Well, yeah, but I think "jerk" is thought to be more kid-appropriate than "jerkoff." Actually, I remember when my mother decided she should stop calling her fellow drivers "jerkoff" when I was a kid.
I've got nothing on old British bats.
Well, look at you. All dressed up in big sister's clothes.
Faith ,'End of Days'
Natter 60: Gone In 60 Seconds
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jesse - Sep 22, 2008 6:37:15 am PDT #9897 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Tom Scola - Sep 22, 2008 6:40:02 am PDT #9898 of 10003
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
Equinox in four minutes...
Frankenbuddha - Sep 22, 2008 6:41:29 am PDT #9899 of 10003
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
And since "jerk" is short for "jerkoff" it means the same as "wanker."
But isn't "tosspot" related to "tosser" and therefore pretty much a reference to wanking?
Are there any British coloquialisms for stupid people that aren't naughty?
Wanker, pillock, berk, bugger - all pretty much kid inappropriate.
tommyrot - Sep 22, 2008 6:42:09 am PDT #9900 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Equinox in four minutes...
Hey, I was waiting to post that. In four three minutes....
tommyrot - Sep 22, 2008 6:44:49 am PDT #9901 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Happy equinox! It's Fall! (Except for you tosspots in the Southern Hemisphere, who get Spring.)
megan walker - Sep 22, 2008 7:07:17 am PDT #9902 of 10003
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
So in my obsessive tracking of polls and the electoral map, some encouraging news from Electoral-vote.com. For the first time since I've been looking, Obama has the 270 he needs.
We have eight presidential polls today. They confirm what is rapidly becoming the conventional wisdom: Florida and Virginia are very close and Iowa is going to be a blowout for Obama. Minnesota, normally a blue state, is surprisingly close today, but most polls this year have shown Obama way ahead there.
Four national polls all show that the Republicans' postconvention bounce has faded, as it always does. All four polls show Obama in the lead again, as he was before the two conventions. The polls are Gallup (Obama +4), Hotline (Obama +1), Rasmussen (Obama +1) and Research 2000 (Obama +7).
And this was also interesting to me:
Newsweek did some detective work and found out how many cars John and Cindy McCain have: 13. Some are foreign cars and some are American made. Barack and Michelle Obama have one car, a Ford Escape hybrid.
CNN hasn't updated their map since Friday.
Shir - Sep 22, 2008 7:09:03 am PDT #9903 of 10003
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
Meh. It's unethical to cancel a CouchSurfer on a day's notice, is it? But my best friend wants to sleepover at my place!
Oof. I can have them both, but I want to spend time with my friend. She didn't come here in the past two months, and we have a lot to talk about.
Jesse - Sep 22, 2008 7:30:14 am PDT #9904 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Happy fall/spring!!
I have been thinking about the Emmys, and have decided I'm the most happy about Zeljko Ivanek winning, and I've never seen Damages!
tommyrot - Sep 22, 2008 7:54:13 am PDT #9905 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
An excellent article on how we got into this sub-prime mortgage mess: [link]
Gudanov - Sep 22, 2008 8:21:46 am PDT #9906 of 10003
Coding and Sleeping
Yeah, deregulation of banking institutions has not had the most optimal of track records.