BS: presidential nicknames - suggestions

Subject: RE: BS: presidential nicknames - suggestions
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 15 Jan 17 - 03:17 PM

That is untrue, Nigel. There are a number of states that have signed on to remove the electoral college, and I imagine a few more will make that move soon. It's one of those things that everyone has to agree to before it changes.

Subject: RE: BS: presidential nicknames - suggestions
From: Elmore
Date: 15 Jan 17 - 04:23 PM

President WEMABAN; wicked, evil, mean, and bad, and nasty.

Subject: RE: BS: presidential nicknames - suggestions
From: bobad
Date: 15 Jan 17 - 06:54 PM

Would you support a ban on the pro-Israel lobby buying off politicians too?

Ah yes, that old, anti-Semitic canard raises it's ugly head once again.

Subject: RE: BS: presidential nicknames - suggestions
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 15 Jan 17 - 07:06 PM

The people via their elected officials have very little ability to change anything, so do get real, Nigel. Even Obama, in the face of various lobbies, had very little ability to change anything. The fact remains that yer man lost the popular vote by a ton. My feeling is that that singular fact will come back to bite his arse, especially when his multifarious transgressions come to the fore even more than they have done up to now. This idiot is very unlikely to make it through a whole term. There are dodgy times ahead.

Subject: RE: BS: presidential nicknames - suggestions
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 15 Jan 17 - 07:10 PM

The pro-Israel lobby consists of a large number of non-Jewish business millionaires as well as Jews. Do your homework before you do your usual simplistic brainless kneejerks, bobad.

Subject: RE: BS: presidential nicknames - suggestions
From: bobad
Date: 15 Jan 17 - 07:13 PM

Tell us again Shaw, how the Jews control governments.....lol.

Subject: RE: BS: presidential nicknames - suggestions
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 15 Jan 17 - 07:40 PM

Nope. It's your obsession so you tell US about it! 😂

Subject: RE: BS: presidential nicknames - suggestions
From: bobad
Date: 15 Jan 17 - 07:58 PM

MY obsession.......lolololol!

Subject: RE: BS: presidential nicknames - suggestions
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 15 Jan 17 - 08:15 PM

Yes it is your obsession. No-one on this forum has ever said that Jews control governments, only you. No-one on this forum BELIEVES that Jews control governments. You WANT to believe that there are horrible people like that here, but there aren't. You are having a bash because you know that I outed you for your duplicity before the rule-change. Too bad. No-one here ever comes to your support. And I really can't work out why the moderators here think that it's a great idea for this forum to put up with you, what with your obnoxious "Jew hater" name-calling. Still, not my gig, so hey ho.

Subject: RE: BS: presidential nicknames - suggestions
From: Stu
Date: 16 Jan 17 - 05:32 AM

"in this part of the world everyone has nicknames, very rarely are they abusive."

Where the hell did you grow up?

Down here in the gutter nicknames are very often pisstakes based on a certain character trait or part or their appearance, and have been since school days. These could be considered offensive I suppose if you're particularly thin-skinned, but then some people have to feel like victims.

Subject: RE: BS: presidential nicknames - suggestions
From: akenaton
Date: 16 Jan 17 - 06:21 AM

In the Gaelic culture of the West of Scotland, everyone had a nickname "Donal Mhor", "Hillary Bhan", "Erchie crupach", most pertaining to some physical characteristic, occupation, or some unusual deed performed in the past.

It was and still is accepted as very bad form to refer to anyone by their nickname to their face, but all these names are in common everyday use.

Subject: RE: BS: presidential nicknames - suggestions
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 16 Jan 17 - 06:39 AM

Even if that were true, which I doubt, the president-elect is not a denizen of the Gaelic fastnesses of western Scotland. I hear he has a golf course or two somewhere else in Scotland, mind you. I suppose the locals who live near them, as well as a large number of environmentalists, have some fairly choice nicknames for him.

Subject: RE: BS: presidential nicknames - suggestions
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 16 Jan 17 - 08:57 AM

Posted by Molly on the Gaughan forum, reproduced with permission, though she respectfully asks that you retain the attribution if you pass it on.

A QUESTION

If the Protestants all pray
And the Buddhists chant a bit
And the rabbi in the synagogue
Gets Moses in on it
And the Catholics count their beads
And the Pope says it's OK
And if all the monks and friars
Pray their nuts off night and day
And all the shamans round the world
Get themselves into a trance
And the whirling swirling dervishes
Do their usual little dance
If the Sikhs all sing their hymns
And the Hindus rise at dawn
And the rest of us read the old I-Ching
The Bible or Koran
If the holy trumpets sound
And the drummers have a bash
If the Yogis levitate
And the Mormons raise the cash
If Mohammed rolls his sleeves up
(Peace and blessings be on him)
And the Baptists take a Sunday stroll
To the river for a swim
And if those who handle snakes
Stay steady and steadfast
And if those who practice Zen
Get nowhere pretty fast
If the preacher in the pulpit
Has his Bible there to thump
Do you think there's any chance
Of getting rid of Donald Trump?

Written by Sam Richards: a poet, writer and musician from Devon, England.

Subject: RE: BS: presidential nicknames - suggestions
From: bobad
Date: 16 Jan 17 - 10:26 AM

One that has been making the rounds: Trumple Thinskin.

Subject: RE: BS: presidential nicknames - suggestions
From: gillymor
Date: 16 Jan 17 - 10:49 AM

I'm thinking "The Cheeto Bandito".

More of a description than a nickname but Jon Stewart nailed it with "Unrepentant Narcissistic Asshole"

Subject: RE: BS: presidential nicknames - suggestions
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 16 Jan 17 - 12:26 PM

I think that the meaning of Trump on the east side of the pond is good enough. IE - Fart, breaking wind, whatever else you like to call it. Makes a nasty smell. Makes himself feel better while tainting the environment for everyone else. Lots of noise with no real message. Hopefully, one of these days, he will follow through :-D

DtG

Subject: RE: BS: presidential nicknames - suggestions
From: Stu
Date: 16 Jan 17 - 02:01 PM

I like Cheeto's. I don't want to start associating them with Trump. Ugh.

Subject: RE: BS: presidential nicknames - suggestions
From: Mr Red
Date: 16 Jan 17 - 05:03 PM

Trumple Thinskin - getting close to the Bull (sic)

nicknames have been the staple of human discourse since tribes got to be larger than "mother - father - grandad/pop/granpy - grandma/gran - aunt etc". ANd don't the Welsh have fun - "look see".

When Billy the Bastard claimed all of England and realised he didn't know what he had got, his henchmen had to document people. So John here and John there had to be nominatively distinguished. So if John was a woodcutter he got to be John Forrester (and his decendants today might be Forster or Foster) but poor old John with a crossed eye would be John Cox which wasn't that complimentary even then.

Anyway we have to single out Presidents from any other poor sod with the same appellation. We are having fun, it won't be fun much longer.

Trump's litany of refusing to pay so many creditors must earn the nickname "Old can pay, won't pay" some day. Since "His Fraudulency" has already been taken.

Subject: RE: BS: presidential nicknames - suggestions
From: gillymor
Date: 17 Jan 17 - 07:55 AM

Yeah, Cheetos deserve better than that.

"Decomposing Jack-o-lantern" (?)

Subject: RE: BS: presidential nicknames - suggestions
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 17 Jan 17 - 08:21 AM

What are these "Cheetos?" Neither Mrs Steve nor I has ever heard of them!

Subject: RE: BS: presidential nicknames - suggestions
From: gillymor
Date: 17 Jan 17 - 08:34 AM

Hope this helps, Steve.

Subject: RE: BS: presidential nicknames - suggestions
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 17 Jan 17 - 08:53 AM

The Redneck in the White House seems apt enough
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: BS: presidential nicknames - suggestions
From: Mr Red
Date: 17 Jan 17 - 11:44 AM

thanx gillymor

ROTFLMAO

Subject: RE: BS: presidential nicknames - suggestions
From: gillymor
Date: 17 Jan 17 - 04:19 PM

Welcome to Trump's America where p###y grabbing may become the new National Pastime.

Subject: RE: BS: presidential nicknames - suggestions
From: gillymor
Date: 18 Jan 17 - 01:03 PM

He's long been known as "Deadbeat Donnie" due his reputation for stiffing tradespeople, contractors, real estate agents and even the law firms he hires to sue the previous three.

Subject: RE: BS: presidential nicknames - suggestions
From: Joe Offer
Date: 18 Jan 17 - 03:46 PM

Is there no equivalent to Cheetos in the UK? Can it really be that Steve Shaw has no concept of Cheetos?

If you have never had Cheetos, Steve, no doubt you will live a longer and healthier life. They're tasty and addictive, but I doubt that they have any semblance to actual food.

Joe

Subject: RE: BS: presidential nicknames - suggestions
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 18 Jan 17 - 05:19 PM

We have things called Cheesy Wotsits but they look terrible and I can honestly report that the confection has never crossed my lips. I have a suspicion that they may be Cheeto-like.

Subject: RE: BS: presidential nicknames - suggestions
From: bobad
Date: 18 Jan 17 - 06:56 PM

"the Donald" has received the honor of having a new species of moth officially named after him: Neopalpa donaldtrumpi. It is described as having a strange blonde thing on its head and small genitals.

IFL Science

Subject: RE: BS: presidential nicknames - suggestions
From: CupOfTea
Date: 18 Jan 17 - 09:54 PM

Nasty as it sounds, my money is on

TWITLER

That's his particular way of getting his lies out to his staunch supporters. The parallels are too obvious for me. I do like Trumple Thinskin, but it doesn't sound as scary, and I'm freaking terrified.

Joanne in the democratic stronghold of a republican run state.

Subject: RE: BS: presidential nicknames - suggestions
From: Ebbie
Date: 19 Jan 17 - 02:22 AM

One thing I have not heard addressed is the colo(u)r of Trump's hair. He would have you know that it is not ORANGE or apricot or whatever; it is GOLDEN.

Subject: RE: BS: presidential nicknames - suggestions
From: Stu
Date: 19 Jan 17 - 04:24 AM

The Cheeto's that I love are the Jalapeño Cheese flavoured ones, and you can get them here in the UK from Tescos, but they cost a packet (geddit?). I first tried these in a petrol station in the Mojave Desert when a mate brought a huge packet and offered them around to the group we were travelling with. I was hooked immediately.

A packet of Jalapeño Cheese Cheetos and a box of Hot Tamales and you've the basis of some fine road trip cuisine, right there.

Subject: RE: BS: presidential nicknames - suggestions
From: gillymor
Date: 19 Jan 17 - 08:36 AM

"TWITLER", Lol. My favorite so far.

Also in the running, "Commander in Cheat".

Subject: RE: BS: presidential nicknames - suggestions
From: Ebbie
Date: 20 Jan 17 - 03:39 AM

Somewhere else, they have come up with 'Don, the Con'. I rather like it.

Subject: RE: BS: presidential nicknames - suggestions
From: Mr Red
Date: 20 Jan 17 - 04:10 AM

Personally I don't think we have to describe him from his presidential record, but I think he will do something that chimes during. Even if it harks back.
And it will stick.

Like Twitler. It has at least three references (for UK ears).

Subject: RE: BS: presidential nicknames - suggestions
From: Stu
Date: 21 Jan 17 - 04:08 AM

Righto. To all the right-wing apologists whining that we had to wait and see what their glorious leader did when he was in office before we judge him, now we can.

He's removed all reference to climate change from the White House website (it was gone within hours, much to the alarm of many workers in the natural sciences) and he's plugging Melania's jewellery tat on her White House site bio.

Let's see what today brings.

Subject: RE: BS: presidential nicknames - suggestions
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 21 Jan 17 - 09:42 PM

No Cheetos, but we do have Pork Scratchings - which is what they actually are, bits of fried pigskin. If you had them in the States that might be a good nickname.

From his dancing you could go for President Lurch. (Try: https://youtu.be/ADyof5oSgIk)

Subject: RE: BS: presidential nicknames - suggestions
From: Donuel
Date: 21 Jan 17 - 10:06 PM

Tucker Frump

Subject: RE: BS: presidential nicknames - suggestions
From: Mr Red
Date: 22 Jan 17 - 05:15 AM

Er - call me a Blackcountryman but them there Pork Scratching wot you refers to (owr kid) bain't nuttin but cracklin'
Reeeel Scratchings is wot ya get left wiv when yer make lard. The underbelly, called leaf. And bits of any offal that will render fat. Pressed into round pans. Killed off by BSE.
Pigskin was sold for leather goods. And was prized. Times change!

I won't have the glorious memory of real Pork Scratchings sullied by a Trump of Lard!
No sir!

Subject: RE: BS: presidential nicknames - suggestions
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 22 Jan 17 - 05:22 AM

I love pork scratchings but not those puffed-up jobs. I like mine to be 25% skin and 75% big thick wodge of fat and filling-bustingly hard. I've had several nipples in my time but never the fabled pig's anus. I'll keep looking. More on my fine dining preferences later.

Subject: RE: BS: presidential nicknames - suggestions
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 22 Jan 17 - 05:25 AM

Don't they call them pork rinds in the US or are those a different confection?

Subject: RE: BS: presidential nicknames - suggestions
From: Stu
Date: 22 Jan 17 - 05:32 AM

I once ate a huge bag of chilli flavoured pork scratchings whilst on a long drive across the prairie from Rapid City, SD, to a tiny town in North Dakota.

*boilk*

Subject: RE: BS: presidential nicknames - suggestions
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 22 Jan 17 - 06:10 AM

Why add chilli to such a pure and beautiful product? Abominable.

Subject: RE: BS: presidential nicknames - suggestions
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 22 Jan 17 - 06:26 AM

Why add lumps of hard set greasy fat to such a beautiful food as chili?
It's time we sent missionaries up north again - mind you, they ate the last lot, no doubt spread with chili sauce
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: BS: presidential nicknames - suggestions
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 22 Jan 17 - 07:14 AM

There comes a time in life (usually after eight pints) when only hard-set lumps of greasy fat will do. Failing that, prawn biryani with extra fried rice and pappadoms or salty chip butties made with terrible white sliced bread and too much butter. Send the missionaries and we might even deep-fry them too.

Subject: RE: BS: presidential nicknames - suggestions
From: Stu
Date: 22 Jan 17 - 07:52 AM

They were the puffy ones, not the fatty ones and they were superb. Worked surprisingly well.

Subject: RE: BS: presidential nicknames - suggestions
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 22 Jan 17 - 08:07 AM

I will eat the puffy one in extremis only. They are to proper pork scratchings what Batchelor's tinned processed peas are to Birdseye.

Subject: RE: BS: presidential nicknames - suggestions
From: DMcG
Date: 22 Jan 17 - 08:16 AM

Back on nicknames, with the climate change denial 'Cnut' is becoming appealing (yes, I know the Cnut story has several versions.)

Also, in honour of "The Godfather" 'Don' seems tempting.

Subject: RE: BS: presidential nicknames - suggestions
From: gillymor
Date: 22 Jan 17 - 08:43 AM

I can't believe you guys co-opted this wonderful thread to discuss disgusting, lard-laden pig anuses. Wait, looks like you're right on topic. Carry on.

Subject: RE: BS: presidential nicknames - suggestions
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 22 Jan 17 - 09:20 AM

Exactly! At least the pigs' orifices in question are no longer blowing out offensive and dangerous material.

Subject: RE: BS: presidential nicknames - suggestions
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 22 Jan 17 - 09:32 AM

I cannot bring myself to refer to the recently inaugurated individual as "President T-t-t-t...". See, I can't even type it.

Therefore, I have decided to refer to him as "He-whose-name-I-shall-not-utter-following-the-word-President".

Or possibly "The Future Ex-President".