The Cellar  

Go Back   The Cellar > Main > Home Base

Home Base A starting point, and place for threads don't seem to belong anywhere else

Reply
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
Old 04-28-2015, 05:05 PM   #196
Gravdigr
The Un-Tuckian
 
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: South Central...KY that is
Posts: 39,517
Quote:
Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce View Post
Lamplighter, take your fucking estrogen and stick it up your ass. Then take your Ralf Nader amateur philosophy and get the fuck out of the way. You are a speed bump in the road of real people.
Damn. That sounds like something I'd post.
__________________


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.
Gravdigr is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 04-28-2015, 05:06 PM   #197
Gravdigr
The Un-Tuckian
 
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: South Central...KY that is
Posts: 39,517
Heh, kinda made myself laugh.
__________________


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.
Gravdigr is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 05-16-2015, 03:20 PM   #198
Gravdigr
The Un-Tuckian
 
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: South Central...KY that is
Posts: 39,517
What an uberdouche:

Florida man ran over a family of ducklings as a human family watched in horror
__________________


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.
Gravdigr is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 05-16-2015, 06:52 PM   #199
busterb
NSABFD
 
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: MS. usa
Posts: 3,908
That would be me. I made cold slaw and went to add more salt. Well the little sprinkler top stayed in the damn top, so I got a bunch of salt in my slaw. Hello trash can.
__________________
I've haven't left very deep footprints in the sands of time. But, boy I've left a bunch.
busterb is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 05-16-2015, 06:59 PM   #200
xoxoxoBruce
The future is unwritten
 
Join Date: Oct 2002
Posts: 71,105
Couldn't you wash it and start over with the washed cabbage?
__________________
The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.
xoxoxoBruce is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 05-16-2015, 08:18 PM   #201
busterb
NSABFD
 
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: MS. usa
Posts: 3,908
Coulda, shoulda, woulda. but didn't. Had more in bag.
__________________
I've haven't left very deep footprints in the sands of time. But, boy I've left a bunch.
busterb is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 05-16-2015, 09:10 PM   #202
monster
I hear them call the tide
 
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Perpetual Chaos
Posts: 30,852
Quote:
Originally Posted by Gravdigr View Post
we had one of those here too

http://www.annarbor.com/news/crime/m...ing-an-animal/
__________________
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart
monster is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 05-16-2015, 09:18 PM   #203
busterb
NSABFD
 
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: MS. usa
Posts: 3,908
WTF is wrong with people. Of course the poor boy was driving a Hummer.
__________________
I've haven't left very deep footprints in the sands of time. But, boy I've left a bunch.
busterb is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 05-16-2015, 09:50 PM   #204
monster
I hear them call the tide
 
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Perpetual Chaos
Posts: 30,852
I'm pretty sure he got a little more than a slap on the wrist, but not much. His lawyer argued he had no idea the ducklings were there
__________________
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart
monster is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 05-17-2015, 10:49 AM   #205
Sundae
polaroid of perfection
 
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: West Yorkshire
Posts: 24,185
A woman yesterday was blethering on about all the places she'd visited, including Blenheim Palace. Which she called Blenn-hime.

Now I have nothing against people not getting place names right on reading them. English-English is generally tricky, thanks to its mongrel history, and never more so than in place names. But she said she had been there. At what point did she not pick up on the fact that it's pronounced Blennim?

So she was either a lying idiot, or an idiot who doesn't bother listening to anything but her own yap.
Having suffered enough of it, I vote both.
Sundae is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 05-17-2015, 11:24 AM   #206
Gravdigr
The Un-Tuckian
 
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: South Central...KY that is
Posts: 39,517
Regular old spelling/pronunciation rules would have had me, along with the vast majority of the non-British world, pronouncing it blen-hime. That's what it looks like, and as you say, if I haven't been there, how am I to know people have been eliding it into blennum for a thousand years...

But, then, you have George Carlin talking about the way things are spelled vs. the way a group/person wishes them to be pronounced:

Quote:
You can spell your name S-M-I-T-H, and pronounce it Jonofski if you want to.

What's your last name?

Jonofski.

Spell it.

S-M-I-T-H.

What?

Nevermind. They're all silent.
__________________


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.
Gravdigr is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 05-17-2015, 11:43 AM   #207
DanaC
We have to go back, Kate!
 
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Yorkshire
Posts: 25,964
Quote:
Originally Posted by Gravdigr View Post
how am I to know people have been eliding it into blennum for a thousand years...
Eliding! I was trying to think of that word (elided, rather than eliding)a few weeks ago and couldn't. I'd forgotten about it til I read your post.

Thankyou!
__________________
Quote:
There's only so much punishment a man can take in pursuit of punani. - Sundae
http://sites.google.com/site/danispoetry/
DanaC is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 05-17-2015, 12:07 PM   #208
Gravdigr
The Un-Tuckian
 
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: South Central...KY that is
Posts: 39,517
Glad to be of service.
__________________


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.
Gravdigr is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 05-17-2015, 12:11 PM   #209
Sundae
polaroid of perfection
 
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: West Yorkshire
Posts: 24,185
Now, see, you're making me learn things as well.

As an afterward, Blenheim was fairly local to me, so I probably heard the name before I ever saw it written down.
And I reiterate I am not an insufferable snob who laughs at people who get names wrong. I've done it enough times - especially once I moved out of Bucks.
Try getting your head around Mytholmroyd for example - although it's reasonably logical in the end.

And don't even think about place names in Wales...
Sundae is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 05-17-2015, 12:25 PM   #210
DanaC
We have to go back, Kate!
 
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Yorkshire
Posts: 25,964
My second primary school was just off a street called Blenheim Terrace. That name got everywhere.
__________________
Quote:
There's only so much punishment a man can take in pursuit of punani. - Sundae
http://sites.google.com/site/danispoetry/
DanaC is offline   Reply With Quote
Reply


Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests)
 
Thread Tools
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off

Forum Jump

All times are GMT -5. The time now is 05:19 PM.


Powered by: vBulletin Version 3.8.1
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.