The Bastards

[HeinekenMan]

This from an AP story today. Pay particular attention to what happened to the 90,000 children:

"With a temperature of 12 below zero and wind chill of 31 below, Wisconsin's largest school district, Milwaukee Public Schools, also shut down, idling some 90,000 children. In upstate New York, 34,000 kids got the day off in Rochester because of near-zero temperatures. Schools also closed in parts of Michigan."

Have you ever been idled? Does it hurt? Does it involve the anus? What a ridiculous choice of words. It makes it sound as if the kids are in peril. They could have used "delighting" just as easily, and that, at least, would have been more accurate.

 

[ondeadline]

I don't disagree. But while I've never heard that at team was "idling" you often here that a team is idle this week. I guess the pupils are idle, huh?

 

[Oggiedoggie]

"An idling mind is the Devil's workingshop."

 

[Ben_Hecht]

Oh, ya got trouble . . .

 

[HeinekenMan]

I don't disagree. But while I've never heard that at team was "idling" you often here that a team is idle this week. I guess the pupils are idle, huh?

If idling is jerking it to mom's Victoria's Secret catalog, then, yes, a great many of the male pupils are idling today.

 

[Ace]

My only problem with idling is that it wastes gas and contributes to global warming.

 

[Pastor]

Here is a link to the definition of idling. The word fits perfectly in the context for which it is used.

 

[HeinekenMan]

Pastor,

You passed my test. I wanted to see who knew what a wonderful verb idling is.

 

[Oz]

You passed my test. I wanted to see who knew what a wonderful verb idling is.

Uh huh. :

 

[Ace]

The problem with the story is that it's not the word so much as the effect of the cold. The kids are happy to be out of school. It's the parents who have to scramble to deal with it.

 

[Freelance Hack]

My only problem with idling is that it wastes gas and contributes to global warming.

In Louisville, it's against the law to idle in public. Both under Ace's and Heineken's definitions.

 

[HeinekenMan]

What I really wanted to portray is that the word seemed to have some negative connotation. I think Ace explores this.