1 hour ago, Iamfalang said:

Horrible.   That's the thing about seeing people here really thin.  Being that thin can't be healthy for many people here.   Some, sure, not many.   Thin when young and middle-aged, then fat when old is how I want it to be......"old" in my book is 70 and older.   I don't want to fall and easily break a hip.  I think being a little fat at that age might help, drink more milk I guess.

 

 

It depends on whether the thin condition is a result of malnutrition, or a less fat-inducing diet. Obesity takes years off life expectancy.

79 yo, and I daresay I am healthier than quite a few 60 year olds I see here.

Being fat in old age is not good, Type 2 diabetes beckons. The first thing doctors tell diabetic and prediabetic patients is "LOSE WEIGHT"

7 hours ago, tubby johnson said:

What about the British word for cigarette?

You mean a fag? (I wonder if this will pass muster)

 

And the there is the musical instrument know as the faggott.

Is this where the birthing parent started?

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...And a few years ago, the Midwives Alliance of North America revised its Core Competencies manual to make the language more gender-inclusive, on occasion referring to ‘birthing parents’ instead of ‘mothers’.

Source: https://aeon.co/essays/why-trans-inclusive-language-is-no-threat-to-cis-women

 

Last year I saw a news article, which I can't find anymore, where a woman referred to herself as a person with a vagina and to men as people with penises.

18 minutes ago, Puccini said:

Last year I saw a news article, which I can't find anymore, where a woman referred to herself as a person with a vagina and to men as people with penises.

That must have been last year or earlier. By now that person was probably cancelled. ???? 

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17 hours ago, Puccini said:

And the there is the musical instrument know as the faggott.

https://www.salixrw.com/product/brushwood-faggots-fascines/

 

Oops, I see I gave my <deleted> a surplus t.

 

Your faggots, bundles of firewood,. look like the type used for pyres at which witches were burned.

What's the world coming to? I can write here the names of musical instruments like clarinet and oboe, but not <deleted>?

 

This won't stop me from going to this concert across the border to which a friend has invited me.

 

3 minutes ago, Puccini said:

What's the world coming to? I can write here the names of musical instruments like clarinet and oboe, but not <deleted>?

 

This won't stop me from going to this concert across the border to which a friend has invited me.

 

If you want to put a faggoti in your mouth and blow it for 90 minutes when others have paid to watch you perform, you should be allowed to do that 

On 10/6/2022 at 9:48 AM, Iamfalang said:

"Expat"......yea, not sure why that's one's banned...but it is!!!!!     Maybe EX has a negative connotation.

Retiree .... Pensioner .... Senior ... Geezer ... Viagra powered Monger. 

Is that good for you? 

On 10/6/2022 at 10:55 AM, Berkshire said:

Pardon me for asking, but who exactly is banning these words?

The poor, downtrodden and oppressed members of society.  Who can also control what we say and do... ????

On 10/6/2022 at 9:52 AM, n00dle said:

As a professional writer, this <deleted> pisses me off to no end. We are no longer allowed to be concise and forced to resort to euphemism.  

Are you the next Henry Fielding?  Fielding was not a professional writer, 

 

Can you, as a professional writer, write anything as great as Fanny Hill?

 

Next time you write something as great as Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, please publish it here.

 

Or, even more interesting:  Are you sort of a writer, similar to the professional writer,  Galileo Galilei?

 

Maybe you are as disturbed, as was Darwin. another professional writer?

 

Actually, you don't sound like a professional writer, too much.

 

What is a euphemism, anyway?

 

Do you mean something like if I were to use the word pistil?

 

OK, fine.

 

I love pistils.

 

 

On 10/9/2022 at 5:36 PM, GammaGlobulin said:

Are you the next Henry Fielding?  Fielding was not a professional writer, 

 

Can you, as a professional writer, write anything as great as Fanny Hill?

 

Next time you write something as great as Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, please publish it here.

 

Or, even more interesting:  Are you sort of a writer, similar to the professional writer,  Galileo Galilei?

 

Maybe you are as disturbed, as was Darwin. another professional writer?

 

Actually, you don't sound like a professional writer, too much.

 

What is a euphemism, anyway?

 

Do you mean something like if I were to use the word pistil?

 

OK, fine.

 

I love pistils.

 

 

Pistils at dawn. or at Dawn.

I will never view another cinematic duel in the same way again. I will forever think "Should've chosen pistils".  Only Monty Python could have filmed such a scene with integrity, and even then I am sceptical whether it would have stood the test of time.  Test of thyme.