WTF in America
Mar 12th 2018, 1:05 pm
#6931
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Re: WTF in America
Interesting one, I looked this up last night after the posts above. Apparently, the word is an American coined word, 1890s, meaning simply - executed by electricity. Over in the UK, where they never did this, the word acquired a much less specific meaning - death or injury by electric shock, including accidental. I'd never thought of this before but it makes sense.
Well there you are then. I'm a woman without a country and my vocabulary seems to reflect that
Or maybe a woman with two countries, not sure.
Mar 12th 2018, 1:07 pm
#6932
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Re: WTF in America
That's nice.
Mar 12th 2018, 1:09 pm
#6933
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Re: WTF in America
It's why I always order wine. Even after spending half my life here, they still look befuddled if I attempt to order "water" in a restaurant.
Mar 12th 2018, 1:12 pm
#6935
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Re: WTF in America
My last name has three "rs" in it, and spelling it out over the phone is a minefield. I end up pronouncing my name as though The Wurzels were speaking it in order for them to get the spelling right.
Mar 12th 2018, 1:15 pm
#6936
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Re: WTF in America
Don't you love how the outrage-for-show is always directed at the press for somehow restricting language usage, and not the knuckle-dragging fascists who hijack the words and misuse them instead?
Mar 12th 2018, 1:17 pm
#6939
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Re: WTF in America
Exactamundo. It was a shock, not electrocution. (And it's the amperes that kill -- I doubt the ankle bracelets deliver 80kV: Tasers deliver about 2kV and generally are non-lethal. And even 4 million V won't revive a dead parrot.)
Mar 12th 2018, 1:17 pm
#6940
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Mar 12th 2018, 1:18 pm
#6941
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Re: WTF in America
Well, don't you know, major national broadsheets like the Guardian have nothing but time on their hands to restrict language?
Don't you love how the outrage-for-show is always directed at the press for somehow restricting language usage, and not the knuckle-dragging fascists who hijack the words and misuse them instead?
Don't you love how the outrage-for-show is always directed at the press for somehow restricting language usage, and not the knuckle-dragging fascists who hijack the words and misuse them instead?
Mar 12th 2018, 1:20 pm
#6942
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Re: WTF in America
If you spend your time fighting imaginary enemies and chasing bollocks, you can pretend to have principles without actually having to have them.
Something, something, fine people, something.
Something, something, fine people, something.
Mar 12th 2018, 1:21 pm
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Mar 12th 2018, 1:21 pm
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Re: WTF in America
Maybe it's just me.
On the actual voltage I was going on this and a few other online references.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics...soners/396674/