heard that before. Quite clever!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 21, 2017 05:01 PM (fDdVG)

303 This is all great. Thanks, OregonMuse.
A strident Dem friend of mine the other day tried another tack to dehumanize all non-Hillary! people, saying, "They don't even have passports." It's all the same stream of insanity.

Posted by: m at March 21, 2017 05:01 PM (3jGss)

304 Emily Kinney, the walking dead's Beth Greene, looks like several pictures of Anne Shirley

Posted by: Directional School Grad at March 21, 2017 05:02 PM (zT3XJ)

305 Ahem. One does not "flop out" one's tit.

Posted by: Lady Winifred Fotheringhay-Snotwaffle at March 21, 2017 05:02 PM (JZdsf)

306 Gov. Mike Huckabee
@GovMikeHuckabee
Breaking News! Jimmy Dean Sausage Co will be renamed GORSUCH SAUSAGE because he's grinding up some Democrat Senators into PURE PORK SAUSAGE!

Posted by: EVLINC! at March 21, 2017 05:02 PM (y3aQB)

307 Movie better than book: Clockwork Orange

Posted by: pep at March 21, 2017 05:03 PM (LAe3v)

308 NOOD

Posted by: Lady Winifred Fotheringhay-Snotwaffle at March 21, 2017 05:03 PM (JZdsf)

309 I just heard a chess term "skewer."

I like it.

Any more like this?
Posted by: iSoothsayer iPro iLX at March 21, 2017 04:42 PM (ZT5d4)

Well, if you like "the skewer", you will love "the fork."

Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at March 21, 2017 05:04 PM (raBhU)

310 At the hospital, I noticed they have these special "lactation lounges". Rooms dedicated to breast feeding and I assume pumping. It's getting ridiculous.

The trouble is, again, because of formula, making breast feeding optional. Breasts are "dual use". They have a sexual purpose, and the lactation purpose. And yes, the former is hard wired, contrary to femiNazi bullshit. That's is proven now.

But, by making the latter function optional, we've entirely concentrated on the sexual function, forgetting about the other one. And that's why you get people who get so in a tiff about it.

Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at March 21, 2017 05:04 PM (aKqWT)

311 Posted by: Lady Winifred Fotheringhay-Snotwaffle at March 21, 2017 05:02 PM (JZdsf)

Would you happen to know Barmy Fungy Phipps?

Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 21, 2017 05:04 PM (493sH)

312 Movie better than book: Clockwork Orange

Posted by: pep at March 21, 2017 05:03 PM (LAe3v)

I disagree but it's a really close call.

The book by virtue of it's language really pulls you into that world..

Like "Ridley Walker"....and by the way, where the fuck is that movie, Hollywood?

Posted by: naturalfake at March 21, 2017 05:05 PM (vZ9Fw)

313 JJ. You know I love you in a manly way brother. But the state lines will be fixed in a later phase. It won't get through in the first pass.

I'm trying to be kind here, but I must be blunt:

Given the previous track record of the United States Congress, and the leadership of the Republican delegations thereof--

--what the bloody hell gives you the idea that there will actually ever be a "later phase" that actually addresses those things?

Posted by: Brother Cavil, keeper of the Deplorable Unicode Character at March 21, 2017 05:09 PM (9krrF)

314 So you sit around and wonder why politicians do the stupid shit they do and if they will ever change?

Posted by: rickb223

Moronology!

Posted by: Brother Cavil, keeper of the Deplorable Unicode Character at March 21, 2017 05:10 PM (9krrF)

315 25 years ago it was a different world. I can remember have to sneak off to pump at lunch time and the growling of my co-workers that any morning or afternoon pumpingwasn't counted as a "smoke-break" extending my work-day. (despite me being an exempt employee who worked at least 50+ hours a week and usually 60+.) As if the activity was optional and recreational.

One or two would make cracks about the little bag that held my pump, a little pink zippered bag, and were offended I didn't have a bag for the bag.

It wasn't easy, but I figure the young singles had their turn soon enough, The the pumping was necessary just to abate pain and keep my dress dry, which they probably had no idea about.

Posted by: SarahW, at March 21, 2017 05:13 PM (Sp1NT)

316 The value of a college degree, a BA in general depends on the person who holds the degree.

My son, obtained his degree in 2004 from a NESCAC school, a BA in Rhetoric and Communications.

Left home the following fall and moved to the left coast. Got himself an entry level position with a tobacco company. Worked his ass off, got promoted within his territory. Worked his ass off some more and got promoted to a new territory in the mid-west.

Just promoted again, a survivor of a very competitive environment.

He's not a "math wiz", but he knows his numbers. Computer literate, but not at a programming level. Conversant with hard science where it assists his hobbies.

What he does do is read voraciously, write exceeding well, and argue logically. And all these skills come from a liberal arts background. That's what he needed and what worked for him.

My other son, not so much...he's a math wiz and that's been his focus. Obtaining a BA would have driven him crazy and wasted his time.

TL

R - Success comes from within. The man makes the degree, not the degree making the man.

Posted by: browndog at March 21, 2017 05:13 PM (bGMOs)

317 tl:dr

what was that about...

Posted by: browndog at March 21, 2017 05:14 PM (bGMOs)

318 >>>That's because Trump doesn't believe that Americans who don't vote for him are "deplorable" and "irredeemable".
Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at March 21, 2017 04:08 PM (raBhU)

This. This is it! This is exactly where the big divide is.

Posted by: m at March 21, 2017 05:19 PM (3jGss)

319 Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in

Posted by: gNewt at March 21, 2017 05:19 PM (TbeeY)

320 >>>nasty -- from Greek

Posted by: zombie at March 21, 2017 04:16 PM (DQ4Fv)

???

Posted by: m at March 21, 2017 05:23 PM (3jGss)

321 Isn't a 'fascist' a person who works with fasteners ?

Posted by: undocumented SMOD at March 21, 2017 05:51 PM (e8kgV)

322 305 Ahem. One does not "flop out" one's tit.
Posted by: Lady Winifred Fotheringhay-Snotwaffle at March 21, 2017 05:02 PM (JZdsf)
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One does not simply *flop* out one's tit.

Posted by: Boromir at March 21, 2017 06:11 PM (adsVM)

323 I can work in both genres, but I much prefer to work in the plain blunt speech of native Vermonters and their cousins across the lake in the poverty capital of NY, a/k/a the Adirondack Park.

Posted by: Captain Ned at March 21, 2017 07:04 PM (WI6nT)

324 We called the LLL "booby nazis"...but I appreciate your alliteration very much.

Posted by: tt at March 21, 2017 07:14 PM (6RIXc)

325 I have a buddy who owns a home and he has housemates, and he has no a/c, and his swamp cooler is in disrepair. I tell him that he has an obligation to cool the home to a decent temperature in the summer for his renters, and he is making no effort to do anything. I call him a temperature nazi.

Posted by: todd at March 21, 2017 09:01 PM (XFcGo)

326 Don't forget the Soup Nazi.

Posted by: Timajin at March 22, 2017 02:56 PM (Axg8n)

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