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Habbaku

#64845
November 09, 2017, 05:53:08 PM
I'm sure that's the way you see all your posts.
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.
-J. R. R. Tolkien

crazy canuck

#64846
November 09, 2017, 05:55:27 PM
Quote from: Habbaku on November 09, 2017, 05:29:56 PM
Quote from: crazy canuck on November 09, 2017, 05:21:11 PM
Quote from: Habbaku on November 09, 2017, 05:18:37 PM
QuoteTea/Dinner

Why would anyone call an evening meal "tea"?

Why do you call it the name you use?

Why do you call it the name I use?

No idea what you call it or why.

Habbaku

#64847
November 09, 2017, 05:56:13 PM
Now you see why I might question the use of "tea".
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.
-J. R. R. Tolkien

Admiral Yi

#64848
November 09, 2017, 05:57:43 PM
Jesus wept.

Yi's Law: the longer one stays on Languish the closer the likelihood of becoming grumbler approaches 1.

crazy canuck

#64849
November 09, 2017, 05:58:48 PM
Quote from: Habbaku on November 09, 2017, 05:56:13 PM
Now you see why I might question the use of "tea".

Not really, it is a common term.  Which, if I was to speculate, why you use the term you use - whatever it might be.

Habbaku

#64850
November 09, 2017, 05:59:12 PM
Aren't we all grumbler?
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.
-J. R. R. Tolkien

Liep

#64851
November 09, 2017, 06:01:55 PM
Quote from: Maladict on November 09, 2017, 05:27:06 PM
Heh, moin. I've never heard it, but funny how similar it is to 'moi' as they say up north here.
I was surprised how close the north German dialects are to Dutch. I remember reading a plaque in Wismar written in the local dialect and it could have passed for northern Dutch almost down to a word.

In Southern Jutland they use 'mojn', their dialect is supposedly very close to Frisian.
"Af alle latterlige Ting forekommer det mig at være det allerlatterligste at have travlt" - Kierkegaard

"JamenajmenømahrmDÆ!DÆ! Æhvnårvaæhvadlelæh! Hvor er det crazy, det her, mand!" - Uffe Elbæk

Habbaku

#64852
November 09, 2017, 06:03:09 PM
Quote from: crazy canuck on November 09, 2017, 05:58:48 PM
Quote from: Habbaku on November 09, 2017, 05:56:13 PM
Now you see why I might question the use of "tea".

Not really, it is a common term.  Which, if I was to speculate, why you use the term you use - whatever it might be.

I'm not sure what your second sentence is trying to communicate. But my whole point is that it isn't a common term, at least where I and Valmy are concerned. Which is why I questioned it.

You and Garbon then decided that, rather than answer the question, you'd just question why I'd ask it. I don't really understand why you'd think that productive.
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.
-J. R. R. Tolkien

garbon

#64853
November 09, 2017, 06:05:05 PM
Because, quite frankly, you were displaying Jos like behavior.
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Habbaku

#64854
November 09, 2017, 06:06:02 PM
By asking a single question in curiosity. It's a term I've never heard before in reference to eating a meal. OH MAN LET'S PANIC
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.
-J. R. R. Tolkien

Admiral Yi

#64855
November 09, 2017, 06:15:57 PM
Quote from: Habbaku on November 09, 2017, 05:59:12 PM
Aren't we all grumbler?

That would explain a lot.

Habbaku

#64856
November 09, 2017, 06:17:24 PM
"Bieber bets me 10 quatloos even Trump will not pull his password proposal.  Hey Beeb, fucking concede this bet already."

I don't even remember this bet, Yi. What's the deal?
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.
-J. R. R. Tolkien

Admiral Yi

#64857
November 09, 2017, 06:20:37 PM
Quote from: Habbaku on November 09, 2017, 06:17:24 PM
"Bieber bets me 10 quatloos even Trump will not pull his password proposal.  Hey Beeb, fucking concede this bet already."

I don't even remember this bet, Yi. What's the deal?

Trump said anyone entering the US should have to surrender their electronic device passwords.

garbon

#64858
November 09, 2017, 06:23:37 PM
Quote from: Habbaku on November 09, 2017, 06:06:02 PM
By asking a single question in curiosity. It's a term I've never heard before in reference to eating a meal. OH MAN LET'S PANIC

I don't know why your ignorance is particularly noteworthy nor why you want to share it with the class.
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Habbaku

#64859
November 09, 2017, 06:24:37 PM
In the torrent of madness that comes out of Trump on a daily basis, that one slipped by me.

Seems like it's been months since he even mentioned it. Does quietly letting people forget it under a flood of other idiocies count as giving it up?
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.
-J. R. R. Tolkien
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