It’s 8X premier cru word porn, I’ll have you know, @anon78757855. 
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Don’t quite follow you Peter:innocent:
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Oh…Kay…
Word porn it is, or some kind of naughty, non PC thing that polite gents no longer have permission to say, to respectable fogies…
Do they do porn in Yorkshire?
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There’s a “Yorkshire Porn” dedicated site, more than one, in fact, Tim,
Don’t know if its your kind of thing…
With her teeth out my mother used to love to order an ‘all-you-can-eat’ pub lunch comprising a crispy we’ge if Yorkshire por’n with roast beef, roast spu’s, carro’s, cauliflower, horsera’ish, mustar’ and a generous la’leful of rich beef gravy 
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Sticky wicket, old chap. And a jolly rum do, by any reckoning. Don’t think the natives have cottoned on, what? And mine’s a gin and tonic, no ice, there’s a good fellow. 
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Obviously you’ve no idea what I’m on about so I’ll give up.
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Don’t give up, @tim17. Key porn key-pin horn.
I haven’t seen the vid yet… that might clarify… ?
I am totally lost 
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I tried googling “Yorkshire Porn” to try and understand what was being posted - BIG Mistake!!! 
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The only porn I know is spelt with a W:zipper_mouth_face:
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Like this? 
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Tracy, Lily? ?
Semantics/etymology/ or word porn itself?
Porn, Yorkshire porn, word porn, pawn porn, zipless pawn, porn?
A good thing about words might be, that like paint/colours, they can be assembled, to say almost anything you want.
There’s no such thing, I think, as rock solid definitions. Everything changes?
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“Colourless green ideas dream furiously”.
Avram Noam Chomsky [a] (born December 7, 1928) is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian,[b] social critic, and political activist. Sometimes called “the father of modern linguistics”,[c]
He also opined, I think, that the very considerable and highly respected works of the philosopher Heidegger comprised sentences that were flawless grammatically but were wholly without any discernible meaning.
Same being true IMO of most of the political speechifying of modern times, as well as much ‘pseudo’ claptrap uttered by stars of screen and stage, pop singers and other ‘cultural icons’ from far and wide. 
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wonderful!
colourless green might be a bit off putting, but not at all, if you think about for a while. .
Sounds/shapes/tone,… so many aspects of “language” that have zero to do with anything as mundane as “meaning”. !! I like Heidegger’s “dasein” I think! I might have no idea what he’s talking about, of course!
The snips I’ve collected from thinking about it , are soothing and pleasant.
I’m OK without meaning, most of the time.
Maybe everyone is?
Life, or experience/qualia etc, all of it, has to be lived, except for suicide, which itself, would cause more “meaning” blocks, if meaning matters.
There’s no way out of it, with or without meaning.
Maybe that accounts for the ongoing global delight in the Procul Harum song “A Whiter Shade of Pale”
The lyrics say nothing at all…
“The room was humming harder
As the ceiling flew away” etcetc.
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My wife adores “A Whiter Shade of Pale” of which the score is a direct plagiaristic steal from the slow movement of J S Bach’s Orchestral Suite in D.
The lyrics, to me, are an excruciatingly trite and trivial conceit. Hate the whole gruesome exercise.
But don’t let on to my wife. When she goes all misty-eyed hearing it I just smile, nod, give her a hug and murmur “Heavenly!” with fingers crossed behind her back!
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I refer back to this thread to illustrate the forum etiquette which is relevant to the off topic discussion being had on the “Thunberg - Anyone” thread.
In my opinion Threads are not “owned” by the OP - with a respondibility to maintain it - otherwise Stella and James would be spending all of their time responding to each poster individually and that leads to discussion paralysis.
If l’m sitting, as a guest, at a dinner party table and have to listen to a private conversation between two others, albeit the host and another, dominating the evening and having tried to intercede but failed, will make my excuses to leave and remember not to accept any future invitations. It is a shame because there were other guests whose views and opinions l would have loved to have heard and - Perhaps - enjoyed.
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Hi Peter, it would be interesting to hear your view or are you “putting a sock in it” - let’s hope not:blush: