The US Hamster Wheel

[Magnus]

SOPS, you're not failing; Chuks is.

In post 53, Chucks manages to type "she was simple the less-worse of the two" (was that simple or simply?) and ""So what?" If Hillary" (Where's the period before "If"?) before going on to mock AA for an alleged failure to write proper English. I hadn't realised that verbosity and hypocrisy were so closely connected, even in Chuks' seriously abridged dictionary.

[Chuks]

Ah, Magnus! I just watched Trainspotting, dubbed into German, last night, even using subtitles for "The worst TOILET in Scotland." I think it lost something in translation, actually, although Edinburgh still did come across fairly well. (That was a close one, almost writing "dubbed into German last night" until I thought, "Watch your step, Bub. Magnus is watching you!")

Yup, obvious mistake there, writing "simple" for "simply," unless it was the cat stepping on the keyboard like the time the ex-wife found all that goat porn in my browser history. (At first I thought that she bought that explanation, even though we don't even own a cat. Then it all came out in court. Never trust a woman!)

That other one though ... "So what?" is a complete sentence, a saying like, "Sue me!" or, "Whatever." Do you really think I should have written that as 'Now she's gone, and '"So what?". If Hillary ... '? That full stop looks a bit lost there between "So what?" and "If." If you had wanted to tell me that I should have written that as 'Now she's gone, and, '"So what?". If Hillary ... ' using a comma before the quote, you might be on to something, when I would have to argue for style, or else blame the cat.

[Magnus]

Chuks, cats are usually at fault. Nothing wrong with goat porn; I believe Slasher may be able to direct you to a website featuring goats with large teats. I think I got that right.

[IJ Reilly]

I'm not sure all this grammatical nit-picking results in more interesting or effective posts. This is just a conversation, typed out in a usually careless, free-spirited style. Over at that other place that shan't be named this guy Tony Draper wrote some of the best stuff ever, and his cantankerous Geordieness came through with every misspelled post. I think most of the nit-picking is an English-major's form of compensating. Some people buy big guns, others buy big thesauri.

Now, if we were seeing who could throw a porcupine the furthest (farthest?) then that would be worth watching, and hiring a good reporter to document the event. Not someone from the lamestream media, of course. I'd hire a Breitbart reporter, whose headline would read: "Lefty Chuks Lobs Rodent, Lands Short" with the lefty meaning left-handed, of course.

[Capetonian]

The grammatical nit-picking adds nothing to the value of the Chuk-up's posts. Add zero to zero and the sum is zero.
Multiply zero by zero and the product is zero.
That's the value of Chuk-up's contributions.

[Airborne Aircrew]

Chuks:

This lady quite eloquently explains the reason for your grief...

[bbvideo=560,315]https://youtu.be/Z-IhRL8OwO4[/bbvideo]

[Slasher]

Heh heh that was a good vid AA!

[Airborne Aircrew]

This video is further proof that liberalism is a mental disease...

Link

That poor boys fear is palpable...

[Chuks]

Slasher, you just liked it because she's flashing the "va-jay-jay sign" at us. (Are we the only two who noticed that? AA, what are you, some kind of homo, to have missed that?) She's a strident little minx, isn't she?

I think it will have to be refrigerators. Our porcupines are much larger than those found in Michigan, and dwarf-tossing is banned here under EU human rights legislation. How about those little fridges people use at parties to hold beer? I think I know where I can find an old, clapped-out one of those.

What are the stakes to be? Too, I want AA to be drug-tested before the contest. Going by his writing style, he's definitely on something! Stimulants or I miss my guess.

Mose Allison just passed away. He wrote Your Mind Is on Vacation (and your mouth is working overtime).

[IJ Reilly]

I'm sorry to hear about Mose Allison.

I especially liked the line: "If you must keep talking, please try to make it rhyme." I often thought of that line when Obama was droning on with all his 'uhs' and 'ums'.

[Chuks]

I assume you saw that talk when Obama had to speak impromptu, more "Umms" and "Aahs" than sense.. He is hopeless without a teleprompter.

[500N]

I assume you saw that talk when Obama had to speak impromptu, more "Umms" and "Aahs" than sense.. He is hopeless without a teleprompter.

Agree.

It is the only reason he is a good speaker / orator.
So much so, he is now stuck without it where as a true orator can speak
from notes or even off the cuff.

[BenThere]

President Obama was always a poser. He came up with a good line of BS that got him the presidency. After that, he did little but fund raise, golf, and vacation. The remarkable part is that the people bought it for a second term. I don't think history, once freed to assess the Obama years independent of PC blinders, will be kind at all to the Obama administration. I think it is on the short list of worst presidencies we've ever had.

The thing that puzzles me is why the media, Hollywood, academics, Chuks, and even Wall Street were so enthralled with him and the Left in general when the results of Left-wing government is, and has historically been, so dismal.

I think we dodged a bullet by electing Trump over Hillary. Now I want to see a 6-3 Constitutionalist Supreme Court majority materialize over the next four years.

[Dirk]

Ooooh Blimey a 3-way agreance!!!!! (does this mean we have to buy each other a beer......Pint of Brains SA for me please)
BUTTTTTTTT, in spite of the fact they can go together, I do think the the association between being Being a good public speaker and good leader and decision maker, can be overstated.

[Sisemen]

AGREANCE?????!!!!!!!

The bloody word is AGREEMENT.

Yours, Pedant/Grammar Nazi/somebody wot speaks proper. Choose your preferred epithet.

[Airborne Aircrew]

At least Siseman isn't condescending and childish in his pedancy... (I know, that isn't a word)...

I am very happy to say though, that while Chuks continues to demonstrate why people voted for Trump over more ridiculous Liberal folly our friend More Aviation has acted in a more mature and intelligent fashion...

Well done MA... My faith in the intellect of some of the left is still not utterly lost...

[IJ Reilly]

When I get it wrong, boy do I blow it.

I did my own bit of blathering about how Trump was going to lose and drag down the rest of the ticket. And boy was I wrong. From the Washington Post:

Let’s dispel the notion that if Democrats only had a different nominee the world would be set right on its axis. No matter what kind of Democrat you were, it was a bad night on Tuesday. Populists Russ Feingold of Wisconsin and Zephyr Teachout (the Bernie Sanders of New York) lost winnable races. Standard-issue progressive Katie McGinty fell in Pennsylvania, as did moderate Patrick Murphy in Florida. Outsider Jason Kander succumbed in Missouri, and so did insider Evan Bayh in Indiana.

If you share an affinity with any of these brands of Democrat and believe you don’t need to reassess — wake up! Democrats are in their worst shape in terms of officeholders at the state and federal level since Reconstruction.

Republican governors control 33 states vs. 15 Democrats. The GOP has Senate and House majorities. State legislatures are by far Republican, across the nation. California is a holdout, but the people there are moving to Texas for work.

Speaking of that,the biggest shale field in the U.S. was recently found, estimated at 20 billion barrels of oil in a field that was pronounced dead at least five times. It's a beautiful thing, this American knack for technology and growth. Let's tap the great human resources we have, put that cheap natural gas to use with low-cost manufacturing, revitalize our urban city centers and let Trump redecorate the White House in faux gold leaf and albino tigers. As long as he recovers the bust of Winston Churchill, I'll be happy.

[Airborne Aircrew]

There is a promise that Sir Winston's bust will enter the White House at much the same time as Donald does and while it certainly shouldn't replace the bust of MLK it, most certainly, should occupy a position of equal respect/reverence.

I'm waiting for the weak of thought to start telling me what a flawed man Winnie was...

I think we should sent the White House a bust of Maggie too..

[More Aviation]

J Reilly- "When I get it wrong, boy do I blow it

Reilly, you are the worst of rogues! Intelligent, tantalising and potentially deadly.

My dad, who was truly an honest white Afrikaans farmer, warned me about Chicago/New York (ad infinitum) huksters like you...

[bbvideo=560,315]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpDYfkymaSE[/bbvideo]

MA

[More Aviation]

Chuks:

This lady quite eloquently explains the reason for your grief...

[bbvideo=560,315]https://youtu.be/Z-IhRL8OwO4[/bbvideo]

Have you ever considered that you might just be a moron!

I am just putting it out there man...

MA