They may like the word but we did them one better — we elected one!
‘Nincompoop’ is Britain’s favorite word
A British survey has found “nincompoop” to be the nation’s favorite word of the 16,500 entries in the Cambridge Dictionary.
The survey of more than 2,000 Britons found 13 percent of respondents chose “nincompoop” — which likely derived from the Latin “non compos mentis,” which means someone not of a sound mind — as their favorite sounding English word, The Daily Mail reported Thursday.
The poll, commissioned by Ubisoft, makers of the language computer game “My Word Search,” found “love” was the second most popular word among those polled and “mum” was third.
“The results demonstrate our passion for language and the sentiment we attach to words such as love and mum,” Ubisoft spokesman Mike Masuku said. “It also highlights how narrow most people’s vocabulary has become.”
“Gaming offers a fun way to learn,” he said. “Users of every age can benefit from learning new words and their meanings without feeling they are being preached to or patronized.”
How many fart jokes are in this piece of junk.
Did you hear about the fire in the GW Bush library? He was concerned about it going up in flames, because he wasn’t finished coloring all the pictures in both books.
I was hoping for daffodil.
You’re such an angry hack, Dave.
Uncle Dave,
Great word.
Poster #3 came right to mind when I read the story. But, as well as he meets the definition, your picture is even better.
I haven’t heard that word since The Three Stooges, whup,whup,whup.
James, I do it just for you!
I’m glad that a majority of Americans were smart enough to re-elect Bush. The only nincompoops I’m aware of are the immature children whose cars sport the “1-20-09” bumper stickers like somehow they are living a horrible life because of Bush.
God help us if any of these current idiot self-loathing democrats wins. God help us.
#7: Just curious. Do you approve of the staggering amount of spending Bush has approved? Do you approve of the reduction in civil liberties and the intrusions the government is making into your life? Do you approve of the low standing the US has achieved around the world because of his actions?
We may not be living a “horrible life” right now, but future generations, saddled with what Bush has wrought, will be. Not saying I approve of the Dems, but it’s hard to imagine it being worse under them.
#9
You crack me up. Satire in it’s finest form.
#10 – how many times have I said the same in regards to everything that proceeds from most “progressive” mouths.
At times I’m just dumbfounded.
#9
I would prefer that President Bush did not spend so much money.”
Prefer??? The guy is the biggest spendthrift since Johnson. You may know how to count, but he doesn’t, Iraq will end up costing $1 Trillion, he put it at around $300 Billion.
-Sure, he lowered your taxes, but did it by borrowing more from abroad. It’s like saying I put my groceries on my credit card to lower my expenses. That’s nuts.
-The guy has completely mis-executed the Iraq war. If he’d listen to the UN, we wouldn’t be in Iraq and facing his screw-ups.
-Putin gives the US the back of his hand, because he understands Bush has made America weak through incompetence.
-You’re thrilled that he’s stop stem cell research because it prevents innocent death, right? He’s against abortions. How many innocent Iraqis has this idiot killed, innocent Iraqi children? How can you be against abortion but for bombing cities, where you absolutely know innocent children and pregnant women will be killed? That’s nuts.
Bush is completely incompetent and if he worked in a normal business, he’d have gotten the pink slip by now.
Don’t forget that directly because of Bush, between 700,000 and 1 million people have died plus 4 million displaced. Soon he’ll have the numbers Pol Pot had for murdering. I’m sure hoping he and his admin team get to court in the Hague for Crimes against Humanity.
He’s a disgusting person all way round.
#12
The tax cut was NOT “paid” by borrowing from abroad. Tax revenue has increased since the tax cut. There was and is no need to “pay” for it. However, Congress then took that increased tax revenue and spent it and then a whole lot more.
The Iraqi War was managed just fine. That ended in a month or so. It is the Iraqi peace that is taking some time.
#13
Bullshit. One million Iraqis have not died from US troops. Let’s make sure we take out of the calculation Iraqi deaths from other Iraqis, deaths of Iraqis from suicide bombers and of course the suicide bombers themselves.
#14, Thomas,
RE #13, Good points.
And don’t forget to subtract all the Iraqis that didn’t bother to get their own personal body armor or bomb proof their homes. And if they got ill and there was no medicine because of the embargo, well that is their own fault too. And they should know better than to be on the streets when an American convoy is in the neighborhood. It is also the Iraqis fault that their wedding parties resemble al Quaeda gatherings. And if some 14 yr old Iraqi girl was so sexy she drove an American soldier to rape her and then kill her whole family to cover it up, well, she shouldn’t have looked like that.
Fuck, any Iraqi that got killed was their own fault and had it comin any way. They shouldn’t otta be in no fucking war zone in the first place.
#15
What about the Americans that *did* have body armor and *did* bomb proof their shelter and still died from suicide bombers? What about the Americans that died by snipers as they simply drove through town? What about the Iraqi policemen that died from other Iraqis while trying to keep the peace? Yes, I feel sorry for the Iraqis. However, I also feel sorry for the Kurds that were gassed by Hussein after Desert Storm. I feel sorry for the 14 year olds that are recruited by terrorists to be suicide bombers. I feel sorry for the school children killed by terrorists. I feel pity for the Iraqis that died from the whim of a tyrant and that the only circumstance that would dispose that bozo was a foreign invasion.
#14 Thomas,
First of all, I didn’t discuss a tax cut, I said that his spending increased by the largest amount since Johnson (actually since Nixon/Ford).
I also asserted that he borrows too much money to pay for his spending. The National Debt stood at $5.6 Trillion when Bush came to office. It now stands at around $9 Trillion.
You’re correct, tax revenues are up and now we pay 20.8 cents of every $1 the economy generates, up from 18.5 cents in 2001. So, he’s managed to eat up more of the US economy for his $300 billion war.
Bush needs a new job, he’s completely muffed his current one. He’s damaged our reputation, he’s sunk us into debt, he’s losing both wars (including the one we must win in Afghanistan/Pakistan)and he demonstrates hypocrisy in his willingness to kill innocent Iraqi children while pretending to be concerned about the unborn.
#17 Thomas,
“I feel pity for the Iraqis that died from the whim of a tyrant and that the only circumstance that would dispose that bozo was a foreign invasion.”
Excuse me, while we certainly pity those Iraqis who died at the hands of Hussein. It’s obviously a disaster for those people. Nonetheless, it isn’t US policy to invade countries who abuse their people. Otherwise, we would have invaded Stalin’s Soviet Union, Mao’s China, Pol Pots Cambodia. We would have intervened in the genocide of Rwanda and currently going on in Sudan.
Yours is a typical move the goal post position to support the fact that Bush made a disastrous call on Iraq. Saving the Iraqi’s from Saddam is simply a palliative.
None of our soldiers would have been hurt (our first priority) if he’d simply not started the invasion in the first place.
Thomas,
Correction, I did talk about a tax cut. My mistake. I wish you could edit this blog.
#18
A. It is not true that the US is entitled to ignore despots. It was that attitude that almost cost us WWII. Every President in the past 20 years has sent troops to dispose a tyrant.
B. You have to pick your battles in terms of taking down a terrible government. The Soviet Union was too big to take down by force, although there were many that wanted to do just that. Churchill felt that Stalin was as bad as Hitler but realized that we needed to use one vermin to take out another. Instead we took down the Soviets with economics. Similarly, the Chinese are too big to take down by force and it does not appear that economics alone with do it. It may eventually be cultural influences that do in the Chinese government. We might very well have taken out Pol Pot but thanks to people like Jane Fonda and incompetent management by the Johnson administration we pulled out before we had a chance to do such a thing. Why we did not intervene in the Sudan is a good question. I don’t have an answer for that.
C. Taking down Hussein was part of a greater long term strategic goal to stabilize the region and its oil by providing an output in the middle east. The problem with Iraq was the feeble excuse used to invade and the poor way that the aftermath of the war was managed. The war itself took about a month.
I definitely agree that Bush and Congress screwed up in running up a huge deficit. You don’t have to worry about Bush. In a little over a year, he’ll be out of office for good.
> by providing an output in the middle east.
*Sigh*. That should obviously be “outpost”.
C. Taking down Hussein was part of a greater long term strategic goal to stabilize the region and its oil by providing an output in the middle east. The problem with Iraq was the feeble excuse used to invade and the poor way that the aftermath of the war was managed. The war itself took about a month.
You have got to be fucking kidding me. Just because GWB said mission accomplished the war is over. The end of a war is measured by the peace.
All the violence in Iraq is a direct result of our occupation. The war will not be over until we leave. The insurgents can fight for another thousand years.
When are you fucking blind idiots going to see that one mans terrorist is another mans freedom fighter.
The whole region is in danger because of our make war not love policy. Is anyone surprised that an evangelical nut job like the president would be happy to see the apocalypse.
This whole war has completely changed the way I look at Christianity. GWB and Jesus can both kiss my ass!
>>GWB and Jesus can both kiss my ass!
Now, now. Let’s not confuse the Chimperor in Chief with anything remotely resembling real Christianity.
He and his holy roller, meth-and-man-ass, bible-thumping, Darwinism-denying, hypocritical, wide-stance-adopting, Constitituion-shredding acolytes are the Antichrist, if anything.
Had Jesus not been resurrected, he’d be turning over in his grave.
75% of Americans realize what a disaster Bush has been for the country and the world, the other 25% will hopefully soon remove their heads from their rears and see the truth also
#23
The Iraqi military was finished in about a month. That does not mean that all violence ended once the Iraqi military was defeated. Violence did not end in Germany or Japan the microsecond that the war was over. Violence did not end in the US after Antietam. It is the peace process that has not been “accomplished” and that may take many years yet.
The middle-east has been in danger for almost a 1000 years. If we left now, it might continue to be in danger for another 1000 years.
> The end of a war is measured by the peace.
The object of a war is to bend your opponent’s will to your own and you do that by breaking their will to fight. The vast majority of Iraqis stopped fighting long ago. They have been bent to our will by their removal of their previous government and work towards forming a democratic government. How long it lasts is what is measured by the peace. Clearly the peace process could have been managed far better than it was. I’m not sure that anyone disputes that.
#25
Bush’s legacy will forever rest with Iraq. If Iraq manages to pull itself together, history will see Bush as a better than average President. If instead, Iraq collapses or is taken over by Iran or another country, Bush will been seen as a poor President. Think about it this way, if the North had lost the Civil War, Lincoln would have been considered one of the worst Presidents in history. He railroaded the Constitution on numerous occasions in the interest of preserving the Union and had he not succeeded, he would have been seen as a failure.
By the way, 89% realize what a disaster Congress has been and the other 11% will hopefully soon remove *their* heads from their rears and see the truth also.
>>If Iraq manages to pull itself together,
>>history will see Bush as a better than
>>average President.
I seriously doubt that. Even if Dumbya hadn’t started his absurd war-without-end, just about everything ELSE the dimwit has done during his time in office has been an unmitigated failure. From spying on US citizens to Katrina to Alberto Gonzalez to his attempt to get Miss Meyers in as Supreme Court Justice to his abortion with Social Security to his tax breaks for those who don’t need tax breaks to his ostrich-like approach to the health care crisis.
There isn’t a single thing that nimrod has done that wasn’t a big fat dud. And he talks like a retard.
It is not clear whether the wiretapping was illegal especially since Congress just re-approved it.
Gonzales was an idiot as was Ashcroft but so was Reno. Let’s just say that the track record of Attorney General appointments by all Presidents going back quite a ways is less than stellar.
Your view on the tax cuts is idiotic. The economy did better and tax revenue increased after the tax cuts. Everyone benefited from the tax cuts, even people that pay almost no tax.
As far as I know, Bush nor Congress did anything about Social Security nor health care. Frankly, I haven’t heard any reasonable solutions to either SS or health care, so I don’t feel too bad that the ones that were proposed did not pass.
# 26 Thomas,
Iraq is little more than Manifest Destiny 2.0. So, I think a more apt analogy to Iraq is the Mexican American War, where we grabbed the land quickly and ended the war in 3 years. Polk was a hero.
If Bush had got us in and consolidated in 3 years, his popularity numbers would be the reversed they are now and he could claim his rightful place beside Polk (but certainly not Lincoln, Iraq is not about the Union).
Clearly, Bush is no Polk and President Polk understood Texans better than Cheney understood Iraqis. LOL
>>It is not clear whether the wiretapping
>>was illegal especially since Congress
>>just re-approved it.
wtf?? RE-approved it? They never approved it in the first place. That’s why there’s all the controversy over Dumbya and his puppeteers end-running around the FISA approval process, which is pretty much a rubber stamp for any legitimate request.
>>Gonzales was an idiot as was Ashcroft but
>>so was Reno.
Reno was like Albert Einstein + Mother Theresa compared with ‘Berto. That guy’s sleaze factor was waaaaaay too high, and his backbone was waaaaaaay too soft.
>>Your view on the tax cuts is idiotic.
Many well-respected economists share the view. It’s really only the right-wing that think his tax cuts were anything other than a freebie for the obscenely wealthy.
>>>Frankly, I haven’t heard any reasonable
>>solutions to either SS or health care.
SS only need minor tweaking to be viable forever. As to health care solutions, start listening to the Democrats instead of Anal Cyst Limbaugh and the other “Socialized Medicine!! ARGGHH!” dittoheads. And if you can’t bring yourself to listen to a Democrat, take a look at what Mitt Romney did in Massachusetts. It’s not perfect, but it’s a fuck of a lot better than having 45,000,000 uninsured people with no access to health care, while the $135,000,000.00/yr Denial-of-Health-Care executives do what they do best.
…that there are still obstinate, deluded clowns that, after all that’s gone down since ’00, persist in making pathetic utterly bogus excuses for that mouth-breathing, semiliterate, arrogant, coke-huffing, frat-boy loser, would-be monarch and all-around flaming sack of dogshit… makes me think this country is beyond hope.
Anyone the last two terms haven’t taught that Dubya has always, always been a total failure who fucks up every single thing he puts his hand to, has to be as much a simpering simpleton as he is.
Miau.
#30
RE: Wiretapping
Read the “Protect America Act.” It basically legitimizes Federal wiretapping of domestic communication without a warrant. So, yes Congress has legitimized wiretapping.
RE: Reno
While Gonzales was slimy, Reno was grossly incompetent. She was the one that let Gorelick send down the now infamous memo from on high that prevented the CIA and FBI from sharing information. Choosing between Reno and Gonzales is like choosing between Michael Scott and Andy Bernard (see The Office). Frankly, they both were awful appointments.
RE: Tax cuts.
How is having more tax revenue bad? Your responses to the tax cut come off ignorant and envious. Here’s a hypothetical question for you: if you had a policy that would benefit poor but also benefit the rich in equal proportion would you do it? I get the not-so-subtle impression from liberals that they would not. They still have their head stuck in the idea that economics is somehow a zero-sum game.
RE: Social Security
It was Johnson that decided play games with reporting so that he could borrow against the trust fund for his “Great Society” without it counting against the national debt. This is the party I should trust? The only real problem with Social Security is that its money and management is not far enough away from government meddling.
RE: Health Care
I’m open to any idea as long as it does not involve a massive Big Brother bureaucracy and maintains choice for people. I have not looked at Romney’s plan in extensive detail but from what I have read it has parts that have merit and parts with which I’m not thrilled. It still continues with the practice of allowing health insurance providers to sell to employers instead requiring that they sell to individuals. I’m also not thrilled with punishing businesses if they do not provide insurance. Taking the employer out of the equation would have solved that problem.