Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary

[tikay]

Think you'll find this interesting

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-20399859

And more from the same series

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00zy57x

Thanks Ryan.

I had seen the 747 Dreamlifter one, but not the other one, thanks.


There are some really weird (& ugly) aircraft in the freighter division. I saw the Guppy (first photo below) at Frankfurt Airport some years ago, it is absolutely huge, but extremely ungainly & ugly. It should be banned.

I have yet to see the Airbus Beluga (2nd photo) though. Once I get my new camera though......

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[kinboshi]

The Airbus Beluga does look like a Beluga whale, but not as cute.

[tikay]

I think we'd like to assume the use is often ironic. I doubt very much it is

Anti-hero to us perhaps, hero to others.

There, Tighty sums it up better than I was trying to. Yes, "anti-hero".

Alun - I was not singling out any user in particular, though I did quote a typical example, but the truth is, the phrase is used every day on here by different people with regards to poker players.

I don't object to it, not one bit, I just find it sits incongruously alongside the original meaning.

[Tal]

Reminded me of the oft-trotted ejaculations of Dr Watson. A quick Google search (don't even ask...) led me here:

http://www.lawoftheplayground.com/browse.php?type=subject&id=1835

Most of these were written completely innocently, when the words used had much less lascivious connotations.

[kinboshi]

Love those from Sherlock Holmes.  So childish, yet so amusing.

[tikay]

Reminded me of the oft-trotted ejaculations of Dr Watson. A quick Google search (don't even ask...) led me here:

http://www.lawoftheplayground.com/browse.php?type=subject&id=1835

Most of these were written completely innocently, when the words used had much less lascivious connotations.

In the "don't even ask" department, a young African lad, who I had met in Senegal, West Africa, wrote to me once & thanked me for the intercourse we had enjoyed on the beach.

It caused my girlfriend of the time (it was 30 years ago) some concern until she better understood the meaning of "intercourse".


 

[AlunB]

Reminded me of the oft-trotted ejaculations of Dr Watson. A quick Google search (don't even ask...) led me here:

http://www.lawoftheplayground.com/browse.php?type=subject&id=1835

Most of these were written completely innocently, when the words used had much less lascivious connotations.

In the "don't even ask" department, a young African lad, who I had met in Senegal, West Africa, wrote to me once & thanked me for the intercourse we had enjoyed on the beach.

It caused my girlfriend of the time (it was 30 years ago) some concern until she better understood the meaning of "intercourse".


 

You taught her the meaning of intercourse eh? Not even thinly veiled...

[tikay]

No!

[david3103]

Awful used to mean something quite different when it was first used

[AlunB]

Awful used to mean something quite different when it was first used

So did awesome

[tikay]

Awful used to mean something quite different when it was first used

Presumably as in "full of awe", or "aweful"?

[Tal]

Fantastic, too.

[RED-DOG]

Gay.

[AlunB]

Nice

[bobby1]

Faggot ftw

My grandad used to eat faggot every Sunday afternoon.