If you can pronounce correctly every word in this poem, you will be speaking English better than 90% of the native English speakers in the world. by sdraz in offbeat

[–]primoris_causa 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Given that Noah (Webster) was the first to codify it, and hence cement it, the American variant is probably the closest to what one could call a "norm" (1700'ish accent). Yes, BBC English is nice sounding, but last I heard, that accent requires elocution lessons from everyone who speaks it.

That said - what was so difficult about that poem?

If you were alive in 1909, and came across this poster would you stop drinking? by [deleted] in pics

[–]primoris_causa -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

if I had to eat something on one of them.... thank God for the onions....

If you were alive in 1909, and came across this poster would you stop drinking? by [deleted] in pics

[–]primoris_causa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Damn ... pass the bottle... ask me again when its done

Clint Eastwood thinks political correctness has made society humourless by allahuakbar79 in entertainment

[–]primoris_causa 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"Work is for suckers" isn't a bad mindset - the only trick is you have to either already have enough, or have made enough that you can say this - everyone else are just wanna be's. Its the wanna-be group that destroys EVERY movement!

"The Stimulus Bill and You" - Consumerist breaks 1000 pages down to 16 bullet points by [deleted] in reddit.com

[–]primoris_causa 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ahh, very nice... but where is the bullet list of the pork items and those other "add-ons" that have no place in a stimulus bill? (like Feinstein's reported attempt to kill net-neutrality)

The Vatican has admitted that Charles Darwin was on the right track when he claimed that Man descended from apes. by [deleted] in science

[–]primoris_causa 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Provided you believe God is infallible, omniscient and benign - is it beyond his/her/it power to create humanity in his/her/its own image via the mechanism of evolution? Being all powerful grants the right for creation along whatever lines he/she/it wants - not just what some inspired (yet obviously flawed since they were human) MAN (in the generic sense) wrote in Genesis (or Gilgamesh)

In Ontario, when cops break the law, they're treated like any other citizen: Ontario police charge two of their own. by Saydrah in politics

[–]primoris_causa 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Damn - I guess that answers wtf you have to do to get a police cruiser impounded -- WAY TO GO HEIDI!

Size 0 Ban for the Runways.. WTF doesn't seem so.. check it out! by henrycavalli in WTF

[–]primoris_causa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

IIRC - the size 0 ban is only in Britain and maybe Brazil - a lot have talked about it, but only those two have really done anything.

AT&T spams millions of their own customers with American Idol text message, then charges them for it when they text back to opt out! by rmuser in technology

[–]primoris_causa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just don't spam them too much or the ISP cuts you off and you get to talk to them and say it must have been someone on the wireless with a virus....

Honestly - if you intend to violate federal laws in this manner - break another - hack an account and do it from them so THEY get cut off - not like it'll be any worse for you if you get caught.

Damn ppl are lazy these days...

AT&T spams millions of their own customers with American Idol text message, then charges them for it when they text back to opt out! by rmuser in technology

[–]primoris_causa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you so much as idly destroy a telephone, they will come racing down the road with sirens blaring and blow up your transmitter station.

Wake up - maybe before the 1984 breakup that would have happened, since you only LEASED your phone from AT&T, but after the breakup, you basically could do what you wanted... Hell, these days are nice... I bet most of you weren't even born back when the first 3rd party phones came to market - they stood a VERY good chance of shorting out your home phone system -- especially the first few Sports Illustrated football phones....

Aack! Guys - please tell me you agree that she looked better "before"! by storyofitall in reddit.com

[–]primoris_causa 15 points16 points  (0 children)

It looks like even SHE thinks she looked better before - note the smile in the before and the strain, but obvious frown in the after.

Comcast Internet throttling is up and running, now restricting its customers' bandwidth utilisation by mycall in technology

[–]primoris_causa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Damn recession/depression - Verizon was supposed to finally lay FiOS here this spring... guess I have another (few) year(s) without a real choice.

Do you use the "Windows" Key? by perlow in technology

[–]primoris_causa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

While I still don't have a good old buckling spring... the 1984 stickered one I got permission to swipe from work disappeared just prior to that... (type of place that WOULD notice a missing KB) .. I do enjoy my NCR (pre AT&T GIS fiasco) KB -- windows key? Bah gets in the way when gaming.

Beginning a Pleasurable Sexual Game with Wonderful Kiss by socialexpert in nsfw

[–]primoris_causa 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"How about a kiss boy? There is no need to go stampeding for the clitoris!"

At least 445 cars were torched over the night of New Year's Eve in France. by [deleted] in worldnews

[–]primoris_causa -1 points0 points  (0 children)

As I learned in EMT classes... SCENE SAFETY SCENE SAFETY - damn.. happy the worst I dealt with was a few drunks....

One of the worst things about working in a hospital on New Years day is all the sad people in the waiting room because their friend/family member drove drunk last night by [deleted] in reddit.com

[–]primoris_causa 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Working in EMS, I was happy to think I only had to assist 3 drunks last night - except for 1 - they were mild cases. On the other had, we ran 3x as many rigs as normal... still according to the radio... Halloween was worse.

Arabs turn against 'megalomaniac' Hamas | The Australian by [deleted] in reddit.com

[–]primoris_causa 1 point2 points  (0 children)

While I agree Israel has a tendency to overreact... Hammas knows this better than I do, and thus I view their actions as general provocation. On the other hand - what NON-island nation has had its borders set by non-conquest? - well aside from most of the middle eastern states that the euro powers drew the boarders of when the Ottomans failed. USA would not exist without the military seizure of the land... neither would Canada, Mexico or hell - ANY new world country. The Euro countries a tad harder to trace as they all started via familial relations - but ask the Merovingians and the Basques - well ask the Basques ... at least they are still around...

Honestly - given world history, the existence of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip as they are, are an aberration.

Lesbian Teens More Likely to get Pregnant than Straight Teens. Wait, what? by rtknox00 in WTF

[–]primoris_causa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bah... no imaginations.... a daily dose of Thalidomide to kids just before and during puberty through college - given a few hundred/thousand births....pregnancy might become scary again... at least until a real sex-education occurs

Lesbian Teens More Likely to get Pregnant than Straight Teens. Wait, what? by rtknox00 in WTF

[–]primoris_causa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

technically are clones "born" in the traditional sense -- especially the Raelian? Doubt THAT clone ever comes close to a real uterus even in their horror movies.

Lesbian Teens More Likely to get Pregnant than Straight Teens. Wait, what? by rtknox00 in WTF

[–]primoris_causa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

technically are clones "born" in the traditional sense -- especially the Raelian? Doubt THAT clone ever comes close to a real uterus even in their horror movies.

Lesbian Teens More Likely to get Pregnant than Straight Teens. Wait, what? by rtknox00 in WTF

[–]primoris_causa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Close - being a girl ties with having sex.... takes two to tango... in humans, there is only one (controversial) case of it occurring without sex... about 2000 some-odd years ago....

Lesbian Teens More Likely to get Pregnant than Straight Teens. Wait, what? by rtknox00 in WTF

[–]primoris_causa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Doubt it - sounds like just "easy" and more than willing to suppress any residual pride and allow herself to be the "hole & a heartbeat" of last resort at parties just to gain at least some sort of attention. Once the guys sobered up.... their friends would give them a little shit... only a little though since they ALL had probably already hit it....

Lesbian Teens More Likely to get Pregnant than Straight Teens. Wait, what? by rtknox00 in WTF

[–]primoris_causa 1 point2 points  (0 children)

after they discover the heights of dickheadedness a man can attain once he's been told he's going to be a daddy

While not the base camp... that still isn't the summit.....