Whinger

[Neville Briggs]

Goodo Matt. Keep the home fires burning, especially with that winter wonderland.

[warooa]

Yeah perplexes me to the point of mockery (you could call that a whinge) - it's like up here every year it's normal to get a shitload of rain in the monsoon months. Being a traditionalist I still call it a flood, but now every news presenter, weather boffin and climate scientist or anybody deemed worthy of airing their analysis on such a perfectly normal non-phenomenon now insist on calling it a weather event.

I think it's an affliction that's spreading - I did some research and found it's a rare disorder called syllablitis where the sufferers become brainwashed into being unable to use simple time-honoured common sense single syllable words and instead feel the uncompromisable urge to replace them with bland jargonistic gobbledy-gook. An early symptom of the onset of syllablitis is where one repeatedly insists upon using 'absolutely' instead of the traditional 'yes'.

There is a cure for syllablitis though - sufferers should be encouraged to basically shut the f*#^ up.

[Bob Pacey]

There is a cure for syllablitis though


You sure you spelt that right Marty ?


Bob

[Neville Briggs]

Matt, George Orwell called it Newspeak. (A language designed to control and manipulate our thoughts ( rhymes with full kit).
He also identified Oldspeak, which mean English; a language that isn't Newspeak.


I know what you mean Marty. I worked with a young bloke on the patrol car who insisted on using " affirmative " and " negative " on the radio. I said to him that negative and affirmative sounded similar and could be confused. Yes and No sound different and clear. Further I suggested that it would be important if the question was, is the suspect armed with a gun, that the answer is clearly yes or no.
He agreed.
then he said that he preferred to use affirmative and negative as they sounded officially important and cool.
I saw him on the news not long ago, he is now a high ranking commanding officer. no surprise

[manfredvijars]

OI!! This doesn't rhyme - it's NOT poetry ...
Isn't it about time you got up off
your fat arse and wrote some poetry -
instead of WHINGING all the time ???

[Heather]

News readers don't read the news anymore - they give commentary, opinions and emotions. One you hear often is "cruel and heartless thieves".

A lot of cricketers and footballers use "obviously" nearly every time you hear them interviewed. Anyone else notice that?

[keats]

Hey Marty, can I still get tickets to that Weather Event?

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I see my glass as half empty and hope to Christ that someone is getting the next shout quickly!

[Neville Briggs]

OI!! This doesn't rhyme - it's NOT poetry ...

What doesn't rhyme ?
The Oxford English Dictionary says " rhyme, identity of sound between words or their endings"
Every third line of mine ends in an identical sound i.e. rhyme.


Shakespeare's famous soliloquy for Hamlet doesn't rhyme, that IS poetry.

[Heather]

Oh Manfred, you teaser you!

[manfredvijars]

"Repetition of the same word does not make a rhyme - it's lazy repetition."
(Manfred - circa: this week some time)

AND, it's NOT Bush Poetry ...
(so there)