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Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2016 17:08:35 GMT
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Post by whatagain on Jul 2, 2016 12:11:15 GMT
The word 'gai' is a good way to spot a Belgian : we use it a lot to say it is fun 'c'était gai ? Tu t'es bien amusée ?'. The French don't use that word often. So for us at least we feel that male homo are fun people ;-) I've been starting to understand a little more of the problems the homos face since I became friend with one who posts a lot on FB... Actually I had been friend with him for several years, but in a professional context and hadn't realized he was gay. I guess it means I don't pay attention. Should I ? (I also just realized some of my friends are ... black !).
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Post by onlyMark on Jul 2, 2016 16:24:09 GMT
Can you call them homos?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 2, 2016 19:11:29 GMT
Not in English you can't.
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Post by questa on Jul 2, 2016 23:59:40 GMT
There is a very common mistake made about the prefix 'homo'.
Most people use homo, pronounced hoa-mo, in 'homosexual' thinking it refers to 'man'. ie men to men sex. That is the Latin use of homo. (Ecce homo = behold, the man)
However homosexual is a Greek/Latin word and should be pronounced 'hommo' and it means 'the same' as in 'homogenous'. Here the meaning is one who has sex with the same gendered partner.
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Post by whatagain on Jul 3, 2016 13:59:16 GMT
In French 'homo' is ok. And we use 'hetero' more and more.
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Post by bjd on Jul 3, 2016 14:41:56 GMT
Yes, 'homo' is okay in French. One of my neighbours told me her son was 'homo'.
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 14, 2018 23:17:20 GMT
So, here we go again in Florida. They're still counting the dead.
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 14, 2018 23:38:50 GMT
And now they're already saying 17 dead.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2018 1:25:42 GMT
My dismay is beyond comprehension...
Not to downplay these tragic murders, I am still reeling after 4 murders here in NOLA in the last 24 hours...yes, during Mardi Gras. F ME...
When will it ever end?
"I'm Fixing A Hole"....
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Post by mickthecactus on Feb 15, 2018 8:44:09 GMT
Only when the Second Amendment is repealed and that ain't gonna happen any time soon.
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Post by mickthecactus on Feb 15, 2018 9:46:03 GMT
The usual thoughts and prayers have been offered. Waste of time.
And, once again, " this is not the time to discuss gun control..."
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 15, 2018 10:19:49 GMT
I think the only time to discuss gun control is when everything is calm so that they can say "See? There's no need for gun control."
And who is the first person going to be who says "If the students had been armed, they could have defended themselves."
I feel sorry for the police on duty at the school, because it is certain that some people are going to say that they weren't doing their job.
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Post by mickthecactus on Feb 15, 2018 11:06:18 GMT
There is already talk about teachers being armed.
Somebody called Tomi Lahren who I have never heard of but seems to be some news celebrity says "this isn't about a gun it's about another lunatic". Yeah, right......
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Post by bjd on Feb 15, 2018 12:41:39 GMT
Come on folks, it's only the 4th school shooting in 2018. No need to get upset.
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 15, 2018 13:18:50 GMT
Oh, I read it was the 8th.
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Post by mickthecactus on Feb 15, 2018 13:48:07 GMT
In all, guns have been fired on school property in the US at least 18 times so far this year, according to incidents tracked by Everytown for Gun Safety, a gun control group. In eight of these cases, a gun was fired on school property, but no one was injured. Another two incidents were gun suicides, claiming the lives of one student and one adult on school property.
The repeated tragedies and frightening incidents continue to spark deeply divided political responses, with some Americans urging tighter laws on gun sales and ownership and others advocating for putting more armed guards in schools, or making it easier for teachers and parents to carry their own concealed weapons. Experts caution that the toll of gun violence on children and teenagers falls heaviest outside of schools. Youngsters are much more likely to be shot in their own homes or neighborhoods than at school, according to research by the school safety expert Dewey Cornell.
President Trump, please listen to a Sandy Hook mom on gun reform
Nicole Hockley
Read more But the emotional impact of school shootings has sparked a booming school safety industry. In 2017, the market for security equipment in the education sector was estimated at $2.68bn, according to industry analysts at IHS Markit. Some companies have capitalized on parents’ fears by selling bulletproof backpacks or whiteboards, as well as offering ways to fortify school buildings themselves against attack.
While refusing to pass substantive gun control restrictions, Congress has approved hundreds of millions of dollars in federal spending to help put police officers in public schools, including $45m in 2013, the year after the Sandy Hook elementary school shooting.
Some gun rights advocates have pushed to expand gun-carrying in schools further. Andrew McDaniel, a state legislator in Missouri who introduced legislation last year to make it easier to carry guns in schools, told the Guardian that, in rural schools where it might take 20 or 30 minutes for law enforcement to respond to a school shooting in progress, it made sense to have other armed citizens ready to step in.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 15, 2018 16:01:50 GMT
... others advocating for putting more armed guards in schools, or making it easier for teachers and parents to carry their own concealed weapons. I would say this kind of breathtaking stupidity makes me want to weep, but really it more provokes blind fury. We are a nation engaged in self-murder by civilians on a grand scale and are doing nothing about it. The venal, obscene hypocrisy of lawmakers offering their frigging "thoughts & prayers" even as they maintain & bolster the conditions that allow shootings is beyond bearing. They might as well be pulling the triggers themselves. What can be done to elevate the consciousness of large portions of the population out of their gun-toting lunacy, I do not know.
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 15, 2018 16:05:40 GMT
I was imagining taking the reasoning a step further. Obviously if such a programme were put into place, quite a few teachers would refuse to bring a weapon to the classroom. Parents would split into two camps :
1. I refuse to send my child into that classroom unless the teacher has a gun. 2. I refuse to send my child into that classroom because the teacher does not have a gun.
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Post by questa on Feb 15, 2018 22:03:59 GMT
What happens when an armed teacher goes off his/her head? In my school days teachers were known to throw chalks or blackboard erasers at unruly kids. At least they weren't lethal.
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Post by mich64 on Feb 16, 2018 0:11:03 GMT
I was just listening to an interview with the Governor of Florida, Rick Scott. He did everything he could to NOT say he would support discussions regarding changes to gun laws such as why an 18 year old can legally buy an assult weapon like the AR15 but yet he is legally not old enough to buy a beer until he is 21? Not responsible enough to drink but responsible enough to own an ASSULT weapon.
He talked about many issues that do need to be addressed but when pressed about gun control changes he quickly pivoted to, "It's a lot of things." He says he will bring everyone together to talk about how to prevent this from happening again and how much he loves his grandchildren, daughters, nieces and nephews but I never felt he really answered gun law questions or concerns.
I find it difficult to listen to these politicians pleading for the necessity for change and how they will make sure it never ever happens again and how much love they have for the children but then will turn themselves inside out to defend their rights to own these assult weapons in spite of all children.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 16, 2018 0:39:39 GMT
Very well said, Mich. You have succinctly put the blame squarely where it belongs.
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Post by questa on Feb 16, 2018 0:57:50 GMT
Raise gun access to age 25. Anybody assisting younger person to access a gun to be prosecuted (Dealers, parents, intentionally or not, friends and gangs) Anyone who supplies or gives access to a weapon to a person under 25 who goes on to do a school shooting is charged as being an accessory to the shooting.
At least it may get dealers and parents more aware of their responsibilities.
Educate people to observe their peers and watch out for signs of stress or strange behaviour.
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Post by mickthecactus on Feb 16, 2018 8:19:08 GMT
So Mr President, which is safer, a lunatic with a gun or a lunatic without a gun?
Take your time....
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Post by bjd on Feb 16, 2018 12:18:42 GMT
Why give gun access at 25? Why not restrict access as much as possible to everyone, except police. I agree with Bixa and Mich, and all of you in fact: the USA is crazy when it comes to guns, with that never-ending nonsense about constitutional right to bear arms. Yeah, let them have 18th century muskets that have to be reloaded after each shot and see what they do.
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Post by mossie on Feb 16, 2018 15:28:40 GMT
My very 'tongue in cheek' view is. Mr Trump and the other American elite will not consider gun control, because the current situation is quite a useful means of population control.
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 16, 2018 20:14:14 GMT
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Post by mickthecactus on Feb 16, 2018 21:48:43 GMT
Well done Jimbo!
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Feb 17, 2018 20:14:24 GMT
Desperately sad, and the attitude of politicians is shameful.
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Post by whatagain on Feb 18, 2018 23:54:22 GMT
Was said on the news today that Trump was blaming FBI to have not reacted faster to a memorandum saying the killer had made threats.
Sure. Blame the FBI for not arresting crazy guys with gun. Maybe we should also blame firefighters to not stop fires before they start too.
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