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Re: Hurricane WTF?

Posted by Spider-Pig on Fri Jul 31 21:55:19 2020, in response to Re: Hurricane WTF?, posted by JayZeeBMT on Fri Jul 31 21:24:12 2020.

I would think that Hermione would be more popular now.

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Re: Hurricane WTF?

Posted by Chicagomotorman on Fri Jul 31 21:59:10 2020, in response to Re: Hurricane WTF?, posted by https://salaamallah.com/ on Fri Jul 31 21:42:05 2020.

No, you're an idiot!

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Re: Hurricane WTF?

Posted by https://salaamallah.com/ on Fri Jul 31 22:01:44 2020, in response to Re: Hurricane WTF?, posted by Chicagomotorman on Fri Jul 31 21:59:10 2020.

YOU

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Re: Hurricane WTF?

Posted by https://salaamallah.com/ on Fri Jul 31 22:02:38 2020, in response to Re: Hurricane WTF?, posted by Chicagomotorman on Fri Jul 31 21:59:10 2020.

AAAAH COMING TO THE DEFENSE OF YOUR PARTNER ????

HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

ROFL

LOL



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Re: Hurricane WTF?

Posted by Jeff Rosen on Fri Jul 31 22:13:21 2020, in response to Re: Hurricane WTF?, posted by Chicagomotorman on Fri Jul 31 21:59:10 2020.

Here we go again

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Re: Hurricane WTF?

Posted by https://salaamallah.com/ on Fri Jul 31 22:15:54 2020, in response to Re: Hurricane WTF?, posted by Jeff Rosen on Fri Jul 31 22:13:21 2020.

WHEN HE STOPS I STOP

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Re: Hurricane WTF?

Posted by Easy on Fri Jul 31 22:17:47 2020, in response to Re: Hurricane WTF?, posted by Spider-Pig on Fri Jul 31 21:55:19 2020.

I never heard the name prior to Harry Potter. Wilberforce is an HBCU so I've heard of that.

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Re: Hurricane WTF?

Posted by jimmymc25 on Fri Jul 31 22:18:29 2020, in response to Re: Hurricane WTF?, posted by Jeff Rosen on Fri Jul 31 22:13:21 2020.

It never ends

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Re: Hurricane WTF?

Posted by Train Dude on Fri Jul 31 22:53:30 2020, in response to Re: Hurricane WTF?, posted by JayZeeBMT on Fri Jul 31 19:06:54 2020.

You is one angry lad.

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Re: Hurricane WTF?

Posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Fri Jul 31 23:06:34 2020, in response to Re: Hurricane WTF?, posted by Dave on Fri Jul 31 21:40:31 2020.

Don't forget Bevis!!:)

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Re: Hurricane WTF?

Posted by ntrainride on Fri Jul 31 23:07:41 2020, in response to Re: Hurricane WTF?, posted by Easy on Fri Jul 31 19:58:41 2020.

in the previous universe we were existing in (officially: universe # 9,051,388,222,741,366), also officially three universes back from this current one, guys like him, and the "protesters" would've been relegated to the "and now the news from the world of the screwballs" columns buried deep inside the newspaper.

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Re: Hurricane WTF?

Posted by ntrainride on Sat Aug 1 00:05:20 2020, in response to Re: Hurricane WTF?, posted by Easy on Fri Jul 31 20:21:12 2020.

heh. I first read that as "i came here to rebuild p.c.s". starting thinking "cool, we can talk about motherboards and cpus and alt-keys and whatnot."

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Re: Hurricane WTF?

Posted by Spider-Pig on Sat Aug 1 00:10:30 2020, in response to Re: Hurricane WTF?, posted by Easy on Fri Jul 31 20:21:12 2020.

That would be a cool name for a tropical cyclone in the SW Indian Ocean.

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Re: Hurricane WTF?

Posted by gp38/r42 chris on Sat Aug 1 05:34:55 2020, in response to Re: Hurricane WTF?, posted by Train Dude on Fri Jul 31 22:53:30 2020.

Sad actually

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Re: Hurricane Isaias

Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Sat Aug 1 09:29:09 2020, in response to Re: Hurricane Isaias, posted by Spider-Pig on Fri Jul 31 18:57:22 2020.

Well some of the names are odd, but then again, not many I names to begin with.

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Re: Hurricane WTF?

Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Sat Aug 1 09:30:50 2020, in response to Re: Hurricane WTF?, posted by AlM on Fri Jul 31 20:41:20 2020.

Well, we used to think you were Aim, haha.

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Re: Hurricane WTF?

Posted by FYBklyn1959 on Sat Aug 1 09:32:33 2020, in response to Re: Hurricane WTF?, posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Fri Jul 31 21:18:25 2020.

IAWTP. That was some Weather Channel bullshit, started when they were owned by BOMBcast 🙄

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Re: Hurricane WTF?

Posted by FYBklyn1959 on Sat Aug 1 09:33:23 2020, in response to Re: Hurricane WTF?, posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Sat Aug 1 09:30:50 2020.

CMM still does 😂

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Re: Hurricane WTF?

Posted by FYBklyn1959 on Sat Aug 1 09:35:17 2020, in response to Re: Hurricane WTF?, posted by jimmymc25 on Fri Jul 31 22:18:29 2020.

+50

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Re: Hurricane WTF?

Posted by FYBklyn1959 on Sat Aug 1 09:35:53 2020, in response to Re: Hurricane WTF?, posted by LuchAAA on Fri Jul 31 19:16:21 2020.

Like "Drumpf" 🙂

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Re: Hurricane WTF?

Posted by FYBklyn1959 on Sat Aug 1 09:37:23 2020, in response to Re: Hurricane WTF?, posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Fri Jul 31 23:06:34 2020.





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Re: Hurricane WTF?

Posted by Olog-hai on Sat Aug 1 11:04:23 2020, in response to Re: Hurricane WTF?, posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Sat Aug 1 09:30:50 2020.

I used to think he named himself after this bit of classic intarweb app-age . . .

         


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Re: Hurricane WTF?

Posted by SLRT on Sat Aug 1 12:34:56 2020, in response to Re: Hurricane WTF?, posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Fri Jul 31 21:15:25 2020.

Actually that sauce is pronounced "Brand's."

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Re: Hurricane WTF?

Posted by Spider-Pig on Sat Aug 1 12:47:06 2020, in response to Re: Hurricane WTF?, posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Fri Jul 31 21:15:25 2020.

Meh.

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Re: Hurricane Isaias

Posted by SLRT on Sat Aug 1 12:52:26 2020, in response to Re: Hurricane Isaias, posted by Spider-Pig on Fri Jul 31 18:57:22 2020.

I'm an advocate of calling place name (and trying to pronounce them) as they're pronounced locally: Koln not Cologne; Moskva not Moscow; Beijing not Peking or Peiping (I go back a bit); Deutschland not Germany; Munchin nor Munich; New York not Nueva York.

I obviously make some leeway for the unavailability of umlauts and such, but at least we get some idea of how these names are said. I mean my wife can pronounce most German and my daughter Cyrillic Russian but most people shouldn't have to go to language class just to pronounce some damn hurricane.

I would like them to adopt the (new when I was in the service) international alphabet. At that time able baker charlie became alpha bravo charlie.

So this is hurricane India-20.



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Re: Hurricane Isaias

Posted by Spider-Pig on Sat Aug 1 13:45:32 2020, in response to Re: Hurricane Isaias, posted by SLRT on Sat Aug 1 12:52:26 2020.

I don’t agree with this and think that we should call places what we want when speaking our own language. Consequently, I’m bitter over “Iran” and especially “Myanmar.” The latter is an interesting case because the Burmese government based its spelling on the rules of Received Pronunciation (British English), so the R is supposed to be silent. But i don’t use the silent R except when I say the word “billionaire.”

I think the phonetic alphabet should be adopted for all purposes. I mean that we should teach it as the name of the letters to children instead of “ay bee cee.” The major reason is that I’m sick of saying “S as in Sierra” over the phone.

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Re: Hurricane Isaias

Posted by Olog-hai on Sat Aug 1 13:47:37 2020, in response to Re: Hurricane Isaias, posted by SLRT on Sat Aug 1 12:52:26 2020.

Köln not Cologne

The French might dispute that with you.

Beijing not Peking or Peiping

I'm no fan of hanyu pinyin, but 北平, Peiping (or Beiping) was the older name, literally meaning "northern peace" or (in context) "northern plains". The city's name varied between that and 北京 (Beijing) from the 14th century down to ours about four times or so.

I would like them to adopt the (new when I was in the service) international alphabet. At that time able baker charlie became alpha bravo charlie

Thank NATO for that. The Navy apparently used "Apples, Butter, Charlie, Duff, Edward" in their version. The old version was "Able, Baker, Charlie, Dog, Easy, Fox, George, How, Item, Jig, King, Love, Mike, Nan, Oboe, Peter, Queen, Roger, Sugar, Tare, Uncle, Victor, William, X-ray, Yoke, Zebra" (the ones I underlined carried over to the NATO system).

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Re: Hurricane Isaias

Posted by AlM on Sat Aug 1 13:52:53 2020, in response to Re: Hurricane Isaias, posted by Olog-hai on Sat Aug 1 13:47:37 2020.

The French might dispute that with you.

Sure, but French has never been the dominant language spoken in Cologne.




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Re: Hurricane WTF?

Posted by BILLBKLYN on Sat Aug 1 13:54:17 2020, in response to Re: Hurricane WTF?, posted by JayZeeBMT on Fri Jul 31 18:19:54 2020.

You KNOW what they are, and you KNOW what they aren't.

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Re: Hurricane WTF?

Posted by BILLBKLYN on Sat Aug 1 14:01:17 2020, in response to Re: Hurricane WTF?, posted by Easy on Fri Jul 31 19:04:56 2020.

To me, since the United States is spawned from, and our culture is from England, normal names for me are English names and anglicized names. I'm part German, but here, Wilhelm isn't a normal name, but William is. Padriac isn't normal, Patrick is. L'aaaSean isn't normal, Sean is. Remember, when in Rome.....

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Re: Hurricane WTF?

Posted by BILLBKLYN on Sat Aug 1 14:01:44 2020, in response to Re: Hurricane WTF?, posted by FYBklyn1959 on Sat Aug 1 09:35:53 2020.

EXACTLY!!

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Re: Hurricane WTF?

Posted by Spider-Pig on Sat Aug 1 14:09:54 2020, in response to Re: Hurricane WTF?, posted by BILLBKLYN on Sat Aug 1 14:01:17 2020.

“Sean” is not an English name though, in English it would be “John.”

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Re: Hurricane Isaias

Posted by SLRT on Sat Aug 1 14:16:12 2020, in response to Re: Hurricane Isaias, posted by Spider-Pig on Sat Aug 1 13:45:32 2020.

I regularly have to service non-Native-English speakers and have to hear and speak usernames or keywords letter-by-letter. If I've got a difficult case understanding or being understood, I'll just say "I'll use the phonetic alphabet, OK?" and I just use the names, no "as in" needed, and I almost never have a problem, sierra papa india delta echo romeo dash papa india golf.

More than once I had a caller spell what I think is "V" and I'll say "V as in Victor" and they'll say "No! V as in Vebra."

Yes I know that Zulu is the correct word but I don't expect them to know.

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Re: Hurricane WTF?

Posted by AlM on Sat Aug 1 14:21:30 2020, in response to Re: Hurricane WTF?, posted by BILLBKLYN on Sat Aug 1 13:54:17 2020.

Things change. Many Americans used to consider Jedediah a normal name. I've posted before that I knew a guy in upstate NY whose grandfather was called Pardon.






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Re: Hurricane Isaias

Posted by SLRT on Sat Aug 1 14:23:07 2020, in response to Re: Hurricane Isaias, posted by Olog-hai on Sat Aug 1 13:47:37 2020.

Köln not Cologne

The French might dispute that with you.

Yeah, I guess, since Cologne is a French city.

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Re: Hurricane WTF?

Posted by BILLBKLYN on Sat Aug 1 14:25:48 2020, in response to Re: Hurricane WTF?, posted by Spider-Pig on Sat Aug 1 14:09:54 2020.

I know, but I used it just for the example

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Re: Hurricane Isaias

Posted by SLRT on Sat Aug 1 14:36:42 2020, in response to Re: Hurricane Isaias, posted by AlM on Sat Aug 1 13:52:53 2020.

The French have never gotten over that the lingua franca passed from French to English.

Even right after World War II scholarly people (at least the older ones) still understood and wrote French.

Nabokov had the professorial Humbert Humbert use quite a number of French phrases in Lolita. If you don't know them or don't have annotations, you miss a lot of the book, especially the humor.



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Re: Hurricane Isaias

Posted by Easy on Sat Aug 1 14:46:22 2020, in response to Re: Hurricane Isaias, posted by SLRT on Sat Aug 1 14:36:42 2020.

It would be so unfortunate to miss the humor to be found in child pornography.

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Re: Hurricane Isaias

Posted by Spider-Pig on Sat Aug 1 14:47:05 2020, in response to Re: Hurricane Isaias, posted by SLRT on Sat Aug 1 14:16:12 2020.

I’ve done this, and the CSRs get confused. Maybe it’s only Americans that don’t get it.

Also, I realize now that the insufferable woke fools will complain about “cultural appropriation” over the use of “India”, “Lima,” and “Zulu.”

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Re: Hurricane WTF?

Posted by Easy on Sat Aug 1 14:49:23 2020, in response to Re: Hurricane WTF?, posted by AlM on Sat Aug 1 14:21:30 2020.

Never heard of that, but I've heard of the famous explorer Jebediah Springfield!

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Re: Hurricane Isaias

Posted by SLRT on Sat Aug 1 14:50:55 2020, in response to Re: Hurricane Isaias, posted by Spider-Pig on Sat Aug 1 14:47:05 2020.

Cultural Appropriation is a negative term for the spread of culture and civilization.

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Re: Hurricane WTF?

Posted by Spider-Pig on Sat Aug 1 14:51:11 2020, in response to Re: Hurricane WTF?, posted by Easy on Sat Aug 1 14:49:23 2020.

Whose real name was Hans Sprungfeld.

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Re: Hurricane Isaias

Posted by Easy on Sat Aug 1 14:56:53 2020, in response to Re: Hurricane Isaias, posted by Spider-Pig on Sat Aug 1 14:47:05 2020.

You mean "Ida", "Lincoln", and "Zebra". At least for most police.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APCO_radiotelephony_spelling_alphabet


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Re: Hurricane WTF?

Posted by Easy on Sat Aug 1 14:57:32 2020, in response to Re: Hurricane WTF?, posted by Spider-Pig on Sat Aug 1 14:51:11 2020.

Lol. I didn't know that.

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Re: Hurricane WTF?

Posted by AlM on Sat Aug 1 15:04:27 2020, in response to Re: Hurricane WTF?, posted by Easy on Sat Aug 1 14:49:23 2020.

Never heard of that

Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park, in northern California.


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Re: Hurricane Isaias

Posted by SLRT on Sat Aug 1 15:04:40 2020, in response to Re: Hurricane Isaias, posted by Easy on Sat Aug 1 14:56:53 2020.

Really interesting, thanks for that!

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Re: Hurricane Isaias

Posted by AlM on Sat Aug 1 15:14:14 2020, in response to Re: Hurricane Isaias, posted by Easy on Sat Aug 1 14:46:22 2020.

???

I wasn't aware the book was pornographic. I thought he expressed his desire for an underage girl in words that could be printed anywhere.



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Re: Hurricane Isaias

Posted by SLRT on Sat Aug 1 15:19:38 2020, in response to Re: Hurricane Isaias, posted by Easy on Sat Aug 1 14:46:22 2020.

But it wasn't, and it caused grief in getting it published in the U.S. The mainstream publishers thought it was pornography and the adult press thought it was boring.



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Re: Hurricane Isaias

Posted by SLRT on Sat Aug 1 15:29:19 2020, in response to Re: Hurricane Isaias, posted by AlM on Sat Aug 1 15:14:14 2020.

It is a story of obsession and often painful.

If you want to read it to get off, you'd be very disappointed. The only nearly erotic part of it is when he describes his explorations with a 14-year-old [IIRC] when he was the same age. He's disappointed and she dies [disease, not him] and that breaks his heart.

But even in that Nabokov puts in barely-masked satire. The girl's name is Annabelle Leigh. And she lived by the sea. Get it?

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Re: Hurricane WTF?

Posted by BILLBKLYN on Sat Aug 1 15:33:15 2020, in response to Re: Hurricane WTF?, posted by AlM on Sat Aug 1 14:21:30 2020.

So was Gertrude, Ethel, Shirley, Cecil, Elmer, etc.. But they're still normal names

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