Dear sir, I will adopt your colourful neo-retro exclamation with gusto. By the twin moons of mars!
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Currently I have this problem, that I share with many others. My city invests in this transport infrastructure that I am legally not allowed to use without spending hundreds on acquiring something called a 'licence' , and is impractical for me because of extortionate running costs, because of being grossly surplus to my requirements, and not to mention the initial financial outlay that I would have to spend on equipment to enable me to actually take advantage of it, using money that I would much rather spend on... ohh... just about anything else, for example chocolate biscuits or imported cheese or hand jobs. The system seems to have been developed by a culture that fell into a jibbering fever at the prospect of not having to do any physical exercise in order to get from one place to another, and is now spending trillions of dollars bombing defenceless desert dwelling peasants back into the stone age in order to support the economic balance that enables this lifestyle, simply because they have the audacity to live in a region that is rich in resources and didn't offer to share. Devoting this amount of public resources into such a dubious system seems questionable to me, but it then I am not an economist, health professional, historian, oil industry executive or city planner, so what the fuck would I know.
Here's the solution, shoot the drunk driver in the back of the head as an example to the rest of them, and then tell your brother it is safe to ride his push bike again.
Oh my fucking god, people like you actually exist.
That's great yeah, drive around all day and then go and spend your evening in neon warehouse full of steroid pumping narcissistic pricks because your car is making you fat. I'll be here, you know, enjoying THE WORLD, the one that WE LIVE ON.
I cycled every day for three months in the snow one year while visiting Germany, out in the country, minimum 8 miles to any destination of interest. I was actually too damn hot with what I was wearing! No one who whinges about this stuff has actually tried it, you know.
The bicycle is a high tech climate control device. You use it with shorts and a t-shirt, you get automatically air cooled! You use it with weatherproof snowboarding type stuff, you get central heating! What a miracle of engineering!
No one is going to bike to work in 3 feet of snow and/or 12 degrees. No one is going to bike to work in driving rain. No one is going to bike to work in 100+ degree temps. If they do, you won't want to be around them
Thats rediculus! Why shuld I expected to do that evertime I cicle?
Same argument. Everyone wants you to wear a polystyrene hat so they can pretend they have fixed the problem and carry on running you off the road and surprising you with their doors.
I think he means the kind of football where you kick a ball with your foot, not the kind of football where you dress up in body armour and grope each other.
You're still using the word colonial wrong even if you believe that. If you want to literally colonise the UK, it means you have to move back here, and live here. Forever. Enjoy the fucking weather.
The submitter simply mixed up the fact that we are a country with a history of colonisation, with the fact that we are colonials. Which is a fair point if you acknowledge our origins in modern day Denmark and Germany...
I just want you to know that I appreciate and agree with your rant, but I don't think you should get so frustrated about it. The kind of things people say about Chinese are about as much of a real discussion you can have about it, given the few facts about it that are widely known and the scarcity of general understanding of the language. Even the fact that I am referring to it as 'the Chinese language', when I know full well there are multiple dialects, is just an inherited habit - one that is hard to break without explaining to everyone who brings it up that there isn't just one 'Chinese language'. Until people just understand that saying 'Do you speak Chinese?' makes about as much sense as asking 'Do you speak European?', you are facing an uphill battle!
I think it is very unlikely that you will ever escape pressure to simplify Chinese, because people that know nothing about it and just read the statistics, automatically respond with 'There are different tones?', or 'There are different kinds of Chinese?' or 'You have to know how many glyphs?!' or even better 'Wait, there is not just one, but TWO sets of 3000 glyphs I have to learn if I want to understand every version of Chinese?'. The vast majority of people only know what is hard about Chinese, giving it a near mythical reputation of being impossible to learn, when really it's just a language like any other. And to be honest, on the surface Chinese does seem a bit masochistic when the vast majority of other languages get away with no tones and less than 30 glyphs, spelling madness aside.
That's a different subject altogether anyway - is the spelling of European languages completely insane, or have the spoken words just changed over time, without anyone being able to accept that the written forms should change too? You could come up and tell me that the spelling in English is insane and we should change it, and frankly I would have to accept that you have a point, but I could still tell you why we haven't, and that we struggle with it ourselves anyway.
You call English a bastard language, well it factually is the bastard child of French and German, mixed with parts of various other european languages, and left to pickle for hundreds of years on an island with hardly any outside contact, save for the odd Invasion by mainland europeans, it has unsurprisingly become a little bit eccentric - and any attempt to define what constitutes 'good' English should always be put in that context. If I understand you, well done, that's good English, we don't need to get the Queen involved!
You just have to tolerate the unwilling and educate the willing. Sure there are people that understand very little and talk very loudly. It is not our duty to save them from ignorance!
Actually, the more likely charicature of events is that we just could not believe that anyone could be quite so blase about the prospect of bombing a country into oblivion without some sort of concrete reason that they genuinely believed in.
Well, you know that old tenesee saying... maybe in texas... fool me once.... can't get fooled again.
Sad as it is, how are you actually supposed to have any effect on the mentality of your neighbours two doors down. Face it, you're damned if you do and damned if you don't. If the US jumps in and 'saves the day', a sizable amount of people will just write off your effort as interference and imperialism, and anyone you have said 'Hi' to will be labelled a puppet traitor. You won't change peoples opinions, so the same shit will just happen somewhere elses.
The only thing I take comfort in is that nobody actually wants to be like this spineless fuckwit, even if it does work for a while. Who the fuck wants to be ruler of a graveyard?
Ok, next time you post, I want you to try and make some sense. Just imagine that we are not part of you internal monologue before you address us all. Thankyou.
The legality of it doesn't really come into the question. What would happen if anyone attacked Switzerland? Fair enough, it does have an army, but it's a country that has done its level best to mind its own business for hundreds of years. Attacking it would be a political suicide, that would turn everyone against the offending aggressor. Which is more or less what happened to Germany when it attacked Poland.
Essentially. if you attack someone defenceless unprovoked, you might get away with the deed itself, but you have signed your own execution warrant, enjoy the time you have left while the group hunts you down...
I find this quite poignant... cheer up Americans, much as we slag you off we know that you are good intentioned. Just that you know what they say about the road to hell...
I am posting under a pseudonym... or well, rather my school nickname. So I feel the irony too. But yeah, fuck anonymity, if you are going to say something, fucking stand behind it, dont be a total cunt.
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Dear sir, I will adopt your colourful neo-retro exclamation with gusto. By the twin moons of mars!
Currently I have this problem, that I share with many others. My city invests in this transport infrastructure that I am legally not allowed to use without spending hundreds on acquiring something called a 'licence' , and is impractical for me because of extortionate running costs, because of being grossly surplus to my requirements, and not to mention the initial financial outlay that I would have to spend on equipment to enable me to actually take advantage of it, using money that I would much rather spend on... ohh... just about anything else, for example chocolate biscuits or imported cheese or hand jobs. The system seems to have been developed by a culture that fell into a jibbering fever at the prospect of not having to do any physical exercise in order to get from one place to another, and is now spending trillions of dollars bombing defenceless desert dwelling peasants back into the stone age in order to support the economic balance that enables this lifestyle, simply because they have the audacity to live in a region that is rich in resources and didn't offer to share. Devoting this amount of public resources into such a dubious system seems questionable to me, but it then I am not an economist, health professional, historian, oil industry executive or city planner, so what the fuck would I know.
Here's the solution, shoot the drunk driver in the back of the head as an example to the rest of them, and then tell your brother it is safe to ride his push bike again.
Oh my fucking god, people like you actually exist.
That's great yeah, drive around all day and then go and spend your evening in neon warehouse full of steroid pumping narcissistic pricks because your car is making you fat. I'll be here, you know, enjoying THE WORLD, the one that WE LIVE ON.
I cycled every day for three months in the snow one year while visiting Germany, out in the country, minimum 8 miles to any destination of interest. I was actually too damn hot with what I was wearing! No one who whinges about this stuff has actually tried it, you know.
The bicycle is a high tech climate control device. You use it with shorts and a t-shirt, you get automatically air cooled! You use it with weatherproof snowboarding type stuff, you get central heating! What a miracle of engineering!
No one is going to bike to work in 3 feet of snow and/or 12 degrees.
No one is going to bike to work in driving rain.
No one is going to bike to work in 100+ degree temps. If they do, you won't want to be around them
Pussy.
Thats rediculus! Why shuld I expected to do that evertime I cicle?
Same argument. Everyone wants you to wear a polystyrene hat so they can pretend they have fixed the problem and carry on running you off the road and surprising you with their doors.
I think he means the kind of football where you kick a ball with your foot, not the kind of football where you dress up in body armour and grope each other.
Meh. Traffic laws were invented to control your STEEL BOX OF MURDER, SATANIST!
You're still using the word colonial wrong even if you believe that. If you want to literally colonise the UK, it means you have to move back here, and live here. Forever. Enjoy the fucking weather.
The submitter simply mixed up the fact that we are a country with a history of colonisation, with the fact that we are colonials. Which is a fair point if you acknowledge our origins in modern day Denmark and Germany...
I just want you to know that I appreciate and agree with your rant, but I don't think you should get so frustrated about it. The kind of things people say about Chinese are about as much of a real discussion you can have about it, given the few facts about it that are widely known and the scarcity of general understanding of the language. Even the fact that I am referring to it as 'the Chinese language', when I know full well there are multiple dialects, is just an inherited habit - one that is hard to break without explaining to everyone who brings it up that there isn't just one 'Chinese language'. Until people just understand that saying 'Do you speak Chinese?' makes about as much sense as asking 'Do you speak European?', you are facing an uphill battle!
I think it is very unlikely that you will ever escape pressure to simplify Chinese, because people that know nothing about it and just read the statistics, automatically respond with 'There are different tones?', or 'There are different kinds of Chinese?' or 'You have to know how many glyphs?!' or even better 'Wait, there is not just one, but TWO sets of 3000 glyphs I have to learn if I want to understand every version of Chinese?'. The vast majority of people only know what is hard about Chinese, giving it a near mythical reputation of being impossible to learn, when really it's just a language like any other. And to be honest, on the surface Chinese does seem a bit masochistic when the vast majority of other languages get away with no tones and less than 30 glyphs, spelling madness aside.
That's a different subject altogether anyway - is the spelling of European languages completely insane, or have the spoken words just changed over time, without anyone being able to accept that the written forms should change too? You could come up and tell me that the spelling in English is insane and we should change it, and frankly I would have to accept that you have a point, but I could still tell you why we haven't, and that we struggle with it ourselves anyway.
You call English a bastard language, well it factually is the bastard child of French and German, mixed with parts of various other european languages, and left to pickle for hundreds of years on an island with hardly any outside contact, save for the odd Invasion by mainland europeans, it has unsurprisingly become a little bit eccentric - and any attempt to define what constitutes 'good' English should always be put in that context. If I understand you, well done, that's good English, we don't need to get the Queen involved!
You just have to tolerate the unwilling and educate the willing. Sure there are people that understand very little and talk very loudly. It is not our duty to save them from ignorance!
Haha, the funny thing is that both occupations basically guarantee you being able to travel any where you like, with next to no hassle. Jealous?
Oh for fucks sake, I don't even come from your country and I can understand that accent. You must be wilfully trying not to understand.
Oh get fucked, theres nothing technically inferior about the Chinese, most of the world could learn something from them.
Actually, the more likely charicature of events is that we just could not believe that anyone could be quite so blase about the prospect of bombing a country into oblivion without some sort of concrete reason that they genuinely believed in.
Well, you know that old tenesee saying... maybe in texas... fool me once.... can't get fooled again.
Sad as it is, how are you actually supposed to have any effect on the mentality of your neighbours two doors down. Face it, you're damned if you do and damned if you don't. If the US jumps in and 'saves the day', a sizable amount of people will just write off your effort as interference and imperialism, and anyone you have said 'Hi' to will be labelled a puppet traitor. You won't change peoples opinions, so the same shit will just happen somewhere elses.
The only thing I take comfort in is that nobody actually wants to be like this spineless fuckwit, even if it does work for a while. Who the fuck wants to be ruler of a graveyard?
Ok, next time you post, I want you to try and make some sense. Just imagine that we are not part of you internal monologue before you address us all. Thankyou.
The legality of it doesn't really come into the question. What would happen if anyone attacked Switzerland? Fair enough, it does have an army, but it's a country that has done its level best to mind its own business for hundreds of years. Attacking it would be a political suicide, that would turn everyone against the offending aggressor. Which is more or less what happened to Germany when it attacked Poland.
Essentially. if you attack someone defenceless unprovoked, you might get away with the deed itself, but you have signed your own execution warrant, enjoy the time you have left while the group hunts you down...
I am in awe of you noting the same ironic pun as I did.
I would still contest whether this has anything to do with religion, or just plain old fashioned fucked in the head-ness...
So was being gay, black or female or jewish, for all intents and purposes. Want to wind back the clock?
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You complete imbecile, have you heard of Japan?
I find this quite poignant... cheer up Americans, much as we slag you off we know that you are good intentioned. Just that you know what they say about the road to hell...
I am posting under a pseudonym... or well, rather my school nickname. So I feel the irony too. But yeah, fuck anonymity, if you are going to say something, fucking stand behind it, dont be a total cunt.
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