Apology in abuse: "Look, I'm sorry, you son of a bitch. Now will you shut the fuck up." Sounds like their normal discourse to me.
Xopher, way up the thread:
The original quote was, "My country right or wrong: when right to be kept right, when wrong to be set right."
Funny what happened to the second bit, isn't it?
Patrick, I think Alkali was trying to make the point that calling someone or something "retarded" as an insult is a little insensitive. I'm sorry, but I think he's right.
I don't read much SF these days, but I'm deeply shocked that this sort of nonesense is still being peddled. I thought the generation of Tom Disch had knocked it on the head.
Adrian,
Probably some redundant executive writing one of those "How to become a zillionaire by stomping on your secretary for 10 minutes each morning" books had heard the word but had never held a hand of cards in his life. Happens all the time - look what became of poor old "indifferent".
I'm going with Patrick's version from now on. Can't wait to use it in a report.
Jonathan,
"Liberal" in the States = "Social Democratic" in the rest of the world;
"Conservative" in both the USA and Britain embraces both what in the 19th century would have been described as Liberal (e.g. Thatcher) and what would have been thought of as Conservative (the "Old High Tories");
The British Liberal Party has been loosely Social Democratic since 1906, and formally so for the last 20 years.
Titles like Lord Lyon King of Arms should never be abolished. They should be amended to be appointed by lottery once a year and recompensed with a half of 80/- in the pub of the winner's choice. After all, they don't do anything, so they don't do any harm.
What I love about this blog is that you can find Ian Paisley and Dorothy Parker on the same thread (not to mention the Count of Paris).
I once worked in a bookshop where we got orders from a man calling himself Michael Palaeologus, who used the double headed eagle of Byzantium on his letter head. I've no idea if he was legit.
Nigel,
"On a national level, though, the man’s an embarrassment, and if he refuses to reach some sort of accommodation with the agreement parties, he could be bloody dangerous."
Yeah. I agree with everything else you say as well, but this is the kicker. Isn't there anyone else in all of Antrim who would work hard for their constituents?
Nigel: they're not forced to be his constituents. They could always vote for somebody else.
Andrew,
When my dad was a kid (1920s) the milkman used to come around on a little pony trap with a churn on the back, and the children ran out with containers for him to ladle the milk into.
It's called progress.
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