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     Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 325 Registered: 09-2006 |
If you haven't seen it, here's Matt Groening's list of Forbidden Words for 2007, from the Life in Hell strip. The one that surprized me was "Rocktober"...I've been lucky enough to escape classic rock radio for years and years now, so I didn't know that was still around...so Electric Lunch is probably still around as well. It's all good Let's not go there Sweet! Awesome! Crunk Islamofascist Nucular Chocoholic Homeland What-everrrr! Rockoctober Blind Impactful Gravitas Multitasking Out of the mainstream The war on Christmas No-brainer Hottie Too much information I'm the decider Pimp We won't leave till the job's done Macaca LOL ROFLMAO  Bully pulpit TomKat Pundit Liberal media Mainstream media We're not winning, but we're not losing Brangelina I could tell you, but then I'd have to kill you Oh. My. God! Mission accomplished Plan for victory Stay the course Cut and run The phrase that I'm glad to see is finally fading is "It's (current popular star)'s world...we just live in it." | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1735 Registered: 03-2006 |
"Multitasking" particularly gives me the red ass...it's a myth, not possible, etc. What you end up doing is several tasks at the same time, not as well... It's simple physics - things take the amount of time they take. Doing them at the same time (that is if it were even physically possible to perform different tasks simultaneously) doesn't invoke some magic alchemy that creates more time... | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 1306 Registered: 04-2005 |
I'd add "it is what it is" to Groening's list. I hear that one way too much at work. | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 595 Registered: 08-2004 |
"Am I bovvered" & "Does my face look bovvered". Matt Groening clearly hasn't absorbed The Catherine Tate Show's catchphrase of the century. Uttered by the same morons daily. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1737 Registered: 03-2006 |
And, of course, we should add this beaut, popularized by our current administration: "mistakes were made". | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 328 Registered: 09-2006 |
To go with the one I mentioned above: "It's all about me." Oh, but they're being ironic when they say it...uh huh. | ||
| Mark Leydon Member Username: Mark_leydon Post Number: 98 Registered: 05-2005 |
'Absolutely' Now the most overused response in the English language. Gotta be banned. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 329 Registered: 09-2006 |
Jerry, I've never heard of Catherine Tate either, and going just by your description that's probably a good thing. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1464 Registered: 05-2005 |
Glasgow Rangers Sting | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1087 Registered: 03-2005 |
Eeep! I'm going to have to be silent! But it IS all about me! I've never meant that ironically! LK, my recollection is that "mistakes were made" was actually minted by the previous administration. 'It is what it is" makes me crazy. It took over for "shit happens." Out here there's a popular bumper sticker: "Mean People Suck." I don't see it that way at all. I think people who suck are really very very nice. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1321 Registered: 05-2005 |
What's so wrong with I'm the decider? I agree with all the rest. Kevin, after the pretty great Sydney v Urawa Red Diamonds (2000 of whose fans were at the game) Asian Champions League match on Wednesday night a friend and I went to a nearby bar for a couple of sociables. There was a guy there in a Rangers shirt. We started singing The Fields Of Athenry. He took it very well. Smiled even. The Urawa fans are the best I've ever seen btw. Not just for the sheer numbers of them who flew to Sydney; but also for the singing, chanting and magnificent choreographed moves. Really brilliant. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1322 Registered: 05-2005 |
It was a 2-2 draw. Sydney were a goal up after 56 seconds. Two up in the 22nd minute, but Urawa, no doubt inspired by their fans, never gave up. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1323 Registered: 05-2005 |
Best chants of the night from our side: You only sing when you're whaling, sing when you're whaling, you only sing ewhen you're whaling. We'll never sign Kyoto We'll never sign Kyoto We'll never sign Kyoto. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1466 Registered: 05-2005 |
Padraig , didnt Terry Butcher used to manage Sydney? I guess they must have sacked him because he is back in the UK. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1325 Registered: 05-2005 |
Yeah, that donkey got canned as soon as the domestic season ended about six weeks ago. Branko Culina - father of Aussie international Jason - is now manager. | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 146 Registered: 07-2006 |
for the tip = "going forward", closely followed by "high level" gold! = "it's hard to say..." | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 147 Registered: 07-2006 |
and is it finally ok to say cun+ again? i do it quite a lot and even when those around me reciprocate i'm never sure their heart's in it as much as mine is... | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1329 Registered: 05-2005 |
Right now Joe I'm listening to Cun+s Are Still Running The World by Jarvis Cocker. And a great song it is too. | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 148 Registered: 07-2006 |
a great song. i don't even need the lyrics or the vocal either....excellent intro. one of his best. and i'm somewhat fanatical on all things pulp. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 539 Registered: 01-2005 |
joe and Padraig, sorry, but I think that cun+ is a very sexist and ugly word that is demeaming towards women and I'll walk away from a conversation where someone says it. I don't have any Jarvis Cocker records and don't plan on getting any. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 333 Registered: 09-2006 |
I know where you're coming from, Michael...when used to describe a woman it's close to the same level as those other words used to dehumanize gays, blacks, etc. It's complicated, though, by the fact that(please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, Padraig) across the pond the word is less gender-specific and applies to both sexes...it's in the same neighborhood as prick, jerk, dick, asshole. | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 149 Registered: 07-2006 |
yes....and might i highlight cock, prick and dick tere and ask where the differentiation from that of aforementioned c-word comes in? i consider myself to be a staunch feminist and i really don't see it. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 335 Registered: 09-2006 |
I don't think there's any differentiation in the European use (though some would beg to differ), but over here things are dicier because it's been used so hatefully toward just one sex for so long. | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 150 Registered: 07-2006 |
yeah i get that i really do and growing up in australia it's long been regarded as the worse of the worst. the thing is though, at school and stuff, i only ever heard it directed at guys....which i realise is entirely different from it's stateside use as heard on the sopranos, etc. i was always told it was hateful etc by the women i was raised by and the like, but at some point i really started questioning the whole thing and all i could come up with for this reasoning was sheer self-loathing...the ugliest of ugly. it's still not something i'd use around my ma (shameless mummy's boy), but have no issue dropping it pretty much anywhere else. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1330 Registered: 05-2005 |
It's a word I use exclusively (and very rarely) for men. I like it. It is a hateful word for someone who has done something really terrible. It has no sexual conotation at all for me. | ||
| David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 30 Registered: 02-2007 |
Words are weapons, if you wannna express hate, u gotta use a hateful word. | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 151 Registered: 07-2006 |
god that's a lyric but for the life of me i cannae place it!!! the think the aesthetic of the word is much uglier than any definition or connotation that accompanies it. and also why it kinda works..... | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 152 Registered: 07-2006 |
Pride's like a knife it can cut deep inside Words are like weapons they wound sometimes. I didn't really mean to hurt you I didn't wanna see you go I know I made you cry, but baby.... | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 480 Registered: 08-2006 |
I definitely agree with Allen - in my experience, the c-word is perceived as far less cutting and sexually charged overseas than it is here in the States. I have a South African friend here in Chicago and when I first met him I found his casual (and repeated) use of the word shocking. I realized, though, he used it pretty much the way I'd use dick, which I don't find shocking it all and often hear bandied about in business meetings. But its feminine equivalent is out of bounds here. As Michael made clear, many people find it downright offensive. | ||
| Michelle M Member Username: Michelle Post Number: 35 Registered: 09-2004 |
One word that isn't forbidden and is used by a lot of Australians and New Zealanders is "bugger" and other variations, "bugger off" "go to buggery" "bugger it". Now, given what my Macquarie dictionary says it means, I am wondering why we use it so freely, myself included. It is even allowed in TV ads. One all time favourite (made in New Zealand I think) even had a dog uttering the word "bugger". | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1747 Registered: 03-2006 |
Could it be that we in the US are a bunch of humorless, self-important, politically correct prigs? Nah, that could never be it... I'm as liberal and feminist as the next guy, but that does seem like a double standard. I am aware of the social mores here, but don't really profess to understand them, or how they evolved... How come you can say "dick" here freely, but not the c-word? It just don't make any buggering sense... | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 344 Registered: 09-2006 |
I'm not enough of a linguist to track it either, LK, but my impression is that the main reason it's not in common use here is because, again, there's not a fraction of the foundation for it. PC probably has a bit to do with it, though I believe it's taboo status long predates the advent of that (and don't get me started on my belief that PC and PI are (like so many other dualities in life) a false dichotomy that keeps us from arguing about things that really matter... | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1749 Registered: 03-2006 |
Yup...maybe it's because c*nt is such an ugly sounding word...it doesn't have the festive air of, say, "pussy": "Hey everybody, let's start the party! Pussy's here!" | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 543 Registered: 01-2005 |
LK wrote: >"Hey everybody, let's start the party! Pussy's here!" Sounds like something Tony Soprano would have said when "Big Pussy" Bompensiero finally showed up. Too bad he ended up geting wacked. The Soprano's is ending up like The X-Files did, too many valuable characters getting clipped, wacked, bumped off, or disappeared. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1752 Registered: 03-2006 |
One of my favorite characters... Yeah, I guess now that the show's wrapping up, they can afford to whack everybody. Despite being a huge fan of the show, I'm not really too disappointed that it's coming to an end. I think they've been running out of gas for a while - that last season, to me, was disappointing. The new issue of Vanity Fair has a great article on the show, with a great photo spread showing all of the characters who've been bumped off, in the conditions they were after getting killed, as though they'd just been dug up - Big Pussy with bullet holes, seaweed-draped, etc. It's the show's creator's (David Chase) feeling that there's just nothing more to do with the characters...they are not exactly the kind of people that are going to grow. | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 154 Registered: 07-2006 |
carmella is the italian mother i always not-so-secretely resented mine for not being. thankfully, mine's morals are reasonably in tact. i loved johnny sack...particular his interaction with his wife. beautiful (for the most part). | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1354 Registered: 05-2005 |
Yeah, Johnny's a real stand up guy Joe. You're not involved in the Melbourne underworld fued are you? | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 488 Registered: 08-2006 |
My first substantitive live show of 2007: Toumani Diabate at the HotHouse here in the Windy City. It was too brief but really outstanding. It's always something to see these far-flung African bands - this one from Mali - here in the heartland. Makes me feel like a card-carrying citizen of the world. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 489 Registered: 08-2006 |
Oops. Clearly, I mistook this for the live shows thread. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 545 Registered: 01-2005 |
A minor character that I like that Tony Darrow played is Larry Boy Barise. He was also memorable in Goodfellas as Sonny Bunz, pleading with Paulie to buy a share of his restaurant so that he won't have to go on the lame and become a lammist. Goodfellas has so many quotable lines in it. I'm still scratching my head at Cosner beating out Marty for the Oscar for Dances With Wolves. | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 160 Registered: 07-2006 |
ha...i just noticed your reply there padraig. few connections to the family these days, but i grew up around the corner from one of the sites of a particularly nasty underworld run in a couple of years back. the blind/surreal family loyalty thing rings right home though. as does the underlying presence of food throughout the series. all class. |