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| From | "Mr Macaw" <no@spam.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.usage.english, alt.english.usage, misc.writing, soc.culture.usa, talk.politics.misc |
| Subject | Re: 15 million fools |
| Date | 2016-01-04 00:25 +0000 |
| Organization | . |
| Message-ID | <op.yaot3ywq86ebyl@red.lan> (permalink) |
| References | (8 earlier) <tree8b9sbe1c9pdm70t5bagja5uvfh5j0u@4ax.com> <op.yamo7vyb86ebyl@red.lan> <lc3h8bhdinj53mfj4dkkqdt4adj926rnrv@4ax.com> <op.yan67jkh86ebyl@red.lan> <km6j8bdldoq4307ioqdpromku2frpqjvj5@4ax.com> |
Cross-posted to 5 groups.
On Sun, 03 Jan 2016 22:32:07 -0000, Mr. B1ack <nowhere@nada.net> wrote: > On Sun, 03 Jan 2016 16:10:21 -0000, "Mr Macaw" <no@spam.com> wrote: > >> On Sun, 03 Jan 2016 02:55:55 -0000, Mr. B1ack <nowhere@nada.net> wrote: >> >>> On Sat, 02 Jan 2016 20:44:09 -0000, "Mr Macaw" <no@spam.com> wrote: >>> >>>> On Sat, 02 Jan 2016 02:54:33 -0000, Mr. B1ack <nowhere@nada.net> wrote: >>>> >>>>> On Fri, 01 Jan 2016 14:57:35 -0000, "Mr Macaw" <no@spam.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> On Fri, 01 Jan 2016 03:00:40 -0000, Mr. B1ack <nowhere@nada.net> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> On Thu, 31 Dec 2015 17:12:47 -0000, "Mr Macaw" <no@spam.com> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> On Thu, 31 Dec 2015 08:22:33 -0000, James Hogg <Jas.Hogg@goutmail.com> wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Mr. B1ack wrote: >>>>>>>>>> On Wed, 30 Dec 2015 19:23:21 -0000, "Mr Macaw" <no@spam.com> wrote: >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> On Wed, 30 Dec 2015 18:58:53 -0000, Dr. Jai Maharaj <alt.fan.jai-maharaj@googlegroups.com> wrote: >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>> In article <op.yagzluoy86ebyl@red.lan>, >>>>>>>>>>>> "Mr Macaw" <n...@spam.com> posted: >>>>>>>>>>>>> 15 million people have spelt length as lenght on the >>>>>>>>>>>>> internet, and they actually think it's correct, not just >>>>>>>>>>>>> a typo! >>>>>>>>>>>> "spelt" >>>>>>>>>>>> about 12,700,000 search results. >>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>> "spelled" >>>>>>>>>>>> about 50,500,000 search results. >>>>>>>>>>> Those are both words, with a subtle difference not many people care about. In my example, lenght is not a word. >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> "Spelt" is English english. "Spelled" is more the American version. >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> "Pleaded" and "runned" are American 'Blinglish' ... the slow death >>>>>>>>>> of the irregular verb. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Some American dove in and rescued it. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> I'm never sure if I'd rescue someone from drowning. If I do, it shows >>>>>>>> I'm braver than all the other pathetic people stood watching. But.... the >>>>>>>> guy drowning should have learnt to swim properly, so why should I >>>>>>>> save him? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Tisk ... all about YOU ....... >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Seems you were never schooled in the Golden Rule, the >>>>>>> foundation of ethics - empathy 101. >>>>>> >>>>>> Do you have empathy for an idiot ? >>>>> >>>>> Actually, idiots need the MOST empathy ... >>>> >>>> Nobody needs empathy. >>>> >>>>>> If you see someone deliberately doing something stupid and >>>>>> about to kill himself, would you stop him? Why? >>>>> >>>>> Because there's hope for improvement. >>>> >>>> Improvement is getting rid of the idiots. If they want to do that themselves, then why don't you have a jolly good laugh while they're doing it, then enjoy life without them in future? >>>> >>>>>> Why does the world need him alive? >>>>> >>>>> Because he has moral worth. >>>> >>>> Morals achieve nothing. >>> >>> I'll mark you down as a Donald Trump voter. >> >> I would if I was in America. It's almost 50% voting for him in the polls I looked at. > > > Mussolini was popular too. > > Blend nationalism, xenophobia, paranoia and > "simple solutions" together and you too can > become the next Great Dictator. > > Oh, and that's 50% IN HIS POLITICAL PARTY. > It remains to be seen if that'd translate into > 50% in the general election. > > An added kink is that US elections aren't won by > direct popular vote ... entire states are won or lost > and then contribute their share of "electoral votes" > (cast by special reps called "electors"). Our "big" > states ... California, New York, Florida ... have so > many electoral votes that they are "must wins" for > anybody seeking the presidency. > > California and New York are pretty damned "left- > wing". Trump is not. > > So, it is possible to get the majority of the popular > votes yet still lose the election. I think this happened > to Al Gore when he ran against (GW) Bush. > > This "electoral college" system was implemented at > the very beginning because so many in the 1780s were > illiterate, ill-informed, uneducated, easily-misled > farmhands and the idea was to insert a layer of > smarter people between them and whomever would > be president. It also increased the political clout of > a few "important" states. > > An 'elector' doesn't HAVE to abide by the popular vote ... > so they are a sort of emergency device to block would-be > Mussolinis riding a wave of irrational public zeal. > > Americans are STILL suboptimally-literate, ill-informed, > under-educated and easily misled ... though far less > likely to be farmhands. If Trump wins the popular vote > this may be the first time since the Founding that the > electors actually intervene in a serious manner. It > would cause chaos though of course, maybe even > some sort of coup. > > We shall see. > > As horrible as Trump is though, he's STILL preferable > to Mrs. Clinton. The march of ultraleft idiocy has gone > too far and Trump would send it crying home to mama. > Of course, add 25 years or so, and the right-wing idiocy > level will become objectionable once again ..... nobody > seems happy with the sensible center. In another words, America is no more of a democracy than the UK. Who has the right to say the majority of the population isn't clever enough to vote? The majority MUST decide what happens, or it's not a democracy. Those people "inserting a layer of smarter people" just THINK they're smarter. -- Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. -- Seneca the Younger 4 b.c.- 65 a.d.
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15 million fools "Mr Macaw" <no@spam.com> - 2015-12-30 18:42 +0000
Re: 15 million fools "John Varela" <newlamps@verizon.net> - 2015-12-30 19:12 +0000
Re: 15 million fools "Mr Macaw" <no@spam.com> - 2015-12-30 19:21 +0000
Re: 15 million fools Simon Grushka <s.grushka83@gmail.com> - 2016-01-01 14:14 -0800
Re: 15 million fools Mr. B1ack <nowhere@nada.net> - 2015-12-30 22:19 -0500
Re: 15 million fools James Hogg <Jas.Hogg@gOUTmail.com> - 2015-12-31 09:22 +0100
Re: 15 million fools "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@verizon.net> - 2015-12-31 04:31 -0800
Re: 15 million fools "Mr Macaw" <no@spam.com> - 2015-12-31 17:13 +0000
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Re: 15 million fools Mr. B1ack <nowhere@nada.net> - 2015-12-31 22:00 -0500
Re: 15 million fools Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org.invalid> - 2016-01-01 17:47 +1100
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Re: 15 million fools "Mr Macaw" <no@spam.com> - 2016-01-01 14:59 +0000
Re: 15 million fools GordonD <g.davie@btinternet.com> - 2016-01-01 19:44 +0000
Re: 15 million fools "Mr Macaw" <no@spam.com> - 2016-01-01 19:48 +0000
Re: 15 million fools GordonD <g.davie@btinternet.com> - 2016-01-01 22:24 +0000
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Re: 15 million fools GordonD <g.davie@btinternet.com> - 2016-01-04 09:02 +0000
Re: 15 million fools "Mr Macaw" <no@spam.com> - 2016-01-04 19:14 +0000
Re: 15 million fools Athel Cornish-Bowden <acornish@imm.cnrs.fr> - 2016-01-03 19:14 +0100
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Re: 15 million fools "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@verizon.net> - 2016-01-01 20:17 -0800
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Re: 15 million fools GordonD <g.davie@btinternet.com> - 2016-01-01 22:29 +0000
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Re: 15 million fools GordonD <g.davie@btinternet.com> - 2016-01-04 09:03 +0000
Re: 15 million fools "Mr Macaw" <no@spam.com> - 2016-01-04 19:14 +0000
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Re: 15 million fools "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@verizon.net> - 2016-01-05 07:12 -0800
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Re: 15 million fools Mr. B1ack <nowhere@nada.net> - 2016-01-01 21:52 -0500
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Re: 15 million fools Mr. B1ack <nowhere@nada.net> - 2016-01-01 21:54 -0500
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Re: 15 million fools Mr. B1ack <nowhere@nada.net> - 2016-01-02 21:55 -0500
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Re: 15 million fools "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@verizon.net> - 2016-01-03 11:09 -0800
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Re: 15 million fools "Mr Macaw" <no@spam.com> - 2016-01-06 20:09 +0000
Re: 15 million fools pensive hamster <pensive_hamster@hotmail.co.uk> - 2016-01-06 11:10 -0800
Re: 15 million fools "Mr Macaw" <no@spam.com> - 2015-12-31 17:11 +0000
Re: 15 million fools Mr. B1ack <nowhere@nada.net> - 2015-12-31 22:36 -0500
Re: 15 million fools Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org.invalid> - 2016-01-01 18:12 +1100
Re: 15 million fools "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@verizon.net> - 2016-01-01 06:48 -0800
Re: 15 million fools Mr. B1ack <nowhere@nada.net> - 2016-01-01 22:17 -0500
Re: 15 million fools "Mr Macaw" <no@spam.com> - 2016-01-01 11:00 +0000
Re: 15 million fools GordonD <g.davie@btinternet.com> - 2016-01-01 19:46 +0000
Re: 15 million fools "Mr Macaw" <no@spam.com> - 2016-01-01 19:54 +0000
Re: 15 million fools Richard Yates <richard@yatesguitar.com> - 2016-01-01 12:27 -0800
Re: 15 million fools "Mr Macaw" <no@spam.com> - 2016-01-01 20:34 +0000
Re: 15 million fools "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@verizon.net> - 2016-01-01 12:57 -0800
Re: 15 million fools "Mr Macaw" <no@spam.com> - 2016-01-01 21:05 +0000
Re: 15 million fools Mr. B1ack <nowhere@nada.net> - 2016-01-01 22:41 -0500
Re: 15 million fools "Mr Macaw" <no@spam.com> - 2016-01-02 20:46 +0000
Re: 15 million fools Mr. B1ack <nowhere@nada.net> - 2016-01-02 21:52 -0500
Re: 15 million fools RH Draney <dadoctah@cox.net> - 2016-01-02 22:03 -0700
Re: 15 million fools "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@verizon.net> - 2016-01-02 21:48 -0800
Re: 15 million fools Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org.invalid> - 2016-01-03 17:34 +1100
Re: 15 million fools Janet <nobody@home.org> - 2016-01-03 11:31 +0000
Re: 15 million fools Mr. B1ack <nowhere@nada.net> - 2016-01-03 17:40 -0500
Re: 15 million fools Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org.invalid> - 2016-01-04 10:13 +1100
Re: 15 million fools Jerry Friedman <jerry_friedman@yahoo.com> - 2016-01-03 16:15 -0800
Re: 15 million fools Mr. B1ack <nowhere@nada.net> - 2016-01-05 16:43 -0500
Re: 15 million fools Tony Cooper <tonycooper214@gmail.com> - 2016-01-05 17:36 -0500
Re: 15 million fools "Mr Macaw" <no@spam.com> - 2016-01-03 18:36 +0000
Re: 15 million fools "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@verizon.net> - 2016-01-03 11:11 -0800
Re: 15 million fools "Mr Macaw" <no@spam.com> - 2016-01-03 19:28 +0000
Re: 15 million fools "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@verizon.net> - 2016-01-03 13:47 -0800
Re: 15 million fools "Peter Duncanson [BrE]" <mail@peterduncanson.net> - 2016-01-04 00:07 +0000
Re: 15 million fools "Mr Macaw" <no@spam.com> - 2016-01-04 00:31 +0000
Re: 15 million fools "Mr Macaw" <no@spam.com> - 2016-01-04 00:29 +0000
Re: 15 million fools GordonD <g.davie@btinternet.com> - 2016-01-04 09:13 +0000
Re: 15 million fools "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@verizon.net> - 2016-01-04 04:17 -0800
Re: 15 million fools "Mr Macaw" <no@spam.com> - 2016-01-04 19:16 +0000
Re: 15 million fools "Mr Macaw" <no@spam.com> - 2016-01-04 19:15 +0000
Re: 15 million fools GordonD <g.davie@btinternet.com> - 2016-01-05 10:24 +0000
Re: 15 million fools "Mr Macaw" <no@spam.com> - 2016-01-06 00:13 +0000
Re: 15 million fools GordonD <g.davie@btinternet.com> - 2016-01-06 13:42 +0000
Re: 15 million fools "Mr Macaw" <no@spam.com> - 2016-01-06 19:04 +0000
Re: 15 million fools "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@verizon.net> - 2016-01-04 04:19 -0800
Re: 15 million fools "Mr Macaw" <no@spam.com> - 2016-01-04 19:16 +0000
Re: 15 million fools "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@verizon.net> - 2016-01-04 11:58 -0800
Re: 15 million fools "Mr Macaw" <no@spam.com> - 2016-01-04 23:30 +0000
Re: 15 million fools charles <charles@candehope.me.uk> - 2016-01-04 20:02 +0000
Re: 15 million fools Peter Young <pnyoung@ormail.co.uk> - 2016-01-04 20:10 +0000
Re: 15 million fools "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@verizon.net> - 2016-01-04 13:17 -0800
Re: 15 million fools "Mr Macaw" <no@spam.com> - 2016-01-04 23:31 +0000
Re: 15 million fools Reinhold {Rey} Aman <aman@sonic.net> - 2016-01-03 18:18 -0800
Re: 15 million fools Mr. B1ack <nowhere@nada.net> - 2016-01-03 17:54 -0500
Re: 15 million fools "Mr Macaw" <no@spam.com> - 2016-01-04 00:27 +0000
Re: 15 million fools Mr. B1ack <nowhere@nada.net> - 2016-01-04 17:58 -0500
Re: 15 million fools "Mr Macaw" <no@spam.com> - 2016-01-04 23:40 +0000
Re: 15 million fools GordonD <g.davie@btinternet.com> - 2016-01-04 09:06 +0000
Re: 15 million fools "Mr Macaw" <no@spam.com> - 2016-01-04 19:15 +0000
Re: 15 million fools Charles Bishop <ctbishop@earthlink.net> - 2016-01-02 17:29 -0800
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