Guard Dog Posted January 10, 2019 Share Posted January 10, 2019 There is something very British about a polite, even friendly, written response that still manages to say "f--k you" without actually saying it. Must be something they put in their tea! 3 "While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before" Thomas Sowell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amentep Posted January 10, 2019 Author Share Posted January 10, 2019 There is something very British about a polite, even friendly, written response that still manages to say "f--k you" without actually saying it. Must be something they put in their tea! I dunno, I think writers in the US used to be able to do the same. We just have Twitter now. I cannot - yet I must. How do you calculate that? At what point on the graph do "must" and "cannot" meet? Yet I must - but I cannot! ~ Ro-Man Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyrock Posted January 10, 2019 Share Posted January 10, 2019 Social media is a potentially wonderful tool that has instead become a curse. 3 RFK Jr 2024 "Any organization created out of fear must create fear to survive." - Bill Hicks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcador Posted January 10, 2019 Share Posted January 10, 2019 There is something very British about a polite, even friendly, written response that still manages to say "f--k you" without actually saying it. Must be something they put in their tea! I dunno, I think writers in the US used to be able to do the same. We just have Twitter now. Well, British writers probably can't do the same even now. Is really the fault of television, I say. Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
injurai Posted January 11, 2019 Share Posted January 11, 2019 Social media is a potentially wonderful tool that has instead become a curse. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gromnir Posted January 11, 2019 Share Posted January 11, 2019 There is something very British about a polite, even friendly, written response that still manages to say "f--k you" without actually saying it. Must be something they put in their tea! I dunno, I think writers in the US used to be able to do the same. We just have Twitter now. agreed. is not difficult to find letters from diverse american authors such as william faulkner and ursula k. le quin which will make you laugh at the wit somehow contained within the boundaries o' the polite formality o' a epistolary response. the thing is, the art o' letter writing is becoming lost. would like to blame twitter, but it started earlier, probable with advent o' email. writing formal letters were a common skill only a generation or so past. also, while it is true americans tend to be a bit more forthright than continental peers, there is also a well honored colonial tradition o' embracing the sardonic which often manifests in a wholly transparent veneer o' civility when chastising a perceived villain. one need not look far to find "best of" resignation letters from authors and political figures which is scathing rebukes couched in polite language. h.r. mcmaster's final speech as us national security advisor is maybe not particular funny, but it were a metaphorical fu to multiple persons in the white house without ever mentioning a specific name. final, we will note the enforced formality o' legal writing lends itself to moments o' genius. while Justices may indulge in overt jocularity and satire, those who do not move in such a rarefied stratosphere must needs be a bit more oblique... or at least opportunistic. https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170802/00533937906/aclu-to-court-legal-to-tell-bob-to-eat-****.shtml legal writing is necessarily adversarial and highly formulistic. as such there is rare moments when brutal funny seeming abuts enforced rules o' politeness. HA! Good Fun! 1 "If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence."Justice Louis Brandeis, Concurring, Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357 (1927) "Im indifferent to almost any murder as long as it doesn't affect me or mine."--Gfted1 (September 30, 2019) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raithe Posted January 11, 2019 Share Posted January 11, 2019 1 "Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcador Posted January 11, 2019 Share Posted January 11, 2019 5 Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gfted1 Posted January 11, 2019 Share Posted January 11, 2019 At first glance I thought those were giant Tecate beer cans. 2 "I'm your biggest fan, Ill follow you until you love me, Papa" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zoraptor Posted January 11, 2019 Share Posted January 11, 2019 Caesar's Legion arrives at the Hoover Dam via vertibird, 2279AD, colourised. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcador Posted January 11, 2019 Share Posted January 11, 2019 5 Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
injurai Posted January 11, 2019 Share Posted January 11, 2019 "...writers should tailor their worlds to fit the times, so it could resonate with the actual audience reading them." - Writers should do what they want. - Audiences extends beyond just your times, and there are timeless values and lessons worth conveying. - Everyone benefits to learn lessons from History. "...we're not afraid of Hitler..." - Cause he's dead? - No that can't be the point. A Hitler modeled villain would be alive in context of the story. - So you must mean in what he embodies? - The hell? Then why not? "...we're afraid of the 25-year-old malcontented white boy who fondles Hitler memorabilia while sulking in his room." - Oh dear... - You're afraid of a basement dweller more than someone with the same views with centralized power over a nation? - Kylo Ren is megalomaniac despot, commanding legions of followers ready to kill/act in the name of what his empire. - If you wanted a Villain based on the times how is the basement cheetoh muncher worse than the cheetoh skinned US head of state? "...which is worse, because these are people who looked at horrific historical atrocities with the benefit of hindsight and went, 'Yes thats exactly what we should do again, but this time more'" - The Nazis had a lot of historical reference for hindsight, or do you think History started with WW2 (You must watch the History Channel...) "People complaining that Starkiller Base is a rip-off of the Death Star and that Kylo Ren is a whiny emo fanboy don't realize that this is exactly the point" - The people who complain realize the point, and thus complain. - It's not that they don't realize it and you need to inform them, thus they'll stop complaining. ==== Just in case it wasn't clear just how incredibly thoughtless these two were. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadySands Posted January 12, 2019 Share Posted January 12, 2019 Woman in China wakes to find she can’t hear men’s voices XIAMEN, China — A woman in China left doctors baffled after learning she couldn’t hear the sound of men’s voices, only women’s. According to the Daily Mail, she made the discovery after she woke up one morning and couldn’t hear her boyfriend talking. She recalled feeling nauseous the night before and having ringing in her ears. Concerned, she went to the hospital where doctors attempted to diagnose the bizarre symptoms. An ENT specialist eventually determined she had reverse-slop hearing loss, which prevents her from hearing deeper sounds. Doctors said that stress could have contributed to the condition. She is expected to make a full recovery since the symptoms were treated quickly. Free games updated 3/4/21 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raithe Posted January 12, 2019 Share Posted January 12, 2019 (edited) Well, for those interested in the subject... The History of Philosophy Edited January 12, 2019 by Raithe "Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katphood Posted January 12, 2019 Share Posted January 12, 2019 This is so cute: 1 There used to be a signature here, a really cool one...and now it's gone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gfted1 Posted January 14, 2019 Share Posted January 14, 2019 Previously secret CIA report documents spear attack against surveillance plane. In other news, a Coke bottle that was discarded from the plane, although very useful, caused tribal strife. 3 "I'm your biggest fan, Ill follow you until you love me, Papa" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
injurai Posted January 15, 2019 Share Posted January 15, 2019 Previously secret CIA report documents spear attack against surveillance plane. In other news, a Coke bottle that was discarded from the plane, although very useful, caused tribal strife. I think this has happened to me in Civ. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raithe Posted January 15, 2019 Share Posted January 15, 2019 1 "Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raithe Posted January 15, 2019 Share Posted January 15, 2019 Back in the day (2000), Bowie was spot on.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbeXIMhf8sI 1 "Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
injurai Posted January 15, 2019 Share Posted January 15, 2019 Back in the day (2000), Bowie was spot on.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbeXIMhf8sI Always loved this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raithe Posted January 15, 2019 Share Posted January 15, 2019 5 "Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcador Posted January 15, 2019 Share Posted January 15, 2019 Reminds me that I never did see Alpha. Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
majestic Posted January 15, 2019 Share Posted January 15, 2019 Jump ahead to 22:30 to skip the introduction. 1 No mind to think. No will to break. No voice to cry suffering. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IndiraLightfoot Posted January 16, 2019 Share Posted January 16, 2019 Leet chopper skills!!! Just watch how close the rotor blades are to the icy slope: [Youtube] 2 *** "The words of someone who feels ever more the ent among saplings when playing CRPGs" *** Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raithe Posted January 16, 2019 Share Posted January 16, 2019 5 "Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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