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26 Dec 2017, 5:59 pm

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President Donald Trump drinks 12 cans of Diet Coke and watches as much as eight hours of TV per day, according to a new report in The New York Times.


I stopped reading at that point (i.e. after the first sentence). The New York Times is notorious for spreading fake news, it is utterly unreliable. One should not believe a word they print.


The definition of fake news being "any news contrary to what the observer, in this case Lintar, wants the news to report."

Or replace "lintar" with "Trump" and you have an equivalent meaning

and his leagues of ruffian supporters.


I mainly detest the term fake news because it rarely, if ever, refers to news that is a lie.



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26 Dec 2017, 6:01 pm

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I mainly detest the term fake news because it rarely, if ever, refers to news that is a lie.

it is, of course, an Orwellian subversion of the truth. those people parroting that term exclusively towards the left, are riffing off of "1984"'s playbook.



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26 Dec 2017, 7:52 pm

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12 cans of diet coke

11 take out burritos

10 angry rants on Twitter

9 happy meals

8 hours watching TV news

7 selfies on framed fake Time covers

6 Trips to Mar-A-Lago, and

5 Take out egg rollssssss......

4 calling birds

3 French hens

2 turtle doves

And one single piece of legis- LAYYYY....SHUNNNNN!! ! ! ! !


We know what the 4 calling birds are...


I don't, please explain.


i, likewise, can not immediately call into focus what the line refers specifically to.

4 calling birds may refer to 4 escorts who visit him in a sordid interlude.

it could also refer to 4 women who have leveled allegations against him. "calling" relating to "singing" like a mafia word for "squealers" who blabbed to the authorities.

i think it sounds like a rather drunken poem in all. none of it rhymes. it has not a syllabic structure in which i can imagine the tune with those words fitting neatly into it.

whatever.


I take it that you grew up on Planet Pluto, and that you never heard of the the Christmas Carol "the Twelve Days of Christmas"?



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26 Dec 2017, 7:55 pm

i'm pretty sure the ditty is universally known, but that some people [grammarians and contrarians of various stripes] might think IT might as well have come from pluto.



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26 Dec 2017, 8:39 pm

The song itself is nonsensical and inane. And so a parody doesn't have to make any sense (content wise nor format wise). The original song doesn't even rhyme.

Just one thing.

What are "lords a leaping"?

Did the narrator's true love hire members of the House of Lords to travel to the narrator's home just so they could "leap" in front of the gift recipient?



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26 Dec 2017, 8:52 pm

naturalplastic wrote:
The song itself is nonsensical and inane. And so a parody doesn't have to make any sense (content wise nor format wise). The original song doesn't even rhyme.

Just one thing.

What are "lords a leaping"?

Did the narrator's true love hire members of the House of Lords to travel to the narrator's home just so they could "leap" in front of the gift recipient?


Maybe they were Time Lords. Even better yet, 10 different regenerations of one Time Lord. Not necessarily the same sex!

Can't you imagine being a Time Lord, going to a bar, taking a gorgeous woman home, having sex with her, and then finding out that you just screwed yourself? I suspect that is one theme that isn't going to be played out on Doctor Who.



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26 Dec 2017, 9:02 pm

if people could screw themselves, what a world it would be. calling Dr. Ho.



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26 Dec 2017, 10:15 pm

I hope Trump cranks up his Diet Coke intake to 24, maybe 36, hell 72 cans per day!


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26 Dec 2017, 10:19 pm

diet, HELL! let it be full artery-clogging sugar!



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26 Dec 2017, 10:23 pm

kokopelli wrote:
Can't you imagine being a Time Lord, going to a bar, taking a gorgeous woman home, having sex with her, and then finding out that you just screwed yourself? I suspect that is one theme that isn't going to be played out on Doctor Who.

I suspect its a rip-off of Avatar where the Avatar's soul is sometimes reborn as a woman



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26 Dec 2017, 10:25 pm

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What are "lords a leaping"?

I think that refers to Lord's fox hunting leaping over hedges on their "noble" steeds. Killing foxes was a popular pass-time for the aristocracy



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27 Dec 2017, 7:44 am

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What are "lords a leaping"?

I think that refers to Lord's fox hunting leaping over hedges on their "noble" steeds. Killing foxes was a popular pass-time for the aristocracy


Okay.

That actually does make sense: that your true love would entertain you by staging a steeple chase type event.



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27 Dec 2017, 11:41 am

kokopelli wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
cyberdad wrote:
kokopelli wrote:
Lintar wrote:
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President Donald Trump drinks 12 cans of Diet Coke and watches as much as eight hours of TV per day, according to a new report in The New York Times.


I stopped reading at that point (i.e. after the first sentence). The New York Times is notorious for spreading fake news, it is utterly unreliable. One should not believe a word they print.


The definition of fake news being "any news contrary to what the observer, in this case Lintar, wants the news to report."

Or replace "lintar" with "Trump" and you have an equivalent meaning

and his leagues of ruffian supporters.


I mainly detest the term fake news because it rarely, if ever, refers to news that is a lie.


I'm wondering though if tabloid-like news produced for the sake of sensationalism qualifies as real news. Like in the way that junk food doesn't really qualify as real food.



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27 Dec 2017, 11:48 am

naturalplastic wrote:
The song itself is nonsensical and inane. And so a parody doesn't have to make any sense (content wise nor format wise). The original song doesn't even rhyme.

Just one thing.

What are "lords a leaping"?

Did the narrator's true love hire members of the House of Lords to travel to the narrator's home just so they could "leap" in front of the gift recipient?


According to this source it means:
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The Ten Lords A-Leaping Are The Ten Commandments The Eleven Pipers Piping Stand For The Eleven Faithful Disciples The Twelve Drummers Drumming Symbolize The 12 Points Of Belief In The Apostles Creed And There You Have It The Hidden Meaning Of "The Twelve Days Of Christmas"

http://www.raskys.com/christmas38.html



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27 Dec 2017, 12:23 pm

^^^
WELL! :o i'll be [censored]!
I learn something knew every day thanks to people like you :study:



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27 Dec 2017, 3:31 pm

Interesting theory. That the song is crypto Catholic in what was then an anti Catholic country.

I have one problem with that theory though.

There is nothing in any of that supposed symbolism that is peculiar to Roman Catholicism as opposed to Protestantism/Anglicanism. Its all either Old Testament stuff that even exists in Judaism (like the Ten Commandments), or New Testament stuff that's shared by all branches of Christianity. It's all just general purpose Christianity without any sectarian concepts.

Nothing referred to by the supposed 12 symbols is anything that Protestant authorities would object to, or even disagree with.

So why hide of any of it underneath code?

Catholics would only need to hide stuff that refers to beliefs that are distinctively Catholic, and non Protestant, like accepting the Pope as your leader, and details about the Eucharist, and so forth. None of that is symbolized.