In Australia, we're just not uptight enough to get upset over most "racist" terms. "Wog", "Pom" and "Yank" are not considered insulting; they are affectionate terms.
Also it's okay to make racist jokes if they're funny. If the jokes are lame you'll probably get frowned at though.
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I read the real paper when it's lying around at breakfast. Occasionally I'll buy one on a Sunday. If I'm traveling I always get an Economist (or, these days, sometimes a Mother Jones.) But mostly I'm an online gal.
I would die without the news, pretty much. It terrifies me that it's going under.
I read the real paper when it's lying around at breakfast. Occasionally I'll buy one on a Sunday. If I'm traveling I always get an Economist (or, these days, sometimes a Mother Jones.) But mostly I'm an online gal.
I would die without the news, pretty much. It terrifies me that it's going under.
Most of encounters with the news anymore is reading the online editions and lying to the phone sales people of the local rag.
I had a salesperson so desperate that they called my work, which is large chain bookstore, asking if we would take up a subscription. The guy wouldn't quit even after I told him we already sold his damn newspaper.
But yeah, I wish newspapers weren't dying as well.
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Also by "current trends" I mean "the personal trend wherein I gradually begin to speak in a more and more antiquated fashion as I age"
Which of course you should have all inferred, but I thought I'd elaborate anyways
I'd like to say that I read the newspaper, but I don't. I'd like to be the kind of person who reads a newspaper, but that sort of leisurely breakfast activity never seems to be something I get around to.
However, if and when newspapers go under we're going to have a terrible time making papier mâché.
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"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
Also by "current trends" I mean "the personal trend wherein I gradually begin to speak in a more and more antiquated fashion as I age"
Which of course you should have all inferred, but I thought I'd elaborate anyways
I'd like to say that I read the newspaper, but I don't. I'd like to be the kind of person who reads a newspaper, but that sort of leisurely breakfast activity never seems to be something I get around to.
However, if and when newspapers go under we're going to have a terrible time making papier mâché.
hobby lobby will always be there for your mâché needs
Also by "current trends" I mean "the personal trend wherein I gradually begin to speak in a more and more antiquated fashion as I age"
Which of course you should have all inferred, but I thought I'd elaborate anyways
I'd like to say that I read the newspaper, but I don't. I'd like to be the kind of person who reads a newspaper, but that sort of leisurely breakfast activity never seems to be something I get around to.
However, if and when newspapers go under we're going to have a terrible time making papier mâché.
Free bibles are made out of similar stuff.
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edited December 2009
I used to read the independent papers, mostly because they were free and helped pass the time on the train
I always went for the movie section first, the reviews in there always proved to be good reading with how bitter and jaded many of the critics on staff were
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Ain't got no hobby lobby in Korea
(They do love crafting, though)
Touché, Volu. And the best derogatory nickname for the Germans in WWI is the boche, I think! But the best derogatory nickname for a group of soldiers in general is totally les goddams.
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"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
I get my news from one of the local papers' online versions and the websites for the 24 hour news channels. Even Fox occasionally has good online content. Fox.
I always hear Germans in war movies being called krauts or jerries
That is because there is a shortage of accurate and enjoyable war films taking place not during WWII! I mean, they're out there, but there should be more of them.
E: More of them like Time Racists II: Lost in the Boer Wars
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"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
I always hear Germans in war movies being called krauts or jerries
That is because there is a shortage of accurate and enjoyable war films taking place not during WWII! I mean, they're out there, but there should be more of them.
E: More of them like Time Racists II: Lost in the Boer Wars
American media seems to love only World War II and the Civil War. Where's the love for the Mexican-American war?
I always hear Germans in war movies being called krauts or jerries
That is because there is a shortage of accurate and enjoyable war films taking place not during WWII! I mean, they're out there, but there should be more of them.
E: More of them like Time Racists II: Lost in the Boer Wars
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In Australia, we're just not uptight enough to get upset over most "racist" terms. "Wog", "Pom" and "Yank" are not considered insulting; they are affectionate terms.
Also it's okay to make racist jokes if they're funny. If the jokes are lame you'll probably get frowned at though.
It actually means Italian, Greek or Lebonese.
It can be racist, but much like another term it can also be used to refer to themselves.
I mean a well known Australian Greek Italian comedian did make this movie.
Satans..... hints.....
But do you collect spores, molds, and fungus?
"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
Print news.
http://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE:GCI
On the chart, click on the 5y or 10y zoom.
Then try http://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE:NYT
Watch WaPo fall off a cliff:
http://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE:WPO
News Corp, say it ain't so:
http://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ:NWSA
I figured it was just wartime slang, like "jerries."
I knew newspapers were going down. :P
She said news.
Tsh, "jerry" didn't become a popular slang term until World War Two!
"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
Never know when you might be sucked into a time machine by, uh...
time racists?
"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
the "ch chch ch" is supposed to be that old-style typewriting noise in the background of old news programs.
How droll.
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I had a salesperson so desperate that they called my work, which is large chain bookstore, asking if we would take up a subscription. The guy wouldn't quit even after I told him we already sold his damn newspaper.
But yeah, I wish newspapers weren't dying as well.
Which of course you should have all inferred, but I thought I'd elaborate anyways
I'd like to say that I read the newspaper, but I don't. I'd like to be the kind of person who reads a newspaper, but that sort of leisurely breakfast activity never seems to be something I get around to.
However, if and when newspapers go under we're going to have a terrible time making papier mâché.
"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
The joke's on you, I never said it was WWI slang.
Besides, everyone called them huns back then.
hobby lobby will always be there for your mâché needs
Free bibles are made out of similar stuff.
I always went for the movie section first, the reviews in there always proved to be good reading with how bitter and jaded many of the critics on staff were
(They do love crafting, though)
Touché, Volu. And the best derogatory nickname for the Germans in WWI is the boche, I think! But the best derogatory nickname for a group of soldiers in general is totally les goddams.
"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
it's more derogative and descriptive
I have no idea why this tipped the balance for me
That is because there is a shortage of accurate and enjoyable war films taking place not during WWII! I mean, they're out there, but there should be more of them.
E: More of them like Time Racists II: Lost in the Boer Wars
"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
Riggs, Murtaugh, my office now.
American media seems to love only World War II and the Civil War. Where's the love for the Mexican-American war?
I remember Good Morning, Vietnam being good.
goddamn huguenots
apocalypse now, fmj, deer hunter, platoon, good morning vietnam? hell yeah
I will find you!
"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wpw9wDi20ng