Orange Crush
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| 10/16/2013 05:08 PM |
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dick, douche?!?
he's a Brit. Period. |
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Oldfart
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| 10/16/2013 07:29 PM |
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| Actually he's a Scot from some other place, isn't he? |
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Cosmic Kid
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| 10/16/2013 08:20 PM |
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Posted By Andy Eunson on 10/16/2013 07:29 PM
Actually he's a Scot from some other place, isn't he?
Hong Kong. |
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Orange Crush
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| 10/16/2013 10:37 PM |
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Posted By Andy Eunson on 10/16/2013 07:29 PM
Actually he's a Scot from some other place, isn't he?
That just means that on top of being a dick and a douche he isn't also a wanker.
But there's no independent kilt cycling association that I am aware off
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bobswire
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| 10/17/2013 09:49 AM |
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Nothing like a philosophical discussion to get the brain cells functioning first thing in the morning.  |
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RNDDUDE
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| 10/17/2013 11:12 AM |
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Caption for Bob's photo....
"well, back in my prime, I remember seeing one THIS BIG!" |
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| Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistant one. -Albert Einstein |
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laurentja
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| 10/17/2013 12:12 PM |
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Millar played up his self-pity. A tosser.
However, as a francophone who has lived in Chamonix for 2 years, I assure you that the C in Mont Blanc, while a bit of a regional thing, is pronounced. |
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longslowdistance
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| 10/17/2013 04:53 PM |
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| And the x in Asterix? |
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GJanney
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| 10/17/2013 07:12 PM |
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Worst words incorrectly and completely overused today: amazing, epic, and literally. If you listen for them, you will hear them abused multiple times every day. Add organic if you like.
Millar is the epitome of pretentious IMO. I find him very unlikeable. |
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smokey52
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| 10/17/2013 10:08 PM |
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Organic refers to $hiit. Literally.
The phrase originated with food grown with organic fertilizer (horse manure, cow dung, chicken poop, or whatever) as opposed to inorganic fertilizer (chemically fixed nitrogen/phosphate compounds). The phrase morphed from food descriptions to general descriptions of natural products.
From a chemistry point of view, organic refers to carbon-based compounds whereas inorganic refers generally to mineral-based compounds. As a chemist, it hurts my ears to hear granite referred to as "organic", but I recognize that language is dynamic and idioms change in time. |
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stronz
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| 10/18/2013 08:45 AM |
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who are you calling an idiom?
I forgot "tosser." Really like that one. Organic really has so many meanings. I can think of the following
Chemistry -- carbon-containing compounds generally as relates to the chemistry of living things
Food/Agri-business --- grown without man-made chemical compounds
Medical -- of or relating to a particular organ as in Organic Brain Disease
Millar and other pretentious tossers (yeah baby) -- uh not sure but I think he meant "gradual" or a "slow evolving process."
Its quite amazing that we can use this same word in so many different ways. But thats language, I guess -- its really kind of organic..... |
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jmdirt
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| 10/18/2013 08:53 AM |
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smokey is correct, idiots change in time (but he has a typo).
I hear a lot of these words over and incorrectly used.
I've heard it Blanc (with a soft, tapered off 'c') from Frenchies but a few translation sources don't say the 'c'.
Millar is a massengill! |
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jacques_anquetil
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| 10/18/2013 08:59 AM |
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an example of dual-language wordplay gone terribly, horribly wrong:
A beverage company’s combination of French and English words under its bottle caps as part of a fun game for customers ended disastrously this week when an Edmonton woman unscrewed her Vitaminwater and saw the message “YOU RETARD” under the cap.
http://o.canada.com/news/vitaminwater-bottle-cap/
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smokey52
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| 10/19/2013 07:37 PM |
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| j_a: "Millar is a massengill!" some sort of French shower? |
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