I don't like it either but it seems to be the latest thing, my brother sent me his holiday snaps showing buildings which are, apparently 'corporate rape'.

Thinking about it, isn't it more like 'pillage' which is meant in these contexts?

I find it odd that a few posters on here like to use the word raped and ass raped as much as possible. Nowt as strange as folk

Minor and somewhat irrelevant point re the Rover name. The issue is that Tata bought a car company and then went asking the British government for money to keep it open.

At issue here is Tata buying and asset stripping British steel plants, then having the audacity to blame British management.

rape 1 (reɪp)
6. ( also intr ) to plunder or despoil (a place) in war

7. archaic to carry off by force; abduct

C14: from Latin rapere to seize

late 14c., "seize prey, take by force," from Anglo-Fr. raper, O.Fr. raper "to seize, abduct," a legal term, from L. rapere "seize, carry off by force, abduct" (see rapid). L. rapere was used for "sexual violation," but only very rarely; the usual L. word being stuprum, lit. "disgrace." Sense of "sexual violation or ravishing of a woman" first recorded in Eng. as a noun, 1481 (the noun sense of "taking anything -- including a woman -- away by force" is from c.1400). The verb in this sense is from 1577. Rapist is from 1883

Does that settle my use of the English language?

Yes

You got your facts wrong (and not for the first time). Deal with it.

I did

to err is to be human, to be perfect is to be Elfman eh?

I think you must be:

Rape: an act of plunder, violent seizure, or abuse; despoliation; violation: the rape of the countryside.

Perfectly acceptable non sexual reference.


S

Similar situation with the word abortion.

Fair enough, I shall try to readjust my thinking

No Vim, I was not socially correct in my archaic use of the word “rape” - I should have used the F word, but it gives the mods apoplexy. (The angry fit, not the stroke caused by a brain haemorrhage).

Funny how the F word which would have been grammatically incorrect, wouldn’t have raised an eyebrow….

I notice you didn't say 'queer as folk', probably wise considering the context.

May I suggest 'shafted'?

Strangely, you aren’t the first to suggest that i get shafted. No idea why people want me caught in a beam of light…..

That's a very gay thing to say

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