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Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh schwat? *not getting it*
Looks like the Late shift at Henry’s Turkey Service has arrived home…
The photo captioned is in black and white.
It was also taken during a time then that was the only option. Color photography was not yet invented.
Is our inability to… colonize the moon a sign of our economy? No, its a factor of the technology simply not yet being fully realized.
So I say again……………………… SCHWAT?
The lol.
You killed it.
It was dead upon arrival
I laughed at the lol.
And then I laughed at the confusion.
LOL!
You really need to stop being so literal and see the humor as it was intended. And what is schwat? Is that the opposite of schwing?
It’s kind of hard when there is NO humor in it, don’t you think?
I think that the idea is that it’s supposed to be a current picture, and it’s in black and white to comment on the state of the economy. Yes, I know this is from around the time of the Great Depression, but that merely adds to the caption.
Thus speaks X’s Peter. (If you don’t get it, Peter was the disciple who was supposed to be closest to Jesus.)
Not after Ted Turner finds it…
BWHAHAHA!!!
*colour
Only in the civilised world…
And here in the colonies, ha ha.
The civilised ones…
civilized is spelled with a z. color has no u. harbor doesn’t either. and jail is not spelled gaol.
humour
colour
paediatrician
foetus
honour
valour
They all look stupid and sound bland when you kill the vowels….
And yet they look so overstuffed spelled that way…
But they capture the vowels better…
Take “honour:” there’s a difference between the two vowel sounds which is lost when the “u” is omitted. Think of French. “Au” and “eau” are two different but quite similar sounds. Writing them down the same way means that you completely lose the subtlety of language.
i disagree. and you should leave the french out of it, you can’t count on them to hold their end of the bargain…
The French have won more wars in Europe than
anyone else, including the British. I think it’s down
to them knowing from the bat when they’re going
to get snotted… Austerlitz being one exception that
proved the rule. On paper, it should have been a
French win. Instead it was a bloody draw that, long
term damaged France…
If the French have walked away from a fight, it’s
because it’s an insane battle from the outset…
nice, a stingy french guy tired of people making fun of
french military history strikes down on any remotely connected
comment ^_^
relevance FAIL
History is written by the victor, and in this case the victor is
brittain (english is after all the world language) and in english
it is spelled colour. (not in the US, but they are not to be
trusted around culture. :F
Ok… I hate the “fail/win” meme, but since you introduced into the thread here, I’ll have to say:
Making erroneous presumptions and making yourself look an arse WIN.
There’s so much ignorance and hypocrisy packed into that statement… I don’t even know where to begin…
I’m with Danbala.
just so that I am with you guys, you go all “hypocrisy and erroneous presumptions” over my little comment about the US? Get some self distance please.
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“Erroneus presumptions” because Uncle Fester’s English.
Hypocrisy because your use of the language is terrible.
Also note that nobody who’s responded to you is American.
Ah, didn’t know he was english, sry about that. :F I really don’t know the orogin on anyone here, didn’t think I had to… :/ I just called it as i saw it.
@fish: Well, hence the “erroneous presumptions” part. But at least you know how to spell “color” properly.
so does pronouncing “th” ’s as “f” ’s, but that hasn’t stopped it from happening…
Yet I manage to do alright in my prose with how I use my words, not how stuffed their vowels are… Also, I tend to hear words in my head the way they are supposed to sound despite the spelling. What I find amusing is that you think a vowel means the difference between total loss and total grasp of language. Then again, considering your inability to grasp the evolution of language with your tirade of absolutes over the word rape, I am not surprised that you are still functioning on the same idea of absolutes in language and the grasp thereof.
So I think it might behoove you in the future to not speak in absolutes about languages that are not dead yet and thus still evolving.
What I find amusing is that you think a vowel means the difference between total loss and total grasp of language.
Don’t exaggerate.
“Writing them down the same way means that you completely lose the subtlety of language.”
You first?
Hmm, that was a tad meaner than I would have preferred but oh well.
Yeah, I was a little taken aback…. But if you didn’t mean it that way, then ok… Perhaps your language needs to be more subtle…
Sorry, last sentence was bitchy but I couldn’t resist…
No, I am not taking any of my words back. They stand. Hell, they are accurate.
Didn’t ask you to take them back… If, as you say, you didn’t mean them the way they came out then possibly something’s wrong…
Oh, one of my posts is delayed… I was just apologising for the fact that I couldn’t resist a little b!tchiness in my 3:25 post…
More like I am more perpetually annoyed with you than I like to believe than my wording was something I didn’t mean. Ergo, I am surprised that you grate on my nerves more than I had previously realized.
However, I will concede a definite lack of proper word usage. Luckily I can blame lack of sleep due to my youngest kid deciding to keep me up til 5 am. Debating while running on fumes is always interesting for me. I will try to self edit better before hitting reply.
That’s a much nicer reply than I probably deserved. (I do have a distict tendency to be annoying)
Now you mention tiredness, I’m pretty sleepy too…
Good night.
Alrighty hun, rest up, live well, and see you back again the next day. Despite a lot of my bile, you are a good kid. Don’t take me too seriously.
no self editing! it is evil!
Ya, self editing with a Ginsu knife might have life altering results…
I had a longer response to this and accidentally erased all of it.
Basically, to both you and AC, you both have a point. But it’s all arbitrary, it’s all just made-up anyway… the point of standardisation is to communicate effectively, so as long as you do that, who gives a damn? English is pretty inconsistent regardless – British OR American.
DWN, I think you went into attack mode when AC was just stating her thoughts on the matter and she might have come off a little harsh, but I don’t think it warranted the insults (also note I don’t know what the tirade you’re talking about is, sorry if I’m being ignorant here.)
refresh fail. clearly.
No worries, you’ve missed a lot of animousity between AC and myself. I’m a vulgar American male and she is a puritanical Scot. Basically we are Frenemies though I am sure I have more bile than she does since she mostly has an almost naive abrasiveness/haughtyness while I almost never forget and tend to be more wrathful.
So I will take the blame for this confusion without struggle.
Well I’m (mostly) a Scot, born in England, who has lived in the US since 1981… so I have a very elastic view of these things.
Also, not to perpetuate a settled argument, but an earlier quote from AC, farther down the page:
I think that implies some level of understanding of the evolution of language
Love how you spelled “animousity” btw – even the Brits don’t stick a ‘u’ in that one. I see you’re coming around… maybe coming around a little too far…
Perhaps, it is one of those, had to be there situations when the word rape was being discussed. Long dead issue, technically.
That could just be me floundering with spelling on little sleep. Don’t look too deep into it.
Sholdn’t that be flondering?
*goes further than anyone ever before!!!* ;p
Danbala
the new rallying cry
Ban U!
i think we should all switch over to dvorak keyboards.
haha… Nouw you’re oun the coumplete ouppousite ouf the spectrum…
Now, to balance the fource, I must stick additiounal Us after every O(u)….
I agree with the Dvorak thing, I’m just too accustomed to mine to make the change, also I’d have to constantly make the switch back every time I used someone else’s machine
@Aedriel
doesn’t british english already do that?
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Ban U!
… I should smack the lot of you. With love, of course.
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@aed – that or you could just switch everyone’s keyboard over to dvorak… that would be quite interesting in my office… i’m pretty sure my boss would come in and say “my computer is broken” in about… 2 hrs…
Sieg Heil!
I’ve screenshotted desktops and deleted all the icons… I’ve switched keyboard keys… never thought about actually switching the comp settings to dvorak though… I’ll keep that in mind next time I want to play a joke
I’m already doing it with calculators–my preference is the old Texa Instrument’s ‘reverse polish notation’. But if I have to borrow someoneelse’s, , then I’m stuck coping without my beloved ‘enter’ key!
the screen shot one is a personal favorite… especially when disable the mouse and keyboard so that it you can’t even tell that something bad has happened…
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another favorite was to run usb extensions on the mouse and keyboards of two comps in cubicles so that the keyboard in front of one comp actually works the other comp and vice versa…
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and you can always just change the firewall setting so that someone’s comp cannot access anywhere except porn sites…
@ viking gal – i didn’t know that TIs used RPN… the only calcs i remember using that were the HP48s and above…
I got my father’s engineering hand-me-downs, which I’ve used for everything. Drives me crazy when I have to use that bizzarro “=” key!
I’d really love to have a keyboard that could change the actual visible letters on the keys as easily as settings can change. That way, it’d be possible to do Dvorak keyboard more sensibly – I guesstimate my typing to be 50/50 English/Swedish, and the various letters aren’t equally common in each language. Still, an English Dvorak keyboard would probably still be better for Swedish than the qwerty is.
Paediatrician and foetus, since they are from a classical
etymology (former Greek, latter Latin) can only be
correctly rendered thus…
The ae and oe are technically single letters (a bit like ff or
dd in Welsh, or ij in Dutch). It’s only typesetting
limitations that have made them into combinations.
It’s about nuance…
I say, ts spelled that way in England old chap.English was invented here.
I guess Americans just change the words slightly as a teensy little rebellion against…well, reality.
Its callled denial
**color
Ernt.
Not always your way.
*culler
My word can beat up your word
You win this round. *shakes fist*
It can’t be helped if you chaps insist on speaking, and spelling, a bastardised version of the mother tongue…
What do you expect of us colonial bastards?
*Does the ‘Colonial Bastard Dance of Sorrow’*
That’s bastardized. Use the spelling us bastards understand.
A pox on Doctor Webster!
What? On his skeletal remains???
and his tribe…
Chicken pox, smallpox, or ‘the French pox’?
The French…
Perhaps it could have been helped had the “mother country” not abused us to the point of revolution, after which said country was so reviled that even their very language had to be revised somewhat in order that we disassociate ourselves as much as reasonably practicable.
But no, other than that, it can’t be helped.
Actually, it was more simplified in the 1800s… one thing about you chaps, you cling to victim status better than the Scots, Irish, and Welsh combined…
Woohooo!! We’re number one!!
USA USA USA!!
I fogot the inferiority complex that makes the US over
compentsate for everything… looking over the Bush years, I
didn’t know there were so many synonyms for the verb ‘to
lie’…
You misunderestimated his mad vocabularization skills!
sorry, no. it’s out superiority complex that gets us into trouble.
we really are convinced that we are better, stronger, faster, no wait that was steve austin…well, he was our invention too, so there!
Nooooo, that’s Daft Punk. And on some occasions, Kanye West.
The fact it has to be told every ten minutes, prompted
or no, indicates inferiority. The Brit knows he’s
universally reviled, and feels the same way about
everyone else.
I think it’s funny that you lump us all in together….
I don’t count you at all, you sad little hibernian.
The empty nationalistic bull you spout is simply
embarrassing…
1/2 Hibernian….
Nationalistic bull?
Also, fulfilling stereotypes -yer doin it rite….
our inferiority complex is showcased by your use of the word “colonies” to describe us. just thank us that you’re not speaking german right now.
When you eventually showed up…
After you proved that you couldn’t handle it.
/trolling
who gave you ships and guns first? [link]
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just remember that it took you over 60yrs to pay back those loans, and we still haven’t seen a dime from WWI.
and before we showed up there was a little thing known as the lend-lease act, which, you know, still saved your butts.
I use the word colony to piss off Americans…
As to the american involvement in WW2, you
were well paid, both in cash and diplomatically,
for that, so I’d keep the posturing down to
whooping and shouting ‘kick ass!’ if I were you.
and the american ‘knows’ that he is loved the world over. we know that the world has shaped itself in our image and strives to make us happy.
we know that our word carries the weight of 1000 kings; our science superior; our food and our hospitality so loved that our restaurants and hotels replace the inferior local versions.
we’re conquering the world in religion and politics and we use our army to support both.
we allow our education system to disintegrate because intelligence doesn’t make you happy. we’re happy to let the rest of you ‘do the math’ as a service to us.
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and while we may be completely deluded regarding all of the above, we’re happy
just think of us as the brilliant offspring surpassing the parents in every way.
more like making the same damn mistakes our parents made and thinking they’re our own.
Well bastardised English is, I suppose, doubly bastardised since English is just a great big bastardisation….
Respect our bastardistions! “Tellt” is a word!
Blame the French. IF they’d not invaded in 1066, we’d speak something a lot like Dutch, but with less Hispanic influence…
As it is, it’s a bastard dialect of Norman French (which was more or less bastard Latin)
Didn’t invade us!
Just made it fashionable for nobles to speak French…
True… the Normans had too much taste to want to invade the place…
Well, the English had to pay us to make us come anywhere near you…
That would be ‘Britons’…not the English…
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Nope, English. I’m talking about 1707…
The only good reason ever to get a Catholic monarch would be to be rid of Scotland…
….Which is why no-one learns “1066″ in history classes… It’s “1314″
that any one could tell you…
I can’t help it if your benighted strip of rock was so
politically unimportant for so long… I think you’ll find that
banockburn got paid back in spades too… but as I’ve
said before, when a Scot mentions the ‘auld enemy’ the
average Englishman looks for a Frenchman, German, or
even a Spaniard before thinking of Scotland as more
than a cost centre…
It’s “Bannockburn” (two “n”s and a capital) actually…
And you’ll find that that war of independence ended for the English at Bannockburn. If the paying back that you’re referring to is Flodden, then that wasn’t until 200 years later…
…And if Scotland was so unimportant then why did Longshanks spend so much time trying to crush it and why is the national anthem a song about hoping to defeat it?
…And I can’t help it if you’ll always be the storybook villains…
Oh yeah, butt-raping taxation without representation was most DEFINITELY a superfluous “use.”
DAMMIT nesting fail.
*sigh*
See below.
Longshanks was simply vindictive and a fool…
Interesting, then, that you continue to get your Prime Ministers there.
I think it’s a tad better than choosing one’s leader
from Special Schools or from the FBI most wanted
white collar criminals list…
only a tiny bit mind.
did you just say that english is a bastard dialect of norman french?
It’s a mix of Nordic and French. Good old Anglo-Saxon (you can thank the vikings for ‘fsck’ and the basics like flesh and bread), plus French for ‘beef’ and fancy stuff like that.
The reply below yours covers it. Of course it’s a bastard
dialect of Norman French… even worse, after Chaucer,
it became the Kentish dialect version of Bastardised French,
mixed with Germanic bits, Viking bits, Latin bits, Greek bits
(from Latin and the coal trade)…
There’s a reason we left.
We got tired of the superfluous U’s.
If the Normans had left their stupid superfluous U’s at home, we
wouldn’t be having this problem. Crappy Normans!
*kidnaps U’s*
*holds them hostage*
Sod that, let’s go back to befour Docktor Jonson standardised spellynge.
Ynnedeyd.
Damnit. With this post “Recent Comments” got completely filled with “Uncle Fester on POLITICAL INDICATOR”. So… I just have to post something here so I can have a little “marker” there again to see the progress of postings and see if anything might be new. :p
HMmm i want to make a Colored president joke here but cant figure out how to make it funny not out right rude.
I don’t think there’s a way to do that, considering the term “colored” is ridiculous.
http://punditkitchen.com/2008/10/02/political-pictures-barack-obama-racist-signs-learn-spell/
…and if you f*ckers are going to be putting up racist signs, you might want to learn how to spell.
now that is a good one
“This picture is brought to you in black and white because we spent the color budget on the president and even then we only had half the usual budget due to the recession.”
That work?
I figured I would least attempt what they were going for.
sadly no that is in the opposite direction i wanted to go some where like now new and improved in color. ( i guess meaning not so bad this time)
Ah…
Actually, I’m pretty sure color film is cheaper to make (and certainly cheaper to buy) than black and white film.
The emulsion in black and white film contains silver, which is rather more expensive than it used to be, but I suspect the problem these days with black and white is that they’re making it in such small batches for the vanishingly small demand.
Afford color? The world was black and white back then. That’s why all the films and photos are black and white: there was no color. Now sure, artists painted in color. But we all know artists are crazy. They were the only ones who saw the color, until the world switched from black and white sometime in the thirties. (Thanks to Bill Watterson by way of Calvin’s Dad for that one)
Things were pretty grainy for a while though…
badum tish.
you forgot gray
personally, i liked the world’s sepia phase
I thought he said that the painters painted it in black and white but it the paint changed to color when the world did. And that the photos didn’t change because they were color photographs of a black and white world.
Hehe, yeah, that was it! Best. Comic. Evar. Pogo comes close, but Watterson is a true master of the art form.
did anyone catch the racial nature of the photo of Black people, and not being able to afford color- or am I the only one who actually got the bad joke