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futloos = feckless
Marina you just described me [in a nutshell] as in a brief word describing someone. Why not a box? Boo! No to slavery! [Mandatory] work is bad!
You look and construct the lesson so as to give a full understanding of the word. This is just what I would love to see in a Video Dictionary – maybe tightened up just a bit for time…
Such a tease Marina. Reminds me of HFP. Great lesson though. I always love the first use part of the word lesson. Seems to give you a little insight on the peoples of that time.
If Carlyle was speaking of Congress, he may have a point:
Uncle Jay Explains Congressional Recess
Marina, i think your style in this vid inspired [this guy]
Mr Carlyle, by his comment, apparently thinks africans would be lazy if not slaves. Nuttin but bullshit and lack of observation.
people always do better operating under their choice and decision
than as slaves.
Mr Carlyle is a very poor observer and a lazy thinker with this thought.
slaves or slavics?
productivity and keeping up to the bosses or waitng for the other person to do it. http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=5i3UKmcZU_0
Is GOD A slave???
Above link is about modern SLAVES…CSS – Music Is My Hot, Hot Sex
i’m ‘feckless’“`This Video for Alala by sao paulo brazil’s CSS was directed by Cat Solen and show’s a killer fight breakout in reverse. …will work free the babble spirit? 
another peasant UpdAte 
tea-se..it…eat hay and ducks from the cess 
Thank you, Marina, for doing ‘feckless’, and bringing up Carlyle. I’d heard the name but never looked into him. It was good to wikipedia Carlyle, but he’ll not make it on my reading list because the genetics question is a loser. It’s a rationale created to justify prejudice. Prejudice is a form of laziness. It’s feckless. It’s quicker and easier to pre-judge people as homogenous members of groups than it is to invest the effort to listen and observe individuals. Since I’ve recently devoted my reading primarily to U.S. History from the Revolution to the Civil War, it interested me that Carlyle was embraced by some slave holders in the South. Happily he was shunned in his own country after advocating slavery.
Марина, расскажи пожалуйста про происхождение слова “шизлонг” и… какая связь между воровствой и битьем в слове “Воробей”?
i wud like 2 know were the word rain check come from. and keep up the good work.
what’s the background to the name for our world: “earth” [the Third Stone from the Sun]?
ps …
Marina, why did you reject the UK and chose to live in the US?
She’s a beautiful people, Mijj, she has to live in the Californian sun and not the fog and rain.
too!
pah! … California sun! {spits on California sun}
Our Marina isn’t a lizard. And we don’t want her to end up looking like one.
I’m guessing to say that you live in the U.K., mijj ?
Quote:
“Come, children! Step into the light! All are welcome!!”
At least for a vacation and different variety of teas and beers!
lol
Didn’t Marina read the brochure?
damn! .. forgot about blockquote messin’ up line spacing!!
Probably because she’s such a winner and what is she going to do now? She’s going to DISNEYLAND! That’s what winners do right?
noooooooooo!
not Disneyland?! … surely not.
{image of Marina takes a nosedive}
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=UXk4nLIv5jo&feature=email
lol .. those wacky bobbies.
Hi!
I love your site because it encourages such curiosity and as a teacher, I love that!
Please enlighten me; what exactly is the origin of the word “hamburger?” There is no pork in a hamburger, so why HAMburger?
THANKS for your work
This is not because of the ham but because of the German town Hamburg…
hi marina!
I´d like to request the origin of the words : YELLOW-BELLIED(a man who is weak-hearted or timid) and the word: YETI (bigfoot)
cheers
I was wondering the origin of the word: OOPS
word request- hip-hop/rap
word request-literal
Hey Marina,
Can you describe the origin of the term “high-tailing,” which is used basically to describe leaving in a great hurry?
Thanks in advance.
Does anybody know how to turn on the add friend or block user feature on my utube account.
That’s ok, Don’t everyone answer at once now. I figure it out for myself.
This is a reply to the one you put waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay down on the list RAGTIME
Help-My Account
Invite Friends
Blocked Users
YouTube
Joined: 31 December 1969
How do they do that??
They use the De Lorean , the Doc is on their side.
Where did the phrase “Bought the Farm” come from in reference to someone dying?
Hi Marina,
To curtail my sometimes bad habit of swearing when I feel very intense about something, I am trying something new. When I want to say something like… “You are fawkin’ hilarious!”… I will now rephrase my expressions to use the word feck!
Like… “the feckin’ cat had a turd hanging off his feckin’ butt and sat on my feckin’ lap. That stinky little feckin’ shet thinks it’s hilarious. Feeeeeck!
Oh, say now, is that wherrrrre your from, Dublin ’tis it?
You mentioned the “gringo” in one of your latest videos. What is it’s origin?
Marina,
I thought that I would be able to answer your question concearning Speaker of The House John Griffin Carlisle Senatotor from Kentucky retired NY Lawyer
I looked through the Pullman Strike where President Glover Cleavland was forced to use The US Troops !!
I went through the KKK era going from the Civil War through World War 1.
The Sherman Silver Purchase Act of 1890 and the effects on labor laws.
But their was simply no veiws from the senator who was appointed after Senator John B Keck had Passed away.
Greg
Haha, you say feck funny. =) What’s the origin of the word CONDOM.
I’d Like t request the word: Root Beer
I have a request, what is the origin of the word Sloth? Where did the animal get it’s name from, was it from being seen as one of the seven deadly sins?
—Amber
commet 200! Marina I have a request. Why do is disk/disc sometimes spelled “disc” or “disk” When they both mean the same thing
Yay for my channel
Channel Views: 4,000
Good job James
That was a Nice video Hot4Words
I’d like to request : Mesonoxian
This is an interesting bit on Auto-Tune that is USED so much in music these days.. first heard in the Cher “Believe” song… where everyone’s voice sounds so electronic these days.
http://www.newyorker.com/online/2008/06/09/080609on_audio_frerejones
I added it to the tail-end of my karaoke post as well.
Wow! Auto-tune might perfect my guitar music! (Use the software instead of hours of practice!) I’ll check it out, thanks! seesixcm6
Don’t neglect the hours of practice if you want to get “really good”. Treat help software like steroids…be carefull not to get hooked.
Eric talks about tne new technology circa 1968.
BillyB, Even I know there’s no substitute for hours of practice, sadly. seesixcm6
I think that people doing that is very misleading..
Feck Off!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-T5snc_LYSY
So funny!
Homework: Carlyle’s view depends on the assumption that those enslaved would have less feck than not enslaved. Since he did not base that opinion on any empirical evidence of human feck levels, then I suspect it was merely a racist view. We know today that there are essentially no differences between races of humans at the genetic level, and there really is only one human race (we are all 99.9% the same genetically). So, without any evidence that certain groups are predisposed to fecklessness than other groups, Carlyle’s conclusion must be rejected as unsupported.
Further, even if there was evidence for his view, humans have an inalienable right to be feck-challenged as they like and it is not for Carlyle to be the arbiter of who is and is not sufficient full of feck to warrant freedom.
There you go, another opinion shamelessly posted by your trusty Prospero the Wizard.
I’m not sure what has happened, but the video window doesn’t come up for any of the lessons. I haven’t really upgraded anything lately. I am using FireFox3 and Windows XP/SP3. Maybe I will test IE. I don’t get any errors or anything. There is simply no embedded video.
Interesting. IE7 seems to be working fine. Are there any Firefox specific settings that you or other students could recommend?
Do you have the latest flash? I don’t have ff3 on xp.. so I can’t test it.
I reinstalled Flashplayer and this didn’t help. I will send you an attachment of what my screen looks like.
Your previous email account in inactive so I couldn’t send the attachment. It generally just says has the name of the title where you normally see the YouTube embedded video.
If there are any other FireFox3 users out there maybe we could determine if it is an issue with others or just myself.
just updated to ff v 3.0.1. no problems here, works just fine. sometimes things don’t work if they’re installed in a certain order. did you update to ff or did you download and install it?
Thanks aLx. I found that on other sites such as LiveJournal embedded videos from YouTube are playing just fine. I install FF3 when it first came out, with updates as required. I did install XP/SP3 after that so maybe I will try to reinstall the FF3. If things are working well for you it narrows it down to my computer and not everyone’s which is a good thing.
yeah, try reinstalling ff. not just running the setup file again — remove it, then reinstall it. if it still doesn’t work, i’d remove and reinstall flash player.
Very strange but although videos seemed to work everywhere else, they did not here. But as you recommended I completely removed Flashplayer and reinstalled it and that did the trick!
Teacher I recommend you give aLz a gold star or a kiss on the forehead for his assistance.
Have a great holiday and thanks again!
Using FF 3.0.1 on Vista, have the same problem on FF 3.0.1 on XP – for me it’s embedded Flash only, and disabling Adblock brings it back. I’ve tried reinstalling Adblock, hasn’t fixed it, next step will be reinstall of Flash player.
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I think Thomas Carlyle should have got of his feckless behind and done some hard labour. Tote that bail Tommy boy or we gonna tie you to the whippin’ post!
Ellooo. I was wondering if you can tell me where the word schmuck came from. lol. I get the meaning… But I don’t get the origin or anything.
Thanks
10 more votes
total now 1931
Hello, Marina, I also wanted to know about the word onomatopoeia for basically the same reason as dsolaris. Why such an interesting word for a word that sounds like what it is?
G’day, could you tell me what the word ” VIBES” stands for please and it’s origin. You often hear people say, “Im getting bad vibes” with this or that. Thankyou. X0X0.
Short for vibrations.
Cheers for that, Marina, would you like to ad anything to this, maybe Vibe and Vibes, the origin/s?
Hello my teacher,
Could you look up the origin of onomatopoeia. I know what it means but it seems a tad unusual for such a simple concept.
That is a good word dsolaris.. I started to record a collaboration with Venetian Princess and need to finish my end.. thanks for reminding me!
Woohoo!!
I remember requesting this word months ago, thanks for keeping the request alive
Hello, Marina.
Thank you for your great lessons!
Could you tell me the origin of the word “longman?” It’s the name of the famous dictionary, but does this have some special meaning?
Hello, my teacher. I’ve been seeing the word hegemony used in political discussions and newspaper columns, and would love it if you could take some time to investigate.
Hi Marina, my word is xylophone
D
XYLOS “wood” (as a material) + PHONÊ “voice”. It’s Greek.
Have a happy & safe Labor Day Marina!!!
Hey Marina,
Just to let you know, most likely you already do, that I just heard James at War’s Bad Grammar coming over the radio at my tiny local market down the street–remember I’m in Paris. too funny
and it was actually Jame’s At War’s version?…not the Timberland original the way i are?…
good news, if true…maybe tastes are turnin’ ’round…
Unless I transplaced J@W lyrics over the song in my own mind, which would make more sense. My English etc. has been a little screwed-up lately. Who knows…
Well, it’s a good view, in a way. You see, even with the abolishment of traditional slavery, most people are still slaves – to the economy. We’re slaves of kapitalism, forced to work because we have to make money to buy the food we need to stay alive.
Carlyle’s view still holds true, even if the type of slavery changed.
Hey, I was wondering about the origin of the word “Television”
Thanks!!
tele (communication) vision (vision)
I think you meant: tele- from Greek meaning far, distance.
The prefix tele- has a Greek origin (means “distant”, “far away”) and the root of “vision” is Latin (and comes from a Proto-Indo-European form *weid, with two possible meanings: to see or to know; “video” and “vision” have the same origin).
Marina. Did you have a word with misscupcake? I did too. I said.. “What if Marina stopped making videos because of abuse.. she just ignores it because there are so many more people that like her than hate her” I also mentioned how sometimes if people steal your videos other people who may not have seen you otherwise may be drawn towards your channel giving you more subscribers. Thanks Marina. It is good to have misscupcake back
I think a bunch of us emailed her James, I know I did. She told me Marina talked to her and was her biggest inspiration for coming back and told her to ignore ares wipes like that. So we need to get behind Misscupcake1 and help her out for a while till she gets her spirit back up.
Hi Mike,
Thanks for recommending me as a TA. I don’t know what you said or to whom, but it sure is nice to be recognized for the little things we do. Here’s a cold one on me [].
Hope your knee is healing well bro.
-Kent
Hey pal your welcome. You deserve to be recognized as hard as you have worked to go to school and play with us on here. It is a great pleasure to know you as a friend. My staples are out of my knee and now all is rehab time. Thanks for the brew.
Mike
She’s cool… it’s what everybody who starts to get any level of success on YouTube (and the net) goes through. It’s different from the real world where if you start to achieve a level of notoriety (fame), everyone around you becomes a “yes” man, “you are so great”, etc.. so you start to get a distorted view of the world, thinking everybody loves you.
On YouTube (and the net) when you start to achieve any level of success you also get the fans who compliment you, and that makes you feel good, but you also get the anonymous posters, who attack you.. and they most often OUTNUMBER the fans, and getting a barrage of negativity thrown at you that exceeds the positives, makes you think that everyone HATES you!
But that is not the case… there are still the people that love you and nobody ever really HATES you.. unless they are secretly in love with you, or jealous… That’s why they say there is a fine-line between love and hate. When have you EVER taken the time to write someone on YouTube to call them a whore, to say that their work sucks? You just move on and click on another video, right?
So, I told her not even see the negative comments… just see the positive ones.. and it works.. I don’t even see the negative comments anymore… actually, when I do, I laugh at them as they are so funny!
That’s a brilliant attitude, Marina.
Good points.. My mum (loves familoy history) has found out that some of our relatives were friends with jane austen. (she mentioned them in some kind of memoirs) but that aside.. I get those comments sometimes. I delete them.. It gives me something to do..!! Thanks for accepting the response by the way
you are so smart
Left to their own devices, people either feck around or are refecked…
i think we all need a refecktory…
‘course, Marina’s pics are enough to feck me up…several times…
but Carlyle was just a man of his times, which was mucked up…no way, no time, no how is slavery ever an option…
volunteerism, tho’, is…
and i volunteer…
Marina, first off just wanted to say you’re awesome and im a huge fan!
So i was curious about the origin of “pet peeve”
Marina, I just noticed that misscupcake has her videos back and she thanked you on her YT profile page. I know that you have helped a lot of people. Thank you for being an amazing and awe-inspiring woman.
You’re awesome as always Marina.
Word request: The word “Halsband”, it excists is Swedish as well, with the same meaning too, so I’d guess it has the same origin.
Best wishes Ath.
halsband is a dutch word meaning collar in english….I have never heard of it in any other language…
Halsband in Swedish means formost Necklace, but also Collar…
And a lot of Swedish words does come from Germany due to the old relations with the Hansa.
But would still be fun to see what Marina could digg out of it. ^^
yeah…But I think she only does English words….
Halse is found in the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, meaning a neck in the sense of a narrow body of land or water, or throat.
The two volume Shorter OED doesn’t give halsband, but it might appear in the twenty volume edition.
german.
hals + band –> halsband.
hmmm…and perhaps “hals” is the source-word for ‘halter”?…
here’s a pic to go with it.
(don’t click if you don’t like boobs.) ^^
Halsband is an english word (try dictionary.com) and it has the same meaning as the Swedish word Halsband and the German Halsband, and as said above it is Neck + Lace, so it might be that origin.
i tried.
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3 results for: halsband
[1]
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary
collar² [ˈkolə] noun
something worn round the neck
Example: The dog’s name was on its collar.
German: das Halsband
Icelandic: hálsband
Norwegian: halsbånd, kjede, klave
Swedish: halsband, halsring
[2]
ˈnecklace [-ləs] noun
a string of jewels, beads etc worn around the neck
Example: a diamond necklace
German: d[ie] Halskette
Icelandic: hálsmen
Norwegian: halsbånd, kjede, smykke
Swedish: halsband
[3]
pendant² [ˈpendənt] noun
the ornament and the necklace together
Example: She fastened a gold pendant round her neck.
German: eine Kette mit Anhänger
Icelandic: hálsmen
Norwegian: halskjede
Swedish: hängsmycke, halsband
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so … uh … where’s the english word “halsband”?
Not to be rude,but is there a connection between being a dick and being cocky?
This question is also posed by my friend Larry.
It might be a good idea for you to explain the difference between “its” and “it’s”, as a lot of people mix the two up. It would also be interesting to know how and why the decision was made to differentiate between the two.
ITS is a possive while IT’S is a contraction of IT and IS
Well, I know that, and you know that, but I come across people every day who don’t seem to have a clue which is which. I just thought that everybody’s favorite teacher might be able to make it stick.
can you tell me what means the word “zombie” ?
Hey Kobe fluffy fluff, tell your mom that she has widened the voting gap by 471 votes to 1911 votes. Thanks for your vote too.
1916 now.
I see you have a new gravatar – are you Marina’s new knight in shining armour?
Don’t ever change your gravatar. You’ve had that one a long time.
I have no intention of changing it; it’s the best place to be with my ear next to Marina’s heart …
Boom boody boom boody boom boom boom.
Goodness gracious me!
Carlyle can go feck himself. And if he ever used slaves, it is ironic that such labor would have caused him (as the slave owner) to become as feckless as his opinion of slavery. If Carlyle had known the life and testimony of John Newton, it is possible that he would not have held such an ignorant view.
I’m different, [hearing site-wide chuckles] but I believe that at work is where we can have our greatest impact in, among and on the world. Many people need to be driven or ENCOURAGED to perform, but that doesn’t automatically make them slaves driven by a master. Too often people think that labor and growth are contrapositive and they gasp for free time like someone drowning gasps for air, “Get me to the weekend…” Sat. & Sun. is when we’re free & experience church & visit friends & wash the dog (& carrying case), so people reason that’s when the real meaning of life takes place, but to excess leisure doesn’t satisfy or explain our reason for being. Maybe life is just balancing our “feck”, maybe patnership is finding a “feck” buddy… Anyway, if this is what ol’ Carlyle was referring to he had a point; but, to equate the argument with slavery is just putting blinders on.
The word “topless” probably deserves deeper investigation
You are both clever and attractive, so we can say you are a fox. But do you know how the word “fox” has been used for an attractive woman? Is there still a link with the animal in this meaning? Another X-File (reference to FOX Mulder) for you…
The Truth Is Out There
Hi Marina…I’m quite the badminton athlete/fanatic and would love to know where the word badminton comes from. Thanks a bunch!
This is not the addition of “bad” and “minton”
The name comes from an estate of the Duke of Beaufort where the first games were organised in Great Britain (the game had been picked up from India). The etymological signification of the name Badminton is: “estate of (a men called) Baduhelm”
so why “shuttlecock”?…
Hi Marina I would love to know the origin of the word “Conservative” given all the political talk around here.
ey what up Marina , ive been seing and hearing this phrase alot and was wondering what it meant and why it is, the phrase is “in the pink”
it has to do with how a person fees, but I dunno if its good or bad…so..yea just wonderin if you could lend your knowledge, thanks and Peace!
feeing= feeling :p my bad
Whats the origin behind the term “hacky sack”?
I agree–once was too much, twice adds insult to injury
May I remind that New Orleans was founded by my country. It is a French city ! You Americans stole it from us ! Napoleon was blind and sold Louisiana for almost nothing. And the tzar was blind and sold Alaska ! They had really feckless brains !
we DID NOT steal shit….. It was SOLD to us…………….
may i remind you all that America done for your country and the hole world in the world wars America stole nothing frome your country your brains are feckless and shit fuck you
may i remind you that you are a french asshole
Yes I agree with danielpool52 we bailed your ASS out of both world wars and then get shafted when we need help after 9/11
Hey if you live where a sign says “Welcom to (your town here) evevation -xxxxfeet (that is BELOW sea level) then I think it is time to move.
The French part of the city was built ABOVE the sea level
May I indicate to smokey36bear that 9/11 is an inside job !
We French do not want to interfere in your internal affairs
Ok gentlemen lets be nice here. We don’t need to start any flame wars over a little joke that dictionaricdotcom was making. I am sure his comment was all in jest. I am posting on your comment dictionaricdotcom because it’s below everyone elses and maybe they will all see it.
Thank you Sir !
i would love to know the origin of onomatopoeia. thx keep up the amazing work.
I’m a new subscriber and I couldn’t help but notice how, “Striking” your eyes are. Could you explain to me how such a violent word could be used as something so beautiful?
I would like to see the origin of disappointed.
If you are not disappointed, why aren’t you appointed?
The root is POINT : when you are not on the point, you are not okay.
POINT from the Latin PUNCTUS SUM “I appeared like a point” (like the sun in the morning).
No appointment with the sun is a big disappointment.
The word probably comes from the old French verb “désapointer” (I didn’t find its origin but you’ll certainly can do it). I quote “Examen critique des dictionnaires de la langue française” from Charles Nodier:
“Désapointement, désapointer: mots consacrés par Montaigne, par Amyot, et que les Anglois se sont bien gardés de perdre comme nous”
That means that Montaigne and Amyot introduced these words in French, which were borrowed by English and are still used today in English while they became obsolete in France. The word “désapointé” is still used today when we translate films for French versions because the correct translation (”déçu”) is too short but the result is a bit strange
I would like to know the origin of
“Rock n’ Roll”
does it have anything ro do with real rocks
vote 1846 YouTube wont let me vote anymore on the stars last 3 days
i can vote on you tube now
I really love your work…. Can you do a vid on the word: NUDIUSTERTIAN
I’d like to see the origin of Goose Bumps, as I’ve been told the original meaning is very different from the meaning now and involved some shifty activities.
Polls are at Best Weekend Ever Website are open for voting for Monday.
#1 Marina 1826
#2 1429
While I was at work the other day I realized that I had a lot of pet peeves (some would call it a compulsive disorder). Then it dawned on me that I had no idea where that term came from. Could you, my dear teacher help out?
Ooo thats a good one. I have alot of those too (pet peeves not compulsive disorders)
Pet Peeve:
Pet = adjective: strongly felt// particularly cherished
noun: favorite
Peeve = Noun: a grievance or vexation…
verb: to annoy
Pet Peeves are basically the grievances or annoyances that you feel quite strongly about. They are the ones that REALLY irk your turkey, as opposed to the ones that are petty or trivial
The Instrument The ”Bongo”
is there something wrong with slavery all of a sudden?
Bryan says NO.
Such an ancient concept that still exists even today….
Just depends on how you define it?
Carlyle had his head up his own ass.Slavery is 100% wrong.Slavery is also a very good way to get a revolt and have piles of dead aristocracy laying around.
HELL NO TO SLAVERY
SHEE IS AT 1821 NOW
I just put my votes in too
or should I say tooo. I see we are addingg exxtraa lettterss noww
Hello my baby hello my daring hello my rag time gal. Cool gravatar 42rogs. Tha’ts all I remember of the song that little fellow used to sing when let out of his box.
“dibs” thanks and keep up the good work…..
:: good one marina very interesting slavery no way still goes on some places
Marina! I am a huge fan of yours! I started watching your videos 4 months ago. I have to admit that I’ve learned and remembered more about the english language from you then I have from my teachers!
I have a word request for you. What does the word “temp” mean? I see it in words like temper, tempest, temporary, tempo and temperament. Please help me out. Thanks!
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If 1811 wasn’t a good year, it certainly is a great number of votes for Marina’s video. Her video now leads by 392 votes.
Another hour and a half of voting left for Sunday.
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Just got my daily quota in then.
Billy your gravatar looks like you finally gave up and went to sleep
Did you wreck you little red car?
If somebody WANTS to be a slave, then they really aren’t. You can play games, but its just a game.
Games can be fun though, with consenting adults.
For me its been so long that I forget who gets tied up first.
I Like to Play Games with Lisa Boyle.
Don’t tie me up I’ll fall to sleep
Pedro Almodóvar had Antonio Banderas tie up Victoria Abril back in 1990. She didn’t fall asleep, and neither did the audience.
Feckless? Slavery? hmmm…..
When you free slaves, does
that mean they will become
feckless? Slaves fear only
the lash more than work,
but that doesn’t make them
better workers, does it?
no it doesn’t. It just makes them work hard enough to avoid the lash.
Dear Marina, You have a strange idea of what “topless” means, but you are very beautiful in that black bikini. Sometimes you wear a strapless dress, which is closer to the “topless” concept.
For your homework, we fought our Civil war to end slavery. Some states seceded to preserve slavery and we won the war to end it. In World War Two, we defeated an enemy that tried to enslave other countries in Europe. So we’ve opposed slavery at great cost. You dear student, seesixcm6
Marina,
Here is a good research exercise.
How and when was pay for work started.
Who started it. Before then it was all slavery.
The strong just made the weak do their work.
All Races have been slaves at one time in history.
Slavery is still going on all over the world today.
Well I was laughing a lot today(Funny Tour Guide) and I wondered where the word “laugh/laughing/laughter” came from/originated.
After working 30 hrs in the last two days one seems to feel feckless
I am dead against slavery although, is having your kid do work around the house slavery?
That’s the only way he will learn about responsibility. No it’s not slavery, if it was my son would be in the same situation.
Zoinks, I think I put my response to your comment in the wrong place
Please look at the second comment I posted on this…the first one was intended for Smokey, the 2nd one is yours
How old are the kids? or kid. From your post above 30hrs in two days… who’s the slave?
he is ten, but lives with his mom in AZ during the school year
Not sure about “slavery” per se. However, it’s definitely coercion if his choices are:
(a) work or (b) feel the wrath of pain and/or humiliation.
On the other hand, it’s VERY easy to set it up to where working leads to fun-good stuff. That makes his choices:
(a) if he works, the he gets something he finds valuable:
Like extra computer time, choice of supper (if he is given 2 alternatives that YOU would approve of), extra time to play with his friends, perhaps money if you can afford it, perhaps dad can do something EXTRA cool, like spend time at the state park with him instead of a local park this weekend for getting done with all the chores, etc.
OR (b) he doesn’t work and doesn’t get the extra bonuses
Life is good with individually picked bonuses
When I was a kid I chose matchbox cars for things I did around the house. As I now live in Montana there are at least three state parks within spitting distance from my front door. He dose like fishing and time with his friend Lane, but I’ll never take that away.
Oh wait, I never really answered Capman’s part about responsibility
I concur, helping around the house can be a good way to learn responsibility (like how to care for the bathroom to keep it sanitary), AND can even promote bonding
For instance, men and boys working around the yard together is a good way to connect. Women and girls cooking is also a good way to bond, although yard work or gardening is equally fitting–they are limited only by what mom wants them to do. Cool stuff, aye 
btw I’m a man and love to cook, in fact thats what I do for a living, and my son loves to help me in the kitchen.
I agree on the reward system. Not even you or me worked for free at our jobs. So an incentive will inspire your son or daughter to help out or if they know ahead of time they will receive something in return they will start without you. Which is good. I was a supervisor for 10 years and there are some people that you just have to stay after to get them to do their job. But after a day or two of seeing it my way put them on the right track. I offered incentives at work, get the jobs done first and done the right way the first time and the rest of the day was spent kinda chillen out. I was a career firefighter for 33 years so there is only so much to do around a sort of maintenance free fire station. Regular duties of checking trucks, cleaning the station after the other shift went home and yard work. The rest of the day was spent on running calls. We averaged about 15 to 20 call per day and night as we worked 24 hour shifts. So I believe in the incentive program.
Mike
You can cook!?! AWESOME!! Too few of us do
Wish I could…
As for the local parks–what a coincidence!! I live a mile from a regional park, and there’s a lake or vineyard if I go another direction
I’m in California, though.
And finally, the plan I mentioned doesn’t involve taking away great and important things like time with friends, toys, or anything else. It simply gives MORE privledges, such as more time to go, more playtime, or more smiles & compliments from parents to make it MORE rewarding to do the things that help them develop (like chores or homework) than it is to otherwise occupy themselves.
Live long & prosper Smokey!! Hope your big 3o hour project pays off handsomely
WARNING
You need to check your computer for viruses after visiting that site Miss M put up or don’t visit it at all. It gave me 2 Trojans and a worm and virus scan came on and started to clean the computer. So I switched to this one.
Thanks for the tip Cman
Marina,
I was out in the sun today and my “freckles” really spread! What is the origin of the word “freckles”? By the way do you have any freckles?
Thanks,
Packyjack1
Marina, you are always effective in your word lessons, and never a blooter.
Feck is also a sanitised version of F*ck, here in Ireland! As in Feck off!
as in [Father Jack ...]
No way
You’re pulling my feckin’ chain, right 
Just jokin
New word for everyone to us instead of the f word. Feck you instead of frig you. We may even start a trend and it spread all over the place.
TEEEEEAAAAAAASE!
dammit, Marina, you’re so beautiful … {…sigh…}
Nudge nudge, wink wink, sigh no more.
lol .. what on earth is that?!?
“Much Ado About Nothing” is a delighful and totally irresistable film. The superb cast includes: Selene Underworld, Nanny McPhee, Neo, Easy Rawlins, Victor Frankenstein, Batman, and a rather composed Balthazar. Great fun! Great music! And, well, the script ain’t too shabby, either! Tired of looking for a movie to watch? Sigh no more!
I’m crossing the [Bridge of Sighs]
Man that was awesome Mijj. I never heard of Robin Trower. I marked his web site for further music.
Feck slavery.
1746 Marina, 1401 Ct. Seems like he’s being left in the dirt. Knock on wood.
Slavery actually promotes fecklessness among those who enslave.
And when my sister spends too much time in the sun, she gets feckles.
Slavery and coercion promote fecklessness among those who are ensnared too. You see, the person might work as they’re being watched, but as one wise person said, it’s “only enough [work] to keep off the lash.”
Behavioral research shows that punishment and coercion (nagging, whining, yelling, mocking, threats, or physical force until one complies) are associated with the following by-products:
Avoidance: The person/animal being forced to work avoids the overseer and the going back into the situation. It’s common to see kids or people in work situations NOT volunteer to work if they get smacked down when they do the work too.
Escape: The person/animal at least tries to get OUT of the situation by turning their backs, physically leaving, or ceasing to pay attention. Common with small children who are made to sit & be quiet for long periods of time.
Countercoercion/countercontrol: The person/animal at least tries to gain control, often by yelling/tantrum/force/threatening or mocking, etc. Applies to people & animals of all ages and developmental levels.
This is university educational stuff. Heavy
To feckless to comment.
Machiavellian
.
Let them eat cake.
Off with his head..
Hey wetsuit did you really find hotforwords name?
Yes.. I found it too!
Marina is 23rd on the most viewed list
On my computer it says
#42 – Most Viewed (Today)
http://www.youtube.com/browse?s=mp&t=t&cr=US&p=2
Get a Mac James… that PC is messed up!
that’s because you always watch the uk youtube
I have never heard of the word feckless. I don’t agree with slavery of any kind.
I read a news article about people who are slaves by choice and it listed a website.. let me find it,
That website makes me feel depressed.
I’m feeling like an old fashioned contemporary fuddy duddy.
Ok then how’s this for a word request, Fuddy Duddy?
I’ll have to go to Walmart tomorrow and see if they have collars for vacuuming.
There is a website where you can have your own personal slave… but not a good thing obviously… (I removed the link as people said the site gave them a virus)
Nice site, but I am a slave already to paying taxes.
Somebody is having a kinky Sunday.
Sorry,
I don’t swing that way.
Playing slap and tickle is one thing.
Even role playing can be fun.
But this stuff is way over the edge stuff.
I can’t even access the site on firefox 3. Some stupid window pops up but i can’t click the options. I read about the site.. some guy signed up his ex-girlfriend to the site giving her info that she had rape fantasies…. and gave her address and phone-number. Fortunately someone informed her.
Then I started tooling around the site and found all these people who supposedly have slave fantasies.. wanting to be locked in the cellar and do house-work. For a second I thought. hmm.. inexpensive way to get my place cleaned! But then I thought better.
Marina,
Somebody has your name there “hotforwords”
The nose ring doesn’t compliment.
wetsuit5, wow you’re right.. she took my name! Or maybe that’s me.. wanting to clean your house for free!
Whoa.
Where do I sign up to be Marina’s slave?
OK?
If that’s the case you must be CEO of Revlon.
And the principle customer.
And the majority stockholder of Clairal.
And the union president of Cover Girl.
BUT IF YOU REALLY WANT TO CLEAN MY HOUSE…
Muhaaah!!!!!
If that’s you, your kinkier than what I thought.
I just thought of something. What if she is a member of this site and we don’t know it.
You might want to take that site off the page. It gave me two Trojans and a worm. My virus scanner came on and locked up my computer to clean and scan the system. So I am on this computer now.
Marina, that is a bad site to link. I hope you remove that URL. I feel sorry for the women who appear in such photographs, and that people pay money to see them like that. seesixcm6
Capman
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Slavery is making someone else do something against their will.
I would say, We are all slaves of one sort or another.
Are you not a slave of Marina’s.?? (
But aren’t we all slaves too someone.?
Bob agrees.
i like that one BillyB 100% true
I started writing this more emphatically than I needed to, so I chose to edit
That said, NONE of us are slaves of Marina. We do things–either to respond or to actually act as Teacher’s pet–of our own “free will and testament” because of the social approval we get from her. None of us are being forced to do anything. 
NONE of us have to make the choice between helping her or encountering brutality, coercion, or humiliation, as happened with actual slaves before the un-Civil-ized War during the mid 1800s. If you want to take it further, you could say that the practice of slavery extends to taking unfair advantage of children or poor peoples who have poor working conditions & receive little pay worldwide under systems of indentured servitude or peonage. Article 4 of the United Nation’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights (passed in 1948) declares indentured servitude illegal. Note that even after abolishing slavery or these other forms of domination that especially subjugated women & low-pay people in the U.S., variants of it continued to exist via sharecropping abuses, prompting the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) of 2000 here in the U.S. to protect immigrants.
Bob DISagrees.
However, Duke Veritas raises a good point – how many of us, with our principles and high moral attitude against slavery, still take advantage of the labour of slaves?
Well known multi-national companies turn a blind eye and feign ignorance of the conditions of child labourers in third world sweatshops.
Have you looked at the label in your jeans recently? Made in China? Made in India?
It’s right on time James
That upload was a bit early wasn’t it Marina
What are you talking about James?
On youtube it says you have 30,172 views.. so thats nowhere near your usual #24 most viewed
Did you see James’ get a MAC vid on the TUBE? If you donate to his cause he will save an extinct species.
Yes… The Pleasiosaurs have a nice name.
Been working Has anyone got her to explain her nick name yet??:
Not yet not even a peep out of her on her nick name.
good video too
1st YAY
Zowie! [rubs eyes in disbelief]
Congratulations! #1 with a
bullet!
who is zoe