"I’ve just completed Mike’s Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) amd from 1961 for Keith’s to hide the decline."
compared2what? wrote:[T]here's really very little risk of your disaffection with my promiscuous use of dependent clauses ever becoming a very serious issue.
„MAN MUSS BEFUERCHTEN, DASS DAS GANZE IN GOTTES HAND IST"
compared2what? wrote: In fact, if I set out for the corner store tomorrow and ended up being bundled into a van by men in suits with earpieces who illegally renditioned me to some godforsaken rocky Mediterranean island prison complex where they chained me to a rusty ceiling pipe in an icy-cold brightly lit cell while jackbooted mercenaries held a power drill to my head while shouting at me to name a single point on which there was near-unanimous agreement among RI forum members or prepare to die horribly, I might even feel a brief, delusional moment of relief when I remembered that while it's definitely true that one poster's most profoundly held beliefs are almost inevitably the very definition of propagandistic mindfuckery to a number of others, at least we do pretty much all take the general proposition that we're being bombarded with media disinfo from just about every direction 24/7 as a fact that's far too well-established to bother trying to make disputing it on a prima facie basis any part of the vicious bickering that then ensues as usual.
compared2what? wrote: In fact, if I set out for the corner store tomorrow and ended up being bundled into a van by men in suits with earpieces who illegally renditioned me to some godforsaken rocky Mediterranean island prison complex where they chained me to a rusty ceiling pipe in an icy-cold brightly lit cell while jackbooted mercenaries held a power drill to my head while shouting at me to name a single point on which there was near-unanimous agreement among RI forum members or prepare to die horribly, I might even feel a brief, delusional moment of relief when I remembered that while it's definitely true that one poster's most profoundly held beliefs are almost inevitably the very definition of propagandistic mindfuckery to a number of others, at least we do pretty much all take the general proposition that we're being bombarded with media disinfo from just about every direction 24/7 as a fact that's far too well-established to bother trying to make disputing it on a prima facie basis any part of the vicious bickering that then ensues as usual.
Now I am jealous.
Thank you. I did leave one too many "whiles" in there. But come on. Who could have predicted that anyone was ever going to read it very closely? I can barely get through it myself.
That notwithstanding, and just for the sheer punctilious self-indulgence of the thing, though, I would like to note for the record that it's not actually a run-on. It's just a very long sentence. And that those are two completely different things, rather than two closely related things. And they're sure as hell not one thing, but rather...............wait for it ...............it's coming up any second now....................two!
Well of course it's one sentence, one reason I'm jealous. Half of it inhales steadily up to the comma, where it breaks perfectly into a downhill unspooling of the conclusion.
Nordic wrote:everybody in America is an accomplice to murder
"I’ve just completed Mike’s Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) amd from 1961 for Keith’s to hide the decline."
I also wrote Israel and told them how disappointed I was to find that they had to have known about Project Paperclip and the Nazi's who came over and continued their torture programs. I told them I thought they sucked.
"What's robbing a bank compared with founding a bank?" Bertolt Brecht