Euphemisms-things Have Gotten So Bad....

[j2k4]

Originally posted by billyfridge@2 March 2004 - 13:45
You want to see my rent account i dont know wether im in credit or debit so tech'
my son (in university UK ) says i'm in credit and explained to me still no wiser

Billy-

Tell him to speak more slowly.

Maybe you could try to listen a bit faster, as well?

[leftism]

Originally posted by 3RA1N1AC+--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (3RA1N1AC)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> also see george orwell&#39;s 1984 re: "newspeak." i think that article is a complaint against essentially the type of thing that orwell predicted-- bureaucratic manipulation of the language, in turn enforced by the increasingly omnipresent mass media.[/b]

Ironically, the article itself shows symptoms of another &#39;illness&#39; Orwell predicted...

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knew I could count on you to get it, 3RA1N1AC.

Others are not so intuitive. [/quote]

Could you be a little more.. specific and a little less ambiguous j2k4?

i.e What is it this anonymous individual is not &#39;getting&#39;?

[billyfridge]

Originally posted by j2k4+2 March 2004 - 16:51--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (j2k4 @ 2 March 2004 - 16:51)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-billyfridge@2 March 2004 - 13:45
You want to see my rent account i dont know wether im in credit or debit so tech&#39;
my son (in university UK ) says i&#39;m in credit and explained to me still no wiser

Billy-

Tell him to speak more slowly.

Maybe you could try to listen a bit faster, as well? [/b][/quote]
It must be my age, J2, grey matter&#39;s deteriorating

[j2k4]

Originally posted by billyfridge+2 March 2004 - 15:12--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (billyfridge @ 2 March 2004 - 15:12)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>

Originally posted by j2k4@2 March 2004 - 16:51
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@2 March 2004 - 13:45
You want to see my rent account i dont know wether im in credit or debit so tech&#39;
my son (in university UK ) says i&#39;m in credit and explained to me still no wiser

Billy-

Tell him to speak more slowly.

Maybe you could try to listen a bit faster, as well?

It must be my age, J2, grey matter&#39;s deteriorating [/b][/quote]
Don&#39;t sell yourself short, Billyfridge; I&#39;ve seen your moves.

I myself am a bit aged.

BTW-as to gray (grey) matter: the grayer (greyer), the better.

Have you ever cracked the skull of a teenager?

Their matter is a rather fecal shade of brown. :x

[sArA]

I have always known that some teenagers are &#39;shit fer brains&#39; (nice English saying)
You J2k4 have shown me that we were right all along&#33;

[J'Pol]

Originally posted by 3RA1N1AC@2 March 2004 - 11:15
in turn enforced by the increasingly omnipresent mass media.

How, in the name of fuck, can something be increasingly omnipresent.

Is this your entry in the most blatant oxymoron challenge 2004.

[4th gen]

An interesting read

[Biggles]

This euphemism thing has been around a long time. The Victorians were past masters at sanitising anything that might remind one that the body was subject to necessary natural functions - Public Conveniences spring to mind.

Orwell, writing in the 1930s, was reflecting a trend that was already well established.

I recall many years ago taking a summer job whilst at University in a busy Edinburgh hotel. A bus load of tourists arrived and a large American lady asked for a "comfort station" where upon I took her to the Lounge and guided her substantial frame to a very pleasant chesterfield couch to listen to a gentleman playing classical music on a piano. At this point she became quite agitated and restated her need for a comfort station in a fairly offhand manner. At this point, I realised my mistake but as she was so grumpy I "avoided" understanding her until I had extracted the word toilet from her. A small victory for plain speaking, although I did feel a trifle guilty that I had not perhaps fulfilled my duty to the Scottish Tourist Industry. The pain the word toilet caused her was palpable.

As there has been an element of anti-Americanism (from time to time) on this board I would point that some of the nicest guests I encountered during that summer were American. Many of whom were perfectly able to say toilet.

[J'Pol]

Originally posted by Biggles@22 March 2004 - 01:03


I recall many years ago taking a summer job whilst at University in a busy Edinburgh hotel.

You went to University in a busy Edinburgh hotel

If I were you I would not have taken a summer job. I would have stayed at the hotel whilst it was quiet, with all of the other students away.

[3RA1N1AC]

Originally posted by J&#39;Pol+21 March 2004 - 15:27--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (J&#39;Pol @ 21 March 2004 - 15:27)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-3RA1N1AC@2 March 2004 - 11:15
in turn enforced by the increasingly omnipresent mass media.

How, in the name of fuck, can something be increasingly omnipresent.

Is this your entry in the most blatant oxymoron challenge 2004. [/b][/quote]
in the name of fuck, why would someone bother to challenge that phrase, as if true omnipresence is humanly possible. just about any use of the word is going to be a mere figure of speech that allows for degrees of so-called omnipresence. you&#39;re nitpicking something that isn&#39;t even worthy of debate.