To: Smogger
Not to diminish the importance of this event, but I can't help but hone in on that word "massive." The media sure loves those kind of words.
To: Integrityrocks
I just logged onto my homepage (which is Refdesk) and noticed the term "HUGE" in the title of the headline. I thought the same thing...what does "huge" mean?
And I'm prepared for the usual FR comeback, it's "hugh" and "series", LOL.
9 posted on
04/19/2006 11:52:54 AM PDT by
dawn53
To: Integrityrocks
It's almost certainly a, um... "massive" exaggeration.
10 posted on
04/19/2006 11:53:07 AM PDT by
thoughtomator
(That new ring around Uranus is courtesy of the IRS)
To: Integrityrocks
Well, I can excuse the overuse of the words "huge" and "massive". If you've ever been around a significant explosion, it seems huge and massive regardless of how it compares to others.
To: Integrityrocks
Not to diminish the importance of this event, but I can't help but hone in on that word "massive." The media sure loves those kind of words.
That is our fault. We should be giving them a relevant point of comparison. A 60 megaton nuke over Iran would be massive, a fuel air blast or a 20,000 lb bomb would be major tactical strike, and anything less would be an attrition device.
16 posted on
04/19/2006 11:55:11 AM PDT by
ARCADIA
(Abuse of power comes as no surprise)
To: Integrityrocks
Because they have 'massive' egos
22 posted on
04/19/2006 12:01:35 PM PDT by
bill1952
("All that we do is done with an eye towards something else.")
To: Integrityrocks
MassiveSNBC
28 posted on
04/19/2006 12:06:06 PM PDT by
johnny7
(“Nah, I ain’t Jewish, I just don’t dig on swine, that’s all.”)
To: Integrityrocks
For me (Combat Engineer) massive would be something like a cement mixer full of AMPHO/TNT/C4 or some such detonating in my general vicintity.
33 posted on
04/19/2006 12:10:26 PM PDT by
roaddog727
(eludium PU36 explosive space modulator)
To: Integrityrocks
Not to diminish the importance of this event, but I can't help but hone in on that word "massive." The media sure loves those kind of words.Yeah, our scumbag liberal local college toilet paper, the Bucks County Courier Times, loves to use words like that in their headlines, especially if US Marines have been killed. I saw the other day that "Fighting Rages in Ramadi, Baghdad". "Rages". Good word. Yeah
To: Integrityrocks
Yeah....they can't say "stroke" or "heart attack" without saying "massive" first.
To: Integrityrocks
Hyperbole like," massive" and ,"rocked the capital" are employed to spin the event as a major catastrope. I wonder what reading the Richter scale will give when the MSM finally comes crashing down?
May the MSM die with a mere whimper! Dweebs!
81 posted on
04/19/2006 8:16:57 PM PDT by
Candor7
(Into Liberal Flatulence Goes the Hope of the West)
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