the harpie Nic and cloud clockwork and bisto are not welcome to read my blog or use me in any way , there are thoughts in your own head huns
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just as I hope we are properly grateful for the immense linguistic riches bequeathed to us by Shakespearewhat like the might of the pen?
but Joyce was an Irishman, and without the Irish (and the Jews and African-Americans) the American slanguage would still be stuck on first baseoh no she got it just chuck in a bit of celtic and bingo bobs your uncle – - – simples – - -
Now of course some Americans have always favoured a bit of British to try and raise the tone of their discoursewhat like a young slave girl you mean – - -
No, what’s new is that Mr and Mrs America and all the ships at sea are apparently quite (in the American sense of very, not the British sense of not very much at all) content to be heard referring to the “good bits” in a movie or novel, or a splendid “piece of kit” or even to inquire whether the neighbourhood joint “does food”indeed why can’t they just get the whole package at home – - -
Frankly, I’m relieved. The whole pretence/pretense that Britain and America are two countries separated by a common language has got me plum tuckered outgroan – - – um like separated by a common language – - – ? you mean common as in pleb?
The language police at our house (by which I mean my British-educated wife and kids) are so quick on the draw that I’ve contemplated taking a vow of silencewhat for rejecting your britishims thats a bit steep isn’t it – - – this is what happens with the stupid law delegation well I am ignorant of it sorreee – - -
The British are coming?you sound dreadfully upset what really is the matter – - – the British are coming where dear – - -
The British are coming! The British are coming!what having an orgasm you mean
we Yanks have been spritzing our two cents plain (“sparkling water” to you) American argot into the limpid, lambent loveliness of the Queen’s English.eh? those contortions feel pretty clumsy to me – - -
And though I generally try not to be “chippy” about the widely held view that my countrymen and women are bunch of rubes and yahoos ? on display most recently in Downton Abbey, where Shirley MacLaine’s caricature of a rich American finally drove me out of the room with annoyancechippy – - – are we talking Goodle EArth surveillance here – - – you might be ‘chippy’ about your intimate moments being handed out like smarties on you tube if you have a skin made of leather – - -
Well, that’s the polite version. I mean first of all, when did the British need any help from anyone else with being vulgar? Ever heard of Geoffrey Chaucer?ever heard of ‘consent’ dear – - – you don’t sound so chippy about it being withheld I might add – - -
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ps Why is that woman from location location location location etc on Question time
Yet the social media-powered blitz connected to this week's drop of Lady Gaga's third album, "Born This Way," is bordering on epic, with partnerships ranging from Starbucks to FarmVille, and virtual giveaways of the album's 17 tracks. It also represents the kind of bold, new business model that could help rejuvenate a deflated music industry
Starbucks ? typically home to easy-on-the-ears artists like Emmylou Harris
is selling her album as well as launching a "digital scavenger hunt" for Gaga-inspired goods; Google Chrome debuted a commercial with Gaga with a track from the album; the online fashion outlet Gilt Groupe partnered with Gaga to offer Gaga-inspired clothing and VIP performances
LADY GAGA DISSES NICKI ON THE SNEAK?
I was under the impression that these two were friends, sisters in the struggle of life. But, no. It appears that Lady Gaga has finally turned into a basic b. She slick dissed Nicki Minaj on her site littlemonsters.com for wearing an outfit that closely resembled an outfit that she wore in the past. Now Gaga really didn?t say a lot to a vid that called out Nicki. She simply said: ?I?m have no comment tbh, hahahhahahahha?.But in true online gang fashion, the Barbz went on the attack until the video was taken down. These chicks are cult leaders
"Just with the diminishing music labels, you want to find quality partners where you know you can reach new audiences and being able to push boundaries as well."
"There's nothing about Gaga that's subtle, so I don't see why her marketing campaign would be any different," he added.
"I am more concerned about piracy and people stealing the music. If you can get somebody to experience the music at that sort of price for one day only, I think it gets a lot of attention for the album," he added
pleb
one who's inferior intelligence results in them making a complete titface out of themselves in publicone who has had their brain replaced with a mall cucumber whilst visiting the doctor fora routine check upalso used as the verb
plebbed, or to pleb
"jonny francis is a right pleb," cried cristina"don't tell me that billy has fucking plebed it up again!"
This story is one of those in which the plain facts seem like hysterical exaggerations, making reality incredible. Breathtaking numbers of citizens were kidnapped, confined and enslaved with the active collusion of the State. Ireland operated a huge, highly organised system of unlawful imprisonment into which hundreds of thousands of people disappeared, sometimes for good. Shamefully, the State is still refusing to face this fact.
In a very important recent book, Coercive Confinement in Ireland, Eoin O’Sullivan and Ian O’Donnell have brought together documents and statistics that begin to map the system. By “coercive confinement” they are not talking about what that term would mean in a normal society – people being sent to prison by the courts because they have been found guilty of breaking the law. For most of the history of the State, the lawful prison system was dwarfed by the shadow system of confinement, made up largely of industrial schools, Magdalene homes and mental hospitals.
These institutions were much worse than prisons. Prisoners had finite sentences, adequate food, protection against assault, and the right to appeal to the courts against abuses. The shadow system offered no such luxuries. It was much closer to what might be expected under a totalitarian regime – arbitrary, closed and not subject to law. I don’t think the vast majority of Irish people have any idea of how enormous the system was.
At any given time between 1926 and 1951, there were about 31,000 people in these institutions. That’s 1 per cent of the entire population. If the system were a town, it would now be the fourth largest in Ireland – a shade smaller than Bray but much bigger than Navan, Ennis, Kilkenny or Tralee. Even in 1971, when the system had shrunk to 20,000 people, it was as large as Athlone or Mullingar are now.
One part of the system – the industrial schools – has been acknowledged by the State, with a formal apology, the Ryan report, and a compensation scheme. The children’s rights amendment to the Constitution, though it also has practical significance, is in part a symbolic response to the crimes against children.
But with the other two main parts of the system – the mental hospitals and the Magdalene homes – the State is, in one case, entirely ignoring the problem and in the other engaging in deliberate obfuscation.
Katyia27 September 2012 12:05AMNot, however, before letting his deputy announce that he, Mr Clegg, had appointed the Chief Secretary, the Lib Dem Mr Alexander to consider if we really need the sort of nuclear weapons now being acquired by unstable Third World powers. No worry about prejudice, of course. I am sure Mr Alexander never supported his party's stand on the question of a Trident replacementchavs I thought. Calling someone a chav is much worse than extortion of innocents - - -
All too many were somewhat hysterical, not least that of Adrian, who confided in us that ?politicians now want the death penalty, armed police, a ring of steel round Westminster to terrorise the population into submission"
No one comes very well out of all this, except here on this blog, where callumity suggested that perhaps Mr. Mitchell had said ?plods? rather than ?plebs?
Perhaps it is a waste of time to respond to a man who cannot distinguish between a semantic argument and a liethat depression strategy again - - -
Many of us took the view that it would run into trouble unless there was a single Treasury imposing a single economic policy across the eurozone, and that would require a single democratic government which would not be acceptable to the diverse peoples of Europe. We were right
Naturally too, Mr Clegg wanted to advertise his commitment to that good old socialist war cry of ?Tax the rich until they are poor, too?, with calls for mansion taxes and penal taxes on�the sort of families who live�in the South East of England and struggle to pay their mortgages and travel costs to�work
Mr Cable proudly announced the sort of national investment bank that Harold Wilson would have been proud of, and there were hints that we might be heading for an extension of the use of PFI schemes to keep government borrowing out of the official figures
MrStoicism27 September 2012 12:04AMKatyia27 September 2012 12:09AM
dierobdieTime for a political solution. It has to be within our ability the Middle East's the world's humanity's to broker one.
