
Lousha
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This lazy panda forgot to write something about itself.

Lousha · commented on 3 posts
4 months ago

You don't need to be under the influence for this. Enough to have a long night shift. That's how my partner learned how to burn calories... Food into the oven, sat down to check his emails, fell asleep right away, woke up about 12 hours later. The food was really well done.

All right... So it was held by 4 threaded nails, is that better, BP?!

Lousha · upvoted 2 items
7 months ago

So hard to read without commas.

Lousha · commented on 19 posts
7 months ago

Yes, totally quirky, almost adorable to be disrespecting a corpse, and your own wife all in one fell swoop! By your logic, if someone is yelling obscenities to a woman from a car, it won't hurt her, she's not in the car, she won't get hurt! If someone is p***ing on your grandma's grave, so what, she's already d***, who cares?
Well... There's a Hungarian anise flavoured candy that is coloured with carbon, so it's jet black. Up to this day (since the early 1900s) it's called N-e-g-r-o. Zero connection to black people, especially since at the time our black population was probably all of 2-3 people in the entire country, if that. It's just a Latin name for black, since the candy itself is black, and it was advertised as the "chimney sweep of the throat", and chimney sweeps at the time wore all black clothes, and of course their faces were black from soot as well. But when I pulled this candy out in the UK... Let's just say it always required a history/linguistics lesson before handing one over! We also have the word "néger", which certainly is a phonetic copy of the ugly English word, but had no negative connotation for us. It just described people who had a dark skin. Nowadays the word is less used because it is clear where it came from, but it never actually was a slur here.

Lousha · upvoted 16 items
7 months ago
Interesting snippet, thx. Other languages also have different levels of meaning for certain terms. I love it when English-speakers get on their high horse about Spanish and Portuguese speakers using the word Négro, for example.
To be fair, of all the women, Anne of Cleves was the luckiest! But obviously times were different, and I don't think Katherine Howard was very against becoming queen. She was too young to realise the severity of her choices though.
