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How does one HATE dogs?
Fear.
i owe u a usb
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Ugh those are the worst. You kinda get used to seeing that stuff overtime but it still shakes ya up a bit
You think meth would come in here and say something if i posted ? he took offense to that kevin ware imagine and these are must worsePics for the beast?Just came across some autopsy's i had to scan in for a client and i think i just lost my appetite. Absolutely sickening, girls skull was pulled back and all i seen was brain
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I'd be down to see the pics 
But I don't want TAN to get locked up for this
But I don't want TAN to get locked up for this
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dat feel when no one wants to hire you 
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DOPE!!!
dat feel when no one wants to hire you
I can get you some quick cash
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I swear if people could remember me for an association with beer and Star Wars, I'd count that as a decent legacy.
@ autopsy pics...I'm not built for that at all.
While I'm here, allow me to dump upon you my most recent writings, my awesome, epic list of overused words in modern American English. It will literally blow your mind.
The English language contains anywhere from 250,000 to a million words, depending on what you consider a word. (I have something of a loose definition of what makes a word and also enjoy floating new ones out to see how far they go, so I'd lean closer to 7 figures than 6.) It is said that the language I'm typing in right now has more words than any other...but how many do we actually put to good use?
The average speaker of American English has a functional vocabulary of well under that. Figures are commonly in the 10,000ish range, but I think even that's something of an overestimation in our dumbed-down modern society where newspapers are written on a 4th grade (-repeating kid's) level and people are deathly afraid of "big words", which is commonly defined as any word with over 2 syllables or 8 letters.
What's more, studies show that the number of words in common use has declined significantly in recent years. (Which I'm sure doesn't come as a shock to anybody who watches a lot of TV...back in the day, even Looney Tunes had some sweet SAT-level vocab. You tell me the last time you heard the word "despicable" without a lisp or heard a cartoon character as eloquent as Bugs Bunny or Foghorn Leghorn.)
For whatever reason, it seems that people would rather overuse the wrong words than learn any more than it takes to pass some standardized test or other. I think that it's an absolutely deplorable state of affairs. It seems that some get used more than others by orders of magnitude, even where inappropriate, and in many cases, that's a damn shame. Maybe the movie "Idiocracy" is coming true. Maybe people just figure they don't need to know all that many words. Maybe it's part of some kind of grand "1984"-y scheme to reduce the number of ways in which people can express themselves and their ideas by gradually phasing words out of everyday use.
It's entirely possible I'm taking this too seriously, but seeing someone use a word incorrectly is like seeing someone play golf with a baseball bat...sure, it's similar enough for people to see what you're trying to do and it might even work on a basic level sometimes, but any enthusiast of the game will be mortified as **** watching you.
I am such an enthusiast.
There are a lot of words that are answers to the equation overused + often misused = ? (hey, if they can shove letters into math just to confuse me halfway through junior high, I can throw a few words in there) but there are 10 I can immediately think of that get used far too often at the expense of more accurate, descriptive and often more impressive alternatives.
"Epic" is one I hear casually tossed around a lot. Originally referring to the old heroes' tales and poems that cover the better part of the main character's life and tell of his magnificent, legendary achievements, it carries the dictionary definition of "majestic or amazingly great", and the second and third definitions look a lot like the first. Now it can be used to describe something as pedestrian as fast food...it's less Homer of Greece and more Homer of Springfield.
Alternatives: "excellent", "superb", "outstanding".
"Security" used to mean just being as safe as one can be in this dangerous, pointy world of ours, but if you put the word "national" in front of it, it's a justification to pry extensively into the lives of law-abiding citizens, looking for the few needles in a haystack about 300 million straws deep. Sure, there hasn't been another big incident, but by that principle I can say my hats are designed to repel tigers and that they do so very effectively since I haven't seen one in years.
Alternatives: "control", "monitoring", "governannying"
"Acceptance", as everyone involved with our society's new, nicer and saccharine-sweet public discourse knows, is complete and total embracing of a concept and all it entails, not just letting people live as they please. It's not enough to have the freedom to do something, people must congratulate you for doing it! Anything less is an attack on everything someone stands for.
Alternatives: "friendliness", "approval", "playing nice"
"Need" is a nebulous concept. We can all agree that your average human needs food, water, shelter and sunlight to remain alive, but do we need most of the things we say we do? Most of the things they say we do? I once heard a lady say her 1.something year old baby "needed" a pair of $60 basketball shoes. I can assure you that baby DX will not be getting such a pair of kicks until he makes a youth basketball team...at least then, he can argue his need for them.
Alternatives: "want", "would like", "would please me"
"Literally" is an old offender, but it never gets any less grating. It means things occurred in a manner which can be interpreted verbatim from the speaker's words. Whenever I hear somebody talk about how their "jaw literally hit the floor" or how they "literally died of embarrassment", I wish they weren't lying and want to do all I can to help make it the truth.
Alternatives: "figuratively", "metaphorically", "emblematically"
"Maturity" often refers to how old someone is or their life situation, like having kids or a spouse. I am the parent to a 1-year-old and the likely future husband of my live-in girlfriend/probationary wife Shannon. I'm not only not all that mature, but feel that non-situational maturity beyond that necessary to complete basic adult tasks such as paying the bills, opening a bank account or changing a diaper is highly overrated.
Alternatives: "change", "responsibility", "boredom"
"Respect" is often confused for something you don't have to earn from each individual person based on your interaction with them and that wouldn't be given by most people anyway if you actually deserved it.
Alternatives: "reverence", "entitlement", "ego-stroke"
"Awesome" is possibly the most overused on this list, and admittedly, it's for a shortage of common alternative ways to say "really good" or "excellent". It's supposed to be reserved for things that take a person out of their cynical everyday thought pattern and inspire a childlike sense of wonder...you know, awe? The Aurora Borealis is awesome. That smallish star about 93 million miles from the one in my office is awesome. The human brain and its' functions are awesome. If you're just tossing it out every time something doesn't totally suck, you devalue the word and all that it means...and that is far from awesome.
Alternatives: "exceptional", "first-rate", " sterling"
"Hate", being the most intense form of aversion usually stemming from anger, fear or having been wronged somehow, is more often used as part of a sentence telling of the speaker's dislike for Miracle Whip. If Miracle Whip has besmirched you somehow and you hold an everlasting and incendiary grudge against it for killing your father or something, then go ahead and hate it...otherwise, you just "don't like" it. "Hater" almost made the list too, but I could go on all day about how it doesn't mean "anybody who disagrees with your opinion or methods", so let's just skip it.
Alternatives: "dislike", "detest", "abhor"
"Love", the term for a deep, intense and nigh-unbreakable bond between two humans (at least, in its' purest form), is quite possibly the most tragically misused word in our language. The Greeks had about 6 separate words for it because it can take so many different forms, platonic love, romantic love, parental love, student-master love, none of which quite belong in the same category as the others.
However, we have just one word to express the sentiment as a whole, and you would think that would inspire some respect for it because it's the only one we have. Not at all...I'm sure you see every day where it's slapped onto positive feelings about anything from chocolate chip cookies to money to a new car. We can like these things, we can appreciate them, we can even be a little attached to them...but if you have a legitimate neurochemical romantic bond with any of the above, you should be the butt of some National Geographic jokeumentary about your strange addiction.
I'm a passionate defender of the concept of love because it is so rare and beautiful, which doesn't sound like a sentence I would type, but it's true. You don't love somebody who just covered your shift at work...it may feel like it, but trust me, you don't. You don't love someone just because you swapped some bodily fluids with them. You don't love anyone you've just met...love at first sight is purely based on the way someone looks, which is possibly the worst way to become enamored of someone (besides the fact that the word "lust" already exists. Of all the words which people meaninglessly toss about, this is perhaps the most damaging as it cheapens one of the best feelings in life...you don't see people who had a pretty good day refer to it as an orgasm, do you?
Alternatives: "like", "enjoy", "affection", "cherish", "infatuation"
Like I said, I'm willing to accept that I'm taking this to heart a bit much. However, when it comes to something I treasure so much, our expansive and stunningly depictive language, I can't help but to get a bit emotional. After all, is there any better cause to get excited about than the proper use of a tongue?
Maybe another one later, maybe not...who the **** cares anyway.
While I'm here, allow me to dump upon you my most recent writings, my awesome, epic list of overused words in modern American English. It will literally blow your mind.
The English language contains anywhere from 250,000 to a million words, depending on what you consider a word. (I have something of a loose definition of what makes a word and also enjoy floating new ones out to see how far they go, so I'd lean closer to 7 figures than 6.) It is said that the language I'm typing in right now has more words than any other...but how many do we actually put to good use?
The average speaker of American English has a functional vocabulary of well under that. Figures are commonly in the 10,000ish range, but I think even that's something of an overestimation in our dumbed-down modern society where newspapers are written on a 4th grade (-repeating kid's) level and people are deathly afraid of "big words", which is commonly defined as any word with over 2 syllables or 8 letters.
What's more, studies show that the number of words in common use has declined significantly in recent years. (Which I'm sure doesn't come as a shock to anybody who watches a lot of TV...back in the day, even Looney Tunes had some sweet SAT-level vocab. You tell me the last time you heard the word "despicable" without a lisp or heard a cartoon character as eloquent as Bugs Bunny or Foghorn Leghorn.)
For whatever reason, it seems that people would rather overuse the wrong words than learn any more than it takes to pass some standardized test or other. I think that it's an absolutely deplorable state of affairs. It seems that some get used more than others by orders of magnitude, even where inappropriate, and in many cases, that's a damn shame. Maybe the movie "Idiocracy" is coming true. Maybe people just figure they don't need to know all that many words. Maybe it's part of some kind of grand "1984"-y scheme to reduce the number of ways in which people can express themselves and their ideas by gradually phasing words out of everyday use.
It's entirely possible I'm taking this too seriously, but seeing someone use a word incorrectly is like seeing someone play golf with a baseball bat...sure, it's similar enough for people to see what you're trying to do and it might even work on a basic level sometimes, but any enthusiast of the game will be mortified as **** watching you.
I am such an enthusiast.
There are a lot of words that are answers to the equation overused + often misused = ? (hey, if they can shove letters into math just to confuse me halfway through junior high, I can throw a few words in there) but there are 10 I can immediately think of that get used far too often at the expense of more accurate, descriptive and often more impressive alternatives.
"Epic" is one I hear casually tossed around a lot. Originally referring to the old heroes' tales and poems that cover the better part of the main character's life and tell of his magnificent, legendary achievements, it carries the dictionary definition of "majestic or amazingly great", and the second and third definitions look a lot like the first. Now it can be used to describe something as pedestrian as fast food...it's less Homer of Greece and more Homer of Springfield.
Alternatives: "excellent", "superb", "outstanding".
"Security" used to mean just being as safe as one can be in this dangerous, pointy world of ours, but if you put the word "national" in front of it, it's a justification to pry extensively into the lives of law-abiding citizens, looking for the few needles in a haystack about 300 million straws deep. Sure, there hasn't been another big incident, but by that principle I can say my hats are designed to repel tigers and that they do so very effectively since I haven't seen one in years.
Alternatives: "control", "monitoring", "governannying"
"Acceptance", as everyone involved with our society's new, nicer and saccharine-sweet public discourse knows, is complete and total embracing of a concept and all it entails, not just letting people live as they please. It's not enough to have the freedom to do something, people must congratulate you for doing it! Anything less is an attack on everything someone stands for.
Alternatives: "friendliness", "approval", "playing nice"
"Need" is a nebulous concept. We can all agree that your average human needs food, water, shelter and sunlight to remain alive, but do we need most of the things we say we do? Most of the things they say we do? I once heard a lady say her 1.something year old baby "needed" a pair of $60 basketball shoes. I can assure you that baby DX will not be getting such a pair of kicks until he makes a youth basketball team...at least then, he can argue his need for them.
Alternatives: "want", "would like", "would please me"
"Literally" is an old offender, but it never gets any less grating. It means things occurred in a manner which can be interpreted verbatim from the speaker's words. Whenever I hear somebody talk about how their "jaw literally hit the floor" or how they "literally died of embarrassment", I wish they weren't lying and want to do all I can to help make it the truth.
Alternatives: "figuratively", "metaphorically", "emblematically"
"Maturity" often refers to how old someone is or their life situation, like having kids or a spouse. I am the parent to a 1-year-old and the likely future husband of my live-in girlfriend/probationary wife Shannon. I'm not only not all that mature, but feel that non-situational maturity beyond that necessary to complete basic adult tasks such as paying the bills, opening a bank account or changing a diaper is highly overrated.
Alternatives: "change", "responsibility", "boredom"
"Respect" is often confused for something you don't have to earn from each individual person based on your interaction with them and that wouldn't be given by most people anyway if you actually deserved it.
Alternatives: "reverence", "entitlement", "ego-stroke"
"Awesome" is possibly the most overused on this list, and admittedly, it's for a shortage of common alternative ways to say "really good" or "excellent". It's supposed to be reserved for things that take a person out of their cynical everyday thought pattern and inspire a childlike sense of wonder...you know, awe? The Aurora Borealis is awesome. That smallish star about 93 million miles from the one in my office is awesome. The human brain and its' functions are awesome. If you're just tossing it out every time something doesn't totally suck, you devalue the word and all that it means...and that is far from awesome.
Alternatives: "exceptional", "first-rate", " sterling"
"Hate", being the most intense form of aversion usually stemming from anger, fear or having been wronged somehow, is more often used as part of a sentence telling of the speaker's dislike for Miracle Whip. If Miracle Whip has besmirched you somehow and you hold an everlasting and incendiary grudge against it for killing your father or something, then go ahead and hate it...otherwise, you just "don't like" it. "Hater" almost made the list too, but I could go on all day about how it doesn't mean "anybody who disagrees with your opinion or methods", so let's just skip it.
Alternatives: "dislike", "detest", "abhor"
"Love", the term for a deep, intense and nigh-unbreakable bond between two humans (at least, in its' purest form), is quite possibly the most tragically misused word in our language. The Greeks had about 6 separate words for it because it can take so many different forms, platonic love, romantic love, parental love, student-master love, none of which quite belong in the same category as the others.
However, we have just one word to express the sentiment as a whole, and you would think that would inspire some respect for it because it's the only one we have. Not at all...I'm sure you see every day where it's slapped onto positive feelings about anything from chocolate chip cookies to money to a new car. We can like these things, we can appreciate them, we can even be a little attached to them...but if you have a legitimate neurochemical romantic bond with any of the above, you should be the butt of some National Geographic jokeumentary about your strange addiction.
I'm a passionate defender of the concept of love because it is so rare and beautiful, which doesn't sound like a sentence I would type, but it's true. You don't love somebody who just covered your shift at work...it may feel like it, but trust me, you don't. You don't love someone just because you swapped some bodily fluids with them. You don't love anyone you've just met...love at first sight is purely based on the way someone looks, which is possibly the worst way to become enamored of someone (besides the fact that the word "lust" already exists. Of all the words which people meaninglessly toss about, this is perhaps the most damaging as it cheapens one of the best feelings in life...you don't see people who had a pretty good day refer to it as an orgasm, do you?
Alternatives: "like", "enjoy", "affection", "cherish", "infatuation"
Like I said, I'm willing to accept that I'm taking this to heart a bit much. However, when it comes to something I treasure so much, our expansive and stunningly depictive language, I can't help but to get a bit emotional. After all, is there any better cause to get excited about than the proper use of a tongue?
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I swear if people could remember me for an association with beer and Star Wars, I'd count that as a decent legacy.
:x @ autopsy pics...I'm not built for that at all.
While I'm here, allow me to dump upon you my most recent writings, my awesome, epic list of overused words in modern American English. It will literally blow your mind.
Maybe another one later, maybe not...who the **** cares anyway.
The English language contains anywhere from 250,000 to a million words, depending on what you consider a word. (I have something of a loose definition of what makes a word and also enjoy floating new ones out to see how far they go, so I'd lean closer to 7 figures than 6.) It is said that the language I'm typing in right now has more words than any other...but how many do we actually put to good use?
The average speaker of American English has a functional vocabulary of well under that. Figures are commonly in the 10,000ish range, but I think even that's something of an overestimation in our dumbed-down modern society where newspapers are written on a 4th grade (-repeating kid's) level and people are deathly afraid of "big words", which is commonly defined as any word with over 2 syllables or 8 letters.
What's more, studies show that the number of words in common use has declined significantly in recent years. (Which I'm sure doesn't come as a shock to anybody who watches a lot of TV...back in the day, even Looney Tunes had some sweet SAT-level vocab. You tell me the last time you heard the word "despicable" without a lisp or heard a cartoon character as eloquent as Bugs Bunny or Foghorn Leghorn.)
For whatever reason, it seems that people would rather overuse the wrong words than learn any more than it takes to pass some standardized test or other. I think that it's an absolutely deplorable state of affairs. It seems that some get used more than others by orders of magnitude, even where inappropriate, and in many cases, that's a damn shame. Maybe the movie "Idiocracy" is coming true. Maybe people just figure they don't need to know all that many words. Maybe it's part of some kind of grand "1984"-y scheme to reduce the number of ways in which people can express themselves and their ideas by gradually phasing words out of everyday use.
It's entirely possible I'm taking this too seriously, but seeing someone use a word incorrectly is like seeing someone play golf with a baseball bat...sure, it's similar enough for people to see what you're trying to do and it might even work on a basic level sometimes, but any enthusiast of the game will be mortified as **** watching you.
I am such an enthusiast.
There are a lot of words that are answers to the equation overused + often misused = ? (hey, if they can shove letters into math just to confuse me halfway through junior high, I can throw a few words in there) but there are 10 I can immediately think of that get used far too often at the expense of more accurate, descriptive and often more impressive alternatives.
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"Epic" is one I hear casually tossed around a lot. Originally referring to the old heroes' tales and poems that cover the better part of the main character's life and tell of his magnificent, legendary achievements, it carries the dictionary definition of "majestic or amazingly great", and the second and third definitions look a lot like the first. Now it can be used to describe something as pedestrian as fast food...it's less Homer of Greece and more Homer of Springfield.
Alternatives: "excellent", "superb", "outstanding".
"Security" used to mean just being as safe as one can be in this dangerous, pointy world of ours, but if you put the word "national" in front of it, it's a justification to pry extensively into the lives of law-abiding citizens, looking for the few needles in a haystack about 300 million straws deep. Sure, there hasn't been another big incident, but by that principle I can say my hats are designed to repel tigers and that they do so very effectively since I haven't seen one in years.
Alternatives: "control", "monitoring", "governannying"
"Acceptance", as everyone involved with our society's new, nicer and saccharine-sweet public discourse knows, is complete and total embracing of a concept and all it entails, not just letting people live as they please. It's not enough to have the freedom to do something, people must congratulate you for doing it! Anything less is an attack on everything someone stands for.
Alternatives: "friendliness", "approval", "playing nice"
"Need" is a nebulous concept. We can all agree that your average human needs food, water, shelter and sunlight to remain alive, but do we need most of the things we say we do? Most of the things they say we do? I once heard a lady say her 1.something year old baby "needed" a pair of $60 basketball shoes. I can assure you that baby DX will not be getting such a pair of kicks until he makes a youth basketball team...at least then, he can argue his need for them.
Alternatives: "want", "would like", "would please me"
"Literally" is an old offender, but it never gets any less grating. It means things occurred in a manner which can be interpreted verbatim from the speaker's words. Whenever I hear somebody talk about how their "jaw literally hit the floor" or how they "literally died of embarrassment", I wish they weren't lying and want to do all I can to help make it the truth.
Alternatives: "figuratively", "metaphorically", "emblematically"
"Maturity" often refers to how old someone is or their life situation, like having kids or a spouse. I am the parent to a 1-year-old and the likely future husband of my live-in girlfriend/probationary wife Shannon. I'm not only not all that mature, but feel that non-situational maturity beyond that necessary to complete basic adult tasks such as paying the bills, opening a bank account or changing a diaper is highly overrated.
Alternatives: "change", "responsibility", "boredom"
"Respect" is often confused for something you don't have to earn from each individual person based on your interaction with them and that wouldn't be given by most people anyway if you actually deserved it.
Alternatives: "reverence", "entitlement", "ego-stroke"
"Awesome" is possibly the most overused on this list, and admittedly, it's for a shortage of common alternative ways to say "really good" or "excellent". It's supposed to be reserved for things that take a person out of their cynical everyday thought pattern and inspire a childlike sense of wonder...you know, awe? The Aurora Borealis is awesome. That smallish star about 93 million miles from the one in my office is awesome. The human brain and its' functions are awesome. If you're just tossing it out every time something doesn't totally suck, you devalue the word and all that it means...and that is far from awesome.
Alternatives: "exceptional", "first-rate", " sterling"
"Hate", being the most intense form of aversion usually stemming from anger, fear or having been wronged somehow, is more often used as part of a sentence telling of the speaker's dislike for Miracle Whip. If Miracle Whip has besmirched you somehow and you hold an everlasting and incendiary grudge against it for killing your father or something, then go ahead and hate it...otherwise, you just "don't like" it. "Hater" almost made the list too, but I could go on all day about how it doesn't mean "anybody who disagrees with your opinion or methods", so let's just skip it.
Alternatives: "dislike", "detest", "abhor"
"Love", the term for a deep, intense and nigh-unbreakable bond between two humans (at least, in its' purest form), is quite possibly the most tragically misused word in our language. The Greeks had about 6 separate words for it because it can take so many different forms, platonic love, romantic love, parental love, student-master love, none of which quite belong in the same category as the others.
However, we have just one word to express the sentiment as a whole, and you would think that would inspire some respect for it because it's the only one we have. Not at all...I'm sure you see every day where it's slapped onto positive feelings about anything from chocolate chip cookies to money to a new car. We can like these things, we can appreciate them, we can even be a little attached to them...but if you have a legitimate neurochemical romantic bond with any of the above, you should be the butt of some National Geographic jokeumentary about your strange addiction.
I'm a passionate defender of the concept of love because it is so rare and beautiful, which doesn't sound like a sentence I would type, but it's true. You don't love somebody who just covered your shift at work...it may feel like it, but trust me, you don't. You don't love someone just because you swapped some bodily fluids with them. You don't love anyone you've just met...love at first sight is purely based on the way someone looks, which is possibly the worst way to become enamored of someone (besides the fact that the word "lust" already exists. Of all the words which people meaninglessly toss about, this is perhaps the most damaging as it cheapens one of the best feelings in life...you don't see people who had a pretty good day refer to it as an orgasm, do you?
Alternatives: "like", "enjoy", "affection", "cherish", "infatuation"
Like I said, I'm willing to accept that I'm taking this to heart a bit much. However, when it comes to something I treasure so much, our expansive and stunningly depictive language, I can't help but to get a bit emotional. After all, is there any better cause to get excited about than the proper use of a tongue?
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