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As technology leaps forward, new words are introduced into our everyday vocabulary and new words pop into our culture based on how things evolve or devolve as it may...The Brits would accuse us Yanks as butchering and bastardizing the proper English language, which I suppose might have some merit but to each his own. Below are some bastardized words that I have either heard or made up lately by combining words:
Sheoples - combo people and sheep - too many followers who blindly follow like sheep
Re-dumbdumb - combo redundant and dumb (sort of redumbdumb in and of itself - ahh the beauty of irony)
Mediscare - combo Medicare and Scare....whenever you have a gov't run anything, it will certainly become the butt of many jokes - why would Medicare be any different?
Voluntold - combo volunteer and told - sometimes we get volunteered for stuff which really just moots the concept of 'volunteering'
Obnauseous - combo obnoxious and nauseous....admittedly, I am not a good sick so when something is kicking my tail, I get ornery and Obnauseous
Medijuana - combo Medical and Marijuana - the new fad seems to be getting a Mary J card for anything that ails...where people get diagnosed over the phone & subsequently get a card...my 2c?? The gov't should just legalize and tax it so it can at least be regulated & taxed like alcohol or tobacco (which seem to do much more damage to society) - in this day and age, they certainly need the revenue! The current escape clause is the medijuana card - so of course it is getting abused.
Just tackle the bigger issue and make it legal for all - The problem is they don't have the cojones to touch such a touchy issue though...grow a set already! At the end of the day, I don't care what people do, as long as their actions don't negatively impact someone else - pretty simple concept, but as usual the gov't has an innate ability to 'turn an Easter egg hunt into a butt-f#@$-a-thon (to steal a quote from the movie 'Made')...of course, the other side is that society also has the propensity to abuse the system as is the case with this medijuana card, or alcohol, or tobacco. The challenge is to develop an instrument to measure levels of intoxication for driving or operating heavy machinery, etc? Although you could just make that a zero tolerance for things such as driving....
I am not sure why so many people 'need' medijuana cards - but that is the avenue people have been give to pursue toking up ala 'Up In Smoke'...hmmm wonder if Cheech or Chong have any stakes in all these new pot shops???
I don't expect to see these new words in Webster's anytime soon, but they have certainly entered my own little Webster's vernacular.
As technology leaps forward, new words are introduced into our everyday vocabulary and new words pop into our culture based on how things evolve or devolve as it may...The Brits would accuse us Yanks as butchering and bastardizing the proper English language, which I suppose might have some merit but to each his own. Below are some bastardized words that I have either heard or made up lately by combining words:
Sheoples - combo people and sheep - too many followers who blindly follow like sheep
Re-dumbdumb - combo redundant and dumb (sort of redumbdumb in and of itself - ahh the beauty of irony)
Mediscare - combo Medicare and Scare....whenever you have a gov't run anything, it will certainly become the butt of many jokes - why would Medicare be any different?
Voluntold - combo volunteer and told - sometimes we get volunteered for stuff which really just moots the concept of 'volunteering'
Obnauseous - combo obnoxious and nauseous....admittedly, I am not a good sick so when something is kicking my tail, I get ornery and Obnauseous
Medijuana - combo Medical and Marijuana - the new fad seems to be getting a Mary J card for anything that ails...where people get diagnosed over the phone & subsequently get a card...my 2c?? The gov't should just legalize and tax it so it can at least be regulated & taxed like alcohol or tobacco (which seem to do much more damage to society) - in this day and age, they certainly need the revenue! The current escape clause is the medijuana card - so of course it is getting abused.
Just tackle the bigger issue and make it legal for all - The problem is they don't have the cojones to touch such a touchy issue though...grow a set already! At the end of the day, I don't care what people do, as long as their actions don't negatively impact someone else - pretty simple concept, but as usual the gov't has an innate ability to 'turn an Easter egg hunt into a butt-f#@$-a-thon (to steal a quote from the movie 'Made')...of course, the other side is that society also has the propensity to abuse the system as is the case with this medijuana card, or alcohol, or tobacco. The challenge is to develop an instrument to measure levels of intoxication for driving or operating heavy machinery, etc? Although you could just make that a zero tolerance for things such as driving....
I am not sure why so many people 'need' medijuana cards - but that is the avenue people have been give to pursue toking up ala 'Up In Smoke'...hmmm wonder if Cheech or Chong have any stakes in all these new pot shops???
I don't expect to see these new words in Webster's anytime soon, but they have certainly entered my own little Webster's vernacular.
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