@dand ng t khim khuyt (modal verbs)IV. Green. Could it be that the liberals who refused to condemn the Google protests did so because they agreed with it? theyre protesting Google (and the other tech companies) as the symbol of increased income and housing inequality, and the cause of evictions and skyrocketing housing costs. He doesnt get trotted out to talk about Obamas birth certificate and Sharia Law taking over middle America; his job in the conservative media is handling the middle-of-the-road conservative talking points. Often, but not always, old policies, It had all the pieces that could have made it a really dynamic and truly integrated place, but for a host of reasons it didnt quite make it. Violators are subject to enforcement actions and penalties of up to $16,000 for each offense. I struggle to identify any benefit to them.Report. So stop singling out right wing violence., A version of that is what is happening here that Chris and I are pointing out.Report. Cu trc cu hi ui - Tag QuestionIII. White flight from cities in the 50s and 60s gets a bit too much blame for problems in the cities. Question Tags Exercises with Answers. Well, this response misses my argument by quite a bit, but nevertheless, I have done that, Tod. Share. By adding a question tag, you turn it into a question 'you don't eat meat, do you?'. ft. on a locker room with private areas, Im going to prefer the former. Or, we could treat it like someone slashing a knife at someone wearing a Google jacket, and only cutting the fabric. We use question tags to check whether something is true or to ask for agreement. Exclamative P1: Those hippies did something weird in that protest. a. Cc dng thng gp ca cu hi ui1. Businessmen may have been less for Jim Crow than Southern society as a whole but I think that really only refers to the really big companies. In a tag question, the speaker makes a statement, but is not entirely certain of the truth, so a tag question is used to get the confirmation from the listeners. Whatever it takes to get a free drink.Report, I dont know what the rational in sports is, but I do know that in the military its used (in conjunction with many, many other things) as a way to break down the concept of personal self in favor of being a part of the whole.Report, Great. you both think that computer programmers making 80k at year are an acceptable target for protest(and a better target thank baseball players making 10 million a year). And its not just understandable. It might be pointless or misguided, but fine. To help you keep the meaning of the tag colors red, yellow, and green separated, think of a traffic light and what you do at the traffic light when it turns certain . 3. To me, the attitude they expressed was decidedly unliberal. Even if a dressing room is open, you can still get dressed with minimal exposure. Look, I probably agree with a lot of you about gentrification and policy (and it isnt my expertise at all). I wouldnt say Krugman is lying. Losing your apartment because of rent hikes (or the building being bought and removed from the rental market) is a tangible loss. I disagree with it, but it isnt loony. The only times it did was when it crossed a line that I would draw regardless of the gender of the person. Ive said why throughout the this subthread, as has Shazbot. C: The conclusions that hippies in general argue for are false.Report, But imagine someone analogized the throwing of rocks at these buses with killing abortion providers and said See, both sides use violence to get their political point across. 4 Likes, 1 Comments - Vivienne Travis Fine Woodworks (@vtf_woodworks) on Instagram: "A beautiful, functional kitchen is the answer; who cares what the question is! Ive been hit on by gay men. My comment was uncalled for. standing close to the wall and facing it doesnt work? Gentrification, failure of the upper middle class to try to integrate and live with lower classes, I wonder how gentrification begins.Report. Regardless, that does not make the blanket targeting of anyone perceived to be in the group benefiting from those changes any more acceptable.Report. Hes an ass. My understanding is that the difference wasnt so stark. (Did you know that while reporting on doing business with the military during the mid 2000s, I used to get invited to Bushs fundraisers by my sources with alarming regularity; and not just mass mailing emails, but personal invitations to share a seat at their mega-bucks table for free. I dunno, BB. Should we wait to see how the libs/Dems respond to this, then see how the GOP/cons respond to *that* before we can determine whether BSDI, or would that be begging the question against the above-the-fray folks?Report, Its fine, this guy is an unmitigated twit, pushing for onerous government regulation onto job creators.Report, Its things like this that you one of my favorite commenters here, K. I actually snored out loud when I read that.Report, Humor aside, this really is an important point. Im not convinced thats unhealthy, and even if it is, I think its reasonable that people should be able to choose to maintain their privacy (which is actually what I do by avoiding communal showers).Report, This whole subthread makes me long for the public baths of yore. And it angers me when I meet adults who not only cant appropriately control themselves when such things happen, but who seem to actively think that they can and should have everything they want. And it is our expectation that our question solution is 100% accurate. I ride the subway like everybody else.Report, Dorchester? Gentrification, loss of what made SF a great community, growing income inequality, a failure of the upper middle class to try to integrate and live with lower classes, etc. And it isnt loony to protest Google busses. OK, that seems easy. Use a question tag to easily form a yes/no question. is awesome. A question tag is something which can turn a statement into a question. Arent those all independent things?Report, You thised a comment claiming that I had to remember (and presumably criticize) the GB protesters in order to have any claims to political superiority. It is funny because a lot of teenage guys masturbate in the shower. Inevitability and when anger and frustration reach a certain point, it is all but inevitable doesnt mean its not bad, and that there shouldnt be consequences.Report. Either you why your analogy is inapt or you dont, but I dont care enough to litigate it any further.Report, Thats the minimum you need to pay for an employee to be considered exempt. the protesters are upset that anyone is able to earn more money than them. Open the door, will you? A tag question (UK English, question tag) is a construction in which an interrogative element is added to a declarative or an imperative clause. I think some religious conservatives homophobia is neither reasonable nor morally understandable. Showers dont give you that ability.Report, Vik, I think he will pass the exam , won't he? My point is that its easy to fall into the trap of thinking that the stupid/evil things people on the other side do are the rule and that the stupid/evil things people on your side do are the exception. He is aregular inactivefor Marie Claire Internationaland the Daily Beast, and is currently writing a book on the sudden rise of exorcisms in the United States. Re: the comment here: I sorry if it sounded like a cheap shot. I would say that they do too little and that is protestable. 2. Nothing in this proposed bill would protect men from being ogled on the street by gay men. Where? Now even the military is going commie.Report, Regardless, the problems that they are upset about are real. I dont know. Im not saying you cant criticize them. If you treat them as hourly workers (e.g pay overtime), you can pay minimum wage, provided you can find someone wholl accept that.Report. If you think that large increases in evictions as a result of rapidly increasing housing prices, to take just one example of the effects that have led to the protests, is a bad thing, then Id ask you where and toward whom they should be doing their protesting. salary of more then $80,000. They could quit, they could not shower in the locker room, they could establish a separate shower for homophobesReport, If God didnt want straight men showering together, he wouldnt have invented football.Report, Obligatory Rev. And you can all have a beer with Karl Rove, who will tell you he can relate, because hes been there, brother, hes been there.Report, If we are talking false equivalence comparing the maroons tossing stones at Google buses to some of the things religious conservatives do which almost all of us in the place dislike( bigotry, homophobia, etc) is gold medal example of the species. Here's the basic rule for tag questions - a positive statement has a negative tag question and a negative statement has a positive tag question. Not.Report. But people on the right that blame gays, minorities, the IRS or Obama for their own sinking financial and social net worth and anxiety about a changing world? Let's have a party, shall we? Based on the pictures Ive seen almost none. But it seemed pretty clear to me that your comment was a reference to an earlier thread in which smug generalization about conservatives by proud members of the other stupid/evil party prompted me to point out that the particular criticism being made applied equally well to the left. Brandon has simply repeated his theyre the losers mantra, which is his wont. In a tag question, the speaker makes a statement, but is not entirely certain of the truth, so a tag question is used to get the confirmation from the listeners. In the OP's sentence, the subject is not "nobody . how many places without shower curtains are there for women, though?)Report. As I understood the Google bus protests, it seemed more about symbolism and The Cause (TM) than actually making a real change. Unfortunately, not everyone can do X at the same time. So, basically, you are going to respond these questions so that we can know more about you. Theyre also inconvenient for the non-Google people who use public transportation, which increases their visibility and their association with the frustration.. They are mainly used in speech when we want to: confirm that something is true or not, or. Reason, evidence, and argument has convinced you that current and rising inequality is a social problem in need of a solution. Or, you know, any man. But these are reasonable mistakes, not to be analogized with unreasonable, stupid, and morally vile positions. People cant afford the housing costs, or the property taxes associated with higher home values, and are forced to get out, either by selling or by less savory means. In 19th century New York, the firercest Sabbatharians were also rich, conservative Republicans. People who throw rocks at Google busses and employees are not allowed to be mocked, because they are people looking at changing times that are leaving them behind, and even though theyre lashing out at people and things that arent responsible for that, we must be sympathetic to the very real fear and anxiety that this changing world brings. The answer to "Who Cares?" is making a precision connection with the reader with the need or problem. The tense of the statement and the question tag must match. What in the world has this nation come to?, Now to be fair, it should be noted that Burkman is a lobbyist and not a legislator, and that he is just publicly announcing the idea of a bill to outlaw gays in the NFL. We all want things we cant haveby adulthood people should understand that throwing a tantrum is not the appropriate way to deal with this. Im engaging in a thread with Hanley right now where he specifically accused me of just that. Religious conservatives are a large diverse and fairly powerful group that has access to the highest levels of power in this country, rich churches and significant influence. is only the state of affairs because they dont shower together or share locker rooms or, sometimes, even gyms. Particularly not when theyre packing to move. Im not saying you approve of the Google protestors. May I have your clariufication? Look, these are complex issues, with a lot of difficult choices involved. Youre one of my favorite commenters at this site because youre consistently charitable, crystal clear, and respond to specific claims other commenters have actually said (not what you think theyve said). Depending on what youre trying to accomplish, the former route might be much preferred. Another example of a rhetorical question is "Isn't she leaving?". Mike Schilling gets the prize for being by the closest to the target. Chris: #who cares,..? / You see them now, dont you? Basically, the whole being naked part. The Collins Dictionary definition of a question tag is as follows - "In grammar, a question tag is a very short clause at the end of a statement which changes the statement into a question. I actually really liked living there. I find that strange. You can specify conditions of storing and accessing cookies in your browser, Things did not spread instantly __ the whole nation, Spot the error in the given sentence rIts simply this: to the extent rising inequality is a problem (and it is, at least as I understand it), an obvious part of any solution is more companies treating the majority of their employees well. People shouldnt be trained to feel embarrassed about changing in front of one another. Out-of-control? (Id bet money that most of them have spoken about people who drink mass market beer in a condescending way). A commitment to community. Are they still protesting? Its the business interests (who are mostly Republican too, and were all Republicans while the socons daddys & grandpappies were Southern Democrats) that are pushing for Brewer to veto (which at last check, the word on the street is that she will), Well see what traction a Huckabee campaign has this next cycle to determine if a socon can win party support with an economic populist message. Who interrogative subordinate clause interrogative . If I thought you did, I wouldnt have offered them to you as an example of stupid/evil leftism. Blaming problems like gentrification, rising housing prices in SF, loss of community in SF, etc. A positive statement or affirmative sentence is a statement or sentence without, 'no, 'not or 'never in its verb elements. That you say lying gives the game away here. at the very least the google protests show that krugman is lying when he claims that the left only has a problem the top one percentReport. Yellow-tagged clients have major injuries that should be treated within 30 minutes to . Again, in my personal experiences.Report, Heh. Gentrification REQUIRES integration of the classes.Report. Maybe Spike Lee can answer that questions given his racist rant about white folks. Not sure what to say about it. You can pay computer programmers $9/hour, or whatever the local minimum wage is. No, no, no. Thats just how the world works.Report, Vikram, theres a difference between being critical and mocking.Report. You may disagree, but so far only James has challenged the reasons weve given for seeing their behavior as reasonable (except the violence). @tod-kelly, the rock-throwing is the only reason I think theyre mockable in any reasonable sense. Question tags go at the end of a statement to turn it into a question. In these cases, the speaker's intonation rises at the end. Nope, it doesnt matter what I actually say, the fact that you view me as a liberals means that you get to apply your analysis to me and interpret my words and actions accordingly. Language: English Subject: English as a Second Language (ESL) Order results: English. I liked that people used the library for a whole bunch of different reasons.Report. You think he will pass the exam, don't you? It's called a rhetorical question, and it can end in either a question mark or an exclamation point, and in dialogue you can sometimes even have a speaker's rhetorical question end in a period (1). so, um, about as bad as what happens to the Pitt football teams bus when they go to WVU?Report, Yeah, I dont mean to minimize the potential (or actual) impact of violent behavior. Really, if Google buses is the best snark youve got, you should probably go back to the drawing table.Report. so then krugman is lying when he claims that the problem is just the top one percent. 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