What's the Most Complicated Thing You Ever Did?

Try me, tonto you most certainly are not.

I know nothing about ESL.

And we are not natural people. What natural people do is not something I am particularly eager to embrace.

And posting on A2K at the same time. Pretty good Joe.



Only when chased by hairy monsters.

I don't find JTT to be an idiot, certainly not in the literal sense, he/she is a complex individual who at times offers really solid information and then , maddeningly and only seconds later it seems to me, spouts the most vicious criticisms at people quite unnecessarily.

It's like he/she has no throttle when he/she spots what he/she believes is an error.

He/she turns it into a grievous mistake.
That's not idiotic.

Joe(It is, however, annoying)Nation

That explains it.

We be Pookah.

Yes. very Pookish.

The absolute most complex thing I ever did was raise my two boys by myself.
They were three and a half and two and half when we found ourselves on our own and 1500 miles from any other family.
We had the best time in the midst of the worst times.
I called the youngest one Pookie. The older one was Todd-o. There were many adventures.
A critical time came in the summer before The Pook was going to go to school.
I had a lover then and she was a great and good human. She said to me "You have to stop calling B. 'Pookie'. He's going to go to school in the fall and he has to start using his real name."
That broke my heart, it did. He was a Pookah, he was Pookie, he was The Pook.
But I stopped calling him that, I started to use his real name.

He never seemed to notice.

Joe(he was just so happy to be)Nation

Are you saying you have had this experience?

Came pretty close, I used to referee First Division Women's Soccer games. Those women were so tough, so strong and, goddamn, they were fast. In a men's game you can pretty much run a diagonal opposite your linesmen, but in the women's game the ball moves much more irradically so you find yourself sprinting left then sprinting right just to keep the ball in your field of vision.
But wait, you wanted to know about the mud. We had an unofficial rule, if the field was so wet before the start of a game that a ball kicked thirty feet in the air wouldn't bounce, there would be no game. BUT if it bounced, play on. I reffed at least four games in the pouring rain where by the end of the first half the penalty areas at both ends were seas of mud and all of the women were covered head to toe in a lovely body-clinging clay.
To them, it was just a hard fought game.....to the men standing on sidelines, it was one of the most erotic happenings of their lives.

Joe( i, of course, was not the least bit aroused by any of that.) Nation

Applied for my wife's Obama Care.
Still working .. .
She'll be 65 in July and on Medicare.
I wonder if we'll figure out Obama Care by then

Joe(I'm a hypocrite)Nation: It's like he/she has no throttle when he/she spots what he/she believes is an error.

He/she turns it into a grievous mistake.
That's not idiotic.

Joe(It is, however, annoying)Nation
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You find it annoying when you, the guy who misleads people into thinking you have some language smarts, regularly misleads people and then gets all righteously indignant when you are called on your bullshit.

That's real hypocrisy, Joe.

I think you are thinking yourself, I don't get indignant, righteously or otherwise about very much, especially over what I post on A2K. As to my language smarts, I'll let others be the judge of what I post, you can judge too, feel free.
It would be revealing if you would say exactly what your 'language smarts' are and from whence you received them, but don't feel as if you must.

Earning a degree is a fairly complicated thing, have you ever done that?

BTW: So far in Chapter Nine of the book we were discussing,,,,,,, nada, unless you are referring to his utter lack of use of quotation marks.

Joe(you get what you see, it ain't much, but it's all I've got)Nation

Interesting, Neo. I've now met a dozen people ranging in age from about 36 to, like your wife, almost their mid-sixties and they all report having different experiences when trying to sign up. In the States that have exchanges of their own, the process seems to take less than a day or so, over a couple of sessions on the computer.
In New Jersey, a friend who hates Obama with a passion was trying to get a policy for one that was dropped, it took her almost a month. She, to her great dismay and discomfort, now pays much less for more coverage, but she hates every minute of knowing that.

I wish you well.

Joe(and your wife too)Nation

Joe: I think you are thinking yourself, I don't get indignant, righteously or otherwise about very much, especially over what I post on A2K.

You have improperly used quotation marks, Sir. Have you no respect for the clarity I seek to bring to the English language?


Joe: As to my language smarts, I'll let others be the judge of what I post,

Do you mean your sycophantic group of thumbers, the ones who are stone cold silent in language discussions. You are making fun of them for their cowardly nature, are you not?


Joe: you can judge too, feel free.

Thank you, I have and will continue to do so. Much to your consternation.


Joe: Earning a degree is a fairly complicated thing, have you ever done that?

Yes, of course it is, Joe. My triple major, magna cum laude, was tapping kegs, tapping coeds and tapping deep powder, not necessarily in that order.

Joe: BTW: So far in Chapter Nine of the book we were discussing,,,,,,, nada, unless you are referring to his utter lack of use of quotation marks.

I did mention that you would have to be able to grasp what he was saying, Joe. There is a very salient reason that I mentioned that. Do I need to spell it out for you?

Joe: Joe(you get what you see, it ain't much, but it's all I've got)Nation

Hopefully, after you have read, reread, read again, ... ... ... Chapter 9 (what is the title, I might have the wrong number?) you will have got much more.

Giving yourself pats on the back again Joe? Degrees are a piece of piss. I'll exclude maths and physics from that.

Your focus on niggling prescriptivisms is a waste of time. It is going nowhere. And it is preventing you from giving your attention to more important aspects of the language. I trust that isn't deliberate.

It's so neat and tidy and, taken one item at a time, easily understood. And I can't see who you are trying to convince, or what of, or with what objective.

Why can't you simply put down the errors you claim to see as signifiers of lesser intelligences than the one you are possessed of and about which there is nothing you can do. And if you could it would be silly to raise them all up to your standards because you would no longer stand out from the crowd.

A true snob refrains from pointing out the solecisms of others and contents herself with a simpering smirk of self-satisfaction subtly stated.

Not like those Bill O'Reilly performs. They are crass.

btw JT--have you noticed how many auditory inverted commas O'Reilly deploys? He has a hierarchy way beyond the limits of print.

To be consistent you might give your attention to non-print forms of sarcasm or irony but you would risk sounding like a speaking clock if you go too far.

You don't see any more English peeves threads, Spendi. A2K has a much more knowledgeable, albeit thoroughly pissed off, base - you included.

Disabusing folks of their ignorance has at least two positive results: the first, they are no longer in a state of ignorance (nonpejorative) though they may and often do continue in a state of ignorance of the pejorative variety. Secondly, they are less likely to repeat these silly old canards unless they are like McTag.

You also have to realize that it is not me who focuses on the prescriptions. I should be pleased as punch if not a one was evermore raised. You probably haven't noticed that ESLs have also been badly infected by this dreaded disease.

Those are the equivalent of my patients and to ignore prescriptions and those who advance them would be like a doctor ignoring diseases.

No, actually I haven't, Spendi. I prefer to spend my time with people that are capable of thought.

Spendi: To be consistent you might give your attention to non-print forms of sarcasm or irony but you would risk sounding like a speaking clock if you go too far.

Then my posts would appear thusly.

Medicare and obamacare are two different things. I just went through getting Medicare and Medicare plus through Cigna. It went fine. Got both which includes part A & B and part D prescription for $110 per month. I'm 67. Don't know you wife's birthday, may have to wait till 66. The Medicare site answers a lot of questions.

The Medicare site has a process that lists the options with costs.

You probably know this already.