Confucius say watch your language

The beginning of wisdom

is to call things by their proper name.

Confucius

Last week in this space, there was some discussion of language in the comments. It was set off by a segment in the thread concerning the leftist effort to erase the meaning of the word "woman". And then there was the introduction of the word "Latine" to maybe supplant "Latinx", which has been wildly unpopular among the Latinxs.

I am also amazed by kids on Tik Tok explaining how to use their "preferred pronouns" who can't remember how to use their "preferred pronouns".

What is your favorite recent language change? Or least favorite? I think mine may be "assigned at birth".

Though "disinformation" is right up there, too.

There were several aspects to our discussion of language, some of which I thought it might be fun to expand upon below. One of them involved Confucius. You wonder why the Communists tried to erase this guy during the Cultural Revolution, but are now promoting his name once again. Interesting.

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Confucius and other smart people

This comment from last week was not the only time I ran into the philosophy of Confucius last week. Weird.

Tom Servo in response to Dr. Claw:

everything happening now has happened before.
Confucius on the Rectification of Names:
If language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant; if what is said is not what is meant, then what must be done remains undone; if this remains undone, morals and art will deteriorate; if justice goes astray, the people will stand about in helpless confusion. Hence there must be no arbitrariness in what is said. This matters above everything.

I also found a piece that mentioned Confucius when in discussion with a lefty talking about multigenerational poverty in the USA (as a result of, you know, the desire to keep certain races down). This piece is not new, so it's worth remembering in today's fevered, contentious, race-obsessed culture. And it's worth reading all the way through, even though it's a bit long.

Back in 2014, Anthony Daniels (Theodore Dalrymple) wrote The Worldview that Makes the Underclass for Hillsdale's Imprimus. It makes some particularly fine points about language. Here are a few:

Certainly the notions of dependence and independence have changed. I remember a population that was terrified of falling into dependence on the state, because such dependence, apart from being unpleasant in itself, signified personal failure and humiliation. But there has been an astonishing gestalt switch in my lifetime. Independence has now come to mean independence of the people to whom one is related and dependence on the state. Mothers would say to me that they were pleased to be independent, by which they meant independent of the fathers of their children--usually more than one--who in general were violent swine. Of course, the mothers knew them to be violent swine before they had children by them, but the question of whether a man would be a suitable father is no longer a question because there are no fathers: At best, though often also at worst, there are only stepfathers. The state would provide. In the new dispensation the state, as well as television, is father to the child.

A small change in locution illustrates a change in the character and conceptions of a people. When I started out as a doctor in the mid-1970s, those who received state benefits would say, "I receive my check on Friday." Now people who receive such benefits say, "I get paid on Friday." This is an important change. To have said that they received their check on Friday was a neutral way of putting it; to say that they get paid on Friday is to imply that they are receiving money in return for something. But what can that something be, since they do not appear to do anything of economic value to anyone else? It can only be existence itself: They are being paid to continue to exist, existence itself being their work. . .
But it is far from the whole story. One of the curious features of England in the recent past is that it has consistently maintained very high levels of state-subsidized idleness while importing almost equivalent numbers of foreigners to do unskilled work.

Let me here interject something about the intellectual and moral corruption wrought by the state in recent years-- and I don't know whether it applies to America. The governments of Britain, of both political parties, managed to lessen the official rate of unemployment by the simple expedient of shifting people from the ranks of the unemployed to the ranks of the sick. This happened on such a huge scale that, by 2006--a year of economic boom, remember--the British welfare state had achieved the remarkable feat of producing more invalids than the First World War. But it is known that the majority of those invalids had no real disease. This feat, then, could have been achieved only by the willing corruption of the unemployed themselves--relieved from the necessity to seek work and relieved to have a slightly higher subvention-- but also of the doctors who provided them with official certificates that they knew to be bogus. And the government was only too happy, for propaganda purposes, to connive at such large-scale fraud. One begins to see what Confucius meant when he said, 2,500 years ago, that the first thing to do to restore a state to health was to rectify the names--in other words, to call things by their right names rather than by euphemisms.

Other Smart People on Language

San FranPsycho in last week's comments:

Both Orwell and Burgess wrote about the intentional Marxist corruption of English language, which must be protected as essential to expression of ideas fundamental to human freedom.
In 1984 Orwell included a treatise on Newspeak (that no one reads.) Burgess wrote a similar one on "Workers' English" in 1985.

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Is is possible to protect language?

Also in last weeks comments, there was a spirited discussion of the role of the French Academy in protecting the official French language. It helps that there are still some people who care about French culture in France. Canadian French language may not always reflect the French Academy's positions.

On the French language thing, many years ago, I was in a French class where the teacher brought in some recordings of French people speaking. It was easy for the non-native students to understand most of what the politicians said in their speeches. Knowing they are destined to be politicians, many of them are trained in diction and such as they grow up.

It was almost impossible to understand radio announcers, who talked really fast and used a lot of slang. I'm sure their hip audiences understood them.

Similarly, in the German part of Switzerland, students learn High German in school, though they may speak a number of different regional Swiss dialects at home. Some American educators think a similar approach in the USA is racist.

The utility of keeping old print copies of good dictionaries was also discussed in the comments. I like this idea. It is disheartening when online dictionaries change the meaning of words based on a single usage by a single person in a political setting.

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Random things related to language ideology

Guess who said it, or did it:

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Black man learns to stop hating Shakespeare

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A diversity office explicitly excludes Koreans, Chinese, Japanese, Indians, Pakistanis, etc. from its definition of racial minorities.

Guess where?

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One upside to having a government Ministry of Information is that we'll pretty much automatically know what the truth ISN'T.

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It's not black pain, it's pain.
It's not black joy, it's joy.
It's not black love, it's love.
It's not black hair, it's hair.
It's not black trauma, it's trauma.
It's not a black life, it's a life.

I think it's time to abandon separatist language and thought.

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I cannot understand people who say that minorities should be represented everywhere and yet are upset when there are blacks represented in the conservative movement.

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The correct answers to "what are your pronouns?" are "I am a man," "I am a woman," "I am a boy," and "I am a girl." Don't play. Don't indulge.

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Light Reading and Music

You Say Potato, a book about accents

Fred and Ginger

Ella and Louis

Hope you have something nice planned for this weekend.

This is the Thread before the Gardening Thread.

Serving your mid-day open thread needs

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Last week's Thread, May 7: Obsession with the Handmaid's Tale, erasing the definition of "woman" and introducing "Latine", Seattle falls apart, Russia demands the entire arctic, VDH's favorites, solving racism, death of melody in music, Mama Tried

Comments are closed so you won't ban yourself by trying to comment on a week-old thread. But don't try it anyway.

Posted by: K.T. at 11:16 AM

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1 Howdy KT!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 14, 2022 11:18 AM (8gtDH)

2 Called em

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 14, 2022 11:18 AM (8gtDH)

3 Hi, Duke!

Posted by: KT at May 14, 2022 11:20 AM (rrtZS)

4 hiya

Posted by: JT at May 14, 2022 11:21 AM (arJlL)

5 I thought LaTrine was a ghetto name.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 14, 2022 11:21 AM (XG2Fi)

6 Hiya, JT

Posted by: KT at May 14, 2022 11:21 AM (rrtZS)

7 Confucius say fast woman is one who trip man and beats him to the floor.

So much for my Chinese wisdom.

Posted by: GnuBreed at May 14, 2022 11:21 AM (F0YaR)

8 Latine? Like where you piss?

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko Solutions at May 14, 2022 11:22 AM (uTEYr)

9 Hiya KT !

Happy Saturday !

Posted by: JT at May 14, 2022 11:25 AM (arJlL)

10 Liberal white women with grievance studies degrees keep coming up with new names to call the oppressed brown people. That's known as Noblesse Oblige.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 14, 2022 11:25 AM (XG2Fi)

11 Been looking for a 5/8 to 1/2 copper reducer to no avail, have to wait for Monday to try other places

Posted by: Skip at May 14, 2022 11:27 AM (2JoB8)

12 My language pet peeve is expressing a THOUGHT after saying "I feel."

You THINK thoughts, you feel FEELINGS.

Use you words, people. You are better than leftist pod people.

Precision of language denotes precision of thought, so if I see you type or say that you felt a thought, that lets me know that you have imprecise thoughts.

Posted by: Unknownsailor at May 14, 2022 11:27 AM (Oo1xX)

13 What is your favorite recent language change? Or least favorite?

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Currently, my least favorite is "gender affirming care". Which, as with so many things these days is used as its own exact polar opposite. Would be more accurate to call it "delusion affirming".

Posted by: Muldoon at May 14, 2022 11:28 AM (kXYt5)

14 Muldoon at May 14, 2022 11:28 AM

Oh, that's a good one.

Posted by: KT at May 14, 2022 11:29 AM (rrtZS)

15 Using the word 'so'...to start nearly every sentence.

Posted by: BignJames at May 14, 2022 11:29 AM (AwYPR)

16 Currently, my least favorite is "gender affirming care". Which, as with so many things these days is used as its own exact polar opposite. Would be more accurate to call it "delusion affirming".
Posted by: Muldoon at May 14, 2022 11:28 AM (kXYt5)

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At some point killing your baby became "women's health care." That's about as Orwellian as it gets.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 14, 2022 11:30 AM (XG2Fi)

17 Unknownsailor at May 14, 2022 11:27 AM

Great point. The feels!

Posted by: KT at May 14, 2022 11:30 AM (rrtZS)

18 I've solved the speaking conundrum. I rarely talk to anyone anymore.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at May 14, 2022 11:32 AM (Qhnrt)

19 "Latine" is the feminine form in French and the plural feminine in Italian. So once again the parochialism of the leftoids results in a big linguistic FAIL on their report card.

Posted by: kallisto at May 14, 2022 11:33 AM (DJFLF)

20 "...effort to erase the meaning of the word "woman"."

Logically, since leftist/transgenderism can't define or provide on objective delineation between any of the genders it erases both 'man' and 'woman'. The redefinition by leftists expands both to mean human. When the terms are used by them, that's all you can ascertain- it refers to a human. Similarly, every transgender category or pronoun simply become synonyms for human. If a=b, and b=c extend to X-1=X, they are all the same.
Ironically, it's rooted in solipsism- that reality consists of the concepts and ideas in the consciousness. Truly, to adhere to the transgender paradigm I should choose not the pronouns they insist on, but on the pronouns dictated by the concept/idea they present in my consciousness since that's the reality. Not some external objectively verifiable reality.

Posted by: Your'e in hell the wordl ended at May 14, 2022 11:34 AM (idESw)

21 Have yet to have someone snap at me about preferred pronouns, not sure when it happens they will want to.

Posted by: Skip at May 14, 2022 11:35 AM (2JoB8)

22 Watching a 1960s episode of Rhe Andy Griffith Show, the title of which is " The Gay Deceiver".

"Gay" was a fine word, used much in song and film. But now...

Posted by: JM in Florida at May 14, 2022 11:35 AM (L7jyl)

23
Precision of language denotes precision of thought, so if I see you type or say that you felt a thought, that lets me know that you have imprecise thoughts.
Posted by: Unknownsailor at May 14, 2022 11:27 AM (Oo1xX)

Women hate talking to you, don't they?

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at May 14, 2022 11:35 AM (Qhnrt)

24 Currently, my least favorite is "gender affirming care". Which, as with so many things these days is used as its own exact polar opposite. Would be more accurate to call it "delusion affirming".
Posted by: Muldoon at May 14, 2022 11:28 AM (kXYt5)

At some point killing your baby became "women's health care." That's about as Orwellian as it gets.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 14, 2022 11:30 AM (XG2Fi)

Yep. Seems to me the trans people have been quiet lately, in that we don't seem to hear anyone saying "men can have abortions too."

"Reproductive rights." Killing is not reproducing, and getting permission from the government isn't a right.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 14, 2022 11:36 AM (47mFt)

25 We need to stop calling them, "Liberals". There is nothing liberal about modern leftists.

Posted by: Darth Chipmunk at May 14, 2022 11:36 AM (+S1Fy)

26 He who eat many prunes
Sit on toilet many moons

Posted by: Dr. Varno at May 14, 2022 11:36 AM (vuisn)

27 There was a young woman that showed up to help with the cleanup here. When the stepdaughter introduced her, and told me her pronouns, it was very awkward. Stepdaughter is a Lefty so I'm sure she does this pronoun thing all the time. The fact that it was awkward for her means she knows it is a lie. And I didn't need her pronouns anyway.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at May 14, 2022 11:37 AM (YynYJ)

28 Language does matter, and Chomsky got his shit all wrong and his 'theory' of languages has been totes dis-proven, and is still invited to the finest cocktail parties.

Neal Stephenson though has an interesting take on what he calls "The Rhetors", those skilled in manipulating language and are just as powerful as "The Geometers", or avouts in his book Anathem.

I feel he was trying to warn everyone that the Rhetors are a dangerous force, and not to be underestimated.

Underestimating your enemy is a rookie mistake we keep making.

Thanks for the thread, KT.

Posted by: GnuBreed at May 14, 2022 11:38 AM (F0YaR)

29 21 Have yet to have someone snap at me about preferred pronouns, not sure when it happens they will want to.

Posted by: Skip at May 14, 2022 11:35 AM (2JoB

just stay out of super Karen-y neighborhoods.

This is really a "thing" in academia. It has seeped into corporate too.

Posted by: kallisto at May 14, 2022 11:38 AM (DJFLF)

30 Posted by: Unknownsailor at May 14, 2022 11:27 AM (Oo1xX)

Women hate talking to you, don't they?
Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at May 14, 2022 11:35 AM (Qhnrt)

Heh. They feel like they do.

By the by, in my line of work, I HATE when people call emotions "feelings." No, your five senses are feelings, your emotions come from a different part of the brain. This confusion causes even more anguish and turmoil than confusing thoughts with feelings does.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 14, 2022 11:39 AM (47mFt)

31 Mine might we'll be provider. Replaces the concept of being a professional, especially medical service providers, formerly doctors.

Posted by: From That Time at May 14, 2022 11:39 AM (4780s)

32 BIRTHING PARENT

Posted by: Bonnie Blue - no longer playing the game at May 14, 2022 11:39 AM (9qiMu)

33 just stay out of super Karen-y neighborhoods.
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Not a problem.

Posted by: SMH that God hasn't lobbed a Texas-sized asteroid at us yet at May 14, 2022 11:39 AM (AxTbI)

34 Chest-feeding.

Posted by: SMH that God hasn't lobbed a Texas-sized asteroid at us yet at May 14, 2022 11:40 AM (AxTbI)

35 Saw my first way over the top non binary person at Walmart the other day. I think it's a guy but he dresses like a girl and wears Christmas ribbons in his/her hair.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at May 14, 2022 11:41 AM (bVYXr)

36 We need to stop calling them, "Liberals". There is nothing liberal about modern leftists.
Posted by: Darth Chipmunk at May 14, 2022 11:36 AM (+S1Fy)

Yep. I consider myself to be quite liberal about many things.

The Democrat Party is about as illiberal as it can get in its beliefs.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 14, 2022 11:41 AM (47mFt)

37 So,
There's a watch company, Egard, that makes beautiful watches, but they also made a very pro woman statement in an advertisement I saw about a month ago. They said "womanhood is a birthright. It cannot be appropriated." I bought a watch.

Now I want to buy a pendant for the young women in my life. It says "womanhood is a birthright."

The word woman means woman.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 14, 2022 11:42 AM (U2p+3)

38
Underestimating your enemy is a rookie mistake we keep making.

Posted by: GnuBreed at May 14, 2022 11:38 AM (F0YaR

Very much THIS.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at May 14, 2022 11:42 AM (Qhnrt)

39 "Affirming"....whatever follows is a load of bullshit.

Posted by: BignJames at May 14, 2022 11:42 AM (AwYPR)

40 In conversation this morning the infant formula situation came up, conceptualized as a microcosm of the governmental COVID response.

A government entity shutting down a private enterprise due to an overblown risk assessment, driven by a bureaucratic zero-risk mentality, with panic mongering, resulting in panic buying and irrational public reaction, with no acknowledgment or acceptance of responsibility for the unintended consequences and real world harmful effects on untold other individuals. The original complaint was back in Oct 2021, and that plant should have been inspected, sterilized and back on-line at full production within #twoweeks.

This is and I suspect will remain the go-to strategy for all supposed public health emergencies from climate to racism to guns to you-name-it henceforth.

Posted by: Muldoon at May 14, 2022 11:42 AM (kXYt5)

41 When I was young I was gay.
Then they changed the meaning of that word.
Now I can't be gay anymore.
And that makes me sad.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 14, 2022 11:42 AM (jYQlA)

42 Mine might we'll be provider. Replaces the concept of being a professional, especially medical service providers, formerly doctors.
Posted by: From That Time at May 14, 2022 11:39 AM (4780s)

Probably happened because of all the PhDs running around being told "you're not a REAL doctor."

Posted by: BurtTC at May 14, 2022 11:43 AM (47mFt)

43 sra blaster and her family hate hate hate LatinX with the heat of a thousand suns.

And when they tried to slap in Latine they just wonder what is wrong with people.

Posted by: blaster at May 14, 2022 11:43 AM (9otr5)

44 Thumbs down on the words-Male pregnancy

Posted by: sidney at May 14, 2022 11:44 AM (itAo5)

45 Military MD testifies she was ordered to cover up injuries resulting from mRna mandates:

https://tinyurl.com/ys3n8hy8

When the numbers obviously pointed to more death/injury post mRna jab, DoD just changed the numbers from the inconvenient prior 5 years.

Posted by: kallisto at May 14, 2022 11:44 AM (DJFLF)

46 "What is your favorite recent language change?"

Homophobia (not really recent) Phobia implies an irrational, overwhelming fear and even a mental illness. That is all BS and meant to smear the people that won't celebrate gayness. Homosexuality used to be considered a mental illness so there is some revenge in there too)

Posted by: Ripley at May 14, 2022 11:44 AM (PTDkx)

47 I stumbled across a video of Scalia testifying before Congress about the role of the Supreme Court the other day. His absolute precision in language was the complete polar opposite of our newest Justice who couldn't even define "woman".

I would have loved to see Scalia opine about that demonstration of fully operational Newspeak.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at May 14, 2022 11:44 AM (cupoy)

48 And the idea that the best "woman" for a job is a mentally ill dude in a wig is offensive.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 14, 2022 11:44 AM (U2p+3)

49 I am offended by the claim of "reproductive rights" when it means just the opposite.

Maybe worse. Termination rights.

Posted by: JM in Florida at May 14, 2022 11:44 AM (L7jyl)

50 "Affirming"....whatever follows is a load of bullshit.
Posted by: BignJames at May 14, 2022 11:42 AM (AwYPR)

Oh no, I think it's what came before that's b.s.

So when they say "affirmative action," they do mean to take action. And when the word is followed by "surgery," they're absolutely going to be cutting something off.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 14, 2022 11:45 AM (47mFt)

51 This Ukraine deal humming along. Labs in China are humming. The flies laying eggs on live puppies' faces are humming.

I feel so ClockWork Orangey.

Let's dance.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at May 14, 2022 11:45 AM (shQKB)

52 I posted @45 because it reminds me of this excerpt from KT article.

The governments of Britain, of both political parties, managed to lessen the official rate of unemployment by the simple expedient of shifting people from the ranks of the unemployed to the ranks of the sick.

When the numbers make The Party look bad, just change them!!

*poof*! with a few clicks on the spreadsheet, favorable Narrative is created!

Posted by: kallisto at May 14, 2022 11:45 AM (DJFLF)

53 Or the fastest "female" swimmer is a dude who bangs his girlfriend with his girl dick,but he grew out his hair and wears lipstick is offensive.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 14, 2022 11:46 AM (U2p+3)

54 Our Democracy.

Posted by: Infidel at May 14, 2022 11:46 AM (E0NVW)

55 George Carlin on the softening of language:

https://youtu.be/-m-zHjZ011I

It's very relevant to today's main topic.

Posted by: GnuBreed at May 14, 2022 11:46 AM (F0YaR)

56 Let's dance.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at May 14, 2022 11:45 AM (shQKB)

Put on your red shoes.

Posted by: BignJames at May 14, 2022 11:47 AM (AwYPR)

57
Homophobia (not really recent) Phobia implies an irrational, overwhelming fear and even a mental illness. That is all BS and meant to smear the people that won't celebrate gayness. Homosexuality used to be considered a mental illness so there is some revenge in there too)
Posted by: Ripley at May 14, 2022 11:44 AM (PTDkx)

Yep. And I hate the word transphobia. I am not afraid of the 0.1 percent of the population suffering that particular mental illness.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, there are chickens in my trench at May 14, 2022 11:48 AM (eGTCV)

58 And the idea that the best "woman" for a job is a mentally ill dude in a wig is offensive.
Posted by: nurse ratched
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Amen.

Posted by: SMH that God hasn't lobbed a Texas-sized asteroid at us yet at May 14, 2022 11:48 AM (AxTbI)

59 The doctor said she is constantly contacted by people who have been injured by the genetic vaccines, and that many of those injured are pilots, who are expected to meet high fitness standards. Long told Staver that in just one afternoon she heard from four pilots who had just gotten MRIs back showing that they had myocarditis.

She also said that morale is extraordinarily low and some servicemembers are having suicidal thoughts.

Posted by: kallisto at May 14, 2022 11:48 AM (DJFLF)

60 54 Our Democracy.
Posted by: Infidel at May 14, 2022 11:46 AM (E0NVW)

My truth.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at May 14, 2022 11:48 AM (Qhnrt)

61 Posted by: Your'e in hell the wordl ended at May 14, 2022 11:34 AM (idESw)

No it didnt and no, I'm not.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 14, 2022 11:48 AM (LIfCn)

62 Our Democracy.
Posted by: Infidel at May 14, 2022 11:46 AM (E0NVW)

Good one. Swiftly catching up behind it: "Domestic terrorists," and "insurrection."

Posted by: BurtTC at May 14, 2022 11:48 AM (47mFt)

63 The fact that it made no attempt to follow Spanish grammar was the tell that "Latinx" was invented by white pseudo-intellectuals who didn't understand or speak Spanish.

English has always had a problem with the second person pronouns being the same for singular and plural-- "you" and "you", which is why you get the "y'all" and its variants. Now the so-called "woke" want to do the same with "they." Idiots. English already has a word for non-specific persons, which happens to be the same word used for people known to be male-- "he". What we need to do is get rid of the use of "she" and "her".

Posted by: Raoul Ortega at May 14, 2022 11:48 AM (OafoN)

64 Heh. The HR department at my former employer (community college) instructed everyone to add their pronouns to their email signatures. The college president sent a school-wide email with her pronouns, being a good example. But no employees except a few people in the HR department followed through, so it died on the vine.

Of course, they are always probing for soft spots where they can advance their agenda so there will be other attempts. There's no rest for those who wish to remain sane.

Posted by: Emmie at May 14, 2022 11:49 AM (6RgRK)

65 Christian nationalist is a deeply stupid phrase.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, there are chickens in my trench at May 14, 2022 11:49 AM (eGTCV)

66 Though "disinformation" is right up there, too.

Disinformatsiya is a fine Soviet word!

So is "kompromat".

Example: "Both China and Russia have excellent kompromat on Hunter Biden."

Posted by: Crazy Ivan! at May 14, 2022 11:49 AM (I2/tG)

67 Not sure it's pronoun but my bathroom sink has a new drain, it's a popup and looks to work well.

Posted by: Skip at May 14, 2022 11:50 AM (2JoB8)

68 Heh. The HR department at my former employer (community college) instructed everyone to add their pronouns to their email signatures. The college president sent a school-wide email with her pronouns, being a good example. But no employees except a few people in the HR department followed through, so it died on the vine.

Of course, they are always probing for soft spots where they can advance their agenda so there will be other attempts. There's no rest for those who wish to remain sane.
Posted by: Emmie at May 14, 2022 11:49 AM (6RgRK)

Where I work, if someone has "their pronouns" in their email sig, it means they're management. Or they're sucking up to same, hoping to get that promotion so they don't have to work anymore.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 14, 2022 11:52 AM (47mFt)

69 The appropriation of the rainbow symbol offends me.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, there are chickens in my trench at May 14, 2022 11:52 AM (eGTCV)

70 Posted by: Skip at May 14, 2022 11:50 AM (2JoB

I'm having an issue with my shower spigot. My first mistake was calling the BF to help. Actually it wasn't such a mistake in the beginning, because he at least got me to the point where I could turn the main water valve back on and he gave me an adjustable wrench to turn on the water at the spigot.

But he couldn't just stop there and now I may be well and truly farked.

Posted by: kallisto at May 14, 2022 11:53 AM (DJFLF)

71 When the numbers make The Party look bad, just change them!!

Before the Second City Cop blog in Chicago closed (because Google threatened to doxx them), they noted that the medical examiner in Chicago goes to great lengths to reclassify homicides as other forms of death, in any case where there is the slightest doubt whether a suspicious death was a homicide or not.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 14, 2022 11:53 AM (I2/tG)

72 What is your favorite recent language change? Or least favorite?

I'm old enough to remember when a "vaccine" provided immunity to the disease being vaccinated for. But the CDC and the dictionary changed the definition in Sept-Oct (last year, I think) to include the Covid shots.

Posted by: Emmie at May 14, 2022 11:54 AM (6RgRK)

73 Moral of the story: Leave plumbing repair to the pros

Posted by: kallisto at May 14, 2022 11:54 AM (DJFLF)

74 Mark Steyn is interviewing (on UK TV) a number of people injured and widowed in 30s and 40s by the Astrazeneca vaccine.

Posted by: JM in Florida at May 14, 2022 11:54 AM (L7jyl)

75 there's this horrible verbal tic that has crept into the language. when people relate a personal anecdote:

"And I'm like, 'dude, wtf?' "

I hate this. it is moronic.

Posted by: DB at May 14, 2022 11:55 AM (geLO8)

76 Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 14, 2022 11:53 AM (I2/tG)

"America's Mayor", Ed Rendell did this in Philly during his term there.

Posted by: kallisto at May 14, 2022 11:55 AM (DJFLF)

77 69 The appropriation of the rainbow symbol offends me.
Posted by: N.L. Urker, there are chickens in my trench at May 14, 2022 11:52 AM (eGTCV

This.

Posted by: Emmie at May 14, 2022 11:55 AM (6RgRK)

78 67 Not sure it's pronoun but my bathroom sink has a new drain, it's a popup and looks to work well.
Posted by: Skip at May 14, 2022 11:50 AM (2JoB

You mean your bathroom sinx.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at May 14, 2022 11:55 AM (Qhnrt)

79 Skip, all bathroom sinks have been renamed-Zinks- to honor the Churchill of our times, Zelensky. Try to keep up.

Posted by: Hints From Heloise at May 14, 2022 11:55 AM (g6+Ik)

80 The appropriation of the rainbow symbol offends me.
Posted by: N.L. Urker, there are chickens in my trench at May 14, 2022 11:52 AM (eGTCV)

Used to be if you called someone a cokcsucker, they knew they were good and properly insulted. Nowadays, they thank you for affirming their sexuality.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 14, 2022 11:55 AM (47mFt)

81 "And I'm like, 'dude, wtf?' "

I hate this. it is moronic.
Posted by: DB

Agreed

Posted by: Infidel at May 14, 2022 11:56 AM (E0NVW)

82 Meanwhile, at NYT:

"We Can’t Drill Our Way to Energy Security"

Posted by: Mentholated Smooth-Drawing gp at May 14, 2022 11:58 AM (qpX6U)

83 My tub/ shower faucet is still not working, last Friday the connection sheared off but in my collection of plumbing parts have a single 5/8 straight connection that found will work to the need for a reducer to 1/2. 5/8 parts are odd size for heating use.

Posted by: Skip at May 14, 2022 11:58 AM (2JoB8)

84 Not sure it's pronoun but my bathroom sink has a new drain, it's a popup and looks to work well.
Posted by: Skip

====

Pro Tip ( actually Lazy Amateur):

I never lock the pop-up. Let it ride. Easier to get all the hair out.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at May 14, 2022 11:59 AM (Gae8u)

85 The appropriation of the rainbow symbol offends me.
Posted by: N.L. Urker, there are chickens in my trench at May 14, 2022 11:52 AM (eGTCV)

There it is....that was my thing. Pot of me gold at the end of me rainbow. Then poof! the sodomites took it over and I didn't even get a reach around. I should turn them all into toadstools.

Bastids.

Posted by: King Brian Connors, Leprechaun at May 14, 2022 11:59 AM (R/m4+)

86 my least favorite words in recent years is the new fashion of "seeing" the "marginalized" by forcing the vast norm (and "normal" is a quantitative term, not a qualitative one) to define themselves by what they are NOT.
The top two being "cisgender", or rather "not TRANSgender", and "neurotypical" (not neuroDIVERSE).
Why am I expected to call myself something others chose for me, in relation to their identity?
(I know the answer, and I don't use either one)

Posted by: barbarausa at May 14, 2022 11:59 AM (f5Tiu)

87 I've argued for years that Trump is the rectification of names. The language used to describe politics was no longer in accordance with the reality of politics, and so people elected Trump as a revolutionary act.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at May 14, 2022 11:59 AM (F8Bg6)

88 81 "And I'm like, 'dude, wtf?' "

I hate this. it is moronic.
Posted by: DB

I'm like in total agreement with this.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at May 14, 2022 12:00 PM (Qhnrt)

89 Posted by: JM in Florida at May 14, 2022 11:54 AM (L7jyl)

I watched about half of a video on dr. John Campbells YT channel about a guy named Kyle who is jab-injured.
He said that when he showed up at the first ER the docs thought he was crazy when he said his adverse reaction was due to the shot.

The second ED at a different hospital took him seriously and did the necessary tests to show he had
inflammation around his heart. His life was essentially bed rest for about five months, this is a very active young guy who is a mountain biker. Thanks to some docs who take these injuries seriously, including the FLCCC crew, he was able to recover most of his strength. But he had to pay the hyperbaric O2 treatments out of pocket, which cost $8k.

Posted by: kallisto at May 14, 2022 12:00 PM (DJFLF)

90 "We Can’t Drill Our Way to Energy Security"

We Can't Farm Our Way To Food Security!

Posted by: The New York Times! at May 14, 2022 12:01 PM (I2/tG)

91 I hate how the word "marriage" no longer means a holy and legal joining of a man and a woman.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 14, 2022 12:01 PM (U2p+3)

92 a large part of the Left's success is due to their perversion of language, which is echoed by the media and pounded into the public's brains

Posted by: DB at May 14, 2022 12:01 PM (geLO8)

93 Next is a rebuild of basement tub, going to reinforce steel legs with heavy aluminum angle, made a block to get screwed onto tub that new faucets get mounted too.

Posted by: Skip at May 14, 2022 12:04 PM (2JoB8)

94 "Birthing People" aka WOMEN

Posted by: Halfhand at May 14, 2022 12:04 PM (Poe3S)

95 Calvin Coolidge had precision and economy of language.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 14, 2022 12:04 PM (lz5hY)

96 "Birthing People" aka WOMEN

"Gestators".

Happy Gestators Day!

Posted by: Newspeak! at May 14, 2022 12:05 PM (I2/tG)

97 'persons experiencing homelessness'

bums & vagrants!

Posted by: DB at May 14, 2022 12:05 PM (geLO8)

98 Wife is horrified she might have to stick a finger in water that is unclean or something. I only stop water to shave every other blue moon.

Posted by: Skip at May 14, 2022 12:06 PM (2JoB8)

99 I hate how the word "marriage" no longer means a holy and legal joining of a man and a woman.
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 14, 2022 12:01 PM (U2p+3)

I don't even want the "legal" in there. Government needs to get out of the marriage business.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at May 14, 2022 12:06 PM (Qhnrt)

100 There it is....that was my thing. Pot of me gold at the end of me rainbow. Then poof! the sodomites took it over and I didn't even get a reach around. I should turn them all into toadstools. Bastids.
Posted by: King Brian Connors,

********

Pfffft!

Posted by: Noah at May 14, 2022 12:07 PM (kXYt5)

101 Mostly peaceful.

They're gonna hate it when it becomes somewhat violent.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 14, 2022 12:07 PM (anj39)

102 "Government funded."
There's no such thing.
It's all taxpayer funded.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 14, 2022 12:08 PM (jYQlA)

103 "Justice-Involved People"

AKA Criminals

Posted by: Newspeak! at May 14, 2022 12:09 PM (I2/tG)

104 The Late Show has to suspend taping indefinitely due to uber-jabbed host Stephen Colbert getting re-infected:

https://tinyurl.com/2jd99x47

And Ann Coulter tweeted that all the lactating men should donate their breast milk to ease the baby formula shortage.

Posted by: kallisto at May 14, 2022 12:09 PM (DJFLF)

105 97 'persons experiencing homelessness'

bums & vagrants!
Posted by: DB

I've started referring to them as bums and vagrants. It does get people's attention when they hear those words.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 14, 2022 12:09 PM (U2p+3)

106 The worst recent language change? Not so recent, but...

President Biden.

Posted by: Paco at May 14, 2022 12:09 PM (njExo)

107 82 Meanwhile, at NYT:

"We Can’t Drill Our Way to Energy Security"
Posted by: Mentholated Smooth-Drawing gp at May 14, 2022 11:58 AM (qpX6U)

Didn't we do just that less than five years ago?

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at May 14, 2022 12:10 PM (cupoy)

108 /sock

Posted by: Muldoon at May 14, 2022 12:10 PM (kXYt5)

109 I realized recently that I was in the habit of referring to my wife as “my spouse.” No. She’s my wife. I’m her husband.

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at May 14, 2022 12:10 PM (d9Cw3)

110 Pro Life = Anti woman

Pure bullshit.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 14, 2022 12:11 PM (U2p+3)

111 Posted by: Skip at May 14, 2022 11:58 AM (2JoB

Skip, the BF used some kind of bonding agent to repair the plastic Moen faucet and now I can't turn it to get the water started.

The main stem seems to want to turn but the faucet itself is jammed. I hope the old man's attempt to fix the faucet doesn't result in major spendage to get it fixed.

Posted by: kallisto at May 14, 2022 12:11 PM (DJFLF)

112 I mentioned during the thread where the French Academy was brought up two guys I worked with. One, the owner of the outfit and project superintendent, was French Canadian. The other was a laborer/gofer from Corsica. They had arguments about who spoke the best French, and I think, knowing little French, the Academy would have said they both suck. From what I understand, the greatest compliment given by an educated Frenchman is "your French, while passable, could use some work".

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 14, 2022 12:12 PM (lz5hY)

113 I've started referring to them as bums and vagrants. It does get people's attention when they hear those words.
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 14, 2022 12:09 PM (U2p+3)

I still like to use the term "Wino" for the bums and vagrants. Old skool.

But nowadays it also means some snob who likes wine.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at May 14, 2022 12:13 PM (R/m4+)

114 I also hate the way infirmities are described:

Sight challenged

Handy capable

Etc., etc.

You're fucking blind and crippled, man.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at May 14, 2022 12:13 PM (Qhnrt)

115 I don't even want the "legal" in there. Government needs to get out of the marriage business.
Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at May 14, 2022 12:06 PM (Qhnrt)

I'm ok with it going the other way too. Let governments affirm a contract has been sealed, have churches and other religious orgs call it something else, when God seals it.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 14, 2022 12:13 PM (47mFt)

116 This is and I suspect will remain the go-to strategy for all supposed public health emergencies from climate to racism to guns to you-name-it henceforth.
Posted by: Muldoon at May 14, 2022 11:42 AM (kXYt5)

That boot on your face forever is there for your safety, citizen.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 14, 2022 12:14 PM (xhaym)

117 "Neighbors"

A significant number of people in Portland think that if a couple of meth addicts in a hobo RV drive up from California, park in front of your house, and start dumping human waste into the gutter, running an electrical generator all night, and stealing everything not nailed down nearby, that they are now your "unhoused neighbors", with all rights and privileges thereof.

As a matter of fact, they have more rights and privileges than you, since they are oppressed, and you are not.

Amazingly, given the collapse of public order in Portland, there is going to be a substantial political reaction even in Portland - normal people have had enough.

Posted by: Newspeak! at May 14, 2022 12:14 PM (I2/tG)

118 The process by which words change has always bugged me.
Mentally retarded, became mentally handicapped, which became mentally challenged, which became special. I don't know what the preferred term is today.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, there are chickens in my trench at May 14, 2022 12:15 PM (eGTCV)

119 "...have churches and other religious orgs call it something else, when God seals it."
___

I'm happy with marriage.

No need to call it anything else.

Posted by: SMH that God hasn't lobbed a Texas-sized asteroid at us yet at May 14, 2022 12:15 PM (AxTbI)

120 "Climate crisis."

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 14, 2022 12:16 PM (jYQlA)

121 I think differently abled was in there sometime.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, there are chickens in my trench at May 14, 2022 12:16 PM (eGTCV)

122 I realized recently that I was in the habit of referring to my wife as “my spouse.” No. She’s my wife. I’m her husband.

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at May 14, 2022 12:10 PM

I refer to my wife as my "spousal unit", that was pretty much the last time snl was funny.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at May 14, 2022 12:16 PM (bVYXr)

123 The worst recent language change? Not so recent, but...

President Biden.
Posted by: Paco at May 14, 2022 12:09 PM (njExo)

Sometimes language change is a good thing. It allows for greater precision and accuracy.

In this case, we now can see just how much the office holder is NOT in charge. It means damn near nothing who sits there, it merely signals which crime faction happens to be in power at the moment.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 14, 2022 12:17 PM (47mFt)

124 The one that occurs to me is "pre-owned" as opposed to "used."

"Pre-owned" seems to imply "before anyone owned it."

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 14, 2022 12:17 PM (m0zqP)

125 122 I realized recently that I was in the habit of referring to my wife as “my spouse.” No. She’s my wife. I’m her husband.

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at May 14, 2022 12:10 PM

When I was in a puckish mood I very occasionally called my wife me roommate.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, there are chickens in my trench at May 14, 2022 12:17 PM (eGTCV)

126 Junky is now drug dependent. Criminal is now socially challenged. Pervert is now lifestyle choice (or son of the big guy in the oval office).

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 14, 2022 12:17 PM (lz5hY)

127 entitlement. This should be a legal term meaning you fulfilled your end of a contract and are entitled to the agreed upon compensation.

Now many seniors get offended when SS or medicare is referred to as an entitlement because the commies use entitlement to refer to welfare or aid payments. NO, medicaid is assistance, the state is paying for you r medical care cuz you cannot. Medicare is an entitlement to the insurance plan because you paid your FICA taxes for decades.

Posted by: PaleRider, Simple Irredeemable at May 14, 2022 12:19 PM (3cGpq)

128 [o]When I was in a puckish mood I very occasionally called my wife me roommate.
Posted by: N.L. Urker, there are chickens in my trench at May 14, 2022 12:17 PM (eGTCV)

My ex-mistress

Posted by: Kindltot at May 14, 2022 12:20 PM (xhaym)

129 125 Called mine my bunky. Got the stare. And the quiet. For a couple days.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 14, 2022 12:20 PM (lz5hY)

130 I'm not looking forward to the day when attractive young women start calling me cute.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, there are chickens in my trench at May 14, 2022 12:20 PM (eGTCV)

131 Heard about how cops will soon be able to turn your car off while you driving.

I bet our phones already have a kill code already in place.

Assume the worst in order to keep up.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at May 14, 2022 12:21 PM (J8LnB)

132 That insight from Confucius has impressed me as the wisest secular words of all time. So deep.

Posted by: JewishOdysseus at May 14, 2022 12:21 PM (umBCo)

133 try 'future ex-legal spouse'

Posted by: DB at May 14, 2022 12:21 PM (geLO8)

134 "...have churches and other religious orgs call it something else, when God seals it."
___

I'm happy with marriage.

No need to call it anything else.
Posted by: SMH that God hasn't lobbed a Texas-sized asteroid at us yet at May 14, 2022 12:15 PM (AxTbI)

Which is fine. But when your cousin's gay trans genderqueer kid says Xhe's marrying Their anime hologram, and they're sending out wedding invitations, you end up being the bad guy for not acknowledging their marriage.

I'd rather not have that fight. I'd rather give them that word, and we can call actual, you know, marriages, something else. Call them Christian Marriages, or Holy Marriages, or something like that. Anything to distinguish it from the person who "marries" their pet lizard or tea kettle.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 14, 2022 12:23 PM (47mFt)

135 "I also found a piece that mentioned Confucius when in discussion with a lefty talking about multigenerational poverty in the USA (as a result of, you know, the desire to keep certain races down)."

Irony alert: there is a long running scheme to keep certain races down - and blacks limited in number, in particular. From the progs, of course.

On Confucius and language, this is why the Chinese are so much better than being commies than the Russians ever were; the Chinese mean what they say, while the Soviets said nothing with any meaning at all.

Domestically, it will become obvious that "defending the language" is a sideshow to defending our lives and livelihoods when enough people wake up to what is being done to us. The casus belli is there, it' just not quite yet overpowering residual material comfort. Their corruption of language is just another tool, not an ideological aim in itself.

Posted by: somedood - skull mountain sherpa at May 14, 2022 12:23 PM (PHukT)

136 130 My lady barber says my hair has turned so beautifully white and it's a miracle it's not orange because I smoke.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 14, 2022 12:23 PM (lz5hY)

137 118 The process by which words change has always bugged me.
Mentally retarded, became mentally handicapped, which became mentally challenged, which became special. I don't know what the preferred term is today.
Posted by: N.L. Urker, there are chickens in my trench at May 14, 2022 12:15 PM (eGTCV)

Even in grade school, there was the regular class....and then there was the slow class. Each in separate rooms. I was always threatened with being sent to the slow class.

What's funny, is a lot of those kids in the slow class ended up being economically more well off than people in the regular class after they got out of prison.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at May 14, 2022 12:24 PM (Qhnrt)

138 "needle exchange"

A euphemism designed to imply that junkies turn in their old needles, in exchange for new ones.

In reality, the junkies just dump the old needles on the ground (for people to step on), and the "needle exchange" just gives them new ones.

"harm reduction"

Give junkies free needles, have "safe spaces" for junkies to shoot up, insist that all bars and restaurants have Narcan to deal with customers who are overdosing, etc.

The argument is that all this is merely "harm reduction" - junkies are going to use drugs no matter what, so we need to "reduce the harm" of doing so, and you are a dreadful bigot if you oppose these measures.

In reality, of course, "harm reduction" normalizes the use of hard drugs, and many people involved in "harm reduction" efforts want to normalize the use of hard drugs.

Posted by: Newspeak! at May 14, 2022 12:25 PM (I2/tG)

139 "131 Heard about how cops will soon be able to turn your car off while you driving.

I bet our phones already have a kill code already in place.

Assume the worst in order to keep up.
Posted by: humphreyrobot at May 14, 2022 12:21 PM (J8LnB)"

Anyone who doesn't already have alternate commo equipment is behind the curve.

At the very least, about $100 will get you a couple of Baofengs with FCC-unapproved capabilities and a decent Software Defined Radio dongle for receiving shortwave.

Posted by: somedood - skull mountain sherpa at May 14, 2022 12:26 PM (PHukT)

140 The one that occurs to me is "pre-owned" as opposed to "used."

"Pre-owned" seems to imply "before anyone owned it."
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 14, 2022 12:17 PM (m0zqP)

I don't mind pre-owned. Just means there was a previous owner. I buy baseball cards, if you call them "used" I'd wonder what you were using them for. Especially if they stick together.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 14, 2022 12:26 PM (47mFt)

141 The Chinese do not say what they mean, they say what they are supposed to say and do to conform. Acting is easier if non-conformance is punished by internal exile, camps and execution.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 14, 2022 12:26 PM (xhaym)

142 137 My town actually had a high school for the slow kids, most of which ended up being machinists, millwrights, plumbers, and a lot of other go nowhere jobs.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 14, 2022 12:27 PM (lz5hY)

143 Watching a clip on YT. If an airplane designer screwed up and the airplane (military) didn't fly right without further development, Stalin had them shot the same day, must have been tough to design airplanes in Soviet Russia. I wonder if Putin does the same thing.

Posted by: Colin at May 14, 2022 12:28 PM (YVx1O)

144 try 'future ex-legal spouse'
Posted by: DB at May 14, 2022 12:21 PM (geLO

My current spousal unit has been married before. So have I. But when she thinks she's being clever, and calls me her next ex-husband, I refer to her as my next late wife.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 14, 2022 12:29 PM (47mFt)

145 "Is is possible to protect language?"

Reminds me of a Bjork song, Declare Independence, where one of the lyrics is "Protect your language!". She, and Iceland in general, are a weird mix of ethnic protectionism, extreme left-wing and anarchist policies, but they fully understand that, to lose one's language, is to ultimately lose one's culture as well.

Link to the excellent music video of the song (you might not like her music, but the video is well done. Not available on YouTube, so odd hosting site).
https://tinyurl.com/mrd3pzs4

Fun fact...Bjork sung this song during her concert in Shanghai in 2015, and started shouting "Tibet, Tibet" afterwards. The Chinese were not amused. Wish our political and cultural leaders had that kind of guts.

Posted by: Grimmy at May 14, 2022 12:29 PM (cVYd6)

146
Anyone who doesn't already have alternate commo equipment is behind the curve.

At the very least, about $100 will get you a couple of Baofengs with FCC-unapproved capabilities and a decent Software Defined Radio dongle for receiving shortwave.
Posted by: somedood - skull mountain sherpa at May 14, 2022 12:26 PM (PHukT)

One of the reasons I got an amateur radio license. I'm set up to communicate with the world if telephones go down.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at May 14, 2022 12:30 PM (Qhnrt)

147 Did anyone enjoy the Carlin rant? At one point, he mentions "disinformation".

Dang, but I miss the old reprobate.

Posted by: GnuBreed at May 14, 2022 12:30 PM (F0YaR)

148 >>But when she thinks she's being clever, and calls me her next ex-husband, I refer to her as my next late wife.

Posted by: BurtTC

U MAKE HULK LAFF

Posted by: DB at May 14, 2022 12:30 PM (geLO8)

149
Been looking for a 5/8 to 1/2 copper reducer to no avail, have to wait for Monday to try other places

Posted by: Skip at May 14, 2022 11:27 AM

If you don't mind paying the hefty price for a compression fitting, they have them at Lowe's in Oaks.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 14, 2022 12:30 PM (dQvv7)

150 91 I hate how the word "marriage" no longer means a holy and legal joining of a man and a woman.
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 14, 2022 12:01 PM (U2p+3)

Yes, this. And "husband" and "wife" are complementary roles. You cannot be the wife of a wife or the husband of a husband.

Posted by: Emmie at May 14, 2022 12:30 PM (6RgRK)

151 George Carlin has your global warming right here, pal:

https://youtu.be/BB0aFPXr4n4

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 14, 2022 12:31 PM (jYQlA)

152 Kallisto sounds like whatever was used glued it so won't turn all the way.

Posted by: Skip at May 14, 2022 12:31 PM (2JoB8)

153 Comeback question:
Are you pro-noun or anti-noun?

Posted by: Theodore at May 14, 2022 12:31 PM (GJnvT)

154 142 137 My town actually had a high school for the slow kids, most of which ended up being machinists, millwrights, plumbers, and a lot of other go nowhere jobs.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 14, 2022 12:27 PM (lz5hY)

LOL. Yup.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at May 14, 2022 12:31 PM (Qhnrt)

155 The Chinese do not say what they mean, they say what they are supposed to say and do to conform. Acting is easier if non-conformance is punished by internal exile, camps and execution.
Posted by: Kindltot at May 14, 2022 12:26 PM (xhaym)

This is not unrelated to what is happening here, and is the concept described so brilliantly by Orwell (and lovingly spoofed in the video above by the Bee). You don't have to believe it. You just have to say it. They've broken you when you know you can't say what you mean, and must say what they command you to say.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 14, 2022 12:32 PM (47mFt)

156 I look forward to "the rectification of names."

I may not live long enough to see it.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at May 14, 2022 12:32 PM (lKAqb)

157 Heard about how cops will soon be able to turn your car off while you driving.

I bet our phones already have a kill code already in place.

Assume the worst in order to keep up.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at May 14, 2022 12:21 PM (J8LnB)

Uh oh. humphrey is making sense again.

I gotta quit day drinking.

Posted by: GnuBreed at May 14, 2022 12:32 PM (F0YaR)

158 "48 And the idea that the best "woman" for a job is a mentally ill dude in a wig is offensive.
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 14, 2022 11:44 AM (U2p+3)"

Work is on a massive hiring spree of dudes in dresses because of specific people in leadership. I'm talking like a dozen per month kind of numbers. Watching them hijack the various womens' groups and spaces would be fucking hilarious if it wasn't resulting in so many of them quitting.

We stick around because the pay is enough to (literally) outfit a modern infantry company.

Posted by: somedood - skull mountain sherpa at May 14, 2022 12:32 PM (PHukT)

159 Yes Mr somedood - skull mountain sherpa. Shortwave radio, the first internet.

But where's the porn?

Posted by: humphreyrobot at May 14, 2022 12:32 PM (J8LnB)

160 George Carlin was great

He had a bit, long time ago, about brand names for legal birth control pills

WombBroom
PregNot
Inconceivable

and one that promised only limited effectiveness- 'BabyMaybe'

Posted by: DB at May 14, 2022 12:33 PM (geLO8)

161 143 During WW2, most high level German aircraft designers were accomplished pilots. Kurt Tank outran a couple P51 that jumped him, some led point defense aircraft formations to protect their factories. Pretty good idea, if you can design it maybe you should take it up for a spin.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 14, 2022 12:34 PM (lz5hY)

162 "My town actually had a high school for the slow kids, most of which ended up being machinists, millwrights, plumbers, and a lot of other go nowhere jobs.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 14, 2022 12:27 PM (lz5hY)"

We have almost 20 years of college between us and are planning to strongly suggest skipping college and aiming for small business ownership in a low-volume manufacturing trade to our kids.

Posted by: somedood - skull mountain sherpa at May 14, 2022 12:35 PM (PHukT)

163 159 Yes Mr somedood - skull mountain sherpa. Shortwave radio, the first internet.

But where's the porn?
Posted by: humphreyrobot at May 14, 2022 12:32 PM (J8LnB)

Get a shortwave radio and dial to 7.200Mhz.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at May 14, 2022 12:36 PM (Qhnrt)

164 George Carlin was great
He had a bit, long time ago, about brand names for legal birth control pills
WombBroom
PregNot
Inconceivable
and one that promised only limited effectiveness- 'BabyMaybe'
Posted by: DB at May 14, 2022 12:33 PM (geLO

Last HBO special he did was awful. Man, was he bitter. Probably knew he was dying.

Speaking of, they say Norm MacDonald quietly filmed a comedy special not long before he died. I'm going to guess it's magnificent.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 14, 2022 12:37 PM (47mFt)

165 It's a strange brass to copper sweat joint, did stop at Lowes twice this week and searched for anything that would work in copper or brass but nothing. Ferguson in Oaks today should have had one but didn't. Their HVAC in KoP might and very near that on Monday.

Posted by: Skip at May 14, 2022 12:37 PM (2JoB8)

166 "159 Yes Mr somedood - skull mountain sherpa. Shortwave radio, the first internet.

But where's the porn?
Posted by: humphreyrobot at May 14, 2022 12:32 PM (J8LnB)"

This is the 21st century, we have image transmission over digital modes now. But really, why not just bulk up a hardcopy collection?

Posted by: somedood - skull mountain sherpa at May 14, 2022 12:38 PM (PHukT)

167 Good post KT

Mankind refers to all of the human race. If one wants to use a neutral pronoun when speaking in the abstract, one can use "he" and be correct. "Their" can be used but then there is confusion with indication of number.

No one can tell me their pronouns. I have freedom of speech and will use grammatically correct pronouns.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at May 14, 2022 12:38 PM (IDhUW)

168 Here in ETEX we see very few mentally ill men dressed as women, but quite a few women obviously trying hard to look and act like men. Odd.

Posted by: Eromero at May 14, 2022 12:39 PM (gktX6)

169 Interesting post

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at May 14, 2022 12:39 PM (kf6Ak)

170 Clarence Thomas has some comments on the SCOTUS leak which I summarize and vulgarize as we're fucked and there'll be hell to pay.

https://bit.ly/3MgyIBs

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at May 14, 2022 12:39 PM (FVME7)

171 162 Now mind you, this was in the 60s. Some of the really slw ones stayed in their designated by side of town high school and took stuff like auto body or auto mechanics. Because NE OH was heavily industrialized at the time, corporations were kicking in and a kid could graduate high school with a mechanic's certification. Might not understand Chaucer but could tune up a 389.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 14, 2022 12:40 PM (lz5hY)

172 No one can tell me their pronouns. I have freedom of speech and will use grammatically correct pronouns.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at May 14, 2022 12:38 PM (IDhUW)

Insisting that another person memorize one's pronouns is an imposition on their mental energy. The vanity-pronoun-user is demanding to take up more than their share of space in someone else's brain.

Posted by: Emmie at May 14, 2022 12:40 PM (6RgRK)

173 Calling things by their proper names infuriates The Father of Lies.

Posted by: Jmel at May 14, 2022 12:42 PM (bVhJi)

174 165 Skip, I did a couple copper to brass sweats. Really roughed it up with the emery, really cleaned it, a little more flux and got it real hot with MAP gas. It worked.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 14, 2022 12:43 PM (lz5hY)

175 Been using MAP gas too, been great

Posted by: Skip at May 14, 2022 12:45 PM (2JoB8)

176 152 Kallisto sounds like whatever was used glued it so won't turn all the way.

Posted by: Skip at May 14, 2022 12:31 PM (2JoB

o.m.g.

I thanked him for at least getting us to the point where we could use that water source, and that I was going to call the plumber to do the rest of the fix.

But NO-O-O-O-O...

whatever it costs to fix this is going to come out of his pocket. I'm just getting stressed about the inconvenience

Posted by: kallisto at May 14, 2022 12:45 PM (DJFLF)

177 Here in ETEX we see very few mentally ill men dressed as women, but quite a few women obviously trying hard to look and act like men. Odd.

Posted by: Eromero at May 14, 2022 12:39 PM

We do seem to have an extraordinarily high number of lesbians in our area of NE Texas. I personally know ten lesbian couples and I don't get out much.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at May 14, 2022 12:46 PM (bVYXr)

178 If I were in a "MUH PRONOUNS" environment, I'd memorize TF out of every pyrsyn's pronouns. Then I would change mine every day and catch the one biggest virtual signalling a-hole in my trap.

Posted by: kallisto at May 14, 2022 12:47 PM (DJFLF)

179 Did anyone enjoy the Carlin rant? At one point, he mentions "disinformation".

Dang, but I miss the old reprobate.
Posted by: GnuBreed at May 14, 2022 12:30 PM (F0YaR)

Yes, he was a drug-addled old Lefty, but he was smart and he wasn't afraid to attack phonies of all political stripes.

I remember when i was younger wincing at some of his anti-capitalist jokes about "corporate jerkoffs" and "comfortable upper middle class whites", but man, history has proven him a seer.

Posted by: JoeF. at May 14, 2022 12:48 PM (mR6Gs)

180 Military MD testifies she was ordered to cover up injuries resulting from mRna mandates:

https://tinyurl.com/ys3n8hy8

When the numbers obviously pointed to more death/injury post mRna jab, DoD just changed the numbers from the inconvenient prior 5 years.
Posted by: kallisto at May 14, 2022 11:44 AM (DJFLF)
***
Just read this.
Perhaps someone should remind the leadership of the old saying "When officers lie, soldiers die."
And soldiers really hate that.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 14, 2022 12:49 PM (anj39)

181 Fred Astaire used to put put those oil fires?

Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid at May 14, 2022 12:50 PM (3Or4S)

182 Gonna use the dictionary. My pronoun today is aardvark

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at May 14, 2022 12:50 PM (kf6Ak)

183 176 Kallisto, not going back but it seems you're having trouble with a Moen faucet. Those, at least the older ones, have a brass cartridge. Remove the handle and dribble some automatic transmission fluid down around the cartridge. Let it set for a beer or two. This would/should free up the cartridge and have the benefit of swelling the seals up.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 14, 2022 12:51 PM (lz5hY)

184 I don't even want the "legal" in there. Government needs to get out of the marriage business.
Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at May 14, 2022 12:06 PM (Qhnrt)

I'm ok with it going the other way too. Let governments affirm a contract has been sealed, have churches and other religious orgs call it something else, when God seals it.
Posted by: BurtTC at May 14, 2022 12:13 PM

Push back I heard recently from an early thirties couple was correcting the word marriage to gay marriage, keeping the ideas separate.

I think the solution is to separate legal ramifications (civil unions) from spiritual indications (marriage).

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at May 14, 2022 12:51 PM (IDhUW)

185 The government needs to mow my lawn.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at May 14, 2022 12:52 PM (yQpMk)

186 182 Gonna use the dictionary. My pronoun today is aardvark
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion

Mine is Aphrodite

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 14, 2022 12:52 PM (U2p+3)

187 Now mind you, this was in the 60s. Some of the really slw ones stayed in their designated by side of town high school and took stuff like auto body or auto mechanics. Because NE OH was heavily industrialized at the time, corporations were kicking in and a kid could graduate high school with a mechanic's certification. Might not understand Chaucer but could tune up a 389.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 14, 2022 12:40 PM (lz5hY)

As someone who "understands" Chaucer, I think the ability to tune up a 389--or today's equivalent --is far more useful and beneficial.

Posted by: JoeF. at May 14, 2022 12:53 PM (mR6Gs)

188 Since Obergefell, my church no longer performs legal marriages. The minister will not sign the state marriage form. We just bind people before God and the congregation.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at May 14, 2022 12:54 PM (yQpMk)

189 The government needs to mow my lawn.

They'd' screw even that up royally.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at May 14, 2022 12:55 PM (Xrfse)

190 We've gone down the rabbit hole:

When I use a word, Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less.

The question is, said Alice, whether you can make words mean so many different things.

The question is, said Humpty Dumpty, which is to be master-- that's all.

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 14, 2022 12:55 PM (i0slg)

191 Heh. George Carlin. My Dad was born in Finland, came over here as a little kid and they settled in MA, around Gloucester. The Old Man had a pretty weird accent with the Finn spoken around the house and New England. He heard Carlin's bit with the Ahtificial Faht Undah The Ahm and thought it the best comedy ever (evah).

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 14, 2022 12:57 PM (lz5hY)

192 Anyone else have trouble with woke young sports "journalists" using words like ridiculous, sick, absurd, filthy etc. to describe a nice play? That and using the basketball term "looks" to describe scoring chances in hockey? Hell in a hand basket, I tell ya!

Posted by: leber at May 14, 2022 12:58 PM (kQWle)

193 thanks Skip, we'll try that.

Posted by: kallisto at May 14, 2022 12:59 PM (DJFLF)

194 I always say there is no mistaken me for not being my grandfather's grandson

Posted by: Skip at May 14, 2022 01:00 PM (2JoB8)

195 Anyone else have trouble with woke young sports "journalists" using words like ridiculous, sick, absurd, filthy etc. to describe a nice play? That and using the basketball term "looks" to describe scoring chances in hockey? Hell in a hand basket, I tell ya!
Posted by: leber at May 14, 2022 12:58 PM (kQWle)

I hate sports journalists

Posted by: JoeF. at May 14, 2022 01:00 PM (mR6Gs)

196 "Insisting that another person memorize one's pronouns is an imposition on their mental energy. The vanity-pronoun-user is demanding to take up more than their share of space in someone else's brain."

Amen, and same for all the one-and-one-way-ONLY-CORRECT (today) word salad to describe any and everything intersectional.

That is the key to the thought policing of oneself, to occupy all brain space for the crazies.

"P*ssy hat" has gone the way of the Dodo, because it is "racist" and "transexclusionary": not all women identify as having pink genitals, and not all women HAVE p*ssies.

Here's hoping they eat each other faster.

Posted by: barbarausa at May 14, 2022 01:01 PM (f5Tiu)

197 George Carlin made his bones doing a dead-on JFK imitation.

Posted by: JoeF. at May 14, 2022 01:02 PM (mR6Gs)

198 Anyone else have trouble with woke young sports "journalists" using words like ridiculous, sick, absurd, filthy etc. to describe a nice play? That and using the basketball term "looks" to describe scoring chances in hockey? Hell in a hand basket, I tell ya!
Posted by: leber at May 14, 2022 12:58 PM (kQWle)

Yeet!

Posted by: ESPN SportsBroad at May 14, 2022 01:02 PM (R/m4+)

199 Military MD testifies she was ordered to cover up injuries resulting from mRna mandates:

https://tinyurl.com/ys3n8hy8

This is horrifying and sickening. God bless and protect those who are speaking up.

I am reminded of the early reports of the Holocaust, that were dismissed.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at May 14, 2022 01:02 PM (IDhUW)

200 I liked the hippy-dippy weatherman

'Tonight's forecast: dark. Continued dark overnight, changing to widely scattered light by morning.'

Posted by: DB at May 14, 2022 01:03 PM (geLO8)

201 I'm surprised that a raging Alito hasn't forced the unmasking of the leaker by now. It's not a hard investigation to run, and the Court can't properly function until it's done.

Once again, Roberts reveals what a pussy he is.

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 14, 2022 01:04 PM (i0slg)

202 "Gift" is not a verb.

There are a "couple of" something, not "couple (item)".
Even Fr. Z., who should certainly know better, does this and it makes me nuts.

Posted by: sal at May 14, 2022 01:04 PM (bJKUl)

203 My pronouns are "Sir" and "Fuck you".

Posted by: a.moron at May 14, 2022 01:04 PM (TYbbX)

204 Feeling adventurous:
I'm eating cottage cheese that has a best by 5/14 date

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at May 14, 2022 01:05 PM (kf6Ak)

205 too many examples to list them all, but I really hate what the wokesters did with the word 'authentic'

When I was taking a class a couple years ago, I had a woke prof. Every paper I wrote, I had to run through the "prism of gender, race, economic inequality" etc., (even if I was writing about a damn Kindergartener book about a damn frog on a lily pad)

And I was told my paper should be in my "authentic" voice.

I sooo wanted to tell her take my 'authentic' paper and shove it up her 'authentic' squeakhole.

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at May 14, 2022 01:06 PM (sJHOI)

206 OT-

Tomorrow, the RCC will have a new Saint-a Dutch priest Fr. Brandsma killed in a concentration camp during WWII

https://tinyurl.com/5d99h8hn

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 14, 2022 01:06 PM (SmTNa)

207 201 I'm surprised that a raging Alito hasn't forced the unmasking of the leaker by now.

***

Wise Latine staffer

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at May 14, 2022 01:06 PM (kf6Ak)

208 204 Just like having a noise in the car. Turn up the radio and enjoy.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 14, 2022 01:07 PM (lz5hY)

209 Alito is "raging"?

Well the mechanics of court announcements certainly are something worthy of outrage.

How does he feel about elections being run (histrionically, Central African Empire-style) contrary to the constitution?

I mean it's a trifle compared to internal court processes, just curious what he thinks.

Posted by: rhomboid at May 14, 2022 01:07 PM (OTzUX)

210 Since Obergefell, my church no longer performs legal marriages. The minister will not sign the state marriage form. We just bind people before God and the congregation.

This makes since to me. One question I have, because feral gvt is so intrusive, is, transfer of possessions upon death. Perhaps if everything is in both names, it doesn't matter.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at May 14, 2022 01:08 PM (IDhUW)

211 Truly, to adhere to the transgender paradigm I should choose not the pronouns they insist on, but on the pronouns dictated by the concept/idea they present in my consciousness since that's the reality. Not some external objectively verifiable reality.
Posted by: Your'e in hell the wordl ended at May 14, 2022 11:34 AM (idESw)

Well stated and a summary of the post modern mind which supplants reason with power. Modern communication has fueled the rapid expansion of bad ideas. The notion of “gayness” from the late 60s (indicating an unattached homosexual lifestyle) took 30 years to evolve into “gay marriage” (a contradiction of the original usurpation of the word). Tranny junk took what seems but a few minutes to find its way into kindergarten colouring books.

Posted by: 7man at May 14, 2022 01:08 PM (qwO6y)

212 "the Court can't properly function until it's done."

Don't tease us like that. Nothing will keep the court from "functioning". Great euphemism there.

Posted by: rhomboid at May 14, 2022 01:09 PM (OTzUX)

213 Trail of Tears became Trail of Death here in Indiana

Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid at May 14, 2022 01:10 PM (3Or4S)

214 Leftists all week cried it's a Conservative who leaked the SC document yet not one has screamed to find the leaker.

Posted by: Skip at May 14, 2022 01:10 PM (2JoB8)

215 This makes since to me. One question I have, because feral gvt is so intrusive, is, transfer of possessions upon death. Perhaps if everything is in both names, it doesn't matter.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at May 14, 2022 01:08 PM (IDhUW)

They are free to go get a marriage license at the courthouse, we just don't have anything to do with it. It's about legal leverage and our desire not to give any. We also don't rent or otherwise let our facilities be used by non-members.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at May 14, 2022 01:11 PM (yQpMk)

216 Feeling adventurous:
I'm eating cottage cheese that has a best by 5/14 date
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at May 14, 2022 01:05 PM (kf6Ak)
***

I just made.an omelette that had some rather suspect mushrooms.
Why is there a blue elephant in my back yard?

Posted by: Diogenes at May 14, 2022 01:12 PM (anj39)

217 too many examples to list them all, but I really hate what the wokesters did with the word 'authentic

One of the problems with "authentic voice" is that it usually means "grammatically incorrect" or stereotypically correct, otherwise it is not accepted as authentic.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at May 14, 2022 01:13 PM (IDhUW)

218 Since when do legislatures get to operate in secret?

Presidential conversations with foreign heads of state - both customarily and formally classified, for obvious reasons.

Court (legislature) "rulings" - why secret?

How did that investigation of all the outrageous (and unprecedented) "leaks" in the first few months of the Trump admin. turn out? Think Sessions was right on top of that one. Heard about it regularly. Don't recall any results.

Posted by: rhomboid at May 14, 2022 01:13 PM (OTzUX)

219 My town actually had a high school for the slow kids, most of which ended up being machinists, millwrights, plumbers, and a lot of other go nowhere jobs.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 14, 2022 12:27 PM (lz5hY)

Srsly?

Posted by: BignJames at May 14, 2022 01:14 PM (AwYPR)

220 This makes since to me. One question I have, because feral gvt is so intrusive, is, transfer of possessions upon death. Perhaps if everything is in both names, it doesn't matter.

There's also the option of establishing a trust, with both people as trustees.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at May 14, 2022 01:15 PM (SchxB)

221 IIRC, Alito and Thomas were the only two who voted not to bar the SCOTUS door to Trump's election lawsuit, which, because state v state, had original jurisdiction in SCOTUS per the Constitution.

Mind, not a ruling on the merits, nor a summary judgment, the rest of SCOTUS wouldn't let the evidence in the door.

Alito's leaked opinion isn't just about abortion, and I bet he believes it's his masterwork, and what his life was meant to lead to.

And I like the sound of a "raging Alito."

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 14, 2022 01:16 PM (i0slg)

222 One upside to having a government Ministry of Information is that we'll pretty much automatically know what the truth ISN'T.
________

We already had Krugman for that.

BTW, "black hair" has a legit use. There really is a difference between Hedy Lamarr and Grace Kelly.

The last linguistic change I can approve of is probably Winston Churchill's coining "seaplane" for "hydroaeroplane."

Posted by: Eeyore at May 14, 2022 01:17 PM (R0Tis)

223 On Thursday, I worked with a female bartender at a ball game. She was from Chicago, but was attending college in Tennessee. Her majors were Political Science and Sociology.

I quipped "Lots of protesting in your future, huh?" which she did not receive as a verbal jest of sorts, but instead said "Yes, probably."

About 2 hours into the game, a customer apparently said "Yes sir" to her, which apparently distressed her, as she turned to me and said "That guy just called me 'Sir' . That's so offensive. I wonder if he meant it."

I shrugged it off, but she brought it up again 10 minutes later. At that point I said, "Well, in his defense, there is no way to be sure these days. Maybe he thought you presented as a man? I dunno."

She wasn't particularly pleased with me after that, but at least that conversation was over.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at May 14, 2022 01:17 PM (Ryaf0)

224 219 New here?

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 14, 2022 01:18 PM (lz5hY)

225 Alabama had a pretty loose definition of common law marriage up until 2017 when the entire concept was outlawed because of the difficulty in divorce proceedings, or rather, the difficulty for the courts when couples broke up and one claimed CLM for alimony etc while the other denied the marriage existed.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at May 14, 2022 01:18 PM (yQpMk)

226 I spose it would be too much to ask for some of the Supremes to regret punting on the whole election theft thingy

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at May 14, 2022 01:18 PM (sJHOI)

227 They are free to go get a marriage license at the courthouse, we just don't have anything to do with it. It's about legal leverage and our desire not to give any. We also don't rent or otherwise let our facilities be used by non-members.

Which is the best way for a church to handle marriage. Now, someone getting married still needs to figure out how to find their way through property issues and deny the state's misuse of the cocept of marriage.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at May 14, 2022 01:19 PM (IDhUW)

228 I am eating some Sun Chips. They are "Harvest Cheddar" flavor. Hate to tell them but you don't harvest cheddar Cheese.

Posted by: Javems at May 14, 2022 01:19 PM (AmoqO)

229 Military MD testifies she was ordered to cover up injuries resulting from mRna mandates:

https://tinyurl.com/ys3n8hy8

This is horrifying and sickening. God bless and protect those who are speaking up.

I am reminded of the early reports of the Holocaust, that were dismissed.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at May 14, 2022 01:02 PM (IDhUW)
***
This isn't dismissing. This is lying. The basis for success of any military unit is honesty up and down the chain of command. Violate that trust and you lose.
Perhaps the leaders should look up the term fragging?

Posted by: Diogenes at May 14, 2022 01:19 PM (anj39)

230 Perhaps if everything is in both names, it doesn't matter.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at May 14, 2022 01:08 PM (IDhUW)

Just get legally married in courthouse, then have the wedding in church

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at May 14, 2022 01:19 PM (kf6Ak)

231 LOL. Plumbers and machinists are in high demand.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at May 14, 2022 01:20 PM (lKAqb)

232 Leftists all week cried it's a Conservative who leaked the SC document yet not one has screamed to find the leaker.
Posted by: Skip at May 14, 2022 01:10 PM (2JoB

This is a tell that the consensus on the Left is that the leak was a mistake and didn't have the impact they thought it would

Posted by: JoeF. at May 14, 2022 01:20 PM (mR6Gs)

233 But they are tasty, aren't they?

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at May 14, 2022 01:20 PM (lKAqb)

234 Concept *

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at May 14, 2022 01:21 PM (IDhUW)

235 I harvest the cheddar from the deli case at the market.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at May 14, 2022 01:21 PM (lKAqb)

236 "Just get legally married in courthouse, then have the wedding in church"

That's what the Spanish do.

Gays wouldn't accept "civil union," had to be marriage.

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 14, 2022 01:21 PM (i0slg)

237 Not new, and already listed above, but calling welfare "entitlement" makes me see vivid red. You're entitled to kiss my ass, you're not entitled to a slice of my paycheck, layabout motherfuckers. Why don't you come mow my lawn or do something besides fuck-all to earn it?

And SS actually is an entitlement, since the money was stolen from working people by the gov their entire working life with the promise of maybe returning less of it later. Conflating that with welfare is also rage inducing.

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at May 14, 2022 01:21 PM (/Ch/8)

238 Feeling adventurous:
I'm eating cottage cheese that has a best by 5/14 date
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at May 14, 2022 01:05 PM (kf6Ak)
------------
You're off the fuckin' chain!!
*racks shotgun*

Posted by: Danny Butterman at May 14, 2022 01:23 PM (aaGzp)

239 So did I miss something (actually likely in this case) or did Alito's little fit of awareness and responsibility with PA's election debacle just sort of ..... evaporate? He put them on notice in a timely fashion, before the lawless rampage - but what about after they hellered* him and laughed and forged ahead?

* courts or governors using a SCOTUS "ruling" as toilet paper and ignoring it, a la Heller

Posted by: rhomboid at May 14, 2022 01:23 PM (OTzUX)

240 I think of SS as welfare because from the beginning the benefits were/are disproportionately generous to the poor.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at May 14, 2022 01:24 PM (lKAqb)

241 so much advertising jargon is sets of words that you're not supposed to think to deeply about.

just feel.

"harvest" is supposed to convey a vague sense of 'it's healthy for you'

some stupid car commercial claims its designs are "aggressively sophisticated", whatever the f*ck that means

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at May 14, 2022 01:24 PM (sJHOI)

242 LOL. Plumbers and machinists are in high demand.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at May 14, 2022 01:20 PM (lKAqb)

I'd bet my plumber makes more than I ever did...and I didn't do too badly.

Posted by: BignJames at May 14, 2022 01:24 PM (AwYPR)

243 I am eating some Sun Chips. They are "Harvest Cheddar" flavor. Hate to tell them but you don't harvest cheddar Cheese.
Posted by: Javems at May 14, 2022 01:19 PM (AmoqO)

Just words that they put together that they think sound wholesome and natural, and appealing to the public , like "hand- picked", "cold-brewed", "oven-roasted" and "all natural."

Posted by: JoeF. at May 14, 2022 01:24 PM (mR6Gs)

244 And I like the sound of a "raging Alito."
Posted by: Ignoramus

The Alito is lit!

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at May 14, 2022 01:25 PM (/Ch/8)

245 'White man been sneaking up on me a long time.'
- Chief Stand Watie

Posted by: Eromero at May 14, 2022 01:25 PM (gktX6)

246 I spose it would be too much to ask for some of the Supremes to regret punting on the whole election theft thingy

When SCOTUS members were saying that protests wouldn't change their mind, I had to think for a minute to remember, the leaked info about the yelling overheard about potential riots and the election cases that came to their attention.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at May 14, 2022 01:25 PM (IDhUW)

247 "most safe and secure election in history"
"most votes in history"
"If you get the shot you can't get covid"
"there was no vaccine available when Brandon was installed"
the list is long.

Ok, maybe they aren't changing the language here but they certainly are playing with the definitions. As in the complete opposite of what we say is actually true so shut up and don't believe your lying eyes.

Posted by: Fool Otto at May 14, 2022 01:25 PM (DB16e)

248 Bitter Clinger that's funny but sad from a former military man, the term "Sir" of course being for a male was mistaken often as a just military term for officer which obviously is not correct. For the still uneducated of military ways wouldn't doubt its still is wrongly used.

Posted by: Skip at May 14, 2022 01:26 PM (2JoB8)

249 Vmom, what really sucks is when you get small curd instead of large curd, All the black pepper in the world doesn't cure that mess.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 14, 2022 01:26 PM (lz5hY)

250 Its not black hair, its hair.

Steve Sailor would disagree. His continuing World War Hair saga is hilarious. What he likes to call a major content provider.

An example.

www.unz.com/isteve/the-darwinian-roots-of-world-war-hair/

Posted by: Justin Castreau at May 14, 2022 01:26 PM (ZW1rs)

251 So did I miss something (actually likely in this case) or did Alito's little fit of awareness and responsibility with PA's election debacle just sort of ..... evaporate? He put them on notice in a timely fashion, before the lawless rampage - but what about after they hellered* him and laughed and forged ahead?

Roberts would never have allowed any awareness and responsibility about the election debacle.

Posted by: JoeF. at May 14, 2022 01:26 PM (mR6Gs)

252 There will come a day when there won't be anyone left who can produce or repair things.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at May 14, 2022 01:26 PM (Xrfse)

253 There will come a day when there won't be anyone left who can produce or repair things.
Posted by: Notorious BFD
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Idiocracy.

Posted by: SMH that God hasn't lobbed a Texas-sized asteroid at us yet at May 14, 2022 01:27 PM (AxTbI)

254 I bought some Ziplock quart storage bags

on the box it claims "POWER SHIELD TECHNOLOGY"

it's a friggin' ziplock bag, you douchesters

Posted by: DB at May 14, 2022 01:27 PM (geLO8)

255 Our local appliance repairman shows up with his young apprentice, who gets to lug in the tool box, get down on the floor to unscrew things and look under stuff, run tests with the meters and be a general go-fer.

Nice to see.

Posted by: sal at May 14, 2022 01:27 PM (bJKUl)

256 And I like the sound of a "raging Alito."
Posted by: Ignoramus

"Is that a raging "Alito" under your black robe?"

Posted by: JoeF. at May 14, 2022 01:28 PM (mR6Gs)

257 the title of which is " The Gay Deceiver"

Barack's title is The Gay Receiver. mmmm, mmmm, mmmm!

Posted by: Reggie Love at May 14, 2022 01:28 PM (/Ch/8)

258 There will come a day when there won't be anyone left who can produce or repair things.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at May 14, 2022 01:26 PM (Xrfse)

Well, they're producing things that can't be repaired..you just toss 'em.

Posted by: BignJames at May 14, 2022 01:28 PM (AwYPR)

259 YOO HOO

Mr. Skip!

You. Are. Slacking.

Posted by: kallisto at May 14, 2022 01:29 PM (DJFLF)

260 Last time I went to buy a new razor, I thought I was buying a mutha-farkin muscle car

everything was 'turbo, mach, titanium, etc."

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at May 14, 2022 01:31 PM (sJHOI)

261 Well, they're producing things that can't be repaired..you just toss 'em.

Sadly, yes.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at May 14, 2022 01:32 PM (Xrfse)

262
When SCOTUS members were saying that protests wouldn't change their mind, I had to think for a minute to remember, the leaked info about the yelling overheard about potential riots and the election cases that came to their attention.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at May 14, 2022 01:25 PM (IDhUW

There certainly would have been riots if they actual took the time to look into that disgraceful election--and made the necessary "adjustments."

There would have been riots in HUNDREDS of cities

This is what everyone who allowed the "steal" to occur tell themselves.
I'm convinced this is how they sleep at night.

Posted by: JoeF. at May 14, 2022 01:32 PM (mR6Gs)

263 I bought some Ziplock quart storage bags

on the box it claims "POWER SHIELD TECHNOLOGY"

it's a friggin' ziplock bag, you douchesters
Posted by: DB at May 14, 2022 01:27 PM (geLO

Maybe it blocks COVID? Some Covidians should try sealing their heads inside, for extra protection

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at May 14, 2022 01:33 PM (sJHOI)

264 Ohio plumbers training through the unions (spit) was first year in the ditch. Second year doing municipals (big valves and stuff). Third, commercial. Fourth residential ( the easy stuff)

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 14, 2022 01:33 PM (lz5hY)

265 As said laundry tub one leg has rusted so leveling up with heavy aluminum angle, have to cut off one old leg first.

Posted by: Skip at May 14, 2022 01:34 PM (2JoB8)

266 Posted by: Skip at May 14, 2022 01:26 PM (2JoB

I say Sir and Ma'am as a signal of courteous respect.

As in "Yes Ma'am, what can I get for you today?"

I'm surprised how often women don't like being called ma'am. It doesn't matter, I've got country boy attitude, so I usually just dismiss their irritability with a "I'm sorry, that's just how I was raised."

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at May 14, 2022 01:34 PM (Ryaf0)

267 "most safe and secure election in history"
"most votes in history"
"If you get the shot you can't get covid"
"there was no vaccine available when Brandon was installed"
the list is long.

This is the same type of bluster that they accused Trump of engaging in.
But when he did it, they called it lying.

Posted by: JoeF. at May 14, 2022 01:35 PM (mR6Gs)

268 Here's a substack article written by a de-transitioning male that explains just what the whole trans thing is about. Hint: it's evil. I think he's got it pegged:

https://cutdowntree.substack.com/p/
gender-identity-isnt-real?sd=nfs&s=r

Posted by: IrishEi at May 14, 2022 01:35 PM (VhE0u)

269 ooh, I mean Thanks, bill in arkansas!

I misidentified the one who provided the Moen advice.
I hope I didn't also misgender and mispronoun you.

Posted by: kallisto at May 14, 2022 01:36 PM (DJFLF)

270 248 there are movies that it's done as well, even WWII dramas

Posted by: Skip at May 14, 2022 01:36 PM (2JoB8)

271 130 I'm not looking forward to the day when attractive young women start calling me cute.
Posted by: N.L. Urker, there are chickens in my trench at May 14, 2022 12:20 PM (eGTCV)

No. The day you should dread is when attractive young ladies start calling you "sir".

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at May 14, 2022 01:36 PM (Qhnrt)

272 269 My preferred pronoun was sergeant and you are welcome.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 14, 2022 01:38 PM (lz5hY)

273 Here's a substack article written by a de-transitioning male that explains just what the whole trans thing is about. Hint: it's evil. I think he's ~~got it~~ been pegged:

https://cutdowntree.substack.com/p/
gender-identity-isnt-real?sd=nfs&s=r
Posted by: IrishEi at May 14, 2022 01:35 PM (VhE0u)

fify

Posted by: BignJames at May 14, 2022 01:39 PM (AwYPR)

274 It's not just abortion. There are other momentous SCOTUS rulings that can be turned by the current protests.

Will SCOTUS overturn NYC's effective ban on guns?

The SEC has a crazy plan for public company disclosures about climate change. It's actually a stealth plan to kill our energy industry and lay the groundwork for a carbon tax.

Without the crazy, this is a tailor-made case for SCOTUS to overturn the Chevron doctrine deference to federal agencies, which is Kavanaugh's pet objective. Will he vote to even take the case?

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 14, 2022 01:39 PM (i0slg)

275 There would have been riots in HUNDREDS of cities

This is what everyone who allowed the "steal" to occur tell themselves.
I'm convinced this is how they sleep at night.

Likely. However, now 1) SCOTUS will have to live with the appearance of being able to be manipulated by the threat of violence and b) unforseen violence in the future because they didn't address it at the time.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at May 14, 2022 01:40 PM (IDhUW)

276 My preferred pronoun was sergeant and you are welcome.
Posted by: bill in arkansas
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Heh, same here.

Posted by: SMH that God hasn't lobbed a Texas-sized asteroid at us yet at May 14, 2022 01:43 PM (AxTbI)

277 IrishEi Weird Dave had one from Substack a week ago ( last Friday maybe) Saga of Sage about a young girl caught up and runaway, in the sad story the People's Republic of Maryland stopped parents from rescue and continued her horrible existence until she was trafficked to Texas and a chance to be found and then the parents got her back.

Posted by: Skip at May 14, 2022 01:45 PM (2JoB8)

278 In college (engineering) in the early 80s, I noticed that "gender" was replacing "sex."

For over forty years I scandalously correct anyone who uses the "G-word" with "Nouns have gender; people have sex!"

The idea of sex differences being a part of the soul plays an important background role in all of my novels of "Machine Civilization," for humans and machines alike.

Posted by: Clayton Barnett at May 14, 2022 01:49 PM (QMNdN)

279 Skip:
A) Carjack a plumber's van.
B) Cut out a section. Use Sharkbite fittings and PEX.

Posted by: Gordon at May 14, 2022 01:54 PM (29WCA)

280
https://cutdowntree.substack.com/p/
gender-identity-isnt-real?sd=nfs&s=r
Posted by: IrishEi at May 14, 2022 01:35 PM (VhE0u)

Read the article, reminded of religion that says flesh is evil, looked up Gnosticism, found author darrell hannah, we have a commentor here by that name, right?

4 degrees of separation.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at May 14, 2022 01:58 PM (IDhUW)

281 Weird Dave had one from Substack a week ago ( last Friday maybe) Saga of Sage
Posted by: Skip at May 14, 2022 01:45 PM (2JoB

~~~~~

I remember that one too, Skip. Just horrible.

Posted by: IrishEi at May 14, 2022 02:02 PM (VhE0u)

282 Had a call and from caller ID knew it was a political call, actually woman stating position of Kathy Barnett and was going to be a hope you vote for her but quickly added I was so she thanked me.

Posted by: Skip at May 14, 2022 02:09 PM (2JoB8)

283 Is it crazy to theorize that our Deep State and the ChiComs want to take out Putin and destabilize Russia.

What then? Cui bono?

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 14, 2022 02:09 PM (i0slg)

284 Nood gardening.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at May 14, 2022 02:11 PM (SH2Zi)

285 Had a call and from caller ID knew it was a political call, actually woman stating position of Kathy Barnett and was going to be a hope you vote for her but quickly added I was so she thanked me

Good to hear. She is working for it! I hope she wins!

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at May 14, 2022 02:12 PM (IDhUW)

286 We have met the enemy, and he is us. From that article:

Through the magic of Intersectionality, these class antagonisms coalesce into one great struggle: the oppression of the Marginalized by White Supremacist Capitalist Cis-Hetero-Patriarchy (the Enemy). The world is wicked, and it is that way because it was made wicked by the Enemy.

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 14, 2022 02:12 PM (i0slg)

287 Cui bono?

Evil, with a capital E. The enemy comes to steal, kill, and destroy.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at May 14, 2022 02:16 PM (IDhUW)

288 r.e. Latin et al. I usually use "Hispanic" and have received no downvotes. YMMV. I do note people from different countries do not at all like to be called as people from another country. Again, no downvotes for asking. Usually people are proud of their heritage as well as their current status here in the U.S. A flexible but firm attitude seems to be a beneficial common ingredient.

Posted by: Ray at May 14, 2022 02:20 PM (sw3xv)

289 Playing YouTube music and add against Kathy saying she didn't vote for Trump, maybe, but am positive as can be heard her on radio Jan6 at the rally, bet a million Oz wasn't.

Posted by: Skip at May 14, 2022 02:21 PM (2JoB8)

290 s it crazy to theorize that our Deep State and the ChiComs want to take out Putin and destabilize Russia.

What then? Cui bono?
Posted by: Ignoramus at May 14, 2022 02:09 PM (i0slg

I'll believe anything about the Deep State and the chinks, and i don't care where Bono gets his cues.
His voice is shot.

Posted by: JoeF. at May 14, 2022 02:29 PM (mR6Gs)

291 Latin et al. I usually use "Hispanic" and have received no downvotes. YMMV. I do note people from different countries do not at all like to be called as people from another country. Again, no downvotes for asking. Usually people are proud of their heritage as well as their current status here in the U.S. A flexible but firm attitude seems to be a beneficial common ingredient.
Posted by: Ray at May 14, 2022 02:20 PM (sw3xv)

Call them what you will, just don't call a Puerto Rican a Mexican.

Posted by: JoeF. at May 14, 2022 02:30 PM (mR6Gs)

292 , All the black pepper in the world doesn't cure that mess.
Posted by: bill in arkansas,

Black pepper in cottage cheese?
I have to try that next time

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at May 14, 2022 02:41 PM (kf6Ak)

293 People should be terrified of the new SEC rule making on carbon disclosure. Will make Sarbanes Oxley look like a kindergarten test. Big money to comply and none of their damn business anyway.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at May 14, 2022 02:51 PM (oWBc3)

294 All the black pepper in the world doesn't cure that mess.
Posted by: bill in arkansas,

Black pepper in cottage cheese?
I have to try that next time

Yum!

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at May 14, 2022 02:52 PM (IDhUW)

295 Watching a movie about the Kursk sub disaster
So sad

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at May 14, 2022 02:53 PM (kf6Ak)

296 There was a young woman that showed up to help with the cleanup here. When the stepdaughter introduced her, and told me her pronouns, it was very awkward. Stepdaughter is a Lefty so I'm sure she does this pronoun thing all the time. The fact that it was awkward for her means she knows it is a lie. And I didn't need her pronouns anyway.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at May 14, 2022 11:37 AM (YynYJ)

I've never been introduced in a "pronoun" context, but I suppose my response would be "okaaay."

Posted by: Miley the duchess at May 14, 2022 02:56 PM (Mzdiz)

297 People should be terrified of the new SEC rule making on carbon disclosure. Will make Sarbanes Oxley look like a kindergarten test. Big money to comply and none of their damn business anyway.

I confess to total ignorance re SEC. Did brief search, apparently it wants to incorporate ESG (again, I had to look this up, Environmental, social goverance). 1984 had nothing on our current predicament.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at May 14, 2022 02:58 PM (IDhUW)

298 Watching a movie about the Kursk sub disaster
So sad
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at May 14, 2022 02:53 PM (kf6Ak)

Typical Russian ineptitude, shoddiness, lying, denying, delaying and pride--in refusing help from other nations ( including the US) that offered assistance.

Posted by: JoeF. at May 14, 2022 03:01 PM (mR6Gs)

299 Watching a movie about the Kursk sub disaster
So sad

K19 Widowmaker?

That movie stuck with me.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at May 14, 2022 03:03 PM (IDhUW)

300 'Ella and Louis' is a perfect album. Every song on it is simply wonderful.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at May 14, 2022 03:09 PM (U2DKg)

301 Pet nood

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 14, 2022 03:13 PM (u73oe)

302 K19 Widowmaker?

That movie stuck with me.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel

The Command (201

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at May 14, 2022 03:13 PM (kf6Ak)

303 Re the pronoun stuff, don't you wish Sam Kinison was alive? BTW seeing Zelensky the attention whore is speaking at Davos. Of course he is.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at May 14, 2022 03:15 PM (oWBc3)

304 I can't stand Zelinskyyyyy
Such a poser

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at May 14, 2022 03:21 PM (kf6Ak)

305 304 I can't stand Zelinskyyyyy
Such a poser
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at May 14, 2022 03:21 PM (kf6Ak)

*scribbles notes furiously*

Posted by: Disinformation Governance Board at May 14, 2022 03:25 PM (DTX3h)

306 Jeff Goldstein at ProteinWisdom.com has been covering the threat to language for years.

Posted by: OCBill at May 14, 2022 03:28 PM (SUECK)

307 For over forty years I scandalously correct anyone who uses the "G-word" with "Nouns have gender; people have sex!"
***

Status of this phrase:
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[X] Stolen

Posted by: Diogenes at May 14, 2022 03:32 PM (anj39)

308 The main stem seems to want to turn but the faucet itself is jammed. I hope the old man's attempt to fix the faucet doesn't result in major spendage to get it fixed.

Posted by: kallisto at May 14, 2022 12:11 PM (DJFLF)

Worst case, you need to replace the faucet. But I guess the bf should keep his paws off the project.

Posted by: Miley the duchess at May 14, 2022 03:33 PM (Mzdiz)

309 Greetings:

"Don't say gay." Say "Homosexual".

Posted by: 11B40 at May 14, 2022 03:39 PM (uuklp)

310 I for one welcome our new Ditz-information czar.
She seems janky.

Posted by: Zeoman at May 14, 2022 03:45 PM (hQpKf)

311 Democrats 2022!
Kill the fetus
Starve the babies
Groom the survivors!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at May 14, 2022 03:49 PM (anj39)

312 Democrats 2022!
Kill the fetus
Starve the babies
Groom the survivors!!!

Truth in advertising.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at May 14, 2022 03:56 PM (IDhUW)

313 Just got a text about "can't trust Kathy Barnette"

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at May 14, 2022 04:00 PM (kf6Ak)

314 I can't stand Zelinskyyyyy
Such a poser
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at May 14, 2022 03:21 PM (kf6Ak)

You must be from the PUTIN wing of the Republican Party!!!
That's RIGHT, I SAID IT!!!

Posted by: Mark Levin at May 14, 2022 04:08 PM (mR6Gs)

315 Most confusing phrase?

Using "Biden" and "American" in the same sentence.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at May 14, 2022 06:24 PM (LRt8K)

316 Thanks KT, I always enjoy these posts but I read them too late to comment. You reminded me of this short essay.

"We are not called upon to step out onto the square and shout out the truth, to say out loud what we think—this is scary, we are not ready. But let us at least refuse to say what we do not think!"

Live not by lies - A. Solzhenitsyn

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