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Now snowflakes are triggered by FULL STOPS: Sensitive readers find the humble dot 'weird, mean or too blunt'
Daily Mail ^ | August 22, 2020 | Holly Bancroft

Posted on 08/24/2020 9:14:29 AM PDT by rickmichaels

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To: Leaning Right

I assume exclamation points are non-triggering?

What about question marks?


61 posted on 08/24/2020 9:59:56 AM PDT by rlmorel ("Truth is Treason in the Empire of Lies"- George Orwell)
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To: NohSpinZone

One more generation like the last two, the United States will be invaded and conquered over the next decade ... by Canada


62 posted on 08/24/2020 9:59:57 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Today’s music represents the anti-structural and dumbed-down nature of modern communication. Songs have unimaginative, repetitive melodies (if any melody at all), little or no harmony, no narrative, and repetitive lyrics. There is little structure, but a linear percussive beat with sparse instrumentation. Many of the singers adopt the exact same style, with little personal stamp, and the effect is that of a sexual plaything with a delivery of faux innocence and vulnerability.


63 posted on 08/24/2020 10:00:42 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: Steve_Seattle

Totally agree. I don’t like to sound like an old fogey but most of the music I hear on the radio today is basically just some kind of “throb” with a female belting out nonsense. I turn that stuff off.


64 posted on 08/24/2020 10:04:21 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: rickmichaels
Just help me! 😑🙄
65 posted on 08/24/2020 10:08:19 AM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's Economic Cure)
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To: rickmichaels
– do you realise that ending a sentence with a full stop comes across as sort of abrupt and unfriendly to younger people in an email/chat?

do you realize WE DON'T GIVE A SH!T WHAT YOU THINK???

66 posted on 08/24/2020 10:27:31 AM PDT by Chode (Send bachelors and come heavily armed.)
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67 posted on 08/24/2020 10:27:58 AM PDT by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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To: rlmorel
- What about question marks? -

Yeah, and what's so special about oxford commas? They look like all the other commas... why should they get a name when the others don't?

68 posted on 08/24/2020 10:40:53 AM PDT by ken in texas
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To: rickmichaels

‘Older people – do you realise that ending a sentence with a full stop comes across as sort of abrupt and unfriendly to younger people in an email/chat? Genuinely curious.’

But she put a . at the end of her statement. Hmmmm.


69 posted on 08/24/2020 10:44:02 AM PDT by Engedi (SCOTU)
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To: ken in texas

I have to admit, the inanity of the Left makes a square impact with my funny bone.

I just wish their stupidity would be confined to humor only. Their mental illness which would otherwise be ripe territory for ridicule, can have real impact on our lives in a bad way.


70 posted on 08/24/2020 10:47:12 AM PDT by rlmorel ("Truth is Treason in the Empire of Lies"- George Orwell)
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To: freedumb2003

Not sure why you would reference COBOL like that. A COBOL program dies if there is even one misplaced period ... and even a small COBOL program has many ‘dots’.


71 posted on 08/24/2020 10:50:40 AM PDT by ByteMercenary (Healthcare Insurance is *NOT* a Constitutional right.)
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To: All

Too.

Darned.

Bad.


72 posted on 08/24/2020 10:53:06 AM PDT by Peter ODonnell (Pray for health, economic recovery, and justice.)
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To: hanamizu

Why not. We should set gun and climate change policy based on a 16 year old too.


73 posted on 08/24/2020 10:54:51 AM PDT by matt04
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Made up BS to irritate. Needs to be bypassed.

These agitation bits have been a thing now since before Trump started running for office. Kicked into high gear as his election deflated Cruz's and his picked up steam. These tidbit media points are nothing, but exist only to generate clicks & comments etc....

74 posted on 08/24/2020 10:57:27 AM PDT by urtax$@work
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To: rickmichaels

Fools empowered. Period.


75 posted on 08/24/2020 11:20:10 AM PDT by lurk
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To: rickmichaels
Snowflakes are making their common-core illiteracy MY problem?

Talk about making the world revolve them...

-PJ

76 posted on 08/24/2020 11:23:45 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (Freedom of the press is the People's right to publish, not CNN's right to the 1st question.)
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To: rickmichaels

Good thing they never watched Victor Borge.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7BXPKyikB0


77 posted on 08/24/2020 11:28:39 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: rickmichaels

Dan Baird - I Love You Period
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QkBbuhHxtM


78 posted on 08/24/2020 11:31:47 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: rickmichaels

notonlyfullstopsorperiodsareoffensiveifindcapitalisationspacesandpunctuationofanykindoffensive


79 posted on 08/24/2020 11:32:03 AM PDT by seowulf
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To: rlmorel

Those commas also seemed a little passive aggressive to me.
Then you ended with that assault of an exclamation point!


80 posted on 08/24/2020 11:33:44 AM PDT by Do_Tar (Do I really need a /joke?)
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