• trickylens
    a month ago

    I think that we can all agree that 'fight' is at best imprecise, and largely hyperbole unless it actually involves twatting someone.

  • Russpanorama_fish_eye
    a month ago

    Can we?

    i.imgur.com/FH27rNg.png

  • Simonhelp_outline
    a month ago

    Well that meaning would require also being twatted. If Russ had just punched a colleague, there's entirely different terms for that

  • JRs_Cigarettepanorama_fish_eye
    a month ago

    Is this the TalkBack "jump the shark" moment?

    I don't think so, I'm confident of bigger jumps and bigger sharks in the future.

  • Russpanorama_fish_eye
    a month ago

    It's a very typical and boring argument that rears up with irritating regularity as the little Englanders go all King Canute and demand that the world obeys their antiquated and often plain incorrect definitions of what constitutes correct and incorrect language, because their ageing brains struggle with the concept of evolution or difference. See also football, music, clothing, and pretty much everything else. Change. Is. Bad.

  • trickylens
    a month ago

    Projection, and quite a stretch at that.

    You might observe that even Yankee doodle dictionaries do not have as the first definition of 'fight' to be to have cross words.

    What do you think fight means? Maybe you've misunderstood its meaning? If someone told you that they had a fight, what would you think had happened?

  • Russpanorama_fish_eye
    a month ago

    Man, I'm not going to argue you with over the words that are literally written on the page we're both looking at.

  • JimShadypanorama_fish_eye
    a month ago

    A guy put up posters round SW Sheffield with a QR code which took you to a "Dad's Club" WhatsApp group. He recently moved to the area and didn't know anyone and decided to do something about it. They've had a few pub meets which I've not been able to go to, but I am currently on my way to one now. Lovely evening for it. Hopefully they aren't all twats.

  • trickylens
    a month ago

    Name your source. Was it specially selected, or the first sourced most authoritative. Or did you just get RC to knock up a paint?

    ... And what do you mean argue? Surely you mean fight?

  • JRs_Cigarettepanorama_fish_eye
    a month ago

    Anyone else thinking this could be last we hear from Jim?

  • Russpanorama_fish_eye
    a month ago

    Yes. I invented it. You win.

  • trickylens
    a month ago

    You literally didn't use it above, in the way that you said it should be used.

    Hence exactly the point. It's not the word most people would go to for an argument. It's the word most people would go to for a physical confrontation.

    Accepting as I am that the modern view of a deeply intrusive physical confrontation is just looking at someone funny.

    Anyway, as you say. It's covered when you said fight, you meant the absolutely most timid interpretation of the word.

    That's fine.

  • JimShadypanorama_fish_eye
    a month ago

    I tried guys.

  • trickylens
    a month ago

    Seriously. It's the mundane moments thread. What were you hoping for?

  • JRs_Cigarettepanorama_fish_eye
    a month ago

    We need a Soporific Moments thread.

  • Jim7panorama_fish_eye
    a month ago

    I think we need a Groundhog Day thread

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