tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1809385768373334836.post7434483569561542245..comments2021-02-22T21:18:54.852-05:00Comments on Life After Gonzales: Fuck Euphemismsalboradahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05733821719264747371noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1809385768373334836.post-10112310948389788672007-11-29T14:28:00.000-05:002007-11-29T14:28:00.000-05:00bok!super članak! našla sam te preko nelijeg linka...bok!<BR/>super članak! našla sam te preko nelijeg linka, ali for the life of me, ne znam na čijem blogu. bar mislim da bio blog.Rantalicahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17106444777796555809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1809385768373334836.post-33269596056637507032007-11-19T14:53:00.000-05:002007-11-19T14:53:00.000-05:00So that we can enjoy the sublime pleasure of movie...So that we can enjoy the sublime pleasure of movies where gangsters say "Put your goshdarn hands in the air and shut the heck up!"alboradahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05733821719264747371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1809385768373334836.post-81850434586014542472007-11-19T10:53:00.000-05:002007-11-19T10:53:00.000-05:00Let's put the GOD back into G*DDAMN! I don't under...<I>Let's put the <B>GOD</B> back into G*DDAMN!</I><BR/><BR/> I don't understand the sound cut-outs and overdubs applied to movies by US television (including cable stations and PBS). If the broadcasters find the dialogue objectionable, why broadcast the film in the first place?Tribunehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01767257878912830235noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1809385768373334836.post-22602261693907348972007-11-18T16:08:00.000-05:002007-11-18T16:08:00.000-05:00I can understand your point. Here's why I consider...I can understand your point. Here's why I consider "simulated drowning" a reasonable descriptor.<BR/><BR/>Medically, if you aspirate water and get pulled out of it alive, it's considered "near-drowning". "Drowning" is when you die from it. Since the intent, as you point out, is (generally) to keep "rescuing" the victims, rather than to kill them outright, I call it "simulated drowning", because the victim is made to think that s/he is about to die, whereas in reality, s/he's going to be pulled out of it at the last possible moment. It fits in with another popular torture method, "simulated execution", where the victim thinks s/he's going to be shot dead, but in reality the gun's not loaded or is shooting blanks.alboradahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05733821719264747371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1809385768373334836.post-50875202376002697972007-11-18T14:14:00.000-05:002007-11-18T14:14:00.000-05:00I read an article recently that said "simulated dr...I read an article recently that said "simulated drowning" is itself a euphemism: in some types of waterboarding the victims are indeed drowned, but saved from death so they can be drowned again, and again, and again.<BR/><BR/>http://tinyurl.com/35tkyfWade Rocketthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02785499425476736769noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1809385768373334836.post-86114258347644267262007-11-18T02:18:00.000-05:002007-11-18T02:18:00.000-05:00Very true!In fact, the reason so many of our swear...Very true!<BR/><BR/>In fact, the reason so many of our swear words in English are Anglo-Saxon in origin (there's not a single Latinate one that comes to mind) was that the Germanic words of the indigenous people of the British Isles became the language of the colonised people, and French became the language of the ruling class. So "shit", for example, from being a rather normal word, to being vulgar ("of the masses"). <BR/><BR/>A good friend of mine pointed out a while back that it's a class issue in another way, as well. He refers to these words as "the language of anger", and they are indeed great words for expressing a full range of sentiments one experiences when one lives under someone else's boot. By depriving people of "the language of anger", the ruling class essentially forces the people to use ruling-class discourse to define their lives and experiences.alboradahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05733821719264747371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1809385768373334836.post-59226041615657409282007-11-17T16:30:00.000-05:002007-11-17T16:30:00.000-05:00Good post!Ultimately, this is a class issue: ruler...Good post!<BR/><BR/>Ultimately, this is a class issue: rulers make love to their equals; they fuck their inferiors. Rulers sit on the throne, workers deal with the shit. No one must confuse the upper class and the lower, so education teaches the rich when to use which words, leaving the poor with the practical words of their homes. When you're expected to know many words with subtle meanings, using a few, extremely versatile words is unforgivably lower class to the rulers and their close servants, but in the words of many who are fighting the class war, fuck that shit.Will Shetterlyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08539053268352597627noreply@blogger.com