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(I helped save b3ta! stup0t, Wed 8 Oct 2003, 16:39, archived)
# no
out of the selection of vegetables he randomly selected them

like out of the first ten numbers I randomly pick 4, 7, 9 and 3

see, not all uses of random are wrong.

also there's current slang changing the meaning of random, like 'shit' is not meant to mean 'rubbish', but it is used in such a way.
(1, Wed 8 Oct 2003, 16:41, archived)
# I think
the problem is that 'random' is used by a small group of people aged 12 to 20 between the time they learn the word, and start getting 'cool' and the point where they grow up. Everything becomes 'random' and 'blatant' and it really fucks off the people who have grown out of it.

That is all.
(I helped save b3ta! stup0t, Wed 8 Oct 2003, 16:47, archived)
# well yes
but that meaning of random was not wrong though

and when i use random it means that the maker of the image has just come up with an idea out of the blue, eg 'i think i shall make a flash of a squirrel singing about beans'

oh and it's 'pisses off'
(1, Wed 8 Oct 2003, 16:49, archived)
# I think
we have to accept that meanings of words change over time. For example, in the 16th century the word "nice" used to mean "stupid".

that is all...
(mynci boy, Wed 8 Oct 2003, 16:53, archived)
# Not quite
Nice means (sort of) accurate or correct.

100% NICE.
(I helped save b3ta! wonko the sane, Sat 11 Oct 2003, 17:24, archived)
# so that's
"out of the blue" not "random"
(I helped save b3ta! stup0t, Wed 8 Oct 2003, 16:55, archived)
# oh ho ho
(1, Wed 8 Oct 2003, 16:58, archived)
# This is an excellent series.
(I helped save b3ta! Baz Fuck off, Wed 8 Oct 2003, 16:42, archived)
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why, thankyou!
(I helped save b3ta! stup0t, Wed 8 Oct 2003, 16:46, archived)
# me likey
Can you do an animation to illustrate the difference between decimate and destroy please? That's the one that pisses me off.
(I helped save b3ta! Staticgirl, Wed 8 Oct 2003, 16:45, archived)
# what am I?
your decimate-destroy-difference-animated-education-creator?


actually... yes, I suppose I could make one...
(I helped save b3ta! stup0t, Wed 8 Oct 2003, 16:45, archived)
# xxxxx
I believe you are a worthy guardian of our linguistic standards, sir.
(I helped save b3ta! Staticgirl, Wed 8 Oct 2003, 16:51, archived)
# I was reading my little sister's copy of Sugar (really, it was hers)
and they don't know the difference between 'ravage' and 'ravish'.
Or 'radish', like as not.
(I helped save b3ta! MissPrism, Wed 8 Oct 2003, 17:08, archived)
# Decimate
means to take every tenth person and behead them. It is how the romans punished the troops.
Destroy means to take every person and mush them up into tiny unrecognisable peices then burn them or something
(Baj does Minecraft - http://www.youtube.com/w92baj, Thu 9 Oct 2003, 13:45, archived)
# .


Stupot, give up the crusade. That was a valid use of the word random.
(I helped save b3ta! Lumpbucket tekcubpmuL, Wed 8 Oct 2003, 17:45, archived)