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UK police investigates because a politician said she was 'born and bred' in her hometown. (twitter.com)
posted 239 days ago by horstshort 239 days ago by horstshort +120 / -0
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– CatoTheElder 32 points 239 days ago +32 / -0

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”

― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn , The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

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– deleted 2 points 239 days ago +2 / -0
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– horstshort [S] 28 points 239 days ago +28 / -0

Count Dankula was just the beginning.

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– horstshort [S] 18 points 239 days ago +18 / -0

https://archive.is/XVQ64

In case anyone thinks this is can't possibly be true.

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– current_horror 27 points 239 days ago +27 / -0

Claiming that you are from the place you mean to govern, and of the people you mean to govern, is an appeal to qualifications as old as time. If your society has reached the point where such claims constitute prosecutable hate speech, then you are beyond lost to globalism.

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– ApparentlyImAHeretic 26 points 239 days ago +26 / -0

so the police question her after learning about where she was born and raised, on the basis of her comments about where she was born and raised. smells like a genocide to me

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– MartinRigggs 18 points 239 days ago +18 / -0

Let this be a reminder to everyone of what happens when you allow Gov to implement hate speech laws, especially when the people don’t have gun rights. Hard to believe they went this far, but I can’t say I’m shocked. The Brits are now finding out why the Palestinian issue was/is so important, it’s an example of just how ruthless j’ws can be toward any helpless population once j’ws don’t have to fear any real reprisals.

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– RoulerBleu 16 points 239 days ago +16 / -0

She was already having a panic attack, horrified she even said that herself. And the journalist trying to shame her and her party for even thinking that.

How pathetic.

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– m0r1arty 9 points 239 days ago +9 / -0

Set-up. Panopticon model, for comparison, is in effect.

Only way this could be more polished is if she was elected in Cumbernauld.

I hope Chucky Arlar gets a raise after she puts Revlon on her knees.

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– Adamrises 3 points 239 days ago +3 / -0

Born and "bred" is an odd thing to say, instead of raised. Not enough for any of this obviously, but I'd certainly rib somebody for saying.

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– horstshort [S] 25 points 239 days ago +25 / -0

It definitely isn't an odd thing to say. Perhaps specifically where you live but not in the English-speaking world as a whole.

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– Adamrises 3 points 239 days ago +3 / -0

Fair. When I hear "bred" in the context of humans, it comes across as vulgar and in the realm of girls with pregnancy kinks, instead of "born and raised a family" being the less sexual way to say the same thing.

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– current_horror 20 points 239 days ago +20 / -0

That’s because you’re too proximate to degeneracy lol

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– Adamrises 2 points 239 days ago +2 / -0

I'm aware, I spend a lot of time in the company of the worst types of people trying to pull them out of the dirt. Its why I originally tried to be a therapist in my younger days.

Perhaps its effected my perception of the world more than I thought, but I also find "bred" to still be more animalistic than need be when applied to humans.

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– horstshort [S] 2 points 239 days ago +2 / -0

There are plenty of innocuous terms that depending on the context you use them in can have very different meanings. You shouldn't allow your use and perception of language to be controlled by that.

Let's take 'cunt' for example. Although to be fair that one isn't an innocuous term anywhere but call someone a cunt in the US you might end up in the hospital. Call someone a cunt in Scotland or Australia and you'll end up with a drinking buddy. You have to adapt depending on where you are and who you talk to. Context is key.

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– Devidose 6 points 239 days ago +6 / -0

cunt

Context still matters here in Scotland, and likely down in Oz, too. We use cunt for a lot of things which may be positive or negative depending just how it's said and what else might be mentioned at the time.

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– horstshort [S] 1 point 238 days ago +1 / -0

Obviously. Context always matters. But in the US it's the 'c-word'. People don't really use it in a positive context.

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– Adamrises 3 points 239 days ago +3 / -0

You shouldn't allow your use and perception of language to be controlled by that.

Well in this case, I hadn't ever heard it used in this manner. As has been pointed out its both old fashioned and/or regional. It was simply being uncultured about a minor point of language. The kind of thing "that's how we say it back home" clears up.

And in doing so, we all had a discussion where we learned a little bit, as Cato sourced it used to be highly used and then stopped and was replaced with the now much more common "and raised" variant.

I'm happy to look stupid for a moment to learn something new, I think people being too afraid of such is how we end up so boxed in and rigid to begin with.

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– horstshort [S] 2 points 239 days ago +2 / -0

You didn't look stupid. There are so many cultural differences within the English language to know them all you would have to dedicate your entire life.

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– userman631 2 points 239 days ago +2 / -0

women are animals.

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– ActiveLurker 11 points 239 days ago +11 / -0

Incredible self-report.

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– Adamrises 2 points 239 days ago +2 / -0

I am unashamed to admit I spend a chunk of time in the company of Lefties, degenerates, and other sinners of the highest order. Its useful to not only understand their mindsets, but sometimes you pull someone back.

In this case, I never hear the word "bred" outside of animals and said degenerates, and didn't know it was common in other areas of the country/world to be normal.

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– Kienan 2 points 239 days ago +2 / -0

In this case, I never hear the word "bred" outside of animals and said degenerates

I agree with you but, like I said in my other comment, it seems to be a regional thing, and is normal elsewhere.

But, yeah, depending on where you are it can totally apply to degeneracy and animals only, like you said. I think people are going a bit hard on you; both sides are right, in this case. It's just regional.

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– nikgtasa 3 points 239 days ago +3 / -0

Or eugenics. Bred for sports or something like that.

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– Adamrises 1 point 239 days ago +1 / -0

Well that's what I meant by context of humans. You hear it all the time in regards to animal husbandry for eugenical means like that, and that's what makes it so vulgar to use on a person.

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– nikgtasa 1 point 238 days ago +1 / -0

It's an established phrase, nothing wrong with it.

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– current_horror 21 points 239 days ago +21 / -0

Born and "bred" is an odd thing to say

No, it isn’t. You’re simply unfamiliar with the phrase. I’ve heard it my entire life.

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– CatoTheElder 9 points 239 days ago +9 / -0

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=born+and+bred%2C+born+and+raised&year_start=1800&year_end=2022&corpus=en&smoothing=3

This is actually an interesting graph. There is definitely a decline in the phrase thanks to the pussificaion of language.

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– ernsithe 5 points 239 days ago +5 / -0

the pussificaion of language.

I don't think that's the cause. "Born and raised" is more American. "Born and bred" is more British. I think you're seeing America overtake Britain in English-language publishing output. Color vs. colour would indicate that as earlier, but bread v. raised could also be an indicator of New England losing its dominance in US publishing.

Bloodlines / breeding have always been more important to England than the US. Consider the idiom, "well-bred" meaning "mannered." You might occasionally still hear something like that in New England where there's a remaining hint of class dynasties, but you're not going to hear it in the rest of the states.

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– TheKidsAreAltRight 7 points 238 days ago +7 / -0

"Born and raised" is more American. "Born and bred" is more British. I think you're seeing America overtake Britain in English-language publishing output.

Clearly this is Will Smith's fault and the lyrics to Fresh Prince.

Color vs. colour would indicate that as earlier

That happened because of American anti-Franco sentiment more than anything.

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– CatoTheElder 2 points 239 days ago +2 / -0

That isn't it at all. "Born and raised" is something you would see in an encyclopedia. It is clean, corporate, passive.

"Born and bred" is something you would hear from a redneck right before a barfight. It is a southern (US) thing, and definitely not a Yankee (northerner) thing. It has connotations of pride and heritage, of being a product of a place. I've never heard of someone being proud of being from the North East, of being proud of being from the land of dumpsters and gang wars, of being proud of being from the land of homelessness and backstabbing. Around here, anytime someone mentions they are from New York it is with a hint of shame.

The issue is the increasing corporateness of language which is forced from New York (where the majority of the publishing houses are, just check the headquarters of the companies listed here: https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/72889-ranking-america-s-largest-publishers.html The only one on the list that isn't either London or New York is Disney Publishing Worldwide, which is California). Everything must be inoffensive and bland.

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– Adamrises 2 points 239 days ago +2 / -0

That is very interesting, I appreciate you showing it.

Somedays you don't know that something you assume is universal is only localized until its right in front of you.

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– Mpetey123 5 points 239 days ago +5 / -0

The wrestler Taz used to have the catchphrase, "Brooklyn born, Brooklyn bred, and when I die I'll be Brooklyn dead."

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– Adamrises 2 points 239 days ago +2 / -0

Kevin Nash told us "play" was an adjective, so I don't trust them with grammar in anyway.

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– Mpetey123 1 point 239 days ago +1 / -0

Not really the argument. Just an example of born and bred being used.

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– Kienan 5 points 239 days ago +5 / -0

I think it's probably just a language/region difference. First result for "born and bred" is a British TV show. Another top result is a store for "gifts and accessories, created by artisans and craftspeople in Northern Ireland." So seems to be linked with a strong communal sense.

So I think it is just a regional thing. A bunch of Reddit results (as an aside, I really wish search engines would stop weighing Reddit so damn high, it's just retards yapping, for fucks sake!) from Ireland, one from the Netherlands. Merriam Webster has it listed.

So, I'd agree it seems slightly weird to me as an American - I would also use 'born and raised' - but it seems totally normal for Brits.

She did absolutely nothing wrong, and the saddest part is even she thinks she did! That she catches herself is the worst and scariest part. And they still want to argue they have free speech!

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– Adamrises 4 points 239 days ago +4 / -0

So its British, and downstream European English mostly, which would explain why I'd never heard it. Another useful point of learning. A lot of British slang and idioms seem quite vulgar for common discussion (like politicians), and this seems to continue that trend.

She did absolutely nothing wrong

Agree entirely. The meaning is clear regardless, and wouldn't need to be investigated in any sense.

The only way it would is if you take it completely literally as I did, and she was literally bred like an animal in her hometown. In the way a group of people like idk say Muslims would. But that would be too smart for the Brits, and we all knew that wasn't the case whatsoever.

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– Kienan 6 points 239 days ago +6 / -0

A lot of British slang and idioms seem quite vulgar...

It's just older, I think. Like someone else mentioned, there's been a massive pussification of language. So an older more entrenched version, like in Europe, is more likely to stick around.

Also, there are almost certainly vulgar American idioms that seem perfectly normal to us, but strange to foreigners.

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– ernsithe 2 points 239 days ago +2 / -0

The meaning has become vulgar. Don't read it as "fucking," read it as "having a pedigree from," in the context of how class and bloodlines have been traditionally important in England.

But more importantly, it's just an idiom. She's given no thought to the word "born" or "bred," individually. She says "born and bred" because that phrase as a whole means, "I have lifelong roots in this place."

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