Wowzer, that’s hot. Lethally so.

*Checks ambient air temperature*

It’s about 4 degees here at the moment, and two of those are due to the radiator.

Probably could have found an excuse today, was 42deg celius in the shade, 52 in the light and 56 on any metal or machine. Spent about 2hrs of that shovelling cement into sand bags as well.

I think a new curse word should have and umlaut. Or maybe it should BE “umlaut”… not quite four letters, but it’s got that german-sounding punch to it, doesn’t it?

Which reminds me, this week I accidentally let a “damn” slip out while teaching art to two children ages ten and six, in front of their grandmother and father. The older girl giggled (just a little), and no one else seemed to notice at all.

Bragging about your global exploits, Roo?

I spent two weeks in Wales just now… and that looks decidedly Welsh, don’t it?

I was in prison for having killed some one (I think, dream was vague about this). I didn’t feel particularly guilty.
Anyhoo, I was to be executed for my crimes. There was no chance of avoiding it and less chance of escape.
Every cell had a hanging closet where the executions happened.
I was walking back to mine to face the noose. I was un-escorted, so I had to meet the guards there on time.
When I got there, some git had hung himself, so the guards just let me go again and said that I wouldn’t need hanging any more.
So, off I went, logged on and came here.
I wrote a post in this thread, it started:
“Well talk about inventing new swear words. I was meant to be executed today….”
Don’t remember the rest, I escaped the prison at this point.

Dreams are weird.
S

Still, it’s not a word I use. Unless I had to work for Ordnance Survey (that’s right, there is a street that was once named that… it’s been renamed since, but on old maps…)

Four letters does seem to be the magic number though, or four syllables.

The problem here, of course, is that if a 14-year-old is not as strong a reader as the book industry expects, they might not choose to pick up a 13 book for fear of ridicule, and then never ‘catch up’ to their peers as a result- which is probably a much more dangerous proposition for books as a medium than the (outdated, unworkable and obsolete) classifcation systems in place for films and games.

/b

Buckets, spades? Are you burying a corpse or building sandcastles?

Corpsecastles!

Finishing exams is the second best thing in the world… knowing you’ll never have to do them again, being the first.

You probably will have to do some more exams though…

Personally, I’m most worried about the censorship of books. A growing trend in the US. The idea that a public library can withdraw certain books because of content, despite a demand for that book, smacks of an authoritarian rather than liberal approach.

There is also some talk about giving books with violent or even ‘adult political’ content age ratings… this would place books like Slaughterhouse Five out of reach of young teenagers.

I figure that if you are mature enough to want to read a book, and find it interesting enough to persevere with it, then why shouldn’t you be allowed to read it?

GolfWidow – You should stop worrying about offending people. If you didn’t say anything that would offend at least one person, you’d never speak and that would be a great loss to to the world.

Pugs – I always thought that ‘lawd’ etc. were just accents. I checked up on this and apparently they are considered different words. How odd is that?

i don’t know where this audio came from, but it’s been used in a few videos i’ve seen.

I recently posted my thoughts about my four-year-old daughter’s use of “Oh shit!”

I love curse words (called ‘swears’ where I come from). They are a colorful, valid addition to English and Spanish in my experience. My Russian friend says they function even more flexibly and powerfully in her language. The older I get, the more I appreciate them. They are powerful words, but, for me, not so much in their offensiveness as in their ability to convey such a wide range of emotions and circumstances.