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[classical_hero]

I don't think I'd like to live in a city where everything is black-and-white.

After Godwynn posted a picture of Chicago.

 

[Terxpahseyton]

I'll nominate any Traitorfish Posts in the Babe Thread. Some were not right there, but astoundingly many got me freeze and recalibrate my chaw while I am rethinking the course of my life.

 

[Borachio]

got me freeze and recalibrate my chaw

Well. That's inventive use of language, and no mistake.

It could mean: "many of the images gave me a frisson and made me exclaim like never before", but I'm blindly guessing here.

Chaw is usually a wad of tobacco, but can also be an alternative spelling of Phroar!, I believe.

 

[Terxpahseyton]

Borachio... I always took pride in the usage of my native language. But it always sanded me all the same how absolutely inept I felt in using the English language (even though some may at times be surprised that I wasn't a native to it). But what you just said is the best thing I could have ever hoped for as the illiterate English speaker I am.
Thank you.

 

[Borachio]

I honestly like the way you use English, Mr Seyton. I find it intriguing. And I wouldn't describe your English as inept in any way.

But tell me: was I close with my interpretation? I'd think so from your post, but it isn't necessarily so.

 

[Terxpahseyton]

The way I meant "chaw" was in reference to the "chaw drop". That is you see a hot girl and weather you like it or not you just drop your chaw. I meant to play on that by suggesting that TF's posts made me not only drop my chaw but freeze it - as in the beauty of what I saw forced my chaw into a grid-lock because my chaw was not "prepared for such beauty" - so my chaw had to be realigned for it so to response properly.

I feel flattered - but honestly, I got no game in the language of English. But that's in end okay as long as I am only virtually visiting the English nation. I am still facing all the social challenges in German, so I am good

 

[Borachio]

I see. You mean your jaw, and your jaw dropped. Yes. That did occur to me. But I thought you were maybe being even more subtle.

 

[Terxpahseyton]

As a general rule - I am not very subtle with my English since I am glad enough when the less subtle message is getting across

 

[Borachio]

Hmm. I'm not so sure. A lot of what you write seems pretty subtle to me. When I can work out what I think you mean. Which is most of the time.

 

[Lohrenswald]

I feel like this is an oppurtune time, Terxpahseyton.
You often write things like "I am quit sure"
But the correct word is quite.
Reading "quit" breaks the flow in your posts, so I think you should be mindful

 

[Terxpahseyton]

Hm... that may very well be a good point. See the thing is I don't think in English. I used to, when I had actually lived in America. But that is some years past by now - and some echo of that stays part of my life, still; with me when I partake in that English speaking forum. But in the end I am now thinking and writing in German and I have to translate it all the time. And to be honest - that is some burdensome crap job. So often I feel like I got the right picture or idiom to enter a discussion... But I lack the tools to phrase it properly. I lack the key I feel passioned about. So I think and that thinking process is entered by my German thinking process and it results in some freak mix.

You often write things like "I am quit sure"
But the correct word is quite.
Reading "quit" breaks the flow in your posts, so I think you should be mindful

Wow, well, yea! I know! But I forget... So thank you!

 

[sophie]

JR slayin em fast and thick as per usual over in the Tax Evasion thread:

That is true. It is still kind of silly to throttle income, because even when you outrun the EIC and get into ordinary taxation, you are still net ahead moneywise. With the right software, its not that hard to keep on top of. Probably more of a chore to vacuum the apartment or do the laundry or something.

 

[Hygro]

dat payoff

 

[Cutlass]

This was quite good.

Humour is often explained as a response to incongruity, which I think has something to do with it. Conservatives are most often committed to the assumption that the world is fundamentally well-ordered and just, that whatever problems arise are because of specific individuals or groups behaving improperly, so they will less readily recognise the absurdities, contradictions or injustices which are the source of so much humour. The humourist is always fundamentally an outsider, and while people on the left are usually able to assume the viewpoint of the outside at least temporarily, conservatives who identify very strongly with inside-status find that much harder to do. Those conservatives who do have a well developed sense of humour tend to be the ones who are more deeply dissatisfied with the modern world, who don't buy so automatically into the idea that the status quo is worth defending, and so can occupy in at least some small way the position of an outsider.

I mean, there's also something peculiar about the sheer humourlessness of the American conservative movement, which I think has a lot to do with the widespread and deeply-rooted anti-intellectualism of the American right and the resulting suspicion of anything subtle or ironic. But as a more general explanation, I think the difficulty recognising or acknowledging incongruity is a lot of it.

 

[Borachio]

I find the fundamentalist devout Christians to be an even more humourless bunch. If that were possible.

Still, maybe a lot of the fundamentalist devout Christians and the Conservatives are one and the same people.

I guess I have the reverse problem, though. I'll laugh at very nearly everything.

 

[Gori the Grey]

You were born under a merry star, B.

 

[Borachio]

Call me Beatrice. (Nonono. Please don't.)

I do like to laugh too much, though. And it has occasionally got me into trouble.

When I was even much younger (I would say young, but I'm of course still very young), I often repeated rather off-colour jokes that other people told me, because I hadn't realized that not everyone would laugh at them as much as I had. Even though I knew they weren't particularly good jokes, I just assumed that people would want to laugh - at nothing really.

 

[JohannaK]

Oh, can I call you Beatrice? I'd love to.

 

[Borachio]

For you and only you, Mr K, and since you asked so nicely, I'll make an exception. As long as you don't think we're going out or anything.

 

[JohannaK]

Definitely not. I'm not into Bs, Beatrice.