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Trophy hunting is about killing for pleasure. That's pretty despicable. It was rife in Britain's colonial past but those times are gone. And time those individuals who today get a kick out of killing were gone too.

The pain of unrequited love

You wouldn't want that to be your Groundhog Day

Don't worry, you're not alone - as Mann said, most native English speakers haven't mastered it either

Get well soon

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Of course you're entitled to your opinion, but the references you've cited hardly indicate an informed opinion never mind the "dispos(al) of another tired hack". If you believe all this stuff then you should put it in a blog and allow it to be tested by others - show the courage of your convictions - instead of sneaking it in here where no-one can reply.

Breathless, Shankar Mahadevan try singing along with him...

just remember, today's trash can become tomorrow's lost treasure

*note to self - avoid gentle humour...*

Happy birthday James

Old Bill certainly came up with one of the most scathing rebukes against humankind But we've been looking, now, for over 50 years and not a squeak. Well, apart from the "Wow!" signal in 1977. Maybe the Russian billionaire Yuri Milner's $100m project will find something. He's got all the key guys on board, including Stephen Hawking, Martin Reece and Frank Drake - the guy who came up with the equation to calculate the possibility that there might be some intelligent life in our universe...

You're right but it works both ways. The US has clung on to gotten while the UK now prefers got - though we still use the old word in the form "ill-gotten" - while the US has evidently moved away from "that" for people whereas in the UK we're quite happy retaining it You overlooked one, Mike... "Jeeze that guy's well hung."

that / who May help to clarify that this is about the relative pronoun - "the guy that served me" v "the guy who served me" Fact is both are fine in these examples. Like so much else in English, rather than "rules" of grammar this is about usage and preference. The idea that it's demeaning to use "that" for a person is probably a modern sensibility that it might be perceived as causing offence. But "that" has long established historical usage going right back to the 11th century - that's before Chaucer To bring things up to date, the OED's definition of "that" is very clear - it includes "denoting a thing or person"

Yesterday I was tipped off about a Youtube vid. The innocent little blue one anonymous source who doesn't want to be named had to take a shower immediately afterwards. But I'm wondering if this was wise. If you listen carefully you can hear the sound of running water, so it's very possible this happened in or near a bathroom... Now there will be those who say I'm just trying to make people run, screaming, to the nearest insane asylum. Or gouge their own eyes out with a spoon so they never again have to see images of such unmitigated horror. But they're just mischief makers because, as regular readers will know, this thread is merely an information resource to help people understand the world around them. Something that folks can browse, in comfort, in their La-Z-Boy recliners, secure in the knowledge that they're safe from these crawling nightmares. Unless, of course, there really is a spiders nest inside their chair. The one they're sitting in. Right now. But, hey, relax! No need to get all alarmed and worked up, because that's most unlikely. Probably... Remember, what you see below can't harm you. It can't crawl into your mind and drive you crazy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZE66D3ZY7sQ

Option 1. amazing new invention - rubber gloves Option 2. (if at home) leave for Mom to deal with Option 3. leave it / deny knowledge / await Option 2 process / break bathroom window and blame it on incontinent intruder .

ah, to be 21 again...

congratz Went to see the number and it's no more Not even 10001, which is also great being reversible, but 10002 *sighs* Oh well, I guess 20000 won't be too long coming

I like black pudding. It's made by pouring fresh blood with added fatty bits into a long sausage tube. Then it's boiled. So basically it's a giant blood clot with lumps of fat in it *licks lips*

if you've done something wrong to another person then just apologize. It's easy to do Just like admitting to yourself you're gay What gives us grief is dealing with all the internal stuff - the crap that screws us all up - to be able to do that... .

Bet there are some folks would want second helpings...

"the penguins..."

looks like I was a week early with my last one Anyways, Puppilull's just reminded me that my bro had a lovely black labrador bitch. I don't recall she was a punk bitch but she was another greedy dog. Then my bro got a BL puppy. He was amazed that it was perfectly house trained - no mess anywhere ...until he spotted the puppy doing its worst on the kitchen floor... which was immediately gobbled up... still warm and fresh... *is feeling unwell* .

Well I missed it. Clearly it was in extremely bad taste but all folks have to do us walk away. In fact, unless it's illegal - which I doubt this was - that's what we should do, not revoke belief in FOS. Otherwise we're heading towards big trouble. Drew seems to have conflated defending the right with defending the content. It's perfectly possible to uphold the former and despise the latter. No need for any compromise or soul searching

Never saw your blog so I've no opinion. Although I'm very surprised it could have been so bad as to make one staunch FOS advocate do a 180 Especially as this is sacrosanct to the American psyche. That being said a good rule of thumb is to stick to your own tribe when joking. So African Americans can joke about niggas, Jews about Israel, paraplegics about wheelchairs... you get the idea. And I can joke about crazy Americans coz we're cousins