Vagueness and the Aftermath - A sporadic diary

[millidonk]

Tunnel of Love in the Ukraine looks incred, had a little read about it.

Rather unromantically, the tunnel is actually a three kilometre section of private railway that serves a fibreboard factory near the town of Klevan, in the east of the country. It runs around three times a day delivering wood to the factory.

Here is that train:

Click to see full-size image.

In addition to serving as a train route, the tunnel is used by lovers to make a wish – it is said that if they are sincere in their love, their wishes will come true. If you are out and about Ukraine, don’t miss this fantastic green passageway – whether you are with a loved one, or on your own.

Also is a hotspot for photographers. I wanna go!!



Then after that reading I got sidetracked and started reading about the world's most unique tunnels, one of my favs was Zion-Mount Carmel Tunnel between Mount Zion Utah National Park and Bryce Canyon National Park, Red did you get to go through this on your travels?





Sorry, wrong thread.

[tikay]

Too right, "wrong thread". This one is just chat & bollox.

Where did you see this, please?.....


started reading about the world's most unique tunnels

[millidonk]

Too right, "wrong thread". This one is just chat & bollox.

Where did you see this, please?.....


started reading about the world's most unique tunnels

Tikay Porn

[Tal]

Too right, "wrong thread". This one is just chat & bollox.

Where did you see this, please?.....


started reading about the world's most unique tunnels

Tikay Porn

Most unique?

MOST unique?! Is this the sort of thing that goes on on this thread?

Irresistible, I'm afraid.

[tikay]

Well said. Most unique indeed.

One expects nothing less here.

[millidonk]

Meh, unique doesn't mean what it once did, so as it is no longer absolute we can get away with "most unique" well I can, itt at least..

[kinboshi]

This is quite fascinating:

http://www.uncertaintyofidentity.com/GB_Names/Mapping.aspx

Shows the most common surnames across Britain by region.

[Rod Paradise]

I laugh at the arguments over the correct way to use the language, when it's the evolution of language that keeps it alive, and relevant. I wonder if they'd had the internet back when Shakespear (or whoever really wrote his stuff) was creating, there'd have been threads debating his incorrect use of "seen better days" or "full circle" - they'd have called it "a sorry sight" but that was another phrase they'd have been slagging off.

I'm not suggesting blonde is as important to the language as Shakespear was, but the odd incongruous turn of phrase doesn't really hurt ;-)

[tikay]

I laugh at the arguments over the correct way to use the language, when it's the evolution of language that keeps it alive, and relevant. I wonder if they'd had the internet back when Shakespear (or whoever really wrote his stuff) was creating, there'd have been threads debating his incorrect use of "seen better days" or "full circle" - they'd have called it "a sorry sight" but that was another phrase they'd have been slagging off.

I'm not suggesting blonde is as important to the language as Shakespear was, but the odd incongruous turn of phrase doesn't really hurt ;-)

Fair comment. Ish.

The world relies on the correct use of wordage, as practised by myself, of course, to save it from a lexiconic hell.  

More seriously.....I do actually find it extremely interesting how it evolves though.

Have you noticed - I only see it on poker fora, but it may well be have spread to the real world - how the meaning of words change? Nothing wrong with that, but us old-timers find it hard to adapt, don't we?

"Friend" has been completely changed, &, imo, devalued. By my definition, a "Facebook Friend" is nothing like a friend, it is an online acquaintance at best, in most cases. Tick that box, simple, job done, "we are now Friends". Sod that.

"Heroes" & "legends" ditto ditto. By correct definition, both are exceedingly rare, but a DTD Final Table can contain half a dozen of each.

All very discomfiting, or it is to me.  

Going back to "most unique", "Unique" is a lovely word, but now bastardised. In my line of work, we use it all day every day, to describe how many different players are on site each day - UPD (Uniques Per Day) - or how much they spend per day - MPU (Margin Per Unique). 

What were the uniques like yesterday? is the first question each morning. And the bigger the number, the better. So in Online Poker business-speak, the more uniques the better.

Yup, 20,000 uniques yesterday.

We are all, it seems, either unique, or a unique.

[Claw75]

Yeah the facebook thing is funny. I'd got to the point aback where I had a lot of 'friends' on facebook that i'd maybe only met once or twice, others I hadn't seen since school and a bunch of people i'd drifted apart from that i'd not spoken to irl. for an age. Had a big clear out six months ir so ago - kept clise friends and family that use facebook regularly and a few others whose updates i'm interested in or who I chat to online. You'd be amazed how personally some people take being 'defriended' on a website - of course it's nothing personal, a lot of blondes, for example, that I uave no beef at with got the chop. just don't really use facebiok as a social networking site, more as a way to easily keep in touch and up to date people in a way that's much easier than pre-internet. Don't understand it all.ll

Forgive the crappy spelling and formatting - my phone is playing silly buggers tiday!

[Tal]

I laugh at the arguments over the correct way to use the language, when it's the evolution of language that keeps it alive, and relevant. I wonder if they'd had the internet back when Shakespear (or whoever really wrote his stuff) was creating, there'd have been threads debating his incorrect use of "seen better days" or "full circle" - they'd have called it "a sorry sight" but that was another phrase they'd have been slagging off.

I'm not suggesting blonde is as important to the language as Shakespear was, but the odd incongruous turn of phrase doesn't really hurt ;-)

How do you turn a phrase?

I am of course joking. You use a phraseturner. It is a cross between a calculator, a thesaurus and a lathe.

Language is a fundamentally beautiful thing, to be cherished, devoured and have slathered all over us. It moves with the times like art, music, haircuts and waistlines. We evolve both with and through the way we communicate. We use words we heard the day before as though we have known them all our life (Rangemerging dem pigeons since time, brah, freal). And so we should.

Of course, we have to use these new-found tools properly, else we run the risk of sounding like a Russian spy.

If we meet, buy me a diet coke and I'll talk to you forever about this stuff, including why Shakespeare - and it was Shakespeare - was so utterly and gloriously wonderful.

Moustache. TTFN.

[Redsgirl]

I laugh at the arguments over the correct way to use the language, when it's the evolution of language that keeps it alive, and relevant. I wonder if they'd had the internet back when Shakespear (or whoever really wrote his stuff) was creating, there'd have been threads debating his incorrect use of "seen better days" or "full circle" - they'd have called it "a sorry sight" but that was another phrase they'd have been slagging off.

I'm not suggesting blonde is as important to the language as Shakespear was, but the odd incongruous turn of phrase doesn't really hurt ;-)

How do you turn a phrase?

I am of course joking. You use a phraseturner. It is a cross between a calculator, a thesaurus and a lathe.

Language is a fundamentally beautiful thing, to be cherished, devoured and have slathered all over us. It moves with the times like art, music, haircuts and waistlines. We evolve both with and through the way we communicate. We use words we heard the day before as though we have known them all our life (Rangemerging dem pigeons since time, brah, freal). And so we should.

Of course, we have to use these new-found tools properly, else we run the risk of sounding like a Russian spy.

If we meet, buy me a diet coke and I'll talk to you forever about this stuff, including why Shakespeare - and it was Shakespeare - was so utterly and gloriously wonderful.

Moustache. TTFN.

Ohhh Tal!
There I was, preparing a post to answer Tikay on one of my favourite subjects, when I get theWarning, while you were typing a new reply has been posted message.
Had a quick look and deleted my reply.
You said just about everything I wanted to say but so much better

P.S. I think I love you

[RED-DOG]

I laugh at the arguments over the correct way to use the language, when it's the evolution of language that keeps it alive, and relevant. I wonder if they'd had the internet back when Shakespear (or whoever really wrote his stuff) was creating, there'd have been threads debating his incorrect use of "seen better days" or "full circle" - they'd have called it "a sorry sight" but that was another phrase they'd have been slagging off.

I'm not suggesting blonde is as important to the language as Shakespear was, but the odd incongruous turn of phrase doesn't really hurt ;-)

How do you turn a phrase?

I am of course joking. You use a phraseturner. It is a cross between a calculator, a thesaurus and a lathe.

Language is a fundamentally beautiful thing, to be cherished, devoured and have slathered all over us. It moves with the times like art, music, haircuts and waistlines. We evolve both with and through the way we communicate. We use words we heard the day before as though we have known them all our life (Rangemerging dem pigeons since time, brah, freal). And so we should.

Of course, we have to use these new-found tools properly, else we run the risk of sounding like a Russian spy.

If we meet, buy me a diet coke and I'll talk to you forever about this stuff, including why Shakespeare - and it was Shakespeare - was so utterly and gloriously wonderful.

Moustache. TTFN.

I'll tell you one that grinds my gears, and I see it on here all the time. "Hence why"


Language is beautiful, in all its forms. I for one find a broad, cross class vocabulary particularly eloquent.

Example- "Oh dear! One appears to have acquired some dog shit on one's Jekylls."

[Rod Paradise]

A quick update, the peregrine falcon nesting in the cathedral where they were trying to clear the snow for it to lay, successfully laid & hatched her eggs & is now busy feeding her young.

And while on birds, a few weeks back I bought a new birdfeeder that took seed instead of our usual peanut & fat ball feeders, since hten we've gone through 15kg of seed, and the tree outside the kitchen window is like a scene from The Birds. 30-40 chaffinches, mostly hoovering up dropped seeds, a few sparrows, a half dozen goldfinches, about the same of greenfinches, and from occaissional singular visitors we've now 3 pairs of siskins (who despite being smaller than most fight vigorously to get their turn at the feeder, a couple of pairs of lesser redpolls sneaking in, grabbing and running, and a pair of reed buntings.

However the dunnocks, blue tits and great tits seem to be intimidated by the rabble, showing up now and again instead of regularly, and the coal tits and robin don't show up at all. I've moved a peanut feeder away from the tree to try and give them a bit quieter place to feed, but not seeing an improvement yet.

Well it turned into a red letter day today!! I'm so glad that while I'm house sitting I moved my computer to the kitchen so I can sit at the kitchen window. Despite it being grey, windy & a lot of rain, it's been wildlife central....Not long after I'd posted the above, a sparrowhawk attacked the birds at the feeders, it flys down the side of the house, takes a hard right just before the garage and causes pandemonium like the avian equivalent of a police raid on a frat house. We're down one chaffinch now.

Then a bit later I looked out the window and there were a couple of red-legged partridges partaking of the dropped seed.

All great stuff I was chuffed to see, then about 4:30 was one none of us have seen from our house. I looked out the window & there was a grey blur, level with me flying down the dip behind the house, I jumped up and ran to the other window to see a peregrine falcon turn, and fly away up over the quarry and up towards the hills. 

I know to some people it's just a bird, but I tell you now I was dancing about like an idiot, that was work finished, coat on, dog & lead & out - 5 miles later not 1 sign, but still buzzing, wet but buzzing. I see them a few times a year, but at least 4 miles away up on the moors, never down here in the valley. I've been told of people seeing them, by reliable witnesses, but it was a first for me. Can't wait for my Dad to get back from Spain - he'll be so thrilled (and jealous  ).

[RED-DOG]

A quick update, the peregrine falcon nesting in the cathedral where they were trying to clear the snow for it to lay, successfully laid & hatched her eggs & is now busy feeding her young.

And while on birds, a few weeks back I bought a new birdfeeder that took seed instead of our usual peanut & fat ball feeders, since hten we've gone through 15kg of seed, and the tree outside the kitchen window is like a scene from The Birds. 30-40 uchaffinches, mostly hoovering up dropped seeds, a few sparrows, a half dozen goldfinches, about the same of greenfinches, and from occaissional singular visitors we've now 3 pairs of siskins (who despite being smaller than most fight vigorously to get their turn at the feeder, a couple of pairs of lesser redpolls sneaking in, grabbing and running, and a pair of reed buntings.

However the dunnocks, blue tits and great tits seem to be intimidated by the rabble, showing up now and again instead of regularly, and the coal tits and robin don't show up at all. I've moved a peanut feeder away from the tree to try and give them a bit quieter place to feed, but not seeing an improvement yet.

Thank you for this update Rod, and thank you for keeping my diary alive while I'm out gallavanting.