I really like cockwomble [British slang for a foolish person], and I don't know why.
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The word "sawney" survives in the current Official Scrabble Players Dictionary (OSPD), which validates the word in Scrabble tournament play, and is defined as "a foolish person".
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"Funeral > Oration", Thucydides II.40, trans. Rex Warner (1954). The word idiot originally simply meant "private citizen"; in combination with its more recent meaning of "foolish person", this is sometimes used by modern commentators to demonstrate that the ancient Athenians considered those who did not participate in politics as foolish.Goldhill, S., 2004, The Good Citizen, in Love, Sex & Tragedy: Why Classics Matters.
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Capulina made a total of 84 movies, 58 of them after separating from Viruta. He also has recorded 12 music albums. One of his most famous films was Santo contra Capulina (1969), where he co-starred with Mexican wrestling legend El Santo. Most of the films where he starred shared the same theme, to generate an adventure based on Capulina getting in trouble due to a specific issue, added with his position as an incompetent and foolish person.
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The Idiot by Evert Larock (1892) An idiot, in modern use, is a stupid or foolish person. It was formerly a technical term in legal and psychiatric contexts for some kinds of profound intellectual disability where the mental age is two years or less, and the person cannot guard themself against common physical dangers. The term was gradually replaced by the term profound mental retardation (which has itself since been replaced by other terms). Along with terms like moron, imbecile, and cretin, it is archaic and offensive in those uses.
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The movie starts off with a robbery of 20 crores in Pondicherry IDID Bank where a college girl is killed by one of the thieves. The same night as the robbery, the manager of the bank (Manivannan) commits suicide. After this, the story opens up in Chennai, where Sundaramoorthy (Prasanna), a visibly foolish person, comes in search of David Raj (Manoj K. Jayan), where he saves a girl from being raped by one of David's men. Moorthy confronts David and says that he came to get the stuff (aka heroin) from him, saying that Moorthy told him to get it for Rs. 10000 and wants to sell it to Rs.20000.
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According to Adam Smith of Bleeding Cool, in the story, Ellis uses Constantine to represent the perspective of an outsider who "is willing and able to forcefully confront the American public with the hard truth" that everyone involved in a shooting is equally responsible. Chad Nevett of Comic Book Resources (CBR) observed that "Shoot" is "less of a story and more of a rant". To him, the character of Penny represents a foolish person who believes there is a "magic ingredient" that will solve the problem of school shootings, and Constantine serves to ruin that notion and prove there is no easy answer to the epidemic.
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While the term "idiot" is, in the present day, not used in a medical, legal or psychiatric context, instead meaning a stupid or foolish person, the term previously held meaning as a technical term used in both legal and psychiatric contexts for some type of profound intellectual disability, wherein the disabled person's mental age was considered to be two years or less. Along with terms like "moron", "imbecile", and "cretin", "idiot" has become an archaic description in legal, medical and psychiatric contexts, becoming instead an offensive term deemed outdated and discriminatory towards those it was once used to describe. The term was gradually replaced with "profound mental retardation", which has since experienced euphemistic evolution and been gradually replaced with other terms.
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51–52 Another Greek expressed a form of pessimism in his philosophy: the ancient Cyrenaic philosopher Hegesias (290 BCE). Like later pessimists, Hegesias argued that lasting happiness is impossible to achieve and that all we can do is to try to avoid pain as much as possible. > Complete happiness cannot possibly exist; for that the body is full of many > sensations, and that the mind sympathizes with the body, and is troubled > when that is troubled, and also that fortune prevents many things which we > cherished in anticipation; so that for all these reasons, perfect happiness > eludes our grasp. Hegesias held that all external objects, events and actions are indifferent to the wise man, even death: "for the foolish person it is expedient to live, but to the wise person it is a matter of indifference".
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HMC 6th Report: Moray (London, 1877), p. 668. He was also questioned about a Scottish embassy to the German states instructed to discuss the likely demise of Queen Elizabeth and their support for James VI's title to the English throne.Michael Pearce, 'Riddle’s Court, Banquet and Diplomacy in 1598' in History Scotland, 12:4 (2012), pp. 20–27. Foulis brought back a sapphire engraved by Cornelius Dregghe with the portrait of Elizabeth for Anne of Denmark to wear, bought by Robert Jousie for £17.Michael Pearce, 'Anna of Denmark: Fashioning a Danish Court in Scotland', The Court Historian, 24:2 (2019) p. 141 Richard Douglas wrote to his uncle Archibald Douglas, who disapproved of Foulis and his employment, that Foulis was a fool and Archibald's dire enemy, and that James had begun to realise that Foulis was a "foolish person" and he would not be sent to England again.
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Moreover, that both life and death are desirable. They > also say that there is nothing naturally pleasant or unpleasant, but that > owing to want, or rarity, or satiety, some people are pleased and some > vexed; and that wealth and poverty have no influence at all on pleasure, for > that rich people are not affected by pleasure in a different manner from > poor people. In the same way they say that slavery and freedom are things > indifferent, if measured by the standard of pleasure, and nobility and > baseness of birth, and glory and infamy. They add that, for the foolish > person it is expedient to live, but to the wise person it is a matter of > indifference; and that the wise person will do everything for his own sake; > for that he will not consider any one else of equal importance with himself; > and he will see that if he were to obtain ever such great advantages from > any one else, they would not be equal to what he could himself bestow.
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