Bears kill two farmers

This also applies to the etymology of many words in English, it's just that people generally don't know the languages (Latin, Greek, etc.) that the words originate from.

However, having said that, I'm struggling to think of any examples off the top of my head.

Struggling is an interesting one. It's a combination of struck and gulling. In Ireland, the fisherman on the West coast would often lose 15-20% of their catch to seagulls. Either through the gulls swooping down into the baskets on the boat, or the drying racks on shore, their profit margins were increasingly being cut into.

So the Fishermen would hire one person to try to catch the gulls and hit them with a long net, and then a bat. This was the local "Gull Striker."

This was no easy task of course, birds are flighty. So the job was a "struggle." A "struck gull."

This was no easy task of course, birds are flighty. So the job was a "struggle." A "struck gull."

"Toiling" also has a very interesting etymology.
It's actually a contraction of the old compound word "too-illing", in the sense that something was too horrible for words (and thus needed a new word to describe the terrible pain and sickness that thing would bring to all those around it).


 

"Toiling" also has a very interesting etymology.
It's actually a contraction of the old compound word "too-illing", in the sense that something was too horrible for words (and thus needed a new word to describe the terrible pain and sickness that thing would bring to all those around it).


 

It actually refers to Chinese slave labour when Mattel moved their manufacturing operations overseas in the late 70s to save on US unionised labour costs.

Toy Ling.   

Thats too illing. 

'Toilet' comes from the French word 'toile', for cloth, as they used to crap into cloth and dispose of it (prior to the bidet).

There is some latin or Greek origin to it. But i personally dunno now.(someone could google it)

Ernest Hemingway said in his memoirs (A Movable Feast, 1964) of his newspaper abrupt, short-sentence, easy grammar style of writing: "some toil, i walk".

My mind blended it with TrollingAjumma and BoilingCrab

...it is extremely difficult to find any sympathy for people who treat animals like this...

The RUB... from the op...

How can people be so uncaring? All creatures need their freedom. #helpananimaltoday!

The RUB... from the op...

How can people be so uncaring? All creatures need their freedom. #helpananimaltoday!

crazy how van seems to have more empathy for animals than celebrities who commit suicide

Struggling is an interesting one. It's a combination of struck and gulling. In Ireland, the fisherman on the West coast would often lose 15-20% of their catch to seagulls. Either through the gulls swooping down into the baskets on the boat, or the drying racks on shore, their profit margins were increasingly being cut into.

So the Fishermen would hire one person to try to catch the gulls and hit them with a long net, and then a bat. This was the local "Gull Striker."

This was no easy task of course, birds are flighty. So the job was a "struggle." A "struck gull."

I believe it, but I'm pretty gullible.

Ironically if he would only google concepts that he doesn't understand, he would know before he puts his foot in his mouth. Also deleted mine, but then half my posts do get deleted   

Maybe gonna let this thread cool down for a bit until we all remember that we're here to insult either the bear farmers for farming bears, the police for shooting the bears, the bears for (allegedly) murdering the farmers, or the society that allows these things to happen despite all the very obvious warning signs and previous infractions that pointed towards the inevitability of this occurance.