Who have you had enough of ??

[BJean 16]

Jay Leno. I have a good sense of humor and can laugh at just about anything, but too many of his jokes are too perverted - at least the ones having to do with children. Not funny!

[BJean 16]

But let's face it, the one person I wish I never had to lay eyes on again or ever hear speak publically again, is George W. Bush.

[TommyO 5]

<p>What's wrong with the Simpson girls, Lisa is so smart and Maggie is way cute with her soother and falling on her face all the time! Don't be so hard on them, cartoon characters have feelings too</p> <p> </p> <p>Hey Hey Hey</p>

[AshevilleEddie 14]

Ooh, grammar peeves! My favorite! I have a few of those myself. In addition to all the aforementioned ones, let me submit a couple of my own. I have others, but these are my top two:

The word "myriad" is an adjective, NOT a noun! You use it exacly the same way you would use the word "many." You can't have a myriad of anything, just like you can't have a many of them!!!

And then there's "meanwhile" vs. "in the meantime" - it's not just "meantime!" The local news anchors here say that all the time. Drives me batty!!!

[Devana 0]

The word "myriad" is an adjective, NOT a noun! You use it exacly the same way you would use the word "many." You can't have a myriad of anything, just like you can't have a many of them!!!

Ahem........MsDad, I have been using this as a noun. I stand corrected. I'm pretty careful about my grammar and I don't know how I could have been incorrect all these years. This is the kind of thing that makes me nuts, too. I hate the thought I've been doing it to others all this time.

Thanks

[BJean 16]

For instance people say, "Meantime, bad things were happening"? That's weird!

Oh, "myriad" means "many"? I thought it meant "varied" or "various" - silly wabbit! Glad you cleared that up for me.

[AshevilleEddie 14]

For instance people say, "Meantime, bad things were happening"? That's weird!

Oh, "myriad" means "many"? I thought it meant "varied" or "various" - silly wabbit! Glad you cleared that up for me.

Color me grammatically incorrect! BJean, after reading your post, I looked up "myriad" in several online dictionaries (I don't even have one in print anymore! ) just to make sure you didn't know something I don't (you don't ) about the meaning of the word. The usage however, is another story entirely. This is an excerpt from one of the entries I found. It's from Merriam-Webster Online:

"Recent criticism of the use of myriad as a noun, both in the plural form myriads and in the phrase a myriad of, seems to reflect a mistaken belief that the word was originally and is still properly only an adjective. As the entries here show, however, the noun is in fact the older form, dating to the 16th century. The noun myriad has appeared in the works of such writers as Milton (plural myriads) and Thoreau (a myriad of), and it continues to occur frequently in reputable English. There is no reason to avoid it. "

I'm not usually wrong about things grammatical, but I'm not afraid to admit when I am. Thank goodness I can cross this pet peeve off my list (although I have to admit it still just doesn't sound right to me).

Ahem........MsDad, I have been using this as a noun. I stand corrected.

Actually, I stand corrected.

[BJean 16]

MSDAD, you're cool!

[Lee4love1 0]

Paris Hilton....Isn't enough you have big money. But to spends maybe 45 days in jail and all of sudden you get a illness that is unknown to anyone. What if the average Man or female got into a mental situation while in Jail? Would they be transferred and treated with so much great treatment? H*** Naw

Then when she gets out--"Larry King-repeats the show--maybe 4 times or more. All over the news--we're hearing of Paris, Paris...My Lord--here we are in the middle of a Civil War with a President who says--"we have a new stategy--but now more soldier dies each day there....Mmmmmm and all we can report on is Paris--give me a break-!!!!

[skmsu 0]

Ann Coulter

[green 6]

With respect to grammar usuage, I am always annoyed by the lay~lie business. Lie is an intransitive verb and thus one should say I was lying down after I lay my burden down but few individuals honour this practice anymore. *sigh* :phanvan

And I am ever so fed up with stupid reality shows. I find being forced to watch real people and being subjected to advertising a real one-two sucker punch. Um, you know, receiving a punch meant for suckers....

And rich and famous entertainers weighing in on complex political, environmental, and social issues are getting on my last bluddy nerve. Bono and his bluddy whining about Africa makes me want to cough up a furball. Sean Penn's visit to the Middle East gave me a severe skin rash. I am still expecting that I might yet experience hair loss due to Paris Hilton's strange jailhouse conversion, what with all that Bible reading and all. Ugh! These folks should stick to acting, making music, and in the case of Hilton, drinking, f...ing, making videotapes, and whatever else it is that she does.

Venting sure is fun. :biggrin1: Thanks for giving me this opportunity.

[BJean 16]

Ann Coulter, majorly!

Green, not to take the wind out of your sails, but I have to respectfully disagree with your position that celebrities should shut up and keep their noses to the gindstone (so to speak.)

Just because someone has chosen a vocation that causes them to be in the limelight shouldn't keep them from being able to speak to the issues of the day. They are, in some cases, American citizens too and have every right to say what they believe. If the media and other citizens choose to listen, that's their perrogative. We should be smart enough to filter their rants as much as we are able to filter a politician's or a Supreme Court Justice's or our next door neighbor's. I don't believe that there should be a barrier against anyone speaking their mind. It's supposed to be a free country and they shouldn't be treated differently than we are.

I find Bono's persona somewhat amusing, but you have to admit that his humanitarian efforts have actually had an impact on some of the most needy people in the world. Willie Nelson is even more hilarious but he has been a big contributor to helping American farmers.

Now if you expect me to go on and praise Paris Hilton for her contribution to the needy world of pornography, I won't. And I do think it is completely ridiculous that she is able to corner the market on the paparazzi all the time, but it's her life, her right to do it and my right to ignore it.

Ann Coulter, on the other hand, should be muzzled. :heh:

[L8BloomR 1]

Ann Coulter, on the other hand, should be muzzled. :heh:

Hi BJean,

Don't you just LOVE the R & R section? I can agree with you wholeheartedly on one thread and disagree with you vehemently on another....

I think Ann Coulter is great! She "takes a lickin' and keeps on tickin'" and I like that in a person. MY vote on this thread would be for Michael Moore.... ugh and double-ugh.

[green 6]

Ann Coulter, majorly!

Green, not to take the wind out of your sails, but I have to respectfully disagree with your position that celebrities should shut up and keep their noses to the gindstone (so to speak.)

Just because someone has chosen a vocation that causes them to be in the limelight shouldn't keep them from being able to speak to the issues of the day. They are, in some cases, American citizens too and have every right to say what they believe. If the media and other citizens choose to listen, that's their perrogative. We should be smart enough to filter their rants as much as we are able to filter a politician's or a Supreme Court Justice's or our next door neighbor's. I don't believe that there should be a barrier against anyone speaking their mind. It's supposed to be a free country and they shouldn't be treated differently than we are.

I find Bono's persona somewhat amusing, but you have to admit that his humanitarian efforts have actually had an impact on some of the most needy people in the world. Willie Nelson is even more hilarious but he has been a big contributor to helping American farmers.

Now if you expect me to go on and praise Paris Hilton for her contribution to the needy world of pornography, I won't. And I do think it is completely ridiculous that she is able to corner the market on the paparazzi all the time, but it's her life, her right to do it and my right to ignore it.

Ann Coulter, on the other hand, should be muzzled. :heh:

Grrl, ya got good points there. I am a very curmudgeonly and cynical cow by temperament and I will admit this. I also come from one of those countries which are perhaps less star-struck. We are accustomed to conducting government funded independent inquiries or paying heed to the results of university research when it comes to assessing complex social, economic, environmental or political issues. The results of these inquiries are made available in the more responsible media outlets and then come under debate by specialists in the field, average citizens, and parliamentarians.

Sound bite activism makes many folks who are not American nervous. We simply don't understand it and we feel that it is precipitous even when it does agree with our own politics. (Bear in mind that most of western Europe and Canada are on the same political page as the Hollywoodly lefties.)

Why we are uncomfortable with the notion of entertainer activism is because we view that it stands in place of real thought. You see, entertainer activism is all too easy even when it does work in favour for those causes which you, BJean, and I like. The average person ends up buying these unexamined ideas or ideals in exactly the same way that he or she buys any other fad...it could be Uggs, it could be skinny jeans....

And let's get down to the nitty-gritty here. Although these individuals do have the same right to express their opinions as any other citizen they do make use of their fame to ensure that their opinions will resonate. At the same time, these cats have not always troubled to educate themselves in the complexities of the issue which they have now decided to own. This is forgiveable; they are not political scientists, economists, agriculturualists, cultural historians, international diplomats, sociologists, or any of the other array of specialists needed to understand the complexities of effecting change in an alien and badly damaged environment. These folks are not even hooked into the network of these specialists, I suspect.

Bono makes me want to cough up furballs. He has taken on the entire continent of Africa. Sub-Saharan Africa is arguably the single most wretched place on earth. Most Iraqis lived better lives while still under the rule of Saddam. Even now Afghanistan is less of a mess than much of Africa.

We in the west have been treated to the horrors of the tribal slaughters in Ruanda. Darfur is an on-going horror show. Liberia and Sierra Leone have been in free fall for many decades now. So-called rebel groups kidnap small children from their families and turn them into killers. The people whom they can't use as soldiers they either kill or mutilate by cutting off both hands, thereby consigning them to a slow death. And then there are the corrupt power structures of these countries; this means that we can donate gobs of cash but this aid will never, ever help those individuals who need it.

And, too, there is this point of logic when it comes to this issue of the helping biz: don't buy a fish, buy a fishing rod.

I guess what I am trying to say is that there are many of us out there who are both unaccustomed and uneasy with this notion of celebrity authorized sound-bite thought. We think that it is careless at best and has the ability to turn toxic if the latest Hollywood style turns out to be less humanist.

[green 6]

Paris has been very generous with respect to spreading her legs and sharing herself with the on-line geek community.