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'Best-selling' (and other compound adjectives) is hyphenated when used as an adjective.Chaz wrote:I'm dense, what's the mistake in the second version?
What. The. Fuck?I have broken more Elton John records, he seems to have a lot of records. And I, by the way, I don’t have a musical instrument. I don’t have a guitar or an organ. No organ. Elton has an organ. And lots of other people helping. No we’ve broken a lot of records. We’ve broken virtually every record. Because you know, look I only need this space. They need much more room. For basketball, for hockey and all of the sports, they need a lot of room. We don’t need it. We have people in that space. So we break all of these records. Really we do it without like, the musical instruments. This is the only musical: the mouth. And hopefully the brain attached to the mouth. Right? The brain, more important than the mouth, is the brain. The brain is much more important.
No one has thought of Elton John concerts as a standard for crowd size in, what, forty years?Skinypupy wrote: ↑Fri Jul 06, 2018 8:33 am This is an actual quote from the President of the United States at a rally in Montana last night:
What. The. Fuck?I have broken more Elton John records, he seems to have a lot of records. And I, by the way, I don’t have a musical instrument. I don’t have a guitar or an organ. No organ. Elton has an organ. And lots of other people helping. No we’ve broken a lot of records. We’ve broken virtually every record. Because you know, look I only need this space. They need much more room. For basketball, for hockey and all of the sports, they need a lot of room. We don’t need it. We have people in that space. So we break all of these records. Really we do it without like, the musical instruments. This is the only musical: the mouth. And hopefully the brain attached to the mouth. Right? The brain, more important than the mouth, is the brain. The brain is much more important.
They can't and never could. Reigning in the rage and insults would be Political Correctness, which they've rejected for years (though they call it "civility" when defending their own).YellowKing wrote: ↑Fri Jul 06, 2018 8:35 am Yeah, if you're not openly, loudly speaking out against this kind of rhetoric against sitting Senators (looking at you entire GOP), then you are complicit.
Trump's leash could have been yanked a long time ago had the GOP put on a united front against this kind of talk, but they've just sat by and passively let it occur. And like a toddler, Trump has felt ever more emboldened the longer he gets away with it.
Raising young kids with this man in office if horrible.YellowKing wrote: ↑Fri Jul 06, 2018 8:35 am I was reading the news last night and my daughter asked me what I was doing. I told her I was reading the news. She asked what was going on. I told her, "The President is still a horrible human being." And I will keep reiterating that to my kids at every opportunity that this is NOT a role model. And I resent him for me having to train my kids NOT to look up to the highest political office in the land.
Skinypupy wrote: ↑Fri Jul 06, 2018 8:33 am This is an actual quote from the President of the United States at a rally in Montana last night:
I don’t have a guitar or an organ. No organ.
I think it was (yet another) instance of him bragging about crowd size and how many people can't get in to his rallies. Here's a twitter thread that's basically a live blog of the rally. It's all pretty nuts.
His first week in office we had a kid tell my daughter, "You can come over to my house more now since [Mexican and Argentinian besties] will all get kicked out of America!"
Little B 9.4 had something similar happen. She came home crying because the other kids on the playground were telling Monish (from India) that he had to leave now because Trump was President.LawBeefaroni wrote: ↑Fri Jul 06, 2018 9:05 amHis first week in office we had a kid tell my daughter, "You can come over to my house more now since [Mexican and Argentinian besties] will all get kicked out of America!"
It's only gotten worse since then. It sucks and we're trying to fight it by doing a deep dive into Ameican history.
There is somehow a joke to be made about having to brag about your crowd because you have no organ.
I am thankful that as racist as my parents are, they not only hide it, they fight it, and they never ever ever let their children be exposed to their bias until we were adults. I suppose that's where I once had a patient hope that this from of bigotry would die in the US necessarily as the generations passed. I usually like being wrong, coming to an ah ha moment and learning more about the world. These last 10 years have been a kind of wrong I don't like being.Skinypupy wrote: ↑Fri Jul 06, 2018 9:11 am Little B 9.4 had something similar happen. She came home crying because the other kids on the playground were telling Monish (from India) that he had to leave now because Trump was President.
The sad thing is that you know these kids aren't making this stuff up on their own at that age (they would have been 8). They're simply parroting what they hear from parents and/or other family members, but are now growing up believing that is the truth. Scary times.
While bigotry and racism are not dying in the US, I do think they're diminishing. I think back to when I was a kid, and can imagine nearly every kid on the playground saying something similar to what my daughter heard. Now it's just a select few. I think of the multi-cultural influences that my kids interact with every day without even batting an eye, all of which would have been unheard of 20-30 years ago. I don't have data to back it up, but my feeling is that the number of kids learning and/or spouting racist rhetoric is far less these days compared to what it was.LordMortis wrote: ↑Fri Jul 06, 2018 9:17 am I am thankful that as racist as my parents are, they not only hide it, they fight it, and they never ever ever let their children be exposed to their bias until we were adults. I suppose that's where I once had a patient hope that this from of bigotry would die in the US necessarily as the generations passed. I usually like being wrong, coming to an ah ha moment and learning more about the world. These last 10 years have been a kind of wrong I don't like being.
Wpah, woah, that was real? The fuck? Obviously Trump can only hold like 5 ideas in his brain at once. Clearly why he tossed that Elton John word salad. He had just signed the CD.
For the first half of that quote I thought he was talking about breaking Elton John LPs. Elton does have a lot of those records.Holman wrote: ↑Fri Jul 06, 2018 8:39 amNo one has thought of Elton John concerts as a standard for crowd size in, what, forty years?Skinypupy wrote: ↑Fri Jul 06, 2018 8:33 am This is an actual quote from the President of the United States at a rally in Montana last night:
What. The. Fuck?I have broken more Elton John records, he seems to have a lot of records. And I, by the way, I don’t have a musical instrument. I don’t have a guitar or an organ. No organ. Elton has an organ. And lots of other people helping. No we’ve broken a lot of records. We’ve broken virtually every record. Because you know, look I only need this space. They need much more room. For basketball, for hockey and all of the sports, they need a lot of room. We don’t need it. We have people in that space. So we break all of these records. Really we do it without like, the musical instruments. This is the only musical: the mouth. And hopefully the brain attached to the mouth. Right? The brain, more important than the mouth, is the brain. The brain is much more important.
But his team just pulled a fun little diplo-gesture of offering Kim Jong Un a Trump-signed copy of "Rocket Man," so he had Elton John near the top of the list of things his brain is vaguely aware of.
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same... I was much more inclined to think of the records he had made, and not at all inclined to think of Elton John as someone who held a record for something.
Not record, RECORDS. Also, "virtually EVERY record" , to be exact.
I believe the standard response to something like that is "the effing libtards and corrupt media won't stop nitpicking and bullying him".GreenGoo wrote: ↑Fri Jul 06, 2018 2:40 pm Seeing these quotes, and seeing all these testimonials about still supporting Drumpf, I think it would be fun to ask co-workers to read some of the quotes out loud, and if that's not enough, read them out loud loudly enough for multiple people to hear them.
It's less easy to be in denial when insanity is coming out of your own mouth. Being put on the spot and asked if they still support him after saying his words has got to cause some sort of psychological fracture, which is probably more fun than actually turning anyone's viewpoint.
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