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  1. Kiera Clutterbuck
    Do you believe these far-right militia groups exist, and not just the B Boys?
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    I never advocated banning the shirts, other than my joke about their ugliness. I was pointing out Arielle's inept comparison.
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    Ahh the good old double standard. Weak. Are you aware that the B Boys in Hawaiian shirts are real people, but the people in black suits you compared them to are movie characters?
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    Personally I think they should be banned for being unusually ugly shirts, especially the SL ones that look like bizarrely colored leaves gone berserk.
  5. Kiera Clutterbuck
    Are we going to have a British invasion!
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    Interestingly, is the definition of the word wazzer. Normally I don't comment on someone's style in writing as it seems central to their self, how they express themselves. But I felt manipulated by that style, as if they were trying to manipulate me somehow (in a more conscious and aggressive way). So I made notice of their style.
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    Never heard that word before!
  8. Kiera Clutterbuck
    I have a friend who spent 5 or so years in Boston, and every once in awhile she starts talking with a Boston accent. I don't know what brings it on. Very strange.
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    Do you still have a southern accent? I have a teensy-weensy one and always hated it when people noticed. It's not easy to change an accent!
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    I could guess but instead I looked it up in my venerable 1889 Century Dictionary, which says, "formerly also howdee; a further contraction of how d' ye for how do you or how do you do. A colloquial greeting now peculiar to the southern and western United States, the fuller form howdy do? being used elsewhere". Interestingly, I doubt there are many places where you can hear Howdy do? today. A lot changes in even 130 years. Thanks, and what an interesting dictionary! Howdy do? LOLOL I'm sure I've seen some old western where they used that. People would wonder if you'd been drinking if you greeted them in such a way today.
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    I watched a few minutes of this but gave up when there was that tirade about a woman's husband being the judge. This pastor does not know his Bible or he'd have remembered that Deborah was the best Judge the ancient Hebrews ever had. Yeah I'm afraid we have some very strange so-called Christians over here, with very odd interpretations of the Bible more suited to war than love
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    Yeah, it's good she posted this as I had no idea about these types of shirts paired with the gun supply jacket or whatever it is.
  13. Kiera Clutterbuck
    I'm studying words n stuff today so I was wondering why you have so much space between each line.
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    Since I'm all into Texas Paul on YouTube today I'm wondering if anyone knows how 'howdy' came into being...
  15. Kiera Clutterbuck
    How do you have a value about what somebody else does in bed unless you are planning to get into bed with them?
  16. Kiera Clutterbuck
    I'm sorry, Ceka, but my pitchfork is already packed 😁
  17. Kiera Clutterbuck
    There is hardly a nation in the world where you cannot find memorials to those who fell in the effort to defeat the Third Reich and their repugnant ideology. These groups are not at that level. Oh they want to be but it's way beyond their ability to achieve. They gather symbology that is "as close as we dare get" to Nazi-like, thinking they are somehow being "clever." They are (usually) careful to speak in veiled terms outside their own groups because they know they'll be shunned by the mainstream community if they "say the quiet bit out loud." Recent events around the world and on one continent in particular have emboldened them, they are scurrying out into clearer view with greater enthusiasm. It's their last gasp, like roaches trying to escape the RAID in the shadows only to find a size-12 boot waiting in the light. I agree partially with what you've said, in that we don't see the abuse in its most flagrant form currently. But if you study the History of what we did here in the US against black people (and Natives), it is every bit as horrific.
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    Yes, I lived near the Canadian border and noticed the open vowel thing. With the Northern people you cited it almost sounds like a Native American influence, as I hear some of the same stresses/intonations as some Native Americans use today.
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    What was the influence causing that, do you know?
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    I didn't even think of that, actually growing up in that environment! Hugs
  21. Kiera Clutterbuck
    There is some value in knowing who the creeps are. However, I don't understand why Nazi stuff is not allowed (unless for a war enactment maybe?) , but these other symbols of hate are.
  22. Kiera Clutterbuck
    I'm not sure which is worse these days * Speaking to the erosion of human rights we see in both states.
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    Not unlike the sort of attitude that we hear all too often about regional accents and colloquialisms in the U.S. If we're kind, we think of their speech as "quaint". On our worse days, it's how we distinguish among midwestern hicks, Valley Girl airheads, and anyone else we imagine is less learned than we are. I'm afraid I was developing a rather long "worse day" when thinking about the South, particularly Texas, even though knowing intellectually there are plenty of fine people down there. Until I came across Texas Paul ''gettin' after' one of those bad preachers proliferating like weeds all over the US these days
  24. Kiera Clutterbuck
    I've heard "sunroom" in the Midwest, and I imagine it's common on the west coast. Where I grew up in the northeast, "conservatory" is quite common, but it's hard to find one except in rather large homes. We had one in our home, which was built sometime in the 1910s. My mother kept all sorts of greenery there, including at any time a half dozen shallow jars with avocado pits that were meant to root (but never did). Anyway, it was a fine place to curl up and tangle with a crossword puzzle. Yeah I bet the word was floating around in the back of my mind somewhere, knowing I heard it used here. I've known people from the Northeast, or was it in a book, or a TV program? And those room are quite cozy yes, with all the windows letting in light in the winter, and often many plants.
  25. Kiera Clutterbuck
    What about this recent group who marched through Boston. Would LL allow this look?
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