Can't we just be okay with the fact that Kanye West is an asshole? By most accounts his work is exceptional, shouldn't that be enough? We've got people like Debra Winger excusing Roman Polanski raping a 13 year old girl because of his genius, can't we accept Kanye being an ass as long as he delivers great music?
@anonymousryan: I'm happy to accept Kanye being a talented jackass. Writing off Polanski's unrepentant child-rape charge for the sake of his talent, not so much.
@anonymousryan: Speaking as the foremost local champion of British/Antipodean cussing, might I beg of you gentle-people to consider the usage of the word 'ass'? Over here, 'ass', with a short 'a', is a donkey. 'ARSE' sounds far more lewd. Try it. Long 'a'... as in 'AHHHH - (choo)' (bless you).
So - 'AHHHH-rsss'. Long 'a', long 's'. 'Ass' as you pronounce it is too short to give proper cussing satisfaction. AHHHHrssss-hoooole, on the other hand - magic.
@DevilsAvocado: (Waving hello). Yeah, many people use "arse" in Canada as well, though in keeping with our hybrid Brit/Yank ways, many use "ass" as well. The word "ass" sounds weird to me; too prissy to be a cuss word.
@anonymousryan: Kanye West is the best celebrity on earth. My only concern is that I do not want him going crazier than 80s Michael Jackson into full-bore trainwreck recluse 90s and 00s MJ. Although I will admit that I could be swayed on this one if Invincible had been another Thriller.
@scroll_lock: As in, "piss off", or "Scrolly, I'm off to imbibe a bottle of fine chardonnay over lunch - I plan to be pretty pissed by mid-afternoon"?
I'm also very fond of our Australian use of 'bugger' in many and varied ways - 'you silly old bugger' (affectionate), 'bugger off' (see 'piss off'), and 'I'm buggered' (I'm tired).
"...a heap of sand and chicken bones that lurches across the plains" is now my #1 all-time favorite mental image. Maybe it's because, when I was 3 or 4, I truly thought the hallway in my house was inhabited by bags of trash with turkey feet. They lived in the closets and skittered up and down the hall at night.
@Scullery_Maid: That was my favourite part of this nicely pepped-up gossip roundup (which I never read, but Richard's hilariousness pulled me in off the front page).
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You deserved to go out and boff her.
Admit it, you O-faced and left it in,
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So - 'AHHHH-rsss'. Long 'a', long 's'. 'Ass' as you pronounce it is too short to give proper cussing satisfaction. AHHHHrssss-hoooole, on the other hand - magic.
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I'm also very fond of our Australian use of 'bugger' in many and varied ways - 'you silly old bugger' (affectionate), 'bugger off' (see 'piss off'), and 'I'm buggered' (I'm tired).
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I want you to sing this Frames song to me, ''quitely''...
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*VERY TRICKY; NEEDS PRACTICE OR GREATER LENGTH