Friday, December 2, 2016

Watching English Sinking into the La Brea Tarpit

Whether I’m teaching ACMT classes or taking apart a client’s iMac my go-to toolkit is iFixit’s Classic Pro Tech Toolkit ($60 MSRP; $50 on Amazon).


Tell me, ducks, what's the difference between a 'go-to toolkit' and any other kind of toolkit.  Is it your 'preferred' toolkit or 'most useful' toolkit and, if so, why not fucking say that.


Oh, you're so delusional.

- Any social network, any time

This contribution probably came from Doctor Phil during a time when "Quincy" made everyone forensics experts, Doctor Phil made them second-rate psychologists, and Fox News finished the job of making them blithering idiots.


Oh, you're so passive/aggressive.

- Any social network, any time

This one is for when you don't feel you will sound enough like an idiot with use of 'delusional' and you want it all.  Aspire for the stars and you, too, can be a Twitter hashtag.


Oh you support terrorism, I suppose.

- Any social network, any time

This is only a slight variation from the one used by these simpletons previously when they queried, "Oh, you supported 9/11, did you?"

Note:  I heard that one quite a bit after my "Freakshow" video which strongly protested the Iraq invasion.  I never heard an apology from any of those idiots after it was clear the invasion had nothing to do with 9/11.


That was in stark contrast to ...

- Any neojourno, any time

With today's prima donna newsreaders, every contrast is stark because that's an easy way to bring drama to something which doesn't have it already.  They have done the same thing with 'horrific' since that now includes everything down to a dog getting hit by a car.  That may be horrific for the dog but not so much for the irresponsible owner who let it get hit in the first place.


Then they get horrified by 'dirty words' and have no apparent awareness their distortion of the language brings more dirt to it than any epithet ever could.  American politically-correct English is covered in so many layers of disgusting waxy buildup it doesn't mean anything anymore.  Both sides blame the other for making political correctness.  Tip:  both are correct.

These fuckin' people ... they get so sanctimonious about the use of the language even when their own command of it isn't particularly strong but criticism doesn't require knowledge, only a willful nature.

Fuck that.  I have a willful nature as well (larfs).


And a moment of silence for D.H. Lawrence, the One True God of Profanity.  His language was so expressively and powerfully rich.

Note:  I have not researched it well enough but I believe there was some kind of a Lady Chatterley in his own life.

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