Norwegians Use the Word “Texas” as Slang to Mean “Crazy” • Hacker News Board

Re: Norwegians Use the Word “Texas” as Slang to Mean “Crazy”

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Post by dogma1138 » Sat, Oct 24, 2015, 1:37 AM UTC

unvs wrote: post #27

It's sad to see some people get defensive and try to pit this as a "europe vs the US" thing, even bringing up the Utøya tragedy and Breivik. The article is just click bait, and sensationalism at its worst. "Texas" is a slang to mean "wild west", like they say further into the article. I don't know why they try to pin it as "crazy". It doesn't have anything to do with stereotypes. It stems from old westerns and has be…

But Texas wasn't really the wild west, the "wild west" was mostly what now are the central and north western states and California.

Re: Norwegians Use the Word “Texas” as Slang to Mean “Crazy”

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Post by KirinDave » Sat, Oct 24, 2015, 6:49 AM UTC

GFK_of_xmaspast wrote: post #44

KirinDave wrote: post #11

Well that we should, if you look at what Texas does to our textbook selection process for the entire US. (Edit: downvote me all you want, but it's Texas that's enabling intelligent design proponents to inject their nonsense into our science textbooks. Similar factions are using that inroad to whitewash history, as well)

In fairness, there are dozens of other states who would happily do the same, but don't have the single-market pull to manage it.

Yes, in a hypothetical alternate universe where Texas is not Texas, Texas would not have the requisite properties to do what Texas does. You're right, let's be fair.

Re: Norwegians Use the Word “Texas” as Slang to Mean “Crazy”

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Post by V-2 » Sun, Oct 25, 2015, 2:06 PM UTC

eivarv wrote: post #50

V-2 wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

sure: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/norway/9302... and http://content.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1989083_21... reminds me of Woody Allen's "Bananas", and Goldie Hawn as the detached from reality liberal do-gooder who'd visit a prison and lecture bewildered staff about how she thinks inmates should "decorate their own cells... with their own personal decorators" and so on even Allen - not ex…

Re: your second link; Breivik is not in Halden prison - which is pretty fancy, even by our Norwegian standards. Also; that whole debate about punitive vs. restorative justice, logic and empiricism.

Okay, then he's not - sorry - still that's beyond the point really, I think it's a bit over the top in and of itself