Posted on 05/14/2007 10:11:31 AM PDT by Stoat
Not French, but if you’d bother to read the post that I was responding to, it was in regards to the situation deteriorating here in the U.S. where we do have an RNC. Try reading, it works every time.
If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual. - Frank Herbert
Clam down and stop balming whitey.
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Where is the pic of a clam?
Clam down, get it?
You self-loathing whites are something else.
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Well, I suppose I can see how that could take some time if I knew what the heck he was talking about.
There. Happy????
Thank you.
Happy to oblige.
And risk being labeled a angry white reactionary racist militant?[/s]
You're absolutely right, of course. But this foolishness hasn't yet reached a tipping point in relation to the average American's daily life - yet.
The left surely knows the benefits of boiling the frog slowly.
I seem to remember reading that same passage in some dusty old history book...8^)
Well, I suppose I can see how that could take some time if I knew what the heck he was talking about.
I'm pretty confident that in this case what is NOT being referred to is the collection of the vile insect that is popularly known as a 'tick' and placing it into a box, ostensibly for etymological study.
Rather, I am virtually confident that what is being discussed is a (mainly British) colloquialism for what we in the USA might refer to as "a check-mark in a check-box" , popular among Socialist paper-pushers who make long lists of irrelevancies for others to fill out mainly in order to justify their jobs.
It's oftentimes expressed thusly or with some artistic variation:
"a tick secured in a box"
Correction, should be entomological study.
Thanks! I hate it when I don’t get those colloquialisms! (Every time I think I’m educated I learn something else. Keeps me pretty busy).
Well said, dsc! BTTT!
And lefties want to feel good about getting tough on crime, and that means creating the appearance that they are tough on something, sadly, just not 'real' crime. Too many lefties feel for the real criminals, they feel sorry for the rapist, the arsonist, the drug pusher, that they must have had a tough life and need compassion. Of course compassion for the real victim is not in their realm of feel-goodness.
Could there be a connection? It would be depressing to watch the bad guys go free and the misdemeanor behaviors criminalized...
You're quite welcome and I'm delighted to have been of some help. I agree about learning....at the point when I decide that I've learned everything I hope that there are enough caring people around me who will shoot me and put me out of my arrogant misery :-)
Re British slang, there are a number of GREAT specialty dictionaries for that on the internet that may be worth bookmarking. Some of my favorites are:
BBC America - British American Dictionary
Dictionary of English slang and colloquialisms of the UK
Be warned, however, that there will be many bawdy and off-color terms and expressions dealt with on these pages and so they may not be suitable for children and those faint of heart (not meaning to imply that you would fall into such a category, of course)
Slang dictionaries exist for many other variations as well, including but not limited to Australian, Irish, etc.
You can find a boatload of them by searching with such keyword phrases as "Australian slang dictionary", "British slang dictionary" etc.
Funny you should mention British slang books. I have one I bought years ago, but I doubt this would be in it. I actually bought it to write a book about an episode in American history (still in the planning stages after 30 years) which was close enough to the Revolution that I thought it would be relevant!
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