Its not eazy being a pedent
September 30, 2016 11:58 AM Subscribe
I wonder what the pundints will say about this.
posted by Klaxon Aoooogah at 12:04 PM on September 30, 2016 [4 favorites]
posted by Klaxon Aoooogah at 12:04 PM on September 30, 2016 [4 favorites]
HAAATE
posted by Etrigan at 12:06 PM on September 30, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by Etrigan at 12:06 PM on September 30, 2016 [1 favorite]
I am sorry to be the baron of bad news, but you seem buttered, so allow me to play doubles advocate here for a moment. For all intensive purposes I think you are wrong. In an age where false morals are a diamond dozen, true virtues are a blessing in the skies, and are more than just ice king on the cake. We often put our false morality on a petal stool like a bunch of pre-Madonnas, but you all seem to be taking something very valuable for granite.
So I ask of you to mustard up all the strength you can because it is a doggy dog world out there. Although there is some merit to what you are saying it seems like you have a huge ship on your shoulder. In your argument you seem to throw everything in but the kids Nsync, and even though you are having a feel day with this I am here to bring you back into reality.
I have a sick sense when it comes to these types of things. It is almost spooky, because I cannot turn a blonde eye to these glaring flaws in your rhetoric. I have zero taller ants when it comes to people spouting out hate in the name of moral righteousness. You just need to remember what comes around is all around, and when supply and command fails you will be the first to go.
Make my words, when you get down to brass stacks it doesn't take rocket appliances to get two birds stoned at once. It's clear who makes the pants in this relationship, and sometimes you just have to swallow your prize and accept the fax, instead of making a half-harded effort. You might have to come to this conclusion through denial and error but I swear on my mother's mating name that when you put the petal to the medal you will pass with flying carpets like it's a peach of cake.
posted by Sangermaine at 12:12 PM on September 30, 2016 [129 favorites]
So I ask of you to mustard up all the strength you can because it is a doggy dog world out there. Although there is some merit to what you are saying it seems like you have a huge ship on your shoulder. In your argument you seem to throw everything in but the kids Nsync, and even though you are having a feel day with this I am here to bring you back into reality.
I have a sick sense when it comes to these types of things. It is almost spooky, because I cannot turn a blonde eye to these glaring flaws in your rhetoric. I have zero taller ants when it comes to people spouting out hate in the name of moral righteousness. You just need to remember what comes around is all around, and when supply and command fails you will be the first to go.
Make my words, when you get down to brass stacks it doesn't take rocket appliances to get two birds stoned at once. It's clear who makes the pants in this relationship, and sometimes you just have to swallow your prize and accept the fax, instead of making a half-harded effort. You might have to come to this conclusion through denial and error but I swear on my mother's mating name that when you put the petal to the medal you will pass with flying carpets like it's a peach of cake.
posted by Sangermaine at 12:12 PM on September 30, 2016 [129 favorites]
Mod team: can we get Sangermaine blocked? Thanks in advance.
posted by hippybear at 12:14 PM on September 30, 2016 [36 favorites]
posted by hippybear at 12:14 PM on September 30, 2016 [36 favorites]
I gave that comment a favorite but it actually hurt to do it.
posted by Nerd of the North at 12:24 PM on September 30, 2016 [7 favorites]
posted by Nerd of the North at 12:24 PM on September 30, 2016 [7 favorites]
*warms gridfire projectors*
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 12:26 PM on September 30, 2016 [3 favorites]
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 12:26 PM on September 30, 2016 [3 favorites]
lol and here I am sitting here wishing that metafilter had the equivalent of reddit gold to give to Sangermaine.
posted by INFJ at 12:37 PM on September 30, 2016 [7 favorites]
posted by INFJ at 12:37 PM on September 30, 2016 [7 favorites]
No chickens. Less wheelbarrows than a Williams. Lame.
posted by GuyZero at 12:40 PM on September 30, 2016
posted by GuyZero at 12:40 PM on September 30, 2016
HappyFunSeptember or StabbyFunSeptember?
posted by Orange Dinosaur Slide at 12:45 PM on September 30, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by Orange Dinosaur Slide at 12:45 PM on September 30, 2016 [1 favorite]
I can't take credit for it, it's old copy pasta. This thread just reminded me of it.
posted by Sangermaine at 12:53 PM on September 30, 2016 [7 favorites]
posted by Sangermaine at 12:53 PM on September 30, 2016 [7 favorites]
The first Poet Laureate appointed during President Trump's tenure.
posted by phunniemee at 12:56 PM on September 30, 2016 [3 favorites]
posted by phunniemee at 12:56 PM on September 30, 2016 [3 favorites]
Mod team: can we get Sangermaine blocked? Thanks in advance.
I never thought MetaFilter would become a doggy dog, no-holes barred kind of place....
posted by GenjiandProust at 1:25 PM on September 30, 2016 [8 favorites]
I never thought MetaFilter would become a doggy dog, no-holes barred kind of place....
posted by GenjiandProust at 1:25 PM on September 30, 2016 [8 favorites]
I never thought MetaFilter would become a doggy dog, no-holes barred kind of place....
Just go troll through metatalk. For all intensive purposes, it always has been.
posted by phunniemee at 2:01 PM on September 30, 2016 [5 favorites]
Just go troll through metatalk. For all intensive purposes, it always has been.
posted by phunniemee at 2:01 PM on September 30, 2016 [5 favorites]
This is the textual equivalent of that guy on YouTube who repitches the vocals in pop songs down a half step.
(previously)
posted by egregious theorem at 2:04 PM on September 30, 2016 [2 favorites]
(previously)
posted by egregious theorem at 2:04 PM on September 30, 2016 [2 favorites]
I like to mispronounce pedant, just to see who bites.
posted by DirtyOldTown at 2:11 PM on September 30, 2016 [2 favorites]
posted by DirtyOldTown at 2:11 PM on September 30, 2016 [2 favorites]
pedent: third-person plural present active subjunctive of pedo.
pedo: (intransitive) I break wind, fart. From Proto-Italic *pezdō (“to fart”) from Proto-Indo-European *pesd- (“to fart”), probably of imitative origin. Cognates include Russian бздеть (bzdetʹ, “fart quietly”), Serbo-Croatian bàzdjeti (“stink”), English fist (“fart quietly”).
posted by sfenders at 2:17 PM on September 30, 2016 [2 favorites]
pedo: (intransitive) I break wind, fart. From Proto-Italic *pezdō (“to fart”) from Proto-Indo-European *pesd- (“to fart”), probably of imitative origin. Cognates include Russian бздеть (bzdetʹ, “fart quietly”), Serbo-Croatian bàzdjeti (“stink”), English fist (“fart quietly”).
posted by sfenders at 2:17 PM on September 30, 2016 [2 favorites]
I prefer to keep my own indepedent counsel on such matters.
posted by Greg_Ace at 4:10 PM on September 30, 2016
posted by Greg_Ace at 4:10 PM on September 30, 2016
I'm often bothered by these kinds of things, and then a few years ago I realized that I had always thought the word was "pendant". My whole life.
Stay humble my friends.
posted by bongo_x at 4:46 PM on September 30, 2016 [5 favorites]
Stay humble my friends.
posted by bongo_x at 4:46 PM on September 30, 2016 [5 favorites]
I hate these Word Criiiiiiimes
posted by SansPoint at 4:47 PM on September 30, 2016 [3 favorites]
posted by SansPoint at 4:47 PM on September 30, 2016 [3 favorites]
I had always thought the word was "pendant".
What, like where pirates come from?
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 4:49 PM on September 30, 2016 [9 favorites]
What, like where pirates come from?
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 4:49 PM on September 30, 2016 [9 favorites]
OMFG I can't even read this thread. My blood pressure is actually spiking. I need to go play Loops of Zen for a while or something.
posted by Scattercat at 5:01 PM on September 30, 2016
posted by Scattercat at 5:01 PM on September 30, 2016
I wonder what the pundints will say about this.
They'll wiegh-in.
posted by ovvl at 6:37 PM on September 30, 2016 [2 favorites]
They'll wiegh-in.
posted by ovvl at 6:37 PM on September 30, 2016 [2 favorites]
Way in.
posted by oneswellfoop at 8:57 PM on September 30, 2016
posted by oneswellfoop at 8:57 PM on September 30, 2016
It's a mute point; Just saying my piece of mind.
posted by lazycomputerkids at 9:10 PM on September 30, 2016 [3 favorites]
posted by lazycomputerkids at 9:10 PM on September 30, 2016 [3 favorites]
This whole thing really doesn't jive with me
It doesn't jive at all. What I'm saying is it needs to jive more.
Great poem, wish it was longer.
posted by rubber duck at 9:11 PM on September 30, 2016
It doesn't jive at all. What I'm saying is it needs to jive more.
Great poem, wish it was longer.
posted by rubber duck at 9:11 PM on September 30, 2016
What, like where pirates come from?
No, you're thinking of Peasants.
posted by louche mustachio at 10:51 PM on September 30, 2016
No, you're thinking of Peasants.
posted by louche mustachio at 10:51 PM on September 30, 2016
like a bunch of pre-Madonnas
I have found the name for my generation!
posted by srboisvert at 5:15 AM on October 1, 2016 [5 favorites]
I have found the name for my generation!
posted by srboisvert at 5:15 AM on October 1, 2016 [5 favorites]
Turns out grammar is actually important to poetry, or it doesn't really work. Who knew?
posted by Caduceus at 8:39 AM on October 1, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by Caduceus at 8:39 AM on October 1, 2016 [1 favorite]
Turns out grammar is actually important to poetry...
Kurt Vonnegut has written a forward for an edition of Anne Sexton's Transformations. In it, he relates having asked Sexton what is the poet's job. Her answer was: To extend the language.
Distinguishing grammar from usage is one height of pedantry, but..poetry is a profound space to engage grammar.
The poet can survive everything but a misprint.
--Oscar Wilde
posted by lazycomputerkids at 7:46 AM on October 2, 2016
Kurt Vonnegut has written a forward for an edition of Anne Sexton's Transformations. In it, he relates having asked Sexton what is the poet's job. Her answer was: To extend the language.
Distinguishing grammar from usage is one height of pedantry, but..poetry is a profound space to engage grammar.
The poet can survive everything but a misprint.
--Oscar Wilde
posted by lazycomputerkids at 7:46 AM on October 2, 2016
you people are gonna destroy my self of steam.
posted by quonsar II: smock fishpants and the temple of foon at 12:05 PM on October 4, 2016 [2 favorites]
posted by quonsar II: smock fishpants and the temple of foon at 12:05 PM on October 4, 2016 [2 favorites]
Kurt Vonnegut has written a forward
Is this... is this... intentional?
Aargh this thread.
posted by rabbitrabbit at 12:10 PM on October 4, 2016
Is this... is this... intentional?
Aargh this thread.
posted by rabbitrabbit at 12:10 PM on October 4, 2016
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