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Little things that annoy you....
- Thread starter Dizaster
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WTF. Are you a closet tea bagger or something Delly?
Gotta have a morning coffee or two to crank the day up, but *smile* if I'd ever stand in line or queue up at them drive through's waiting half a lifetime for the privilege of paying someone to bring me a coffee in a paper n plastic cup.
Easter chocolates n usually poor quality at that. *smile* eggs supplied by a rabbit, Yeah / Nah just teaching the populace *smile* again.
That's what I do just before I drag my raggedy arse out of bed every morning. I woke up, then I got out of bed. The rest of that *smile* they call " woke " should more correctly be called " wank " which you could do at any time of day if you're that way inclined.
Saw a snippet of that on the news. Was that a Haka or was that a Wanka? Hope people might forgive me a little bit for being a crusty old misogynistic male. But wasn't the Haka a traditional Maori male war / battle chant? Bad enough white male New Zealand athletes join in the Haka, but now, not only are women doing the Haka, but completely foreign athletes with absolutely no involvement or connection to Maori culture n upbringing are reported as doing a Haka. If that's the case then there's absolutely no point or relevance anymore to a traditional battle chant. Might just as well make do with Ozzie Ozzie Ozzie, Oi Oi Oi, so *smile* me off.
But from that same wiki page, the EU, India and UK do not allow that terminology to be used.This milk thing does my head in.
Plant milk - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org
“One of the first reliable modern English dictionaries, Samuel Johnson's 1755 A Dictionary of the English Language, gave two definitions of the word "milk". The first described "the liquor with which animals feed their young from the breast", and the second an "emulsion made by contusion of seeds", using almond milk as an example.[45]”
If people call soy milk that and that’s a commonly used expression then that’s what the word means now.
Words change in meaning. It’s happened for 100s of years and will keep happening.
If any industry should complaint it’s the faggot industry. Those stick sellers got destroyed.
Woke another one that means things it didn’t ten years ago.
So looks like it's just Aus and NZ in the Western world with the terminology. America is still undecided, but that'll probably come down to which lobby group bribes congress more.
The argument that words change therefore end of discussion is overly simplistic and assumes that the change is always positive. That isn't always the case obviously.
It’s just vested commercial interests blocking the change. Just like champagne. And crusty old dudes who take offense at it.
I don’t think it’s meant to be a complicated argument. Things change and lots of people use the word to mean both cow milk and plant milk. A few don’t.
Isn't so much that the words change, it's more about marketing changing the terminology to sell a product for bigger profit or greater market reach. Reason why so many countries / states / regions have fought long and expensive legal battles to take back control of the naming of their products.
Agree Maso. One is the product.
The other is trying to capitalise on the work done by others. It's more than "a few don't " think that should continue. It's large sections of the world.
You are choosing to ignore the evidence posted earlier that a dictionary nearly 300 years ago gave a definition that included plant based milks, or that plant milks have been in use, and been called milk, in many cultures for hundreds of years.
I declare we have now reached peak PRE arguing about the definition of milk on the back of our worst footy season ever and women’s team losing an elim.
Nothing else to argue about in these little things...
Here's a diversionary tactic though....
I was at a gig last week, former a show i wasn't sure I'd like. So I bought a ticket for myself on the end of a row, against the outside walls...so if I didn't end up liking what I was seeing/hearing, I could make a quiet getaway without offending anyone....
Only to have the same group of people get up and down every *smile* 20 minutes to do something....and all woman behind me who basically gave a commentary on everything we were seeing.
The show was awesome and I wished I'd gotten to see them on both nights... but I wanted a nail gun so I could nail some feet to the floor and some lips shut. Seriously, if ya want to go to a gig and drink or smoke, don't keep coming back to sit down then stand up and leave a song later. Just stay up the back ya annoying twats.
I used to cop that many times at away games by sitting on the edge seats for quick access and leg space, but these pricks who probably weren't even concentrating on the game spent more time on buying stuff to eat....."ah excuse me, excuse me..."
Champagne comes from Champagne. It is a region, and I shouldn't be surprised that some who want to call plant curd milk, also want to call sparkling wine made somewhere other than Champagne, champagne. I suppose it would be ok for some cheap European plonk to be labelled Coonawarra would it? Can we make Bordeaux now, in Australia?
The wine one is not a complicated argument - if it isn't made in Coonawarra you can't label it Coonawarra (seems reasonable) - same applies to Champagne, Hermitage, Bordeaux, Rioja, Margaret River, Napa Valley, Barossa etc.
Oh, and if it isn't wine you can't call it wine (despite various white concoctions not sourced from a mammal being called milk).
DS
This milk thing does my head in.
Plant milk - Wikipedia
“One of the first reliable modern English dictionaries, Samuel Johnson's 1755 A Dictionary of the English Language, gave two definitions of the word "milk". The first described "the liquor with which animals feed their young from the breast", and the second an "emulsion made by contusion of seeds", using almond milk as an example.[45]”
If people call soy milk that and that’s a commonly used expression then that’s what the word means now.
Words change in meaning. It’s happened for 100s of years and will keep happening.
If any industry should complaint it’s the faggot industry. Those stick sellers got destroyed.
Woke another one that means things it didn’t ten years ago.
Just to put an end to this silly debate, we have a dictionary from nearly 300 years ago calling plant milk- milk. & a dictionary from today calling plant milk- milk.
Words can have multiple definitions.
But some on here don't think we should call plant milk- milk?
Any other long standing dictionary definitions people want changed?
Recycling. It’s a myth. System is broken beyond belief.
And Government policy around it. Farcical.
In our council, they cant wait to come round and pick up the recyclables bin and the garden bin every week because they make money out of that. But the general waste bin - the one that everyone uses the most but they don't make anything from - they only pick up once a fortnight.
And to top it off, everyone's general waste bin is so full every fortnight that if there's even a smidgen of overfill, the *** collectors won't pick it up. The problems it causes with respect to hygiene, rats etc as the garbage piles up is a disgrace.
I haven't done it, but apparently our council offices regularly get infuriated residents dumping their general garbage bags outside the front of their building.
