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You're not a Luddite - *this* is a Luddite
As the Duty Pedant at this moment in time I feel I must say on behalf of the management that if I hear one more person describe themselves as "a Luddite" because they haven't worked out how to sync up Spotify for iPhone or they still like playing vinyl records you will hear me bellow "Enough!" clean across the kingdom.
The Luddites, for those who don't know, were weavers who objected to the introduction of advanced weaving machinery in factories in the wake of the Napoleonic Wars, when rural poverty was at its height. At their most extreme they went in for breaking into the factories and destroying the looms, even going so far as to murder mill owners. Many were executed and sent into penal servitude. Serious business.
Now just because you are the only person in your road who hasn't got a flat screen TV, that doesn't mean that you are stealing into their houses at dead of night, smashing them to pieces and suggesting that we should go back to the days when all able bodied men had to do a couple of hours archery practice once a week on the village green.
A little proportion please.
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I used to enjoy Worker's Playtime on the wireless before digital
but then I'm a bit of a Huddite.
I prefer raw vegetables
Am I a crudite?
Muddite
I really love those tiger feet.
I'm being weally weally quiet
Am I a Fuddite?
I like cliched legal terminology
am I a M'Ludite?
No, but you're certainly
erudite
I keep tripping up
lanky American sprinters in my bare feet
Am I a Buddite?
I can't help chugging
crap American beers.
Am I a Bud Lite?
I haven't allowed any weaving machinery
into my house.
I am a Luddite.
Anyone on here
a Juddite?
I'm really, really good
at fishing.
Am I a Nuddite?
That'll be me then...
http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/content/idiots-guide-html-tags-please-anyo...
Humble apologies - but I did call myself an idiot too!
Sorry, but not all of The Massive are as eloquent as Backwards7, as hilarious as Captain Underpants or as good as writing about music as JoeR - some of us are not £50.00 man and have to live in an area that gets lottery money allocated to it as seen on Thames Valley Police Chase Chav Car Thieves Uncut - I love it when my mum calls me up, "oh, saw your road on tele last night again dear".
Not all of us own an Apple or even had computers at school before they left to go on a YOPS scheme at 16...not all of us paid attention in History!
I shall retire to my candle lit room and write out "Crop rotation in the 14th Century was considerably more widespread..." 1,000 times.
Oh, better add one of these befor you think I am really offended ;-)
Retire to my candle lit room ...
... and practice your new embedded-link HTML skills while you're there ;-)
Haha...
nice one, have an "up"...
D'ya think Mr Hepworth's being a bit
McCartyite?
If it's any comfort.....
....it wasn't you at all.
I applaud your attention to detail in the OP
Looking down from that lofty pillar of rectitude in N1 ... I'm tempted to join you up there ... then we'd be stylites
After John....
I knew it, I bloody knew it.
No you didn't, you said John....
Currently being repeated on Dave or somesuch. Well worth a watch. Hard to believe they're over 25 years old!
I have been jumping into ponds and slow-flowing rivers
With the aim of destroying all fish of the species Scardinius erythrophthalmus which, I take it, makes me a ruddite.
Or I might have been smashing weaving equipment. But in China.
It's a real shame
you can only hit the up arrow once.
I've seen them loads of time...
I've got all their records, t shirts and even a mug
I'm definitely...... a Cudite !
I have a sweet tooth
I'm a puddite.
This thread could blow up in our faces
It's cordite.
I favour the original AC\DC drummer
I'm a Ruddite
I don't use soap
Am I a Sudite?
I'm obsessed by
those missiles the Iraqis used in the 1991 Gulf War that were endlessly reported as being shot down by the opposing Patriot missiles.
I'm a SCUDdite.
I can't stop watching...
...Paul Thomas Anderson movies starring Daniel Day-Lewis.
Does that make me a therewillbebloodite?
I believe
in having a spare of everything.
I'm an extradite.
And, if mixed with water, I can cure stomach upsets.
I'm a Dioralyte.
If you sat in a bath of water
and connected yourself up to a battery, you might end up as an electrolyte.
je prendrai mon manteau...
So, what you're saying is...
that the Luddites were actually Thugs and Hooligans.
Well, no doubt some of them were....
...but I was trying to draw a distinction between people who try to throw technological progress and people who aren't quite early adopters.
That Luddite looks like Nora Batty...
but surely modern language is full of examples of such historical references being co-opted for use as a general term - in my take on it, it applies to someone who is not good with technology, not to be taken literally.
In fact there are so many examples - Philistine and errr..help me out here...so many I can't think of any more....
Is..
...technophobe maybe the correct term for someone who's not up to speed with new technology?
Luddites didn't want the new technology because it would do away with their jobs.
Ned Ludd.
It was
but it's been replaced by the word parent.
A Pedant writes again:
I know this doesn't really matter but a technophobe is someone who has a phobia about technology. Somebody who's not up to speed with new technology is just, well, average, aren't they?
I take it...
we shouldn't get you started on "cynical tackles" then.
Nothing wrong with cynical tackles
I remember the conspiratorial sideways glances offered by Vinnie Jones before he lunged towards the next hapless midfielder. He often said in interviews that football "is only a game, at the end of the day". I would have expected more commitment from a top footballer - this level of cynicism was tolerated in the 1980s.
Stuart Pearce used sarcasm to great effect in dead ball situations and John Wark's famous pithiness was devastating to opposing goalies.
See also:
Vandals - are they a member of an Germanic tribe that sacked Rome, or are they spray painting an underpass?
Goths - are they a member of a Germanic tribe that sacked Rome, or are they just wearing black clothes and a lot of eye-liner?
etc
And then:
Lesbian: are they from the Greek island of Lesbos, or are they a homosexual woman?
Eye Liner!
none of that here, a bit of hairspray occasionally, most of the Goth blokes I knew were big brutes, the maidens on the other hand.... [goes off on one]
can I just throw 'Catholic taste' into this pot puri
"Catholic" or "catholic"
one means "universal" the other pertains more specifically to the Rome based branch of the Christian church.
No pot pourri here...
... unless you're a pleasingly scented Catholic. I am.
Gets chasuble
I just thought...
I just thought there were parallels between "Luddite" and how those other proper-name-derived words have evolved to their current meanings. Never mind.
But as to your point, I sort of know what you mean, but "violently opposed to industrialisation" to "somewhat reluctant to switch to the latest technology" isn't that much of a leap over 250 years or so, is it? Some words ("drab", "nice", "luxury"...) have travelled a much more picturesque road over more or less the same period.
How tickled I am by this thread
Yes, I'm a Doddite
"we laugh ... tell a few jokes"
It's what that fuzz guitar "app" was invented for. Gene Record just used what was around, as and when it suited. Good approach to technology.
Tuuu.....
ne.
Hooligan
Named after a family in south east London who were rather notorious, the Houlihans.
I won't have any retired stallions in my house. It's too small.
The Hooligans in Shaftsbury
I like how Bill's English accent appears to be that of David St Hubbins of ver Tap
Well, I knew what a
Luddite was. And a hooligan. So yah-boo.
I'm a smugite
I've just had a new kitchen installed
I'm a Smegite
Memo to Sheffield Utd fans
Wednesdayite-kinda ok ?
Blade- great name,why choose another ?
Unitedite- sounds c**p
While we are in that part of the world ,Yesterday i had a CAPTCHA that was Ebaj Gum.
The nature of the beast.
Most certainly a graphite.
Davids argument
is a bit sticky - is it aruldite?
never shutting up.
I never know when to shut up.
I am a gobshite.
I'm in ore of the luddites.
I admire their chutzpah. I've been known to break into word processors and trash their dictionaries, whenever they define me as a source of 'aluminum'.
My brother was a Whizz Kid
but I was a Chip-ite
Wizzard & Chips
I think a few of the Massives younger members will be scratching their heads at that post !!
have an up
A pedant-ite writes
Whizzer and Chips.
Cheeky!
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no no no...
Cheeky was a different comic entirely. It merged with Whoopee!!! which later merged with W&C, but...
I think i've said enough
Cheeky Weekly
Was the very best comic ever. EVER!
dude...
we both need to get out more often...
According to Wikipedia...
"Music critic Alexis Petridis got his break in journalism writing scripts for early Mustapha Million comics."
Hmmmmmm.
Cheeky was brilliant.
In the picture
which accompanies the original post the Luddite appears to be wearing a dress - was he a transvestite?
im considering a love affair with macca
guess im a vegemite
You're not a pedant
The Pedants, for those who don't know, were 15th century Italian goatherds who violently objected to what they perceived as the increasingly shoddy use of language in public life.
In one notable incident, they destroyed a monastic library which specialised in self-help books, proclaiming that to receive advice from a book did not constitute "self-help", but merely "help". Serious business, indeed.
Marvellous point...
Nickwhite.
Three more from him later.
I can't watch all this thread
I'll wait for the hilites
Do they live next door
to the Hittites?
Did Mr Hepworth really use the phrase
'at this moment in time' in the original post? Seems a bit trite for one so erudite? I'll say night night - I'm off for a shower.
I wouldn't shag George Clooney
but my marmite
I could write a long, smug treatise
on the inappropriate use of words like 'pedant' and 'Luddite' but I fear it may end up being rather recondite.
I'm with Mr H and a bonus point
for using "at this moment in time" rather than the flawed "at this point in time".
Mind you, the start of the sentence may have been better expressed "As the current Duty Pedant....."
coat > door >
I'm sticking with this thread
Does that make me an Araldite?
Yer actual pedantry
Just reading the new Word magazine and came across the John Naughton piece on Roald Dahl: "Having prevaricated for 16 years, she passed the job [of writing a biography] to Sturrock in 2006 ..."
'Prevaricate' means 'lie' ('to avoid telling the truth or saying exactly what you think') - I guess what's meant is 'procrastinate'. This substitution is now so common that 'prevaricate' may well have flipped meaning altogether - well outpacing 'luddite'
Speak for yourself
How do you know I'm not stealing into my neighbours houses at dead of night and smashing their flat-screen tellys to pieces?
There's no coppers reading this thread are there?
I'm not a Luddite.
But I can sometimes be 'a bit of a luddite...'
In a galaxy far far away..
Return of The Juddites
I`m a
1949 Morris Minor...which makes me a low light. (For classic car buffs only)