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  • ardcarp
    Late member
    • Nov 2010
    • 11102

    Tongue twister

    I heard someone on the radio a couple of days ago referring to a time in the future 'after the Trumpocalypse'. Is it just me, or is the word hard to say? Or is my brain in denial about the whole idea?
  • french frank
    Administrator/Moderator
    • Feb 2007
    • 30652

    #2
    Originally posted by ardcarp View Post
    I heard someone on the radio a couple of days ago referring to a time in the future 'after the Trumpocalypse'. Is it just me, or is the word hard to say? Or is my brain in denial about the whole idea?
    It might be just you, arders You just replace A- by Trum-.
    It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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    • ahinton
      Full Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 16123

      #3
      Originally posted by ardcarp View Post
      I heard someone on the radio a couple of days ago referring to a time in the future 'after the Trumpocalypse'. Is it just me, or is the word hard to say? Or is my brain in denial about the whole idea?
      Just out of interest, do you think it to be any harder to say that Clintocalypse?

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      • french frank
        Administrator/Moderator
        • Feb 2007
        • 30652

        #4
        Originally posted by ahinton View Post
        Just out of interest, do you think it to be any harder to say that Clintocalypse?
        It is, because Trump and apocalypse share the 'p'. Tocalypse is quite different.

        I meant to say it isn't as hard to say as Clintocalypse.
        Last edited by french frank; 21-06-16, 22:31.
        It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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        • Serial_Apologist
          Full Member
          • Dec 2010
          • 37995

          #5
          I heard Baroness Warsi referring to the way Leavers spoke of migrants as "outering".

          No, I'm not sure what she meant, though she could one supposes have meant marginalisation of them.

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          • Roslynmuse
            Full Member
            • Jun 2011
            • 1270

            #6
            Personally I find Clintocalypse easier to say than Trumpocalypse. I don't have any difficulty with Apocalypse. So, Ardcarp, I'm with you on this one!

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            • Serial_Apologist
              Full Member
              • Dec 2010
              • 37995

              #7
              Originally posted by Roslynmuse View Post
              I don't have any difficulty with Apocalypse.
              Not even if it comes???

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              • french frank
                Administrator/Moderator
                • Feb 2007
                • 30652

                #8
                Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
                Not even if it comes???
                It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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                • Stanfordian
                  Full Member
                  • Dec 2010
                  • 9344

                  #9
                  Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
                  I heard Baroness Warsi referring to the way Leavers spoke of migrants as "outering".

                  No, I'm not sure what she meant, though she could one supposes have meant marginalisation of them.
                  Hiya Serial_Apologist,

                  I can't make much sense of most of what Baroness Warsi has to say. She is a master of self promotion.
                  Last edited by Stanfordian; 22-06-16, 15:10.

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                  • Daniel
                    Full Member
                    • Jun 2012
                    • 418

                    #10
                    Originally posted by Roslynmuse View Post
                    Personally I find Clintocalypse easier to say than Trumpocalypse. I don't have any difficulty with Apocalypse. So, Ardcarp, I'm with you on this one!
                    Are you putting the stress on the 'poc' of Trumpocalypse, as one does in Apocalypse? To me they are equally easy to say that way.

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                    • greenilex
                      Full Member
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 1626

                      #11
                      My feeling is that Hillary is the reverse of apocalyptic - indeed, rather humdrum, and probably fairly sound. But history may of course decide otherwise.

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                      • Serial_Apologist
                        Full Member
                        • Dec 2010
                        • 37995

                        #12
                        Originally posted by greenilex View Post
                        My feeling is that Hillary is the reverse of apocalyptic - indeed, rather humdrum, and probably fairly sound. But history may of course decide otherwise.
                        Presumably she must be Hillarious.

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                        • mercia
                          Full Member
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 8920

                          #13
                          Originally posted by ardcarp View Post
                          Trumpocalypse
                          sounds like a disaster movie starring Nelly the elephant. with sequels of course.

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                          • Roslynmuse
                            Full Member
                            • Jun 2011
                            • 1270

                            #14
                            Originally posted by mercia View Post
                            sounds like a disaster movie starring Nelly the elephant. with sequels of course.
                            Would that not be Trunkopalypse?

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                            • ardcarp
                              Late member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 11102

                              #15
                              ...one starring Donald Tusk, I presume?

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