Irrational HatredPeople who say "less" when they mean "fewer" ought to be turned into soup, the soup fed to baboons and the baboons fired into an active volcano. What has you grinding your teeth with rage, and why?
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 31 Mar 2011, 14:36)
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when the media put "gate" at the end of a name relating to a scandaleg: Sachsgate, Camillagate etc etc.
Watergate was one word, it was a name of a hotel. It wasn't a scandal about water.
Why do they do this, it makes no sense.
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camp freddy well, would you look at that!, Fri 1 Apr 2011, 18:55,
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It's the press's general ignorance and fondness for clunky neologisms.I've said this several times before, but I'm willing to bet actual money this decade will become known as the "twentennies".
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The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Fri 1 Apr 2011, 19:07,
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I'm a fairly conservative guy.But I don't see the problem with a new prefix to mean "scandal regarding" which happens to be based upon the first one to come to the light of "the media".
If you were arguing that you wondered what it had to do with Camilla's garden gate, or a streen named after her, then I could understand -- but this new prefix is actually an efficient way of describing a situation.
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People who don't know their suffixes from their prefixes annoy me......actually...they don't, but I couldn't let it pass.
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scarpe We Stole Bikes, Fri 1 Apr 2011, 20:59,
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I'm bowing my head in shame.(, Fri 1 Apr 2011, 21:55, closed)
wait until there's a scandal about infant formulait'd be cow and gategate
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Rotating Wobbly Hat That's not a banana. THIS is a banana., Fri 1 Apr 2011, 19:48,
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this^(, Fri 1 Apr 2011, 21:20, closed)
Or, more likely, "Cowgategate".(
The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Sat 2 Apr 2011, 14:24,
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