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That apparently nobody got my joke about modern piracy on the "talk like a pirate day" thread.

 

DFINITLYDISTRUBD Re: Things you love to hate

 

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words that aren't spelled the way they sound

Although--and Stephen Leacock was an expert hater of the "ough" words that sound like a dozen different things--although enough is probably thoroughly enough throughout the pirate thread so people probably just sloughed (or slogged) the whole modern pirate thing off (or ough).

 

--lemit

 

p.s. SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM, SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM, SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM, SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM

Posted

...people who forget to credit John Keats... :hyper:

 

poetry critics.

When by my solitary hearth I sit,

And hateful thoughts enwrap my soul in

gloom;

When no fair dreams before my 'mind's

eye' flit,

And the bare heath of life presents no

bloom;

Sweet Hope ethereal balm upon me

shed,

And wave thy silver pinions o'er my

head.

:turtle:

Posted
...people who forget to credit John Keats... :lol:

 

:hyper: i love to hate when my stylistic writing choices get mistaken for mistakes. :cap: fortunately, i hate to love telling the story every so once in a while. :lol: to whit.

 

by implying a criticism of poetry critics, i am myself a poetry critic and so criticizing myself as well & so introducing irony. by giving a specific example of poetry, i force poetry critique on the reader, and now i can criticise & knot up in irony the reader too. by not giving the author, the readers *** poetry critics must initially take the poetry cited on its merits without a bias to an author. the reader *** poetry critic either knows it is keats or not, and if not then i leave them to either just wonder who wrote it or look it up and find out. now that i have the reader in my clutches ( :D ) and on the trail of hate & poetry's blood, i hope they follow keats far enough to find out how poorly his poetry was received by the poetry critics of his day and so adding another level of irony. of course finding a keats' poem characterising hate seemed fitting to the thread. there is more of course, as always, but i leave that to the poetry critics that i love to hate.

 

as to what brought this johnny all on, well, my own ignorance of keats. (getting ironicer, ain't it! ;) ) i knew his name of course, but little else, and there is a new movie coming out on him by an accomplished director and i saw her interviewed on tv and my curiosity was piqued. after the interview i went reading some keats and found the quote on hate. to be sure i like the stanza i quoted, but i think keats' poem on hope is overlong. go figure. :clue: :turtle:

 

Charlie Rose - Jane Campion, Director of 'Bright Star'

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as to what brought this johnny all on, well, my own ignorance of keats. (getting ironicer, ain't it! ;) ) i knew his name of course, but little else, and there is a new movie coming out on him by an accomplished director and i saw her interviewed on tv and my curiosity was piqued. after the interview i went reading some keats and found the quote on hate. to be sure i like the stanza i quoted, but i think keats' poem on hope is overlong. go figure. :hyper: :rolleyes:

 

Charlie Rose - Jane Campion, Director of 'Bright Star'

 

Talking of poets, a modern one I quite like, Roger McGough, once wrote that the difference between people who love and people who hate, is that people who hate have to explain why they hate.

Posted
I hate loudness of all kinds, and I hate people who think somehow their noise isn't really loud.

 

I hate pseudoscience and all kinds of snake oil.

 

Fox News.

 

I love hating ignorance.

 

I love hating bigotry.

 

I love hating the people who feel entitled by their money or race or education or religion (or lack of religion) to make decisions for other people.

 

I love hating hatred.

 

I'm violently opposed to violence.

 

I'm all right with inconsistency.

 

--lemit

 

Nearly all the above are connected I believe and are traits of those who would rather die than think (Loud music, ignorance, arrogance, violence, bigotry, forcing your views on others, sellers of snake oil make a fortune from people like this because anybody with half a brain can easily manipulate someone with none at all: You forgot those people who use drink, drugs and all night partying to destroy all consciousness in themselves, so that they don't have to wake up the following morning and regret their actions or if they physically do, not have to worry about being aware of said actions - shallow, vain, scumbags of the world unite, for you have nothing to lose but your brains!)

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