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12-14-2018, 08:51 AM
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Re: News Miscellany
From The Economist, 13 Dec 2018 Politics this week ...
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Goodyear, a tyremaker, said it would halt production in Venezuela, blaming economic conditions. It is the latest in a series of international companies to leave the country, which has seen its economy shrink by half since 2014. Workers will receive ten tyres as severance pay.
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12-21-2018, 12:39 AM
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From The Economist, 13 Dec 2018 Politics this week ...
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Goodyear, a tyremaker, said it would halt production in Venezuela, blaming economic conditions. It is the latest in a series of international companies to leave the country, which has seen its economy shrink by half since 2014. Workers will receive ten tyres as severance pay.
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Oh, they'll be carrying off more than that.
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12-23-2018, 08:27 AM
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12-30-2018, 03:13 AM
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01-09-2019, 08:44 PM
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01-09-2019, 08:56 PM
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You say that like it's a bad thing.
I mean, compared to other things going on in America.
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01-09-2019, 08:59 PM
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You say that like it's a bad thing.
I mean, compared to other things going on in America.
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Hold my beer.
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01-10-2019, 01:30 AM
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I forced myself to watch that thing last night, and it was painful.
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01-14-2019, 05:19 PM
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So ... what's the French for Boaty McBoatface?
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...Bateau d'Visage de Bateau...?
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So ... what's the French for Boaty McBoatface?
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I don't see no 'Mc' in there.
'Bateau d'Visage de fils Bateau', perhaps?
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01-15-2019, 06:36 PM
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We'd need a diminutive for bateau (bateaulet? Sounds fitting, especially because it is not an actual word).
And the Mc part is apparently a reference to McDonalds - generic and ubiquitous - and the French for McDonalds is McDonalds.
Bateaulet McBateaux-Villages.
A pretentious little red with overtones of (high cost) petrol and a dismissive finish.
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01-15-2019, 11:01 PM
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I would have assumed that the "Mc" was from the Gaelic "Mac," meaning "son of" or "child of". I could be wrong, though.
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I would have assumed that the "Mc" was from the Gaelic "Mac," meaning "son of" or "child of". I could be wrong, though.
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Bingo...That's why I selected to add 'fils'.
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01-16-2019, 07:31 AM
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I would have assumed that the "Mc" was from the Gaelic "Mac," meaning "son of" or "child of". I could be wrong, though.
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That's where the Mc in McDonalds comes from of course. I have it on good authority ( the internet) that the Mc in McBoatface is more specifically a reference to McDonalds than an arbitrary "son of". My sources could be wrong but when have you ever known the internet to be wrong?
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01-17-2019, 07:27 PM
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01-17-2019, 09:00 PM
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Britain. Exporting Brexit worldwide.
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01-17-2019, 09:52 PM
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That's not really a Brexit thing. English football hooligans have been exporting that kind of behaviour for decades.
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01-17-2019, 10:49 PM
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Was referring to getting kicked out, but some jokes, they fall flat.
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most abominable sample of the mankind
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