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Curiosity killed ...
Ship's Mug
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Smudgie, I'm quite staggered that uffda suggested that Bean Sidhe wasn't a suitable parent to her children and all you can pick up on that he ignored some pettyfogging punctuation issues.
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Smudgie
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I am offended that you think I should spend my leisure hours thinking about children. Isn't it bad enough that I should have to think about them in my working hours? If I want to fog pettily, I shall.
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EtymologicalEvangelical
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A penguin not thinking about its children? Leaving them to fend for themselves for weeks on end? How typical!
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Bean Sidhe
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Originally posted by EtymologicalEvangelical:
A penguin not thinking about its children? Leaving them to fend for themselves for weeks on end? How typical!
Typical speciesism. Can you imagine swimming for hours through freezing water searching for food just to feed your kids? I'll bet you can't. Mind you, I don't think Smudgie could either. Rumour has it there's an organic gourmet wet-fish superstore just down the road from her, but that's not the point! You're a human, she's a penguin. QED.
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lilBuddha
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Oh now fine assumption then isn't it? EE has not identified what species s/he is and, judging by her/his reasoning ability, it is not likely human. But then, you did use your reasoning to the best of your ability, so...
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Bean Sidhe
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Zappa, you'll set me off wailing at this rate. You of all people should get it that human reason, inadequate or whatever, has zippo application to anything on this thread. Least of all from me.
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Ariston
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Uhhuh. So you're saying you're being intentionally irrational? How are we supposed to have a reasoned discussion with you, then? These are discussion boards, are they not? Stick to the purpose and conform to the norm, please.
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Bean Sidhe
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Who is this Norm of whom you speak? How would you expect me to conform to him (an ambiguous entreaty if ever I heard one) when I know nothing about the man? And you talk about rational discourse??
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lilBuddha
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Shame on you Bean! Asking AA to speak of rational discourse is akin to asking a vegetarian to rate burgers. Poor dear has not the equipment.
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Hallellou, hallellou
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Welease Woderwick
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But has he the ability to write in complete sentences?
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What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand?
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Kelly Alves
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Wod, will you kindly piss of to the Asking Random Questions That Don't Pertain To Anything Being Said thread?
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Jesus loves me, this I know” of they don’t believe “Kelly loves me, this I know.”
Kelly Alves, somewhere around 2003.
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Ariston
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Well Kelly, we don't have that thread. Feel free to start it in Heaven, though, where it will be closed promptly.
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Smudgie
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I am mortally offended, AA, that you see fit to continue this tangent of "forgetting to be offended"ness where a whole series of people, creatures and inanimate objects blatently ignore the rules of the game. I could expect it from them, but from you, whom I hold in the highest esteem (well, the highest of the lot of 'em who post here, which isn't saying much) have brought me gross disappointment this morning. I thought better of you. And I was proven wrong.
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Kelly Alves
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All that is very true, Smudge, but note he was also picking on me, and you said nothing about that. And here I always thought you had my back, What a dream world I live in. ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
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Jesus loves me, this I know” of they don’t believe “Kelly loves me, this I know.”
Kelly Alves, somewhere around 2003.
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lilBuddha
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And just what, pray tell, is wrong with a dream world? The real one can be a bit shabby at times, living in a dream world is luxury. And you not appreciating your circumstance. ![[Disappointed]](graemlins/disappointed.gif)
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justlooking
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The dream world is all very well for those who can afford it. Haven't you heard there is a Recession, or possibly even a Depression? Reality may be shabby and devoid of luxury but it has many superior qualities - I can't think of any right now but I'm sure they're there.
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Welease Woderwick
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I'm offended that you should give us hope and then dash it so abruptly!
![[Waterworks]](graemlins/bawling.gif)
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Dafyd
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What's wrong with dashes? There's plenty of room in between commas and parentheses. Instead they're relegated to the lands of ignorance and even confused with hyphens. That's not fair on either dashes or hyphens, which have their own useful job to do.
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Bean Sidhe
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As my carefully-crafted - and meticulously-punctuated - posts will - in the unlikely case that you actually read them - demonstrate, I have an apparently-inexhaustible supply of dashes. Indeed - so far as I can tell - they seem - constantly - to be dropping out of nowhere, like the under-appreciated detritus of another world. Are you suggesting - or even asserting - that I'm in a land of ignorance? How very dare you.
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lilBuddha
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In the land of ignorance? I assumed you were its queen! To be fair, all evidence was pointing to this conclusion. In fact, I am incensed and offended that you dropped clue and hint nearly everywhere that this was the case and now reveal it was a ruse. Though a splendid ruse it was; most convincing.
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Hallellou, hallellou
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Curiosity killed ...
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And just who have you decided to label as having "innate proclivities"? That vocabulary comes from the same phrase book as "local yokel" and other put downs and is so offensive as to be off the scale.
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uffda
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Dash it all- just what are these "innate proclivities everyone seems to be talking about? What local yokel has them? And if we are allowed a gaggle of geese and a murder of crows, what in the world is wrong with a disparagement of queens? Ultra-hyper-sensitivity to offense is itself offensive!
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Invincibly ignorant and planning to stay that way!
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lilBuddha
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What is all this negativity towards the yokel?
While yokeling might not be my favourite form of musical expression, one can respect the control such vocal manipulations require.
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Hallellou, hallellou
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The local yokel crack came from my father when some poor lad phoned me up from school, just because he had a gentle Dorset burr. I really, really don't know how you managed to mix that up with yodelling - or even could describe yodelling as pleasant, have you been in any inside space with someone yodelling?
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Bean Sidhe
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You've the brass nerve to call ME the 'queen of ignorance', when you don't even know a yokel is one who tells yokes for a living?
[ 03. July 2012, 07:35: Message edited by: Bean Sidhe ]
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Smudgie
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All this messing about with the Queen's English is offensive to one as well-brung-up as I. It is clear that the expression in quesion is not a single-worded noun but rather a greeting to a very special member of the crowd of offensive posters on this thread.
"Yo! Kel!" ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif) (I'd use the little waving smilie but we don't have one)
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la vie en rouge
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Originally posted by Smudgie:
All this messing about with the Queen's English is offensive to one as well-brung-up as I.
I think you'll find that should be "as well brung-up as *me*". And you have the effrontery to criticise other people's English. Hypocrite.
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lilBuddha
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It is offensive enough to correct someone in such an imperial manner, doubly so when your correction is incorrect. You've been too long amongst the French, poor thing.
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Hallellou, hallellou
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Smudgie
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I find it difficult to find anything to cause offence in your post, apart from the minor detail of you forgetting to complete your first sentence before appending the full stop.
Let me be of assistance:
"One can never be too long among the French... without coming out smelling of garlic"
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Bean Sidhe
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'Hoi poloi' comes from ancient Greek, meaning simply 'the majority' who - while not guaranteed to be right, or even sensible - are nonetheless not to be sneezed at. Suggest you grab some tissues, La Vie.
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Welease Woderwick
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What do you mean by Ancient Geek? Just because I'm, erm, marginally past my prime and understand something about new technology there is no need to call me names!
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Fancy a break in South India?
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What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand?
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Welease Woderwick
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Well, we all try but sometimes she get's so offensive that it's difficult!
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Fancy a break in South India?
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What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand?
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Ariston
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Once again, pengu, we have a topic for discussion, stick to it! Tangents, especially ones involving icons and references to other threads, are most offensive. Is that really too difficult to understand, or must we throw you a rotting fish or two to make you behave?
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Welease Woderwick
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Rotting fish? What's wrong with offering fresh fish? Has she no feelings? No intrinsic worth?
[Let me think about those questions a while, I'll get back to you?]
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Fancy a break in South India?
Accessible Homestay Guesthouse in Central Kerala, contact me for details
What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand?
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Bean Sidhe
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You need to think about the intrinsic worth of a penguin? Ballast, that's what they're good for. If all the penguins left the Antarctic, the world would turn upside down. And then what???
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Danny DeVito
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Dafyd
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Forgetting the legacy of the Diggers and Levellers and the World Turned Upside Down? Or do you in fact remember and are contemptuously dismissing it?
I thought this was a website for Christian Unrest.
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Kelly Alves
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Oh, who died and made you offical manipulator of the tagline? Have you notified Simon about this?
Oh and before I dash to class...
Smudgie, you backstabbing bitch. Just like you to insult me THIRTEEN POSTS AWAY from my last contribution and then STUFF your PM box so I can't savage you in the manner you deserve. You and your angelic little smiley face.Both of them.
You think you got the world fooled? Think again, sweetie.
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I cannot expect people to believe “
Jesus loves me, this I know” of they don’t believe “Kelly loves me, this I know.”
Kelly Alves, somewhere around 2003.
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Smudgie
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[tangent]
![[Angel]](graemlins/angel.gif)
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or should that be
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I am simply offended that you took this long to notice ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
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Curiosity killed ...
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Hmmph Smudgie, totally offensive behaviour making this thread all about you. Are there no others here to get offended on their own, if not your, behalf?
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Welease Woderwick
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How can anyone possibly be offended on behalf of a penguin? We all know they have no feeling - and who could blame them or their feet would feel very cold!
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What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand?
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lilBuddha
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No feelings?! She spends all her time on the thread complaining that her feelings have been hurt. That you pay so little attention, can you not spare one of your heads for this?
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Hallellou, hallellou
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Dafyd
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I am offended that you should refer so flippantly to the fate of Saint Charles King and Martyr.
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Bean Sidhe
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As I recall from my schooldays, King Charles only had the one head. That he so generously donated it to history is, of course, commendable - but hardly relevant to lilB's injunction to Wodders who, self-evidently, has a surfeit in that department. Perhaps he should donate the one he inhabits when he posts here? I doubt he'd miss it.
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Danny DeVito
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Sylvander
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I was not notified that one had to pay for the privilege to be offended here. I therefore solemnly declare that I have areputation for not paying attention, hard earned on the various mafia threads, and I have no intention of throwing it in doubt by doing so here. My only currency are kisses.
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