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Gravdigr · 03-04-2016, 04:05 PM

Is 'smartness' the same as 'intelligentness'?

xoxoxoBruce · 03-04-2016, 05:32 PM

It's a noun we don't hear often in this country, so it triggers a WTF.

'intelligentness' ain't a word. Well it is but it ain't a real word with a definition and creds.

Clodfobble · 03-04-2016, 08:57 PM

"Niggardly" is technically a word, too, but some words just sound like they shouldn't be said.

xoxoxoBruce · 03-05-2016, 01:13 AM

That's because of the whole politically correct racial thing though. Smartness is just lack of common usage.

infinite monkey · 03-05-2016, 09:58 AM

It's an example of word usage that irritates because of its unnecessariness. People use uncomfortable words in defiance of common sensiness so as to appear to have an air of extra-worldliness. Why? Dumbness, pure and simple stupidness. "Look at me! Hear ME! I am unrivaled in my unrivalriness!"

Cockness.

infinite monkey · 03-05-2016, 10:04 AM

Wow, in my attempt at humor I remind myself of a Sarah Palinness kind of moronness.

DanaC · 03-05-2016, 10:16 AM

Or, maybe they were brought up with a slightly different lexicon, or followed an academic subject in which such words have more currency and they've unconsciously included them in everyday speech.

Gravdigr · 03-07-2016, 02:56 PM

Lana Rae Meisner, Wife of Eagles Founder Randy Meisner, Killed

The incident earlier in the day makes this quite suspicious.

In my book, anyway. YMMV

Gravdigr · 03-09-2016, 01:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Gravdigr

Calling Big V, Calling Big V...

You aren't lighting farts up there, I hope?

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Originally Posted by BigV

Not me, this time. Thanks for checking. It was just an inch or so away from me on the map, though. SERIOUS devastation.

V, what the hell is going on in Seattle?!?!

Another explosion?

It ain't safe, man, GTFO!

DanaC · 03-09-2016, 01:15 PM

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Colombian woman arrested at Frankfurt airport with 1kg of cocaine in her breasts

http://www.theguardian.com/world/201...ocaine-breasts

Gravdigr · 03-09-2016, 02:17 PM

24 years old, a kilo of blow...That girl is a catch!!

xoxoxoBruce · 03-09-2016, 02:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Gravdigr

Another explosion?

The firemen had been there investigating a reported gas leak when it happened? Is that the fire department's job? I can see having them stand by, maybe even moving people out and keeping people out, but being at the explosion is nuts.

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Originally Posted by DanaC

http://www.theguardian.com/world/201...ocaine-breasts

If I was running things no breast would go unsearched, mostly by me personally.

Carruthers · 03-10-2016, 10:42 AM

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Police in London are optimistic that the thieves behind an audacious recent heist will have a harder job than usual concealing the loot.

They've appealed to the public to keep their eyes peeled for the unconventional stolen goods -- a small zoo's worth of stuffed animals, including a chimpanzee in a top hat and necktie.

The 18 stuffed animals, worth about £100,000 ($142,000), were taken in a burglary at a taxidermy warehouse in the London borough of Wandsworth last week, the Metropolitan Police said in a statement.

The stolen items included lions, a giraffe, a zebra, a sloth, a crocodile, a rhinoceros, a baboon and a king penguin. Antiques, including a globe, were also taken, police said.

What on Earth possessed them to steal a stuffed giraffe and a chimp in a top hat?

They're hardly going to be able to shift that lot on Ebay, are they?

One for Inspector Clouseau, I think.

CNN

BigV · 03-10-2016, 11:09 AM

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Originally Posted by Gravdigr

V, what the hell is going on in Seattle?!?!

Another explosion?

It ain't safe, man, GTFO!

Yeah. That one was about five minutes walk from my house. I've posted pictures here at the cellar of that block. I might have even posted a picture of the bike shop adjacent to the now smoking crater where the three shops in the building next door used to be.

Here's the (youtube) audio of the MAYDAY call by Seattle Fire Department.

It is very scary at the start. Nine firemen sent to the hospital, all released by noon. No people in the apartments above the shops were harmed. I've shopped in all three of the businesses that are now gone.

Sundae · 03-10-2016, 12:30 PM

These people live in Stoke Mandeville.
I don't think I am disclosing anything private when I say this is the next village along the railway line to where Carruthers lives.

What has he been doing?!

Link to local paper.

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A deep hole complete with rusty steps leading down into the darkness has suddenly appeared on a front lawn – and the reason for it is a complete mystery.

The hole, which measures around two feet by two feet, appeared when Emma James was mowing the lawn at her home in Kynaston Avenue, Stoke Mandeville.

03-04-2016, 04:05 PM	#3481
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03-04-2016, 05:32 PM	#3482
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03-04-2016, 08:57 PM	#3483
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03-05-2016, 01:13 AM	#3484
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	That's because of the whole politically correct racial thing though. Smartness is just lack of common usage. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

03-07-2016, 02:56 PM	#3488
Gravdigr The Un-Tuckian Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: South Central...KY that is Posts: 39,517	Lana Rae Meisner, Wife of Eagles Founder Randy Meisner, Killed The incident earlier in the day makes this quite suspicious. In my book, anyway. YMMV __________________ These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA, EPA, FBI, DEA, CDC, or FDIC. These statements are not intended to diagnose, cause, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. If you feel you have been harmed/offended by, or, disagree with any of the above statements or images, please feel free to fuck right off.

03-05-2016, 09:58 AM	#3485
infinite monkey Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 13,002	It's an example of word usage that irritates because of its unnecessariness. People use uncomfortable words in defiance of common sensiness so as to appear to have an air of extra-worldliness. Why? Dumbness, pure and simple stupidness. "Look at me! Hear ME! I am unrivaled in my unrivalriness!" Cockness.

03-05-2016, 10:04 AM	#3486
infinite monkey Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 13,002	Wow, in my attempt at humor I remind myself of a Sarah Palinness kind of moronness.

03-09-2016, 02:17 PM	#3491
Gravdigr The Un-Tuckian Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: South Central...KY that is Posts: 39,517	24 years old, a kilo of blow...That girl is a catch!! __________________ These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA, EPA, FBI, DEA, CDC, or FDIC. These statements are not intended to diagnose, cause, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. If you feel you have been harmed/offended by, or, disagree with any of the above statements or images, please feel free to fuck right off.

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