Britain gets raped. Again!!!
May 23rd 2011, 10:04 am
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Re: Britain gets raped. Again!!!
Thinking about it, isn't it more like 'pillage' which is meant in these contexts?
May 23rd 2011, 10:17 am
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Re: Britain gets raped. Again!!!
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 
May 23rd 2011, 10:38 am
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Re: Britain gets raped. Again!!!
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.
May 23rd 2011, 11:22 am
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Re: Britain gets raped. Again!!!
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?
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?
May 23rd 2011, 11:29 am
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May 23rd 2011, 11:43 am
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May 23rd 2011, 11:54 am
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Re: Britain gets raped. Again!!!
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.
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May 23rd 2011, 12:19 pm
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Re: Britain gets raped. Again!!!
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?
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?
May 23rd 2011, 2:12 pm
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May 23rd 2011, 2:18 pm
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Re: Britain gets raped. Again!!!
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….
Funny how the F word which would have been grammatically incorrect, wouldn’t have raised an eyebrow….
May 23rd 2011, 2:27 pm
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Re: Britain gets raped. Again!!!
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….
Funny how the F word which would have been grammatically incorrect, wouldn’t have raised an eyebrow….
May 23rd 2011, 2:33 pm
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May 23rd 2011, 4:26 pm
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