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The first time I heard the phrase 'nothing burger' was from the mouth of Eric Trump. It's possibly time to upgrade your vocabularly. I mean, Eric is a verified
by LightG 4y ago
The first time I heard the phrase 'nothing burger' was from the mouth of Eric Trump. It's possibly time to upgrade your vocabularly. I mean, Eric is a verified idiot and I can't help but think of you as being one by association. Apologies if that is in inaccurate.
- mansion7 4y agoThe first time I heard it was when Emmy-winning CNN host Van Jones, no Trump ally, referred to Russia-gate as a "nothingburger". Think things through before you call people idiots by association.
- sn0w_crash 4y ago[flagged]
- rvz 4y agoYour point being? The use of 'Nothing burger' has been around since the mid 1950s and it is not something that because a Trump family member starts using it, they're immediately associated with creating the word and who ever uses it agrees with them. [0] This is the problem with erroneous guilt by associations just because someone you may not like used the phrase. [0] https://www.cnn.com/2017/07/14/politics/nothing-burger-word-history-what-is-trnd/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2017/07/14/politics/nothing-burger-word-...
- LightG 4y agoI don't doubt that you are right. I assume it is an Americanism. However, I repeat the n=1. The first time I heard it was from Eric. My point stands.
- nabogh 4y agoYour point doesn't hold any weight though? I've heard the phrase lots of times from various people. What if I said "I've only heard the word Americanism from Stalin". You wouldn't care and I'd be silly to expect you to take any feedback from me saying so.
- LightG 4y ago[flagged]
- cwillu 4y ago“Apologies if that is inaccurate” Your apologies are clearly worthless.
- LightG 4y agoAs intended. Glad you picked up on that. Well done. You're sharp.
- dang 4y agoWe've banned this account for posting flamewar comments and breaking the site guidelines extremely badly. This thread was truly awful, and you did the worst part of it. Also, this has happened before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27463084 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27463084 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28160079 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28160079 If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
- sn0w_crash 4y ago[flagged]
- LightG 4y ago[flagged]
- sn0w_crash 4y ago[flagged]
- dang 4y agoThe mods didn't see this thread until a few minutes ago. The flags in this thread before that were from regular users. I've banned the worst offenders in this thread, which were you and the person you were fighting with.
- stjohnswarts 4y agoI'm sure the venn diagram of what he says and what I say overlap a lot as far as vocabulary so I think I'll keep using nothing-burger where appropriate. I'm not going to let Trumpian influence ruin my zest for life. Words are just tools.
- LightG 4y agoOn the contrary, I would argue the urge to move beyond conventional language norms is what gave us Shakespeare and his numerous additions to the language. I can taste the zest for life by moving beyond the boundaries of Trumpian idiots. It's like seeing a nothingburger and fries on your plate telling the Maitre d to take it away and serve us a wonderful new dish.
- sn0w_crash 4y ago[flagged]
- LightG 4y agoYou need to be accurate. There's a lefty-rightist, Stanlist conspiracy going on here on HN, and you're at the very centre of it.
- dang 4y agoI just hadn't seen this wretched thread yet. I've banned the account that started it. You, however, have also broken the site guidelines badly, and since we've warned you before and you've continued to do just what we asked you to stop, I've banned your account as well. If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
- sn0w_crash 4y ago[dead]
- LightG 4y ago[dead]
- dang 4y agoYou started a hellish flamewar here and perpetuated it so badly that I've banned the account. Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34386829 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34386829.
- LightG 4y ago[dead]