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28 Mar 2018, 6:26 pm

Pocket devices with sound and video recording. I'm already quite self-conscious enough about how uncoordinated and awkward I look, and my flat, mumbly voice, thanks.

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28 Mar 2018, 6:48 pm

jon85 wrote:

lostonearth35 wrote:

jon85 wrote:

cinnamon

I LOVE the taste of cinnamon! I just hate the way people are misusing it only because they were dared to or because they want to make a stupid video.

Also cinnamon is a naturally occurring substance, it comes from the inner bark of a tree, so technically it wasn't invented, although people have invented a use for it.

No. No. No. No. Nope.

That stuff was spawned from the very pits of hell. It needs to stay on the tree. And the trees burned. And their charred corps put through wood chippers. Six times. Just to be sure. And the chippings need to be burnt again. And then ejected into space. Preferably into another galaxy... On the other side of the universe.

Nope.

I grew up in England and quite liked cinnamon. Then I moved to the USA and found it seems to be over-used in many items. Cinnamon-ridden apple pie that is completely ruined by it; breakfast pastries that reek of cinnamon (as well as being far too sweet); and the "arts and craft" type of stores that I cannot bear to enter because of the overpowering stench of cinnamon and other noxious vapours emanating from foul pot pourri jars and stinking candles.

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28 Mar 2018, 7:16 pm

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The substitution of "of" for "have."

That's another thing that I have no...taller ants for! Lol!

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28 Mar 2018, 7:25 pm

Saying "No problem," instead of "You're welcome," in response to "Thank you."

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28 Mar 2018, 9:24 pm

naturalplastic wrote:

Dear_one wrote:

The substitution of "of" for "have."

That's another thing that I have no...taller ants for! Lol!

Are you trying to win the Pullet Surprise?

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29 Mar 2018, 1:15 am

IstominFan wrote:

Saying "No problem," instead of "You're welcome," in response to "Thank you."

Don't ever visit Yorkshire lol

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29 Mar 2018, 3:20 am

Nuclear power. The atom should never have been split.

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29 Mar 2018, 4:23 am

The only thing wrong with cinnamon is the spelling of its name.

The first syllable should be spelled "sin" because stuff made wit it is so sinful (like sinnabons).

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02 Apr 2018, 1:10 pm

Dubious "entertainment" (music, books, and the like) glorifying suicide, murder and any number of damaging lifestyles and accepting them as normal or even something to aspire to.

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03 Apr 2018, 9:25 am

Stupid fads such as the cinnamon and tide pod challenges, which call for people to sniff or eat these products.

Any stupid fad calling for people to eat non-food items.

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03 Apr 2018, 11:23 am

The tobacco industry.

New Labour.

Privatisation.

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03 Apr 2018, 11:47 am

Tide Pods

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03 Apr 2018, 12:02 pm

Facebook.
Scientific marketing. (Goods & Ideas)
Slavery.
Private Fortunes.
State Secrets.
Barbed Wire.
High Fructose Corn Syrup.
Cattle Cars.

Patent and Copyright law was good, but now is an obsolete monster in the computer age.

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03 Apr 2018, 12:23 pm

Uptalk - the new type of spoken language where every sentence sounds like a freaking question.

Millenial speak - where they eschew "of" in sentences as in "a couple hamburgers" instead of "a couple of hamburgers."

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03 Apr 2018, 12:29 pm

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Uptalk - the new type of spoken language where every sentence sounds like a freaking question.

So that's what they call it. Is there a name for crunching one's vowels so as to make it sound a bit like the sound of a crow? And for over-emphasising the last consonant of the last word of a sentence? People never used to behave like that when I was a lad.

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03 Apr 2018, 12:34 pm

Spiderpig wrote:

Sweetleaf wrote:

Strip mining, it is completely devastating. Do you think companies should have the right to flatten mountains, just to collect coal? The pollution it creates when burnt is bad enough...but to literally destroy pretty much a whole eco-system/landscape it is appalling. I just watched a good documentary that went into the real 'cost' of this filthy form of energy, is it worth it to keep depending on it? NO!

To those who do the mining, yes, it is. That's what counts.

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Is this what people want?

Maybe, maybe not, but one thing is certain: noöne gives enough of a s**t to do something effective to stop it. Don't worry—it'll finally stop when there's nothing left to mine.

There are plenty of people who give a s**t, also renewable energy is becoming more profitable than coal...coal is a dying industry really, some people are just stubbornly clinging to it. But it will die long before all the mountains are flattened.

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