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Monkey this up

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by Carl Herrera, Aug 29, 2018.

  1. Carl Herrera

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  2. No Worries

    No Worries Wensleydale Only Fan
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    Not to worry ... he was speaking code to Fox News viewers. No one else will get the blatant racism.
     
  3. Bobbythegreat

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    Looks like he monkeyed that up, now race baiters are going to lose their minds while ignoring the content of what he was saying.
     
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    Really? What a bigoted b*stard. He's doing Gillum a favor by boosting the Democratic turnout in November. This comment will get a lot of play.
     
  5. B-Bob

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    And I would bet $1k that desatan has far more Neanderthal DNA. LOL.
     
  6. edwardc

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    So what content should these baiters look at it .
     
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  8. Bobbythegreat

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    How about what he actually said rather than focusing on an idiom that you clearly don't understand.
     
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    Seeing how you feel i don't understand explain it then .
     
  10. bobrek

    bobrek Politics belong in the D & D

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    I've never heard that phrase before.
     
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    Fair enough, to "monkey with" something is to handle it in a careless way, to "monkey up" something is to mess something up due to handling it in a careless way.

    The statement was essentially don't screw around and let a left wing candidate make it into office that will push what he calls a "socialist agenda". I would have thought that would be obvious to anyone with a decent command of the English language.
     
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    Well, I don't understand it either. I've never heard anyone use that phrase.
     
  13. Mr.Scarface

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    Leave it to you to defend a bigot.
     
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    Maybe DeSantis can repurpose this old campaign t-shirt...

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    Well, I explained it above for those who had never heard it before and couldn't figure it out.

    Ah, now the person is a bigot simply because you don't understand English well enough to know what he was saying? Pretty much exactly what I would expect from you.
     
  16. bobrek

    bobrek Politics belong in the D & D

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    Regardless of whether or not it was an innocent comment or a racist comment, it was a stupid thing to say.
     
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    I think we all figured it out for what it was even with you defending his statement if that's truly what he meant by it he should have said it .
     
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    Although it is a semi-common old timey phrase that means "to mess up" or "mess with" it is the context and the person delivering the message that is important here. @No Worries already nailed it. This was a deliberate choice of words.

    The intended target audience understand it at a visceral level and leave it to the sycophants to spin it as a harmless euphemism.
     
  19. Bobbythegreat

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    He did say it....just because some people are pretending to not understand doesn't change that. It's not like he said something new.

    Here's a visual interpretation of the idiom. It's 2 people that don't know how to turn on a computer monekeying with it in a very exaggerated manner.

     
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    /thread

    Desanitize does not strike one as an intelligent human being.
     

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