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MY MAN!
P.S. WordPress is STUPID!
“This is a Rant. Please Do NOT Read. It is Only For me: Venting. Spewing. Pontificating. Bitching, Moaning, & Complaining.” (But On-The-Record)
Stop saying stupid things…
“Take a Listen.“
Jordan Peterson
Far More Eloquent Than I–Er—Me.:
Cred For Vid Share: Living your Dreams
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The Truth Why Stupid People Think They’re Smart:
Cred for Vid Share: Thoughty2
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“Take a listen.”
Whaaaat???
Fuck does that mean???
Broadcast news always says, “Take a listen”
Take it where?
Put it where?
In my pocket??
How ’bout this:
I will ‘take’ this ‘listen’, put it in my pocket. Then I will pull it out of my pocket and shove it straight up your ass. Now YOU take it!
How’s that?
How’s it Feel?
How’d That Work Out for Ya?
IDIOTS!
Economy of language!
Now I’ll be the first to admit, I am more verbose than the average mo’fo’ you may encounter, but, but… I at least try to be original.
When did we get so stupid???
“Stupid People”
Cred: George
How about this:
“Here is a video report. Listen to it. Watch it.
If you want
Or Not.”
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Cred for Vid: AwakenWithJP
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By Valerie StraussJanuary 24, 2016
If you listen to the news — pretty much any channel — it is likely that it won’t take more than a few minutes for you to hear someone say “take a listen” and then go to some video. I know it’s hardly one of the world’s big (or even little) problems, and it’s hardly a new one, but I cringe when I hear it. I’m not the only one.
The authors of the great Grammarphobia blog have been on this since 2008, and following is the post they wrote then, and updated on Saturday, Jan. 23 (which I am republishing with permission). They are Patricia T. O’Conner and Stewart Kellerman, who between them have written five books about the English language and have more than half a century of experience as writers and editors.
They include “Woe Is I: The Grammarphobe’s Guide to Better English in Plain English” (O’Conner), “Origins of the Specious: Myths and Misconceptions of the English Language” (O’Connor and Kellerman), and “You Send Me: Getting It Right When You Write Online” (O’Connor and Kellerman).
O’Conner spent 15 years at the New York Times mostly editing at the Book Review but also writing articles and book reviews. She also wrote The Times’s weekly columns on new video releases and paperback books. Kellerman, a foreign correspondent at United Press International, took over that column at the Times, where he worked as an editor, wrote articles on literary subjects and reviewed books.
From the Grammarphobia blog:Q: On CNN, all the anchors use the expression “take a listen” instead of just “listen” or “listen to this.”
Does that sound as caustic to you as it does to me?A: We don’t know about caustic, but it certainly sounds puffed up, condescending, and lame. We could go on, but let us quote from the entry for this “infantile phrase” in The Dimwit’s Dictionary (2d ed.), by Robert Hartwell Fiske:“As inane as it is insulting, have (take) a listen obviously says nothing that listen alone does not. Journalists and media personalities who use this offensive phrase ought to be silenced; businesspeople, dismissed; public officials, pilloried.”Unfortunately, this horse is out of the barn. We just googled “take a listen” and got 725,000 hits.
The expression hasn’t made it yet into modern dictionaries, but The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (5th ed.) and Cambridge Dictionaries Online include examples of somewhat similar usages.Here’s the American Heritage example: “Would you like to give the CD a listen before buying it?”And this is the example from Cambridge Dictionaries:
“Have a listen to this!”The word “listen,” by the way, has been used as a noun for centuries in expressions like “to be on the listen” or “to have a proper listen.”In fact, the earliest citation in the Oxford English Dictionary for “listen” as a noun dates from the 1300s. In an apparent reference to becoming deaf or hard of hearing, the writer wonders if someone “has losed the lysten.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2016/01/24/can-we-stop-saying-take-a-listen/
Fredricka : Classy Lady!
Yes!
I am a Hopelessly Romantic SAP.
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Her untimely departure really fucked me up.
(More than this ‘Macho-Man’ would ever care or confess to admit.)
Street Cred for Vid: Missmariasiya
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Prince Howdy
“Howdy Asshole!
How’s it Hangin’ Bro?!”
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Christopher,
I love you more than cash money,
BUT
I do not agree with you.
(Actually I Do… Sorta.)
However, comma,
I’d like to hold onto my
Idealistic
Dreams
And Fantasies…
Regarding
Princesses.
Real-Life Ones.
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So on this note,
Christopher,
Go Get Fucked.
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I am very far removed from ‘stupid,’ and Christopher is spot on here/below,
but I am also a hopeless romantic.
So I am torn between two lovers.
My conundrum
“Lovin’ you both is breaking all the rules.”
“Well shit! I am in the ‘rule-breaking’ business.”
Author’s update September 2021: Ignore this one. It is stupid and I must have been drunk when I dropped it in.
Sorry
Street Cred for the Vid: Juan Manuel Astorga
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“The Cult of Diana” —Christopher Hitchens :
Update September 2021: From an email string sent to a good friend:
P.S.,
The Hitch bit is brilliant:
“Cult of Diana: The Mourning After.”
But it still pisses me off.
And you know how much I love Hitch
But, as I said in my piece,
“Don’t fucking rain upon my fantasy.”
Or
Words to that effect.
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“I suppose I am studid to claim to be so smart.
I still love The Princess of Wales.
But, I also realize this comes from my deep down hopeless stupid romantic ideas.
I like to believe in Fairy Tales.
(Not gay Fairy Tales…. the old school ones…)
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“studid?”
Did I type that?
I am too studid to be stupid.
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Goodbye England’s rose
May you ever grow in our hearts
You were the grace that placed itself
Where lives were torn apart
You called out to our country
And you whispered to those in pain
Now you belong to heaven
And the stars spell out your name
And it seems to me you lived your life
Like a candle in the wind
Never fading with the sunset
When the rain set in
And your footsteps will always fall here
Along England’s greenest hills
Your candle’s burned out long before
Your legend ever will
Loveliness we’ve lost
These empty days without your smile
This torch we’ll always carry
For our nation’s golden child
And even though we try
The truth brings us to tears
All our words cannot express
The joy you brought us through the years
And it seems to me you lived your life
Like a candle in the wind
Never fading with the sunset
When the rain set in
And your footsteps will always fall here
Along England’s greenest hills
Your candle’s burned our long before
Your legend ever will
Goodbye England’s rose
May you ever grow in our hearts
You were the grace that placed itself
Where lives were torn apart
Goodbye England’s rose
From a country lost without your soul
Who’ll miss the wings of your compassion
More than you’ll ever know
And it seems to me you lived your life
Like a candle in the wind
Never fading with the sunset
When the rain set in
And you footsteps will always fall here
Along England’s greenest hills
Your candle’s burned out long before
Your legend ever will
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I loved my Daddy.
Never sure if he loved me.
I thought he was always the smartest in any room, but one day he said something incredibly stupid to me.
(Shortly after the breakup of Lady Di and that moron she was married to.)
She had a broken wing thanks to Charles-The-Cheating-Unfaithful-Asshole–Moron
(I’m an Asshole Moron too, but I NEVER EVER Cheated on any of my four wives)
Well except for
But Janet and I were pretty much Legal-Separated then and I knew for shit-sure she had been keeping a Soy Toy Boy on the side for months, so WTF right?
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The expression on Diana’s face speaks volumes.
Volume One:
“What the fuck was I thinking?”
Daddy said, and I quote:
“That’s what happens when you marry a commoner.”
What an ignorant statement!
And I told him so.
“Diana Spencer was English Nobility way before she married into The House of Windsor.“
I was kicked out of Marcom Manor immediately (and permanently) after that.
(Daddy never enjoyed anyone hanging about who was not a sycophant to him.)
Marcom Manor
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Moron Author’s ed note:
OK, I watched CNN
They are calling their bullshit,
“Diana, A CNN Original Series”
Bullshit!! Nothing new or ‘original’ about it!
Most of the vids they showed are already on the Internet and have been for years.
Some of them are even in my orig Diana post (and I gave creds to the orig poster or at least the sharer)
CNN,
GO FUCK YOURSELF
Use a Bois d’arc fence post covered in barb-wire
(Just a Suggestion)
Who is Paying him?
Mark ‘Fukle-Berg?‘
No! I Mis-Spoke!
THAT Asshole Owns FaceBook
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(Ed. Note: There Is A ‘Brain-Ded’
Brian Seltzer-Water Bonus Gem At The End.
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Bobbsey Twins– Kissing Cousins:
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Puke IN My Mouth. Please And Thank You. Every Time I see this moron, I get this sudden urge to throw up in my mouth. Is this not the dumbest, ‘stupied-in cest’ Mother-Fu*ker in the history of stupid mother-fu#kers on Television?” Fairy” Certain that answer would be ‘Yes.’ A Resounding ‘Yes’.
There are only three people still watching this idiot. I am one of them.
Why? Because I love the comedy of the inane insane.
And it is free/cheap.
It only costs me a few brain cells.
Which I can regenerate.
Usually
Hopefully
Don Lemon: Before He Puts On His Makeup:
Above & Some Below Vid Creds: John Ward
Bonus Added Value:
Ted Koppel Has The Receipts.
Blames Mainstream Media’s Desire For Ratings For The Rise Of Donald Trump
Street Cred For Shared Vid: Roland S. Martin
Only Look If You Have A Bit of YOUR Life You Wanna WASTE.
“Shit Post # 9:
Meet Mr. Lance, NEWS JUNKIE”
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Cornelia & Lance
News Junkies, Le Deux
Basra, Iraq 2006
Love Potion Commotions!
Love potion number 9, The Searchers
Cred for Vid Share: whoacanyouhelpme
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Yes, this is a ‘Shit Post’
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“F*CK IT, I QUIT”
KTVA Reporter Charlo Greene QUITS On-Air
Lance Sez, “I Approve of this Message”
You Go Girl!
Bravo!
Watch the below vid.
You will laugh your ass off.
I Promise
And If you B’leave That…
Wanna Buy A Bridge?
Spiders on Drugs:
Street Cred For Vid: Andrew Struthers
Ditto this one below
Fredo and Andrew Cuomo
Cred For Original Content: John Ward
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But this is a light-hearted Shit Post, mocking me even more than I mock Broadcast News: CNN, MSNBC, Fox, Etcetera & Ad Nausea
And I am stalling, waiting for MS Muse to respond to my recent
She is sitting on the couch as I type these words.
(Yeah, she came home after the lights and water were restored)
I am beginning to find her a ‘fair-weather’ muse. Just sayin’.
Don’t matter. I still love her.
She had all her props:
Yeah. There’s that.
Always that.
Always That Attitude: Nuclear Option
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This post cannot stand alone on my prose.
The vids are requisite.
“I just have to look good; I don’t have to be clear.”
The Eagles Dirty Laundry
(Two different versions: I try to give Y’all Choices)
The volume is borked. So CRANK it up. (Video Credit: Video Music, via The YouTubes—Duh!)
Vid Creds: Global News
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Love Broadcast News.
Love Mocking Broadcast News.
Love the Eye-Candy ‘Info-Babes’ on Broadcast News. (Broadcast News puts the ‘Broad’ in News)
Andrea Tantaros: CNN, Bra Size & Measurements
Guys, you know you want me to drop the link.
No!
Suffer in Silence
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Love that I harbor no true malice toward Broadcast News, but G’damn! they are so transparent with their bias.
Added Value: Holly-Go-Lightly
I sincerely hope you have enjoyed this brief interlude shit post I wrote while cooling my heels waiting for MS Muse to respond to my Proposal of Marriage
Cheers!
(‘Story at Eleven’)
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Bonus ‘Added Value’
More Don Lemon-Head Fails
Credit to John Ward: Genius Man
“No, it’s awful.”
My Cross to Bear
My Spirit ‘Man-able’: Ted Koppel
Video Compilation Credit Below: iLoveChrisCuomo
Uh… Homo-Erotica?
CNN: The Most Trusted Name In News?
Am I homo-phobic?
No! But these two wear me out!
Some of my Best Friends are Fags (This is a JOKE BTW!)
“I love you Don Lemon.”
You never fail to entertain.
Now Please Excuse me while I puke—‘vacuate’ my stomach.
And my mind.
“The Memes Become Reality”
–IanMilesCheong
Don & Chris:
Two Marshmallows Colliding in Mid-Air:
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Top Ten Lemon-Head Fails
Content Creator: John Ward
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Ignore the below, the last on your radio dial, because WordPress is FU*KED UP!
Won’t let me delete it!
It just keeps spinning ‘round an’ ‘round sucking up bandwidth.
Bandwidth I have not to spare,
Nor desire to share.
Fu*k you WordPress!
“Uploading” it perpetually says.
Hey Whore-Press!
How ‘bout I ‘upload’ my Nine Millimeter into your dome?
How would that grab ya?
Blood Sweat & Tears – Spinning Wheel
Add-Din-Dumb:
I got ‘on the horn’ w/WP
Kind service rep fixed my problem:
Toot Sweet!
Un-Fun Facts:
Dick Van Dyke was an Alcoholic
(And So is Lance)
Vid Share Cred: TheRatbasher
All-in-all, WP has Great Customer Service.
No denying that.
I take back my un-happy words hurled at Them…
Until the next time They-Piss-Me-Off
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