Surely no one can be honestly surprised at Biden's lack of judgment.
1: Exactly! That's part of my fucking point! He's like the JP Stormcrow of Vice Presidents!
I am nacreous and I need to be clutched, just like everybody else does.
As I wrote elsewhere, note the difference between the VPs' f-bombs. Biden dropped it in praise, Cheney in scorn. Biden FTFW.
I am nacreous and I need to be clutched, just like everybody else does.
Like
I can't believe all the major papers still talk around it- "an adjective between the big and the deal that begins with "f."- seriously? I understand bleeping it on TV because of potential FCC fines. Grow the fuck up people.
2: Uh, to clarify: I didn't mean to imply that Stormcrow has exercised bad judgment, mind. Just that he himself curses like a goddamn sailor, and who the fuck cares?
6: Even the NYT Caucus blog! (Where I first saw it.) For fuck's sake, people.
Wait, who is upset?
I thought to include a couple links to places that were noting it, but then thought, "meh"; I'm lazy. Per teo in 10, here's one, even if they spell "mic" all weird-like.
I think it's fuckin' awesome. And he's fuckin' right.
Biden took this headline to heart.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/weekinreview/07zernike.html?pagewanted=all
"Overly effusive?" Just how effusive should the Vice President have been, Mr. Caucus Blog?
For fuck's sake.
Was that comment to the tune of that Morosey song, neb?
Um, I see that people are saying the media is all abuzz about it, but who's upset? Did somebody's baby hear it and get hurt?
I stole this from elsewhere, but it is hilarious.
16: This is the most concerned(!) thing I've seen, to be fucking honest. I was just surprised that it's a fucking story at fucking all.
Ow! My freaking ears!
I am nacreous and I need to be clutched, just like everybody else does.
neb, you win like thirty goddamn internets with this one.
3 = reference to theme song from, er, whatsit, show where Shannen Doherty and Alyssa Milano are witches, but not fun ones like Samantha? (If this is true, I get points for cathing the reference. If this song has another life, I just look like a massive loser.)
Also, yes, a good deal of pearl-clutching. Inevitable refrains of something I'm not used to hearing in German but did last Saturday in a discussion of jaywalking in Switzerland: "Denken sie an die Kinder!"
The real anger should be at Biden for spoiling the rollout of the new phrase. You thought the New Deal was major? This is the Big Fucking Deal!
21.1: Maury I'm just going to take a flying leap and guess you're pretty young? At least you didn't say "isn't that the song by T.a.T.u.?"
21.1: Maury I'm just going to take a flying leap and guess you're pretty young?
Maybe Maury is 16, clumsy and shy.
I think Maury is going for more of an "I don't even own a TV" message here, as his comment can be paraphrased "Many people may be aware of this song, but I only know it vaguely from some TV show, though I don't know or want to find out the title of the TV show."
15: yes.
21: if it is, it isn't known to me under that description.
note the difference between the VPs' f-bombs. Biden dropped it in praise, Cheney in scorn. Biden FTFW.
Fuckin' A.
Sifu, Maury could also be very old and have his tv stuck on TNT.
I am nacreous and I need to be clutched, just like everybody else does.
Honestly, neb.
Oh, I'm 36, but I have weird gaps in my musical literacy and I know they're there. There was this period where I listened almost exclusively to opera, see. It was called college. And high school. I do have a tv, though. But, yeah, I was feeling sheepish about Charmed, ok. My cover is blown.
I'm younger than you, Josh; I can do these things.
2: He's like the JP Stormcrow of Vice Presidents!
"I started thinking as I was reading this thread, why is it that JP Stormcrow is the first in his family ever to go to a university? Why is it that my wife is the first in her family to ever go to college? Is it because our fathers and mothers were not bright? Is it because I'm the first Stormcrow in a thousand generations to get a college and a graduate degree that I was smarter than the rest? ... No, it's because I am a big fucking liar."
You do indeed have weird gaps, Maury D. Denken Sie an die Kinder! is practically the German national refrain.
neB, that was spectacular, and followed by strong work by essear in 24. Also, I'm enjoying the T.a.T.u. version a lot. Hadn't seen it.
Megan, isn't this a class of pun?
practically the German national refrain.
Many of us are unaware of many nations' refrains.
I prefer the Danbulance to Morrissey, but that's just how I roll.
Many of us are unaware of many nations' refrains.
Chile's is "Chi-Chi-Chi, Le-Le-Le, Viva Chile"
I don't know any others. I guess ours is the stupid USA! one. But that's stupid.
Don't think so. It alludes to a lyric, but doesn't rely on homonyms or the double meaning of a word.
I can tell it isn't a pun because I didn't hate it.
Славься, Отечество наше свободное,
Дружбы народов надежный оплот!
Партия Ленина -- сила народная
Нас к торжеству коммунизма ведёт!
That's why Megan doesn't like whine.
Also, I'm enjoying the T.a.T.u. version a lot
You're crazy.
Fair enough, but I say that if your objection to puns is that they are outside the conversation--attempts to draw attention and admiration for the punner's wits--then I say you should have hated it. Or at least set it on fire and thrown it off the roof. For Nowruz.
All Megan wants is a Pepsi, and you won't give it to her.
J.P. Stormcrow is a descendant of a UK mining family.
Fair enough, but I say that if your objection to puns is that they are outside the conversation--attempts to draw attention and admiration for the punner's wits--then I say you should have hated it.
My objection to puns?
Or is that a reference to something I've said before and forgotten?
Prescient: Me on the time delayed TV. Let me know if anyone swears.
Megan's. At least that's more or less how I recall it.
Bowlderized:
Славься, Отечество наше свободное,
Братских народов союз вековой,
Предками данная мудрость народная!
Славься, страна! Мы гордимся тобой!
"Мы гордимся тобой"?! I mean...
Oh, TJ, I missed your back-and-forth with Megan up there. Sorry.
Many of us are unaware of many nations' refrains.
Yeah, but "Denken Sie an die Kinder!" is a Smiths song.
Putin's better at judo than poetry, it's true.
Insert "at" at the appropriate place in 54, please.
I guess ours is the stupid USA! one. But that's stupid.
Not really, you just have to pronounce it right.
How many inane comments can I make in a row?
Puns load down the conversation with an extraneous (and usually dumb) secondary meaning. neB's gem was clever and directly contributed to the riffing that Unfogged is good at.
59: The narcissism of small differences.
Ah, the Smiths. The very well loved and 100% unfamiliar to me Smiths, as also they are known. That would explain the mockery, then.
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Man, re-ripping something to a different format is *much* simpler than ripping it for the first time. A simple:
$ mkflac mp3/K-Space/Going\ Up/
(or whatever) and that's it! all metadata already present!
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I like when people bring wit, and like adding silliness or following tangents. But puns, man. They add noise, not signal.
Puns can be witty, and can even, through the judicious inclusion, or playing at (Anspielung) in one word of multiple meanings, increase the signal without increasing noise.
neB's gem
A false anagram for "Megan." Coincidence?
Does 68 written use some slow form of blink?
Puns can be witty
So rare that I'd happily do away with the form entire, and never worry about what had been lost.
But you know, if y'all like puns, you should do them and not care about my tastes in the matter. I can always close my browser in disgust without saying anything. I try not to be the person who brings it up.
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My friend used the heartbeat from his baby's sonogram as the beat in this song. Love it.
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I fucking love Joe Biden. There, I said it. Fuck the fucks.
Interesting beliefs of the fucks:
Supposedly more details tomorrow (and I suspect there are going to be some methodological weaknesses)--but still.On the heels of health care, a new Harris poll reveals Republican attitudes about Obama: Two-thirds think he's a socialist, 57 percent a Muslim--and 24 percent say "he may be the Antichrist."
Puns load down the conversation with an extraneous (and usually dumb) secondary meaning.
Nothing extraneous about the lyrics of a song not mentioned elsewhere in the conversation. Anyway, I've heard the song a number of times, but did not get the reference.
74: Those antichrist numbers seem quite high.
Anyway, was this really bad judgment on Biden's part? Think of how many people now know that this HCR is a BFD.
is a BFD
Recalls a family story: Some years back I noticed my daughter and her best friend having way too much fun referring to each other as BFFs. I cluelessly and innocently asked if that stood for "Big Fucking Friend". And so it did (and still does).
At one time it was mostly "Neb Folds Five".
82: That should really be BFV.
He later lost his fortune and was reduced to folding parchment.
Q: How many Okies does it take to acquire a cat skin?
A: Two, one to watch for cars ...
90: And now they'll get a small business tax break to buy health care insurance. Profit!
Lyndon LaRouche converging with garden-variety wingnuts on HCR. It's the Wingularity!
Though I don't think he's got their hearts and minds on the evil British sponsors bit yetPresident Obama's "success", on behalf of his British sponsors, in ramming through his Hitler Healthcare bill, is likely to be short-lived, as it will fuel the drive for his impeachment. But, any successful effort to reverse this atrocity, must start from the fact that the bill is fascist, Lyndon LaRouche stated today.
Wait, when did Obama become a redcoat turncoat?
Although Obama's overall attitude and behavior has grown no less arrogant, even as his approval ratings sink lower with each daily poll, what has grown is his fixation and his terror every time Lyndon LaRouche opens his mouth, a fact that has led a number of Washington insiders to comment that the only thing Obama seems to fear is LaRouche.
93: As soon as Lyndon LaRouche began to think about him. British malfeasance is a long-running theme of LaRouche's--from a few years back:
LaRouche, who just celebrated his 85th birthday, noted that he was old enough to remember that it was the British who organized two world wars during the last century. Then, as now, factions of the Anglo-Dutch oligarchy preferred to throw the entire planet into bloody chaos, rather than allow an alliance between the United States and Russia, and other leading nations, to promote the nation-state system, as it emerged out of the Thirty Years War with the Treaty of Westphalia.
"Anglo-Dutch oligarchy"?
Why do the bloody Brits always get most of the credit?
I've no idea Martin. But it seems that Larouche is unaware that the nation-state system that emerged from the Treaty of Westphalia was completely redesigned at the Treaties of Vienna and Paris, so it seems his history is as flaky as the rest of his ideas.
My wife got into a long discussion with the local LaRouchites way back when. They found her opinions fascinatingly weird. This may be her finest achievement.
I guess ours is the stupid USA!
How does that one go?
"Stupid U! Stupid S! Fuckin' A! Hey! Hey! Hey!"
Hi Walt. Teething? I'm trying to think of an opinion a Larouchie would find weird and failing, unless it's something like, 'most of the news reported on NPR is broadly true.' Can you offer an example?
taTu's is the best version, though far from their best song. The Charmed version isn't bad, either. I got into a long argument with a close friend's uncle -- she has 12 -- about the LaRouchite world wars theory, at her sister's wedding. He was amiable but unbending, and mad as cake.
"Anglo-Dutch oligarchy"?
Why do the bloody Brits always get most of the credit?
Because the Larouchies are worried that, if they went around warning everyone about the encroachment of Dutch hegemony, people might think they were a bit mad.
74: I still hate him for the credit card bankruptcy bill shit--even if he is from Delaware.
JUST BE THANKFUL THEY'RE NO LONGER CREDITING THE GHIBELLINES
I do think it is weird that the vice president of the United States has so little control over what comes out of his mouth.
At least he didn't say this was "literally" a big fucking deal.
On NPR this morning, they said the 106 year old woman was orphaned at age four, and "literally" raised by her next-door neighbors.
"Literally" made that sentence more confusing to me, because what's the hyperbole? Why not just say she was raised by her next-door neighbor?
Figuratively more confusing or literally more confusing?
"literally" raised by her next-door neighbors
They kept her in the attic.
Perhaps they meant that it was "literally" her neighbours -- meaning the people who actually lived right next door. As opposed to more official fostering-type people who lived a little way off, but would have been neighbours in a "lived in the neighbourhood" type folks.
"type folks" s/b "type folks way". Elegance thy name is lollardie.
Why not just say she was raised by her next-door neighbor?
Because "she was raised by her next-door neighbor" is a fairly common figurative phrase, that doesn't literally mean she was raised by her next-door neighbor at all, it just means she spent a lot of time over their as a kid and was extremely close to the neighbor. (When used in this sense, it's usually phrased as "practically raised by her next door neighbors", but it's a close-enough call that this use of "literally" doesn't bother me.)
Yes, but the preceding clause was that she was orphaned. Is there anyway to misinterpret "She was orphaned at age 4 and raised by her next-door neighbor" as figurative? (No.)
112: I'm guessing "next-door neighbor" is literally being intensified because "next-door neighbor" might mean "neighbor" in the sense of "in the neighborhood," but the speaker really next-door in this case.
"Next door" is often figurative: "The country next door" etc.
Did they do air quotes when they said it?
112 is absolutely right, but it strikes me as a forgivable error, for the reasons in 111.
If 109 or 113 were correct, wouldn't you instead say she was "raised by her literal next-door neighbors"?
Oh, sure, it is forgivable. But it stuck out to me and I stopped paying attention to the story, trying to parse the sentence for a second.
The cats next door raise their children literally.
117: Certainly it would be clearer, but if "literally" is the adverb qualifying the potentially figurative passive verb "is raised by your next-door neighbours", it's not actually wrong. And even it's only qualifying the verb it's a kind of "transferred qualifying" that people do all the time when speaking -- I think the technical term in rhetoric is hypallage.
119: And by the scruff of the neck.
Then there was the orphan who was raised by hermit crabs, littorally.
I understand there's going to be a giant demonstration about the problem of casually discarded trash: litter rally.
Did you hear what the cinematographer did to the actress? Lit her, really.
Did you hear how the internet early-adopted returned to haunt his fellows? l33+, eerily.
123: will they mention the worst street, downtown, litter alley? Fortunately, since there's not really any profit in casually discarded trash, there's no big-money litter ally.
Is the demonstration being led by that guy who never uses figures of speech--I think his name is "Literal Lee"?
At least he didn't say this was "literally" a big fucking deal.
speaking of words that i hate hearing, can anyone explain why 'sanction' appears to mean two completely opposite things?
130: Not the best explanation, but http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=sanction
speaking of words that i hate hearing, can anyone explain why 'sanction' appears to mean two completely opposite things?
There are ... literally ... dozens of words like this.
What's most important is that people, be they next door or elsewhere, raise children sooner rather than later.
133: And the reason is because sooner rather later it comes down to fate, only the good die young, literally.
134: It is what it is, Stormfuckingcrow. It is what it is.
100: The baby has a tummy-ache. My wife argued that there was no point in helping other people, because life was meaningless. This freaked the LaRouchies out.