Post something just for the heck of it

[Peloso]

The cat's name is Meatloaf

 

[belamyi]

 

[belamyi]

Sí, puede que no todo el mundo quiera ser rico, pero prácticamente todos quieren ser como los ricos en eso de trabajar poco y ganar mucho. Hay que "esforzarse" lamiendo los culos adecuados: se le llama "networking". Por eso les jode tanto cuando el lumpen comunistoide les pasa por delante: su esperanza es que se prohíba por ley esa igualdad de oportunidades, algo así como cuando el estado se mete en la libertad individual para disponer de la propia fortuna como uno desee, y se saca el invento de "la legítima", para que todos esos cuervos que dicen que creen tanto en los valores comunistas del trabajo blablabla, saquen limpito, con la excusa tribal de la consanguinidad, todo el dinero que ha ganado otro con su trabajo.

 

[Kulindahr]

"Cats on the beach at two-o'clock -- take us in, helmsman!"

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

Sí, puede que no todo el mundo quiera ser rico, pero prácticamente todos quieren ser como los ricos en eso de trabajar poco y ganar mucho. Hay que "esforzarse" lamiendo los culos adecuados: se le llama "networking". Por eso les jode tanto cuando el lumpen comunistoide les pasa por delante: su esperanza es que se prohíba por ley esa igualdad de oportunidades, algo así como cuando el estado se mete en la libertad individual para disponer de la propia fortuna como uno desee, y se saca el invento de "la legítima", para que todos esos cuervos que dicen que creen tanto en los valores comunistas del trabajo blablabla, saquen limpito, con la excusa tribal de la consanguinidad, todo el dinero que ha ganado otro con su trabajo.

 

[frankfrank]

My mistake. The correct spelling does remove the concept of disloyalty to one's native country, though that was indeed the original meaning of the word. In current usage "expatriate" does not imply this, it only denotes someone currently living outside their country of origin.

Wow, interesting word history...and, was it actually spelled "expatriate" then? I really enjoy these kinda things.

So interesting how word meanings can even mutate to something that's opposite of the original meaning. I am actually old enough to remember when the word "fantastic" had the dual meaning of its common usage, AND the meaning of "worthy of being considered a fantasy," though its usual meaning (wonderful, terrific, etc.) still dominated. It's even more interesting that I've noticed the "fantasy" definition COMING BACK into the vernacular only very recently...basically not until Donald Trump was elected. Yes, that's VERY recently, as far as the usual "lifespan" of words goes.

For that matter, TERRIFIC is one word that has evolved into its opposite. It used to be, pretty much, a synonym of HORRIFIC! Something that elicits terror, versus something that elicits horror. I am not old enough (and I'm not sure that anybody alive is old enough) to remember the "horror" definition.

I could go on and on about words that have SIMPLY VANISHED without a trace in my lifetime, but I have too much other stuff to do, lol. But, yeah, words like groovy - basically a form of "cool, in a fun way" or such.

Or "TEMPORARY WORDS" that emerge and quickly vanish..."GEAR" (which, well, kind of meant the same as "groovy") was more a UK word anyway, and it "kind of came to America" with Beatlemania, but I don't think it was "here" for even two years...

So it was just "you", and there are not thousands of 'more or less' native English-speakers (won't recall your particular case) who take the original of "ex-pat" as "ex-patriot"

I never noticed that before: YES, if people shorten it, they put the hyphen in as "ex-pat" but the hyphen disappears in the full version of the word. That's really interesting. I'm thinking...and I can't come up with even one more English word that behaves this way!

If anybody didn't know that I was an EXTREME lexophile, it's showing in this post, lol.

So, I see your and I raise you to two of them

 

[belamyi]

 

[belamyi]

 

[frankfrank]

This is beyond the pale...I mean, YES, so very cool!!! I wish I'd actually known that it was televised yesterday. (I've spent HALF of my lifetime never, even once, knowing about this until **AFTER THE FACT**..."must-see TV" for me, but I've *never* seen even one because it has been escaping me for at least 30 or 35 years.)

Anyway...first stateside black person to go all the way and win, though years ago there was a black winner who lives in Jamaica (not the neighborhood in Queens NY City) which of course I also missed...

http://https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/adeonibada/zaila-avant-garde-african-american-spelling-bee-winner?utm_source=nextdraft&utm_medium=email

 

[Alistair]

 

[belamyi]

Damn it, I always recall about the horizontal crap too late... oh well.

 

[DantheManFL]

 

[Peloso]

^

 

[JarodA]

Classic

 

[Kulindahr]

 

[belamyi]

Si te refieres a mi, que soy de derechas, le aplaudo por ser CAPITALISTA DE HECHO XD Los tontos sóis los que os creéis a los trepas advenedizos que os venden que son liberales, de derechas, procapitalistas, blablabla y luego os dan por detrás con sus políticas antisistema... y las orejas aún os echan humo de tanto aplaudirles por su profesión de fe pública de unos principios que a la hora de la verdad se pasan por el forro jajaja. El comunismo NACE de la miseria que CRÍAN los supuestos "políticos serios".

 

[belamyi]

I don't get it. The "motherfucker" I think I did, but this one...

 

[Kulindahr]

I don't get it. The "motherfucker" I think I did, but this one...

It's based on an old (and rather lame) bit of American humor that goes like this:

Guy #1: Pete and Repeat were on a boat. Pete fell out -- who was left?
Guy #2: Repeat.
Guy #1: Pete and Repeat were on a boat. Pete fell out -- who was left?
Guy #2: Repeat.
Guy #1: Pete and Repeat were on a boat....

And on and on. It's a juvenile play on words that I found stupid when I was in fifth grade (I refused to play along; I just said "No one is named "Repete").

So the image is a comment on the inanity of the supposed humor which has been making something of a comeback. Here's another--

 

[Kulindahr]

Just for fun, here's another on the same theme, which has multiple levels of humor if you recognize the source of the image--

 

[Kulindahr]

And another--