The Racist conundrum.

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  1. John Castle

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    You really shouldn't.
  2. wulfAlpha

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  3. wulfAlpha

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    I don't see why not unless this Ducat is anything like the slimy beast in deep space nine. Then I might have to do something drastic.
  4. John Castle

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    He'd like to be. Kind of hard to live up to the image when one goes around failing to light books on fire in lesbian shoes, though.
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    [​IMG]Ok here is something drastic
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  7. John Castle

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    You give the impression of being every atom as gay as we have always suspected Dukat of being. This proves nothing. :bailey:
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    I'm afraid I will have to decline your request to join in on your hallucination. I also reject your reality and substitute my own.
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    Awe no browncoats got the reference.
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    Really?


    trite
    trīt/
    adjective
    adjective: trite; comparative adjective: triter; superlative adjective: tritest
    (of a remark, opinion, or idea) overused and consequently of little import; lacking originality or freshness.
    "this point may now seem obvious and trite"
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    "goram" = :vomit:
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    Yep, really. By that definition -- if applied outside of fiction -- "global warming" is "trite." Find a Luddite shrieker who would claim that disproves their pet tinfoil conspiracy theory, though.
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    "This proves nothing" is an hallucination? (Yes, you dumb, gay bastards, that's "an hallucination".) And you can't reject my reality and substitute your own. My reality is not merely paramount, it is omnimount. It overrules all competitors.
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    I agree: arguments for and against global warming have become trite...

    What was your point?
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    My point is that "trite" is misplaced as a criticism of anything other than fiction. I thought that was clear.
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    What's clear is your interpretation of the word is wrong, at least according to dictionaries; don't take my word for it.
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    Only if you're British.
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    Actually, I think that works only if you're French. It's an 'allucination, monsieur!
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    If you're French, wouldn't it be, "Eetz an allyewceenayshawn, haw haw haw haw! Hwat, yew sawt eet kood be sed-eh weezout soundeeng comb-pleat-lee stew-peed-eh? EEM-PO-SEEEEEEEE-bleh! Haw haw haw haw!"
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    Okay, let's see what the dictionary says, then:

    Again, that's only a problem in fiction. 1+1=2 may not be exciting or original; that doesn't make it wrong.
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    You are dealing with a guy who likes to say 1+1=3 and will pretend this is obvious to anybody who isn't a communist.
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    You left this bit out (from websters):

    Examples of TRITE
      • That argument has become trite.
      • <by the time the receiving line had ended, the bride and groom's thanks sounded trite and tired>
      • The wrong sort of built environment, she argued, wrecked the social fabric of cities. This view seems almost trite today, but in the 1960's it was insurgent. —Robert Kuttner,New York Times Book Review, 12 Mar. 2000
    My usage appears more common than yours (100% of examples). Why are you doing this? It's not helping your argument. Maybe if you used italics and boldface.
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    Articles with Words Beginning with ‘h,’ a or an

    The consonant giving us the most trouble is probably h. When the h begins a word and the first syllable is strongly pronounced, you should use a.


    a history of Europe (accent falls on his)
    a hero (accent falls on he)

    But when the beginning h is weakly pronounced (historic, habitual), you may use an, especially in British English.


    an historic occasion (hisTORic)
    an habitual offender (haBITual)

    But these usages are becoming increasingly old-fashioned, so you may also use a.


    a historic occasion
    a habitual offender
    Looks like An hallucination is correct unless it is an exception to the rule. Credit where credit is due and all that.
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  28. Forbin

    Forbin Do you feel fluffy, punk?

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    So anyway, I was walking the dog one evening last week, and Ken, the black guy up the street said hi howya doin from his driveway. All the people on the street who normally see Mary walking the dog have been asking how she is. So I gave him a quick rundown on her operation and recovery, said see ya and continued on.

    The next morning I was walking the dog as Ken was pulling out of his driveway, and he rolled down his window. And I immediately realized this wasn't the same guy I was talking to the day before. He smiled and said "So I guess my brother and I look alike, huh?"

    :facepalm:

    Really, I only see Ken every once in a while, and he's the only black guy on the block, so "black guy in Ken's driveway" equaled "Ken" to my tired really-I-swear-I'm-not-a-racist brain.

    God, I'm so embarrassed.
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    I did that once, with two male black students the same year, but not at the same time. I knew both of them from before, and they don't even really look that much alike, but the first time I saw the one I hadn't seen in a while, my brain just automatically came up with the name of the other one. Fortunately, I didn't say it out loud, and I'm not sure if he realized that, for the first 30 seconds of the conversation or so, I thought I was talking to the other one...

    It makes you feel really dumb...
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    Heh. One of my (white) neighbors is a twin. She'd never mentioned this to me. I once spent five minutes chatting with her sister, who was visiting from Oregon, about some neighborhood thing before the sister said "You know Sarah and I are twins, right?"

    Now, that's embarrassing.