The Random, Meaningless Announcements Thread 3!

[Shadow Wolf]

Online Petition to Change Islamabad's Name to 'Islamagood' Has Received Over 300 Signatures (news18.com)









I wonder if they might change the name of "Sinbad" to "Singood."

"Carlsbad Caverns" could be "Carlsgood Caverns."

I wonder if people will ever learn etymology and not approach language like someone just setting out to learn a foreign language?

 

[ChristineM]

I wonder if people will ever learn etymology and not approach language like someone just setting out to learn a foreign language?

We have a neighbour surname Badoures pronounced Bad-ur-***... Double whammy in English, rare but there are a few families with the nsme

 

[Revoltingest]

Elko County health board to consider banning COVID, flu vaccines

 

[ChristineM]

Elko County health board to consider banning COVID, flu vaccines

 

[Revoltingest]

Only one face palm for that?

 

[Wu Wei]

The left is full of woke too.
It's like Covid....but without vaccines.

Woke...a simple past tense of wake...... which means they are playing catch up...were were already awake..... they just woke up

 

[Shadow Wolf]

We have a neighbour surname Badoures pronounced Bad-ur-***... Double whammy in English, rare but there are a few families with the nsme

That would be a nice name to have in English, walk around saying yup, I'm a Badoures.

 

[Revoltingest]

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Woke...a simple past tense of wake...... which means they are playing catch up...were were already awake..... they just woke up

I gave up trying to figure socio-political lingo long ago, because much of it isn't grammatically accurate. It's just weird.

 

[Wu Wei]

I gave up trying to figure socio-political lingo long ago, because much of it isn't grammatically accurate. It's just weird.

I don't bother at all...I generally go right for sarcasm when it comes to the "NEW" "HIP" "WITH IT" "POLITICALLY CORRECT" lingo of the minute

 

[Revoltingest]

I gave up trying to figure socio-political lingo long ago, because much of it isn't grammatically accurate. It's just weird.

Such language is based upon emotional
baggage associated with individual words
assembled to create new impressions that
will acquire new baggage in the future.

 

[Wu Wei]

Such language is based upon emotional
baggage associated with individual words
assembled to create new impressions.

Whatever It takes to feel like you are actually doing something about the problems...when in reality you are not....but knowing the lingo helps you at least look that way... there is a GREAT scene in an old movie "Gentleman's agreement" towards the end of the movie that points out that type of attitude rather well.

 

[Wu Wei]

Thief steals St. Michael statue from church, trips, and is injured by the angel’s sword

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Such language is based upon emotional
baggage associated with individual words
assembled to create new impressions that
will acquire new baggage in the future.

Often times not really, amd they came into existence under legit circumstances, but much passive-aggressive an uninformed public picked up on something and never really bothered to learn what it is so it comes to be understood in a larger sense as media personality twerps have come to define them for us.

 

[sun rise]

Elko County health board to consider banning COVID, flu vaccines

There is no extreme so utterly and totally insane that some won't immediate insist on it.

Clearly they are not going far enough. They should ban medicine and products from any company declared woke and make it illegal to be a Democrat.

 

[Revoltingest]

Often times not really, amd they came into existence under legit circumstances, but much passive-aggressive an uninformed public picked up on something and never really bothered to learn what it is so it comes to be understood in a larger sense as media personality twerps have come to define them for us.

Neuro-divergent types seem to have a problem
with the strange evolution of words based upon
emotional connotations.

 

[Revoltingest]

There is no extreme so utterly and totally insane that some won't immediate insist on it.

Clearly they are not going far enough. They should ban medicine and products from any company declared woke and make it illegal to be a Democrat.

Who needs medicine or surgery when there's prayer, eh.

 

[Wu Wei]

There is so much wrong with what is going on here at the moment...I think I will go with discretion is the better part of valor..... tell you all to shut yer pie holes...and quietly bow out for now

 

[The Sum of Awe]

Who needs medicine or surgery when there's prayer, eh.

Priests ought to be making more than Doctors right now.

 

[Revoltingest]

Priests ought to be making more than Doctors right now.

Their reward is in the afterlife.
Give'm nothing in this life.