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As an atheist, what angers you?
RE: As an atheist, what angers you?
(June 29, 2016 at 5:45 am)Alasdair Ham Wrote: As an atheist one of the things that angers me the most is definitely without a doubt the heartburn I feel in my chest right now due to eating too many bananas.

OMG, Hammy's gone radioactive.
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RE: As an atheist, what angers you?
(June 29, 2016 at 12:47 pm)Homeless Nutter Wrote:
(June 29, 2016 at 12:37 pm)Alasdair Ham Wrote: It's become an informal version of "regardless" through bastardization. Sadly it has indeed become an actual word.

I say "sadly" because it annoys me how it makes no sense whatsoever. How can "regardless" and "irregardless" mean the same thing?[...]

How can "flammable" and "inflammable" mean the same thing? "Habitable" and "inhabitable"?  How can "bi-weekly" mean both twice a week and once every two weeks? Why do 'Murricans say "I could care less" to mean "I couldn't care less"? Why can we now apparently say "less people", as well as "fewer people", but we still can't say "fewer milk"?...  Huh

Oh, the joys of a living language...

Oh, don't get me started on the Anglicisation of the Irish language.

Votail my fucking arse.
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RE: As an atheist, what angers you?
(June 29, 2016 at 5:40 pm)Constable Dorfl Wrote:
(June 29, 2016 at 12:47 pm)Homeless Nutter Wrote: How can "flammable" and "inflammable" mean the same thing? "Habitable" and "inhabitable"?  How can "bi-weekly" mean both twice a week and once every two weeks? Why do 'Murricans say "I could care less" to mean "I couldn't care less"? Why can we now apparently say "less people", as well as "fewer people", but we still can't say "fewer milk"?...  Huh

Oh, the joys of a living language...

Oh, don't get me started on the Anglicisation of the Irish language.

Votail my fucking arse.

What the feck you talking about?


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RE: As an atheist, what angers you?
(June 29, 2016 at 6:53 pm)Emjay Wrote:
(June 29, 2016 at 5:40 pm)Constable Dorfl Wrote: Oh, don't get me started on the Anglicisation of the Irish language.

Votail my fucking arse.

What the feck you talking about?



That comment was brought on by my personal antipathy to the introduction of the word "votáil X" as the verb form of vote in the Irish language, when we already have a perfectly acceptable formulation "cuir do rogha ar X" (literally, put your choice on X) in the language. The same antipathy goes for the word "carr" introduced in place of the proper word "gluaisteán" for car (well automobiles in general). I don't mind substituting in a foreign word when there is no native equivalent but when there is, it's just simply dumbing down a language.
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RE: As an atheist, what angers you?
feckless ?

what the hell is a feck ?
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RE: As an atheist, what angers you?
As an atheist the spelling of field angers me.
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yield too
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RE: As an atheist, what angers you?
(June 30, 2016 at 8:08 am)Constable Dorfl Wrote:
(June 29, 2016 at 6:53 pm)Emjay Wrote: What the feck you talking about?



That comment was brought on by my personal antipathy to the introduction of the word "votáil X" as the verb form of vote in the Irish language, when we already have a perfectly acceptable formulation "cuir do rogha ar X" (literally, put your choice on X) in the language. The same antipathy goes for the word "carr" introduced in place of the proper word "gluaisteán" for car (well automobiles in general). I don't mind substituting in a foreign word when there is no native equivalent but when there is, it's just simply dumbing down a language.

I'm half Irish but I don't speak a word of Gaelic, having never lived in Ireland (that above was just from Father Ted if you didn't know Wink ). I'm sorry that you're seeing the language ruined by Anglicisation but from my perspective it would certainly help the transition if I end up moving there because of Brexshit  Wink One of my Irish relatives is an expert in Gaelic and spent his life trying to preserve it, so I do roughly understand where you're coming from by wanting it to remain pure. It is something I should try and learn, even just a little, for the sake of my own heritage.
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(June 29, 2016 at 3:27 pm)Excited Penguin Wrote:
(June 29, 2016 at 2:21 pm)Spirian Wrote: Waiting in line for a black coffee while wannabe hipsters order $7 girlie drinks and hold up the line.

'Wannabe hipster'. That's a whole new level of insulting right there.

That's a true fact right there.
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RE: As an atheist, what angers you?
(June 29, 2016 at 5:36 pm)Constable Dorfl Wrote:
(June 29, 2016 at 5:45 am)Alasdair Ham Wrote: As an atheist one of the things that angers me the most is definitely without a doubt the heartburn I feel in my chest right now due to eating too many bananas.

OMG, Hammy's gone radioactive.

Guys.... he wasn't joking:

[Image: monster-turtle-ott-bettina-concept.jpg]

Heartburn has gone. Transformation complete.
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