naked
means
not wearing any clothes.
nekkid
means
ain't got no clothes on and yer up ta no good.
What I didn't like about this story is the fact that most every one's attention is on that "crazy nekkid man";
be the one to blame for this mess.
I see something entirely different.
Do not believe this "crazy nekkid man" to be responsible.
Do not believe this "crazy nekkid man" to be responsible.
For starter, quite possibly a cellphone!
These days, that's the first thing that comes to my mind with a distracted driver.
As we live in a crazy world, do we really need another distraction?
As we live in a crazy world, do we really need another distraction?
(that's not even getting into the time "clock in" with this distraction!)
"Whoa! What happened there?" Weird how our phone conversation got off track.(should mention that I do not own a cellphone; amazing how many people think my phone is broken or I gave them the wrong number or they wrote the number down wrong, all because they weren't able to text message me)
"You know how it is, when talking and driving at the same time," my friend answered."Then WHY did you call me while driving? You should know better than that!" Could of made better use of that time: Both of us!
"Jesus Fucking Christ!"His answer,"I was sitting at a red light."
("They shoot horses," my mother would say, but not exactly what I was thinking.)
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The article did use the word "catalyse" and stated that the man has "yet to be ticketed"; a pretty straight forward, unbiased article if you exclude the attention grabbing headline.
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The article did use the word "catalyse" and stated that the man has "yet to be ticketed"; a pretty straight forward, unbiased article if you exclude the attention grabbing headline.
But,
I know people.
So does the "liberal" media.
(newspapers worthless if no one buys one; nothing learned if no one reads; headline's forgivable as long as article's unbiased)
Sadly, most will come away from this article clueless, if not defensive or in denial (guilt or lack of?), to the lessons needed to be learned from other's misfortune.
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Reminds me of a time traveling back to LSU from Tallahassee on I-10. The four of us, about to graduate from veterinary school, had just taken the Florida Veterinary State Board exam.
In the middle of no where, we got stuck in a traffic jam,
one that was creeping along;
really, Really, REALLY...... creeping along!
In the middle of no where, we got stuck in a traffic jam,
one that was creeping along;
really, Really, REALLY...... creeping along!
I was exasperated upon discovering the cause; the cab of an eighteen wheeler on top of a car....all of it, the car included......in flames....."I see dead people!".....(believed we all did!).......the other side of the interstate!
People were slowing down. Some even pulling over.
Because they had too?
"WHAT WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE,"
Monica screamed, having rolled down the window!
Monica screamed, having rolled down the window!
No.......just to
"check it out"!
What I see is a lot more car pile-ups in our future!
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Word Origin & History
schadenfreude
"malicious joy in the misfortunes of others," 1922, from Ger., lit. "damage-joy," from schaden "damage, harm, injury" (see scathe) + freude , from O.H.G. frewida "joy," from fro "happy," lit. "hopping for joy," from P.Gmc. *frawa- (see frolic).
"What a fearful thing is it that any language should have a word expressive of the pleasure which men feel at the calamities of others; for the existence of the word bears testimony to the existence of the thing. And yet in more than one such a word is found. ... In the Greek epikhairekakia, in the German, 'Schadenfreude.' " [Richard C. Trench, "On the Study of Words," 1852]
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"I'm not crazier than anyone else. I just got caught."
-Julia Sugarbaker's brother on Designing Women; having just been release from a psychiatric hospital-
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