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Post by freegan on Aug 31, 2014 23:45:06 GMT
Faggots fried? The tradition in this country is to bake them in a thick sauce. And they ain't sausages, either. More like oversize meatballs. |
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Post by the light works on Sept 1, 2014 0:39:44 GMT
To be fair, Coca-Cola isn't advertising it as something that will up your IQ or has nanotechnology in it. Quote from the product desciption: "Glacéau smart water is inspired by the way mother nature makes water, known as the hydrologic cycle. We simulate this process by vapor distilling water, making every drop as pure as the very first drop of rain (before it passes through pollutants, of course). If that’s not smart enough, we then one-up mother nature by adding in electrolytes for a clean crisp taste. If that sounds like genius, it is. Smart water is smart because it’s made that way." The name is there to signify that the way it's distilled is smart and implies (it's never stated directly) that because of this, it's a smart choise of beverage. What consumers read into it beyond that is purely at their own discretion. Unless they're lying about the process, there's not a dishonest or misleading word in there. So it is in effect just a rebrand of Peckham Spring, Dasani water. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dasani[quoteEarly advertisements referred to Dasani as "bottled spunk" or featured the tagline "can't live without spunk". These slogans were used seemingly oblivious to the fact that spunk is slang for semen in the UK. [/quote] as far as I know, dasani is just filtered. I have it on good authority that it costs Coca cola more per unit to produce Dasani than it costs to produce Coke - because it takes more expensive processing to make water have a consistent flavor from bottling plant to bottling plant than it takes to make Coke have a consistent flavor from plant to plant. however, that said - they claim that the other product is "vapor distilled" which leaves the question: what OTHER way do people distill water? |
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Post by silverdragon on Sept 1, 2014 7:16:56 GMT
After evidence on here, auto correct is considered public enema number one, and has its own place in the room.
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Post by OziRiS on Sept 1, 2014 10:45:15 GMT
Faggots fried? The tradition in this country is to bake them in a thick sauce. And they ain't sausages, either. More like oversize meatballs. Maybe so. But fried fagots in thick roll or "sausage" form are what I'm familiar with and coincidentally also what I came up with doing a "define fagot" search on Google. |
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Post by freegan on Sept 1, 2014 11:20:41 GMT
And they ain't sausages, either. More like oversize meatballs. Maybe so. But fried fagots in thick roll or "sausage" form are what I'm familiar with and coincidentally also what I came up with doing a "define fagot" search on Google. |
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Post by OziRiS on Sept 1, 2014 11:37:48 GMT
Maybe so. But fried fagots in thick roll or "sausage" form are what I'm familiar with and coincidentally also what I came up with doing a "define fagot" search on Google. Does it matter? My point wasn't which specific shape the food had or if it was covered in sauce or not. My point was that becasue someone has hijacked an otherwise completely innocuous word to describe something they feel is "dirty" and then turned that word into an obcenity, the rest of us suddenly can't use that word in its original (or for that matter ANY) form anymore. I find that rediculous and as such, I suggest we induct the self-proclaimed "protectors of moral standards" into room 101. That was my point, not the shape or consistency of a particular food item. |
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Post by the light works on Sept 1, 2014 11:52:44 GMT
After evidence on here, auto correct is considered public enema number one, and has its own place in the room. Autocorrect is annoying at best. spell checker is neither good nor evil, but highly subject to abuse. |
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Post by the light works on Sept 1, 2014 11:59:16 GMT
Does it matter? My point wasn't which specific shape the food had or if it was covered in sauce or not. My point was that becasue someone has hijacked an otherwise completely innocuous word to describe something they feel is "dirty" and then turned that word into an obcenity, the rest of us suddenly can't use that word in its original (or for that matter ANY) form anymore. I find that rediculous and as such, I suggest we induct the self-proclaimed "protectors of moral standards" into room 101. That was my point, not the shape or consistency of a particular food item. my vote is that the people who hijack words and images be the ones pitched into the room. (to the best of my knowledge, the oldest usage I have seen for the term has to do with firewood.) currently, it appears that 3-5 words in the US per year are being repurposed to refer to homosexuality. (for those not keeping score at home, "diversity" now means homosexuality, and irises are another symbol for gay pride) |
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Post by silverdragon on Sept 1, 2014 14:22:11 GMT
After evidence on here, auto correct is considered public enema number one, and has its own place in the room. Autocorrect is annoying at best. spell checker is neither good nor evil, but highly subject to abuse. Did you take note of spelling.... Enema, Its a pain in the [*r**].... |
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Post by the light works on Sept 1, 2014 14:36:26 GMT
Autocorrect is annoying at best. spell checker is neither good nor evil, but highly subject to abuse. Did you take note of spelling.... Enema, Its a pain in the [*r**].... yes, because that is one of my common jokes as well. |
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Post by mrfatso on Sept 1, 2014 18:09:58 GMT
Does it matter? My point wasn't which specific shape the food had or if it was covered in sauce or not. My point was that becasue someone has hijacked an otherwise completely innocuous word to describe something they feel is "dirty" and then turned that word into an obcenity, the rest of us suddenly can't use that word in its original (or for that matter ANY) form anymore. I find that rediculous and as such, I suggest we induct the self-proclaimed "protectors of moral standards" into room 101. That was my point, not the shape or consistency of a particular food item. No it doesn't you are right. |
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Post by mrfatso on Sept 1, 2014 18:12:37 GMT
Did you take note of spelling.... Enema, Its a pain in the [*r**].... yes, because that is one of my common jokes as well. Speaking of *r**, I was listening to a BBC program on at 2pm, it was established with an American guest that A**, is alright for broadcast at that time! as as far the the Beeb is concerned it is a small wild donkey. |
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Post by the light works on Sept 1, 2014 18:31:08 GMT
yes, because that is one of my common jokes as well. Speaking of *r**, I was listening to a BBC program on at 2pm, it was established with an American guest that A**, is alright for broadcast at that time! as as far the the Beeb is concerned it is a small wild donkey. that's mildly amusing as the american term for posterior is your term for a small donkey, and your word for posterior is the one that americans frequently use as a non offensive alternate. because in america it makes a word non offensive to change one letter. I.E. assuming "Smeg" is offensive, American media may say "Smag" with everyone understanding it is the TV version of Smeg. |
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Post by freegan on Sept 1, 2014 20:15:39 GMT
I.E. assuming "Smeg" is offensive, American media may say "Smag" with everyone understanding it is the TV version of Smeg. It's also a brand name. www.smeguk.com/ |
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Post by mrfatso on Sept 1, 2014 21:22:20 GMT
It's completely different to the company French Connection UK, that traded for years on the idea it was Paris style with a British twist, until some one in marketing noticed its initials made up a rude anagram.
SMEG, as a brand name is an acronym of something in Italian, that I think includes Metalworks in it, or the Italian word for that.
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Post by the light works on Sept 1, 2014 21:28:38 GMT
and for those who have never seen Red Dwarf; Smeg is a completely made-up rude word. it has no meaning other than being the rude word of choice for the show - selected purely because they liked the sound of it.
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Post by freegan on Sept 1, 2014 21:39:59 GMT
and for those who have never seen Red Dwarf; Smeg is a completely made-up rude word. it has no meaning other than being the rude word of choice for the show - selected purely because they liked the sound of it. I suspect that it being the first syllable of a word for d!ck-cheese may also have influenced the writers of Red Dwarf. |
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Post by the light works on Sept 1, 2014 22:02:28 GMT
and for those who have never seen Red Dwarf; Smeg is a completely made-up rude word. it has no meaning other than being the rude word of choice for the show - selected purely because they liked the sound of it. I suspect that it being the first syllable of a word for d!ck-cheese may also have influenced the writers of Red Dwarf. but was that word in use at that time and in that place? |
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Post by freegan on Sept 1, 2014 22:43:44 GMT
I suspect that it being the first syllable of a word for d!ck-cheese may also have influenced the writers of Red Dwarf. but was that word in use at that time and in that place? Considering that the British audience recognized the expletive, I'd hazard a guess that it was. |
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Post by mrfatso on Sept 1, 2014 23:38:28 GMT
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