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williegoat JUL 11, 07:47 PM
Language evolves naturally, as do species. When that natural process is subverted to achieve a predetermined outcome, we end up with unintended and often regrettable consequences. Anyone ever hear of Covid-19?
rinselberg JUL 11, 09:02 PM
The President should use his bully pulpit to denounce this "words woke'ing craze."

On second thought, maybe not. I don't know about the implications of "bully" or even "pulpit" but in combination with one another? Way too risky.
randye JUL 11, 09:04 PM

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Originally posted by williegoat:

Anyone ever hear of Covid-19?




I've heard of the Kung Flu
maryjane JUL 12, 08:02 AM

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Originally posted by randye:





Well, I'm not in charge either, but those are not chiggers (Trombiculidae. They're Lone Star (Amblyomma americanum) ticks and the kind that can cause alpha gal syndrome, an incurable disease that most often results in an allergy like reaction to eating any kind of red meat.
Chiggers are larval mites, almost microscopic.

The chigger's holding up the game. Pow! Life's cheap up here on the Canadian River.
2.5 JUL 12, 04:57 PM


I'm surprised they didn't go for Japanese beetle, or Asian beetle first...what about the Great Black Wasp?

Changing the language is how they change you.
randye JUL 12, 05:41 PM

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Originally posted by maryjane:

Well, I'm not in charge either, but those are not chiggers (Trombiculidae. They're Lone Star (Amblyomma americanum) ticks




Thanks.

I'm not an entomologist.... or an etymologist....I just grabbed the first 3 bug image that popped up in a Bing search for: "chigger images"

Instead of getting all ticked off you could have just called them chiggers too and said "everything is bigger in Texas" but that photo obviously bugged the hell out of you.
williegoat JUL 12, 06:01 PM
Google ads provides endless amusement.



I am going to go out on a limb here and suggest that the vast majority of people in the US haven't got a clue who the Romani really are, where they came from or what their cultural influence has been over the previous millennium. Without looking it up, does anyone know the story behind the song that I posted above?
Hudini JUL 12, 06:13 PM
While I know a little, I don't know about your song.

When I was based in England I remember the locals going door to door and warning "The Gypsies are here! Put everything away so they don't steal it!" I also remember a 60 minutes type show where the roving Gypsy children would swarm you in Athens in the tourist areas. They would surround you begging for money while picking your pockets. The even filmed it happening as proof.

To me Gypsies have always meant "roving thieves". Never actually met any, I think.
randye JUL 12, 07:00 PM

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Originally posted by williegoat:


I am going to go out on a limb here and suggest that the vast majority of people in the US haven't got a clue who the Romani really are, where they came from or what their cultural influence has been over the previous millennium.




That's a pretty short limb, but yeah you probably have to have been exposed to some Romani sometime in your life to know a bit about them and even then they are pretty secretive with anyone outside their families.

I do know that they have no problem at all using the name gypsy when it benefits them, as in advertising themselves as "Gypsy Fortune Tellers" or claiming an older male family member is a "King of the Gypsies" in order to get some sort of attention, notoriety or special favor from outsiders.

The Nazis murdered between 250,000 to 500,000 Roma right alongside millions of Jews.

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maryjane JUL 12, 07:22 PM

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Originally posted by randye:


Thanks.

I'm not an entomologist.... or an etymologist....I just grabbed the first 3 bug image that popped up in a Bing search for: "chigger images"

Instead of getting all ticked off you could have just called them chiggers too and said "everything is bigger in Texas" but that photo obviously bugged the hell out of you.


Not ticked off.
I have to treat cattle for mites every year, so I'm pretty familiar with them. Mites are also what cause sarcoptic mange on dogs and livestock and it's called scabies on humans. There are various kinds of mites including biting mites and burrowing mites and the burrowers are the worst and hardest to control.
Also, I'm always 'interested' when I see the lone star tick. Anything that might cut down on red meat consumption is a bad thing to me.