Confusing headlines and other trips down the garden path
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Friend conducting an informal survey of whether people think that the religious tradition they were raised in had on impact on their "nonbelief" later in life. One of the more rambling replies included the clause "I stoped believing in college" [sic] which I read as a curiously off-topic statement concering a loss of faith in our higher education system.
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Gay Barbarian Horde Glitters Bachmann Clinic
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This sounds amazing.linguoboy wrote:Gay Barbarian Horde
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I hear they're recruiting.Astraios wrote:This sounds amazing.linguoboy wrote:Gay Barbarian Horde
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Oh, I don't want to join, I was having a mental wank over the imagery. Big muscles in skimpy leather outfits, yes please.linguoboy wrote:I hear they're recruiting.
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Here's an article, with a video enclosed.
I love this. The clinic is less than ten miles from my house, I wish I had known that this was happening so I could have gone to watch.
I love this. The clinic is less than ten miles from my house, I wish I had known that this was happening so I could have gone to watch.
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I came across this yesterday: Swedish man's thong use prompts police probe, and couldn't make any sense out of it. But now I was posting this I just realized what it meant. Huh. (Except I still don't know what they mean by probe.) It's a rather hilarious article btw.
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In case you didn't see it on Language Log: "Transgenic grass skirts regulators".
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That reminds me of a time that I proofread a classmate's short story in 8th grade: I was quite confused/disturbed by the part that talked about a woman "raping presents" for Christmas until I figured out what he actually meant.linguoboy wrote:One of the more rambling replies included the clause "I stoped believing in college" [sic]
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You can parse it:Qwynegold wrote:Huh?
((Transgenic (grass skirts)) regulators)
Which doesn't make much sense, until you realise that skirts can be a verb (meaning to avoid):
(Transgenic grass) skirts regulators.
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And get arrested for inciting violence and/or assault (if the glitter hits a person)?Risla wrote:Here's an article, with a video enclosed.
I love this. The clinic is less than ten miles from my house, I wish I had known that this was happening so I could have gone to watch.
You do know that assault in some jurisdictions is a very hazy definition which can include "glittering" a person. (especially if you cause eye damage to the person who is the target)
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Nōn quālibet inīquā cupiditāte illectus hoc agō
Yo te pongo en tu lugar...
Taisc mach Daró
Nōn quālibet inīquā cupiditāte illectus hoc agō
Yo te pongo en tu lugar...
Taisc mach Daró
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Why would you get arrested for watching someone do something?
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Yeah but... Oh, he wasn't replying to me.Timmytiptoe wrote:You can parse it:Qwynegold wrote:Huh?
((Transgenic (grass skirts)) regulators)
Which doesn't make much sense, until you realise that skirts can be a verb (meaning to avoid):
(Transgenic grass) skirts regulators.
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Courtesy of Reuters: UBS rogue loss hammers risk efforts, new risk boss.
I wonder where I find rogue loss hammers. HomeBase?
I wonder where I find rogue loss hammers. HomeBase?
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ROFLMAO
I don't even know if this is real or what, but what I don't understand the sentence in red. In Swedish it said "Han menar att det som hände är oacceptabelt men det som skolan nu hoppas på är snarare att maten snabbt blir bättre än att strippdansen försvinner illa kvickt", which I interpreted the way I translated it here. But that seems really odd.They complained on the food - that's when the food lady stripped
Both students and teachers had gotten sick of substandard school food. That became too much for one of the food ladies who simply pulled down her pants and started to dance.
Uppsala. The oven pancake look like sticky porridge and the regular pancakes were frozen in the middle. That was the last straw for both teachers and pupils at Frösåker School in Östhammar, who had long complained about the school food. But it was highly unanticipated when one of the food ladies answered with a striptease.
-She took of her apron, pulled down the zipper, let her hair loose and <can anyone translate åla in this context into English?> against a pole like a stripper. The counselor tried to explain to her that this behavior is not okay, but she just kept dancing, says the school's principal Per Rostgaard to Uppsala Nya Tidning.
He says that what happened is unacceptable, but what the school now is hoping for is rather that food will quickly get better than that the striptease goes away soon. Presently it is unclear if the food lady gets to continue working in the school.
According to the blog of one of the students, the police had to finally arrive after the whole situation ended in a food fight.
It becomes a case for Östhammar commune to take a stand to.
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Skeptic finds he now agrees global warming is real
What skeptic would believe the oil companies' bullshit -- oh they mean denier..
What skeptic would believe the oil companies' bullshit -- oh they mean denier..
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No, a sceptic is one who's not sure one way or the other. One who is unwilling to believe either position on the basis of the available evidence. 'Agnostic' rather than 'atheist'.
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An old (apocryphal?) headline is supposed to have read :
Newlyweds face mounting problems
It will probably get recycled sometime soon as the economy goes to hell.
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An old (apocryphal?) headline is supposed to have read :
Newlyweds face mounting problems
It will probably get recycled sometime soon as the economy goes to hell.
Kyn nag ov den skentel pur ...
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Oh look another denialistmarconatrix wrote:No, a sceptic is one who's not sure one way or the other. One who is unwilling to believe either position on the basis of the available evidence. 'Agnostic' rather than 'atheist'.
ftfymarconatrix wrote:Newlywed's face mounting problems
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you're good at spotting them! do you want a medal?Bob Johnson wrote:Oh look another denialistmarconatrix wrote:No, a sceptic is one who's not sure one way or the other. One who is unwilling to believe either position on the basis of the available evidence. 'Agnostic' rather than 'atheist'.
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yes pls mail to 1600 Penn Ave Washington DC USAPthug wrote:do you want a medal?
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I'm sure the White House has a medal detector. (ba-da-cha)
In every U.S. presidential election between 1976 and 2004, the Republican nominee for president or for vice president was either a Dole or a Bush.
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he already won an ideological correctness medal
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Every time I read an article on fracking, I think along these lines.Bob Johnson wrote:Report on Wyoming water doesn't end fracking debate
just end the fracking debate already
Romney: $10G Bet is 'Outrageous' Sum for 'Outrageous' Claim." (yes, it's Fox News.)
Misinterpreted the G as meaning "giga-" rather than "grand", and was like "Well, yeah, a $10 billion bet is a bit outrageous - the only people with that kind of money are the 1% of the 1%, and probably another iteration or two beyond that."
MI DRALAS, KHARULE MEVO STANI?!