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Shivoo noun a boisterous party or celebration.

Marionville comments on Jun 27, 2021:

Much the same as shindig then!

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 29, 2021:

@MsKathleen I'm mad for the craic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6Y6kTOIZfY

Belvedere noun a building, or architectural feature of a building, designed and situated to ...

Charlene comments on Jun 28, 2021:

Or a butlers name in a 1930s rom-com

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 29, 2021:

The sadly forgotten comic genius Clifton Webb played Mr Belvedere in three films, thanks for reminding me.

John Oliver explains how once again how the USA leads the way in saying "Pay us churches money, for...

bobwjr comments on Jun 28, 2021:

Saw it, awesome, and Florida leads the pack of deplorable behavior

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 29, 2021:

surprise surprise

The New York Times Trump Aides Prepared Insurrection Act Order During Debate Over Protests ...

CourtJester comments on Jun 27, 2021:

Still easier to rag on Trump than brag about Biden. Kinda says it all.

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 28, 2021:

Non sequitur, no one is talking about Biden, only about proven Trump atrocities. So I could say "Still easier to rag on Biden than brag about Trump. Kinda says it all." But I won't because only a FOOL indulges in that kind of petty and stupid. Oh and what is another term for a fool? Oh yes a Court Jester.

What are your dealbreakers?

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 25, 2021:

Prejudice is my main deal breaker. People who live for hate, have no place in my life.

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 28, 2021:

@holdenc98 "ive quoted wiki back to you showing you your error" 😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 Priceless 😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 OH stop please I'm going to piss myself

What are your dealbreakers?

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 25, 2021:

Prejudice is my main deal breaker. People who live for hate, have no place in my life.

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 27, 2021:

@holdenc98 Bullshit. Only those who benefit from prejudice against other believe prejudice can be positive. EG. Nazis and white supremacists. I explained the original, dictionary and ACTUAL meaning of Prejudice.

WONGA.

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 27, 2021:

Also the name of the late and unlamented bunch of payday loan shark bastards Wonga dot Com, who went bust finally in 2019 under the weight of new legislation and 48million claims for compensation from customers who had been extorted or had their bank and credit card details stolen from wonga's ...

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 27, 2021:

@Marionville yup, but most claimants have been warned to expect no more than 4.3% of the amount owed, as the companies assets turned out to be so "unexpectedly" low

So, days from today I'll be having my GRS,Finally!!!!.

LiterateHiker comments on Jun 25, 2021:

What is a GRS?

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 25, 2021:

Gender reassignment surgery

BREAKING: Derek Chauvin Sentenced To 22.

Trajan61 comments on Jun 25, 2021:

That’s rather harsh considering George Floyd was a criminal with a long rap sheet, was not cooperating with police and had a potential lethal dose of fentanyl in his system at the time he died.

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 25, 2021:

I have had it with trying to reason with you, @Trajan61 so I will just say it slowly, so you will understand ... You are a MORON!

What are your dealbreakers?

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 25, 2021:

Prejudice is my main deal breaker. People who live for hate, have no place in my life.

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 25, 2021:

@holdenc98 prejudice from Latin praeiudicium "prior judgment" from prae- "before" + iudicium "judgment," preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience. There is no such thing as "Positive Prejudice" Prejudice is without reason, thought or anything positive.

What are your dealbreakers?

Organist1 comments on Jun 25, 2021:

Good list. I, too, could be tolerant of someone who has a belief, but doesn't try to ram it down anyone's throat. I would add to the list: narcissists, boors, people who like pop music, someone with poor hygiene, grossly obese, lazy or stupid. :-) Is that asking too much?

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 25, 2021:

@Organist1 "I would add to the list: narcissists, boors, people who like pop music, someone with poor hygiene, grossly obese, lazy or stupid. " HEY... those are my retirement plans!

I had thought of a cheesy joke but I Camembert the pressure.

FrayedBear comments on Jun 24, 2021:

Do I need an American accent to comprehend?

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 25, 2021:

You need to listen Caerphilly

USURIOUS .

Charlene comments on Jun 25, 2021:

So, loansharking...

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 25, 2021:

@Marionville Also credit cards and banks

USURIOUS .

waitingforgodo comments on Jun 25, 2021:

Reminds me of the time I used the sobriquet USERY and was advised that's not how you spell it. And I do enjoy my petty little plays upon punchlines.

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 25, 2021:

@Marionville Both words come indirectly from the Latin Uti to utilise, however subtly Usury come from *usuria* the enjoyment gained from utilisation, whereas usery/use (the purpose for which something is utilised) comes from Latin *oeti* to use, employ, exercise or perform

Will the truth be revealed?

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 23, 2021:

Here we go, if you can censor one site you can censor all

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 24, 2021:

@Alienbeing He has not removed any posts, they are all still there

And many are still pretty cool

Lilac-JadeCanada comments on Jun 22, 2021:

Oh c'mon....my grandmother was a devout mormon!

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 24, 2021:

Yes, but was she a naughty Mormon hippie, one of those hussies who flashed her unsleeved shoulder in public?

FINALLY PELOSI WILL NAME A HOUSE SELECT COMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE 1/6 COUP [youtube.com]

altschmerz comments on Jun 24, 2021:

He has entirely too much faith in the Democratic Party, if you ask me.

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 24, 2021:

Most countries sadly are today stuck with having to be satisfied with the lesser of two evils, when it comes to politics.

Why would the UK send a warship into a dead end sea that only leads to provocation?

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 24, 2021:

Very little about this incident has been reported in the British MSM, couple of reports of the ship being tracked by Russian rada ships and a diplomatic row between the UK and and Russia, but that is about it. Going by past experience my guess would be, since BBC reporters don't as a rule get ...

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 24, 2021:

@FrayedBear It was mentioned today at lunchtime on the Politics Today programme, (not the News programme that preceded it.) the story being that Russian authorities radioed the Defender saying they were about to enter Russian territorial waters, to which the Defender replied that they did not recognise Russian authority in the area, but were outside and intended to remain outside of the 12 mile limit. The Russian then threatened to fire on them if they deviate from their course. The official line is "Britain, strongly supported by Ukraine, insists that HMS Defender was taking the shortest, most direct route across the Black Sea, from Odessa, in Ukraine, to Georgia." There was then film of two Russian reconnaissance planes buzzing the ship, and very distant gunfire which the captain of the ship showed notification of as inland manoeuvres they had been warned about two weeks in advance. The Defender then continued on its preapproved course. Apparently after this the Russian media announced they had chased a UK Battle ship out of their territory and the UK denied this with Boris going on TV to bluster pointlessly as usual.

So here's to all you followers of Biden & the dishonesty of what you were prevented from learning ...

SpikeTalon comments on Jun 24, 2021:

I certainly didn't vote for Biden.

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 24, 2021:

@FrayedBear not me either

Will the truth be revealed?

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 23, 2021:

Here we go, if you can censor one site you can censor all

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 24, 2021:

@racocn8 Take away someone's right to be an arsehole and you loose your right to point out they are an arsehole

Will the truth be revealed?

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 23, 2021:

Here we go, if you can censor one site you can censor all

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 23, 2021:

@racocn8 NO, I'm comparing like with like behaviour, in that both silence forcibly that which they do not want heard or read. If a government can silence one undesirable opinion, even if they can show some justification for it, that sets a precedent. Whose web sites will they close down next? And for what reasons?

This is a GREAT you tube video about the Amish,,, very interesting to say the least.

piphirho comments on Jun 21, 2021:

What I would like to know from the Amish is, what is so special about the 19th century? Why is god OK with 19th century technology but not 20th? It's still 1900 years after Jesus. Seems arbitrary to me.

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 23, 2021:

Much easier to practice the B.I.T.E. model on people and keep them brainwashed with little or no electric information and media technology. Yet you can see then they have no problem with ophthalmology, and dentistry

Will the truth be revealed?

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 23, 2021:

Here we go, if you can censor one site you can censor all

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 23, 2021:

@racocn8 There are a dozen ways of warning against, or cautioning about web sites without seizing them and closing them down. This is pure sabre rattling and power preening, it is also only going to make people think the USA have something to hide if they are so desperate to silence their "enemies". When China firewalled out all American (and UK and European) sites in the 1990s, the screams of indignation from the USA were loud and vociferous as the peoples republic declared the USA "dedicated enemies " and were forced to cease and desist with the threat of trade sanctions and so forth, if internet access to and for China was not restored for the purposes of money making. One law for the USA another for everyone else?

Ménage à squirrel? Q. does this violate the 'no porn' rule?

K9Kohle789 comments on Jun 23, 2021:

I need to know gender here, I'm all confused! Female in front then male male? the second male must think middle male is female. He watches Faux NEws as do trump and priests getting all the wrong info. I think the balls would have tipped him off.

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 23, 2021:

Perhaps the one at the back is using the one in the middle as a condom?

Will the truth be revealed?

Secretguy comments on Jun 23, 2021:

RT?? LOL. What...was One America unavailable??

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 23, 2021:

This story is available on CNN, CBS, Al jazera, the Washington Post, Reuters, ABC, NBC, BBC , ITN, Chanel 4, The daily mail, the telegraph, the Salt Lake Tribune and every other news outlet. A word of advice, make sure your brain is engaged before putting your mouth in to gear.

FINALLY PELOSI WILL NAME A HOUSE SELECT COMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE 1/6 COUP [youtube.com]

linxminx comments on Jun 23, 2021:

Why? Because Pelosi appointing a committee to investigate has gone so well in the past? It's all for show. Nothing will come of this. But, I guess Nancy did her duty. I'm not a republican, but I'm also not a fan of Pelosi.

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 23, 2021:

Watch the video, there is a list included of times when house select committees have lead to prosecutions, indictments and legal action.

Does teaching "white guilt" also cultivate a "white pride" backlash?

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 4, 2021:

Deliberate race baiting post

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 22, 2021:

@Alienbeing open your mind too far and all it contains will drop out.

Quantum physics.

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 21, 2021:

Reality IS what is perceived, not how it is explained.

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 22, 2021:

@p-nullifidian I am referring to existential reality, practical reality and experienced reality. Largely **objective** reality is for the most part utterly irrelevant to the lived experience. Yes I know that in "reality" the sun is a huge nuclear fission reactor floating in space, but even if I did not know that I would know the sun is hot, helps grow crops and will blind me if I look straight in to it for too long. Both statements are statements of reality, one matters to my life the other does not illustrating my point reality is what is perceived, not how it is explained.

Why should the word "atheist" even exist?

richiegtt comments on Jun 21, 2021:

I prefer the term nonbeliever .I do not care for labels .Labels cause more problems .I have seen constant bickering on this site over the years between atheists and agnostics which is pathetic.

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 22, 2021:

@Fernapple *No words do not have meaning, words only have usages. Words are human cultural constructs, used in an attempt to model reality, which we generally inherit and which were made by former generations who often had very different models of reality to ours. Believing that words have meaning is merely to make a god out of inherited human culture, which is why they so often fail.* ***So, in short you mean "Words have meanings" semantic, semiotic, etymological, lexicographical and lexicographical*** ***Come on you're better than simple equivocations *** *Words are at best, poor second hand tools, ill suited to the purpose to which they are used, using them to model reality being like, trying to build a butterfly out of house bricks. * ***Yes I have read and can paraphrase the science of discworld too*** *And the myth that they have wisdom and meaning, built into them, is no better than the belief that there is wisdom and meaning imparted to us by a literal god though holy books.* ***I never said that and you know it, meaning and wisdom are expressed by words, when they are used as tools to model reality, they are the common frame of reference that allow the sharing of wisdom and meaning. Therefore using the incorrect words or using words incorrectly is a way to royally screw things up. *** As I said you are better than this

Why should the word "atheist" even exist?

richiegtt comments on Jun 21, 2021:

I prefer the term nonbeliever .I do not care for labels .Labels cause more problems .I have seen constant bickering on this site over the years between atheists and agnostics which is pathetic.

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 22, 2021:

@tiredofthis1 OH the school of Nah Nah Nah, what a mature rhetorical tool

Why should the word "atheist" even exist?

richiegtt comments on Jun 21, 2021:

I prefer the term nonbeliever .I do not care for labels .Labels cause more problems .I have seen constant bickering on this site over the years between atheists and agnostics which is pathetic.

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 21, 2021:

Words have meaning Meaning has power to shape reality, and define truth Label is synonym for noun A noun has more meaning than any other type of word Therefore a label has a lot of power and truth and is therefore vitally important A person who finds truth and reality "pathetic" has opted out from their duty to contribute to actuality, a stance I find truly pathetic

Keeley Hazell

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 21, 2021:

Hello cousin

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 21, 2021:

@OldMetalHead Nah, only met her once about thirty odd years ago when she was a little kid, she is my paternal great uncle John's granddaughter.

Sadly, I was raised Mormon...

Redneckliberal comments on Jun 21, 2021:

HEY!!.....BUT THEY HAVE THOSE MAGIC UNDIES!!!

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 21, 2021:

IT's Twue!

I am seriously considering leaving Agnostic.

Robecology comments on Jun 20, 2021:

@Wordywalt Your assumptions are not only negative but showing an unscientific prejudice. Why assume that some are "just posting for points"? You keep saying "they" do this and that...based on what? You're starting to sound #religulous...maybe it is time for you to end your contacts here....

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 21, 2021:

@wordywalt I would not worry about the likes of, ***Roboclergy*** he is a troll who would argue that the it is a "scientific" factoid that Sky is not blue it is "azure" for attention because he is himself an attention seeking troll, which is why he is so ready to accuse everyone else of being one.

“You’re only young once, but you can be immature forever”……………Germaine Greer.

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 20, 2021:

Well she should know

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 20, 2021:

@Marionville I was a great admirer of Greer for much of my life, but in recent times the mask seems to have slipped and her crotchety, immature comments have shown her increasing right wing tendencies and her fear of the very changes and tolerances she helped to institute.

Vermilion noun a brilliant scarlet red.

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 19, 2021:

The original source for Vermilion was cinnabar aka mercury sulfide quite dangerous stuff, unless handled correctly.

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 20, 2021:

@waitingforgodo good one ;)

"Insuperable" seems to have disappeared from common usage in the UK.

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 16, 2021:

This is one of those weird ones Though surmountable (that which can be risen above) and superable (That which may be overcome) are synonyms of one another, their negatives are not Originally ***insuperable*** meant literally not able to get above, from the Latin super (Over or above) in ...

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 20, 2021:

@Red_Cat Insoluble means cannot be dissolved in water. EDIT In the US insoluble can be used in mathematics as a synonym for unsolvable, insurmountable refers more to abstract, ethical or moral problems

Vermilion noun a brilliant scarlet red.

HippieChick58 comments on Jun 19, 2021:

It is also a city in South Dakota.

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 19, 2021:

And a brand of wetsuit

Do you know someone with mental illness or acquired challenge?

K9Kohle789 comments on Jun 18, 2021:

Ummm this isn't aimed at moi, right? I'm perfectly sane just a chatterbox since I have NO ONE to talk to in my life but my below normal intelligence son and two dogs. Ok maybe I have a teeny tiny mental illness link not required.

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 19, 2021:

@K9Kohle789 You need to click on the video thumbnail on the page and then vote for the video on its own page.

Do you know someone with mental illness or acquired challenge?

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 18, 2021:

Interesting and probably sincere, I've voted, but this will take work, because so many employers see mental health a just a skive and more trouble than it is worth to be compassionate about.

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 19, 2021:

@FrayedBear The other British used for "Loonies" was to parade them around the exercise yard and charge the aristocracy to come in point and laugh at them. Sort of an early version of the X Factor, and BGT

US Catholic bishops OK steps toward possible rebuke of Biden

racocn8 comments on Jun 18, 2021:

Where were these a-holes while Trump was pumping out the racism? That must have been OK with them...

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 19, 2021:

The Catholics in the Vatican love extreme right wing politics, Pius the XII made Hitler's Birthday a religious Holiday during WW2, when he was convinced Hitler would win. He also wrote to Roosevelt after the war, insisting that if there had to be US occupying troops in Rome after the war that they not be black, because that would lead to hundreds of rapes and a "litters of half breed child children." Hence their reticence to condemn Trump, as they failed to condemn the Holocaust and there still ongoing reluctance to excommunicate Hitler.

Interesting piece of information right here if indeed, it is true.

Gwendolyn2018 comments on Jun 17, 2021:

From my research of what experts say about this, the information is factual. However, I have told Xtians this and they cannot seem to grasp what "concurrent" means and they believe in obvious fakes and forgeries, i.e. a letter from Pontius Pilate that describes what happens to him after the ...

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 17, 2021:

@Gwendolyn2018 Thanks for that, I was not familiar with the quote in full context. :)

Interesting piece of information right here if indeed, it is true.

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 17, 2021:

Most believers answer to this is that he was not important enough to merit mention. BUT if that is the case why are their multiple citations for John the Baptist, Simon Magus, Jesus Barabbas, the four Herod brothers, even a wandering nut job known as Saul of Tarsus, but none of them in reference ...

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 17, 2021:

@Petter "A book, its like the internet made out of a tree" Brian Griffin

Prothalamion noun a song or poem written to celebrate a marriage.

Cast1es comments on Jun 17, 2021:

We should morn weddings and celebrate divorces .

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 17, 2021:

that depends, I was happy to see my first marriage end, but it would kill me to see my second one go the same way.

Interesting piece of information right here if indeed, it is true.

Gwendolyn2018 comments on Jun 17, 2021:

From my research of what experts say about this, the information is factual. However, I have told Xtians this and they cannot seem to grasp what "concurrent" means and they believe in obvious fakes and forgeries, i.e. a letter from Pontius Pilate that describes what happens to him after the ...

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 17, 2021:

True, but the followers of Simon Magus styled themselves as followers of the Anointed one (Christos ie. Christians) as did the followers of John the Baptist, remnants of who still exist today calling themselves the the Mandaeans, AKA the Sabians of southern Iraq. It may well have been these to whom Tacitus was referring.

"Insuperable" seems to have disappeared from common usage in the UK.

JackPedigo comments on Jun 16, 2021:

Heard an interesting report on NPR about languages and words. The subject centered around living and dead languages. Living languages were compared to a parade. A parade doesn't stand still it constantly moves and changes. That is what differentiates many living languages from dead languages. Words ...

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 17, 2021:

@JackPedigo ouch!

"Insuperable" seems to have disappeared from common usage in the UK.

JackPedigo comments on Jun 16, 2021:

Heard an interesting report on NPR about languages and words. The subject centered around living and dead languages. Living languages were compared to a parade. A parade doesn't stand still it constantly moves and changes. That is what differentiates many living languages from dead languages. Words ...

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 16, 2021:

Bright in that sense was proposed by Richard Dawkins, and engendered the wrath of Christopher Hitchen, who rarely missed a chance to call his colleague on it, sometimes in good humour, sometimes with distinct ire.

"Insuperable" seems to have disappeared from common usage in the UK.

JackPedigo comments on Jun 16, 2021:

Heard an interesting report on NPR about languages and words. The subject centered around living and dead languages. Living languages were compared to a parade. A parade doesn't stand still it constantly moves and changes. That is what differentiates many living languages from dead languages. Words ...

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 16, 2021:

However the hows and whys still present interesting puzzles and fun etymological detective games

You can trust that Big Pharma has your health and best interests at heart, and they are not only all...

BDair comments on Jun 15, 2021:

The FBI says Pfizer is 'all good'. https://archives.fbi.gov/archives/news/stories/2009/september/pfizer_settlement_090209

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 15, 2021:

Say, you do know only a douchebag, point mine by being the first to comment on their own post for double points every single time they post. 'Cos if you didn't you do now DBair, right?

KALOLOGY.

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 15, 2021:

Beauty is completely subjective. It is 55% personal physical preference of the observer, 5% social construct, 5% necessary contemporary evolutionary traits, 45% attitude and personality of the observed.

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 15, 2021:

@Davekp No, you should consider yourself to be one who lives life based purely on aesthetic line, something that may well work for you and many others, but to me seems shallow, superficial and likely to be bedeviled with constant disappointment.

For fuck sake.

Marionville comments on May 29, 2021:

Oh you poor Americans...my heart bleeds for you! Your predictably abusive response below speaks volumes to your lack of comprehension of anything beyond your own self interest!

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 15, 2021:

@Captain_Feelgood Should perhaps consider changing his Monika to Captain_Feeling_nosogood? 😃😃😃😃😃 That's bad news indeed in a country with no social health care and where the number one cause of bankruptcy is getting ill.

Earth's fifth ocean just confirmed [livescience.com]

The-Krzyz comments on Jun 15, 2021:

Didn’t realize any of the oceans were Catholic.

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 15, 2021:

good one👏👏👏👏

KALOLOGY.

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 15, 2021:

Beauty is completely subjective. It is 55% personal physical preference of the observer, 5% social construct, 5% necessary contemporary evolutionary traits, 45% attitude and personality of the observed.

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 15, 2021:

@Marionville Being good looking, or attractive often has nothing to do with beauty

Ugh, my head hurts! Lol

altschmerz comments on Jun 14, 2021:

Jenny?

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 15, 2021:

"867-5309/Jenny" Tommy Tutone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axLRUszuu9I

Here is the theme song from my favorite movie about a blob: The Blob - 1958 [youtu.be]

Marionville comments on Jun 14, 2021:

There were other blob movies? 😅

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 14, 2021:

there was a 1988 remake

Cataphile A type of urban explorer who illegally visits the ancient "catacombs" (actually ...

Marionville comments on Jun 12, 2021:

Different from a potholer or cave explorer....they are called spelaeologists. This is from Greek spelaion (cave)

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 13, 2021:

@FrayedBear "Deep Lead" is a code mining term used to disguise the actual product being mined. A "Deep Lead" mine is often an alluvial deposit of gold or tin buried below a considerable thickness of soil or rock. Both substances were likely to have claim jumpers, or simply bandits descending upon you weapons drawn. So the claim would be made as mining "Deep Lead" since lead was common and worthless. Edit Lead is actually mined at comparatively shallow depths, whereas gold is mined as you say at deep levels, hence the term "Deep Lead", it was also used for opal mines.

HYPERBATON.

AnonySchmoose comments on Jun 12, 2021:

Yoda is a master of hyperbaton.

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 13, 2021:

@AnonySchmoose @FrayedBear Claque in that sense is the Americanisation of Clique, the anglization of which is " a click" That is a homonym, this version is the linguistic use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calque There is a third meaning from theatre, where a claque is a hired heckler or applauder, used to influence an audience at a play or a concert, to love or hate the show. In this sense the word is a French rendering of Clap, that worked its way back in to English.

HYPERBATON.

AnonySchmoose comments on Jun 12, 2021:

Yoda is a master of hyperbaton.

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 12, 2021:

No Yoda does not use hyperbaton, he speaks English but uses Slavic East European Cyrillic Grammar, so that in languages such as Estonian, Chechen and Russian dialects Yoda's sentence structure would be completely correct. It is called relexification, an Anastrophe or Claque, basically translating from one language in to another word for word, without consideration for appropriate grammatical syntax or sentence structure.

Cataphile A type of urban explorer who illegally visits the ancient "catacombs" (actually ...

Marionville comments on Jun 12, 2021:

Different from a potholer or cave explorer....they are called spelaeologists. This is from Greek spelaion (cave)

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 12, 2021:

@AnonySchmoose In British English a Pothole and a Pot-hole are two differently things A pot-hole is a originally a form of kiln, made by digging in to rock in order to bake pottery to hardness at extremely high temperatures, after 1909 it became a slang term for divots in a road or pathway surface. A Pothole on the other hand is an old English term meaning a pit or tunnel used for mining and later a deep hole or cave system of any kind.

11th June 1987.

altschmerz comments on Jun 11, 2021:

Wasn't she ousted later? Geez people are fickle.

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 11, 2021:

@altschmerz She won the first time because of the novelty of her being a woman and the unpopularity of her predecessors (Edward Heath and Jim Callaghan) and by appealing to the burgeoning feminist movement, by putting forward the idea that if you were a woman and did not vote for her you were a traitor to your gender. Toward the end of her first term, she took a minor incident, the invasion of the Falkland Islands and using propaganda played it up as world war three. She sent a "task force" to claim back the Falklands, a little know south Atlantic group of Islands most people had never heard of that contained about 60 technically British citizens and a bout half a million "British" sheep. The invasion of the Falklands had been carried out as a publicity exercise by the dictator of Argentina, to demonstrate his strength as a leader. The Argentine force was made up of two battle ships bought from the British and the USA in the 1920s and 1930s and about 400 young boys from the Argentine army. Our task force was made up of an aircraft carrier, several battleships and three troop ships (one was the converted QE2) containing thousands of British troops and a nuclear submarine. The "war" lasted under three months and was a Victory, the major achievement of which was the sinking of the the Argentine antique war ship the "General Belgrano" (Formerly the USS Phoenix built in New Jersey in the 1930s) as it was running away. A UK British nuclear submarine decided that the floating museum piece was a credible threat to the "British Fleet" After a "glorious" victory over the "terrible" Argies, Thatcher rode the prestige of her hugely expensive war all the way to winning the election and became damn near untouchable as a "War" leader. This allowed her to proceed with her union bashing, labour busting and tax scamming project for the next few years of sheer hell for the people where the hardships suffered by the people where squarely dumped on to the shoulders of the "Ungrateful communist" trade unions who she mercilessly crushed with a mix of lies, dictatorial legislation and police brutality, that got her elected for the second time when she gerrymandered the electoral wards and regions to insure her victory. Her third victory was insured by wrecking the parliamentary labour party, engineering a split between the far left and the centrist factions, causing the labour party to change leadership five times in ten years, and having them go into the election lead by the welsh windbag Neil Kinnock, making them totally unelectable, having lost all of their most popular politicians to the newly formed Social democrat party, who went in to the election in an alliance with the Liberal party. This made Conservative victory inevitable all be it with a reduced ...

11th June 1987.

altschmerz comments on Jun 11, 2021:

Wasn't she ousted later? Geez people are fickle.

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 11, 2021:

@Marionville yes sorry I get a bit passionate about the blessed Margaret. Your right of course, it was only after the 1984 Brighton bombing and the crippling of some of her own (31 seriously injured 5 dead) that the rest of the Tories finally realised she had not delivered three victories she had bought her election victories by making massive cuts in income tax, dropping the rate from 33.33% to 25% .and fooling Joe public in to thinking they were on their side, it took seven years but eventually they grew a spine and managed to get over the Falklands "war" myth of her being Churchill come back. People however still fell for the ruse, not noticing that she increased VAT from 7% to 17.5% and intended to raise it still further to 25%, and wanted to put 5% VAT on FOOD as well as the full rate on children's clothes, she also raised national insurance by stealth, and taxed "luxury" goods, like tampons at a higher rate, so that they take home pay may have been higher but was worth far less.

11th June 1987.

altschmerz comments on Jun 11, 2021:

Wasn't she ousted later? Geez people are fickle.

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 11, 2021:

@altschmerz and not a moment too soon, her own party finally turned on her because she was proposing a raft of laws that would have turned the UK in to dictatorship and a Hell on earth. She was the first and only British leader to propose a tax on actually being alive in the UK, the so called poll tax, and this was enough to bring the county to near revolution, a revolution she proposed putting down by para military force as she had done with the striking miners. She was mad, in a vey true sense, an egomaniac, a megalomaniac, an ultra nationalist and an Oligarch, obsessed with the fact that she was the illegitimate grand daughter of the Lord Brownlow and believed herself a wronged aristocrat.

11th June 1987.

altschmerz comments on Jun 11, 2021:

Wasn't she ousted later? Geez people are fickle.

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 11, 2021:

@Marionville Gratitude for what? Destroying the rights of workers, selling off publicly owned facilities to make her foul clan rich? Trying to destroy the NHS and damaging it beyond repair, corrupting parliament, rigging the election process, allowing the Chilean dictator General Pinochet, safe refuge from the consequences of his war crime atrocities on British soil, because she thought him "a jolly nice Chap". She should have been smothered at birth the evil old witch.

11th June 1987.

bobwjr comments on Jun 11, 2021:

Then they trashed her

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 11, 2021:

Not enough, she should have finished her life in prison, in pain and in disgrace.

11th June 1987.

webspider555 comments on Jun 11, 2021:

Relatively speaking she seems quite decent compared with the current mob running the country now. Never thought I’d hear myself say that!

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 11, 2021:

You're looking at the past through rose coloured glasses. Thatcher was a fucking monster, only restrained by the laws of the land which she went about happily dismantling. A hater of the the poor, a despiser of human rights, a friend to dictators, murderers, gangsters and tyrants, a liar, a cheat, a war monger and a fascist in all but name. A woman who new of the mass proliferation of paedophilia, in the BBC, the parliament and civil service of Great Britton and the aristocracy and used that knowledge NOT to bring foul shits like Jimmy Saville to justice but to cement her own grip on power, by blackmail and corruption. She was a disgusting horror of a human being and I for one given the opportunity would have pissed all over her corpse, before dismembering to make sure the foul old CUNT was actually dead.

Yesterday I got a cortisone shot in my right hand for carpal tunnel syndrome.

AnneWimsey comments on Jun 9, 2021:

This is NOT normal, call that doctor back immediately! I have had numerous cortisone shots in knees, hands, other joints, maybe 2-3 dozen over my 72 years, and Never heard of this!

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 9, 2021:

@altschmerz @AnneWimsey Totally agree my wife has carpel tunnel and this is not normal, call the doc. or go to the emergency room

There are hundreds of groups on this site and I am not a member of most of them, however I would not...

twill comments on Jun 8, 2021:

Seriously. The internet is a GOLD MINE of porn....why dump it here? Just type XXX in your search engine. Sheesh.

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 8, 2021:

do that and you'll get Vin Diesel films ;)

When the cure is worse than the disease.

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 7, 2021:

I wonder how many people this kind of mindless shit shoveling has killed? These fellows are probably more dangerous than the disease itself. The virus' lack of thought is owing to it being a one cell organism. What's their excuse I wonder?

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 7, 2021:

@BDair OH that's why 3,730,000 people are dead from covid 19

Banausic adjective serving utilitarian purposes only; mechanical; practical.

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 7, 2021:

Interesting, I thought at first that this must have a common root with "banal" which comes from the Proto Germanic Bannen meaning obligatory work, or legally required compulsory servitude Issued by degree or "Ban" However it apparently does not, but maybe related in a round about way Banausic ...

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 7, 2021:

@phxbillcee Ancient Greece was not one country but was a federation of loosely associated city states, each providing particular services. Sparta was a warrior state Athens education, philosophy and science Arcadia was the city of artisans, crafts and agriculture Argos ship building Corinth for was the city of artist Thebes for poets and writers etc. Each thought themselves the greatest city of all, with the greatest claim to importance, they had two things in common, their language and their belief that the Arcadians where the lowest of the 100 or so city states, because they were considered rough, common and only fit to serve the higher callings.

I do hope this dear man knew how valuable his life and contributions were to us.

ReubenDS comments on Jun 6, 2021:

I don't like Minister Fred Rogers. I heard many interviews with him. He was unapologetically christian and wasn't above using is athority to destroy lives of individuas that were openly non-believers. Perhaps he did not hate them but to brag about such things, to me is despicable.

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 7, 2021:

As a child for the short time his show was broadcast in the UK I always found him creepy, and thought his sweaty stocking feet looked like they stank

Banausic adjective serving utilitarian purposes only; mechanical; practical.

Coffeo comments on Jun 7, 2021:

Great one! Now to work out when to use it...

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 7, 2021:

Working on a production line is banausic labour

These right here should explain how Trump got elected. JHC

glennlab comments on Jun 6, 2021:

You can't fix stupid

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 7, 2021:

@glennlab oh you can, just leave the person you suspect of being stupid in a room with a metal fork, a live electrical socket and a notice reading "do NOT stick the fork in the socket" Sooner or later, curiosity or arrogance will prevail and the problem will resolve itself.

“My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without ...

Diogenes comments on Jun 6, 2021:

* ... and Tonto too😉!

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 6, 2021:

So long as it is Jay Silverheels and NOT Johnny Depp

I've done this, so satisfying...

Robecology comments on Jun 5, 2021:

I wear an "Ankh" which means practically nothing except to the originators (the Egyptians) it meant the sun on the horizon. No cross. No beings. No death. No "rebirths" just the sun. The Ankh created quite a stir in ancient Egypt... Google "The Egyptian" on you tube to see a 2 hour fiction (but...

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 5, 2021:

@Robecology WTF are you talking about? Tutankhaton was the birth name of Tut-Ankh-Amun, and was changed when he became a puppet ruler for the priesthood, as explained above. Of course he pushed the old symbols, his life depended on it. If by Ahenaton (Who does not exist) you mean Akhenaton you are wrong. As was the film you seem to be basing your knowledge on who call him Akhnaton. The Ankh as a religious symbol dates from the Early Dynastic Period (3150 - 2613 BCE) and early examples can be found even earlier than that in the pre-dynastic period, during the twin goddesses of the upper and lower Nile Wadjet and Nekhbet, worship periods. This was at least 2000 years before the time of the 18th dynasty. If you are an honest scientist you ought to be more concerned with facts that with what "feels" appreciable

I've done this, so satisfying...

Robecology comments on Jun 5, 2021:

I wear an "Ankh" which means practically nothing except to the originators (the Egyptians) it meant the sun on the horizon. No cross. No beings. No death. No "rebirths" just the sun. The Ankh created quite a stir in ancient Egypt... Google "The Egyptian" on you tube to see a 2 hour fiction (but...

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 5, 2021:

@Robecology I have and it is garbage, historically, culturally and religiously inaccurate, you might as well claim Aida is an accurate depiction of ancient Egypt. I have studied the 18th dynasty, thoroughly, from Hatshepsut to Tut-ankh-amun (The god Amun given life) formerly Tut-Ankh-aton (The Sun given life) the step son of Akhenaton. When Akhenaton was murdered by the priest of the old religion the cult of Aten was was banned and all the old gods returned, Tut-ankh-Amun ruled for a only a short time before himself being killed and the 18th dynasty brought to an end.

I've done this, so satisfying...

Robecology comments on Jun 5, 2021:

I wear an "Ankh" which means practically nothing except to the originators (the Egyptians) it meant the sun on the horizon. No cross. No beings. No death. No "rebirths" just the sun. The Ankh created quite a stir in ancient Egypt... Google "The Egyptian" on you tube to see a 2 hour fiction (but...

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 5, 2021:

Michael Curtiz' film The Egyptian is loosely based on a novel by Finish author Mika Waltari and is a VERY loose retelling of the Amarna heresy of Akhenaton. Mr Waltari was not an Egyptologist, nor was he a very good writer, Hollywood even less less well versed mixed up the name Ak-hen-Aton meaning servant of the Sun the word Ankh (life) and based their whole silly story around this mistake. In reality Akhenaton banned the use of All Symbols of the ancient gods, replacing them with worship of the monotheistic great Aten or Aton the sun disk including the Ankh which was thought to be highly heretical and far too sexual.

I've done this, so satisfying...

Robecology comments on Jun 5, 2021:

I wear an "Ankh" which means practically nothing except to the originators (the Egyptians) it meant the sun on the horizon. No cross. No beings. No death. No "rebirths" just the sun. The Ankh created quite a stir in ancient Egypt... Google "The Egyptian" on you tube to see a 2 hour fiction (but...

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 5, 2021:

The "Ankh" is not representative of the sun at all, there are two ancient Egyptian symbols that do mean that, the "Aten"(fig 2) and the "disc"(fig 1) The word ankh means the key of life, it is the ultimate fertility symbol being made up of a stylised penis and testicles coming forth from a vagina, it is therefore wielded by the priests and the gods to bring forth abundance and is often used in both hieratic and hieroglyphic writing as the symbol for the word "life" (fig 3 Anubis holds the key to life and death) This is why the early Christians stole it, to replace the Ichthys Icthus symbol (fig 4) which was too obviously related to the vesica pisces and ancient symbol for the womb and the vagina, symbolising birth and rebirth (fig 5) flattened out the top to make it purely a symbol of phallic worship more related to the ethos of the male dominated church.(fig 6)

Florida Governor strips funding for LGBTQ people from state budget at start of Pride Month / LGBTQ ...

CourtJester comments on Jun 3, 2021:

In the line of equality…. Why should any personal sexual choices receive government funding?

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 4, 2021:

There are still stupid people in this world who think sexual orientation is a "personal sexual choice"?

(Satire Alert!) Alabama Offering Anyone Who Gets Vaccinated Free Nudes of Their Sister ...

Mofo1953 comments on Jun 3, 2021:

Don't talk about mah sistuh cuz it ain't nice to make fun of the mutha of mah yunguns!

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 3, 2021:

Yuh fergit t' sign that cuzin dad!

They are a clear and present danger.

powder comments on Jun 3, 2021:

I love irony. The age old argument of conservative Vs progressive, status quo Vs change and the debate this generates is indicative of a vibrant democracy. You need debate and crushing/ silencing conservative views will not benefiting the democratic process. Basically no conservative voice, no ...

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 3, 2021:

Big difference between advocating for a conservative voice and conservative insurrection. Conservative debate and conservative invasion of the debating chamber. Conservative representation and conservatives literally trampling all over the seat of democracy. None of that is "indicative of a vibrant democracy" it is violent revolt No one is trying to crush democracy, except those trying to rig elections, practice voter suppression, spread propaganda and make blatant lying an acceptable alternative to reasoned examination of the facts.

What have you tried? What won't you try?

azzow2 comments on Jun 1, 2021:

I have not gotten the opportunity to try haggis I have indulged in everything else. This was not on the list balut, I have eaten this. "Balut is a Filipino term for a fertilized developing egg embryo that is boiled and eaten from the shell."

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 1, 2021:

Haggis is very tasty, especially with turnip(or swede), ground black pepper and boiled potatoes

When will the people running this site correct the issue which allows making multiple posts of the ...

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 1, 2021:

This is a free site that does not bombard you with ads and pop ups, instead of being grateful you write idiot posts like this! You want full time tech support either learn to do it yourself and volunteer you services FREE, pay for tech support as a donation or preferably STFU!

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 1, 2021:

@creative51 Is that a threat "Y'all"

When will the people running this site correct the issue which allows making multiple posts of the ...

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 1, 2021:

This is a free site that does not bombard you with ads and pop ups, instead of being grateful you write idiot posts like this! You want full time tech support either learn to do it yourself and volunteer you services FREE, pay for tech support as a donation or preferably STFU!

LenHazell53 replies on Jun 1, 2021:

@creative51

There is a strange inconsistency in the progressive ideology of "Social Justice Theory": We are ...

Word comments on May 31, 2021:

You list yourself as atheist. Your social justice and labeling issues is no different than you labeling yourself atheist. If you notice on link I provide below, people are recognized as gods. Gods exists because people labeling themselves as gods. If a girl can label herself as a boy or a ...