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| Whippersnapper. |
Posted - 04/27/2009 : 15:29:18
Yes, there is somewhere in the world where you are GUARANTEED there will be no swine flu.
Read about it HERE.
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| 15 L A T E S T R E P L I E S (Newest First) |
| aahaa, muahaha |
Posted - 05/04/2009 : 03:58:02
My friends told me that US will have a Black President only "when pigs fly."
We have Obama now. and then, swine flew, er..., Swine flu.
Btw, pigs may be intelligent but are they "emotionally intelligent"? |
| Whippersnapper. |
Posted - 05/03/2009 : 10:35:03
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Originally posted by Salopian
I was quite obviously laughing at my reputation here as a linguistic pedant.
Then how about a little laugh at your reputation for being a pompous nauseating fuck-up?
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| Sal[Au]pian |
Posted - 05/03/2009 : 07:19:52
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Originally posted by Se�n
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| Sal[Au]pian |
Posted - 05/03/2009 : 07:18:49
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Originally posted by thefoxboy
Well I discovered sometime ago that I am blocked from seeing you or your status, but I worked my way around that.
Why on Earth would you want to see my status?  You're always whinging about 'having' to read things that I write here. |
| Sal[Au]pian |
Posted - 05/03/2009 : 07:11:24
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Originally posted by Whippersnapper
Well, it is to me.
This is the problem with you. Like BaftaBabe, as I have often stated, I try to stick to talking about what I actually know about. Since I know a reasonable amount about words and language, and this is a site about words, I often make comments about that subject. It's also a site about films, but I know much less about them and so openly only make more basic comments about them. Other subjects come up that I do or don't know something about. Conversely, you repeatedly comment on things regardless of knowing anything about them. You make up your opinions in isolation, without regard to any actual evidence.
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Perhaps to complete and utter pedants it may not constitute a tense by some test they chose to apply... but [they] would be well advised not to tell the rest of us what we should think.
I love that you just can never see how hypocritical you are. You corrected B.B. about species, something that I had also noticed but decided not to mention. She was obviously using it fairly casually, just as GHcool was with tense. Both words have precise meanings and obviously may be used more crudely in everyday conversations. You also fairly often correct people's spellings. (I know that people think that I do that, but it is only the case extremely exceptionally other than in reviews, which do need to be amended.) I know that in both the instance here and in other cases such as those spellings, you are only pointing it out glibly for amusement, but the problem is that you don't see that that is the same with me. I winked when I said it, for fuck's sake. I was quite obviously laughing at my reputation here as a linguistic pedant. So there's still a difference between us, because you have absolutely no sense of humour about yourself. |
| Sal[Au]pian |
Posted - 05/03/2009 : 06:53:42
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Originally posted by BaftaBabe
I know full well what constitutes a species, but chose to use more generic categories
My thought and (I assume) W.'s post were only in passing anyway, but if you didn't mean species you could just have used another word such as type. 
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I don't make statements about scientific matters based on my own beliefs or practices but upon long-term personal research and consideration of the research of others... I really hate it when people make assumptions about me and I try not to do that about others. Accusing me of something rather than the more courteous asking me about something may not be the best way to engage with me about ideas.
I genuinely don't know what you are talking about here. Is it the stuff about species or my points about what is 'natural' or something else? I think you're really being over-sensitive whichever it is. In the case of the middle category, I think I made it clear that I can see that my own preferences are sure to affect which scientific evidence is strongest in my mind, and I think that's fair to assume about anyone else. No one can assess the science of this area totally neutrally, because everyone has an outlook on the matter before they have any scientific understanding (having eaten food since they were born). And all the points I made are pretty much factual, just as I can accept the fact that we do have canine teeth (albeit very small ones), for example. |
| Sean |
Posted - 04/30/2009 : 23:04:55
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Originally posted by MguyX
I believe this is the earliest documented sighting, oddly enough, by musicians.
Ahh, reminds me of their "Delicate Sound of Thunder" tour which I saw in NZ in 1988 with 85,000 people through a cloud of green smoke. The pig flew right over my head.  |
| MguyX |
Posted - 04/30/2009 : 22:34:15
I believe this is the earliest documented sighting, oddly enough, by musicians. |
| rockfsh |
Posted - 04/30/2009 : 22:03:35
Revenge of the Herds |
| Sean |
Posted - 04/30/2009 : 21:15:23
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| Sean |
Posted - 04/30/2009 : 21:14:11
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Originally posted by thefoxboy
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Originally posted by Salopian
Some will have seen my Facebook status "If we all die from an animal husbandry-induced pandemic, don't come crying to me."
Well I discovered sometime ago that I am blocked from seeing you or your status, but I worked my way around that.
I just had a look to see what I could see but notice I'm also on Salopian's block list.  |
| thefoxboy |
Posted - 04/30/2009 : 21:04:45
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Originally posted by Salopian
Some will have seen my Facebook status "If we all die from an animal husbandry-induced pandemic, don't come crying to me."
Well I discovered sometime ago that I am blocked from seeing you or your status, but I worked my way around that. |
| Whippersnapper. |
Posted - 04/30/2009 : 20:21:27
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Originally posted by Beanmimo
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Originally posted by Whippersnapper
No, please don't bother. I don't need to take it up with anyone, including you.
He has a point, it's one of the few little things i remember from studying English all those years ago, a composite future tense (inherted from the Germanic root of the English language) isn't really a tense at all.
Well, it is to me. Perhaps to complete and utter pedants it may not constitute a tense by some test they chose to apply, but to the rest of the population it certainly does constitute a tense because it applies a verbal form to a time frame.
I have no doubt that the vast majority of people see the matter in this way and the small minority who insist otherwise are free to do so but would be well advised not to tell the rest of us what we should think.
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| BaftaBaby |
Posted - 04/30/2009 : 18:42:42
As I said, I don't want to get confrontational about anything I post here. So after this I won't be replying to anyone in this thread ... and I offer the following more as elaboration rather than direct reply.
I know full well what constitutes a species, but chose to use more generic categories for apes and whales and dolphins because of the impossibility to distinguish levels of intelligence between say, orcas and amazonian river porpoises, or [crucially as relates to ourselves], between the 4 species of great apes if you include bonobos, and even the lesser apes, lars and gibbons.
What's indisputable by anyone who's been following the research for the past 35 years is that pigs come 4th in any configuration of intelligence testing. And yes, I realize that is a mutable science.
I don't make statements about scientific matters based on my own beliefs or practices but upon long-term personal research and consideration of the research of others. I can quote sources if I had more time. I don't tend to mouth off about subjects I don't know extremely well, though I can't promise it hasn't happened from time to time. But not in this thread!
I really hate it when people make assumptions about me and I try not to do that about others. Accusing me of something rather than the more courteous asking me about something may not be the best way to engage with me about ideas.
I'm really and truly just not interested in arguing.
Nighty-night, now!
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| MguyX |
Posted - 04/30/2009 : 17:38:18
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Originally posted by Beanmimo
I'm loving all the cleverness!!
Don't worry: give it a little time and you'll get back to normal.  |
