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I don't like when they change the meanings of words

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Words get watered down and lose their meanings and become wimpified.



Like the word diva used to have a specific meaning. It was a very talented female opera singer. But over the years, mealy-mouthed media types have gotten ahold of it and it became an accepted word for any female singer - then basically any female in any field with any small amount of attitude - then basically anyone of either sex who does anything noticeable. Diva.



The word punk is another one. Punk rock had a very specific meaning when it was first coined and it SURE AS HELL DID NOT include what Avril Lavigne does. But now Avril Lavigne is a punk princess? Come on man.



The main reason this is on my mind is because of recent events in Toronto where a cop died in the line of duty. For anyone who doesn't know, some deranged nut stole a snowplow and went on a crazy joyride across town. Road conditions were icy and the guy was crashing all over the place. The cop died when the snowplow crashed into him.

I'm not anti-cop at all - it was a sad thing - but the subsequent media coverage has been insane. I could go on and on about that but the point as it relates to this thread is the overuse of the word hero. I have seen this guy called a hero one zillion times now.

He got hit by a snowplow. Maybe if I was there I would understand why he was anywhere near in a position to get hit by the rampaging snowplow. If you are setting up a roadblock then fine - you park the vehicles there - but as the speeding/skidding lunatic approaches, don't you move your body the hell away? I don't know. I wasn't there so maybe it made sense and was not as inept as it sounds.

But hero? For getting hit by a snowplow? Come on man.

I remember the victims of 9/11 being called heroes. Same with the victims of the shooting in Tucson. Heroes?

It's too bad what happened but that's not what hero means.



And while we're at it, they keep calling the death of this cop murder.

That is not what murder means in my book.




That is all.
 
I really like Muddy for his posting/thread starting and I loved this post until we got to the hero part.

Muddy, didn't we beat this snow plow hero thing into the ground like two weeks ago (I think Plommer brought it up).
 
Mudddaaaay!

I wrote a similar rant on a local Toronto bulletin board and was accused of being insensitive, anti-cop etc etc.

I couldn't agree more with your post.

PS: I am over the hero officers death.
 
Funeral was yesterday Daffy. Total madness in the media. Muddy's post is on point.

The whole city isn't mourning the loss of one cop, I don't care what the newspaper headlines say. Calm the fok down. It is a sad story. Mention it once and move on.
 
another one is "tragic." many deaths are referred to as tragic when in fact they are not. tragedy used to have a very specific meaning; when a death is caused by some innate flaw in the person. getting hit by a car, while traumatic, is certainly not tragic.
 
Like for example if you are a firefighter and run into a burning building to save soemone and you got them out safely but then you went back and died because the building collapsed you are a hero. But if you died because the fire truck had a traffic accident on the way to a fire you are not a hero.
 
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Like for example if you are a firefighter and run into a burning building to save soemone and you got them out safely but then you went back and died because the building collapsed you are a hero. But if you died because the fire truck had a traffic accident on the way to a fire you are not a hero.
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:clap: Pavy you're my personal hero for the day.
 
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