>> ^Deano:

I can only say that in England we definitely don't use "snuck". And it certainly sounds odd to my ear.


No! Sneaked makes my brain want to explode, in the same way as if someone said the plane flied all the way to France. English is full of irregular verbs, and this is certainly one in common usage in the midlands, or at least amongst my friends and family.

Actually, "cours" is here the imperative, so the phrase literally means "go on running" or "run anyways"; this phrase is an expression meaning "you can try all you want, you won't succeed/get anywhere" (an imperfect equivalent in English is "knock yourself out").

/nitpicking Frogspeaker

>> ^steroidg:

Cours is the first and second person singular of the verb courir, which means to run. The translation of the title should be: Always running.

Thank you! This is thanks to Google Translate as I don't know French.
>> ^steroidg:

Cours is the first and second person singular of the verb courir, which means to run. The translation of the title should be: Always running.

Cours is the first and second person singular of the verb courir, which means to run. The translation of the title should be: Always running.

I didn't realize until seeing this sift title that suicide was a verb, as well as a noun. The more you know!

Wait a second! I just had an epiphany!
The term "troll" comes from the verb to "troll"... like "I went out trolling for fish but all I caught was this plastic bag."
At some point, someone said "holey crap! I just had an epiphany! We can call people who troll on online forums 'trolls' and it will be hilarious!"

..sorry, I'm kinda slow sometimes. I used to think that "to make ends meet" was "to make end's meat"... as in to make enough money to buy the low quality meat at the end of the animal.

Most definitely, I do. Thank you!
edit: I see there are two possibilities for the noun, but only one for the verb. Damn you English.>> ^alien_concept:

Haven't watched this yet so it might be purposeful, but do you mean serenaded?

You got this just about exactly right. Three sentences in 7 minutes of talking.


>> ^Kofi:

Verb - noun - noun - pronoun - adjective - verb - political keyword - noun. Pronoun - adverb - noun - noun - noun - freedom - adjective - pronoun - current location - adjective - noun - God. Verb - noun - noun - enemy demographic - adjective - noun - noun - America - adjective - noun.

Verb - noun - noun - pronoun - adjective - verb - political keyword - noun. Pronoun - adverb - noun - noun - noun - freedom - adjective - pronoun - current location - adjective - noun - God. Verb - noun - noun - enemy demographic - adjective - noun - noun - America - adjective - noun.

>> ^berticus:

i love that the japanese have "nyan", we have "meow", and neither are remotely close to the actual sound cats make.
sound is weird.
VERBING WEIRDS LANGUAGE

i love that the japanese have "nyan", we have "meow", and neither are remotely close to the actual sound cats make.

sound is weird.

VERBING WEIRDS LANGUAGE

Lol QM!

So some public prosecutor is going to be arguing, on your tax dollar, at massive expense at the supreme court if necessary, the difference between hugging and dancing! (In the case of the couple). Don't think that's insanely childish and absurd?

dancing(Verb)
1. Move rhythmically to music, typically following a set sequence of steps.
2. Perform (a particular dance or a role in a ballet).

No music therefore they will fail, and a wrongful arrest claim will follow, followed by a payout, again of your money.
The whole episode will in retrospect be a very expensive, bloody minded excuse for a guy in a bicycle helmet to get his jollies. And I do mean expensive, like maybe 20 cops annual salaries for starters. Potentially way more if anyone got injured as it becomes a constitutional issue -because trust me the SC won't rule against Jefferson in his own memorial.


     “I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.”
 Thomas Jefferson

>> ^gwiz665:

Given a limited scope you can absolutely prove a negative. "There are no muslims in congress" is provable. "There is no God in the United States" is also provable.
The problem is that if you have an unlimited scope, then it becomes impossible.
"There are no fairies in my basement."
vs.
"There are no fairies."


As already pointed out, by *definition* you can't prove a negative.
As per your other threads shinyblurry, we can argue semantics all day so it's kind of pointless, but I'm going to anyway, because it's actually at the nub of the statement "you can't prove a negative".
I've also used an online dictionary you've sited in your other posts.

prove/pro͞ov/Verb
1. Demonstrate the truth or existence of (something) by evidence or argument.
2. Demonstrate by evidence or argument (someone or something) to be.

Note the use of the affirmative "the existence" / "to be". There is no scope for a negative here.

Also it's worth pointing out the etymology of the word "proof". It comes from the Latin "probare" meaning "to test". So it you've got proof of god's existence, it's got to be testable. Similarly if I want to "prove" there is no god I need to formulate a test that will give a definitive result.

Now, moving away from semantics....

So yeah, he's using a linguistic trick to try and recontextualize the statement "you can't prove a negative". That statement is generally used as a shorthand in an argument not only as a reference to the above definition, but also as a more general indication of the vast impracticality of proving a blanket negative statement such as "there is no god". In that context it is never meant as an absolute.

By adding a very restricted location, as William Lane Craig has in the video above, a negative statement of course becomes provable. I don't think any atheist would disagree that the statement "there are no coins in my pocket" could be proven simply by looking in my pocket.

For example - If as an atheist I was to say "there is no such object as the holy grail in existence" in order to prove it I would then have to trawl through every every steet, house, closet, drawer, toilet cistern, dessert, mountaintop, quarry pit, top secret inaccessible military bunker in the world, then undertake extensive excavation all the way to the earths molten core.

At his stage a believer could say "Well I have just had a personal revelation from God who spoke directly to me and told me that the grail is being kept safe underneath the icy surface of Jupiter's 6th moon Europa"

So after I've convinced NASA to undertake "The Program for the Recovery of Christs Holy Grail from Under the Surface of Jupiter's 6th Moon Europa" I'm told by the believer that they've had another personal message received directly from god that he was angry at being tested, and so has moved the grail to a divine and indestructible vault at the heart of the distant sun Omicron Beta....

However, if I make the statement - "there is no such object as the holy grail in existence in my desk drawer" - I just have to open the drawer to look and the statement can be proven.

And the above examples are with definite physical objects. Think how impossible it is to prove the statement "there is no god" when the idea of how god is defined is so widely and radically disputed depending on what religion you subscribe to, and when almost every individual within each of these religions will have their own definition of what god is.

Someone explained to me in a PM that I meant rimjob and that rimshot wasn't a sex act, that he had figured out that I was perversely (I love that! perverse!) substituting a penis for a tongue.

If you have to explain a joke, it isn't funny.

But still... I have been honestly calling blankie an ole softie for months now. Turning it into a penis joke is still funny. That wasn't confusing.

So no upvotes on a flaccid penis joke made by a woman? Why isn't that funny?

As for your 50 game -- it's all about trust, isn't it? She trusts you, you trust her. You give each other time to prepare -- Houdini took shots to the stomach as a living, after all. You are messing with people's minds and expectations in those public places -- I see the joke.

But do I have to say this YET ONE MORE TIME? I guess so.... I have no problem with the C punch vid. That woman was under no more pressure than a man would have been in the same situation. I don't think it was a dorm room though, I think they were members of the same military unit (check out her sweatshirt). It was the title that bothered.



>> ^residue:

Actually, I don't even understand the second half of the "zing" Except he can't "what?" There's no adjective verb(edit) in the phrase "You ole softie"
As a side note, here is a fun game my wife and I regularly play. One of us says "Gimmie a 50