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29 Mar 2025, 8:07 pm

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Me, I wear contact lenses so I can just use ornery sunglasses.

What technique do you recommend to make your sunnies belligerent?

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29 Mar 2025, 10:26 pm

Should I stay? Should I turn and walk away?

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30 Mar 2025, 12:04 am

Carbonhalo wrote:

ToughDiamond wrote:

Me, I wear contact lenses so I can just use ornery sunglasses.

What technique do you recommend to make your sunnies belligerent?

Ah, slight communication glitch. A thousand pardons. Allow me to explain:

Ornery:
adjective
1. (Appalachian) Cantankerous, stubborn, disagreeable.
2. (humorous, southern US) Mischievous, prankish, teasing, disagreeable but in a good way.
3. (obsolete) Commonplace, inferior.

The word "ornery" has its roots in American English, deriving from a mispronunciation of "ordinary." It was primarily used in the United States, particularly in regions such as the South and Midwest. The term was commonly used in the 19th century to mean something that was commonplace or ordinary.

While "ornery" has largely fallen out of use in this original sense, it still remains in modern vernacular, especially in certain dialects, where it has evolved to refer to someone who is stubborn, irritable, or difficult to deal with. The transition from its original meaning to the current usage reflects changes in language and regional dialects. The specific timeline for when it became obsolete in its original sense is hard to pinpoint but it generally faded in the early to mid-20th century as usage patterns changed.

It was perhaps a tad sloppy of me to use the archaic meaning of a word without checking it first. In my defense I would point out that I have many elderly friends, and rural Arkanas can be comparatively slow to move with the times in some respects. And I rather like reviving some of these quaint Victorian words and phrases. Most of the books I read are Victorian. In my experience the term is very rarely used at all in the UK.

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30 Mar 2025, 12:15 am

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Should I stay? Should I turn and walk away?

What from?

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30 Mar 2025, 1:28 am

"me mind's a blanc" (uncle albert)

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30 Mar 2025, 8:35 am

Back to campus for me today. I counted and I have 11 more shifts left till end of the school year and my summer break.

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30 Mar 2025, 9:48 am

Oh yeah it's mother's day innit

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30 Mar 2025, 10:23 am

I suppose that's what everyone will be doing

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30 Mar 2025, 10:57 am

Shhhh! Most of them are Yanks so it'll be May 11 for them and they'll think you've gone bonkers.

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30 Mar 2025, 10:58 am

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and they'll think you've gone bonkers.

I think that ships sailed

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30 Mar 2025, 11:02 am

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ToughDiamond wrote:

and they'll think you've gone bonkers.

I think that ships sailed

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30 Mar 2025, 11:04 am

:lol:

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31 Mar 2025, 8:22 am

I will be cooking today

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31 Mar 2025, 8:47 am

Mark Carney is the most deranged leader I've ever seen.

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31 Mar 2025, 9:03 am

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Mark Carney is the most deranged leader I've ever seen.

What's he done?

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31 Mar 2025, 12:11 pm

I wonder what makes tears

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