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I wonder whether Mr Toad is giving up house boating (= port drinking) for the joy of motoring (= astronomy in a cloudy country). Is there any evidence to support this hypothesis?
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jdaw1 wrote:I wonder whether Mr Toad is giving up house boating (= port drinking) for the joy of motoring (= astronomy in a cloudy country). Is there any evidence to support this hypothesis?
No. Mr Toad gave up daily house boating to increase his life expectancy. He took up motoring as a replacement for hill walking, which is no longer possible. A slight shift in investment vehicles might have eased the transition, but both house boating and motoring will continue in moderation.
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Sorry. I got here late. But I wanted to point out that nobody self-identifies as politically correct. (By the way, politically correct is a phrase containing an attributive adverb. Why did you hyphenate it? The only reason I haven't reported you is that I find you such a recalcitrant student and I hate correcting your work.) Politically correct is a phrase only used by people who want to say that they are not politically correct, whatever that means. And last time I looked, political correctness had gone mad. That was possibly around 1998. Since then, everyone has just tried to be nice.
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The Moon, Jupiter, Mars (very, very dim) and Venus in alignment this morning...
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Some specks of dirt on your lens there Del.
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djewesbury wrote:Sorry. I got here late. But I wanted to point out that nobody self-identifies as politically correct. (By the way, politically correct is a phrase containing an attributive adverb. Why did you hyphenate it? The only reason I haven't reported you is that I find you such a recalcitrant student and I hate correcting your work.) Politically correct is a phrase only used by people who want to say that they are not politically correct, whatever that means. And last time I looked, political correctness had gone mad. That was possibly around 1998. Since then, everyone has just tried to be nice.
What a garbled paragraph—multiple complaints, no organisation.
djewesbury wrote:nobody self-identifies as politically correct
Interestingly absolutist, but let’s ignore that. Those who, particularly on Amercan campuses, seemingly dedicate their lives to finding and exaggerating the slightest ‘micro-agression’: how do they describe themselves?
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jdaw1 wrote:
djewesbury wrote:Sorry. I got here late. But I wanted to point out that nobody self-identifies as politically correct. (By the way, politically correct is a phrase containing an attributive adverb. Why did you hyphenate it? The only reason I haven't reported you is that I find you such a recalcitrant student and I hate correcting your work.) Politically correct is a phrase only used by people who want to say that they are not politically correct, whatever that means. And last time I looked, political correctness had gone mad. That was possibly around 1998. Since then, everyone has just tried to be nice.
What a garbled paragraph—multiple complaints, no organisation.
I'm quite happy that the main sin was accepted and atoned for in the Other Place.
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djewesbury wrote:nobody self-identifies as politically correct
Interestingly absolutist, but let’s ignore that. Those who, particularly on Amercan campuses, seemingly dedicate their lives to finding and exaggerating the slightest ‘micro-agression’: how do they describe themselves?
I honestly have not heard anyone except Rod Liddle and Jeremy Clarkson (and now you) use the words 'politically correct' (or, in your case, 'politically-correct') in recent decades. It's a gibe that fills me with nostalgia for the dying days of John Major's government, propped up by David Trimble's Ulster Unionist Party as they teeter from disaster to disaster, the streets left uncleaned, the dead left unburied because everyone was too bored to die, the nuns falling off their bikes as they cycle across cricket pitches that the groundsman has spiked with over-toasted crumpets.

More seriously, I think the coinage of the term in the USA in the 1980s is really so long ago, and the backlash against it was so extreme, that nobody currently wishing to suggest that perhaps language could be used with some sensitivity (to history, to any one of the many multiple barriers to equality of opportunity) would ever dream of calling themselves politically correct. Your opponent is a straw man, a vestige of political debates of the last millennium. You need to find a new one.

You call me absolutist, but I say that your phraseology is fallacious. Prove me wrong - and I will happily use the thread provided for acknowledgement of same.
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I will attempt to find one person — one person would be enough to default “nobody” — who self-identifies as politically correct, with or without hyphen, and upon finding will invite the obvious.
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Please take your discussion to another thread.
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Well you're an admin. Don't tell us to do it. You have the power.
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djewesbury wrote:Well you're an admin. Don't tell us to do it. You have the power.
An Admin who hijacks a thread should be gracious enough to do the work.
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My head is swimming with being ill. Derek: choose the posts; move them; delete this one.
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Did any of our more northern members see, or even better photograph the northern lights these last couple of nights?
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Sorry. Too cloudy.
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It may be effing freezing outside this event by, but it's a beautiful clear sky.
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AHB wrote:It may be effing freezing outside this event by, but it's a beautiful clear sky.
Not here :(
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I saw a shooting star. With the skys we've been having, seeing any star seems like a bleeding miracle.
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LGTrotter wrote:With the skys we've been having, seeing any star seems like a bleeding miracle.
+1 :(
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Looks like a good reason to be up early - or late - over the weekend if the skies are clear.

http://earthsky.org/space/comet-catalin ... -394533365
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I have been hoping to have a date with Catalina for many weeks but the two of us just don't seem to be in the right place at the right time : :roll:
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You've got a lovely high pressure coming in over the weekend, should be some clear skys. Wrap up warm though because it will be chilly. Minus ten to fifteen mentioned on the weather forecast. I hope this won't prove a problem for your twelve incher.

I nearly made it through without an innuendo.
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Having read about this comet it sounds like one for the connoisseur, a Duckworth-Lewis for star-gazers. In other words most of us will have no idea what's going on.
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Howl away, Gentlemen...
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Only 99% this evening but tomorrow's 100% full Moon is likely to be hidden by cloud.
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Very nice!
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What happened to the comet I failed to see?
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