DISQUS

An_American_Karol · 10 months ago

Okay, I have got to say the <3 looks less like a heart and more like cleavage.

BarrieT · 10 months ago

It looks like someone bending over to me. Maybe it's a gay icon.

mirth · 10 months ago

LOL

You both are funnee.

♥

Troy3 · 10 months ago

i always thought it looked like whatever came before it was farting.

Cedwyn · 10 months ago

it's certainly not new, whatever images it conjures. seriously...where have these people been if they think that is "new"?

maudgonne · 10 months ago

NBC Bumps Ann Coulter, Denies Conspiracy
By REUTERS

Filed at 9:52 p.m. ET

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - NBC News denied Monday that conservative author Ann Coulter has been banned from the network after "Today" dropped her from Tuesday's program because of breaking-news events. The Coulter incident garnered huge headlines on the Drudge Report, which reported that network sources said NBC was not going to allow the frequent guest to appear any more. That's not true, NBC News said Monday.
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2009/01/05/arts/...

Todd in Minneapolis · 10 months ago

I'm very old school, but I think the word "awesome" should be banned from English until it has time to recover. People use the word today to describe something merely compotent. As in, "Wow that touchdown was AWESOME." When in reality, that is what a football player is supposed to do. "Awesome" should only be applied to a corpoeal vision of the Virgin or seeing the Northern Lights for the first time.

Also-- Please, please, please... ban the word "Destiny." No one knows what the word means. Everybody thinks "destiny" means "the future." I'm sorry, wrong answer. Destiny means: that which is pre-destined; that which cannot be changed. Look it up. One can't "change" their destiny or "shape" their destiny or for that matter roll it up into a little ball and hurl it toward tomorrow. Your Destiny is set. It is fixed. That's what made those wonderful pop songs in the Sixties so powerful. "He is my Destiny." So just stop using the word. Please. Wait until it's had a little rest to mean something again.

Older_Wiser · 10 months ago

I've only heard christianists say it around here...as in "god is awesome" and such, and it may have originated with them. So whenever I hear someone say it, I keep my distance.

I hope all these go the way of "suffice it to say," "carpe diem," and those other Reagan-era phrases. Also, "at the end of the day" and "having said that" can't be banned fast enough.

ShirleyGoodnessanMercy · 10 months ago

I guess that knocks out "shock and awe," too!

offspring · 10 months ago

it is amazing how the jewish state has become the same type of people that victimized them but we sit on our hands and let them murder and just let it go cause we cant say anything bad about them.

Older_Wiser · 10 months ago

The oppressed becoming the oppressor? It's as old as the hills, actually and always accomplished by those with money and power. This country, the US, was formed by people who had been oppressed in their home country (the colonies by religion--how ironic in today's atmosphere), and went on to oppress (and conquer) the aboriginal inhabitants. And while Israel is a created state, so were others in the Middle East, their boundaries being artificially drawn by Great Britain and other bad actors in the region. Find a map prior to WWII and see how the region has been changed. Religious priorities are a horrible basis for any country, no matter what the religion.

Mr. Dave · 10 months ago

Yes, Shawn. Even many of us Jews are torn up watching Israel act this way. Because Israel calls itself the Jewish state, its actions reflect on us, whether our sympathies are with Israel or its victims.

Thanks for the Nazi reference, by the way. As you know, the Nazis abolished capitalization, commas and apostrophes from the German language.

Older_Wiser · 10 months ago

I've also heard "staycation" used as a term for staying home, rather than taking a vacation, due to the economy. First time I heard it explained as leaving your home country, though.

Todd Placid · 10 months ago

"On the ground." Conditions on the ground, boots on the ground, campaign issues on the ground, etc. This dreadful over-usage must die and must die soon.

WHYN0T · 10 months ago

I wish talking heads and news people would quit relying on cliches and buzzz words to convey a thought. Is there one in the whole lot with an original thought or idea? It seems that once a cutesy word or phrase is said in a movie or in an advertisement, the entire news force latches onto it and runs it into the ground.....U Betcha!!!!!!

Indigo · 10 months ago

The First Dude and his Old Lady are exactly the correct terms for Jerry Springer Show folk. They do not reflect the dignity of office and do not therefore merit artificial heightening of tone.

Skateboad English comes from a physically active and focused social group that has little or nothing to do with the Jerry Springer Show. Lake Superior State University dropped a stitch to merge two distinct social groups. Bad again.

HeartlandLiberal · 10 months ago

Staycation. Works for me. The last 2-3 weeks of the year are the quietest time of year for me (I work in a major Division I university sports program, the rest of the year is pretty much 24x7.) For over a decade now I have reserved time off for the end of the year, and my wife and I hole up at home to catch up on everything from needed cleanup, organizing the year's records, but mainly for just kicking back and reading, watching a few good movies, and playing long and complicated and challenging computer games.

A true vacation. I really, really hated going back to work yesterday.

I console myself with reminders this is the last full year before I retire, and I look forward to some extended 'staycation' at that point.

ShirleyGoodnessanMercy · 10 months ago

I wish we could banish all emoticons and all those ridiculous little symbols people make using their keyboards like <3 ;) :O etc.
Whoever started that trend needs to be brought before an international court and executed.

Straightnotnarrow · 10 months ago

<3 is also a way to "moon" someone in chat.

Mr. Dave · 10 months ago

Going Forward
Ongoing Investigation
Disconnect, as a noun
Friend, as a verb

DKarma · 10 months ago

First of all anyone who says staycation should be shot...if you stay home its not an anything cation...you're just staying home.

Secondly, <3 is not a new emoticon at all, and anyone who has to "turn their head sideways" to see that :) is a smiley face or that <3 is a heart is literally retarded...go back to kindergarten and find your imagination.

and no <3 is not a way to "moon" someone...what idiot told you that?

Mark · 10 months ago

It’s that time of year again, the start of the New Year, when pundits make lists and I take my staycation, not because I’m going green or want to reduce my carbon footprint. No, it’s simply that despite my desperate search for employment, I have not received a bailout. Clearly I live neither on Wall Street or Main Street, but on Madison Avenue, a street filled with copy monkeys posing as marketing mavericks, and the first dude you run into will try to pitch a game changing campaign for some iconic brand in the hope of not only getting a job, but winning five nominations for a Clio or Andy award.

There, this out of work copywriter used every one of those damned banned words. <3 LSSUM!