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Posted: Sat Nov 18, 2023 2:56 pm
Today's SpaceX launch of a Starship experienced a "rapid unscheduled disassembly." Funny how that's what Musk is currently doing to Twitter.
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It is Pophat so I will allow it.chancery wrote: ↑Sat Nov 18, 2023 2:43 pm Musk's bumptious threat provoked Popehat to make a brief return to twitter:
DoneHat
@Popehat
There are about fifty reasons your petulant flounce is nonsense, you emotionally spavined freak, but let’s start with the first clause of the first sentence: it’s 2023 and you e-file complaints now. You don‘t have to wait for the courthouse to be open. You utter vagina.
IANAL, but it seems to me that those companies are free to advertise on X or to not advertise on X. They have no legal obligation to advertise there, nor does X or Musk have legal right to their advertising dollars. They can withdraw their advertising for any reason, or no reason. It is entirely up to them.MN-Skeptic wrote: ↑Sat Nov 18, 2023 1:42 pm Here's a link to the story shown in the tweet above - Elon Musk to file ‘thermonuclear lawsuit’ as advertisers desert X
We women want nothing to do with Musk. He's a dick. Not a vagina.neonzx wrote: ↑Sat Nov 18, 2023 3:48 pmIt is Pophat so I will allow it.chancery wrote: ↑Sat Nov 18, 2023 2:43 pm Musk's bumptious threat provoked Popehat to make a brief return to twitter:
DoneHat
@Popehat
There are about fifty reasons your petulant flounce is nonsense, you emotionally spavined freak, but let’s start with the first clause of the first sentence: it’s 2023 and you e-file complaints now. You don‘t have to wait for the courthouse to be open. You utter vagina.
There's always plain ole defamation.
There is a bit of a trend with cultural 'free market' fighters that feel there are legitimate reasons to not do business and illegitimate reasons, and of course they decide which is which, thus if you decide not to give them money you are ruining capitalism. These are the same people who feel they get to decide what is offensive to others etc.noblepa wrote: ↑Sat Nov 18, 2023 3:57 pm IANAL, but it seems to me that those companies are free to advertise on X or to not advertise on X. They have no legal obligation to advertise there, nor does X or Musk have legal right to their advertising dollars. They can withdraw their advertising for any reason, or no reason. It is entirely up to them.
Damn straight. He lacks warmth and depth (as the saying goes).MN-Skeptic wrote: ↑Sat Nov 18, 2023 4:33 pmWe women want nothing to do with Musk. He's a dick. Not a vagina.
You guys deny yourselves perfectly good descriptive words by denying yourselves them. Just saying. Especially since People at Trumps Scottish Golf course used them all the time to describe him.
Shizzle Popped wrote: ↑Sat Nov 18, 2023 6:47 pmOff TopicNot that this matters to this discussion at all, but I've been told that the T word is not all that offensive across the pond where it's much more widely used.
I have heard cu** and fu** in conversations, but I have NEVER heard tw** spoken. It's just not said wherever I've been.Suranis wrote: ↑Sat Nov 18, 2023 6:58 pmShizzle Popped wrote: ↑Sat Nov 18, 2023 6:47 pmOff TopicNot that this matters to this discussion at all, but I've been told that the T word is not all that offensive across the pond where it's much more widely used.Off TopicNope. It's basically just a more contemptuous version of "Twit."
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I'll note that "cutting mere 'womb' out of Whitman" is ... a remarkable turn of phrase.In 1841, [the English poet Robert] Browning published the long dramatic poem Pippa Passes, now best known for the lines “God’s in His heaven/ All’s right with the world.” Toward the end of it, he sets up a kind of Gothic scene, and writes:
Then, owls and bats,
Cowls and tw*ts,
Monks and nuns, in a cloister’s moods,
Adjourn to the oak-stump pantry!
The second of these lines created no stir at all, presumably because the middle class had truly forgotten the word “tw*t” (just as it had forgotten “quaint,” so that Marvell’s pun on the two meanings in “To His Coy Mistress” has fallen flat for six or eight generations now). A few scholars must have recognized the word, but any who did behaved like loyal subjects when the emperor wore his new clothes, and discreetly said nothing. No editor of Browning has ever expurgated the line, even when Rossetti was diligently cutting mere “womb” out of Whitman.
The first response only came forty years later when the editors of the Oxford English Dictionary, collecting examples of usage, like Johnson before them, and interested to find a contemporary use of “tw*t,” wrote to Browning to ask in what sense he was using it. Browning is said to have written back that he used it to mean a piece of headgear for nuns, comparable to the cowls for monks he put in the same line. The editors are then supposed to have asked if he recalled where he had learned the word. Browning replied that he knew exactly. He had read widely in seventeenth-century literature in his youth, and in a broadside poem called “Vanity of Vanities”, published in 1659, he had found these lines, referring to an ambitious cleric:
They talk’t of his having a Cardinall’s Hat;
They’d send him as soon an Old Nun’s Tw*t.
If you are sufficiently delicate and sheltered, it is possible to take the last word as meaning something like a wimple, and Browning did. A fugitive and cloistered virtue can get into difficulties that even Milton didn’t think of.
Suranis wrote: ↑Sat Nov 18, 2023 7:26 pmOff Topichttps://www.joe.co.uk/life/a-definitive ... est-122544
Suranis - Have you actually heard of all of those words? A number of them are completely new to me in the U.S.A definitive ranking of every swear word from worst to best
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These type dicks are big defenders of freedom until other people's freedoms harm (or merely offend) them.MN-Skeptic wrote: ↑Sat Nov 18, 2023 4:33 pmWe women want nothing to do with Musk. He's a dick. Not a vagina.
MN-Skeptic wrote: ↑Sat Nov 18, 2023 8:20 pmSuranis wrote: ↑Sat Nov 18, 2023 7:26 pmOff Topichttps://www.joe.co.uk/life/a-definitive ... est-122544
Suranis - Have you actually heard of all of those words? A number of them are completely new to me in the U.S.A definitive ranking of every swear word from worst to best
FFS
Greetings Professor Musk....