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milestogo

(16,829 posts) Fri Jan 12, 2018, 09:07 AM Jan 2018

Asshole countries

News reporters who don't want to say shithole are substituting s---hole, which sounds like "esshole"... pretty close to asshole if you haven't seen it in print.

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Asshole countries (Original Post) milestogo Jan 2018 OP

Asshole countries are colonial superpowers that get rich off the McCamy Taylor Jan 2018 #1

We'd better not hear Ohiogal Jan 2018 #2

He is reshaping the English language Orange Free State Jan 2018 #3

McCamy Taylor

(19,240 posts)

1. Asshole countries are colonial superpowers that get rich off the

Reply to milestogo (Original post)

Fri Jan 12, 2018, 09:11 AM

Jan 2018

blood, sweat and resources of the countries Trump labeled "shitholes."

Ohiogal

(31,977 posts)

2. We'd better not hear

Reply to milestogo (Original post)

Fri Jan 12, 2018, 09:13 AM

Jan 2018

any wimpy, lame journalists saying he's "reshaping the English language" or any of that BS. I am so sick of journalists sugarcoating all his racism, bigotry, and ignorance.

Orange Free State

(611 posts)

3. He is reshaping the English language

Reply to Ohiogal (Reply #2)

Fri Jan 12, 2018, 09:23 AM

Jan 2018

In the sense that dropping a vase onto concrete.reshapes it.

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