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His other videos are good too, creative.


This one was interesting, people guessing others income. I'll spoil it a bit, the highest income earner is 15-20k a month and not what you would think, she is a life coach, who knew so much money could be made as a life coach.

The other surprise was a hair stylist at Microsoft, 100k a year.

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Outside Britain (and Canada?) the abbreviation P*** is usually quite acceptable, and P*** individuals themselves see nothing wrong with it. I was once threatened with expulsion from BE for stating this plain fact, and for using the word without the asterisks. Yikes! All very confusing, especially since P**** is the first part of the name of a Russian punk (p***, I mean) group of Riotous females. The situation is much the same as using the word P** or P**** to describe a British person, mainly in Australia. Here in the Caribbean, a Brit is often referred to as a L****. Political correctness is an ever-encroaching phenomenon. It has reached the point where in some circles (not BE, so far), it's non-PC to use the words man and woman, lest at any time a man or a woman might re-identify as the other - or indeed as one of the multitude of other options available to him/her/it/zhe/zho/zhu/etc! Yikes! again.

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While before my time in its original run, I really love M*A*S*H. I first discovered the movie around 2000, and show around the same time. I have probably watched every episode 10-15 times, it still airs in re-runs on some of the low budget cable channels, despite its age it still brings both a serious element and comedic element depending on episode.

One of the more interesting theme songs as well, although the TV shows had no lyrics just the music.

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No, it's never been acceptable. It's use was probably memat to say much about Uncle Arthur and the rest off the Trotters.

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I was around when M*A*S*H kicked off with the movie, loved it then and still do.

The lyrics to 'Suicide is Painless' were deliberately written to be as stupid as possible. Director Robert Altman tried to write it but couldn't approach the required level of idiocy, so he asked his 14 year old son to do it (who then wrote the lyrics in 5 minutes). The message, of course, is that suicide is the polar opposite of 'painless'. The act itself is born of pain and despair, and for those left behind the pain never ends.

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@beckiwoo
One of my brothers used to describe my old local shop like that. Probably still does. He won't mean any offence by it but if I can remember all those words regularly used back in the 60s and realised it was just plain wrong at an early age, why can't he?

He's a Jim Davidson fan. :(

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I find this a rather confusing post. IME paki hasn't been acceptable in the UK or in Canada for the past decade or so. It was in common use prior to that. A well spoken anglo-Indian colleague who then referred to himself as "the public school paki" has since dropped the term. Pussy is less problematic, its use to describe the female genital area has recently been popularized by President Trump; I would say that the term was less acceptable ten years ago than it is today. I can't guess what your L word is.

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I had never heard of that term prior to coming to Canada and only time I ever heard anyone use it was my ex father in law who was from the UK, never heard it used by anyone else here.

I do recall a couple of US presidents having some controversy over using it, unaware it was considered offensive, its not a term I ever heard used in the US.

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Limey? (Lovey? Lucky?) :angel_smile:

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And yet it's acceptable to call Russians Russki*, and Norwegian N*rskies (at least, my Norwegian grandchildren have never objected to being called Norskies; their father calls them Norgies). And do English people still call the French Fr*gs or Fr*ggies, even in friendly fun, and Germans Jerries? And can Welshmen still be T*ffies, without giving offence, and Scots J*cks. I have read that some Canadians don't like being called Canucks: is that true? Surely it depends on the tone of voice used: a following cuss-word might blight the harmless abbreviation or nickname that precedes it. It must also depend on the sensitivity of the speaker or the hearer, or both.

Sometimes the difference between a harmless ethnic identification and a harmful one is simply a matter of passing preference. When and why did it suddenly become rude to refer to a Japanese as a J*p? Might Australians some day resent being called Aussies, or New Zealanders, Kiwis? South Africans, Saffies? Will Liverpudlians insist on an asterisk in their nickname, Sc*uses or Scou*es? And one of my favourites, Americans in Mexico, gr*ngos? The thing is, we all have our favourite "acceptables", don't we?

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The odd life in the sea.

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Excellent find, Jsmth! Here's another weird sea-creature, with an even weirder name ("the hairy-angler fish")!
https://phys.org/news/2013-10-d-scan...nglerfish.html

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Limey it is, often used contemptuously, in the same way that the P*** word is in England and the P**** word is in Oz.

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Should not have left the job at the airport.



If there was one thing I wish my parents had done when I was a kid was have me learn to swim....I have tried to learn as an adult, but still not very good at swimming, and still can't figure out how to float...lol