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Is there any adjective that carries more weight than the word brazen? I'm at a loss for words.
by dclusin 12y ago
Is there any adjective that carries more weight than the word brazen? I'm at a loss for words.
- kstrauser 12y agoI can think of many, but you can't print them on a family website.
- x0x0 12y agoComplain less, call your congressional representatives more. Email doesn't mean shit. Pick up the phone. Then complain here =P
- ars 12y agoThis doesn't seem like a congress thing. What could they even do except give comcast bad PR? Unless you are proposing that we return to the days of telecom regulation.
- pconner 12y agoThat is a popular idea right now. More specifically, the president and others have tossed around the idea of regulating broadband internet under Title II of the Communications Act of 1934
- ams6110 12y agoWithout defending Comcast et. al. I have ZERO confidence that this president and congress would come up with anything remotely beneficial to the retail/residential internet consumer.
- snsr 12y agoWell then you're in luck - the FCC determines the classification of telecommunications services in the US.
- toolz 12y agoIs there any evidence that my call will do anything? I suspect not, but I really don't know. I've called in to my rep probably 5/6 times in my life and never once heard back or talked to anyone other than some intern.
- mikeyouse 12y agoI like the historical usage of Chutzpah, but it's become less of an insult of late: Leo Rosten in The Joys of Yiddish defines chutzpah as "gall, brazen nerve, effrontery, incredible 'guts', presumption plus arrogance such as no other word and no other language can do justice to". In this sense, chutzpah expresses both strong disapproval and condemnation. He Goes on: In the same work, Rosten also defined the term as "that quality enshrined in a man who, having killed his mother and father, throws himself on the mercy of the court because he is an orphan". Chutzpah amounts to a total denial of personal responsibility, that renders others speechless and incredulous... one cannot quite believe that another person totally lacks common human traits like remorse, regret, guilt, sympathy and insight. The implication is at least some degree of psychopathy in the subject, as well as the awestruck amazement of the observer at the display. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chutzpah#Etymology http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chutzpah#Etymology