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birdlike 0
QuoteOn a daily basis, I hear the question, "Where do we land at?"
I sigh and reply, "who's At?"
A man after my own heart.
Reminds me of the old Eddie Murphy routine where he was doing both sides of an argument with a hotheaded, angry black woman and her man.
Brotha: So, uh, where you gonna be?
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Sista: I'll be where I'm AT!
Spirits fly on dangerous missions
Imaginations on fire
Imaginations on fire
Lindsey 0
Did you ever know a child who repeatedly acted out knowing their behavior would end in punishment? They did this because negative attention was preferable to no attention at all.
Ummm...yes.
linz
Ummm...yes.
linz
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A conservative is just a liberal who's been mugged. A liberal is just a conservative who's been to jail
A conservative is just a liberal who's been mugged. A liberal is just a conservative who's been to jail
birdlike 0
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It's interesting that you say that .... This _>QuoteAnd in a controversial new poster campaign it appears that many local education authorities agree, resorting to communicating with children in ‘text speak’.
Nearly 5,000 posters have been put up in schools, written in a mind-boggling array of numbers and unlikely combinations of letters, in an attempt to connect with children who are more comfortable writing and reading in the abbreviated language used in mobile phone text messages than formal English.
So they've capitulated, ceded control of the asylum to the inmates.
Folks, people, I really hope you realize this... Our human civilization is fucking DOOMED!
Spirits fly on dangerous missions
Imaginations on fire
Imaginations on fire
Skyrad 0
QuoteQuoteQuoteCombine this with school-aged kids submitting term papers and book reports with "SMILEYS" in them, and txt msg abbrvtns, and I fear for the "future" that everyone says our kids are. Who's going to write legal briefs, new laws, treaties...? Will there be a dedicated underclass that is free to be as dumb as they want, and a dedicated overclass that takes care of everything that requires standardization to work correctly?
I'd argue that there is already.
Then defending their use of the substandard English that keeps them easily recognizable as the underclass implies that you're fine with it being that way.
I wasn't defending it simply agreeing with your vison of the future and stating that I believe that to some degree it has already happened.
When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
jenfly00 0
QuoteDid you ever know a child who repeatedly acted out knowing their behavior would end in punishment? They did this because negative attention was preferable to no attention at all.
Ummm...yes.
linz
Sigh ...more silly little girl behavior.
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"O brave new world that has such people in it".
"O brave new world that has such people in it".
kallend 1,679
QuoteWhenever I'm in Walmart, and using my phone's calculator to divide out and figure whether the 35 lb. box of kitty litter is a better value than the 27 lb. box of kitty litter...
I look around me...
And I realize that I must be one of about, ohh... 2 people in the store who even know how to do what I am doing!
You have to use a calculator to do that? Say it ain't so.
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The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.
The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.
kallend 1,679
QuoteAbsofuckinglutely seems to be a good word though. At least to me it does, since it's part of my good 'ol culture...lol. May seem pretty damn stupid to somebody else though.
linz
A classic ecample of the use of tmesis.
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The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.
The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.
Lindsey 0
QuoteQuoteAbsofuckinglutely seems to be a good word though. At least to me it does, since it's part of my good 'ol culture...lol. May seem pretty damn stupid to somebody else though.
linz
A classic ecample of the use of tmesis.
You're RIGHT! And because of you, I've expanded my vocabulary today. :)
linz
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A conservative is just a liberal who's been mugged. A liberal is just a conservative who's been to jail
A conservative is just a liberal who's been mugged. A liberal is just a conservative who's been to jail
kallend 1,679
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For the many years that it has existed. I have never heard a General, Admiral, Astronaut, President or other major players in the control of the world utter these substandard words.
Indeed! A president who used words like: "misunderestimate", "Hispanos," "arbolist,"
"subliminable," "resignate," "transformationed"... would sound like a first class idiot.
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The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.
The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.
Shotgun 1
QuoteFolks, people, I really hope you realize this... Our human civilization is fucking DOOMED!
OMG!
On a daily basis, I hear the question, "Where do we land at?"
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I sigh and reply, "who's At?"
You're not as good as you think you are. Seriously.
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