El Pibe

It's lithe scunthorpe dilemma. So I reckon we can do cuntily too, as in: "Vicanna cuntily trolled the forum as he segwayed his way to yet another persona"

Thinking about it the segway -> segue thing could be my mistake. Perhaps that's how i'm inferring the meaning, but the writer is trying to use it metaphorically in another way, something about looking like a complete twat as you ge from a to b, which I've managed several times on this thread alone!!! "I eventually segwayed to the conclusion that..."

in fairness it'll probably die off as an issue along with SMS when some new technology comes along with its neologised conjugations to annoy us.

I dunno, I love the bloody-minded nature of verb irregularity in English. Text appeals to me in that sense. Maybe tuxt?

Which neatly brings us back to my question, when does common usage overrule incorrect usage? All dictionaries now acknowledge the common usage of enormity, there's a quite clear etymological path for one to segue to the other for instance, and I'm already prepared to accept defeat on trope even though that's a very recent import from the states. Ooh there's another, I'm seeing segway instead of segue a fair bit recently, that really bring on the wet clowns mantra

'irregardless' is one that winds me up no end, a pointless conflation of regardless and irrespective, I give it five years before it's in the OED :(

"I'm looking for innoccent looking words suffering terible abuse" ckool wet cklowns, ckool wet cklowns......

*wooshing sound*

beg the question really means: logical fallacy that gives a proposition's assumed truth as proof of the proposition, see also circular logic. usually used to mean: '..which demands that the question be asked..'

bah, ckaught in the ackt

Would it be cheeky to nominate 'dying'?

Brendan original meaning: boys name derived from gaelic meaning prince new meaning: "Brendan, doing a" meaning to hog a thread by oneself posting three plus times in a slightly unhinged monologue.

Is there some criteria to this, at what point does misused become meaning changed over time, think 'gay' for instance. Acronym would be another, it's generally conflated with the hypernym 'initialism'. An acronym is an initialism said as a word, like SCUBA, rather than letters such as CID (See Eye Dee).

I wonder if the new meaning arose by someone using zoetrope metahorically, i guess that would be ironic.

Trope really means: metaphor incorrectly used as: leitmotif, recurring theme

My observation was that they'd die drinking it so it didn't kill the core of the nest as advertised. Perhaps they were genetically more vulnerable to the toxin or predisposed to gorging themsleves or something.

Have you tried reiki? on a serious note, my dad had an annual battle with them. I've seen everything (nipon gel particularly useless) try and fail to do anything but dent numbers and over the years they definitely got the upper hand to the point that in the annual swarm they actually covered the inside of the entire patio door. If it's a serious problem like that then just get pest control in (my dad was far too tight to ever consider that). If it's outside and the occassional ant wanders in through the open door I'd suggest striving for inner peace and living with it.

about the best analysis of it so far: A cunt's trick Whilst we're at it a ince little piss take of Blair because I can't be arsed to post it elsewhere, and besides we might as well resurrect this thread when he pops his clogs as it'll be the same saga rinsed and repeated. http://www.karlremarks.com/2013/04/god-tony-blair-in-row-over-third-way.html

Depends how you define punch. In this case I'll just leak it to the press when he's running for office ;-P

There should be continuity betweewn G&B and the new place in terms of the wine as they share a supplier, hopefully old favourites like their terrific marcillac (on Brawn's wine list) should be there, fingers crossed.

In fairness it's been building over years; as I said I felt like punching him during the Auschwitz song, which can't be Jim Davidson stuff, just plain old putrid anti-semitism. I've been softly softly for a long time but it can't last forever. Besides I fully intend to become a hermit once I'm there ;)

Good thread linkage ;)

I thought it obvious, you implied that unintentional casual racism could arise from a sheltered homogenous existence. Dubs don't have that excuse, it being a bustling cosmopolitan capital. I mean its no London, but it certainly ain't rural Wexford.

I can forgive the impressionable youngsters who have never been out of the ir small town, but the rest of them don't get off that lightly; well travelled, well read and politically aware, some of them dubs born and bred, all of them should know better. Plus though black faces may be few and far between the small town in question is 20% polish now and racism is a very real problem.

Frankly a turd would be noble next to the 'amusing' auschwitz song I hear d he and his mate singing a couple of years ago, but that would be another story.