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Comment by Hope on February 9, 2011 at 10:29pm

Very interesting map!

Comment by GOPI KANTA GHOSH on December 1, 2010 at 9:03am

Interesting

Comment by T A A on November 30, 2010 at 6:46pm

@Don... or to burden (to add weight to

This is exactly the context I used it in... it is exactly the film's effect on me...

Comment by Sydni Moser on November 30, 2010 at 6:43pm

The feature film Forks Over Knives -- http://www.ForksOverKnives.com -- examines the profound claim that most, if not all, of the degenerative diseases that afflict us can be controlled, or even reversed, by rejecting our present menu of animal-based and processed foods.

Comment by Don on November 30, 2010 at 6:07pm

Yeah, DG, I do miss your old group back on A|N.

(But it's "I don't mind YOUR pointing that out..." ;) "Pointing that out" is a gerund; it functions as a noun, and it must take a possessive pronoun. Otherwise, what you've got is a usage error known as a fused participle.)

Comment by Dallas the Phallus on November 30, 2010 at 5:52pm

Don, i don't mind you pointing that out at all. I like language, too. Actually, when I wrote the comment, aggrevate was not really the word I wanted, and annoyed didn't fit either, but I didn't want to think too much about it at the time. I guess I should have used frustrate, perhaps. I suffer from lethelogia at times.

Comment by Don on November 30, 2010 at 5:46pm

Not that it matters much, but kindly allow a language guy to point out here that "aggravate" primarily means to make worse, or to burden (to add weight to), not to annoy. The word has been one of the more commonly misused words in English for some time, and my raising this sort of objection is, I recognize, a lost cause. (It can mean to irritate in the rather minor sense of inflammation or infection--which suggests an injury made worse.) The language does evolve, of course, sometimes in aggravating ways.

Comment by T A A on November 30, 2010 at 5:21pm

Aggravating! that is a word I could probably make much more use of. Yes when things we generally already know make a new mark on psyche... I've had an aggrating year!

Comment by Dallas the Phallus on November 30, 2010 at 12:05pm

Well, I finally saw Food, Inc. last night for the first time. It didn't really tell me anything I didn't already know, but damn, it's so aggrevating!

Comment by T A A on November 25, 2010 at 1:35am

ya what is more surprising is the number of atheists who have enshrined doctors as our new gods... it took doctors two years of testing my poop for parasites before they finally clued in that I was lactose intolerant!!!

Doctors are quite gollible by nature, medical school favors students with high rote memory skills over skepticism and logic. Doctors will repeat whatever the pharmaceutical rep who dropped by their office on any given day to give them free samples that day says...

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