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  • RainmanR Rainman

    @Aqua-Letifer said in Doesn't Really Mean Anything, but fun thought exercise:

    @Rainman said in Doesn't Really Mean Anything, but fun thought exercise:

    Aqua, did you mean good - better - best?

    Nahh, arbitrary. I knew I'd be called on it, though.

    And Epanalepsis is a repetition of a beginning phrase at the end of a line or sentence. One of the most well-known examples is Robert Frost's "Mending Wall": "To each the boulders that have fallen to each."

    Thanks! Epanalepsis. Epanalepsis. Need to remember that. I can imagine the shocked stupid look on peoples' faces when I casually remark on their use of an epanalepsis.

    I can imagine the mumbling, "he's getting closer and closer to the middle of the bell curve!" What a compliment that would be!
    Epanalepsis. Type it 100 times.
    Epanalepsis. . .

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    @Rainman said in Doesn't Really Mean Anything, but fun thought exercise:

    Thanks! Epanalepsis. Epanalepsis. Need to remember that.

    Epanalepsis overuse is widely disparaged by linguistic elites as a sign of insufferable snobbery amongst British introverts, Harvard graduates, hipsters, and other practitioners of epanalepsis overuse.

    Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace. – Mike Ditka

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      Horace
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      #54

      TG, you should rank how good looking we are next.

      Education is extremely important.

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        Horace
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        #55

        I only say that because when Rainman sees where he is on that list, it will motivate him to finally lose that weight.

        Education is extremely important.

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          Rainman
          wrote on last edited by Rainman
          #56

          Yeah. I could go on a tongue diet.
          Make Gandhi look like a blimp.

          Not gonna happen.

          hrumph. Fat person calling another a fat person.

          That's an epanalepsis BTW. Bet you didn't know that.

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            brenda
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            Ha! For the little political posting I do now, it would not be easy to place me in the list. There are also many topics we never discuss here that put me very much in the center. I'm more likely to be closer to Mik. I suspect George would be, too.

            It doesn't matter really. It's difficult to create such a list from only posts here.

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              Horace
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              My opinions are extraordinarily complex, subtle, and nuanced. It is wrong to place them on a flat one dimensional spectrum.

              Education is extremely important.

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              • jon-nycJ jon-nyc

                @Klaus said in Doesn't Really Mean Anything, but fun thought exercise:

                Over here I'd be classified as far right in the current political climate.

                AFD is far right. Not you.

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                @jon-nyc said in Doesn't Really Mean Anything, but fun thought exercise:

                @Klaus said in Doesn't Really Mean Anything, but fun thought exercise:

                Over here I'd be classified as far right in the current political climate.

                AFD is far right. Not you.

                Well, this is where the one-dimensional left-right spectrum is no longer suitable.

                The AFD is currently being torn apart. There are roughly two fractions: Those who want a party that is characterized by strong nationalism and socialist policies, similar to National Rally (formerly known as National Front) in France. I have nothing in common whatsoever with these people. There's another fraction that basically wants something like what the CDU used to be 20 years ago, or maybe a bit like the Tories in the UK. They could be described as roughly conservative and economically (classical) liberal. I have some sympathy for those people, but I don't like that they have these other idiots in the same party.

                But in any case, these days it is sufficient to be in favor of markets and capitalism or in favor of any form of immigration control to be deemed "far right" by many. In that sense I am far right, even though obviously I myself don't view it that way.

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                  #60

                  I feel like I'm out of step with pretty much all parties. The Republicans/British Conservatives are a
                  truly odious bunch, and the Democrats/Labour Party are by-and-large idiots or just pander to various fringe nutters. At the last British election I found myself hoping that both leaders would somehow fall into an open sewer together.

                  What to do?

                  I was only joking

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                  • Doctor PhibesD Doctor Phibes

                    I feel like I'm out of step with pretty much all parties. The Republicans/British Conservatives are a
                    truly odious bunch, and the Democrats/Labour Party are by-and-large idiots or just pander to various fringe nutters. At the last British election I found myself hoping that both leaders would somehow fall into an open sewer together.

                    What to do?

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                    Jolly
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                    @Doctor-Phibes said in Doesn't Really Mean Anything, but fun thought exercise:

                    I feel like I'm out of step with pretty much all parties. The Republicans/British Conservatives are a
                    truly odious bunch, and the Democrats/Labour Party are by-and-large idiots or just pander to various fringe nutters. At the last British election I found myself hoping that both leaders would somehow fall into an open sewer together.

                    What to do?

                    Monarchy?

                    “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

                    Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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                    • JollyJ Jolly

                      @Doctor-Phibes said in Doesn't Really Mean Anything, but fun thought exercise:

                      I feel like I'm out of step with pretty much all parties. The Republicans/British Conservatives are a
                      truly odious bunch, and the Democrats/Labour Party are by-and-large idiots or just pander to various fringe nutters. At the last British election I found myself hoping that both leaders would somehow fall into an open sewer together.

                      What to do?

                      Monarchy?

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                      Aqua Letifer
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                      #62

                      @Jolly said in Doesn't Really Mean Anything, but fun thought exercise:

                      @Doctor-Phibes said in Doesn't Really Mean Anything, but fun thought exercise:

                      I feel like I'm out of step with pretty much all parties. The Republicans/British Conservatives are a
                      truly odious bunch, and the Democrats/Labour Party are by-and-large idiots or just pander to various fringe nutters. At the last British election I found myself hoping that both leaders would somehow fall into an open sewer together.

                      What to do?

                      Monarchy?

                      Honestly, let's just bring back class systems, village feudalism, and primogeniture, I don't care at this point.

                      Please love yourself.

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                        jon-nyc
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                        #63

                        Join Curtis Yarvin and the new Jacobites.

                        Only non-witches get due process.

                        • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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                          Doctor Phibes
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                          I was thinking more along the lines of picking up the clarinet again.

                          I was only joking

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                          • Doctor PhibesD Doctor Phibes

                            I was thinking more along the lines of picking up the clarinet again.

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                            @Doctor-Phibes said in Doesn't Really Mean Anything, but fun thought exercise:

                            I was thinking more along the lines of picking up the clarinet again.

                            Arguably less annoying to listen to than politicians, but you have to understand that that's a rather low bar.

                            Please love yourself.

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                              Loki
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                              Would be fun to go Mano a Mano with Mik to see who is right of who.

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                                Would be fun to go Mano a Mano with Mik to see who is right of who.

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                                LuFins Dad
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                                @Loki said in Doesn't Really Mean Anything, but fun thought exercise:

                                Would be fun to go Mano a Mano with Mik to see who is right of who.

                                FIGHT CLUB - TNCR Style!

                                The Brad

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                                • L Loki

                                  Would be fun to go Mano a Mano with Mik to see who is right of who.

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                                  jon-nyc
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                                  @Loki said in Doesn't Really Mean Anything, but fun thought exercise:

                                  Would be fun to go Mano a Mano with Mik to see who is right of whom

                                  .

                                  Only non-witches get due process.

                                  • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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                                  • jon-nycJ jon-nyc

                                    @Loki said in Doesn't Really Mean Anything, but fun thought exercise:

                                    Would be fun to go Mano a Mano with Mik to see who is right of whom

                                    .

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                                    @jon-nyc said in Doesn't Really Mean Anything, but fun thought exercise:

                                    @Loki said in Doesn't Really Mean Anything, but fun thought exercise:

                                    Would be fun to go Mano a Mano with Mik to see who is right of whom

                                    .

                                    I think I see the second match of round 1! Aqua and Jon!

                                    The Brad

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                                      Klaus
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                                      How about some data?

                                      Fill out this form and post your result here.
                                      https://www.politicalcompass.org/

                                      Here's mine:
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                                        I think TG has me pegged perfectly

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                                          Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace. – Mike Ditka

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