Posts by Emma Hart
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The Workers Party is a tomato - red all the way through, and proud of it. We intend to keep it that way.
Brilliant! They're red, squishy, are actually a fruit, and bring me out in a horrible rash.
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How on earth did fashion crimes end up on two threads at once?
Yeah, I crossed the streams. I'd be sorry but I'm not.
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It's a form of entrapment! :)
Duh.
My ultimate goal is one that says 'if you can read this you're too close', in Braille.
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Oh lawd. Did this thread just turn into another 'Why Robbery Thinks Russell is a Tryhard Media Emperor and Has No Clothes' argument? Because honestly? I don't think I can bear it.
Russell has no clothes? We could get him some jorts. Danielle, shall we get him some jorts?
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In tee slogans, I quite like "I wish these were brains".
I like 'if you can read this, you're staring at my tits'.
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I do quite like the black-singleted understatement of 'pretty fucking average'.
Me too, with particular reference to cricket. The crushing understatement is part of the culture.
Some people call us pedants but we know better.
I'm working on weaning myself off. Step one has been trying to stop wincing every time someone says 'different to'.
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The way I've heard it used to describe anything from the mildly irritating to the fractionally dire is... there's a word for it somewhere.
How about 'mildly irritating'?
Mind you, after fifteen years of nagging my partner can now tell from my facial expression when he's said 'less' instead of 'fewer'.
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Speaking of doing dumb things with language (so as not to sound like a total thread-jack)
Commissioner Kenneth Mayfield, who is white, said it seemed that central collections "has become a black hole" because paperwork reportedly has become lost in the office.
Commissioner John Wiley Price, who is black, interrupted him with a loud "Excuse me!" He then corrected his colleague, saying the office has become a "white hole."
It also contains the funniest sentence I've read this morning:
I'm afraid, though, that the search for collocational analogies for X hole, beyond X=black and X=white, is hampered by interference from unrelated patterns.
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Danielle - there's something of a tradition of bad names for Bond films - Octopussy! Goldfinger! But this one is bad and illiterate, which is quite something.
I love it. Let's get some big words, stick them together, and manage to convey absolutely nothing at all. It's practically existential.
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In fact, from the Herald article
Judge Michael Lance agreed with Mr Haigh that Busch's assaults were a "human and inevitable" reaction to seeing his partner in bed with other people.
Scuse me while I go vomit.