The Wow I Can't Believe That News Story Thread

The Batlord · 01-11-2019, 07:08 PM

~~[MERIT]~~ · 01-12-2019, 01:05 AM

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Originally Posted by Lisnaholic

^ Are you making a joke or a point, D&G? As sometimes happens with your responses, I feel there's a subtext that's sailing over my head.

I'm not a fascist. I have great admiration for Mexicans, though some live in real hardship; in a country with high unemployment, low wages and endemic corruption many are driven to desperate measures.

You're reading too much into it. You are literally attributing value to shit.

~~MicShazam~~ · 01-12-2019, 04:02 AM

"literally" is the most abused word ever

The Batlord · 01-12-2019, 04:04 AM

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Originally Posted by MicShazam

"literally" is the most abused word ever

Literally.

Oriphiel · 01-12-2019, 04:15 AM

The literati use literally liberally

Lisnaholic · 01-12-2019, 08:38 AM

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Originally Posted by [MERIT]

You're reading too much into it.

^ Thanks for the guidance [MERIT]. That's kind of you.

Lisnaholic · 01-12-2019, 09:40 AM

^ As on many of the fundamental moral issues, I'm still trying to work out my own consistent position. On stealing, for instance, I generally disapprove, but in England we have this whole Robin Hood ethos that in a corrupt society, poor people stealing from rich people is ok, so I find it hard to take your absolutist line that they are asterisks.

**Frownland** · 01-12-2019, 09:47 AM

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Originally Posted by Lisnaholic

^ HaHa! "Carcopalyspe" is a clever combination of words, though it needs a couple of trial runs before you can pronounce it with confidence.

Mexicans are very inventive when it comes to stealing: they take electricity too, by hooking up illegal connections:-

Wait until you see how crafty the blacks are!

**Frownland** · 01-12-2019, 10:09 AM

Several injured in gas explosion at a Paris bakery

Good thing they suspended the gas tax or the owners would really be ****ed.

Anteater · 01-12-2019, 10:25 AM

Welp, I guess everyone makes mistakes.

Newsweek - Man Rapes Drunken Daughter on His Wedding Night, Claims He Thought It Was His Wife

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Lisnaholic ...here to hear... Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: He lives on Love Street Posts: 4,444	^ As on many of the fundamental moral issues, I'm still trying to work out my own consistent position. On stealing, for instance, I generally disapprove, but in England we have this whole Robin Hood ethos that in a corrupt society, poor people stealing from rich people is ok, so I find it hard to take your absolutist line that they are asterisks. __________________ "Am I enjoying this moment? I know of it and perhaps that is enough." - Sybille Bedford, 1953

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