Fall LC Thread: Don't You Worry 'Bout a Thing
Going for a round of vaccines today. We old guys aren't taking any chances.
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I don't know, man. He was probably another paedophile, anyway.
I have two granddaughters. Both dance. Yesterday I sat through a 4.5 hour dance recital. My daughter kept telling me I'm an adult and could survive. I survived. Fortunately, my granddaughter was in at least a dozen dances, so that takes some of the sting out of sitting there for so long. Two of my colleagues were also there. One has a daughter who finished dancing two years ago
should we all not encourage the passions of children
if somehow ambiguous or confused with performance art, my question was wafted more toward those of you higher education folk out there
should we all not encourage the passions of children
if somehow ambiguous or confused with performance art, my question was wafted more toward those of you higher education folk out there
There are passions that should be encouraged. I have nothing against performance art, but Bob Flanagan went too far. Maybe not?
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Green plum--
it draws her eyebrows
together.
--Buson
The Holidays are upon us! Baked a couple of loaves of bread today for tomorrows feast as that will be my contribution. Hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving and eats too much and watches too much football.
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.
Enjoying a nice low-key day with daughter, granddaughter, and son-in-law along with his parents. Better than last year's twenty some people.
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Pork fried rice at The Smile Factory.
Perfectly seasoned; not too much soy sauce; just the right amount of green onions; and, eggs cooked separately --then added to the rice.
Perfection.
N.B. spoon pilfered from Baskin Robbins.
Happy Thanksgiving!!!
thank you all for your friendly banter and half-wittedness
speaking of which, any recent word from Zee or Zeno?
Just learned to imagine a Europe without tomatoes and a Western Hemisphere without horses. Be an interesting documentary if AI was any good.
Neither were worth the collateral damage caused by the exchange imo, but certainly subconscious voids would be felt by everyone today.
I'm in kay with "sex worker" for prostitute (not really but I can live with it). And I'm mostly okay with "died by suicide" instead of "committed suicide."
However, when someone shoots and kills two people and then himself, he didn't die by suicide (as reported on the news), he committed suicide.
Am I over sensitive to how language is used?
As Confucius wrote, "The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name."
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I'm okay with "sex worker" for prostitute (not really but I can live with it). And I'm mostly okay with "died by suicide" instead of "committed suicide."However, when someone shoots and kills two people and then himself, he didn't die by suicide (as reported on the news), he committed suicide. Am I over sensitive to how language is used? As Confucius wrote, "The beginning of wi
I understand the underlying theory here to be *Solving problems by renaming them*. If people think that prostitutes are denigrated for their profession, we can fix that by calling them sex workers.[/naivete]
But I'm not sure about *died by suicide*. What is solved here? Isn't it simply bad usage? The person killing himself is the agent. Why imply otherwise?
like with the word rtard, that's the umpteenth iteration of it where we decide to move on from older words like idiot etc and they lose they degree of insult and the new "safe word" becomes the new one
kids these days use "mentally handicapped" as a go to insult today - so before the end our lives that too will be discarded for whatever new one we invent
Hand"i*cap (hăn"dĭ*kăp), n. [From hand in cap; -- perh. in reference to an old mode of settling a bargain by taking pieces of money from a cap.]1. An allowance of a certain amount of time or distance in starting, granted in a race to the competitor possessing inferior advantages; or an additional weight or other hindrance imposed upon the one possessing superior advantages, in order to equalize, as much as possible, the chances of success; as, the handicap was five seconds, or ten pounds, and the like.
2. A race, for horses or men, or any contest of agility, strength, or skill, in which there is an allowance of time, distance, weight, or other advantage, to equalize the chances of the competitors.
3. An old game at cards. [Obs.] Pepys.
Handicapped had been discarded as a pejorative in American public education by the 1990s. But the term didn't start life that way.
I found a 1943 nickel the other night.
War nickel! Also called "silver" nickel because they are about 35% silver. Also distictive for the large mint stamp (P for Philadelphia) above the dome.
I was a coin collector as a kid and "war" nickels were a favotite of mine. Somewhere in a drawer I have a full set of uncirculated "war" nickels. Prolly worth something? But I haven't pulled out my coins in over a decade or two?
Holy hell, with many thanks for Morphismus for this song, about me, posted today on BBV4Life
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I'm okay with "sex worker" for prostitute (not really but I can live with it). And I'm mostly okay with "died by suicide" instead of "committed suicide."However, when someone shoots and kills two people and then himself, he didn't die by suicide (as reported on the news), he committed suicide. Am I over sensitive to how language is used? As Confucius wrote, "The beginning of wi
Good quote. I also dislike 'passed' for 'died.' Even if you believe in life after death, it's still life after death. To Confucius's point, any level of wisdom involves confronting death.
A lot of the newer ones seem to be based on some dubious story about the old word. Something like, "if you say someone committed suicide, you are saying they are 100% to blame and they just decided to do something horrible due to their low moral character."
"If you say someone is homeless, you assert that this is the totality of their being and dehumanizing them."
'handicap' historically implies measurement against something else
who sets that standard and what is the community agreement?
If you are measuring two horses, you are measuring them against each other.
If you measure them racing a mile and a quarter ten times, and horse A is faster than Horse B by 3 seconds ten times, then the community agreement would be that horse A was 3 seconds faster in the mile and a quarter.
Long ago, there was an OpEd in Newsweek that passionately argued for “fabulous” & “fab” to become the mainstream idioms for homosexual instead of “gay”.
I strongly dislike “passed” (especially now that it’s used regarding pets), and I loathe the sexualization of “partner”.
But “arguably” is the worst, especially when linked with “one of the”, and apocalyptically when used re sports.
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