I’ve recently discovered that a lot of my feelings and beliefs about life are summed up quite well by the Humanist movement. I’ve never been religious, and while I’m perfectly fine with people having faith, I very strongly believe that a life without should be the default view and stance on everything, especially state and education.

Religions can control nearly every aspect of life, be it gender, behaviour, what you’re allowed to study etc. Now you are in a position to capitalise on your new found freedom.

Seek out art, philosophy, science, music. Things that show beauty and creativity of the human mind. See what others think.

Use that knowledge to grow, and to help others in any way that you can. Life might be fleeting but you can use that time to try and improve the lives of this and subsequent generations. Make a difference.

Think for yourself, act for everyone.

Can we go further and refuse to recognise their new president?

Ah awesome, I was only thinking about you both the other evening and wondered how you were doing.

I hope everything is going well so far.

Well aren’t you an absolute fucking delight. I hope the rest of your day is as shit as your attitude.

My tea leaves are telling me this is superstitious crap.

Ah you pussies. Come on, show them you’re serious. Go dark again. Show them you really mean it and do the rest of the territories too. Forever.

“K for knight, P for pterodactyl, G for gnome”

Got any links to pages on the Guardian that are pushing this agenda?

I keep hearing these rumblings, but I think I might have missed seeing the evidence with my own eyes. Can you elaborate?

Absolutely massive by woodlice standards, but I was promised Godzilla by that headline. I’m not upset, just disappointed.

How many lightsabers can it hold?

Yeah you would. This will be the first course at the Trump inauguration banquet.

Is this the first course at the Trump inauguration dinner?

And they’d still call that a biscuit.

Thanks for the reply, I genuinely enjoyed reading it and seeing the perspective of someone more educated in language than I. Yes, I do expect better of all media as they should be upholding a better formal standard. Why? I guess I don’t really know, maybe that’s another of my old fashioned expectations.

Yes I appreciate that language evolves but for me “cringe” and other modernisms aren’t exciting, it’s another step in dumbing down that erodes the cardinality of conveyed meanings.

It’s like being taught to drive and then saying “fuck it, I’ll ignore all of those rules and just do what I want because that’s the modern way”. And yes, those fuckers exist too.

It’s like not closing drawers, or not tidying up after yourself. It’s not cool new evolution, it’s just lazy self-centredness.

/old man rant. Get off my lawn.

A dictionary represents modern usage, it doesn’t make it less ignominious to use it 8 times in one article.

All I’m saying is I doubt the prices at the meat suppliers are going down. Sometimes you need to save a few pennies, and when an opportunity presents itself….

“A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in”

— someone called Greek Proverb.

It’s the exact opposite of these fuckers.

Also:

Ffs Guardian. It’s cringeworthy, or at a push cringey, or embarrassing, or awkward.

I fucking hate “cringe” used as an adjective (or whatever it is).

/rant

And I agree. There’s a screen for visual notifications and vibrations for tactile ones. Making unnecessary noise in public is rude and arrogant.

My apologies, I didn’t realise there were two of us.

Sounds like he’s hot footed it out of the area.

Have they checked the local kebab shops?