Category: Langwidge
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Thought Vomit #23: ft. So Judgemental
How often are you accused of being judgemental? I hear it quite often, so perhaps that says more about me than anything else. That said, I’ll happily admit that I’m a judgemental person, and I’ve never understood why the word has come to be a pejorative one. To be judgemental is to use your judgement.…
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Thought Vomit #22: ft. Mind Changing
You’re allowed to change your mind. Equally, changing your mind doesn’t make you a hypocrite. I’m a big fan of The Daily Show, but they use a technique that is disingenuous at best, and unjust at worst. It makes for good telly, but when a Senator says something one week, is it really fair to…
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Thought Vomit #16: ft. Dunno
I don’t know. People should be happy to utter that much more often than we do. I don’t know is a wonderful phrase. It doesn’t, as you might think, betray your stupidity – what does that is making up an answer to disguise said fear of stupidity – it simply means “I don’t know”. I…
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Thought Vomit #9: ft. Nefarious Tinkerton
I like it when weird combinations of real words and neologised words pop into my head. The latest of these is Nefarious Tinkerton. It feels like something that would fall out of Stephen Fry’s mouth as he politely chastises Alan Davies for being too cheeky. Polyglotic snobbery. Lipsided Smacksoother. Yahrumple mater baiter. Frimp. It seems…
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Thought Vomit #5: ft. Sugar
The swearing came to a head yesterday. That sentence sounds much more interesting than it really is, but it was a weird coincidence if nothing else. Graham Linehan on his blog, often laments that swearing is used as a substitute for jokes, which I tend to agree with. And Richard Herring wrote a blog the…
