If the government can bequeath unto you your own property, then it was never yours to begin with. Imploded? I'll take booms and busts over the benevolent dictator deciding what I deserve to reap from my work.
Wait, you think we were on track to win in Vietnam?
The North Vietnamese military machine had been severely pummeled into near desolation. After every major push by the NVA, the NVA was barely able to continue. Only thu strategic use of cease fires and peace accord charades were the NVA able to regroup. Win? Maybe, but a Korea-like scenario was plenty feasible. But the defeatist liberals would have none of it. Fight communism? Hell no, Jane Fonda wanted communism (as long as she could still be rich and famous).
stupid protests against the Vietnam war, which didn't change anything
I don't know. It got a whole shit-ton of South Vietnamese purged and relegated the remainder to live in communism since the US wasn't there to prevent it. Nice work, liberals!
True, except that once upon a time everyone knew that IIDSSM had a specific purpose. When people use it incorrectly, other people learn the incorrect use. After enough years, no phrase has any idiomatic meaning.
The other day, I saw a newspaper ad that said, "Anyone can join our exclusive club." What is happening to common English that not even EXCLUSIVE has meaning?
In my neck of the DOD, all external storage devices were disabled by GPO. And I'm nothing special. And flash drives bought from the GSA catalog are nothing special either.
Well, the phrase "...if I do say so myself" is supposed to serve as a qualifier for the preceding phrase. It points out that the preceding statement is probably based on some bias. That is the entire point of "IIDSSM".
After painting a car: "This is a pretty good paint job, if I do say so myself."
It serves to avoid being accused of bias, since you yourself point it out.
An improper use might be the same car paint job statement, but after someone else painted it. Especially if that someone else has nothing to do with you (as opposed to your body shop employee who you had some hand in training).
Someone pointed out some good looking girl and stated, "she's pretty cute, if I do say so myself." Unless that she is your wife (bias because you got a hottie) or your daughter (bias cause she's got your good looks) then that is an improper use.
I went so far as to contact 2 colleges in my state to confer with their English departments to ensure I wasn't all fucked up on this subject.
No amount of my arguing with them would persuade them.
Weyrhauser is a major player in Washington state politics. Which may explain why they get to destroy hundreds of thousands of acres of national forest land.
Did you miss the part where I said Pacific Northwest? Lodgepole Pines, Pacific Silver Fir, and the other assorted pines are soft-woods valued for their pulp and used for paper.
It would be nice if all paper was from private land farming, but I know different. It may be a reneweABLE resource, it doesn't mean it is produced as such.
Lets see... I can do all the work to farm trees...or... i can just $convince$ some senators to let me cut down all the trees in the Forest Service public land. Hmmm. which is cheaper?
You haven't spent any time in the Pacific Northwest, have you?
Tree-farming is done, yes. But the preponderant majority of logging is done on non-farmed trees and on public land.
It is a net positive to use a lot of paper, tree-wise.
A statement so mind-bogglingly stupid I can't tell if you are joking or not. It is a net positive to paper and logging companies....but entire forests cut to the ground (and things like massive erosion that follow) is probably not so wonderful for whatever lived there before.
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Whoa. And you accuse me of temper tantrums?
When did I feel like a man for killing someone?
if placing liberty over peace makes me a war monger, fine. but you need to back your statement up.
and while you are at it, behold the greatest work of art that American Cinema has ever produced!
If the government can bequeath unto you your own property, then it was never yours to begin with. Imploded? I'll take booms and busts over the benevolent dictator deciding what I deserve to reap from my work.
Wait, you think we were on track to win in Vietnam?
The North Vietnamese military machine had been severely pummeled into near desolation. After every major push by the NVA, the NVA was barely able to continue. Only thu strategic use of cease fires and peace accord charades were the NVA able to regroup. Win? Maybe, but a Korea-like scenario was plenty feasible. But the defeatist liberals would have none of it. Fight communism? Hell no, Jane Fonda wanted communism (as long as she could still be rich and famous).
stupid protests against the Vietnam war, which didn't change anything
I don't know. It got a whole shit-ton of South Vietnamese purged and relegated the remainder to live in communism since the US wasn't there to prevent it. Nice work, liberals!
It's easy to get 1M MORE people to stand up for government handouts, affirmative action, race baiting, and pop culture coolness.
1: fix the problems.
2: abandon the plan.
3: arrest the people who embarrassed you, suppress any mention of the incidents.
Hmmm... let's see...
Cap baby, cap?
Well, technically she isn't guilty of anything until she's had a fair and speedy trial by her peers.
How we see prostitutes as shameful, prostitution as sad, yet pimps as the gold standard of cool.
A laptop "pimped out" with Norton? WTF?
Bitch BETTER have my query!
To be honest, he sounds a lot like a slashdotter.
I'd bet he has a mac at home except that mac owners are frightened of guns or direct confrontation ....hmm.
Well...that depends.
Is it okay if the dogs are wearing the diapers?
Do you have any hot in-laws?
Really? I actually stuffed 2 single kayaks inside my prius. There was even room for a sammich!
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/26/science/earth/26star.html
Patience is a virtue, virtue is a grace. Grace is a little girl who didn't wash her face.
My co-workers are wondering why i can't stop laughing.
True, except that once upon a time everyone knew that IIDSSM had a specific purpose. When people use it incorrectly, other people learn the incorrect use. After enough years, no phrase has any idiomatic meaning.
The other day, I saw a newspaper ad that said, "Anyone can join our exclusive club." What is happening to common English that not even EXCLUSIVE has meaning?
In my neck of the DOD, all external storage devices were disabled by GPO. And I'm nothing special. And flash drives bought from the GSA catalog are nothing special either.
Well, the phrase "...if I do say so myself" is supposed to serve as a qualifier for the preceding phrase. It points out that the preceding statement is probably based on some bias. That is the entire point of "IIDSSM".
After painting a car: "This is a pretty good paint job, if I do say so myself."
It serves to avoid being accused of bias, since you yourself point it out.
An improper use might be the same car paint job statement, but after someone else painted it. Especially if that someone else has nothing to do with you (as opposed to your body shop employee who you had some hand in training).
Someone pointed out some good looking girl and stated, "she's pretty cute, if I do say so myself." Unless that she is your wife (bias because you got a hottie) or your daughter (bias cause she's got your good looks) then that is an improper use.
I went so far as to contact 2 colleges in my state to confer with their English departments to ensure I wasn't all fucked up on this subject.
No amount of my arguing with them would persuade them.
This angers me to no end.
The other day I had a huge argument over the use of the phrase: "if I do say so myself".
It seems people have become so stupid that all actual meaning is lost, and any phrase can be used in any way.
Hence the link?
This, filled with auto-injector flechette rounds.
NPR had a long thing on this the other day. Supposedly it kills our attention span. Or something, tl;dl.
Weyrhauser is a major player in Washington state politics. Which may explain why they get to destroy hundreds of thousands of acres of national forest land.
Did you miss the part where I said Pacific Northwest? Lodgepole Pines, Pacific Silver Fir, and the other assorted pines are soft-woods valued for their pulp and used for paper.
It would be nice if all paper was from private land farming, but I know different. It may be a reneweABLE resource, it doesn't mean it is produced as such.
You forgot your briefcase!!!!
Lets see... I can do all the work to farm trees...or... i can just $convince$ some senators to let me cut down all the trees in the Forest Service public land. Hmmm. which is cheaper?
You haven't spent any time in the Pacific Northwest, have you?
Tree-farming is done, yes. But the preponderant majority of logging is done on non-farmed trees and on public land.
It is a net positive to use a lot of paper, tree-wise.
A statement so mind-bogglingly stupid I can't tell if you are joking or not. It is a net positive to paper and logging companies....but entire forests cut to the ground (and things like massive erosion that follow) is probably not so wonderful for whatever lived there before.