![]() ![]() Witness, for example, the contentious and voluminous battles surrounding the deleterious effects of timbering on owls, owls on loggers, dams on salmon, wolves on cattle, cattle on streams, and on and on. Decisions that once were the sole province of people in the region now elicit participation from around the globe. In a world made ever smaller by scientific discovery and by ubiquitous, nearly instantaneous media coverage, the concern and involvement of people living at great distance from the site of environmental issues is at an all-time high. And on that land is found the bulk of this nation's natural resources: its forests, mountains, streams, deserts, canyons, lakes, and cropland and the wildlife that live there, the treatment of which today elicits great scrutiny. land (a large portion of it owned not by private rural interests, but collectively by the citizensurban and ruralof the nation). According to the most common governmental definition of rural America, it contains 83 percent of U.S. Why does (and should) an urban/suburban nation care about its rural areas?Īt the most mundane level, there is the matter of size: 55 million people, 28 million jobs, 13,000 local governments, and 2,288 counties. While accepting this construct would equate to painting Dante's "All hope abandon, ye who enter here" above the entrance to rural America, developmentif somehow attainabledoes at the very least present rural America with a host of difficult choices. That is, that development, in the spatial realm, leads to (and is therefore ultimately equivalent to) urbanization: to develop is to no longer be rural to remain rural is to remain undeveloped. For many of rural America's ailments, satisfactory solutions remain to be found the "problem" may well be a "dilemma." Worse, one might even make the argument that "rural development" is, in fact, an oxymoron. One century, countless programs, and trillions of dollars later, Roosevelt's words still hold. Had the Commissionan august group of scientists, educators, farmers, and businessmenalso included a soothsayer, it might well have labeled the object of their attention the "rural dilemma," and rightly so. Such were the words of President Theodore Roosevelt in appointing the Country Life Commission to consider, and propose solutions to, the so-called "rural problem." The year was 1908. To cripple someone by shooting or hitting their kneecaps as a means of punishment." the social and economic institutions of the open country are not keeping pace with the development of the nation as a whole." The scrotum, the pouch that holds the testicles. An exclamation of disagreement or annoyance. E.g."Climbing to the top of the Mount Everest was the most knackering thing I have ever done."Įxclam. The replacement let in an average of 6 goals each match and we got relegated to a lower division."Īdj. E.g."We were knackered after our goalkeeper left, mid season. Thwarted, prevented from succeeding at a task. E.g."Can we come around to watch TV at yours tonight, our is knackered."ģ. ![]() E.g."I missed my bus, I've just walked home, I'm knackered, so I'm going to bed. It with that hammer and you'll knacker it." Īdj. Unusual and less common spelling of ' cling-on', possibly inspired by the Klingons from the Star Trek TV/film series. Faecal remnants that have adhered to anal hairs. A person who passes dud or stolen cheques.Īdj. E.g."I got some fantastic sportswear this morning, kiting in the precinct." To fraudulently use dud or stolen cheques. ![]() An expression of disapproval, such as go to hell or get lost. E.g."Did you see the miserable kipper on that idiot stood at the back?" Īdj./Exclam. E.g."Isn't it time you woke them up, they've been kipping for 16 hours." E.g."Let's stop here for the night and get some kip."Ģ. A contraction of 'fuc kin'ell' (fucking hell). Stay silent, keep quiet, don't tell anyone about it. Because with a black eye you can only keek, meaning peep. Numerous alternative speilings include khazi, kharzie, karsey, karzey, and kazi. The word lavatory is in itself, a euphemism for a place to wash. will demand to see the manager in a supermarket in order to complain about the prices. An over-entitled middle-class woman, usually white, who invariably has unreasonable demands when unhappy with a service, e.g. Finished, worn out, unable to function, completely broken. ![]() A combination of the words calf and ankle. Fat ankles and calves that lack definition and appear to merge. An anglicization of the Italian capisci? An animal anaesthetic taken illicitly for its unusual semi-hallucinogenic qualities. ![]()
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