2016 United States Election
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I've not heard that expression before either.
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I've seen it only recently.
“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
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I've heard the expression "[adjective] as f***" fairly commonly, but I've never seen it abbreviated as "AF" before.
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It's the new thing.
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It's much newer than F.
(Urban dictionary's first entry for it is 2011 so its definitely been around a while.)
(Urban dictionary's first entry for it is 2011 so its definitely been around a while.)
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I guess I never heard of it because the only internet I internet is here. NY Times app doesn't count, am sure, as doing the internet.
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But is it on fleek?
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Wazzat?
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Good question. Evidently it started with a Vine video involving eyebrows.
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Frelga wrote:Once again reinforcing the stereotypes about the politeness of Canadians.Jude wrote:I don't think I've even heard that expression
I've not heard it either. Perhaps I am a wannabe Canadian? (who isn't?!)
"What do you fear, lady?" Aragorn asked.
"A cage," Éowyn said. "To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
"A cage," Éowyn said. "To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
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Yes. . . .
“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
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Canadian af
If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.
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Or polite af.
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I am exposed to the seamier side of life on my Facebook feed, thanks to my son, my son's friends, and, oddly enough, a parrot rescue group I used to belong to.
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Here's a clip of a play where the Trump-Clinton debates are recreated word-for-word and gesture-for-gesture with a woman playing Trump and a man playing Clinton.
Most of the commentary is on gender, but I actually thought it was interesting to judge the candidates purely by content and delivery without any pre-conceived notions that come from the actual candidates.
Most of the commentary is on gender, but I actually thought it was interesting to judge the candidates purely by content and delivery without any pre-conceived notions that come from the actual candidates.
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Ugh. This is just as nasty & painful as watching it the first time. I just wanna cry.
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I had encountered the abbreviation "AF" before, although like other internet terms, such as "ICYMI" or "TFW", not so often that I can always remember the meaning.Primula Baggins wrote:Basic as f***.
Even more confusing to me is how the word "basic" came to have a somewhat derogatory connotation in the past couple years.
I also never saw Fight Club, so I was for a time very confused at why people in the comments section of my local newspaper kept calling me "snowfalke".
(I *love* that media chart yov posted here, by the way.)
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N.E. Brigand wrote: Having been away for a while, I have only just begun to read this thread, so please pardon me if I'm repeating something previously mentioned (I won't be posting much on political subjects, and I shall read a lot more of what has already been said here before commenting further), but on this note, it's interesting to read that Germany, believing the U.S. election to have been manipulated by Russia (partly through the dissemination of fake news), is taking steps to make sure the same thing doesn't happen in their elections next year: Don't Forget It Happened.
At the time you posted this, I had plans for a long response, explaining how I both agreed and disagreed with you, with a reference to something Tolkien wrote in his letters about Gollum and the Ring and power, and much more, but it was only ever in my head, and much life intervened.Inanna wrote: I think we are looking for scapegoats.
So I'll just say that sometimes an apparent scapegoat actually is guilty.
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I'm not sure where this link best fits, but it certainly shouldn't be in a thread titled "Trump's America". This is a polling representation of Obama's America, and I found it to be very interesting.
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/ob ... 8_PollingT
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/ob ... 8_PollingT
"What do you fear, lady?" Aragorn asked.
"A cage," Éowyn said. "To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
"A cage," Éowyn said. "To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
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It definitely indicates that the country as a whole is neither entirely Obama's nor entirely Trump's, and probably never has been.
“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King