Having uncles

[Die Neue Zeit]

Which prominent figures today would you like to have as uncles? Why? They can be celebrities, politicians, intellectuals, etc.

[Bartholomew Roberts]

That's a specific family member.

[which doctor]

I'd like Christopher Hitchens to be my alcoholic uncle. :cool:

[black magick hustla]

zizek

[black magick hustla]

maybe he might let me hit on her wife

[black magick hustla]

(in the name of communist free love)

[Lyev]

David Harvey. He is one heavy-weight intellectual. We could chat about the theory of the falling rate of profit all through the night, over a bottle Jameson's whiskey. What a night...

[Pirate Utopian]

Ice Cube.

[Bartholomew Roberts]

Tom

[Bartholomew Roberts]

Tom

wow that post sucks

[Angry Young Man]

Sam B, although he really seems like more of a grandad.

[RED DAVE]

wow that post sucksThis maniac is a psycho troll. The sooner he's banned, the better.

RED DAVE

[Glenn Beck]

David Harvey. He is one heavy-weight intellectual. We could chat about the theory of the falling rate of profit all through the night, over a bottle Jameson's whiskey. What a night...

I second that, David Harvey looks and talks like a kindly old grandfather

[RedAnarchist]

This maniac is a psycho troll. The sooner he's banned, the better.

RED DAVE

You're the one who referred him to this forum.

[Invincible Summer]

Zizek, Subcomandante Marcos, or Ray Kurzweil so he can give me the skinny on all that new tech

[Die Rote Fahne]

Bill maher. I would enjoy smoking pot with him/

[Il Medico]

Christopher Walken, as my insane uncle.

[Devrim]

I'd like Eric Cantona.

Devrim

[Die Neue Zeit]

I'd like Christopher Hitchens to be my alcoholic uncle. :cool:

I suppose he's drunk all the time with his newfound ultra-liberalism.

[the last donut of the night]

good ol marx

[Spawn of Stalin]

Probably Jackie Chan. He's cuddly and stuff and knows kung fu

[Tower of Bebel]

Q

[the last donut of the night]

actually, devrim

[Die Neue Zeit]

good ol marx

"Prominent figures today" refers to the living, not the dead. Mine has been on camera quite a bit, talking about the Eurozone crisis over Greece on TV and speaking as part of election campaigning.


Q

Boo :p ;) :D

[Tyrlop]

Ernesto Busch

[communist72]

Bill maher. I would enjoy smoking pot with him/

i second this

i would also like billy mayes

[Devrim]

actually, devrim

Why thank you. Should I put you on my 'must buy a present at Bayram for' list?

Devrim

[the last donut of the night]

Why thank you. Should I put you on my 'must buy a present at Bayram for' list?

Devrim

Sure, just tell me what Bayram is. Also, what would you give me?

[Devrim]

Sure, just tell me what Bayram is.

It is the generic word for festivals/holidays. I was referring to the Muslim religious festivals though, sort of like Christmas, maybe.


Also, what would you give me?

It wouldn't be a surprise if I told you.

Devrim

[Die Neue Zeit]

With all due respect, Devrim, you're not exactly prominent in the way celebrities, politicians, intellectuals, etc. are. ;)

[the last donut of the night]

With all due respect, Devrim, you're not exactly prominent in the way celebrities, politicians, intellectuals, etc. are. ;)

He's certainly the most famous left-com around here...

[Devrim]

With all due respect, Devrim, you're not exactly prominent in the way celebrities, politicians, intellectuals, etc. are. ;)

Jacob, I didn't nominate myself for the post, somebody else did. It isn't my fault that you are jealous that I give off the airs of a kindly elderly uncle, and you don't.

Devrim

[Leo]

Come to think of it, we did joke around calling you 'uncle Devrim' a few years ago, didn't we?

Sigh, years go by so quickly :)

[Panda Tse Tung]

Bil Gates,

[DreamWeaver]

Too bad Albert Hoffmann died a year ago and Foucault has been dead for years.
I'll settle for Chomsky I guess.

Surprised no one has claimed Fidel yet.

[which doctor]

I suppose he's drunk all the time with his newfound ultra-liberalism.
You could say he's historically regressed :lol:
I thought about Zizek, but drunk ex-trotskyist sounds mildly more entertaining than a sweat-soaked babbling, incoherent eastern european.

[Die Neue Zeit]

Jacob, I didn't nominate myself for the post, somebody else did. It isn't my fault that you are jealous that I give off the airs of a kindly elderly uncle, and you don't.

Devrim

I'm not envious of you at all. I'm nowhere near your age. :)

Meanwhile, the efforts of my "uncle" (talking about the Eurozone crisis over Greece on TV and speaking as part of election campaigning) have paid off today! :D

[Vendetta]

Guevara and Hunter Thompson, most def. Those would be some badass adventures.:thumbup1:

[Panda Tse Tung]

I win, my uncle's richer then any of yours!

[Die Neue Zeit]

Oh really? :p My "uncle" lives in a manor-like residence and said recently about looking back at his career, "You never change a successful strategy."

[Jazzratt]

I know that a female sibling of ones parents is an "aunt" but what's the equivelent for avuncular? How do you express someone has the manner of an aunt?

[Jazzratt]

Well that's shit. Uncles get a much more awesome term.

[Bilan]

Probably someone like Chomsky. Don't agree with him on everything, but he seems like quite an amazing guy.
That or John Cleese.
Or Devrim.

[Die Neue Zeit]

I know that a female sibling of ones parents is an "aunt" but what's the equivelent for avuncular? How do you express someone has the manner of an aunt?

The answer is already mind-boggling to me:

http://www.funtrivia.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Number=440423

[Jazzratt]

I did end up looking it up on google. Those people were right it's materteral, for some reason the word for paternal aunt (amita) is left by the roadside in this one. Odd.