Chappies

Chapman's Peak, built for the view! Heyo, 'get off my lawn'.

Panchos

The place to enjoy a great beer!

Banana Jam Cafe

This is where it is at!

What a place to be.

Banana Jam Cafe.

Caribbean Culture.

Monday, 08.03.21

Heyo, Megan & Harry, get real. Lost their 'freedom', trying to be normal.

Is Megan coloured and who cares. 

What is the protocol?

Cape To Cairo

My brother is awesome , even  as we speak he is preparing our breakfast, scrambled eggs and bacon. Yummy! 

 Friday, 16 October 2020
22:34

futile   adjective | FYOO-tul   Definition   1 : serving no useful purpose : completely ineffective   2 : occupied with trifles : frivolous   Scroll down for more about futile

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Did You Know?   Futile broke into 16th-century English as a Latinate borrowing from Middle French. The Latin derivative, fūtilis, was used to describe things that are brittle or fragile and, by extension, things serving no purpose or being pointless. These meanings survive in the English futile, which denotes ineffectiveness or frivolousness. In 1827, English author Robert Southey found use for the word by blending it into utilitarian to form futilitarian, a word that is used for anyone who believes that human striving is futile—that is, ineffective and/or frivolous.

Examples of FUTILE   "Austin Rivers … played a role in the fourth-quarter comeback attempt that proved futile." — Reuters, 11 Sept. 2020   "… anyone who's ever traded in the familiar role of wedding guest for the alien role of wedding focal point will know how futile an effort it is to remember events clearly. At this point, the night lives on for me through the colors in my brain and the considerably more reliable memories in the photographs." — Daniel Riley, GQ, 22 July 2020

 And I say Yes, I am your Yes Man!

Could this have been Herbie, 53?
The Love Bug

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  WTF,

I don't know why this thing does what it does at the most inappropriate times; but then again, what does it matter - I got the time!  

Longanimity - seems strange?  -- then again, quite normal for me!

 

longanimity

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Definition

: a disposition to bear injuries patiently : forbearance

Did You Know?

Longanimity is a word with a long history. It came to English in the 15th century from the Late Latin adjective longanimis, meaning "patient" or "long-suffering." Longanimis, in turn, derives from the Latin combination of longus ("long") and animus ("soul"). Longus is related to English's long and is itself an ancestor to several other English words, including longevity ("long life"), elongate ("to make longer"), and prolong ("to lengthen in time"). Now used somewhat infrequently in English, longanimity stresses the character of one who, like the figure of Job in the Bible, endures prolonged suffering with extreme patience.

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• 
• Which is a synonym of risible?

• avoidable laughable
• bearable humble

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Examples

The fans continue to show their longanimity by coming back year after year to cheer on the perpetually losing team.

"Most of the conspirators were gentlemen in their early thirties and the majority had wild pasts. They were frustrated men of action, 'swordsmen' the priests called them, and 'they had not the patience and longanimity to expect the Providence of God.'" — Jessie Childs, God's Traitors: Terror & Faith in Elizabethan England, 2014

verbiage   noun | VER-bee-ij

Definition

1 : a profusion of words usually of little or obscure content   2 : manner of expressing oneself in words : diction

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