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Vix Spiderthrust • commented on 4 posts 3 weeks ago

50 Hilariously Cringe Posts Of Unshakable Confidence Gone Awry (Best Of All Time)

THIS. As a rule of thumb, any word that is not military or techological in origin, and no world at all that predates the twentieth century, is an acronym.

50 Hilariously Cringe Posts Of Unshakable Confidence Gone Awry (Best Of All Time)

Both of these suggestions are backronyms. The word "news" just literally means "things that are new"

50 Hilariously Cringe Posts Of Unshakable Confidence Gone Awry (Best Of All Time)

THIS. As a rule of thumb, any word that is not military or techological in origin, and no world at all that predates the twentieth century, is an acronym.

50 Hilariously Cringe Posts Of Unshakable Confidence Gone Awry (Best Of All Time)

Both of these suggestions are backronyms. The word "news" just literally means "things that are new"

50 Hilariously Cringe Posts Of Unshakable Confidence Gone Awry (Best Of All Time)

But, as I always say at this post, see also James Joyce criticising Irish people who had entire conversations in English and then said "goodbye" in Gaelic, as if that somehow amounted to retaining your culture

“Narcissistic Moron”: 50 People Reveal The Celebs They’ve Lost Respect For

So less "forcefully" and more "by deception", but still a pretty grim thing for a grown woman to do to a kid

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Vix Spiderthrust • upvoted 36 items 3 weeks ago

50 Hilariously Cringe Posts Of Unshakable Confidence Gone Awry (Best Of All Time)

Because that isn't how acronyms work.

50 Hilariously Cringe Posts Of Unshakable Confidence Gone Awry (Best Of All Time)

When people confidently state rubbish like this, do they not look to other languages and note the obvious similarities in the words? News is literally the things that are new. It's the same in Welsh: new = newydd; news = newyddion. Also, acronyms are a relatively new thing. So no, golf does NOT mean "Gentlemen only, ladies forbidden", posh does not mean "Port out, starboard home", and fúck does not mean "Fornication Under Consent of the King"!

50 Hilariously Cringe Posts Of Unshakable Confidence Gone Awry (Best Of All Time)

Because that isn't how acronyms work.

50 Hilariously Cringe Posts Of Unshakable Confidence Gone Awry (Best Of All Time)

I am British, and still use Imperial

50 Hilariously Cringe Posts Of Unshakable Confidence Gone Awry (Best Of All Time)

And it's not even f*****g close. As a former devout christian, church isn't there to PRAY FOR you. It's there to PREY ON you. I wish they would all just go full Notre Dame Cathedral.... popped popcorn watching tthat testement to pure evil burn.

50 Hilariously Cringe Posts Of Unshakable Confidence Gone Awry (Best Of All Time)

No. Orange colour was named after the citrus fruit. Previously a shade of red.

50 Hilariously Cringe Posts Of Unshakable Confidence Gone Awry (Best Of All Time)

OMG. You misspelled the misspelling.

50 Hilariously Cringe Posts Of Unshakable Confidence Gone Awry (Best Of All Time)

Also whitecurrants and blackcurrants

50 Hilariously Cringe Posts Of Unshakable Confidence Gone Awry (Best Of All Time)

Humans grow tails and lose them at around 8 weeks.

50 Hilariously Cringe Posts Of Unshakable Confidence Gone Awry (Best Of All Time)

Redcurrants?

50 Hilariously Cringe Posts Of Unshakable Confidence Gone Awry (Best Of All Time)

I wish we had them in the UK

50 Hilariously Cringe Posts Of Unshakable Confidence Gone Awry (Best Of All Time)

And reward ourselves with a pint

50 Hilariously Cringe Posts Of Unshakable Confidence Gone Awry (Best Of All Time)

Oh boy....

50 Hilariously Cringe Posts Of Unshakable Confidence Gone Awry (Best Of All Time)

No guesses whom SHE voted for in the recent US federal election

50 Hilariously Cringe Posts Of Unshakable Confidence Gone Awry (Best Of All Time)

Kevin Sorbo is an idiot. At least we got the Xena franchise back in the 90s. The best thing he accomplished is elevating a strong female character in a spinoff series.

50 Hilariously Cringe Posts Of Unshakable Confidence Gone Awry (Best Of All Time)

Understanding things is woke!

50 Hilariously Cringe Posts Of Unshakable Confidence Gone Awry (Best Of All Time)

"I do not understand science or it's methods, but I have a strong opinion on it".

50 Hilariously Cringe Posts Of Unshakable Confidence Gone Awry (Best Of All Time)

What??? Why? And 100%? Is someone being confidently incorrect???

50 Hilariously Cringe Posts Of Unshakable Confidence Gone Awry (Best Of All Time)

Don't, it's depressing on numerous levels. However, you are right, The Sun was the newspaper equivalent of a belligerent forum member long before the internet. Like Fox News, they are good at stirring emotions, and very poor at journalism.

50 Hilariously Cringe Posts Of Unshakable Confidence Gone Awry (Best Of All Time)

Our education system, ladies and gentlemen.

50 Hilariously Cringe Posts Of Unshakable Confidence Gone Awry (Best Of All Time)

Steve was our babysitter when my kids were growing up. You did good, Steve!

50 Hilariously Cringe Posts Of Unshakable Confidence Gone Awry (Best Of All Time)

According to BP there are entire countries that are offensive: N***r and Nigeria - N I G E R and N I G E R I A, two of the biggest in Africa (they seem to have changed their policies regarding Nigeria...)

50 Hilariously Cringe Posts Of Unshakable Confidence Gone Awry (Best Of All Time)

Also saying that the UK uses the metric system is an oversimplification. We do use it mostly, but then we travel miles to avoid it sometimes.

50 Hilariously Cringe Posts Of Unshakable Confidence Gone Awry (Best Of All Time)

What else can you expect from The Sun? Google The Sun and Hillsborough.

50 Hilariously Cringe Posts Of Unshakable Confidence Gone Awry (Best Of All Time)

That is scientific proof, but they will still deny it and tell you that God created the Earth as "mature" and "fully-formed," just as Adam was created as a full-grown adult from dust. Trust me, there's no actual, real proof you can give these people that they won't have some answer for.

50 Hilariously Cringe Posts Of Unshakable Confidence Gone Awry (Best Of All Time)

Americans did have, and still does have a third world slave-class.

50 Hilariously Cringe Posts Of Unshakable Confidence Gone Awry (Best Of All Time)

Are you a snowflake if you understand the book?

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This is not a fact, it's a conjecture.

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Hiv And Covid Are The Same...right ?

Mistakes Were Made

Oscar The Grouch

Smart Enough To Lead... Smart Enough To Breed?!?!

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Vix Spiderthrust • commented on 6 posts 3 weeks ago

50 Hilariously Cringe Posts Of Unshakable Confidence Gone Awry (Best Of All Time)

THIS. As a rule of thumb, any word that is not military or techological in origin, and no world at all that predates the twentieth century, is an acronym.

50 Hilariously Cringe Posts Of Unshakable Confidence Gone Awry (Best Of All Time)

Both of these suggestions are backronyms. The word "news" just literally means "things that are new"

50 Hilariously Cringe Posts Of Unshakable Confidence Gone Awry (Best Of All Time)

“Narcissistic Moron”: 50 People Reveal The Celebs They’ve Lost Respect For

So less "forcefully" and more "by deception", but still a pretty grim thing for a grown woman to do to a kid

“Narcissistic Moron”: 50 People Reveal The Celebs They’ve Lost Respect For

Fanboys

“Narcissistic Moron”: 50 People Reveal The Celebs They’ve Lost Respect For

Argumentum ad populum is still a fallacy, although I do admire the brilliant, unreflective irony of saying, in one breath, "JK Rowling is really popular so jump off the bandwagon!"

Vix Spiderthrust • commented on 14 posts 2 months ago

50 Lesser-Known Facts That The “Today I Learned” Community Recently Shared

And yet the young, being doomed to fail, are still preferable to the old, who already have.

50 People Take The Chance To Say “It Doesn’t Work Like That” About Their Jobs In This Thread

Increasing spending causes recessions? In what world does increasing economic activity cause the economy to shrink? Increasing spending is what governments do to FIGHT recessions.

50 People Take The Chance To Say “It Doesn’t Work Like That” About Their Jobs In This Thread

The "rational consumer" is a myth.

50 People Take The Chance To Say “It Doesn’t Work Like That” About Their Jobs In This Thread

Learn what the words mean and stop screaming about how awful "liberals" are while living in a liberal democracy.

50 People Take The Chance To Say “It Doesn’t Work Like That” About Their Jobs In This Thread

Ugh. I got a referral once for an 85-year-old lady with terminal lung cancer because the GP was worried she was "becoming dependent" on opioids. Just give her the fu*king dr*gs, idiot.

50 People Take The Chance To Say “It Doesn’t Work Like That” About Their Jobs In This Thread

As Jeremy Hardy once said, "Live every day as if it's your last: lying in bed, smacked off your tits on morphine"

50 Lesser-Known Facts That The “Today I Learned” Community Recently Shared

Yes, we agree that it wasn't *about* guns. What I'm SAYING, as you can plainly see, is that "sparked by" and "about" are two different things. World War One was *sparked by* the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, but it wasn't *about* the assassination of Franz Ferdinand.

50 People Take The Chance To Say “It Doesn’t Work Like That” About Their Jobs In This Thread

The only time healthcare professionals try to hide treatment from parents is when there are concerns that the parents are abusive. If people are hiding these things from Mary, chances are it's Mary's fault.

50 Lesser-Known Facts That The “Today I Learned” Community Recently Shared

Is this a serious question? Think about it. You wake up. Your head throbs. Your hands shake. The ice dagger of withdrawal twists in your gut. The pain is everything. You're flat broke, the rent is six weeks overdue, and you know with bone certainty that the only thing that will make the pain end is another fix. Your bag is empty. Suddenly, your thoughts turn to your trusty 3D printer. Do you: A) Spend hours finding the plans for a printed firearm, printing it, assembling it with trembling digits, pray it won't fall apart, go and rob someone; or B) take your 3D printer to the pa*wn shop and be high again inside half an hour?

50 Lesser-Known Facts That The “Today I Learned” Community Recently Shared

No, I wouldn't. The contention is that we, the human race, are more warmongering and uncivilised, not that each individual person is more warmongering and uncivilised.

50 Lesser-Known Facts That The “Today I Learned” Community Recently Shared

Wow. Sorry you apparently don't understand that it is the done thing for parents to correct their offspring's bad habits.

50 Lesser-Known Facts That The “Today I Learned” Community Recently Shared

"Sparked by" is not the same as "about". The recent race riots in Britain were sparked by a murder, but they were about racism.

50 People Take The Chance To Say “It Doesn’t Work Like That” About Their Jobs In This Thread

Exactly. Same reason there's no cure for the common cold, which is actually dozens of related but different rhinoviruses.

50 People Take The Chance To Say “It Doesn’t Work Like That” About Their Jobs In This Thread

Yeah, that and oncology. Amazing when you get a win, but the losses must be devastating

Vix Spiderthrust • upvoted an item 1 day ago

“Look, I Have A Meme To Show You”: 50 Funny Memes To Send To Your Friends

I would totally dress up as klingon, if it would come to the match

Vix Spiderthrust • upvoted 19 items 3 weeks ago

“Narcissistic Moron”: 50 People Reveal The Celebs They’ve Lost Respect For

Her writing is terrible, ergo...

50 Hilariously Cringe Posts Of Unshakable Confidence Gone Awry (Best Of All Time)

Because that isn't how acronyms work.

50 Hilariously Cringe Posts Of Unshakable Confidence Gone Awry (Best Of All Time)

Redcurrants?

50 Hilariously Cringe Posts Of Unshakable Confidence Gone Awry (Best Of All Time)

Also whitecurrants and blackcurrants

50 Hilariously Cringe Posts Of Unshakable Confidence Gone Awry (Best Of All Time)

No. Orange colour was named after the citrus fruit. Previously a shade of red.

50 Hilariously Cringe Posts Of Unshakable Confidence Gone Awry (Best Of All Time)

Redditor Thinks Atheists Are The Obnoxious Ones

Oscar The Grouch

50 Hilariously Cringe Posts Of Unshakable Confidence Gone Awry (Best Of All Time)

Understanding things is woke!

50 Hilariously Cringe Posts Of Unshakable Confidence Gone Awry (Best Of All Time)

Are you a snowflake if you understand the book?

50 Hilariously Cringe Posts Of Unshakable Confidence Gone Awry (Best Of All Time)

What else can you expect from The Sun? Google The Sun and Hillsborough.

Hiv And Covid Are The Same...right ?

50 Hilariously Cringe Posts Of Unshakable Confidence Gone Awry (Best Of All Time)

Our education system, ladies and gentlemen.

50 Hilariously Cringe Posts Of Unshakable Confidence Gone Awry (Best Of All Time)

No guesses whom SHE voted for in the recent US federal election

Who’s Gonna Tell Her?

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