I know a few Scots who will wear kilts, but only at weddings, and only the weird ones.
OT: Taxidermy and pets
May 17, 2018
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I wouldn't. The deceptive thing (not really my pet, since not alive) would interfere with happy memories.
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That does remind me of the difficulty of explaining something to someone who doesn't know many of the words (and refuses to learn) and rejects most of the others,
Agreed.
Even photos annoy me.
Conjunction just isn't needed in everyday life. Unless you're an author, who cares? The limit of most people's word types are: noun, verb, adjective, adverb.
Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote
Nilsen did with his victims. Propped them up on chairs and talked to them about his day at work etc apparently.
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Max Demian wrote
Nilsen was a real one who actually did that with those he had killed.
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They tend to come out of the closet for Robert Burns Day and the annual Celtic Games. Then there is the Celtic Dragon pipe band who will play at the drop of a hat. I try to avoid them. A little bit of marching bagpipers goes a long way.
Some people wear Utilikilts.
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It would be an extremely cold day in hell before I'd run a snow blower in a skirt...
Unfortunately I would have to agree given the dismal nature of public schooling these days. (US usage of public, not the British public school that is private)
Warped, but not quite up to Ed Gein standards:
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Wimp.
But what's the point in categorizing words? Yes I used the US spelling, as that's how it's pronounced.
Again the US gets it right. Why do Brits (I'm a Brit but I think it's daft) call something that's privately funded "public"?
If you want to run your dangling bits through the auger, have at it.
rbowman wrote
He didn't prop up the corpse in an armchair and hold conversations with the corpse about how the day had gone at work etc.
A snowblower doesn't have an auger.
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There was one type that in school they always called "forms of be". Strangely "be" wasn't one of them.
Never heard of that.
What always confused me is why they always quote a verb as for example "to run". Why the "to"? Why not just say the verb is "run"?
I also never saw the point in participles and perfect historic tenses and all that s*it. To me there are three and only three tenses. Past, present, and future. "I ran". "I am running". "I will run". It's got to be either now, earlier, or later.
He didn't have to; he was wearing the corpse...
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What is a British snowblower? A Scot with an Irish banjo?
(Obscure US jargon Irish banjo: a short D-handled shovel)
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