No more Couch Potato! :P
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I thought this was really funny
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Farmers stew over 'couch potato'
Farmers want "couch potato" removed from the dictionary because they believe the expression is damaging the vegetable's image. A campaign promoting the use instead of "couch slouch" is being led by the British Potato Council, representing 4,000 growers and processors.
The council argues that potatoes are "inherently healthy".
Protests are due on Monday outside dictionary publisher Oxford University Press and in Parliament Square, London.
"We are trying to get rid of the image that potatoes are bad for you," said council head of marketing Kathryn Race.
"Of course it is not the Oxford English Dictionary's fault but we want to use another term than 'couch potato' because potatoes are inherently healthy."
The campaign is backed by dieticians who say the vegetable is low in fat and high in vitamin C, the council says.
The dictionary defines a couch potato as: "A person who spends leisure time passively or idly sitting around, especially watching television or video tapes."
Chief editor John Simpson said: "When people blame words they are actually blaming the society that uses them.
"Dictionaries just reflect the words that society uses."
Words were never removed from the 20-volume, 650,000-word main dictionary, but little-used ones could be taken out of the smaller dictionaries, Mr Simpson added.
The first recorded use of "couch potato" was in the Los Angeles Times in 1979 and it entered the Oxford English Dictionary in 1993, he said.
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totally. lame.
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man there are some really stupid people
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Y'know, removing 'potato' from the term 'Couch Potato' won't result in increased sales of the spud anyways. It's a lot of fuss made over an insignificant matter.
Making a mountain out of a molehill! 
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they wanna get er... wat do u call that?Originally posted by Rhonda:Y'know, removing 'potato' from the term 'Couch Potato' won't result in increased sales of the spud anyways. It's a lot of fuss made over an insignificant matter. Making a mountain out of a molehill!
1 min of fame when ppl read this article..
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how about changing it to 'couch onion'?
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Originally posted by dragg:how about changing it to 'couch onion'?
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lol
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haha ha so deogatary.
i have bad spelling.
my ass is itchy. -
Hmm... you seem to be itching all over a lot of the time... wondering if you might have scabies!Originally posted by thinger:haha ha so deogatary.
i have bad spelling.
my ass is itchy.
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Sounds like other news clips I remember from years ago...
Some ultra-conservatives wanted 'hello' changed to 'heaven-o' because of the word 'hell' in it.
And some ultra-feminists who wanted to ban the word 'woman' because of the word 'man' in it. -
Wah!!Originally posted by fudgester:Sounds like other news clips I remember from years ago...
Some ultra-conservatives wanted 'hello' changed to 'heaven-o' because of the word 'hell' in it.
And some ultra-feminists who wanted to ban the word 'woman' because of the word 'man' in it. -
seriously, would the world be free of cancer if we rename it to aids?
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Originally posted by Ito_^:seriously, would the world be free of cancer if we rename it to aids?
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am i a couch potato
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Nope... but you are seriously clinically delusional!Originally posted by kops21:am i a couch potato -
kops, your constant remarks about you being fat really aren't funny. It's quite disturbing.
Hearing someone who's fit enough to run a marathon call himself 'fat' is really cause for concern. Here's some info on Body Dysmorphic Disorder :
At one time or another we all worry about our appearance, but when you wake up degrading your nose, hair, chest, WEIGHT, etc. and then continuing to have these thoughts all day, that's when there is a problem. Closely linked to other disorders and psychiatric conditions, Body Dysmorphic Disorder (termed shortly BDD) is a serious disorder that is growing fast. People that suffer from BDD not only dislike some aspect of how they look, they're preoccupied severely with it. Most get to the point where it is very hard to go outside or sit down comfortably, or go to work and talk to others, without thinking the self-degrading thoughts about their flaws. The thoughts soon over take the person's mind and it is all he/she can think about.
The problem, though, is that all of these self-degrading thoughts about a perceived flaw are distorted. Many, many times the supposed flaw doesn't even exist, or an "imperfect" body part is blown entirely out of proportion. However, the person themselves cannot see that what they believe is distorted. Many hold the belief that they are seeing all of this, therefore it MUST be true. -
"A rose by any other name is still a rose".Originally posted by Ito_^:seriously, would the world be free of cancer if we rename it to aids? -
Originally posted by Rhonda:"A rose by any other name is still a rose". har nor..
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Hor? Hor?Originally posted by Ito_^: har nor.. -
if Rhonda was to be an extreme anti-japanese, does that mean that she may change her name to Rbenz or Rford?