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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
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Gramps?
Back on topic (sorta): Two men are suing the Post, claiming they were falsely portrayed as suspects in the Boston bombings.
Fuddy-duddy, geezer, mossback,
A lot of the technically gender-neutral don't see much application on females; feeble, old fool, dotard, infirm, fossil, geriatric, old fart...
Apparently, male senility is associated with impotence, dim-wittedness, and passivity, while female senility is associated with a sour, bitter, temperamental character.
Well, back on topic, I don't like Clinton cause I find her hawkish and entitled.
edited 7th Jun '13 3:37:28 AM by TheHandle
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.Representative Yarmuth (D-KY): 'Mitch McConnell sucks
Congress to review NSA's surveillance
Report: China hacked Obama, McCain campaigns in 2008
edited 7th Jun '13 10:40:35 AM by DeviantBraeburn
Everything is Possible. But some things are more Probable than others. JEBAGEDDON 2016> China hacked Obama and Mc Cain campaigns
AND THEY FOUND NOTHING OF VALUE ANYWAY
> fuddy-duddy
I've only ever heard this term in Final Fantasy VI.
Shocker. China hacked us again. Quick! Send Obama to say he's sorry his computers were so unsecured.
Are we REALLY going to just let China do whatever it wants? With all the hacking, supporting oppressive and horrible governments, helping Iran AND North Korea, unfair trading practices, sending us deadly (but cheap...) toys and stuff, having the worst human rights record out of the entire UN Security Council... Where do we tell them to stop? It's getting absurd.
edited 7th Jun '13 10:39:50 AM by Ringsea
The most edgy person on the Internet.Is there an equivalent term for an old man you find abrasive?
Geriatric fuck, a la stepbrothers? That's one I actually use in common parlance. "Fucking bag of bones" sounds like one I would say.
But at the same time, he can be exonerated by the fact that him not liking the situation is why he resigned and left.
If we default on our debt to China, China's economy collapses. Nothing happens to us at all, at least immediately. There would be cascading effects, of course.
edited 7th Jun '13 10:56:52 AM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"The way to win that battle politically is to get people to give a shit politically.
It's really well and good that people will throw a fuss to get gay marriage legalized and for the right for a man to use a women's bathroom if a doctor says the guys really really feels like a woman and for the right to exercise your feminist rights to end an innocent human life.
But let's start caring that the government still allows corporations to rob the people, and not pay their share. Let's start giving a shit that our Bill of Rights is becoming worth less than toilet paper. Let's give a shit that the only options for dealing with illegal immigrants is either lock them all up or just let them disregard the law; and neither of those are good options.
If we don't start giving a shit about what matters, all we'll have left...is shit.
It was an honor

Funnily enough, "old man" itself can be considered to be abrasive too...
edited 7th Jun '13 3:09:23 AM by Greenmantle
Keep Rolling On