Beg your pardon, was probably Kinja’s fault. I like Yukon Cornelius too.

So your question is basically “Is this popular thing popular?”? Leave the feigned incredulity to Jeremy Paxman.

“Call Shane MacGowan British to his face and see what happens” - what’s he going to do, gum me to death? Snitch on me to a Holmewood House prefect?

No, nor would I, it was just for the sake of clarity in case someone perhaps thought I had misunderstood “trad Irish-punk fusion” or similar designation.

A few years back I argued with a friend that it was inaccurate to call The Pogues an Irish band (in the sense of nationality rather than genre or style, mind you) because they formed in Britain and a good portion of the members - including the frontman - are British. What do you make of that, out of interest?

You’re trying to fight a battle you’ve already lost. The reality is that if word usage was constrained by the meanings attached to etymological roots, there’d never be semantic change and our languages would look very different. The dual meaning of factoid is one of many instances of auto-antonym in the English…

The OED gives its primary definition a subsection ascribing the “trivia” meaning to North America. So it’s not even one of those “common usage” secondary definitions, just a recognised regional usage, which is to say that you can’t even claim to be a linguistic prescriptivist here, you’re just flat-out wrong.

Your comment is borderline Chewbacca Defense in its rambling. At no point in her latest statement does she elaborate on the context that she claims would alter the meaning people have extracted from her words in the RT interview.

Television is really well done but once you’ve seen one episode you’ve seen them all. A bunch of flickering shapes and colours. Got it.

No, OP did make it perfectly clear, that’s why your response seems bizarre and attracted the approbrium it did.

You got your reaction you irrepressible gadfly, you. Now fuck off and stop gumming the place up with your sad little tone arguments. 

He also bears a large part of the responsibility for cursing our airwaves with Kay Burley

At first I actually thought they were trying to pass off that original article as new, but this is somehow even more annoying. What a crock of shit. To think I had an AV Club Q & A answered a few years back and IRL acted like a child getting a letter of reply from Santa Claus. I’m gonna stick around for the Black…

“You don’t need to make things up to embellish Trump’s idiocy” - may I be the 999994th person to point out that, by definition, you do.

Could you specify what “making the best of the situation” would be in this case?

No-one’s praising her for maturity. They’re praising her for her succinct, direct expression of dissent towards a holder of public office. If being mature means having to pussyfoot around expressing distaste for one’s democratically-elected leader (especially one who is himself a boastful vulgarian), then maturity is…

I’m not so sure the “albeit” was such a sin either. It seemed more like she had a stop-and-start sentence and it looked weird when transcribed.

Eh, say what you want about Trump (and I really mean that) but to me he just looks like someone who is out of shape. Laying off the fake tan and Inception combovers would help.

Caligula, and Steve Bannon was Incitatus

I feel fantastic