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Re: The meanings of the word “ f.ck”
By: NealC Date: September 30, 2018, 6:05 am
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Poor SHL is having a tough day :-)
@ Blonde
In English we can say we kill people with politeness or
kindness, which describes part of what you are doing when you
examine their performance but use polite words.
We can also do things like 'kill with a look' and have 'daggers
in our eyes'. Speaking English is almost like becoming a
superhero :-)
@Sofia
Stanhope is amusing but an idiot politically, which is part of
the reason SHL likes him so much. The idiots in the audience
giggle while their wages are reduced by unfettered immigration.
An immigrant doesn't have to take my job to cause economic
disruption and the taxes I pay for other people's children are
returned when those children pay for my social benefits when I
age.
The whole children argument especially breaks down with the
uniquely American idiocy of giving even the children of illegal
immigrants full US citizenship if they are born here.
As for douche-bag (which is amazingly a censored word here), I
will leave that to SHL :-)
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Re: The meanings of the word “ f.ck”
By: NealC Date: September 30, 2018, 5:37 pm
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@blonde
Here is a great song with the perfect use of the word in
question :-)
It has lyrics so you can sing along!
HTML https://youtu.be/YNDVipmJfz8
2:20 he learned from the Italian boys in the neighborhood
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Re: The meanings of the word “ f.ck”
By: SHL Date: September 30, 2018, 6:16 pm
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@Sofia,
A d*ouchbag is just a feminine hygiene product I suppose. I
doubt I`ve ever seen one. I think it`s like a rubber thing with
a bag of water attached. But, it´s just a Schimpfwort, you know,
just another way of calling someone an idiot or dummy. But, it`s
more than idiot, or dummy (dummy is very mild, like idiot); a
„douche“ for short, or „d*ouchbag“ is sort of on a scale of
1-10, 1 being the mildest way of calling someone a dummy, and 10
being the worst, about a 5 or 6 maybe? Hard to say. Jerry or
Neal can confirm. It`s very common in the US. Not the worst, but
not the mildest either. Sort of in the middle. And, it`s been
around a long time. It`s sort of out of my era, but still very
much alive. Maybe a little old-fashioned.
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Re: The meanings of the word “ f.ck”
By: SHL Date: September 30, 2018, 6:29 pm
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Neal,
No, I wasn`t having a bad day yesterday, it`s just that I`m
using and speaking so much German lately, sometimes the English
words just get me stumped for a moment or two, or I forget
them.( It`s weird the way using a foreign language all the time,
or a lot, can interfere with your abilities in your native
language.)
Blonde,
I think what you were trying to say was „if looks could kill.“
That`s an expression I`ve heard. But, in California we don`t
really say it all that much, or kind of rarely. I guess that`s
Neal`s „kill with a look.“ His „people kill with kindness“ or
„having daggers in your eyes“ are two expressions I`ve never
heard in my life.
It`s probably just regional. Back on the east coast they might
use the latter two expressions, but not in California. Out here
it`s only „if looks could kill“ and you need to say it exactly
like that, with the „if“ included. Otherwise it doesn’t make any
sense.
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Re: The meanings of the word “ f.ck”
By: SHL Date: September 30, 2018, 6:55 pm
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Neal,
What do you mean Stanhope is an idiot? I think he`s very smart
and very witty.
He mentioned the illegal immigrant thing, a hot topic under the
Trump administration. But, this is an OLD issue and debate
that’s been going on well over 40 years. I remember people
debating it in the 1970s.
My best buddy`s dad used to hire illegals all the time to work
on his farm, back in the 70s, and it WAS (believe it or not)
actually legal up until the late 70s or maybe early 80s). Then
it became illegal and the old man stopped doing it.
But Standhope is right. If some dirt poor peasant from Mexico,
who is uneducated, Spanish-only speaking and crawls into the
country illegally and is a threat to your job, you have got to
be a loser of epic proportions. Like he says, you don`t hear
surgeons sitting around the country clubs of Beverly Hills
complaining about all the Scandinavians coming in and scooping
up all the good neurosurgeon jobs. Because it´s not happening.
All these illegals do is work someplace somehow, doing pretty
bad jobs. They have to. Even picking tomatoes, the big bosses
are going to want them to be legal so they can do all the
withholding and write off the labor on their taxes. Right?
The only thing the illegals likely do, is what they do in my
town. About 25 of them hang out on this open lot next to a
downtown Mexican meat market and wait for people to drive up and
hire them for cash doing day jobs. Like you need help moving
furniture from one house to the next, so you pay these guys for
the day since going to professional movers is too expensive. And
all you need is a little muscle.
And, where’s the big drain on public benefits? I doubt it`s
much. But, I get the argument, that the emigration law is the
law and it`s not fair to others to jump ahead of the line and
all of that, and Europe does the same. Europe is very strict
about all of that. I can be in Germany 6 months out of the year,
as long as I leave after the first 3 months, for probably just a
few days even, and then I can come back. But, I can`t open a
bank account to my knowledge or work, or have access to public
benefits (except for probably emergency medical care, but my own
insurance covers me anywhere in the world for that anyway). But,
I just don`t see what the big issue is. Of course, keep the
criminals and gangsters out, but other than that, it just
doesn’t seem like a big problem and this debate has been going
on for decades.
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Re: The meanings of the word “ f.ck”
By: Aliph Date: October 1, 2018, 1:56 am
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@Shl, your post reminds me of my stay in California a loooong
time ago. I stood in a rural area not far from yours. There were
a lot of immigrants. Many Mexicans . I do not know if they were
legal or not. They worked in the farms or selling tacos
(delicious) in front of the high school.
Farmers told me that they hired Mexicans because they were small
and didn’t have to bend down to much to pick up strawberries. I
found that really awkward thing to say. I never forgot.
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Re: The meanings of the word “ f.ck”
By: SHL Date: October 1, 2018, 12:33 pm
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@Sophia
Doesn’t sound like much has changed. But I´ve never heard of
Mexicans being short.
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