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American abominations of the day.

Functionable.

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vegetariantaxidermy wrote: Mon Nov 07, 2022 7:53 am American abominations of the day.

Functionable.

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I thought that "gotten" was your pet peeve.
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Walker wrote: Mon Nov 07, 2022 8:02 am
vegetariantaxidermy wrote: Mon Nov 07, 2022 7:53 am American abominations of the day.

Functionable.

Snuck.
I thought that "gotten" was your pet peeve.
There are so many when it comes to yanklish.
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Nucular. How hard is it to say 'nuclear'??
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vegetariantaxidermy wrote: Mon Nov 07, 2022 8:58 am Nucular. How hard is it to say 'nuclear'??
Consider that he mis-pronounced it on purpose.
Why would he do that?

Have you heard of Ronald Reagan's infamous mike* check?
It caused Karens everywhere to faint on the sidewalks.
Karens ignored the laughter, or else thought the laughter was evil.
Karens thought that the accompanying laughter was the laughter of the evil empire.
They said he was senile and had to go.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kifJ_mQdpZA


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Walker wrote: Tue Nov 08, 2022 4:50 pm
vegetariantaxidermy wrote: Mon Nov 07, 2022 8:58 am Nucular. How hard is it to say 'nuclear'??
Consider that he mis-pronounced it on purpose.
Why would he do that?

Have you heard of Ronald Reagan's infamous mike* check?
It caused Karens everywhere to faint on the sidewalks.
Karens ignored the laughter, or else thought the laughter was evil.
Karens thought that the accompanying laughter was the laughter of the evil empire.
They said he was senile and had to go.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kifJ_mQdpZA


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Another nasty, misogynistic Americanism thought up by internet Einsteins. So now, any time a woman has an opinion on 'anything', she is this entity called a 'Karen' (an awful name that was popular in the early 1960s) because women aren't allowed to have opinions, and as such need to be belittled and ridiculed and 'put in their place'. Naturally, there is no equivalent insult for males. Apparently any woman unfortunate enough to have that name is a dreadful person. Actually I've known a few nice Karens, but Cheryls and Debbies are a different matter...
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vegetariantaxidermy wrote: Tue Nov 08, 2022 7:34 pmActually I've known a few nice Karens, but Cheryls and Debbies are a different matter...
Shirleys can lighten up a jest.

"Shirley, you jest."
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Walker wrote: Tue Nov 08, 2022 4:50 pm
vegetariantaxidermy wrote: Mon Nov 07, 2022 8:58 am Nucular. How hard is it to say 'nuclear'??
Consider that he mis-pronounced it on purpose.
Why would he do that?

Have you heard of Ronald Reagan's infamous mike* check?
It caused Karens everywhere to faint on the sidewalks.
Karens ignored the laughter, or else thought the laughter was evil.
Karens thought that the accompanying laughter was the laughter of the evil empire.
They said he was senile and had to go.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kifJ_mQdpZA


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He WAS senile. He ended up dying of dementia. Alzheimers can take decades to kill you, and diagnosis often comes a decade after the onset of symptoms. Americans love their senile presidents...
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vegetariantaxidermy wrote: Tue Nov 08, 2022 10:28 pmAmericans love their senile presidents...
That just goes to show you that folks in the beginning stages of what will become a severe decline caused by deterioration, become more of what they always were. The filters fall away. This is why Reagan became great, jovial, and changed the world by the time the effects of his disease became apparent, when he was leaving office after rescuing the spirit and economy of the nation. And, becoming more of what one is, by losing filters, is why Brandon was always a mean phony and became more of the same, an empty suit who is changing the world. Whose change is better, Ronnie or lunch-bucket Joe, the Brandon who got lost in his lies?

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This here man in the link, who was created by propaganda, just became a US Senator. All of his campaigning was done via campaign videos that were produced before he had a stroke, and aired while he was rushed through rehab. He was probably learning how to walk forwards and backwards, while voters thought he was campaigning. By the time he tried to speak in public and could not formulate a coherent sentence because of his stroke, let alone tap-dance his way through the verbal halls of Congress, a goodly portion of the voting had already occurred, by mail, before election day, based on the campaign videos, before his medical condition was demonstrated for the public. Go figure. Rather embarrassing as a 'Merican that this recovering stroke victim, who can only read words on a teleprompter, and not all that well, but cannot process sounds properly, has just been elected. Once you read about his platform, promises, and diminished capacity*, you can also wonder if lemmings were casting votes. And I know why. The cause that affects folks is the syndrome that shall not be spoken, under threat of penalty.

* For example, in his only debate just days before the election yesterday, when he was asked by the debate moderator how he can claim to support fracking, he literally said that he has always supported fracking (despite irrefutable evidence to the contrary, presented clearly by the moderator). That's the extent of his reasoning skills.


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Idiom of the day.

Stuff the Ballot Box

“To manipulate or rig an election by entering fraudulent, illegal votes into a ballot in order to secure victory for a particular candidate or outcome.”

Commentary: For example, the drop box is a ballot box put out on a public street corner, all alone and by itself. At night the drop box calls out, “Stuff me! Stuff me full!” Those who hear its cries either rush to fulfill the destiny and purpose of the dropbox, or else they just keep to themselves, knowing that others will do what must be done if it is to be done, and if they don’t do it then how bad can it really be, after all is said and done?
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Quiver

quiver
noun
quiv•er ˈkwi-vər
: a case for carrying or holding arrows


He said, what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.

Therefore, irritation makes you stronger … as long as you can hold out.

For instance, Chinese Water Torture can make you strong enough to surrender.

Such irritations are but one arrow in God’s quiver that causes folks to say, how could such a mean old God exist?
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Clown

Clown
“:a rude ill-bred person : BOOR”
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Avalanche

Definition: Landslide

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Woman:

From the Cambridge Dictionary
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dic ... lish/woman

an adult who lives and identifies as female though they may have been said to have a different sex at birth:
- She was the first trans woman elected to a national office.
- mary is a woman who was assigned male at birth.


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Alrighty then. As long as they’re going that route, there’s a shorter, less confusing, clearer example sentence that says what they’re trying to say.
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Walker wrote: Wed Dec 14, 2022 11:08 am Woman:

From the Cambridge Dictionary
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dic ... lish/woman

an adult who lives and identifies as female though they may have been said to have a different sex at birth:
- She was the first trans woman elected to a national office.
- mary is a woman who was assigned male at birth.


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Alrighty then. As long as they’re going that route, there’s a shorter, less confusing, clearer example sentence that says what they’re trying to say.
It should make you happy. Women are being erased--the ultimate misogynists wet dream. Any woman who complains about anything is silenced, belittled and dismissed with one word these days: 'Karen'. Of course, there is no male equivalent--how surprising :roll:
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