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Anger can make a man verbose
Coren's use of 'nosh' is just wrong though; it means 'food' and you wouldn't say 'a food'.
And the way he's written that sentence (which is badly written from start to finish) it's as if he actually intends something like 'a snog' rather than 'a nosh.'
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at 4:47 AM on July 24, 2008
Huh. Well I looked it up, and in the original Yiddish it did mean a light meal. So (I think rather pedantically on his part) Coren's use was correct, but I think most English people are more familiar with it as just 'food', e.g 'have some nosh,' which I'm sure would be why they changed it.
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at 4:56 AM on July 24, 2008
did I guess should read does, whoops.
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at 4:58 AM on July 24, 2008
And how can you possibly know, sitting there "over a glass of rose", what other people are wondering, whether it's where to go for a snack or light meal, or for some illicit fellatio.
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at 5:02 AM on July 24, 2008
The thing is, it was a pretty poor excuse for a joke to begin with, at least in the context of a restaurant review for the Times, since 95% of the readership won't be familiar with it as slang for a blowjob (the sub-editor(s) obviously didn't).
And that 5% would probably also know that there are few less-nice places to sit and look out the window than the street upon which G.A.Y. is located, so they would be confused to begin with, and also probably downright... [more]
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at 6:10 AM on July 24, 2008
Yes!
(but is it Coren himself, or the people outside, who are "wondering where to go for a nosh?")
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at 8:47 AM on July 24, 2008
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Cops on Segways
Some of you seem like you have actual experience with Segways. In the States, do people actually use them?!
I've spent a lot of time in various European cities since they were launched, yet I've seen a Segway in real life just twice - once 2-3 years ago in the Piazza Novarra in Rome when some sort of Segway tour went by, and a few weeks ago here in Central London, a solitary chap down around Whitehall/Houses of Parliament.
It seems that, akin to the Clapper, this is a... [more]
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at 4:21 PM on July 23, 2008
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Obama as Political Animal
The Obama camp should be grateful that the cover is (stupidly, but Remnick should've known better) creating such a controversy, because it's certainly diverting attention from the content of the arcticle.
Then again, the people to whom this might matter, or sway their vote, wouldn't have read the article anyway. E.g.back in the summer of 2000 or so, the New Yorker article on G.W. Bush that just took him to pieces; I read it and thought, 'whew, once all the Americans read this,... [more]
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at 5:25 PM on July 14, 2008
OK, to tell you the truth, I haven't yet RTFA, but I according to this post, and other commeters elsewhere (ok, it was only Gawker), the article isn't entirely complementary. And for that matter, what I said is open to ridicule, as certainly because of this hoo-ha more people will be reading the article.
Anyway, I should not have spoken out from a position of such ignorance; this much I grant you.
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at 5:42 PM on July 14, 2008
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Ooh Yeah I'm A Wild One
What about Men At Work's Business As Usual? It's a masterpiece, IMHO, but maybe Australia got a bit fed up with them..
And what about Midnight Oil's Red Sails in the Sunset; I don't think '10...1' was released in North America but I think their second album is amazing.
I mean, either of those at least ought to knock 'Jet' out of the top 50.
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at 3:28 AM on July 14, 2008
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Banksy uncovered?
Is the flower in Bethnal Green still there? I've been meaning to go take a look at it for about 9 months now, and I hope it is. It's at least one thing he's done that to me smacks of brilliance. Based on my cursory knowledge of his work, that is. Right near my flat is another one of his pieces, now under plexigalss, on Essex Road, and it really doesn't look like much anymore. The plexiglass causes condensation to build up so it's obscured and hard to see. Ironically.
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at 5:41 PM on July 13, 2008
Before
After
Also, the flower in Bethnal Green now. Fuckers.
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at 5:50 PM on July 13, 2008
MeFi post:
Free web magazines
A lot of these appear to be just dashed off and trashy, but 'Sleek' is very good.
I actually like this way of flipping through pages... somehow it feels a more substantial and higher quality experience than just scrolling and clicking through a webpages, even if the content might be the same.
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at 3:18 AM on July 12, 2008
MeFi post:
chomp
When I lived in Calgary, so many people were into festooning their cars & SUVs with stickers bragging about all the stuff they'd bought - North Face, Salamon, Oakley, 5.10 etc... So for the back window of my van I made up stickers from the most banal, everyday things I could find in the supermarket, - Tide, Windsor Salt, Ruffles, and Barilla pasta.
Basically I was trying to take the piss out of this kind of consumerism, but it seems like these people really... [more]
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at 2:26 PM on July 11, 2008
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Iranian Photoshoping Skills
While the U.S. uses "Shock & Awe" against its enemies, Iran prefers "Dodge & Burn."
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at 9:57 AM on July 10, 2008
But the fact that they did this only means Israel/the U.S. has even less of a reason to be worried *, as it further exposes the exercise as merely a chest-thumping photo-op.
Now, if Iran were to be testing long-range missiles in absolute secrecy, that might be a cause for concern.
*or, more likely, of an excuse to act even more beligerent
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at 10:07 AM on July 10, 2008
MeFi post:
Phyta
It works fine for me in Vista. At least, I think it's working as it's supposed to...
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at 4:43 AM on July 3, 2008
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Power from the people!
Leonardo Da Vinci, in the 15th century, first sketched out a roller coaster that would work along these principals.
But it's taken over 600 years, plus the hard work and steely determination of a tiny Welsh village, before this masterpiece can finally be realized.
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at 6:03 AM on July 2, 2008
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Bicycle Lock / Planter - get your bike out of the hall
I'd noticed a few days ago that somebody down the street from me has a couple of these out front of their house - on a street of 3 storey rowhouses in N1, Islington, in front of the dark car right under the tree here. I guess around here it's safe enough to do so, plus the streetlamps are all huge fat things you can't lock a bike to anyway. But do you really have the right to just put them in the road like this? You sure as hell couldn't do that in Montreal.... [more]
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at 3:00 PM on July 1, 2008
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Spain - 2008 European football Champions.
Kind of a dull, anticlimactic final, compared to the amazing and exciting earlier games like Holland vs. Russia or Germany vs. Turkey.
Spain clearly deserved the win though, so bravo.
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at 4:12 PM on June 29, 2008
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Tar-ism
localroger, I'd read the fact that you drove past idled tar sands equipment on the way from Calgary to the Icefields Parkway to mean that you had taken one hell of a detour.
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at 6:03 PM on June 26, 2008
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I know, it should be 'Armin Tamzarian'.
Hello! I believe that it was revealed, in episode number 337, that the name of the principal was in actual fact Armand Tanzarian, and not, as is erroneously claimed here, Seymour Skinner.
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at 5:44 PM on June 25, 2008
Ah. I now see the title.
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at 5:45 PM on June 25, 2008
MeFi post:
They put me in handcuffs in case I bopped them on the head with a dandelion.
My father taught me how to suck a drop of "honey" out of a honeysuckle when I was a tiny child, but I sometimes wonder if I wasn't inventing that from a confused memory.
...not honey, but sweet nectar. As a kid in South Africa, we figured out, I guess by trial and error, a little nibble at a time, everything that was good to eat all around our gardens and in the surrounding hillsides. There were plants that tasted nutty, or tasted pleasantly sour, or... [more]
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at 7:29 AM on June 8, 2008
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adopted by a seal...
On this post on the Shell Wildlife Photographer of the Year Awards, I noted that Paul Nicklen had more on display than any other photographer, and that he'd also been honoured in the World Press Photo awards (warning, grisly whale-butchering images).
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at 2:34 AM on June 8, 2008
I hadn't actually noticed before, but Nicklen took both second and third prize at the World Press Awards, the latter set including his Nat Geographic images of polar bears.
The beautiful picture of the swimming polar bear reminded me of this sad bit of news this week.... [more]
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at 4:29 AM on June 8, 2008
MeFi post:
BK Veg City.
These are in terrible taste. Assassination, stabbing and over-zealous cavity searches are not things to be taken lightly.
No way would this pass muster in the UK. Here in London kids keep getting stabbed to death. A few days ago it was a 15 year old girl in the elevator of her building. The following night the BBC were reporting from the McDonald's around the corner from my house - that is where she was first attacked by the guy who ended up killing her.
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at 11:35 AM on June 5, 2008
All right. What if one of these showed 'Tutsi' onions being chopped up by 'Hutu' carrots? Would that be amusing? Where do you draw the line?
Just because something is 'edgy' and controversial, and will cause an outcry amongst the fuddy-duddys, doesn't automatically mean it's cool or worthwhile. Sometimes (cf the Chapman Brother's graffito over Hitler's paintings) these just aren't good ideas.
Especially not for a burger chain.
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at 2:29 PM on June 5, 2008
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Is this it? Yes, it is. But it's plenty.
What I've seen, time and again, are Russian and Eastern European tourists photographing and filming squirrels...
I think this is because, in Russia, squirrel photographs you.
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at 12:00 PM on June 5, 2008
MeFi post:
Muxfind
Won't this merely hasten Muxtape's demise?
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at 12:02 PM on May 27, 2008
MeFi post:
Drop Dead, Gorgeous
'Worse than a fairy tale'? My whole life has been worse than a fairy tale.
(Post-hardcore means: sounds like Fugazi)
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at 3:12 AM on May 22, 2008
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Errin' USA
This is rather apropos, or should I say apostropos? (I shouldn't? Oh, ok). Just yesterday afternoon I saw this sign on Charing Cross Road in London of all places - the grammarest street in the very birthplace of the English language. Here somebody, perhaps these gentlemen, or Lynn Truss herself, has taken the trouble to circle the offending punctuant with a magic marker.
But they chose to ignore the dodgy capitalization of 'Available' for... [more]
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at 3:05 AM on May 22, 2008
